<p>Well, this isn't exactly one of the forbidden "homework help" posts, but I suppose it goes along those lines. I've been trying to do my summer assignment for AP Lit - create your own inferno, because we had to read Dante's Inferno over the summer. Why we had to do this, I don't know, because we were required to read that in sophomore LA...</p>
<p>Anyway. My problem is this - My project is computer generated [I'm a whiz at powerpoint effects and such, so I'm doing that] and it has to have like.. 7-9 levels of Hell in it, and it can be either serious, funny, or satirical.</p>
<p>I honestly can't think of ANYTHING. If anybody just has any ideas that could jog my mind and help me think of something, then that'd be great. I have less than a week till school starts, and for once I don't want to put it off till the night before it's due lol.
/desperation</p>
<p>I remember seeing something funny online that ranked professions according to what level of hell they'd be in... I know that lawyers and politicians were down there, lol. That might be kinda fun?</p>
<p>Sounds like a cool project, btw. You should show us when you're done! (:</p>
<p>HAH! I actually considered doing that, the Scientology one. Buuut... then I considered the insensitive part too, and decided against it. It could be reallllly hilarious though.
The professions thing is good too! I had thought of doing like... "deception in the food industry" or something weird like that. With all the cut up fingers in your chili and the so-called "healthy" foods they have at restaurants, but I couldn't think of enough examples.</p>
<p>Also, what about like.. Hell for baseball players?
It could range from striking out as the "best" sin, to not calling a fly ball, getting in fights, etc.. all the way to being all-time Major League Baseball home run record-holder because you took steroids. Hah.</p>
<p><em>GASP</em> This thread flagrantly crosses those nebulous boundaries set by the forum rules. Prepare to have it deleted and your account permanently banned. :p</p>
<p>Anyway, I would suggest that you maybe try to modernize it? Like, where it describes swamps and stuff in the fifth circle, you can liken it to waterboarding, and do the same for the rest of the tortures. Might be a bit macabre, though.</p>
<p>Or maybe devise a test or a list of modern requirements necessary to gain entrance to the various circles (like for third circle entrance, you could make the entrance requirement be, like, a bmi of above 25)? </p>
<p>This reminds me of the dantes inferno internet test that I took a little while back. Maybe you could take it for ideas?</p>
<p>Anorexic
Too buff
Too skinny
Overweight
Obese
Morbidly Obese
So damn fat that you need to call a contractor before you call the ambulance
So muscular that you can barely move
Overly flexible that you're freaky</p>
<p>HAH I lol'd at antimod's... and I don't do even do that.
Bahah that might be good :]
but I also have to have punishments..
they could be like.. not eating so much? Paha.</p>
<p>Plus, I don't think this thread is in violation of the rules.. it's not really homework help, it's a brainstorming session.</p>
<p>Spanking
Spanking with belt
Spanking with stick/paddle
Spanking with buckle end of belt
Prison with larger inmate
CIA Interrogation
Medieval Torture
Modern Torture
Crucifixion
Testicle squeezing
Testicle mutilation</p>
<p>The levels of hell when it comes to outdated technology.</p>
<p>Old cell phone
Lagging computer
Floppy disk
32mb Flash Drive
RAM less than 1GB
Page loads with 2 seconds or more
Computer can't handle video games</p>
<p>Haha, wonderful. But do the appliances go to Hell or the people who still own them? lol. And what would be the WORST OFFENSE? A record player? haha I acutally have one of those.. for kicks anyway.</p>
<p>We had to do this same project in 10th grade too. Two of my friends and I all made videos that were equally humorous and serious.</p>
<p>One friend's video was about failing the FCAT and being forced to take remedial classes. Then it turned into being serious about how his version of hell was really life without family, friends, and things that make one happy.</p>
<p>Another friend made an animation in second life with some sort of hellish video game-like plot.</p>
<p>Mine started with images and island music from a vacation where I went to Hell, Grand Cayman, then it was abruptly interrupted with a turntable scratch followed by the first 5 seconds of Beethoven's 5th. I created my own version of Dante's Inferno, which took place at my middle school. The inhabitants of hell were known as LoSRs, a play on the acronym of Law of Symbolic Retribution. This inferno was basically a place with the absence of logic and knowledge, void of the things that I enjoyed (robotics, family, friends, etc.). The video was a bit disorganized and I didn't pay much attention to the inhabitants, but most people got the gist of it anyway.</p>
<p>I'd suggest trying to think of all the things that really irritate you and then prioritizing them, complete with symbolic punishments. A mockery of something else would be funny too...try MTV or Disney, lol.</p>