Tuesday, May 15, 2007

A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 4 Scene 1

It started with Bottom being slaved over by the fairy servants. Bottom was taking advantage over Titania's love but it didn't matter to Titania. While Bottom was living in luxury, Oberon was feeling depressed over how his wife was in love with a creature so vile and disgusting. After Titania fals asleep, Oberon decides to place the love remedy back into her eyes to erase her love for Bottom. Titania awakes and sees that Oberon has rid her of her curse and she falls back in love with him naturally. They dance the night away with no angry words or insults. As morning approached the young lovers were found by Theseus, who was taking a nice stroll with his wife on his wedding day. After hearing their tale he decided to allow each, Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena to become married to each other.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 3 Scene 1 and 2

During this scene the actors begin their rehearsal in the woods. As Bottom suddenly disappears to look for the thing that made the noise, the actors yell for his name. While he was away Puck cast a spell on him that turned Bottom's head into a donkey's head and all the actors ran in terror. Bottom being the stubborn man he was went off on his own and began to sing to himself. As he came closer, Titania awoke to see him singing and she magically fell in love.
Lysander continued to ignore Hermia because of the love spell that was placed on him by Puck. When Hermia had met up with Helena and Demetrius all hell broke loose. The two men fought for Helena, both Helena and Hermia were confused of what was going on, and the girls got into a major fight. Towards the ending of the scene, Puck comes in to play and makes Demetrius and Lysander extremely tired so they were forced to go to sleep. As Lysander fell asleep, Puck came and placed the cure into Lysander's eyes.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

A Midsummer's Nights Dream: Act 2 Scene 1 and 2

This is the act that started all the drama of the love triangle. It all began when we were introduced to Puck who is the henchmen of Oberon, the fairy king. Oberon and Titania, the fairy queen, had a huge fight on who would get the young boy that was given to Titania by her friend. When the battle died down Oberon decided to place a spell on Titania which would make her fall in love with the next creature she put her eyes on. As Puck went to retrieve this liquid, Helena and Demetrius show up in the forest pacing quickly. Demitrius was furious at Helena for following him and giving him wrong directions to Hermia so he ended up leaving her alone in the forest. Puck returned with the love potion and was given new orders by Oberon to place some drops into the eyes of an Athenian man that had a maid chasing him with love. Unfortunately, at the time of his orders Hermia and Lysander where taking rest nearby and Puck mistakenly took Lysander for Demetrius and put the drops into his eyes. When Lysander awoke as Helena was by his side he automatically fell in love with her and at that moment Helena became upset, for she thought that Lysander was just teasing her. With a few words she left and Lysander followed leaving Hermia all alone in the forest.
In act 2, it all begins when Puck accidentally placed the love potion into Lysander's eyes instead of Demetrius'. As Helena chases after Demetrius, she spots Lysander sleeping and wakes him up. When Lysander sees Helena, he immediately falls in love with her. He tells Helena how much she loves her and with that she becomes really upset because she believes that Lysander is playing with her. Helena leaves in a hurry and Lysander follows but leaves hermia to wake up all alone.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

A Midsummer's Nights Dream:Act 1 Scene 1 and 2

This act was about how Hermia and Lysander had fought to find their love. Egeus was against Hermia loving Lysander and he wanted Hermia to marry Demetrius. Theseus made the proposal that if hermia did not chose to marry Demetrius she would either die or become a nun. After the discussion about Hermia, Lysander asked Hermia if she would marry him beyond the law of Athens. As they talked about where they would get married, Helena stepped in to overhear their conversation and she concocted a plan to make Demetrius notice her.
In act 2 the group of actors met to discuss the roles of the play for "Pyramus and Thisby". There was an actor named Bottom who believes that he can play all the parts because he is a great actor. A man named Flute was given a woman's part as Thisby and he was not very fond of the idea. After the long discussion for who gets what part, they decided to rehearse in the forest outside Athens.

Sunday, April 1, 2007

The Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was about when many different political and military portions of this country fought for the power of China. It all started when Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang defeated Mao Tse-tung's forces which broke an alliance with the communists while they were on their way to establishing a new national government in 1928. The communists retreated to a barren and a remote base area in northwest China with an army that had become a fraction of what it used to be.
Then the communists forces began to take over the Kuomintang territory by the use of guerilla warfare. Although the United States tried to end the war between the capitalists and communists because they didn't want a communist victory. Unfortunately, none of the sides wanted to reach a compromise or give up the territories that they seized. The United States saw this as a pointless situation so they just funded the capitalists with funds, no military support. To no help, the communists continued to win victory after victory and established the People's Republic of China. Finally, the communists force took over major cities and made Chiang Kai-shek surrender to Taiwan.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

My Ghost Story

There was a time when my dad was thirteen and was planning to go camping with his neighbors and his family. It was a nice day and his friends dad had already gone to Mokuleia to set up camp. He finished setting up and went to pick up my dad and his friend. On his way driving to Millilani he saw an old woman walking on the side of the road so, he manuevered to the side of the road. He asked the old woman " Heh! You need one ride? Where you goin?". The woman responded " Can I have a ride to Wahiawa?". My dads friends father picked up the lady and dropped her off at the town of Wahiawa.
He arrived at the school to see the two boys were already packed and set to go on the three day camp. They jumped into the car with great excitement and began to laugh with anxiety. The father just sat there wondering what happened to the lady who was walking in the middle of nowhere. My dad and his friend yelled at him "Let's go, hurry up! " They finally drove off to enjoy the nice Hawaiian beach.
The trio was about thirty minutes away from their campsite when my dad's friend shouted " That's the same old lady !". My dad turned around and saw an old woman carrying a stick with a red bandanna at the end. She had long white hair and a plain t-shirt with ratty shorts. She was walking along the sugarcane fields a couple of miles from civilization. Everyone in the car looked back at the woman as she disappeared beyond the horizon.
As they approached the beach my dad's family was already fishing on the shoreline. When the boys ran out to the shore his friends dad strolled to where everyone else was. My dad's friends father went to talk to some of the local guys that were standing right beside our fishing lines. He asked them" Eh you guys ever see one old woman walking on the side of the sugarcane road ? ". There was a long pause as the three men stared at each other when one man said " That's her".
The friends father gave a confused look and the fishers understood the expression his face gave. One man said " Today long ago there was an old lady who's car broke down and decided to walk to Wahiawa". The father asked " What happened to her?" The fisher replied " She was run over by a car and died" When the friends father thought harder about this, it was impossible for the lady to travel back to the exact same spot where she was picked up earlier. She was about two miles from the site and the school was only minutes away. How can you walk about two miles in ten minutes at that age?
When my dad heard this he began to think and asked himself " Why would she go back to where she was picked up earlier?". As my dad continued to think about this his friends dad screamed " Ho, I went pick up one ghost !"

Monday, March 26, 2007

Free Write: Friends

Friends are people that can make us laugh and get us through tough times in our lives. They enjoy to hang out with for who you are and can trust you with deep secrets. To have a friend that will sacrifice things to make your life easier is the best to have around. You don't only need to have one good friend but you can have a wide variety of friends that you can do activities with. They are just like a second family and the people you associate with can mold you into the person that you become in the future. I'm very lucky to have good friends that have my back when I need it and to lift me back on my feet when I fall down. Like my mom always says " Friends are forever, so keep it close to your heart ."