Humanities - History and Literature

Today was the first real class of humanities. We had history and literature. Mostly the classes were a review of the summer reading for the tests on Friday.

In History, we discussed some of the themes of King Leopold's Ghost, instances of them in the novels, and their relation to some quotes from Machiavelli and a couple other sources. I may write more specific things when I actually review for the test.

In Literature, we discussed themes and metaphors in the book. I didn't agree with much of what the teacher said about the book being entirely a metaphor. Since Conrad did actually travel up the Congo, and it was a huge issue at the time, I don't think the book was intended to be entirely disassociated from its setting. However, I do believe a lot of the things about the discovery of the emptiness at the core of societal morality. This, though, I think is deeply entwined with what was actually going on in the Congo, and Conrad's actual experiences, and the actual events of the book.

Tomorrow is the Art and Music review.

First Day of School

For my own organizational reasons, I'm going to make separate blog posts for separate educational facets, and each one will have a single label. This may result in multiple posts a day, but as I said, this is a selfish blog.

This one is about the first day of school, which was today.

What I learned: Not much. First day of school is organizational stuff (we spent an hour in home room). I do know more about my humanities class, though, like that we have Marques instead of Maloney for history. Interesting assortment of people, too. 

Yeah, not much to report on here.