Month: December 2015

Historical context

Is this description of Portia a good display of how women were like in the 16^th century?

Evidence from site:

Women’s role’s during 1500’s-1600’s Women were considered to be the weaker sex, physically and emotionally. It was always thought to be that women needed someone to take care of them. If the woman was married their husband would look after them if they were single their father or brothers would be the ones to look after them. Business Women were not allowed to attend any type of school; they were only allowed to have private tutors at home. They were also not allowed to enter professions such as law, medicine, and politics (ECT.) What they were allowed to do was work as cooks and maids. Basically any type of work that would be considered housework.

Evidence from Shakespeare:

Shakespeare portrays Portia as a very self-controlled person. She tries her best to present her-self as a polite, posh and patient woman. She tries her best to hide her emotions but they get the best of her. Unlike the evidence I got from the site [Above^] Portia has her own maid (Nerissa) to do the cleaning for her. The merchant of Venice doesn’t say if Portia has brothers.

Conclusion:

My conclusion is that Shakespeare’s decryption is mostly accurate to how women lived in the 16^th century.

Historical context is taken from how the background of the area my affect how people behave. Example: Brickstone is known as a bad place because of the Brickstone riots.

The Maze Runner

The maze runner is about a group of boys sent to the Maze for an experiment, made by the company WICKED. This stands for world in catastrophe killzone experiment department. They don’t  that because they got their memories erased. They must figure out the puzzle to the maze so they can escape. The new boy Thomas, who is the main character, feels like he has been hear before. Soon after he goes into the to help his friends, Minho and Alby. Being in the maze when the door closes is seen as a death wish. When the door closes the Grivers come out. Mechanical Green gooey blobs. They have the ability to make extensions to their bodies. The extentions are equipped with a mechanical claw, razors, lights and stingers. if you get stung by a Griver then you go through a short period where you can get your memories back. This is only possible if you are able to get the Grief serum. One day later the first and only girl appears. She comes bearing a note which says This is the last one. Ever. Soon every body looks to Thomas wanting answers. Gally goes missing and every one thinks he’s dead. The sky goes grey stopping the crops from growing and the doors of the maze wont close. Near the end of the day Gally comes back and warns them about the incoming Grivers that they would only kill one person a day. They take Gally and the next day a boy named Adam. Wanting to desperately know more he gets stung on purpose. He figures out the maze is unsolvable and it’s spelling a code.FLOAT, CATCH, BLEED, DEATH, STIFF, PUSH. They must go to where the Grivers live to type the code into a computer. forty one people enlist to go. Thomas, the girl-Teresa-and his close friend Chuck go into the Griver Hole. They type in the code and a door opens. Thomas, Terisa, Chuck and the twenty one survivors went down the hole to find he wicked company. From there they try to kill Thomas but Chuck sacrifices himself. An army comes in to take them away from wicked. Soon they are treated with hospitality and sent to bed, for a new adventure to take place. In the Scorch…

If the world kept heating up the polar ice caps world melt and the world will be folded, but in any constellation people would have seen this coming and started either making houses with stilted suspension, made more dams or both.

Carbon foot prints:

Me:2.03

Mum:3.00

Brother:2.57