GIving Up

It's hard to say when you should give up. I don't think you should give up say if you have cancer and you can fight for more time to live. If you were running for president though and you had no chance of winning, it's probably just a waste of you money and time to keep trying. I know some of these are ridiculous scenarios, but if you're kidnapped you shouldn't give up trying to escape. Fight it out. Maybe you'll succeed.

Sometimes, like when you're in an argument with somebody, maybe you should just give up and be the bigger person. It's not worth it to argue with some people. Especially when they're too stubborn to give up themselves. They may call you out for backing down, but in reality it's you being the bigger person. It's not always weakness to give up. But sometimes you just need to fight it out and never stop trying.

Giving Up - Will C.

Obviously, you shouldn't give up if you have a likely chance of succeeding or the stakes are very high. However, say you had like 20 projects due the next day and you have to build a shed for your new alpacas so they don't die of exposure... no, just kidding. If somebody's life depends on it and you can do something, then you should stop at nothing to save them. Unless it puts your life at high risk. And it has to be someone specific, not just like, Oh, people in Africa are starving, you could fly over with McDonalds and save all their lives. And I guess stop at nothing is a little too definate for what I'm trying to say. Not if it puts anybody's life in danger, I should have said. For little things, sure you can give up if there's nothing to be gained, like Cole replaying the same level on Trials 500 billion times. Then you should give up. Other than that, it really just depends on the situation.

Sometimes giving up is good

Giving up does not always mean someone is quiting. I give up when I can see no outcome that is better, or meaning if I can do nothing more to help or make things better I stoptrying to fix it. I do not quit on something if I know I can fix it or make it better. But I always remember that before I canchange something or help someone, my problems must be dealt with first. I cannot help or do things if I'm having a problem. So I do not give up on things unless it is a lost cause.

And have faith not everyone has given up on this blog...it just sometimes slips the mind and especially at the end of the year when all of us dream of summer days and stress about finals and grades.

"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling"-Blaise Pascal

In my opinion, as long as you care about something, then you shouldn't give up. I don't think that you should ever fully surrender. Like, if you think that apples don't grow from apple trees, and some other people think that they do, then you can drop the subject for the time, but as long as you think that it's true in your head, then you're not fully surrendering. I think that if you care about something enough to fight for it, then you won't really ever run out of energy, and if you don't care about it enough to fight to the death, then it's not worth it.

Catching up on all the blogs

#12-Responsibility

I believe that everyone is responsible for themselves and their actions unless they are menatlly or physically incapable of having that "power" or choice, and needs other people to take responsibilty for them because they cant do so themselves. But with the situation of the man being stabbed and people just walking by, I have to use my american histroy nerdyness here and quote the declaration of independenc, "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." What quote means is that those who have the ability to take action, have the responsibility to take action. Right there in our contry's most important document it says that and yet people just walk by and do nothing about it.

#13-Gremlins

I am more of an old fashion but some technology i am okay with, like with the white board and infocus machine i liek those becuase the writing and papers are easier to read without my glasses that a chalkboard or overhead. Typing vs. writing, i would have to say writing, being a writer I like the sound of pen on paper, i feel like i can have more emotion when i am writing and you can take a pen and paper anywhere with you and still work on your writing. I don't always choose higher technology, with photography i love using film cameras and developing and printing my own pictures, the quality of a phot is way better, than an instant picture camera.

#15-No retreat, No surrender

I don't think you should ever give up when you are fighting for something that you really believe strongly in or love with all your heart. If it is a stupid argument and the other person is being stupid and you know you can't convince them i would say dont waste your breath just walk away. I also feel that if it is a life or death situation, depending on what you are fighting for most likely its not worth dying for. Lastly i think that holding on to things that frustrate you or make you made wastes energy because a lot of those grudges don't mean anything and the person most liely doesnt know your mad at them so you are wasting yourself on a pointless thing, its usually best to let it go and move on.

Who Gives up anymore?

I think you should give up once you start destroying everything else besides what you are trying to conquer. Like if you are trying to get revenge on someone but you don't want to do it yourself so you try to get trick someone else to do it but it ends up backfiring that is when you just give up. No it is not true that you should never back down, unless it is at the point where you just don't care anymore and you're just trying to screw everyone up you know how it is like at the end of a long board game or something when you just don't care anymore but besides that case you should give up when it is taking up way more resources and energy than it should or if it is getting a lot worse with no end in sight or if it is slowly killing you. One example is one time I twisted my ankle while running but I thought if I just toughed through it it would get better, it turned into a stress fracture and ruined my spring break because I was on crutches so I couldn't do anything but stay home.

But like my title says who gives up anymore? I know I don't, I usually keep going until I've screwed myself over. But that is just me how 'bout you.

The Dark Lady

Ugh, stupid technology. My computer crashed with my essay, so excuse it for being late.

During Shakespeares life, he created 37 plays that were credited to him, and about 154 sonnets. The first 130 were written to a man, and 24 were written to a mystery woman, whom researchers have dubbed the "Dark Lady"



During Shakespeares time, being white, thin, and having pale hair was the epitome of beauty. But during his poems, he describes her as having dark hair, dark skin, and dark eyes, as well as being permiscuous. No one knows who she is, but there have been a few women who have been suggested: Mary Fitton, Emilia Lanier(Bassano), Luce Morgan, Marie Mountjoy and Shakespeare's landlady.



The most likely candidate is Emilia Bassano. Recently, a miniature has been found of her, and she looks like most like what Shakespeare described in his poems,

"In the old age black was not counted fair,

Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;

But now is black beauty's successive heir,

And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:

For since eacn hand hath put on nature's power,

Fairing the foul the art's false borrow'd face,

Sweet beauty hath no name, no hloy bower,

But is profaned if if not lives in disgrace,

Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,

Her eyes so suited, and the mourners seem

At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,

Slandering creation with a false esteem:

Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe,

That every tongue says beauty should look so"

Emilia Bassano had many affairs in court while she was there, and finally married to Alfonso Lanier, which was thought to be an unhappy marriage. She was described as having black hair, and her cousins were said to have had black skin.

No one knows who this dark beauty was, but it's obvious that she had Shakespeare wrapped around his little finger.

Works cited:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emili_Lanier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare's_sonnets

http://www.walksoflondon.co.uk/64/shakespeares-dark-lady-of.shtml

http://hudsonshakespeare.org/shakespeare%20Library/sonnets/dark_lady_sonnets.htm