The Importance Of Being Ernest Vs. The Vitorian ERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, before we started this project all I knew about the Victorian Era was that they built really big/gorgeous houses. Which I know now is not very intelegent! Although from the first day we started looking up info. for our questions, I knew that there was more to this Era than gigantic houses. One of the first google results for "The Victorian Era" was of course all about the amazing queen, (Queen Victoria) who ruled during that time period. Victoria was a very popular queen, but then again, eight people had tried to assassinate her during her reign, so, I dont know if that would be good popular or bad popular... Some of the other most promonint facts that I found almost imediatly was that women and marriage were primerily buisness subjects and bartering tools. Women were treated fairly enough but they didnt have a say in any improtant matter. The main job for middle to upperclass ladies was to raise the childeren and run the household, while the men were probably being vain and lazily smoking their cigars in the den, (Or working prominently at their trade...).

In the play "The Importance Of Being Ernest" the veiws of marriage and women are expressed in a satirical manner. Algernon, who is a fond friend of Jack-Ernest-John Worthing, is the perfect example for the "Ernests"of the Victorian Era. He likes to spend his days Bunburying around the country drinking champagne, smoking and telling all of his tall tales to the new and interesting people he meets. Jack on the other hand, is not vain or very good at telling tall tales! Although he Is a passionet Bunburyist. Jack is one of the hardworking upperclass men that usually worked in banks or law firms and took good care of his family. Although the men had it good in this book and also in real life the women had to be a little more hard core. They played a huge but mostly unotisable part in the Victorian Era, and in "The Importance Of Being Ernest". Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell are exactly the opposite of each other. Lady Bracknell is a faithful god fearing hard working Victorian woman (which is what many upperclass ladies were thought to be like) and her daughter, Gwendolen, is a lovely, youthful, and charming ladie who is a woman but not in the stuck up snobbish way of her mother. Many daughters followed in their mothers footsteps, and many sons followed in their father's. This play brings the Victorian Era into a new light, full of satire and reckless adventure! It shows the people of today that the Victorians' were not small unintelegant figures in history but a prominent educated and sophisticated community.

Animal Farm Comic Strip

BFFS

I have allot of Really Really good friends, but my oldest guy friend is who this paragraph is going to be about. Brett Steven Bently is 14 I have known him all his life (he's 5 months younger than me) and our moms have been best friends even before I was born. For about 5 years he kept his sandy blonde hair at a foot long, which inevitably made him look like a girl. He was always getting teased so he got it cut and now looks pretty good. When he was 8 his dad died of lung cancer. Now he lives with his mom, Shelly, younger brother, Kai, and another family who are also living in their spacy farm house in South Olympia. Scince Brett is a Waldorf kid (meaning he attends an Olympia Waldorf school) he knows how to do things most normal school childern dont, like knit, weave baskets, and balance on yoga balls while doing school work (at school). Brett loves to enginere, invent, and construct things. An invention of his that I will never forget is the blackberry picker that he invented one summer while I was at his house, it was constructed out of a three meter long stick, one rubber band, 2 spoons, some string and glue. It actually worked pretty well but the rubber band kept breaking. For his 8th grade school project he is maing a boat, that you can sail, row and drift in.
Shelly (Brett's mom) is a very strict, sugar shunning, and protective mom. So putting all that together Brett does not lead the most typical of teen lives. For starters he rarely gets to watch movies, and isnt allowed to have a cell phone or eat a lot of candy. That is probably why he is so thin. Although I like his mom she can be a bit ... strict most of the time. One of the things that I envy Brett for is how much his family travles. When he was younger his mom and dad used to run in the Iron Man in Hawaii every year, now they just go there as a family trip. Scince Shelly's parents live in Minnisota Shelly takes the boys there for acouple weekes every summer. I still see him every once in awile now scince we are both so busy but it helps that we both row on the same team so I see him acouple times a month. We are the best of friends and always have been, I dont think anything will change anytime soon.

Hmm my earliest memory... haha ok i have one. About 9 or 10 years ago on Christmas Eve this memory began. We were at my aunt and uncles house for Christmas Eve dinner, and an old tradition that we used to have was during dinner my uncle would go upstairs and put a pair of PJ's under the pillows on my cousins bed. "Did I just hear something up stairs? Was it an elf?" Not knowing that my uncle had just gone up stairs and hidden the PJ's me and my brother race up the stairs and go and check under the pillows.
"I GOT PJ'S." shouted the 4-yr ld me. "ME TO!!! AND THEIR TELLY TUBIES" shouted my younger brother. In our haste to put the pajamas on we accidently put on each others... When we come tumbling down the stairs to show everyone we keep tripping because my rothers PJ's are to big and mine are to small. As we enter the living room to show off our new attire my family starts laughing and they inform me that we are wearing the wrong pair. "oops... (giggle giggle) but I like these ones :(" I say more embarrased then sad.

Catch-22 Irony

Catch-22 is heavily loaded with irony. Most of the irony occurs in the dialect between the characters. The protagonist, Yossarian, uses the most irony within the book. Throughout the story Yossarian's main goal in life is to not die and get out of the military. The irony in this example is that he is affraid to die yet he can not escape, because of a catch, catch-22. Catch-22 is an official way for the military to get they're way in everything, and keep the soldiers in he military as long as they want.
Although not all the irony is focoused around catch-22, there are many many many more examples of irony during the book. Such as, when the Chaplin is given a plum tomatoe by Colnel Cathart, all roucus breaks out and everyone thinks he stole the tomatoe from Colnel Cathart. And when the Chaplin goes to Colnel Cathart to tell him that he didnt steal the tomatoe, Colnel Cathart denies him and refuses to believ that he actually gave him the plum tomatoe. The irony seems to dance in circles around the characters because all the arguments always repeat themselves, and are very confusing at times. If you did not know what irony was before you read this book I'm sure that by the end you will have the full and complete meaning of irony.