comparison of different version of Romeo and Juliet

Both movies use Shakespeare speech, but I find the modern version one use more quotes from the play than the old version. The old version is more accurate, with swords and the entire theme put out right. The new version is weird, however, because it is set in modern time of two different gangs. The setting was changed to a gas station instead of the old market. And the weapons changed to guns instead of sword, and the Head of police replaced the prince. What is really stupid about the modern movie is that when they draw their gun, they called the gun sword, which is kind of dumb. And if people want to make a modern version of Romeo and Juliet, they should have at least bothered to use modern language. I try to like the modern parody of Romeo and Juliet, but I failed to do so, and I think its ridiculous and boring. It just seems so bizarre and everything just seemed so fake because no one would speak like that. And I think the old movies’ Juliet was prettier than the new movie’s. i also find the black guy in bikini quite frightening and weird.

animal farm doublepost

The book, animal farm, is a extended analogy of the formation and following events of soviet Russia. The author compares the dictator of the farm: Napoleon with the dictator of Russia:Stalin, he also compared the Russian citizen with animals of the farm. We all know that both Russia’s peasants and animals f animal farm are very poorly educated. Would the scenario be different if they are educated? I do believe so. If the animal in animal farm at least learned how to read, they will have realized how they have been abused and how the seven amendments have changed. Due to the fact of the lack of education, they did not realized they have been manipulated and is easily tricked by the pigs. Since only the pigs could read, they have to rely on the pigs to transform the information form paper to words. And since the pigs were corrupt, all they got was misleading information. If the animals were educated, they would have realized, using math and measurements, that  the amount of food they have was actually worse than food from Jone times, this will prevent them from being satisfied with a dysfunctional government and being persuaded by propaganda. The outcome of the story would have been a lot different, and so would soviet Russia, if their general population is educated and realize that they are under brainwash. Although the lack of education might cause napoleon to gain power, the animals’ devoted trust to napoleon also caused napoleons dictatorship. If the animals would stop to consider, and think twice about squealer’s lies, they would have realized that the pigs were just exploiting them. Many animals throught this story mentioned that they remembered the seven commandments differently than what the pigs announced, sometimes more than one animal voiced their concern. If they have been less trusting and more logical, they whoudl have realized that such statement as” no animals should be killed without czuse” is just a very retarded commandment due to the fact that if this is the commandment, anyone can kill anything with a reason, even if the reason si that the murderer is bored. So, education would change the out come of the story greatly, but if they animals would have voiced their concern, things would go differently as well.

debate review

So I think that this debate was quite fun, but I think we got a lot of things confused, I think that regulation of privacy does not necessary mean that government would spy on it or anything, merely preventing and passing laws to prevent your information form spreading. I think that this debate is pretty fun and yeah, should be done more often. I think our group did well, and  we did a good job describing our stance. Our rebuttal was kind of weak, though, and I believe that we should write down the rebuttal next time in order to prevent us from stumbling and slumbering during our speech. Other than the Rebuttal I think everything else was fine and our team did a great job.  The opponent team did a great job too, providing valid reasoning and is great at stirring hysteria and also fear out of its audiences.

is privacy an illusion?

Yes privacy is an illusion, with all the high tech and all the hidden programs a such, and 80% of our lives is dedicated to electronics and such, I believed that there is no longer privacy. Just look at Google, Google stores history on every website you use on it, so Google can know what your hobby is what time you actually do your homework, and information you don’t want to share to people. Secret intelligence now have spy drones and satelight tracking. The US governemtn even send a picture og Gadaffi taking a dump just to warn him! Who is to say that the government wont do the same thing to us? With so much high tech the government can easny snuck in a spy ware for every computer and get in data, and there is a very high possibility that it can access the computer’s camera and take a photo of u to spy. I Know I sound lieka  conspiracy theorist here, but all of theses are highly likely and easy to be achieved