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My Imaginary GF posted:Hear me, grave fathers! noble tribunes, stay! This is bullshit, and I won't read it at all because I extremely doubt that any intention was put behind it. This was pasted here in order to deliberately waste everyones time
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icantfindaname posted:anime That's a world I refuse to create if I ever become president.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:we read it senior year here, and basically all i remember is that holden caulfield was a spoiled manchild this is the correct reading
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Sharkie posted:I would opt in to the Brave New World system without hesitation. I mean it's not ideal but if you have do live in a dystopia it's the best one. I probably agree with that, but it's still a pretty bad place overall. quote:I loved Rome. Every glorious second of it. It did SO many things right. Why did they have to make Cicero such a puss? And why the gently caress did they recast Octavian? I don't care that Max Pirkis didn't look old enough! 
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MIGF should cut a promo on cool bear and be like, this saturday i hope youre ready to get chicag-owned
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:my major's already writing-intensive to begin with
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Cool Bear posted:Shakespeare was an extremely great writer and if this were the year 1400 then I would be all on his bandwagon. He was in no way pretentious. they're a lot better when they're actually performed almost all plays are boring poo poo when just fuckin read. itd be like having to read movie scripts Raskolnikov38 posted:this is the correct reading it's the message of the book
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Cool Bear posted:pretentious You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means
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If schools are going to teach The Giver that poo poo should be done in sixth grade max. Senior year ought to be nothing but Norse legends. If you can't hold a conversation about Norse myth lasting at least ten minutes you ain't poo poo.
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All I remember about Catcher in the Rye is Holden missing every chance he had to be a sympathetic character, which I guess is kind of the point.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:we read it senior year here, and basically all i remember is that holden caulfield was a spoiled manchild Anybody who tells you there is more to this shitass book is a dirty liar. ...or...dare I say it...PHONY?!
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Majorian posted:I probably agree with that, but it's still a pretty bad place overall. such a bitchin' theme song too
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:take proofs then!!! proofs? as in mathematical proofs? all the math classes here are major-restricted to STEM 
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the washington consensus is that im going to knock your rear end out
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Peztopiary posted:If schools are going to teach The Giver that poo poo should be done in sixth grade max. Senior year ought to be nothing but Norse legends. If you can't hold a conversation about Norse myth lasting at least ten minutes you ain't poo poo. Beowulf was the poo poo and if we're gonna have an apocalypse I wanna have Ragnarok.
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The Warszawa posted:such a bitchin' theme song too I know, right? The whole title sequence is excellent. It exemplifies what the show did best, really, ie: show how incredibly colorful, lively, and CRAZY Rome was back in those days. HBO is good with theme songs.
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It totally was. That loving dragon, that death. Also Grendel by John Gardner is a good companion book.
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paranoid randroid posted:i read heart of darkness in hs and loved it. eat my shorts, english class haters. my high school english teacher said here watch this, handed me her copy of Apocalypse Now and told me to write a report comparing it to heart of darkness
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icantfindaname posted:You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means "Oh this is like what Shakespeare wrote in his great work, King Lear IV For thou art not as good as ye mightst pretend Yet other times, not so good Whenst classical knowledge bestowdst upon the pauper of little book ownage
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DemeaninDemon posted:Beowulf was the poo poo and if we're gonna have an apocalypse I wanna have Ragnarok. Anybody here play "Banner Saga," by the way? Jebus that's a good loving game.
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I read Catcher in the Rye, Death of a Salesman, and As I Lay Dying in the same class. I don't think that teacher liked us very much 
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The speech in Henry V is like the prototypical inspiration speech. Shakespeare works aren't magically The Best Ever or anything, it's just that he wrote a shitload of stuff and a very large amount of it is very high quality which makes it easy to teach as a block
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Cool Bear posted:"Oh this is like what Shakespeare wrote in his great work, King Lear IV The people talking to you aren't pretending to be smarter than you, they actually are
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i know this white guy from denton who told me he read ender's game sophomore year for class
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I dug the poo poo out of Macbeth too.
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Cool Bear posted:"Oh this is like what Shakespeare wrote in his great work, King Lear IV Yall read this and be like 'is that even a complete sentence!?
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forbidden lesbian posted:my high school english teacher said here watch this, handed me her copy of Apocalypse Now and told me to write a report comparing it to heart of darkness yeah we watched apocalypse now too the paper topic for that month was "what does the boat represent"
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Joementum posted:i can't because i never watched their dumb show they trotted out a successful disabled person and said "well this guy manages without ADA why do we impose these restrictions on productive citizens!?!" it was ridiculous
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man i loved that teacher, she was the one who got us to read Julius Ceasar too
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:i know this white guy from denton who told me he read ender's game sophomore year for class As a book to do a report on, or as a book the whole class read? Because one of those is way less horrifying.
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icantfindaname posted:The speech in Henry V is like the prototypical inspiration speech. No one beats Branagh for the St. Crispin's Day Speech. There, I said it.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:i know this white guy from denton who told me he read ender's game sophomore year for class Ender's Game is literally a nerd going "but I really am smarter and better than everyone else why won't they recognize it?????????  "I liked the spinoff series with the side character from Ender's Game just for the techno-thriller aspect of it. The spinoff series that went deep into Catholic theology not so much
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Peztopiary posted:As a book to do a report on, or as a book the whole class read? Because one of those is way less horrifying. from the way he worded it, the latter. "yeah we read that book for class, it was p fun"
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Cool Bear posted:This is bullshit, and I won't read it at all because I extremely doubt that any intention was put behind it. This was pasted here in order to deliberately waste everyones time https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEUkn6tQ3us coolbear, you have allowed your emotions to interfere with your articulation now watch patrick stewart
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Peztopiary posted:As a book to do a report on, or as a book the whole class read? Because one of those is way less horrifying. is the more horrifying option the one where enders game is assigned reading? because i went to a middle school where it was assigned reading. mostly because orson scott card was from the state, but still.
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paranoid randroid posted:yeah we watched apocalypse now too Lucky. I've always liked the Odyssey allusions in that too. That's a thread that people don't pick up as much as the Heart of Darkness homage, but it's there too.
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Majorian posted:I probably agree with that, but it's still a pretty bad place overall. I liked the actor who played Cicero, but yeah that wasn't a flattering portrait. New Octavian (and his rat-faced little wife) were so creepy and off-seeming. Brian Blessed did a much different but more believable Octavian in I Claudius. James Purefoy can do no wrong, though. That scene where he hears what happened to Cleopatra  . And I'd pay for a series that was just Atia talking poo poo about people.
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paranoid randroid posted:yeah we watched apocalypse now too haha how did your school get away with showing an r-rated movie to a bunch of 15 and 16 year olds
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icantfindaname posted:The people talking to you aren't pretending to be smarter than you, they actually are You have made a powerful enemy Mr uh rofl "icantfindaname" professor hyperintelligent lol
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forbidden lesbian posted:haha how did your school get away with showing an r-rated movie to a bunch of 15 and 16 year olds the magic of permission slips
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