Hamlett (A.M)

Hamlet, over all was a great play. It had so much emotion in every scene an it had so much imagery. It had its ups and downs, in the sense that sometimes it was boring and other times it always had my attention. However one of the characters certainly caught my attention. Ophelia, i could tell was a very easily manipulative person. She was very gullible and i didn't like that about her. Even if she was a women from that era, where they didn't have much power, she should have been able to make some of her own decisions and speak for herself. I believe her personality is what lead her to become crazy in the play. Her father Polonius drove so much negative drama into her mind and made her think things she never even thought of thinking before. Thats why i dont think she would make a good girlfriend for Hamlet because he was so into getting revenge of Claudius that he never really had time for Ophelia. That what made this play so much more interesting becasue of all the drama that was going on at once. it kept me wanting more, and kept me off the edge.

Writing this poem by myself I thought was going to be even tougher than writing it with a partner. I was wrong. writing this poem wasn't so bad after all. I got to speak my mind about global warming and how it is hurting our environment, economy, communities and us human and animals. Before while I was brainstorming I thought of many different subject I can talk about and see what would be the most interesting for me. I chose global warming because now in this day and age, its not reconciled as it is usually. No one ever thinks about it to much now and its eating our world bit by bit. While I was using the document sharing on Gmail, I didn't really see a difference between it, it just reminded me of Microsoft word. It helped me organize all of my writing and type it neatly on the document. My whole collaboration of this poem was simply using my mind and creating sentences, simile's and metaphors that i create off the top of my head. It was hard at first to make all these types of simile's and using dictionaries to find exceptional words. the brainstorming paid off and it help to make the writing of the poem easier.
- Alejandra Menendez

poem

- One step at a time-
The world can be a better place
if only we all take part
making sure we all can live in the place
where we can never live apart.

Living in a world where were all individuals,
working like as if we were slaves, helping our families to stay together.
but the only fact is that were all trying to stay alive in this polluted world.

The air filling with pollution like a balloon with helium.
Walking around as if your cough isn't bothering you, only realizing were deteriorating every second.
Feeling like we don't care what world we live in as long as were alive and better.
Taking care of our environment is something we all have to do, even if it takes one step at a time.

The earth is getting warmer and warmer every year,
homes of mammals are being destroyed from temperature and pollution.
Thinking that our government is doing something about it, but realizing your the one who has to take action.
Knowing, even the polar bears are crying for help, wanting there home back.
but only thinking in our minds that everything will eventually get better.
Then something clicks,

Ice caps start melting,
polar bears, and penguins disappear
everything disintegrating as if we all weren't here.
Because of us and our selfish needs
all these problems will never cease
year by year to face extinction.
never knowing how our future will be.

Our world is changing, badly, time by time
we all have to chip in and start new.
thinking about the future and how the world will look like
is something we all have to think about, even if it take one step at a time.

by: Alejandra Menendez

Dreaming of getting rescued was a dream waiting to come true. I was getting a little to excited and started thinking what happens if the helicopter ends up not coming to the island and were all stuck here forever. I was just thinking to myself, how everyone on the island was becoming an individual person among themselves. Jack becoming a savage with his pack of hunters following his every move. Thinking to myself how I stayed the same and didn't change my human instincts.
Thinking of how to get rescued and how I would feel emotionally in the moment. Once I was on the helicopter there was a waterfall of emotions. Feeling happy, nervous, excited, and axious about going home to ma family, hoping they even remember me coming back.

The island is driving me crazy! Everyone is not getting along and jack is trying to do whatever he wants, by being the so called "leader" of the hunters group. I'm trying to be helpful to everyone and organize everything with out people on the island. While everyone is trying to work together and work as a team, it is very stressful trying to get everyone to do that. It is getting harder and harder to figure out how we are going to be rescued. Jack is always saying that no we will never get rescued now and that we are going to be stuck here forever and ever. I'm trying to still have hope. Having conflicts with he whole group is jeopardizing our chances of working together as the group we were on this island. The conflicts between jack and Ralph have increased. Jack has been basically ignoring Ralph because Jack feels like he doesn't have to take orders from someone who is not a so called leader anymore. Since jack is part of his own group now, the hunters group then Jack is the leader and he doesn't take any orders from anyone. Maybe only ideas. I feel like we are all going to eventually break up into our own Little team then a of a sudden be by ourselves. I hope that we all get to work together in this mission we have to get rescued and work as a team.

October-2008

Being stuck on this island can bring many day dreams about the past or what i could've been doing at home if I was stuck on this island. I'm still try to figure out what I can do to get food and while we have our shelter, we all have to figure out something to do. being back home is something I dream about every night. With my family at barbecues, telling jokes and watching movies! I miss that soo much. we always used to watch batman, which was my favorite! Knowing that we have to take care of ourselves on this island, that makes me miss my mom and family even more.
This island is one on it's own. You have to find everything yourself and also everything is up to you and your group. While I was trying to fing some food I was walking through the trees and noticed the most beautiful view of the sun rising through the sky, with it's colors of orange velvet with a baby blue eyes sky. Reminising about my family and all the great thing we did together. Hoping that a miracle will happen and hopefully come back to reality and start to live on this island.

me..myself..and..I!

Hey....I'm Alejandra...I love to play basket ball, and my adorable dog DOMINO.

I'm a sophmore at Burlingame High School, and my favorite subjects are english, and art class. I love to hang out with my friend and goof off, sometimes. I love watching old movies, and of course the recent ones. my altime favorite movie is batman the dark knight, and sixteen candles...awesome! :> My family is everything to me, I love hanging out with them. There the light that makes my darkness disapear.