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We are already at the last literature blog post for this year. Though I hate the idea of others reviewing my personal thoughts on specific topics, I still enjoyed this part of class. Hopefully, the class that follows after us can also experience the literature blog posts.

Blogging has become a way for me to see situations in different views. I learn how to edit my opinions to be less broad, so that my readers won’t misunderstand me. My creativity also grew with blogging.

 

bUckEt LiST

We are getting closer to death every second.

From young age, I was already aware of this fact.

My original plan was to learn 5 languages and 5 musical intruments before I turn 18. So far, I have two years left to learn 1 more language and 3 more instruments.

I wish to make enough money to explore Europe after I turn 25. Though I’m not sure how much money I will have by then, I must have enough to travel to Spain, France, Austria, and Great Britain.

Soon, maybe this summer, I want to learn tap dancing or the guitar.

Before I die, I want to make a good contribution to the world. Whether it’s an invention, leadership, or donations, I wish to give this world a gift to thank the world for giving me a great environment to live in.

Life isn’t short. It flies by fast.

With that in mind, we must cherish all the time we have and plan out an intersting life.

bULLieS

All students should have an awareness of those being bullied. Usually, the unfortunate kids fall on their knees because there aren’t any helping hands to prevent them from falling into the bullies’ grasps. Only when fights or injuries occur, people finally awaken to the idea that hearts can be broken from askew glances, caustic comments, and unfair judgments. Before permanent scars form on to one’s life, we need to watch out for those being shoved into unseen corners.

Students, parents, and teachers all need to share an idea that every person deserves to be treated equal. Since we are all humans, what makes one have more superior rights than others if we’re all equal? Even if some of us lack intelligence, strength, or self-protection, we are still classified as humans.

In the hallways, students could make reports about situations that involve cruel treatments of others. Teachers should try their best to gain the trust of victims, so both sides can join hands to bring down the bullies.

Parents have the trickiest job.  They must be capable of detecting any hints of bullying. Most children that become bullies or become bullied have parents that are fight with each other, work for long hours, or seem to take little interest in their children.

Please don’t wait till you lose a child to save the child. Stand up for those who are forced to fall under bullying.

 

ChiLdHood

          As people mature, the simplest things fail to bring us the happiness we once could easily find.  No matter how much I age, I will never forget a high schooler’s desire for independence.

         Girls around high school search for high heels to represent they can stand tall on their own. Boys start learn to take responsibility for themselves when their car gets damaged. In high school, students are preparing to become college students. We all dream a fantasy about college life. We dream about the freedom, the outside world, and a new life.

       Adults have become so used to their independence over the years.  The clicking of high heels on the polished floors doesn’t remind them of being able to be free from supervision; it makes them tired of working independently. The fresh feeling of growing up has disappeared.

       Before I become a college freshman, I plan to savour the taste of independence. When I enter or create my own company, I will always remember the first time I went to the movies on my own, the first time my friends drove me to the movie, and the first time I pay for my own ticket. The process of becoming an adult will always be the highlight of being a high school student.

LesSOn PLaNs

Taking notes is a difficult task for many students, but it is one of my specialties. Comrades, let me teach you the art of taking notes!

I. Introduction of Lesson Plans

1. The importance of taking notes.

• Notes are handy when you need to cram on the night before tests.
• It gives you a good habit of being organized.

II.How to take notes.

1. Find a good notebook that doesn’t look like a big burden.
2. Use different color pens if it helps you remember what is important.
3. If you missed a sentence or two of a lecture, just write down a keyword and look it up afterwards.
4. Try maintaining a legible handwritting.
5. You don’t always have to write down every word, just write the important key words.

III.How does taking notes help you?

1. Cramming becomes easier.

• The notes you’ve recorded are the simplified version of the textbook.

     2.     It helps you pay more attention.

• When you try to write down key points of a lesson, you pay more attention to the information.

    3.     Taking notes can make you organized.

GrAMmaR MisTAkeS

A rampant disease that spreads among students today is wrong grammar incorrect grammar. Symptoms are the following: misspelling words (irregular noun/verb forms), having bad usage of linking verbs, being confused by homonyms, misplacing punctuation, and writing in wrong verb forms.

As a member of the student population, I have discovered that all symptoms are different for each person. For my case, I am infected with writing daily, verbal language that does not follow any rule of grammar. The most common example is “Last summer, my friend and me went to camp.” Many people are in a habit of hearing wrong grammar incorrect grammar that they add it in their writings.

Let’s do a test to see if you have been infected with this disease. Which of the following is correct?

I don’t know if we will have the same classes next year.

I don’t know whether we will have the same classes next year.

I don’t know if we will have the same classes next year

–> If = condition –>Whether = choice between two

Are you grammatically healthy??

Sources:

Maddox, Maeve. “Choosing Between “If” and “Whether”.” DailyWritingTips. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Mar 2012. <http://www.dailywritingtips.com/choosing-between-“if”-and-“whether”/>.

PerSOnAL aSsistant

The most important trait I need in my assistant is deep thoughts. William Shakespeare is capable of using different angles to view a situation. If I had to put myself in other’s shoes, my assistant can give me hints on how a certain type of character would act. During the week of his assistance, we would study the people around us, their habits, and the interaction between each other. I like to think about the reasons behind people’s action, and my experienced assistant can show me the reasons. Once we have found some of the special traits of people, we can use our analysis to understand more about human’s feelings. William Shakespeare and I could put our observation of people into plays or writings.

RoMEO and JuLIET

Author’s Note:

Though I will keep Romeo and Juliet alive, I still plan to teach the Capulets and Montagues a lesson. Love may conquer all, but people only learn from their loss.

Act 5, Scene 3

Paris and his page arrived at the Capulet’s tomb right when Juliet starts to wake up.

Juliet arouse from her sleep and realized that Romeo was not next to her. “Am I no longer living? Has Romeo not come for me?” As she worried about her lover, Paris was sending his page away.

Juliet heard Paris speaking at the door,

Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew—

O woe! Thy canopy is dust and stones—

Which with sweet water nightly I will dew.

Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans,

The obsequies that I for thee will keep

Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.

 Juliet realized that she was still alive. To get away from the odor of the tomb, Juliet planned to have the man from outside help her get out, not knowing that he was Paris.

“Good sir, please let me out.”

Paris screamed and his page came running to him. The two of them stood in front of Capulet’s tomb with fear choking words from coming out of their mouths.

“We must get to Lord Capulet!”

Paris and his page start to rush to the Capulet’s manor, and on their way, a guard caught sight of their terrified faces.

“Gentlemen, may I assist you in any way?”

“There’s a lady. A lady ghost alive in the Capulet’s tomb!” the boys said.

“A ghost?” the guard was surprised, “it must be the children around the neighborhood. They’ve escaped from mothers or fathers at nighttime to attend to this nasty hobby of theirs. I shall give  a word of this to the Prince. Please let the Capulets know of this matter, so they can determine the punishment of these kids along with us.”

 

While the Prince and Capulets hurry to the Capulet’s tomb, Romeo has already arrived and heard Juliet’s voice behind the doors of the tomb.

“I must be close to death in order to hear your voice,” Romeo said.

“Romeo? My Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?” Juliet placed her head on the door, “Please don’t let this door of living and death separate us. Please let me join you on the otherside.”

Romeo misunderstood her meaning and quickly pulled out the potion he had prepared.

“My dear lady, I shall join you right away,” Romeo opened the cap of the bottle.

Right before he could bring it to his lips, Friar Lawrence arrived just in time to stop him.

“What are you planning to do with that?” the Friar quickly stole the bottle from Romeo’s hands.

“Please give it back! Juliet has asked me to join her on the otherside. I must be with her!” Romeo tried to grab the bottle just as the Friar spilled the bottle onto the tomb door’s lock.

The lock started to decay and Juliet, who was leaning on the door before that, fell out from the tomb.

(I guess the death potion was some type of strong acid that can burn through metal and kill a person.)

At that moment, the Capulets, Paris, and the Prince arrived at the scene.

Seeing Juliet alive, all were surprised. They forgot about Romeo’s banishment as they gathered around Juliet.

The friar explained that Juliet was under a special potion to avoid being married to Paris because Juliet was in love with Romeo.

Right when he mentioned Romeo, the Capulets finally saw Romeo in the shadows.

“We’re married, mother,” Juliet stepped to sheild Romeo from the glares her mother was sending him.

“Married? Without our consent? You would never disobey me. If you don’t want to see the man killed then Paris would be glad to escort you from the scene,” Lord Capulet said.

“No, father. I love him,” Juliet replied.

Lady Capulet pulled a sword from her husband’s side and pushed Juliet to a side.

The Prince caught Juliet before she fell to the ground. He pulled his sword out and places it under Juliet’s chin.

Lord Capulet firmly held his wife from charging at Romeo.

“You may not harm anyone!” The Prince shouted, “If you kill Romeo, then Juliet would die, too.”

One of the guards whispered to the Prince. Then the Prince dropped his sword.

“If you are to kill Romeo tonight, Juliet would die. She would die of grief. She would die widowed. She would die!” The Prince said.

“He is a Montague!” Lady Capulet shouted with madness in her gestures.

“To me, he is the sun. What do you have against the sun? Has it been too bright? Has it been too cheerful? Do you not have a better reason to hate the name Montague?” Juliet protested.

“You disobedient witch! To think your father and I have wasted so many years for you.” Lady Capulet said.

“Therefore, don’t waste anymore. Let me become a Montague. Let me disappear from your lives!” Juliet exclaimed.

Act 5 Scene 4

After Juliet became a Montague, the Prince had the young couple taken away from Verona, since Romeo was still banished.

The young lovers started a great new life. After the lost of Juliet, the Lady Capulet was the topic of gossip among the other ladies of Verona. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague met each other again as a Bob and a John. Their names did not matter to them anymore, because their names were not able to represent who they really were.

Love conquers all~

BUT people only learn from their loss…..

WEeK 7~WanT V.s NEeD

When we go shopping, the item that we usually open first after we get home are most likely to be a catharsis; something we bought to make us feel better. For me, anything with a tinge of chocolate would be bought just because I want it. The problem about buying what I want is that it is not neccesary. The extra money that I use to satisfy wants eat up my allowance, and the receipts certify the amount of  lost money. Maybe I could add up all of the money wasted, and the total could build a citadel.

 This chronic habit of mine became a new topic for my mom to chide. My cerebral decisions have assisted me to determine what is my want and what is a need, but my heart’s desires overpower my intellegence. The result is a chasm between what I should do and what I want to do. Look at your chattels, are all of your items bought for the need or the want? 

*Please comment with thoughts or help me add in the words (that relates with the title…) - caucus, circa, misogynist, monotone, neophyte, obstruct, octagon

MaGic DUst

If a fairy gave me magic dust that could push my life forward ten years, I would never touch it. For many people, the period of teens to the twenties is the climax of their lives. Breathing the fairy dust might make me regret missing out on college fun, meeting new people, and enjoying youth. Though kids rush to grow up, I want to mature instead of age. Getting older doesn’t attract me because I know that my life is fine the way it is. It’s normal for me to go through the stage of education even though there are rough times. I don’t want use the magic dust right away and I might never will.

Let’s say that I happen to sneeze on the fairy dust and I accidently aged. As a twenty year old, my appearance might have aged, but I will still be a child at heart. Many new changes will invite thenselves into my life; paying bills, driving, buying groceries, and wishing I had done something significant during my early years. The older I get, the more serious I am, but that might not be the case. Maybe in the future, I might meet people that make me act like a child. No matter how many years go by, I will still be me. Unique~