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The death penalty is acceptable in our society because if you do something really horrible, then you should be put to death. If you kill everyone in a classroom and people witness it, then you should be put to death. Now, it is acceptable if the way you kill them is not cruel or unusual. If you kill someone by putting them in a hungry shark tank, then, yes, it is unacceptable, but if you kill someone by injection or firing squad, i think it is fine. Let the punishment fit the crime.

A Lesson Before Dying, in my opinion, is an ok book. I don’t really like it, and i don’t hate it. Really what I don’t like about it is when Grant goes on these really long thinking paragraphs that last forever, like when he remembered what it was like for him to be in school. Really, all i like about it is that it has an interesting plot.

Mr. Wasserman asked, “Does Grant know what he is doing with Jefferson?” Honestly, i don’t think he cares what he has to do with Jefferson. He just acts like Miss Emma is forcing him to go and it is as if Grant is not even trying to figure out what to do. He just seems to act like his life is horrible and people always make him do things. He should just try to figure out how to make this depressed guy and cheer him up and make him a “man”.

Outside of school, I watched Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo Dicaprio. This was a really modern times movie that took place in Verona Beach, Los Angeles (Verona Beach doesn’t really exist). This movie was spectacular. In the beggining, i thought the movie would be nothing like the Shakespere version, but on the contrary, it was very similar. All the characters talk the same way as Shakespere wrote it. They said every line in the play and they acted every scene the way it should have been. Everything that was written in Romeo and Juliet, was played out in this movie. The differences were that it was more modern and instead of swords, they used guns, and they had cars etc. I honestly couldn’t find any differences from the movie and Shakesperes version. The acting in this movie was fantastic, the actors stayed in character very nicely and the scenes when something really important happened were expressed very clearly. I love the way the director directed the film because he followed the play word by word, scene by scene, so it felt like i was reading the book again. 2 thumbs up for sure.

The question is what should we do in Iraq now? Honestly it is really hard to think of one that would work. One suggestion is that we add more troops in Iraq. That honestly would not help because it would just get the Iraqis more upset and just revolt more to the idea of America being in Iraq. Also, what would that do, even if we stayed for another 10 years, Iraq would still be significantly weaker than when Saddam was in power, and Iran could easily take it over if they wanted to. Seperating Iraq into 3 different countries would just be madness.

It turns out that if we do turn Iraq into 3 different countries where each country has it’s own religeon, the countries would be very vonerable to attack from other countries because they would get so much weaker. (Olmstead)

Pretty much, Iraq would easily get taken over by Iran because the country of Iraq, which was already weak to begin with, is now divided into three different countries, only making each country weaker and easier to take over. The best option would probably be take the troops out of Iraq, and I don’t think that because it is not our problem, but because we are just not doing anything in Iraq that is significant towards helping Iraq be a better nation. Now, if we leave, Iraq will still be weak and Iran would be prone to take it over, so i think that in every way you think of it, we just ruined Iraq. They were much better with Saddam in power than us trying to “liberate” them. Considering all the options, it seems like Iran will make a move on Iraq no matter what, so really, it is America’s fault for any chaos to come in the middle east from now on.

Interesting

Oh my god, what an ending. This last scene mainly took place in a court room where many of the girls who were accused of being witches went. What i found very strange was that the girls were really acting very weird in the court, making it really seem like they were witches. Also, another thing that i find interesting was that the author mentioned a historical aspect to the trials that Mr. Olmstead taught us and that is many people accused these girls because they wanted land and that seemed to be the case for Putnam. Near the end, the girls just all went crazy talking about spirits being unleashed and calling Proctor a devil’s man. I really couldn’t believe how this ending turned out. One question i still have though that was really not answered is why would these girls act like this if they were normal, it just makes no sense. They just kept acting very strangly until the end, i thought maybe the girls could stand a chance of being innocent, but i guess not. I really recomend this book to anyone who wants to really get some good insight on the Salem witch trials or just wants to read a thriller. The good thing is that it is not too long and really fun to read.