Juliet

Juliet has changed since the beginning of the play because...

At the beginning of the play Romeo and Juliet we get introduced to Juliet as a young girl that lives in the City of Verona, with her parents who are trying to convince her to marry a man named Paris..., “Marry, that “marry” in the very theme I came to talk of...” (page 43 line 64). But even though it was her par parents wished for her to marry at that young of an age she felt as though she wasn’t old enough and rejected her parents offer..., “It is an honour that I dream not of.” (page43 line 67). Even though she had said she wasn’t ready to marry later in the play Juliet falls in love with a young man named Romeo. She soon forgot how she had felt about marriage just days earlier and wanted to marry Romeo, because they were madly in love with each other. They got married by a close family friend, Friar Laurence. Juliet has changed majorly since the beginning of the play. She ends up marrying at her young age and contradicting herself by doing so.

I would NOT consider doing what Juliet decides to do because...

Juliet had felt as though she had to do something very dramatic for her family and family’s friends not to judge her and feel as though she is a to the family for loving a Montague. She felt as though it would be best to pretend like she was dead so she didn’t have to marry Paris. She went to Friar Laurence’s call and convinced her to give her a potion to put her into a deep sleep so everyone would think that she was dead..., “Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it... When presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse shall keep his native progress... no warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;... then awake from a pleasant sleep.” Juliet was nervous and very curious If she should believe him, but in the end she did. When she took the potion everyone believed as though she was dead, including Romeo. I would not have chosen the same path as Juliet because in the end she ended up hurting everyone in her family, and killing her one true love and herself. 

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Information:

The gold standard is a monetary system in which the value of the currency unit (the Canadian dollar, for example) is defined in relation to the value of gold. Gold had the ability of free movement around countries.

The monetary authority in the country (which was the Department of Finance in Canada until 1935 when the central bank, the Bank of Canada, was established) then commits itself to buying and selling gold at this fixed price.

The foundation of the gold standard is that a currency's value is supported by some weight in gold. Inherently, it makes sense to value currency by some tangible and precious resource, otherwise, currency is just paper bills. Therefore, by tying paper money to an amount of gold, it gives the holder of the paper money the right to exchange her paper bills for actual gold.

Ideally, this requires that paper money be readily exchangeable for gold. If a bank does not have gold, then the paper money has no value. But theoretically, actual gold would flow between nations to ensure that all currencies would be supported by gold.

A pure gold standard was used between the 1879 and 1914 by many modern trading nations. Under the gold standard system, all participating currencies were convertible based on its gold value.

Mining activities require the clearing of large areas of land. The chemicals used in the mining process often escape into the environment causing large scale pollution.

Besides clearing the mining area, vegetation in the adjoining areas also needs to be cut in order to construct roads and residential facilities for the mine workers. The human population brings along with it other activities that harm the environment.

pollution: Chemicals like mercury, cyanide, sulfuric acid, arsenic and methyl mercury are used in various stages of mining. Most of the chemicals are released into nearby water bodies that leads to water pollutants.

In spite of tailings (pipes) being used to dispose these chemicals into the water bodies, possibilities of leakage are always there. When the leaked chemicals slowly percolate through the layers of the earth, they reach the groundwater and pollute it. Surface run-off of just soil and rock debris, although non-toxic, can be harmful for vegetation of the surrounding areas.

According to later analysis, the earliness with which a country left the gold standard reliably predicted its economic recovery. For example, Great Britain and Scandinavia, which left the gold standard in 1931, recovered much earlier than France and Belgium, which remained on gold much longer. Countries such as China, which had a silver standard, almost avoided the depression entirely.

The connection between leaving the gold standard as a strong predictor of that country's severity of its depression and the length of time of its recovery has been shown to be consistent for dozens of countries. With the value of gold up, this meant that every country could rely on their paper money for the value of gold.

The real value of the dollar lies in the wealth of the county and in what the dollar can buy here and in other parts of the world. For a high amount of gold needs a high value of the dollar.

The World Bank is an agency in the United Nations, but in practice is independent by its 184 countries.

The world bank came out of the Bretton Woods agreement. 

The World Bank provides loans to less developed countries, but in order to get these loans the countries have to meet certain requirements.

These requirements include: reducing corruption, increasing democracy, and adapting to Western- style free market conditions.

Another common requirement is to reduce government spending on social programs, this practice has been criticised by opponents of globalization saying that the free market reform policies are often harmful in receiving countries.

The International Monetary Fund also came out of the Bretton woods Agreement. Its purpose is to work together with the World Bank to bring stability to international monetary affairs to help expand world trade.

IMF is the agency of the United Nations.

IMF is in charge of monitoring exchange rates and providing short-term financial assistance.

The IMF is primarily funded through quotas which are proportional shares that member countries pay.

The IMF helps us by managing our financial affairs and keeping Canada a float. They charge us money to keep us stable.  The IMF monitors exchange rates and it provides financial assistance to communities, who are in a financial downfall. Thus we rely on them for financial assistance and they rely on us for money to help expand our countries world trade and help stabilize our Monetary affairs.

This is Globalization in the workings. Communities and companies working together to create something better for everyone.  

Journal Entry's

JOURNAL ENTRY 1:

I was reading the book Romeo and Juliet the other night and thought about how hard it would have been for Romeo and Juliet. Then the more I thought about it, my life isn’t a perfect fairytale either. Romeo and Juliet had to deal with loving each other but their families didn’t approve of their feelings for each other. Today I don’t have to worry about what my family thinks about me, more about what everyone else’s views on me are. I worry about who people think I am how people view the person I’m dating, who I hang out with at lunch and every day I have to deal with the worry of what I look like. I would never want people to view me as the gross, sloppy girl; nobody wants to be friends with the sloppy looking girl that smells like wet dog. Another thing that Romeo and Juliet are famous for in this play is for following their hearts even though it would not work out in the end. It was what they believed in and felt it was something they should do. Like falling in love with each other. I can relate to this because I have done many things before that I have thought would not end in my favour. But at the time I didn’t mind I really wanted to do it. Last year I was strictly told not to watch a certain movie, but being myself and thinking that I was mature enough to make this decision myself I watched that movie. Of course I thought I would have out smarted my parents because they weren’t home and I could put it back where I found it, but I was badly mistaken when they came home and went to watch the movie the credits were rolling and that showed that I had watched it, and because I got busted I had to deal with the consequence of being grounded for two months. I know my “tragedy” was nothing compared to Romeo and Juliet’s forbidden love story but I still think being a teenager is very difficult. From being socially acceptable to breaking the rules and having to deal with the consequences. 

JOURNAL ENTRY 2:

Dear Diary,

            All I have left now is you. I found out some very bad news that made my boyfriend break up with me, my friends not want to talk to me and my parents, well parent stop loving me. I’m sure that they will always love me but they sure have a tough way of showing it now. My mom has never been so disappointed in me in my life. I’m sure my dad is looking down on me and feeling the same guilt and betrayal that she feels from how I turned out. I was always the perfect child in their eyes good grades, respectful to everyone in my life, and I was always happy with a huge smile on my face no matter what. But after I met Toni everything changes about me. He was all I could think about; I started to reject doing my homework and skipped my classes all the time to hang out with him. I definitely would have never been the type of girl to ditch class but he was two years older than me and extremely cute, he knew how to make me laugh all the time and was always a blast to hang out with. I was starting to fall in love with Toni I just liked everything about him, I was so happy when I was around him. I loved how every day he could teach me something new that I never experienced or done before, from how to skateboard or what colours looked best with my eye colour. I even let Toni convince me that my best friend was weird and not worth my time any more. So I started to reject her calls and make plans with her then just ditch her because Toni told me it would be funny to see how pathetic she would look showing up to a movie and waiting out in the cold for me or waiting for 2 hours in a  restaurant for me. I thought it was cruel humour but Toni said it was funny so I believed him. He was immature for his age but it was one of my favourite features that he had because he was always so much fun. She was my best friend and I will admit that she was weird, but so am I. She was always the greatest to cheer me up on a rainy day. But now she wants nothing to do with me, she is completely out of my life; like my father. But he wasn’t fortunate enough to make that decision himself. Just about 6 months ago he was hit by a drunk driver while he was walking home from the grocery store. When I found out that he had died I thought it was the end of the world. My family and I had the closest relationship ever there would have been nothing that could have broken our bond... nothing but death. But at that time I had Toni he seemed to be the only person that would hold me while I cried and who seemed like he wanted to help me feel better about this horrible situation. He started to introduce me to things I would have never experienced in my life if it wasn’t for him. Well I might have tried and done them but not this early in my life. He showed me that when I was down if I drank until I was unable to stand I would forget everything. I felt so free and happy for a change but after I got tired of the hangovers and started to realize that it made me feel ten times worse about the whole death situation days later I stopped drinking because I knew it wasn’t helping. That’s when he introduced me smoking, taking drugs and convinced me into having sex with him. Of course I went into the third one without fighting it because he told me that when you’re in love, you’re supposed to make love, and I was madly in love with Toni. From reading the book Romeo and Juliet I learned when you love someone you will do anything for that person no matter what the consequence is. Toni told me if I loved him I would have sex with him. Now 4 months later I have found out that I am pregnant with Toni’s twins. My mom doesn’t want anything to do with me, Toni broke up with me last week when I told him the bad news, and I don’t have a best friend anymore or a father. I have lost everything that means the most to me because of one stupid boy that I thought I was in love with but the fact is I am a 16 year old girl that doesn’t know much. 

... The last one is NOT a true story!!!!!!