We Hang Together

-The underlying key to any strategic alliance: interdependence: community partnership, interpersonal collaboration 

-Inter-organizational relations can be competitive, interdependent, or both

-In today's business "strategic alliance" is important: refers to all sorts of collaborative relationships and endeavors 

-Most successful businesses strive to achieve desired results as measured against their own potentials 

-Survival of the fittest the "fittest" are most adaptable 

-A lot of schools focus on independence and collaborating is considered cheating

-To gain independence you must sacrifice a sense of community or teamwork 

-Most powerful offices function best through interdependence as well as some of the most effected presidents of the USA have relied heavily upon cabinets and advisors

-It isn't the money that sinks a partnership but the people

-Self-interest is a reasonable motive for entering a strategic relationship but this May conflict with what's good for the alliance

-Interdependence requires that one party do for the other and vice versa 

-Many companies act strategically to be good corporate citizens and establish positive.public relations with the communities that in turn support them by purchasing thier goods

-The internet creates an opportunity for companies to create interdependent networks 

-We all need each other (companies need customers) 

-Creating effective partnerships requires an understanding of how interdependence works and the human factors that influence both individual and organizational relationships 

We can increase the value of collaborative relationships operating offline through networking online by bringing together a more diverse group of people. By doing this, the relationships are able to grow greatly due to the fact these different people are bringing different ideas to the table. 

A Poetic Inquiry

Old Big Question:
How did language begin? Who decided what each thing would be named and how did it spread all over the world?

New Big Question:
Why do we spend so much of our lives going to school locked up in classrooms or working inside of a small office, while there is a huge world out there we could be exploring?

I had a really hard time looking for sonnets that related to my big question. I finally found a sonnet about traveling on a website and this was the closest one that related to my big question. I found the sonnet on a website called teenink.com where people are able to get together to post sonnets in which they have written themselves. Therefore, I only know the author's username and not their full name.

Sonnet on Traveling
By: Smasher62

Travel is life’s little delights
Cruising down the Thames
Tokyo’s beckoning neon lights
Most rejuvenating some claim
A moment of pure bliss
A means of uplifting the soul
An opportunity one cannot dismiss
Who needs to be cajoled?
The best way out of a funk 
Is when one is in nature
From the cool temperate which oft smells of skunk
To the hot tropical of the equator
Travel should be every man’s desire
That’s why I can’t wait to retire

Sonnet Analysis #1

Lecture notes from 11/6/13

Hamlet Remix

I decided to turn my Hamlet Essay into a photo collage as my remix. The top two images represent my first body paragraph which was about the confused Hamlet not being able to make real what he had planned out in his mind.  The next two images below the confused pictures and also the horizontal emotion picture, represent my second body paragraph. This paragraph explained how Hamlet's emotions were always changing and how they greatly affected the characters around him. The last two pictures represent my third body paragraph. The punch boxing picture represents Hamlet letting of steam while the bottom picture represents his self-overhearing. 

Hamlet Essay

The way one speaks, dresses, and acts says a lot about their character. This is why it is so important to always act your best. In the play Hamlet, the performative utterances among the characters help the audience to characterize each character accordingly.

As Fredrik deBoer describes in his paper entitled “The Performative Utterance in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet”, Hamlet is a play about a man who couldn't make real what was found in his mind, not a play about a man who can’t make up his mind. Hamlet was so distraught over the murder of his father that he made it his mission to achieve revenge against his uncle, Claudius. Throughout the play, however, Hamlet talks more and does less. His whole life was turned upside down and he became surrounded with numerous emotions. This eventually forced him into a state of confusion. His friends and family started to think he was insane because of the way he began presenting himself through his speech. Hamlet’s emotions bombarded him and even made him question his own point of existence. For this reason, I believe that Hamlet had many internal struggles and this made it hard for him to focus on actually physically killing Claudius.

His unpredictable emotions ultimately affected the people around him and caused the play to end the way it did. The person who was most affected by Hamlet’s ever-changing emotions was Ophelia as Hamlet started treating her poorly because he was confused with whether he loved her or not. Polonius’ fatherly instincts then awakened and he started spying on Hamlet which is what got him killed. Ophelia became distraught over both Hamlet’s attitude towards her and her father’s death. Though in the play it was uncertain whether Ophelia drowned or committed suicide, I believe she was pushed to the point of suicide and intentionally drowned herself in the lake. Laertes then embarked into his stage of revenge for his father’s death which got him killed.

          Hamlet’s self-overhearing in the play allowed him to release his emotions he had bottled up by giving off steam through his words. He never truly puts those words into actions. I can relate to this on a different sort of level. When I memorized the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy, I just memorized the words itself in the order in which they needed to be in. I never received any deeper meanings from saying those lines over and over again. Hence, as Hamlet didn't receive any benefits from his self-overhearing, I didn't receive any benefits from my self-overhearing. When you reflect on an experience from the past, whether it was a positive or negative experience, you should have received some type of lesson in which you could learn from for future references. I believe the lessons you learn from these experiences should make you a better person and you should be expected to not make the same mistakes again. If you continue to make negative decisions, the results will continue to be negative. This relates back to the fact that even after Claudius murdered King Hamlet, he still tried to murder Prince Hamlet. Since he didn't allow himself to stray from his sinning life, he ended up dying.  

In conclusion, the personas fed off of each other’s energies. This created a lot of quick judgmental actions resulting in more unnecessary deaths. Hamlet’s performative utterance and energy he constantly gave off was the main cause of these deaths. Thus, if Hamlet presented himself in a different way the outcome of the play would have been greatly different, proving just how important the presentation of oneself is. 

Vocabulary #9

1. Aficionado (n)- an ardent devotee; fan, enthusiast

- She is an aficionado of their clothing brand as she wears the brand everyday. 

2.Browbeat (v)- to intimidate with overbearing looks or words; bullying
- The mean girls browbeat the little boy everyday.


3. Commensurate (adj)- having the same measure; equal extent or duration
- It is only fair if the benefits for the workings were commensurate. 

4. Diaphanous (adj)- very sheer or light; almost transparent
- The cheap shirt was diaphanous.

5. Emolument (n)- profit, salaries, or fees from office or employment 
- The product was successful as it brought in a lot of emolument. 


6. Foray (n)- a quick sudden attack
- The countries foray surprised everyone. 


7. Genre (n)- a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, or technique
- I love to read different genres of books. 

8. Homily (n)- a sermon; an inspiring saying or cliche
- That homily is very commonly used in my church.  
 
9. Immure (v)- to imprison; to shut-in
- They immured the snake in the cage.


10. Insouciant (adj)- free from worry; carefree; nonchalant
- Her insouciant attitude showed that she was not worried about the test. 


11. Matrix (n)- a point when something else originates, develops, or takes form
- The matrix of the rock was when the crystals formed. 


12. Obsequies (n)- a funeral rite, or ceremony
- It is tradition to wear black at an obsequies. 


13. Panache (n)- a grand manner; style; flair
- Her boss walked around with a proper panache. 


14. Persona (n)- the characters in a play
- Her favorite persona from the play was Mary. 


15. Philippic (n)- any speech of bitter denunciation
- Everyone was surprised from her philippic at the meeting. 


16. Prurient (adj)- having lustful thoughts or desires
- She felt uncomfortable by the boys prurient glances. 

17. Sacrosanct (adj)- extremely sacred
- The sacrosanct book was important to her family. 

18. Systemic (adj)- of or pertaining to a system
- The boys disease became systemic as everyone was affected. 


19. Tendentious (adj)- having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or propose
- During the game of darts, he won with his tendentious throws. 

20. Vicissitude (n)- a change or variation occurring in the course of something
- He went through a vicissitude when he lost his great job. 

Tools That Change the Way We Think

"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. 'It will be included in people's brains,' said Page. 'When you think about something and don't really know much about it, you will automatically get information.'

'That's true,' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what's going on around them and suggest useful information.'

'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page,' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you'll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."

-From In the Plex by Steven Levy (p.67)

How does use of the Internet, media, and/or technology change the way you think?

I believe the internet, technology, and media all greatly influence the way we think. The internet changes the way we think because we are influenced by what other people are saying as we are able to see everyone's thoughts. This can be a positive thing because it widens our perspectives on that certain topic. Technology changes the way we think because instead of trying to remember or figure something out, we immediately go the internet for the answer. The internet is so convenient and people have become lazy due to the fact technology is able to do the work for us. Before the internet and greatly evolved calculators we have now, people had to go to the library to look through numerous books for answers or work out problems on paper. Media also changes the way many people think. For example, people think the world has become a bad place as there are many robberies and murders occurring. The reason for this belief, however, is because the news on television just focuses on the negative crimes rather than the positive news. Police car chases are much more exciting than a local beach cleanup and more people will tune into the news to hear about these exciting crimes.