Transcript Scrapbook Presentation - Columbus State University

Scrapbook Presentation
By Kyle Beauchamp
America
By:Allen Ginsberg
Excerpt from America
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I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for
murder. America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get. I sit in my house for days on end and
stare at the roses in the closet. When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never
get laid. My mind is made up there's going to be trouble. You should have
seen me reading Marx. My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer. I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over
from Russia. I'm addressing you. Are you going to let our emotional life be run
by Time Magazine? I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. I read it every week. Its
cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. I read it in the
basement of the Berkeley Public Library. It's always telling me about
responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious.
Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to
myself again. Asia is rising against me. I haven't got a chinaman's chance.
I'd better consider my national resources.
America continued
• My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of
genitals an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and
hour and twentyfivethousand mental institutions. I say nothing about
my prisons nor the millions of underpriviliged who live in
my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns. I have abolished
the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go. My ambition is
to be President despite the fact that I'm a Catholic.
America Assesment
• Allen Ginsberg had great success with his poem America, it is a very
easy read and is certainly not boring to say the least, which are
opposite to gerneralizations that some people get when they read
poetry. A couple of reasons for the great success of this poem are
Ginsberg’s unorthodox format and his informal diction. His word
choice is that of if he were having a conversation with a friend or
acquaintance. These two writing techniques make this poem
entertaining to read. Hearing Ginsberg rant on about his personal life
and personal beliefs on politics is very shocking to see in a poem,
which in term makes it entertaining and fun to read. Ginsberg’s style of
writing will leave the reader either humored or pissed off, but
regardless of whether the reader loves him or hates him, he is more
than likely going to leave the reader sitting there with their jaw
dropped.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
• I enjoyed this specific scene
from the movie for the humor
that it brought from what was
and could have been a life
taking experience and somehow
turning it into a life changing
experienced. I thought it was
funny the language the little
boy used when he was
contemplating his suicide over
losing a soccer game.
What’s the point of living scene
• Eugene!
• Don’t you hear I’m jamming?
• How is it possible for the better ream to lose? We
didn’t deserve to! The ball just wouldn’t get in!
And they won it in the finals! So what’s the point
of living when life is so unfair and everything?
Just tell me this because you’re the smartest
person I know. If you don’t give me one good
reason to keep living and tell me what’s the
meaning of life, I’m gonna do this.
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Step down from the table.
No. First tell me.
Step down from the table and I’ll tell you.
(kid steps down from the table and his
brother slaps him in the face)
The General
By: Dispatch
The General
Lyrics
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There was a decorated general with a heart of gold, that likened him to all the stories he told of past
battles, won and lost, and legends of old a seasoned veteran in his own time on the battlefield, he
gains respectful fame with many medals of bravery and stripes to his name he grew a beard as soon
as he could to cover the scars on his face and always urged his men on
but on the eve of a great battle with the infantry in dream the old general tossed in his sleep and
wrestled with its meaning he awoke from the night
just to tell what he had seen and walked slowly out of his tent all the men held tall with their chests in
the air, with courage in their blood and a fire in their stare it was a grey morning and they all
wondered how they would fare till the old general told them to go home He said: I have seen the
others
and I have discovered that this fight is not worth fighting I have seen their mothers and I will no other
to follow me where I'm going So,take a shower, shine your shoes you got no time to lose you are
young men you must be living Take a shower, shine your shoes
you got no time to lose you are young men you must be living go now you are forgiven but the men
stood fast with their guns on their shoulders not knowing what to do with the contradicting orders the
general said he would do his own duty but would extend it no further the men could go as they
pleased but not a man moved, their eyes gazed straight ahead till one by one they stepped back and
not a word was said and the old general was left with his own words echoing in his head he then
prepared to fight
[CHORUS]
go now you are forgiven
The General Assessment
• I enjoy this song because it is one of the few
songs that I enjoy for its lyrics. Even though
the music is enjoyable the lyrics are what
brings this song its greatness for me. I like
how it tells a great story throughout the
song and if you were to take the lyrics out it
would be a successful short story.
The Bridge Builder
By: Will Allen Dromgoole
The Bridge Builder
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An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide-Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."
The Bridge Builder Assesment
• This poem has become so successful because not
only does it have a well thought out and creative
rhyme scheme, but there is also a hidden moral to
the story/poem. In this poem Dromgoole leaves
behind the message to be generous and to think of
others. He does this by in the story the old man
builds a bridge when he is already on the other
side to help the next people to cross the river.
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O’Connor
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
• There is one line in Flannery O’Connor’s
story that is probably one of my single
favorite lines in any short story that I have
read it is, “She would have been a good
woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been
somebody there to shoot her every minute
of her life.”
Assessment
• I really like this passage because it was basically
true. She was kind of an off putting person
throughout the story but could find the good in
people when her life depended on it. I think the
story as a whole was successful because of
O’Connor’s characters made the story. The
characters were spot on the way people were in
that time period ranging from generation to
generation in the south. She did a very good job
trapping the south from the fifties with her
characters and dialogue creating a sense of realism
and verisimilitude.
The Call Of The Wild
By: Jack London
The Call Of The Wild Passage
• He saw once for all that he stood no chance
against a man with a club. He had learned
the lesson and in all his after life he never
forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was
his introduction to the reign of primitive
law, and while he faced that aspect
uncowed he faced it with all the latent
cunning of his nature aroused.
Assessment
• What makes this story so successful is first of all
Jack London’s diction and language. His word
choice throughout the entire story is masterful.
Also his depiction of the struggle to be on top of
society. Everybody wants to be the leader of the
pack. It also has gained success by portraying
Darwinism, as it has a kill or be killed mentality
throughout it, and depicts survival of the fittest.
Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction Scene
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Miss Pascal! Miss Pascal.
Mr.Crick.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
I’m glad I caught you.
Oh yea. Why?
Cause… I wanted to… Bring these to you.
Really.
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Yea.
So…You can’t accept gifts but you can give them?
Listen…
Oh, That seems a little inconsistent doesn’t it Mr. Crick.
Very Inconsistent.
All right I’ll tell you what I’ll purchase them.
No
No, No, No, really I’d like to purchase them. What are
they?
• Flours.
Assessment
• I really enjoyed this scene because first of
all I would have never had the creativeness
to give flours to a baker. That is just poetic.
And second I really enjoy the sarcasm in the
conversation when she asked to purchase
them. It is just a really creative scene and is
probably my favorite scene in the entire
movie.
Magical Thinking
Augusten Burroughs
Magical Thinking Passage
“I like flaws and feel more comfortable
around people who have them. I myself am
made entirely of flaws, stitched together
with good intentions”
Assessment
Although many people challenge the
veracity of Augusten Burroughs's books,
questioning his career, addictions, and
memories, his books are quite successful.
Burroughs captures the reader’s attention
and holds on to it. This particular passage
sticks out to me because he reaches out to
the reader and relates.
The Year of Living Biblically
A.J. Jacobs
The Year of Living Biblically
Passage
"I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton
Richards, I'm now a reverent agnostic.
Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear or not
there's a God, there is such a thing as
sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can
be a sacred day. Prayer can. I now believe
that whether be a sacred ritual. There is
something transcendent, beyond the
everyday. It's possible that humans created
this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't
take away from its power or importance."
Assessment
I believe that The Year of Living Biblically is
successful due to the fact that Jacob’s
decision to dive head first into the Bible and
follow it as literally as possible for an entire
year, grasps the reader’s attention from the
beginning. His book is appealing to
religious readers and secular readers. I was
drawn to this particular passage because the
author is honest. People have different
perceptions on what is sacred, but that
doesn’t mean anyone or anything is less
important than the other.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Passage
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make
music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up
people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs,
they don't do one thing but sing their hearts
out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a
mockingbird."
Assessment
I believe that the book To kill a Mocking bird
was successful for the reasons that it is
forward and it is told in first person point of
view by a six year old girl. The book is
about determination and honesty. The
reason why I chose that particular passage is
because of the use of symbolism. I took
interest in the fact that the mockingbird
represents innocence. I believe that Atticus
was stating that sometimes people kill
innocence and also, to have respect.