Spices

Paulette Thao Hoang Dinh

10/29/2009

English1010

Wendy Sumner-Winter

Spices are generally believed to be first used in the Far East, mainly in China and India. The European went over to Asia to trade or buy from India. The first European explorer who sails from Europe to India around Africa was Vasco da Gama. His route made the more and more exploration and trade possible, and it also made Lisbon the center of the European spice trade. This also helped Portugal become a more important country. Vasco da Gama was also the person who made the trade more possible by forcing the Zamorin, whom are the local leaders. There are over three hundred and fifty different kinds of spices all over the world. Then there are herbs and spice blends. Spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, leaf, or vegetative substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities. Then again not all plants are like aglaophotis or tobacco. Spices are added into food for the purpose of flavor, color, or as a preservative that kills harmful bacteria or prevents the growth of bacteria. Cooking herbs and spices are additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally minor quantities for flavoring or coloring. Most people thinks that anything that can help with the taste of food or prevent bacteria is a spice, but that is not true salt also help with preventing bacteria and yet it is not a spice it is a mineral. Spices are use to preserve food in an age where refrigerator is not available. They were also use to cover up the bad taste of food that has gone bad. The other reason why spice is so good is that there is no need to preserve it. "They can last for years. At first people try to preserve it but then found out that it cause cancer so they just stop doing it," said Ella Akuzwe, when she is ask about how spices are use best for. There are still many more ways to use spices like in medicine to cure people. For example, "Onion can be use to help with skin infection once you grind it up. Garlic is use to help lower sugar in the body and in the past it is use to ward off demons," said Ella Akuzwe, when she was asked on how spices were use as medicine. There are also many other plants that can be using as medicine either it are a spice or not. Like for instant, aplaophotis is a plant but not a spice and it can be use to help with fever or the way people in the past to ward off demons and witchcraft. Tobacco is also from a plant but yet it is not a spice. It is use in medicine or drugs.

My Love for you…….

The love I have for you is different

From the love I have for my mom and dad.

No matter how I was told that it is bad,

I still love you to the end of our life.

Now I am your lover then I am your wife.

You are my life, my soul, my source of joy.

You know that my heart is not a play toy.

We are like Romeo and Juliet.

Our love is beautiful like the sunset.

We will be together to the end.

No matter what you is still my boyfriend.

I do not know if I did the sign right,

But I did try to give you the best clues.

Hopefully you will not give me the blues.

Total words: 124

My Love……

The Shakespeare Sonnet Poem

When I look into your beautiful eyes

You have taken my breath away from me.

If you leave me then I would surely die.

We were meant to be together, don't you see?

I want to see your wonderful smile now.

It is very hard for me to see your frown.

Your heartbreaking frown has always made my head bow.

When I can't see you time seems to slow down.

One day seems like weeks to me without you

But when we are together time speeds up.

Each day our love for each other really grew

So much it became much more than a cup.

How did you, my friend, affect my mind so?

Now you are my love but first you were a friend I know.

Total words in poem: 127

Because I Love You…

The Petrarchan Sonnet Poem

Because I care I risk everything

To see you, because of the following

You show me, our love goes this world

It also goes beyond the world's rules.

You told me that you are different from them

Different from all of whom I have seen

You come to me like an angel sent down.

You were sent down to send my hard times away.

You show me there is a place in this world,

A place where I can truly stay.

You understand that I cannot be there with you,

Not every single second of the day

Yet you are still by my side helping me,

Helping me through every day of my little life.

Total words in poem: 115

Depression Is Harder Then It Seems

Why should I live when I am useless? I cannot do anything right. I can never please my parents. Each time when I think about it I feel really sad. I feel like I should just let myself go. I want to leave this cruel place. I want to leave this place so much. I am useless. I am dumb. I am a bad girl. I am the worst person ever to live. All I am in this place is a bunch of matter. All I can do in this place is to take up space. Other than taking up space I cannot do anything else that is right. That is what was put into my head by my parents. They even told me that they do not know why they even gave birth to me. They told me that they rather give birth to dirt then to me. That let me know that even dirt is better than me. I just want to leave this place, but if I do that then my friends who loves me will be sad and I do not want that. I do not want my friends and some of my family members who love me to be sad when I leave. Not just that, I have been told by a close friend that he/she do not want me to leave. He/she told me that if I just let myself go then he/she will be really sad and mad at me. All of my friends are too close and such a good friends to me that I do not want them to get hurt because of me. I do not think that I am worth it. I am not worth it for anyone to be sad or hurt because of me. I rather have everyone forget about me instead of getting hurt. I rather have everyone just live on with their happy lives then to be sad, hurt, or live near a girl like me. What should I do now? I want to leave go but I cannot. If I leave there will be people who will be sad or hurt because of me. Then again if I stay people will be mad, upset, disappointed, sad, and have problems. I was told that all of this was cause by me. What should I do? What can I do? I did seek help for my problems before but still end up in the same place again. I always end up in a position where I just want to end this whole problem. All the people who try to help me get rid of my bad feelings but in the end the feelings are still there staring me in the face. What should I do? Should I just leave and get rid of this for good or should I just live on with my live now and learn to deal with it? What is the right and the best way to go?

total words: 496

A Fishy Story

One day, fishes were swimming with their schools and a shark that lived near them was looking for a mate. The shark was trying to empress his mate by catching lots of fishes for his date with his mate. Finding fish was not hard at all for the shark, because they could catch anything that swims by. The fishes were really mad at the sharks for eating their schools. They started to think of a way so that their schools wouldn't be disturbed and destroyed anymore. They started to think of a plan, it was to go to art school. They decided to go to art school so they could see who could paint the best. They wanted to see because the fish who painted the best could paint a picture of a school of fish on the rock that the shark that lives near them always wait at the morning to catch a fishes since that is when and where a school of fish comes around.

That night the artist fish drew the picture of the school of fish and decided not to go to school. The shark was getting prepared for his date in the afternoon. He cooked soup and breads, deserts, and salads for his afternoon date. He notices that he was missing something; he remembered that he did cook that best meal that he was planning to cook. It was still morning so he decided to catch fishes. The shark decided to use his mouth since his fishing rod didn't work. He thought that he spotted fishes he begin swimming toward to the rock , before he knew it he got jacked up teeth, bleeding noise, and mostly a messed up face. The shark didn't have its date and was too embarrassed to stay and let the fishes laugh at him so he decided to move to other place. Finally, the fishes get to go school same and sound.

Total words: 323

Hamlet’s Wrong Moves Creates His Awful Death

In Hamlet, Hamlet dies a tragic death. Most readers wonder what or who is the reason for Hamlet's dreadful death. Even though some people might say that the person who is at fault is Hamlet's mother, the queen, who is unfaithful to Hamlet's father, King Hamlet or King Claudius with his evil scheme has killed King Hamlet. In realization, Hamlet's action which leads to his death is based on his id, ego, and superego. Hamlet's consciousness from his ego makes him so weak that he backed out on almost all of his plans to kill King Claudius. Some readers might think that Hamlet is mad which brings a catastrophic death to his end. In reality, Hamlet's madness is a bogus. His madness is his cunning way to hide what he is really up to and what he knows. Hamlet is smarter than some readers might give him credit for, even though he is absurd in some cases where he could take action to kill King Claudius. Hamlet's id, ego, and superego cause him to be his worst enemy, because he is the one who brought his tragic death upon himself with his action.

A person's actions are all based on his/her id, ego, and superego. The id is the true wanting of a person. The id only judge a situation with the feelings of what the person wants and thinks. The super-ego is the judgments with society advice or suggestions. The ego is the combine of both the id and the superego like what Sigmund Freud suggests that "the ego looks at both the person's feelings and his/her surrounding to choose which path he/she should take "(15). This also goes for Hamlet. Hamlet looks at both what he wants to do and what other expects of him. Then he chooses which path he should take either kill Claudius at that point or just wait until the next time. Like his famous speech "To Be or Not To Be":

"To be or not to be–that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep–no more–and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to–'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished… "(123).

In this speech Hamlet is wondering should he act now and tell everyone that Claudius is the one who has murder his father or should he just wait until the next opportunity to come by. Even though the ego is the combine of both the id and the superego it is not always stable. The ego is always changing; it does not stay constant (Freud 15). The ego is a combination of both the id and the superego. It can either combine more with the id or it can combine more with the superego. It depends on which one have the most influence on the person, which in this case is Hamlet.

Hamlet is the type of person where his ego is scare, his id is weak, and his superego is not that strong enough to influence him to take action. Critic William Hazlitt agrees that Hamlet is made up of weakness and sadness, and that he is not the type to be cruel; Hamlet is the perfect example of misanthropes" (4 par. 8). Hamlet is miserable because he did not want to come back to the palace because he was enjoying himself with his studies. Critic E.K. agrees that "Hamlet is very educated and he really enjoys reading. He can read for hours without getting tired. The only reason why Hamlet return is because his father passes away" (1 par 2). If his father did not pass away Hamlet would have stay at the university and keep on studying. Once Hamlet return back to the palace he was depress that started his id going toward hatred. Hamlet's id is a combination of melancholy, detestation, and annoyance. Critic Francis Jacox added that "the ghost words bring a spark for Hamlet to have another reason to dislike Claudius even more" (4 par. 7). To add on to Hamlet's id the ghost which is the superego create Hamlet's ego. Even though his father's ghost did give him a motive to dislike Claudius but it was not that much of an influence to set Hamlet in the motion to take revenge on Claudius for his father's death. Once Hamlet's superego adds to his id then his ego turn out to be confuse and scare because even though his id does have hate, anger, and sadness combine but it is still too weak for his ego to be strong and firm. Critic Francis Jacox agrees that "Hamlet was already upset with his uncle being in his mother's room and sitting on his father's throne and the murder of his father set him on the rage to kill his uncle, but because of his mother's feelings he lets some opportunity to act pass" (4 par. 7). Hamlet is a strong person but his mind is weak with feelings for his mother. He does not want his mother to be hurt because of his action.

There is the reason of his mother feelings that keeps Hamlet from acting but that is not the only reason. According to Critic Francis Jacox "Hamlet could not bring himself to the point where he could accept that his father, King Hamlet, was murdered instead of being a 'circumstance and accident'" (3-4 par. 6). Hamlet came back to the palace for his father funeral which he was told that his father die because of a mere circumstance but once the ghost of his father comes to tell him that Claudius, with the help from his mother, has murdered King Hamlet, Hamlet could not himself to believe it. Even though Hamlet could bring himself to expose Claudius to everyone in the court of his scheme that has killed King Hamlet, because like critic E.K. Chambers points out "Hamlet is loved by his people and is in good terms with the court" (1 par. 2), but he's ego could not make a decision. Everyone in the court and the people of the kingdom loves Hamlet because they saw him grew up and they know how Hamlet is. The people know that Hamlet is a good prince and that he is the type that they can be loyal to. The only reason that Hamlet could not make a move is because his superego and his id could not make a decision.

Even though Hamlet's ego does have enough information to act but if his id could not bring itself to believe his superego then there is no way Hamlet could act. According to Sigmund Freud "The ego has limited power over the id. If something is asked of a person to the point where it is too much for that person to handle then that person will either object or be unpleased while doing the task" (108-109). Even though Hamlet does have enough information to just take revenge on Claudius for his father's death but because he does not feel like he can get a firm grip on the task to act that is why he would not act. No matter how many times opportunity comes to Hamlet for him to take actions he back away because his ego could not combine his id and superego together to the point where his ego can make a concrete decision to act. Even though it is true that "a person action leads back to his/her ego" (Freud 84), but if the ego could not make a decision because the superego is not that much of a influence and the id is sort of in the same direction with the superego but could not believe the information that the superego is giving it then the ego could not make a decision. Like Sigmund Freud says, "Sometimes ego and superego come together and superego can work against the ego of a person." With Hamlet, his superego gives him information that he could not believe that is why he could not act. Especially since Hamlet is weak mentally, the information just set him confuses.

Confusion is one of Hamlet's weaknesses but it is not the only one. Another one is that he could not trust love or people in general, because of his mother actions. His mother was unfaithful to his father which makes Hamlet believe that everyone is like that. Critic Francis Jacox agrees that "because of Hamlet's mother's action Hamlet has lost his firm standing on the human world. Her action has completed his confusion on the world." That is the reason why Hamlet decides that he would not tell everyone that Claudius is a murder who has killed his father. Hamlet has lost faith in everyone just because of the queen is not loyal to his father. Hamlet is very dependable just that he could not trust other once he sees that his mother is not that dependable either. Critic E.K. Chambers agrees that "Hamlet is the type of person who would carry-out the task given to him before he think of his own happiness. He put the task of killing Claudius before his love for Ophelia" (3 par.7). Hamlet will not tell anyone what he really found out about the actions that takes place for his father death. "The more Hamlet unveil the hidden secrete that his mother and uncle hid from everyone the more he loses his belief" (2-3 par.3). Hamlet thinks that if he tells people about what he finds out then they would betrayed him. Hamlet believes that everyone, especially the women, is untrustworthy like his mother. Hamlet does love everyone like the commandment for the bible but he makes an exception to Claudius. "The commandment to love one's neighbour as oneself" is within the superego. The commandment made people either obeying it but does make the person unsatisfied while listening to it or they just make a loop around the command" (Freud 108). Hamlet loves his people and the court just that he does not like Claudius at all because of the awful secrete. He believes that Claudius is the one that he needs to kill. Even though his mother is at fault too but because his father's ghost told him not to kill his mother and let the heaven above deal with her.

Not just that Hamlet loves his mother so he cannot even kill her. "After Hamlet talks to the ghost he was taken from everyone point of view. Once he notices the situation that he was in he lost his courage to take on the task that he was given to carry-out" (Chambers 1-2 par. 3). Hamlet discovers that his uncle and mother did kill his father but he could not bring himself to just kill his uncle. The opportunity for him to kill his uncle is right in front of him but he stills cannot carry-out the tasks. Critic Francis Jacox agrees that "Hamlet is the type of person who would reason instead of taking action 'Hamlet has no firm belief either in himself or in anything else'" (6 par. 12). He does not think that he could take on the task on some of the opportunities that was there for him. He will not take the opportunities to kill Claudius. He just takes the time of those opportunities to find a way out of it so that it. He finds a way that makes it looks like as though he have a good purpose not to act.

"Hamlet is the type of person who talked when he should have acted, and acted when he should not even have talked, who with a bosom wrung with sensibility was unfeeling, and in his very passion for justice unjust, who in his misery had leisure for ridicule and in his revenge for benevolence" (Jacox 6 par. 13)

Hamlet is the one who would just rather be in misery because he could not carry out the task that is given to him, yet he will not act no matter how many times the opportunity comes to him. Hamlet will find one way or the other to just to reasons himself out of killing Claudius. Like critic E.K. Chambers suggested that "Hamlet just tries to find any ways he can from taking action. Like when he try to tell Ophelia but end up acting as a mad man when he found out that he could not tell the truth to his beloved Ophelia" (2 par. 5). Hamlet could not even find a way to proceed with the task because he is too busy looking for ways to escape the opportunity to operate his plan to execute Claudius. Even with Ophelia he could not bring himself to tell her what is going on and why he is performing as a mad man.

Hamlet always finds a reason to cancel his opportunity. Hamlet is the type of person like critic William Hazlitt believe "'the one whose powers of action have been eaten up by thought.' He had the best resource to act but he just let it go" (1 par. 2) He plan it all out with the players to act out the scene when his father die but once that conform that what the ghost told him was true he still does not even take reason to execute Claudius. He had some many opportunities like when he could tell the whole court what answer his researches give him or the one time when Claudius is by himself and had his back to Hamlet. Hamlet cannot bring himself to kill his uncle at all he just figures out a way to just get rid of the chance. "Hamlet is the type who is strong just weak when it comes to killing his uncle who holds his mother's heart" (Hazlitt 1 par. 2). Hamlet loves his mother dearly to the point where he cannot make her sad or heartbreaking because he murders the man that she loves. He cannot bring himself to that point of being cruel to him mother. Critic E.K. Chambers agrees that "Hamlet's weakness is his mind and his feelings for his mother. He is smarts but the problem is he uses his thinking at the wrong time. He chooses to think about the time period when at the time being is for him to act" (3 par. 8). He thinks that just maybe it is not the right time for him to act. He reasons with himself to let the opportunity to just pass away.

Once Hamlet gets a chance to get rid of Claudius he finds a way to motivate himself not to take the chance. During the play readers can tell when the opportunity come Hamlet talks to himself about what he should do. Like what critic Francis Jacox notice is that "There is always a 'transaction between Hamlet himself and his moral sense' with everything he does" (5 par. 10). While there is a period of time for Hamlet to act he takes that time to converse between his id, ego, and superego. He thinks back should he take that time to kill Claudius and would the time be right for that action. He thinks to himself, is this the right opportunity to take or should he just wait. Critic Francis Jacox says that "'whatever happens to Hamlet…he applies it to himself as a mean of general reasoning.'" He thinks back on all the opportunity for him to act. Like for the one in the church Hamlet reason himself out of the process because he think that Claudius did not let his father prey for forgiveness before he die so why should he let Claudius get that opportunity to go to heaven. "'Confessedly, Hamlet is sensible of his own weakness, taxes himself with it, and tries to reason himself out of it'" (Jacox 5 par. 11). That is Hamlet main weakness. He would rather think then to act. He is the man that thinks too much. He even notices his own weakness and yet he fell to overcome his weakness to proceed with his task. Critic E.K. Chambers also believes that Hamlet is "covering his weakness with unreal reasons" (2-3 par. 6). Instead of taking his weakness by the head he let his weakness get the best of him. He let his weakness allow him to reasons himself out of every opportunity he gets. He is not a man of action at all; he is a man of thoughts. Critic William Hazlitt agree that "'Hamlet's ruling passion is to think, not to act; and any vague pretext that flatters this propensity instantly diverts him from his previous purposes.' He can get himself distracted easily even with one distraction" (2 par. 6). Once he reaches his opportunity he thinks of how his action can be wrong so he just brush it away.

Every occasion he can get he let it exceed him. He rather have the occasion pass then to take the chance. Critic William Hazlitt believes that "Hamlet is the type who could not reach his goal because his mind keeps on changing. Hamlet has all the resources and the opportunity but he just crosses it all out and let it go because he knows his weakness" (2 par. 5). He knows that he cannot proceed with his plan that is why he just let all the opportunity pass him one by one. Once that keeps on Hamlet cannot complete his task unless he take the opportunity and forget his weakness. "Hamlet is not a character of action or passion. He is a character of refinement of thought and sentiment" (2 par. 4). He is the one most people will see thinking everything deals over instead of taking action when the opportunity is given. He is the type that most people sees losing the battle because he over think the situation. If he takes every opportunity that he has like he did with the way he took with Polonius and the letter that was sent with him to England to be execute then everything will be fine but unfortunately that was not the case. He just keeps up with his performance of madness.

Some readers think that Hamlet's performance is real and that is why he receives a tragic end. Truthfully speaking, Hamlet madness is a fake. According to Sigmund Freud, "Human beings have to go through either one of these stages in life: misery, misfortune, and/or unreasonable assignment" (23-24). Hamlet is going through all three of these stages at once. Hamlet is feeling misery because he cannot study at the university, misfortune because his father pass away and the one who murdered his father is his uncle and his mother helped, and unreasonable assignment, to Hamlet, is to take revenge on his uncle for his father's death. Sigmund Freud also stated that "there are three actions that one can choose to take to make one's life easier; think the best of the worst, solve the problem, or just plain ignore it all together" (23-24). The reader can tell that Hamlet cannot do neither think the best or it nor can he just ignore it, so Hamlet went with solve the problem so he think of a way to solve it but he also think of a way where he will not make Claudius suspicious of him. To solve that problem he acts like as though he is mad. "Hamlet did not want anyone else to know about the truth other than those who already knew" (Chambers 2 par. 3). Hamlet does not want to create chaos within the kingdom so he creates chaos within himself by acting mad. "No one understands him. Hamlet is in the world of his own. No one knows the information that he has discovered" (Chambers 2 par. 4), even if he did tell everyone the truth about his father death no one will believe him because of his acting. They will not be sure if he is in his right mind to be saying that his father was murder. Critic E.K. Chambers point out that "'Shakespeare did not mean for Hamlet to be mad in any sense which would put his actions in a quite different category from those of other men.' Hamlet is not mad; he just fails to act when he should act" (1 par. 1). Hamlet is not what he acts to be; he is just a coward to afraid to act. Shakespeare did not mean for Hamlet to be a mad man. He just wants Hamlet to be acting mad not a real mad man. "Madness is a flower of evil" (Atrens 1 par. 1). Madness is a form of evil. This just adds to the reason that Hamlet is not truly mad because as the reader can tell Hamlet is a good and very educated man. "Madness is what people would combine with witchcraft so people try to reject it all together" (Atrens 1 par. 1). During Hamlet's time people view madness as bad so they did not want to deal with Hamlet when he acted as though he is truly mad.

Everything a person does refer back to their id, ego, and superego. "'Ids and egos have been largely displaced by neurochemical concepts.' People try to explain Madness with science but most people just think that it is just an excuse to act badly" (Atrens 1 par. 2). Ids and egos theory made it difficult for people to believe neurochemical concepts. Scientists try to explain madness with science but it is impossible. "There are a bunch of brain factors that have been implicated in madness could produce the symptoms of madness. But no one can prove that this is true" (Atrens 1 par. 4). Madness is not an easy thing to define and understand how it comes to be. There is no way to prove that a person brain have been impacted to the point where they just go mad. "People believed that when a person behave badly mean that they are mad. Protestations of sanity are often considered evidence that a person is mad" (Atrens 2 par. 9) but that has not been proven to be true yet. A person can behave badly but that does not truly mean that they are mad. They could be going through something or it could be that they just feel like they want it that way. "People will not think that other people can be going through tough time or have problems but they just jump to conclusion that person is mad. It is a weird thing for people to have diseases in the brain to cause them to act a certain way" (Atrens 3 par. 17) People do not take the time to think that for a person to be acting a certain way could be because they are having problems with at home, school, or at work. People do not stop and think about how mysterious it is for a person to act a certain way because of a brain disease. "Madness is very hard for people centuries ago to understand and it is still going on now. Scientists are still trying to categorize madness" (Atrens 3 par. 13). Madness is so hard to understand and to figure out that scientists are still trying to figure it out for centuries and still going on now. They still have not found the right way to explain how madness comes to be and how it is function.

Hamlet tragic is not because of his madness. Hamlet does not have a problem with his brain. Hamlet is in depression but that does not mean he is mad because of the depression. Hamlet may have let plenty of the opportunity goes by but that does not mean he is mad. Hamlet act as though he is mad for a reason like Sigmund Freud say, "One's own feelings could not guide one down a path; one must have had a spark to put the influence in one's way" (85). A person could not just decide to take a path without influence from the superego. There is either a person's action or words can make a person decide to do certain action. For Hamlet, it was the queen, the queen is unfaithful that is why Hamlet acted as a mad man. Sigmund Freud agrees that "sometimes the motive for one to act depends on one's helplessness and dependence on another" (85). Hamlet depends on his mother actions to judge everyone else and because of that Hamlet does not trust anyone so he acts as a mad man.

Even though Hamlet does let a great deal of opportunity pass, just before his tragic death he does one thing that show that he can let go of his weakness and take action. Freud has mentions that, "the ego includes both the id and the superego and later on it can leaves off the surrounding environment of the person" (15). The reader can see this happen to Hamlet at the end of the play after Laertes stab him with the sword that King Claudius poison in order to kill Hamlet permanently. "Before Hamlet dies he actually acts without thinking or reasoning. He actually carried-out the task and did a noble thing by stopping Horatio from dying and save his country" (Jacox 7 par. 16). Hamlet saves Horatio from dying and also pass on words from him to Fortinbras and the ambassador from England that Fortinbras is free to take the kingdom and that there will be no war to fight. Critic E.K. Chambers point out that "Hamlet's tragedy is the ruin of a great person because he did not have the courage to act" (3 par. 7). Hamlet is a great prince and son. The only flaws that he have that cause his tragic death are his id, ego, and superego could not make a decision and another is that he is too weak to act earlier in the play.

Hamlet is his own great enemy because he did not take the opportunities given to him to proceed with his plan. He just finds ways to reason himself out of all the opportunities. His id, ego, and superego makes him confuse and weak. His reasoning is his way to hide the true reason why he cannot kill Claudius, which is his weakness. Hamlet tragic death is not because of madness. Madness is only an act and it is not true. Hamlet is a smart, very educated, and a good person. His flaws that cause his tragic death are his weakness, reasoning, and confuse id, ego, and superego.

total words: 4474

Time to Just Forget and Move On

This is based on a true story. This is not the complete story.

"Should I just leave and never look back or should I turn back around and do as I was told?" thought Ivy. Ivy was at the front door of her house with a suitcase in hand. Her father has just passed away two days ago, and yesterday she found her mother with another man in the bed. She is now nineteen years old and she have a full ride to Georgetown University. At first she thought of how her mother would be very devastated so she could not leave her mother. Then all of a sudden yesterday she found her mother with another man, so now she have other thoughts. Her mother asked her not to leave and that she should stay, but she thought that if she stays here then her mother will be hurt more than when her father dies. She could not believe that her mother was like that. In her heart she loved her mother but her mother actions made her feel like she can never forgive her mother for being with another man right after her father has just passed away. She thought to herself that her father had never did anything wrong to her mother so why did her mother move on with another man. The thought just made her even angrier so she stops thinking about it. "That is it since my mother did move on with her life. I think it is best if I move on now too. If I stay here I will see that man with my mother again. If I leave then my love for my mother will not change. Even though my thoughts about my mother did change but at least my love for her is not that damage yet," Ivy thought to herself as tears ran down her face. "I just need to forget and move on with my life the way my mother had. My father would want me to do that. If I stay here I will hate my mother even more," thought Ivy as she put her suitcase into her car. She planned on going to Washington D.C. instead of listening to her mother. If she did listen to her mother and stay there then later on she will hurt her mother and herself. She rather let her mother be sad and sooner or later her mother will be ok. She did not want to risk staying here then later on hurt her mother and herself to a point where the both of them will never want to see the other person. She cannot let herself make that damage on her mother. She just has to forget what she saw yesterday and move on. She left the house with only a note in her mother's room telling her mother that she was leaving and she will not come back. She head toward the highway toward Washington D.C. where her god aunt is waiting to greet her.

Total: 493 words

Tell or Not to Tell

When I was younger I use to tell my mother almost everything, but now that I am older I start to keep information to myself. Now there is a problem that I am having but I cannot tell my mother. The reason why is because now my mother and I do not have that close connection anymore. I do not think she will understand what I am going through. In the ninth grade I have a teacher who is very close to me who I can talk to, because she is easy to talk to. Now that I am in college I find it harder to open up to any adults. Well that is not completely true, I do have a professor right now that I can see myself open up to her; it's just that I am not sure am I willing to open up to her yet. I use to talk to a very close friend of mine who is like a sister to me but now it is harder for me to talk to her, because we are not in the same college and I am not allow to call any friends. She knows almost everything about me and that go the same for me about her. My mother told me that I should not trust anyone, because you will never know when they will turn their backs on you. For that reason she will not let me talk to my friends outside of school or hang out with them. The thing with me is that I do not truly believe that. In my opinion not everyone is like that. There is a mixture of good and bad people in the world. In every good person there is a bad side, but that also go for the bad. In every bad person there is a good side, so you cannot just judge the whole world because of a group of people. I love and always turn to my mother for advice; it's just that not all of her opinion is the same as mine. Like the way she view everyone on Earth and her view on some other stuff. Like one time almost about five adults told my mother that she needs to be a little bit less overprotective, but she will not listen. In front of them she act like she will listen to their advice, but as soon they turn their backs she say they do not know what they are talking about. Those five adults were some teachers, a policewoman, and a counselor. My mother made it very hard for my siblings and me to talk to her when we have problems. Now I am wondering should I tell her about my problem or should I just go and find someone else to talk to?

Total: 471

Evaluation on DNA Databases

This article was about how the discovery, on September tenth of nineteen eighty-four in Britain by a British scientist Alec Jeffreys, found out that members of a family have different DNA but also have some similarities between the parents and the child. Each person's DNA is unique but there are still similarities between family members in certain area, except identical twins whom are sharing the same DNA. DNA does not tell race but it show information that is very useful to the police if they are finding a certain person. This discovery was found with the help of the information within the police's files, the Britain's DNA databases.

The British policemen or women collected DNA sample from any criminal they captured and collected it into the database no matter if they were guilty or not. The FBI of the United States has the world largest DNA databases and it was set up in 1995 and holds about eight percent of the United States' population which would be about around twenty-four millions people. The data was use to either catch a criminal or to find relatives. The DNA has helped "solved seventeen thousands crimes in Britain including eighty-three killings and a hundred and eighty four rapes" (Lawless ppo. 1 par. 7). Yet, even though FBI has plenty of DNA data they are still expanding the databases by collecting more and more DNA from criminals they had caught and innocent people whom they thought were criminals. The information that was six point seven million profiles will now be expected to grow more to about one point two million or more by two thousand and twelve. This mean there will be more and more invasion into other people's privacy. People in the twenty first centuries are trying to protect their private information and identities. Yet, people, who are arrested no matter if they have committed a crime or not, DNAs are being collected by the FBI without their permission.

In Britain, even children at the age of ten also have their DNA recorded into the databases. This is invading into the personal information of other people but it also helped the police find the true criminals to the crime and found lost family members. To some people this was a way to invading the privacy of other and it is wrong, but within the scientist and some other people this was a brilliant discovery to help policemen and women find the criminal and lost family members. Jeffreys fears that police will use the information to brand innocent people or future criminals. "Jeffreys, 59, said about 800,000 innocent people are on the database, raising fears of 'discrimination, breach of genetic privacy, stigmatization - there's a whole host of issues here"' (Lawless ppo. 1 par. 5).

Women who were rap found the criminal by the DNA left behind by the culprit. Killing crimes solved by the DNA found at the crime scene. Family members lost but found thanks to the DNA information from the family members. That is the good side but the bad side of collecting DNA samples is also like collecting the person's identity and personal information, like who are their family members and other personal information usually doctor will know after a check-up. The main lesson was that collecting data can help so much like solving crime and finding lost members but it is also our personal information that is being collected for research or files that can be looked up anytime.

total: 580 words

New Story but also Old

This is a story I wrote last year in AP English class. This story is about how I think the afterlife of Edna and Macbeth will be and how they will meet even though they are from different story or play. Hope you enjoy!

 

Edna wakes up and finds herself in a beautiful field next to a creek. She notices that at the end of the field is a bright light. The creek seems to be flowing towards the light. Edna gets up and starts to follow the creek towards the light. She does not know why but the light seems very welcoming to her.

On the other side of the field, in the forest, Lady Macbeth starts to get up. She notices that there are trees surrounding her in the darkness. There is some light up ahead, and she begins to approach it. She does not want to be in the dark anymore. As she emerges from the forest, she sees a beautiful field and just a few yards away is a bright light. The bright light seems to be welcoming her to it.

    As the two ladies walk toward the light they do not know that they will end up meeting each other, nor did they know that they are being judged to see whether will they end up going to the glorious heaven above or will they end up going to the infernal abyss.

    Once Edna is in the light she sees another lady there with her. This lady does not look like any women she knows. This lady has on a dress is ancient but of excellent quality and she seems like she has been running.

    When Lady Macbeth finally reaches the light she also sees another lady there and is looking at her. This lady looks different. She does not look royal or anything. Her dress is ok but it is nothing that Lady Macbeth ever seen. The dress is flowing like a nightgown but instead of being white it has a yellowish color in it and designs of flowers on it.

    After observing the lady Edna walks up to her to introduce herself.

Edna: Hello. My name is Edna. What is your name?

Lady Macbeth: I am called Lady Macbeth. What garment is this thou are wearing?

    Edna is surprised with the language that this lady is using, but to be polite she answer the lady strange question.

Edna: Do you mean my dress?

Lady Macbeth: Yes, thou garment is weird it is neither of royalty nor of any peasant I know. Where art thou from?

    Again Edna is surprised with the way this Lady Macbeth carries herself and the statement she use.

Edna: Well, I am from New Orleans. This is the type of dress that is worn by ladies from where I live. Where are you from?

    Lady Macbeth does not like the way this Edna is addressing her. She is, after all, Lady Macbeth and this lady is not of royalty, but she answers the lady question anyway.

Lady Macbeth: I am from King Duncan's kingdom where my (aside: unmanly) husband is the Thane of Cawdor.

Edna: You are from a kingdom?

Lady Macbeth: Yes, why are thou so surprise? Have thou never heard nor seen a kingdom before?

Edna: No, because where I am from there is no king or queen so there is no kingdom.

    Lady Macbeth is surprised with the words that are coming from Edna. (Lady Macbeth thinks to herself)

Lady Macbeth: What nonsense is this girl telling me? No kingdom? What world is this?

    While this is going on an angel sent by God to announce his judgment for these two women has just arrived with God's words.

(Angel enters)

Angel: Lady Macbeth wife of Macbeth.

    Lady Macbeth and Edna both look up at the source of the sound and find that an angel is looking at them.

Angel: By God's words you tempted your husband to kill the innocent lives of other and you even commit suicide. You took control over your husband most of the time and you did not appreciate God for creating you as a woman. You took control to be a man. You have destroyed God's creation and you show no appreciation to God. For that you are to be sent to the Devil for all eternity in the third ring. Edna Pontellier wife of Leonce Pontellier.

    Edna looks up with horror. She is afraid to hear what she will be given. In the background, Lady Macbeth is crying. She is really upset with her punishment that is given to her.

Angel: You did not do your duty as a mother to your children nor did you do your duty as a wife to your husband. You left them to live on your own and have a fling with Robert. Then afterwards you commit suicide. You, too, did not show appreciation to God's creation. You are to be sent to the third ring of hell for eternity also.

    The next thing Edna and Lady Macbeth know, they sees a flash of lights and the ground underneath them open up and swallow them. The next thing is that they hear screaming all around.

Everyone: (scream)

    They also smell something horrible. There is a smell of feces and something burning. Then they hit the ground and there is something raining on them and it is not water. They notice it is feces raining on them.

Lady Macbeth: No, I did not mean to do it. No…………………………….!

    Edna could not say anything. She is too shock and upset. While Lady Macbeth and Edna run from the feces, which are impossible because it is everywhere, they try to comfort each other but Edna is the one who is doing the comforting the most.

Edna: Lady Macbeth please stops crying. We will have to deal with this for eternity. Please stop.

Lady Macbeth: No, I do not want this.

    To get Lady Macbeth's mind away from all of this Edna asks her some questions.

Edna: Uhm…….Lady Macbeth. I heard the angel say that you tempted your husband to kill so what did you do?

Lady Macbeth: Macbeth is too weak. He wants to be king yet he will not take the action to be king. So I came up with a plan to kill King Duncan. Then he took it on his own from that point on to kill the other people. He is not a good hider so I have to step in to help him from revealing the truth of his doing.

    After hearing Lady Macbeth's story, Edna is shock of what this lady next to her is capable of doing.

Edna: After that you commit suicide?

Lady Macbeth: Each night I go to sleep and I keep seeing the people that Macbeth has killed. I also see blood on my hands. King Duncan's blood is all over my hands. The old man has a lot of blood. I cannot wash off the blood not can I get rid of the blood scent. I could not stand it anymore so I just have to leave.

    Edna is really shock hearing Lady Macbeth's story. Then Lady Macbeth asks Edna some questions.

Lady Macbeth: I have told thou my story so what are thou reason to leave? What happen to thou husband and children? What is this about Sir Robert?

Edna: I feel like I do not have anything else or anybody since Robert left me. In order for me to get my happiness back I went to the beach that I met Robert. It is the place that I swim for the first time. It also holds all the memories that Robert and I share. I start to swim out into the ocean and did not stop. Even though I was tired I just kept on swimming until my life flash in front of me. I still love him and I will remember him for eternity.

(Lady Macbeth stares at Edna and say to her.)

Lady Macbeth: Thou leave because of a man not loving thou?

    Lady Macbeth is shock. She cannot understand this lady. As they spend their eternity together Edna and Lady Macbeth get to know each other more and more. At first they did not understand each other and why the other did what they did before their suicidal death. As the years past and they gets to understand each other more they understand why the other did those actions.

Total in the story: 1,374 words

Total in this blog without total: 1,418 words

A Poem about a Bird

This poem is about a bird but it also has another message.

The Little Bird

The little bird always loves his house.

No matter how far away the little bird flies,

His love for his house always makes him want to go back.

He always goes back to his house where his heart is being held.

The little bird needs his house so that he would be complete.

His house is a part of him, without his house he could not be happy.

His house is a shelter for his heart.

His house is always there for him,

Even though no one or non-thing else wants him,

The house stills want the little bird.

total on the poem: 102 words

total on this blog (not including total): 133 words

Two Poems about a Maiden and One about Her Tale

The Maiden

The maiden is stylish and intelligent.

Everyone who knows her says she is brilliant.

She is love by everyone she meets.

She is one of the best athletes.

Unfortunately for her, she is still unwed.

Her smiles help keeps her secretes unsaid.

She has very long curly brown hair.

When she run her hair would flow through air.

Guys usually look at her red lips.

That shape like a heart when she takes a sip.

She is now on her way to Wolfchase Mall.

On her way she tells a tale for all.

The Maiden's Tale

There once was a man who was wedded to a lady.

His beautiful young wife name is Amy.

He thought she loved him to the very end.

To his surprise she left him for her new boyfriend.

When he found out he was so sad that he cry for the first time in his life.

His sister and her family fear that he would go crazy so they hid his knife.

After years of sadness he finally found a new girlfriend.

His new girlfriend tries to help him amend.

With her determination she finally mend her lover's brokenhearted.

The young man did not know that his new girlfriend was that smart.

After years of being together, the young man asks for his lover's hand in marriage.

After the young man asks his lover's for her hand she left and leaves him one message.

It say that in order for them to get marry he have to find one thing that she would never part from.

He was given three tries and on his first he say that it was her cat name Tom.

She replies to him that it was wrong.

He thought about her message and then starts his quest but it took very long.

Then he came back for his second try and say that it was her life.

Again she says that he was wrong which makes him think will he ever get a wife.

He then tries again to find out the answer to her quest for him.

While he was out on his quest he bumps into his best friend Jim.

Jim asks the young man what was he doing and the man reply "I am on a quest".

After Jim was told of the quest Jim gave his best friend a suggestion to go west.

Jim told his friend that there is a man in the west of the town who can help.

As the young man travel he found some kelp.

For some reason the young man feel like he need to keep some.

When he reaches the man place he was given a quest which is to find some kelp for the man album.

Luckily he has kept some of the kelp so he gave it to the man for an answer to his quest.

The man tell the young man the answer and also to dress in his best.

He then return to his lover and tell her the answer is that there is nothing she can never part from.

She nod and tell him that he was right which makes him happy like the way he was at his prom.

total: 562 words