Individual Presentations

SARAH

• Henderson vs Freud
• Therapy session with Freud
• Henderson is child like
• Story skips around
• Discover conscious
• Struggle of conscious and unconscious mind

ASHLEY

• Henderson is Public Magician
• Related to succession
• Dahfu becomes immortal
• "Long live the king"

KARI

• Orphean Myth--Ovid
• She told story to Mom
• "Why would you tell a story like that?"
• You cannot defeat death
• The power of art and love
• ******Sonnet 146*******

MELODY

• Henderson the Rain King and Chapter 7 in Myth and Reality
• Henderson's apocalypse of his past
• He is a Be-er
• He overcomes his fear
• He has the will to change
• Africa is a state of mind
• Step out of your comfort zone
• "Pompous Ass"

ALEX

• What is art?
• Deadalus and Orpheus
• Symbolism is very important
• "Artist cannot escape his art or his fate"
• Art is both a gift and a curse

DUSTYN

• 12 pages long
• Research on Illiada
• Religion in Illiada
• All things are sacred
• Non-religious man is not real
• Symbolic is things that we ourselves make important
• **********Hierophany: everything is sacred; bring to life**********

RACHEL

• 3 Ovid stories compared to 3 movies
• Pigmalion vs My Fair Lady
• Pyrumus and Thisby vs Trison and Esol
• Apollo and Daphne vs Sound of Music

RIO

• Henderson the Rain King
• Connected to other stories

TRISTON

• Friend went to Africa, similar to Henderson
• Guy names his baby after friend
• Cell phones are super popular
• "Sex with me doesn't cure AIDS" (Billboard)
• Children can name plants, but can't read or write
• Children are mythical
• The Ugly American
• She wears a bracelet with white beads
• She has to sleep with brother-in-law to move on from death of her husband

TALOR

• Henderson is trying to get back to illo-tempore
• He is not in touch with reality
• He goes to Africa to get in touch with himself
• He was in dream-time
• "The beginning is the end"

SETH

• Illiada's Myth and REality
• Reality is secondary
• Myth shapes our reality
• Take pieces of myth and carry on for generations

AMBERLY

• She went on a medical missions trip to Africa at age 15
• Her dad is a doctor
• Africans are peaceful and don't care what others think
• Worked in OR
• Man had to go out and kill a lion
• He walked 3 days to hospital
• Man was gored by a wild beast
• They dare to dream
• She lived a dream there
• "We can all change for the better"

LANETTE

• Henderson the Rain King
• Mythical Structure--Beginning, Middle, End
• He always suffers
• Revelation--I want
• Modern society has mythical things

JOSH

• Demythologizing Batman Begins
• Fear of bats because father's death
• Super ego = God (villan)
• Repressed ID

JAMES

• Connect Bible to Mythology
• Unicorns=Re'em; Re-yod-em
• Real unicorn=deer with one horn
• Biblical references (lots of them!)

MALINDA

• Props--cool mask with mirrors behind
• Why I already knew and learned to remember--Title
• Everything is new to her
• Started connecting things she learned in class to her past
• She reads books about myths to apply to her life
• Based her paper/presentation on a dream
• Allegory of the mind
• Mirrors show reality, infinity, and all-knowing

DOUGLAS

• Homeopathy
• The kind was anticipating the reain, so he had an umbrella
• Purple ribbons and skulls with cloth
• The moving of the ephigies
• Seriousness of ceremony
• Details of Henderson the Rain King

STORMY

• Had a difficult time reading book
• Thought if Henderson read the Golden Bough, he would have been a lot better off

SARAH KNOX

• He is always suffering
• He goes by ways that he is not
• Cub represents his owner's new way of life
• I want, I want was gone

SALLY

• Escatology
• Obsessed with Literal Escatology
• The world is going to end in 2002 on a napkin
• Learned the world ends every day

KORIN

• Henderson is a fetus
• He decends (his underworld) to Africa
• He is consumed with flame of grief
• Left in islolation room between flame and ash with Dahfu
• He brought fertility back to his heart

MAYAN

• Always interested in myths
• learned myths turn into real people and real events
• Connects life to Io and Jove
• She brought herself out of depression

MARI SHAWN

• "I hate mythology"
• She now embraces mythology
• No longer ancient timeless science fiction
• She is Catholic (practicing not recovering)
• Relates her religion to mythology
• Myth is something that never was, but will always be
• "trust the tales, not the teller"

JASE

• I want, I want
• 3 sections: At home US= viloin, pigs; Leaving family to go to Africa (wants change); King Dahfu--1st good deed, satisfies "I want"

JOHN N

• Who is Eclepious (healer of human arts)

JOHN ORSEY

• James Joyce book
• Read 1st page and thought it would be easy
• His birthday April 27th

CURTISS P

• media and entertainment
• Advertising related to mythology
• Nike--looks like wing from goddess

DAVID

• Broke down Henderson the Rain King
• Escapes life; always running away from reality
• Belly of the whale

STEVEN

• Mythology is everywhere
• The book Doom
• Main character represents Apollo (Paul)

MIKE

• I want, I want
• We have all heard the saying, but we have been told we can't. He never has.
• Africa wasn't the answer to his problems. It helps.