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Response to Prompt#5 Poem

In imitation of William Wordsworth A Day-Piece The sky is overcast/ With a continuous cloud of marbled grey/ Heavy and dim, all brightened by the Sun/ Which through the mask is dimly seen/ A glowing orb, yeilding wan light/ So diluted by the clouds, that shadows/ of rocks, trees, and houses are thin and weak/ After a time a flash of light/ Startles a wanderer, deep in thought while he travels/ the lonesome road, with his eyes downcast/ taking in the dusty way; he glances upwards--/ There is a break in the clouds/ And the Sun graces the road and wanderer alike/ with golden rays/ As is floats in the clear blue heavens./ There, in glouriouslt turquoise he sails,/ Followed, seldom seen by sister Moon/ and her host of stars, unseen but ever viglilant/ Rolling in the sky beyond the Sun,/ all immeasurebly distant, yet so close/ All this can be seen in the clear vault/ surrounded by clouds that glow from the Sun/ At length the eye closes and the Mind/ Not unperturbed by the delight it feels/ Which settles into deep calm/ Is left to muse upon that joyous scene./

Response to Prompt #5 Paragraph

Sorry it's a little late my Internet was funky earlier. William Wordsworth's poems do not usuallt ryhme. They are also almost unvariably describing nature. The particular poem mine imitates describes the moon. I took that poem, and using a similiar style made a poem about the sun. Wordsworth's poems usually delve into a more mystical and deeper part of nature, past the surface and into the mind and more powerful imagery. All of his poems convay a strong sense of nature's beaaty. Wordsworth has a vivid imagination often comparing differetn aspects of naure to people's lioves and vice versa. I'm not sure about all of his peoms but in "A Night-Piece" the main character is a lowly travler, not some rich person, who gets to experince the beauty and calm of the Moon surrounded by clouds. The moon is often an important character in many myths and legends, such as Sister Moon in Native American(I think) and Artemis/Diana who appears in Greek/Roman mythology symbolized as the moon-both examples of the moon having a strong, wise prescene.

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Response to Prompt #4

Shakespeare in the Future
by: CloneSyaoran

Response to Prompt #3

I believe that many people believe that women do not make good leaders. They think that women are not strong enough in mind, body, and spirit to lead a people. I think this an unfair judgment. Women can be just as good as leaders as men can, maybe even better. I concede that weak-willed women are not fit to lead, but neither are weak willed men. Both Lady Macbeth and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher show amazing perseverance and bravery. These qualities may be called manly, but I think they are just the signs of a strong person, and a person does not have to be male to be strong. If a leader is weak-willed then it does not matter if they are man or woman, they are just a bad leader. I would rather our country be led by a strong woman than a weak man. Some may argue that all women are weak and to be at all strong they have to act like men. To this I say, no, to be strong one has to act like a brave person, not like someone you are not. No matter how much a woman wishes to be like a man, such as Lady Macbeth asking the spirits to ‘unsex’ her, they will still be a woman. And yet, it is not Macbeth, the big, manly war hero, who concocts a plan to murder Duncan and become king, it is Lady Macbeth, with her cunning, not her brawn. She even says that she would have killed Duncan has he not looked so much like her father. This is not a show of womanly weakness, for what man would readily kill his father? A true leader is wise, brave, and true and these qualities do not only describe men, they can describe women, too. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher never gave up even when everyone was putting her down. Her own husband didn’t even agree with her decision, he told her to give up. But Thatcher never gave in, and she did it, not for herself, but for her beloved country. That is what makes a strong leader. I have personally met more women school principles than males and at McNick I like the woman principle better than I liked the male principle and I think she runs the school better. Just because someone is male or female, doesn’t mean than one is better than the other. What really counts is how they lead.

Rsponse to Prompt #2

Murder is the taking of one person’s life by another. One of the Ten Commandments, the basic rules of the Church, is ‘Thou shall not kill’. So the very essence of murder is wrong. Even if you are not the mastermind behind the murder you are still in the wrong if you kill a person under orders, even if your life is a stake. The only murder I find at all justifiable is that of self-defense, not defense from an organization or man, no I call that self-preservation. When I say self-defense I mean killing someone who is threatening your life through violence at that very moment, not some far away dictator. Non-action can be as disastrous as outright murder as well. While some may argue Victor Capesius is the more evil of the two Germans in the article because of his outright cruelty and nonresistance to the Nazi murdering of Jews Konrad Jarausch is as guilty of murder as Capesius is. Jarausch said he opposed the Nazi regime, yet he did nothing to stop it or help it. Others risked their lives because they believed Hitler was wrong. Jarausch did not, and he even worked in the reserve German military and was in charge of POW camps for the captured Russians. He could have made a difference, could have saved even a few lives, but he just watched and did nothing. In Macbeth those who carry out Macbeth’s orders are as much to blame for the murders as Macbeth himself is. Any excuse involving “I was just following orders” doesn’t cut it. They killed people, perhaps not innocent people but still people. They were not forced to do this at gunpoint or ‘spear point’ as the case may be, but of their own (mostly) free will. Following one’s leaders should not involve doing immoral things just because one is told to do them. The men Macbeth sent as murders did this job, maybe not because they personally wanted the victims dead, but because they wanted to serve their king. Free choice is still involved. Protesting orders, in both scenarios, and helping to save those hunted would keep you in god moral standing, but could endanger your life. I guess it’s just comes down to whats more important to a person, morals or staying alive. Knowing you did something as horrible as killing someone might not be preferable to a death in which you know you did the right thing. Killing is never right, regardless of the circumstances of the murder; it can be justified, but never made moral or right. And once the deed is done, there is no turning back the hands of time.

Response to Prompt #1

I've come to see a play by a man called Shakespeare. Apparently, he is quite the rising star in the literary world. My father insisted I go see one of his works at the so called Globe theater. As befitting my noble status I have a lovely view from the balcony where I am not troubled by the common folk below. Ah, the play is statrting. I believe it is called Romeo and Juliet, some story of Italin star-crossed lovers. I can see the whole stage from up here, I also can see the commoners standing around. The smell they are emitting is quite awful, some cross of manure and unwashed bodies. The gentlemen and ladies sitting around me emit a much more pleasing aroma, that of flowers and cleanliness. I'm not quite sure what is going on on stage, this Shakespeare fellow uses a very strange English. I do understand that there is some great fued between the families of the two lovers and people are dying. I must say I do not think I would do so much for a man, but then again they are from Italy, they must have a different mindset on these things. I came strait from my family's mansion in a very fine carriage, but a few other lords and ladies are having a party after the performance and I have been given permission to go. Perhaps we can discuss the play. Oh, it appears the show is over leaving both lovers dead and the fued gone. I must hurry to my cariage to beat the crowd. I did enjoy myself, pmayhaps I can see another with father or mother in the near future.

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.