Romeo and Juliet

Dear person,

After watching act 1 being performed 1 observation I've made is that there is a great hatred between the Montague's and the Capulets. This is obviously part of the reason why Romeo and Juliet kill themselves. What was really stupid in my opinion was that it took two family members of both sides to die for them to realize their flaws and to stop fighting. As for the writing, it is very difficult to understand. He alters words that we use daily that keep the same meaning but feel very awkward to say. I for one am pretty excited to perform this play. It seems like you don't really know about theatre and that junk until you perform this play.

Sonnet Response

          In one of the sonnets we read Another sonnet for Stephan it is sort of like the author is reciting on little parts of the lifeline of a friend or family member. The sonnet starts off with a little boy, four or five years old, and saying how they'd play together and have a fun time. The next line is about how the boy is aging into a college student, who is handsome smart and very gifted and becoming a mature adult. The sonnet the goes on to explaining how the boy is an adult who is very successful but seems to be "fighting back attackers of his health". Now when you think of someone fighting an illness you would think of cancer. The next line is basically saying that the boy is now dead, but his memory lives on.

          For me it seems that the poem is told from the point of view of Stephan's father. It gives the feeling that the author is watching this person grow and guiding him through life. I particularly liked this sonnet because this young boy grew up into a successful business man with great wealth. The author seemed to be very proud of the achievements that the man accomplished in his life. The sonnet also gives a hint that the mans life was short. In the second line it says that he was creating business plans and paths to wealth. This gives me the hint that he was sort of fresh outta college and putting together his plans for his career.  

            

I really liked this sonnet, it stood out to me compared to the other ones. I really liked that Stephan was successful even in a time of health problems. It seemed that his life was a looked upon from the fathers point of view as a very proud and nice example. I especially liked that even when Stephan died his memory and life was lived on in the heart of his father. That was why I really liked this sonnet

Sonnet

I love to watch the evening sun go down

Big red ball of fire miles away from earth

Go down into the evening sunday ground

Goes down into the evening sunday ground

Goes down into the cold dark city dirt

Brings darkness to the world for a few hours

City creepers come out and walk about

Where the moon comes out and overpowers

Parties break out in loud echoing shouts

Kids sleep through the night in their comfy beds

Then the sun rises up out of the dark

People wake up after resting their heads

Adults get up and get ready for work

And when the day is done and there's no more sound

I love to watch the evening sun go down

Poem hw

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it sit there and rot?
Is it shunned and forgotten?
Is it put away 'til later?
Or just thrown away?

What is success? We have all succeeded in something. To some people it's special, to others it's nothing. You get a feeling of accomplishment, for others it just came and went. This can be the best feeling that you will never wanna give up, when you're about to get it don't mess things up :P

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is a Slovakian artist born in Pittsburg. He got interested in the life of an artist early on in his life. As a kid he always dreamt of being around interesting famous people. When he got into art, he was instantly famous for his paintings of celebrities, sometimes even more famous than the celebrities themselves.

He is well known for his painting the Lavender Marilyn, painted in 1962. He created it to capture the natural beauty of Marilyn Monroe, and to show the fine details about her. It was a silkscreen on canvas private collection. It was usually an honor to get a self portrait done by Warhol and the paintings usually become infamous.

What I like about this painting is the fine details he puts in his art to give it more of an emphasis. The big red lips, the blues eye shadow, the buttery yellow hair, the more I look at it the more I come to appreciate the piece. There aren't as many artists in our time as there were in the 20th century and I think that we're lucky to have art programs in our school to keep those dreams "alive."




Shaboopie.

20th century kids

From reading more and more of the Basketball Diaries by Jim Carrol it seems like the kids living in the 20th century seem more active than the kids of the 21st. I'm close to the end of the book so there isn't really much to say about it. I really like this book because it doesn't seem like there is a main conflict. By that.I mean the book is basically a journal from the point of view of a 15 year old on a basketball team in New York. I really like this about the book, because it seems to often that I read a book where the plot is easy to guess what will happen. But its different in this book like something new always happens in every chapter. I recommend that everyone reads it.

Basketball diaries

          The kids from basketball diaries are both the same and different from the modern day adolescents in today's society. The kids like to get into trouble and disobey adults and all the normal teenager crap. But what I've started to enjoy more about the kids of 1963 is that their lives seem more dangerous and exciting. Running from the cops and jumping off rocks into lakes from 80 feet in the air.
          In the basketball diaries the kids seem to be living their lives at the age of 13. They're out drinking in the woods and partying. It sounds like a pretty decent life. What I'm waiting for is for them to finally get caught by someone. That is sort of my thesis on what is going to happen in the next part of the book. They've almost been caught for smokin pot or drinking so I dont think they can lay low forever.
          As I said I'm really enjoying this book. The kids are both the same and different from the modern day adolescents in today's society. The kids like to get into trouble and disobey adults and all the normal teenager crap. But what I've started to enjoy more about the kids of 1963 is that their lives seem more dangerous and exciting. Running from the cops and jumping off rocks into lakes from 80 feet in the air.