Macbeth Act 2

  In the second act of Macbeth the plan about killing King Duncan is underway. Lady Macbeth poisons the guards in King Duncan's room planning to frame them for the bloody murder they are about to commit. As Macbeth makes his way to the kings room he finds himself hallucinating seeing daggers flying towards him. However, once he's in the room the daggers disappear and the only thing Macbeth sees before his eyes is the King peacefully sleeping in his bed. After repeatedly stabbing Duncan, Macbeth returns to his lady covered in blood and still holding his murder weapons. Lady Macbeth  is furious and has to return to the crime scene to place the weapons in the guards possession because her husband failed to do so. Once the murder is done Mcduff knocks upon Macbeth's gates asking to see the king. He goes to wake the King only to find him dead. Upon hearing the news Macbeth kills the guards out of "fury" before they awake. King Duncan's death allowed Macbeth to become the new king just as the witches said he would.

  At first Macbeth didn't want to kill King Duncan but Lady Macbeth persuaded him into doing so. I believe after committing this murder and the witches second prediction coming true Macbeth and Lady Macbeth will spiral out of control doing whatever they need to in order to get what they want.

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AWESOME.

  Have you ever been going through Cd's when you come across that dusty old scratched disc you had once listened to in elementary school?  I love it when I find old music that I haven't listened to for ages especially when I still remember the words to those childhood songs.  When Sarah and I were young  we like to make Cd's. I received a few from Sarah on my birthday and from her birthday party when it was apart of the "goody bag".  I recently found one of these Cd's in one of my old CD holders.  My sister Kirsti and I went through it on the way into town one day and found songs such as inspector gadget, I am a pizza, the unicorn song and the boys in the bright white sports car.  This not only brought smiles to our faces but it also brought a flood of childhood memories which I found AWESOME.

I'm not sure about anybody else but I'm sure feeling the stress of the approaching exams we are about to take. Exam week is hard on anybody. Who wants to spend there precious free time studying for subjects they have to be tested on. Although, after those hours and hours of endless studying, nothing feels better than getting that weight lifted off your back when exiting the chilled gym knowing that you just finished your last exam and won't have to take another for the next four months.  As our exam week is just around the corner I'm sure looking forward to Thursday when I will be writing my last exam of semester one. AWESOME.

The Black Death

  The Black Death was a horrible plague that greatly effected the European population around 1348.  The disease was passed around by infected fleas carrying the bacterium Yersina Pestis which comes from rats and other small animals.  The Black plague came in three different forms bubonic which was the most common, pneumonic and septicemic, the rarest of the three.  When someone was infected with the bubonic form of the plague one symptom concluded of large painful swellings around the neck, armpits and groin.  When these large tumors appeared it usually signaled that the person infected had a week or less to live.  Not as common as the first, the second form of the plague was a respiratory infection targeting the lungs.  People could be infected with this form of plague if they were breathed on by a someone who was infected, there was no escaping the plague.  People with this infection had life expectancy of 2 to 3 days.  Finally, the septicemic form which was the most uncommon.  This form of plague caused skin to turn dark shades of purple also known as DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation).  As soon as symptoms of DIC began to show often the victims died the same day.  The black  plague had greatly affected Europe almost wiping out their whole race but once the plague came to an end survivors repopulated.

"A Child Called It"

  "In the years before I was abused, my family was the 'Brady Bunch' of the 1960's." Chapter 2, Good Times Pg. 17.  What really got me when reading this part of the book was how could a once loving mother become to hate her little boy so much.  It's not like he was an only child either, he had two other siblings but he was the one chosen as 'the family slave'. If I saw one of my sisters being treated in the horrible ways David was I would help them out.  It shocked me how no one bothered to help David, his siblings didn't acknowledge him and ignored him if he was in their presence.