Apr 14, 2017
Apr 12, 2017
Stand by me soundtrack – Ben E. King
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin', darlin', stand by me,
oh now now
stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me
If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a
tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin', darlin', stand by
me, oh stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me-e, yeah
Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by
me,
oh now now stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
Darlin', darlin', stand by me-e, stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
Apr 10, 2017
Apr 8, 2017
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson
Crusoe was a sailor. During one of his voyages he was shipwrecked in a storm
and all his companions were drowned.
He reached
a desert island and, before the ship sank, he succeeded in bringing ashore some
tools, guns, food and also a cat and a dog. After living alone for many years,
one day he saw some canoes approaching the island. He hid behind a bush and
from there, shortly after, he saw some savages landing. They had some captives
with them and Robinson realized that they were going to kill and eat them. Al of
a sudden one of the captives ran away. Two cannibals pursued him and were going
to catch him but Robinson fired at them and saved the captive. As all this
happened on a Friday, Robinson named the savage he had saved Friday and took him as his servant.
Robinson taught Friday to speak English and baptized him.
The two men
lived together on the island until a ship anchored off shore. The crew had
mutinied and were going to kill their captain. Robinson and Friday saved him and
so they were able to leave the island.
Apr 6, 2017
Apr 4, 2017
“Will Hunting” Monologue, Robin Williams
Sean and Will sit
in the bleachers at the mostly empty park. They look out over a small pond, in
which a group of schoolchildren on a field trip ride the famous Swan Boats.
WILL: So what's with this place? You have a swan
fetish? Is this something you'd like to talk about?
SEAN: I was thinking about what you said to me the
other day, about my painting. I stayed up half the night thinking about it and
then something occurred to me and I fell into a deep peaceful sleep and haven't
thought about you since. You know what occurred to me?
WILL: No.
SEAN: You're just a boy. You don't have the faintest
idea what you're talking about.
WILL: Why thank you.
SEAN: You've never been out of Boston.
WILL: No.
SEAN: So if I asked you about art you could give me
the skinny on every art book ever written...Michelangelo? You know a lot about
him I bet. Life's work, criticisms, political aspirations. But you couldn't
tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never stood there and
looked up at that beautiful ceiling. And if I asked you about women I'm sure
you could give me a syllabus of your personal favorites, and maybe you've been
laid a few times too. But you couldn't tell me how it feels to wake up next to
a woman and be truly happy. If I asked you about war you could refer me to a
bevy of fictional and non-fictional material, but you've never been in one. You've never held your best friend's
head in your lap and watched him draw his last breath, looking to you for help.
And if I asked you about love I'd get a sonnet, but you've never looked at a
woman and been truly vulnerable. Known that someone could kill you with a look.
That someone could rescue you from grief. That God had put an angel on Earth
just for you. And you wouldn't know how it felt to be her angel. To have the
love be there for her forever. Through anything, through cancer. You wouldn't
know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her
hand and not leaving because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term
"visiting hours" didn't apply to you. And you wouldn't know about
real loss, because that only occurs when you lose something you love more than
yourself, and you've never dared to love anything that much. I look at you and
I don't see an intelligent confident man, I don't see a peer, and I don't see
my equal. I see a boy. Nobody could possibly understand you, right Will? Yet
you presume to know so much about me because of a painting you saw. You must
know everything about me. You're an orphan, right?
Will nods quietly.
SEAN: (cont'd) Do you think I would presume to know
the first thing about who you are because I read "Oliver Twist?" And
I don't buy the argument that you don't want to be here, because I think you
like all the attention you're getting. Personally, I don't care. There's
nothing you can tell me that I can't read somewhere else. Unless we talk about
your life. But you won't do that. Maybe you're afraid of what you might say.
Sean stands,
SEAN: (cont'd) It's up to you.
And walks away.
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