Friday, January 17, 2014

                                   "Who is Shakespeare" ?

Who wrote Shakespeare? is about identifying who actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare, "Everybody said he wrote the plays, including people like Ben Johnson and other playwrights that he was competing with". 

Shakespeare wrote about Roman characters like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Coriolanus. He wrote wonderful poetry. William Shakespeare was an actor, he did the plots of the play. Over the years of his death, some academics and professors believed that a gloners son from Stratford could not have the brains to write these plays.

After the death of Shakespeare, a priest called the "Reverend James Wilmot" to investigate old records at Stratford. He said he couldn't find anything about William Shakespeare as in letters, books owned by him, or any mentions of "Shakespeare the Play Writer". James Wilmot couldn't believe that gloners son like Shakespeare could become a favorite of a king and queen. After the investigations that Wilmot had done to search about William Shakespeare he did not find anything, so the suspicion began to happen that Shakespeare plays weren't written by William Shakespeare.

Since academics, professors and James Wilmot started to suspect that the plays were not written by William Shakespeare they had to question themselves, who actually wrote the plays. They claimed every person like Queen Elizabeth, King James |, Anthony Bacon, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of South Hampton, The Earl of Rutland, William Stanley Earl of Derby, Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon, and Christopher Marlowe. All of these people have claimed they had to read the investigate about them. What they did to investigate about them was to see if they ever wrote plays before. The reason why they did this because they wanted to see who actually wrote the plays.

Queen Elizabeth lord drama, she was a high class lady who loved writing plays. King James | is a king that was fanatical about witchcraft, he did a play called Macbeth which is about witchcraft and and kingship. Anthony Bacon visited the French Kings Court in the early 1590's, he wrote a play called"Love Labours Lost". Henry Wriothesley

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Lamb to the Slaughter Analysis

In this story'Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl uses irony to make the story memorable. Their is different type's of irony as in situational irony, and dramatic irony.

This story is about a wife named Mary Maloney who killed her husband named Patrick Maloney for something wrong he did. One day Mr.Maloney had came from work really tired, it was a thursday night, Mrs.Maloney said "We go out to eat on thursdays", but Mr.Maloney look tired, so she decided to make some cheese and crackers but Mr.Maloney didn't feel the need to eat becasue he had so much things going on his mind. He was thinking a lot that it made him worried and nervous to tell his wife and get over it but it wasn't that easy for him. What did Mr.Maloney have to say to his wife? Was it something bad?

When Mr.Maloney had told her the bad news, Mary was shocked she didn't believe any of it, like that was her imangination as if she had seen the whole thing. She was so upset that she just wanted to act like nothing happen, so she went downstairs to her basement to get a leg of lamb. As she walked upstairs and saw her husband she threw the leg of lamb she had in her hand, she felt like she had to throw the leg of lamb to him because she saw him standing by the window and told her that he was going out and she was cooking supper for her husband Patrick it just got her mad to that point where she threw that leg of lamb. Once she had threw that leg of lamb he fell to the floor and she ran to him she was scared that she can go to jail for killing him, after a couple seconds later she acted like her husband was alive, so she told him "Im going out to buy some vegetables". When Mary goes to buy her vegetables she tells sam "Patrick decided to stay in he's tired and doesnt want to go out to eat tonight, we usally go out on thursadys,you know, and now hes caught me without any vegetables. This irony is called situational irony because the grocer man Sam doesnt know that if Mrs.Maloney is lieing to him, Sam doesnt know that the husband is dead, and it makes it a situtaion.Another irony in this story is when Mrs.Maloney invites the detectives for a leg of lamb which she and the detectives dont know that was the weapon to use to murder her husband Mr.Maloney, this uses dramatic irony, this creates a dramatic irony because they dont know and she makes it obvious at the end.

How this story made it  memorable was to use  the drama in the story and the situational irony. It made you wander or it made you question yourself what did the husband say to make his wife kill him?, did they ever find out it was her that killed him? Thats how this story made it turn memorable.

 

Edward Snowden

    Edward Snowden is a criminal whom has hacked into g-mail accounts, conversations on cellphones and computers, and business records. I believe that Edward Snowden should pay the consequences for what he did, it wouldn't be safe if he wasn't in jail Snowden can expose something that's not suppose to be said. In this text it proves that "Snowden also leaked a secret 41-slide power point presentation apparently used to train U.S intelligence personnel. The slides detail the NSA's involvement in a then-clandestine program called PRISM". PRISM is the NSA effort to collect data from internet as in search histories, it can access to YouTube, Skype, Google, and other industry. "Edward Snowden a twenty-nine year old former C.I.A employee and current government contractor has leaked news of National Security Agency programs that collect vast amounts of information about telephone calls made by millions of Americans, as well as e-mails and other files of Foreign targets and their American connections. This proves that Edward Snowden is a criminal because he knew what he was getting into, he knew what he was going to expose, he had the ability to go through people personnel conversations, calls, texts, anything! He should be put in prison because their is a possibility he can take money from people's credit card. "No one can know what was in Edward Snowden's mind, but clearly he could of had a reasonable belief the documents he leaked to the news media revealed government illegality and abuse of authority". "In the two months since Snowden alleged disclosures, no fewer than fine law suits have been filled challenging the legality of the surveillance programs he exposed". 


     In my belief Edward Snowden is whistle blower because he was a C.I.A employee and current government contractor and he hacked into credit cards, phone calls, and get passwords. A whistle blower is a person who exposes misconduct, alleged dishonest or illegal activity occurring in an organization. "The whistle blower Protection Act protects any disclosure that a covered employee reasonably believes evidence any violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, and abuse of authority in substantial and specific danger to public Health or Safety." Edward Snowden is a whistle blower, but in my belief he did the right thing because the government listened to phone call conversations, and locations where we are located at. Edward Snowden is a whistle blower, it proves that he isn't a criminal just because he leaked into g-mail accounts he said "If i wanted to see your e-mails on your wife's phone, all i have to do is use intercepts". This didn't make Edward Snowden a criminal, instead in act that speaks move to his ego than his conscience, he threw secrets up in the air to let people know what the government was doing, and trusted, somehow, that good would come of it. Now we all have to hope if hes a criminal or a whistle blower.