Overall my sophmoore year has really been an awakening to what I can do in the classroom, in band, and in athletics. I've got a 4.0 gpa, ran a 5:16 mile, and I'm also going to beat Preston at All-Region.
Thanks to all of my teachers for giving me a great 1st semester and I am really looking forward to a great Christmas break! I have learned so much this year, especially in math, goodness, I'm just wondering how these nerds who made this up sat down and actually...made this up!
Well, overall this semester has been a great one!
Thanks to all of my teachers!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Does Fate Control You?
Fate has been considered a constant threat for ages and people think a lot of the time it controls them. I on the other hand think that you as a person can control your future by what you choose to do. God gave us the choice to do good or to do bad, as in disobey him.
I could walk out of my house tomorrow and get hit by a bullet from a hunter's gun shot 4 miles away and that could be considered fate, but I still could've waited a few seconds and not been hit by the bullet.
In the book Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, fate was a constant threat to all of the characters in this play, especially Julius Caesar himself. Fate was shown to us in two ways in the book: Where the soothsayer fortold the "Ides of March", and where Caesar's wife invisioned his death by the conspirators.
So does fate control you, or do you control your own fate?
I could walk out of my house tomorrow and get hit by a bullet from a hunter's gun shot 4 miles away and that could be considered fate, but I still could've waited a few seconds and not been hit by the bullet.
In the book Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, fate was a constant threat to all of the characters in this play, especially Julius Caesar himself. Fate was shown to us in two ways in the book: Where the soothsayer fortold the "Ides of March", and where Caesar's wife invisioned his death by the conspirators.
So does fate control you, or do you control your own fate?
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Caius Cassius
Cassius was a very pushy leader especially when it came to the assassination of Caesar in 44 A.D. He pushed all of his colleagues into thinking Caesar was a tyrant trying to take over Rome. He knew how to get what he wanted, to lie about Caesar and to convince Casca, Cinna, Decius Brutus, Caius Ligarius, Metellus Cimber, Trebonius, and most of all, Caesar's close friend, Marcus Brutus.
Cassius weaved and moved cunningly around to convince these noblemen that Caesar, a great leader, was a tyrant, willing to kill anybody in his way to rule Rome. He knew to get his way in convincing noble men like Marcus Brutus to kill Caesar, he would have to bend the truth. Told by Cassius, these noblemen tricked and condemned Caesar to death by stabing him over 100 times.
Dieing a bloody death, Caesar moved every Roman's heart against these noblemen, they killed every conspirator, no matter their status.
Cassius weaved and moved cunningly around to convince these noblemen that Caesar, a great leader, was a tyrant, willing to kill anybody in his way to rule Rome. He knew to get his way in convincing noble men like Marcus Brutus to kill Caesar, he would have to bend the truth. Told by Cassius, these noblemen tricked and condemned Caesar to death by stabing him over 100 times.
Dieing a bloody death, Caesar moved every Roman's heart against these noblemen, they killed every conspirator, no matter their status.
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