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企管系 2A
郭玟伶
Achilles versus Joan of Arc
Heroes can be defined as a human being who does the thing that
everyone cannot accomplish it. That thing maybe hard to reach, or
maybe that is thought as a bad thing. Achilles is the one that reach the
goal that not everyone can get. It was because his innate ability. He
was good to fight, and he was a warrior inborn. Joan of arc is
absolutely a heroine. She does what she can do for her country.
We cannot confirm if a person really got the message from god.
But Joan of arc has a heart to save her country. She wanted do
whatever she can, including taking part in the war. In her age,
women were not allowed to be a warrior, not to say being their
senior officer and commanded all soldiers. Joan of arc was
courage enough to set up her mind. She was afraid of dying. And
she insisted her belife-a god living in her mind.

2. 984001021 郭玟伶
Professor Barton
EL2014
10 June 2011
Differences between the Poems We read in Class Written by
John Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, and Charles Baudelaire
John Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, and Charles Baudelaire are poets of Romanticism. In
the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” which was written by John Keats represented
compliments for urn as an unravished bride. He used the words “sweet”, “enjoyed”
“unwearied”,” panting” that usually used for description of people. And that can be
seen as the expression of Romanticism. He also made nature as the pipe and to praise
it for ever new. He described beauty and nature in different words but in the end they
can be seen as the same thing. What can be seen as beauty is what should really exist.
In the poem” Annabel Lee” that written by Edger Allan Poe was a poet to praise a
woman. He conveyed his love frankly. The word” love” repeated seven times to
emphasize his love. Also, he repeated words “envy”, and” beautiful” to emphasize the
envy of angel and the beauty of Annabel Lee.
In the poem” the vampire” that written by Charles Baudelaire, he didn‟t reaped the
same words again and again. He used different words to expressive the same thing.
Also, all we can feel in this poem is gray but not depressive. The character in this
poem coursed the vampire and said that would not resuscitate. He show his bravery to
fight the power of unknown. He used many strong words to emphasize how urgent the
situation was.
All above used different technique to emphasize its motif and the character„s
emotion.

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Western civilization II
Professor David Barton
Differences of Enlightenment between Tom Jones and the Earl of Rochester
The process to enlightenment of Tom Jones is through roaming far away. As Kant’s
essay on Enlightenment showing, the enlightenment requires nothing but freedom.
In Tom’s journey, his kind-hearted helped the person who met troubles whether it
would make him get in trouble or not. For example, he made friends with soldiers at
first, though they stole his money and left him in the house. In addition, Tom rescued
Mrs. Waters from Ensign Northerton. On the way, passerby all look at them as if they
had did something dishonor. But Tom didn’t leave Mrs. Waters alone, instead, he
took her to a inn and had a rest. All above can recognize that Tom Jones was a
kind-hearted person and responsible. If he would not go far away from his home, he
would not encounter many situations to stimulate his kindness and be enlightened.
Rochester was sent into banishment by K ing Charles II for a year. In fact,
he didn’t really care about whether h e stayed in London or not. When
Rochester was sent into banishment, he fell love with Elizabeth Barry who
acted the way of herself. Instead of booing her as audiences, Rochester
praised her much. Elizabeth can be seen as a key open Rochester ’s mind.
It was Elizabeth’s bravery and potential that Rochester wanted to coach
her in acting. He wanted to share his talent with Elizabeth. And this can
be seen as a process of being enlightenment. Another process to
enlightenment was after he embarrassed the king when welcome the visit
of French Ambassador. He made the king anger and said to him “ let you-
be you.” in the end of his abscond. It really made Rochester suffering till
he did something for throne successor.

4. 企業管理系 2A 郭玟伶
Myth
Prometheus is a symbol of cleverness, moreover he is rebellious too. He tried to
hoodwink great Zeus’s wits and attention, had cheerfully butchered and served up
the succulent flesh of an ox. When Zeus aware of what Prometheus has done for
gods and men, he cannot endure someone cheated him so that human beings can
get flesh meat. However, Zeus is the god knowing every thing, he pretended he has
been cheated to punish Prometheus. Actually Prometheus is fore learner. His
behavior concealed his rebellious. Though Prometheus knowing he would be
punished, he did it bravely. “You are surely the cleverest man now alive” Zeus said
to Prometheus with irony. Zeus’s words meant Prometheus was a part of humans
instead of gods, still Prometheus retorted to him, fearless of the consequences. As a
punishment, Zeus removed fire from trees where it had lurked before, available to
mortals when lightning struck or when branches, rubbing against one another, burst
into flame. But Prometheus pitied his beloved mortals and stole fire from heaven by
hiding it in a fennel stalk. Ever since Prometheus’ theft, human beings have
enjoyed the permanent possession of fire, although only constant labor at gathering
fuel can maintain it. Without fire, people would have to eat raw foods, and they
could not do anything after the sunset. “Fire” is a symbol of civilization in human’s
history. It also revealed a big progress to human’s lives. Fortunately, Prometheus

5. helped humans maintain fire. For this reason, Prometheus became protector of
mortals. However, Prometheus should pay for what he has done, for being an
opponent of Zeus. Zeus bound Prometheus the schemer in inescapable fetters, a
torment to bear, and through them he drove a mighty stone pylon, and sent a l
ong-winged eagle to gnaw his incorruptible liver. By day the bird fed upon it, but
each night as much was replenished as was lost on the day before. Zeus punished
Prometheus for stealing fire, but he also punished man by imposing what Hesiod
regarded as the greatest affliction of all: woman! Zeus gave human beings
“woman” as a present. May they all be merry at heart, forever embracing this
horror! Pandora, who’s name is the meaning of all-gifted, was the present given to
human beings, also known as the origin of woman, marriage, and suffering in the
world. Actually, Pandora was created with lies, swindles, and all sorts of thievish
behavior. The reason for a woman being a present to humankind is that people
always thought male were more important than female in the ancient world. After
Pandora opened the jar, life was labor, misery, and disease, with death at the end.
Fortunately, we still have hope. Through whole process, there was a coincidence
between Prometheus and Zeus. At the beginning, Zeus chose the fat and the bones
hidden beneath. On the other hand, Zeus revenge is a woman that looked good on

6. the outside, but within was filled with” lies, with swindles, all sorts of thievish
behavior.” Both of them told that colorful or fine appearances are not always lead
to same contents. Just as Zeus devoured his son to ensure the full extent of his
power, he put the punishment to human beings seemed to announce how great his
power was. He won’t endure any failure and rebellious actions.

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Professor Ding
EL1063-A
28 April 2011
Rock and Roll can Really Change the World If You Really Want
School of Rock (2003, USA), is a comedy film directed by Richard Linklater,
written by Mike White, and starring Jack Black. In the film, Dewey Finn, a rock
singer and guitarist who always gets crazy when he has a performance, and it
was a result he kicked out from his band “No Vacancy”. Desperate for income
to avoid getting evicted by his friend Ned Schneebly and Ned’s girlfriend,
Dewey pretended to be Ned, and took the job as a substitute teacher for a
fifth-grade class. At first, he did not teach anything to students. However, when
Dewey overheard his students playing in music class, an idea suddenly came
to his mind, and he wanted to form his students into a rock band. He chose a
keyboards player, bass player, guitarist, drummer, and chorus from his
students. They practiced in their class and gradually they were interested in
playing rock and roll. In the end, rock and roll has become an essential part in
their daily life. And they proved the world can really be changed by rock and
roll music.
One linguistic sign in this film is “The Man”, when Dewey says the world is
run by The Man and The Man is everywhere. It means the world is always

8. controlled by the person who has authority. That person may have power to
affect something that happens in the world. That person can be interpreted as
a principal, a government official, a millionaire, and so on. At first, Dewey made
them join in the band, and the band was worked by his authority. However,
after his real identity was revealed, it was his students who went to his house
and took him to the competition. The relationship between them changed
obviously. Dewey is not The Man any more, he became one of their
bandmates.
Moreover, the relationship between parents and their children changed as
well. In the beginning, parents didn’t agree that joining in a rock band is good
for their children. They just cared about what made their children smarter and
get better grades. Nevertheless, students insisted on taking part in the
competition and took the bus by themselves. It was a big change and it let their
parents become their audience and see how fantastic a performance it was.
Hence, the attitude of parents changed, they will listen to their children more
and respect their opinions.
Another important change of relationship is between Dewey and Miss
Mullins. At the time they drank coffee together, Miss Mullins told Dewey how
much stress on her it was to discipline the students and make good figure in

9. front of the parents. At this moment, the relationship between them was not the
employer and employee any more. Also, Miss Mullins isn’t The Man to control
her employee but a woman who told her worries to her friend.
There are some connections between “school of rock “and “no vacancy”. At
first, Dewey was one of the members in “No Vacancy”, which was a band full of
arguments. For them, to win the prize was the goal they really pursued. The
reason that Dewey was kicked out of the band is not only his strange behavior
on the stage but the point of view between them on making music was divided.
There is a contrast between “No Vacancy” and “School of Rock”. “No Vacancy”
played their music for a particular purpose. They wanted to win the competition.
And that would make their performance as a routine without enjoyment. They
were stressed when they played the music, for they had to cater for tastes of
the public. However, “School of Rock” was a band that really enjoyed music.
They performed the song that was written by their guitarist Zack instead of the
song written by Dewey. It is because Zack’s song conveyed the life of the
students. And students sang aloud what they really feel when being a
student.
In the end, “School of Rock” changed their world through playing rock and
roll music and established a world without The Authority. Though “school of

10. rock” did not win the championship, they won the chance for an encore. It
means their performance was impressive and accepted. They influenced
people through their rock music. They were successful to strike at everybody’s
heart and change their minds through their lyrics with their voice.
Part of summary was cited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_rock

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Professor Ding
EL1063-A
19 May 2011
Summary2 draft1: Ways of Seeing
In Chapter Seven of the book Ways of Seeing published in 1973, John Berger makes
his point that publicity creates wonderful images of the future to make people feel
dissatisfied with their present way of life so that people will be convinced of spending
money to change themselves for the better.
If you buy things it advertises, if promises, you may become better and be envied.
In fact, publicity is a process of manufacturing glamour, and the main purpose of
manufacturing glamour is making money. To achieve this purpose, publicity imitate
oil paintings, use color photography, and manufacture anxiety.
Oil paintings can be a symbol of wealth and spirituality, and the process of
imitating oil paintings reveals that the purchase being proposed is both a luxury and a
cultural value. On the other hand, color photography becomes a tool of reproducing
the color and texture and tangibility of objects. It can arouse the spectator’s sense of
acquiring the real thing which image shows. Moreover, making people anxious to be
nothing because of having nothing is often used to achieve publicity’s goal to make
much money. They make people think the only way to eliminate anxiety is the ability
of spending money.
The function of publicity is turning consumption into a substitute for democracy.
And it makes us change our pursuance for democracy into consumption. Moreover,
eliminating the contrast between publicity’s interpretation of the world and the
world’s actual condition is also become a part of making profit.

12. Wen-Ling Guo
Professor Ding
EL1063-A
20 March 2011
Summary 1 Final Draft: Representation
In chapter one The Work of Representation of the book Representation: Cultural
Representations and Signifying Practices published in 1997 by SAGE and edited by
Stuart Hall, representation can as comprehended that it including two systems. One is
meaning, and another is language. Giving meaning can help people interpret the world
in an individual way. Also, people in different culture may have different
interpretation of the same thing. We can say that people in different culture system
belong to the different concept maps. Therefore, meaning should be translated into a
common language so that people can communicate with each other. When we use
language, it is codes that help us translate concept maps through language. In sum,
representation is a process to interpret meaning through language.

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Professor Barton
EL2014
29 March 2011
The role of Laura in selections from the Canzoniere
In the “Selections from the Canzoniere”, Laura is described as a woman who has
power to change a man. Laura makes the man feel distraught. It is because he has
fallen in love with her. Thus, everything connects with Laura can impress him. “my
lady, for your lovely eyes had bound me.” It is a strong feeling for the man when
Laura was close to him. In this poem, Laura can be recognized as a real woman, for
her existence makes the man’s heart beat for her. Also, Laura plays a role either to
encourage him or depress him. And it’s because love dominates the man. Though in
the end the man becomes white-haired and pale, get nothing from his love. It doesn’t
mean Laura can be seen as devil. It is the man who goes crazy for her and desires her
love violently. However, Laura doesn’t have her own thoughts in this poem. In the
section from page 12 to 15, Laura doesn’t say a word and doesn’t respond anything to
the man. The man can only get some information through her eyes, from” It is true
that your sweet and soothing smile does calm the ardour of all my desires and rescues
me from buring martyrdom as long as I keep my gaze fixed in you.” The role of
Laura in selections from the Canzoniere is a person who can’t be express obviously
but really exist and has power to a certain extent.

15. 984001021
企管二 A
郭玟伶
Travelling Around is Necessary
In the east of the America national land, people have their daily life. Their busy
lives make them have less time to relax themselves. If someone feels down or
confused about his real life, he may try to travel to the western American. There can
be seen as glorious landscape. Also, it can make people realize how insignificantly
small they are. In the movie” 127 hours”, the desert is huge enough to educate
people and hurt them. The man in the movie was selfish at first. He always did what
he wanted to do without telling anyone even his families. However, when he felt
isolated and think deep when he got alone with himself, he really knew something
that he used to ignore. In fact, power of nature can not only made him humble, but
m a d e h i m s t a r t to l e a r n a p p r e c i a t e e v e r y t h i n g a r o u n d h i m .
Apart from traveling to western America alone, two persons or more go together
can be seen frequently, In the movie” City Slickers”, told a story about three men to
find something they lack by road traveling. When they took themselves away from
their familiar way, they were pushed to learn something new and change themselves.
In fact, nature can really made people grown up. If you really want to conquer it, you
should show your confidence and courage. Most important of all, buddy relationship
can really help each other grown up.

16. 984001021 企管系 郭玟伶
What Is Love?
Love is desire for the perpetual of the good. Moreover, the function of love is that
procreation in what is beautiful, and such procreation can be either physical or
spiritual. People would love to approach something beautiful. Through procreate,
people may have chance to reach the goal. Because procreation is the nearest thing to
perpetuity and immortality that a mortal being can attain. To be immortal, a man tend
to integrate with another woman, then giving birth to a baby who symbolizes the
prolong of the man and the woman’s life. New ones come into existence and old
ones disappear. However, knowledge is not merely that some appears and others
disappear. Knowledge can be immortal. For example, nowadays what people study
may exist long time ago, maybe 500 hundred yours ago, or much longer. If you say
you love something, then that may somehow a good thing for you, even conform what
you are pursuing such as being immortal. Love can be defined from one instance of
physical beauty to two and from two to all, then from physical beauty to moral beauty,
and from moral beauty to the beauty of knowledge whose sole object is that absolute
beauty, and knows at last what absolute beauty is.

17. EL2014
Professor David Barton
9840001021 郭玟伶
April 21 2011
What Is the Ambition of Earl of Rochester?
In the beginning of the film, Rochester was sent into banishment by King Charles II
for a year. That was because his poem that he read aloud in front of the king. However,
the king knew very well that there was few people can reach to the Rochester’s talent
in literary. Though Rochester’s poems often irritated the king, he still needed
Rochester’s talent to help him consolidate his throne. Rochester did not agree the king
who wanted to use his talent be a tool of politics. And that is why he always used erotic
materials to embarrassed the king. He used cocks, dildos and sexual toys in his drama to
satirize the king’s indulgent life. All of above mentioned are the process to reach his
ambition, to influence more people through exposed the king. When he made the king
embarrassed, he expressed the anger of people who had low standard of living because of
royalty. Rochester made his every effort to the drama that would be used to welcome the
ambassador to France. It is because this drama would be the big chance that he can use to
say aloud what kind of the king was in his country. He did not care about the consequence.
He did what he thought he should do. He did so for his patriotism. Finally, he made his
speech when Parliament introduced the Exclusion Bill to deny James the throne. It is a
proof that he wanted to do something to make his country better.