Team Building Activities

Activity Description

A game that would stir thinking and imagination. Collaboration of ideas is very much needed and it has no room for failure. An excellent story may take place from it. Try and try until you succeed is risky.

 Applied Theories : Structuralism and Romanticism

          I associated this activity in structuralism because this activity is about forming a story out of the given pictures which implied that in order for us to do so we have to look for the existing  relationships between this pictures. We also have to figured out which among the given pictures can be considered the protagonist and what type of protagonist he/she would be by just analyzing the interconnection of the pictures.This also deals on how we will going to structure our narrative whether we will be going to use the very common introduction " Once upon a time or Once there lived a...or are we going to come up to a new and modern style of introducing a story.

           I also considered this as a Romanticism, my assumption is based on the outcome we had produced during the activity. Well, out of the given pictures we had create a story of an man who is willing to struggle and to face all the challenge he ought to encounter just to save his love ones. In the activity we had expressed how much a person can be so selfless and emotional because of love.

Activity Description 

Teamwork is the name of the game. Don't get nervous and have a good hold on your rope of focus. You will sooner or the later uncover DHL and FedEX cleverness in you.

 Applied Theory : Reader- Response

         This activity is associated with this theory in the sense that we had to "understand how things appear" which applicable in doing this activity. We have to see the possible effects of those strategies that we are going to use in order for us to transfer the soft drink bottle. We had to think of the reality which mean if we had  chosen the wrong strategies then the result we will be spending our time in doing the task that will waste our time.  

Annabelle Lee

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

ANALYSIS:

            Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite writers for his writings really touch the soul and the heart of the readers. In his poem Annabelle Lee he had shown his romantic side. For me it is very remarkable poem from Poe because I used to read his writings which is the bad side of  a  person is being reflected(especially the bad things inside a man's mind) and the struggling of person with his own conscience like a tell tale heart, the black cat and cask of amontillado. Annabelle Lee although a tragic poem also is done by Poe in a different approach. The emphasis is within the positive emotion of a person towards another person but of course since it is written by Poe it is expected that the ending of this poem became tragic which is Poe known for. 

         The poem Annabelle Lee is known for its beautiful theme which is about the undying or eternal love or devotion  of a person. The approach use in this poem is romanticism because their is existing exaltation of senses and emotions and appreciation of the nature which is reflected in the poem where in the author describe the setting in artistic way.

          The emotion is being emphasized by repetition of  a particular lines like "Of the beautiful Annabel Lee"(emphasized the extreme devotion of the man in the poem to annabelle lee). The rhyming of the ending  words of each lines added an effects to the musicality of the poem(sea,lee,we). 

Africa's Plea

I am not you -
but you will not
give me a chance
will not let me be me

'If I were you' -
but you know
I am not you,
yet you will not
let me be me.

You meddle, interfere
in my affairs
as if they were yours
and you were me.

You are unfair, unwise,
foolish to think
that I can be you,
talk, act
and think like you.

God made me me.
He made you you.
For God's sake
Let me be me.

INTERPRETATION:

      This poem is about being you, loving yourself and respecting others. If we try to analyze it base on its content it express someone’s desire to be free and respected. The title itself, African’s plea, tells lots of story about the poem. We all know that most of the slavery incident happened in Africa or experienced by Africans that I have come up that this poem centered about the idea of discrimination. The first to fourth stanzas are all dealing with the feeling of being suppressed by other person and being compared by other.  Those stanzas implied that nobody can make another person exactly like him and what  we all have to do is to accept that and learn to respect other. The last stanza express the equality among man and that men differ from one another because that was how God made us-full of distinction. So there’s no need for us to compare one another or to force other person to act, to talk and to think like the way we do. What important is we know how to respect others the way we respect ourselves.