Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Shakespeare Reflection

Shakespeare's language is definitely hard for me to understand. The old language he uses in his plays and all the metaphors and similis he uses to describe what's going on in the play is just kind of hard for me to understand. I can't really keep up with what's going on in the story and I usually have to look it up on the internet or ask classmates to figure out what's going on. In Macbeth it was kind of the same way. It was hard for me to figure out what was going on in the story.. It's actually kind of good though to start reading these kinds of things for college, but personally I don't like reading it. In Macbeth, it didn't really seem interesting until the end, when they battled to kill Macbeth after finding out he was the bad guy. I really liked the idea they had on how to attach Macbeths castle by having each of the men carry a branch from the forest and move closer and closer to the castle, little by little. This seemed to be the only part that I really understood. Other then that Macbeth, to me, was pretty boring and hard to understand.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Creative Writing

Once upon a time up in the North Pole there was a very special school that was full of Goblins and Turkeys. The Goblins were the jocks of the school and were popular, while the turkeys were inferior and did whatever the Goblins told them to do. When Thanksgiving came around, the turkeys did the best they could to stay away from the Goblins because they knew the Goblins would try and eat them. On this Thanksgiving though everything changed. Some of the Goblins caught too many turkeys and killed them but didn't eat them. After leaving those turkeys alone thinking nothing would happen, something unexpectedly occured. The turkeys rised after being killed and turned into zombie turkeys. These zombies turkeys had only one thing on there mind...Revenge! On the next day at school the Goblins felt good about themselves and thought everything was normal. That night everything changed. After returning to the haunted house where they lived some of the Goblins were killed in there sleep. The Goblins never knew who killed there brothers and sisters but they would soon find out. It was christmas time now and Santa was coming. Santa told the Goblins that they have created a horrible creature named Zombie turkeys and that the Zombie turkey was the one who killed there brothers and sisters. The Goblins were vengeful and found some of the Zombie turkeys and killed most of them, but one. This Zombie turkey found out that Santa was the cause of all the Zombie turkeys deaths. Alone he traveled to where Santa lived, sneaked into the room Santa was in, and killed him. After killing Santa the Zombie turkey had no reason to stay alive. So he attacked the Goblins and killed as much as he could before finally dying because there was to much Goblins for him. The Goblins were sick and tired of losing there brothers and sisters so they decided that at the next day of school they would kill all the turkeys. The Goblins did end up killing all of them and ruled the North Pole by themselves without anybody to bother them.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Sonnet

Thought it would be fun to take my moms car
Until out of nowhere i saw a cop
Messing around not going to far
I pulled over my heart suddenly stopped

Waiting for a ticket, thought i was dead
Felt like a weight came off of my shoulders
"Hell of a game last night" he said instead
Took a breath the cop put back his folders

Relieved i thought i was grounded for life
He let me go, not ruining the night
Letting me go, being so nice
My parents and i didnt have to fight

Thanked him later,  i didnt get busted
He said make sure you win don't get frustrated

Trailer

http://youtu.be/TGlSAtb-SDw

Monday, November 7, 2011

Beowulf Movie Review

A major change to the plot of the story is how Beowulf is actually a real person. He just looks like a monster compared to the other men because of how tall he was. In the book it was said he was the devils slave and seeing him as a human was really different. He also had a son which seemed very strange. Changing these parts really made it weird and adding the love story with that girl and Grendel seemed even more strange. The director of the movie made it very different and I didn't really like what he did with the movie.

An effective change in the movie is how Grendel has a son and he wasn't really a devil's slave or a monster that they described in the poem. He was a regular man who just looked like a troll and had an affair with that one lady. It was like Grendel had a love story and Beowulf ended it by killing him. Another effective change is how Beowulf doesn't really fight for himself and to get fame. He did it for the people of the town and didn't really seem like he wanted all that fame.

Some religious conflicts that came in the movie that was not in the poem was the Christian Monk that told the people to just pray to God and Grendel wouldn't hurt them. He was also able to baptize all of the warriors that was at the city. This was the religion that was most affected in the movie.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

School Uniforms

People actually think that school uniforms are appropriate for schools. I think it sucks to have to have school uniforms. When students have to wear school uniforms, it limits there personal expression and you don't really get to see the style of someone. Students should freely express themselves when they wear clothes to school. You can get to know a person just by the way they dress. When students are forced to wear school uniforms you don't really get to know the style of someone and what there all about when there outside of school.

Having to make school uniforms would also cost the school money. The way are economy is nowadays, it's kind of dumb if schools waste money on getting uniforms for all the students in the school. The schools should just be worried about getting books, teachers, and faculty staffs for there school. Adding in school uniforms just adds in another problem for the school.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Immigration

Imagine being told that you have to leave America after living here basically your whole life. Well that's what was told to Nadia Habib and her mother. They have to be deported after living in the U.S all these years. Not only do they have to leave America, but there family as well. The father, her brothers, and her baby sister will stay in America while Nadia and her mother get deported.

I think it's unfair that Nadia and her mother have to get deported. Nadia has been in the U.S since she was a baby and only now she has to leave. She graduated from high school here and is continuing her studies in college as well. I think that if you were here in the U.S since you were a baby, you should automatically be a U.S citizen. It's unfair that she has to be split from her family and stop her education after being in the U.S basically her whole life. She should be able to stay with her family in the U.S along with her mother, unless they have a criminal record.