RJD

**Enthusiasm Essay:**

 * For the new year of 2010 I have began my long overdue resolution to be enthusiastic about my present and future education. I have always had up and down grades, and some years where I have done better than others in school. It was until this year that I realized that graduating is not a celebration you receive; it is something you work very hard towards and earn. My enthusiasm will mean sacrificing and taking every day as serious as it should. No more tardies, detentions, and un-excused absents because as I have realized it only gets you farther and farther behind. Although it is too late in the year to take up the classes that go along with my planned career, I am going to do my abosolute best in college to make it. Trying to be more enthusiastic about learning will help me not only now but in the end as well. I would think that it is easier if you learn something and get it down here in high school so when your are in college things will make connections. That's when you realize paying attention in class paid off because you were taught the basics here. I have always had some enthusiasm for education before, but now I feel like I really grasp the concept. I wrote this enthusiasm paragraph during the month of January/February, it is now March and within a good month or maybe a little more I have raised all of my grades that were very low to A's or B's. I have learned that you have to come into something that is this important with a clear head for learning. In the begining I must admit I had an attitude. I have adjusted my attitude which has not only helped me change my grades but let me see the brighter and nicer side of many people. ||


 * ~ Course Grade ||
 * ~  ||||||||||||||||||||||||~ 1st Semester ||||||||||||||||||||||||~ 2nd Semester ||||||~ Course Grade ||
 * ~ Class ||||||~ 1st Qtr ||||||~ 2nd Qtr ||||||~ 1st Sem Exam ||||||~  ||||||~ 3rd Qtr ||||||~ 4th Qtr ||||||~ 2nd Sem Exam ||||||~   ||||||~   ||
 * ~ 01-LIB ARTS MATH || [|83] || / || [|B] || [|81] || / || [|B] || [|51] || / || [|F] || 76 || / || C || [|82] || / || [|B] ||  || / ||   ||   || / ||   || 82 || / || B || 79 || / || C ||
 * ~ 02-ENG 4 || [|68] || / || [|D] || [|84] || / || [|B] || [|77] || / || [|C] || 76 || / || C || [|86] || / || [|B] ||  || / ||   ||   || / ||   || 86 || / || B || 81 || / || B ||
 * ~ 03-DESIGN SERVS CORE || [|82] || / || [|B] || [|79] || / || [|C] || [|88] || / || [|B] || 82 || / || B || [|89] || / || [|B] ||  || / ||   ||   || / ||   || 89 || / || B || 86 || / || B ||
 * ~ 04-FIT LIFST DESIGN || [|91] || / || [|A] || [|96] || / || [|A] || [|100] || / || [|A] || 95 || / || A ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||  || / ||   || 95 || / || A ||
 * ~ 04-BEG WEIGHT TRAIN ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||  || / ||   || [|94] || / || [|A] ||   || / ||   ||   || / ||   || 94 || / || A || 94 || / || A ||
 * ~ 05-CULINARY OPS 2 || [|88] || / || [|B] || [|100] || / || [|A] || [|100] || / || [|A] || 95 || / || A || [|93] || / || [|A] ||  || / ||   ||   || / ||   || 93 || / || A || 94 || / || A ||
 * ~ 06-ECON || [|92] || / || [|A] || [|89] || / || [|B] || [|90] || / || [|A] || 90 || / || A ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||  || / ||   || 90 || / || A ||
 * ~ 06-AMER GOVT ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||  || / ||   || [|72] || / || [|C] ||   || / ||   ||   || / ||   || 72 || / || C || 72 || / || C ||
 * ~ 07-CARE/PREV OF ATH INJ || [|79] || / || [|C] || [|81] || / || [|B] || [|100] || / || [|A] || 84 || / || B ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||  || / ||   || 84 || / || B ||
 * ~ 07-FIRST AID SAFETY ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||||||= Inactive ||  || / ||   || [|97] || / || [|A] ||   || / ||   ||   || / ||   || 97 || / || A || 97 || / || A ||

Questions for Act I- Norway and Denmark are preparing for a possible war over land. The ghost resembles the late King Hamlet and is dressed in battle clothes. This ghost is refers to an ominous omen for Denmark. It is also connected to being an omen for the health of the state as a nation. Laertes is the son of Polonius ( The Lord Chamberlain of Claudius’s court) and brother to Ophelia. Laertes finds Hamlet’s erratic behavior has made him a threat to Claudius’s reign. Laertes also tells Ophelia not to trust Hamlet’s intentions with her because he may love her at the moment and have true feelings for her right then, however, he is still part of a royal family who in order to keep their structure they must go with what the nation wants. Hamlet describes himself to his mother as to be so sad over his father’s death and his mother’s marriage to his uncle that he wished suicide was not a sin. In a response about how Hamlet has been acting about his father’s death he tells his mother that not anything he has been wearing or the way he looks or his deep sighs could show all of the real grief he has inside of himself. Hamlet's interaction with Ophelia was described as him being love sick and crazy over his love for her. This of course was said by Polonious. We the reader's know that Hamlet is acting crazy because of his interesting encounter with the spirit of his father. The night Hamlet met this ghost he had already knew he would be acting erotically. That is why he made everyone who was there with him swear not to tell anybody about anything they seen or knew. Polonious is quick to assume about almost everything. He tries to manipulate and connive to get the truth instead of being straight up and trusting his kids. Polonious has shown favoritism for his children. Even though he really does trust neither Laertes nor Ophelia, he favors his son and makes it out like his daughter is a dim witted broad. He gives his daughter a speech on what Laertes has already told her. In the end of it you can tell he has good intentions but he does not trust his daughter’s actions. In the first act Laertes is assuming Hamlet’s behavior with his sister. He thinks Hamlet’s intentions with her are not honest and that he will change his mind as quick as he made it. Gertrude is wondering about Hamlet’s behavior over his father’s death. She feels like he overdoing it with mourning his death. She doesn’t realize how the marriage and death has affected him. Polonius is testing both his son and Hamlet to see what they are about. He is testing his son by sending someone to where he is to see what Laertes is up to and to make sure he is doing the right thing. Polonius just wants to verify Laertes is actions are like any other college student. At the same time Polonius wants to know what is going on with Ophelia and Hamlet so he wants to eavesdrop on one of their conversations. Hamlet learns from the Ghost that his father was poisoned by his uncle. He plans to seek revenge for his father’s murder. The ghost tells Hamlet that his father was sleeping in the meadow when poison was poured into his ear. Basically all the ghost wants Hamlet to do is the unfinished business of revenge on Polonious for murdering him, taking his women, throne and trying to take up where the King left off. Hamlet decides after hearing the news and finding out that some actors have came to cheer him up to write his own scene in a play that is going to be performed in front of everyone at the King’s home. In result to writing a scene that will re-enact what happened to his father, Hamlet will watch Claudius’s reaction.
 * 1. ****Describe the state of affairs between Denmark and Norway. How does the appearance of the ghost relate to this situation? **
 * 2. ****Who is Laertes? What does he note about Hamlet’s behavior? **
 * 3. ****In Scene 2, how does Hamlet describe himself to his mother? **
 * 4. ****What do you know about Hamlet’s interaction with Ophelia? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">5. ****<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">How would you describe Polonious? What parental behavior does he display toward his daughter? **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">6. ****<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">How does Hamlet feel about his mother and uncle’s marriage? ****<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-weight: normal;">Hamlet feels like his mother did not mourn long enough, for someone who was so in love with another person who died. The ghost said that she was bribed; however, he feels that no amount of money should have made her jump into the bed of incest. Hamlet feels like the marriage happened way too quickly after the funeral. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">7. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Which characters are guessing about the behavior of others in the first act? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">8. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Which characters are testing one another? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">9. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What does Hamlet learn from the Ghost and what does Hamlet plan to do? **

Act II Questions-
====Polonious and Reynaldo are conspiring with each other so that Polonious can spy on his son, Laertes, through Reynaldo. Polonious wants Reynaldo to casually ask around about Laertes to get what he can out of people about his actions. Poloniuos does not trust his son enough to listen or believe in Laertes. Polonious wants to spy so that he can find out how his son acts without supervision around. Polonious does not want him to act in a manner that would be considered un-royal, although the normal college behavior is expected.==== ====In Elizabethan times woman were seen as frail because they could not handle their emotions, and let their emotions get the best of them. This is demonstrated in Hamlet by both main women characters. Gertrude is frail because she gave into her brother-in-law by being just a grimy as he was and marrying him. She is weak because instead of being a strong Queen leader for her country she gave into wealth and did not think once about it. As the scene progresses you see that Ophelia is just as week as her supposed to be Queen. She cannot handle her emotions and ends up going crazy with everything her ego's driving her insane.====