Glass Menagerie Questions

1) What does Laura do all day instead of going to the school? A) Walk around the Park  B) Go to the Art Museum  C) Go to the Zoo D) All of the above

2) Where did Tom say he was at during Scene 4? A) At work B) At the movies C) At the store  D) None of the above

3) What does the D. in Jame D. O'Conner mean (Said in scene 6)? A) Delaney  B) Dominick  C) Donald  D) Delfino

4) In Scene 7, what does Tom intend to do? A) Look for his father  B) Join The Union of Merchant Seamen   C) Take a public speaking course   D) Keep going to the movies

5) Why do the lights go off at the beginning of Scene 8? A) The city had a blackout  B) Someone closed the lights  C) Tom didn't pay the electric bills  D) Tom closed the lights so they can have a  candlelight dinner

6) What is Tom's punishment for neglecting to pay the electric bill?  A) He has to clean the dishes  B) He has to go out to buy candles  C) He has to go out to pay the electric bill  D) He doesn't get dinner

7) Jim is engaged with ______________    A) Laura   B)  May   C) Betty   D) Iris

8) How does The Glass Menagerie end?  A) Laura blows out some candles   B) Jim comes back and asks Laura to marry him   C) The father comes back  D) None of the above

9) What does Tom say about his job at the warehouse in the last scene? A) He hopes it will help them forever   B) He will abandon the Merchant Seamen and keep his job   C) He says his boss fired him
D) He says the warehouse is where he works, not make friends

10) The father comes back at the end of the play and helps the family out of their economic problems
 A) True  B) False

Steve Jobs- TED talks

I feel like Steve's life is one full of risks, to drop out of college and sleep on his friend's floors and starting businesses. It was unfair of the people to fire Steve from his own company. They eventually hired him back at the cost of awkwardly seeing him around after they fired him. He created Pixar, which has grown to be a great movie-making company. His luck in getting into thew calligraphy class was amazing, to be able to drop out of college and getting into the calligraphy class. He believes in what he did in the past will come back and help him in the future but I do not believe this.

TED Talks- 2 from in class

Tony Robbins:

This TED talk seems really interesting, with all these curses and swears in it, it seems more interesting to me because if we weren't watching, we might want to look up when he swears to see what he is doing. Also he makes fun of the audience when he asks the questions or he congratulates them which shows me he can be a so-so guy. But, by just listening to the rest of the TED talk made me feel confused and by understanding other parts, it makes me feel like he is asking, "Why do we live?" which makes me feel like he is one of the crazy people who want to find the meaning of life.

David Blaine:

This guy seems like a crazy man. That was the first thing I thought when I heard of what he did. He found a way to live his life and find a meaning of life for him. To him it is something great and fun, to us he is crazy. The ways he tried to make himself look like he wasn't breathing looked scary and it could kill you via the pipe method. He did accomplish 17 min of no breathing but it hurt him. But he should be proud that he accomplished this. He found his way of life and we need to find ours.

David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips

I believe that David Pogue needs to relax a little. Also it seems kind of lazy to me that he is telling us how to be more "efficient" and to be honest, I think that a lot of people already know these things or most of these things. A lot of these seems more like common sense to do with technology that everyone knows. HE seems like he is stressed and just repeating many things a lot of people know. I do not see why people need to know this though, they can easily do what they have been doing and it can be instinct to do what they always do instead of doing something new.

The Great Gatsby Review

I think that The Great Gatsby was a bad movie. I would personally give it a 2/5 star rating. The movie did not live up to the book's expectations. It did not have some of the information in the book, for example: Nick fell asleep alone at Gatsby's funeral but actually there were 2 or 3 others there with him. Also the part where they had modern music at Gatsby's party felt really weird to me because they did not have the music piece that they put in. Also the part where Tom's mistress was killed seem too exaggerated to me. Also the part where Wilson shot Gatsby was way too dramatic in my opinion. Gatsby slowly died over a couple minutes but if it was in reality, he would be dead in a matter of seconds and not be able to think. Also the emotions seemed to over dramatic and it would have been better to have made more scenes for us too see.

Award Winning Speech

Jacky Wong

Award Speech

5/9/13

            Hello! I would like to thank everyone who has helped me achieve this moment, to be able to become 1^st place in the 2036 singles badminton bracket, here in Tokyo. This is a great achievement in life. I would like to thank my parents for introducing me to badminton when I was a lot younger. I also want to thank my high school teachers who taught me many new things.

            Friends, they are something that everyone should and will have. As my Honors II English teacher, Mr. Rehak, would say, “If you don’t have any friends, get some.” Or something of the sort. Friends encourage you to do many things, sometimes stupid or regretful and sometimes memorable or smart. To become friends with someone is like a mountain you must conquer, like a battle you must endure.

            A friend is someone that you can trust with secrets, someone that you can go to when you are in need of help, and even someone who can protect you. People that you can enjoy your time with can be a great way to spend your time instead of being alone. A dictionary definition of friend would be something that would include mutual affection, but why would you need a dictionary to define a friend? A friend comes in all shapes, sizes, races, sexes, and etc.

            Friends can make your worst day become a paradise, one that no matter which side of paradise you are on, you will always be happy. People die every second and every day so make your time with your friends the greatest it can be or they might just disappear one day and you will never have the same amount of memories that you could have had.

            Friends make the future bright and the friends you make today can make the future for Earth a better one. The ability to shape the future is inside of everyone. Today, I feel like a mere speck of human life who has won nothing more than a medal. A medal that might not even matter in the future where anything can happen. I would love to be one of these humans that will shape the future for the next generation and onward.

           Believe in me, sometimes, the weakest of us can be the strongest. The future is always beyond the grasp of our pitiful, human hands. We always reach for the future but always being forced down by others and the present time. As long as we have villains, we have heroes, heroes that WILL shape our future. The future will never be in our hands for the present stops us and our past might just come back to haunt us. Every day, every month, every year, we grow older, older to see how the society remembers the heroes and the ones who have done great things.  My friends are one generation of these heroes. They are everyday heroes like the policemen and doctors who save lives. But my generation has branched out to every single possible thing to help the next generation grow stronger and help more people.

            As we get old, we should teach the next generation of heroes everything we have learned so that they can keep the human race moving forward and one day we can achieve greater things like space travel and finding all the elements in the universe and beyond. Just remember, friends will push you to do more and maybe one day, you will be able to achieve these things.

            As for now, my friends who will shape the future are some of my most precious things, and together forever no matter how long. From now, until the end of time, we will be together and you can be sure that forever and a day, that is how long we will stay. Together and forever more. Thank you!