http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs Humanities Lit Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:56:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the last class we listened to and discussed the meaning behind Jimi Hendrix's version of the Star-Spangled Banner which was performed at Woodstock in 1969. Hendrix did not just play your standard version of the song. Instead, he added a ridiculous amount of distortion, some notes that were ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/12/10/hendrixs-star-spangled-banner/ I consider a "trickster" to be anyone who has the reputation of pulling pranks or humiliating people for the sake of comedy. There are a lot of these people in the world and they perform these practical jokes for the amusement of both themselves and those around them. ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/12/10/trickster/ Throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, author Ken Kesey emphasis' the power struggle occurring between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. Before McMurphy ever entered the hospital the nurse had complete control over all of the patient's thoughts and actions. However, once McMurphy arrived from the work-farm it became ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/12/10/kesey/ In Blood Wedding, the way in which Lorca portrays both the ideas of love and marriage are greatly different from our modern ideas of what a marriage should be. Today society views marriage as a sacred event in which two individuals who ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/12/09/lorca-prompt/ Blanca and Pedro Tercero meet for the first time in the fourth chapter of this novel. Although they are young, they end up falling in love at first sight. The problem with this is that is that their love is forbidden. This is due to tension caused ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/10/15/authority-and-order/ I found the Lies Project to be an interseting form of poetry. The fact that it is a collaboration of many different ideas from many different people makes it more exciting to read compared to normal literature. It is also cool that you can ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/10/08/digital-literature/ I enjoyed reading the story about Gregorio Cortez. The way he manages to elude the Texas Rangers after shooting the sheriff is quite heroic. Also, the fact that he turns himself in after they fail to catch him is honorable. However, I would be interested in reading ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/10/08/386/ Storytelling is an important part of Ceremony because it is traditional in Native American culture. Native Americans orally pass these stories on from generation to generation in order to preserve history and teach life lessons. These stories are often rythmic in ways and can ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/10/08/383/ I think it would be crazy to say that all literature serves the same purpose. For example, comparing blues lyrics to a fairy tale would take a lot of imagination in my opinion. The blues are all about telling a down and out story while fairy tales on ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/09/16/prompt-2/ I enjoyed the Grimm's versions of the fairy tales much better than the Disney versions. The Grimm's wrote these stories back in the days before censorship was such a big issue. This explains why they were not afraid to talk about the ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/richdethlefs/2006/09/16/fairy-tales/