Mostly everything in our world is based on outer beauty of people andobjects. Society has a fixed image of beauty. Woman should be skinn with blondhair, blue eyes and men should be tall, dark and handsome. We are controlled by themedia like characters in video games. They program us to buy into certain productsTeenagers are the most superficial of all age groups. Many of us chooseboy/girlfriends because of their looks. Sometimes teenagers wont become friendswith other people because they look different. Teenagers tease and pick onpeople who arent like them. We buy clothes just because they say Tommy or Nikeeven though they outrageously expensive and bad quality. Teenagers just want to fitin. They are afraid to be different. As we become older looks play a role in our livesbut not as much as when we are teenagers. Some people gets ahead in the jobWhy do we put so much emphasis on how we look? Many people blamemagazines and T.V . You never see ugly people in adds in magazines. Also in T.Vand movies 90% of the people are pleasing to look at . But beauty sells, so thatswhat we get. Its the gimmick that companies have us hooked on, If you buy thisyou will look just like the person in the ad. Everybody is guilty of be superficial. We all want to be beautiful. Most of usjudge people by there looks. Everybody sometimes wishes that they could changesomething about their self or be someone else at one time. But everyone has theirown thoughts and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Our world will always be superficial. There is no way in the near future that ourimage and the huge role appearance plays in society will change. New trends willcome in and out, they will sell and make tons of money. Television will still run onbeauty. Beauty sells, so it will be here for a long time.
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The Downfall Of Macbeth: Who Is To Blame?
Everyones feelings and reactions towards the ending of Macbeth are different. Most people feel that Macbeth was horrible and power hungry, and had his death coming to him. In my opinion this is not entirely true. I think some sympathy should be given toward Macbeth because of the fact that something or someone else causes his downfall. I think that the witches and Lady Macbeth are to blame for this. Macbeth’s complete self-destruction originated from the beginning with the witches.
In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a soldier with good intentions and has no care for harming others. At this point, the witches have not yet influenced Macbeth with the ambitions they gave him. His downfall begins as soon as he meets the witches. Being interested in the witches predictions, Macbeth quickly rises to power and begins to ignore his conscience.
The witches seem to have total control over his mind and his behaviors. They cause Macbeth’s destructiveness, which in the end leads to his newfound habit to kill. Macbeth’s wrongdoing did not start in his mind or soul, but instead was a result from him being a victim of circumstance and misfortune. Therefore, I think Macbeth deserves some sympathy. Lady Macbeth’s aggressiveness and her own ambitions are another major influence on Macbeth’s behavior.
Lady Macbeth persuaded him to kill Duncan and urged him to do whatever it took to become king. From the moment he listened to her, he started losing his integrity and stopped listening to his conscience. If it were done when tis done, then twere well And falls on thother side. This shows how Macbeth was not completely evil, he decided not to kill Duncan until persuaded by his wife.
In Macbeth’s case, his wife was at least partly responsible for his madness. As a reader of Macbeth, I can indirectly relate to Macbeth’s character. I recognize that it is possible to be influenced by someone into acting immoral. Under the affect of peer pressure, for instance, a person can act irresponsibly causing harm. Although we cannot justify the wrongdoing of a person, we feel sympathy for him or her, realizing that their decisions were not created just by their mind, but rather resulted from other multiple factors.
Macbeth is at the mercy of the witches and Lady Macbeth and therefore not completely responsible for all his actions. It is easier to have sympathy for a person who is not entirely to blame for his actions. Despite all of his wrongful actions, Macbeth does not exemplify pure evil.
Whence is that knocking? The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. This quote shows how Macbeth does have regret and feels bad, the crime he committed haunts him. I do not excuse Macbeth but I do feel as if he was human, and as a human was pressured and tricked into his actions. Overall, these reasons are why I sympathize with Macbeth.
Daves American Civil War
“daves” American Civil WarIt was a long tiring winter after the Union army pushed the Confederate army further south. The Union captured Forts Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. This is where I had to take over reporting the war for my brother Mike Bloom who was killed in the line of duty. It was his job that’s is now mine John Bloom to report for the Union Observer. After these courageous Union victories the Confederate army General Sidney Johnston was forced to abandon much of west and middle Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Johnston felt that it was necessary to protect the only all weather access between Richmond and Memphis. Which was the Charleston and Memphis railroad. There he set up a new defensive line.
While this was going on I was stationed at Fort Shiloh with some 40,000 soldiers who were busy drilling yet mostly hanging around grasping the little leisure and rest time they ever saw. I asked one solider who just got out of the creek after a refreshing swim Why he was swimming and not training. His response was Didnt you know that Shiloh is the Hebrew word for place of peace we both got a good chuckle out of that and he gave me some moon shine.
After talking with the troops I decided it was time to ask the commanding officer who was General Ulysses S. Grant what the plan of action was. I asked the General if he had any orders his response was My superior General H.W. Halleck has ordered me to sit tight at Shiloh and wait for the reinforcement of General Don Carlos Buell and his army from Ohio to arrive. I then asked him hat did he feel was the catalyst of this war?Well in my opinion I fell that if the South just could have thought about their morals and how immoral slavery was which is why the North made it illegal and wanted it abolished from the South. Are there any other reasons you think the war started? Yes I also feel that when the South succeeded from the Union was also a large factor. Thank you sir for all of that information the people up north will be enveloped with your opinion. Little did I know that when I was sleeping that the Confederate troops were mounting an attack this night of April 5, 1862. Led by General Albert Sidney Johnston and second in command P.G.T. Beauregard. When the Confederates hit us we were totally caught off guard for it was close to the morning. The overwhelming Mississippi Army had covertly hit the federal camps. It was pure chaos for both armies yet it was obvious that the South had complete control of this camp now. I saw men ripped apart from gunshots to bayonets. The Union men tried to take a stand and hold a line but it as impossible they were getting murdered. By afternoon the camp belonged to the Confederates.
The Union forces were pushed back. They were then able to take hold of what is known as the sunken road. Grant said Hold the sunken road at all costs. To the men. They were able to finally stop and hold back the Confederates at what we called the Hornets Nest. All I could hear was bullets whizzing through the saplings and through the soldiers whose cries and screams were unforgettable. The Confederates launched eleven attacks on the Union line that refused to break. I then had to bare witness to one of the cruelest monstrosities I ever have seen or will see in my life. The Confederate army lined up sixty-two cannons at point blank range at the Union troops in the Hornets Nest. This slaughtering of the troops some of which were my friends was what was needed to hold back the Union troops enough so the Confederate troops could move in. I watched this happen from a distance it lasted six hours before the Union surrendered. While the fighting raged on in the Hornets Nest only a few yards away there was another battle going on a peach orchid. This orchard would become the final resting-place of General Johnston. I latter found out how he died. When he walked out his clothes were dilapidated from bullet holes that abraded him yet his fatal wound was from a bullet wound to the back of his leg, he could have survived but he had just ordered his medic to attended to the wounded Union soldiers. After I regrouped with the men I asked to talk to General Grant to ask him what he has to say. His response was Im proud of my men for holding out as long as they did I just wished they all were trained better for most of them have never even scene or been in a battle before. I then asked Whats the next strategic move. Grants answered Im going to wait for General Don Carlos Buell and his troops. After my discussion with the General I wanted to take a look around at the troops to see how many we lost and how their moral was. After a quick look I noticed there was numerous wounded soldiers and numerous men missing yet their moral was almost better because all they wanted to do was have a chance at massacre the enemy. I also felt the same way so to help pep them up I told them their chance would soon come. All I heard next was gunfire at first I was startled. Then I noticed it was Buell and his reinforcements. They had arrived on steamboats under the cover fir of gunboats that fired on fifteen-minute intervals. This provided General Buells troops to come aground safely without any hostility from the fatigued Confederate soldiers. When I say this sight it was somewhat of a revelation. The unsullied troops swarmed the Confederate forces and took back the land that they fought so vigorously for. The Confederates were forced to march back to Corinth, Mississippi.After the battle was over with a Union victory I felt a need to ask General Buell why the South felt that all of this bloodshed was necessary? His response was They had to save the Mississippi Valley and lost vast areas of land already in Ohio and Kentucky, and Memphis and Vicksburg were now vulnerable to Union attack. After Corinth there is no doubt that those cities would be the next targets. I also think that they are uneducated and ignorant.
After seeing this unnecessary butchering of 13,000 Union troops and 10,500 Confederate troops I thought it was time for me to go back home to pass in my report on the war and try to comprehend what I just witnessed and then thought why?Words/ Pages : 1,145 / 24