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Joyce'sBut we girls will always say Farmington's our home! October 18 Philadelphia Orchestra!!!Concerts that i'm going to/have been to in Oct/Nov Mendelssohn's "Italian" Friday, October 23, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM
Mendelssohn's "Italian" Saturday, October 24, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto Saturday, October 31, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM
Mozart and Dvorak Saturday, November 07, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony Friday, November 13, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM
Mahler's Seventh Symphony Saturday, November 21, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM
Mozart and Bruckner Friday, November 27, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM
Past Events: Bronfman, Bartok, and Brahms Friday, October 02, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM Beyond the Score Tuesday, October 06, 2009 Verizon Hall | 7:00 PM
Symphonie fantastique Barber Adagio Prokofiev 2nd Piano Concerto by Yuja Wang Thursday, October 08, 2009 Verizon Hall | 8:00 PM Perilhettes 2009 - GoodnightWhy it's time to bye already~ 75 things i'll have to do before graduating from Swarthmore
December 24 Perilhettes!!!!My Arrangements...... haha
1. Silent Night
2. All I Want For Christmas is You!!!!!!!!!
 December 13 A little intro~http://baike.baidu.com/view/1394045.html December 12 3 hours after I got into college:From: Sam Rochford Friday, December 12, 2008 3:58:22 PM YAY THE LOVE OF MY LIFE GOT INTO COLLEGEEEEEEEEEE AIHR:AOWEIJ AWOIEHAW:EYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA IM SO PROUD OF YOU AND I LOVE YOU THE MOST MOST MOST YAY JOYCE HAN --------------- From: Erin Kelly Friday, December 12, 2008 4:10:44 PM CONGRATS JOYCE!!!!!!!!! --------------- From: Katie Deutsch Friday, December 12, 2008 4:03:09 PM Is into SWARTHMORE!!!! You are a JOY! Congratulations! You deserve this. Swarth n. 1. Land covered with grassy turf. I want some MORE of that! [Image:121208_40156_1.pct] Please continue composing symphonies in your sleep. You are a truly talented person. Swarthmore is lucky to have you! --------------- From: Camille Bernier-Green Friday, December 12, 2008 4:17:25 PM CONGRATS! --------------- From: Justina Dubinsky Friday, December 12, 2008 4:17:57 PM Congratulations on Swarthmore!!!! ~Justina~ --------------- From: Anabel Rothschild Friday, December 12, 2008 4:52:15 PM JOYCE HAN YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now stop doing work....and no more studying!! --------------- From: Alex Ley Friday, December 12, 2008 4:57:47 PM CONGRATULATIONS JOYCEEEEE!!!!!!! I <3 YOU. SWARTHMORE IS SO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU!!!!!! ~ ALEX --------------- From: Alana Del Vecchio Friday, December 12, 2008 5:08:23 PM Congrats on SWARTHMORE!!!! Knew you could do it!! [Image:121208_50635_0.pct] --------------- From: Kendra Nealon Friday, December 12, 2008 5:14:12 PM JOYCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS ON SWARTHMORE!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU! --------------- From: Anna Lee Friday, December 12, 2008 5:32:24 PM JOYCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love, --------------- From: Julia Kim Friday, December 12, 2008 5:37:44 PM CONGRATS ON SWARTHMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT :) LOVE, ps. Enjoy your senior slide!!! --------------- From: Jess Behringer Friday, December 12, 2008 5:57:39 PM YAY YAY YAY Joyce!! --------------- From: Lauren Berger Friday, December 12, 2008 6:58:41 PM Congratulations Joyce!!! --------------- From: Nidhi Goyal Friday, December 12, 2008 7:02:39 PM Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you can be most friendliest at Swarthmore! =] --------------- But we girls will always say Farmington’s our home!We all love our head of school! We are always the best all girl school in the country! Our 165 years od traditions will always win!-- Good morning to MY girls, I am on the train to Philly where I will spend the weekend in classes. I have not finished all of my homework, but I will work on that after sending you this message. I want to tell you how touched I was to hear that the Senior Class had gotten 100% participation in the Annual Fund. I sent the information to the Trustees who were inspired by the news. I also spent a long time reading all of the messages that were so thoughtfully posted over Main shelf. They buoyed my spirits at the end of a long day. You are doing exactly what I asked of you on Monday morning. You are thinking about how you can support each other and our wonderful school in positive ways. I am so proud to see you being so poised and respectful. I will miss you today and this weekend. You will not be far from my thoughts. As well as you are taking care of each other, I want to make sure that you are taking care of yourselves too. Make sure that you get good sleep, eat well and study hard this weekend. Let's not let all of this mess interfere with strong performances on your exams. I look forward to seeing you on Monday morning! Ms. Windsor Thank you
mom, dad, grandparents! I’m going to Swarthmore College!!!!! December 08 I hate hamlet“I’m glad hamlet finally dies in the end, cuz I hate him sooooo much!” --Anabel RochchildDecember 03 Ahaha...First Draft Done!! I'll start the final paper soon....Hamlet Soundtrack
English 12 Joyce Han Remember Thee (To Where You Are)--Josh Groban Who can say for certain “To where you are” by Josh Groban tells Hamlet’s connection with his father. Hamlet’s life has been driven by the ghost, or the spirit of his father in the play. Most of his doings are for and even commended by his father. Hamlet’s father gives him two commandments—“remember me” (61) and “to revenge” (57). Hamlet does remember his father throughout the play. Hamlet admires his virtues so much that he couldn’t overcome the sadness of losing his father for a long time. “Look here upon this picture and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man” (174-175) Hamlet is still wearing his father’s picture, and the vivid language he uses to comparing his father and Claudius for Gertrude shows “his memories so clear, deep in the stillness”. He wants to realize his other promise to his father. However, Hamlet is different than what his father wants him to be. He’s more of a thinker than someone who takes actions. Hamlet believes “his father is watching over him from up above”, and he needs guidance from his father when he’s lost on his way to revenge. The second visit of the ghost brings him back to his revenge against Claudius, instead of his mother. This time, his father finally pushes him to revenge and fulfilled himself. Salva Me —Libera Salva me (Save me) Salva me “Salva me” by Libera expresses the emotions in Hamlet’s heart in the early part of the play. Hamlet devotes himself to the revenge, by saying “thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain, within the book and volume of my brain”(63). From his first meeting with the ghost, his extremely strong desire of vengefulness has been twisting his nature from a studious college student to an unnatural single-minded avenger. As time goes on, Hamlet becomes uncertain about himself, and starts to question about his decision of revenge. In most of his soliloquies, he brings up the question whether he should continue living in the world. In the lyrics, the “dark” and “things that harm” refers to Claudius and his evil plan. Hamlet wants to “fly away”, from the “[prison of Denmark]” (99). Later in the play, he is almost lost on his pathway to revenge although he thinks he has a clear motivation. Hamlet sees his uncertainty about himself as cowardness when he compares him with the players. “Have he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? ......Am I a coward?” (117). He is desperate to revenge, but when he finally gets the chance, he hesitates, questions his decision, and gives up the chance. He doesn’t know what to do, and he fears he will not give enough punishment to Claudius. “Salva me”, in Latin, means “Save me”. It won’t be surprising if Hamlet uses Latin to ask the ghost for advices, as he already does occasionally in the play(67).“Save me and hover o’er me with your wings, You heavenly guards!—What would your gracious figure?” (177) He needs his father to point him directions in life and tell him what to do. Soon after the ghost left, Hamlet says:“I must be cruel only to be kind. This bad begins, and worse remains behind” (181). This is the first time that he takes action to his revenge, and “Domine deus miserere mei”--he asks mercy from the Lord for his killing of Polonius. Yet, not until he ran into the battlefield, did he really mentally decide to devote himself into real actions. When he compares himself with the troops on the battlefield, he felt ashamed:”How stand I, then, that have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood. And let al sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause”(203). The troops are ready to lose their lives fighting for a small piece of land, which has no value to themselves, and not even much to the country. “O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!” (205) He decides to take actions for his revenge, not to escape. Trust and Love (Black Rose Red)—Alana Grace [Hamlet] Can I ask you a question please [Ophelia] Drowning in my loneliness [Hamlet] Can you turn my black roses red? The song seems to be a dialog between Hamlet and Ophelia. The opening lines of the song express Hamlet’s fear in his heart—he’s afraid that “[he’ll] be betrayed” by people he trusts and people he’s related to. He’s even afraid to give his love after his sudden loss of his loved ones. Horatio, Rosencratz, and Guildenstern were all once Hamlet’s close friends. However, appealed to power, Rosencratz and Guildenstern “soak up the king’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities” (193). Between power of the court and loyalty to friendship, Horatio chose the latter one. Throughout the play, Horatio is the only person who always stands by him at his most important moments. Horatio witnessed the ghost, observed the king, and kept Hamlet accompanied till his death. Even at the end of the players’ play, Horatio is the only person who stayed with Hamlet instead running out following the king. When Horatio attempted to drink the poisoned wine to follow his dear friend’s death, Hamlet says: “as thou’rt a man…… If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile And in this harsh world would draw thy breath in pain To tell my story” (400). Hamlet thought he had lost everything he could trust in the world, until his increasingly finds the loyalty in Horatio. By his death, Hamlet seems to see Horatio as the only person he gives his trust to. Hamlet is blaming people’s betrayal on his love to Ophelia. Ophelia is hurt by Hamlet’s denying of his love to her. Although Hamlet’s “believe non of us” (131) maybe interpreted as to believe non of his rejections, there’s no way for Ophelia, the innocent girl, to find herself comforts from love when she feels left alone in the world. Imaging Ophelia’s feeling in her heart. The images of “drowning” and “holding breathe” in the lyrics seem to be speaking for Ophelia at the end of her short life--in the stream of loneliness, she decided not to hold her breath any longer and not to wait till “[hamlet’s] love rain on [her]”. The black rose, represents both Hamlet long-lost trust in the world and his unexpressed love to Ophelia. “Can you turn my black rose to red?” Hamlet is seeking the chance to express his love to Ophelia, and give his trust back to the world. However, his wishes are not completed until Ophelia’s and his own deaths.
Rest in Peace —Libera For all who need comfort for all those who mourn “Rest in Peace” by Libera speaks for Hamlet on Ophelia’s death. He would most likely to sing the song at Ophelia’s funeral. The fathers of both of them are killed by someone they know, but the killers can’t be revealed because they have power over them. Their similar experience brings up a question that why Ophelia dies but Hamlet lived, or what is the wisdom that “God gives Hamlet to comprehend why he survives and not his friend”. Ophelia chose to get away earlier because of her loneness and helplessness in the world. Yet Hamlet stayed a little longer for his lasting mission of revenge. The difference in Ophelia and Hamlet may be that Hamlet feels like he has the mission to revenge for his dad, while Ophelia had no power to revenge, and she thought she has been betrayed by her loved one. Ophelia seems to be more “innocent” because she has no control over anything around her, but to be an innocent victim. Hamlet loves Ophelia by his instinct. However, the sudden opening to the hypocritical society makes him question and lose trust of the rest of the world. He’s subjectively telling himself to reject Ophelia, because of the lesson he learned from his mom, and his plan of madness. But Ophelia doesn’t know his plan. In her madness, Ophelia keeps saying:“He’s dead and gone….he’s dead and gone” (207); “I cannot choose but weep to think they would lay him i’ th’ cold ground. My brother should know of it”(209). Her brother is away in France; Hamlet betrayed her; her father is suddenly killed; the strong sense of insecurity has driven her to the madness. Maybe if Hamlet expresses his true feeling a little earlier: “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousands brothers could not make up my sum” (255), Ophelia wouldn’t have gone into the madness and ended her life, as she knows she’s not alone in the disappointing world. Everything seems to be too cruel for Ophelia, and she is too young to be thrown into the situation she is in. Even Claudius shows his sympathy to Ophelia:“when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions”(209). Hamlet sees death a relief for Ophelia, or an escape from the cruel reality in the world, “to die, to sleep-No more-and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to-‘tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished” (127).The lyrics also speaks for him:“For all who need comfort for all those who mourn……All suffering and sorrow will be no more; they'll vanish like shadows at heaven’s door; All anguish and grieving will one day be healed”. In the lyrics, he’s also blaming Claudius, who started the whole chaos, for Ophelia’s death. Hamlet’s conversations with the gravediggers give him new understanding of life and death. Death is a change in life, and also a return to the nature. Everyone physically is going to end up the same—dead and turned into clay. Yet, “there’s a divinity that shapes out ends”(259), who would make the final judgment. The Point of No Return —Gerard Butler and Emma Rossum Past the point of no return - You have brought me to that moment at last, begun . . . Past all thought of right or wrong - Past the point of no return so stand and watch it burn . . .
“The Point of No Return” by Andrew Webber reveals Claudius’s ambitions, the motives of his sin, and his final fate, through his own voice. The point of no return for Claudius is his killing of his brother; since then, he has thrown himself into his own trap of glories and sins. He says in his lyrics, “what rich desire unlocks its door? What sweet seduction lies before us . . .?” “Sweet seduction” is the primary motivation of Claudius’s all doings. When his brother was the king, everything seemed to be the sweet seduction to him, the crown, the power, and the beautiful queen. His jealousy leads him to his corruption and his decision of the murder. Claudius ended up with everything he wants in his “rich desire”. Although he tries to appear innocent in front of other people, he is always aware of the evil deeds of his crime, by saying “my offense is rank, it smells to the heaven; it hath the primal eldest curse upon ‘t, a brother’s murder” (165). However, everything is too late. “There is no “if or when” for Claudius because “then [he] looks up. [His] fault is past” (165). He has gotten himself too deep into the trap, into the exterior enjoyment of power, and is not able to get out. Yet, he still doesn’t want to give up his possessions, and comes up with the question “may one be pardoned and retain the offence?”(165) He can’t fully repent without giving up his great desires in heart. Not until then, did he realizes “[his] game of make believe [will be] at an end”, and there is “no return”. “Offense’s gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft ‘tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But ‘tis not so above. There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled” (167). Although Claudius has been making people believe his rightful nature, the “unspoken secret” can never be hidden from Gods in the heaven. Once he falls into his own trap, he has already been destined away from the heaven, regardless of his weak attempts to hide the truth. For Hamlet, the point of no return seems to be the point when he makes everything clear to his mother, and takes the first step towards his revenge—killing Polonius. Before that, all Hamlet did was the indirect hints that he had clues of the truth. He could have “returned” by coming back to a normal person, and pretend nothing had happened. When he speaks out everything with his mother, he admitted his awareness, and is then destined to take action. “I must be cruel only to be kind. This bad begins, and worse remains behind” (181). When he says this to his mother, he realizes he has crosses over the point of no return on his way to revenge.
I Did It for You —Westlife Life without taking chances I... “I did it for you” by Westlife is the final soliloquy of Hamlet about his motives and actions in the play. The two lines in the lyrics “maybe I was crazy, I guess I was sometimes” brings up a question that if Hamlet is really crazy or just pretending. His primary motive of all his actions is to revenge on Claudius for his father, which “was something that [he] believes, a dream that was driving [him], and a fire inside of [him]”. Hamlet is sometimes immature that he believes “[he] has no choice” but to revenge in order to show his loyalty to his father. Thus, although he told Horatio that he was going act crazy (67), some of his actions seem to be indeed crazy, and probably driven by his extreme desire of revenging. He saw the ghost for the first time, and learned about his uncle’s treasury. Yet, maybe his meeting with the ghost in his mother’s room is simply his imagination, because the ghost could be seem by all the people during his first two visits, but only appears to him the last time. Other evidence of Hamlet’s true madness is that he acts louder, and more and more out of manner as the play goes on. However, his cautious and his sophisticated plan are evidence that he is mentally clear and fine. Even the major characters in the play have different thoughts on his madness. The queen says:”O’er whom his very madness, like some ore”; his mother believes he’s actually crazy even though he tells her “that I essentially am not in madness”. While Claudius, whom Hamlet is acting to, refuses to believe Hamlet is crazy, but uses Hamlet’s craziness as a reason to kill him. By saying “Madness in great ones must not unwatched go”(135), Claudius clearly knows that Hamlet is not indeed crazy, but “there’s something in his soul”. Throughout the play, Hamlet always tells himself that he is doing everything only for his father, and rarely thinks independently for himself. But when he can finally say “I did it for you” to his father, his last words to Horatio is “to tell my story” (283), the story of Hamlet’s. November 29 I found this really cool thing! ahaha
My Dorm!
I wish I can circle my room..... but it's on the third floor on the left of the picture, but middle on the floor~
My lovely school!
A larger view... although i never imagined i would actually love a school..... November 20 in need of a breakdid a lot of things in the past month
recordings, apps, school work, Perilhettes......
fairly proud of myself
 October 08 今年赶快过去吧I just started to feel better after long fall
released some of my stress
and go all the way forward
but why you guys didn't
talk about this with me earlier
or just never warn me
I don't know what to do
but I still have to do what I need to do
hopefully I'll end up somewhere
other than
MHC
I've never felt so overwhelmed before
but
Why I have to carry that much even in my first year being an adult.......
 September 28 Best Weekend in Berkshire!Sara's Cool Melt
Giant Cookies from Truffles
Huge Brownie and Chessecake from Trauffles
Godiva Hotchocolate Mix Mint
Cheese Fondue
Smoores
Chocolatechips Pancake; Blueberry Pancake
Bacon
Orange Juice
Apple picking
 September 19 i wanna be happyeveyrone is being so positive, and optimistic on me
but.......
i=anywhere?
(not i)=idiot? they won't understand how stressed i am...
perilhettes
reunion dinner
awesome
i wanna keep the happy moments....
 September 14 I'm sooooo stressed.... who has the time to write a paragraph everyday on NEW reading before going over in class!!! together with papers, and other infinite amount of home work!!!!That's all I feel like writing today, cuz I can only have 20 minutes for this now. I'll write more tomorrow.... whatever... Beowulf’s belief in fate plays a great role in his three agons. The first two agons with Grendel and Grendel’s mom are very different from his last one with the dragon, and Beowulf finds it harder and harder to fight the three monsters. In his first agon, he defeated Grendel only with his feasts. He was begging Hrothgar for his fight and promoting himself with confidence saying:” so every elder and experienced councilman among my people supported my resolve to come her to you, King Hrothgar, because all knew of my awesome strength……now I mean to be a match for Grendel……a just judgment by God” (39-40). Beowulf believes that Grendel is the “God-cursed” monster, and it was in his fate that he would defeat Grendel. In his second fight, he believes that he uses more of God’s help. ”[He] barely survived the battle under water. It was hard-fought, a desperate affair that could have gone badly; if God had not helped [him], the outcome would have been quick and fatal” (66). He becomes a ruler from a warrior short after he defeated Grendel’s mom. After fifty years of ruling his people, (I’m not sure, but I feel like) he thinks God is taking away his luck and fortune at the point when “he ruled it well for fifty winters……until on began to dominate the dark” (77). Also, the anonymous poet says “so may a man not marked by fate easily escape exile and woe by the grace of God” (80). “It threw the hero into deep anguish and darkened his mood: the wise man though he must have thwarted ancient ordinance of the eternal Lord, broken his commandment. His mind was in turmoil, unaccustomed anxiety and gloom confused his brain” (80). He might have sensed his death was coming. This time, when he was announcing his decision to fight, he said: “the fight is not yours, nor it is up to any man except me to measure his strength against the monster or to prove his worth. I shall win the gold by my courage, or else mortal combat, doom of battle, will bare your Lord away. (84)” His words indicate his premonition to his death and his strong sense of fate. Beowulf died, “when Beowulf fought and fate denied him” (85). Death has been mentioned many times in the poem. In Beowulf own words he says:”For everyone of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark” (61). Allthough Beowulf’s death leads him to the end of his life, at the same time, it leads him to the immortality of his reputation and fame, which is supported by the views from his people:” of all the kings upon earth he was the man most gracious and fair-minded, kindest to his people and keenest to win fame” (97). Question: why would Beowulf feel that “he must have thwarted ancient ordinance of the eternal Lord, broken his commandment”? I thought he was a pretty good warrior and "he was a good king" as he loves to comments on the former rulers. posted and go on with Calc......
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