Debate on Romeo and Juliet

In  Romeo and Juliet Romeo's words suggest both true  love and youthful , behavior towards capulets  daughter Juliet his families enimies daughter. 

  

         Romeo shows youthful, rash behavior 2.6.7-8  " Then love - devouring death do what he dare , it is enough I may call her mine".  He's willing to love Juliet even if it means death and he shall do what he needs to do whatever it takes till he makes her his.Since Romeo went to Friar Lawrence who was surprised  to have seen Romeo  forget about Rosaline the girl he first fell in love with before Juliet Friar Lawrence's reaction was " Holy Saint Francis , what a change is here ! Is Rosaline , that thou didst love so dear so soon forgotten ? ". Shows how quickly he's forgotten about Rosaline and on to Juliet. 2.3. 69 -70. Romeo's youthful, rash behavior also shows in 2.3 61-62 " plainly know my heart's dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich capulet". Which shows he has a determined heart which is set on Juliet while he is a Montague.

  

             Romeo shows true love in 2.6.  3-5 " Come what sorrow can , it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight ". Flashback to when Romeo and Juliet first looked at each other and what he first saw in her sight for one short minute was joy. " Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts , but in their eyes". 2.3  71-72 he couldn't stop looking at Juliet the night of the party and from that moment on it was love at first sight.  " Her I love now doth grace for grace and love for love allow.The other did not so " shows that he loves her starting now and love is love that was meant to be allowed.

" Unfold the imagined happiness that both receive in either by this dear encounter " They both wished that they could have another place or time and their stuck in a moment that started with Romeo and Juliet having love at first sight when they looked into each other's eyes and realized it was true love they'd have to fight for and his youthful , rash behavior was just a start to unfolding the imagined happiness by this dear encounter that made them wish. " These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die ... Therefore , moderately".  It's all fun and games till someone gets hurt but people ended up dying Mercutio, Tybalt , and lastly Romeo and Juliet. 

          

How do other characters in the story impact the main character?

The people surrounded by Quentin Jacobsen in Paper Town by John Green is an adventurous and daring,normality, care loving, strict, inspiration, and daring people. The adventurous and daring is Margo Roth spiegelman the strict is margo's parents who wanted nothing to do with her when they did find her, the care and loving would be Quentin's parents who support Quentin finding Margo and the normality is his best friends Ben, Radar ,and ben's girlfriend Lacey. The inspiration of the trip to Algoe, New York was a little peek of margo's life which in his eyes seemed a little dangerous and daring but fast with her dying young when he Radar, Ben and Lacey almost died when a cow was in the middle of the road and Quentin couldn't stop it from going straight when Ben jerked the minivan out of the way and saved their lives. It all started when Margo sneaked in to Quentin's bedroom window and asked for a favor little did he know that after that night he would be head over heels for Margo even more than he was before they went to Walmart at midnight, trespassing on one of the popular kids property and humiliating them with a picture to show the rest of the school, seeking revenge, going to the sunrise building to look over California and last but not least trespassing into seaworld. The next day Margo wasn't at school and hasn't attended prom nor graduation and that's when the clues came in to play. Radar Ben and Quentin went to margo's house and explored her bedroom and discovered that she liked Shakespeare, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Beatles and more she had a lot of cassette tapes and books people from their school wouldn't believe she read was interested to the back in the day kind of music and Quentin realized that they both had something in common. After receiving Margo's first clue Quentin discovered more in the poem she highlighted and found where she stayed for two nights and days before she left for Algoe, New York. Margo's impact on quentins life is teaching him that breaking into seaworld, seeking revenge on the people who betrayed you and made you feel insecure, and trespassing is ok when you got a reason and if you don't get caught. Quentin's parents support him in everything he does and let's him curse and do whatever he wants . Lastly his best friends Radar and Ben who are always there to give him a laugh they helped him find Margo with omnictionary a site that helps find people and locates where they are but the site didn't help as much as margo's clues. Margo's parents were worried when the same detective from when Margo went to Mississippi without telling her parents found her came , her parent this time decided that they didn't care what her next move would be and that this is not the first time she went missing and while she went to Algoe, New York they changed the locks . 

Non-Fiction Reading Process

   In the article Immigration Obama vs Congress by Patricia Smith, she talks about immigration and about the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Then she talks about President Barack Obama and Congress having a hard time agreeing on how to make immigration better. She then adds background information on President Barack Obama's plan by telling the reader that children born in the U.S are citizens. Many illegal immigrants were afraid of deportation and it was a risk of many lives to get to the United States.The idea and theme behind this article is the president finding a way for this not to be an issue for immigrants. President Obama's plan helps immigrants who are eligible to work not to be deported after they pass background checks and pay any taxes that they owe.

     The author is trying to say that illegal immigrants fear deportion and Obama has now made it legal for them to stay.If immigrants had kids their kids would be U.S citizens and the author then supports it by saying how Obama's plan changed everything. In response to what I read I feel shocked because most Americans were born in the U.S and have to go through immigrating with their parents for a better life and get chances. I was also surprised by how many immigrants risked their lives to become a U.S citizen and as I kept reading I realized how hard and risky it was being an illegal immigrant. This makes me think about the people from different countries who'd risk their lives just to live freely and have more chances than where they originally came from. I have questions about how and what their country did to make them want to leave? Are the immigrants who's family got deported regretting being in America and not having the rest of their family there with them?

Response #4

Ria was living a charmed life before her dad's plane crash. Before the accident all Ria could think about was her parents divorce and having to move in with her mom and plan to prevent that from happening. In chapter 1 Ria was having the time if her life driving around town with her dad, boyfriend, and and a kid she barely talked to driving in ( what her dad claimed was Elvis Presley's car.) At the beginning of chapter 5 Ria learns that her dad's plane was having mechanical problems and they believed he went down over Lake Muskeg only to find out the rescue team only found bits and pieces of the plane but no luck of her dad. Ria is falling apart and has come to the conclusion that her mother no longer cares about her dad.

How The Murder Of Four Teens Started A War by Patricia Smith

                  

                          How The Murder Of Four Teens Started A War  by Patricia Smith

  This article is about three Israeli teens and a palestinian boy being kidnapped and murdered. The names of the three Israeli teens were Eyal Yifrach 19 , Naftali Fraenkel and Gilad Shaar 16. They were found dead after being kidnapped by palestinian militants. Jewish extremists kidnapped and killed Muhammad Abu Khdeir 16 while he waited to pray outside a mosque near his east jerusalem home on the 2nd of july. Muhammad Abu Khdeir was bludgeoned with a wrench and set on fire making his murder most brutal of the four.

     When I first read this article I was shocked to read about these teens who are innocent be killed by militants and their  murders causing a war because when someone gets murdered it’s unheard of to start a war by their religion.

Darkness too visible

Mia Tindel

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Darkness Too Visible By Meghan Cox Gurdon

                          

Darkness too Visible written by Meghan Cox Gurdon talks about what she thinks on young adult literature. She believes that young adult literature is innappropriate and should be banned for teens.

Meghan Cox Gurdon used cursed words and mentioned drugged and unimaginable gore and cruelty that most young adult literature is. She explained her opinion by what young adult literature includes that deal with teen issues.

          The article is definitely argumentative and I do not agree because what are teens going to do without these books and how are they going to relate to books that include struggles, hardships, drugs, depression, and smoking.Teens should be aware of these topics that real teens go through and teens could learn a lesson from these books. Meghan Cox Gurdon writes that young adult literature is dark and violent and inappropriate for teens to read. I learned that some young adult books seem to be inappropriate to young adult parents and become dark and they might take the book and talk to their child's school principal and district and talk about the book being banned and that only makes the situation worse because the kids who haven’t read the book have a stronger urge to read the book than they did before it was banded and might try to find access to the book . A part that struck a chord with me in a way was the review on books “Books With Scars” there was a quote that said ‘’We like to have the adult perspective, but we try to target the teens because that’s who’s reading it’’.The reason this sticks out to me is because teens should have a choice on what they read and what they want to learn from young adult literature book based on reality.

Reading Response #1

  In Looking for Alaska by John Green the main character, Miles goes to boarding school in Alabama. When he gets there he meets his roommate Chip Martin who is known as Colonel as well as other friends. After hanging out with the Colonel and his friends Miles earns the nickname "Pudge." Throughout the beginning Miles gets used to his boarding school routine and even starts smoking cigarettes as the Colonel teaches him. There are to major groups in the school. The first is the weekday warriors who leave for their parents mansions on the weekends and the non-weekend warriors who stay on campus. When Miles learns the ropes to school his behavior changes he now watches sports, smokes cigarette and hangs out with friends all the time.