Romeo and Juliet Reflection

Last week, Mr.Dahl required us to memorize a paragraph of lines from the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. This was a very hard task to do, since the play was written in the medieval ages, the English language during that time was very different from what we have today. Therefore it increased the difficulty of the memorizing process. I personally myself did not do very well on this project. Before going up and performing, I could actually memorize the paragraph pretty well, but right after I got up, my mind just went blank. As I memorized five or six lines of the paragraph, I had to read with the paper for the rest since I could not remember a thing in the paragraph. Memorizing the paragraph was already a pretty hard task to do, and now having to go up in front of the class and present it out adds up the difficulty. After finishing the performance, I felt regretful for not spending more time on memorizing the paragraph. Since I guess I got want I deserved, not enough time was spent on the memorizing process which led me to this result.

Movie Cyclops Book Cyclops Comparison

When a book was made into a movie, there are always differences between them. In the movie of the Odyssey, there are several differences between the content in the book version of the Odyssey. First, in the book, when Odysseus and his men were inside the Cyclops' cave, they stayed there for roughly two days. In the movie however, they only stayed in there for about ten to fifteen minutes. Odysseus and his men blinded the Cyclops with a spear, but in the book, the spear that blinded the Cyclops was lit on fire. In the movie, it wasn't. Also, six of Odysseus' men were eaten according to the story. In the movie, only two were eaten. When in the cave, the book talked about how there was music performed by instruments when the Cyclops was drinking, but in the movie, there was none. All these differences are all not as crucial, since these doesn't really change the plot of the movie or anything. Whenever a book is made into a movie, differences like this are very likely to happen.

QuickWrite

There was saying that states "Appearance can be deceiving". In other words, it means that the appearance, or looks of something can contribute the actual information of that something. For example, if you see a person walking down the streets with holes in his t-shirts and jeans, you would be likely to believe that this person is poor and probably has no job. Even though you assume that is true, it might not be actually true, since wasn't holes in jeans use to be a fashion statement? There was once where I was looking through different models of computers in a shop. As I look around, I spotted some computers where I would expect them to have actual good parts in them, but they don't. In this case, the computers with horrible looking outer shells somehow all had extremely good parts and where also somewhat cheaper. Most people would first look at an object, by its looks, it would create a first impression about the object. By how it looks, even if in the inside, it is a wonderful product, if the appearance looks unappealing, it would be likely to create a bad impression to the person.

American History - QuickWrite

There is one moment in my life which I would never forget, it was the 921 earthquake. It was when I was only two years old. While in my sweet dream, suddenly, my mom woke me up and brought me up to her arms. All I could remember was shelves tumbling, chairs knocked down, and random items scattered all over the floor. Since we lived in an apartment, we opened the doors for emergencies and started to run down the stairs. As we escorted to the lobby of our apartment, there were also other neighbors who also escaped down to the safe spot. I slowly fell asleep and then thats all I remembered. As the next day I woke up, video clips of the earthquake were all over the news. Hsinchu was luckily one of the least damaged cities in Taiwan, unlike places in the south, things were bad. Houses destroyed, pipes broken, electricity down, and people wanting food urgently. Even now, the 921 earthquake was still one of the most terrifying natural disasters that have happened in Taiwan.

How To Eat A Guava - QuickWrite

One of my favorite fruit to eat are watermelons. Even though it is one of the hardest fruits to break open and cut into pieces, it is one of the fruits that I like eating. As you use a huge knife to slice the watermelon in half, you could feel the hardness of the shell, and then suddenly the softness of the fruit itself. After slicing the watermelon into pieces, it would be the time to eat. As you bite down onto the fruit, the richness of the juice would spread all over your mouth. The sweet, watery, and iciness of the watermelon can be one of the best thing you can get on a hot summer day. Eating watermelon during the summer would be one of the things that I must do. Since there is no other fruit that can be better than watermelons during the hot blazing summer. Watermelons can be as good wen in liquid form. After cutting them into pieces, throw it in a blender, and there you have a delicious and smooth watermelon juice. The same sweet, watery, and iciness of the watermelons would be in the juice itself, too. Since this is a fruit that can be eaten in more than one way, it would definitely be my favorite fruit to pass through the summer days.

Billy Collins' Poetry in Motion

In the five Billy Collins' poems in motion, my favorite one was The Dead. It talks about what the dead is always doing that we might not know or feel. According to the poem, it said that the dead are always looking at us at all times. When we are putting on our shoes, or even when we are making a sandwich. It also stated that they are always looking down at us from a glass-bottom boat in heaven. The dead also believed that we are looking at them at all times. This poem was interesting to me since it is talking about things that can't be proven. In other words, there can be countless ideas about what the dead are doing whenever they are. They way Billy Collins says it made the mood of the poem somewhat neutral, instead of what I expected to be a pretty sad and serious poem. The animation that was made for the poem was also very interesting. The art that was made expressed the poem completely. As it has the faces of the dead always staring down at the people below, it successfully expressed the poem. This was why I liked this poem within the other four that was made.

Narrative Poem Research

I chose the poem called At the Dance by Judith Pordon. In the poem, it talks about what each of the planets are doing at the dance. The poem was separated in a series of stanzas. In each stanza, it talks about one planet, especially on what they do. The author uses a couple lines, not many, to describe the planet's actions. There are no rhymes in the poem at all, it's just straight up narrative, like a story book telling a story. The style of the poem was pretty old fashioned, it's not the words that was used that was old fashioned, is the way the author uses it. The way the author uses it made the poem seem a little older than it was. The poem creates some imagery of the planets doing the actions that were described. For example when the author wrote, "Asteroids were dashing about daring each other to jump into the pool." It made me think of rock like creatures running everywhere and some are jumping into a pool. So in my point of view, it made a good use of imagery with its work choice. The author also gave the planets some human-like features which made the poem interesting.