Best holiday!

My favorite holiday of the year is Christmas. For me is so magical, being with my family and friends. All my family works and we don't have a lot of quality time. My Christmas starts the 23 we get all together in my grandma's house and prepare the turkey. All my cousins and aunt come and we drink fruit punch and make food for the next day. We leave really late from my grandma's house like at 1am. The next day we wake up late and start getting ready, for Christmas Eve. We dress up really formal. We go to church at 6pm. When mass finishes we go to my house, my mom’s family and my dads come over to have dinner. We seat we talk and then dinner comes. We talk about our year what were thankful for. When we finish eating we go to the common area around 12am, we start hugging each other and saying merry Christmas. When we finish we start praying and singing. Around 1am is gift time, we do secret Santa because we are so many and we want everyone to have at least one gift. At 2am we start dancing and playing game telling jokes we have leftovers. 

At 5:30am they leave, and my family and I go to bed. Next morning we wake up and go to the Christmas tree and see what Santa Claus bought for us. Something I love is Christmas feeling has never bean gone. Even though I'm the youngest and I have a 24-year-old brother "Santa" still come to my house. We have a small breakfast and watch movies and hear music. In the afternoon we go to have to left overs in my grandmas house. The 27th we normally do a family trip. This year we are going to a cruise. My mom, dad, sister, brother, brothers girlfriend and I are really exited for this year trip. We believe is going to be the best one and the hardest one because is one of the last time we will be ale to do long trips.

Women as Men

Women are not as capable as man, men are stronger and more intelligent.  All these are stereotypes were created long time ago. On where they believed woman were not as perfect as man were. Women were a deformation of man.  We can see how in Shakespeare play Othello woman were expected to be quiet and man controlled them. Men were allowed to tell woman what to do. We can see it with Desdemona and Othello, and with Emilia and Iago.  Women are expected to be poppets of the man. When Desdemona talked over Othello, he got offended and was something uncommon. In several occasions Othello tells Desdemona to leave the room she does it with out even questioning him. “O devil, devil! 
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, 
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. 
Out of my sight!” Othello tells Desdemona. We can see how he talks to her in a mean way with out even caring there was another person there, or if she was hurt.  Desdemona answer to him “I will not stay to offend you.” I think here it shows how Desdemona feels vulnerable and she knows she can’t answer back.  Woman were poppets of man and were expected to do what they said so.

In the play Othello they accused Desdemona of cheating on Othello. Othello was offended, and knew he couldn’t stay with his arms crossed. With out even asking or wondering he accused her of betrayal.  He called her mistress and strumpet several times. Desdemona was not allowed to speak her mind. There is a scene on where Desdemona and Emilia speak about woman cheating. It is interesting seeing their different points of views. Desdemona believe woman couldn’t cheat on their husbands. For her eyes woman were true and pure. Woman had to satisfy their husband needs. “That there be women do abuse their husbands 
In such gross kind?” Desdemona asked Emilia. Emilia’s answers surprised Desdemona “There be some such, no question.”   Emilia believed woman were capable of anything and woman could do anything they wanted even unrespect their husbands.

Personally I believe cheating is not acceptable. Not just in women also in man. Women have gained a lot of more freedom but still we need to work on it. Woman should be able to do what men do and even more.  What woman are not expected to do such as unrespect man or talk over them man should do the same things toward woman. Men should do what they expect women to do for women to do the same thing like Emlia said “Then let them use us well: else let them know, The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.”

Poem #1

Fairy-tale Logic

By A.E Stallings

Fairy tales are full of impossible tasks:

Gather the chin hairs of a man-eating goat,

Or cross a sulphuric lake in a leaky boat,

Select the prince from a row of identical masks,

Tiptoe up to a dragon where it basks

And snatch its bone; count dust specks, mote by mote,

Or learn the phone directory by rote.

Always it’s impossible what someone asks—

You have to fight magic with magic. You have to believe

That you have something impossible up your sleeve,

The language of snakes, perhaps, an invisible cloak,

An army of ants at your beck, or a lethal joke,

The will to do whatever must be done:

Marry a monster. Hand over your firstborn son.

I liked this poem, fist of all the title catch my attention “Fairy-tale Logic”. I started reading it and I thought it was interesting I read it for a second time.  I liked it because it was talking about how we see movies on where the main character face impossible things. “Tiptoe up to a dragon where it basks”.  The first lines makes me think how many times I wish I was on a fairytale.

She talks in a sarcastic funny way. At the end of the poem, the meaning of this poem clicked. “You have to believe on yourself and try your best. Figure out how to live in a way it makes you happy. I think that as a teenager almost going to collage, this poem is really adequate. “Marry a monster. Hand over your firstborn son.” Life is all about challenges and facing different things. You need to be strong and face them

Match Up! 1

Desdemona. Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep? Am I the motive of these tears, my lord? If haply you my father do suspect An instrument of this your calling back, Lay not your blame on me: If you have lost him, Why, I have lost him too. Othello. Had it pleased heaven To try me with affliction; had they rain'd All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head. Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips, Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul. A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at! Yet could I bear that too; well, very well: But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up; to be discarded thence! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,— Ay, there, look grim as hell! Desdemona. I hope my noble lord esteems me honest. Othello. O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles, That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born! Desdemona. Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed? Othello. Was this fair paper, this most goodly book, Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed! Committed! O thou public commoner! I should make very forges of my cheeks, That would to   cinders burn up modesty, Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed! Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks, The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth, And will not hear it. What committed! Impudent strumpet! Desdemona. By heaven, you do me wrong. Othello. Are you not a strumpet? Desdemona. No, as I am a Christian: If to preserve this vessel for my lord From any other foul unlawful touch  Be not to be a strumpet, I am none. Othello. What, not a whore? Desdemona. No, as I shall be saved. Othello. Is't possible? Desdemona. O, heaven forgive us! Othello. I cry you mercy, then: I took you for that cunning whore of Venice That married with Othello. [Raising his voice]  You, mistress, That have the office opposite to Saint Peter, And keep the gate of hell! [Re-enter EMILIA]  You, you, ay, you! We have done our course; there's money for your pains: I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel

You were my sun You were my earth But you didn't know all the ways I loved you, no So you took a chance And made other plans But I bet you didn't think that they would come crashing down, no You don't have to say, what you did, I already know, I found out from him Now there's just no chance, for you and me, there'll never be And don't it make you sad about it You told me you loved me Why did you leave me, all alone Now you tell me you need me When you call me, on the phone Girl I refuse, you must have me confused With some other guy Your bridges were burned, and now it's your turn To cry, cry me a river Cry me a river-er Cry me a river Cry me a river-er, yea yea I know that they say That somethings are better left unsaid It wasn't like you only talked to him and you know it (Don't act like you don't know it) All of these things people told me Keep messing with my head (Messing with my head) You should've picked honesty Then you may not have blown it (Yea..) You don't have to say, what you did, (Don't have to say, what you did) I already know, I found out from him (I already know, uh) Now there's just no chance, for you and me, there'll never be (No chance, you and me) And don't it make you sad about it You told me you loved me Why did you leave me, all alone (All alone) Now you tell me you need me When you call me, on the phone (When you call me on the phone) Girl I refuse, you must have me confused With some other guy (I'm not like them baby) Your bridges were burned, and now it's your turn (It's your turn) To cry, cry me a river (Go on and just) Cry me a river-er

Alas the heavy day! Why do

you weep? 
Am I the motive of these tears, my lord? If haply you my father do suspect 
An instrument of this your calling back, 
Lay not your blame on me: If you have lost him, 
Why, I have lost him too.

Now there's just no chance, there'll never be

And don't it make you sad about it

I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.

The damage is done

I know that they say

That somethings are better left unsaid

It wasn't like you only talked to him and you know it

All of these things people told me

Keep messing with my head

I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.

You were my sun

You were my earth

Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?

Girl I refuse, And don't it make you sad about it

By heaven, you do me wrong.

You don't have to say, what you did,

I already know

No, as I am a Christian: 
If to preserve this vessel for my lord 
From any other foul unlawful touch Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.

So you took a chance

And made other plans

No, as I shall be saved.

But I bet you didn't think that they would come crashing down

O, heaven forgive us!

And don't it make you sad about it

You told me you loved me. Now you tell me you need me

Girl I refuse, you must have me confused

With some other guy.

I choose the song "cry me a river" by Justin Timberlake. He is saying how the girl is telling him he needs him, and he wants him and is not true. He found out she was with someone else. He is trying to be tough and telling her that she is not her backup and he is done. She can cry anything she wants but it will not work with him. When I read the lyrics of this song, I can relate Othello’s feelings. He is really mad when he thinks Desdemona is cheating on him. He tries to look tough and strong. Inside he is going crazy. When he is telling Desdemona to back up he tells her she doesn’t need to cover it up, to stop being all nice and tell the truth. He also says that she is a false woman that tells him he loves him but it is not true. 

Example:

Othello: O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles, 
That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,

Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet 
That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst 
ne'er been born!

Song: You were my sun, you were my earth

Othello is talking about how she was his everything, she seemed she was no nice and kind but not of it was true. i match it up with "you were my sun, were my earth" she looked as she was the best but that was in the past, he uses were twice meaning no more.