Irony at McNick

Exhaustion Enlightens the English Students.

It has been a long week full of activates Homework piled on endlessly by teachers and parents Hours upon hours of problems to solve and pages to read Teachers expectations are as large as the largest ocean Never ending and destroyer of men Home of the largest creatures in its deeps Ready to engulf whole ships at will The need to fulfill the expectations is killer Driving students to the brink of insanity and beyond At the end of the week students have little energy Friday is not a night to party but a night to pass out Without drugs and alcohol I don’t remember the night My soccer suspects that this is untrue They couldn’t be more wrong While with friends I seem out of the loop Slacking behind without the energy Falling asleep whenever still for too long After school is over the extracurricular activities begin Physical labor in the barren garden Readying it for the lush spring around the corner Spring rains rushing the time to an end Running around drenched to the bone chilling Still needing time for the ones that I care for so much Once home or any home hours slow down Exhaustions sets in and the I slowly drift off Peaceful as a forest emerging into spring William Wordsworth was a poet form the Romantic Period in England. In all of his poems he has the defined characteristics of the Romantic period, a few examples are the strong sense of beauty found in nature and its positive effect on people, and often writes in sympathy for the underdog of society. In my poem Exhaustion I reflected the Romantic period’s used by William Wordsworth. The most clear characteristic is the sympathy for the underdog of society by the student’s endless working to get approval from his teachers but still trying to find time for what he want to do, packing his day as full as he can. The beauty of nature can also be seen in the vast ocean of the teachers’ expectations foe their students and the peacefulness of a forest emerging from spring.

Shakespeare's Journey to the Future.

Shakespeare's journey to the future.
by: antoniolosekamp

Macbeth's iPod Playlist

English Macbeth

Macbeth’s Playlist :

Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down

            After Macbeth kills the king and then Banquo he starts to loose his mind and go out of control. He seems scared and needs Lady Macbeth to stand by him as he becomes King and is fighting to keep it.

This Is War by 30 Seconds to Mars

            As Macbeth’s reign of terror continues, Macduff and Malcolm are preparing to go to war against Macbeth to say Scotland and her people from Macbeth’s endless killing. Macbeth must also prepare for war and must think of how it will affect his crown wants he wins because he know he can’t be killed.

Viva la Vida by Cold Play

            As Macbeth was preparing to defend his sinfully earned crown and the enemy was disguised with the boughs of the great Birnam Woods, he realized that he would loose. He knew is reign was over and he wouldn’t be on the top of the world anymore.  

We are the Champions by Queen

            After killing Banquo and making sure he would be king Macbeth would have been feeling like nothing could stop him from being king forever. Then again after going back to the witches and having his ego enlarged again he would have felt that he was ruling the world and he was the champion.

Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons

            After Macbeth was told of Lady Macbeth’s death he would have really connected with this song. Pardon me for the foul language but it would be far worse coming from Macbeth himself for losing the love of his life because of his greed.

Give Me Everything by Pitbbull feat

            After being promoted to Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth needed more and more and his greed over came him. He had to become King since he was so close to it. Greed was the idea that drove the play.

Power and Greed by Rage

            I know it is hard to understand, but once the lyrics become clear it is clear Macbeth would listen to this song. “To the power comes the greed,” makes so much sense because Macbeth always needed more and more and had to keep killing people to get it.

I Just Can’t Wait to Be King by Rowan Atkinson

            After Lady Macbeth and Macbeth put the final touches on their plan to kill the king, Macbeth would be looking for the future to be king and have all the power in the land.

Be Prepared by Tracy Nicole Chapman

            This song is from the Lion King and Macbeth would also be listening to it this song before killing the King to get ready, but also when Macbeth was persuading the Murders to kill Banquo and his son to strengthen his grip on the throne of Scotland.

Billionaire by Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars

            This is another song Macbeth would be listening to because of his greed to have more and more. Because greed is such an important part of the play Macbeth would be listening to songs like this wanting more and more.

Herstory

Women have come a long way since the beginning of time. From ancient times till the 1940s very few women ever had power those that did include Cleopatra and Nefertiti, Queens of Ancient Egypt, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Ancient Egypt was one of the first nations to have a woman as the ruler, dating back to the 15^th century B.C. For the last 3,500 years there has been very few women rulers until the last fifty or so years. The Ancient queens of Egypt led their great empire to be prosperous as did the queens of England. These women rulers are a rare thing in the history books of the world so few have climbed the ranks to be in such a position, partly because of how the human society has evolved over thousands of years. As the first humans became their global domination they were hunters and gathers. In this system the women would do everything but hunt. The women would take care of the children; gather fruits and nuts to eat, and make what little clothing they had. They made the system work by working so hard and making sure that the men could go out and hunt. This system didn’t change very much for thousands of years. As humans started to settle down and form ancient cities the women’s work became what it is known as today, “household work.” They continued to stay home take care of the kids, tend any small crops they had, make clothing, cook the food and anything else that the family needed to run smoothly as it could in ancient times. Going to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, women still had the household work while the men went to work as blacksmiths, butchers, wheelwrights, shoemakers and what not. The men still had almost all the power except for the Throne of England. Queen Elizabeth is the most influential women in making it possible for women to leave the house behind and take on their own work to support themselves. No matter how obvious it was to the people during her reign, the way society functioned was changed for good, it may take another six hundred years but women will start to take their place alongside and even above men in the 1900s. The first time that they were given a chance was during WWII. All the men were off to war and the women took their jobs producing products to be sent over seas to be used by men. Not only did they help the war effort but they also saved the economy. By having such a large need for supplies, industries were needed to be at max efficiency and the women took the challenge and showed the world not only what America was capable of but also what women everywhere were capable of. Sadly once the war was won and the men returned home the women weren’t back to the household work for some time again. Since then women have fought for and gained every right a man has and are using them to their full potential. One women that has tired to go every farther is Hilary Clinton. In the 2008 election she went against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. She was a strong candidate and had a great chance of wining, but after signs Obama winning she had an emotional moment. She tried for the American people and for us to have the best future we can have. Sadly that isn’t what a population wants to see. Hillary Clinton was emotional, but that’s not the reason for her losing the Democratic nomination. It was the fact that the emotion meant she was human and was just like every other American. If she was human then she was likely to make mistakes just like all human. It wasn’t the fact that she cried and was too womanly to be President it was the fact that the people want a more “perfect” person. They believed that if she showed any emotion that could be a weakness than she couldn’t be President of the United States of America. And they were wrong. I’m not saying she should be President but I’m saying that just because a person is emotional doesn’t mean that they can’t lead. There are so many aspects of leadership that can come together to become a great leader and maybe being emotional is one of them but the people are to afraid and stubborn to change how they see the world, so a women may only become President of America if she is as tuff enough to stand up for herself but nice enough to be a lady, because the people won’t have a manly women as President that would be just as bad as an emotional women. It’s a hard world out there it doesn’t always makes sense but nothing ever does make sense in the real world. 

The Oppressed: Bio

The article “Can You Learn Anything From a Void,” (http://www.tnr.com/book/review/druggist-auschwitz-reluctant-accomplice?page=0,0)  is written by Adam Kirsch, and it is written to present the problems of the Nazi oppressive regime coming to power and later on the Holocaust. The story of Victor Capesius shows the fact that ordinary people were forced to sentence others to death or even kill the prisoners themselves. In situation is also discussed in the film “180” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2KsU_dhwI. In the film the speaker is asking what people would do in the situation of being ordered to kill a person by the “humanly” way with a gun or by burying them alive with a bulldozer. If the person doesn’t kill them then they will be killed. Most would say they would kill the people with the bulldozer because it is the easiest way and they won’t give up their own life if someone else will just take their place. One women says that she would kill the people and expect some one else to stand against the killing of the millions of people. That same woman goes on to ask, “Where were the German people during the Holocaust?” The response was maybe they were all people that thought that someone else was going to stop the horrible cleansing of the Jews people. It would be suicide to go up against the Nazi regime and so people were afraid to stand against the oppressive government, but oppressive governments have been a part of human history since the first man left the tree of the African jungle behind. In the setting of Macbeth, the middle ages, most countries were ruled by a monarchy and they used feudalism to rule their subjects. The largest class of people was the peasants, and they were like slaves to their superiors and had little say in what happened in their own lives. They were oppressed and taught to only follow commands so in the play Macbeth, Macbeth becomes crazy over chances that other man will have a better claim to the Crown. He begins killing innocent men to keep his crown. The men doing Macbeths biding knew nothing more than to follow their master and do what he commands. They would have even less chance of surviving going up against their king than going against the Nazi Regime in the middle of the 1900s.

            Leaping forward in time to the year 2012, “the year the world is to end,” countries that have been under oppressive governments have began to rise against their governments as one, rebel against it and go to war against it. The people of Egypt over threw their dictator and are trying to set up a fair government. The people of Libya have defeated their Dictator in a civil war and have killed him, with the support of NATO and the United Nations. It was a bloody and gruesome war with trained soldiers against everyday citizen with guns. And for eleven months now the citizens of Syria have been protesting their government and have been getting shot, bombed, and beaten for it. Why all of a sudden are the dictators collapsing from the pressure of their people? The answer is knowledge. In the days of King Macbeth and the Holocaust the people didn’t really know what was going on except what their governments told them. They had no idea if other people were rebelling and were oppressing to think that what they were doing was right and fine. In the middle ages they had no idea that they could rebel against their master and even in the mid 1900s they didn’t know they had many choices. The people in Germany were brainwashed to think that their race was the only one made by God and that the others had no right to life. The few people that tried to explain to the people that the government was killing innocent people were quickly throne into the gas chambers.  

]           When people are forced to kill innocent people and are brainwashed no even think of other options how are they too realize the magnitude of their actions? They couldn’t unless they knew their options. If the Germans weren’t oppressed to think that the killing was the Word of God and that the government needs the people to be a government. They would have taken a second look at what they were doing, and realized that what they were doing was wrong and rebelled against the Nazi Regime. To be guilty of the murdering, they must be aware of it. Yes, many might have been aware they were murdering people so they would be guilty. It takes a lot of courage to go against authority and to do what is right. 

A Tale of Life and Death at the Globe Theater

The year is 1613, my name is Captain Smith and on June 29^th I attended a play at the Globe Theater, where I almost lost my life. This is the tale of the destruction of the Globe Theater and the close call I had with my life. I had been in the city to attend to the death of my business partner, Sir O’ Riley. In my depressed state I thought a good Shakespearean play will lighten my mood. I, of course, was up in the balconies looking right at the center of the stage. The commoners were being rowdy and rude, as normal, pushing and shoving, and yelling from one side to the other. Their smell easily reached my nose; months of not bathing and sweat from that day’s hard labor in the afternoon sun. But nothing could distract me once the actors began; besides I knew my favorite part of the whole play, the dramatic cannon firing, would silence the crowd. The canon’s part was their. As the canon gave its own deafening line, the flume of fire and smoke erupted from its mouth. It seemed much larger than the times I had seen it done before, but I thought nothing of it. The mass below immediately fell silent, but only for a couple of seconds. Then the first earsplitting screams of women rang out, and the men soon followed their lead. The commoners all turned in unison and began running toward the exit. I became concerned myself and began to look around for the source of the commotion, and that was when I saw it, the blazing roof and the fire that was quickly burning its way around the circular theater. I quickly stood, knocking my chair over with the action, and began to scramble toward the stairs, but I was one of the last to see the fire. The whole upper balcony seemed to be pushing down the same staircase, with me. The fire was quickly spreading towards us, the smoke became thicker and thicker, the light from the fire could be seen dancing through the smoke, the roar of the blaze grew closer and closer with every passing second, while the mass of people pushing its way down the stairs seemed to be at a stand still. The fire inched closer and closer, consuming everything in its path, without a sign of stopping. Screams of agony and terror began to join the roar of the fire in a horrifying harmony. The heat joined the smoke in its assault of the people fleeing the burning theater. I began pushing harder on the person in front of me; I knew not whether it was a man or women I just pushed, pushed for my life, and still nobody moved. I became desperate, looking around for another way to escape the raging inferno. I saw the smoke pouring out of a window not ten feet away from me and I made up my mind on what I had to do. I would have to jump. I began pushing against the crowd hoping it would work better than going with the surge of people going for the stairs. It worked people gladly took my position in the crowd and before long I made it to the windowsill. The smoke began smothering me and the chorus of coughing began to join the harmony of the roar of the fire and the screams of agony and terror. I clenched the wooden window and without looking hurled myself out the window. It was a two story drop to my safety landing on my leg; breaking it instantly. The sound almost caused me to black out, but my fear of the voracious fire gave me the strength to hobble out of the range of the blaze to safety in the street. As I looked back to the raging inferno consuming the Globe Theater where I sat not two minutes ago and hear the only the screams of agony in harmony with the roar of the blaze and I realized my life was secure, I allowed the shock of pain to wash over me, shutting down my brain to save myself from any further trauma, and my vision darkened and my senses failed me. I woke up here in the hospital with out my left leg, but my life intact.