eutopia

Script Opens up with jingle being sung by mel:

You work all the day (Person typing at a computer – showing clock turning)

So why not make it sunny(People walking outside in the sun) When you get home from work

(Car coming in the driveway)

Lets go spend some money!

(someone smiling holding out some money and shopping bags)

Show girl wearing an old dress, looking sad, spokesperson walks in dressed immaculately – looks at the screen

Spokesperson(jess): Tired of your old stuff? (girl nods).You shouldn’t stop that from making you happy

Girl(freddie): What should I do?

Spokesperson(jess): The answer is simple dear. You hold the key to your happiness. All you have to do is replace the old with the new. Consuming new products will change your life. Don’t you want to be happy?

Girl(freddie): yes

Spokesperson(jess): Well then, why would you settle for something old – like this dress, or those shoes? You will only be happy if you buy all of the things that your heart desires! Not just a new dress, or new shoes, but a new scarf, and new bracelets too. Are you ready to turn that frown upside down?

Girl(freddie): yes! (grabs purse and walks off)

Spokesperson(jess): At New World Order Inc, our job is to help you be happy. We want to lead you in the right direction. Buying a little is never enough. Do you want to live a fulfilling life? Do you want to be successful in all that you do? If you get rid of all of your old possessions (holding up an old hat, looking a bit disgusted), all of your dreams will come true! (while someone hands her a brand new hat, and she puts it on and smiles)

Girl walks back in, wearing brand new everything, and smiling!

Spokesperson(jess): You look breathtaking! (turns to camera)Don’t wait! Find out how buying new can bring you happiness. Your life depends on it!

First before and after. Child is sitting down pouting, holding an old teddy bear – in black and white. Switch to same child being given a new teddy bear – child is now happy (in color)  

spokesperson(jess): how do you like you new teddy bear son?

guy(nick): well it’s better than my old one, I’ll tell you that

spokesperson(jess): of course it is ( looks at the camera), cause you know old is evil!

Second before and after Guy is standing with an old shirt, looking down, all alone – black and white.

guy(ben): gees, if only i had a better looking shirt. If only i could-  

spokesperson(jess): open your mind in buying a new shirt?

guy(ben): why are you here?

spokesperson(jess): making your life bran new! It’s time that you open your mind to newer and better things!

Switch to guy wearing a brand new shirt, looking confident, surrounded by people- in color. Third before and after. Girl looking sad with messy hair – black and white.

girl cries out(sam): My hair. It’s horrible!!!

spokesperson(jess): ouuuu, you’re right it is horrible!! it’s worse than very bad fake hair!

girl(sam): well maybe i should just tie it back and put a hat on so that nobody will notice-

spokesperson(jess): No, no dear, that’s the wrong way to go. If you can’t see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. That would mean your hair. You need to get your hair done ASAP!

Switch to woman with hair done, smiling- in color.

girl(sam): my hair! oh wow it’s perfect ! it’s everything i ever wanted! i can go out now and everyone will notice

spokesperson looks at the camera

spokesperson(jess): …see consuming new products will change your life!

forth before and after. girl trying to clean her carpet with a sponge  

girl(jen): old sponge. I can’t clean anything with this old raggedy -

spokesperson(jess): you’re right it is old. It’s torn up and it’s outdated. Why keep old material possessions? They only succeed in weighing you down. You know, they say that hard work never hurts anybody, but why take the chance?

girl(jen): because my carpet needs to be clean

spokesperson(jess): True, but not with that sponge. And plus that stain was never going to come out anyway. You need a bran new sponge. throws her the sponge

girl(jen): awesome! Oh yeah it cleans !

spokesperson(jess): Of course it does (looks at the camera )because it’s new and old is evil! And there you have it. New things make people happy. Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. So risk being happy and go shop till you drop! And remember Buying new will turn you into the person you’ve always wanted to be.

(actors gather together behind the spokesperson with their new stuff and say the slogan)

Actors: Don’t dream happiness, buy happiness!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter 1

Find a speech by a famous political leader (from any country) and summarize the theme of his/her speech

GOD’S JUDGEMENT OF WHITE AMERICA (THE CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST)
Malcolm X, edited by Imam Benjamin Karim

note – this speech was delivered before Malcolm left the Nation of Islam and accepted true Islam — so his views in this speech do not reflect his own or those he held near the end of his life.

This speech is sometimes called “The Chickens Come Home To Roost,” because of an answer Malcolm X gave in response to a question following the speech. The question concerned the late President John Kennedy. It was Malcolm X’s answer, that the President’s death was a case of “chickens coming home to roost” — that the violence that Kennedy had failed to stop had come back to him, this resulted in the Elijah Muhammad silencing him. Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam a short time later.

http://www.malcolmxonline.com/speeches-gods-judgement.html

December 4 , 1963

  

speech:

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that as it was the evil sin of slavery that caused the downfall and destruction of ancient Egypt and Babylon, and of ancient Greece, as well as ancient Rome, so it was the evil sin of colonialism (slavery, nineteenth-century European style) that caused the collapse of the white nations in present-day Europe as world powers. Unbiased scholars and unbiased observers agree that the wealth and power of white Europe has rapidly declined during the nineteen-year period between World War II and today.

So we of this present generation are also witnessing how the enslavement of millions of black people in this country is now bringing White America to her hour of judgment, to her downfall as a respected nation. And even those Americans who are blinded by childlike patriotism can see that it is only a matter of time before White America too will be utterly destroyed by her own sins, and all traces of her former glory will be removed from this planet forever.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that as it was divine will in the case of the destruction of the slave empires of the ancient and modern past, America’s judgement and destruction will also be brought about by divine will and divine power. Just as ancient nations paid for their sins against humanity, White America must now pay for her sins against twenty-two million “Negroes.” White America’s worst crimes her hypocrisy and her deceit. White America pretends to ask herself: “What do these Negroes want?” White America knows that four hundred years of cruel bondage has made these twenty-two million ex-slaves too (mentally) blind to see what they really want.

White America should be asking herself: “What does God want for these twenty-two million ex-slaves?” Who will make White America know what God wants? Who will present God’s plan to White America? What is God’s solution to the problem caused by the presence of twenty-two million unwanted slaves here in America? And who will present God’s solution?

We, the Muslims who follow The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, believe whole-heartedly in the God of justice. We believe in the Creator, whose divine power and laws of justice created and sustain the universe. We believe in the all-wise Supreme Being: the great God who is called “Jehovah” by the monotheistic Hebrews. We do not believe in the Trinity (or “plurality of gods”) as advocated by the Polytheistic Christians. We who are Muslims call God by his true name: Allah, the great God of the Universe, the Lord of all the worlds, the Master of the Day of Judgement. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that Allah is the true name of the divine Supreme Being, and that Islam is an Arabic word which means complete submission to God’s will, or obedience to God’s guidance.

We who are Muslims believe in this religion that is described in the Arabic language by the word “Islam.” This religion, Islam, teaches us submission to God’s will and obedience to God’s guidance. It gives us the moral discipline that makes it easy for us to walk the path of truth and righteousness. “Muslim” is an Arabic word, and it describes a person whose religion is Islam. A Muslim is one who practices complete submission and obedience to God’s will. Here in America the word “Muslim” is westernized or anglicized and pronounced “Moslem.” Muslim and Moslem are actually the same word. The true believers in Allah call themselves Muslims, but the nonbelieving infidels refer to Muslims as Moslems or Muhammadans.

Many of the weak, backsliding Muslims who come to this country have also adopted some of these same pronunciations coined for them by the infidels. But we don’t condemn these “orthodox” Muslims, because the reward of the believer, as well as the chastisement of the nonbeliever and the backslider, comes only from Allah. Allah is the only judge. He alone is master of this Day of Judgment in which we now live.

Why is the American white man so set against the twenty-two million “Negroes” learning about the religion of Islam? Islam is the religion that elevates the morals of the people who want to do right. Just by teaching us the religion of Islam, and by showing us how to live the life of a Muslim, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is turning hundreds of thousands of Americans “Negroes” away from drunkenness, drug addiction, nicotine, stealing, lying, cheating, gambling, profanity, filth, fornication, adultery, and the many other acts of immorality that are almost inseparable from this indecent Western society. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has restored our cultural roots, our racial identity, our racial pride, and our racial confidence. He has given us the incentive and energy to stand on our own feet and walk for ourselves.

Just as we believe in one God, whose proper name is Allah, we believe also that this one God has only one religion, the religion of Islam. We believe that we are living in the time of “prophecy fulfillment,” the time predicted by the ancient prophets of God, when this one God would use his one religion to establish one world here on earth — the world of Islam, or Muslim world…which only means: a world of universal brotherhood that will be based upon the principles of truth, freedom, justice, equality , righteousness, and peace.

But before God can set up his new world, the Muslim world, or world of Islam, which will be established on the principles to truth, peace, and brotherhood, God himself must first destroy this evil Western world, the white world…a wicked world, ruled by a race of devils, that preaches falsehood, practices slavery, and thrives on indecency and immorality. You and I are living in that great Doomsday, the final hour, when the ancient prophets predicted that God himself would appear in person, in the flesh, and with divine power He would bring about the judgement and destruction of this present evil world. The hour of judgement and doom is upon White America for the evil seeds of slavery and hypocrisy she has sown; and God himself has declared that no one shall escape the doom of this Western world, except those who accept Allah as God, Islam as his only religion, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad as his Messenger to the twenty-two million ex-slaves here in America, twenty-two million “Negroes” who are referred to in the symbolism of the Scriptures as the Lost Sheep, the Lost Tribes, or the Lost People of God.

White America is doomed! God has declared that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is your only means of escape. When you reject The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, when you refuse to hear his message or heed his warning you are closing your only door of escape. When you cut yourself off from him, you cut yourself off from your only way out of the divine disaster that is fast approaching White America.

Before your pride causes you to harden your heart and further close your ears, and before your ignorance provokes laughter, search the Christian Scriptures. Search even the histories of other nations that sat in the same positions of wealth, power, and authority that these white Americans now hold…and see what God did to them. If God’s unchanging laws of justice caught up with every one of the slave empires of the past, how dare you think White America can escape the harvest of unjust seeds planted by her white forefathers against our black forefathers here in the land of slavery!

According to the Scriptures, when God was going to destroy the wicked world with the flood, He first raised up a man named Noah, and missioned him as a warner to warn the wicked world that the flood was coming, and that he, Noah, was their only way out ….But their own wickedness and lust for evil made them too blind to see Noah, and they were thus destroyed by the flood of their own evil deeds. Again, when God prepared to destroy the wicked world of the Sodomites with the fire of his wrath, He first raised up a man Lot, and missioned him to warn the Sodomites of the fire that was coming to destroy them because of their evil deeds, and to let them know that Lot was their only way out….But the Sodomites’ addiction to their own lowly passions also made them too blind to see the divinity of Lot’s mission and too deaf to heed his warning. They inherited the sea of fire and brimstone as reward for their rejection of God’s servant.

Still later. when God prepared to turn his wrath upon the Egyptians, that House of Bondage, or Land of Slavery, God raised his servant Moses as a warner to the cruel slave master, Pharaoh. Moses’ message to the slave master was simple and clear: “Let my people go…Let them no longer be segregated by you; stop trying to deceive them with false promises of integration with you; let them separate themselves from you. Let them go with me to a place wherein the God of our forefathers has prepared a land for us…a land in which we can serve our own God, practice righteousness, and live in peace among our own kind.” And Moses warned Pharaoh: “If you will not let them separate from you and go with me, then our God will destroy you and your entire slave empire from the face of this earth.” Pharaoh’s wealth and power made him too proud to listen to the little inarticulate ex-slave named Moses. He ridiculed Moses’ lack of eloquence. White America’s attitude today is the same toward The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. They ridicule him because of his lack of education and his cotton-field origin in Georgia. White America chooses to listen to the Negro civil rights leaders, the Big Six. Six puppets who have been trained by the whites in white institutions and then placed over our people by these same whites as “spokesmen” for our people. These handpicked “spokesmen” do nothing but parrot for the whites exactly what they know the whites want to hear.

Pharaoh used this same strategy to oppose Moses. Pharaoh also set up puppet-magicians to parrot his lies and to deceive the Hebrew slaves into thinking that Moses was a hate-teacher, an extremist, who was advocating violence and racial supremacy simply because Moses was trying to restore unto his people their own lost culture, their lost identity, their lost racial dignity…the same as The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is trying to do among the twenty-two million “Negro” slaves here in this modern House of Bondage today. By opposing Moses, Pharaoh was actually opposing Moses’ God; thus that same God (Jehovah) was forced to drown Pharaoh in the Red Sea, destroy his slave empire, and remove the Egyptian influence from the face of this earth.

History is repeating itself today. America faces the same fate at the hands of Almighty God. That same divine handwriting is now on the walls of this modern American House of Bondage. We, the Muslims who follow The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, believe that the symbolic stories in these ancient Scriptures paint a prophetic picture of today, of America, and of the twenty-two million “Negroes” herein America….We believe that our present generation is witnessing the fulfillment of these divine prophecies, through the work being done among our people here in America today by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

This little, meek, humble, inarticulate ex-slave is a modern Noah, a modern Lot, a modern Moses…a modern Daniel. In fact, he is a modern David, and like ancient David The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has refused the carnal weapons of this wicked world and, armed only with a “slingshot” and “stones of truth,” this modern David is battering the head of this modern Goliath (giant America), with a doctrine that no “helmet of falsehood” or “shield of deceit” can withstand…and it is only a matter time, before The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s gospel of truth will make this American “giant of falsehood” topple and fall for ever.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to believe in all of the prophets (including prophet Jesus), all of the Scriptures, the resurrection of the dead (not the resurrection of the physical dead, but the resurrection of the mentally dead American Negroes); also Judgment Day and Doomsday (which only means: the judgment of this wicked world and its destruction by God himself).

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us belief but also the principles of Muslim practice:

1) We practice prayer toward the Holy City of Mecca five times daily.

2) We make charitable contributions toward the spread of Islam, or to spread this divine truth that will save our people from the destruction of this wicked Western world.

3) We practice fasting (we eat only one meal every twenty-four hours, and we abstain from all food for three days out of every month of the year…and we fast also during the holy month of Ramadan.)

4) Those of us who can afford it strive to make the pilgrimage to the Holy City, Mecca, at least once during out lifetime. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and two of his sons made this trip in December of 1959, and others of his followers have been making it since then.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s mission as messenger is to remind America that God has not forgotten America’s crimes against his Long-Lost people, who have spent four hundred miserable years in this land of bondage. His mission is to warn America of the divine destruction that twill soon rain down upon her from the very skies above her. His mission is to warn America to repent, and to atone for her sins against God’s people…or face complete destruction and permanent removal from the face of this earth…and removal not only as a nation but removal even as a race! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s divine mission, his message, and his work here in America is the same as that of Noah, Lot, Moses, and Daniel. He is a warner to our white oppressor, but a savior to the oppressed. He is preaching the divine execution of the wicked slave master (whom God can justifiably hold responsible for all sins); but he preaches forgiveness and salvation for the Negro ex-slaves, who have been made so deaf, dumb, and mentally blind by the slave master that no just God could now condemn these American Negroes for their sinful, ignorant behavior.

When The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says “end of the world,” he does not mean the end of the earth; he is referring to the end of a race of “world of people,” and their removal from this earth: the removal of their world. There are many “worlds” here on this earth: the Buddhist world, Hindu world, Jewish world, Christian world — Capitalist world, Communist world, Socialist world — Eastern world and Western world — Oriental world and Occidental world — dark world and white world. Which of these many worlds has come to the end of its rope, the end of its time? Look around you at all of the signs and you will agree that it is the end of time for the Western world, the European world, the Christian world, the white world.

The time is past when the white world can exercise unilateral authority and control over the dark world. The independence and power of the dark world is on the increase; the dark world is rising in wealth, power, prestige, and influence. It is the rise of he dark world that is causing the fall of the white world. As the white man loses his power to oppress and exploit the dark world, the white man’s own wealth (power or “world”) decreases. His world is on its way down; it is on its way out…and it is the will and power of God himself that is bringing an end to the white world.

You and I were born at this turning point on history; we are witnessing the fulfillment of prophecy. Our present generation is witnessing the end of colonialism, Europeanism, Westernism, or “White-ism”…the end of white supremacy, the end of the evil white man’s unjust rule. I must repeat: The end of the world only means the end of a certain “power.” The end of colonialism ends the world (or power) of the colonizer. The end of Europeanism ends the world (or power) of the European…and the end of “White-ism” ends the world (or power) of THE WHITE MAN.

According to the Christian Bible, Judgment Day is that final hour when God will cause “those who led others into captivity to go into captivity themselves”…and “those who killed others with the sword to be killed by the sword of justice themselves.” Justice only means that the wicked slave master must reap the fruit (or harvest) of the evil seeds of slavery he has planted. This is justice! Other slave empires received justice, and now White America must receive justice. According to White America’s own evil past, which is clearly recorded on the pages of history, so shall God judge her today.

Before God can bring about this divine destruction, He must first separate the innocent from the guilty, the righteous from the wicked, the oppressed from the oppressor, the exploited from the exploiter, the slaves from the slave master. God never integrates his people with those who are not his people. The Scripture says God will separate his (black) sheep from the (white) goats, and the wheat from the tare. The goats are to be slaughtered and the tare cast to the burning flame…while the sheep are to be gathered into his pasture and the wheat into his barn.

In like manner God has prepared a Doomsday (a day of slaughter, a lake of fire) for this sinful white world of colonizers, enslavers, oppressors, exploiters, lynchers…and all others who refuse to repent and atone at the end of this white world. God has also prepared a refuge, a haven of salvation, for those who will accept his last Messenger and heed his last warning.

White America is doomed! Death and devastating destruction hang at this very moment in the skies over America. But why must her divine execution take place? Is it too late for her to avoid this catastrophe?

All the prophets of the past listed America as number one among the guilty that would be too proud, and too blind, to repent and atone when God’s last Messenger is raised in her midst to warn her. America’s last chance, her last warning, is coming from the lips of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad today. Accept him and be saved; reject him and be damned! It is written that White America will reject him; it is also written that White America will be damned and doomed… and the prophets who make these prophecies are never wrong in their divine predictions.

White America refuses to study, reflect, and learn a lesson from history; ancient Egypt didn’t have to be destroyed. It was her corrupt government, the crooked politicians, who caused her destruction. Pharaoh hired Hebrew magicians to try and fool their own people into thinking they would soon be integrated into the mainstream of that country’s life. Pharaoh didn’t want the Hebrews to listen to Moses’ message of separation. Even in that day separation was God’s solution to the “slave’s problem.” By opposing Moses, the magicians were actually choosing sides against the God of their own people.

In like manner, modern Negro magicians are hired by the American government to oppose The Honorable Elijah Muhammad today. They pose as Negro “leaders.” They have been hired by this white government (white so-called liberals) to make our people her think that integration into this doomed white society will soon solve our problem.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warns us daily: The only permanent solution to America’s race problem is the complete separation of these twenty-two million ex-slaves from our white slave master, and the return of these ex-slaves to our own land, where we can then live in peace and security among our people. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warns us daily: The American government is trying to trick her twenty-two million ex-slaves with promises that she never intends to keep. the Crooked politicians in the government are working with the Negro civil rights leaders, but not to solve the race problem. The greedy politicians who run this government give lip-service to the civil rights struggle only to further their own selfish interests. And their main interest as politicians is to stay in power.

In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negroes (i.e., the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power. Among whites here in America, the political teams are no longer divided into Democrats and Republicans. The whites who are now struggling for control of the American political throne are divided into “liberal” and “conservative” camps. The white liberals from both parties cross party lines to work together toward the same goal, and white conservatives from both parties do likewise.

The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political “football game” that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.

Politically the American Negro is nothing but a football and the white liberals control this mentally dead ball through tricks of tokenism: false promises of integration and civil rights. In this profitable game of deceiving and exploiting the political politician of the American Negro, those white liberals have the willing cooperation of the Negro civil rights leaders. These “leaders” sell out our people for just a few crumbs of token recognition and token gains. These “leaders” are satisfied with token victories and token progress because they themselves are nothing but token leaders.

According to a New York Herald-Tribune editorial (dated February 5,1960), out of eleven million qualified Negro voters, only 2,700,000 actually took time to vote. This means that, roughly speaking, only three million of the eleven million Negroes who are qualified to vote actually take an active part. The remaining eight million remain voluntarily inactive…and yet this small (three million) minority of Negro voters hold the decisive edge in determining who will be the next President.

If who will be the next President is influenced by only three million Negro voters, it is easy to understand why the presidential candidates of both political parties put on such a false show with the Civil Rights Bill and with false promises of integration. They must impress the three million voting Negroes who are the actual “integration seekers.” If such a fuss is made over these three million “integration seekers,” what would presidential candidates have to do to appease the eight million nonvoting Negroes, if they ever decide to become politically active? Who are the eight million nonvoting Negroes; what do they want, and why don’t they vote?

The three million Negro voters are the so-called middle-class Negroes, referred to by the late Howard University sociologist, E. Franklin Frazier, as the “black bourgeoisie,” who have been educated to think as patriotic “individualists,” with no racial pride, and who therefore look forward hopefully to the future “integrated-intermarried” society promised them by the white liberals and the Negro “leaders.” It is with this hope that the “integration-minded” three million remain an active part of the white-controlled political parties. But it must never be overlooked that these three million “integration seekers” are only a small minority of the eleven million potential Negro voters.

The eight million nonvoting Negroes are in the majority; they are the downtrodden black masses. The black masses have refused to vote, or to take part in politics, because they reject the Uncle Tom approach of the Negro leadership that has been handpicked for them by the white man. These Uncle Tom leaders do not speak for the Negro majority; they don’t speak for the black masses. They speak for the “black bourgeoisie,” the brainwashed, whiteminded, middle-class minority who are ashamed of black, and don’t want to be identified with the black masses, and are therefore seeking to lose their “black identity” by mixing, mingling, intermarrying, and integrating with the white man.

The race problem can never be solved by listening to this white-minded minority. The white man should try to learn what the black masses want, and the only way to learn what the black masses wants is by listening to the man who speaks for the black masses of America. The one man here in America who speaks for the downtrodden, dissatisfied black masses is this same man so many of our people are flocking to see and hear. This same Mr. Muhammad who is labeled by the white man as a black supremacist and as a racist.

If the three million whiter-minded Negroes are casting their ballots for integration and intermarriage, what do the nonvoting black masses want? Find out what the black masses want, and then perhaps America’s grave race problem can be solved.

Think how the late President himself got into office by only scant margin which was “donated” to him by Negro voters, and think how many governors and other white politicians hold their seats (some by less than five thousand votes). Only then can you understand the importance of these white liberals place on their control of the Negro vote! The white liberals hate The Honorable Elijah Muhammad because they know their present position in the power structure stems form their ability to deceive and to exploit the Negro, politically as well as economically.

They know that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s divine message will make our people (1) wake up, (2) clean up, (3) stand up. They know that once The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is able to resurrect the Negro from this mental grave of ignorance, by teaching him the truth about himself and his real enemy, the Negro will then be able to see and think for himself. Once the Negro learns to think for himself, he will no longer allow the white liberal to use him as a helpless football in the white man’s crooked game of “power politics.”

Let us examine briefly some of the tricky strategy used by white liberals to harness and exploit the political energies of the Negro. The crooked politicians in Washington, D.C., purposely make a big noise over the proposed civil rights legislation. By blowing up the civil rights issue they skillfully add false importance to the Negro civil rights “leaders.” Once the image of these Negro civil rights “leaders” has been blown up way beyond its proper proportion, these same Negro civil rights “leaders” are then used by white liberals to influence and control the Negro voters, all for the benefit of the white politicians who pose as liberals, who pose as friends of the Negro.

The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.

The job of the Negro civil rights leader is to make the Negro forget that the wolf and the fox both belong to the (same) family. Both are canines; and no matter which one of them the Negro places his trust in, he never ends up in the White House, but always in the dog house.

The white liberals control the Negro and the Negro vote by controlling the Negro civil rights leaders. As long as they control the Negro civil rights leaders, they can also control and contain the Negro’s struggle, and they can control the Negro’s so-called revolt. The Negro “revolution” is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the black revolution is controlled only by God.

The black revolution is the struggle of the nonwhites of this earth against their white oppressors. The black revolution has swept white supremacy out of Africa, out of Asia, and is getting ready to sweep it out of Latin America. Revolutions are based upon land. Revolutionaries are the landless against the landlord. Revolutions are never peaceful, never loving, never nonviolent. Nor are they ever compromising. Revolutions are destructive and bloody. Revolutionaries don’t compromise with the enemy; they don’t even negotiate. Like the flood in Noah’s day, revolution drowns all opposition, or like the fire in Lot’s day, the black revolution burns everything that gets in its path.

America is the last stronghold of white supremacy. The black revolution, which is international in nature and scope. is sweeping down upon America like a raging forest fire. It is only a matter of time before America herself will be engulfed by the b lack flames, these black fire brands. Whenever an uncontrollable forest fire is roaring down upon the farmhouse, the only way the farmer can fight that forest fire is by building a “backfire,” a smaller fire that he himself can control. He then uses this “controlled fire” to fight the fire that is raging beyond his control.

Here in America, the black revolution (the “uncontrollable forest fire”) is personified in the religious teachings, and the religious works, of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. This great man of God cannot in any way be controlled by the white man, and he will not compromise in any way with the wrongs this government has inflicted upon our people.

The Negro “revolt” is controlled by the white man, the white fox. The Negro “revolution” is controlled by this white government. The leaders of the Negro “revolution” (the civil rights leaders) are all subsidized, influenced and controlled by the white liberals; and all of the demonstrations that are taking place on this country to desegregate lunch counters, theaters, public toilets, etc., are just artificial fires that have been ignited and fanned by the white liberals in the desperate hope that they can use this artificial revolution to fight off the real black revolution that has already swept white supremacy out of Africa, Asia, and is sweeping it out of Latin America…and is even now manifesting itself also right here among the black masses in this country.

Can we prove that the Negro revolution is controlled by white liberals? Certainly!

Right after the Birmingham demonstrations, when the entire world had seen on television screens the police dogs, police clubs, and fire hoses brutalizing defenseless black women, children, and even babies, it was reported on page twenty-six in the May 15 issue of The New York Times, that the late President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, during a luncheon conference with several newspaper editors from the State of Alabama, had warned these editors that they must give at least some token gains to the moderate Negro leaders in order to enhance the image of these moderate Negro leaders in the eyesight of the black masses; otherwise the masses of Negroes might turn in the direction of Negro extremists. And the late President named the Black Muslims as being foremost among the Negro extremist groups that he did not want Negroes to turn toward.

In essence, the late President told these southern editors that he was trying to build up the weak image of the Negro civil rights leaders, in order to offset the strong religious image of the Muslim leader, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He wasn’t giving these Negro leaders anything they deserved; but he was confessing the necessity of building them up, and propping them up, in order to hold the black masses in check, keep them in his grasp, and under his control. The late President knew that once Negroes hear The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the white liberals will never influence or control or misuse those Negroes for the benefit of the white liberals any more. So the late President was faced with a desperate situation.

Martin Luther King’s image had been shattered the previous year when he failed to bring about desegregation in Albany, Georgia. The other civil rights leaders had also become fallen idols. The black masses across the country at the grass roots level had already begun to take their cases to the streets on their own. The government in Washington knew that something had to be done to get the rampaging Negroes back into the corral, back under the control of the white liberals.

The government propaganda machine began encouraging Negroes to follow only what it called “responsible” Negro leaders. The government actually meant Negro leaders who were responsible to the government, and who could therefore by controlled by the government, and be used by that same government to control their impatient people. The government knows that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is responsible only to God and can be controlled only by God. But this white government of America doesn’t believe in God!

Let us review briefly what happened last spring: In May in Birmingham, Negroes erupted and retaliated against the whites. During the many long weeks when the police dogs and police clubs and the high-pressure water hoses were brutalizing black women and children and babies, and the Birmingham Negroes had called for the government to intervene with Federal troops, the late President did nothing but sit on his hands. He said there was nothing he could do. But when Negroes in Birmingham exploded and began to defend themselves, the late President then sent in Federal troops, not to defend the Negroes, but to defend the whites against whom the Negroes had finally retaliated.

At this point, spontaneous demonstrations began taking place all over the country. At the grass roots level Negroes began to talk about marching on Washington, tying up the Congress, the Senate, the White House, and even the airport. They threatened to bring this government to a halt. This frightened the entire white power structure. The late President called in the Negro civil rights leaders and told them to bring this “march” to a halt. The Negro civil rights leaders were forced to tell the late President that they couldn’t stop the march because they hadn’t started it. It was spontaneous, at the grass roots level across the country, and it had no leadership whatsoever. When the late President saw that he couldn’t stop the march, he joined; he endorsed it; he welcomed it; he became a part of it; and it was he who put the six Negro civil rights leaders at the head of it. It was he who made them the Big Six.

How did he do it? How did he gain control of the March on Washington? A study of his shrewd strategy will give you a glimpse of the political genius with which the Kennedy family was ruling this country from the White House, and how they used the America Negro in all of their schemes. The late President endorsed the march; that should have been the tip-off. A few days later in New York City, at the Carlysle Hotel, a philanthropic society known as the Taconic Foundation, headed by a shrewd white liberal named Stephen Currier, called a meeting of the six civil rights leaders in an effort to bring unity of action and purpose among all the civil rights groups.

After Martin Luther King had been released from his Birmingham jail cell in May, he traveled from coast to coast in fund-raising campaign for his Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Roy Wilkins then began to attack King, accusing him of stirring up trouble, saying that after the NAACP would bail out King and the other demonstrators, then King would capitalize on the trouble by taking up all the money for his own organization, leaving the NAACP to hold the bag at a great financial loss.

As King, Wilkins, and the other civil rights leaders began to fight publicly among themselves over the money they were trying to get from the white liberals, they were destroying their own leadership “image.”

The white liberal, Stephen Currier, showed them how they were destroying themselves by attacks upon each other, and it was suggested that, since most of their divisions and disagreements stemmed from competition for funds from white liberals, they should unite their fund raising efforts. Then they formed the Council for the United Civil Rights Leadership, under the pretext that it would be for fund-raising purposes. They chose the Urban League’s Whitney Young as the chairman, and the white liberal Stephen Currier became the co-chairman.

It took the white man to bring those Negro leaders together and to unite them into one group. He let them select their own chairman, but he himself became the co-chairman. This shrewd maneuver placed the white liberal and the Taconic Foundation in the position to exercise influence and control over the six civil rights leaders and, by working through them, to control the entire civil rights movement, including the March on Washington. (It also put the white liberals in a position to force the Big Six to come out against the recently proposed Christmas boycott by threatening to withdraw their financial support from the civil rights drive.)

According to the August 4 edition of The New York Times, $800,000 was split up between these six Negro civil rights leaders on June 19 at the Carlysle Hotel, and another $700,000 was promised to be given to them at a later date after the march was over, if everything went well with the march.

Public relations experts were made available to these “Six BIg Negroes,” and they were given access to the news media throughout the country. The press skillfully projected them as the leaders of the March on Washington, and as soon as the Big Six were looked upon in the public eye as the organizers of the march, and their first step was to invite four white “leaders” to become a part of the march “godhead.” This group of leaders would supposedly okay all the plans and thereby control the “direction and the mood” of the march.

These four white “leaders” represented the same factions that had put the late President in the White House: Catholics, Jews, Labor, and Protestant liberals. When the late President had learned that he couldn’t stop the march, he not only joined it himself but he encouraged all of his political bedfellows to join it. This is the way the white liberals took over the March on Washington, weakened its impact, and changed its course; by changing the participants and the contents, they were able to change the very nature of the march itself.

Example: If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me because it is too black, I weaken it by pouring cream into it, I integrate it with cream. If I keep pouring enough cream in the coffee, pretty soon the entire flavor of he coffee is changed; the very nature of the coffee is changed. If enough cream is poured in, eventually you don’t even know that I had coffee in this cup. This is what Happened with the March on Washington. The whites didn’t integrate it; they infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient. In fact, it ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, an outing with a festive, circus-like atmosphere…CLOWNS AND ALL.

The government had learned that in cases where the demonstrators are predominantly black, they are extremely militant, and ofttimes very violent. But to the same degree that whites participate, violence most times is decreased. The government knew that in cases wherein blacks were demonstrating all by themselves, those blacks are so dissatisfied, disenchanted, and angry at the white man that they will ofttimes strike back violently regardless of the odds or the consequences. The white government had learned that the only way to hold these black people in check is by joining them, by infiltrating their ranks disguised as integrationist; by integrating their marches and all their demonstrations, and weakening them: in this way only could they be held in check.

The government told the marchers what time to arrive in Washington, where to arrive, and how to arrive. The government then channeled them from the arrival point to the feet of a dead President, George Washington, and then let them march from there to the feet of another dead President, Abraham Lincoln.

The original black militants had planned to march on the White House, the Senate, and the Congress and to bring all political traffic on Capitol Hill to a halt, but the shrewd politicians in Washington, realizing that those original black militants could not be stopped, joined them. By joining the marchers, the white liberals were able to lead the marchers away from the White House, the Senate, the Congress, Capitol Hill, and away from victory. By keeping them marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Monument, marching between the feet of two dead Presidents, they never reached the White House to see the then living President.

The entire march was controlled by the late president. The government in Washington had told the marchers what signs to carry, what songs to sing, what speeches to make, and what speeches not to make, and then told the marchers to be sure to get out o f town by sundown.

One of the Big Six leaders, John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, was prevented from making a very militant speech. He wanted to attack the Kennedy administration for its hypocrisy o civil rights. The speech was censored by the Rt. Rev. Patrick O’Boyle, the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, D.C.. This was a case in which the Catholic Church itself, for whom Rev. O’Boyle speaks, put itself in the position of censoring the legitimate opinion of one of the Big Six Negro civil rights leaders.

The late President’s shrewd strategy was: If you can’t beat them, join them. The Catholic President placed his Catholic bishop in a strategic position to exercise censorship over any one of the Big Six Negro leaders who tried to deviate from the script in this great “extravaganza” called the March on Washington, which the government had controlled right from the very beginning.

So, in the final analysis of the march: It would have to be classified as the best performance of the year; in fact it was the greatest performance of this century. It topped anything that Hollywood could have produced. If we were going to give out Academy Awards in 1963, we would have to give the late President an Oscar for the “Best Producer of the Year”; and to the four white liberals who participated should get an Oscar as the “Best Actors of the Year,” because they really acted like sincere liberals and fooled many Negroes. And to the six Negro civil rights leaders should go and Oscar for the “Best Supporting Cast,” because they supported the late President in his entire act, and in his entire program.

Now that the show is over, the black masses are still without land, without jobs, and without homes…their Christian churches are still being bombed, their innocent little girls murdered. So what did the March on Washington accomplish? Nothing!

The late President has a bigger image as a liberal, the other whites who participated have bigger liberal images also, and the Negro civil rights leaders have now been permanently named the Big Six (because of their participation in the Big Fix?)…but the black masses are still unemployed, still starving, and still living in the slums…and, I might add, getting angrier and more explosive every day.

History must repeat itself! Because of America’s evil deeds against these twenty-two million “Negroes,” like Egypt and Babylon before her, America herself now stands before the “bar of justice.” White America is now facing her Day of Judgment, and she can’t escape because today God himself is the judge. God himself is now the administrator of justice, and God himself is to be her divine executor!

Is it possible for America to escape this divine disaster? If America can’t atone for the crimes she has committed against the twenty-two million “Negroes,” if she can’t undo the evils she has brutally and mercilessly heaped upon our people these past four hundred years, then America has signed her own doom…and our own people would be foolish to accept her deceitful offers of integration into her doomed society at this late date!

How can America atone for her crimes? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that a desegregated theater or lunch counter won’t solve our problems. Better jobs won’t even solve our problems. An integrated cup of coffee isn’t sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor, and a better job in the white man’s factory or position in his business is, at best, only a temporary solution. The only lasting or permanent solution is complete separation on some land that we can call our own.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that the race problem can easily be solved, just by sending these twenty-two million ex-slaves back to our own homeland where we can live in peace and harmony with our own kind. But this government should provide the transportation, plus everything else we need to get started again in our own country. This government should provide everything we need in machinery, materials, and finance; enough to last us for from twenty to twenty-five years, until we can become an independent people in our own country.

If this white government is afraid to let her twenty-two million ex-slaves go back to our country and to our own people, then America must set aside some separate territory here in the Western Hemisphere, where the two races can live apart from each ot her, since we certainly don’t get along peacefully while we are here together. The size of the territory can be judged according to our own population. If our people number one-seventh of America’s total population, then give us one-seventh of this land. We don’t want any land in the desert, but where there is rain and much mineral wealth. We want fertile, productive land on which we can farm and provide our own people with sufficient food, clothing, and shelter. This government must supply us with the machinery and other tools needed to dig into the earth. Give us everything we need for them for from twenty to twenty-five years, until we can produce and supply our own needs.

If we are a part of America, then part of what she is worth belongs to us. We will take our share and depart, then this white country can have peace. What is her net worth? Give us our share in gold and silver and let us depart and go back to our homeland in peace. We want no integration with this wicked race that enslaved us. We want complete separation from this race of devils. But we should not be expected to leave America and go back to our homeland empty-handed. After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

If the government of White America truly repents of its sins against our people, and atones by giving us our true share, only then can America save herself! But if America waits for Almighty God himself to step in and force her into a just settlement, God will take this entire continent away from her; and she will cease to exist as a nation. Her own Christian Scriptures warn her that when God comes He can give the “entire Kingdom to whomsoever He will”…which only means that the God of Justice on Judgment Day can give this entire continent to whomsoever He wills!

White America, wake up and take heed, before it is too late!

Summary:

Malcolm x speech basically talked about how America was becoming judgmental. Such as asking what did the people of color want which was obviously a life to live. He also mostly talked about how he admired Elijah Muhammad and how Muhammad was able to get the African Americans away from drug addiction, stealing, lying, cheating, gambling, adultery and other acts that are known as immorality. He explains how Muhammad restored cultural roots, racial identity, racial pride and racial confidence. Malcolm x feels that Muhammad was able to give the energy to stand on our own feet and walk for ourselves.

Malcolm was trying to tell people about a better world that would be based upon the principles of truth, freedom, justice, equality, righteousness and peace. According to my research America was known as the white world, a wicked world that was only ruled by the whites and they were known as devils. The reason for this was because they preached falsehood and practice slavery.

Malcolm x honored Muhammad a lot that in his speech he says that if people refuse to hear his message or his warnings, then they would be screwed. Muhammad was the only escape from the disaster that innocent people have been put in. He was the one who taught beliefs and principles. Malcolm x ‘s message was basically to tell the American’s to wake up and understand that there’s more to a person than the color of their skin, and where they come from. Everyone’s a human being. Malcolm wanted the blacks and the Muslims and any other person who was being penalized for where they came from to be safe, to have freedom, to be good people and to live a satisfying life not a nightmare.

My thoughts on Malcolm x’s speech

I thought that Malcolm’s speech was really strong and it wasn’t because it seemed very long but because Malcolm x was the type of person who wasn’t afraid to be honest and tell people what was on his mind. He also had a point to what he was saying. Some people were really hard headed that they didn’t get it. Although Malcolm never gave up and kept going because he knew that he was going to make a difference anyway.

I believe that the reason why Africans had to leave their country to come to America was because of the war that was present and some of them were getting killed so they needed to live in a place where they could survive. Yet Malcolm x says:

“let my people go…let them no longer be segregated by you; stop trying to deceive them with false promises of integration with you; let them separate themselves from you. Let them go with me to a place wherein the God of our forefathers has prepared a land for us…a land in which we can serve our own God, practice righteousness and live in peace among our own kind.”

If Malcolm says that the people should go back where they came from, how would anyone be able to stop racism if they’re segregated? They would never learn to like each other or they would never learn to respect each other. He was right when he said that they deceived the people with false promises but if they were to segregate, these problems would of never been fixed till this day. If there was a segregation then there wouldn’t be one world there would be two worlds. One world and then a different world. The similarity would be that both worlds would think that one is better than the other one when there’s no such thing. The fights who fight today will fight until the day that they die. Just like how we tried to fight racism the day it started and now we know that we can  live in peace with every kind.

Chapter4

Almost all countries dedicate monuments to their heroes or leaders. All countries all have a national anthem (a song that unites the people of that country).

the three monuments/ flags&anthems

powerpoint^

Chapter5

Windmills are used to generate power for a farm or community.

A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy. It is often contained in a large building, smock mills or tower mills. The energy windmills can be used for grinding grain or even pumping water.

The system consists of blades. They are designed to capture the kinetic energy in wind. When the windmills turbine blades capture wind energy and starts moving, they’ll spin in a shaft that leads from the hub of the rotor to a generator. The generator will turn that energy into electricity. Generating electricity from the wind is all about transferring energy from one medium to another.

Chapter 6 

My Fictional company is Social Scene interior design

As a boss  of the Social Scene interior design company, I make the decisions, ensure quality, contain costs, improve on my designs, satisfy my clients and pay my employees. At the same time I am able to organize work hours and scheduling.

Work schedule for the week

In this company we have both Alternative and Flexible schedules.

It is the total number of hours that the employee is scheduled to work based on the percent time.

Alternative schedule

% time	100%= 40 hours per week
Work hours	8 am- 6:30pm Monday- Thursday (1 ½ of lunch time)
% time	80%=32 hours per week
Work hours	8 am-5:30pm Monday- Thursday ( 1h of lunch time)

Flexible Schedule

% time	100%= 40 hours per week
Work hours	9 am- 5pm Monday- Friday (1 ½ of lunch time)Allowed to start working from between 8-9 am and end between 5-6 pm
% time	90%=36 hours per week
Work hours	8 am-5pm Monday- Thursday ( 1h of lunch time)Allowed to start working from between 8-8:30 am and end between 5-5:30 pm

Social Scene Interior design allows clients to come and ask questions for ideas on decorating your home!!

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Chapter 7

Many people have gone on strike against companies and industries and other reasons.

The 1933 Cotton Strike/California

One of the biggest strikes took place among cotton works in the central valley. The wages fell from 1$ to 40 cents per 100lbs. The cannery and Agricultural workers industrial union decided to call from strike and about 1800 were a part of it in October of 1933. There was exactly 3/4 of Mexican and 1/4 of whites and blacks involved.

Many growers started evicting the strikers from company owned labor camps. Later the growers got the police involved and formed armed vigilante squads which shot down 11 strikers and killing 2. To be specific exactly two men were killed 1 women and 7 men were wounded and 1 man was killed in a separate attack.

A group of highway patrolmen watched the fight, then chased the growers, confiscating some of their weapons and a sheriff arrested strikers for charge of murder.

After 24 days on the strike, the workers won an increase in wages. The people decided to compromise by getting 75 cents per 100lbs. though they had also demanded union recognition and an end to the labor constructor system.

By 1933, the wages were pushed back down that the growers were preparing to counterattack. The formed farmers association, pushed through anti-picketing legislation in 20 rural California countries and made the counts. The polices arrested the leaders of the cannery agricultural workers industrial union under the charge of criminal syndicalism.

 

Chapter 9&10

Laws and rules are a part of everyone’s life. Some are obeyed, some are not, and some are just outright ignored. Some rules are “bent” to help an individual or a group when they are caught disobeying them.

some have to face the consequences:  

  

some may vandalize public property….

All high school rules could be annoying but as students we still have to respect them.

One of the rules from the student handbook is:

EXPECTATIONS

Students must respect all school property such as textbooks, equipment, library resources, lockers, social grounds, building and buses.

Some students don’t care about textbooks. They’ll rip them, put graffiti in it, write in it and just vandalize it. Some students may come up with excuses that they were bored or the textbook needed a makeover!.

Next…

ATTENDANCE

Students are suppose to attend school daily and should attend every class.

Some students do come to class or school everyday but others don’t feel like it. Although there are reasons. Such as considering the fact that some students may be sick and have to go see a doctor. Although they have no excuses. All they have to do is leave a not to the office but there are students that don’t have notes and must face the consequences.

Next…

CONSEQUENCES

Teachers are allowed to assign detention to students if they are late to class and the detention would take place during lunch time or after school

These consequences only happen if assignments are late, if the student doesn’t respect the teachers etc. There are students who will listen, some won’t and some don’t care. It’s awful but true.

Next…

ABSENCES FROM SCHOOL

If a student is absent then they must have a note signed by their parents or guardian to the office before 8:15

Some students will forget and if they do they get detention.

Next…

PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES (MP3,IPOD, WALKMAN ETC..)

Student should use personal electric devices in the cafe. or library only. Students need to beware of not disturbing other. It is allowed to be used in class but only by the permission of the teacher.

Next…

School Bags, cell phones

Bags, cell phones or pagers are not allowed to be used in any part of the school. They are to be kept in lockers.

Yet some students use it in the halls, the entrance of the school and the washrooms and also they tend to keep it in their pockets.

PERSONAL SAFETY

Skateboards are not allowed in the school. This also goes for roller blades.

Some students are able to sneak their skateboards in the back corner of the school.

3 rules from Rockland District High School student handbook that were selected are:

• Students should be able to attend daily and should attend every class.
• Teachers are allowed to assign detention to students who are late for class
• Bags, cell phones or pagers are not allowed to be used in any part of school.

3 duties from the Education Act that I think are frequently bent, neglected, changed etc. are:

• Students mostly don’t respect school property such as textbooks, equipment, buildings etc.
• Consequences for late assignments can sometimes be bent by the teacher. Some students may come up with bogus excuses for not handing in assignments.
• Bags, cell phones are one of the biggest. Most students text during class time, when the teacher can’t see. Also most students will have their phones in their pockets at all times.

My new Student Handbook!

• Students should be able to attend school daily. Just to show their presence and that they really care about their education
• Teachers are allowed to assign detention to students but only for 15 minutes during lunch time. Students who act up in class and don’t listen should have detention for 30 minutes. students who have late assignments should have DT for 20 minutes.
• Bags should be allowed to be carried wherever , but cell phones and pagers should be used outside
• Students are allowed to eat anywhere in the school but must clean up after themselves. Eating in the  library or computer labs is not allowed.
• MP3, IPOD or Walkmans should only be used during seat work
• Students are allowed to use any type of lock for their lockers.
• If students forget to get a green slip before 8:15, they don’t get detention unless they don’t get it before 8:25

othello/ imaginary character

^power point

Shakespeare’s Bio

-Shakespeare was born in a small town of Stratford-on-Avon on April the 23^rd in 1564 which also happens to be the date of his death

-He almost attended the Stratford grammar school where he could pick up an impressive education and a good knowledge of Latin, although he didn’t proceed to Oxford or Cambridge

-By the age of 18 of 1582, he married Anne Hathaway and together they had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith

-By the year of 1592 his career became successful in London as an actor, writer and a part owner of the playing company the lord chamberlain’s Men which was later known as the king’s men

-Shakespeare didn’t only act with this company but he eventually became a leading shareholder and the principal playwright

-It wasn’t easy for Shakespeare to make a living during his professional life considering how stiff the competition against the repertoire companies and religious regarded play-acting as a sinful, a waste of time and they wanted to

ban it all

Government officials carried out censorship over the contents of the plays and periodic outbreaks of bubonic plague led to temporary closing of the London theaters

-Although in 1599 Shakespeare’s company began to perform in the globe, an open air theater .

-He wrote plays for performances by his company and his scripts existed in his own handwritten manuscripts, in scribal copies, playhouse prompt books and in pirated texts based on shorthand reports.

Although none of these manuscript versions survived.

-Only 18 of his plays were published during his life, in small-format, inexpensive books that are called quartos

-It was Shakespeare’s comedies, histories and tragedies that were published seven years after his death

Shakespeare’s first comedies show fewer signs of preparation.

One of his first efforts in comedy, displayed a rare command of the recourses of comedy such as mistaken identity, madcap confusion and the threat of disaster

comedies that he wrote was

-The merchant of Venice

-The merry wives of Windsor

-Much ado about nothing

-As you like it

-Twelve night

-midsummer nights dream

-All’s well that ends well

-the comedy of errors

-love’s labor’s lost

-the taming of the shrew

-the tempest

-Troilus and Cressida

-the two gentlemen of Verona

-the winter’s tale

His tragic dramas were

-Hamlet

-Othello

-King Lear

-Macbeth

-Anthony and Cleopatra

-Coriolanus

-Julius Caesar

-Romeo and Juliet

-Timon of Athens

-Titus Andronicus

These plays were written from 1601-1607

The comedies that were written between 1601-1604 were:

All’s well that end’s well and Measure for MeasureThese plays were more uneasy with comic conventions, more ruthlessly questioning of the values of characters and resolutions of the plotsThese plays were classified as problem plays or dark comedies-Another group of plays that were not recognized by the editors of the first folio are called the , Cymbeline, the winter’s tale and the tempest which were written between 1608 and 1611During that time Shakespeare had developed a remarkably fluid dreamlike sense and poetic style now they are known as the romances. They share an interest in the moral and emotional life less of the adolescents.Shakespeare wrote the last of his plays in Stratford where he retired in the year 1610. He died in 1616 shortly after his daughter Judith’s marriage

• ….From one point of view the earlier part of the third stage of a single continuously developing English language;
• ….from another, the first stage of a distinct language, modern english , that evolved from an earlier language, middle english

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-EARLYMODERNENGLISH.html

• Modern English language had been subdivided into Early Modern English which was used from the fifteenth century, more or less up to end of the seventeenth century, or according to some scholars even in the eighteenth century, and Modern English was used from that time till now.
• Only recently was this division renewed as with the end of the twentieth century the time perspective enabled linguists to look at the English language

http://www.tlumaczenia-angielski.info/linguistics/early-modern-english.htm

http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/LukeEMEPDE.htm

Part of Shakespeare’s bio.

• born in Stratford-upon-Avon, baptized on 26 April 1564 according to the parish register of the Holy Trinity Church
•  birthday is thought to be April 23rd, but as this is both the date of his death 54 years later and St. George’s Day, the coincidence may be too far-fetched.
•  His surviving works consist of 38 plays 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright
• Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare’s private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
• Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century
• The Plays

  Comedies
  All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Cymbeline, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale

  Tragedies
  Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus

  Histories
  1,2, and 3 Henry VI, 1 and 2 Henry IV, King John, Henry V, Henry VIII, Richard II, Richard III

www2.bc.edu/~stantoro/en307/presentations/07%20handouts/shakespearemacbeth.ppt

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/early-modern-english/timeline:-early-modern-english.html

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/timeline.htm

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/summarychart.htm

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           The play Macbeth draws attention to the force of evil during the Elizabethan and the Jacobean times. During those times, it was a period of the renaissance that had to do with people having new ideas and better thinking. One of the biggest issues learnt was the supernatural. It was the sciences, technology and astrology that led to the interest of the supernatural. This meant witches, witchcraft and ghosts. After the general public learned about the supernatural, they began to think that it was real and also started to believe in superstitions. Not a single person would joke about witches or ghosts because to them it wasn’t a joke. Women were accused as being witches considering the fact that witches can only be women. Witches were the source of evil, that Queen Elizabeth I decided to create a new witchcraft law during the 1500s leading to witch hunts and the prosecution of witches. The superstitions that was feared related to witches sneezing, shoes, spilling salt and pepper, touching wood, ladders and black cats.

        Elizabethan witchcraft witches and ghosts, became interesting that it was used to entertain, or just terrify people for example in Macbeth. Macbeth deals with witches and then he deals with Banquo’s ghost . Shakespeare was throwing the forces of evil such as witchcraft into the play because it was real during those times and in a way the general public expected those types of stories.

           Johannes Gutenberg was the first person to introduce the printing press. After introducing this, the first printed books were bibles or it contained religious themes but it was a problem because many of these books were promoting ideas about witchcraft and witches, which led to more hunts during the 15th and the 16th centuries . People who were against witches would blame them for every misfortune that always came around. Witches were like psychics. Just like in Macbeth they started to predict what would happen to him such as becoming Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and King. Although in the long run bad things would happen. Witches were blamed for everything such as animal disease or the Bubonic plague that was destroyed because of the sinful powers of witches. It wasn’t only the witches, but also ordinary people such as Christian women, children and men. Considering the fact that men were powerful and women were viewed as corrupt they suspected that they could also be victims. Although women were accused more than men. There was 270 Elizabethan trials and exactly 247 were women and only 23 were men. The women who were accused as witches were old, poor, unprotected, lived with pets and known as ugly. If any women was known as an ugly person she was right away a witch.

             women were the ones that produced cures. To make their cures they used herbs, plants for example cannabis these were common ingredients for medical purpose. Then it came to the fear of the witches and witchcraft started to increase in catholic churches and in Europe. It was said that, anyone who knew the definition of herbs and used herbs to make cures, was to only deal with the Satan.

          In the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is known as a crazy person. After hearing the news that Macbeth could be king she made sure that she could do anything to make that happen. Although the difference between lady Macbeth and the witches was that she was royal, she had protection and she wasn’t known as this ugly looking person. Nevertheless, she was still a women and she wanted King Duncan dead. There’s no doubt that she couldn’t have the power to do the duty herself because she did. King Duncan just reminded her of her father.

       Ghost were also part of the Elizabethan times. It was defined as

                   “The soul of a dead person who is said to     appear to the living in bodily likeness at a place associated with his life”

Usually ghosts died in an unpleasant and dangerous situations. In this case the death of Banquo . Everyone at the diner table thought Macbeth was going insane because they did not see what he saw.

“Ross His absence, sir,

Lays blame upon his promise. Please ‘t your Highness

To grace us with your royal company?

Macbeth

The table’s full.”( Act. 2 sc.4)

           In today’s society if anyone talks about seeing a ghost or believing that they are real then they would be known as crazy or they’re just hallucinating. On the other hand, during the Elizabethan and Jacobean times, if anyone sees a ghost then they are actually seeing a ghost and its for real. Yet today it’s known as impossible and it couldn’t happen because ghosts are not real they are make-believe. Back then the supernatural effected people so much that it was used as story telling and William Shakespeare’s plays such as Macbeth and also Hamlet.

              In conclusion, the beginning of the play Macbeth, starts off with three witches discussing when they should meet again with Macbeth. It also explains the weather in that scene, thunder and lightening so it’s easy to tell that it really isn’t a happy moment. Witches symbolized evil , the rain, thunder and lightening symbolized horror that people are suppose to be scared. In today’s society reading Macbeth doesn’t scare us because there is no such thing as witches. However, obviously during the Elizabethan times, it was normal of hearing stories of witches and their evil powers or how they could get connections with Satan. Witches were blamed for every commotion or disasters that would happen. Apparently the witches were the reason why Macbeth ends up dead. He is the one who killed king Duncan and he should of known better since he’s aware that witches are evil.

Bibliography

 Elizabethan witchcraft: An era of persecution http://www.askroseariadne.com/editorials/elizabethan-witchcraft-era-of-persecution.html Elizabethan era http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/ Ghosts do you believe? http://cruisegurl0.tripod.com/id4.htm

       

           The question, did Shakespeare really write Shakespeare doesn’t seem easy to answer although both negatives and affirmative sides were very convincing with their arguments. It’s possible that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare but then again it’s possible that he didn’t. The most important rule that both sides respected very well was to be aware that once they are debating they should remember the essence of public speaking is the ability to convince the judges. It turned out to be hard deciding which side had the better argument because both groups had enough knowledge to be able to backup their points.

        The debate was, Shakespeare didn’t write the works credited to him. Affirmative side was Alex, David and Jon who tried to prove that Shakespeare didn’t write the works credited to him. According to their research, a friend of William by the name of Ben Johnson( who was the playwright) was the one who credited him with ” small Latin and less Greek” implying that William Shakespeare’s education was simple. In other words fundamental.

            The affirmative side had some strengths and weaknesses. They were able to respect most of the rules very well. They  did  not only look at their opponents and the judges but also the audience. They actually clarified their points by showing diagrams so that everyone could understand what they were trying to express and what they were trying to prove. They showed some emotion such as slamming their books to the table which caught my attention . Overall their debate was convincing enough but nobody’s perfect so they did have their weakness. One of the weakness was not obeying part of the rules for example, not wearing costumes and at times they were reading their speech.

          The negative side was Anthony B., Jessica S. and Stephanie B., who tried to prove that Shakespeare did write the works credited to him. According to their research Shakespeare’s words were to tough for someone else to write his plays, that he had to much of his own mind for anyone to take his work and call them their own. In that case it is difficult to decode Shakespeare’s lines because it would have been a waste of time.

         The negative side had some strengths and weaknesses. Unlike the affirmative side, they showed more emotion, they respected the rules very well including wearing costumes. (Maybe it wasn’t that important to wear costumes but for the affirmative side it would of been nice!) They were very loud and clear with what they were saying and trying to prove, they took notes while their opponents were speaking and in a way, they were able to twist their opponent’s words. Unfortunately they also had their weaknesses such as reading their speech and at times getting stuck. They disobeyed some of the rules such as not using a logical fallacy or not singing a line from their argument.

             In conclusion, the judges decided that the negative side won the debate only because they showed more presence, more emotion and as they were debating during the free for all they were able to put the affirmative down. This doesn’t mean that the affirmative did worse because, both groups were equal that’s why it was a hard decision to make. Both affirmative and negative sides were able to prove both points very well and they were very precise in their speech, rebuttal, free for all and open and closing remarks.

        Debating about whether Shakespeare did or did not write his own works, seems to be unknown to some of us which is very ridicules because who cares if Shakespeare did or didn’t write his own works in the end we really don’t know. This debate wasn’t about who was right or who was wrong it was about who had the better argument and who presented their arguments in a better way. This is why Thursdays debate of last week was really good because it made us as the judges, question these certain questions that will never be answered. Not now or not any time soon unless Shakespeare rises form the dead and tells us himself either then that it’s better off not knowing at all and debating about it. This is just one of those mysteries that are better kept unsolved…

So, I’m suppose to write about my first week of school in Mr. Murray’s English class, yet I couldn’t figure out anything to write about. All we did was talk about the course and what we are expected to do throughout the year. And to think that I was suppose to write this two weeks ago when I know that I would of said the same thing anyway. well I guess this is just an introduction to the start of my simple-minded thoughts….