Shakespeare Experience

      In all my english learning of school, I feel old english literature was one of the hardest topics of literature to learn.  The reason I say this is because it is put into terms where our language has evolved from the terms they have used back in the old centuries.  Of all the Shakespearean play's the only one that I commend as memorable to me is Macbeth.
      I say Macbeth is memorable to me is because that is the only Shakespeare play I have read before.  Another reason is the plot and the storyline that goes into this play.  There are twisted lines, dark horrors, controversial reasonings, and lines that make this play outstanding.  In a way history is written into this play, as how history in Europe has developed.  The killings of kings will become killing of kings, for the lust of power and control over lands and people.  With superstitution added into the play (three witches), it makes you think about topics that could be changed if it wasn't for some of the odd things happening that can't be considered as reality.    

Beowulf Review

As always, the movie and the book version of a storyline is always changed around, in a sense the book gives a more vivid, imagination.  While the play, or book had more of a vividi imagination, the movie didn't have as much action as the book did.  the way the play was written felt much longer, even though the movie really did feel like a movie length, its just that they went too in depth in scenes, rather than trying to go through all the scenes like the book had.  in the end, Beowulf did end up killing Grendel and his mother, but the movie ended at that.  in the play/book, there was a third battle with a dragon, but that was the end of the legendary Beowulf, which he is mortally wounded after the battle with a dragon.  in the movie, it ends at the part where Grendel's mother has been slain, and Beowulf is now done with his journey.  In the end, because of the wide varieties of scenes in books are too much for a movie, they pick the storyline most likely wanted to be seen by the audience, or where the story would fit best as in a specific time frame, in this case a movie.

The story OF IMAGINATION! (*completely fictional.)

      In the land of Halloweenie, there existed three different types of creatures living in the land.  There were the Gogo birds, who were turkeys that could fly fast over the lands and drop waste from their bodies that on contact could kill you within minutes.  Another species were the Gonzos, who were actually zombies that could run and melee attack you and the only way stopping one is by killing it to shreds, or ripping it into bits and pieces.  the last breed of creatures were just a family, and no bigger, and they were the clauses.        The clauses were people that majored over the other two breeds.  They were a simple family, that had an offspring every 80 years.  the other two however, were their own civilization, which came to be a bloody history.  Before they were all separated, they lived equally in peaceful harmony.
      Before, the gogo birds never really controlled where they contributed to their "wastes" letting it go wherever they please.  But since this happened, they would always poop on the gonzos by accident, causing casualties occur with intentions of doing so.  Since the gonzos couldn't stand this, they had an attack planned out on gogo birds, having a battle to the death with those two species going at it.  Now, the clauses were peaceful people, and they had no problems with the other two.  Since the gogo birds and the gonzo zombies couldn't stop always fighting, they ended laying waste all over Santa Clauses yard, with all types of filth.  So being the magical man that he is, santa clause invents a potion if drank, will put everybody in a calm mellow stupor that can't possibly create the emotion of hate at all.  For the time being, it stopped all the fighting, and everything was thought out to be okay.
      After a certain time, the zombies became immune to the potion and needed even more to get the same amount of feeling towards the potion, so what they did was steal from the gogos.  Devastated, the gogos again started fighting against the gonzo zombies.  Not knowing what to do, Santa Clause came with the conclusion that he will need to separate them both so nothing will happen like this again.  With his power, he created a wall separating the two lands, not able to cross each other with the only opening between the two was from the Clauses house, on top of a hill.  This kept the balance, between the Gogos, and the Gonzos.  

Nadia Habib Citizenship

If someone is born in a certain country, they should have the right to be able to stay in that country as their own birth home.  When the guardian of a foreign child is a citizenship in a certain country, they should most likely be able to keep their child under their guardian's care until she is of age to be left to herself.  but that is not the case for Naia, a girl who has been in the U.S. since baby days, but is now forced to go back to her home country.  How would she be taken care of?  Where will she get the care she needs while growing up, and not even being an adult yet?  When families are torn a part, it can create a huge impact of the younger one's psychologically especially.  For someone grown to love a certain individual and to be torn away from them at a young age can be very emotionally scarring.  First hand going through a divorce between parents when I was younger can prove to have difficult times and hardships, not always able to satisfy both your parents needs or wants.

Civil Rights

What I think about civil rights is that it isn't in my rights to say what someone does or how someone acts accordingly, unless it is a harm to someone else's health.  if a person has a certain belief, I am in no position to judge someone for who they are or what they do.  The world is what it is today because of the many diverse beliefs and cultures we have existing in this one world.  To degrade someone for something they don't do or not a part of, it doesn't make them lower than everyone else.  But to an extent, there are those that can stand out differently because of certain activities they are involved in.

Good old Gangs

      When I was growing up, I was forced to read books, even though I didn't want to.  I hated every minute of it, wondering like "WTF" man (I had a colorful vocabulary at a young age, due to no parental vision with explicit content)!!!  But my main point is, that I was glad I was forced to though.  It helped me greatly with comprehension skills, and as a child you absorb information easier than someone older.  Explaining that, I felt I needed a good book to read on the plane, coming home from a long trip of training, eating great food, and making great friends in Japan.  I'm at the airport, and I come across a book that catches my eye.  in boldgolden bronze letters, the title reads, Confessions of a Yakuza.  For those who don't know, yakuza is a traditional old school gang and hoodlums, who live their day by day basis through pure gambling.  For some reason, I favor how corruption can be played off smoothly and planned, and somehow they do what they got to do because its their way of life.
     So the story is in the interview of a Eiji Ijichi, a former yakuza boss talking about his life to a doctor who listens to his story with his few final months of life.  The book explores through the beginnings of Eiji's life, growing up running away from home and living with his uncle.  He goes through secret operations of smuggling while obtaining his first job, and like any curious young adult, sees the exploits of the world, with prostitution, smuggling, and gambling.  As he learns the game of the trade, he also does it in Japan's most lively entertainment area of the time, also dealing with a natural disaster earthquake that was tremendously devastating.  His tale is filled with tons of vividly imaginable pictures that will either disgust or interest to your likings.
     In my opinion, if you take an interest in how a gang leader becomes to be even in a most foreign land and how all gangs can relate that come with it; such as respect, honor, humility, and even that bloodshed, than this is a autobiography you would take a look at.  If you reach the end of the book, you would think of a man as someone you would like to be able to meet one day.  but since that's not possible, the account taken for in the book will do quite well for a substitution for a meeting with him.