Team Evaluation

Third Diplomatic Mission

Shelby, Chelsea, Doug, Logan, Calder

In the third diplomatic mission our team completed assignments on time and overall worked well together. Some things we could improve on are better delegating the tasks so everyone knows what their role is on certain assignments. Also planning out our time between team assignments and personal assignments. On the other hand we all contributed ideas and got along well. We think that overall our team in the third diplomatic mission was a great group that worked well together and enjoyed working together. 

Movie Review

            The movie version of the play Romeo and Juliet, titled Romeo plus Juliet captured the mood and atmosphere of the play in a respectable way. Though the movies setting was not the traditional one of Verona, Italy. In the movie I feel they capture the overall mood of the play, especially the mood of Romeo and Juliet’s love. The overall atmosphere of the Capulet Montague feud was well captured also. Even though the setting and some of the scenes were not the same I think they captured and almost overplayed the moods of characters and atmosphere of the entire play. In general the movie did what it was supposed to do, provide a easy to understand visual aid for the mood and atmosphere of the text.   

Personal Assignment #7 part 2

Friar Lawrence’s plan for Juliet to be with Romeo is most likely not to succeed because it lacks communication between the two parties. First off a plan where someone fake kills themselves probably is not the best idea in the first place. Since Romeo was so far away it was not realistic for news of the plan to get to him, and it was even more unfortunate when Juliet was forced to move the plan up a day. As a result the plan was really doomed before it started and the odds kept stacking up against them, which lead to the untimely of both Romeo and Juliet. 

Personal Assignment #7

I believe that Juliet has changed since the beginning of the play…

            In the play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is a dynamic character because she develops abundantly as a person throughout the play. At the start of the play Juliet is talking with her mother, Lady Capulet, about the potential of getting married to the county man Paris. Juliet states, “It is an honour I dream not of,” (Shakespeare, pp. Act 1, Scene 3, Line 67) when asked if she wanted to wed. This is an example of how she is young and naive at the start of the play. However as the play goes on Juliet becomes determined and courageous. She provides evidence for both of these starting in Act 4, Scene 1 after Romeo has been banished for Tybalts death and Juliet is told she will marry Paris. Juliet shows her determination for Romeo by going to Friar Laurence’s to come up with a plan to runaway with Romeo. When the Friar gives Juliet a sleeping potion she takes it even though she does not know what is exactly going to happen. This shows her determination to be with her beloved Romeo. An example showing Juliet’s courage is when she wakes up from her sleep in the tomb and sees Romeo dead. Juliet felt she needed to be with her lover for the rest of her life and had the courage to follow through with it. That is why Juliet has changed since the beginning of the play. She went from the naive girl, to the confident and determined women.

Character Webs

Being a teenager can be difficult

Everyone knows growing up is a difficult thing. People are faced with multiple challenges, and how an individual deals with those challenges makes them who they are. And through all the tests of life most people would agree that your teens are the hardest.

Now compared to the lives that Shakespeare’s famous teen stars Romeo and Juliet lead, my life seems pretty mellow. I have fantastic friends, and a tremendous family who love me unconditionally. My parents got me involved in sports at a young age which kept me busy and out of trouble. I am dedicated to everything I do whether it be sports or school and always try my best to give one hundred percent. Although my life is great and I am very blessed, there is some classic teenage problems that I deal with.

First off being a teenage girl I feel is a lot worse than being a teenage boy.

Boys can just punch each other a bit and call it quits, but girls on the other hand are nasty. I have gone from being best friends with a girl to her hating me for no reason. Another hard thing about being a teenage girl is, girls always talk behind each others backs. With girls it will never be just between two people, everyone always finds a way to be involved.

Another aspect of being a teenager that is difficult is the huge decisions you have to make that will affect the rest of your life. Since registering for high school last year I have had to make decisions that will setup the platform for the rest of my high school career an eventually my life. The first major decision was if I should take the Humanities course or English and Social courses. Well it is apparent which one I have chosen, the reasons I chose it was because I believe the Humanities course prepares you for university and also the life of business after university. And I can truthfully say so far in my humanities journey my initial reasons for choosing the course stand true. The other decision I had to make was taking a 20 level science in the second semester of grade 10. Now this was something I really wanted to do because I want to take all my sciences and it would be great if I take one earlier I worked really hard to achieve success so I would be able to take Biology 20 but in the end my marks were good but not good enough.

So overall there are not that many things that make my life that difficult other and those to things. Sure there are days when I think my life sucks, my parents aren't fair and the days when I think why me? So when I have those days I just remember how in the grand scheme of things my life is pretty darn good.

Bibliography

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