Ap terms - Syntax

Syntax

1. The arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence

2. The study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. 

3. The study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages

Jedi Master Yoda speaks in OSV Syntax, Object-Subject-Verb

Ex. 1)Destroy the Sith, we must!

      2)"Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained! A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!"
      3)Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future…the past…old friends long gone

Thinking outside the box

Both Plato and Sartre use a similar limiting factor for their extended metaphor, Platos being the cave and Sartres the room with the second Empire chair. Plato thought our limitation of our thinking was the human inability to conceive the truth and conforming with our hazy abstraction of the truth. Sartre limitations were Garcins, Estelles, and Inez fear of the unknown. Both the men in the cave and the individuals in the cave shared their rejection of the unknown.

The Big Question

Where do we draw the line between advances in technology expediting our quest for knowledge and machines hindering our ability to think on our own merit?

Major English Concept

Memorizing Hamlets "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy was a great experience. It makes other tasks seem smaller by comparison. looking back  a few weeks I remember thinking how much of a pain the ass it was going to be  to have to memorize yet another Shakespearean passage. Now, looking at that daunting passage I'm both proud and amused that I was able to memorize it on time and by the fact the I can still recite it off the top of my head wherever I am. Where, with Richard Corey being a much smaller passage, I had forgotten it within hours after reciting it.