Romeo and Juliet Final Essay

    The story of Romeo and Juliet is a little out dated, but it is still a classic. It tells the story of two rival families living in Verona Italy.  Although these two lover are forbidden to see each other they do. There love seems to grow but so does their families rivalry. In the end they decided they can't live without each other and they kill themselves. This seems very extreme especially for these times. No one should be going around killing themselves just because they can't see someone. Maybe if it's the love of your life you can find another way to see them. The story Romeo and Juliet still holds some universal themes such as love, family rivalry, death of a love one and just death and love in general. Also the characters have some differences and similarities to modern people. Such as Juliet to the modern women , although they may have many differences there are some similarities.

       Marriage.That has changed over the years. Women don't usually have arranged marriages, at least in the U.S. Except in some cultures such as parts in the Middle East, India and parts of China. Also the age of marriage has changed, I mean the age people get married. Juliet was supposed to be married to Paris at the age of fourteen!  In Act.1 Sc. 3 Lady Capulet says "Well think of marriage you. Younger then you here in Verona ladies  of esteam, Are already made mothers." Girls younger then 14 were already married and had children! I don't think any 14 year old girl would wanna be pregnant or married.Also the parent usually dosen't pick the spouse. Except Juliet's mother and father picked Paris for her, even though she did not want to marry him.

     The role of women has also changed. Juliet's main job was to marry Paris and have a child. In Act. 1 Sc.2  Paris says "Younger then she are happy mother's made." while talking to Capulet.  But women today have many different jobs some are mothers others are actors, lawyers, docters etc. all different types of jobs.

     The way women meet men is different. Some ways are similar others are not. Like Juliet met Romeo at a party. In Act.1 Sc.5 on page 105 *Romeo takes Juliet's hand* "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this how swine, the gentle sin this; my lips too blushing pilgrims." Women still meet men at parties and other social gatherings, But there are some new more high tech ways to meet men. There are hundreds of online dating websites. Also women usually date a variety if men before they marry one of them. Juliet and Romeo only knew each other at the most a week, then decide they should marry.

   As you can see there are some similarities and differences between the roles of women now and then and marrages and dating. Juliet is probaly more extreme then any modern women when it comes to love. But the universal theme of love, attraction and passion, that Juliet and the modern women share.

romeo and juliet project

Thesis: Juliet compared to the modern women. Similarities vs. Differences. Marriage is alot different today then it used to be. Women pick there husbands usually enless foir religious reasons or somthing else then that would be a similarity to Juliet. But women go out and meet new men and date all different men before they find the one their going to marry. In Juliet's time and in the modern world women still do meet in similar ways. For example Juliet met Romro at a party, it's very common for a women to meet a man at a party. The role of women has changed too. In Juliet's time a womens job was to make children and serve their husband that's basically it, but now women a=have real jobs and provide for there families and bring in an income.

Paragraph 1- Marriage differences and similarities between Juliet and the modern women
Paragraph 2- The job of Juliet vs. the modern women
Paragraph 3-How juliet reacted to situations vs. the modern women
Paragraph 4- Conclusion brings all topics together and the changes

Reading Response:Warm Bodies

  Warm Bodies takes some place in the near future, except there is not future, no one knows what has happened but the world is full of zombies and the few surviors. Then there is R. A zombie but with so much more to offer. He feels and this isn't common at all for a zombie, traditional zombies aren't supposed to feel anything except maybe hungry. R soon falls for a survior named Julie, Julie is mixed up and confused, how did her world turn up like this? She has lost her mother and recently lost her boyfriend. R meets Julie while he is hunting, although he is compelled to eat her, he is more compelled to protect her, this is somthing he has never felt before. He takes her to his "home" or an adbanded old airport where many zombies lurk around. As Julie learns more about R she realizes he isn't her typical zombie. He's more human then anything. He has feelings and he begins to feel human again with her. But soon she must go home, but neither of them realize their effect on the other zombies, seeing R and Julie it makes them feel, and feel human. But then things take a turn for the worst. Will the humans find the cure for the zombies?

   "I dont't know I feel." R says as he sneaks up into Julie's house to tell her the changing he and the others have felt. This is just one situation where he has began to change but this is the first time the others have felt. Is that all they needed? To see R and Julie together and happy, a zombie and a human? To remnind them of their own lives? When you see something that maybe happened to you do  you rember what thats like. Yeah you do probaly.

    Julie really believed in R when  no one else. R is a zombie you really need to have faith in a zombie especially in thius time, I mean the world is run by them and the surving humans are their food source. She saw he felt more and had the will to become human again and he was the cure, he inspired more undead to feel.

  Warm bodies was an amzing book. R and Julie remind me a bit of romeo and Juliet except one of them is dead to begin with and comes to life in the end. But it is about forbidden love and that's the same concept. Zombie and humans aren't suppsoed to mix, much less fall for each other,but they reached out to each other and cured all the undead. Someone should have given Ra chance a while ago.

Reader Response: Teen Angst

 Teen Angst is an autobiography on Ned Vizzini (one of my favorite authors) early years and applying for high school and his personal experiences. I have read two other books by Ned and in my personal opinion are some of the greatest books I have read in my fourteen years of life. I think he gets teens perfectly and he understands the struggles and hardships of our generation. I don't think many authors can do that. So it talks about Ned applying to high schools in the city and the specialized test and all that fun stressful stuff that makes teens wanna pull their hair out.

  In the first chapter Ned is in 7th grade and is starting to think about high schools. He hears about the specialized high school test and immitaly depends a test prep book. His dad buys him one and immidatly starts to study his butt off. As a kid living in New York City this is enforced as soon as you get into middle school. So many decisions specialized high school, your grade average, what school suits you best. And then their is all that personal stuff like where are your friends going? , which schools you really want stuff like that so Ned knows first hand on the pressures of applying to high school.

   Ned studies his butt off aces the specialized test and gets into Stuyvelson. He describes it as everyone looks out for themselves, no one else, people with higher grades were basicallly worshipped. It didn't sound like an ideal enviornment for me, well for me at least. In high school your supposed to have all these experiences and find out who you are and who you wanna be and if your studying all the time that isn't living that's boring. You need balance work and social life. You can't spend your whole life studying that's not what life is about its about enjoying yourself but working toward what you want to accomplish.\

  I know I already said this but I think Ned really gets this generation and the struggles of getting into high school and staying in high school. It's alot of pressure no matter where you go your always going to face social and academic problems no matter what. so the lesson is have some fun but also work hard because you can't get anywhere in life by just having fun you need to put some work in but you can't spend your life in a text book you need to live.

reader response:paper towns

  The book "Paper Towns" tells amazing tale of a computer dork and a popular exciting girl coming together on a journey. Margo is a your average popular girl. Or so we think. She goes out to parties, has a boyfriend on the football team and her popular friends. Q computer geek and his two computer friends Ben and Radar. Q has been crushing on Margo since forever but never really had the courage to talk to her even though their in classes and neighbors. Until one night Margo jumps into Q's bedroom and needs to borrow his car and go on a quest or some errands for Margo. They leave fishes at her best friends stoop breaks windows and exposes he boyfriend who is cheating  with her best friend. Next day she dissapears and this is not rare she has run away many times but this time shes 18 and schools gonna end soon and she leaves clues for Q and he's on his own trying to find her. What's Margo trying to say this time?

  Margo is a little bit attention seeking I think. When her and Q were doing "errands" she said "I couldn't taken someone else but I didn't I took you you should be happy." It's like she took pity on him cause she thought he was a loser or a geek and had no life and that was the most exciting thing that's ever happened to him, and maybe it was but you still don't say that to a person especially if you value another persons feelings. Also she has ran away so many times so it seems she wants attention from someone.

  I wonder why Margo did choose Q she could have just stayed out of trouble just comforted her boyfriend about cheating , and break up with him, told Becca she didn't wanna be friends cause she was cheating with her boyfriend. But she had to go the attention seeking way and run away. Why do people look for that way? Do they really need someone to pay attention to them every single second of the day?

  This book I think really defines what it is to be growing up and how teenagers need attention sometimes and they are complex and misunderstood. And they are going to disovbey  what they are told simply because it's like it's programmed into them.

reading response non fiction trying times

  College graduates are having more difficulty then ever find jobs. We are still recovering from the recent and still recession, It's not just college graduates having trouble finding jobs, although they do have more difficulty then others, everyone who is out of work is struggling. More and more people are getting in debt.

  Why are more and more people loosing jobs especially ones with college education. One example is Kacey   Herring. She has resumes,worked at a law firm  but no jobs have come around for her. She has all this experience but no job. She is highly qualified for a job, she has alot of experienece. Is it because the economy? It might be.

  Also so many college students need to pay off their debt. Many Americans in general need to pay off debt because they have been out of work for so long. The unemployment rate has gone down since 2009 but still 12 million are unemployed. People are in more then 50,000 is debt, You can't really spend much money, and some things you really need to buy, so it can really put a hardship in peoples lives.

 Sp many people have been dealing with debt and unemployment. Yes, it has gotten better but not good enough, these people need jobs to support themselves or others like their families. This could raise the poverty level, and it probaly already has. Many graduates can't get jobs no matter how qualified for a specific job they are, they just can't hire. All that work and talent to waste.
 
 

Fiction Book Reader Response

    Fifteen year old Craig has just got excepted to the high school of his dreams. Finally all of his hard studying has finally paid off. His friend Aaron has a party to celebrate the acception to the school. There's drinks drugs and girls, Aaron gets with Nia (the girl Craig likes) and ever since then he is sadder then usual. Next when he finally starts his new high school  he stresses himself to the max, stop eating, sleeping and basically living. One night he decides life isn't worth it and decides he will jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, but he decides against it and checks himself into a mental hospital. He meets and makes some unlikely friends.

   When Craig first checks him self into the mental hospital it seems he has given up but he has these small specks of hope. Like when he wasn't gonna try to eat, sleep he lost hope. He is under all this stress and it's because of high school, the high school process is stressful I know this because I recently just went through it and I really hated it and I was so relived when it was over, and I know when I get into high school it's gonna be even harder then middle school academically and socially.

  When Craig finally gets out of the mental hospital he's a new man. He's met new people. He has found his anchor. In the beginning he goes to the therapist and she tells him to find an anchor somthing he can relie on make him happy. He finds art. He ends up switching schools.

  Craig has been on a roller coaster, and he has been through alot, at war with his emotions, his friends and his family. It's a big decsion especially if it deals with taking a life. Alot of teens struggle with high school and finding themselves and sometimes they get very sad and stressded out so they make poor decisons