Othello

Shakespeare, credited to be the father of modern English and one of the most famous play writers ever to roam the earth. I read like the first couple of pages and I am confused greatly. I do not understand anything. He's known for the legacy that he created in the 1500′s. Every to date would probably know the famous plays of Othello, Hamlet, and of course Romeo and Juliet. These plays that have been watched and read for the past 500 years are something that people can look back onto to discover great plays that were once played for royalty. All these plays are something that can be known as a legacy that changed the world on what we see play writing as today.

1st: Re-make of Romeo & Juliet. Leo <3 2nd: Remake of the taming of the shrew 3rd: Hamlet, VERY famous play. Re-make dvd cover 4th: A photo of Shakespear 5th: Macbeth. VERY famous as well. Many legends of death around it. 6th: Othello ~ I've never heard of this play before. EVER.

When Mr. Sauer described that this play was going to be tough, I was like 'naaaaawh, i gots dis'. I wanted to read Romeo and Juliet! NO FAIR D: We have to read Othello D': Sauer'll make me cry. My first judgement was that this book was going to be amazingly boring. And it was pretty okay. It was interesting. The little short summary on the left of very page saved my butt because the way Shakespeare writes is very hard to analyze. When we started it in class it was very hard to understand the concept and language of the play hence the fact that it was written in the 1500′s.

 Shakespeare's writing style was probably more easier to understand for people who existed during the times of the Renaissance because it differed greatly from the 21st century. Reading the first act, i thought the play was rather more interesting since Mr. Sauer had explained what important parts of the play and also he interpreted lets say Shakespeare language to the modern English language we use today.  We've only been through 2 acts of the book and they have been great but notas great as Mr. Sauer described. I really have different taste than him. Sorry Mr. Sauer D: I think you have horrible taste in books/plays. Although it has only been 2 acts, I feel bored reading it. I hope that this play would be more intriguing.

The characters in the play: Othello, Iago, Desdemona, Barbantio, Roderigo , and Michael Cassio. I just named the more participated  characters in the play so far. I can tell you about the personality that comes with each character, using the info I've read about it so far. Firstly, Othello, a gentlemen, can be smart and persuasive at the same time and he is a general so he gives others commands and duties. Iago, seeking revenge on Othello for not promoting him so he has a high temper but can control it and be smart and fool others. Desdemona, the wife of Othello and she hasn’t been a huge part of the play but I can tell she is too fond of Iago, then Barbantio who is the father of Desdemona and is probably the top dog, He's kinda like Othello's boss and practically the man that you do not question. Then there's Roderigo, in love with Desdemona however she doesn’t love him back, and lastly Michael Cassio, he was recruited by Othello over Iago. That's all I know for now! See you next time~

Wow. I really know nothing about this world.

     Like usual, I read my friend’s slides as we worked at my house on our St. Rose MDG presentation. Everyday I blog things I've learned about. These things are usually not the best and they're about the world problems. There is A LOT of things that I don't know about this world. Like.....

Education, especially for girls, has social and economic benefits for society as a whole. Educated women have more economic opportunities and engage more fully in public life, gaining the ability to speak out about abusive lives. Women who are educated tend to have fewer and healthier children, and they are more encouraged to finish schooling. Education also increases the ability of women and girls to protect themselves from the horrible disease, HIV.

More than 25 million people have died from AIDS since 1981. Africa has over 14 million orphans whom are diagnosed with AIDS. The number of people living with HIV has risen from around 8 million in 1990 to 33 million today. In 20 years, the number has increased by 25 million. 67% of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa hiv aids in india. The number of people infected with HIV in India has declined drastically from 5.5 million in 2005 to below 2.5 million in 2007. The main cause for the high number of people whom were infected were low literacy rates and extensive labour migration, resulting in lack of awareness and gender disparity.Vanessa showed our group this youtube video: Make Poverty History – The Orphans of Nkandla. I showed this video to all my relatives. I send it over to recommend my foreign and cousins that are here, watch it. I really was sad. How the children were crying and they have no one left. This video was amazing. It showed the everyday hardships of the majority of people on Earth.

What time is it? Time to Panic.

Yeah you see that face up there? Underneath that face of happiness is a face of panic, of worry, of sorrow. The St. Rose presentation is tomorrow! Of course I wouldn't be this worried if I hadn't been reminded of the couple hundred students that were to be watching me tomorrow. ARGH! I've got butterflies D: I currently have 17 slides and my script still needs much to be edited. Ginelle, Monica, Shilah, Julie and Jessica came today. We all actually worked today. Everyone was done except for me. So i'm embarrassed. I haven't pulled my weight yet. I will complete by tonight though! I really am tired. IB STRESS. I'm looking forward to this but am scared at the same time. I have many saddening slides to present and have done a practice in front of my peers. They said it's still kinda sketchy, hopefully I finish in time. Wish me luck~


More things I've learned from the slides my fellow peers had completed!

A picture is worth a thousand words. With these photos. I think I could express a million words of what i feel. If i were in this situation-- i jus-- I don't even know what i'd do. Sometimes people need ocular proof. Just seeing this is so sad. I mean-- young children who barely know anything and even elder's are on the streets, i wonder if the photographers even do shit to help. The girl at the top whose begging for money. I guess other people also need to see things in person to believe. Because i used to just be like, oh, people are poor, so what? I've actually seen something like this in person. It;s just heartbreaking. I even remember the experience. It was my first trip to vietnam and I was eating outside with my family. My vietnam relatives. We were sitting outside because vietnam restaurants are stalls outside and these kids younger than me (I was about 7) were selling sweets and lottery tickets to people outside. Just anyone. I saw them get shunned by so much people and they were even pushed around. I asked my mom who and why they were doing this and she said 'This is what happens when you don't get an education. You have to do this on the streets."  I made my mom buy that kid out and she gladly did. But then we were swarmed by alot of kids who were also selling gum. 


Most of these kids were crippled and so I asked my mom why didn't they look normal and she told me that people cripple children so that they have to work for them forever. So sad </3 I guess I only remembered this story because it was the first time I ever knew about unfortunate people and I was really affected by this story. But did I do anything to help? No. Not til now. I've never got this chance til now so I'll make sure to work to the best of my ability and I will work beyond this as well if I get the chance because honestly, without this project I think the most I would've done was donate. I never thought I could make a change. Mr. Alger talked to us about tank man today, about how one man can change the world and how one man stopped 4 tanks for a few minutes. He stood in front of 4 tanks. He stopped tanks that were loaded and all ready to attack. He represent China's people and he is proof that one man can change the world. I think this guy was foolish but brave, this was very significant though. Too bad we know nothing about this guy. Where he came from, who he was, everything about him. This guy inspires me to work hard even though he just stood in front of tanks after getting some groceries. I hope i'm as courageous as he is. And as passionate about things I care about as he is.

A picture is worth a thousand words. With these photos. I think I could express a million words of what i feel. If i were in this situation-- i jus-- I don't even know what i'd do. Sometimes people need ocular proof. Just seeing this is so sad. I mean-- young children who barely know anything and even elder's are on the streets, i wonder if the photographers even do shit to help. The girl at the top whose begging for money. I guess other people also need to see things in person to believe. Because i used to just be like, oh, people are poor, so what? I've actually seen something like this in person. It;s just heartbreaking. I even remember the experience. It was my first trip to vietnam and I was eating outside with my family. My vietnam relatives. We were sitting outside because vietnam restaurants are stalls outside and these kids younger than me (I was about 7) were selling sweets and lottery tickets to people outside. Just anyone. I saw them get shunned by so much people and they were even pushed around. I asked my mom who and why they were doing this and she said 'This is what happens when you don't get an education. You have to do this on the streets."  I made my mom buy that kid out and she gladly did. But then we were swarmed by alot of kids who were also selling gum. 

Most of these kids were crippled and so I asked my mom why didn't they look normal and she told me that people cripple children so that they have to work for them forever. So sad </3 I guess I only remembered this story because it was the first time I ever knew about unfortunate people and I was really affected by this story. But did I do anything to help? No. Not til now. I've never got this chance til now so I'll make sure to work to the best of my ability and I will work beyond this as well if I get the chance because honestly, without this project I think the most I would've done was donate. I never thought I could make a change. Mr. Alger talked to us about tank man today, about how one man can change the world and how one man stopped 4 tanks for a few minutes. He stood in front of 4 tanks. He stopped tanks that were loaded and all ready to attack. He represent China's people and he is proof that one man can change the world. I think this guy was foolish but brave, this was very significant though. Too bad we know nothing about this guy. Where he came from, who he was, everything about him. This guy inspires me to work hard even though he just stood in front of tanks after getting some groceries. I hope i'm as courageous as he is. And as passionate about things I care about as he is.

Over half the worlds population lives on less than $2 a day.

Over half the world's population  lives on less than 2 dollars a day. 2 DOLLARS. 2 OF EM. 2. I mean I spend at least a hundred a day, at least. I recorded the amount of money I spend in a day and compared it to a basic spending of people in poverty in developing countries. Over 2.7 billion people in the world live on 2 dollars or less a day. That may sound impossible, or like hell for those of us living in a rich country such as Canada. There's much more nuance to it, to that life, than images of hungry kids with tin cups might suggest. A new study of the planet’s poorest billions finds a lot of sophistication among those poor in handling money. They don’t have much so they have to stretch it, save it, borrow and lend. For food, a home, even retirement On two bucks a day. We might learn something and actually be grateful of our things. $2 a Day Challenge: Poverty's like living on less than $2 a day. Nearly half the world's population lives under this international poverty line. Lots more live just barely above it. Just $2 a day for food, housing, school, transportation, medical emergencies, and all other expenses. Because of this, many people struggle to meet basic needs such as food and medicine. Hunger affects over 1 billion people and is the cause of these: insufficient income, malnourished and weakened immune systems and many more. The $2 a Day Challenge invites you to feel a bit of what life is like for the majority of people living in developing nations by eating on less than two dollars a day for one week. No other living expenses – just food. There are just three simple rules: 1. Spend only $2 per day per person on all food and drinks. 2. You can only eat what you buy during the week of the challenge – no stocking up on food the week before! 3. If you spend more than $2 one day, simply deduct the amount you went over from the next day’s expenses. I felt it would be interesting if I myself recorded how much I regularly spend in a day. 

- 2 dollars worth of water from morning face wash.Wow! I already spent just 2 dollars! - hair 15 dollars of uses - 1 dollar worth of toilet paper - breakfast food :$25 - bus money :$1.75 - 7 dollars supplies are used up - lunch money :$10 - 3 dollars of supplies are used up

- for hygienic reasons. I used up 10 dollars of it. Including my lotion, hand sanitizer and etc. - used bus ticket: 1.75 - after school snack: 6.34 - malling: 30.45 at regular - 20 dollars worth of food - 13 dollar dessert - 10 dollars of water for bath

This equals to about 131.54 dollars I use in one day! D: I use $129.54 more than a a majority of people in the world. 

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

Do you recognize these two? Probably have right? Well just in case you haven't, this is Albert Einstein and Adolf Hitler. These two men are brilliant and have used thee knowledge to change the world. How they used it however, change the world either for the better or for worse. Einstein discovered and suggested many things. He changed our world. He taught us so many new things and has improve our world for the better. Hitler however, made his way up society so quickly and was very intelligent, otherwise he wouldn't have left a mark on the world as so. He has succeed in killing many people and I think he's soooo smart. He did all this himself. He got this far and he used his power efficiently, unfortunately he did it for the worse. He left a mark, but not one to be proud of. But they both are very smart and this is proof that intelligence can change the world.

Many children work 20 hour days in harsh conditions.

People die everyday, because they can’t afford medicine to cure simple diseases.

 Statistics show that the human body should be able to last for 190 years, so we all die young. But people like this die way too young.

Guess what I did instead of work on IA? :D

When is my IA due? In 2 weeks. How much research have I done? 0. What's my topic? I dunnno. Watch me fail ♥. I feel really passionate about this MDG project and take more interest into therefore I shall work on this instead. So today I made little cupcakes and bear papers so that I can show my appreciation to those who helped my get this far into my mdg pursuit! The people who participated would sign my cute things and i'd attach them to this book i made (hahah book for universal education) and post it on the school walls so people will be aware there are good Samaritans in our school and so those who helped do better for this world will feel proud and want to help other times! YAY! I want to show them our appreciation! This took me a whole day. From school  to 1:00 a.m. NO LIE. It took me this long. I was working the whole time. Seriously, I did't take a bath or eat. I was soooooooooooooooooooooo tired after it -_____-". These were all hand made. Crafted to beauty and perfection. I made each drawing, cut and pasted each of them with care. It as tiring. Really tiring.
As always, our St. Rose MDG group came over today to work on the project. And like always.,I didn't work when they were here... I worked when they left. I swear, we get NOTHING done as a huge group. We have two days left. I'm pretty nervous. I have 9 slides of just photos and a page of script. I read it and it took me 7 minutes to go through while at normal speed. I need a few more imformation and I am COMPLETELY DONE! I  think I've actually done pretty well on this because I sound like a professional greek oracle. I sound cool. And now! I shall share more imformation I learned today. Julie had practiced her parts infront of our group and these things caught my attention...
China is reducing poverty and meeting MDG goals~ I was like 'unbelievable'. It's way to hard. But the country's economy IS rising and developing the quickest we've ever seen! SO they are having like a sort of 'Open door Policy' 1. According to MDG 2007, a landmark report issued at the halfway point of 2015, China has already reduced its hunger and nutrition levels below the regional average. In some Chinese cities the rate is close to zero. 2. Reforestation efforts in China have also helped the Asia Pacific region to register an increase of forests and the country has managed to double its energy efficiency since 1990, according to the report. 3. China is also well on track for some other indicators such as promoting gender equality and empowering women, improving maternal health and reducing child mortality.

Most Haitian people live their day to day lives like this. Do you think it's fair? I live in a 3 story house with carpeting and an actual FRAME. I don't think it's fair that I have such a wealthy home and most Haitian people live in such poverty. With Universal education being applied here. These people could have jobs, better jobs that pay more and they could get higher salaries and increase the workforce of their country, if this is done.. than the economy will become better and maybe Haiti can get a stable government for once.

    






    Every three seconds a person dies of hunger… 75% of them are children

Some of these photos were just too much. Believe it or not, this is one of the least horrible photos that I saw. Most children die every 3 seconds. I'm 14. I'm passed child. So if I were as unfortunate as to have been born in a developing country such as China or Africa, I would have died 14 years ago because of malnutrition or many other diseases that the babies are sensitive to because they cannot afford medication. It really is just so devastating that this is really happening in our world. It's just so powerful. I mean, right now most of us don't give a sh_t about these problems but what if we were in their situation? Wouldn't we want people to help us as well. I mean if I saw a homeless 30 year old on the street, i think I'd just mutter get a job of something like that, but I never realized that some people grew up with hardships that their parents passed on to them. 

Let's get down to business~

Monica looks weird in this last photo...

So this time, only Ginelle, Shilah, Monica and Jessica came over. They stayed for a looooooong time to work since now we have 3 days left. Today we all worked hard, actually we PLANNED to work hard but Ginelle only worked this time again. Like yesterday, when they left I worked on my share. I found out new stuff, I found a really amazing story on Tumblr that I thought would be very effective to include. I still have quite a lot of editing to do. A. Lot. Seriously. SO MUCH WORK -____-"I have an IA due soon and guess how much i have done? 0. yes, 0. Hmmm, so busy. I've got no time to work on it but MDG presentation is the #1 priority right now. I've really got to work quickly becasue after everyone left I had edited 4 pages of my universal education slides and I took out the crap and it left about 2 slides.  I think I shortened to much! I calculated how much time each of us would need and we all need to take up about 10 minutes. I rehearsed my information and it was only 3 minutes. 3 MINUTES. aiiiiiiya~ I need 7 minutes of more stuff. That's like 14 slides. OMG i have 4 slides. 4. IB can go to hell. I also have a math quiz tomorrow so I don't have enough time to work on the presentation now.

Here's a bit of stuff I learned today as well! The Nike employees work for about 17 hours a day and 7 days a week. I read the tags of my shoes and they either said 'Made in India/Vietnam/Mexico'. Mister Alger's outsourcing video talked about how when companies outsource, they give companies in foreign countries a chance to get a job and raise money which is better than if the company wasn't there to pay that low salary. Outsourcing also benefits the consumer, me, as well. It gives me products for cheaper. I should be kinda glad but i'm sad that people from my country have to work so hard for such a little pay. I can't believe I lived 14 years not aware of this. I'm sure that many people are like me. UNAWARE. I now understand the point of this project is to simply make people AWARE. Easy said than done.

To take up space, I'll talk about my MDG country, Haiti. This Caribbean country occupies the western half of Hispaniola. An earthquake recently occurred in Port-au-prince this January. In researching, I discovered that Haiti has been living in poverty for quite a while now. They have suffered for the past 500 years due to the government structure. This earthquake had wiped out 70% of Haiti’s schools. It was devastating and I hope to add to the aid that this country essentially requires, even now. I want to learn more about how we can help them out of the darkness.

Working hard or hardly workin' ?

 ^ Tired Ginelle stressing on how to prepare her part and > Monica being a fool.

 






Us helping Shilah prepare her slides for the very tight presentation due date.

Shilah and Justinne discussing how to effectively present their Poverty and Hunger information.

Us watching Ginelle work on her Gender Equality slides.














For your Information, I am the photographer of these masterpiece photos therefore I am not in any of these. However I did do lot's of work on this day. Remember when I said that the principal of St. Rose said we could come and do a presentation at their school? Well we have 1 week to finish it. Today Julie, Jessica, Ginelle, Shilah, Monica and Justinne came over to work the MDG presentation. YAY we're finally getting somewhere! So, Rizamel Ponce and I work on Universal Education, Justinne Soriano, Julie Do and Shilah Squires are working on Poverty and hunger, however the split up the work and now Julie is doing hunger and Justinne and Shliah are doing Poverty, Vanessa Dang is working on Combat HIV and Aids, Jessica Nidu and Monica Orozco are working on Child Health and last but not least, Ginelle Alontave is working on Gender Equality. I offered to do Environmental Sustanability, Global partnership and Maternal Health but everyone else in the group was totally against it therefore i couldn`t do it..... D: 
Well today we were planning to work, but we all got distracted and watched Vietnamese Harry Potter instead, Ginelle Alontave was working and since I only had one laptop, only one person could work anyway. Ginelle worked hard while we all waited patiently for her to finish. But if one were to watch us... we were hardly working and ginelle was working hard.  BUT we usually work quite a bit on fridays when we get to go to the computer lab. I finished 3 slides so far and everyone is about the same level. I learned many new things from the slides my peers had done. I learned that starbucks coffee employs ethiopian women to work for 3 cents for the amount of coffee beans we have to pay 30 bucks for. That's unfair and a RIP OFF. Julie said that on the presentation date, she'll advise everyone to stop drinking it. I also learned that women can be priced for marriage and men as old as 60 years pay families of girls aged 12 and then they HAVE to marry them since usually the maiden's family needs to money. GROOOSS Younger people than me get sold to 60 year olds DISGUSTING. seriously.
Anyways, back on to our presentation progress... after everyone left, I worked on it too. Today's monday and our presentation is in 4 days. we really have to get working and so I worked dilingently after everyone left.I finished 3 more slides therefore have a total of 6 slides of words. Now i just have to cut out the useless crap and take away all the words and keep just photos. Because I myself hate reading off slides. I found out that the human body is supposed to live up to 190 years, we all die early but then you see how developing country people die usually at the age of 30 and majority at birth. They die earlier than we thought and they die supeeeeeeer early now that we know this fact. I'm not really sure how to incorporate this interesting fact with my mdg except that without education, you can't support your family and yourself and so you can't feed yourself and you contract aids because you never knew it was incurable resulting in the case where you then die early.