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19 Nov 09

Deborah Willis - The Gnawing Vulture: Revenge, Trauma Theory, and Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare Quarterly 53:1

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Titus Andronicus. Aaron is not a manual labourer, of course, but he is connected to the stereotype because, again in the popular mind, 'coloured' men were equated with lowerclass men as virile sexual objects
And in << >> Titus Andronicus, similarly, << >> Tamora's adultery with a 'coloured' man is supposed to be a sign of her shameless lust, which is emphasized in II.iii.10-29 when she eagerly invites Aaron to engage in their sexual 'pastimes' and he coldly puts her off.4 (The point is driven home a few lines later when Bassianus comes upon them and accuses her of 'foul desire'.)

See Dorothea Kehler, "'That Ravenous Tiger Tamora': Titus Andronicus's Lusty Widow, Wife and M-other," Titus Andronicus: Critical Essays, ed. Philip C. Kolin, (New York: Garland, 1995) 318-32.

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Tamora Titus Andronicus

Author:Hanna, Sara.

Title:Tamora's Rome: raising Babel and Inferno in Titus Andronicus.

Publication Details:Shakespeare Yearbook (3) 1992, 11-29.

Publication Year:1992

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When Tamora's pleas to spare her eldest son are ignored -- he's taken away, to be thrown on a fire and have his limbs lopped off -- the virulent tit-for-tat shifts into gear. All too soon, Tamora has power again: She's made queen by the jealous new emperor Saturninus

13 Feb 09

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the sermons of the grandfather who "had ridden over three counties with Jesus hidden in his head like a stinger."
In this context, after the malicious policeman destroys his car, the actual "church" from which his new denomination is launched, his moment of grace occurs: he is left with nothing but his own mind and body to incorporate his church. This is when he decides to blind himself with lime. Another intepretation is that the policeman's spite in rolling the car off the road and destroying it remind's Hazel of his own spite in rolling another man's car off the road the night before and destroying that man's life, a man who was made to look just like Hazel. Having denied the existence of sin or guilt up to this point, Hazel now says, "I'm not clean" when questioned about the barbed wire he wears under his shirt. Having denied the soul's need for redemption, Hazel now tells his landlady that he walks with rocks in his shoes "to pay," still rejecting Christ's redemption in his ironic attempt to forge his own. Whether Hazel's mote is ultimately removed or not is not made clear in the novel.
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- Hazel is a believer without belief and a seer without vision. Each of O'Connor's stories has, she said, a moment of grace, but it is a Roman Catholic grace – grace that brings a person to the brink of belief, but not grace that saves by itself. It is transformative, but those to whom the grace is given must choose to either accept it or not. One interpretation is that Hazel's own moment of grace comes with his destruction of the "new Jesus" that Enoch Emery has discovered (a mummified body he steals from a museum). Another is that throughout the novel, Hazel's "rat-colored car," takes on more and more meaning as it becomes not only a mode of transportation, but a place to live and a platform (the "nose" of its hood) from which to preach his Church without Christ.
- Enoch Emery, in contrast, believes readily but cannot see beyond the body. He, like other O'Connor characters, wants and demands a physical Jesus. He is a creature of clay, a man whose blood speaks to him. It was his "wise blood" (inherited from his father) that led him to Hazel, whom he latches onto as a candidate for the "new Jesus." The character Asa Hawks, on the other hand, is one of O'Connor's mountebanks. He has no belief in anything but himself. He takes no pleasure in evil or good, only in gratification of himself. His daughter Sabbath also believes only in self-gratification.
- His evangelical grandfather taught him that Jesus died for the sins of mankind and that Jesus would always "get you": this Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God view of Christ leads Motes to view salvation as a form of punishment, so he decides that he can be saved from being evil by believing in nothing. That is, he can save his soul by having no soul at all. However, his nihilism becomes a positive belief. He is not an atheist, for his nothingness takes on the power of salvation. Motes believes in a vacuum as an alternative to a hunting, predatory Jesus.

Religious Vision and Free Will in Flannery O'Connor's Novel Wise Blood

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She pulsates with hormones
and longs to be tamed, especially by Haze now that she's met him. He is her King
of The Beasts.
Haze heads for the nearest city, Taulkinham
and begins by abusing and hurting all those he meets; but when eventually he is
haunted by the reality of his actions, he performs an about face. Haze lacks the
means to express love and in atonement now turns the anger he directed against
others on himself, making him totally vulnerable to a world that mocks and preys
on the weak.
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- He's in a train carriage seated
  opposite fellow passenger Mrs Hitchcock who is trying to be friendly, but her
  conversation irritates Haze so much that he shuts it off by suggesting in a sneering
  manner that Mrs Hitchcock obviously thinks she's been redeemed and it is at this
  point that we come directly to the nub of the story, which is that Haze is desperately
  trying to rid himself of any thoughts of redemption.
- A mote is a tiny particle.
  Christ in (Matt.7, 3;etc) compared those who fail to notice their own faults yet
  see and magnify the faults of others, to someone ignoring the roof beam in their
  own eye while pointing to the mote in the eye of another.
- Wise Blood
  is a story about religious vision and free will. Hazel Motes has been raised in
  a tiny place called Eastrod in Tennessee inside a family immersed in the Bible
  but afraid of God. The Motes family 'saw' God as a stern judge who kept meticulous
  records of each human being's mistakes and misdemeanours and whom they believed
  would punish all of them severely on the "last day".
- Of course you are only enabled to see what is black by having light
  to see it by……Furthermore the light you see by may be altogether outside of the
  work itself.
- O'Connor intended to publish her novel under the title of Wise
  Blood and Simple but she changed her mind and used only the first two words.
  As a story it is an impressive foray into the world of Twentieth Century Nihilism
  and belief. Writing about it to one of her friends she said that the irony of
  Hazel's situation was that he started off with The Church Without Christ and ended
  up with Christ without the Church
- When
  the patrolman destroyed the Essex, it was the turning point for Haze; he discovered
  at one stroke that Supremacism is a dead end. O'Connor covered this in her essay,
  The Nature and Aim of Fiction. "The hero's rat coloured automobile is his
  pulpit and his coffin as well as something he thinks of as his means of escape.
  He is mistaken in thinking that it is a means of escape, of course, and does not
  really escape his predicament until the car is destroyed by the patrolman."
- He wanted someone he could teach something to and he took it for granted that
  the blind man's child since she was so homely, would also be innocent. As it happened
  Sabbath Hawkes was hardly innocent. She was a willing party to one aspect at least,
  of what Haze had in mind. In talking to her father about Motes she said. "I like
  his eyes, They don't look like they see what he's looking at but they keep on
  looking."
- Of course by the end of the story Haze is
  dead. But Mrs Flood is still there with the body in her room. She seems unable
  to give up on the idea of getting her hands on his money.
- Not knowing how to repent with love he mutilates
  himself. It was as if he was back in his childhood and had been to the carnival
  tent where he looked at the naked woman in the coffin and afterward had walked
  a mile with sharp rocks in his shoes in atonement. Now self-blinded and back living
  in Mrs Flood's boarding house, his conversion experience takes him into further
  bizarre behaviour. He wraps barbed wire around his chest and again wears his shoes
  lined with rocks and glass shards and when a puzzled and shocked Mrs Flood asks
  him why, he replies that it's because he isn't clean and that he has to pay.
- "Where was you going? Was you
  going anywheres?" The Patrolman has innocently asked that question which each
  of us should put to ourselves. It ties in neatly with one of Hazes early rants
  that he preached from the nose of the Essex, "Where you came from is gone, where
  you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless
  you can get away from it."
- it was not right to believe in anything you
  couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth. He said he had only
  a few days ago believed in blasphemy as the way to salvation, but that you couldn't
  even believe in that because then you were believing in something to blaspheme.
- Convinced now that he's
  managed to shake off his faith in Christian Redemption, Haze naturally falls into
  the hole of being a supremacist. As the proud owner of a car, he had earlier told
  Sabbath Hawkes that it "hasn't been built by a bunch of foreigners or niggers
  or one-arm men. It had been built by people with their eyes open that knew where
  they were at."
  Being a Supremacist has also left his conscience untroubled
  about the murder he's committed, or so he thinks. Remember how he justified his
  going to see Leora Watts by telling himself, (He) wanted to prove that he didn't
  believe in sin since he practiced what was called it.
- Wherever there's a crowd, Shoats smells
  money and he tries to talk Haze into joining him in a scheme to fleece the people
  who stop to listen. The name Hoover Shoats is based on a popular brand of vacuum
  cleaner — Hoover; and shoat — a young pig: which all add up and allude
  to the parasitical behaviour of Mr Shoats.
- The
  consequences of Hazel abandoning Christian Redemption dog his every step. He has
  'run ins' with numerous people and in fact all the way through the story Haze
  is prey to those who see him only as a sucker. Leora Watts, Sabbath Hawkes and
  his landlady Mrs Flood are all out to use him. Perhaps the most obvious is the
  con man evangelist Hoover Shoats alias Onnie Jay Holy who instantly recognises
  talent when he sees it; and in this case that 'talent' is Haze's ability to pull
  a crowd with his new screwball Church.
- In the Museum was a mummy, a shrunken man and Enoch stole it and delivered it
  to Haze. He had earlier shown the exhibit to Haze and explained that he (the mummy)
  was once as tall as you and me and that some Arabs had made him like that in six
  weeks. A symbol of what man becomes when he deprives himself of God's grace.
- the Church Without Christ, where the blind don't
  see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way. Later in his crusade
  he refines the message by starting with, "Listen you people. I'm going to preach
  there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because
  there was no Fall and no Judgement because there wasn't the first two. Nothing
  matters but that Jesus was a liar…"
- He arrives home to find Eastrod deserted, a home which
  no longer exists both literally and figuratively and symbolising a society now
  broken and uncaring. Ever since his unhappy youth he had been thinking that Jesus
  must be the problem and that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin
- Sabbath Hawkes speaks of Haze's eyes as, "They don't look like they see what
  he's looking at but they keep on looking." Her words symbolising Haze's futile
  attempt to escape the truth while searching for its opposite. Haze was trying
  to swap his faith in something for a faith in nothing and discovering how difficult
  the task was. G. K. Chesterton¹ (among many) exposed the fallacy of
  non-belief by saying that the trouble with sceptics was that they were not sceptical
  enough, (the taxi driver's comment turned back to front). The sceptic lacks consistency,
  he isn't true to himself and in spite of any contrary claim, he still retains
  a belief in many things. After all how else could he get by? Without faith, such
  things as airplane flight schedules, telephone directories or the rules of the
  road become impossible to accept.

30 Jan 08

A1Books - Minding the Body: Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500 : 0805789812

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explore the complex relationship between medieval literature and reality, and consider the extent to which legend imitated life. Female characters are less often portraits of actual women, the authors explain, than representations of medieval cultures idea of an abstract "feminine"
deeply entrenched misogyny was in medieval society, while they examine the opportunities open to women in religious and secular life
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- ole of gender in major texts written by both men and women in medieval England

10 Jan 08

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Magical realism
is characterized by two conflicting perspectives, one based on a rational
view of reality and the other on the acceptance of the supernatural as
prosaic reality. Magical realism differs from pure fantasy primarily
because it is set in a normal, modern world with authentic descriptions
of humans and society.

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Magic realism (or magical realism) is an artistic genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" setting
In literature, Magic Realism often combines the external factors of human existence with the internal ones: it is a fusion between scientific physical reality and psychological human reality; it incorporates aspects of human existence such as thoughts, emotions, dreams, cultural mythologies and imagination.
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- The following elements are found in many magical realist novels and films, but not all are found in all of them and many are found in novels or films that could fall under other genres.
  
  The fantastic elements may be intuitively "logical" but are never explained
  Characters accept rather than question the logic of the magical element
  Exhibits a richness of sensory details
  Uses symbols and imagery extensively. Often phallic imagery is used without the reader/viewer consciously noticing it.
  Emotions and the sexuality of the human as a social construct are often developed upon in great detail
  Distorts time so that it is cyclical or so that it appears absent. Another technique is to *collapse time in order to create a setting in which the present repeats or resembles the past
  Inverts cause and effect, for instance a character may suffer before a tragedy occurs
  Incorporates legend or folklore
  Presents events from multiple perspectives, such as those of belief and disbelief or the colonizers and the colonized
  Uses a mirroring of either past and present, astral and physical planes, or of characters
  Ends leaving the reader uncertain, whether to believe in the magical interpretation or the realist interpretation of the events in the story
- For example, in Tim Burton's Big Fish, unlike earlier, more fantastical works, the entire story takes place fairly grounded in reality with the memories and stories including magical elements that, most of the time, seem semi-plausible.

16 Nov 07

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Teach to concept of teamwork.

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Friendships/Socialization Skills: Dance classes allow your son or daughter to interact with their peers in a positive manner. Joining in similar activities with like-minded individuals will give them bonding experiences that will last for a life time. Children who really enjoy dance will most likely end up growing together as performers.
- Confidence: Performing in front of others is something a lot of teens and adults fear. Involving your child in dance will lead to performances in front of family and friends. As they progress in their dance career they will be on stage in front of larger audiences. Each well executed performance (be it in practice or on stage) will leave them more confident in themselves.
- Responsibility: Dance classes require a certain amount of responsibility and dedication. Should your child become involved in dance they will learn the value of commitment in terms of progress. This life lesson is extremely important in all arenas and will help them succeed in the future.

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A big
part of the dance training process includes learning
through performance. The experience helps to build
self-esteem, self-assurance and contributes to

a sense of confidence. Performance opportunities
also contribute to success

in various aspects of a child's non-dance
activities, including better in-school
presentations, better social skills, stronger
interview skills for future college or job
opportunities. and preparation for professional
performance career.

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A big part of the dance training process includes learning through performance. This experience helps build self-esteem, self-assurance and contributes to self-confidence.
I have found that onstage experience results in better in-school presentations, improved social skills, and strong interview skills for future college and job opportunities. The rehearsal process is a tremendous learning experience as well. It helps the development of retention skills, and by working with classmates on a group performance, they learn the positive aspects of working together as a team to create best end results.

12 Nov 07

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Gemstones are rare and exquisite products of nature, full of fascinating, unique and unexpected properties appealing the scientist, craftsman and amateur alike.

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Deborah Willis - The Gnawing Vulture: Revenge, Trauma Theory, and Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare Quarterly 53:1

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Wise Blood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Religious Vision and Free Will in Flannery O'Connor's Novel Wise Blood

A1Books - Minding the Body: Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500 : 0805789812

The Magical Realism Page

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Magic realism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Academy of Dance Policies

Youth Dance Classes: Why You Should Get Your Child Involved

American Dance Academy

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