Thankful

    During this time of thanksgiving, I am thankful for my classmate Nicolas Lau. Although he constantly nags me for homework help, and CONSTANTLY makes fun of me, he always manages to make me laugh, even if I'm laughing at myself. Believe it or not, Nick is extremely hard working, especially in school. Although he loathes school, he never gives up and always tries his best. He gives up countless hours of sleep to finish his work after his club practices, when he could so easily just give up. His time management is awful, and unfortunately inevitable, but knowing what he has to daily go through, and still manage his grades leaves me in awe. Whether he knows it or not, he does influence me to push myself harder, and I'm extremely thankful for that and for him. 

"Then he is dead?"

     For our 12^th journal entry, we had to decide whether or not all of Macbeth’s actions were truly worth the reward of being king, and were given options from a month to a lifetime. Despite these options, I went the other way and created the option of “none”. After reading about the tasks Macbeth had to carry out, just for the short period of time of being king, would you say it was really worth it? Sure, Macbeth became king, but he couldn’t truly enjoy it because he was constantly worried about who was next to murder him, and rather than becoming a good king, he became a hated tyrant. I would imagine that becoming a king involves constant lessons of what a good king was prior to actually achieving a title. Take Malcolm, for example, he was basically the image of innocence. Perhaps Macbeth was the same way- that is until he committed the bloody deeds, which could have completely changed him. But I believe that the reason why Macbeth was such an awful ruler was because he was prepped for the title of being king. From what we read, he didn’t have the right mentality or motive.  And because of that, he had no experience or right to rule over a people. During our class discussion, we talked about how the murders would cancel out if the person who became king did good, and helped many people. Macbeth, however, wasn’t that type of king. How could he be content with himself after killing people, and still be an awful tyrant? He probably went crazy, after all he could barely sleep. And if he’s like me, no sleep means no sanity.