Assignment 4

My head was dizzy and my vision blurry. I saw some strange figures all talking in a language I did not undertand and all standed around me. I was so wet and my skin was so burned by the sun. Finally, I managed to open my eyes and to clear my mind. What I was seeing was just amazing. These creatures that now I could see were the strangest things I have ever seen in my life. Their heads were similar to an octopus but had human bodies. Instead of having beard they had these small, disgusting, with slime tentacles. They had to eyes, a big head, a normal human mouth, two feet, hands that had tentacles instead of fingers. Their eyes were human but as blue as the sea. They had the same skin octopuses have and the color of the skin was brown with black dots. They dressed with what seemed the fibers of a banana tree made into a shirt. They talked in a language in which what I only heard was swashi weshi shwashi sheshwa sholosh shicaro. They instructed me to get up and put me one opened coconut in each hand and then attached with special plants so that I could not escape. I was walking with these octopuse-like creatures and what I saw in this strange island was only vegetation and the only part free of vegetation was the beach. I saw all this strange fruits and animals and all the vegetation was so different from what I knew. This whole jungle smelled to humidity, wet earth, and plants. We walked for about half an hour until we finally came to what seemed their town. Houses were shell like and had lots of little accumulations of water. They took me to the bigest shell-like house and I was face-to-face to another octopus-like creature, the only difference was that this octopus had a big leaf taht reached his ankle hanged by his neck and had a shell necklace around his neck. He started to talk to me in the same language I did not understanded but with signs I managed to understand he was asking why I ended up in that island. I tried to remember what had happened to me but I just had flashlights of the last night. Based on what I remembered I told him with signs that my ship was destroyed and I had to swim to this shore. I think he more less understanded me. So he ordered for the other octopus-like creatures to set me free and to give me food. They seated me in this table made of what seemed to be coral but made into a perfect rectangle. They served me something that looked that came from the ocean and seemed disgusting and slimy. For my surprise, when I tried it, it was a delicious meal. After some weeks being with them I started to understand their language. They started to tell me stories, their culture, their beliefs, their knowledge, their name, which is Pulpenians, and many things more. One day te kings of the Pulpenians told me that they were in a constant war with their neighbors the Serpentos. These were reptile-like creatures with, only one eye. This war has endured for thousands of years for the supremacy of the island. So he asked for me to help and I had to say yes because they had been very nice to me. So I help to construct modern wepons and teached tactics to them. Suddenly the final day came, the day of the battle. We were in a plain and both armies were reading for the final battle when suddenly I saw a ship in the distance and it had the flag of Guatemala, the most important country of our time. So I rapidly abandoned battle to go to the ship and finaly leave this place to replace it for my so loved country Guatemala.

Cartoon

I think this cartoon is funny because is describing how most of the people think politicians are: greedy, false, liars, caring only about money, dirty and dishonest. This make a point in telling that politics is just a dirty job in which if you want to win you have to tell lies and be dishonest. Most of the people think this is true about politics and politicians so is a funny cartoon.

My Vacations

Today is finally Friday afternoon. We have the so long awaited vacations of middle year. Today at the night we went to chachi’s house to party all night long. We were celebrating our vacations. I left the party like at 12 am and I had a very good time at it. The next day I woke up and knew that that day would be so different from my daily routine. I bathed, dressed, and prepared my self for a long trip. We arrived the airport and boarded the plane and we were flying directly to Miami. It was a flight of about two hours and in the plane I found Elisa Estrada, Maria Fernanda Martí, Marines Prado, and Paolita Contreras. We changed to seats where we could all be near and we talked the whole flight. When we arrived we had a very pleasant surprise, we weren’t going to Miami! My parents were taking us to Dominican Republic. I was so happy and excited because I love beaches. The bad thing was that the flight to Dominican Republic was of about two hours to reach Santo Domingo and then three more hours in car to Punta Cana. The trip was exhausting but when I saw the hotel everything was just happiness. We stayed at the hotel Riu Palace Punta Cana. I was like a real Palace and was just so beautiful. The hotel was huge and amazing. The moment I leaved my luggage in my room I went out to see the hotel. It was about 12 am and I had a few beers and after seeing the club I went back to my room to sleep.

The next day I woke up and went to eat breakfast with my family. I eated pancakes with nutella and cofee. We spent the whole morning by the beach just tanning and swimming in the ocean. Then we ate lunch and just have fun in the beach and relaxing. In the night I went to have a few drink and dance in the club. I repeated the same process during the five days I stayed in Punta Cana. One day we hired a boat and a parachute and we flyed in the parachute while the boat was moving us. It was a relaxing trip while we could see the whole bech and the forest. This whole trip to Punta Cana was a very relaxing and fun one because I had a great time with my family and also I met beautiful girls.

After this trip to Punta Cana we went back to Miami. We spent three days in the hotel Marriot. During this time we went to shop the three days and eat to a lot of different places. One day we were shopping in a mall and suddenly I saw Maria del Rosario Moreno! So we talked and walked in the mall a little bit. Then after walking some time I found also David Gabriel, Juan Campo, and Erwin Rivera. So we buyed some things together and talked about what they have done during their trip. We ate lunch together and I invited them to come with me to walk in ocean avenue, and avenue in Miami in which there are a lot of night clubs and parties. So in the nigth my parents took me and my friends to Ocean Avenue and while we walked we saw that a movie or a tv series was being filmed. So we walked and saw beautiful girls and then went to a restaurant to eat something. After we finished eating we left my friends in their hotel and we went to sleep. Then next day I was back in a plane but luckily I was in the same plane as my friends I encountered at the first flight. So I talked with them and after two hours I was finally in Guatemala after a trip of a week.

In Guatemala I did a lot of things also. I went so many times to parties and houses of my friends. One week I was out every day. So my parents said I had went out to much and the last week I stayed more in my house. But the week I went out a lot went to sleep to two houses of friends, went to a party of graduation, go to Pradera, and many things. I think this was one of the best vacations of my life and I would not change them for everything in the world.

 

The Last Book I Read

CERN director Maximilian Kohler discovers one of the facility’s most respected physicists, Leonardo Vetra, murdered in his own secured, private quarters at the facility. His chest is branded with a symbol with the word “Illuminati”using a hot iron and his eye torn out. Kohler researches the topic on the Internet and finally gains contact with Professor Langdon, an expert on the Illuminati. Kohler requests his assistance in uncovering the murderer.

What Langdon finds at the murder scene frightens him: The symbol appears to be authentic, and the legendary secret society, long extinguished, seems to have resurfaced. Kohler calls Vetra’s adopted daughter Vittoria to the scene and it is later revealed that the Illuminati has also stolen a canister containing a quarter of a gram of antimatter — an extremely deadly substance with destructive potential comparable to the most powerful nuclear weapons in existence, which if touches anything explodes and can destroy the whole Earth. When charged with electricity at CERN, the canister’s magnetic field controls the drop of antimatter to float in a pure vacuum, ensuring safety; but when it was taken away from its electricity supply, it automatically switched to its back-up battery, which will only power it for 24 hours. The horrible truth is that the Illuminati has put the stolen canister somewhere in Vatican City, with a security camera in front of it as its digital clock counts down to the explosion.

Langdon and Vittoria make their way to Vatican City, where the Pope has recently died and the papal conclave has convened to elect the new pontiff. Cardinal Mortati, host of the election, discovers that the four Preferiti, cardinals who are the top picks in the current papal election, are missing. After they arrive, Langdon and Vittoria begin searching for the Preferiti in hopes that they will also find the antimatter canister in the process. Their search is assisted by Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca, the late pope’s closest aide, and the Vatican’s Swiss Guard.

Langdon attempts to retrace the steps of the so-called “Path of Illumination”, an ancient and elaborate process once used by the Illuminati as a means of induction of new members; prospective candidates for the Order were required to follow a series of subtle clues left in various landmarks in and around the Vatican City. If the candidate followed the clues properly, he would be able to locate the secret meeting place of the Illuminati and be granted membership in the Order. Using his extensive knowledge of religious history, Langdon sets off on the Path of Illumination.

The Path leads Langdon to four major locations in Rome, each associated with what the Illuminati believed to be the four primordial elements of all things in existence: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Upon arriving at each location, Langdon finds one of the Preferiti murdered in a fashion appropriate to their respective element. The first cardinal was buried and had soil lodged in his throat (Earth); the second’s lungs were pierced (Air); the third was engulfed in flames and burned alive (Fire); and the fourth was drowned in a large fountain (Water). After finding the bodies of the first two Preferiti (Earth and Air), The kidnapper is an unnamed Hassassin who is working under the orders of the Illuminati master “Janus”, whose true identity is unknown. Langdon is nearly killed himself in this encounter with the Hassassin, who manages to kidnap Vittoria. Langdon manages to escape.

Langdon nevertheless attempts to complete the Path of Illumination in order to find the Hassassin and rescue Vittoria. His search leads him to an abandoned castle-like structure with an underground tunnel leading directly into the Pope’s chambers in the Vatican. Langdon frees Vittoria, and together they send the Hassassin falling several hundred feet to his death. The two hurry back to St. Peter’s Basilica, where they find that Kohler has arrived to confront the camerlengo in private. Langdon and Vittoria fear that Kohler is Janus, and that he has come to murder the camerlengo. Hearing the camerlengo scream in agony, the Swiss Guards burst into the room and open fire on Kohler. Just before he dies, Kohler gives Langdon a videotape that he says will explain everything.

With time on the canister running out, the Swiss Guard begins to evacuate the Basilica. As he is exiting the church, the camerlengo apparently goes into a trance and rushes back into the Basilica, saying that he has received a vision from God revealing the location of the antimatter. With Langdon and a few others in pursuit, the camerlengo goes deep into the catacombs beneath the Basilica and finds the canister tucked away in a small box. Langdon and the camerlengo retrieve the antimatter and get in a helicopter. The camerlengo manages to parachute safely onto the roof of St. Peter’s just as the canister explodes harmlessly in the sky. Langson was in a lot of trouble because there was not another parachute in the helicopter. Because of this “miracle”, the Papal Conclave debate whether exception should be made to elect the camerlengo as the new Pope. Robert Langdon survived the explosion by using a window cover from the chopper as a parachute and landed in the Tiber River near Tiber Island. He is hurt, but not seriously.

Langdon returns to St. Peter’s and views Kohler’s tape with the College of Cardinals. Langdon, Vittoria, and the cardinals confront the camerlengo in the Sistine Chapel, where the truth is finally revealed. Shortly before the events of the novel, the Pope was scheduled to meet with Leonardo Vetra concerning his research at CERN. Vetra believed that science was capable of establishing a link between Man and God, a belief that was manifested by his research on antimatter. Vetra’s beliefs caused great discomfort to the camerlengo, who firmly believed that the Church alone should dictate the moral creed of the Christian faithful. While discussing Vetra, the Pope reveals his support is due to science having created him a miracle: a son conceived by artificial insemination. Horrified that the Pope has fathered a child, the camerlengo plots to “rectify” the situation. He poisoned the Pope and, under the guise of an Illuminati master (Janus), he recruited the Hassassin. The camerlengo planted the antimatter in St. Peter’s and feigned his last-minute “vision” from God in order to be seen as a hero and the savior of Christendom by those who witnessed his brave acts.

It is revealed that Camerlengo Ventresca was the birth son of the last Pope, conceived through artificial insemination. Suddenly overcome with grief and guilt at having caused so much death, especially that of his own father, Ventresca soaks himself in oil and suicides himself before a crowd of onlookers in St. Peter’s Square. The conclave elects Cardinal Mortati as the new pope.

Last Macbeth Post

Act I

1. List the character traits that influence Macbeth to become a criminal.

The witches: They have supernatural powers to see the future that influences Macbeth to kill the king.

2. List events that lead him to commit his crime.

The predictions of the witches, he becames thane of Cawdor and starts to think he can become King, Macbeth’s wife convincing him to kill the King.

3. After a period of indecision, Macbeth confirms his intent to carry out his and Lady Macbeth’s plan. Write 5 paragraphs describing his thoughts as he makes his decision. What are the reasons for his hesitation? How does he rationalize his choice? Use at least two examples from the play to support your ideas.

At first he do not want to kill King Duncan because he is loyal and still has some moral, but as the act continues Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill King Duncan. Macbeth first think he do not want to kill King Duncan because it would be too difficult of making it without being undetected, but then Lady Macbeth presents him an elaborated plan. Now when he hears the plan he starts to accept the idea. Now he feels he can kill him and that no one ever know who killed him. 

Act II

4. Several times Lady Macbeth tries to ease Macbeth’s tormented remorse with comforting remarks. Describe some of these remarks and explain how they help her and Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth tells to Macbeth to consider it not so deeply. Then she says to Macbeth that deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad. 

5. Write 2 paragraphs describing the mood in Act II. Explain why this mood is appropriate and discuss why it will likely prevail in the rest of the play. Use at least two examples from Act II to support your ideas.

He is nervous and almost getting crazy. He starts to hear vocies when he kills the king. He is feeling most of all really guilty. This mood is appropiate because for most of normal men killing someone would be a very regretful and tormenting thing to do. Examples:

One cried ‘God bless us!’ and ‘Amen’ the other; as they had seen me with these hangman’s         hands.Listening their fear, I could not say ‘Amen,’ when they did say ‘God bless us!’

But wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’?
I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’
Stuck in my throat.

Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care,

Act II

6. Describe how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel about their activities in Acts I, II, and III. Briefly explain why you think both characters change in Act III.

Macbeth is going totally crazy. Now he wants to kill Banquo because he suspects he knows what he did and after he kills him he starts to see Banquo’s ghost. He talks to him and Lady Macbeth dismisses all the guests. Evertime they both are feeling guilty and thinking that any moment now someone can know they killed the King.

7. If the ghost of Banquo could speak, what do you think he would say to Macbeth? Would Banquo care enough about his former friend to give him advice, or would he berate Macbeth for murdering him? How do you think Macbeth would react to Banquo’s words? Write an imaginary conversation between Banquo’s ghost and Macbeth.

Banquo: Why did you killed me? I was your friend and I was loyal to you until you was a traitor to the king.

Macbeth: I was seduced by power! You would understand me if you were in the same position.

Banquo: Still you took my life, the most precious thing in life. The worst of all is that I was your friend. I can just imagine what type of tyrant you would be.

Macbeth: I am sorry I killed you but you knew too much and besides that your son will take my throne from me! I can not let that happen.

Banquo: I cant believe in what you have transformed. You are a monster looking to satisfy your need of power. You are not the person I once knew!

Act IV

8. Which of the following characters (Macbeth, Lady Macduff, son of Macduff or Macduff) arouses the most sympathy? Write which character you chose, the character’s  situation in Act IV, and the reasons for your opinion. Use at least one example from the play to support your ideas.

The character that arouses more sympathy to me is Macduff, more than his son or his wife, because he lost his whole family. Now his family is in another place more peaceful but he is still fighting in this crueld and difficult world reigned by a tyrant. Just loosing a child for a father would surely be something amazingly sad then imagine loosing a child and a wife. When Malcolm tells this to Macduff it seems he is totally destroyed and really angry with Macbeth.

9. Write a few paragraphs describing how Macbeth changes from the beginning of the play to Act IV. Is he more good than evil in Act IV? More evil than good? Provide at least two examples of Macbeth’s words or deeds to support your answer.

He has been good and loyal the whole play, the only thing that changes is that now he is fighting with Macbeth not only to take him out of the power but also for revenge. He has a double reason to fight for justice and revenge. Maybe he is a little less good because he is also fighting for revenge, something that in life never leads to good things.

Act V

10. Are the deathns in Act V of Lady Macbeth, Young Siward and Macbeth inevitable? For each of these three characters, write a paragraph describing the circumstances of his or her death, and explain whether you think the death was or was not inevitable and why.

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s death was both inevitable. Lady Macbeth dies of madness and with sleep talking before the battle. Macbeth is killed in the battlefield by Macduff after refusing to fight him many times. Both, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, were going to die one way or the other. Both were near totally madness and both were physically and mentaly destroyed. Also if Macduff did not won that battle he would have searched for another and if not him another person in order to kill the tyrant Macbeth.

Young Siward was killed in the battlefield by Macbeth. His death could have been avoided if he did not fighted Macbeth in the battlefield.

Evil is as evil does assignment 2

I would make a movie of Macbeth staged as a drug dealer. He was first the chofer of the current drug lord. It would be on the city of New York. One day three persons of the mafia convince him to kill the drug lord because the current one is a bad one. So one day he plans to kill the drug lord with his wife. He gets his ak-47 and first drugs the guards. Then enters the room of the drug lord and kills him. After that the ones who were his friends betrays him and tries to kill him because they were loyal to the previos drug lord. They make an entire army with modern wepons and kill each other in the streets of New York. At the end Macduff kills Macbeth.

Actors:

Macbeth: Al Pacino

King Duncan: Daddy Yankee

Lady Macbeth: Angelina Jolie

Malcolm:  Shaia Lebeouf

Banquo: George Clooney

Macduff: Gerard Butler (King Leonidas in 300)

Lady Macduff: Jessica Alba

 

 

Evil is as evil does

Good                           Evil

Macduff                      Macbeth

Malcolm                     The Witches

Ross                           The murderers

 

Macduff: Macduff is good in the story because he is the one who is risking his own life and his family’s life in order to destroy Macbeth. He has made an army in order to take him out of the power and restoring the peace.

Macbeth: Macbeth is evil because he has killed many people, including one of his best friends, in order to obtain power. He is now just thinking in power and he does not care killing everybody.

Malcolm: He is supporting Macduff and both wants to defeat Macbeth.

The witches: They are evil because they are making conjures and dark things. Also they are helping Macbeth and they were the ones who tempted Macbeth to kill the king.

Ross: He is good because he is loyal to his country and he was the one who went to Lady Macduff’s house to tell her some assassins were coming.

The murderers: They are evil because their job is to kill people.

At first Macbeth was in allegiance with all of the good persons, like Macduff, Ross, and Duncan, Malcolm’s father. After some time he only wishes power and he becomes in allegiance with all the evil people like the witches and the murderers.

I am totally sure that he can’t win his former supporters back because he has done terrible things. For example, he killed Macduff’s wife and children and he killed Malcolm’s father, King Duncan. Ross is a patriotic person and will surely hate Macbeth. I really do not think they will support him again after all the bad things he has done. They are only thinking in the way to defeat Macbeth.

 A great example is Tony Montana form the movie The Godfather. He is a drugdealer. He is risking his own life in order to have money, women, and power. Everything he does is to have power. He do not care kill other people or risk his own life in order to have power and money. Both Tony Montana and Macbeth has lost their normal minds because of power. They just forget of everything else and just focuse on the thing they desire the most.

 

 

Values Activity

1. Hi there son. Now you have finally 18 years old! You are now a man and I am so proud of you. You have no reached an age in which friends are really important in your life. But you have to always know how live your life. First of all never let other bother you. You will see that when a male friend likes to bother you at the first time you confrontate him he will stop. If the problem continues I advice you to warn him that if he keeps doing it you will punch him. If he continues then  you have my permission to kick his butt. I think this is the only problem solving between boys. You only have to do this when you see that someone is constantly bothering you and that you are bored of it, but remember only with boys never with a girl. Always treat other how you would like others to treat you. Never treat bad your classmates because yo will see that eventually one day they will do the same to you. Always treat everyone in the right way.

2. In the television show Two and a Half Men respect is a main theme. The oldest brother, Charlie, is always disrespecting his younger brother, Alan. Charlie feels he is superior to Alan and is always saying mean things and doing bad things to him. Eventhough all of this they still care about each other. Since Alan separated from his wife he had no home so Charlie said to him to live in his house. So they live together with Alan’s son. There are sometimes in which they show they care each other but most of the time Alan i treated bad. I think brothers should treat each other in the best way.

3. I have a friend in school that is constantly ridiculated. This is because he has a big nose. His name is David so we call him Nari because of his big nose. We have bothered him since the beginning of the year and have gaines a lot more of names. For example we call him narinala, mpa(maldito pegue arrazador), nari baba y los 40 ladrones, and many more. I think he do not like to be treated like that but by the other hand he do not care very much. We have bothered him so much that he do not care any more, just a little bit. There is another classmate named Campo that we bother a lot. We bother him because he is like too insecure and shy. So when something happens we always blame him.

In the hands of fate

Describe the fear, the events, and the banquet scene.
Macbeth is hallucinating of him seeing Banquo, he has become a ghost for him and he has the fear that Banquo might be alive and tell the truth.

Explain how knowledge of the future has once again driven Macbeth to extreme action.
He is trying to change what the witched had told him, and because of that he has decided to kill everyone who might know or suspect about him killing the king in order to became King. He is trying to change his fate as well as the fate of everyone else, everything is getting out of his hands, he has definitely become a murder.

Do you think Macbeth is foolish to attempt to control what is fated? Or do you think he is acting wisely? Why?
I think Macbeth is foolish, he is trying to control his fate by killing everyone who might suspect about what he has done. But instead, he is killing more and more and what he believe he had under control now is getting out of his hands and neither him nor Lady Macbeth has control now over what is happening.

In the hands of fate assignment 2

I think that if i knew what would happen in the future to me everything would change. For example if i knew that something bad would happen in the future I would do anything to try to fix it. If something good would happen to me I would make everything in a good way in order that what I saw in the future happens. It would depend in what I see in the future how much I would be affected. Surely every action that I made would be affected for what I saw in the future.

It depends if what is fated is a bad thing or a good thing. For example if I see that my father is going to die in a car accident I would try to never let him drive or do something in order that he do not use his car. In the other hand, if I saw that in the future I would be rich by doing something, I would surely do anything that leads me through that path in order to make it come true. It all depends in what I see for my future.

I think it is wise but it is not a good thing to do. I think this because it would be perfect to know your future and try to change it or make it even better but the thing is that by knowing your future you are just ruining your life. It would take out the flavor of not knowing what life has for your in the future. That is one of the wonders of life that I would not change. Also if you knew your future ou would always try to change it to a better way and by that you would never commit mistakes, which are important in life to learn things about life. For me its better to live and have all the experiences in life, the good ones and the bad ones. In the other hand there are some times in which I would love to know the future. For example wich will be the lottery number, or what would be my future wife, or what would be my job. Of course all these things would be great to know but as I said it takes the flavor out of your life.

It would be great to know the future in things like what would be the lottery number or what you should do to helpt others, but I think that for becoming rich or anything else in the world you do not need to know the future. I think is way much more exciting to see how things happen during your life. It is very exciting to never know what the future has prepared for you. This is what life is about, just living it to the fullest because you never know what will happen or when you will die. You can do anything you want by just concentrating in what you want and making your best effort in order to accomplish it. I can think in only one good thing that knowing the future would have on a person. If you knew when you are going to die you will surely live life to its fullest, what most of the people do not do. You would do all the things you never had the guts to do. I think that is the only good thing knowing the future has. I think that for a reason God created us without knowing the future so for me it is better just living with the rules.