Deciphering the meaning of tihs language

A quote that really stuck out in my mind while reading was in Act 2 Scene 3 Line 170-174 in which Maria says, " Sport royal, I warrant you. I know my physic will work with him. I will plant you two, and let the Fool make a third, where he shall find the letter. Observe the construction of it. For this night, to bed, and dream on the event. Farewell."

This quote as you may recall was done as a free write in class and I felt the need to talk about it further and put more thought into it. We went over want we thought sport royal meant and I from the other information given to use in and around this excerpt only can only connect it with the form of hunting as was done during these times where royalty would go out and corner and trap their prey. Maria is planning on trapping and trying to making Malvolio look like a for lack of a better terms a "fool". She is going to try and destroy him and in order to do so she is going to use Sir Toby and Sir Andrew to make her plan fall into place and also use the Fool as a third party and make her plan really meaningful and make sure that Malvolio is humiliated. She seems to have an intricate plan which she is starting to put into the works but before she really gives to much she departs and this allows you to see that Malvolio is the hunted and Maria, Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew are the hunters trying to corner, capture, and kill Malvolio. The fool i think is just a scapegoat who will be used to make the plan stronger.

What I did not understand in Act 1 of Twelfth NIght

1. I really did not understand when it said that Cesario was going to go and make love to Olivia for Orsino? Did he mean it in the literal sense or that he was going to her in order to sweep her off her feet and help him to make Olivia fall in love with him?
2. What is the point of Olivia mourning her brothers death for so long? Is there a reason why she would do this or is she truly heartbroken and just needs the time to cope with his death?
3. Why does Olivia's drunken Uncle or cousin (Sir Toby) try and set him up with his friend (Sir Andrew)? Does he have a motive for doing so?
4. All I know is it takes me a while to trust some one but Duke Orsino trusts Cesario so quickly (3 days).......WHY?
5. Why does Viola become Cesario and dress like a man? Why couldn't she just stay a woman?
6. I did not understand the conversation with Olivia and the Fool? He seems to have something else going on....Does he?

The wilderness in our hands

Global Warming, is it even real? What causes the trees spoke about in the article "Taking Wilderness in hand" by Michelle Nijhuis to become SICK and die. I felt I needed to speak on a couple topics from this article that i kept thinking of when reading. You have to care because this is our world and the trees help us to live and is a vital part to the life cycle. Trees give us air that i think is very important to our survival because it is a basic necessity for life. Not that this article was not interesting but i just did not agree with anything that was happening or going on. I personally believe that instead of wasting money on moving these trees we must figure out WHY they are dieing because just by moving to a different area does not mean that the disease is magically gone. This is not a realm where things just disappear but a place were everything recirculates so we must find ways to fix problems instead of just moving aside and waiting for it to return. I wanted to find out about global warming and i decided in my opinion that it does not exist because in history it shows that during the period between ice ages it is the hottest just as in a hurricane when it is the calmest in the eye of the storm. We must definitely protect the wildlife but awe must also preserve and try to keep in focus all the things that we need to fix and keep moving forward and making the earth a better and more beautiful place.

Virtual IRAQ

Virtual Iraq by Sue Halpern is an article that i was very interested in reading and actually no offense to the other writers actually wanted to read. This is a topic i was very interested in because i know how PTSD can affect a person and i have many friends that are currently overseas defending our country. The place where i learned most about PTSD was actually in my own home and not from reading an article. This disorder does not have to be associated with just our military but can be connected with many of the men and women whom helped saved lives on what caused us to start the war. Many of the police and fireman who had to go into the city and help try and saves lives of the people in the world trade center can have systems of this. We may never know the feeling of seeing a loved one pass away right in front of you but my father did. The firehouse is a close knit family were you all take care of each other and actually become like a real family. My father watched many of his brothers die right in from of him because of what those animals did! He watched one of his best friends be hit by a jumper right in front of him. I thank God everyday for watching over my father and keeping him here with me. He was diagnosed with many illnesses from 9/11 but the one that took a large affect on him in the eyes of the family was PTSD. There are things that trigger emotions or reactions that wouldn't bother any of us. This is very serious and i just felt connected to the article and wanted to read it because i truly respect and am grateful to each person who fights for out freedom.

SMALL OBJECT, large subject

I know this is cliche and has already been done by others in this class but the topic i have to talk about is red bull. The reason i have choose to speak about red bull is because as the slogan for the energy drink says 'RED BULL GIVES YOU WINGS'. This is something i can really use at the moment because since the start of this class i have really fallen behind and am working vigorously to catch up. Those so call wings that they speak of i could really really use since i am not much of a writer and find this difficult. The energy drinks gives you a quick and very helpful boost but when it ends you crash but for the time you have the energy boost it is much needed. Since i have been in college this energy drink has helped to pull all nighters to make sure i can make the deadlines that crept up on me do to my own laziness.

When i was in high school i remember what my mom would always say when i asked if i could have a red bull. She always told me that i didn't need the wings, that they advertised in the commercials. I never needed it for the boost of energy but i realized that just because i was told it was bad for me and i wasn't allowed it made me want it more. The pure boost of sugar filled energy that rushed through me when i had consumed every last drop of the yummy sugar loaded slice of heaven. I was jumping of the walls and honestly even though it sounds ridiculous, but i felt like i was flying because i was moving around so and felt like i was more awake than ever. It was also pretty amazing since i took the drink before the football game that night so for the entire game i was on a sugar hi along with the rush of adrenaline so i was definitely on top of the world.

The only side affect was that after the game i crashed all the adrenaline and sugar gone and no longer boosting my energy i felt like i couldn't move. I didn't know if i had exerted myself to much in the game but then i realized i was always fine during the game and after but it was different today because i had taken the red bull prior to it. The crash from the energy drink definitely was not worth the hi that i received from it but i still take it because in some cases it is necessary (LIKE IN THE CASE OF TONIGHT AND WRITING THESE BLOGS). This experience is just mind and i have seen the drink have different affects on different people and you really have to experience it for yourself before making a decision on whether or not it is something for you.

Many people believe that these drinks are unhealthy for you because of all of the sugar and caffeine that is generally associated with them. We see red bull as a quick fix which will allow us to stay awake longer and allow us to get more done. Red bull is a very popular drink and has even begun to vary the type of drinks or shots they make. They have made shots that contain less caffeine and even drinks that are SUGAR FREE. Could that be true an energy drink with no sugar, can it work the same as the original. These are all valid questions but questions you must answer on your own and try the new products.

Hi-tech Trash

Did you know what happened to your old computer or self phone when you get ride of it? Well i certainly did not have any idea before reading the article 'Hi-Tech Trash' by Chris Carroll. The fact that they take the obsolete technology and just dump it in poor downtrodden countries isn't right and actually really bothered me because this is the planet that we live on and we need to take care of it not only for ourselves but on the future generations that will need to use the soil and water that we are polluting just because we are to cheap or lazy to dispose of the technology in the correct manner. What the materials that we dispose of leak or do to the earth is a direct threat to our future and the environment. The e-waste, as it was called in the article, does to the environment is awful and we need to make sure of is the way the hi-tech trash is being taken care of. When i get rid of the old computers or old phones i never checked because i figured they recycled or refurbished the parts so that they could be used to make another hi-tech piece of equipment. I had no idea how the products were disposed of and to be honest at the time i didn't care at all but looking at what i know now it is very important that we take care of excess or unneeded technology in the right ways. I know i will be more into helping the environment and getting rid of the technology the right way.

Toulimin Model about CARR

In this Blog i will be taking the article is 'Google making us stupid?' by Nicholas Carr and putting it up against the Tolumin Model. In this model you seek out five terms which are the claim, statement of claim, subclaims, support and warrants. I will start with the first part of the model which is the claim.
What I gathered to be the claim was that he was trying to explain to the reader that google and other search engines were making us lazy and making us lose the ability to focus or complete the task we were working on. This is something I can agree with to a point but it brings me to question is it the artificial intelligence that makes us lazy or is it our own mental capacity that isn't allowing us to finish. If you have the motivation and drive the search engine isn't going to make you lazy, only you can make yourself lazy not a computer.
The next part of the model is the statement of claim which in other terms is his purpose statement which is the purpose statement or what the author is trying to really get across. The point that i feel Carr is really trying to get across, even though i do not agree with the article, is as he says, "I am not thinking the way i used too". He is trying to make the point that google is ruining the way he used to think and is conforming his mind into what it is and only allows it to skim the surface of the information.
Subclaims are reasons or arguments the author makes to support his claim and make you understand why he feels the way he does, I also believe in my own opinion that this goes hand in hand with support which is the evidence for his subclaims. Carr uses quotes taken from other Internet bloggers along with his own claims that makes it strengthen the claim of the article. All of the evidence that he gives helps to show and prove that his opinion is right. But in my opinion he only gives you his warrants that support the side for his claim. This is not an objective article because he puts all the blame on the search engine and does not hold the person accountable for making himself/herself lazy and lose the ability to think that they once did.