apple of the eye.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Final Essay
I really enjoyed Nakita Itzel project because for one I am a sucker for "The Phantom Of The Opera". Watching her present her project just made me want to watch the movie again in which I went on amazon the day after project presentations and I brought it. I finally received it and watched it last night. Her essay was great she pointed out all the key points of it and I like how she included about it originally being in book form. I like how she gave a brief summary of the three main characters also.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
4.5 What exactly does Horoscope mean?
In astrology, a horoscope is a chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, the astrological aspects, and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such as the moment of a person's birth. The word horoscope is derived from Greek words meaning "a look at the hours" (horoskopos, pl. horoskopoi, or "marker(s) of the hour.") Other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel, or simply chart.
It is used as a method of divination regarding events relating to the point in time it represents and forms the basis of the horoscopic traditions of astrology. However, no studies have shown any scientific support for the accuracy of horoscopes, and the methods used to make interpretations are, at best, pseudo-scientific.
In common usage, horoscope often refers to an astrologer's interpretation, usually through a system of Sun sign astrology or based on calendar significance of an event, as in Chinese astrology. In particular, many newspapers and magazines carry predictive columns based on celestial influences in relation to the zodiacal placement of the Sun on the day of a person's birth, identifying the individual's Sun sign or "star sign" based on a conventional zodiac (which is not the celestial one). Such a concept is distinct from horoscopes as typically employed, where only the traditional zodiacal placement of the Sun is considered in interpretation. While this modern usage is perhaps the most popular in the colloquial lexicon, this article will focus primarily on the traditional concept.
Information from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horoscope
4.4 Virgo,Libra,Scorpio,Sagittarius.
- Your element: Earth
- Your ruling planets: Mercury
- Symbol: The Virgin
- Your stone: Sapphire
- Life Pursuit: To do the right thing
- Vibration: Compassionate and caring
- Virgo's Secret Desire: To love and be loved in return
- Health foods
- Lists
- Hygiene
- Order
- Wholesomeness
- Hazards to health
- Anything sordid
- Sloppy workers
- Squalor
- Being uncertain
Virgos are often put down badly by many astrologers and written up as being fussy and narrow-minded. But when a Virgo shines, there is practically no sign to match their inner light
When a Virgo is confident within themselves they are the most successful, structured and creative of all the signs.
Creative and sensitive, Virgos are delicate people who, like rare and special orchids, require individual treatment to fully blossom into their true unique beauty. Shy, they are happy to allow others to take centre-stage and often generate their time and energy into making those they love happy or successful.
Libra:
- Your element: Air
- Your ruling planets: Venus
- Symbol: The Scales
- Your stone: Opals
- Life Pursuit: To be consistent
- Vibration: Unsteady
- Libran's Secret Desire: To live an easy, uncomplicated life.
- LIKES
- The finer things in life
- Sharing
- conviviality
- Gentleness
- DISLIKES
- Violence
- Injustice
- Brutishness
- Being a slave to fashion
Every adolescent Libran's fantasy is to find the Prince or Princess of their dreams. As their lives unfold, the experiences, false starts, dramas, broken hearts and disillusionment they encounter seeking this personal Holy Grail, often shapes their futures in the most extra-ordinary manner. Love and love-lost makes a big difference to the Libran although their often happy-go-lucky appearance against all kinds of odds may not reveal this as fact.
But for those Librans who do find their secret dream and meet up with their Prince or Princess, that's another story! You'll find them living in some exotic, distant beautiful place, probably running the local bar or restaurant, designing the beach or ski gear, looking wonderful, sipping cocktails and finding life to be the total paradise they knew it could be. What Librans always have to remember when looking to fulfil their dreams is they should never undermine their own integrity and hold out until their dreams do come true - not simply take whatever is offered.
Scorpio:
- Your element: Water
- Your ruling planets: Pluto
- Symbol: The Scorpion
- Your stone: Topaz
- Life Pursuit: To survive against all opposition
- Vibration: Resilient
- Scorpio's Secret Desire: To triumph
- LIKES
- Truth
- Hidden Causes
- Being involved
- Work That is Meaningful
- Being Persuasive
- DISLIKES
- Being Given Only Surface data
- Taken Advantage of
- Demeaning Jobs
- Shallow Relationships
- Flattery and Flattering
Reputed to be the "most powerful" sign of the zodiac, Scorpios lead fate filled lives and have intense and dramatic personal relationships. Even as children Scorpios are often found to be wise beyond their years. Many astrologers call this the sign of the "oldest souls". Old and wise beyond the average, Scorpios often know all the answers, except sometimes; they too often have difficulty finding what they need to develop their own happiness.
Scorpios operate on three levels of soul evolvement; adding up to three distinctively different types of Scorpios. The first level is the Scorpion. This is the least evolved and most drawn toward using their powers the wrong way. The criminal element of Scorpio comes under this level. Then there is the eagle - the highflying, entrepreneurial, successful Scorpio, who seems able to rise above adversity and transform bad-times into good. Then the highest expression of this sign is the Phoenix Resurrected. These Scorpios are detached and extremely powerful. They are wise beyond their years and act as leaders and are an inspiration to others. Quite frequently a Scorpio goes through the three levels of evolvement in one lifetime - but the levels can operate out of sequence.
Sagittarius:
- Your element: Fire
- Your ruling planets: Jupiter
- Symbol: The Archer
- Your stone: Turquoise
- Life Pursuit: To live the good life
- Vibration: Overly expressive - frequent burnouts
- Sagittarian's Secret Desire: To make a difference in the world
- LIKES
- Traveling
- getting to the heart of the matter
- Freedom
- Laws and meanings
- the general 'feel' of things
- DISLIKES
- Off the wall theories
- being tied down domestically
- Being constrained
- cooling your heels
- bothered with details
Ruled by the benefic planet Jupiter, Sagittarians possess a natural exuberance, sense of adventure and love of life that makes them one of the most optimistic zodiac signs of all. Like their astrological symbol - the Archer - Sagittarians are renowned for aiming their sights towards whatever it is they find alluring - a love partner, dream job, vacation - and making it their own. They believe that anything is possible - and because of this belief system, Sagittarians are adept at seeking out their very own pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Monday, December 13, 2010
4.3 Taurus,Gemini,Cancer,Leo.
Your element: Earth
Your ruling planets: Venus
Symbol: The Bull
- Your stone: Emerald
- Life Pursuit: Emotional and financial security
- Vibration: Determined energy
Taurus Secret Desire: To have a secure, happy and wealthy life/marriage.
- LIKES
- Stability
- Being Attracted
- Things Natural
- Time to Ponder
- Comfort and Pleasure
- DISLIKES
- Disruption
- Being pushed too hard
- Synthetic or "man made" things
- Being rushed
- Being indoors
Underneath their cool, calm and collected exterior, Taureans differ greatly from all the other signs of the zodiac. Taureans manage to discreetly stay apart from the crowd, even though they have a well-earned reputation for being socialisers. They will let others get close, but only so close as they want them.
Because they hate to be put in jeopardy of any kind, this is the sign that strives to create tomorrow in advance, rather than leave it to fate.
Gemini:
- Your element: Air
- Your ruling planets: Mercury
- Symbol: The Twins
- Your stone: Aquamarine
- Life Pursuit: To explore a little bit of everything.
- Vibration: Intense mental energy
- Gemini's Secret Desire: To be ahead of the crowd
- LIKES
- Talking
- Novelty and the unusual
- Variety in life
- Multiple projects all going at once
- Reading
- DISLIKES
- Feeling tied down
- Learning, such as school
- Being in a rut
- Mental inaction
- Being alone
The Gemini personality can appear mysterious or detached to others and therefore they are often misunderstood and unappreciated for the talents they offer to the world at large.
Cancer:
- Your element: Water
- Your ruling planets: The Moon
- Symbol: The Crab
- Your stone: Moonstone
- Life Pursuit: Constant reassurance and intimacy
- Vibration: Moody
- Cancer's Secret Desire: To feel safe (emotionally, spiritually, romantically and financially)
- LIKES
- Hobbies
- Romance
- Children
- Home and Country
- Parties
- DISLIKES
- Aggravating situations
- Failure
- Opposition
- Being told what to do
- Advice (good or bad)
It is fair to say that most Cancers are a bundle of contradictions. Compassionate and caring with friends, family and lovers, yet they can cut to the bone with their jealous remarks and ever-changing moods.
Like their astrological symbol - the Crab - Cancers can appear hard and insensitive on the outside. However, for those of us who know and love a "Moon Child", we understand that deep below lies a softness and sensitivity that makes them so very special.
Leo:
- Your element: Fire
- Your ruling planets: The Sun
- Symbol: The Lion
- Your stone: Peridot
- Life Pursuit: To lead the way
- Vibration: Radiant Energy
- Leo's Secret Desire: To be a star
- Speculative ventures
- Lavish Living
- Pageantry and Grandeur
- Children
- Drama
LIKES
- DISLIKES
- Doing things safely
- Ordinary,Day to day living
- Small minded people
- Penny pinching
- Mean spiritedness
Once a Lion is committed to a relationship, they are totally devoted and faithful. Should their heart or trust be broken they never forgive or forget.
There are three levels of soul-evolution of the Leos. The highest is represented by the Sphinx; wise beyond their years and great teachers to others. The second is the Lion, King of the Jungle, ruled by ego but always protective and sustaining of those they love. The last is the Lion Cub, immature and undeveloped, frightened by anything new. These Leos cling to others (in the mode of the child not wanting to leave its mother's side).They can't bear to be alone.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Coraline essay
Just about any story you read their is a hero somewhere in it. Whether its not a big thing of the story of the hero making its journey is the story. In “Coraline” a book by Neil Gaiman the main character Coraline is indeed a hero.” In a hero with a thousand faces”Joseph Campbell gives us the whole run down of a hero’s journey.
First we start off our hero’s journey with the ordinary world. In Coraline the first thing Gaiman does is give us a brief introduction to the characters in the book from Coraline’s perspective. Also in the next couple of chapters he brings us outside the flats, where Coraline and her neighbors live, where Coraline, an explorer, goes around exploring the land. She goes to the well where she was strictly told not to go and finds a cat which is great help to her later in the the book. However the coming of a rainy foggy day restricts Coraline of exploring outside and leaves her to just exploring the flats which leads her into a room, where her grandmother’s old furniture and such is kept, in which she finds a small door different from the other doors in the house. Asking her mother what the door leads to her mother just tells her nothing and proves it to her by opening the door and there just being a brick wall on the other side of it. One night while while Coraline is asleep she hears some noise outside her bedroom door. She follows the noise which leads her back to the room with her grandmother’s stuff then it disappears into the small door.
This leads to the next thing in our hero’s journey called “the call to adventure” She seems to just shrug it off. However the next day while Coraline is out exploring the crazy old man that lives upstairs tells her his mice have a message for her. He tells her the message is “Don’t go through the door.” and he asks Coraline if this means anything to her. She tells him it does not and they both seem to just carry on with what they are doing. This proves Campbell’s next step which is “refusal of the call.” The next step in Campbell’s hero’s journey is “meeting with the mentor.” Now usually a mentor would be with a younger person and an adult but however in the book I feel Coraline’s mentor would be the black cat she meets earlier in the book. The cat can only talk when he is on the other side/ the other world. Next we have “Crossing the first threshold.” this is were Coraline finally gets more curious about this door and goes back to it unlocking it and discovering the the brick wall has turned into a long black hallway. Being the explorer she is she goes through said door and finds on the other side a replica of her own flat. Everyone and everything is and looks exactly the same except for three differences. Her “other” parents and the neighbors have black shiny buttons for eyes. The two old ladies that live together are constantly performing for an audience of all dogs. Lastly the cat, like I mentioned before, can talk to Coraline now and tell her what is going on and help her out.
Next in our hero’s journey we have Coraline discovering that her “other” parents want to keep her and have been waiting for her. They make her some dinner and let her explore around. When Coraline returns from her exploring the other mother asks Coraline what she thinks and if she wants to stay. When Coraline rejects this the other mother gets mad but lets Coraline go back through the door to the real world. However when Coraline wakes up the next day she discovers that her parents are gone. This is where I say our hero’s journey officially begins. Finally the cat leads Coraline back to the door where she knows the other mother has trapped her real parents and she now understands she must fight to get her parents and her life back.
The mother is pleased to see Coraline come back. She sits and talks with her and offers Coraline what she is eating which happens to be beetles. Coraline rejects her offer and moves on about the other mother taking her parents. After some words are exchange the other mother gets disgusted with her attitude and locks Coraline behind a mirror. This is where Coraline meets three other kids that other mother also locked behind the mirror and forgot about them. They can't exactly share much information with her however. After a while the other mother finally comes and gets Coraline out of the mirror. They have another talk where Coraline decides to play a game with the other mother. If Coraline wins then the other mother has to let her parents go. If the other mother wins she gets whatever she wants.
The other mother agrees on the rules of the game and Coraline sets out on her journey to set free the souls of the kids she met in the mirror and her parents. Not knowing where to even start and the other mother not giving her any hints she just adventures around the house trying to figure out where she would hide them. However Coraline remembers the stone that the old lady gave her and she takes it out. While in her room she looks through it and everything turns black and white but something seems to glow. She looks to see a marble that is glowing and picks it up and puts it in her pocket. She hears one of the kids voices as a reassurance that she is on the right track.As Coraline continues to look for the remaining souls the other mother tricks her into going downstairs where the other father turns into this big monster and tries to eat Coraline but she escapes. Next she goes to the old ladies apartment and uses the stone once again where she now finds a glowing ring. On her adventure of finding the souls she sees a snow globe on the mantel piece that they do not have at home. She finally finds the last one upstairs in the weird man's apartment. It is one of the balls that the rats use to perform. However the rat holding the ball gets away from Coraline but the cat comes and catches the mouse giving Coraline the ball.
Lastly she goes to the other mother and shows her that she has all three of the children souls. She then tricks the mother saying that her parents are stuck in between the two doors. The other mother goes to unlock the door for Coraline when she does Coraline throws the cat at the other mother and while the cat is attacking her she grabs the snow globe and the key and runs to the door. The cat runs off following her through the door but when the other mother reaches in to grab Coraline her hand snaps off when Coraline finally gets the door shut with the help of the three children and her real parents that are now free.
The next day she finds her parents back to where everything left off before this whole adventure happened. However the other mothers hand that snaps off is trying to get the key from Coraline. After failed attempts Coraline finally gets an idea to get rid of the hand. She pretends to have a tea party with her dolls lining them around the well she was told not to go to. While she is playing with her dolls she is watching the other mothers hand through the corner of her eye. Finally the other mother's hand leaps up to get the key only to fall into the well where Coraline locks the hand in.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
4.2 Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries.
Your element: Earth
Your ruling planets: Saturn
Symbol: The Goat
Your stone: Garnet
Life Pursuit: To be proud of their achievements
Vibration: Poweful resilient energy
Capricorn Secret Desire: to be admired by their family and friends and the world at large
Tenth House: Career
- LIKES
- Reliability
- Professionalism
- Knowing what you discuss
- Firm Foundations
- Purpose
- DISLIKES
- Wild Schemes
- Fantasies
- Go-nowhere jobs
- Ignominy
- Ridicule
Your Biggest Strength is your ability to overcome obstacles.
Your Potential Weakness too much work and not enough play.
Capricorn: According to zodiac compatibility rules and norms, Capricorns gels well with Cancer, Libra and Aries.Your element: Air
Your ruling planets: Uranus
Symbol: The Water Bearer
Your stone: Amethyst
Life Pursuit: To understand life's mysteries
- Vibration: High frequency
- Aquarian's Secret Desire: To be unique and original
- LIKES
- Fighting for Causes
- Dreaming and Planning for the Future
- Thinking of the Past
- Good Companions
- Having Fun
- DISLIKES
- Full of Air Promises
- Excessive Loneliness
- The Ordinary
- Imitations
- Idealistic
Because of their high focus on intellectual exploration, many inventors, eccentrics and highly original trailblazers are born under this sign.
Outgoing and amiable, Aquarians attract friends wherever they go and those whom Aquarians befriend have their unswerving loyalty.
Pisces:
- Your element: Water
- Your ruling planets: Neptune
- Symbol: The Fish
- Your stone: Bloodstone
- Life Pursuit: To avoid feeling alone and instead feel connected to others and the world at large
- Vibration: Erratic Energy levels
- Pisces Secret Desire: To live their dreams and turn fantasies into realities
- LIKES
- Solitude to dream in
- Mystery in all its guises
- Anything discarded to stay discarded
- The ridiculous
- like to get 'lost'
- DISLIKES
- the obvious
- being criticized
- feeling all at sea about something
- know-it-alls
- pedantry
You are the zodiac's most sensitive sign, so you need to take extra special care of yourself. Nobody can beat you up, as much as you can beat yourself up within your own mind.
Pisces are known to live in a fantasy land and like to see the world from their own view.
Aries:
- Your element: Fire
- Your ruling planets: Mars
- Symbol: The Ram
- Your stone: Ruby
- Life Pursuit: The thrill of the moment
- Vibration: Enthusiastic
- Aries Secret Desire: To lead the way for others.
- LIKES
- Action
- Coming in first
- Challenges
- Championing Causes
- Spontaneity
- DISLIKES
- Waiting Around
- Admitting Failure
- No opposition
- Tyranny
- Other peoples advice
Aries are fire signs and those born under this element are regarded in astrology as adventurous, active and outgoing.
Their gift is that they are always children at heart and the world is always a magical place for them.