Today we finished Act II and began reading Act III, which was followed by a class discussion. The rest of the period was spent working on your Act III Quote Search, which was due at the end of class today. If you were absent, please click here to download.Remember:
1. You will have a quiz on Monday that covers Acts I and II in the play. You will need to be able to identify and analyze some important passages and characters, as well as some key terms (foil, sonnet form, iambic pentameter, foreshadowing, metaphor, simile, etc.) and some basic Shakespeare facts.
2. Your blog assignment is due next Tuesday, 9/21. Scroll down to Monday's
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Predestination
Martin Pinto
In the book of Romeo and Juliet, these two teenagers fall in love and according to the prologue their lives were already mapped out in the stars and they were going to dye. That is known as pre-destination. Because the United States of America is a free country, and has many cultures in it that people brought along with them when moving to the U.S.A, people might or might not believe in Pre-destination.
To begin with, the U.S.A is a free country where anybody can believe whatever he or she wants. Many people can still believe in pre-destination in any way or form. One example, is those people that can read your hand or can tell your future by just looking at you. That’s some type of pre-destination belief. Also there could be some people that still practice the original star reading thing. Some people come up to a couple and say, “ you two were meant for each other.” That can be some type of pre-destination belief. So pre-destination is still believed but in different forms.
In addition to people being able to believe what ever they want, America has allowed people from different countries to live here too that still practice or live their lives believing the star mapped future destiny belief. Africans, Indians, and people from the Middle East live by the pre-destination belief. Not all of them, only a few. America doesn’t really have any conflict with pre-destination. Anyone can live by believing it or not. There hasn’t really been any change in America because of pre-destination.
In conclusion, many people from different cultures believe in pre-destination. I honestly don’t believe it, mostly everyone I know believes that you can control your own fate. That’s what most of the people believe here in America but in other places people still use those star reading things to see what their future will be. So people still use pre-destination but not that much.
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