Romeo and Juliet Revised Essay

Romeo & Juliet Essay

     Love stories now are a lot different than they were before. Most love stories now don’t show love at all; the only things they show are parties, kissing, drinking, sex, and drugs. Old love stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, were about challenges of true love between two rival families. 

     In love stories before, people wanted to have loving families and children. They wanted to have houses and build farms together. Their love was genuine and true; Romeo and Juliet fell in love in around a week, and they KILLED themselves to be together! Couples were respectable and civil. They stayed in a relationship when they entered it. They grew old together, not having to worry about their partner leaving them at the drop of a dime.

     Love stories now show how reckless and meaningless love is at this time period. People can’t even stay in a relationship for more than a few months! They think dating is like renting books out of a library; you borrow a book, then return it back to the shelf to pick up another one. In the movie  "Friends with Benifits," that behavior is promoted. One quote from that movie is, "No relationship. No emotion. Just sex." These types of people think of love like a game. They don't take it as something you should be cautious and safe with. 

     As you can tell, love and love stories have changed drastically in the last century. It used to be something that people cherished and waited for. Now, it’s something that people take for granted and don’t really take seriously. Kids now don't really care what happens to them, they don't think about consequences. One example of this behavior is the saying "Y.O.L.O." which means "You only live once." People take this saying as an excuse for them to do things that you wouldn't normally do, such as losing your virginity at a young age, or cheating on a boyfriend/ girlfriend. Kids use this saying more and more frequently. 

        These two conflicting images of love can affect the minds of young children. If they see how people act when they “love” each other now, they’re going to grow up even more corrupt than the drunk teenagers that you see on tv today!

Romeo and Juliet Essay

Romeo & Juliet Essay

     Love stories now are a lot different than they were before. Love stories now don’t even show love at all. The only things they show are parties, kissing, drinking, sex, and drugs. Old love stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, were about challenges of true love between two rival families

     In love stories before, people wanted to have loving families and children. They wanted to have houses and build farms together. Their love was genuine and true. They were respectable and civil. People then stayed in a relationship when they entered it. They grew old together, not having to worry about their partner leaving them at the drop of a dime.

     Love stories now show how reckless and meaningless love is at this time period. People can’t even stay in a relationship for more than a few months! They think dating is like renting books out of a library; you borrow a book, then return it back to the shelf to pick up another one. Kids at around the age of 16 through 20 believe that it doesn’t matter what happens to them because they are “young and free.” Love shows and stories now are all about cheating and sex, such as the show Degrassi.

     As you can tell, love and love stories have changed drastically in the last century. It used to be something that people cherished and waited for. Now, it’s something that people take for granted and don’t really take seriously.

        These two conflicting images of love can affect the minds of young children. If they see how people act when they “love” each other now, they’re going to grow up even more corrupt than the drunk teenagers that you see on tv today!

Romeo and Juliet Thesis+ Outline

Thesis:

My topic is topic #1. That one is about the differences and similarities  between Romeo & Juliet, and love stories today. I chose this topic because I think that today's "love" stories don't even show love at all. The only things they show are parties, kissing, drinking, sex, and drugs. I want my essay to show how messed up love stories are today. 

Outline:

Intro- 

Thesis~ Love stories now are a lot different than they were before.

Body P.1-

 Love stories then~ people wanted to have families and children

~Romeo & Juliet was about a couple who's parents didn't wan them to be together.

Body P.2-

Love stories now~ Show how reckless and meaningless love is at this time period

~All about cheating and sex (Degrassi, Friends With Benefits)

Conclusion- 

Restate thesis+ Elaborate on how love stories are different

 

Non-fiction Reading Response (4- HW #1)

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349594/description/Mental_puzzles_underlie_musics_delight

Part 1- Summary:

     This article is called "Mental Puzzels Underline Music's Delight" and it's written by Meghan Rosen. It is about why people enjoy music. When people listen to music, a clump of neurons deep within their brains bursts into excited activity. The brain also makes predictions about the lyrics of the song. Three regions of the brain judge the song. One region looks for patterns of the song. Another compares new songs to sounds heard before. The third checks for emotional values of the song to the person.

Part 2- Analysis:

     I think the author wrote this article to show that music doesnt just involve yoir ears. Your brain has a big part in it too. Your brain judges of you like a song or not based on the parts listed previously. In the article, researchers studied the brains of 19 people that listened to short clips of new music in a machine. At the end of each song, the human volunteers ended up buying the songs they liked.

Part 3- Response: 

     This article is very interesting because it is about something that I never new was so scientific. It's cool how the brain detects which song you like best and it's not just your taste in music but that it's much more complex and interesting. The author did a very good job on keeping the readers engaged in the article because it had fun facts about the brain and why we like music.

Reading Response (3- HW #5)

Think of the most boring book you can imagine. Multiply it by 3. That will give you Reached by Ally Condie. This book was really a let down, as well as the second book, Crossed, which is part of the Matched trilogy. 

     The first book was so full of suspense and wonder. "Will Cassia (the main character) get caught by Officials for loving an Anomalie?" and "Who will she choose? Ky (the Anomalie) or Xander?" 

     But the second and third book just mostly consist of the Rising, which is supposed to be a rebellion against the Society and led by the mysterious Pilot.  Once the Rising actually happens, it was all such a let down. 

    The Pilot turned out to be some random guy with no special thing about him. Ally Condie had so many options to choose from to make the Pilot! And I expected the Rising to have so much action, with explosions and guns, but it mainly went like this: "Can we invade your land, please?"-Pilot and the Rising. "Haha alrighty! Would you like a drink, too, sir?"-Society. 

     Ally Condie also added the P.O.V.'s of Ky and Xander to the story. I expected them to hate each other and I kind of wanted them to, too. At least it would have made the story interesting. But no, she made them think about how great the other would be with Cassia. Most of the story consisted of random babble and no suspense or intriguing dialogues at all.

     Overall, I didn't think this book-or rather this series- was great at all. I think if you just need something to read to pass the time, then this is your kind of book. 

           P.S. Sorry this was late, Ms.Galang! I didn't realize we had a reading response due! Sorry! :O 

Nonfiction Reading Response (3- HW #4)

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/348098/description/Supernovas_death_throes_revealed

Part 1- Summary:

     This article is called "Supernova's Death Throes Revealed" and it's written by Andrew Grant. This article is about how scientists predicted the explosion of a supernova. A supernova is the explosion of a star when it's core runs out of fuel and collapses. The scientists predicted the supernova when they were using a program. That program scans the sky and tells you when something suddenly brightens. They realized that when the star blew up, the brightenings were  signs of the supernova. The brightening was the star shedding mass.

Part 2- Analysis: 

     I think that the author wanted to let us know that stars shedding off some material before exploding is very very helpful advice to scientists. Now, they have more evidence to when a star will explode. That can also tell us when the sun will explode, because the sun is a star. 

     If the sun explodes- when the sun explodes- we are all screwed. The sun grows plants, which we need to survive. The animals eat plants, and we need animals to survive. The sun evaporates water, which results in condensation and precipitation. We need water to survive. Without the sun, we won't have the necessities. The sun shedding some mass can tell us if the supernova is near.

Part 3- Conclusion:

     This is a useful piece of information to scientists because now they don't have to really worry about a star exploding spontaneously, unless it is a rare case. In the text, it says some other stars have lived on even when they shed material. Maybe they can find out what the difference was between those kinds of stars. 

Non-Fiction Reading Response (3- HW #3)

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/348628/description/How_weaver_ants_get_a_grip

Part 1- Summary:

     This article is called "How Weaver Ants Get Their Grip", and it's written by Susan Milius. It's about Asian weaver ants, and how they have a really cool ability. They can stick to surfaces, even if they are hanging upside down, and carry something that weighs more than 100 times that of itself! The author says:  "Asian weaver ants nest in trees, which they hold onto with their moist, expandable foot pads." Scientists have discovered that these food pads expand when they need a better grip. They found this out when they observed their feet when they shook the surface that the ants were on. The article says: "Thomas Endlein of Scotland’s University of Glasgow discovered that the foot pad expansion occurs within a millisecond of the jolt." That is way more fast than the reflexes of a human. 

Part 2- Analysis:

      I think the author wrote this article with a tone that wants the reader to believe this is amazing. I think this because the author says: "An Asian weaver ant boasts not one but two superpowers." Superpowers are, well, super! That gives me the thought that they're extraordinary. 

     Also, another example where the author shows that Asian weaver ants are amazing is when she says: "Its extreme sticking power comes with extraordinarily quick emergency grip protection." This also gives me the feeling that she wants me to believe that Asian weaver ants are amazing because she used multiple positive adjectives for the ants. 

Part 3- Conclusion:

     This article makes me wonder about how it's possible for things to defy gravity. It makes me wonder how many other kinds of miracles in nature there are. It makes me think if modern technology today can replicate these foot pads that the Asian weaver ants have. I know that I would buy it from the stores if they sold it!