Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Our last day of Humanities class was on Tuesday!  The semester is now at an end and all we have left as students is to prepare for our finals then take them and then we are free to go about our summers.  On Tuesday we simply finished the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail and then Tucker sent us on our way when it had finished.  Humanities has been a fairly interesting class and I have read books that I have always heard about and books that I have never ever heard about before in my life.  To be honest, a lot of the books were slightly hard to understand just because of the writing style.  They are not in modern terms which is expected and that is good for us.  In today's society people barely read and if they do they read things that are dumbed down pratically.  So I think it was a good thing to have read books in this class that made us really concentrate and it helped us to expand our reading knowledge.

Internet!!

So this is the first time I've had internet since Thursday.  I personally really enjoy being away from technology but it really sucks when you live in an age where everything is done by technology.  I had a wonderful Easter break filled with family, friends, and 1,400+ driving miles... oh, memories!  Anyways, in class on Thursday we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  I must admit that this is a unique movie to show in class but it is pretty darn well fitting for our Humanities class with Tucker.  Plus it is a really nice and relaxing way to wind down the semester!  I can't wait till tomorrow when we get to finish watching it and hopefully talk about it.

Inferno

In the book Dante's Inferno there are nine circles of Hell.  Some of the punishments are rather funny and well fitting in my opinion.  In one circle people are put there for lust during their previous life.  The two people will run towards each other with a longing passion and need to just simply touch each other, but because they are in Hell they cannot do this.  So instead of being able to touch each other, they run after one another and end up in a whirlwind that spins each one of them around so they are seperated.  This continues to happen over and over and over again; they will never be allowed to touch.  Another circle of Hell is for people who were glutinous in their previous life.  In Hell they are surrounded by food and they continue to indulge in their glutnious ways while being rained on by urine or being snowed on be feces.  I personally think that their punishment could be a little harsher or at least like the one for lust.  I think the people who take part in gluttony should be at a feast with all the food, scents, sounds, etc. of the food but when they sit down with a plate full of food, the food would then simply vanish in front of their eyes.  I honestly think something around those lines would be a better punishment for them.

Class to Real Life

So on Tuesday we took notes over Romanesque Feudalism and it was pretty interesting.  I love how in the architecutre for the churches there is so much symbolism put into them.  I really do wish that I knew all this stuff before I went to London and Edinburgh.  I can look back and remember a few general things that relate back to what we talked about in class.  But it would have been really neat if I had known this stuff before hand so while touring the churches I would have noticed the smaller things better.  Well I guess I'll just have to go back and look at it all over again!

Song of Roland

So on Tuesday and Thursday we talked about the Song of Roland again.  I just find it really cool how in that small book there is so much that relates to God, Jesus, and Christianity.  As a Christian believer, I find it really neat.  Another thing is that there is quite a few things that relate back to the other books we have read in class for example, the funeral in section 109 is like the one in Homer.  Also, Roland is compared to Achilles a lot also in his attitude and tragic flaws.  In class on Tuesday, Tucker read section 149 and was laughing like crazy, that was pretty entertaining!  I enjoyed this book because of the realtions back to the Christain faith but at the same time I was getting really annoyed at the fact that everything rhymes!!

Roland

In class on Thursday we had to read the first 70 paragraph thingys for The Song of Roland.  While I was reading oru section for class I was honestly getting annoyed at the book.  I am fine reading things that rhyme but if it is an entire book then that gets pretty annoying.  I had to take quite a few break while reading because it was bugging me so much.  It seems like a pretty good book though, I am interested in seeing how ti turns out, even though Tucker kind of gave it away during class.  I find it really intriguing how many symbols, metaphores, and representation to the Christian faith there is in this book, I really like it.  Also, some of the books we have been reading relate back to Achilles, I wonder if all the authors planned that or if scholars have just looked into these things too much.

Nice Weather

So, on Tuesday I was at a meeting and was running late for class and so I jogged across campus that way I would be able to not miss a lot of what was going on.  I came in a few minutes late and I was handed back my mid term and my cultural event paper.  I must admit that I did a lot better then I thought I did, so that took a huge load off of my shoulders.  Tucker started talking but took me by surprise, announcing that we were not going to have class because it was such a beautiful day outside!  I loved it, I was able to go outside for a walk and enjoy the gorgeous Spring weather!!  On Thursday we took notes all class period about Rome to the Early Christian Middle Ages and that was fairly interesting and I learned some new things that I previously did not know.  I think this second half of the spring semester is going to be my favorite for this class.  I'm excited!