romeo and juliet essay

   in the play Romeo and Juliet is bout two enemies who fall in love. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. they met at a Capulet's ball and its love at first sight. throughout the play they show the hardships they have to face to be together. Juliet changes throughout the play because she met then fell in love with Romeo.
   in the beginning of the story Juliet is paired with the Paris. Her father lets Juliet decide whether or not she wants to marry Paris and so she considers it. when she meets Romeo she instantly falls for him. then Juliet doesn't want to marry anyone but Romeo. This is one change that happens to Juliet.
   another change for Juliet is that she doesn't listen to her parents like she used to .before Juliet changed she would listen to her parents like a good girl, but now she doesn't , for example when her parents had force her to marry Paris she would scream and cry saying she didn't and wouldn't.
   when Juliet changes its because of love. this shows that love can change anyone. all the changes started when she first met Romeo , after they had fallen for each other she had began to change. For example when Juliet had found out that Romeo had killed tybalt and he was banished from Verona she was sad. She was torn whether to stick by her family and hate Romeo for killing tybalt or stick by her lover, Romeo. in the end she was more sad that Romeo has been banished . if she hadn't fallen in love with Romeo then she would have hated Romeo for killing her cousin.
    many people now still change cause of love , they change differently. Some choose their lover instead of their families and friends. love is strong and it can do many things to a person.

non-fiction reading response

    In the article "Unfriending Facebook" by Veronica Majerol talks about how Facebook can affect someone and the way they live their life. People don't even call each other and can affect peoples education. In the United States there are fewer new users every year because people are worried about privacy. Some people don't join or quit because they just aren't interested in Facebook. Facebook can either go well in the united states or come crashing down because with the lack of new users it could be trouble or the new users will go up. executives of Facebook aren't worried they don't expect everyone in the U.S. to sign up and there are still many users in Asia and Latin America.
     I think that Facebook is bad.It has lack of privacy and may other problems. One example that shows Facebook has lack of privacy is Zach Petersen. He is a 19- year old sophomore who has had Facebook for four years. During that time he had just gotten a new car and posted a picture of his car, then people on campus knew about it even people he didn't even know. "Its just kind or strange knowing that everybody knew about it", he says. "A friend of a friend of a friend can see your stuff ," even if "it was intended for you and your friends". This shows that almost anyone can check your profile on Facebook and you wouldn't even know about it.
     Another reason that Facebook isn't good is that it isn't interesting and doesn't help with education either. Mary Carney , 21, a senior and food science major at Clemson University in south Carolina deleted her Facebook account two years ago because she wasn't interested in it. "It kid of just felt like a waste of my time," says Carney, "like my time could be better used o studying or doing all the other things I have to do." this shows that not everyone cares or interested in Facebook. A recent study by Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania says that Facebook activities like playing games, posting photos, and chatting is tied to poor academic performance. This also proves that Facebook cannot help in education.
     After reading this article I realized that Facebook can help in some ways of your life but can mostly damage it. I learned that not only is your privacy is not safe that it hurts your academic performance. This makes me wonder whether people know about this , if parents knew they would never allow their kids to get an account and other users would delete their account to.

reading response

question:Who has “power” in your text? How does that power get shown?

  In the book "Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins , the person who has the most power in the beginning is president snow. President snow can do whatever he wants with the tributes and can hurt them in any way in the arena. He is the one who is in charge of the games and in charge of all 12 districts.
   president snow had shown that power by trying to make the tributes fight in the arena when they couldn't find each other. when katniss kept walking striate the others couldn't find her so he had add things in the arena to sort of to lead her towards the other tributes. Also when peeta and katniss were alone they weren't able to fight on of the last tribute he added monster-like animals to lead them toward the other tribute or just have them killed by then monster-like animals. these are some of the ways that president snow shows his power.

reading response on critical question

 question: is this story fair ?why/why not

   the story in my book is not fair.the book is called "the mocking jay" by Suzanne Collins. this story in the book isn't fair because people from district 12 and 13 wanted there right but the capitol isn't hearing them out.now the capitol is bombing district 12 because katniss had survive the hunger games and ever since then they have always wanted her dead.all katniss wanted was to fight against the capitol because of their selfish ways they made 24 people fight to the death for the capitols entertainment.the president is selfish , he doesn't Care for the others that have family. he was the one who wanted katniss dead because she was the one person who stood up for herself and it gave her a voice and that inspired other districts.the districts who rebelled against the capitol finally felt the have a voice and the president cant stand that  which is unfair because every one deserves a right to speak and be heard.

Reading response based on question

    In the book the "Mocking Jay" by Suzanne Collins is a fictional book but has a social issue that happens in our world.This book is about a district that has rebelled against the Capitol .The Capitol is the main kind of city that rules over all the districts.The people who have rebelled are in hiding because the Capitol plan on killing them.This shows that they have no voice, freedom of speech.Even though we have freedoms of speech , but we don't really have a voice.
     When some people have ideas they aren't heard. People aren't heard because of who they are of what their reputation is. For example if a little girl has an idea for something and wanted to tell an adult they might not pay attention because she is a young girl. This happens in lots of businesses , like if an intern has great ideas but the Boss won't care cause they think that the intern will not have a great idea because he/she plays a smaller role in the business. This happens everywhere all the time.
      This may seem like a small problem but its everywhere , in jobs, school, and streets. This can also hurt the person not getting heard ,feelings.

reading response for an article on hurricane sandy

 In the article "Panicked Evacuations Mix with Nonchalance in Hurricane Sandy's Path" by Cara Buckley in the New York Times , she wrote about how many people were taking their life at risk.People in so called Zone-A which is Battery Park City in Manhattan, Red Hook,Coney Island and parts of Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn; City Island in the Bronx; and the Rockaways in Queens to evacuate.Many people that lives in those locations were reluctant to evacuate. They believed that because they made a big fuss about evacuating during the hurricane Irene and nothing big really happened ,that this time they were doing the same.Some people however were panicking like crazy. they would crazily call for taxis and sometimes yelled at others who tried to jump ahead of them.
   During hurricane Irene everyone made a big fuss about everything and nothing much had happened. 27 year, John Miller said "Last time they made such a big hype out of it and nothing happened". I think though that people should still be cautious about it because what if something bad does happen, you don't know if your gonna be safe ,and you cant tell the future.Like many have said, its better to be safe then sorry.
   Sometimes people get to panicky and when they do they tend to get pretty violent. Ann Persaud, owner of the south 7 citgo station in new Milford said"Everyone is panicky - oh my God, they bring in any kind of container they can think of and fill it up with gas!". I think people should calm down because if they take as much gas as they can and that they don't really need it then the others that do need it might not have gas. The reason why they might not have gas is because maybe the gas station runs out of gas.Even though you might think that its better to have it just in case, it is but others need to be able to leave and so you can't be selfish.
   In the future I think we all need to learn how to be safe and prepared for anything and also learn how to be calm in hectic situations. If we work together maybe everyone could be safe.

reading response 5

   In the book "The Truth About Forever" by Sarah Dessen , macy is a girl who lost her father.she has a boyfriend named Jason who went to brain camp and then broke up with her after a few days he was away.She started a new job at a catering called Wish.As she continues to work there she starts to realize that she hasn't been the same and living since her father died and Jason broke up with her.Macy felt lonely and dead in way like she never really hangs out with her friends and do what a normal teenager would do.
  In the begining I think macy never actually sink in the idea that her father had passed away.She felt alone after her father died so I guess she never really thought about it and distracted herself with a job at the libary in the days and a catering job as a waitress in the nights.In the book Wes said to macy " Sorry about your dad" and she thought to herself "I felt something catch my throat, a sudden urge of sadness that caught me unaware, almost taking my breath away."This shows that she knew that her father had passed away but she never really took the time to sink in.
  when she is working at wish, she meets one of the waiters called Wes.She doesnt really know how she feels about him but i think she actually likes him.when wes was walking over to macy she thought to herself "I felt that looseness something inside me coming undone".she was feeling nervous because Wes was coming over which probably meant that she was attracted to him.
    Many people loose family members all the time and then they have those moments that they feel so lonely and like nothing in the world would ever make you happy again just like macy untill she met wes and other friends.