Mentor Log

October 18th, 2007 5:30 - 8:00

On the 18th i visited Mr. Brad Kuss at his home. I passed his neighborhood because the turn was unexpected. When i arrived at Mr. Kuss's home he was very enthusiastic about talking about football. This was a relief because i didnt want to work with anyone whom did not actually want to participate. What i mean by this is i'd rather have a person who was excited about helping rather than help because you asked for it. After getting him to sign my mentor log i asked him a few basic questions about football. From there he simply began to lecture (sort of) about football, so i just took a sedentary role and absorbed what i heard.

Some of the things he mentioned was that football is a very aggressive sport and that mindset is very important. This reinforced what i already knew, however i found out that Mr. Kuss preferred man to man coverage over zone coverage. Even though i prefer zone, i understand why he enjoys man to man. I think it is because i think from a coaching point of view, involving every player. I think Mr. Kuss thinks of footballs from a players point of view and he enjoys the thrill of man to man. Man to man is much more exciting because you are following a person around the field. Anyone who has every played parking lot football will vouch that it is much more fun that sitting in an area waiting for a player. However, on a effiency level i believe zone to be more effective, but this is where we split.

I ask a few questions but Mr. Kuss basically runs the show, which is fine because he tells me exactly what it is i need to know. The main thing i took from this meeting was that Mindset was the key to football. Football is a much dirtier game than meets the eye, and i know this from personal experience. Mr. Kuss added that getting inside the players head gives you a psychological advantage.

Mr. Kuss was a quarterback, cornerback, receiver, punt returner, and all around player during his high school career, and he had good statistics in many categories. He has also been a referee. It got dark so i decided to call it a day.

Act IV Review

Act IV starts out with macbeth going to see the witches. The witches tell him three things. "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff! Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me: enough." This obviously warns macbeth of macduff, however he ignores this message because of what he is told next. "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Be bloody, bold and resolute! Laugh to scorn the pow'r of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth." So after the witches tell macbeth he cannot be killed by anyone born by a woman he becomes arrogant. "Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane HIll shall come against him." This says macbeth will never die until the woods come to his castle.

Macbeth takes this literally and believes his is invulnerable to all forces. "That will never be. Who can impress the forst, bid the tree unfix his eath-bound root?" He also asks about banquo but the witches dont tell him any more. Lennox tells him that macduff fled to england, and he assumes from here that he is a tratior. Ross questions Lady Macduff about Macduff fleeing the country and she calls him a traitor. "Where is your husband" (LMD) "I hope in no place so unsanctified where such as thou mayst find him."

Macduff fleas to talk to malcom to talk about the overtaking of macbeth. They get together and malcom is afraid of macduff not knowing his intentions. However macduff, ross, malcom, and members of the english army decide to dethrone macbeth.

Act III Review

Act III begins with Macbeth plotting and Initiating the death of Banquo. He hires hitmen to kill banquo however he pretends to be banquos friend before he sends him off. "Ride you this afternoon?"(B)"Ay, My Good Lord",(M)"We should have else desired your good avice ( Which still hath been both grave and prosperous)In this day's council; but we will take tommorow." Macbeth provokes the murderers and instigates them until the point where they follow banquo. When dark comes they kill banquo but fleance gets away. (B)"It will be rain tonight." (M)"Let it come down" (they attack) (B)" O treachery Fly good Fleance fly, fly fly."

After the death of banquo it returns to the feast that macbeth is hosting. The murderers tell macbeth of the deed and macbeth becomes delirious shortly therafter. He begins to imagine a ghost of banquo sitting on his throne, and he shouts out at it. The entire congregation hears banquo shouting madly. Lady macbeth tries to divert their attention away from macbeth by pronouncing his delirium a fit. "Sit, worthy friends. My Lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat. The fit is momentary; upon a thought he will again be well. If much you note him, you shall offend him and extend his passion." Macbeth goes on shouting about how the deceased should remain that way. Macbeth's guest all continue to watch this abnormality, however lady macbeth kicks them out after telling them to ignore macbeth.

At this point in the story the characters generally believe that Malcom and Donaldbain are responsible for the killing of King Duncan. They also believe that fleance killed banquo, because of his dissapearance after banquo's death. " And the right-valiant Banquo walked too late' Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance killed, For Fleance fled. Men must not walk too late. Who cannot want the thought, how monstrous it was for malcom and donaldbain to kill their gracious father?" They also believe that Macbeth is not guilty, but is being under the strain of friends dying. " How it did grive Macbeth! Did he not straight, in pious rage, the two delinquents tear, That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?" Macbeth decides to see the witches to tell him his fortune once more.

Act II review

Act Two set up and initiated the main conflict. It also set the story up for its climax. At the beginning of act two we see macbeth becoming further influenced to kill the king. After a discussion with banquo macbeth hallucinates and imagines a dagger."Is this a dagger see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet i see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight, or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, i see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now i draw." He removes a dagger from his pocket and decides finally that he will kill the king, and feels guilty and starts to lose his sanity thereafter. There is also a glimpse of sympathy shown by lady macbeth in which she does not kill the king herself. She sets the daggers down for macbeth to use to murder the king, however she does not do the deed because he resembles her father. "Alack, I am afraid they have awaked and 'tis not done! Th' attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready' He could not miss 'em. had he not resembled My father as he slept, i had done't."

When the king is killed macbeth is in a pitiful stage of confusion and paranoia. His wife becomes the strenght of the pair. They pretend they were sleeping and there are knocks upon the door. Macbeth pulls himself together and leads a guy to talk to the king and pretends to be shocked to learn that the king is dead. Word is spread further through the premises and the kings sons suspect that people will suspect them of the murder. Also because they were the top two on the assasination list. to become King of England. They decide to leave the country, one goes to England and the other to Ireland. " What will you do? Let's not consort with them. To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy. I'll to Engand. (Db) To Ireland, I; our seperated fortune shall keep us both the safer. Where we are There's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody.

I think that macbeth is going to become nervous and do whatever he can to make sure he is not suspected. Even if it means accusing the sons. I think that he will accuse the son because not only does this mean he takes the blame off of him it means that he can lead them to be suspected and possibly killed. This makes it easier for him in his plot to become king. Because he is elimating the heirs to the throne.

Act I Review

Act one was the introduction to the story. In act one we were introduced to the main character of the story, Macbeth. Macbeth was already a Thane of glamis, and he becomes a war hero after killing Macdonwald, which leads to him becoming the thaneof Cawdor. Next macbeth learns his future from three witches in which he and banquo encounter. The three witches say that he is destined to become king. He struggles to decide whether he wants to act to become king, or sit idle expecting to become king. He faces this conflict at the close of the act in which he first has no problem with the killing of the king. Next he shows caution and does not want to kill the king. This is shown when he tells his wife he doesnt want her to kill him. However his wife persuades him to kill the king, in which the act ends.

I think the first act was relatively boring, however this is expectded to start out a story. i think it concentrates much on defining the characters and their traits and their personalities so the audience gets accustomed. Some of the things we learn are that macbeth has a conscious. This is shown when macbeth changes his mind about wanting to kill the king. We also learn that lady macbeth is very materialistic, this is shown when she is very eager to kill the king to become queen. However, we dont learn as much about many other characters yet, i think they will be discussed more later.

Banquo and Macbeth both heard that macbeth is destined to be king. They also heard that banquo's children should be king. The creates the major conflict of the first act. Macbeth is planning to kill the king, but he must know banquo will know it's him. At this point im unsure of how banquo will react to the death of the king, wheter he might rat out macbeth, or make a deal that he wont tell on him if he makes his kid's the heir. He might go in plenty of directions, however it is unclear right now. Also, the king named his son the heir and prince of cumberland, this creates the conflict and foreshadows the son (who is named malcolm) being killed.

Renaissance Summary and Response

The renaissance was during a time of rebuilding, it occured after the black plague which decimated much of europe's population. During the renaissance people began to turn away from the catholic church. One of the reasons people began to turn away from the catholic church is because they began to intepret the bible for themselves. This is solely responsible for the invention of the printing press, which allowed books to be produced much quicker than the previous way, which forced monks to hand copy.

Another blow to the catholic church was when king henry VII broke away from it. This was not because of religions reasons but more of wanting a son. The pope would not allow him to divorce his wife, so he created the church of england. Later he killed his wife. In all, he killed 2 wives, he also divorced two, One died naturally, and the final out lived the king.

After King henry's death, Mary became queen. Mary , better known as bloody marry, set out to annihilate the catholics, remind you of hitler? She isnt thought of the same way as hitler however, does america love jewish people more than catholics? Regardless, she died, and her sister elizabeth became queen. Death to the Fuhrer.

Elizabeth, whom virginia was named after, ruled england for nearly 45 years. She helped stabilize england, and also restored the church of england. She liked art, and many times traveleled to the globe theatre to watch shakespeares play's. It is speculated that she actually wrote the plays. She died around the same time the renaissance came to an end.

Art, Literature, And theathre flourished during the renaissance and i believe the plague helped this. I think people were depressed from the plague, many drunk to relieve their depression that received from the tragedies of the plauge. I also think were looking for entertainment while in their intoxicated stupor. I think the theatre gave them a good source of entertainment. Even the depressed people who werent intoxicated however could have used the theatre as a way to take their mind off of the plague.

Renaissance Sonnets

Spencer seems to be wondering why his love does not love him back. Shakespeare seems to be praising a love, saying she was more lovely than a summer day. Shakespeare begans his sonnet with a question, however abandons questions thereafter. Spencer repeatedly asks questions in every section of his sonnet, excluding the last. I prefer Spencer's because i generally do not like happy-go-lucky expressions. I prefer Spencer's because it shows that he is a person that goes through pain. Shakespeare appears to be talking about love, and he analyzes his love from different angles praising it. He concludes his sonnet by saying that as long as he lives he will hold her high in his heart. Possibly even saying that he does not want to live withought her. Spencer talks about his love, and it not loving him back. He uses the metaphors fire and ice to describe the different feelings amongst them,and he concludes by saying that love is so powerful, it can even alter set forces such as nature.

Shakespeare Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; (A)
Coral is far more red than her lips' red; (B)
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; (A)
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (B)
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, (C)
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (D)
And in some perfumes is there more delight(C)
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. (D)
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know (E)
That music hath a far more pleasing sound; (F)
I grant I never saw a goddess go; (E)
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: (F)
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare (G)
As any she belied with false compare. (G)

The first section is talking about Shakespeares woman. He describes her as having red lips and dun colored breasts. She also has black hair. The second section states she has evenly colored cheeks, and apparently she has bad breath. The third section states she is a bad singer, but he likes to listen to her. The conclusion states that even though she is imperfect, Shakespeare still loves her.

Spencer sonnet 75

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, (A)
But came the waves and washed it away: (B)
Again I wrote it with a second hand, (A)
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. (B)
Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay (B)
A mortal thing so to immortalize, (C)
For I myself shall like to this decay, (B)
And eek my name be wiped out likewise. (C)
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise (C)
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: (D)
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, (C)
And in the heavens write your glorious name.(D)
Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue, (E)
Out love shall live, and later life renew. (E)

In the first section spencer talks about writing his loves name in the sand. Spencer's love was causing him pain, and he symbolized the water as taking it away. In the second message we learn that spencers love called him vain. Spencer does not like being called vain and wants that to be wiped from his reputation. In the third message he talks to his love and says that she will live on in fame. He says his sonnet will allow her to live in thought eternally, and even while he is dead in heaven he will be thinking about her. In the conclusion Spencer says that no matter what happens, he will always love her, and they will always be together.

My sonnet (im NOT suicidal. just to clear that up)

What is more wonderful than life
The gift to open two eyes
How horrible would be to end by knife
A greater tragedy is not but lies
TO breathe to suffer to live with pain
to anger to cry to live with distress
Escape comes only from forgetting thy name
Suicide improves sorrow tis only a guess
Thoughts are thoughts but dreams remain cold
Blue days you may awake and hear
Sense is made from what you are told
A man withought much should hold possesions dear
Tis all you have, And surely all you can
In Dark of Night, death abandons your hand