The British ethnocentric views of the First Australians caused conflict between the two cultures. From the "First Australians" DVD and the book, "The Rabbits", I learned that the British viewed the First Australians as uncivilized savages. The British thought that the First Australians were a problem that needed to be dealt with. They will do so by killing the children so that they don't grow up and reproduce and they kill the women so they will not reproduce any more. The labeling of the First Australians as less than keeps the British superior and the First Australians inferior. The British views of the First Australians showed the ethnocentrism of the British. Some people believe that the British brought small pox, a European disease, to Australia when the British colonized Australia. There was a fight over the land in Australia. The crops were changed to British crops then the First Australians burned the British crops. This ethnocentric viewpoint also resulted as conflict between the British and the First Australians. Overall, the British ethnocentric views of the First Australians caused major conflict.

Julius Caesar: Solo Acting

BRUTUS:

Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,

To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,

Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar;
And in the spirit of men there is no blood:
O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,
And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,
Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,
Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:
And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,
Stir up their servants to an act of rage,
And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make
Our purpose necessary and not envious:
Which so appearing to the common eyes,
We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.
And for Mark Antony, think not of him;

For he can do no more than Caesar's arm
When Caesar's head is off.

In act two scene 1 Brutus is in the garden of his house. Storm clouds pass across the sky when he is speaking to Cassius about how Brutus wants to kill Caesar. He desperately wants the assassination to be honorable. Brutus only wants to do what is best for Rome so he describes how he wishes the way the act will be. In this scene, you can really see that he wants it to appear honorable and not murderous. But he truly, from the heart, wants this to be a noble act.

My Learning Profile

I learn best through movement and by focusing on he whole picture, context and emotional relevance to self. When I am relaxed, I may preferentially listen for the details.

As a visual/kinesthetic learner, I must see the whole picture and physically do what is being learned.

I appreciate metaphors, examples and associations when problem solving. I will benefit from sitting close to the front on the left hand side but where I can also move without disturbing other learners. Some activities that can help me when I’m stressed is reading out loud, Thinking Caps from Brain Gym, megaphones, toning the vowels and hand-eye coordination play like Lazy 8’s for writing, double doodles, and integrating cross-lateral foot play like cross crawl, walking, soccer, dancing and martial arts like Tai Chi. Also integrative balance of art, music, movement and interpersonal/intrapersonal skills combined with cognitive endeavors in linguistics and mathematics will be highly beneficial.

I would like my teachers to know that I learn kinesthetically. I need to move (especially the hands) to process new learning. Emotionally and physically expressive.I visually grasp the main idea but I may have a great difficulty seeing and communicating the details in a linear way. My left eye scans from right to left. I may have a difficulty reading or writing languages that move from left to right like English. I may reverse or transpose letters or number. I prefer not to follow step-by-step visual instructions. I tend to start by imagining the end results and then intuitvely doing what seems appropriate. I may have a difficulty with penmanship because the eye and hand don’t work together. I benefit from fine-motor, hand-eye coordination activities. My movements tend to be spontaneous and fluid when I’m relaxed. When under stress, I may move forward with caution felling clumsy and stuck.

Leonardo Da Vinci - Characterized as a true Renaissance Man

Leonardo Da Vinci can be characterized as a true Renaissance man because he was many different occupations throughout his life. Such as a scientist, inventor, and an artist. He was also an engineer. Da Vinci's experiments with anatomy absolutely astonished his predecessors. He observed nature and asked very simple scientific questions such as "How do birds fly?" Then he analysed his theories in his sketches. And to this, he added a preternatural, even spooky determination. He paid attention to every detail and forms of small organs and hidden parts of the skeleton. He would dissect animals and humans to analyze it. Da Vinci was a great inventor. He adapted his drawing skills to the more well-paid fields of architecture, military, engineering, canal building, and weapons design. In search of a salary, he only briefly mentioned to the Duke that he could paint as well. Lucky for leonardo, he was very gifted in the engineering business. Throughout his life he had amazing ideas. Leonardo was an extremely talented renaissance man.

Brunelleschi Character Traits

I believe that creative leadership most prompted Brunelleschi to succeed in the construction of his masterpiece because Brunelleschi thought of the idea of having an inner-dome and an outer-dome. He had many more ideas besides this one and he had succeed most of them. The Actions and decisions of the people effect change because if Brunelleschi had never shown creative leadership then it most likely would have been much later on when people in Italy would discover more things in art and architecture such as linear perspective and the fact that they can build large domes.

Where do new ideas come from?

New ideas come from life experiences, an event that is taking place during a certain time period, and also through your imagination. Life experiences helps you to have new ideas because say for example, you are a little kid and you try your first lollipop. You can have an idea of how the lollipop taste because you have experienced it. If you haven't, you probably wouldn't be able to because you haven't experienced it yet. Events that take place during a certain time can help you have new ideas because in the story, "The Sniper" the event was the Irish Civil War. This event can help you think of something like a conflict between families or how the wars were so intense from all of the enemies. Lastly, ideas can come from your imagination. If you have a very creative imagination, then you can think of ideas easily. For example, if you are a very creative person, and you have to write your own short story, you would be able to have very vivid and interesting ideas. As you can see, there are various ways of where new ideas can come from. You can get them from experiences, events, and through an imagination.

My Favorite Story

As I reflect over our short story unit, out of the three, my favorite short story was "Lamb to the Slaughter". Primarily, I was drawn to this story because of the way the the conflict was formed. I enjoyed studying how people formed different relationships and their conflicts (Lamb to the Slaughter-husband and wife that are splitting up, The Sniper-brothers end up going against each other and are opposing each other through war, Thank You Ma'am -"teacher - Luella" "student - Roger ")and how they dealt with their conflicts. Further, with an improved understanding of how society worked back in around the early 1950's, the story's setting. It was interesting about how Mary decided to deal with how her husband was going to leave her, the story's resolution, but I thought that making this type of conflict was a very effective way that the author communicated his message about this story.