Hope

Hope

Is hope the word for a lazy person who needs sleep?

Is hope the word for a fool who is caught up in an absurb fantasy?

If you are reading this, don't laugh

Cause it is also somewhere in your heart

Window in my heart

When you come to me, I run away from you
    
Whenever, wherever you come to me

My heart is closed hardly as a window

Why are you  coming to me?

Even the window in my heart is already closed

Why are you keep coming to me?

Window in my heart is breaking because you come to me

Julius Caesar Essay

     Usually the person who have the power to control like a leader or the high ranking administrator have some trouble or betrayal. And most of reasons are the power. They want to be the leader who has the power that can control everything and who is the best. Also, the people who have the power are trying to use their in wrong way. The Shakespeare's play shows the conflicts between the leader and the high ranking administrators. It shows murder of the characters in his play.
     Julius Caesar was a real person. He was the leader of Rome. Julius Caesar had power as every leader has. He believed in superstitions. He used his power to use people for his advantage. He was ambitious. Brutus was a person who respected Caesar even though he hated dictatorship. However, Brutus killed Caesar because Cassius incited Brutus's pride and induced him to kill Caesar. After Caesar was killed, Brutus and Antony made their speeches. The important thing is the power of their speech. Brutus tried to persuade the crowd. Antony tried to stood on the crowd's side. He tried to instigate the crowd and stir up their passion. It looked Brutus's quiet and logical speech persuaded people at the first. However, after Antony's speech, people stood on Antony and Caesar's side because Antony's speech was passionate and rhetorical. People who joined in Caesar's assassination ran away and Antony won finally. The relationship between the crowd and the power is very important because the crowd is the power.  
     I think the title of the play is Julius Caesar but, the main character is Brutus. He was virtuous and rational. He was the sole conspirator that killed Caesar for Roman honor and freedom, not ambition or ulterior motive. Antony and Octavius knew that Brutus is respectful. Even though Cassius wanted to kill Antony who is favorite of Caesar, Brutus disagree with him and didn't kill Antony. But, Antony's speech made the crowd riot. Brutus was too rational without grasping the crowd's characteristic.

Who wrote Shakespeare's plays?

     I think William Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's play. There is no reason to not believe that William Shakespeare didn't write his play. At the first, some academics and professor believed that a glover's son from Stratford could not have had the brains or education to write the play and they started the suspicion that Shakespeare's plays weren't written by William Shakespeare.

     If they just started to think William Shakespeare didn't write his play because  of the education, it is definitely wrong. He could write the plays even he was uneducated that much. He was an adult. He grew enough to write the plays at least. Didn't he know how to speak his language? Yes, he did. I believe he could write the plays if he could speak his language and he was interested in  writing plays. Also, he could have got talent. Most of people have their own talent. Some people are good at singing  even they don't learn how to sing the song well. There are auditions for that people. And some people are good at drawing  even though they don't learn how to use the paintbrushes and how to make new color with the other colors. William Shakespeare just got talented and he was really good at writing.

     In the other way, I think the academics and the professors could suspect the innocent person. The plays that were written by William Shakespeare was really good and they were just felt jealous William Shakespeare. They start to find something bad from him and they told he didn't have had the brains or the education to write the plays for reason why they don't believe William Shakespeare wrote his plays. I think they just didn't want to believe the truth that  the plays were written by him who was popular.    
     William Shakespeare could need some helps to write the plays if he was not educated. Some educated people could help to write Shakespeare's plays. However it does not mean that William Shakespeare put his name on the plays that were written by the other person. It was just some helps. I don't understand why they don't believe the truth. They just didn't want to believe the truth because they don;t see the other person's happiness.
     At the last page, It says, Shakespeare's longest word is "Honorificabilitudinitatibus" and it means in English, "These plays, the children of F. Bacon are preserved for the world." I don't think this means that. If he didn't write his plays, why did he left the word that shows the truth. He put his name on the other person's play, it means he was not good at writing plays. Also, it means he didn't want people to know the plays. Then he want to hide the truth. But, why he left the word? The word could not written by William Shakespeare.    

Found Poem

Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam

It seemed there was hope for the poor                                                                      

Through the Poverty Program everyone adore

But the money went to war

With it, our boys and sirs

Our rights don’t exist

Yet why must we fight with our fist?

For another country we don’t know

Acquiring our rights is slow

This is an attack on the poor

Kicking the poor out the door

Our rights, they do ignore

But there was some good in the bad

Something that wasn’t so sad

We saw unity between the white and black

Segregation in the battlefield was lack

But now they stand together as a pack

Together, they will watch each other’s back

There are ways to fight oppression

We don’t need to use aggression

There are other ways to get attention

A protest to show our confession

Martin Luther King is the one who changed the world

Now we have a world where our races are mixed and swirled

This is the end of the poem

Of America, our home

 

Edward Snowden Essay

Is Edward Snowden a whistleblower, a criminal, or both?







     Edward Snowden is a whistleblower and a criminal. First, he is a whistleblower. He was the employee in National Security Agency. N.S.A. probably has a lot of important information that are secret. The employees in N.S.A. have to protect the important secrets. But, Edward Snowden who was N.S.A. employee leaked one of the important information and the information was terrible. N.S.A. were recording U.S.A. They were recording and watching everything people were texting, calling, and using SNS. It is definitely wrong. All people have their privacy and it is kind of secret. If it is opened, it is not a secret anymore.

      Some people think he is just a whistle blower. He leaked the information but we had to know that information. I think he did good job. Recording what the other people said, watched, called, and texted is wrong. Nobody has the cause to watch what the other people are doing and try to know their privacy. Everybody's privacy has to be protected and respected. Why were they trying to watch people with recording? People were not doing anything wrong. Usually people are recording when they don't trust the other people and catch something wrong or something that people are hiding. Recording people means they don't trust the citizens even though people don't have any reason that they don't trust people.

     If Edward Snowden didn't tell the truth to people, they would keep hide the truth to people and what people doing would be watched forever. I really think he did great job. He is just a whistleblower who reported the information that people had to know. And most of people are supporting him.

     I don't want to make him a criminal but he is kind of a criminal. He leaked the information that he had to protect. He probably promised with N.S.A. to protect any information of N.S.A. Recording what people said which is leaked by Edward Snowden is one of the information. However he broke the pledge. I think he wanted people to know the truth because he knew that was wrong. He is a courageous criminal who protected other people with sacrificing himself.

Lamb to the Slaughter by Ronal Dahl

     You don't know what is going to happen to you. Nobody knows what will happen to them. It can be good thing and it can be terrible thing. Do you believe your life can finish happily? In "Lamb to the Slaughter" author Ronal Dahl shows something that you can not even imagine could happen and how it is elaborate.

     The main character Mary Maloney was waiting for his husband Patrick Maloney. After he came home, Patrick was in bad condition. Mary tried to do anything for her husband. He told bad news his wife. She shocked and she didn't want to believe. After her husband went to upstairs, she got a leg of lamb from freezer. Then, she took it to the upstairs. She walked up behind him and without any pause she swung. What was the bad news that Patrick said? What did she hear from her husband? I don't think it was bad as she kill him.
     She might just as well have hit him with a steel club. She told herself "So, I've killed him". She carried the meat into the kitchen and placed in a pan. Then she washed her hands. She sat down before the mirror and practice her face looks naturally. She went to grocery shop. She talked with the man who was behind the counter. Maybe she tried to make an alibi because she could set up the alibi if the detectives and policeman think she is a suspect. Then she came back to home and called police station. She said "Quick! Come quick! Patrick's dead!"like she didn't know anything. She said in surprise and urgently like her plan.
     Two policemen , a doctor and two detectives walked into her home. A police photographer took pictures. The detectives kept asking her a lot of questions. She told her story, this time right from the beginning, when Patrick had come in, and she was sewing and he was tried, so tried he hadn't wanted to go out for supper, She told how she'd put the meat in the oven and she'd slipped out to the grocer for vegetables, and come back to find him lying on the floor. The detectives said Patrick was attacked with big spanner. They didn't even think about the lamb. She wanted to remove the lamb that she swung to her husband. She asked them to eat the lamb because she knew that they're hungry. THey ate the lamb. They didn't sense the lamb that they're eating was the weapon she used.
   At important point of the story is the main character planned elaborately and she acted naturally. Also, she destroyed the evidence clearly. The story shows how the main character planned her crime clearly without fail.