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.

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.

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.

chapter 12

"Jody classed me off. Ah didn’t. Naw, Pheoby, Tea Cake ain’t draggin’ me off nowhere Ah don’t want tuh go. Ah always did want tuh git round uh whole heap, but Jody wouldn’t ‘low me tuh. When Ah wasn’t in de store he wanted me tuh jes sit wid folded hands and sit dere. And Ah’d sit dere wid de walls creepin’ up on me and squeezin’ all de life outa me. Pheoby, dese educated women got uh heap of things to sit down and consider. Somebody done tole ‘em what to set down for. Nobody ain’t told poor me, so sittin’ still worries me. Ah wants tuh utilize mahself all over."

Janie is trying to tell Phoeby that tea cake is not going to make her do a lot of things that she doesn’t want to do ant then take her money away from her. She said that she didn’t get all classy and high standards by herself, she says that Jody did that to her, he is the one that tried to make her look like a championship trophy.

chapter 11

"Well, is he – he – is he got ... uh wife or something lak dat?"…

"No’m. And nobody wouldn’t marry Tea Cake tuh starve tuh death lessen it’s somebody jes lak him – ain’t used to nothin’. ‘Course he always keep hisself in changin’ clothes. Dat long-legged Tea Cake ain’t got doodly squat. He ain’t got no business makin’ hissef familiar wid nobody lak you."

Someone doesn’t want Janie to run off with tea cake because he is poor and they don’t think tea cake should get familiar with someone like Janie, and they don’t think Janie should get familiar with anyone like tea cake, because they know Janie comes from way better than what they think tea cake can offer to Janie.

"It was so crazy digging worms by lamp light and setting out for Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breaking rules. That's what made Janie like it."

Janie liked that she got to feel like a kid again when she was digging worms up by the lamp light and setting out for the lake. She said that she felt like a child breaking the rules, and that is why she enjoyed digging worms up by the lamp, and watching the lake.

chapter 8

"Listen, Jody, you ain’t de Jody ah run off down de road wid. You’se whut’s left after he died."

Janie means that ever since Jody became mayor, and he got a "Big Voice", he has really gotten beside himself. She thinks that the Joe that she first met, and ran off down the road with died a long time ago. She feels that the Joe she knows now is just a pitiful shadow of Joe back when he wasn’t just a voice.

"All dis tearin’ down talk!" Jody whispered with sweat globules ... forming all over his face and arms. "Git outa heah!"

"All dis bowin’ down, all dis obedience under yo’ voice – dat ain’t whut Ah rushed off down de road tuh find out about you."

Now that Janie spoke up, all Jody Joe can do is whisper, because all of those years of Janie taking Joes criticism, she finally speaks up and tells him what is really on her mind, right before he dies. All he could do now is tell her what he wishes that would happen to her, and to get out, the big voice is now gone.

Chapter 7

[Janie]: "You big-bellies round here and put out a lot ... of brag, but ‘tain’t nothin’ to it but yo’ big voice. Humph! Talkin’ ‘bout me lookin’ old! When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de change uh life."

Janie finds out that Joe and all of the other men in the town are just a bunch of talk. She feels that words are not good enough on their own, they have to have some type of actions behind them, and she didn’t see that in Joe’s words or the words from the other townsmen. She also thinks that her words are true, and in her state of mind words have power when truth is behind them.

"I god amighty! A woman stay round uh store ... till she get old as Methusalem and still can’t cut a little thing like a plug of tobacco! Don’t’ stand dere rollin’ yo’ pop eyes at me wid yo’ rump hangin’ nearly to yo’ knees."

Joe is making a fool out of himself because Janie has no noticeable flaws, and she and the townspeople know it, Joe is just trying to get the townspeople to like him, but the towns people really think that he is making himself look pitiful, and I think he is. I believe that he just wants a little attention, but he is not getting it so he tries a little harder so he could get what he wants, how he wants.