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Story Proposal
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 6:34 am by shorewoodcatapang and

I thought that we should to a digital story about a high school girl named Jada with very low confidence at school. She wants to join the cheer squad, but is afraid she has zero confidence, and in order she gets in the cheer squad, she needs to gain a lot of self-esteem.By doing so she needs to be able to make friends and go up to people, apparently that’s her weakness. So then she has to start exposing herself to people by getting out of her comfort zone and make some friends, luckily she was able to be friends with one of the girls on the cheer squad. This friend was really friendly, but the other girls were just making fun of her at the fact how she wants to be on the cheer squad. This friend wants to help Jada out after feeling sorry for her, but then realizes how bossy she is. This friend, Scarlett, wasn’t trying to be bossy, but to be helpful. And so in the end, Scarlett and Jada became good friends, where Jada made it to the cheer squad.

POWER Quote
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 am by shorewoodcatapang and

Goethe states: “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

This quote talks about how people are to dream big dreams as they go on with life, so that they can go far and succeed more in life. Once an accomplishment has met, people are to stay productive with their other dreams that can tie into achieving another dream. When dreams are small, people might tend stick with that particular dream and would end up not enjoying it. Small dreams are I think the kinds of dreams that won’t last as long, and are dreams you may want to give up on. Whereas with big dreams you get to progress through stages of small dreams to get you closer and closer to what you want to achieve in. In the end, you would feel so proud of yourself and feel like you have the power to do whatever you wish to do. An example of a big dream would be mastering a career where you have a very productive life and receiving the goods you wanted such as money and wealth. A small dream would just be owning a big house, and once you have the house, you would stop

Dependancy Leading to Leadership
Posted on April 15th, 2008 at 8:57 pm by shorewoodcatapang and

A girl once was an outsider, a loner, and a person who’d always think will lose hope when it comes to getting along with people, especially at school.  She wants to be known by everyone, they one where everyone would look up to. If wanting to gain more leadership, she would need to be out going and being able to help everyone who needs help with their problems. But first she has to get out of her comfort zone and start interacting. She has done that, and made lots of friends. When one of her friends was feeling down, she was always the one that asks “What’s the matter?” all of her friends really appreciate the way she talks to them, and they all were inspired into what person she has become. She has now gained attention, in a good way that is, where people always look up to her and reach out to her when in need. When you say things from the heart, and things that are true, people are going to say that you are a good-hearted human being. Gaining confidence is a plus.

48 Laws of Power
Posted on April 11th, 2008 at 8:25 am by shorewoodcatapang and

Law 11: Learn to Keep People Dependent on You

I find this law to be pretty useful when you want the society in your hands, basically wanting your peers to look up to you when they needed you.  This law can give you more power because this motivates you to interact with people more often, and this can have you gain more self confidence if you were once a shy person. A very outgoing person would definitely fit in this law when they were to use this law. When people are feeling down, this law would tell the other person to walk up to the down-sided person and talk to them about their problems. The more you help people with their problems, the more dependence you gain just by following this law, and more and more people would want to look up to you. If you are a shy person and want to somehow gain some confidence, this law can definitely help you stand out more to people, and have them reach out to you when they want an ear to borrow, or at least being somewhat like a counselor to them. I believe there are people out there that needs someone to talk to, someone to reach to when they’re down, and finding a way to get back up on their two feet again. If you are willing to spend some quality time with people needing a friend, you are then a leader indeed.

Guilty…
Posted on April 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm by shorewoodcatapang and

There were a few moments where I felt guilty about something that I thought a ghost would appear to haunt me down. I remember just a while back that I didn’t study much for a big exam, thinking to myself that the exam wouldn’t be as bad. The next morning, where the teacher was passing out the scantron sheet for the exam, my mind went BLANK! But as I went through every question, the information was slowly coming back to me, while others don’t just click. I tried my best at choosing the best answer for each question…but at the same time pretty pleased at coming to questions that I know the answer of for sure. Nervously turning in my test, I saw down relieved that I got the test over with, but hesitatingly thinking that I didn’t do well. Then a week later, grades were posted online, and the exam was graded was well. As always, I was starting to get nervous when I went to check my grade online. The grade sheet is up, and felt like crying when I saw my overall grade dropped because I failed the exam. I was starting to feel very upset because I’ve never gotten a grade that bad, and now my overall grade dropped as well. I was afraid to face it with my parents because they expect me to do well in the exam, but didn’t tell them anyway. I didn’t want to upset them, so I though I’d stay cool. This exam pretty much made me lose hope in staying in National Honors Society, where I need to keep my GPA at least a 3.5, and so far, I have five A’s and a grade I’d rather not share. Throughout this madness, I’ve learned a valuable lesson, which is to ALWAYS study for a test no matter how “easy” you might think it will be.

Act II Questions
Posted on April 5th, 2008 at 11:37 am by shorewoodcatapang and

SCENE I

1. Cursed thoughts Banquo had were the nightmares he’s had with the three witches.

2. The lie Macbeth tells Banquo was the that he doesn’t want to talk about what the witches have said to them.

3. The meaning of Banquo’s comment was that he wants a favor coming from Macbeth when talking about the witches being king.

4. Macbeth had this fear of killing Duncan, so he’s starting ot see things that aren’t there, such as the daggers in his hands.

5. The significance of the bell ringing was the signal for Macbeth to kill king Duncan.

SCENE II

1. Lady Macbeth does not want to be the one blamed for the murder of the king.

2. The words he believed he heard were from someone who kept telling him that he shall die for killing someone very innocent. He also heard that he “shall sleep no more”.

3. Macbeth was so afraid about attempting the murder that he didn’t got back to put the daggers next to the dead king, along with smearing blood on the guards as well.

4. In Macbeth’s point of view, cleaning his hands in the ocean would result as the ocean going all red and showing that there was an actual someone that killed the king and people would be in a look out for the murderer. Lady Macbeth thinks that this is not a big deal, just as long has he gets it all cleaned up so it wouldn’t be as suspicious.

SCENE III

1. Macduff came to Macbeth’s castle just to visit king Duncan.

2. Unusual things that happened to Macduff and Lennox that night was a porter talking to them about being drunk. Also that night, they found king Duncan and his servants murdered and dead.

3. Macbeth told people that he was the one that killed the king’s men because then people would assume that Macbeth is a hero of saving the king from the drunken servants that “killed” the king. Macbeth doesn’twant to be known as the murderer of king Duncan and doesn’t want to get killed himself .

4. To show that Lady Macbeth has nothing to do with the murder, she pretends to faint when she finds out that king Duncan is murdered.

5. One will go to England and the other will go to Ireland. These two will flee to different countries to protect themselves from being murdered as well ever since their father’s been murdered. These two are afraid that they are next in line.

SCENE IV

1. Unnatural events that were discussed are the facts that Donalbain and Malcolm are being accused of the king’s murder and his servants and how Macduff announces Macbeth the new king.

2. With Donalbain and Malcolm fleeing to England and Ireland, the people are assuming that they are responsible for the king’s murder.

3. Macbeth has been crowned king.

4.