Romeo & Juliet essay

   In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters love was unbreakable. What they did relates to what many teens would do today to remain with their loved ones. There are many similarities and differences between how romeo and Juliet and teens today are in love.
    Romeo and Juliet love was forbidden because of their family hatred. Today, that doesn't happen as often. Towns and cities are much bigger  and their are too many families to know. Many people move as well so they won't remain neighbors forever. In their time, they all knew everyone and what family they were from. You didn't have to know a person too well to like them. And getting married young was really important.
    Today, many couples are different. First, there are interracial couples. There are also couples of different religions. There weren't many other races during there time or religions but if there were they would still stick to their same religion or races. It is also a form of taboo now to date or be with someone with big age difference or for older men to be with teenagers. It happens very often in today's society put it is slight looked down upon.
    Then, parents found their children grooms are wives. For example, Juliet parents found her husband named Paris. They do not ask for her consent or if shes ok with it. Being married for a young girl meant that they were dignified. many parents today also want to be involved with their children relationships. They want know who their child is dating and what they are like.
      Many differences and similarities take place in the common practice of dating. Many teens will do anything for their loved ones. Even though most teens find it important it isn't as important in romeo and Juliet  To be married was a top priority. But on either end, love is important to both of them.

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  In the book " Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children" Jacob finds out out  a great secret about his granddad  The secrets lead him to a home of children with great "powers" that his granddad was apart of.  Now he realizes that a lot of his life was a lie. Monsters are following him around all his life without him knowing. Now they are trying to kill him; they killed hid granddad. He can protect the peculiars or stay with his family and possibly be killed. The head of the home offers him to stay since, he is a peculiar his self. He has a choice to saty or to go. He wants to leave because he can't leave his family but he doesn't want to leave the peculiars because in a sense they are his family. He thinks he wnats to go more than to stay with them.
   I think he wants to stay maybe but all this is over whelming him. Knowing about the whole granddad and peculiar ophanage home confused him. He wants to stay with them but hes worried about how his life can change and he might never be normal again.

Non-fiction Post

In the article " The Holocaust: A Story of Survival", A teen named Ferenc Schatz ran away from a concentration camp. He had no identification, which meant he could be arrested or even shot. Then his sisters husband bumped into him and took him into a safehouse. As Fernec did, Bela escaped from a camp. But he had a job that could help people like him. He got people fake i.d's, money and shelter. They both could easily get caught. Fernec did many heroic things such as work with nazis and dewire their bombs. He saved hundred's of lives and every single soul was worth it.

I think that Fernec was a very strong person for doing all thoese things. He risked his life to save others. I think he went out of his way to do this because he would want this to happen to him if he were a worker on the camps still. He wants better lives for jews and the children. He also may want this becaus ehis family is missing and they were probably sent to death camps or the ghetto. After the second world war, he want to the U.S and talked about the sad happenings of the holocaust. 

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      Jacob faces one of his biggest fears in a way by going to the home that his grandfather grew up in. In "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" Jacob's beloved granfather passes away after being killed by wild animals. He has been having phsychlogical problems because he belives he has to find out what the code his grandad left for hims means. So he takes off to a small isalad of Whales to his foster home filled with peculier children. These children have some special gifts such as being invible and levitating uncontrably. Jacobs shrink says that the trip will benifit him because he will feel as if the mystery is solved.
      I think that Jacob wants to go on this trip not only to find out his grandads code, but also to see if his unreal stories are true. His granadad, Abe told Jacobs staries when he was little about his foster home. Jacob gets trapped in time inside the foster house and gets to know the children a little better. Since he has heard these spectacular stories of this home he wants to see it to see if they were true. I believe he also wants to discover more secrets from Abe. In one part of the story, Jacob talks about how his granfather passed. When he discover the children he also chases them to talk to them. This proves that he really wanted to get to know more. Before he runs into the children, he wants the soonest flight back home.
      Right now, Jacob is in the home and talking to the headmistress hoping to get some information about Abe. Jacobs dad also talks about what bad a father Abe was and how he basiclly abonded his family. Jacob feels sorry for his dad since Abe was awfully close to him. I think Jacob is finding out info to reassuure his dad that Abe dind't mean too be a bad father.
       In the end, I believe that Jacob is going on this trip to reassure not only him self about his grandad but others as well.