Meet Macbeth

Macbeth is introduced through indirect characterization. The witches provide foreshadowing of the whole play with the quote "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Shakespeare's approach to exposition give the reader background information about the setting and characters and a sense of what's to come without spoiling the play by the witches saying Macbeth is going to move up and the people who positions he is taking are going to die as the play develops. Shakespeare writes Macbeth like a highly liked important person but will hit a downfall and become disliked. Violence is a clear theme in the story through Macbeth's character and conflict. I predict a lot of blood shed and death. Everyone is going to die, similar to Hamlet.

Literature Analysis: Joy Luck Club

1)  This novel is about four different mothers who are from China and their American-raised daughters. This novel is confusing at the beginning and hard to follow due to the many transitions between the four families. In the Woo family the mother is named Suyuan Woo and the daughter is named Jing-mei Woo, also known as June. In the Jong family the mother is named Lindo Jong and the daughter is named Waverly Jong.  In the Hsu family the mother is named An-mei Hsu and the daughter is named Rose Hsu. In the St.Clair family the mother is named Ying-ying St. Clair and the daughter is named Lena St. Clair. All four mothers make up the Joy Luck Club which is a club that gets together weekly to play a game called mahjong. Jing-mei is asked to take her mother's place when she passes away. Before Suyuan died, she had just found the address to her two daughters' house. When Suyuan was traveling to America she had to leave her two daughters behind but she swore to herself that she would come back to them one day. At Jing-mei's first club meeting the other mothers give her $1,200 for her to go and visit the twins and tell them about Suyuan. Suyuan always compared Jing-mei to Waverly and tried to find Jing-mei's hidden skill. She eventually signs Jing-mei up for piano lessons but that didn't go very well. Jing-mei and her father travel to meet the twins. Jing-mei is surprised at the culture here because she had a different picture of what China would look like in her head. The three sisters eventually meet and they all embrace and cry for their mother's loss. Jing-mei then takes out a picture and they realize they all look just like Suyuan. Waverly finds out that she has a gift for playing chess after convincing her brothers to let her play with them at Christmas. She was fascinated by the power each piece had and she spent the next few days studying an instruction pamphlet. Lau Po was an old man who played chess in the park and he began to teach her strategies. Eventually, she became a celebrity and people came to see her. After telling her mother about engagement to her boyfriend Rich, Lindo takes her to a restaurant. Whenever Waverly mentions his name, however, Lindo always changes the subject or ignores her so she invites Lindo to their apartment so she can see how serious they are. Waverly is scared that Lindo will criticize him as she did to her first husband. At a dinner with all of them, Rich makes a lot of blunders that embarrasses Waverly. Thankfully, Lindo eventually approves of the marriage and is invited on the honeymoon with Waverly and Rich. Waverly is ashamed of her Chinese heritage and Lindo is sad about trying to make her daughter half American and half Chinese as it is impossible. After realizing her and her mother have the same nose, Waverly finds herself becoming proud of her heritage and she tells her mother she will stop wearing two different masks (one American and one Chinese) all the time. Rose is hesitant to tell her mother about the fact that her husband Ted and her are getting a divorce. It is against the words of the bible. When Rose was younger her brother Bing was killed after he fell into the ocean. Her whole entire family blamed themselves for his death and they lost a lot of their faith that day. When Rose receives divorce papers and a big check in the mail from Ted she spends a lot of days being depressed in bed. Ted eventually calls and asks her why she hasn't signed the papers and she announces she will not leave the house and let him push her around. Ying-ying announced to Lena that she was pregnant. However, she eventually lost the baby and she continued to blame herself even though Lena tried to constantly comfort her. Lena tells us about how her mother is able to predict evil things that will occur in her family. When her mother visits her husband Harold and her in their new home she comments a lot about a list of prices of shared items Lena and Harold have. Ying-ying is surprised and lectures Lena on how she should not have to pay Harold back for simple things he does like buying her ice cream. When a vase suddenly breaks Ying-ying explains that that "You put something else on top, everything fall down". This is a warning about their marriage. 

Resource of the Day #6

Today my resource of the day was Blogilates to post the second post to our website.

Resource of the Day #5

Today Micaela and I made the final decision on behalf of our group to use blogger to set up our website (finally). The link to our site is: http://theclassyu.blogspot.com/
My resource for today was SCM to get the music to play when you open the webpage.
Another resource we used to get inspired on the design of our blog is food. We made a healthy lunch of grilled chicken and strawberries (very good by the way) over a spring mix salad and a mixed berry smoothie to give us brainpower.

10 Questions

10 Questions I would ask my expert:

1. What insider tip can you share with me?

2. How did you get a successful job?

3. What skills do you need to get the job done?

4. Why did you want to go into this field?

5. How do you create a network with your clients and other professionals?

6. Do you enjoy your job?

7. How can you get what you want in college without breaking your budget?

8. Can you give me some contacts with other professionals like or similar to your field?

9. What does a typical day (work and social l) look like?

10. How do you manage your time?

Benchmark

Caroline, Micaela, Rachel, and I have gotten past some big hurdles in our way. Creating a website name that wasn't already taken and that four girls could agree on took some time. "ClassyU" is a guide to college life with different tips and tricks on how to survive college. Making a website is harder than we anticipated because all of us want it to be perfect and cheap (haha). We had a few delays because we couldn't find a site that didn't charge monthly for having a website and we struck out on Weebly since we couldn't personalize it enough. The website will most likely go through Blogger unless we find another platform to use that we can all access and understand. The website is going to have something for everyone to look at and each of our group members can contribute in their own way. Personally, I cannot wait to get the website going and have it relate to readers and eventually having "ClassyU" become a well-known blog.

Resource of the Day #4

Thursday's resource is caffine provided by Starbucks iced mocha with 3 pumps of vanilla (yum!) My group met at Starbucks after school yesterday to create our website and talk about posting schedules and design.

Resource of the Day #3

Weebly is the resource of the day! Rachel came up with our website name "ClassyU" ("U" for university) we agreed on this name because Micaela and I came up with names for our website tabs that were more sophisticated. Rachel and I overheard Lesther discussing different website platforms in class that were different than blogger.

*Update (3/09/14 4:47PM)- We are no longer using Weebly, none of my group members could figure out how to personalize our site with the tools we were given.

Resource of the Day #2

Micaela and I are currently flash texting each other to still try and come up with a creative and catchy name for our website. The thesarus has been helpful, but has also gotten me off topic of what our website is really about. My group is in a hurry to get a name because we are excited about starting our site.

Resource of the Day #1

Creating a website name is difficult to do, I used Tumblr and other social sites to get some inspiration.