Posts Tagged ‘ap projects’
Frankenstein: Alienation
May 4th, 2012Frankenstein: Puppet Show
May 3rd, 2012Pictures from the Hamlet Project
February 27th, 2012At the beginning, you all hated the Hamlet project, but now that it’s over, you can be happy with what you accomplished.
There were some excellent scenes and some excellent acting. I especially appreciated the people who worked hard, did not give up, and allowed themselves to be vulnerable up on stage without any notes at all. Good job.
Here are some pictures from the event on Friday and from our Oscars ceremony today. Video will come up later. Stay tuned!
Dezmond: Greek Mythology
November 4th, 2011Antonio: Fate and destiny in Oedipus Rex
November 4th, 2011
In class, we had a unit on fate and destiny where we explored whether we could avoid destiny or not. For this project, I chose to focus on fate and destiny as it is presented in Oedipus Rex. In the book, there is a prophecy saying that a child will kill his father, lay with his mother, and bring ruin to his town. For my picture, I chose to focus on how it is Oedipus’s destiny to bring calamity upon his city.
In my picture, I use two different types of perspective: atmospheric perspective and point perspective. In atmospheric perspective, you fade out the background in order to create a sense of depth, and in point perspective, you create a focal point, and connect all buildings to it in order to make them seem three dimensional. I use both of these in order to create a realistic setting of the town, that Oedipus rules, for my picture. The town has a castle, and many buildings in it to show that it is a town.
In order to create a connection to fate and destiny, I use a variety of symbols. I make the edges of the picture like a thought bubble in order to make it seem like it was thought of or prophesied. I also make the edges golden to add in the notion of a divine prophecy. In the actual picture, I make the town shrouded by a green mist in order to show the disease and ruin that the city will experience. I mad sure to make the castle above all the miasma because I noticed that none of the people in the castle are plagued by disease. I also depicted Oedipus with blood streaming from his eyes because Tiresias told him that he would blind himself. The tears of blood not only show that Oedipus’s eyes served no use for him, but also
My picture shows that are lives are chosen for us. I shows that divinity decides what will happen and that destiny is inescapable. As an artist, I try my best in order to capture my vision on the paper. I feel that through my own style, and use of image, I have shown that destiny is unavoidable.
Leo: A Place Where Three Roads Meet
November 4th, 2011This is Leo’s U2 Project. It was supposed to be a script of a random blind former king somehow greeting a random black former slave in a random cafeteria and somehow talking about fate and destiny. Because it is too random, I wrote a script with different setting.
A Place Where Three Roads Meet
Character: Oedipus, Sethe, the guy in red clothes(Red Guy) and the guy in white clothes (White Guy)
(In a room full of emptiness, two body lying on the floor. They are Sethe and Oedipus. Silence has replaced the movement of time and frozen on their innocent and peaceful sleeping face. However, the storm sneaks close like the future that will always come; the peace that is shattered by a hurry of foot steps has walk into both Sethe and Oedipus’ ear. Time starts ticking, the gears begin to move. Both of them try to open their eyes and awake from blindness. As the door open, the story might begin).
The door opens and a person with dark and rotten red clothes enter the room.
Red Guy:
Wake up, Wake up! You are not here to sleep.
Oedipus and Sethe:
Um~~~
Oedipus and Sethe look around.
Sethe:
Where am I? Who are you? What is this place?
Red Guy:
Greeting Ms. Sethe and Mr. Oedipus. I am one of the room manager. You may call me the Red Guy as I will always wear red clothes. There is a lot of things I would like to tell you, but my peer the white guy is not here, therefore I prefer meeting later. Do you agree? I will take that as a Yes. So see you later.
The Red Guy leaves the room.
Sethe:
I don’t understand. What is going on here? Anyway, I think that guy mentioned your name. It is Mr.Oedii something.
Oedipus:
Oedipus, the king of all Thebes,
Son of the Corinth King,
the hero who solved the riddle of Sphinx.
Sethe:
What are you talking about? The king of what?
Oedipus:
The king of Thebes, the greatest of the nation
Any man from new born to old aged should recognize me.
The whole world knows my fame.
Sethe:
Ok let’s stop playing this game. It is getting annoying. I don’t care who are you, let’s figure out how to leave here.
Oedipus:
You dark skin female ignorant! How dare you
Splitting this profane words to the king! I
Demand for your immediate apologize
Or the thousands of Greek Gods will descend upon you!
The Red Guy enters the room without knocking the door, The White guy follows him.
Red Guy:
Hello there. This is my peer, his name is the White Guy. Now assemble in front of me and listen carefully. You are dead. And you are suppose to be put into the heaven or the hell base on your actions while you are still alive. But somehow you have lost some of your essential memories. It is unfair to sentence you anything, if you don’t know your past. So both of you is put in this room for three days to come up with a decision between remembering or forgetting. Of course, we already know your past and sentenced you to heaven or hell. Therefore it is only a matter between knowing or not knowing the reason. You have three days to consider about it. If you wants to know the truth about your past, you should come to me. If you don’t want to, you should go to this guy. Understand? I will take that as a Yes. Take your time and see you.
White Guy and Red Guy leave the room.
Sethe:
What do you think?
Oedipus:
Only coward does not dare to face their past.
Truth only lies in the wisdom’s hand. A
Beloved king like me, will not fear for the
Weight of truth and always seek for it.
Sethe:
Why? As the Red Guy said: “the decision has been made. ” Our fate has been decided. If I am sentenced to hell, I must have done something that I should never remember.
Oedipus:
Fragile heart and feeble mind of human,
Your name is woman.
Escaping those not solve anything. The mystery lies in the past
Will merely haunting you for the rest of your life.
Sethe:
But no matter I know the reason or not, my life has already been chosen. I don’t want to go to heaven nor hell, but I end up standing in this room. And waiting for some random people to tell me whether I should go to heaven or hell. I does not have a choice.
Oedipus:
Choice has already lies in front of you.
Choose between to know or not to know
Will leads us to various directions.
Speaking of no choice is merely an excuse from the weak.
Sethe:
Yes this is a choice, but it is not a choice for fate and destiny. No matter which choice I have made, It will not and can not change my destiny. Just like choosing cake from the store, it is a choice, but it does not mean destiny does not exist above all of the choices.
Oedipus:
Cake? What is a cake?
Sethe:
This is not my main point.
Oedipus:
Speaking like a slave, who comfort herself by blaming on fate
Who does not have the courage to rebel against their master,
Who has already being prisoned
Both mentally and physically.
Sethe:
I’m sick of you, leave or I will leave.
Oedipus:
You who does not have the courage to face
The truth will doom by your cowardliness,
Pretending not to see the truth,
Not to seek for the truth is
Being blind with your good eyes.
I will speak no more,
But woman you pay for your ignorant.
Oedipus leave the room and the white guy comes in.
Sethe:
I have make my decision. I decide not to remember the past and move on to the future.
White Guy:
You have to understand escaping from past is a active decision; it is not to give up, but to choose not to remember. I suggest you consider about it more carefully, it is not wise to do something unless you really want to do it.
Sethe:
I have make my decision.
White Guy:
I hear your word. Please come this way, I believe it is the right decision
White Guy and Sethe leave, then Oedipus and the Red Guy enter.
Red Guy:
I knew you will make this decision. You are the wisest man in the world, you have make a wise decision.
Oedipus:
Enough, I don’t need any fawning words.
Let’s begin our work.
The Red Guy use his hand to cover Oedipus eyes.
Red Guy:
Oedipus, poor Oedipus,
Please turn your head and look at your past,
Gather the crisis of flash back.
Then Shall you remember
The true appearance of your self.
(All of a sudden, the memories strikes Oedipus’ head from Red guy’s hand. The memory of Apollo’s prophecy, Tiresias testimony, Jocasta’s suicide and face of his people while they see him being exiled from Thebes. Blood begins to flood from Oedipus’ eyes. It printed a picture of brutal on Red Guy’s hand).
Oedipus:
Please, dismiss my head,
I cannot endurance it anymore
it is too
painful.
(Oedipus tries to struggle and move his head away from Red guy’s hand, but that hand is choking his head makes him has no place to escape).
Red Guy:
No more struggle, no more escape’
This is your fate, merely accept it.
Oedipus:
No it is too painful,
It digs too deep in my memory
I can never forget it anymore.
(Scenes from Oedipus’ memory keep repeating it self in his head. Finally Red Guy release Oedipus’ head, and he faint on the floor).
Red Guy: Welcome back, to the eternal inferno, Oedipus.
Brenda: Do LHS students believe in destiny?
November 4th, 2011For my project, I surveyed more than 70 high schoolers about their views on fate and destiny. My prediction was that the Freshmen would be the group that has the most believers in fate and destiny. In actuality, it was the opposite.

As seen in the figures, the seniors had 94% believers in fate and destiny. The second grade with most believers was the Freshmen, with 81%. Third and fourth were Juniors and Sophomores with 74% and 73%, respectively. It seems like there is a decline in the underclassmen while the upperclassmen percentages grow.
Why would there be an increase of fate in the upperclassmen? It may be because of the engagement one feels during the later years of high school, due to past errors. Since the upperclassmen have been in high school longer they are likely to do more errors that affect them in the future, hence the belief that they can no longer change that, which is destiny.
On the other hand, fate and destiny can be good as well. It may also be that the Upperclassmen are more confident in achieving their goals in life, and they believe that they are destined to reach them. The underclassmen may not even know what their goals in life are. They can also feel less confident as they are new to the school and just beginning to discover themselves.
Why do some people believe in fate and others don’t?
I asked two questions related to this prompt in my survey: “Do you believe in fate and destiny? Do you believe in a higher power?” My prediction for this was that people who believed in fate and destiny would be more likely to believe some sort of a higher power such as God. I base this prediction because if one believed in fate and destiny, there would probably be a type of higher power controlling it. Out of everyone who answered yes to believing in a fate and destiny, only 17 said they did not believe in a higher power. The vast majority said they did believe in a higher power, which was 40 people. It turns out that my prediction was right; there is a higher chance that people who believe in fate and destiny also believe in a higher power.
Does believing one way (or the other) matter for the future?
I asked students, “If you work hard enough, will you be guaranteed to achieve your goals?” Out of everyone who believed in fate and destiny, 44 out of 57 people said they did believe that if they worked hard enough they would be guaranteed to acheive their goals. This might mean they are defying their own destiny. It could also mean that as long as they want something and try to acheive it destiny will change in order to complete those goals.
Chavonni: Destiny
November 4th, 2011
In this illustration I talked about how our lives are already sought out for us. In Siddhartha, the next book we’re reading, he didn’t want to be a Brahmin, and in Oedipus he wasn’t meant to be the king of Thebes. Both of their true destinies were already set in stone.
I haven’t finished Siddhartha, but I know that in both Oedipus and Siddhartha, they tried to change their destiny. Oedipus’s true destiny showed in the end. In my drawing the stone path is supposed to represent the destiny that God created for us. The blue path is supposed to represent the life we want to live. The two paths that intercept is supposed represent how the life we choose and our true destiny come together eventually.
Mercedes: Destiny
November 4th, 2011
I designed a timeline of pictures that shows some events that took place in Oedipus. These pictures are significant because they show how destiny has affected his life and how he had no control over what happened; everything was mapped out for him.
The first picture is a baby. I chose to use a baby because when he was born his parents wanted him dead and they tried to kill him. They had seen the future and what it held for baby Oedipus and their family, they did not like it. They had thought that killing Oedipus would prevent those things but they were wrong. Oedipus never died and continued to live his life not knowing about his biological parents.
The second picture I decided to use was a crown because Oedipus became king. I believe that by Oedipus becoming king it revealed his past and answered so many unanswered questions. The next event I thought was important was when Oedipus got married to his real mother. This is important because them getting married played a role in how Oedipus finds out what he did to his father.
The next picture I used is a a man and a knife, it is supposed to represent the murder of Oedipus’s father. Oedipus killed his biological father but did not know, he had finally found out and was in disbelief. I find it weird how his parents tried to escape destiny but could not, what they were scared of happened anyways. For the last picture I decided to show how Oedipus was exiled. Oedipus was exiled by destiny. I feel that the overall reason that these events took place they way they did was because Oedipus was destined to kill his father and have a life that was not fit for a king.
Beloved
Beloved was a challenging book and hard to really understand. It was also difficult to find pictures that related to events in Beloved. I did find three pictures and a couple of words that describe feelings that were showed throughout the book. I have two pictures that have to deal with motherly love. Motherly love was a big part in Beloved. Sethe killed beloved and she did it in order to save her from the terrible life of slavery. Sethe wanted to forget her past but it came back to haunt her. She was forced to remember what she did, but she finally had enough and was no longer scared to face her past. The picture of the lady in the chair shows resembles how Sethe was feeling, she wanted to give up and she was tired. She kept fighting though and made it through the hard times. It was Sethe’s destiny to do what she did and become stronger from her past.
The Question Mark
The question mark is supposed to symbolize how destiny keeps us wondering because we do not know what to expect. Like the characters in the two books we do not know what is going to happen to us and what events will take place. We do not know if what we do will matter in life. We are left with many questions but little answers.
Monae: Sacrificed Destinies
November 4th, 2011
I chose the title for this piece because in both stories both characters Sethe and Oedipus were born into the controlled life . Eventually they sacrificed someone and from that point on it scared their destiny as well as their sanity. In this piece I wanted to express the meaning of how two lives share a common destiny of sacrifice.
This piece was inspired by the famous tale of Oedipus Rex and the book Beloved. Although both stories are told in different times and both characters have different backgrounds, they still share the same meaning of sacrificed destinies. Oedipus is king and people of Thebes are suffering with diseases. In order for this to stop, he had to find the killer of the former king. As Oedipus searches for truth, the prophet tells Oedipus that he is the one who killed the former king. The prophet was a blind man and Oedipus called him a blind man and called him a lier. The Prophet then tells Oedipus that he is the one who is blind and cannot see the truth of his past.
Similar to Oedipus, Sethe in Beloved is not blind to her past but sacrifices her daughter so that she won’t have to return to slavery. Sethe was a good mother who truely cared about protecting her kids. Sethe was a hard working slave who went through many things and with that she experienced reproductive resistance by killed her daughter Beloved. As her life goes on, she is haunted by her daughter. In the book, Beloved is reincarnated into a woman and as she is in Sethe’s life, Sethe then goes through difficult times. Beloved’s well being sucks the life from Sethe and eventually disappears.
In this piece there is an eye that represents the perspectives of both stories. The brown side of the eye represents Sethe and the blue and gray side represents Oedipus. Oedipus’s part of the eye was colored with blue and gray to represent blindness that he goes through to discover his destiny. The creature below with the lines underneath represents the Sphinx that Oedipus slayed to save the city. The crown with the lightning bolt by it represents Oedipus not being a good king to his people. The heart with Thebes represents his love for his people and how he hurts them. The pyramid represents were he came from and under it is Oedipus in rags. The top of the image represents his believes in Greek Mythology and how the Gods determine the destiny of others. On the other side of the Greek God, there is a image of the Christian Cross that represents Sethe’s religious values. The angel hovering by the girl represents Beloved sucking the life out of Sethe. The rope underneath Sethe’s brown eye represents the fact that she was a former slave and has experienced traumatic visuals while being raised on a plantation. The tree with blood on it is the tree on Sethes’s back from being brutally beaten. The overall image represents the steps we take in life and how our every move is being watched and controlled by one person. As our life is being controlled we tend to make big sacrifices that inflict with the outcome of our destinies.
Greek Gods
November 4th, 2011David: Under the Hands of the Government
November 4th, 2011This is my Unit two project, which I am proud of!
In the Federalist Number 51, James Madison states that “In a single republic, all the power surrender by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government…” this indicates it is by choice of each American to put their fate and destiny into the governments hands. When this country was founded, the purpose for the Americans to “surrender” their power was to better secure it as the Declaration of independence suggests that any government that is unable to secure that power and the rights of the people, should be removed and recreated to better protect Americans interest. I believe that, this was a long time ago around 200~ something years and the government has changed over time and so has the people, but that is still in the conscious mind of every person. It will still always as people don’t know whether they accept to follow the rules or not, it is just a way of life that it’s being continued through out the following generations.
I know there is not a religion part to this but this is my opinion about it, many may disagree, I understand that many people have different beliefs and views on life. But here it is: Jordan Maxwell said, “The more you begin to investigate, what we think we understand where we came from, what we think we are doing, the more you begin to see we’ve been lied to, we’ve been lied to by every institution, what makes you think for one minute that the religion institution is the only one that had never been touched, the religion institutions of this world are at the bottom of the dirt the religion institution In this world are put there by the same people who gave you your government, your corrupted education, who set up your international banking cartel.” Ever since the first lie that America has said has brought more ideas to other institutions, to lie to become better. The theory of the attacks on 9/11 made me come up to this decision because there has been a lot of conspiracies: saying it was the American government that had it planed; it was Al- Qaeda, etc. It is just hard to know who is correct or not correct.
Overall I believe that the government has our destiny and fate already destined. And we, the people, as American citizens, we don’t think about this stuff.
Nathan: “My life has never been chosen for me.”
November 3rd, 2011
This is my speech about fate and destiny. Listen!
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