Deal or No Deal relates to probability because it is more of a game of chance than a game of skill. You can bring a strategy to play the game but the only way to win is to pick random briefcases and hope that they aren’t the million-dollar briefcase. The best time to back out would be when you know that the million is out of play and the banker gives an offer that is as high as it gets before the offers start to decline. Some things that might influence the briefcase that somebody chooses might be what numbers they like, which ones are unlucky, how old they are, number of people in extended family, and so on. My strategy would be to try to get the million, but if the million is out of play, I would try to get the highest offer that the banker will give before they start to decline.
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Shinto: The Way of the Kami
Look here to learn more about the background of Shinto in the Tokugawa Era: https://sway.com/IsBOBohK8JTVEGOF
EKprastic Poetry – Great Wave
The tide rolls in,
The tide rolls out
Waves grow bigger,
And slap ships around.
The waves stand tall,
Watching the world.
And in an instant,
They mightily fall.
Waves like hands,
Grasping for land.
Touching the shore,
And achieving their goal.
In my poem, “The Great Wave”, I was thinking about what it would be like watching the waves in the painting from shore. An example of figurative language that I used was the simile when I was comparing the waves to hands. A sound device that I used was rhythm. In the first stanza, all the lines had four syllables. In the second stanza, there are 5 syllables in the first, third, and fourth lines and 4 syllables in the second one. In the last stanza, the syllables go 5 syllables in the first line, 4 in the second and third and 6 in the last. A theme in my poem is to keep going, as the waves kept grasping for land and eventually hit the shore.
53 Stations of the Tokaido Road
There are a few connections from The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn at some of the stations on the Tokaido road such as Station 47, Kameyama. Seikei stops at Kameyama on he and his dad’s trip to Edo. The whole book is about the crime that was committed in the inn in Kameyama. Seikei thought that he saw a jinkininki outside of his room the night that the ruby disappeared. Judge Ooka found a tunnel in the inn that led to a monastery where a troupe of actors slept the night before. The book was built on the foundations of what happened in Kameyama… The missing ruby, a tunnel to a monastery, the fact that a troupe of actors performed a play the night before and slept in the monastery where the tunnel led, all that led up to Judge Ooka and Seikei following the theif to Edo and finding out his motives.
There are several interesting facts that I learned about the stations of the Tokaido road. I learned that the first station of the road begins in Edo and that there was a bridge in the middle of the city. The bridge is the beginning of the Tokaido road. I also learned that station 39, Okazaki, had a castle that was the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate. He also became shogun and took credit for what Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi helped create – the 66 provinces of Japan united into a feudal agreement.
Flatland Pictures
Top View
Bottom View
Front View
Back View
Right View
Left View
Renga Poem
As the snow falls forth
covering what was made then
plant life comes again. AG
If the night is chilling now,
the plants will hold off longer. CR
I see snow melt and the life
of plants come again. AG
Touring 18th Century Edo
I decided to write about and research the temple of the 47 Ronin or Senkakuju. A lord called “Kira” was visiting the Shogun’s palace and was insulting a Samurai called Asano. Kira purposely knocked off his sandal but made it look like an accident and told Asano to put it back on. Asano lost his temper and drew his sword and injured Kira but had to do seppuku for drawing weapons in the house of the Shogun. His 47 retainers became ronin, samurai without a master, and swore to avenge their master. One ronin, Oishi, made a plan so for a year, the ronin were humiliated and insulted and treated badly. The ronin met at the house of Kira once a year passed and found him. Oishi offered him to do the honorable thing, seppuku but he begged for mercy so Oishi killed Kira. The ronin had to commit seppuku too because they killed Kira but they were honored because they endured many insults and misery to avenge their master.
3D Object Information
The object that I want to make for my Flatland project is the Chinese Dragon. I chose it because I want to try to make it. One legend of the origin of the dragon is the Totem-Worship theory. Each tribe had an animal or protector called a totem of the tribe that the people believed that they were related to. It was said that one tribe set out against the 9 other tribes of the Yellow River Valley. The first tribe took the totems of the tribes they defeated and put it in their own totem and the leader of that tribe claimed to be the monarch of the central planes of China, making the dragon totem popular.
In Chinese culture, the dragon represents the East and the wood element. It is one of the four guardians – the Dragon, the White Tiger, the Tortoise, and the Vermilion Bird. The Chinese calendar has 12 animals and every year, it is the year of a different animal (year of rabbit, then year of dragon, then year of snake, and so on). The dragon is a powerful symbol of Chinese culture and you are presumed to have a happy life. The supreme power of emperors is represented by the Chinese Dragon.
The Chinese Dragon has an interesting history and a big mark on Chinese culture. I am really excited to make the dragon.
Works Cited
Wu, Annie. “The Chinese Dragon – a Symbol of Strength and Power.” China Highlights. N.p., 7 Dec. 2015. Web. 31 Jan. 2016. <http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/article-chinese-dragons.htm>.
Flatland Movie
Flatland is a 2 dimensional land where everyone is a geometric shape. The shapes go from three-sided triangles to circles with an infinite number of angles. The triangles do the hard work, like guard duty. The squares work in offices and the Circles are the priests who are supposed to be wise. In the Flatland movie, a square called Arthur square has a strange dream where he travels to Pointland, a place with a point who likes to say “me” a lot. Than, he travels to Lineland, where there is only ONE dimension – length. He encounters the King of Lineland who can only go side to side and cannot go forwards or backwards. Arthur then freaks the King out and goes back to Flatland. then, he sees Spherius, a 3 dimensional sphere from the third dimension – Spaceland. Spherius takes Arthur to Spaceland and Arthur finds a new dimension – height. When Arthur wakes up, he finds out that Hex, his granddaughter, has gone to Area 33h, an area sort of like what we call Area 51. Arthur gets caught but Spherius saves him from death by the Circles. After Flatland finds out about the Third Dimension, Hex wonders if there is a Fourth Dimension. Then, the camera lowers under the Cube of Area 33h and shows another cube – this one with a square inside … a Tesseract (a cube with a cube inside) that probably represents the fourth dimension. This is a great movie with a great plot.
I am Human
One of the two quotes that stood out to me was “We are all born different, so don’t be the same.” The quote made me think that we are all different and special in our own ways and since we are all different, why be exactly the same as the person next to you or your best friend. Another quote was “I am but a small voice”. It makes me think about who or what the world might listen to. The world might not take a small voice, one person, seriously but if you gather a lot of people, the world might listen because a lot of people is a bigger voice that the world might listen to. Every human is unique and if a team works together, they could make one big voice that the world might listen to but one person on his/her own would have a small voice the world might not listen to.