The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew vs 10 Things I Hate About You
1. Shrew (Katherine) - Katarina (Kat)
2. Tamer (Petruccio) - Pat (Patrick)
3. The names of the shrews' sister are both Bianca.
4. Fathers in both play and movie restricts the young one, Bianca, from getting married or dating.
5. Baptista wants Katherine to marry first, as Walter lets Kat date other people.
6. Both older sisters are shrews.
7. Both younger sisters are more popular.
8. In both play and movie, people try to hook up the older sister and the only guy who wants to marry/date her.
9. In both play and movie, the older sister and the other guy ends up being with each other.
10. Hortensio - Joey

O' Brother, Where Art Thou?

My favorite part of the movie, O' Brother Where Art Thou? was when they were singing a song at the radio station. It was great how most of the movie had music in it. Out of all songs, I just liked the song that they sang in the radio station and the stage in front of people. The facial expressions of Everett, Delmar, and Pete were quite funny too. This movie was the best movie we have seen in class so far.

Epic Simile

When I woke up this morning, my heavy eyelids felt like a giganitic 300lb sumo wrestler was sitting on them as if he was to stay there for the rest of his life and as I tried my best to open them, they were closing so helplessely like the way the World Trade Center building was collapsing after the attack of the terrorists.

Wall Street in the 30's

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Wall Street in the 30's

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Of Mice and Men Project

For this project, I decided have a research on the Wall Street in the 1930's. Since I have been interested in the 1920's to the early 40's, I thought the Wall Street in the 30's would be quite interesting too. The Wall Street in the 30's was possibly the worst moment of its history. Because of the Great Depression, majority of people, especially the enterprisers of Wall Street suffered severely. Even though this topic seems quite easy, there could be some challenges that I might have to face.
I researched about the Great Depression and other events relating to it. The topic of Wall Street in the 30's was sort of vague, but I thought it'd be just fine to do a research about the economy of that time since it was mostly related Wall Street. However there wasn't any severe problems that I had to face during the research. The only problem for me was to decide which part of the Wall Street (history, economy, etc.) was I going to find out about. Obviously I decided to research about the economy, since that was the most important thing during the 30's.

Romeo and Juliet Glog

Video: Romeo and Juliet

The love between Romeo and Juliet was severe, and by the time they were seperated, they probably were feeling mad and severely anxious, as much as the video's German child was. As soon as the couple was seperated, Juliet started crying, not because of Tybalt, but because of Romeo's banishment. Her attitude towards her father also changed: she was not an obedient little girl anymore. The German child in the video was calm and possibly excited for whatever he was going to do with his computer, which could be compared to the moment when Romeo and Juliet were together. Then, whatever the child was doing started to go wrong and wasn't really working out for him, which could be compared to the part where Romeo and Juliet had to be seperated. Then, the child started screaming and destroying his computer, which could be compared to the part where Juliet was all depressed, sad, and disobedient towards her father.

Romeo and Juliet Photo Post

Just like Romeo and Juliet couple, french fries and chilli sauce couple is a wonderful couple. The love between Romeo and Juliet is so pure and beautiful, and the combination of french fries and chilli sauce is just harmonious and delicious. However, they are not meant to be together. Romeo and Juliet themselves were just the most beautiful couple in the world, but the world wouldn't let them be together. It seemed like the couple was never meant to be like that. Fries and chilli sauce themselves are just so great and tasty, but they are to fatty, greasy, and unhealthy, and now they aren't recommended to be eaten. Just like Romeo and Juliet's parents, the people who work for health related jobs wouldn't let them to be together.

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Romeo and Juliet: Act 2

During the Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence agrees do marry Romeo and Juliet. After Romeo and Juliet decides to get married, Romeo visits Friar Lawrence, his counselor, who is also a priest, to ask him if he can marry them. Friar Lawrence accepts his request after making sure that he truly loves her. However, just before Romeo came, Friar Lawrence was picking up plants, saying that any types of plants can be very helpful or deadly depending on their use. This scene is quite interesting because the scene seems pointless and boring, but in fact, the scene could be one of the biggest foreshadow of the whole story.
Like everybody knows, Romeo and Juliet end up dying at the end of the play. When the Friar was talking about the plants, the plants could have two meanings: love, and the actual plants (poison). Romeo is in "true" love with Juliet, and vise versa, however, these two lovers' love, even though it is naturally pure and good, it leads the two couples to death. Also, although I am not hundred percent sure, Juliet gets poison to fake death so she and Romeo can escape. The poison, which possibly is made of some type of plant, was going to be the only key of the continuance of Romeo and Juliet's love. However, just by a little misunderstanding of Romeo, they end up actually drinking the poison and die. Just like Friar Lawrence said, plants, whether they mean love or poison or plants themselves, could be deadly.

Friar Lawrence's plant scene is quite short and I probably won't do anything in that moment (besides asking what kinds of plants they are, just for no reason). However, I can compare the plants' usage to my ordinary life. For example, I love eggs. Eggs are known as one of the healthiest kinds of food, but too much ingestion of egg could be dangerous to your health. Like that, there are lots of things that are naturally good, but that can be bad. It'd be the best way to use things wisely so we don't cause any problems.

Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Out of many characters of the play Romeo and Juliet, the most interesting character for me is Mercutio. Mercutio is a best friend of Romeo, who is funny, intelligent, and a relative of the Prince. By the descriptions, Mercutio seems like a friend who would always help Romeo out when he needed him, cheers him up when he is depressed, and always fun to be around with. In Act 1, scene 4, when Romeo talks about his dream that he had on the way to Capulet's party, Mercutio sort of makes fun of him by telling him that dreams mean nothing. He speaks a long speech about the Queen of Mab, and makes a joke. It was never written in the play, but I could assume that Mercutio was trying to cheer Romeo up and put him in a better mood. Mercutio would look like a person who has a funny natural expression on his face. It'd be just fun to be around with him, or actually be a close friends with him since I know what kind of a friend he would be like by his relationship with Romeo.

Mercutio reminds me of a close friend that I had(have), Keon-ho Kim, back in Korea. He was always fun to be around with and was also a great friend who gave me good advices. Just like Mercutio, he made funny jokes, made me laugh, helped me when I needed a help, and was a great friend of mine.

Mercutio: If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

Even though my friend and I never talked about how love is being rough with me, he certainly gave me good advices on other things. Just like Mercutio and Romeo, him and I were great friends who helped each other out.

Premonitions

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, both Romeo and Juliet have premonitions but do not act on them. Usually, when a person has a bad feeling about something, just like those Jedi masters from Star Wars, something bad actually tends to happen. I know for sure that just like everybody else, I too had a lot of premonitions. Even though I can't remember most of them, I certainly remember this one time when I was a little child who started trouble at school, two times in a row.
It was the year of 2002, which is the year when I was in 3rd grade of elementry school. There was some weird feeling that I had during the whole morning on the day when I had all of the three premonitions in a row. To begin with, I argued with my teacher, Mrs. Oh, which was caused by me making fun of a classmate's name being similar to the word "squid" in Korean. I could definitely tell that she was quite mad, but she didn't get me in trouble so I thought I was fine for the rest of the day. However, after lunch (we had several people in the class to bring the lunch tank that was filled with our lunches into the class since we didn't eat at the cafeteria), I tipped over the tank and spilled all the leftovers. This was the second time that I caused a major trouble, and that was the point where I really started worry. My teacher was seriously mad then, even though she still didn't get me in a trouble. She had me clean up the mess with some other friends, but I think now that she was extraordinarily generous. After the last period of the day, I do not know why, but I must've been crazy, because when a girl that was sitting right next to me tried to sit down on her chair, I quickly stole the chair and she just landed on her bottom. I found it very funny, and my friends found it funny also, but the girl and my teacher did not. The girl started to cry and that was when I realized that something really bad was going to happen, since this was the third time that I got my teacher get mad. Mrs. Oh came straight to me, telling me that she could've gotten a serious spine injury, and that I'm staying after school for lecture.
After school that day, I stayed after class, wrote about 3 or more pages of reprimands. I had a tutoring after school, since it was a Wednesday, so I missed the tutoring, and I believe I cried as soon as I started on my third reprimand. Now to think back the memories, I do not think it was a big deal, but back then, I must've been quite scared. I regretted, and still sort of regret what I have done that day-- making fun of a classmate's name, tipping over the lunch tank, and the chair prank. These all could be prevented by controlling my desire to do something fun but dangerous. Well, even though they were some bad things that a 3rd grader could've done, I now think that those are going to remain as just some good memories.

Lion King

The Disney animation movie, Lion King, although it is pretty much known to most people I know, is a story about a little lion named Simba who tries to forget his original identity and live happy for the rest of his life with his friends, Timon and Pumbaa. Simba is the son of Mufasa, the king of the animals, but was chased away by Mufasa's brother, Scar, after the death of Mufasa. He was found by Timon and Pumbaa, was taken care of, and became close friends. It seemed like Simba forgot who he was, or at least try to forget who he was, until he met his old lion friend, Nala. Nala tells Simba that the colony that he used to live, and where Nala and the other lions live is ruled by Scar and his hyenas, and how the land is devastated by them. Simba comes back to his senses, goes back to rescue all the other lions and get his identity back.
I believe that the creators of the movie were influenced on the "mistaken identity" part of Shakespeare's plays. Simba knew what he was meant and wanted to be, but forced to give up those dreams, but actually came back. This is somewhat similar to Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare. Hamlet is a prince of Denmark, and he struggles through his identity and finally realizes what he was meant to be. Although Hamlet has a sad ending and Lion King has a happy ending, I think the whole story is based on the same idea of forgetting one's originality and fighting to get it back.

Anticipating Shakespeare

We just finished the movie version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, originally written by William Shakespeare. The words of the actors and actresses are based on the original version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, thus they are quite hard to understand because of the dead words, and different grammar. They used words such as, "thou," "thee," "thy," which are the older expression of "you" and "your." They also use the older grammar in such way Yoda talks in the Star Wars series. These made the movie harder to understand, although I feel like I am a little bit more friendly with those kinds of words and grammar.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic play written by William Shakespeare. The play includes complicated love, magic, and humor, which makes me think that William Shakespeare was a writer who knew what the audiences are most interested at. Love had been, and still is people's great interest. Shakespeare seems like he knew this and wrote plays and poems about love, so people will watch them and read them. Plus, humor is one of the great factors of this specific play. Everyone likes to see hilarious plays and laugh, and with his great writing skills, Shakespeare created many of the most interesting plays ever known.
We will be starting to read the play, Romeo and Juliet in class. Just like everybody else, its story is well known but only some knows about the details and such. I've tried to read Romeo and Juliet my own, but the words were so confusing that I could not even finish the very first page. I do not know how much Mrs. Gilman would enjoy the two months of Romeo and Juliet. However, I'm guessing that I could like the play, considering the facts that we will find out while reading the play.

Worst Part of Animal Farm

Out of many sad events throughout the story, I personally thought that Napoleon and Squealer convincing all the farm animals to think that Snowball was an intruder, betrayer, and the one who should be killed was the worst part of the novel. After Napoleon used his privately trained dogs to chase away Snowball out of the Animal Farm, him and Squealer started to propagandize all the animals, so they think that Napoleon is always right, and Snowball was on the same side with Mr. Jones. Foolish animals believed in every single word that Squealer and Napoleon told, and later on in the novel, they were killed by Napoleon if they did not.
Snowball was a true follower of Animalism, just like Trotsky, back in the old days of Russia, but was chased away by Napoleon's dogs because he would get in the way of Napoleon's plans to gain and have the ultimate control over the farm. As soon as Snowball was chased away, the farm's process of turning into the old Manor Farm sped up. If it wasn't for Snowball's banishment, the Animal Farm could've been a powerful farm under every animals' control. However, since Napoleon got rid of Snowball, he became the new Mr. Jones, turning the peaceful Animal Farm to the old Manor Farm.

Free Write on Animal Farm

I enjoy any type of parodies, including songs, movies, books, and drawings that talk about or criticize current world issues. Animal Farm is one of the most brilliant parodies I have ever read in my entire life. None of the books that I have read had this great of a parody about world issues. Most of the characters, and even a little thing represents at least something. Also, the way the animals are described, for instance, Stalin and other leaders as "pigs" is very clever. The author, George Owell makes fun of those leaders by describing them as lazy, greedy, fat pigs.

As commonly known, every characters and their actions are based on the real events. The characters do whatever their representing people/things did. The actions that the characters take have meanings behind them too. For instance, the actions that Napoleon, Squealer, and the nine dogs took seems so unfair and incomprehensible. That way, the author criticizes the real people that the characters represent. I just think it is a brilliant way of making fun of those people and I could not be bored of it.