Wednesday 25 March 2015

Perfect Example of Humility

Golden Mean of Humility: The quality or condition of being humble, modest in opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.

The Merchant's Daughter, by Melanie Dickerson
I had found the perfect paragraph that explains humility of Annabel's personality. Lord Ranulf had taken notice of it, and here's a bit of it from the story:

Ranulf hated to think it, but the maiden haunted him too, and he of all people should know better. Her perfect features, her beautiful blue eyes, and her blond hair waving about her shoulders... but it was her kindness to others, her quiet nature and the way she preformed her duties with meekness and without ceremony that had caught his attention. Page 85, paragraph 3.

This is an example of one of my virtue tracking findings I had found in "The Merchant's Daughter". Annabel Chapman is a girl who shows pure humility in all that she does. Many people notice her humility, but use her humbleness as an easy target for harm towards her. She still presses on though, believing that God will provide a way for her to get through the struggles she goes through each day. Some other people also see her humbleness, but see how innocent she is, and the help she needs. The only few people who see this is the Mistress she works with in the kitchen, and her village's lord she's a servant for, Lord Ranulf le Wyse.


Friday 13 March 2015

Concrete Poetry

The steps my group took to get through the concrete poems was a bit confusing. We had a hard time understanding some of the very complex poems. We had to switch back and forth to the questions we had to answer, the steps of how to find the purpose of the poem, and the poems themselves. Although, we were able to work through them, and find the main gist of each. The concrete poems with the smallest of information was surprisingly the hardest ones, yet fastest to accomplish in finding the purpose. The poems with the most information would give more towards finding the purpose, but because of all the details that contributed to it, it took a long while to find the whole story within it.  


Friday 6 March 2015

Blood Brother

I believe that Rocky's friend, the director of the film, might have impacted how Rocky was portrayed because he thinks that he is a great person. They have been best friends for a long time, and he knows a lot about his family, interests, strengths, weaknesses, etc., and would always be there for him.
On the other hand, people who may not know Rocky or understand him, will have their own opinion about him. It may effect the way the film would portray Rocky, either in a good way or bad. They may be against the way he thinks or what his beliefs are, or how he had left his family to be with sick children of India.
There are many contributions that might change the outcome of the film by what kind of directors perspective it comes from.