The human body is filled with muscles that allow the body to function in proper ways. The stronger these muscles are, the faster/better the body is able to function and complete task. Ways to build muscle include good nutrition, weight lifting and calastetics. These methods do no give grand immediate results. It takes time because it is natural. Anabolic steriods act as a catalyst to the muscle building process with proper exercise. It is a substance that enhances and causes muscles to grow at a larger rate after being torn in workout. This is a controversial topic that his split the country into sides over the dispute. Some feel it is fine to take steriods because many take other supplements to make one perform or feel better. On the other side which includes myself feels that it is not fair to anyone taking this supplement who is in competition. The desire and will to win is usually what drives a person to try steriods. If you are not in competition which include other atheletes who are not taking muscle enhancing substances, then you are free to do with your body as you please. Steriods gives an athelete the extra edge needed in reaching the almighty glory of winning. On page 197 of Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology, the author states "Advantages of anabolic steroids cited by atheltes include increased muscle mass and strength, increased oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, and an increase in aggressive behavior (the urge to 'steamroller the other guy')." All of these pro's of steriods are an unfair advantage in competition. The athelete has reached a physical ability that cannot be reached by another athelete simply because of a drug. Some may say, "well since some atheletes are doing it, why don't all atheletes do it to get that same extra edge". But it may not be in a atheletes mind to build muscle while simotaniously destroying it. Although steriods have its lovely pros, the cons overweight them in some atheletes mind. "Physicians say they cause bloated faces( a sign of steriod excess), shriveled testes, and infertility; damage the liver and promote liver cancer; and cause changes in blood cholesterol levels..(147)." So since some atheletes are take pride in taking care of their bodies and what goes into it, they might not want to take steriods. So the atheletes who decide to take the risk, have a clear unfair advantage. Steriod usage will forever be a controversial topic in the great melting pot. Simply because their are people who take it, love the perks, and try to provide counterexamples to why it is justifyable like "everybody takes supplements, what's wrong with us?" The fact is, there is nothing wrong with taking steriods unless you are in competition with other non-users. Steriods provide atheletes with extra strength, stamina and aggression that gives the user an advantage

1. "It is an elemental odor, raw and crude; it is rich almost rancid, sensual and strong." (Pg. 28) This book is about the working conditions in the early 20th century. The author uses very vivid descriptions to decribe what was going on in this American era. He paints a picture in my mind with a ink paintbrush that makes me get a good understanding of the atmosphere of this time period. This was a discription of the main characters Jurgis's first job sweeping the leftovers of slottered cattle through a trap door. 2. "The line of the buildings stood clear-cut and black against the sky; here and there out of the mass rose the great chimneys with the river of smoke streaming away to the end of the world." (Pg. 33) This a good discription that makes me wonder about the Earth's well being and the contribution America has had towards it. The country has been releasing fossil fuels into the atmosphere for a long time. And back then the smoke was probably more contaimanated then of today simply because of technological advancement. Either or, the contribution is shockingly unacceptable. 3. "They use everything about the hog except the squeal." (Pg. 38) This was a quote that shocked me. You never know what's going on with your food or what they do with the animal that they kill to make your food. This quote just sort of opened my eyes even though there our plenty agencies breathing down food industries due to this book. 4. "Relentless, remorseless, it was; all his protests, his screams, were nothing to it-- it did its cruel will with him, as if his wishes, his feelings, had simply no existence at all; it cut his throat and watched him hasp out his life" This is probably something that caused many people to become veggitarian. This is sad to think about when you think about the foods you eat. This discription is about the pigs that Jurgis saw being brought into the factory he worked at. It's something that one knows about, but to have a description of the process in your face is heart wrecking. 5. "It is a sound, a sound made up of ten thousand little sounds. You scarcely noticed it at first-it sunk into your consciousness, a vague disturbance, a trouble." (Pg. 29) This is a description of a working factory. During the day in a factory, there are thousands of sounds that are occuring in the factory. Various jobs around the factory contribute to one big sound of the factory. It's probably a sound to get used to reguarding this is a place where animals are slauttered. 6. "So from the top to bottom the place is simply a seething cauldron of jealousies and hatred; there is no loyalty or decency anywhere about it, there is no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar." (Pg. 70) I like this quote because this is what Jurgis was going through in the old days, but it is something I can relate to in this era. It's hard to work in an envoirment like this one when everybody is about there money, but envy comes when one is more successful than the other. 7. "And , for this, at the end of the week, he will carry home three dollars to his family, being his pay at the rate of five cents per hour-just about his proper share of the million and three quarters of children who are now engaged in earning their livings in the United States." (Pg. 85) This put me beyond astonishment. This was the problem of this time. They went through hard work requiring days for unacceptable hours in horrible conditions for small pay. Jobs that could make you lost a leg, arm or even your life in some cases since safety issues wasn't cared about back then. The owner of the factories only cared about making money by keeping his factory running. He could always find a new worker. 8 "Here is a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation and dependent for it opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-gtime slave; under such circumstances, immorality is exactly as inevitable , and as prevalent, as it is under the system of chatetel slavery.(pg. 126) This is a description of the town Jurgis and his family lived in. A town called Packington where everybody was in need of more then a few dollars to get by. People would do anything for money, even if wasn't a conventional job. Crime and death ran high due to horrible conditions for those who wearn't living under the best circumstances. 9. "This is no fairy story and no joke;The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one" (pg 162) After losing his first and second job, Jurgis gets a job in the meat packing industry. They found out all the nasty secrets in this field. The information is shocking. 10. "They were beaten; they had lost the game, they were swept. It was not less tragic because it was so sordid, because that it had to do with wages and grocery bills and rents. They had dreamed of freedom; of a chance to look and them and learn something; to be decent and clean, to see their child group up to be strong. And now it was all gone- it would never be!" (pg. 163) After fighting for so long, working so many different jobs(including two of the kids), all the cold winters and hard times, they lost the house they invested in when they first arrived in Packington. A couple more payments and the house would have been there's for good and they lost it. After putting so much money into the house. A very touching moment in the text. 11. " To Jurgis this man's whole presence reeked of the crime he had committed; the touch of his body was madness to him- it set eevery nerve of him a tremble, it aroused all the demon in his soul." (Pg 181) Jurgis' family struggled to get by. Everybody had jobs at one point. He found his wife staying out late sometimes and her allaby was she was snowed in. When he found out she was lying, she told him her boss made her have an affair with her or she would lose the job and he raped her. This landed Jurgis is jail. As large figure of a man that Jurgis was, he lost it, and went down to the job and pummeled the boss. 12. "He has no wit to trace back the social crime to its far sources- he could not say that it is the thing men have called 'the system' that is crushing him to the earth" A struggle that has knocked man down since the founding of this country; Trying to make it in the system. Some fail, and some succeed if you play by the rules. This was a process that was beating Jurgis, a Lithuian immagrant, to a pulp. He struggled to figure out how to keep his job, and standard of living at a steady pace. 13. "The word rang through him like the sound of a bell, echoing in the far depths of him, making forgotten chords to vibrate, old shadowy fears to stir- fears of the dark, fears of void, fears of annihilation. She was dead! She wad dead! (Pg. 227) In relation, I couldn't help but to put this quote.. 14."Ah what agony is, what despair, when the tomb of memory is rent open and the ghosts of his old life comes forth to scourge him!"( pg. 264) I like this quote because it is something I can relate to in my life right now. This is a time Jurgis left the city to make a different life for himself. He was holding up, but there are times when pastlife comes back up and breaks him back down. The author is brilliant. 15. They put him in place where the snow could not beat in, where the cold could not eat through his bones; they brought him food and drink-why, in the name of heaven, if they must punish him, did they not put his family in jail and leave him outside- why could they find no better way to punish him than to leave three weak women and six helpless children to starve and freeze? (Pg 191) This quote makes me feel for Jurgis. Jurgis did what he had to do to protect his wife and family from harm and it landed him in jail. And while he was warm inside being fed, his family was in the harsh winter bearly getting by without his income. Very to tough to deal with mentally when isolated. 16. "There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where things are behind bars, and the man is outside." ( pg. 337) I tip my hat to the author for this book as many in history have done. First for revealing the tragic facts of the factory life. Then his style of writing and witty quotes give you something to think about aside from reading . This was about a time when Jurgis had went to jail again and the way he was sort of feeling. 17. "In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefullness the sole criterion of power." (Pg 403) I found this phenominal when I defined the word prowess, meaning superior ability. What makes me like these quotes is the way the author breaks down the society we live in. He makes comparisons,analyzes, metaphorical relations, and sometimes he just makes sense of what's going on. 18. "All the these agencies of corruption were banded together, and leagued in blood brotherhood with the politician and the police; more often than not they were one and the same person" (303) This puts a feeling of "Me against the world",as Tupac would say, over me. Sometimes it feels like all the people in contradiction with your goals are all on the same team with the same common goal; making your life hell. I like this quote for that reason. 19. "When people are starving and they have anything with a price, I guess you ought to sell it, I say. I guess you realize it not when its too late." (348) Everything in this book is real. This is about real people, real soceity, real situations. It provides analysis of a time that is probably going to be relative throughout American history. 20 "To you, the toilers, who have made this land, and have no voice in its councils! To you, whose lot it is to sow that others may reap, to labor and obey, and ask no more than the wages of a beast of burden, the food and shelter to keep you alive from day to day. It is to you that I come with my message of salvation, it is to you that I appeal." (Pg 361) I like this quote because it could fit the voice of the lower class even today. It is a quote of the struggle that ones opposite of the top go threw. Sometimes those at that point don't get to voice their feelings and if they do it isn't heard/of relevance. This was a tough society then, it's a tough society now.

Macbeth is one of the most famous works of literature in history. It's advanced style of writing has  created much controversy over time since we cannot go and ask Shakespeare himself what he meant. All we can do is analyze the story and get a general idea of why things happened in the novel. In the natural world, things happen because they just happen. There is no influence on a natural diaster, murder, or car crash. It just happens. In the Macbeth world, the supernatural plays a huge role on the events occuring story. The supernatural is the exact reason why everything in the story happened the way it happened.

From the very first scene of the play, we are introduced to the supernatural force that molds this whole story together; The 3 Witches. The 3 witches might possibly have one of the smallest roles in the production, yet it is the most vital. You don't see the witches too much, but everytime that you see them, they have a phrocey that is important  with the story later on. They open the first scene with a poem starting with inquiry of when they will meet again. "First Witch: Where the place?. Second Witch: Upon the heath. Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth." (7) This is only the first thing that they say yet it already influences the direction of storyline. One scene later, sure enough Macbeth runs into the witches with his right hand Banquo. Unaware these are supernatural witches Macbeth starts "Macbeth: Speak if you can. What are you? First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! Third Witch: All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" (17) Macbeth had been shocked. Macbeth's original title was Thane of Glamis. How was he to get the other two? This changed Macbeth's life and the way he saw it.

The first meeting between The Witches and Macbeth was epic. Though it startled and shot fear into Macbeth, it alter'd the natural life and thought process within itself. "Macbeth: Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman, and to be king stands not with the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. (Witches Vanish)." (21) And there Macbeth's mind had been corrupted! He wanted to know so dearly how this prohecy could be true. Quickly enough,the story shifts to meeting with a gentlemen (Ross) who gives news that the previous Thane of Cawdor needs to be executed because of treasonous behavior, and Macbeth will replace him. This then made him a believer of the witches prophecy and he felt it was a good thing. It changed the motives of a man who reported the tales of the prophecy to his partner later on. She like him also liked the looks of things, and wanted to make to make it happen. And with time came the chance. Duncan, king of Scotland, cousin of Thane of Cawdor, was coming over to enjoy dinner for night to discuss with his Glamis his new position of rank. "Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence? Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes. Lady Macbeth: O, never Shall sun that morrow see! (35)" They were aware of the full potiential of the Witches words, and decided to take advantage.

With Duncan dead, Macbeth was king. Just as it had been prophecized. But now that the deed was done, it was not just done and over. People began to think how this could have happened so fast and who could the suspects be. Paranoia began to run high with the Macbeth's due to guilt of course, and it led to unhelpful acts including deaths of many people including his right hand Banquo. And though the prophecy had come true, the supernatural did not take its hand off what was going on. Macbeth was confused and scared with all the heat around him, and eventually got to talk with the supernatural again. It gave him the assurance that he thought he needed to deal with any thing coming up trying to stop him.
"Second Appartition: Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth (125)." With this said, Macbeth could figure that he would be fine. Anything to cross his path would have to be women born. There were three apparition's during his talk with the witches, and the first one warned him to beware of Macduff. Well that thought was whiped away with the news of the second apparition. There would be nothing to fear if it had be born of a women. But as the infamous Marilyn Monroe once said, "everything happens for a reason." Macbeth found out Macduff had been "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb before battle which fit the exception to the second apparition. This led to him losing the final battle, being beheaded in the process.

The supernatural played a huge role in Shakespeare's epic "Macbeth". From the very begginning to the very end, the things that the witches said had an huge impact on what happened next in the story. Without the supernatural influence of the witches prophecy, all characters deceased in the play would have lived; including Macbeth.

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Being American, most of us don't really know what it's like to be pushed away from home into a different situation. We may move from block to block or city to city but, how many of us has been forced to find life in a new country. This is a process that would make one feel alienatated daily, as if one didn't belong. You would have to change the way you live and the way you saw things to the view of the sheltering country.  Though one might find perks like scenery, or not having to deal with gang violence, it would be a time of hardship that would be hard to overcome. This is what Jurgis went through in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
 
Due to terrible conditions in his homeland of Lithuiania, after he married the love of his life Ona, they decided to exile to the Melting Pot. Ona brought her cousin and her sister along on the trip and plus two children which made six. They settled in the windy city of Chicago, which was home to many immigrants in the early twentieth century. Coming from Lithuiania, America was everything they dreamed of; they would have their own rights with no one breathing down there necks, they could start there own business' and get to work like they knew people had down and the country was beautiful to them. The green grass, warm sun and nice town was very appealing. They had made it to America safely and would now be able to live the famous "American Dream".

They move to a town called Packingtown where reality begins to hit. Jurgis lands a job sweeping the remains of slaughtered cattle through trap doors making two dollars a hour for twelve hours of work. Ona's cousin Teta finds a job too making two dollars a day putting labels on cans so now they have two incomes in the border room they lived in. This was not merely enough for a family of six so when they saw an ad for a four-room house for fifteen hundred (three hundred down payment) they jumped on it. They worked and saved until they could make the down payment and made it happen! They had achieved the American Dream. They had a family with a house and jobs, what more could they ask for?
Trouble. The house didn't look like it did in the ad and there was work needed to be done. There were hidden unfair clauses in the house deed, that the agent was sure to leave out. They had jobs with horrible working conditions/hours, and had to keep up with house payments every month now. Plus bills, repair work, food, and clothing for everybody since a cold Chicago winter was coming. Then behind all of this, they wearn't citizens. So nobody in this capatalist country cared for them. They didn't know laws or so much about rights so people stepped over them sometimes. They got tooken advantage of by boss's and businessmen because everybody is chasing there own dollars to pay what they owe. After months of with this burden on there shoulders daily, they began to feel as if it was just them out there. Working hard hours everyday just to make a little change to put towards the monthly dues. How would they make it pass to the next house payment. With such a long way to go, so much could go wrong in so little time.

And it did. Jurgis and his family had the most heart wrenching experience melting in this pot to where noone noticed them. At the begginning, it was the best thing that had happened to their Lithunian lives. But slowly, society made them feel like they are seen to the country; aliens. By the end of their odyssey, Jurgis had been to jail twice and was by himself with his wife and other family members dead from struggle. Maybe his life would have been different if he wouldn't have left home.

mbworks of literature in history. It's advanced style of writing has created much controversy over time since we cannot go and ask Shakespeare himself what he meant. All we can do is analyze the story and get a general idea of why things happened in the novel. In the natural world, things happen because they just happen. There is no influence on a natural diaster, murder, or car crash. It just happens. In the Macbeth world, the supernatural plays a huge role on the events occuring story. The supernatural is the exact reason why everything in the story happened the way it happened. From the very first scene of the play, we are introduced to the supernatural force that molds this whole story together; The 3 Witches. The 3 witches might possibly have one of the smallest roles in the production, yet it is the most vital. You don't see the witches too much, but everytime that you see them, they have a phrocey that is important with the story later on. They open the first scene with a poem starting with inquiry of when they will meet again. "First Witch: Where the place?. Second Witch: Upon the heath. Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth." (7) This is only the first thing that they say yet it already influences the direction of storyline. One scene later, sure enough Macbeth runs into the witches with his right hand Banquo. Unaware these are supernatural witches Macbeth starts "Macbeth: Speak if you can. What are you? First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! Third Witch: All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" (17) Macbeth had been shocked. Macbeth's original title was Thane of Glamis. How was he to get the other two? This changed Macbeth's life and the way he saw it. The first meeting between The Witches and Macbeth was epic. Though it startled and shot fear into Macbeth, it alter'd the natural life and thought process within itself. "Macbeth: Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman, and to be king stands not with the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. (Witches Vanish)." (21) And there Macbeth's mind had been corrupted! He wanted to know so dearly how this prohecy could be true. Quickly enough,the story shifts to meeting with a gentlemen (Ross) who gives news that the previous Thane of Cawdor needs to be executed because of treasonous behavior, and Macbeth will replace him. This then made him a believer of the witches prophecy and he felt it was a good thing. It changed the motives of a man who reported the tales of the prophecy to his partner later on. She like him also liked the looks of things, and wanted to make to make it happen. And with time came the chance. Duncan, king of Scotland, cousin of Thane of Cawdor, was coming over to enjoy dinner for night to discuss with his Glamis his new position of rank. "Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence? Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes. Lady Macbeth: O, never Shall sun that morrow see! (35)" They were aware of the full potiential of the Witches words, and decided to take advantage. With Duncan dead, Macbeth was king. Just as it had been prophecized. But now that the deed was done, it was not just done and over. People began to think how this could have happened so fast and who could the suspects be. Paranoia began to run high with the Macbeth's due to guilt of course, and it led to unhelpful acts including deaths of many people including his right hand Banquo. And though the prophecy had come true, the supernatural did not take its hand off what was going on. Macbeth was confused and scared with all the heat around him, and eventually got to talk with the supernatural again. It gave him the assurance that he thought he needed to deal with any thing coming up trying to stop him. "Second Appartition: Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth (125)." With this said, Macbeth could figure that he would be fine. Anything to cross his path would have to be women born. There were three apparition's during his talk with the witches, and the first one warned him to beware of Macduff. Well that thought was whiped away with the news of the second apparition. There would be nothing to fear if it had be born of a women. But as the infamous Marilyn Monroe once said, "everything happens for a reason." Macbeth found out Macduff had been "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb before battle which fit the exception to the second apparition. This led to him losing the final battle, being beheaded in the process. The supernatural played a huge role in Shakespeare's epic "Macbeth". From the very begginning to the very end, the things that the witches said had an huge impact on what happened next in the story. Without the supernatural influence of the witches prophecy, all characters deceased in the play would have lived; including Macbeth.

Macbeth is one of the most famous works of literature in history. It's advanced style of writing has  created much controversy over time since we cannot go and ask Shakespeare himself what he meant. All we can do is analyze the story and get a general idea of why things happened in the novel. In the natural world, things happen because they just happen. There is no influence on a natural diaster, murder, or car crash. It just happens. In the Macbeth world, the supernatural plays a huge role on the events occuring story. The supernatural is the exact reason why everything in the story happened the way it happened.

From the very first scene of the play, we are introduced to the supernatural force that molds this whole story together; The 3 Witches. The 3 witches might possibly have one of the smallest roles in the production, yet it is the most vital. You don't see the witches too much, but everytime that you see them, they have a phrocey that is important  with the story later on. They open the first scene with a poem starting with inquiry of when they will meet again. "First Witch: Where the place?. Second Witch: Upon the heath. Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth." (7) This is only the first thing that they say yet it already influences the direction of storyline. One scene later, sure enough Macbeth runs into the witches with his right hand Banquo. Unaware these are supernatural witches Macbeth starts "Macbeth: Speak if you can. What are you? First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! Third Witch: All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" (17) Macbeth had been shocked. Macbeth's original title was Thane of Glamis. How was he to get the other two? This changed Macbeth's life and the way he saw it.

The first meeting between The Witches and Macbeth was epic. Though it startled and shot fear into Macbeth, it alter'd the natural life and thought process within itself. "Macbeth: Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman, and to be king stands not with the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. (Witches Vanish)." (21) And there Macbeth's mind had been corrupted! He wanted to know so dearly how this prohecy could be true. Quickly enough,the story shifts to meeting with a gentlemen (Ross) who gives news that the previous Thane of Cawdor needs to be executed because of treasonous behavior, and Macbeth will replace him. This then made him a believer of the witches prophecy and he felt it was a good thing. It changed the motives of a man who reported the tales of the prophecy to his partner later on. She like him also liked the looks of things, and wanted to make to make it happen. And with time came the chance. Duncan, king of Scotland, cousin of Thane of Cawdor, was coming over to enjoy dinner for night to discuss with his Glamis his new position of rank. "Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence? Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes. Lady Macbeth: O, never Shall sun that morrow see! (35)" They were aware of the full potiential of the Witches words, and decided to take advantage.

With Duncan dead, Macbeth was king. Just as it had been prophecized. But now that the deed was done, it was not just done and over. People began to think how this could have happened so fast and who could the suspects be. Paranoia began to run high with the Macbeth's due to guilt of course, and it led to unhelpful acts including deaths of many people including his right hand Banquo. And though the prophecy had come true, the supernatural did not take its hand off what was going on. Macbeth was confused and scared with all the heat around him, and eventually got to talk with the supernatural again. It gave him the assurance that he thought he needed to deal with any thing coming up trying to stop him.
"Second Appartition: Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth (125)." With this said, Macbeth could figure that he would be fine. Anything to cross his path would have to be women born. There were three apparition's during his talk with the witches, and the first one warned him to beware of Macduff. Well that thought was whiped away with the news of the second apparition. There would be nothing to fear if it had be born of a women. But as the infamous Marilyn Monroe once said, "everything happens for a reason." Macbeth found out Macduff had been "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb before battle which fit the exception to the second apparition. This led to him losing the final battle, being beheaded in the process.

The supernatural played a huge role in Shakespeare's epic "Macbeth". From the very begginning to the very end, the things that the witches said had an huge impact on what happened next in the story. Without the supernatural influence of the witches prophecy, all characters deceased in the play would have lived; including Macbeth.

On January 3rd of the 94th year in the 19th century, an intelligent young boy later named Niquis Garland was born. He was a decendant of lawyers and doctors from his mother's side of the tree. There isn't too much educational background on ...my father's side, but my dad is pretty smart even though he never finished college. I also have an older brother who was a diligent student throughout most of the early part of my childhood. These are things I think contributed to me having a good start in my educational career.

My dad started reading to me before I was two and by the time I was around two and a half I was able to read. He had a big stack of Seama Street books that he used to read to me every night before I went to sleep. I always will remember that my favorite of all of these was a volume called "The Case of the Missing Rubber Ducky". I used to want him to read that one to me all the time. He read it to me so many times that he eventually made me start to read it by myself without him in the room. I don't really remember too much about the books because it was at such a very young age, but I do remember that Ernie was the main character of my favorite and most of the books. Also of course the famous Big Bird and the Cookie Monster in other volumes. I was enrolled in Mount Calvery Christian school and skipped to kindergarden at three, graduating when I was four. I was good with reading and writing for my young age.

During elementury nobody read to me anymore except my teachers at school. I began to become more independant with my education. I didn't need my parents help to read to me or help me with homework. We read in our textbooks in class and sometimes I would have books from the school library. My favorite books to read were the "Magic Tree House" books by Mary Pope Osborne. They were fiction of course, but they were so very interesting to my young mind. I used to follow Jack and Annie on their exciting adventures through different regions and era's of Earth. As I look back on it now, I realize that those books taught me geography and history that I could add to my common knowledge to make me smarter. Those were child books though. When I got into the fourth grade, I read my first "big kid book" called "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor and loved it. It is still to this day one of the most interesting book I ever read. In the 5th grade I read the sequeal "Let The Circle Be Unbroken" which wasn't a slack off from the original.

Reading those books set the foundation from that point on that there was no more reading books like Magic Tree House which contained around 100 pages with child friendly sized words. In middle school I picked up the love for the Harry Potter series that I got from my brother. Even though I was very late ( he was on the 4th book before I got interested) I was hooked. This was time I loved to read the most. Nobody told me to do it or pushed me to go get some reading time in. I just did it because I was so fascinated and anxious to know what was going to happen next. Due to this, I sped through all of the books so quickly that I was awaiting the 6th book's release as my brother was for a good period of time. This was the last part of my life where I was heavyly endulged in reading books. When I got to high school, it kind of fell off a tad bit. I didn't read so much on my own as I used too. I didn't see to many books that just caught my eye/interest and this is what kind of turned me off to books. I wasn't so much turned off, but there was a lost of interest.

This is about to change though. I am going to get back into books because it gives you free feeling. If your fully endulged in reading, it takes you away from everything that is going on in this world, and takes you to a different world where your characters are. You follow these character on there daily adventures like a tour and it feels like you blackout. Your mind is only on the events occuring in the book which is a thing only an artist has the power too do.

There are many great works of literture that have been sold across this country. I haven't read any where close to all of them, but I read quite a few that has affected me mentally in a way that I didn't know was possible from writing. From all the many great books that I read, one that i was most intrigued by was a book called "Native Son" by Richard Wright. It actually started as just an over the summer reading assignment for my upcoming English class of the 11th grade (My old school). But as I began to read the book, from the very begginning I no longer saw it as an assignment. It was that interesting .

The novel is about a young black male growing up in the rough, segregated town of Chicago. It takes place in the 1930's, so this was a time where there hadn't been any effort to improve/change the way of society. The main character's name is Thomas Bigger of the Bigger family of four. It is a single-parent home headed by a mother who has a younger son and daughter. This novel is so interesting to me because it is about a 19 year old man trying to find himself in a time of lost hope for most. The author writes in a style that truely reflects who Bigger is and how he thinks. Sometimes I felt as if I was lost in Bigger's thoughts while reading. Bigger has a gang of four that he used to endulge in crime around the town with, but his mother who knew this found him a job to be a chauffer for the rich white Dalton family of three.

Thomas refused at first but then was of course convinced by his mother because she wanted him to bring in some money to help the struggling family.Mr. Dalton, the head of the family who gave him the job welcomed him in, and wanted to make Bigger feel as comfortable as possible. Which was a close to an impossible task seeing that Bigger was black and he was white in the 30's.
Mr. Dalton gave him his first job to drive his daughter to night school and Bigger hoped on the task. This changed Bigger's life forever. She had him make a detour to go see some friends and by the end of the night he ended up killing her on accident, which lead to a life of lying and on the hide.