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.)