Culture Shock

Taylor Swift's song "Love Story" is all about being in love and has direct references to the play "Romeo and Juliet" In the beginning of the song Taylor sings about how she is Juliet and the person she "in love" with is Romeo. She starts with "I'm standing there, On a balcony in summer air, See the lights, See the Party, the ball gowns," These lyrics are in direct reference to the play. In the play there is a party and Romeo goes beneath Juliet's window/balcony and they talk. References to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is used all over still; in many different ways, most of the time showing "love".

Extra Credit Blog

I suppose that when I started in Honors English in the beginning of the year, I thought that it was going to be a piece of cake, I'd done very well in my English classes all the years before freshman year. I was set, and confident. I'd never anticipated that I would be needing to memorize and recite poetry in front of the class though, speaking in front of the class is a weakness for me, nerves over power my ability to function. Oh boy, then we have diagramming sentences... well, I don't have very nice things to say about this topic. I think that diagramming sentences is no fun at all and it takes a long time, knowing where to put certain words off straight lines, dashed lines, or weird looking lines is not easy. I must say, that just flies right over my head. All in all, I think that I've learned a lot from Honors English, and I'm glad to have taken this class. Just not so glad that I had to read the novel Great Expectations (I would underline the title but I can't figure out how, bear with me) in my opinion that book was really boring and hard to get through. How to Kill a Mockingbird (yet again, bear with me) was a better book, and one that I liked.