Lit Analysis: Macbeth

Note: Sorry this is slightly late, I thought that I had sent it, but it showed up later as only a draft.

1. The book opens upon witches talking about Macbeth.  They meet Macbeth, and they tell him that he will be king of Scotland, and the Thane of Cawdor, and they tell his friend  Banquo that he will father a long line of kings. we learn that Macbeth has done well in battle, and for this, King Duncan made Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor.  After a while of being Thane, Lady Macbeth gets Macbeth to kill King Duncan, and she blames it on the king’s servants.

Super 5

1) Richard Ayoade - can help with my interest in arts, as he as an exceptional British Comedian, who acts in some of my favorite shows, such as The IT Crowd, and who wrote and directed my favorite movie Submarine.  He was a member of The Footlights, and I would like to contact him in the hopes of getting to know more about Cambridge University.

2) Craig Melchert - a UCLA professor of linguistics and Indo-European studies, whom I have had some correspondence with.  He is able to help me with my studies of Indo-European cultures.

3)Steve Jones - a biology professor at University College London.  I saw an interdisciplinary (evolution in biology and linguistics) lecture by him that fascinated me.  He can definitely help me with my scientific studies.

4)John Heritage - another UCLA professor, but this time, a professor of sociology.  As my experiment deals with sociology, he could be of help.  One of his studies in sociology is the study of how drugs are prescribed, and the psychological effects of drugs, which could help me in my future in pharmacology. He also went to Leeds University, which could help me, as I would like to know more about going to graduate school in England.

5)Daan Frenkel - the chemistry department head at Cambridge University.  He could help me as he is a professor of physical chemistry, which is a field that I intend to study in the near future.  He also has worked at both UCLA and University of Cambridge, which are the two schools that I intend to go to.

Launch

I still cannot tell people what I am doing to start out my general study of everything that I can study, but I am currently writing the beginning of it.

I, Jury... iJury

The two big things that I got from reading other people's essays is that I really need to make my introductions and conclusions more smooth, as it really makes or breaks an essay.  I also feel that I need to summarize less in my writing.

Brave New World AP Essay 1

There are two sides to many people in this world: the outside that conforms to the world around them, and the inside that secretly wants to rebel.  When people do not agree with the society or culture around them, human nature often makes it difficult for them to make their concerns known to their peers, allowing this desire to go against the grain to grow inside them.  This inner want to change the system has lead to much literature, and many characters devoted to describing the difficulties of breaking the societal mold, especially in the modern era.  Bernard, the protagonist at the beginning of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is one of these characters who cannot break free of the culture around him that he knows is wrong.  The “tension” created by Bernard’s outward conformity and inward questioning is what makes the beginning of this novel so meaningful.

Brave New World AP Essay Question

The Question can be found here.

Although I would probably write this question on either Winston of 1984 or Jake of The Sun Also Rises, I would first go about answering the question by making a pre-write in the form of an organized list of the ways Bernard conforms against his better judgement, such as more or less taking part in the decadent love affairs of

BOB 1

I intend to bring my findings to class tomorrow, so they will not be represented here, but I was just wondering why I am getting the same amount of page views from the usual suspects when everyone from my class is supposed to be viewing my blog and then rating it... this just seems odd to me.

I also wanted to say that people should look at more blogs than just the first one on the list.  The first blog has way more views than others that are of equal quality that are lower on the list, and I feel that this is unfortunate, as people are just being lazy.