Mcbeth: Act 1

In scene one Mcbeth is fighting in King Duncans war. He and another soilder are walking through the woods when they come across 3 witches, the witches then tell Mcbeth that he will become king. Mcbeth goes back to his couters and writes a letter to his wife Lady Mcbeth explaining the events that had occured in the woods with the witches. He also tells her that King Duncan will be coming to their castle for a short nights stay. Lady Mcbeth then starts to think in her head that they need to kill the king in order for Mcbeth to take the throne. A day after, Duncan arrives at the Mcbeth castle where Mcbeth and Lady Mcbeth make studious hosts and make the king feel right at home. The mcbeths then start to plan out their devious scheme to kill the thing and start to put there plan in motion.

Mcbeth is a courageous character, fights bravely in battles. He is kind hearted and shows this when he willingly lets the King stay at his castle. Mcbeth has good humanity and morals because when lady Mcbeth tries to convince him to kill the king he feels guilty even though he has not done the deed yet and wishes not to do it.

The Creative Hour

3 Reasons to turn down a marriage proposal hmm.. let me think. Well number one I'm underage, so anyone who asked me to marry them I would automatically have to say no because its the law and I'm not of age. I could lie about my age, change the date of birth on my birth certificate so I COULD get married if I really wanted to. Second reason to turn down a marriage proposal is maybe your just not ready to get married. Even if you are of age you  might not be ready for the commitment of marraige. You see all these young people jumping into marraige without fully weighing out the pros and cons of it then they end up divorcing because they wernt ready for it. Whats the point of committing your self in marraige if your just going to break your vows of  "Through thick and thin" through divorce? Third reason for turning down a marriage proposal would be because your parents and family don't like the person your wanting to marry. Imagine being totally in love with someone and planning on marrying them but your parents and family HATE the person. You cant truly be happy with them if your family is constantly raising havoc about them and not getting along with them.

Moral Dilema

The scenario here is I have to choose between saving a historical object or a living human being. Personally I would save the old lady. She may be elderly and  not have much time in her life to live, but she IS living and I would feel guilty taking away the last bit of life she has from her. The mona lisa is just a painting, yes it is a historical painting but its not someones child, mom, aunt, grandma, great grandma. Knowing that I let someone perish in a fire would be more guilt than I could bare, especially knowing how much pain the family would be in. Her life has more value than a painting, it may not mean anything to me but it does to someone else like her family and friends. Although I am a stranger to her, im thinking about the outcome and what her family would be like if they lost one of their loved ones. That being said I stick to my choice of choosing her over the mona lisa.

Witches and Witch Hunts

Witches are often heard of during the month of October when hollows eve takes place on the 31st. Often the question comes up, what are witches and where do they come from?

The word "witch" comes from the word "wicca" which are male and female members of the religion paganism. Paganism is a religion that preaches the earthy aspects of god instead of the traditional christian ways. Anyone male or female that practiced paganism was automatically accused by the catholic church of being a witch.All the accusations lead to a witch hunt. The witch hunt took place in the countries Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex in colonial Massachusetts other wise known as " The Salem witch trials". 385 people all from England, in total were convicted of practicing paganism and were accused of using blackmagic. 150 of those people were from Salem. All members of paganism were sentenced to be hung, and anyone who did not admit they were apart of it or pleaded guilty were crushed to death under heavy stones in attempt to force them to please guilty. During these times the accusations became even stricter. It went from anyone who practiced paganism to anyone who acted sort of "weird" or wasn't like "everyone else" in the community. All this being said anyone who was different or practiced a different religion was stereotyped into being a witch and having relations with the devil and demons and were condemned to death. Back then if you dared to be unique or followed different beliefs you were labeled by the church, a witch.

5 Things I would Grab If my House Was Burning Down

If my house was burning down the 5 things I would grab would be, my cell phone, my camera, my i-pod, my dog, photo albums. ( In no specific order)

I would grab my cell phone because how else would I call 911 without a phone? How would I aware my friends and family that I'm in trouble with out it? I use my cell phone for everything! yes I could get a new phone if it burnt down in my house, but then I would have to re add all my contacts into a new phone and that would take up a lot of time.

I would also grab my camera because it has a bunch of recent photos on it that I wouldn't want to lose. Camera's are also expensive, yes insurance would cover me for that so I could get a new one, but I really like the camera I have already. It was a Christmas gift from my parents it would be a shame if it got destroyed.

My i-pod is another thing I would take because it holds all 800 of my songs on it. If my house is burning to the ground at least id have some tunes to rock out too, to kill time as I watch my house crumble. I could get a new i-pod....but then id have to re download ALL the songs and it would take me a solid week to find all 800 songs again and I'm to lazy for that sooo.

I would defiantly grab my dog because shes our family pet and we love her. Shes been apart of our family for 6 years now and it would be like losing a family member if she perished in a fire.

Last but not least I would pull out the family photo albums. Photos cannot be replaced. They are a one time deal and if you lose them, you lose them forever. If all our photos burned we would have no memories to show our future family members and that would be a shame.

RANT

Id really like to know who started the idea of "The world ending in 2012". The Mayan calendar ends in 2012, yes, BUT do you honestly think the Mayans were going to keep creating calenders for ever? NO, they had to stop somewhere and it just so happen to be in 2012. Its terrible how the Internet, books and magazines have blown the whole idea out of proportion. At least once a week I hear someone say " OH MY GOD WERE ALL GONNA DIE IN 2012!!!" are you kidding me? They said the world was gonna end in 2000, people went crazy, locking them self's in their homes going to extreme ends of being afraid, and did it happen? No it did not. The whole idea of Nostradamus "predicting" its going to end is bogus to. If you look back at all the things he predicted he was only right about a few, so who is to say this prediction is going to be right. You'd think if we were all going down in 2012 scientists would be warning the world right about now instead of focusing on other scientific issues. In my opinion this whole end of the world stuff is going to go two ways, either the recession were in right now with all the bankruptcy will go into a depression and get much much worse, OR the recession is going to come to a stop and things will start to pick up again. I DON'T believe a black hole is going to suck the earth in, or an ice age is going to occur, or an asteroid is going to hit the earth, or a hurricane is going to destroy the planet, or a HUGE weather disaster is going to crumble earth to a million pieces, or aliens come to planet earth and abduct everyone. I do how ever believe that yes we will have weird weather phenomenas because of the global warming, but it doesn't mean the world is going to end and we all die. The year 2012 is going to be nothing more than a new era, evolution will change the ways of things. You can consider it as a " New world" or so to speak.

Top 3 Horror Films

The category I choose was horror movies. My top 3 are, Paranormal Activity, The Fourth Kind, And Amity Ville Horror. The criteria I used to choose my picks were based on, which one was scariest, the one that seemed most believable, and the one that left me in totally shock after it was over.

The first movie I choose was "Paranormal Activity". This by far was one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. The reason it was soo scary was because it was totally and utterly believable. For one the whole story took place in a house, just a normal cozy looking house. The girl lives in the house with her boyfriend and experiences paranormal activities that scare her to death. The reason its soo believable is because the whole movie looks like a documentary, and the people who star in the movie are just average Joe people. At the end of the movie it says "This story is based on true events" so everything you just watched you would be lead to believe is real. By the time the movie was over and I had left the theatre, I was reduced to tears in complete terror.

The second movie I choose was "The Fourth Kind". This movie was also very scary. It takes place in Alaska, so not a very big place. Aliens visit a select few people and invade their homes. The creepy thing is the aliens are not seen. You can never actually see the aliens you are just allured into thinking their there. In that case your imagination runs wild with ideas of what this unexplainable phenomena  is. Throughout the movie these people are visit by the unknown space creatures and are taken. But wake up and remember nothing. This movie is believable because at the very beginning a script roles by and says " Based on true events" just like in "Paranormal Activity". If you believe in aliens or any sort of unknown thing up in space there is no doubt this movie will leave you frightened, because you tend to think of what if it happened in my town? or to me? or someone I know? By the end of the movie your left wondering and thinking WHAT IF.

The third movie I choose was "Amity Ville Horror". This piece was scary also but not to the extent of the other two. The setting is in a house that is hosted by a nice family of two parents and two children. The house is said to be "haunted" and unexplainable things occur to specifically the father who lives in the house. He is taken over by a mysterious need to kill his family, and constantly sees the ghosts that are said to haunt the house. They tell him to do unthinkable things to his family which then leads to him going crazy. This movie scares me because like the other two it says at the beginning " Based on true events", and the setting is in a house with a normal looking family. The scenes in this film are extremely graphic and leave disturbing images in your mind which makes you frightened. I couldn't possibly imagine something like that to actually happen to a family, because it just doesn't seem possible. But when the producers but "Based on True events" in the movie it just makes you wonder.

The three things these movies ALL have in common is in every single one it says 'Based on true events". In my opinion that's what makes it believable and scary the most. People don't usually believe in these sorts of things because they seem so unrealistic, but then when you really think about it, WHAT IF it was real? There have been a few events that have happen in the world that no one can explain. Who is to say that these three things couldn't actually happen? It totally messes with your phsycie, and leaves you confused and full of questions. That's the best part of horror films, your left with the unknown :)

Superpowers

Often as a child you are told tales of superheroes, superheros that have superpowers that are unknown to any normal human. As you get older you start to realise that superpowers are not real and just a fairy tale your parents told you as a bed time story. Although I realise there is no such thing as people with caps, or spider webs coming out of their hands, I cant help but fantasise about what it would be like to have a superpower. If I could choose any superpower to have I think I would have to choose telepathy. Reading minds would give you the power to hear what people are going to say or thinking about you before the words actually leave their mouth. You could never be lied to again by anyone with this ability because you would be able to hear the truth in their thoughts. I would use telepathy to see the answers to test questions ;p I would never fail a test again =) Over all telepathy would be the most effective superpower for myself.