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  1. Apr 2017
    1. Those between the ages of 2 and 8 might exhibit the following signs of stress (link is external): regression (displaying infantile behaviors, thumb-sucking, bed-wetting (link is external)), depression (link is external), crying, anxiety, clinging, and temper tantrums. Indications that teens are troubled include poor grades, change of friends, isolation, distancing from family, oversleeping, drug or alcohol abuse (link is external), eating disorders (link is external), cutting, lying (link is external), and keeping secrets.

      This could also be good for my paper because in an interview I saw of Lady Gaga she had said that she had tried to get off her depression medicine but her doctor told her not to because stuff like this would be the result

    2. Because of the nature of show business, child actors are exposed to drugs, alcohol, and sex (link is external) at an early age. At the same time, young actors must constantly cope with rejection, jealousy (link is external), self-scrutiny, obsessive thoughts, and the nonstop need to be perfect.

      I think that this could be very useful for my paper because Lady Gaga used to be in a band and she was dropped from her first label which could have made her depression worse

    3. The answers to these questions will depend on the motivation (link is external) of the child and parent, as well as the child's age, length of time in the spotlight, level of commitment, work environment (link is external), and financial gains.

      I've seen articles that said Lady Gaga's parents always supported her and she had been preforming since she was young. I also heard that when she was four years old all she wanted was a piano for her birthday and that was how she started

    4. The drive for fame can result from a parent's unfulfilled childhood (link is external) dreams (link is external) or from a child's inner vision of celebrity and success. Among those few children who actually attain fame, some go through the experience emotionally unscathed, but others are not as fortunate

      I've seen a couple of youtube videos where Lady Gaga talked about her depression and how she created Lady Gaga to help her live with it but the more famous she got the worse her depression got

  2. Mar 2017
    1. As black women, we've got to do what any rational, survivalist- minded person would do after finding herself in a relationship with some- one whose pain makes him abusive. We must continue to give up the love but from a distance that's saf

      I believe that this is also true with friendships as well as romantic relationships for everyone.

    2. Any feminism that fails to acknowledge how black folks in 1990s America are living and trying to love in a war zone is useless to black women and to men.

      I thought feminism was supposed to be about women and it talks about the 90s, what about the 2000s

    3. Since definitions of feminism tend to be as disparate as the women who use them, let me define mine. My feminism places the welfare of black women and the black community on its list of priorities. It also maintains that black-on-black love is essential to the survival of both

      I think it is interesting that all feminists have different definitions of feminism.

    4. You know Boo, it's been six years since I've been writing about hip hop on the Joan Morgan womanist tip and I'm still getting aske

      She uses some interesting language for someone writing for Duke university

    1. According toForbes, in 2008 Shakur’s estate made $15million.[177]In 2002, they recognized him as a “Top-Earning Dead Celebrity”, coming in at number ten on

      Only a celebrity could make money after they died

    2. e had enjoyed and had been influenced by the workof contemporary English and Irish pop musician

      This is very shocking I would not think a rapper would listen to this type of music

    3. Af-ter his death, three of his completed films were released:

      Why were they not released till after his death? Were they just not ready or were they not going to be released?

    4. Death Row label,

      It's ironic that he was in prison then went to decided to join Death Row label

    5. 995–96: Final recordings

      Wow, he had a really short carrier

    1. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags

      I believe that this is foreshadowing that this man (and possibly others) are going on a trip and I think that is what this story will be about.

      edit: This could also be showing his personality as a lazy rude man. With his lying on the saddle bags and smoking cigarets. It gives you an image of like a "bad boy".

    2. THERE is no good telling me you are going to be good, Dorian,” cried Lord Henry, dipping his white fingers into a red copper bowl filled with rose-water. “You are quite perfect. Pray don’t change.”

      Why is Lord Henry always telling him not to change, not to make himself better? Does he not want him to grow or is there another reason?

    3. Gradually the events of the preceding night crept with silent blood-stained feet into his brain, and reconstructed themselves there with terrible distinctness.

      He uses great imagery here to show the pain that he has when he thinks of his past.

    4. n exclamation of horror broke from Hallward’s lips as he saw in the dim light the hideous thing on the canvas leering at him.

      Why is he choosing now to show it to him?

    5. answered Hallward,

      Why does Wilde switch between first and last names for everyone except Dorian?

    6. stand, with a mirror, in front of the portrait that Basil Hallward had painted of him, looking now at the evil and aging face on the canvas, and now at the fair young face that laughed back at him from the polished glass. The very sharpness of the contrast used to quicken his sense of pleasure

      It sounds like he has an unhealthy obsession over this portrait of himself.

    7. It seemed to him that as the man left the room he peered in the direction of the screen. Or was that only his fancy?

      Could the death of her be making him delusional?

    8. “I called last night, and they told me you were at the Opera. Of course I knew that was impossible. But I wish you had left word where you had really gone to. I passed a dreadful evening, half afraid that one tragedy might be followed by another

      It is almost like Basil and Lord Henry are two sides of Dorian's personalty.

    9. did not realize that we live in an age when only unnecessary things are absolutely necessary to us;

      Could this be an opinion that he picked up from Lord Henry? Because people usually wind up acting like those they hang out with. "Show me your friends and I'll show you your future" - Anonymous

    10. These common people here, with their coarse faces and brutal gestures, become quite different when she is on the stage. They sit silently and watch her. They weep and laugh as she wills them to do. She makes them as responsive as a violin. She spiritualizes them, and one feels that they are of the same flesh and blood as one’s self.”

      Could he just think she is that good because he is in love with her and in reality they are reacting to the work it self?

    11. I SUPPOSE you have heard the news, Basil?” said Lord Henry on the following evening, as Hallward was shown into a little private room at the Bristol where dinner had been laid for three. “No, Harry,”

      Why is he even asking if he has heard when Dorian said the day before that he has not spoken to him in a week? Is it to rub it in his face?

    12. I know you quite well by your photographs. I think my husband has got twenty-seven of them.

      I think this might represent Wilde's wife relationship with Possy and maybe Robbie.

    13. “Basil,” cried Dorian Gray, “if Lord Henry goes I shall go too. You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant. Ask him to stay. I insist upon it.”

      This quote makes me think of almost like a love triangle because Basil loves Dorian, Dorian seems to love Lord Henry, and the Lord Henry is close friends with Basil and it makes me think of this photo.

    14. “Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don’t want a life-sized portrait of myself,” answered the lad, swinging round on the music-stool, in a wilful, petulant manner. When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush colored his cheeks for a moment, and he started up. “I beg your pardon, Basil, but I didn’t know you had any one with you.”

      Dorian reminds me a lot of Lord Bryon's boy Possy. Could he have modeled Dorian after him as a way to let out what he really thought of Possy and his relation ship?

  3. Feb 2017
    1. It u evident th8lt mmtructiD1 or ~nn~ Byron11 :nmmdve of mlebd~ or ~ of creatiDI die "aurhendc0 Bymn apart fmm die cclebri11y, from die multitude of muroes ava .. le,, including die poet's 'd '1-L _a:_ ·•· '---both IL! __ ,.,U• ti' • owa wns1 er.111ua: c:norts to Dllml!pUllilu:: __ 1m r ..... tc or uteury •mage sod his priviue or pmorud identity, u well a dKl imende-4 or umntrend~ ed mmvendom .~ by radlm. pubUahm, CDCUU>ri, biopaphen. sod othm, ~a eomplex sod dmintln1 ~wk, aubhe eone dudei his essay with a Clll for "all mother major biography ••• written hy someone ... caring of the words roo Ile11 than rivaed by the ~ife. some--om alble to forge lab between dKlm u vital! u their realio/ meritl .. (15). Sudl a biopap!iy would not mie B,mn's ~n a a eelebri~ for he diarly \WI OM, but would pm k m the proper mnfat reJMive ID lhe mmt important huU of our in~ m him: die worb themsehe&

      The author is saying that no matter how someone views Bryon he is seen as a celebrity. A key term here is celebrity. The paragraph quotes Clubbe and mentions Bryon's works.

    2. bdudins such '~slly mmparlsom, 11 u CluY. all them (14). u Madonna. Pdnm, Mick Jager. James ~ Norman Mailer, Che Guewra, even Prinaes1 Diana.

      I think the author is mad about these comparisons even though they are very accurate.

    3. nw mon IOOIOdou Ulu1tmdon of an effort to manlpulm md alter a disoourse of 'Bymn's liwd mmdve ·Of cdiehW:y aewaHy oeeurm{, konicaUy, after his death: the huming of his Memoirs at Murny's London office on Mq 17, 1824, just three days afier news of Byron's ~ reached 1Bn~l1l)nct

      I believe that the author is, understandably, angry that his work was burned.

    4. However, by 1ihe time he wrote 1ihe prefatory ~ m Chi!J, HllnlltJ IV two Jftfl lam, Bymn had liven up the attmnpt. mqnldog thm k was m win that he mmted the ·~ betweea lduwlf and .. ha@ea and expUddy ooUlapang his identky into th• oE the charaau.

      I think this is something that happens with a lot of celebrities and I think the author is saying as fans we do this to celebrities even though we shouldn't.

    5. In Byrons ~of ooune,, de major area of ooncention during his Bfmme WU b O>Dtwt b~ the fiedtioUI Bfmnie hero, UMUEd by may oonmnporuy readm m be the "ral'® Bym~ and the aaatll ~r~ ma, living o~ ~r wHll~ or nfocuw~ hil narradw oE ~ricy and endeavoring. ulrimately unsuo::essfully. to disuooe hims.df from tha[ 6ctive image.

      The author seems to be mad that people saw Bryon this way.

    1. ut they derive considerable fame, and a few not less profit,9 from their productions, while I shall expiate my rashness, as an interloper, certainly without the latter, and in all probability, with a very slight share of the former

      in class exercise

    2. It is probable that I may have dared much and done little; for, in the words of COWPER, “It is one thing to write what may please our friends, who, because they are such, are apt to be a little biassed in our favour, and another, to write what may please every body, because they who have no connection, or even knowledge of the author, will be sure to find fault if they can.”

      in class exercise

    3. In submitting to the public eye the following collection, I have not only to combat the difficulties that writers of verse generally encounter, but may incur the charge of presumption for obtruding myself on the world, when, without doubt, I might be, at my age, more usefully employed. These productions are the fruits of the lighter hours of a young man, who has lately completed his nineteenth year

      In class exercise

  4. Jan 2017
    1. Byron's celebrity can be seen in Gabier's sense as an ~ or related diismurse, a~ or namdve that brinp 1£0Flher author, the text of his JI&., mruier~ and 01hm m complex, ~II ways.

      I think he is saying that Bryon should not be considered a celebrity.

    2. But oo~ng such a c:elllelbriey' nar~ disoourse enib!ills in own pmblem1

      He seems go disagree with who we consider celebrities.

    3. witty obse:ll'W-tion bit a eelebriq ii someone who ii bawn for~ bown, ~ one who mm to ~ pablimed wlmher he or she desenw the attention (B7); mmmendn1 oa matentporary po~NN ~

      He sounds very sarcastic.

    4. It is impouible for JOO to haw a more purely~ friend thmi I mn-My iftmM la m:n~ -..d with 70m Fame"

      Ward is saying that if it had not been for Bryon then no one would know who Murray was and this would have likely caused murray fear of loosing his writer so he probably had to go though a lot of hurtles to keep Bryon.

    1. Noneknewnorhow,norwhy,butheentwinedHimselfperforcearoundthehearer’smind;Therehewasstamped,inliking,orinhate,

      Could Bryon be talking about how is writing makes other's feel and think?

    2. NoroutragedReason’srulesbyflawnorstart,Hismadnesswasnotofthehead,butheart

      Could this be Bryon's way of talking about his feelings for his sister?

    3. WithmorecapacityforlovethanEarthBestowsonmostofmortalmouldandbirth,

      This is a confusing statement because he is talking about love for the earth which is usually lumped with the people of earth but he is also talking about the mortal mould which is very fragile and almost insignificant.

    4. Withthemhecouldseemgayamidstthegay

      This would show that the poems are not the same person because the other man was feared and it did not mention him seeming gay amidst the gay.

    5. theirunhoped,butunforgottenlord

      How can someone be unhoped but unforgotten? Are they saying he is a demon or the devil?

    6. Theheartsthatloathedhim,crouchedanddreadedtoo.

      This makes me think of the phrase "is it better to be feared and loathed or better to be loved and afraid". I can't remember where I heard this but it is a great question.

    7. Within–within–’twastherethespiritwrought!Loveshowsallchanges–Hate,Ambition,Guile

      Could he be representing himself in this poem by saying he may not seem cursed but he is?

    8. nConrad’sformseemslittletoadmire

      I understand that it is important to have imagery but Bryon said in the letter said "an author should not think himself better than his characters" so why would he create an unattractive character? Did he see himself as unattractive or is he being hypocritical?

    9. I have written much, and published more than enough to demand a longer silence than I now meditate; but for some years to come it is my intention to tempt no further the award of “Gods, men, nor columns.”

      While he may have written a lot he is acting very argent and rude to someone who he just called his friend.

    10. It is said among those friends, I trust truly, that you are engaged in the composition of a poem6 whose scene will be laid in the East; none can do those scenes such justice.

      If he believes that this is not possible then why would he not have told his friend before he had left to go to Turkey? And why would he believe that it is not possible to describe?

    11. ra is a man of uncontrollable violence, unlike Conrad, whose propensity towards gentlemanly self-government is one of two qualities (the other being his military incompetence) which militates against the convincing depiction of his buccaneer’s calling.

      If these men are opposites then how could the be the same men? Could Bryon have meant they are a pair in a different way?

    1. east, or seem t

      He is claiming that she has to act happy but what could have made her so unhappy? Did he say or do something to her? Because for him to be saying something like this to her he must have seen her happy before.

    2. gust to life hast thou? Change that disconten

      I think this is an interesting because a lot of poems from this time when they talked about women they just talked about their beauty; but he is saying you are pretty but your hatred is making you ugly.

    3. h shall be my na

      I think that this claim is very different for this time because it used to be that your family was who you are, but he is bringing in a new way of thinking by saying "No my family will not define me". (sorry my computer is acting weird and is not showing that I highlighted the whole line 8)

    4. To the dictates of young ambition, may be ascribed many actions more criminal, and equally absurd

      I do not like this claim. I realize that in this time young ambition was bad but I do not think it would be criminal.

    5. Some few were written during the disadvantages of illness, and depression of spirits: under the former influence, “CHILDISH RECOLLECTIONS,” in particular, were composed.

      While in this time poetry was more mature, it was also usually written by old men. So while his ideals may be "childish" to the older generation they would not be considered childish to his generation.

    6. as more than usually insecure and self-conscious as an adolescent, and publishing such a self-revelatory sequence of poems must have been an act of bravado agonizing in its riskiness

      While I do agree that the poems were an act of bravado (and different from other poetry that I have read from that time period (it is a lot more out there and obvious what he was saying compared to others) he did not seem very insecure to me; he actually seemed really arrogant.

    7. I believe in general they have been favourably received, & surely the Age of their Author, will preclude severe Criticism

      I'm not how true this statement is because usually both poetry and music create mixed feelings and they are not all good feelings.

    1. He followed this up with theOriental tales, which reflected the gloomy moods of self-analysis and disenchantment of his years of fame

      It the movie it would show him as being a happy "playboy" but then acting all gloomy out of nowhere. Could he have been acting to the point where he could not shake his gloom or could he have had something mentally wrong.

    2. His body was brought back to England and, refused burial in Westminster Abbey, was placed in thefamily vault near Newstead

      However this is very different from the end of the movie because it showed his body being cremated.

    3. Byron made efforts to unite the various Greek factions and took personal command of a brigade of Souliot soldiers,reputedly the bravest of the Greeks.

      This is the same as the end of the movie.

    4. who had been sent to him by hermother, to be educated in a convent near Ravenna,

      This is different from the movie because the movie said she was trying to get her daughter back from him.

    5. found Byron grown fat, with hair long and turning gray, looking older than his years

      While in the movie his hair and turned long and gray he did not look that much older and he did not look fat. However these may be a difference in times because what we would view as fat now they may not have viewed as fat then

    6. At the end of the summer the Shelley party left for England, where Claire gave birth to Byron’s illegitimate daughter Allegrain January 1817

      The movie did not mention that Claire went with them; in fact the movie made it sound like he took his daughter and left.

    7. “half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink orsoar

      Lord Byron gives great imagery here of what it would feel like to just be and to not have and real purpose or meaning in life.

    8. bisexuality

      In the movie it did not mention him being bisexual. So did bisexual mean something different when this was written or could the movie have left it out?