Today, in E.L.A., I learned about a study of Philosophy where you could learn about what kind of decision maker you are. For example, today in class we listened to an article that sort of ringed around the question "what would you do?" The story we listened to was about 2 boats that were stranded and in deep danger because the boat was about to sink and the narrator was in a position where s/he had to decide if s/he was going to leave his/her friends that s/he made on the boat. If so, then they would only have about 2 hours or so to pull the boat back up to sea level. If s/he stayed on the boat, then they would've had 5 hours but s/he would've been risking his/her life.
    So basically the point was that, you had to decide which path you would take at the end of the story. I think it asked something like would you have stayed on the boat for the benefit of having 5 hours to bring the boat back up but decreasing your chance of dying, or would you have jumped on to the other boat with a benefit of being rescued and continue to live but decrease the time the other people have to pull the boat up and be rescued as well. This actually made people (my classmates and I) find out what kind of decision maker we are!

Unpacking Quotes...

   Unpacking the quotes by Shakespeare can sometimes be difficult and can sometimes be easy. For example, what I mean by this is that when Shakespeare writes in one of his famous playwrites, "Romeo and Juliet", there are a lot of things that the characters say that can make you go, "wait- whaaaaat???" and there are some things that characters say that can make you think, " Hmmm, that sounds sort of similar to how people today would say it..." or "Oh, I get what that means!!" In the book, "Romeo and Juliet", in act 1, scene 1, line 207-210, Romeo says, " Well in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, and, in strong proof of chasity well armed, from love's weak childish bow she lives unharmed." At first, that made me go, "wait- whaaaaat???" most likely because when you read it without breaking it down or "unpacking" it, it sounds like sentences with it's words rearranged! But when you unpack that quote, like I'm about to do, what you just read will sound a little more clearer if not a lot!
   So, when Romeo says, "Well in that hit you miss.", he's most likely saying that you missed the shot or the hit. When he says, "She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,...",  he's saying that no one will make her fall in love because she is like the virgin goddess of chastity and huntress, Diana. When he says, "...And, in strong proof of chastity well armed,..." he's saying that in strong armor of chastity that is well armed,... When he says, "From Love's weak childish bow she lives unharmed." he's saying that from having weak, childish love, Juliet still lives "uncharmed" or correctly.
   So with that discovered, in this quote, Romeo is saying, "You missed the shot (hit), Cupid,  because no one can make her fall in love with anyone but me because she is like the virgin goddess of chastity and huntress, Diana. In strong armor of chastity that is well armed, from having weak, childish love, Juliet still lives "uncharmed" or correctly."