1. The subject matter of the song is taylor swift has fallen in love with someone at first sight. she refers to the real romeo and juliet a lot through out the song.
'Cause you were Romeo,
I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go
These lyrics represent that she is saying who she is in love with is like romeo and she was scarlet letter, which means that they are suppose to be enemies, her dad says stay away from juliet but he was her everything. This shows that they are in love and would do anything for one another.
2. It is a love story because it shows examples of how it relates to the real romeo and juliet. example:
So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes, escape this town for a little while
This verse relates to the real romeo and juliet because it says "so i sneak out to the garden to see you" this clearly means that they are enemies but they don't care cause they would do anything for love. The real romeo and juliet want to be together so much they fake her death and this verse relates to that because she is sneaking around and lying.
3. The two characters are just teens who fell in love, first love is always the strongest. the relationship between is a very strong bond. Romeo must have fell in love with her at first sight, for them to sneak around and plan a wedding.
4. The lyrics below show that they were both young when they first saw each other and she has flashbacks to that very moment she first saw him. She remembers every detail and small thing about that moment.
"We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air"
5. The themes through out this song is set in old day theme, with the ball gowns, lights and gardens. I think that this theme is the most romantic. The issues are that they can't see each other, so they have to sneak around to see the love of their life.
6. The song ends with taylor swift and her 'romeo' together at college and the film clip its just a flash back to the first day she saw him and fell in love. They see each other at college and they are about to kiss and then it ends. The real romeo and juliet ends with both of them dying because romeo thought that juliet had died but it was just fake and romeo was standing their and shot himself for real. Her death was fake so that they could be together but his was real because he couldnt live without her so he killed himself. Taylor swift ends her song like this because she says we were both young when i first saw you, this obviously means that they were a young love and that it was not as real as romeo and juliet because they were just young. She is writing it this way because she is saying it was just a 'fling' (young love) and there was nothing meant to it untill now (when they met at college).
Monday, October 4, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Shake Spears Life.
Shake Spears Life
Where and Was he born?
William Shakespeare was said to have been born in the Shakespeare family home in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His date of birth cannot be substantiated as that time in England births were not formally recorded and they did not have Birth Certificates. His birth date can be guessed due to the fact there was high mortality rate of infants. The birthday of William Shakespeare has been set as April 23rd 1564.
His Family?
William Shakespeare was the third child of John and Mary - the two previous children, Joan and Margaret, died from the Bubonic Plague (also known as the Black Death). The father of John Shakespeare (Williams Dad’s Dad) was a retailer of farm produce, such as animal hides, and the family were therefore in constant danger of contracting the Bubonic Plague via the farm products. Its not surprising that the nature of the disease resulted in frequent outbreaks of the terrible disease and that the two sisters of Shakespeare died in their infancy, one was eight years old and one of his brothers was 27 years old (all victims of the plague).
When he died and where he died?
Was not surprising that William Shakespeare suffered from a terrible fear of the Plague throughout his life. He was surely enough to get the plague because most of his family died from it. His own son (Hamnet) died at a young age, he was just eleven years old and died from the plague as well. William died on 23 April 1616, this was said to be his fifty-second birthday. William was buried in Stratford at the same church, at the same place he was baptised.
His Wife?
Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. They were married in 1582 and Hathaway was widowed on Shakespeare's death in 1616. Not much is known about her, beyond a few references in legal documents. Anne Hathaway has been led to believe that she had grown up in Shottery, a small village just west of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. She is assumed to have grown up in the farmhouse that was the Hathaway family home. Her father, Richard Hathaway, was a yeoman farmer. He died in September 1581. Hathaway married Shakespeare in November 1582 while she was pregnant with their first child, to whom she gave birth six months later. Hathaway was 26 years of age; Shakespeare was only eighteen. This age difference, together with Hathaway's antenuptial pregnancy, has been employed by some historians as evidence that it was a "shotgun wedding", forced on a reluctant Shakespeare by the Hathaway family.
Where and Was he born?
William Shakespeare was said to have been born in the Shakespeare family home in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His date of birth cannot be substantiated as that time in England births were not formally recorded and they did not have Birth Certificates. His birth date can be guessed due to the fact there was high mortality rate of infants. The birthday of William Shakespeare has been set as April 23rd 1564.
His Family?
William Shakespeare was the third child of John and Mary - the two previous children, Joan and Margaret, died from the Bubonic Plague (also known as the Black Death). The father of John Shakespeare (Williams Dad’s Dad) was a retailer of farm produce, such as animal hides, and the family were therefore in constant danger of contracting the Bubonic Plague via the farm products. Its not surprising that the nature of the disease resulted in frequent outbreaks of the terrible disease and that the two sisters of Shakespeare died in their infancy, one was eight years old and one of his brothers was 27 years old (all victims of the plague).
When he died and where he died?
Was not surprising that William Shakespeare suffered from a terrible fear of the Plague throughout his life. He was surely enough to get the plague because most of his family died from it. His own son (Hamnet) died at a young age, he was just eleven years old and died from the plague as well. William died on 23 April 1616, this was said to be his fifty-second birthday. William was buried in Stratford at the same church, at the same place he was baptised.
His Wife?
Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. They were married in 1582 and Hathaway was widowed on Shakespeare's death in 1616. Not much is known about her, beyond a few references in legal documents. Anne Hathaway has been led to believe that she had grown up in Shottery, a small village just west of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. She is assumed to have grown up in the farmhouse that was the Hathaway family home. Her father, Richard Hathaway, was a yeoman farmer. He died in September 1581. Hathaway married Shakespeare in November 1582 while she was pregnant with their first child, to whom she gave birth six months later. Hathaway was 26 years of age; Shakespeare was only eighteen. This age difference, together with Hathaway's antenuptial pregnancy, has been employed by some historians as evidence that it was a "shotgun wedding", forced on a reluctant Shakespeare by the Hathaway family.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Reading reflection.
The book that i have chosen to start reading is A million Little Pieces by James Fray. May not have heard of it but James (the auther) says this book was about himself until he went on tv and they exploited him and found out he didnt write the book about himself he wrote about how someone else lived. I have started reading and i am up to page 19, it is a really long and challenging book but i am willing to give it a try because it is interesting and have always wanted to read it. Even though i have only read a little bit i can already tell that it's a heart breaking memoir and it is very inspirational.
"A Million Little Pieces" is about James Frey at just the age of 23 he had destroyed his mind and body almost beyond repair. when he enters the rehabilitation centre to try and restore his life to normal conditions he has to right to determine what his future is going to be. It doesn't help with his lack of self-pity. I am really enjoying this book so far and hope to finish it soon.
Femininity in the Past. Image 3.
Femininity is represented in ways that are despicable, this magazine advertisement says that girls/ladies young or old should try this weight lose supplement because it is filling, quick, easy, and just enough to get you through the day. When you really think about all the negatives by drinking this solution are long term effects (e.g. lack of iron therefore blood shot eyes and black circles under the eyes, liver can shut down if your on this for too long etc.), short term effects (e.g. loss of energy, sleep, brain function, concentration, hydration from fruit and vegetables etc.). What the images are trying to portray are it is easy and quick to make so if your on the run you can just make it and run, it gives a variety (e.g. some people prefer it cold but some don't) which draws peoples attention to it because they know that are people are substituting this for meals so they want to loose weight and give it a try. The attitude that this ad is trying to put across is comn' give it a go and you will loose weight it a click of a finger...but in the long run like i said above their are long term and short term effects. Women these days believe that these types of things work, they might but then there is always side effects. If one society(person or crowd of people) believe that they think this will work then others will try it and they will think its good until they use it for too long.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Empathy Excersise. Number 3. Miranda.
Dear Diary,
It's Miranda here, I have just sent a fax to the New York Post about Andy because she is applying for a job as a writter and i said that if he didn't hire her then he is an idiot. What I meant by this was she is a really good, hard worker who tries to please everyone and anyone. Through out my experience of hiring Andy it has been a pleasent and exciting journey, i say this because she is different to all the other assistants that i have before. I can tell that emily likes her because she stepped up to her standerd basically on the first few days.
Thats All,
Miranda.
It's Miranda here, I have just sent a fax to the New York Post about Andy because she is applying for a job as a writter and i said that if he didn't hire her then he is an idiot. What I meant by this was she is a really good, hard worker who tries to please everyone and anyone. Through out my experience of hiring Andy it has been a pleasent and exciting journey, i say this because she is different to all the other assistants that i have before. I can tell that emily likes her because she stepped up to her standerd basically on the first few days.
Thats All,
Miranda.
How are Women Represented in the Magazine "Cosmopolitan" section "23 Ways to Fake Your Weight.
In Cosmopolitan the article "23 ways to fake your weight" they are saying if you have a special occasion coming up then you have time for a three day panic diet. This sentence shows that women should always look slim and skinny (e.g. size 6 Australian). They say in BIG, BOLD letters that do you want to shave off the kilos pronto? it just takes some clever styling. This clearly draws everbody's attention to the page because every girl wants to be skinny and look like those blonde bimbos on the runway, but obviously that isnt possible without doing all the damage to your body (e.g. not eating for weeks, or barely eating nothing and Excercising like a maniac). It doesn't just take some clever styling it takes more than that...like body punishing things like i said in brackets not eating and excercising. It takes a little more than just some clever styling scheme, it is more like hey try the anoxia or belimic diet it works, Cosmopolitan might as well right how to become anerexic and belimic on the front page and when girls see that they won't want to do this 23 ways to fake your weight because they will know the damage that it is doing to there bodies. Where as if they just do what they did and right 23 ways to fake your weight it just sounds like 23 weighs to drop some weight but it is completley different to that and damages all young and old bodies of women. People always want to look just that little bit skinnier in their dresses even if they don't admit it and step 6 shows what to wear to hide whats underneath, But if people choose to try and look skinny by covering up its a waste of time because people love you for who you are and not who your trying to be.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
How are Women Represented in "Gold Digger"?
In the film clip Gold Digger by Kanye West there is parts that are disrepectful towards women for example white women were disrepected in " but when you get on he leases your ass for a white girl" (verse 3). The lyrics represent and expect them without knowing them to be liars , cheaters and prostitutes just because of a few women in the film clip are dressed the way they dressed (with barely any clothing). kanye does not really fit in with the whole scenery because he is wearing a suit for most of it and jeans and a t-shirt and the women are wearing barely nothing.
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