Melody Monday #21

Please forgive me again, I have yet been delayed on this side project because of priorities in my life that seem to be coming faster than ever. BUT PLEASE DO ENJOY THIS NEXT MELODY. It's a really nice one, and I really want to make a music video or something to it.

Active Reading notes to Act 5

Wow. Is all I can say so far. I also make this personal connection of one of Harry Potter's songs using the witch's conjuring act "Double Trouble" (Video here)

But anyways, so this act shows Lady Macbeth going insane and driving herself to her own death because of guilt, quite similarly to Macbeth himself. Spoiler, Macbeth also dies by being beheaded or maybe "honorably" giving up his position by Macduff. I think it is all quite ironic by when Macbeth says "born by a woman" because everyone is born from a woman unless metaphorically speaking, natural birth is outlandish. This was the final act and summed up and tied up all the loose knots.(More notes soon) 

The Crossroads Between Should and Must

"The two days that are most important in your life are, the day you are born, and the day you find out why". A Mark Twain quote used in the essay The Crossroads Between Should and Must, exemplifies what Elle Luna was trying to convey in her essay about following intuition and reason. After reading the paper, I was left in awe. Finally, the feelings that were at the time deemed unexplainable were eloquently spoken in a way where it all made sense. Just a few months ago, I was very unsure of where I wanted to go to college, what I wanted to do, and what I wanted to major in. For my ENTIRE life I was implanted with dreams of going to Stanford and UCLA (dreams that were shattered on March 27th) and becoming a surgeon or doctor of the brain, you know, go big or go home. But as the time got closer to applying to colleges and choosing a major, the less and less I was sure about what I wanted to do. Going to med school, becoming pre-med, and choosing to click on those biology and chemistry majors was a struggle and in the end, eventually ended up not happening. At one point I even remember I had a different major selected for every college I applied to, the product of being a very indecisive person. I know what I love doing, I know what I am passionate about, I know what I find interesting, and I know what I am good at and what I am not so good at. So how was that supposed to help me with choosing a major? Well it didn't because I am still very lost in the abyss of college majors even though I got into 9 schools under a psychology major. I do enjoy learning about reason, why people do things, and all those gadgets and gizmos, but how does it relate to what I LOVE doing?

With Elle's essay about the should and must roads, I've been led to believe that this could be the doing of my parents influence. Their need of being overbearing and wanting me to be successful has driven me to choose a major/career that fulfills their needs more than it fulfills mine. They want the best for me, but perhaps just don't understand what is best for me. I love the outdoors, I love helping and traveling, I have great people skills, I love to be active, and I could go on. But how can I convert that to their dreams of me becoming a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer? I even fooled myself into believing that I want to go to graduate school after to get a PHD in Psychology and becoming a psychiatrist for PTSD victims, or even joining Doctors Without Borders. Even joining the air force after graduate school became a tantalizing thought for quite awhile. It's awful to know that when someone asks me what I want to do, that these answers will be the first things I say. These thoughts are really only what they want to hear. It's not my genuine self. What I want to be could can be controversial. It could be unorthodox. It could be outlandish. But it could also just be the real me.

So where am I really when it comes to this fork? I can't say I have come upon it often but I do believe that it's occurred at very important moments in my life. The essay is quite truly an art piece of it's own. It integrates what Elle loves, painting and making art, and what she can be good at. This is a must read article for anyone who is on that bubble of becoming who they truly are meant to be in this oyster.

More Macbeth Notes

Act III-
Scene 1:
Why is the attendant all capitalized?
Macbeth is describing banquo in a threat and e wants to kill banquo. This is guilt building up and Macbeth is going off the rails. (Direct characterization) violent and brutal and honorable to murdering Duncan and making people into enemies so he turns into a sociopath. Character development and evolution. This shows him punishing himself. Diseased.
Witches give suggestions not orders.
Convinces them to kill banquo by saying banquo was better than you and not equal and stuff. Says this to murderers.
Scene 2:
Scene 3: banquo dies
Scene 4: "banquos safe" meaning he is dead
Safe= secured. Look back to fair is foul and foul is fair. So like look again at things said. Witches said banquo would be father of kings. Macbeth needed to kill fleance so family relatives don't come back. Banquo's ghost comes. Ghost is in MacBeths head. More about schitzophrania. He is talking to banquo. Lady Macbeth is questioning his mascunality and verbally abusing him.
Scene V:
Heckade guide to witches or adviser
Scolding the three witches for talking to Macbeth, and should be knowing that humans are weak, and that they talked to him in the way that didn't show there full potential of power. Heckade now has to go and sort everything out and manipulate MacBeths perceptions on thing. Macbeth will start acting more like a killer.
Scene IV:

ACTIVE READING NOTES IM SORRY ITS LATE

or am i.

Act I

Scene I:

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair:

Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

Indication of this quote is self-explanatory.

-Setting: so far there are three witches in the desert

Scene II:

“For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name-“

Talking about Macbeth because the audience needs to understand Macbeth through the perspective of his colleagues.

Scene III:

Macbeth becomes a king!

The vanishing is strange of the witches, which leaves Macbeth wondering why he is king.

King of whatever was over thrown.

Scene IV:

Macbeth seems to have taken all the praise to his head.

Banquo is also another important figure.

Scene V:

Lady Macbeth is going to meet the “king”, she is a dramatic and not very pleased.

Scene VI:

“This castle hath a pleasant seat…”

Something interesting might happen because the setting seems sketchy.

They seem to be waiting for Macbeth.

Scene VII:

Macbeth is talking about assassinating someone.

ACT II

Scene I:

WHAT ABOUT MY MASTERPIECE

Progress... I have put a mild hold on my senior project. Video filming though and enhancing my skill has been prominent. But I really need to start now because we do not have that much time left. My friend Erica and I have started our website and as far as I know it is working well and such. What is funny is I wish I had more time and when I get more time all I want to do is rest and sleep. It's not that I feel like I am not managing my time well, I just really cannot seem to move and am making up for lost sleep. Unlike Macbeth, I have to work between school and sports to make stuff work unlike him who has alot of time on his hands. Anyways, more to come later.

LOVE IS BLIND

Macbeth duties as a husband would be to love Lady Macbeth, and that is exactly what he does. He puts Lady Macbeth on a pedestal and actually comes to her for the news of him becoming a king. Lady Macbeth actually does know that he is going to be a king and manipulates him to do what she wants. The appeal of being a queen is highly liked by Lady Macbeth. So as the audience, we see that Lady Macbeth is a manipulator to Macbeth.

Look At My Brain

Sheesh. I need to really catch up on the posts, I might be in denial but I think I've finally caught the flu of senioritis. Anyways as you can tell, I've slowly been slacking off but really do appreciate these posts we have to create.

My masterpiece... well at the moment I am a bit lost. Dr. Preston has introduced me to a wonderful mentor who creates Matt Damon's films but I cannot seem to find what my original idea was for this project. I know that I wanted to travel, connect classrooms around the world in helping prepare for the AP test and work on my skills of videography and being compassionate. But really, I am lost. Not entirely lost, just a little stray off the path.

Though I hope through this masterpiece, my audience or the world will learn that I am a person, a human being, not trying to just survive or live life but trying to create meaning in places that it was not before. I want to display how I think and the type of person I am. My ambitions and what I want to teach. I want to get people inspired to do well in their community, to stop waiting, and start doing. We always have this common perception that we can do things later or it can wait when really the main obstructor is your mind yourself! 

In Preston's ramble today about the girl who basically described open source learning in a nut shell, I wrote about that exact idea in a journal a month or so ago. I talked about how we shouldn't go to school to learn things that just might be unnecessary but more about things that will help us out in life and help us excel at what we are good at. Once we find that balance of learning and work and finding that passionate thing, we will be able to live a society where most of these "problems" we have can be eliminated. I think something important too is being innovated. If we ever create these schools, we must learn how to take our passions and turn it into a career. When a job becomes something you love and are good at then it is no longer a job, it's a passion.

So this may be a tangent, or it may just answer what this post is supposed to be about. But I hope in the end that you as a reader, has a good general esque idea about what I am on to. Thank you and enjoy your night.