1) Brady Center to Prevent Non-Violence-http://www.bradycenter.org/
2) Violence Policy Center-http://www.vpc.org/
3) Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
4) National Riffle Association- www.nra.org
5) Gun Owners of America- http://www.gunowners.org/
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Timed Writing
Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces examines the steps that each hero goes through on their adventure. Campbell cites many different sources to back up his thesis, but throughout them all Campbell is able to make connections showing how all these stories throughout history follow a similar structure. His writing is very interesting to me because I would never have imagines that throughout all the different culture of the world there would something that tied all their mythological stories together and Campbell was able to show me this.
The first step in any hero’s adventure according to Campbell is what he calls the “call to adventure”. This is the first time the hero (or simply the main character) learns something about the adventure they are about to embark on. In many movies this is represented either by some wise person telling the hero what he must do, or the hero loses someone he or she loves and is forced to go on the adventure in hopes of rescuing their long lost love. In class we read sections from a piece by Carlos Zafon called “The Shadow of the Wind” which tells the story of a young boy and his first book and how much of an impact this book has on his life. This young hero gets his call to adventure when his father takes him to “the cemetery of forgotten books”, a building filled with books that no one else want. His father instructs him to choose one book from the thousands in the collection. Daniel, the young boy decides on a book called the shadow of the wind and with this selection his adventure begins.
Campbell goes on to say that in most cases the hero is not immediately willing to undertake this arduous and usually dangerous undertaking. Campbell calls this the refusal of the call. He says that it is natural in heroes, saying it is just a normal step along the story of the adventure. One clear example of the refusal of the call come from a story by Franz Kafka called The Metamorphosis. This is a twisted story in which the main character, a traveling salesman by the name is Gregor wakes up one morning to find that his has turned into a cockroach. Gregor’s immediate reaction to his new condition is utter disbelief and soon he goes into what Campbell call the refusal of the call. He starts denying what has happened to him and acting like he is going to be able to continue his normal life as if nothing has changed. This story follows the struggles Gregor faces with this new identity and eventually he can refuse the call no longer but instead of accepting the call he accepts the fact that he is unwanted and disgusting and this leads him to an early death.
I experienced both the call to adventure and the refusal of the call first hand this semester while working on project three. The call to adventure came during project two when we were giving the choice of any research topic that we were going to have to delve into and write a paper about. This was a call to adventure for me because it gave me the chance to become educated about something that I was passionate about. But, like any good hero does, (according to Campbell) I refused the call at first. I was not excited about writing a research paper because I knew it was going to take a lot of work. I stalled as much as I could, but eventually like any good hero’s does, I embraced the adventure (that is assuming you can find some creative way to call a research paper an adventure).
The first step in any hero’s adventure according to Campbell is what he calls the “call to adventure”. This is the first time the hero (or simply the main character) learns something about the adventure they are about to embark on. In many movies this is represented either by some wise person telling the hero what he must do, or the hero loses someone he or she loves and is forced to go on the adventure in hopes of rescuing their long lost love. In class we read sections from a piece by Carlos Zafon called “The Shadow of the Wind” which tells the story of a young boy and his first book and how much of an impact this book has on his life. This young hero gets his call to adventure when his father takes him to “the cemetery of forgotten books”, a building filled with books that no one else want. His father instructs him to choose one book from the thousands in the collection. Daniel, the young boy decides on a book called the shadow of the wind and with this selection his adventure begins.
Campbell goes on to say that in most cases the hero is not immediately willing to undertake this arduous and usually dangerous undertaking. Campbell calls this the refusal of the call. He says that it is natural in heroes, saying it is just a normal step along the story of the adventure. One clear example of the refusal of the call come from a story by Franz Kafka called The Metamorphosis. This is a twisted story in which the main character, a traveling salesman by the name is Gregor wakes up one morning to find that his has turned into a cockroach. Gregor’s immediate reaction to his new condition is utter disbelief and soon he goes into what Campbell call the refusal of the call. He starts denying what has happened to him and acting like he is going to be able to continue his normal life as if nothing has changed. This story follows the struggles Gregor faces with this new identity and eventually he can refuse the call no longer but instead of accepting the call he accepts the fact that he is unwanted and disgusting and this leads him to an early death.
I experienced both the call to adventure and the refusal of the call first hand this semester while working on project three. The call to adventure came during project two when we were giving the choice of any research topic that we were going to have to delve into and write a paper about. This was a call to adventure for me because it gave me the chance to become educated about something that I was passionate about. But, like any good hero does, (according to Campbell) I refused the call at first. I was not excited about writing a research paper because I knew it was going to take a lot of work. I stalled as much as I could, but eventually like any good hero’s does, I embraced the adventure (that is assuming you can find some creative way to call a research paper an adventure).
Monday, May 5, 2008
Lesson Plan on Gun Control
1) As a lead in to this activity you should ask the students what impact the music they listen to has on the way they view the world.
2) Play the song "My Buddy"
3) List in the blackboard the pros and cons that the song portrays about guns.
4) Make another list of the pros and cons that the students are aware of from the media on gun.
5)List how many deaths there were from gun in 2007
6) The second amendment right allows every american to own a gun. ask the students if this law is one that is outdated and needs updating.
The Standard I am addressing with this presentation is cultural and historical connections, standard 1: the student understands the music in relation to cultural and history . (MU.C.1.2)
2) Play the song "My Buddy"
3) List in the blackboard the pros and cons that the song portrays about guns.
4) Make another list of the pros and cons that the students are aware of from the media on gun.
5)List how many deaths there were from gun in 2007
6) The second amendment right allows every american to own a gun. ask the students if this law is one that is outdated and needs updating.
The Standard I am addressing with this presentation is cultural and historical connections, standard 1: the student understands the music in relation to cultural and history . (MU.C.1.2)
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