CLIFFORD HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER WATERFORD HIGH
SCHOOL NEWSPAPER
October 14
October 14
Last Friday night, your Clifford
Comets played an extraordinary game
against their longtime rival, the Waterford
Tigers. It was a blowout win for the
Comets, as the players showed masterful
skills on the field.
The crowd from Waterford High
School began to get out of hand
sometime in the second half of the game,
as they began to take out their frustration
about losing on other members of the
crowd. Students from Waterford were
heard yelling phrases like "Clifford
Cheaters!" and throwing cups of soda on
students from Clifford. It was a terrible
display of bad sportsmanship on the part
of Waterford.
Friday night's football game was a home
game, as your Waterford Tigers took on the
Clifford Comets. Unfortunately, the Tigers
lost, due to unsportsmanlike activity from the
defense players on Clifford's team. The
Clifford Comets made several overzealous
tackles, even injuring out quarterback
midway through the game.
When Waterford students attempted to
inform the referee of the egregious penalties
he was missing, students from Clifford began
throwing their drinks into the crowd, and
Waterford students were forced to leave. It
was a disappointing evening, but next week,
your Tigers plan to get the win!
2015 Gynnin
In your own words, evaluate the objectivity of each article. Where can you see the authors' personal biases? Where can
you see an objective delivery of facts? What is the central message of each article?

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

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