Showing posts with label Week 12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 12. Show all posts

Monday, April 20, 2020

Biographical Writing - W12 EC

Note: I wrote about this as social distancing has made me take all of my friendship to an internet communication medium for most of them. 

My virtual friend(s)

I met Tommy, Raj, and Eric on Twitter. I eventually grew close to them. Tommy and I talk sports. Raj and I talk about law school. Eric and I talk about movies and tv shows. Raj and Tommy are night owls that I can ALWAYS talk to. Eric on the other hand falls asleep at 10:30 pm every day. The friendship has evolved into close bond between us that I can confide in them for advice. That type of trust is only bestowed among one person in real life and that relationship started when we were just toddlers.

internet friends

Microfiction Story

Note: I picked the World War Z clip because of the pandemic and the length of our social distancing practices. I picked the Lord of the Rings story because I watched the movie an hour ago.

We have a chance.
But is it really a chance?
We still do not know where it came from.
Or how to cure it.
We have to hide in plain sight because of it.
The damage is irreversible.
Even with a cure.
Bibliography: I tell a much darker version of the ending narration of World War Z as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPRTSaXnwew


Memory isn’t what the heart desires.
Bibliography: Lord of the Rings quote from Gimli

a laughing dwarf

Week 12 Story Lab - Biography

I'm going to deviate from the provided prompts and write about the pandemic and how it has impacted my life. 

Well, COVID-19. I took 18 hours this semester so I yearned for a break from having to go to my in person classes every single day. Spring Break provided that break. Little did I know that Thursday, March 12th would be the last time I would see my friends in Norman until August at the earliest. 

On March 13th I got laid off from my part-time job. A few days later OU moved classes entirely online. It was a massive shakeup in just a few days. The repetitive system rug was pulled out from underneath me. And I could no longer afford to live in my apartment. 

I was able to terminate my lease early and I moved my stuff back. The following day I went to go file my 2019 taxes. My cousin is my tax preparer. Their offices are on the third floor. Elevator was out of service so I walked up and down the stairs. When I walked down I took a tumble and broke my foot. 

Perhaps one of the most disruptive months in my life as everything went against me. Broken foot? sure, I can live with that given we were already locked down as a result of social distancing. I can't live with my family, the cabin fever is real. 

I hope we're all practicing social distancing. But I think the OU football team has us all beat because they've social distanced themselves from greatness for 20 years now. 

   

Week 12B Reading

This week we will continue to take notes over King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang

1. Sir Galahad and the White Knight
The two Knights saluted each other courteously, and then the White Knight told Sir Galahad the story of the shield and how it had been given into his charge. Afterwards they parted, and Sir Galahad and his squire returned unto the Abbey whence they came.

2. Sir Lancelot's Vision
A voice spoke to him, and it said, "Sir Lancelot, more hard than is the stone, more bitter than is the wood, more naked and barren than is the leaf of the fig tree, art thou; therefore, go from hence and withdraw thee from this holy place."

3. The Adventure of Sir Percivale
As soon as it was day he looked about him, and saw he was in a wild mountain, girt round with the sea and filled with wild beasts. Then he rose and went into a valley, and there he saw a young serpent bring a young lion by the neck, and after that there passed a great lion, crying and roaring after the serpent, and a fierce battle began between them.

4. Sir Lancelot and the Five Hundred Knights
Sorrowfully he rode on till he passed a chapel, where stood a nun, who called to him and asked him his name and what he was seeking. So he told her who he was, and what had befallen him at the tournament, and the vision that had come to him in his sleep.

5. Sir Gawaine and the Hermit
Sir Gawaine rode long without meeting any adventure, and from Pentecost to Michaelmas found none that pleased him. But at Michaelmas he met Sir Ector de Maris and rejoiced greatly.

6. The Adventure of Sir Bors
On the shore he found a vessel covered with white samite, and as soon as he stepped in the vessel, it set sail so fast it might have been flying, and Sir Bors lay down and slept till it was day. When he waked he saw a Knight lying in the midst of the ship, all armed save for his helm, and he knew him for Sir Percivale and welcomed him with great joy, and they told each other of their adventures and of their temptations and had great happiness in each other's company.

7. Sir Galahad and the Mysterious Ship
So first Sir Percivale stepped forward and set his hand to the sword, but he might not grasp it. Next Sir Bors tried to seize it, but he also failed. When Sir Galahad beheld the sword, he saw that there was written on it, in letters of blood, that he who tried to draw it should never fail of shame in his body or be wounded to the death.

8. Sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad
The next day Sir Lancelot made his way back to Camelot, where he found King Arthur and Guenevere, but many of the Knights of the Round Table were slain, and destroyed more than the half. All the Court was passing glad to see Sir Lancelot, and the King asked many tidings of his son Sir Galahad.

9. Sir Galahad and the Graal
And by and by Sir Bors said to Sir Lancelot, 'Galahad your son saluteth you by me and, after you, King Arthur and all the Court, and so did Sir Percivale, for I buried them with mine own hands in the City of Sarras. Also, Sir Lancelot, Galahad prayeth you to remember of this uncertain world, as you promised when you were together!'

10. The End of Arthur
'Ah, Lancelot,' he said, when he stood looking beside his dead body, I thou wert head of all Christian Knights. Thou wert the courtliest Knight that ever drew sword, and the faithfulest friend that ever bestrode a horse. Thou wert the goodliest Knight that ever man has seen, and the truest lover that ever loved a woman.'


Excalibur

Week 12A Reading

This week we will take notes over King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang


1. The Drawing of the Sword
Sir Ector tells Arthur that he is not his father. When Arthur realized that he was King, Ector asked him to make his foster/step-brother seneschal of that lands. And Arthur did so.

2. The Questing Beast
Merlin stalks Arthur and presents himself to Arthur as a boy.

3. The Sword Excalibur
They rode into the town of Carlion, and Arthur's Knights gave them a glad welcome, and said it was a joy to serve under a King who risked his life as much as any common man.

4. The Round Table

Merlin asked the King to give him a company of Knights and esquires, that he might go to the Court of King Leodegrance and tell him that King Arthur desired to wed his daughter, which Arthur did gladly. Therefore Merlin rode forth and made all the haste he could till he came to the Castle of Cameliard, and told King Leodegrance who had sent him and why.

5. The Passing of Merlin
When Merlin was under the stone, she used the magic he had taught her, and the rock rolled over him and buried him alive, as he had told King Arthur.

6. King Arthur and Morgan le Fay

When she beheld that sight, her heart fell, for she dared not touch the sword, knowing well that if Arthur waked and saw her she was a dead woman. So she took the scabbard, and went away on horseback.

7. The Quest of the Holy Graal

The Knights, against King Arthur's wish, made a vow to find it and gave up their duties of redressing wrongs and keeping order to pursue the beautiful vision. But most of them, for their sins, were unsuccessful, like Sir Lancelot, and the Round Table was scattered and the kingdom was weakened by the neglect of ordinary duties in the search for what could never be gained by mortal men. This appears to be the moral of the story, if it has any moral. But the stories are confused almost like a dream, though it is a beautiful dream.

8. The King's Pilgrimage

In his dream it seemed that the King had ridden away to the quest and had left his squire behind him, which filled the young man with fear. And in his dream he set the saddle and bridle on his horse, and fastened his spurs, and girt on his sword, and galloped out of the castle after the King.

9. The Coming of the Holy Graal

They bade farewell, and mounted their horses, and rode through the streets of Camelot, and there was weeping of both rich and poor, and the King could not speak for weeping. And at sunrise they all parted company with each other, and every Knight took the way he best liked.



Excalibur