Iraq will become a regional war from it’s position as a national war, mainly because of the religious leaders in Saudi Arabia.  The religious leaders are telling the people to support their Sunni friends in Iraq before the Shi’ites (I don’t know how to spell it) overthrow them.  If the religious leaders convince enough Saudi Arabians to participate in this act, then the Sunnis could change the social positioning of the groups in Iraq.  This will also get Saudi Arabia involved in the Iraq war, beginning the regional war.  I would expect the Shi’ites in Iran would assist the Shi’ites in Iraq because they are religiously related.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.—Anonymous (http://www.teachersagainstprejudice.org/)

This was the first website that came up on google, and I really liked that one quote. I kind of feel like I’ve heard it before, but it is just as moving. It makes a lot of sense to me, and I’m sure it does to you guys to.

I challenge you to a game of Sorry. The deal is: if I win, I get full credit on this assignment; however, if you win I don’t get credit for it.

Satire is so popular, because people need to be able to laugh at the hard times and at the sad things (sad as in The Daily Show’s presidential speeches.) Satire allows people to enjoy these times, things, events, and stupid people. It is like laughing off your anger. Making fun of the people who make you look like a fool (Bush) is an important part of a balanced diet. It helps keep your cool. I must add that if satires hadn’t been making fun of this country all the time, this country would be a little more stressed and angry. So I could say that this country’s balance is made possible by The Colbert Report and The Daily Show.
Scary Movie is not satirical. It makes fun of other movies, unlike The Daily Show which makes fun of social problems. The making fun of social problems is missing from Scary Movie, and that alone is the reason why it is not in the category of satire.
I enjoy satire, myself. My favorite examples of satire are The Onion and The Daily Show. When I read The Onion I cannot help but laugh out loud sometimes.

I found that the conditions Frederick Douglas explained were very poor.  The food and clothing rations for each slave were unacceptable compared to the food and clothing “rations” that our parents provide us with today.  Each adult recieved a monthly “allowance” of eight pounds of pork or fish, and one bushel of corn meal.  Each adult’s yearly clothing allowance consisted of two linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, one jacket, one pair of negro cloth trousers for winter one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes.

The slaves were expected to cook their own meals, and they were responsible for cleaning their houses, repairing their clothing, and tending to personal gardens.  No one did anything for them.  Slaves got nothing more in return for their service than the clothes they wore and the food they were given to cook.  There were no exceptions either.  When a slave’s ration of food went bad or a shirt disintigrated, it would not be replaced until the next month or year.

The newest slaves were disadvantaged.  They did not clearly know how the system worked until the other slaves taught them how to manage everything.  Only then were they in good shape.  The masters would hand out provisions and leave it to the slaves to figure out how to manage them.

Talimi Haq School is a school in India. The teachers at the School of Haq corresponded with one of the teachers that blogs on learnerblogs and created together they created a website. Although their website disobeys the blogging laws the Mr. Wasserman established, it is still a satifactory website. When I was reading through their blogs, I noticed all of the grammatical errors that the students made. The sentence structure is often incorrect and they sometimes use the wrong pronouns or other words within a sentence.

However, I noticed that many of the pictures that are attached to the posts have erdu writing in them, and the lengths of the paragraphs in erdu look like they correspond with the lengths of the passages in english. So, maybe the students don’t know how to speak english, and their teachers just translate the erdu to english for the website. Considering that the students are not educated very well, it makes sense that they don’t know how to write or speak, at that, english.

I decided to use an english to urdu translator to compare the urdu written on some the pictures to the english paragraph when I translated it. However, it is very difficult to tell the similarities between the characters of the pictures and of the websites translation images.

(Mr. Wasserman) I cropped and sent an image I got off of the website to your email address, because I don’t know how to attach it to my blog.  Here is the exact URL of the translation you should compare the picture to.

I propose a different option. I think that the United States should remove all troops, but before doing so the U.S. should consult and discuss the issue with the U.N.. I decided to create this option, because I cannot support the other three options. The United States should not simply remove all troops, because it will result in complete chaos in Iraq and all the other nations around the world will complain in some way or another about how the U.S. made a poor decision. The U.S. shold also refrain from increasing the troops in Iraq because it will make the Iraqies even more reliable on the troops for any type of protection or rule. Increasing may cause some Iraqies to get angry which could trigger outbreaks, and outbreaks may result in more deaths of U.S. soldiers. Furthermore, if there are more soldiers at risk there is a better chance that the soldiers will survive, but there are also more soldiers that can die. I will not forget to mention that if the United States partitions Iraq into three states, there is a chance that border issues will become problematic and the killings will not end as a result of partitioning.
Ultimately, if the United States consults and discusses the situation with the U.N. the reaction to pulling out of Iraq would not be quite as extreme. It is important that the United States does not lose the respect of the other nations in the world.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=50&Body=Iraq&Body1=inspect
I looked on CNN.com for links to Iraq and the CNN website gave me a link to the U.N.’s webpage for Iraq. It is more of a website, because it has its own links and it is organized. I was surprised to find the lead article to be about Iraq leading into civil war.

The Iraqi people and their leaders have arrived at an important crossroads: if they are able to build firm foundations for the common interest of all Iraqis, the promise of peace and prosperity will be within reach. However, if current patterns of discord and violence prevail for much longer, there is a grave danger of a breakdown of the Iraqi State, and potentially of civil war.

I guess our ideas are of no use anymore. What has begun will persue, and Iraq is likely to go into civil war. It is too bad Iraq may result in this, because there are going to be millions of fingers pointing as us(Americans).

I think that this book WAS worth reading. It is an interesting perspective of the Puritans. It would be better if I read, maybe, one or two of the other selections for Puritans, because that way I could compare the books.
I, actually, cannot think of any lasting understandings or knowledge that “The Crucible” left me with. I do, however, want to find out what kind of person Arthur Miller (the author) is and where he lived in the 1950’s. Some of these factors influence how and what an author writes. For instance, if he grew up in a highly religious area, then he might, possibly, write from a more religious perspective than another perspective.
I thought about rereading act 4 also, because it was almost as confusing as act 3 and I was tired when I read it. However, Mr. Wasserman told me that it IS confusing. All of acts 3 and 4 take place in a courtroom, and both acts are just large, confusing conversations that include all of the characters. If acts 3 and 4 were acted out on stage, the producer could just have actors create a large din and every once and a while a person would clearly shout a line from the play. Furthermore, act 4 gets more confusing when everyone imagines there is a bird in the corner of the room and the girls in the scene act weird and speak in unison. If I were to grade this play by how much it filled my expectation of a play about the salem witch trials, I would give it a B.

After reading act three I did not read what I expected. Act three basically took place within a court in Salem, Massachusetts. The court scene was very confusing to me at the time I read it. Maybe I’ll read it again sometime so that I may understand what was going on. The courtroom scene seemed to be very unorganized compared to today’s courtrooms. Everyone, including the people uninvolved in the case, spoke. People were making comments the whole time. If anyone were to do what they did there in a courtroom today they would be thrown out of the courtroom for being a disturbance.

I have read up until the end o act 2, and it is going pretty well so far. However, I definitely feel like there is more to come, because there just hasn’t been enough evil yet. Not all of the characters have been fully introduced (I know that there is a better word than “introduced,” but I cannot put my finger on it), and I believe that the plot cannot begin to unfold until the initial characters are completely introduced. Although the plot has not started to really unfold, I already expect this play to be very twisted. The characters, especially Abigail Williams, all have their own decieving characteristics. Abigail is essentially a two-faced character. Her lies create a barrier between her true personality and her fake personality.
I have noticed that the stage directions and narration notes are delibrately direct. It is exceedingly different from Shakespeare’s plays. The only stage directions that are written for most of Shakespeare’s plays are the entrances and exits. In this way, directors can almost customize the plays however they want, but Arthur Miller does not allow much room to alter “The Crucible.”

First of all, I really hope that Mr. Wasserman is not the only person who is going to read this blog. 
Anyway, my group is going to perform Act 3 scenes 3 and 4.  We have done what we needed to do in the class time we had, but we haven’t done any more than those requirements.  By now I suppose we should have most of the stage directions completed, but, again, we haven’t done all of them.  My group has not worked on much acting.  Yesterday we made a stage so that we could practice our entrances and exits and to get comfortable with our parts and their speaking directions.  The bottom line is we have some work to do.

I have not started learning my lines and I have a lot of them, so I should really get to that over the weekend.  It did not take long to choose who would play Macbeth.  No one else wanted to play him, so… I did.  My group still needs to create the scene, draw the characters, cut the script, and some more stuff.