Movie Review of Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet

Rating- 3

The rating for this movie is 4 stars because it caught almost all aspects as in the play by William Shakespeare. by saying so the movie was also very out of date and hard to understand at times, the background music was also distracting and took away from the preformance, and finally the characters seemed to over exaggerate at times. I believe the main characters did a good job at playing their part over all just over reacted or make thing non realalistic at times. Romeo did a pretty good job at acting as tho he actually was in the movie but at time its seemed asd if he was trying to hard to make it seem real making it "cheesy" therefore making it 3 stars but not 5 due to the over reactance of Romeo and other characters in the play. i would not recomind this movie to anyone who does not understand midevil wording or interested in romance movies because that is basically all it is but is the closest movie to the play.

Renaissance Selfie

Renaissance (Artist POV)

I am Leonardo Da Vinci. a well known artist in my town i am payed to paint just about anything and everything my subjects ask for, the current most popular has been self portraits to hang in their home or to be given to their loved ones. The woman in the picture that i have painted is named Mona Lisa she is a woman with plenty of money considering the clothes she’s wearing and that she can afford to have a self portrait made.I painted the womans dress draping over her like a blanket, that is how it is seen in person. As I look closer at the Mona Lisa, the emotionless figure i have painted i notice that this painting has to be the better out of many of my recent paintings. i remember Mona Lisa said she did not have a paying job that she is a stay at home mother and her determined husband tall and strong worked as the sheriff in another town not to far away which this job supported herself and also their two child. When i was painting Mona Lisa i made small defined brush strokes to make sure and get every little detail to be as seen in real life. When i was finished the woman was so pleased with it she told me she would love to have one of her children in the future. I never heard from that woman again after she left and payed me.

Book Blog (out of America) "Rot and Ruin"

"Rot And Ruin" By: Jonathan Maberry (464 pages)

Rot and ruin is about when the zombie infestation takes over the United State and everywhere else on the planet at least thats what the people in the book think because there is absolutely no way to know for sure. People can pay zombie hunters go out and find relatives that are now zombies to "kill" them ( their already dead but like make it to where they are actually dead like not a zombie). Each zombie these hunters kill they get a profit. Everyone lives in cities, the cities have tall fences the surround the whole city to keep the zombies out. The infection started on the "first night" the main character Benny's parents were turned on the "first night" giving him a hatred towards zombies like most other people in the community until Benny's older brother Tom (zombie hunter) explains how it actually is that all the zombies were once people. Before Benny learns the truth about ever thing he is amused by Charlie and Hammers Story's of how they killed zombies in such. After Benny learns the truth is he going to take the family job of zombie hunting or leave that to his older brother?

      So, in my opinion this is an amazing book there is so much going on and its never boring. The is conflict man vs. self & man vs zombie (i don't know what category that would be considered because zombies are people but their not alive so, what category would you think?). Anyway this book has so much going on and i love it because it has so many things that make you think like when Benny's brother Tom is explaining to Benny about how zombies were once people, and how its still not right even though their dead to torture them like how Charlie and Hammer do, and how these zombies were once part of someone's family it really changes perspective. In the start of the book I was thinking like Benny, "why don't they just kill the zombies?" but after tom said those things it really made me think different about the whole thing. Anyway its amazing and i definitely think if you like fast pace books with lots of action you should read it.

The Legacy of the Black Plague

The legacy of the Black Plague

Assertion:The legacy of the Black Plague is the abuse of religious power done by the Catholic Church.
Evidence: The Catholic Church had to find new ways to make money due to the Black Plague and the lose of money being made by he church, therefore making unethical choices. "Church abuses to raise cash: fee's for any services, and sell indulgences, dispensations, and church officials."(Black Plague flow chart).
Commentary: The church abusing their power in order to receive money caused people to doubt religion when before religion was the major part of everyones lives. The doubt in religion gave smaller rankings the chance to challenge the church and lower the power that the church has on society (Smaller ranking being royalty or nobility). The church losing power made them take desperate measure even making unethical practices to raise money for the church them doing so made people lose trust in the church. The church for the first time didn't have complete power over society because people doubted the truth of the religion.

9/11 and Black Plague Comparison/Contrast

The Black Plague and 9/11 could be considered both similar and therefore different. Similar being the effectance on society meaning the devastation that the many deaths of both situations. Another similarity would be the terror that society felt knowing that they were no longer safe. Both 9/11 and the Black Plague were a big deal in history meaning we're still talking about them today we have over come a lot and learned many things from both situations they might not have been positive things but we learned how to deal with them and find a cure/solution for both.

The Black Plague and 9/11 could also could not be any different being one was a terrorist attack and the other a widely spread disease, also 9/11 killing about 3000 people and the Black Plague killing about 50% of Europe. The attack on 9/11 had been planned by a terrorist group called al-Qaeda, not one person had planned the Black Plague it was not necessarily an attack on any certain group or country there wasn't someone trying to prove a point by infecting/killing half of Europe like how the al-Qaeda group attacked and killed 3000 Americans. As most can see they are both similar and different but both 9/11 and the Black Plague will be remember'd for the thousands that lost their lives.

Today's Meet

Today's meet was really fun we should do this more often. The only thing i would do differently is make the tweets more accurate to the story like some didn't even make sense!

My Side of the Mountain (Book Blog)

My Side of the Mountain

By: Jean Craighead George

My side of the mountain is about a named Sam who runs away from home to find his great Gribley's land (Grandfather) that has been in their family for a hundreds years, but no one has lived there for about a hundred years because the family decided that the farm life is no place for a Gribley (Most are sailors). Sam thinks other wise so he runs away in hope to find his grand fathers land and live of the land, while doing this he goes threw many struggles but he learns to over come them and prove that the land is a place for a Gribley.

My thoughts:

In my opinion this is the most boring book ever it was so slow pace and not interesting. The books plot line was so basic and from the beginning everyone knows hes going to live and prove the Gribley's are made for the land like its pointless. I guess it could be interesting to someone that's into living off the land but that's just not my favorite subject to read about unless its like fast pace and really intense and this was the opposite of that for me so basically I had to force myself to finish this book.

9/11 Interview

Summer:”What is one of you best memory’s as a child?”

Arthur: “One of my best memory’s as a young boy is my father taking me to the airport and thats when i saw my first airplanes thats when i knew i wanted to be a piliot”

Summer: “What was one of you best memory’s as an adult?”

Arthur: “ Best memory or well more like part of my career was being a check airmen for an airport while being able to teach other people how to fly”

Summer: What was one of you favorite places you had visited have been?”

Arthur: “I don’t nesasarily have a favorite i have been to many places but the most memrable that i think of alot would have to be when i did contract work for another airline in Africia and flew there for two months.”

Summer: “what are you most thankful for in your life?”

Arthur: “Being here, I enjoy living”

Summer: Try to describe the best you can about september !1, 2001 in the following questions.”

Summer:”What were you doing on this date?”

Arthur:”Um, well i got up and your mom called and said someone had attacked the united states, i turned on the Tv and there on and there on it wasn’t a known terrorist or any sign or getting into war.”

Summer:”What was your occupation or job at this time?”

Arthur:” I was retired,yeah... i retired early from the airlines”

Summer:” You were notified about the attack by my mom as you said earlier, right?”

Arthur:”yes”

Summer: “How did You insically feel when you heard of the attack?”

Arthur:”Um, Pretty sad”

Summer:Did It come as a surprise or did you expect it?”

Arthur:”No, not at all i had expecting something like this for a long time.”

Summer:How did the rest of the day go after the attack?”

Arthur:” like a regular day i couldnt dwell on it”

Summer:”What’s one word that comes to mind when you think of this date in history”

Arthur:”Sad, i felt sad because things like that was happening, it took people to do those kind of things and its not something people should be doing.”

Summer:What do you think emerged as leaders after this attack, or how do you think this affected our leaders?”

Arthur:”I figured they’d be hit extremely I mean in surcamctaces they had to get thier thoughts together too they had to figure out what was going on and figure out how to handle it i have to give them some respect for that trying to put the thing together.”

Summer:”What do you believe the legacy of 9/11 is?”

Arthur: “Present time i don’t believe there is any legacy, just going to have to sit around and and see where world goes.”

Summer:”How do you believe the attacks changed the united states government and military?”

Arthur:”I dont think it did anything for the government or military in that sense they have a set goal for both and it didnt nesasarly affect it in that sense but the again the government in some places was really responsive.”

Summer:” Do you believe it made the military grow?”

Arthur:”no i don’t think it grow at any sense of the word it made it more aware of the things happening in the world.”

Summer:” How do you believe the attacks changed the world?”

Arthur:”It made everybody scared”

Summer:do you believe another attack like 9/11 is possible”

Arthur: yws defenitly the united states are to confident”

9/11 Gallery Walk

Legacy:

Betty Ong calling the flight agence and telling them exactly what was happening on flight 11 while they are being taken over by the terrorists also helping explain exactly what they did to make sure that this flight did make it to where they planned on crashing and leaving the legacy of flight 11 to be more clear and horrific.

Leadership:

Andrew card took leadership by informing the president that the second plane has hit the south tower proving it to be no accident and the United Stares is under attack.

13 Reasons Why (Book Blog)

13 Reasons Why by: Jay Asher is the saddest but best book ive ever read.
This book is about a girl who has been bullied her whole life to the point where she commits suicide but before she does she makes 13 tapes each deticated to a specific person talk about all the things that they had done makeing her want to end her life. After she commits suicide there is one copy of the tapes and it gets passed from one person to the next if they have any part in her death. So when  on person if done with the tapes they have to give it the next person. So basically she made it where the people that made it where she wanted to kill her self had to live the rest of their life knowingly that they made someone so miserable that they ended their life.
genre- Realistic fiction
page #- 320 (hard back)