Newbies-Introduce yourself here!

[Tak-Jak]

I make myself know.
And guess what..!

I am almost done with AP US History.
Just finished reading the 10 page document.
Now I just have to but my analysis into words!  

[Spastic waffles]

Good luck!

I should be working on a paper right now...I'm listening to mugglecast.

Are you petrified...of being petrified?

WRock FTW!  

[Tak-Jak]

haha, thats awesome.

What's the paper about?  

[Spastic waffles]

It's a persuasive essay on literature as something political.  

[Tak-Jak]

Like, literatures affect on political views of a certain time period?  

[Spastic waffles]

No...

As in literature as a political...essence? Er...um...I can't think of the right word.

Literature is political. That was the last sentence of my prompt.  

[Tak-Jak]

Okay.. as in.. Liturature is a form of political representation.  

[Reese_Roper]

Like The Wizard of Oz? Stupid knowing the symbolism ruined the book for me. stare  

[Spastic waffles]

Wizard of Oz symbolism?

Not aware of that.

Tak, I think we're talking about the same thing. I was going to post my essay but I was afraid my teacher might put it through turnitin.com and accuse me of cheating...even though if I had bought this essay offline I would be pissed off beyond belief, becuase this sucks. XD  

[Reese_Roper]

Quote:

Critics analysing the book, however, equate Dorothy's silver shoes with the silver standard of 1890s Populist debates. William Jennings Bryan, farmers, and public‐wary presidents are represented by the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and Wizard. Midwestern politics are futher allegorized in the Tin Woodman's dehumanization from flesh to tin—a metaphorical industrialization that is vanquished by the Jeffersonian agrarianism of Kansas, geographic and symbolic centre of the United States. This model presents Kansas as a secular Garden of Eden, but Oz‐as‐Utopia is championed in socio‐political commentary of the later Oz books. Feminists cite the numerous emasculated males and analyse the suffragette‐type leaders of The Land of Oz. Others find in the illness‐free Emerald City of Oz a (socialist) paradise where poverty and money need not exist because happy workers share their wealth and talents. Solidarity and pacifism rule Oz, where a giant Love Magnet imbues all who enter with selflessness. In short, Oz is what a disenchanted America is not.

We learn it Junior year. My sister told me all about it.  

[Tak-Jak]

Oh yes, the symbolism is beyond belief within the Wizard of Oz.
I rather enjoyed learning about it and discovering it on my own.

And no worries Waffles. How about you post it after you get it graded and such, i dont want you getting in trouble. I was accused of plagerism.. because I am writing on a college level, and my teacher was to stupid to understand what I was saying within the essay.  

[KirbyVictorious]

Um...

A) sweet avvi, Tak. ^^

B) We jsut had a hurricane. ^^ Which means no school, an adventure on my roof, and beautiful weather. Yay!

C) I have no idea wtf you guys are talking about.

D) OMG!!!!!! SQUEE!!!!!!  

[Voxxx]

C. I like pancakes and ducks.  

[Tak-Jak]

Wooo! It is kinda.. I dunno. I like it.

And we are talking AP English.  

[Spastic waffles]

I don't think iTunes is ever going to finish this update.

T-T...the live podcast is over. I'm really sad now.

But...I managed to get Jamie Lawrence's AIM screenname...I don't know if I will ever IM him, but I've added him to my buddy list...And just so you know, I am not a stalker (well...not freakishly so at least), someone randomly posted it in the AIM chat we all had going and I took advantage of the opportunty and added him.

I bet he'll love the fact that like 30 random fangirls now have his s/n.