Questions for the discussion board
How much of a romance is this book, on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 is the equivalent of Gone with the Wind or Romeo and Juliet)? After all, the book begins with a kiss.
There is certainly a romantic element to this book, however, it wasn’t the main plot. The most important storyline that this book addressed was Liyana’s gradual acceptance of a new way of life in a new country. The kiss at the beginning of the story was meant to emphasize Liyana’s age when the family moved from St. Louis, Missouri to Jerusalem. When I consider the romantic aspect of this book, I think of Liyana and her developing relationship with Omer. The book ended with Liyana realizing that you wanted to trade the best things you knew about with people you like and that you like someone for being themselves and for the parts of you that they bring out. I would rate this book at 4.5 for romance.
How much prejudice/partisanship does Nye show in her portrayal of the situation in the middle East? Is this really an American book about the situation? As always, explain your
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Will these sites work for children and young adults in expanding their points of view?How did they work for you?
Islam is a based on the ministry of Muhammad, peace be unto him and the words spoken to him by Allah through an angel, Gabrielle. I learned a lot from Woodlands Junior School and Allah’s Word. I wanted to have a brief overview of Islam, not specific religious teachings. These websites included Islam’s basic beliefs and rituals. They also defined the Qur’an and the significance of Muhammad, peace be unto him. A brief description of the 6 main beliefs that Muslims have was also outlined.
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Please evaluate these websites for inclusion in our textbook. Your standard is: will the site help the reader to understand Islam and its relationship to the book
The archetypal tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, separated by familial hate, is a recurring theme, which never fails to capture the minds of the audience. It is only at great cost, through the death of the central characters that these feuding families finally find peace. This is an intriguing idea, one antithetical. I have chosen to analyze both Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet and Laurent 's West Side Story. The purpose of this essay is showing how the spoken language is utilized in these different plays to meet differing objectives. The chosen scenes to further aid comparison and contrast are the balcony scenes.
I would recommend this book to all my friends. This is a book that I think would help my friends deal with a lot of their problems. For example, one problem that Anna has to face in the book is friends turning their backs on each other. I think that a lot of girls go through this problem, and this book would help anyone deal with that. On a scale from one to ten I would rate this book a ten, because the author really knew how to relate to the readers. And that always makes a story better when you can relate to it. I couldn’t put this book down, it was so magnificent. So I think that anyone could read this book, and enjoy it.
Who would be willing to die for their loved ones? Romeo and Juliet would and did. Romeo and Juliet’s love and death brought two families together who could not even remember the origin of their hate. When the parents saw what their children's love for each other, they realized that their fighting had only led to suffering and insoluble conflict. Romeo and Juliet loved each other to an extent that they killed themselves rather than live apart. They did it with no hiatus. Juliet says before she kills herself, “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.”( 5, 3, 182-183) demonstrating how she would rather die than not be with him.
Through the flaws in the characterization of his characters, Shakespeare allows their weakness to manipulate and cloud their judgment. This fundamentally leads to the outcome of Romeo and Juliet, with each weakness presenting a conflict that alters the characters fate. Being especially true with the star-crossed lovers, William Shakespeare leads their perfect love into tragedy with these conflicts. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Tybalt all contribute to conflicts that enhance the plot. From destructive flaws in their characterizations, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Tybalt are all consequently controlled by their weakness, therefore affecting the outcome of the play.
Cottino-Jones sums up love and the community in this story in her book. She says, "the lovers in this books are constantly faced with violence, death and isolation when their affairs come into conflict with society’s rigid behavior codes "(Cottino-Jones, 79). Lack of communication and social factors made everyone in the story unhappy or dead.
Burns, Thomas J. "Islam." Religion and Society. OU Campus' Dale Hall, Norman. 14 Apr. 2014. Lecture.
The most widely known William Shakespeare play is "Romeo and Juliet". Since he wrote this play in 1951, there have been many remakes and spins put on his original idea. One of these renditions is a play called "The West Side Story". West Side Story is an energetic, widely-acclaimed musical, a modern-day, loose re-telling of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet tragedy of feuding families. The two stories are similar in a multitude of ways, even though their settings are centuries apart. Romeo and Juliet is set in the 1500’s, and West Side Story set in the 1950’s. Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story both have a lot in common as well as major differences that set them apart including the settings, characters,
A Psychological Analysis of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet was obviously not written to fit the psychoanalytic model, as the theories of Freud were not developed for centuries after Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote about Renaissance England, a culture so heavily steeped in Christianity, that it would have blushed at the instinctual and sexual thrust of Freud’s theory. However, in order to keep literature alive and relevant, a culture must continually reinterpret the themes and ideas of past works. While contextual readings assure cultural precision, often these readings guarantee the death of a particular work. Homer’s Iliad, a monument among classical works, is currently not as renowned as Romeo and Juliet because it is so heavily dependent on its cultural context.
Love is a universal language; it is something that everyone understands. It does not necessarily have to be spoken of; instead it can be shown through people’s action. In most novels love is an unseen character yet it plays this strong force that moves the story along. Ernest Hemingway writes about a group of people who are trapped in a wearisome game of love. In The Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes, the protagonist, is a journalist whose war injury causes him to be handicapped. He is madly in love with Lady Brett who loves him in return. However, they cannot complete their relationship because of Jake’s injury. Therefore all he can do is helplessly watch as Brett dates other men. Their forbidden love is similar to the story of Romeo and Juliet, however this novel tells us about the scary ventures of love. Hemingway uses dialogue, imagery and omits description of the characters’ emotions to show the tragedies of love.
When I heard about the death of Romeo and Juliet, I was shocked. As an expert in cognitive and computational neuroscience, I could not resist myself from trying to find what their minds were undergoing prior to their death. After continuous research and analyzing Romeo’s and Juliet’s actions, I found that their deaths may actually have been caused by a psychogenic factor. Up until this point in time, your fellow Montagues, Capulets, and yourself as well have thought that the reason the two lovers died was for their unconditional love for each other. However, being adolescents, Romeo and Juliet were influenced by their immature minds to make impulsive decisions.
The idea of love in this piece of literature is exceedingly important, throughout the entire story characters are fighting for love, or being forced to love.
...es on the feelings and attitudes of the characters. The setting let the reader know the dangers of their love but enticed them to continue reading for the outcome. Whether society considers the mixing of races as normal, lawful, or even acceptable is not always relevant in the face of a pursuit of love. The heart wants what it wants and we are powerless to change it.
Islam is one of the fastest growing religions on the planet. ?Along with Christianity, Buddhism and Judaism, Islam makes us the big four. ?I would like for you to use the resources in this week 's unit to discuss similarities between Islam and the other four religions I mentioned here. ?In your discussion, I want you to highlight major differences and major similarities. You can compare Islam to all three of the others, or just one.
Romeo is a static character who can’t keep himself from falling in love. Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, it’s a play based upon a 16 year old boy who can’t keep himself from falling in love with a 13 year old girl. Romeo is not one to fight but on to love, he’ll go as far as to death for her. Romeo lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets. Romeo is a lover, not a fighter, his only interest is love. Romeo is smart, impulsive and immature. Since Romeo loves Juliet, he affects the characters negatively causing them to fight.
...assionate and lively. School teachers include romance novels in readings to allow students a chance to explore what they might think love is.