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It’s you who are destined to lead.

Raina foreshadowing Skye’s destiny as the leader of the Secret Warriors (via blackcat616)

you can’t fight destiny

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I fixed it, my grand daughter came over.... problem solved

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HELLOMYCAPSLOCKWONTGOOFFANDTHESPACEBARISNTWORKINGSOMEONEPLEASEHELPME

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#throwbackthursday what a dashing young fellow I am 

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All human actions are motivated by one of the following seven; luck, nature, impulse, habit, logic, passion, lust.

Aristotle, Ancient Greek Philosopher (384-322)B.C.

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What should I call my students and followers? Does Arimodels sound good because you are all model humans for believing and following such wise teachings as my own? 

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Nature does nothing in vain.

Aristotle

Buy Aristotle’s books here

(via quotemadness)

Everything is a sign

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Socrates was always a yes-man. What is a daddy? Do you mean I am the father of western philosophy, as in the creator? Yes, i will except the position.

however, i will admit that on a hotness scale aristotle *is* the daddy of western philosophy

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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

Aristotle

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Why would you not? We’re right.

The fact that people actually listened to Greek philosophers is crazy. Imagine living in 300 B.C or something, sniffing bay leaves & this old dude comes to you and says "We are not living in the real world... This is just a Shadow World" and you say "aight"

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Now onto the actual review of Death of a Salesman (less formal)

“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller is a tragedy, but just not a well written one. The play gives the audience a glimpse of the final moments of protagonist  Willy Loman and the dynamic between his family and workplace. The entire family is riddled with failures and disappointments, from the 30 something year old son Biff who still can’t find a steady job to Willy Loman himself who can barely make enough to pay the bills anymore and eventually gets fired. Willy, ends up committing suicide but couldn’t even get his dying wish fulfilled as he wished to be well-liked and have many attend his funeral only to have no more than a handful of people actually show up. The only thing tragic about a Death of a Salesman is its attempt at being a perfect tragedy. From the very beginning of the play, Miller gives an all too lengthy description of what the stage should look like and going too in depth within his first stage direction. The Spectacle and physical look of the set of a play shouldn’t be so in depth. If your writing, characters, and actors were good enough, then you wouldn’t have to write an essay of stage directions to portray the setting. This is exactly why I gave a set list of elements needed to have a good tragedy and listed them from most important to least important. I literally gave out the perfect structure to have a hit for free, how difficult is it to follow? Maybe Miller read the list backwards or didn’t pay attention to the detail of how they were listed in the right order. Aside from the unnecessary stage directions provided at the beginning of the play, it’s obvious that this is a play that is led by character and not plot. Although Miller does introduce the idea of a tragic hero through Willy Loman, there shouldn’t be an argument over who it is and should be one character. Although I think Miller did well having three male protagonists, I don’t understand why Linda is involved for more than a couple lines, women have no place in the theatre. Also, the plot isn’t linear, there are so many flashbacks that it can make your head spin. There are so many other works of literature that are able to write a perfect tragedy without the need of having flashbacks or the prioritization of other elements in an order other than the one I created. For example, William Shakespeare knows what he’s doing and knows how to write a tragedy. In plays like “Othello” or ”Macbeth”, both have strong linear plot, with perfect examples of a tragic hero. In “Othello,” Othello’s hamartia is his jealousy and gullibility, in “Macbeth”, it’s his blind hunger for power. Additionally, no one can ignore the poetics that is Shakespeare’s writing with amazing diction throughout all of his works. Arthur Miller may have a couple of these elements, but he just doesn’t hit all the marks, therefore in my eyes he doesn’t have a complete tragedy and I wouldn’t recommend it unless edited to be complete.

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What makes a GOOD tragedy?

So before we even begin talking about the play, we have to talk about the foundation of a play and how to actually write a tragedy. The 6 Elements needed in order to create a proper tragedy are as follows: Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Song, and Spectacle. I’m only doing this because I know you wouldn’t know any better.

The first most important element in a tragedy is the plot. The plot must be whole, complete in itself and of adequate magnitude. Plot means the arrangement of incidents. The plot has to be united in action and organically connected and is the Soul of a tragedy. The tragic poet must not overcharge a Tragedy with details appropriate to Epic poetry. Comedy has no place in tragedy, it is for the lower class. Just because your life is a joke, doesn’t mean that a tragedy should have jokes. 

Following plot is character. Character is that which reveals moral purpose, Character is idealized through the “Deus ex Machina”. Tragedy is imitation of action; characters are there to watch and interact with it. Within these characters, there should be a tragic hero. A tragic hero 

Thought is revealed in the dramatic speeches composed according to the rules of rhetoric and can be known as the Intellectual element or the Diction in Tragedy. Thought is found where something is proved to be or not to be, or general maxim in enunciated.

Diction falls largely within the domain of the Art of Delivery,  rather than poetry. Diction, or language in general, is an analysis of the parts of speech and other grammatical details. Poetic diction is the words and modes of speech admissible in Poetry:including Metaphor in particular. 

Song holds the chief place among embellishments.

The spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected with the least art of poetry. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.

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So we’re gonna take a second to talk about Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller because I just read through the play, and I can’t wait until class to talk about it.

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someone must have done this before, right?

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taking notes

How to flirt Shakespeare Style:

write sonnets for your beloved

disguise as a teacher to be near to your beloved

elope with your love in a fairy wood

shame her in front of the wedding party

murder Duncan

kill your wife’s cousin on your wedding day

kill her husband and say you only did it cause she’s pretty

kill your wife