Stepparents and stepchildren (final)

King Claudius is now Prince Hamlets step dad, so when hamlet comes to find out that his uncle is now king and his is now step dad he becomes hate full of his step dad. Hamlet ends up wanting to take the throne from King Claudius.

When you see most relationships that are with young adults and their step parent(s) they tend to go threw a rebellious period in the relationship. The Kid may hate them for being with their real parent. such as in a movie the step dad is with a sons real mom and the kid is not pleased with the out come, he has been the 'man of the house' for a while now and doesn't want that to change. He also may see the step dad as not being good enough for his mother.

The conflicts of having a stepparent are mostly tough. For instance there is the whole trust issues with the parents. The 'right of passage' to be with the other real parent as to see if the stepparent is going to leave or hurt the real parent. But mostly i see it is a trusting thing. As in Hamlet he doesn't like or trust King Claudius at all. He learns later from his fathers ghost that Claudius had his father killed. So he wants to return the favor to King Claudius and in the end he ends up ruining the very thing he tried to keep safe. At the end the land and relations he tried to keep safe had ended up getting destroyed like in the "Disney's The Lion King" when Scar(king Claudius) takes over, everything becomes to a very not nice place to be. The water dries up and the animals leave. When Symba returns home to discover it he ends up taking the throne from Scar and everything returns to normal happy go lucky place it once was.

Some of the advantages and disadvantages of having a stepparent are that you get to meet new people and you have three parents that love and care for you. What if your stepparent doesn't like you and is just putting on a show for your real parent, like in the movie "The Parent Trap" with Lindsay Lohan. Then that's a down side to the whole relationship bit. What if your step dad was one of your dads friends...that would freak me out. What if one of your parents was poisoned like hamlets dad was, i would want revenge.

The Stepparent will always have a tough time trying to fill the shoes of the person before him. Same way with relationships when you find someone new after you've had a very special relationship before that then he is going to have some big shoes to try and fill along with the hole in your heart.

Maddness in great ones(final)

In the classic book "Hamlet" by Shakespeare, Hamlets step dad King Claudius says that "madness in great ones must not unwatched go." In other words he is saying that when the great and powerful go mad then they must always be watched and carefully kept under control.

The truth of this matter is that when a king or pope or anyone with power becomes mad or when they become power crazy then it is necessary to watch them and perhaps remove them. Such as when King Henry the 8th became king and was not pleased with his wife he had her killed so he could be with a miss Ann Bolin. King Henry asked the pope to divorce his first wife but the pope denied his request so the angry King Henry separated from the pope. When Henry did that he created his own Protestant religion with him as the 'pope'. Even today people in power will go corrupt, such as when a officer of the law accepts bribes from organized crime. They realize they have a place of power and can get mostly what they want.

The United States has a man of great power in office, the president. To keep Mr. President in power check we have a systems of checks and balances. The executive legislative judicial branches of our government all need each other. The legislative comes up with the new laws, the judicial makes sure they fit with our supreme law the constitution, and the executive signs the bill in to law. The president is the head of the executive branch. So the president cant go on a power inflicted rage with out the help of the other branches so to speak. The England and Russian Rulers have checks and balances also, but instead of Congress they have a Parliament.

The Modern day news stories have shown some down falls of great ones. When Bill Clinton was President he had 'relations' with a girl he knew. He was one of though people who have power and use it to get what they want, like King Henry the 8th. A while back a spy from Russia was poisoned, he claimed that the Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the assassination. Later on the spy died in the hospital.

When King Claudius stated that "Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." I believe that he was meaning to watch Hamlet because he is a prince and was acting like a mad man. So that way if Hamlet needed removal from power he would be apt to do so quickly and with little interference from others, in other words swift and painless.

Thinker or doer or a thinking doer

A thinker or a doer...
I think I'm a thinking doer. I like knowing what I'm doing but I am not really a spontaneous person, I am sometimes, like when stories 'pop' in to my head. Like yesterday I stayed at school and talked with friends till like five o'clock(which I rarely do). So it was very random for me, If I had a story I would tell it, if I had something funny to say I would say it. The thing I remember most from yesterday was that we all just had fun so I wish I could do stuff like that more instead of hanging with friends for a little while then buzzing home to do chores and be by myself. I enjoy my own company, but its nice to have someone to talk to and be with instead of being alone.
The thinker I think is someone who thinks before they ask and act. Like a blind guy, they have to be constantly thinking on what they are doing and how they do it or they may run into something or someone or break something. The doer I think is someone who sometimes does things that get him in trouble. Like a friend of mine she is a doer and it seems like she is always doing something. She doesn't think before she speaks sometimes, she will back talk her parents and get grounded or something and doesn't think that if i back talk then i can hangout with Mitchell tonight...or something like that. I enjoy being a thinking doer(and wouldn't change), I like thinking and knowing what is going to happen(like if I pull on that limb the bee hive will fall on me.) but I also enjoy doing(if I pull on that limb the bee hive will fall on my buddy), like when I'm hunting I enjoy bailing off from camp and hiking my loop I always go on. One reason I like that loop is that Ive been on that loop many times so I know when and where I'm going to end up, Though I like just exploring also. I hate not knowing stuff so that's where my thinking kicks in. When i got pulled over because my license plates were wrong we never knew that so i was kinda freaking out even though I had done nothing wrong, but my wheels in my head were kicking in to overdrive.

spying on your kids is sometimes necessary but most of the times not..expeually if you know them well. the "RIGHT" to spy on your kids is necessary to keep them safe and let them explore and learn on their own. but it also makes them feel usurped from their own choices. like my parents don't trust me so they watch everything i do they say what to do and when to do it and how to do the thing the parents said the kid to do the thing the parents chose to have the kid do. My parents trust me but they still keep an eye on me.(sometimes two eyes.) but they also realize that I'm becoming an adult and need to be set free...though they will always keep an eye on me, because they love me and don't want me to mess up my life by doing something stupid.

spying on your kids

spying on your kids is sometimes necessary but most of the times not..expeually if you know them well. the "RIGHT" to spy on your kids is necessary to keep them safe and let them explore and learn on their own. but it also makes them feel usurped from their own choices. like my parents don't trust me so they watch everything i do they say what to do and when to do it and how to do the thing the parents said the kid to do the thing the parents chose to have the kid do. My parents trust me but they still keep an eye on me.(sometimes two eyes.) but they also realize that I'm becoming an adult and need to be set free...though they will always keep an eye on me, because they love me and don't want me to mess up my life by doing something stupid.

WILL OUR THRIFTINESS LAST??

Ellen Goodman asks will our thriftiness last as long as the recession lasts or will we continue spending more than we have been in the past when the recession ends? Some of the people, such as Black stones group Chairman Steve Schwarzman publicly regrets a three million dollar birthday bash, a perfume mogul cancels a party at the Four Seasons in favor of a White Castle hamburgers at home, on fox "Secret Millionaire" fox's latest, worst reality show repents a private plane joy ride that cost $12,000 in jet fuel. we can tell the recession is bad when the rich start saving money. Now competitive consumption is being replaced by anxiety...buying hit bottom with the housing collapse, the stock market plunge, and the credit card crunch and the unemployment figures.

The fact is that when a rational response to the worst economic crises since the Great Depression, but when it starts affecting people whose mortgages and jobs are secure something else is going on behind the background.

We as a family are spending less and less...because we have less and less. when you start regretting that you have to spend money to go to the grocery store something is wrong. i used to go to dinner with a friend of mine like once a week, her and i haven't done that in like 6 months. i miss doing that dinner "date" but after you figured in the gas and the food i didn't have enough to get home.

But a part of my family is spending more and more, they live on credit cards and have the debit piling up on there kitchen counter so to speak. They live daily from credit card to credit card....just now they are starting to straiting up and fly right. With both of them working two jobs they are starting to get it under control.

Fatherly advice

The advice in the story Hamlet is very valuable and used often. The give every man your ear but tongue few, is used by me....thought i do love telling stories so it kind of contradicts it. The last situation I was in that I need to use some advice that was given to me was when I was at my aunts house for thanksgiving a few years back. I had met someone new and we got talking and they started saying there opinion on a politician and I just kept my opinion to myself(I didn't feel qualified to talk about politics) which kind of confused the guy because he likes picking at peoples brains and finding how the person thinks in a twisted way. So he didn't find out how i worked. He is an alright guy but hes twisted..and not in a good way. When he meets someone new he will talk about politics and about religion...both of which he has a distaste for, just to pick at the persons mind. So in the end I kept my opinion to myself and we had an alright fun time. Another situation where the advice had come in handy was when I met a new friend of mine. (so the fledgling quote will work.) I trusted him but he shouldn't have been trusted, so I learned that advice somewhat on my own. Ever sense then I've grown slightly paranoid about trusting new friends and losing my trusted ones. When I can give advice of my own to people I will, but I also tell them to use it sparingly........like when you use hot sauce, though strangely i use allot of hot sauce....

Revenge

I think people still use revenge to get what they want. i personally haven't....least that i can remember. some people see it as the only way to get what they want or to hurt someone like they have been hurt. Like the "Punisher" movies, the main characters family was killed so the main character chooses to exact revenge on the men who took his family and tried to kill him by taking the same things they took from him. When the Justice system fails people tend to want revenge expesually in a murder or rape case. some people want revenge when something special has been taken from them, such as a girlfriend or wife by a "bad" man. but in the end you usually get hurt worse/remains unchanged or get more taken from you.

"And Then There Was One" Distilling the Big Three into a single player could save Detroit.

The companies that once ruled the road are husks of the mighty institutions that they once were. Now they have less than half the U.S. auto market and will lose a combined $30 billion this year. Together the companies are burning through nearly $6 billion a month, and General Motors and Chrysler say that by the end of the year they will be bankrupt. They plan to head back to Washington this week to beg for a bailout.

There will be hurtles like a powerful union, strongly independent dealers and a complex network of suppliers. Simply if the enterprises continue to squabble it is likely to make matters worse. But there is a way to fix the prioblem. Chrysler, the weakest player, could fall, leaving the two other companies. GM and Ford could eventually end up together by choice or force of being broke.

The Past has shown companies grouping together. Like Boeing grabbed up all U.S. civil-aircraft business, acquiring its chief domestic rival McDonnell Douglas in 1997. That allowed Boeing to take on the true competition: Europe's Airbus. Beginning in 1986, more than 35 American steel makers went bankrupt. In 2002, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross agreed to buy up bankrupt LTV Steel, setting off a merger frenzy that saw 17 companies shrink down to three, while financial results reversed from a $1.1 billion loss in 2003 to a $6.6 billion profit in 2004. So if the companies choose to join together they chances for economic rise is great, as it has shown in the past.

I agree with Keith Naughton, if the companies join they can group their resources together and pull themselves out of there hole. sure the companies don't want to but if they don't get the bailout or the bail out fails they will surly have to collaborate. We need to start playing to win instead of trying to be the "top dog" of the auto sales in the U.S.

"Japan has 4 major automakers on the global stage: Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Mazda. Germany has 3 major auto companies: Daimler, BMW, and Volkswagon-Porsche (I put them together since Porsche is buying a controlling stake in VW). China has a multitude of automakers, but really a couple of powerhouses in Chery and SAIC. What do all of these companies have in common? They are protected and supported by their nation's governments. all of these automakers receive a great deal of support from their respective governments. Americans are foolish and naive if they truly believe that other countries approach their domestic industries on a "stand-alone, fail-alone" basis as the US seems to do. Other countries recognize that manufacturing is a vital component economically, psychologically, and from a national defense perspective. The United States must stop acting as if every other country is honorable and fair, and start playing to win. Only then can our automakers hope to compete on a playing field that is skewed at a global level, and not just on the dealer's lot."(From the comment section on the newsweek page.)

Programs honored for getting kids interested in college.

When a program gets honored for doing something such as getting students interested in doing to college it creates a "buzz" about going to college. The whole 'everyone is doing it so ill do it to' bit. I think that the statewide average for having a bachelor degree from college is 29.5% while Shasta county has 18.8%. The cost of living in California is much higher than in most other states, for example the minimum wage. so the students that want to go on to college lack the funds necessary to do so.

College OPTIONS was formed in 2003 and since then, college application submissions from the surrounding area has increased 33 percent. While the same time FAFSA submissions, which are mandatory for students seeking admission to University of California and the California State University systems, have gone up 27 percent. Currently, College OPTIONS has partnerships with and is supported by the McConnell Foundation, the University of California and the California State University systems, Simpson University, National University, Shasta College, College of the Siskiyous, the Shasta Union High School District and others. While the number for the actual students going to college is really unknown for it is hard to count. The Postsecondary Education Commission said 11.6 percent of the area's high school seniors continued on to college last year. But nearly every education official in the north state has called that number incorrect.

Over the years from when the pursuit for a higher education first started the ways of college have changed so much, the way we are weeded out to see if we are able to make it and how we are going to make it in to the college of out choice. If someone builds a UC in Redding the higher paying jobs will grow in numbers as the number of higher educated people increase. So the economy that is troubling us will subside some what. "Few college access programs served students in the north state region before College OPTIONS opened its doors," said Blake Ulveling, a spokesman for Campaign for College Opportunities. "The result (is) more students enrolling in college, more students becoming eligible to attend a CSU or UC and more students filling out the FAFSA."

The People that have the money to go out and get a college degree should, so that getting their degree helps the rest of the community so that the rest of us that are having a difficult time getting in to college are more apt to do so. College OPTIONS (and other programs such as gear up) have been honored by recognition by the community for there work in getting students going to college, or at least looking at college.

We cannot keep preaching to the world about democracy and capitalism while our own house is so wildly out of order.

Zakaria's premise that we, as a nation, must begin to save more and consume less. We as a nation are in a world of hurt we are hemmorging money for everything from the war on terrorism to the bail out of the stock market to the expending of money for out daily needs. We need to start saving and stop consuming as much from other countries. The money we have that we call our own is loosing value in the world market, but if we start saving our funds we will eventually get out of this financial slump. "As economist Jeffrey Sachs points out, "We've wanted lots of government, but we haven't wanted to pay for it." So we've borrowed our way out of the problem. In 1990, the national debt stood at $3 trillion. (That sounds high, but keep reading.) By 2000, it had almost doubled, to $5.75 trillion. It is currently $10.2 trillion. The number moved into 11 digits last month, which meant that the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of space to display the figures. Its owners plan to get a new clock next year." so in other words we are throwing salt on an open wound that's hemmorging money. "In the medium and long term, we have to get back to basics. Households, for instance, should save more. Governments should put incentives in place that make such savings more likely. The U.S. government offers enormous incentives to consume (the deduction of mortgage interest being the best example), and it works. We have the biggest houses in the world, the thinnest flat-screen TVs and the most cars. If we were to tax consumption and encourage savings, that would also work. Regulations on credit-card debt should be revised to ensure that people understand the risks and costs of these instruments. Moving in this direction would be good for families and for the government as well." so we could start evolving from the spend happy Americans to the Americans with money to spend...so to speak. "Curry points out that "30 percent of S&P 500 profits last year were earned by financial firms, and U.S. consumers were spending $800 billion more than they earned every year. As a result, most of our top math Ph.D.s were being pulled into nonproductive financial engineering instead of bio-tech research and fuel technology. " so the people that could get the U.S. out of dept are in nonproductive fields instead of doing things that can get us out of dept such as fuel research.
"It's a fundamental American belief that competition is good—in business, athletics and life. Checks and balances are James Madison's crucial mechanisms, exposing and countering abuse and arrogance and forcing discipline on people. This discipline will be painful for a country that has gotten used to having it all. But it will make us much stronger in the long run. If we can learn the right lessons from this crisis, the United States will once more be playing by its own rules. And that cannot be bad for us."

samuelson:is this a repeat of 1929?

"There are parallels between then and now, but there are also big differences. Now, as then, Americans borrowed heavily before the crisis—in the 1920s, for cars, radios and appliances; in the past decade, for homes or against inflated home values. Now, as then, the crisis caught people by surprise and is global in scope. But unlike then, the federal government is now a huge part of the economy (20 percent vs. 3 percent in 1929) and its spending—for Social Security, defense, roads—provides greater stabilization. Unlike then, government officials have moved quickly, if clumsily, to contain the crisis." says Robert J. Samuelson. The story is saying that we were on the road to another depression of the 1929s. but the fact that the government is now a major part in the economy and its spending for the economy to improve such as things in Social Security, defense, roads and other things that will help the growth of stabilization. "We need to remind ourselves that economic slumps—though wrenching and disillusioning for millions—rarely become national tragedies. Since the late 1940s, the United States has suffered 10 recessions. On average, they've lasted 10 months and involved peak monthly unemployment of 7.6 percent; the worst (those of 1973–75 and 1981–82) both lasted 16 months and had peak unemployment of 9.0 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively. We are almost certainly in a recession now, but joblessness, 6.1 percent in September, would have to rise spectacularly to match post-World War II highs. The stock market tells a similar story. There have been 10 previous bear markets, defined as declines of at least 20 percent in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. The average decline was 31.5 percent; those of 1973–74 and 2000–02 were nearly 50 percent. By contrast, the S&P's low point so far (Friday, Oct. 3) was 30 percent below the peak reached in October 2007." The Great Depression resulted from the mix of a weak economy and government policies that grew the weakness and that were only partially held off by the New Deal. If we can avoid a similar blunder, the great drama of these recent weeks may prove blessedly misleading.

The year after high school

I want to go to Shasta college after high school because it has some of the classes I want to take. such as I want to work outside like for the fish and game or in waterworks like my uncle, he drives around and checks the water level and whats in it and stuff. One of my dads friends is an master water technician and he earns a lot of money and he enjoys his work, he works outside hes not stuck to a computer in an air conditioned office. Another reason I want to go to Shasta college is because I don't have a definite idea on what i want to be so like you said I wont have to fork over my life savings to change majors. Another thing I like is welding so I may go in to that field and Shasta has the opportunity to do so. I'm close to home and to family and friends too. Though I may transfer over to Humboldt for like the fish and game thing, but over there I'll also be close to family my dad's side of the family is over there and also in Virgina but I'm not going go to Virgina....way to far away. I worked at Whiskeytown over the summer and I would love to get hired back, the reason I don't work there any more is it was a program and it was a seasonal job. So that would help me pay for the college tuition. As far as I know am the only one that Wayne (my boss) said that he would hire me back if he could. So I'll try to get a regular job there. "If you love your job then it isn't a job." and I loved my job. so that fact that I make a career out of something I love then I'll stick with it for the rest of my life.

To spend is to tax, wall streets $700 billion bail out

To spend is to tax, as capitalist deity Milton Friedman is said to have put it.
To see how good the government thinks the credit risks are, the Federal Reserve is charging AIG (until last week a Dow component) an interest rate of three-month LIBOR plus 8.5 percent—about 11.4 percent. That's a lower rate than many credit-card customers pay, but a higher rate than most junk-rated companies pay. But it's almost certain that all these bailouts will cost taxpayers tens of billions, possibly hundreds of billions, of dollars. so how do the federals think we are going to pay this major bail out for some failing companies. "I'd love to hear what former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, or President Bush (who continues to cower behind Paulson's large frame) or Goldman SachsCEO Lloyd Blankfein and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, whose butts were just saved, has to propose." says Daniel Gross of Newsweek. Possibility would be to make the bailed out companies self-insure against their own incompetence, the way banks have done in the past with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and of course Congress should abolish the exemption that lets private equity and hedge-fund managers to pay low capital-gains tax rates for the money they earn managing other people's money. The fact that they had to be helped because of their own incompetence is their fault. So i think that we should help get them back on their feet but not give them all the money they need, because who is going to pay for this...we will. The last i checked the United States was nine trillion dollars in dept to the chinese.

fighting binge drinking

The current drinking age in the U.S. is 21 but in Germany is 18 and they are having problems with binge drinking. Some colleges in the U.S. are trying to crack down on drinking, some are having the janitors stop cleaning up the mess the students make and have the students clean up after them selves. and hopefully the students will find out that a kid with projectile vomit is not a nice thing to see. it has been proven that the "forbidden fruit" tastes better to a 19 year old but 15 year old are drinking more and more. but in colleges the drinking is not just limited to the elite colleges most state colleges have a problem. in Germany the drinking age thing is being hassled by mothers against drunk driving, they are trying to get the age back up to 21. John McCardle, the former president of Middlebury College, stated "Choose Responsibility" movement a couple of years ago, argues that other factors in the high way deaths that the mothers against drunk driving are trying to solve that some are from the reckless driving and from the not using of seat belts. in the past it seemed like it was pride to be able to hold your liquor but now it seems like they try and expel it. women with lower tolerances are even quicker to get sick. i think that if they do lower the drinking age to 18 more students will result in drinking. and things could go bad very quickly. i think more teen pregnancies will happen along with rise in STDs.

The price of our addiction

In this article that was written in '06, it states that we need to find an alternate energy, are we close to having a solid alternative energy source, what should we do about it, have you and your family changed about about driving habits what, about heating, and what i see as an alternative fuel source.
we are paying three to four dollars for a gallon of fuel for our vehicles, which is a long cry from the 25cents that my grandad complained about when he was a kid. i think that we are somewhat close to having a alternative energy source but not close to mass production, such as fuel cells in cars the fuel cell of today are large and bulky to place effectively in a car. we should try and conserve oil for other things...and focus on finding and using a new fuel like hydrogen, fuel cells, ethanol. i have driven less and driven to less places since my truck could no longer be filled for 20 bucks. my parents drive trucks that run on diesel so the price is really hurting them. and it the middle of summer who uses heat?? but i geuss in the winter we use it but we use a wood fireplace. i think that we should use ethonol as a fuel source.

The most expensive sience experiment

The £5bn machine is for one thing, to find out if there is such a thing as dark matter. Some say when they start it up and collide the protons that they will create a new black hole and it will destroy the earth and all that is on it. The engineers have not yet said when they will initiate the "big bang" that they have spent 13 years building up to. The LHC is the most complicated and ambitious experiment ever built, they have been plagued by equipment failure, cost over runs, and construction failure. The start up date is two years late. The LHC should answer one very simple question: What is mass? i learned in sience class that mass is how things take up space. I think that it is kind of worth it, enough to find out more information about space and its "ways". but not enough to build something that can destroy us. well we did build the atom bomb and that could of destroyed us, but that was between countries this atom smasher is known world wide. i think it would have been better if they could have tested in on a smaller scale, or build a machine that has more than one purpose like this one does. to find out what atoms are made of and if there is really dark matter. during the winter the LHC will be shut down and fine tuned for the collisions at full energy. Eventually, two proton beams will be shot in opposite directions around the LHC at close to the speed of light, completing about 11,000 laps each second. At selected points the beams will cross paths, smashing together near four massive "detectors" that monitor the collisions for interesting events. Scientists are hoping that new sub-atomic particles will emerge, revealing fundamental insights into the nature of the cosmos.

Sir Galahad

Sir Galahad is one of the nights in King Arthur's knights of the round table and is Lancelot's son. Galahad is knighted by his father then he is brought to Camelot, when he gets to Camelot he walks over to the Round Table and takes his seat at the Siege Perilous. This place had been kept empty for the one person who would complete the quest of the Holy Grail. If anyone else sat there, it would have proved to be immediately fatal. Sir Galahad survives the event, witnessed by King Arthur and his knights. King Arthur asks the young Galahad to take a test which is pulling a sword from a stone. This he finishes with ease, and King Arthur swiftly proclaims Sir Galahad to be the greatest knight in the world. He is immediately invited to join the Order of the Round Table. according to Merlin that says that Galahad would be greater than his father in valor and be successful in his search for the Holy Grail. Sir Galahad seems as if he is inhuman. He defeats rival knights without effort, talks little to his fellow knights, and leads his companions to the Grail with a relentless determination. Of the three knights(Bors, Perceval, and Galahad) Galahad is the only one to complete the quest for the holy grail When he does, he is taken up into heaven like the biblical patriarch Enoch or the prophet Elijah, leaving his companions and friends behind.

Galahad is associated with a white shield with a vermilion cross, the very same emblem given to the Templars by Pope Eugene III.

Heros

One of my heroes in my life is my dad, he has guided my in my hard times and in some not so hard times. he has always been there for me when when i call. Another thing he has taught me in life is to step quietly in the woods and not to break sticks when you step on them. To me that has more meaning than some, one way i look at it is to be careful when things are not looking so good or when things are tough in things such as a relationship. The 'not break sticks' is to me is like don't step on someones toes, or push someones buttons when their in a bad mood or the twos of yours relationship is rocky.



Another of my heroes in my life is my grandad on my mothers side. Ive always called him Papa. He also has guided me in hard times like my dad, and I've done the same for him. Even though him and I are not blood related I am so much like him. Its creepy sometimes, both of us have the same sense of humor and enjoy making jokes.(you can ask my friends if you don't bevlive me.) Him and i love going places and reading, he gave me a book that is three hundred somthing pages long and i would have finished it in a day but my mom made me go to bed. Iv done that a few times with books he's given me.


The last of my heroes in my life is my grandad on my dads side. I've always called him either Lincon or Dad. Lincon has had nine kids and little money so when they went out for food and brought it home it didnt last long. My Father was the third to the last born and he can tell great storys about living with 8 other brothers and sisters. My Father told me one where lincon went and got a quart of ice cream and all the kids wanted some so he left the ice cream in the package and got a long knife and cut the ice cream and the container in to nine pices for the kids to have. Lincon use to be a logger out in the woods, hes been hurt many times out in the woods but hes always gotten up and "walked away". My dad and a few of the other brothers used to help lincon out in the woods, they used to run and get a new chain for a chain saw or gas or they would help him move logs and all they would earn for a days labor is the change lincon had in his pocket. But they enjoyed the work and they kept coming back to help their dad. Lincon is one tough guy to.

Grendel

Beowolf

The things Beowolf learns in his fights with Grendel and Grendels mother are things that will earn him fame for the rest of his life and in the story of his conquests. He learns that weapons help but are some times not useable. Like in his fight with grendels mother, the sword of old he brings with him to do battle is useless and breaks but he finds a sword on a wall made by people from the past that had made is special by adding spells on it to make it stronger than a normal blad would have been. I think that him finding and using the sword he finds is symbolic some how but i do not know how.