Bazza Posted September 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Do I admt I went and saw Buffy The Vampire Slayer at the cinema because Luke Perry was in it and I was a Beverley Hills 90210 fan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 You can. I didn't see any of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Do I admit I went and saw Buffy The Vampire Slayer at the cinema because Luke Perry was in it and I was a Beverley Hills 90210 fan? I saw all five of the Twilight movies in the theater...and read all the books. It ain't Shakespeare, but they were better that some of the books I was required to read in high school and/or college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 I saw all five of the Twilight movies in the theater...and read all the books. It ain't Shakespeare, but they were better that some of the books I was required to read in high school and/or college. The only literature that might come close to (or exceed) Shakespeare is the ancient Greek tragedians and comedians. BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 I saw all five of the Twilight movies in the theater...and read all the books. It ain't Shakespeare, but they were better that some of the books I was required to read in high school and/or college. I've read the books, and have seen movies 1, 2, part of 3, and 5. As far as I'm concerned, they ain't vampires or werewolves. They may be glittery emo ticks, but they ain't vampires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 The only literature that might come close to (or exceed) Shakespeare is the ancient Greek tragedians and comedians. I would need to know much more about Asian cultural history before I could respond to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 I would need to know much more about Asian cultural history before I could respond to that. True. the Hindi epics would most likely exceed the Greek tragedians, comedians and Shakespeare. The epic from which the Bhagavad Gita is extracted from is HUGE, and by huge i really mean HUGE. And that is about 1 of 3 or 4. But within the Occident, I'd still reckon the Greek tragedians & comedians are on par with Shakespeare. The position Shakespeare enjoys now was the position the Greek tragedians & comedians in earlier eras, and are still influential today (of course). Between 1919 and 1966, scholars at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, compared the various manuscripts of the epic from India and abroad and produced the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata, on 13,000 pages in 19 volumes, followed by the Harivamsha in another two volumes and six index volumes. This is the text that is usually used in current Mahabharata studies for reference.[41] This work is sometimes called the 'Pune' or 'Poona' edition of the Mahabharata. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined...W. J. Johnson has compared the importance of the Mahabharata to world civilization to that of the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, the works of Homer, Greek drama, or the Qur'an.[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 I would love if Pariah was a relief teacher for English and said that the set text was the Mahabharata (13,000 pages in 19 volumes). I'm sure the students would freak. BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Most would freak over 10 pages. Whiny little turds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Most would freak over 10 pages. Whiny little turds. QFT. When I give a textbook reading assignment of more than ten pages in my intro-level classes, I get audible groans and complaints. It's a little better in my Honors classes. My AP class already knows I'm an unreasonably demanding S.O.B., so they just nod their heads grimly and accept it. BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Whilst you giggle darkly to yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 Tell them about "satanic" questions. MWA-HA-HA-ha-ha-ha..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 Tell them about "satanic" questions. MWA-HA-HA-ha-ha-ha..... ??? Is this a science-educator joke? 'cause I don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 No, it's my own thing, though I don't make a secret of it. A satanic question tests your faith as well as knowledge. The exact example I lived through as a student can be described this way: take-home final exam. First question. Compute how different the answer is if you take a case we studied in class, and give it a specific tweak. Fine. I know how to do that. Work on it. Most of an hour later, I get the answer ... and the difference is zero. So ... you got a zero, all the terms canceled out. Do you believe that? How's your faith? If your physical understanding is strong, you get that, say Yes, that makes sense, and move on. If not, you fear you have made an error, and you do it again. Maybe again twice, getting zero each time. Now you see where the "satanic" label comes in. Pariah and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 You fiend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 That's a nice way of ruining an exam for the students. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 I merely carry on the finest of old educational practices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 What, making your students think? So in other words, you are actually doing what you get paid to do? I'm almost in shock. Almost. Now if other educators could follow your fine example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 Well, this doesn't exactly make me popular with the students.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 Never mind popularity. I just tried to expand their horizons. It didn't always work, but there were a few cases where I was successful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 To violently expand horizons -- use Point-Of-View-AmiteTM! BlueCloud2k2 and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 21, 2014 Report Share Posted September 21, 2014 Relativistically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 21, 2014 Report Share Posted September 21, 2014 Tell all your relatives! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted September 21, 2014 Report Share Posted September 21, 2014 What were we talking about again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 21, 2014 Report Share Posted September 21, 2014 Good teachers, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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