Ramzi’s Academics in Eighth Grade

 

I am Muslim male teenage in a mediocre life and I feel that Halo2 (a video game in the Xbox console) is a wondrous machine and has influenced my life greatly. To me it�s not a violent game but just a fun game you can play to get rid of all stress. I especially enjoy the missions you can accomplish because it allows you get into the shoes a real hero and experience it first hand and not just imagine it. Although I do feel that this message only shows that the United States can be capable in creating such an advanced world and only American heroes can do this.

Looking through the lens of a female is quite different. Most females would predict this game as a violent and a bad influence to others. It is too graphically violent with all the blood and weapons available. It is unrealistic about how the world will be invaded by alien. I would say that it was not only unfair but confusion and hard to play.

If I was an American I would have different views from myself now. I would most likely say that this game really shows us to join the army because it would make us a hero and it would be extremely dangerous yet pleasurable. I would also feel that Americans are the greatest race in the world with all the money we gained from creating this game and how advanced and futuristic we are compared to other races.

If I was looking through the eyes of a relatively low income person I would feel why people would make the video games so high and the Xbox at such an expensive price. I would also feel sad for my children because I wasn�t able to buy my kids this invention. I also feel that if I had enough money I wouldn�t buy because this is not the type of ideas and thought I what to get into the minds of my children. I want them to be successful and rich in the future. I wouldn�t feel it was appropriate or useful for a bright future. I would also feel that you have to be rich to save the world and if you have no money then you�re useless and cannot benefit the world.

If I had the chance to look through the eyes of a rich family I would feel that this game wasn�t good enough and take it for granted. I would feel that it was too cheap so it wouldn�t be efficient or good enough but I would still get one to play for a few days.

Through the eyes of an environmentalist I would feel that the productions of these video games are destroying the world and I feel we wouldn�t be able to survive the future. I would also feel that playing this game would be a waste of time and wouldn�t contribute to helping the world and its environment.

Two sentences I found hard to understand:

1. Act 1- Scene 2- Page 21- Line 145 to 152

Speaker: Prospero

This King of Naples, being an enemy

To me inveterate, hearkens my brother’s suit

Which was that he, in lieu o’ th’ premises

Of homage and I know not how much tribute,

Should presently extirpate me and mine

Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan,

With all the honors, on my brother; whereon,

 

2. Act 1- Scene 2- Page 39- Line 423 to 436

Speaker: Miranda

Which any print of goodness wilt not take,

Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,

Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each

hour

 

One thing of other. When thou dist not, savage,

Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like

A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes

With words that made them known. But thy vile

Race;

Though thou dist learn, had in’t which good

Natures

 

Could not abide to be with. Therefore wast thou

Deservedly confined into this rock,

Who hadst deserved more than a prison

 

Two sentences I understand and my translation:

1. Act 1- Scene 2- Page 39- Line 437 to 449

Speaker: Caliban

You taught me language, and my profit on ’t

Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you

For learning me your language

Translation: you taught me language and how I have benefited from it. The only thing I learned from you language is how to curse

 

2. Act 1- Scene 2- Page 21- Line 141 to 143

Speaker: Miranda

I should sin

To think but nobly of my grandmother.

Good wombs have borne bad sons

Translation: I would sin to think that such a good grandmother would have given birth to such a bad son

 

Two questions about the plot of the book:

1. Why does Prospero bring them it the island and test them instead of just killing them.

2. When Prospero’s brother threw him into the boat to the island why did Prospero us his magic to stop them.