Romeo & Juliet Summary

Romeo and Juliet is a love story written by William Shakespeare in the 1597. 

This story happens in Italy, concretely, in Verona. In this town there are two wealthy families that are always fighting, one family is called Montague family, the other one is called the Capulet family.

One day the servants of the Capulets were walking and meanwhile talking about the desire they have to fight the Montagues. Suddenly, the servants of the Montagues appear in the streets and as a result they start to fight. In a minute everyone is fighting.
One day in a Capulet party, Romeo sneaks in and meets Juliet, they both fall in love, they are members of different families so they can't marry officially, so they decide to marry secretly.

As nobody knows this marriage has occurred, Juliet's parents decide to marry Juliet with Paris.

Romeo calls someone to help him live in peace with Juliet and he gives him a potion that will make Juliet sleep the day of the marriage and the next day as well.

Romeo is now living in a nearby town because the prince has banished him from Verona, the news arrives to him in a wrong way, so he thinks Juliet is dead. He goes to the tomb with a poison he has bought and kills himself next to Juliet inside the tomb. Juliet wakes up sees Romeo and she suicides as well. At the end, because of all this tragic things, both families decide to live in peace and to be friends.

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Shakespeare's Biography

William's Shakespeare Biography

He waw born on the 23d of April in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon which is a town near London. His family was well-off. His father, John Shakespeare was a Glovemaker, shop keeper and Mayor of Stratford. His mother, Mary Arden didn't have to work to be rich because she inherited lands. William had seven brothers and sisters. 

On the other hand, he wasn't a good student, he attended the free grammar school until 15. He read a lot of Mythology and Ovid books. 

He married Anne Hathaway on the 27th of November in 1582. Anne was eight years older than him. They had three children: Susanna and Hamnet and Judith who were twins. 

He lived in London for a long part of his life, but he retirated in Stratford because of the large amount of land he had there. 

In addition, by the 1592 he was raconized as a succesful actor on the London Stage. He wrote more than 38 plays as well as sonnets and other poems. He revolutionized the English stage with dramatic and poetic genius. He retired from the thatre and went to live to his native Stratford were he had bought a large house called "New Place". 

He died on his 52nd birthday,  on the 23d of April 1616 in Stratford. He was buried in the Church Of The Holy Trinity.

My objectives in this New Year are less than the other years, but are bigger.

I have to pass 4th of ESO, and find more ways to appreciate my life. This are the only objectives I've proposed for this year, but in my opinion, they are difficult to accomplish. But, of course like nearly everyone I've proposed things which I won't do because I don't have time or laziness.  But above all I just want to enjoy my life as if it was the last day.

 This in fact are all of my purposes for 2014, except quit smoking ( I don't smoke), lose weight and get out of debt.

It's Christmas Time

Christmas means a lot of things for me.

It means being with my family, opening presents, having loads of free time and of course giving my parents some presents I always buy for them. Every Christmas I try to be as happy as possible although my final semester marks are not as good as they should be. My parents don't work during the Christmas holidays so they can spend more time with me and my brother, we open all of our gifts, and we use them during all the day. This year I haven't asked for many presents because I am already happy with what I have, neither my brother has asked for a lot of things as he usually does all the years. This Christmas I want to make my family as happy as possible and try to change all the bad things I have done this year, including studies.

listen to ‘rue morgue’ on Audioboo">   This book I've read in class is called "The Murder in the Rue Morgue". It's a very short book, which makes it more intense and fast-action. It all starts when two guys meet in Paris,  they are very similar in all aspects so they decide to buy a house and live there. One day Dupin is reading the diary and discovers that there has been an murder in the Rue Morgue. They decide to investigate this murder, they go to the house were it has happened. The things they see, makes them arrive to a conclusion, "the murder is very agile and strong".  So they keep searching for clues in the house and they find hair in the floor, by the color it has and it's characteristics Dupin discovers that this disaster may has been provoked by an Orangutan. And of course, if Dupin says it's an Orangutan, it is. At the end of the story they realize how the assassinate was made, what caused it and why.

In my opinion, I think this book is perfect for people like me that don't enjoy too much reading so they read shorter books, and books that are full of action.                                          

My favourite sport is snowboard, althought you can only practice it 4 months in a year, of course it depends on the place you live. Here in Spain you can only ski in December, January, February and sometimes in March. When I was only a child, I started skiing, I have skied for 10 years. This last year I started snowboard because I was very tired of skiing, it was always the same. Now I am a fan of freestyle snowboard, which is snowboarding but doing some tricks that you don't necessary have to do while you are going down the mountain, but it's fun and you can always try new things, that's what I nejoy the most.

Horror

The Gothic novel was inveted by Horace Walpole. The 1st Gothic novel was written in the 1764 the tittle was "The Castle Of Oranto". This novel contained nearly all the esential elements of the genre. Some of the horror elements that I didn't include the following things or objects:
- Old houses or castles.
- Darkeness
- Shadows
- Strange Noises
- Disapearance of objects or humans.
- Crying
- Shouts
- The noise of the wind
- Supernatural acts.
-Thunder
- Footsteps approaching.