Friday, January 28, 2011

Why did Shakespeare’s plays appeal to “groundlings, royals, and everyone in between? What elements assisted him in doing that?

I feel that Shakespeare’s plays appeal to all of these different cultures and people because of the settings, the languages, and the examples of the people that he uses. Another reason that I feel this way is that maybe he wanted to teach everyone in his writing about the history of groundlings and royalties. I think that he wanted to teach the groundlings, the readers, about the royalties. Maybe to talk about the history of royalty, and where it originated, because every Shakespeare book that I have read so far, has been about royalties. His assistance could have been a family friend or relative who was apart f a royal family or even himself. He could come from a history of royalty, and could be writing about his family history and life.

Queen Elizabeth I was the unwanted child of Henry VIII.. Why?

Elizabeth was an unwanted child of Henry VIII because she didn’t have any kind of male genes inside of her, and Henry really wanted to have a son so that he could pass his throne down unto him. Unfortunately her mother, Anne Boleyn couldn’t give him a boy so he didn’t want to keep Elizabeth, which caused her to become an illegitimate bastard child. Sounds pretty harsh right, but that what it was. And then when she was less than three years old, Henry had her mother executed some say on her birthday, for accusations of witchcraft. Later on in her illegitimate life Elizabeth went on to be the queen, and was almost dethroned several times. But since she was a girl, Henry couldn’t pass his throne down to her.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Which decisions I make today will affect me for my entire life?

The decisions that will affect me for the rest of my life are very important. Like whether I choose to stay in school. Or whether I choose to dropout, which I'm not. Also, what college I attend, and what I plan to do while I am there. The last one is what I plan to do when I graduate. I struggling a little bit with math, but other than that, I am doing okay in school. When I am completely finished with school, I want to have my PhD. I am still deciding on whatever it is going to be, but whatever it is, I know that it will be good for the rest of my life.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Act Reading Test

On this test I think that my weaknesses were, not being able to read and comprehend at the same time. Its not that I can't read and comprehend, but I am on a time limit, so I try to read faster than I can think, and that makes me have to guess on like the last eight questions. I know that it will probably hurt me in the future when I take the real test, so that is why I am trying to get over that flaw. The thing that really messes me up, is when I Get stuck on a sentence and then I start reading it over and over and over and over again, then the teacher yells out "five minutes" and I still have a whole other story to read along with ten more questions. On the other hand, my strength is interpreting everything from the question, and trying to implement it into my thought process so that I can come up with my answer. I can approve by continuing to study and take the practice tests so that I can improve my strategies to get the best score possible on the ACT.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

My Strengths and Weaknesses On the ACT

My strengths and weaknesses on the ACT are very important. My strengths are using all of the methods that I have been taught over the past few years and what I have been taught this year. I do a pretty good job of practicing my strategies and methods to make sure I have a good outcome on this test. My weakness is that I spend too much time on one question, which is not going to be good, because I might run out of time on the test and have to guess n the rest of the test and take a chance on getting some answers that I should have gotten correct and end up getting them wrong.

Monday, November 8, 2010

The Ilad Characters and Courage

I think that the iliad characters show great courage, achilles showed great courage when he went to battle, he showed a great amount of bravery,and mastery toward his skill that he had been training for. His mother also showed courage by coming to his rescue and "taking his Head in pity" when he was hurt. Zeus also showed courage because he was. Basically the leader of the gods, and he does a pretty good job with that, because it takes a whole lot of courage to rule a "world". That's what they call it, the underworld and the heavens. The armies also showed courage just because they went to battle. Just the thought of fighting for your country or world shows courage. Now just because you fight doesn't mean that you are showing courage. There are many kinds of ways to show courage. For example, you might have the strength and the courage to say no, of you might have the courage to speak up for yourself, when it is needed. You can also have the strength and courage to walk away from an altercation. Not meaning that you are a "softy", but just showing that you have better things in life to do than to waste your time arguing and fighting with people who have nothing better to do than to fight. Most of all is the courage to tell the truth, even though the truth might not be very convincing or believable, it is still good that you know you told the truth. In a way, all of these characters showed some type of courage, whether it was fighting and losing, or fighting and winning, or helping someone who has had harm done to them, or leading something,everyone showed courage.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

What Is Evil?

Arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct. That is one of the official definitions of evil. I think that most of the time when a person is evil that there was something wrong or, something really bad happened to them while they were in their early childhood years. However, there are some people that are evil just because they just want to be those are true evil people to me because there is no real purpose for what they are doing, even though there should be n reason or purpose for people being evil because there should be no evil at all. In the story Beowulf, Grendel and his mother were considered evil, because they were going around killing everyone, but Grendel didn’t have a purpose or a reason, he was just born from evil so he did what he knew best. on the other hand Grendel’s mother started her reign of terror after Beowulf had killed her son Grendel. She felt that he had taken away the closest person to her, away from her. so she started terrorizing the army and the kingdom. These are two examples of evil that I thought would help explain what I am trying to say, evil is around and will always be around, it is everywhere good is. There is no excuse for being evil, and there shouldn’t be because everyone was put on this earth for a specific purpose, and I highly doubt that being an evil person was that specific purpose.