5/31/12

Juliet of course will be displeased, with her low authority, there is nothing she can really do about it. It is possible that she could follow him to wherever he is going to go since he is banished, but I think that is unlikely. Romeo said he would rather die than leave Verona than leave Juliet there. Given my previous knowledge of the story, I believe that she might do the same if they can't be together.

5/24/12

I think that shakespeare is still relevant today. The basic concepts of his stories will most likely be relevant for a long time to come, because they are about things that everyone can relate to. They will also remain relevant because they were the origin of many commonly used words today that didn't exist before, and we can look back and see how they came about, by Shakespeare's creative writing.

5/22/12

The prologue talks about two families that are fighting and have had a history of fighting with each other. But there are two people, one form each family that love each other. They both commit suicide and take their parent's fighting with them. But in the end it says that the families would continue to fight until everyone form the families is dead.

5/16/12

The sniper is a story about A sniper, the main character during a war in Dublin around night-time. The story starts when the sniper wants a cigarette. he knows he is taking a risk exposing himself to the enemy but odes it anyway. A bullet whizzes over his head, he is seen. He darts around and hides on a rooftop. A military truck comes by, and man in the turret stops to talk to a lady on the street. The sniper sees this as an opportunity to take out the turret man, and kills the man and woman. But before he kills the woman she points up at the rooftop of a house across the street, revealing to the sniper where the enemy sniper is. After the two shots form the sniper, the enemy sniper hits the main character sniper in the arm. The sniper decides he needs to escape, and devises a plan. He puts his cap on the tip of his rifle, and raises it over the rooftop. The enemy sniper fires, and the cap falls to the street and the sniper lets his arm dangle over the roof and drops his rifle. The enemy sniper now thinks he is dead and turns in profile, and the sniper can now see him. He pulls out his pistol, and kills the sniper,  who then falls to the street. The curious sniper goes up to the body after dodging bullets in the street. Lays down next to the body and turns it over to find himself looking at his brothers face.

5/14/12

According to the article the cut may not be necessary. If the cut is necessary to reach the budget I guess it would have to be done, we don't know what else would be at loss if we didn't make the cut. THe estimated increase of 50 mil in income seems a bit optimistic to me. So, if I had to make the cut I wouldn't cut the elderly people, but I would cut the others if necessary.

5/10/12

They should most definitely not increase the parking fees from $12 to $21 because if that decreases the amount of customers small businesses get its the opposite of what we want. If it is really necessary to get more money increasing it a smaller amount would be better.

5/8/12

Human relationships are extremely important. Who we associate ourselves with, and live around effect almost every aspect of our lives. So when two men with contrasting personalities who frustrate each other, get the other in trouble, and cause problems all over the place continue to travel and live with one another despite the conflicts you know there must be something binding them. The names of these two men are George and Lennie, and this is how the two main characters live and survive life in the west during the dustbowl in John Steinbeck's book, Of Mice and Men (OMM). George and Lennie often make empty threats to leave one another, but one would never really leave the other. They have a special relationship. Each one benefits from the other, and they would never give up what they had. George, out of fear that Lennie wouldn't be able to care for himself, and Lennie, because he likes George, he listens to him and takes care of him. Also, they both share a common dream, to share a plot of land, and start a small ranch with the money they earn from traveling to other different ranches and working the land. That is the deep reason that they may not even think of themselves, of why they are inseparable.

5/4/12

The mouse in the poem is similar to Lennie. The mouse has a plan to build a home, and Lennie has a dream to get a ranch. But then later int he poem, the mouses home is destroyed, and it was beyond his power to fix it all he could od is run. The same thing happened to Lennie, he killed Curley's wife, and his dream was crushed he then ran to his hiding spot where he was killed, as the mouse will probably die in the poem.