Interaction 1

Another day lost in my music. My imagination took control of over-rehersed and over-structured fingers which were often caught in grooves chiseled by to many repetitions of the same old licks. Finally I could let go. Lose control and let the music flow out in one gush of inspiration. So fluent that I was finally able to go back to the world I missed so much. I saw what I wanted to see and finaly felt happy. That same serene picture so clear. Suddenly I was awakened by the silly puppy and her young accompanist. They often pass by my aparment window on daily walks. They look happy. With the sunlight lighting her face and features. Was I missing out or gaining by staying inside all day trying to find that feeling and that world I love so much? I looked back to the keys decided to shut the window so that I could go back to my practice. I am so silly getting of task like that. I could lose it if I stop now.

Valory Getz

My name is Valory Getz. I am a 22 year girl who plays piano in the Hotel Lobby. I am a caucasian American.

Difference Between Men and Women

I am allowed only to speak from the perspective of a young man. I will do all in my power to not over generalize although this prompt does require a generalization to be made about all males and females, who are separate and inherently unique other than their sex. I find it hard to believe however that their are only physical differences. I believe that the major cognitive difference between men and women lies in their internal motivation.
Based on my age limiting observations up to this point, I believe that men seek appreciation. That would explain why most all men seek power. People in power are given honor, by custom, but still an expression of appreciation. In most past cultures, man provided for the family while the women were restricted. In that position women were forced to needing a man, thus also resulting in false appreciation. Men of that time hated free thinking women, who in rebellion took away the false appreciation, which men need. So they held them down with physical advantages until society became more sophiscated.
However, women, I believe, aspire to be wanted as opposed to needed. Want is often showed with attention. That is the attraction that some women have to stripping. Attention, though not long lasting, still makes you feel wanted. Women do not want someone to do something for them only because they are required, but because of desire. Women still want independence however, as every living creature but are chastised for it.
Dull men believe that material goods and necessities are the only way to achieve appreciation when actually if he were to give positive attention to a woman she would appreciate him. Women sometimes unintentionally or intentionally deny appreciation for more attention which make dull men try to give more necessities or leave the empty relationship.

Let Freedom Ring

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a black man who longed for true freedom and rights. He was not just a reverend who preached justice and equality. His name and its power rose from the bastion of racism that layered a land originally created in the name of liberty. A power produced from both his love and his ability to write. This power, not his flesh makes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a huge deal.

When anyone in the south hears MLK they know to whom those initials belong. His image etched in the light flooding through the copper sheet on Freedom Boulevard could not be mistaken for any politician or war general. Experiencing the recognition caused by witness to such an image soaks down to the soul with love, justice, and peace. Dr. King no longer exists in flesh but in the emotion expressed in his words, which rings on as the freedom rings in what used to be an unthinkable motif, equality. Dr. King became what he believed in and that symbol now resonates through our schools and on the national day. He is a big deal because he gave up his identity to become his ideas. He gave up his humanity to became something that will live forever.

So, what makes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a big deal? He became immortal and in doing so made his dream a reality that will live on to the end of time.

Oedipus Rex

Part I
1. Notes
2. Impression before reading - The play, Oedipus Rex, is about a magnificent man's reversal and recognition. His guilty actions are marrying his mother and killing his father. Acts that may be sympathized with due to the an inner child desire in each audience member to be attracted to your opposite sex parent and want to kill your same sex parent called the Oedipus Complex. For the committing these actions; however, in this play, the antagonist shall be punished. His fall signifies the inequity man has with the gods.

Part II
1. Page 61 Lines 9 and 36
2. The current status of his state is desolate. The plague ruined the land along with draught and famine.
3. It allows the audience to connect to an emotional observation in an imaginary but concrete form.
4. The desolation of the state and Oedipus' great dead with the Spinx.
5. Gods please save us. Our people are dieing. No mind of man can when over the God's.

Part III
1. Lines 83 and 84 describe Teiresias and lines 113 and 116 show the inner conflict.
2. Oedipus and Teiresias argue passionately about the release of the information that will save the state but hurt the king.
3. Lines 164 and 163
4. It is ironic that Oedipus is searching for the one who killed the king so vigorously and wishes such curses upon him when he is the culprit. The audience knows something the characters do not.
5. Line 48 and 49
6.The fall of Oedipus and fulfillment of the prophecy.

- NT