Data from the Shakespeare Concordance: Music

Music is obviously a constant theme through out Twelfth Night. Even the name of the main character " Viola" is spelt the same way as the instrument the viola. Music, songs, tunes..ect. are constantly being brought up in the text, there are always songs. The play itself starts with music, and ends with a song. Shakespeare relates music to passion, and extremely strong emotion.
In Act I.i, the famous opening monologue Duke Orsino says
"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die."
Orsino wants so much of it that he can't take it anymore, he wants to vomit from the excess of it. Music to these characters is something that expresses more emotion then the need for excess love.

All the fools songs, are meloncholoy and compelelty shift the play. For example his last song "For the rain, it raineth everyday."

Brings the audience back to reality, and tells them that basically its time for them all to go back reality, to the pain that everyone has to experience.

In a way music represents many thing, and it is not as romantic as everyone was assumes it is. It's almost an ugly thing, the glutinous attitude so many of the characters have towards it makes its such a hard to theme to completely grasp.

Music basically becomes the most extreme emotions. Of every emotion that is represented.

Sport Royal

Maria calls her manipulation of Malvolio " Sport Royal"....

Maria calling her manipulation of Malvolio "Sport Royal" is something I would expect. Malvolio torments everyone who is not of high status, he is rude, self- centered, and self adored. Messing with him to Maria, Toby, and Fabian is how they entertain themselves. It's a game they play to get revenge and have a laugh also. Basically killing two birds with one stone.

Ink Shedding: Twelfth Night

Orsino: Act II. 4 (around line 37)
"Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold that bent;
For women are as roses, who fair flow'r,
Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour."

Here Orsino is discussing women with Cesareo or Viola.
Viola tells Orsino that she is in love with a woman of his age (when it's actually Orsino). Immediately Orsino's reaction is that she is too old for him. He then states that women are like flowers, more specifically Roses. They are beautiful for a short time, but eventually their age and become ugly. Orsino is basically being a shallow jerk- saying you have to marry women while they’re young, while they are still beautiful.

Virtual Iraq Abstract

Sue Halperns main claim in Virtual Iraq is that immersion therapy using a virtual world of war time may dramatically help in dealing with PSTD. Sue’s article talks about many different aspects of the how immersion therapy works. When I first read about immersion therapy I was confused as how going back to the place that hurt you so deeply was a good idea. But seeing the further development of trying to desensitize the person the memories and environment, showed that it works. Sue uses interviews and past experiments related to Virtual Iraq, like virtual Vietnam, to support her argument.
What else was interesting is how masculine the therapy treatment is. Several times in the article it is mentioned how therapy is not masculine, and how it is frowned about in the marines. Even the creator of Virtual Iraq, is described as an extremely masculine person, who drives a specific type of motor cycle. Virtual Iraq is basically immersion therapy for people who cannot accept the idea of divulging there problems to a human being.
Sue talks about this virtual therapy to show how advanced technology is becoming, that now therapy has become virtual reality. The patients or at least “Travis Boyd” showed significant improvement by this experimental trial at virtual therapy.

What do you mean my old PC is in Africa?

When I first read " High Tech Trash" by Chris Carroll-- I was in complete shock. There were no words to describe how ignorant and small I felt.
Everyday I use my computer, Ipod, cell phone and everything in between. My family alone in the past 10 years has generated enough e-waste to fill a small stadium. And the thing is, it never, ever, ever crossed my mind where all our old electronics where actually going. You ship them off to be recycled and you think to your self "Oh wow I am doing such a good thing for the environment. I'm recycling!"... Lo and behold, many months later that same cell phone or computer thought to be recycled sits in a developing nation, going up in flames, and aiding in the demise of our physical world and the health of hundreds of children.
Of course I was disgusted and challenged by the idea of how piles of old electronics being made into shanty towns of flames. Can I actually help? Or is it to late for that? So many people make there living from the trade of scrap metal, people whom you wouldn't even imagine. There is so much turmoil in this world and now it is being enhanced by technology, the technology that was supposed to bring the world further into the future and into a new era of electronics. Well it's certainly bringing our lives to new heights, but I'm afraid over all "e-trash" will be the negative factor that brings all this new technology crumbling down.

High Tech Trash Abstract

High Tech Trash by Chris Carroll, claims the E-trash, has become, a major problem that has yet been properly dealt with. Carroll uses his own personal experiences and statistics to show audiences, or Americans, what actually happens to all of our "e-trash" we discard of. Carroll discusses recycling and how real recycling is beneficial but companies advertise themselves as so, when in reality they are just dumping the garbage. Yes, there are companies like Creative Recycling in Tampa Florida, but the other companies are few and far between. What it really comes down to is awareness. After someone disposes of an old cell phone or computer, nobody really does know where it ends up. What goes around comes around is the moral of this story. We dispose a lot of our trash into developing nations like China. China then makes jewelry, plates, and other household items and sells it back to America, causing a vicious cycle of disease and sickness all around. The sadder part is that many people make a living off of this "e-trash" by burning the wires to get to the metal furthering the pollution of the earth.