Much Ado About Nothing, but still about something

I think that the play Much Ado About Nothing was really great and there were a lot of things that made it great, from the actor to the lights. One thing that made the play great was that the actors were acing great. They projected their voices and were sure to articulate, which was necessary because the language of Shakespeare isn't as easy to understand as the English language. Also, the actors not only spoke the words, they felt the words. They also used body language and whether they were talking or not, everyone on stage in a scene was using body language to express what they were doing in that scene. The actors did this in such a way, like if they were speaking through their bodies. Another thing that made the play good was the costumes that the actors wore on stage. It showed the actors personality, in a way. Also, the costumes showed the mood for the scene.

One thing that made the play great was the music. Not only was it beautiful music but it set the mood for the scene whenever it was playing. If the music was deep and dark then you knew it was something bad that was gong to happen. If the music was jazzy or if a record was playing, as it normally was, it showed that the actors were having a fun time together in the scene. Another thing that showed the play was good was  the stage setting and the lighting. When they showed the two people in the moonlight with an crescent moon in the background it showed that it was night time. They also used spotlights to show if there was someone in the back listening in on the conversation so that the audience was also seeing the whole part of the scene and not missing anything.

The Boyfriend List (lots of guys that come with lots of trouble)

In the book, The Boyfriend List By E. Lockhart, the main character, Ruby Oliver, goes through tough times when in only a time period of 10 days she feels that she loses everything. The real problem was also that she was having panic attacks and she got them whenever she was overwhelmed with emotions. She wants them to stop but the reason she gets panic attacks is because she doesn't express her emotions. That's where Dr.Z comes into save her. Dr.Z is her shrink that saves her life from eternal attacks. She teaches her how to control them.

I went from being just a leper to being a leper and a famous slut. By Friday,the girls bathroom in the main building had a ton of anti-Roo graffiti, I can only imagine the boys'.

Here she also has a panic attack because she is overwhelmed by the fact that everyone thinks badly of her, not that she deserved it or anything she just shouldn't have let Kim at the boy she was in love with and Kim shouldn't have been a man-stealer and back-stabbing friend like that. If it were me I now I would be mad but I most  definitely wouldn't have panic attacks because I wouldn't put up a wall and not let people see that I am going through tough times, if anything I would tell someone about it.

Another example of a time when she had a panic attack was when she had the party at her house. She had her panic attack because she did many things wrong that night that might regret for the rest of her life. For one thing she drank beer for the first time in her life and as expected did get drunk, but worse of all was that her mom caught her in the act of drinking and was so astonished, she didn't even know what to say to her one and only daughter and child. If I were Ruby's mom would be very disappointed but because at the time she didn't know what her daughter was going through she didn't know that her daughter felt like her life was crumbling around her and felt she couldn't go to anyone for help.

In all, Rubys' panic attacks are caused by a feeling of overwhelming emotion and that was her big problem, but Dr.Z helped her find ways to stop her attacks or prevent them. She told Ruby to take in deep breathes so that she could calm herself before talking to anyone or confronting a situation.

Romeo and Juliet Characters: My Favorite and Why

In the book I am reading right now, Romeo and Juliet, I have noticed a character in the play. His name is Count Paris. This character has his good side but I think it's important to recognize his bad side, as well. He is my least favorite character in this book.

Count Paris' good side is that he is very rich. The good part of being rich is that you can provide for the family you have if you have a family. He wanted to marry Juliet and because he was so wealthy his mother was definately alright with it. Count Paris would be a great provider for Juliet and their children if they had gotten married and had children. So, inall Count Paris' good side is that he is rich.

Count Paris' bad side is that he is very desperate about the whole situation and he is very persistant. I think that it is just disgusting that he would want to marry a little 13 year old girl and have babies with her. Legally in the modern times we live in now, that is RAPE. It is even worse that Juliet's mom acts as if she wants to marry Count Pairs herslef. She tries her best to get Juliet to like him because he is a" man of wax," but in reality his is only the ideal man for her, not for Juliet.

In all, I think that the bad side of Count Paris out-ways his good side mostly because money is great but there is nothing to money if your personality is horrible and the girl who you will be marryng will have to deal with that huge ego for the rest of her life. Count isn't marrying Juliet for herslef, he's marrying her to have children with her and to provide for her, even though she is only 13 years old. I am glad that atleast Juliet's father cares about what she thinks about marrying Count becasue if all she had was her mother she would really have a tough life.

Romeo and Juliette

Dearest friend of mine,

So far in Romeo and Juliette there has been a huge fight between the Capulets and the Montagues. At first, it started with Sampson and Gregory, then Tybalt ang Benvolio got into the fight then people came out to the streets to defend there side. But then, in comes Prince charming and stops all their fighting and tells them, "If their is anymore fighting and you disturb the streets of my city you will pay for it with your life." So, they go off, but as Lady Montague and Montague are speaking Lady Montague says, "Where is Romeo, I am glad to know that he wasn't there at the time of the fighting." This is because Romeo is madly in love with a maiden named Rosaline, so he stayed in his room weeping of how their love will never be. So, Lady Montague and Montague leave so that Benvolio, Romeo's cousin can talk to him amd tell him who is the maiden he so loves so much and they can all know. I have noticed that Benvolio is a person of trust in the Montague's family because not only did Montague talk directly to him but then he told him to talk to his son to get stuff out of him. I've also noticed that this ancient grudge that has been held is not only between the two families, even the people of the streets take part in this fight. My first time reading this book has been great I think that alot of it is interesting, if only it wre in more modern words so that I could understand it easier. I love the passion that they have for everything they do, both the Capulets and Montagues give all their heart to fighting for the side they have been born into. Though, I do feel it is a bit dramatic and hate to see too much drama put into something so unecessarily, though I do appriciate their comitment to each ones families'.

Goodbye Dearest Friend,
Gabriela

Poem "The Starry Night" By Anne Sexton

The Starry Night
By Anne Sexton

"That does not keep me from having a terrible need of-shall I say the word-religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars." Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother.

The town does not exist
except where a black hair tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry night this is how
I want to die.

It moves. They are alive.
Even the moon bulges in it's orange irons
to push children, like a god from it's eye
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die:

into that rushing beast of the night
sucked up by the great dragon, to split
from my life with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.

When I read this poem I felt that it was really different from other poems I've read. I doesn't really have a rhyming scheme to it. It has six lines in the first two stanzas then in the last stanza there is only 5 lines. This poem is an Ekphrasis poem and a Confessional poem. A ekphrasis poem is a poem that describes a mute work of visual art. A confessional poem is a detailed poem about a poet's personal life. It's a mix of both.

The first stanza is a description of Van Gogh painting. Like the cypress tree as a drowning woman into the hot night sky. It also says that the night boils with eleven stars, those are the eleven stars in the painting. It also says that the town doesn't exist, it is silent, that's the town painted on Van Gogh's painting.

The second stanza is to describe how the night sky felt to either the poet or the painter himself. It says it moves they are all alive. I think that means the sky and everything in it are all alive. Then it says "like a god from its eye", I think this was to show the religious side of him that he felt he so desperately needed.

The last stanza is to show and express how it is that he wants to die. "Into that rushing beast of the night" I think he wanted to be one with the sky. He wanted to be sucked up by that great dragon, the beast of the night. "To split from life with no flag, no belly, no cry," he was letting himself die and let go, relax into the deep sleep which would be death for him.

First Sonnet Draft

This is a poem about a special someone out there who loves me dearly.

To see how bright I am I wish she'd see,
I work so hard to try and get her love,
If only she could be that proud of me,
No things would matter not the stars above.
I tell her the truth but it only makes her mad,
She thinks my friends are what make me this way,
To see her so pissed, it just makes me sad,
I wisk I could take a rest for a day.

But everday's hard I try and I try,
To show her I'm smart, as smart as can be,
No need, her love level for me is high,
I'm her kid, she loves me just cuz I'm me.

She pushes me to try to be my best,
So it's alright now that I can take a rest.

Christ Redeemer Poem - El Greco

Christ redeemer,
sitting straight and stiff,
silent and still,
some say he is a myth.

Holy and all powerful,
yet humble and befriending,
peaceful and kind,
soon to the heavens you'll be accending.

He is know for his miracles,
all across the land,
and he shows his holiness,
with the bible in his hand.