Act of Resistance

Now that i think of it and since it didn't have to be a public act of resistance... I have done several things over the weekend alone. However the thing i was intentionally doing was boycotting shopping completely on Black Friday, as well as the sales that followed on Saturday and Sunday (these were at places like Macy's, Boston Store, Kohls, and Target) So although usually throughout the past 4 years of my life that weekend and Friday especially were the days i did all of my holiday shopping as well as shopping in general i decided to take a stand this year and wait until a little later.

At first i didn't think that i would be able to pull this off mainly because of the fact that everyone else in my family was doing shopping but i managed to stay home and avoid all temptaions of deals too good to be true. I feel good about being able to make a stand and break away from conformity and the trend. I also believe that by protesting this it was a way of saying the stores couldn't control my lifestyle and i found better things to do with my time on the weekend. Many of my friends and people i am aquainted with thought i was crazy for not taking advantage of the sales but respected my opinion and choice of "sticking it to the man" or (womyn)

If i did this again i would probably write a letter to a manager or maybe even to Herb Kohl himself since he owns the stores, and explain my side and rationale for my protest. otherwise if i did this again i would most likely just Boycott all of the major stores in order to help the smaller businesses out and support them and help stimulate the economy on a microeconomic level.

I don't believe that me alone especially since I am only a high Schooler without a good paying job and because i wasn't able to persuade my family to boycott the companies that i made a significant impact but by writing this for anyone who desires to read and by at least putting the idea out there, that i did do a small part to protesting somthing much higher beyond me at the moment at least.

Final Lysistrata Blog

This blog will just be my reflections on how i felt about this play.

I am definately glad that i got to read this play for many reasons. the first is that i learn another great tale and i can use it as an example in an intellectual discourse i may have in the future. Another reason is that this revolt really did work and i am glad that it did because it just shows that it doesn't take violence, or being famous just to be heard, and that anyone can make a difference if they all stand strong together. It is this point that i believe the modern play was refering to a UWM ... if we all recycled just a little bit more, or stopped to pick things up off the ground then maybe just maybe we would stand a chance at doing something bigger than us something even as big as helping the world... and with that I will step away for Lysistrata leaving all those to read this blog to reflect on everything we as single human beings can do.......

BLOG 9!!!!!!!

its blog numero nine and i am feeling fine!!!

Another theme in this play is the uncanny Power of Women

This play along with the House of Bernarda Alba, and Hedda Gabler all show the power of women... IB must really be focused on a message they want to convey to the students about equality... anyways I feel that this play superceeds the other plays we have read when it comes to the power of women because this what the entire play is about from start to finish and it isn't just one or two women that have power, it is every single women in the book... and without every women doing their share, it wouldn't have been a succesfull revolt.

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Its about this time where im almost blogged out of my mind, but i feel as though it is my duty as an american to finish this quest of bloggage.

The setting of this play as i alluded to earlier is maintained in one general area, and the props used were interesting ... the cup of wine that the women drank from literally could have been a cup of wine but if you would like to know the symbolic way of seeing this look at Jmag's blog about this because i must give her credit otherwise i wouldn't have thought of it.

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This play is famous for its overwhelming use of puns. Because of the puns i found this play to be extremely punny. It was so funny that i will provide a few examples for you. One example is when a man is expecting his wife to sleep with him and instead she runs and he makes a remark about the only one getting laid is the table. Other funny puns i found were just little subtle remarks throughout the play such as people exclaiming "its getting harder" or something to that accord. Never the less this play was both emotionally loaded and pun filled.

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Wheew over half way done now!!!!

Dialectic Dialogue

This play has very interesting dialogue and what fastinated me the most about the dialogue was the different dialects in which the people spoke... for example Lysistrata spoke very proper and formal to all of the people throughout the play, however there was a character by the name of Lampito i believe that spoke with a very mountainous southern drawl and that helped me to form opinions on both of the characters and how they act. I pictured Lampito to be not as educated as Lysistrata, but certainly as brave as her ... i pictured her as the strong farmer woman type that would fight for a cause she believed noble and that is just what she did through the play

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Make love, not war

This theme is essential to the play and although the theme make love, not war sounds so cleshy, it is exactly in line with what is occuring in the play. The play is a lack of making love in the attempt to end war and in the end the theme of this play holds true because both the women and men end up deciding on making love and ending the war with Sparta.