Thursday, January 22, 2009
Julius Caesar Movie compared to the play
The movie Julius Caesar and the play had some similarities and some differences. The script for the movie was exactly the same as the script for the play. The only difference is some lines are taken out of the movie. I think that those certain lines that were taken out of the movie should have been in the movie. Those lines to me would have made the movie more intense. Another similarity was the setting and the atmosphere. Both the setting and the atmosphere was set in Rome. The atmosphere I think was better in the play compared to the atmosphere in the movie. The atmosphere in the movie was a little dry and not that interesting. For example, when all the men committed suicide in the movie it was not that interesting. I did not feel sad when all the people died. Except for Brutus' death. When he died I felt horrible. I think in the play, Brutus death probably would have been more interesting and dramatic. Plus the other men's deaths would have been more interesting as well. When I read the first act of Julius Caesar I thought that Julius Caesar would be this very fit and powerful man. Once I saw the movie though I was disappointed at how Caesar looked. Truthfully I think that the play is a lot more interesting. Although I think the movie is alright to watch if you want to understand what is going on.
Friday, January 16, 2009
What I Think About Sakepseare... :)
I think that Shakespeare is a very smart and creative man. He wrote tons of poems and plays that are all so different in their own way. A lot of his quotes that were in his plays are still used today!! Although his words can be pretty hard to understand, but once you know what those word's mean his plays can be interesting. For example, the Twelfth Night is pretty funny once you know what all the complicated words mean. Also his poems are really sweet and funny at the same time. Shakespeare is pretty amazing when it comes to writing plays and poems.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Blind Alley By: Iris Johansen
The story Blind Alley is a very interesting story that has an OK ending. This story is about a serial killer that thinks the main character, Jane, is an ancient actress from Herculaneum that was reincarnated into Jane's body. The cereal killer, Aldo, had a dad who was obsessed with this actress, Cira, so much that he would forget about Aldo when he was a little child. Aldo soon hated Cira and wanted to kill anyone that looked just like her, and Jane looked exactly like Cira. The whole story is about Jane trying to trick Aldo into believing that she is Cira so he could get caught by the police and be killed. The only problem with the ending was that Aldo is killed about 30 pages before the end of the book, so the rest of the story is pretty boring. I think that Aldo should have been killed about 5 pages from the ending so that the last 5 pages would be more interesting. That is the only problem with this story, but the whole story made me laugh and made me really scared. I think that people should read this story because it is very interesting.
"The Great and Terrible Beauty" by: Libba Bray is good story that would make you want to read it every second of the day. In the beginning of the story the main character Gemma lives in India and is having her 16th birthday soon. Something terrible happens to Gemma's mother and she is sent to a boarding school in England. There she finds out that her mother was in a special group called the "Order". Gemma realizes that she can see things in the future but everything that she sees is terrible things. She can also see dead people, but she sees them as normal people in a different world. These dead people that she sees help her figure out what happened t
o her mother and also help her find out more about the school. The last 30 pages are the most intense part of the book but you have to read the whole book first to understand what is going on. I would prefer that girl's should read this because there is some romance in it that is mixed in perfectly with everything else that is going on in the story. This book is the first book of a series that Libba Bray has written. I haven't read the other books but I can assume that those other books will be just as amazing as this one is. I would most definitely prefer this book to anyone that needs a book to read.
o her mother and also help her find out more about the school. The last 30 pages are the most intense part of the book but you have to read the whole book first to understand what is going on. I would prefer that girl's should read this because there is some romance in it that is mixed in perfectly with everything else that is going on in the story. This book is the first book of a series that Libba Bray has written. I haven't read the other books but I can assume that those other books will be just as amazing as this one is. I would most definitely prefer this book to anyone that needs a book to read.Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Our Boo-Boos
Rachel Rundell
11/26/08
Mrs. Lindsay
Definition- Pain
Our Boo-Boos
What is pain? Is pain a boo-boo that you get from falling on the ground? Or is there pain from losing a loved one? There are many ways of having pain. Pain can mean many different things in many different cultures and genders. The definition of pain according to Webster’s dictionary is a physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc. To a little kid, pain can be falling on the ground and getting a scrape on the knee. A parent that is looking at the little kid could think that type of pain doesn’t hurt at all. There can be emotional pain from a death or low-self esteem which can be very hard to get over. For women and girls, pain is something that could make us try to look hotter than girls sitting next to us. Pain can be thought of in many different ways to many different people.
Many athletes have many types of pain. From personal experience, pain can be your muscles straining to be in an uncomfortable position for a very long time. To a soccer player, pain can be running around a soccer field for 4 hours. A football player can think of pain as getting tackled and thrown onto the ground. All athletes and ordinary people understand that breaking a bone is a terrible type of pain. People of all ages can understand physical pain, but it is very hard, especially for little kids, to be able to understand emotional pain.
Emotional pain is a pain that is from the inside and not a lot of people can tell if you have emotional pain. I think about medical doctors when I think about emotional pain. Medical doctors, to me, can understand emotional pain the most because doctors save lives and if they see a person die in front of them, it’s hard to get over that. Imagine thinking that it’s your fault that someone died. Another type of emotional pain that a lot of teenagers can understand is low self-esteem. Every once in awhile, a teenager goes through a stage where they think that they aren’t good enough for the world. A lot of teenagers think that nobody likes them and they are worthless. Sometimes emotional pain can lead to physical pain, which isn’t good for the body. For example, some teenagers cut themselves or beat themselves up because they think they have low self-esteem. Emotional pain can be hard to get over sometimes and can get out of control also.
The pain that women go through for beauty can be easier to endure than emotional pain, but beauty pain takes a lot of courage and patience. I remember the day when my mom first plucked my eyebrows. My eyebrows hurt badly the next day. I sometimes wonder why women go through pain. A lot of times girls think that they need to look the hottest compared to the girl sitting next to them. I find that sometimes teenage girls try to look their best for a man. Many high fashion models go through pain just to get booked by a top designer. When girls see stick skinny models, they want to look just like those models. They don’t realize all the pain that those models went through to look like that.
Pain can be defined in many different ways. A way that pain can be most related to is in physical pain. Physical pain can be scraping your knee on the ground, or it can be soreness of the muscles from keeping them in an uncomfortable position for a long time. Emotional pain can be understood most by adults and some teenagers. Emotional pain is pain that is hard to see from the outside. This type of pain can be from a person dying, to having really low self-esteem. Women go through pain just to look beautiful. The world is full of pain, but pain is different for each person.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Oil and Gasoline
Oil and Gasoline
In 1999, the price of oil hovered around $16 a barrel. In July 2008, it reached a peak of $147 a barrel. In the months that followed, as fears of a global recession grew, prices plunged to the $75 a barrel range, a roller coaster ride that left both producers and consumers confused and wrung out. Prices were still far higher than they had been a few years earlier, but oil-producing countries that had reshaped their economies around the huge influx of revenues faced a suddenly altered landscape.
Many factors contributed to the long buildup between 1999 and 2008, including the relentless growth of the economies of China and India and widespread instability in oil-producing regions, including Iraq and Nigeria's delta region. The triple-digit oil prices that followed appeared to redraw the economic and political map of the world, challenging some old notions of power. Oil-rich nations made enjoying historic gains and opportunities, while major importers — including China and India, home to a third of the world's population — confronted rising economic and social costs.
Managing this new order became a central problem of global politics. Countries that need oil clawed at each other to lock up scarce supplies, and were willing to deal with any government, no matter how unsavory, to do it.
In many poor nations with oil, much of the proceeds were lost to corruption, depriving these countries of their best hope for development. And oil fueled gargantuan investment funds run by foreign governments, which some in the West see as a new threat.
Countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran that were flush with rising oil revenue saw that change reflected in newly aggressive foreign policies. But some unexpected countries reaped benefits, as well as costs, from higher prices. Consider Germany. Although it imports virtually all its oil, it has prospered from extensive trade with a booming Russia and the Middle East. German exports to Russia grew 128 percent from 2001 to 2006.
The high price of gas became an important issue in the presidential campaign. Senator John McCain in particular made energy a focus, proposing to suspend the gas tax during the summer. He also made fervent calls to expand domestic drilling for oil, while his opponent, Barack Obama, emphasized the need for alternative fuels.
The surge in prices hit automakers hard, as sales of the truck-based models that had been Detroit's most profitable product dropped sharply. Mass transit systems across the country reported a sharp increase in riders. As prices fell in the fall, the question facing Opec and car makers alike was whether those shifts would reverse, as they had in previous downturns, or whether a tipping point had been reached.
In 1999, the price of oil hovered around $16 a barrel. In July 2008, it reached a peak of $147 a barrel. In the months that followed, as fears of a global recession grew, prices plunged to the $75 a barrel range, a roller coaster ride that left both producers and consumers confused and wrung out. Prices were still far higher than they had been a few years earlier, but oil-producing countries that had reshaped their economies around the huge influx of revenues faced a suddenly altered landscape.
Many factors contributed to the long buildup between 1999 and 2008, including the relentless growth of the economies of China and India and widespread instability in oil-producing regions, including Iraq and Nigeria's delta region. The triple-digit oil prices that followed appeared to redraw the economic and political map of the world, challenging some old notions of power. Oil-rich nations made enjoying historic gains and opportunities, while major importers — including China and India, home to a third of the world's population — confronted rising economic and social costs.
Managing this new order became a central problem of global politics. Countries that need oil clawed at each other to lock up scarce supplies, and were willing to deal with any government, no matter how unsavory, to do it.
In many poor nations with oil, much of the proceeds were lost to corruption, depriving these countries of their best hope for development. And oil fueled gargantuan investment funds run by foreign governments, which some in the West see as a new threat.
Countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran that were flush with rising oil revenue saw that change reflected in newly aggressive foreign policies. But some unexpected countries reaped benefits, as well as costs, from higher prices. Consider Germany. Although it imports virtually all its oil, it has prospered from extensive trade with a booming Russia and the Middle East. German exports to Russia grew 128 percent from 2001 to 2006.
The high price of gas became an important issue in the presidential campaign. Senator John McCain in particular made energy a focus, proposing to suspend the gas tax during the summer. He also made fervent calls to expand domestic drilling for oil, while his opponent, Barack Obama, emphasized the need for alternative fuels.
The surge in prices hit automakers hard, as sales of the truck-based models that had been Detroit's most profitable product dropped sharply. Mass transit systems across the country reported a sharp increase in riders. As prices fell in the fall, the question facing Opec and car makers alike was whether those shifts would reverse, as they had in previous downturns, or whether a tipping point had been reached.
Poor Freshman :(
Girl, 14, Is Struck and Killed by a School Bus in Queens
Jasmine was hit on her way to school, crossing 57th Avenue near 90th Street in Elmhurst.
The girl, Jasmine Paragas, was hit at 8:10 a.m. as she crossed 57th Avenue near the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst, the police said.
She was pronounced dead at 8:54 a.m. at Elmhurst Hospital Center, the authorities said.
Officials said the driver of the bus, George Sederino, 62, stayed at the scene after the crash. A police spokesman said that there was “no alcohol on the guy’s breath. ” He was issued summonses for equipment failure and failure to yield to a pedestrian.
The police said the bus, a yellow minibus, was northbound on 90th Street and made a left onto 57th Avenue when it struck Jasmine in the crosswalk. It was not clear whether the light was green, but the police were investigating.
Margie Feinberg, a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Education, said Jasmine was a freshman honors student at Francis Lewis High School who excelled in foreign languages and English.
“She applied for and was accepted into the school’s University Scholars Program, which is an accelerated program for high school students at Francis Lewis,” Ms. Feinberg said.
There were four adult passengers in the minibus, headed to a center for adults with special needs, she said. None were injured, the police said.
The bus belonged to the JEA Bus Company, which has a contract to transport students, but it was not carrying any students at the time, Ms. Feinberg said.
A woman who answered the phone at the bus company, in Gravesend, Brooklyn, said, “We don’t have any information at this time.”
Ms. Feinberg said that the principal of Francis Lewis High School, on Utopia Parkway, spoke to Jasmine’s parents at the hospital and sent letters home with students about what had happened.
“Everybody’s in such shock,” Ms. Feinberg said.
Jasmine lived with her parents and 10-year-old brother on the top floor of a three-story house a few blocks from where she was hit. The family immigrated from the Philippines about six years ago.
A neighbor, Showkat Kazi, said that Jasmine’s mother, Connie, walked with her every morning across Queens Boulevard because she feared its speeding traffic. She would leave Jasmine at the Q88 bus stop and then head to work, Mr. Kazi said. She did so on Thursday, only to find out later that Jasmine had been hit.
“She’s in the same class as my daughter and just yesterday she got a 96 on her report card,” Mr. Kazi said. “My daughter got a 95 and they were talking about their grades, and I was so proud of them.”
“This is a total disaster for this family,” he said.
Jasmine was hit on her way to school, crossing 57th Avenue near 90th Street in Elmhurst.
The girl, Jasmine Paragas, was hit at 8:10 a.m. as she crossed 57th Avenue near the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst, the police said.
She was pronounced dead at 8:54 a.m. at Elmhurst Hospital Center, the authorities said.
Officials said the driver of the bus, George Sederino, 62, stayed at the scene after the crash. A police spokesman said that there was “no alcohol on the guy’s breath. ” He was issued summonses for equipment failure and failure to yield to a pedestrian.
The police said the bus, a yellow minibus, was northbound on 90th Street and made a left onto 57th Avenue when it struck Jasmine in the crosswalk. It was not clear whether the light was green, but the police were investigating.
Margie Feinberg, a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Education, said Jasmine was a freshman honors student at Francis Lewis High School who excelled in foreign languages and English.
“She applied for and was accepted into the school’s University Scholars Program, which is an accelerated program for high school students at Francis Lewis,” Ms. Feinberg said.
There were four adult passengers in the minibus, headed to a center for adults with special needs, she said. None were injured, the police said.
The bus belonged to the JEA Bus Company, which has a contract to transport students, but it was not carrying any students at the time, Ms. Feinberg said.
A woman who answered the phone at the bus company, in Gravesend, Brooklyn, said, “We don’t have any information at this time.”
Ms. Feinberg said that the principal of Francis Lewis High School, on Utopia Parkway, spoke to Jasmine’s parents at the hospital and sent letters home with students about what had happened.
“Everybody’s in such shock,” Ms. Feinberg said.
Jasmine lived with her parents and 10-year-old brother on the top floor of a three-story house a few blocks from where she was hit. The family immigrated from the Philippines about six years ago.
A neighbor, Showkat Kazi, said that Jasmine’s mother, Connie, walked with her every morning across Queens Boulevard because she feared its speeding traffic. She would leave Jasmine at the Q88 bus stop and then head to work, Mr. Kazi said. She did so on Thursday, only to find out later that Jasmine had been hit.
“She’s in the same class as my daughter and just yesterday she got a 96 on her report card,” Mr. Kazi said. “My daughter got a 95 and they were talking about their grades, and I was so proud of them.”
“This is a total disaster for this family,” he said.
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