best ending ever

SO here is what happens. The woman points towards the tiger because she is selfish and just wants to have the guy for herself. Unfortunately the guys backstage forgot to put the divider between the walls so the tiger had already eaten his bride to be. The lion no longer hungry decided to sleep. It was at this time that Lilo and Stitch came and stitch ate the king. Everyone in disbelief about what just happened started running around and talking gibberish in a crazy frenzy. After twenty minutes of this everyone's head exploded and there were only 300 left. These 300 went on to fight the Persians in what is known as World War II. Unfortunately because the 300 soldiers exploded from radiation poisoning the governments decided to cover it up and make a fake history. The moral of the story is simple and obvious and it is one that anyone can make a connection to; stop illegal aliens.

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4. Leo Tolstoy tells us in the first line of his great novel Anna Karenina, “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Lear’s is obviously an unhappy family, as is Gloucester’s. Explore the source of the unhappiness in both of the families. What is it that has torn each one apart? Some sin of the fathers? Or of the children? Human nature? What is wrong here? Are there any similarities between the two, or are they indeed “both unhappy in their own way?”

Both families are unhappy because of unfaithfulness. King Lear is unhappy because, of the two daughters he divided the kingdom with, both have betrayed him, taken away all power, and stripped him of everything he had as king. It is partially his fault as he took a sin of gluttony and then took it farther as he only wanted verbal praise. This led to him disinheriting the only daughter that truly loved him. When the kingdom was split up the two daughters that received portions of it decided that they had no reason to keep respecting their father and could do what they wanted.

Gloucester is torn apart by the greed of a bastard son whose bastard way is going to cause his father and his other non bastard son to fight against each other. It is based on deception and false trust. It seems to be nature of different people but I would say that loyalty in this case is the ultimate reason for the betrayal.

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How do you understand the relationship between Cordelia and Lear? He seems to love her, and she him, but how? Why is she unable to speak when her very survival depends on her speaking? Why is he unable to hear her truth?
To take the same concept from another angle…. While her sisters’ speeches are excellent examples of verbal manipulation, the one person (Cordelia) who goes in honestly with Lear’s best interests at heart is punished because she doesn’t want (or know how to) “play the game.” Have you seen situations like this? Have you used your powers of manipulation to get what you want? Have you been the loser in a game like this?

The relationship between Cordelia and Lear is one of love the only problem is that they both express their love differently. Cordelia tends to give herself to someone and is by them to show them that she cares while Lear wants someone that will flatter him as much as they can. Because Cordelia sees this as an untrue representation of love she cannot bring herself to flatter him. She instead says that she cannot express herself other than her actions. She also disproves her other sisters that are saying that they have given themselves to Lear even though they are married and in all reality they must have given at least part of themselves to their husband.

I have been in a situation like this where I am able to verbally make someone believe me. When this happened I simply took something completely unrelated to the subject and would bring it into the conversation. This simply draws attention from me towards someone else and also destroys credibility. Verbal manipulation really does not work too often simply because it is a fight of logic not of anything else

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To clarify it is partially good and partially bad. For the people living the lives it obviously is not bad because it has been that way for a while. It is not so bad because that's what they have grown up to think that it is fine. They do not mind it because they have not had anything different and to them freedom means chaos. To us it is unimaginable because we live with the ability to make choices and decide what we want to do with our life. We choose our jobs, who we want to marry, and what we want to do on a day to day basis. The loss of this freedom seems to make us scared and we make sure that we can preserve these freedoms. Also we like to talk about individuality and how much we stand out so being told to blend in goes against what we believe.


(hey i got em done....) (and i used the correct notation of 3 dots to lead and the 4th to end the conversaton....)<----------

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3) In chapter 17, Mustapha Mond and John Savage discuss civilization. John says two startling things: “What you need is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here” and “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” Read this interchange carefully and then put Mond and Savage’s arguments into your own words.


The entire society is based on controlling peoples feelings and actions. Even the main people are called "the controllers". This means that in the end there are no highs. There are no lows. But because of this there is no emotional involvement and no way to really feel involved. If you feel sad for losing something then it means that you felt great when you had it. All in all its about variety. Rather than have the "perfect" Utopian but bland lives he wants to be able to experience those things that he has not been able to do. There is something special about new experience even if its a bad experience. If it is a good experience that means that you have grown as a person and if its bad then if nothing else you have learned something

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2) Comment on the purpose of sex, games, and sayings like “ending is better than mending” in the book. How are all of these things used as a method of control?

The purpose of sex and games seems to be to keep peoples mind off of things relationship wise and more on work. When you are trying to find someone it takes time, effort, and energy. This in the dystopia is energy taken away from work and also time that is not spent buying goods in order to further the economy. The games are all extremely complex and takes many different items to play. This means that money is required to play and also that it again keeps people distracted enough not to thing about the situation that they are in. The phrase "ending is better than mending" it means it is better to put less effort into it and to just forget about it rather than think and try to fix things. This is all a big form of getting people not to think about their life. They buy new things, stay busy, and do not fix things they should.

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The most relevant that they talked about was the "taxicopter" and how everyone has a personal vehicle. Today most people have 1 or 2 cars per family and it is not unreasonable to think that in another 550 years we could have some of the things. The most ridiculous thing they talked about was how the class system worked. How everyone is the exact same I would think that someone would come around and rebel. Also how 10 people tend to control everything about life also seems odd. Even the Alphas would have some sort of conflict with their conscience and try to stop what they saw as unjust. Overall the ideas in this book are not overly crazy. In some time with a little push from a crazy leader we could end up in this book. Its hard to tell especially when there are over 500 years until this book would "take place"

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Act 5

Because it is all too easy I will talk about two of the images that are in this act. The first one will be about the doubles image as I have done before. In act four Macbeth was assure that he would not die because there are no men who were not born from women and also because the woods cannot march on a castle. In this Act though we learn that these were covers and not only is this a deep wound to Macbeth's confidence but shows how much everyone has turned on Macbeth. Finally we are faced with the death of most important character; Macbeth. He knows he is going to die as the warnings have all come true and he knows that he must fail and die in order to finish them. Still he fights to the death ending what started with a death.

Act 4 Part II

I would like to take a stretch and explain about the doubles part of act 4. In many cases the word "double" can be used to mean a cover for the truth. This is what Malcolm tries to do to Macduff. He tries to lie and say he is a horrible person to the a king but Macduff is so incredibly passionate about how Macbeth is a horrible that Malcolm finally comes clean in the fact that he was lying before. Another stretch that I could make si how Malcolm and Macbeth are two parts of one whole person in a way. Macbeth does all the killing and gathers no blame even though people always suspect him. Malcolm is quite the opposite of how he does not do anything but gathers all the blame. When you add these two people together it is like Ying and Yang. They are the good and bad versions ofone another and it is this that explains doubles in this act.

act 4 part I

I would have to say the most predominant of the themes in this act is strangeness. Macbeth desperate for answers asks for more predictions and for some sense of security with his actions. He asks what will happen to him. In their predictions they give him a sense of security but it is an unjust feeling. They tell him that no man born of a woman can hurt him and that he will not fall until the woods march on his castle. These are worded in such a way that he assumes the trees will physically move. He also assumes that since every man is born of a woman, no one at all can hurt him. These predictions are made on purpose to fool him. The witches want to see him fall and they know the best way to do it is to keep him off guard.

Act III Part II

This Act has many references of strangeness and death. When Macbeth comes to eat at his own party there is something wrong, there is no place for him to sit. He banters back and forth until he finally realizes that the person in his seat is Banquo's ghost. He freaks out yelling at it while no one else can see the ghost at all. Even more weird than that is the fact that his wife tells everyone that he does this from time to time and that by paying attention to it the guests would actually prolong it. This shows how people with blindly follow the idea of the king even when it is ridiculous. Then we hear about the treason; Macduff planning to betray Macbeth. Even more weird than that on this scale is that while it is considered treason many people are tying to join in and go along with it. It shows that people can change quickly as Macbeth went from nice to evil and how people went from supporting to opposing.

ACT III part I

Some of the most prominent visions in Act III are Injury and Strangeness. There is the deception that the sons of the king are the murderers that keeps being brought up by banquo and Macbeth. Banquo is confused because he assumes that if the first of the prophecies came true then why wouldn't the second one about his line becoming kings also come true. When all is said between Banquo and Macbeth, Macbeth ponders about Banquo and what will happen. Without being able to produce an heir Macbeth feels like his work will be for nothing. Finally two men enter and talk to Macbeth. It is reveled that Macbeth is trying to get Banquo killed by the way of lying to two murderers. The most strange thing of all is that Macbeth does not even tell his wife about Banquo's murder. He tells her not to worry and that he will take care of everything. This is the opposite of the beginning and signals the beginning of the end

Act II part I

Act II has alot of death in it. It has maybe one of the most important deaths that set everything into motion. Macbeth contemplates whether he should really kill the King or not. Through a troubled conversations with himself, He finally decides to kill the King. To emphasize the darkness of this deed it is shown at night. And to increase the strangeness there are many sounds that are not explained like an owl. But while Macbeth does kill the king he states that he would rather forget who he is than face what he has done. This shows some remorse but it will quickly be overpowered by his wish to kill again. Then it is shown how the Guards were killed by Macbeth because that is what he thought he needed to do so he didnt get caught.

good and evil

“He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.” This quote is said by Macbeth; talking about whether he should kill the king or not. This is obviously the double theme that is so apparent in this book. This double is the one between good and bad. One part of him is telling him that the king has done nothing wrong and in fact that he should praise the king rather than think of treason. But that other side along with his wife is telling him that he should kill the king and take his place when the children leave the country.

Strangeness Act one part one

The ideal of strange is seen a lot throughout the very first act. It even starts with characters referred as "the strange sisters" or "the weird sisters". This is huge as the entire foreshadowing is done by these "strange sisters". there are also the doubles that they speak of that are relatively strange. "when the battle is lost and won", while we realize that there is always a winner and a looser it seems odd to see it spoken in such a way. Also the fact that when the Strange Sisters proclaim that Macbeth shall be the Thane of Cawdor it makes it seem as if there are TWO at one time, thus creating a rivalry. I believe this rivalry will play out through the book from the death of the King (because Macbeth wants his spot) to the death of Macbeth

THE END!!!

In the end rob proposes to Linda. He states that before he was afraid of loosing his freedom and now he realizes that getting married gives u freedom. He also states that its marriage to someone you 'love' and that if they were married that he would not cheat on her. This in my opinion is a stupid argument. Saying that you will cheat on someone only because you are not married completely undermines the dating process. I believe that he will probably get a couple of months into the relationship and decide that its not for him. The ending in my opinion is just the calm before the storm of the breakup.

Chapters 22-26

Robs has a problem with people that he loves dying and because of this he is afraid of getting too close to anyone. His infidelity is one where he believes that by separating himself emotionally from his relationship he may be able to prevent the feeling of bad. It is not a reasonable excuse at all. Just because there is some reason that he feels hurt does not mean he can use it as an excuse to hurt others. His response to her mom's death was kinda odd. it was a little emotionless. It shows his inability to actually process emotion on a normal level. It is because of this that he ends up screwing up so many of his relationships.

chapters 14-21

The basis of what he is trying to do is find a reason that the can feel bad about. Something where he can say "oh I did this and that's why I'm messed up, I never had a chance before." He thinks he is messed up and instead of trying to change what he notices is wrong with him now, he is trying to just go back and annoy the crap out of everyone else. He even meets a couple of his Ex-girlfriends that are more messed up than him, and instead of feeling bad for them he is more like "yeah, now there is less about me I have to feel bad about." I am upset because he shows little maturity in these chapters.

Chapters 7-13

When Rob meets Laura he is very much in love and puts alot of time into little things. He spends a ton of time on just making a mix tape because he wants to get it just 100% perfect. This shows how much time he thinks about her. But in the end he ends up cheating on her. The question is how can someone spend so much time thinking about someone and then end up completely disrespecting her. I believe that he is someone who is afraid to commit. This is shown throughout his life. The reason he has never gone out for anything else is because he would then have to declare what he wanted to do. But by staying at his store he is able to keep a relaxed lifestyle without much change.

Top five bad ways to break

1. Caught in the act
2. Txt
3. not talking any more
4. going out with best friend of current bf
5. leave a message on voice mail