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What are the main similarities and difference between childhood and adulthood?

 I think that overall there are a lot of similarities and differences between being a child and being an adult. These have a big effect on how people function in the world.

I think a lot of this revolves around the fact that adults take on a lot more responsibilities then kids do. In general, kids get to lean on adults for both support and guidance in their actions. As an adult you are for the most part on your own. A kid can make a mistake but get out of it because of their age. As you grow older you become more and more responsible for the things you do. I think that one of the major differences between a child and an adult is the ability to make a decision that was a long term affects on you. In coming of age you become more responsible for making decisions. For example in middle school kids got to pick and try out for high schools. I think for many this is a big land mark in coming of age because they are choosing something that can effect them in the long run. They are not totally alone in this decision because they still have the help of their parents and guidance councilors. As an adult you are expected to take steps that are important for your life on your own with out the help of others. 

I think that another main difference between childhood and adulthood is the physical appearance and puberty. Going through puberty the body of a child changes to one of an adult, this is a big part of how a person is regarded in the world. While looking more womanly doesn’t make someone a woman is changes how people act towards you. I think as peoples bodies change they become exposed to more aspects of society. In general things become more sexualized for teens even though they are not grown up yet. I think that contributes to the fact that a lot of kids are growing up quickly. Also, changing appearance affects your feeling for other people which affects how you interact with people on another level. I think that part of growing up and becoming an adult is falling in love and taking on a more serious relationship. Overall, I think in some ways this is affected by how you look.

One big difference between kids and adults is that as an adult you are exposed to a lot more and shielded less, parents often form a barrier in attempt to hide their kids from things that are hard or difficult to understand. As and adult people expect you to be able to deal with more and you have to deal with things on your own with out others to protect you. When there is a killer in the neighborhood parents aren’t running to their kids telling them about it and how they should deal with it. Adults have the burden of making sure nothing happens to them selves and the people around them. Also being a child is more carefree, worrying only about what to play, while adults have to provide for themselves. Adults have more burdens on this level too.

I think there also some similarities between childhood and adulthood. One of these is that both children and adults have to deal with relationships. Kids 

can love just as much as adults even if its a different kind of love. Also, both kids and adults go through loss when they loose someone they love. People have different ways of expressing it but a person’s age doesn’t stop them from mourning. Kids also have friendships just as adults do that are really important to them. They both do activities with their friends hang out and share secrets. Friendship is universal and everyone can have friends.

Another similarity between being an adult and a kid is that they can both learn. I think that there is no point at which you can stop learning. No one knows everything and their is always things that you don’t know. Learning is both important to kids and adults because it changes the way they both live their lives. Learning really helps people accept each other and get along better in the world. I think that as an adult learning about certain things can go into more depth but children learn so much just from the world around them with out even trying.

In conclusion, there are a lot of similarities and differences between being an adult and a child. For one an adult makes more decisions for themselves while kids don't have to worry about that as much. While both kids and adults learn things everyday and function in important relationships. In the end there are a few things that separate a child from an adult but that doesn’t mean they aren’t very much the same in other ways.

literary essay on Romeo and Juliet revised

 The story of Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famed plays written by the acclaimed William Shakespeare. Over many years this piece has influenced many pieces of modern literature. One very famous series that R&J inspired was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. R&J tells a 1500’s story of two young people who fall in love that are from apposing houses, while The Hunger Games tells a fantasy story of children forced to fight to the death in an arena. While these stories seem extremely different, the story The Hunger Games seems to have been inspired by the classic Romeo and Juliet because of the character relationships.

 In R&J  there is a unique relationship between Juliet and Romeo. While Juliet is a Capulet, Romeo is a Montague, these two houses are opposing making their relationship impossible. One example of this from the text it “My only love sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/Prodigious birth of love it is to me,/That I must love a loathed enemy.” (Shakespeare 1.4.144-147). These lines are said my Romeo about Juliet when he realizes that she is a Capulet. He is saying that its to late to stop the love he has formed with Juliet who is his enemy. This part of the play is really important because it shows that Romeo and Juliet aren’t supposed to be together. In the end these lines foreshadow what the relationship between Juliet and Romeo will be like. Overall, it also leads to drama later on in the story.

 In The Hunger Games the general public view Katniss and Peeta to be in a relationship that can’t work out. Their relationship can be observed from lots of different angles. The people watching the hunger games on tv believe that Katniss and Peeta are in love, but from the readers point of view it is shown that Katniss may be using their love as a survival tactic. This is shown by the line “One kiss equals one pot of broth”(Collins 261). This line shows that Katniss has ulterior motives, and actually may not be in love with Peeta to begin with. Over time these character’s love strengthens, I think that as time goes by Katniss learns to care for Peeta, loving him so much she will die for him. Overall, these multiple layers of the book create a very interesting relationship between Katniss and Peeta. Through one lens they are two teenagers desperately in love, through another people who care for each other looking to survive. While in the beginning of their relationship it might not be clear, in the end it is obvious that whether it be true love, or love of friends, Katniss and Peeta end up being star crossed lovers.

 The conflicts in the relationships between Peeta and Katniss and Romeo and Juliet are really similar because there is something keeping them apart. In both of these two books the couples are described as star crossed lovers. In The Hunger Games Katniss and Peeta are called “the star crossed lovers of district 12”. This is because they are in love but their love is doomed by the fact that only one of the two can come out of the games alive. In R&J the term of star crossed lovers is used in the prologue foreshadowing that Romeo and Juliet won’t be able to be together. I think the term "star crossed lovers" really has be come a universal term since it was first used in Romeo and Juliet. Its interesting that one idea used so long ago can show up in more modern literature. Overall, I think it shows that the two couples relationships are very much the same because they are described under the same term.

 In conclusion the relationships are very similar in both books, I think that the relationship between Katniss and Peeta is probably inspired by R&J the book. This is showed by the fact that in both books the characters are in a star crossed lovers relationship. I think that the author, Collins, of the Hunger Games did a good job putting a twist on the story of Romeo and Juliet so that it kept the same base for their relationship but took the story to a whole new level. I think that the reader should realize that Shakespeare’s writing has really inspired other authors all over the world and that good books can really change the way people write. For all we know the next big hit might have been inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Literary Essay on Romeo and Juliet

The story of Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famed plays written by the acclaimed William Shakespeare. Over many years this piece has influenced many pieces of modern literature. One very famous series that R&J inspired was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. R&J tells a 1500’s story of two young people who fall in love that are from apposing houses, while The Hunger Games tells a fantasy story of children forced to fight to the death in an arena. While these stories seem extremely different, the relationships between the main characters in both pieces seem to be related. 

In R&J  there is a unique relationship between Juliet and Romeo. While Juliet is a Capulet, Romeo is a Montague, these two houses are opposing making their relationship impossible. One example of this from the text it “My only love sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/Prodigious birth of love it is to me,/That I must love a loathed enemy.” (Shakespeare 1.4.144-147). These lines are said my Romeo about Juliet when he realizes that she is a Capulet. He is saying that its to late to stop the love he has formed with Juliet who is his enemy. This part of the play is really important because it shows that Romeo and Juliet aren’t supposed to be together. In the end these lines foreshadow what the relationship between Juliet and Romeo will be like. Overall, it also leads to drama later on in the story.

In The Hunger Games the general public view Katniss and Peeta to be in a relationship that can’t work out. Their relationship can be observed from lots of different angles. The people watching the hunger games on tv believe that Katniss and Peeta are in love, but from the readers point of view it is shown that Katniss may be using their love as a survival tactic. This is shown by the line “One kiss equals one pot of broth”(Collins 261). This line shows that Katniss has ulterior motives, and actually may not be in love with Peeta to begin with. Over time these character’s love strengthens, I think that as time goes by Katniss learns to care for Peeta, loving him so much she will die for him. Overall, these multiple layers of the book create a very interesting relationship between Katniss and Peeta. Through one lens they are two teenagers desperately in love, through another people who care for each other looking to survive. While in the beginning of their relationship  it might not be clear, in the end it is obvious that whether it be true love, or love of friends, Katniss and Peeta end up being star crossed lovers.

The conflicts in the relationships between Peeta and Katniss and Romeo and Juliet are really similar because there is something keeping them apart. In both of these two books the couples are described as star crossed lovers. In The Hunger Games Katniss and Peeta are called “the star crossed lovers of district 12”. This is because they are in love but their love is doomed by the fact that only one of the two can come out of the games alive. In R&J the term of star crossed lovers is used in the prologue foreshadowing that Romeo and Juliet won’t be able to be together. Overall, I think it shows that the two couples relationships are very must the same because they are described under the same term.

In conclusion the relationships are very similar in both books, I think that the relationship between Katniss and Peeta is probably inspired by R&J the book. This is showed by the fact that in both books the characters are in a star crossed lovers relationship. I think that the reader should realize that Shakespeare’s writing has really inspired other authors all over the world and that good books can really change the way people write. For all we know the next big hit might have been inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Outline

Outline for Literary Essay

1. Intro:

1. Lead: The story of Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famed plays written by the acclaimed William Shakespeare. Over many years this piece has influenced many pieces of modern literature. 
2. Title and Author: brief context or background: William Shakespeare was a famous play write from 1500’s, well known for writing Hamlet, A Mid-summers Night Dream, and of course Romeo and Juliet.
3. Thesis/focus (overall interpretation): The relationship between Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (R&J) is similar to the relationship between Peeta and Katniss in the Hunger Games.

2.Body:

1. Paragraph 1 (observation/inference):

Topic sentence: There is a conflict surrounding Romeo and Juliet’s love in the  book R&J.

Quotation: 2.2.2-5 “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,

And I'll no longer be a Capulet.”

This quote shows: This quote shows that Juliet is in love with Romeo, but feels that she can’t love him because she is a Capulet and he a Montague, she wishes she could marry him and no longer be a Capulet so they could be together.

1. Paragraph 2 (observation/inference):

Topic sentence: In the relationship between Katniss and Peeta from the Hunger Games there is also a problem. 

Quotation: from the berries scene, only one can survive, “ one one of the tributes from the remaining team can be the winner”

This quote shows: This quote shows that between Katniss and Peeta only one of them can live, so their love is doomed.

c. Paragraph 3 (observation/inference):

Topic sentence: The conflicts in the relationships between Peeta and Katniss and Romeo and Juliet are really similar because there is something keeping them apart.

Quotation: In both of these two books the couples are described as star crossed lovers.

This quote shows: This quote shows that there is something preventing the couples from being together, it shows that the two couples relationships are very must the same because they are described under the same term.

1. Conclusion:

a. How does the text relate to you the world or another text:  In conclusion the relationships are very similar in both books, I think that the relationship between Katniss and Peeta is probably inspired by R&J the book.

b. What do you think the reader should think know and feel about your topic: I think that the reader should realize that Shakespeare’s writing has really inspired other authors all over the world and that good books can really change the way people write.

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         The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is one of the most emotionally challenging books for me to read. It tells the story of a boy who's father runs Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp. The book really captures the innocence of a child in this world of complete horror and disgust. I think the thing that makes the book so touching is how unaware Bruno is of whats going on around him.

          I think one way that Bruno exhibits this innocence is the way that Bruno thinks of certain words. In his point of view Auschwitz is "Out-With". This alone shows how oblivious and young he is. I actually read through the entire book with out realizing that he was actually talking about Auschwitz. I became really emotional while reading this book. I have been to Yad Vashem, and it just makes me feel so much more connected to the events that take place in it that ever before.

          Bruno also shows his lack of understanding in other ways. Another example of Bruno's innocence is that he ventures to the fence into the camp without fear at all and talks with a boy who is in the camp. This also really shows that Bruno doesn't know that bad things happen in the camp. Bruno goes farther when he actually goes into the camp with his new found friend. This is one of the most devastating parts of the book, because the reader knows the consequences of him doing this while he has no ideas. At this point of the book, I started to tear up because it really shows how helpless children were murdered with out a second glance. Even the son of the guy who runs the camp can be mixed among the others and exterminated like an insect. It is really sickening to think that this really did happen.

           In the end, Bruno and his friend in the striped pajamas are sent to the gas chambers. The book really shows the innocence of the children so unjustly killed. This book really makes me think about the world we live in and pray to god we can help any child from being murdered like this.



         

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                   The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore is a book in the series I Am Number Four. In this book all of the Garde are finding each other, and finally become the army that they are destined to be. The story deals with a lot of relationships between members of the Garde, and with humans. I think that one big issue that appears in this book is love, and whats really love, and if its okay to be in love with more then one person.

                 Out of all the Garde, I think that Four is the one that has most issues surrounding true love and loving multiple people. One example of this is with Sarah and Six. Four feels that he's in love with Sarah, but then is physically attracted to Six. He hates himself for being untrue to Sarah, and feeling attracted to another girl. I think that it's okay to be attracted to other people because thats how people are, but true love is a different thing. In the book Four's feeling of love is unspeakable devotion, attraction, and passion for Sarah, while for Six he wants to make out with her. I think that Four needs to realize that thinking other people are attractive doesn't make him any less in love with Sarah. I think that  you can't help what you feel with things like that, and it's fine unless you act on it.

             Another time problems with love show up is with Marina and Eight. Marina's problem is her jealousy. She really likes Eight, and every time she sees Eight and Six fooling around she gets upset. I think that a problem she has is that she makes to much of little things between guys and girls. I think this is really true today also. I think that she needs to relax, especially because she and Eight aren't even in a real relationship at that point. I do think that they are going to be a couple though after she kisses him.

               All in all, love is one of the biggest reoccurring topics through out the books. I think it's really interesting to see all the characters relationships grow. I think that one of the messages of the book is to teach lessons about love and problems that come along. I think all these things are really related to real life, and can't wait to see how the story unfolds.

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                      The article "Cross-Breed to Avoid Inbreeding" by James Serpell is about  talks about how selective breeding in show dogs can lead interbreeding which may result in deformities. It explains that in order to be considered “pure bred” a dog must have two pure bred parents. In order to keep the breed line pure, many show dog owners use selective breeding. The problem with this is that there are so few dogs that are pure bred, that many dogs are accidentally interbred. This means that two dogs of close relation are bred, creating mutation, which can lead to deformities  in the offspring. Another problem with the AKC standards for breeds is that they lead people to look for dogs with deformed faces just so that they can fit the breeding standards. 

                     One example of deformities these dogs could suffer from is "defects ranging from anatomical problems, like hip dysplasia, that cause chronic suffering, to impaired immune function and loss of resistance to fatal diseases like cancer"(Serpell 1). I don't think its worth having these pure bred dogs when they are at risk of this much. An example of how the AKC absurd standards  is, "As written, this description seems to require breeders to select for the shortest and most deformed face and muzzle possible, and for show judges to award their highest accolades to the dogs that best exemplify this trend"(Serpell 1). This just shows how people are being pushed to have dogs that are at high health risks because of their appearance. I think that its not really that important to have a “pure bred” dog if it is going to be detrimental to its health. I think that in the case a good answer to the problem might be cloning. This would create identical dogs to the standards, but not risk the mutations of interbreeding. I think the breed standards are gross, and people should make sure their dog is healthy rather then look a certain way. 

                  All in all, I think that people need to find another answer for pure bred dogs besides selective breeding.

Works Cited

Serpell, James. "Cross Breeding to Avoid Interbreeding." New York Times. N.p., 12 Feb. 2013. Web. 6 Mar. 2013. <http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/02/12/the-ethics-of-raising-purebred-dogs/cross-breed-to-avoid-inbreeding>.

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                The book Blue Bloods by De La Cruz tells the story of teenage vampires. The characters are tested by forbidden love, and bonds between people. I think that one major theme in the book is the rules of some societies, especially with marriages.

              One way this is apparent is the love between Schuyler, or Sky and Jack. In the vampire world twins are bond together in internal love, the only one they can love is that other person. Jack is bound to Mimi, but chooses Sky other her. I think this really exhibits how love is supposed to work in other cultures. For example arranged marriages, where people don't have a say in who they love. I think that this is really unfair and love is something that people feel, not what others decide for them.

            The consequences of not following their cultures rules also show up in the book. Sky and Jack are going to be killed because they are in love. They must run away, fighting off constant attackers. I think this is very much like cross marriages between different cultures. Recently I was in Israel and we talked to an Arab woman about the marriage of a Jew and an Arab. She said if an Arab man was to marry a Jewish woman they most likely would have to leave their families, and if a Arab woman wanted to marry a Jewish man was really unthinkable because there was a chance she could be murdered. I think this really connects back to the book. I think it is trying to say that people shouldn't be stuck on marrying and loving people just like them, and if we break these bonds we will be able to get along better.

            I think that a hidden message in the book is that people should love who they want, and not let the rules of their society restrict them. I think its also saying that cultures should become less isolated and friendly so they can work together. I think that in Israel, if there was more marriage between Jews and Arabs the whole nation could get along much better.

Poetry

Sonnet:

A Road to Water

The sun creeps across the golden pink sky
It beats down upon the dusty dirt trail
We trudge along as time passed slowly by
Are water dwindling our food getting stale

Up the mountain we go towards the high top
A water bottle I hold in my hand
I take a long sip and drink the last drop
With out water we can not even stand

My eyes light up I see far away
A river that is sitting, bubbling
There is a shady tree where we can stay
We sit and relax no longer troubling

From the tree drops an orange which is sweet
I fall asleep after eating my treat

Poem:

Gone

there is a room

a room full of candles

where names bounce across the walls

in the dark, but yet light from the glow of the flames

there are trees, thousands of trees

that stand in a garden

the trees of the saviors

the brave 

the righteous

there is a hole dark and empty 

like the imprint of an astroid

gashing into the ground 

ridged

breath takingly

horrific

there are books

books and books and books

they line the walls 

floor to ceiling

seemingly going on forever

surrounding

they all represent the names

the names 

and names 

and names

11,000,000 people

6,000,000 jews

1,500,000 children

250,000 righteous 

gone

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                         This article The Joy of Fungal Sex: Penicillin Mold Can Reproduce Sexually, Which Could Lead to Better Antibiotics by Marissa Fessenden talks about how penicillin which was thought to only reproduce asexually can now reproduce sexually. Scientists think that these new variations can lead to break throughs with antibiotics. The purpose of penicillin is to kill any bacterias that tries to live where the fungi grows. Scientists have though for a very long time that penicillin reproduces asexually even after many years of study, but knew studies show it reproduces it can also reproduce sexually.

                       One thing I find really interesting in the article is "Paul Dyer, a fungal biologist at the University of Nottingham in England, suspected that P. chrysogenum would reproduce sexually if given the right encouragement"(Fessenden 1).You would think that if people thought this could be true they would have tested it sooner. "After five weeks in the dark, the fungi produced special structures called cleistothecia and ascospores, which only occur after sexual reproduction. Genetic analysis confirmed that genes had been sexually recombined"(Fessenden 1).  After extensive studies the scientist  found that penicillin still had genes needed for mating. Therefore, it could sexually reproduce. A study also showed that a gene that controls the fungi’s sexual reproduction controls the amount of penicillin it creates. This means that the penicillin which are having sex are creating more penicillin. The same scientist who made the discovery about penicillin also discovered that aspergillus fumigatus also sexually reproduces. 

I think that its really interesting that scientists can be studying something so closely for so long and not realize that it can sexually reproduce. I think that there studies would be able to show something as simple as that. This really shows the complicated side of science, there are so many details about things its hard to figure them all out. I think scientists have did an amazing job with this and I hope it leads to break throughs in antibiotics.

 Works Cited

Fessenden, Marissa. "The Joy of Fungal Sex: Penicillin Mold Can Reproduce Sexually, Which Could    Lead to Better Antibiotics: Scientific American." The Joy of Fungal Sex: Penicillin Mold Can    Reproduce Sexually, Which Could Lead to Better Antibiotics: Scientific American. N.p., 8 Feb. 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-joy-of-fungal-sex>.

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                   "Learning to Love Grains, Potatoes was Key to the Evolution of Dogs" is a non-fiction article by David Brown from The Washington Post. This article talks about the evolution of wolfs to dogs. One of the key factors where dogs and wolfs differ, is that dogs can easily digest starches wolfs can't. Scientists say that without this ability, dogs could not be our companions because they would want to eat us. The article also talks about statistics of when bonding of humans and dogs began, and the start of the agricultural era. This has shows the importance of a diet on a species.

                  I think that it's really interesting is that both humans and dogs developed liking  for agriculture around the same time. One example is "'I think it is a striking case of co-evolution,' said Erik Axelsson, a geneticist at Uppsala University. 'The fact that we shared a similar environment in the last 10,000 years caused a similar adaptation'"(Brown 1). This is really interesting. Maybe this is why humans and dogs are so close, because were evolving around the same time. You don't really think about changes that other animals went through during the periods where the humans evolved, and its intriguing to see the link between the two species. I wonder if you investigated the connections with other organisms the evolutions would have similar changes.

               Another point that was really interesting was the different theories of why dogs adapted grains. One of these is "dogs evolved from wolves who found a new food source in refuse on the outskirts of human settlements. Eventually they came to tolerate human contact and were brought into the household to be guards, workers and companions"(Brown 1). I think that this seems like a likely story, but we never can be sure. Thats one of the intellectual aspects of science, it requires a lot of careful thinking through, but a lot of things are based on estimations, math, and hypothesizes. For example another theory is "wolves were captured by hunter-gatherers, who tamed, bred and eventually settled down with them"(Brown 1). This too seems like something that could have happened. I can see from these examples that the writer is not very opinionated, instead he's stating the possibilities, therefor he is no stressing something that might not be true. I think that its important in science with certain things to not mix your opinions with the facts.

                 This article really taught me a lot about how starch played a role in the evolution of dogs, and how that there is no clear proof of how this came to be. This article really has made me interested in how people and animals have co-evolved, this hasn't been something I have really thought about before. I would be really interested into learning more about this, and this article has made me more aware to the roles of simple things like a starch in an animals evolution.

Works Cited

Brown, David. "Learning to Love Grains, Potatoes Was Key to the Evolution of Dogs."The                                  Washington Post. N.p., 23 Jan. 2013. Web. 30 Jan. 2013. <http://www.democraticunderground.com/11617843>.

New Moon

                      I recently started reading New Moon by Stephanie Meyer, a book in the Twilight series. In this particular book, Edward and his family have left Forks because they have been there too long. Edward leaves Bella heartbroken after refusing to take her with them, or turn her into a vampire. One major issue I see in this book is that Edward is really protective of Bella, while she feels that she could get along fine, and she doesn't need his protection.

                     One time you see this issue is when Edward refuses to even think of turning her into a vampire. He says that he couldn't live, bearing the thought that he took her soul, while Bella doesn't care about that, she only wants to be with him. Like in many cases, Edward is doing what he thinks is right by protecting Bella. I think in this scenario Edward really needs to consider what Bella wants. I think that if Bella knows what she's doing she has the right to make that decision, and Edward shouldn't limit that. A lot of the time people can be over protective because they love you, but some times they need to give you space to make your own decisions, which is what needs to happen here.

                   Another case of being over protected is the way that Bella's dad Charlie treats her. He considers her almost as a child still, watching her every move to make sure that she's alright. You see at one point that Bella doesn't want that protection, she wants to be independent. I know that Charlie is her dad, but she's growing up and he needs to give her more freedom and be less invested in every little thing she does. I think this would allow Bella to grow, as well as appreciate her father more.

              I think these are important lessons, as an adult, people my feel they need to watch over the ones they love. They need to do this, but still allow room for independence. I think that this is what Bella really needs.