One Last Playlist....

Well, tomorrow is the first day of May. So, that means the countdown to graduation begins. The school year finishing up, big senior events like Prom and Grad Night happening, people making college plans, or just staring at the clock and calendar waiting for that big day to happen. Whatever they're gonna be doing, that big day of walking on the stage on the football field is gonna be here before we even know it.

In honor of the big countdown to the big day, I have made one last new playlist (for people who look at my blog for the music player, which I hope is a few people) for this blog with graduation-themed, graduation-related, or just graduation-sounding songs. I hope that you enjoy, and make sure you blast this on the week of graduation.

It is also up on Spotify on my profile. If you have Spotify, just search my name and it will be there for listening pleasure.

Enjoy

The Seventh Reading

After reading "Hope" by Emily Dickinson. I suddenly started using my imagination and started thinking of a picture. I imagined hope as a bird, I then took the literal text and then compared it to the metaphorical sense that is supposed to be taken out of it, which helps gives it a deeper meaning to the poem itself.

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Macbeth Act 5 Notes

Full attack on Macbeth's castle is being planned

Macbeth plans defense to make sure no one makes it in the castle

A messenger alerts Macbeth that "the forrest is moving" (people are coming to attack), Macbeth threatens the messenger that he will hang him if he is lying

Macbeth and Macduff begin to have a sword fight

Macduff wins the fight, decaputating Macbeth, Malcom now becomes king

The Crossroad Between Should And Must

I never really took a deep thought over the difference of "should" and "must". Before reading the article, I had in mind the definition of "should", which was similar as to what Luna said, but never gave long consideration to "must". After reading Luna's article, I thought about my future, and what steps ahead I have in order to achieve what I want in my future. Along with that, I also took the "should" and "must" being put into it. I think that I'm put right where the two meet, right at the cross. 

As noted, "should" is what people want us to do, while "must" is based on our belief. A "should" that is always encouraged by others is the traditional "go to college, get a a degree, get a career out of it" deal, which is the path I'm on right now. But, one thing that you can do with "must" is remix the "should" that society wants for us. If the "must" that we want happens to have an element of the "should" that society thinks that's best, then there's no reason why that shouldn't be done.

I intend do apply that to my future. While I'm taking the "should" message that is encouraged by society, I'm adding my "must" to it and taking it into the direction that I want to. So yeah, I'm going to college, getting a degree and so on, but am I getting a degree in something that I "should" do? No, of course not, I'm majoring in something that I want to major in, at the college I want to go to, that will lead me to a career that I want. If it seems right to us, if we want to do it, then we simply must, if we think it's the best.

Macbeth Act 4 Notes

The Witches begin by making an odd mixture in their cauldron with ingredients including a toad, a slice of swamp snake, a scale of a dragon, a witch's mumified flesh, a stomach of a shark, a goat's bile, twigs that were broken during a lunar eclipse, a Tartar's lips, and the finger of a baby that was strangled as a prostitute gave birth to it

They cool the mixture down with baboon blood

Macbeth intrudes on thw witches and wants to know more about his future. They warn him about Macduff

Lennox informs Macbeth that Macduff had fled to England

Lady Macduff does not seem sadened by the fleeing of her husband. "Oh, I can buy twenty husbands at any market"

One of the murderers that Macbeth hired murders Macduff's son

Malcom and Macduff discuss how Macbeth is a murderous villian, Macduff also tries to convince Malcom to fight Macbeth

Ross comes to visit the two and inform about what is all going on in Scottland

The three plot revenge on Macbeth

Macbeth Act 3 Notes

Macbeth begins to panic over what the witches said earlier of Banquo's future children taking throne, so he orders 4 murderers to murder Banquo

No one is aware that Banquo is dead except for Macbeth

During the feast, Banquo's ghost appears and exits over multiple times

It starts becoming a tad bit obvious that Macbeth might be acting a bit crazy, so Lady Macbeth tries helping with covering his behavior

Macbeth becomes more anxious about who's going to be against him next, so he goes to witches to ask more about his future

Hecate, the head of the witches gets very angry at the witches for telling Macbeth about his future

Interestingly, no one thinks that Macbeth has been behind any of the murders, and think completely different people commited them

Shakespear Act 2 Notes

Before Macbeth murders Duncan, he sees an imaginary dagger above his head

After Duncan's murder, Macbeth accidentally wakes two servers, he has a fear that they both saw him, but he was wrong and they went back to sleep

Macbeth also thought one of the servants say, "Sleep no more! Macbeth is murdering sleep!"

Macbeth begins to hear a knocking sound that won't stop

A porter comes in and begins to talk about the knocking. Macduff and the porter begin a conversation about his drinking

Everyone has become aware of the murder of the king, and they also believe it was the guardas that murdered Duncan, and that Macbeth murdered the guards

Malcom and Donaldbain make plans on leaving for Ireland

Look At My Brain

Our creativity is caused by inspiration of whatever is around us. So, our work can be seen as something creative we do. What inspires us to do it? Whatever that work is based off of. Say if we were assigned something based of a story or book we read, whatever reading we weresupposed to do inspires us to work up a good assignment to do, and to turn in. It helps our creativity and thinking

What About My Masterpiece?

Well, the only progress Ricky andI have made on our video was some filming back in February. We've been trying to set up another day, but with a lot of people's different schedules, it's been hard to do so. But, spring break is when we will for sure make it happen. We have still been in the talks for filming days and such. Ricky has also been contacting some well-known YouTube drummers as well to see if they have interest in participating

Love Is Blind

To be honest, right now I don't see too much of a difference between how we see Lady and how Macbeth sees her. The way I see it is this: Everyone (by everyone, I mean us, the readers) is viewing Lady Macbeth as a cold, heartless woman since she is encouraging Macbeth to murder Duncan. But in Act 1, Macbeth seems to be seeing her the same way, thinking that her idea is awful and cruel. However, I could be wrong, and my opinion might change as we get further into Hamlet.

Macbeth Act 1 Notes

Duncan and Malcom discuss Crawdor's execution

Duncan goes on to praise Macbeth and Banquo and how he feels honored to have them serve. And Macbeth responds with how honored he feels to serve for Duncan

Lady Macbeth wants to convince Macbeth to assassinate Duncan so Macbeth can take the throne

Macbeth is hesitant to do so since he has just been honored by Duncan

Lady Macbeth suggests killing Duncan in his sleep and getting his servants drunk so they have no memory

Macbeth finally agrees to go through with it, but still thinks the idea is evil