A Surgery in Hand

The first Action Project of the integrated Math and Science class disease. In Unit 1, we went over several kinds of procedures and treatments that go on in the emergency room, or even at home. As for the Action Project, using a surgery of our choice, we make a Prezi, which is a unique presentation creating engine/site, to create an informational presentation all about whichever procedure you chose. As you can see right down below, I thought of presenting amputations. Now a little background knowledge for amputations is that in this type of surgery, a limb is removed due to extreme damage that would actually render the person more handicapped than if the patient was without it. Cause for amputations are commonly known from war damage, but cancer treatments also include simply severing the entire tumour (or the affected part of the body) from the patient itself. Amputations have a unique history in which there were no anesthetics or pain relievers back in the day. Any amputation from pre-modern medicine times would have any source of alcohol as a cleanser (such as an intoxicating beverage), no restraints (instead, just multiple people holding down the patient), and a mere cloth to bite on due to the intense pain, plus the lack of painkillers themselves. With that, I hope you enjoy my presentation made with the power of Prezi.

Taming from the Sonnet

The final term of the school year here at GCE, and so I have the Sophomore class Drama, a writing and literary class that features plays, acting, and the role of women through these performances. In our first unit, we read William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, which had an exposition about a drunk man being the victim of a prank. The man was led to believe he was a lord with actors playing as his servants and wife (who were all male, a key detail into mentioning that in the late 16th century, there were no male actors). There's a play that's viewed by the man and his wife, this is the last we hear of them, and now the true The Taming of the Shrew. The Action Project for this course was to write a sonnet, similar to how Shakespeare wrote plenty (for financial reasons), and send out a would-be message to a character of your choice from Taming of the Shrew. I chose to tell Hortensio –a man who prefer the kinder of 2 sisters but lost her from competition– to not marry a woman he doesn't love simply because everyone else has a wife. Hortensio ends up marrying a widow who's probably emotionally scarred due to the loss of a husband. He chose to marry merely to comfort himself without any true concern for someone who no doubt must need a lot of care at this moment in her life. With that, I hope you enjoy.
Auditory Video

A Widow's Sonnet

Hortensio, you want a trophy wife

A mere prize won in holy matrimony

Is that how you see a maiden’s life

I can tell you that that’s not what marriage is supposed to be

You claim a widow as your partner

Doing so because everyone else is doing it aswell

Your prize is one who has once had a lover

Taking her simply because you find the single life dull

You had jarring quarrels with the one you pursued

You attempted to pay homage to Bianca and yet it failed

So you give up from a minescule feud

And you don’t bother trying because you believe the ship has sailed

“A’ will make the man mad, to make a woman of him”, and so you seek easy catches for your life

Thus, a barely glued marriage, with a hot air [balloon] of a husband, and a wife for consolation.