Northrop Frye was quoted saying that “Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divine lightening.” In the case of Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago would be the conductor; Othello was the great tree, and the others that were killed, such as Roderigo, were the clumps of grass. The lighting struck by Iago was the root of the tragic vision in the play, the devious plans that Iago devised to take out everyone around him out, though quite genius and successful, backfired on him.
“Honest Iago,” was responsible for the death of not only Othello but also Desdemona, Emilia, and Roderigo, all of which were caused because of Iago’s hate of the “lusty Moor” that allegedly “leap’d into (his) seat.” The jealousy Iago had for Othello was the only reason why Iago wanted Othello to suffer in the first place. The others that were hurt and murdered were just tools to get to Othello. Iago made it clear that he wanted others to go down with Othello after Cassio was fired when he said, “So will I… make the net/ That shall enmesh them all.” Jealousy was the straw that broke the camel’s back and brought forth the lightning from the conductor Iago. All the characters had personal characteristics that made them who they are and those characteristics were the reasons they were perfect for Iago’s plan.
Cassio was the handsome young new guy in town and Iago already hated him because he had taken his job. Iago sought out the opportunity to make Desdemona look like “she repealed him for her body’s lust.” Emilia was easy to be taken advantage of because she loved Iago so much, though Emilia was killed because she acted out of character.

I do believe that people can be born innately evil.Some peole in this world are so immoraly cruel it is ridiuloous . For instance, serial killers , rapists ,and child molestors are the worst of them all i belive that they were born evil the crimes they create are cruel and unusual and the worst thing about it is that their victims are usually random and

I believe that there are different kinds of love there is the love you have for your family, the love you have for your bestfriend or partner and the love you have for a pet you have had your whole life or the teddy bear your grandma gave you when you were five but no matter who or what you love the love is still complex the main reason love is so complex is because as humans we don't always love what we need to or what is good for us from my personal experiences there have been things and people that i loved that were not good for me my love for those things was complex and difficult because over time i learned to appreciate them greatly and i actually thought that they were things that made me me My love for things like that had stages, the first stage would be falling in love with the thing the second stage would be realizing that the thing that i am in love with is not good for me but within realizing that i would conclude that i must love this thing for a reason and that there was no way to part from it the third stage would be where i am presently, Now that i have strayed away from my denial of this thing i am trying to part away from to make it just another thing in the past that was a great learning experience it is not as easy as I imagined it would be and that is where the complexity comes in when you are faced with the tough decision of parting from something that you truely love it changes you no matter whether your choice is to stay with or leave it alone well whatever enough of that the moral of the story is : don't fall in love it sucks !!!

One of major difficulties of growing up I've found is trying to find out who you are or what makes you an individual I am at that stage in my life and I must say that this stage has been the hardest since I had to leave home and go to pre school I have gone through so many difeerent me's its crazy for instance last year I hated the world and myself and blamed everybody for every little thing so I classified myself as an emo I wore all black cut my hair to have emo bangs painted my nails black sat in a corner in the library at lunchtime deserted all my friends and even went so far as to change my middle name on facebook to "Xperimentalemo" the emo thing did not work out because during basketball season i was higher on social ladder than during football season because i'm in band and i really had to get into basketball player mode....another me was freshman year where I tried to be reeally cool with all the ghetto people and let them cheat off of my homework just so i could have assurance that none of them would try to beat my ass once again i got into the role by buying air force ones and gettin micros with all different colors and I even took a few trips to the gateway to up my street cred that image did not work out either because i have a very strong white girl accent and I was not failing any classes and boasting about it right now i would say i'm goin through a "pop phase" just because i hang around a bunch of people i barely spoke to years before and did not really like but they just so happen to be the more popular people in our grade so how ironic right anyway so i have this new group of friends and two years ago i probably would have laughed my ass off if some one told me that I was going to be apart of the "Baldwin Hills" kids (thats what we call ourselves) but suprisingly they are not as bad as i thought they were sure we barely have anything in common and the hidden truth is that we all are not really as tight as we look we just look like that because we all have an image to uphold

My family on my mother's side is full of pranksters and people who love to party we are always the ones at the family reunions and weddings tht crack jokes and never are quiet and somehow always make something good out something bad I can remember one time after a funeral everyone was all sad so my grandma and my aunts and uncles bought a big thing of crab legs and some meat and we had a party at my grandma's house...but of course we have the stereotypical roles in our family for example My auntie Marsha is te drunk, my auntie Felecia is the smart ass and is orever talking about her degree and how she went to howard, My cousin Victor is the stray that we se very other christmas,My cousin Stelphanie is a lesbian and her mom is the most christian woman I know.....with all these chracters there is always some kind of chaos happening in my family for instance in September my family had our first family reunion in a while of course everybody was happy to see each other but on the bad side since the family had not had a reunion in a while because it just so happens that verytime we get together there is a fight uut thankfully this time there were no fights but my auntie got drunk and my sousin Step brought her girlfriend ahd she looked like a stripper sp everybody was caught up with talk about the two of them.....My favorite member of my amily would have to be my cousin Tray eer since i was little i wanted to be like him he always has the coolest clothes an he's funny and everybody loves him he can be kind of an asshole sometims but thats just cause he is tthe shit and as i get older i can see myself started to be almost exactly like him now i have to deal with trying to figre out who i am and distinguishing myself from him thts gona be

When I think of the whole fate and freewill thing i go back to my deep rooted Christian mentality I believe that God knows how your life will be planned out and i guess that is fate but on the other hand I tend to associate fate with atheism.....anywho I guess I would have to make a paradoxical statement and say that I believe in fate but I don't believe in fate What about freewill? freewill is out of the question simply basing that on what I said earlier about God's predestiny for our lives I guess believe that because I have been raised to believe in God and to question him would be a sin I'm guessing thats why i don't agree with free will .....I guess it is my fate to be this way.....but of course i have questioned god i believe everyone does plus I've always been one to test the waters and see if stuff really IS what everyone else says it is with God I just kept sinning and sinning until i realized that all that stuff was coming back on me ten fold I finally stop this "god test" when I realized that my sinning was doing no kind of long term good it actually always left me feeling even worse than before of course i still sin but not as much actually quite less.....

I would rather be an average joe because that is basically what i am now. I would rather live life and experience different things than live a short life. I'm not really the type of person thats big onbeing known in fact i hate being the center of attention and having to lead thin gs. althouh that is a really big paradox because in most areas of my life I kind of have this way of taking charge and drawing attention to myself. I ahven't quite figured out yet if I do this purposely or it jus happens that way but I don't think i try to......
Anyway i really don't think that I could even do anything to be remebered that long. Most people that are remembered that long are usually people who fight for a really important cause or do something really historical. I'm not into anything yet that much to where I would die for it much less even fight unless we wwere like back in slavery or something drastic like that happened.

When I was little my favorite movie was Sister Act 2.I loved the singing in the movie,I remember how would always try to get my sister to sing along with me while we watched.One of my favorite parts was when the choir had their first performance in front of the school and the boy who was supposed to lead the choir started singing after getting over his nervousness.Another one of my favorite parts was when the nuns were trying to raise money by having a concert and Whoopi Golberg was singing "get up offa dat thang and dance till you feel better." To this day I still talk about the movie and watch it with friends we joke around about funny scenes in the movie and do movie quotes.

The philosophy says that when summing life up in just a few words or sentences the world and or life is not that great but it is when you think about the world and or life in depth and look back on times when it was good that is where the perfection comes in. So basically what makes the world perfect is solely thinking about the good times. There is nothing to really compare this to in the weren world because average westerners are way less spiritual and all philosophy-like like easterners are.

The most paradoxical thing about my high school life is the fact even though I come to school everyday I'm not really at school.Though I know without an education there are huge limitations to what I can pursue in my adult life ,there are always other things on my mind whether it be the latest love interest,drama at school or home or whathow I can't wait for basketball to start.
Another paradox in my life is the fact that I want to grow upbut i don't want to. Most teenagers are eager to grow I on the other hand dread the days of carelessness,free room and board in the midst of other things being stripped away from me.On the other hand I want to be able to be on my own so that I can do all the stuff I want to do. You maybe thinking wow this kid's gonna have a hard time out in the real world, but ask yourself what is the real world and get back to me cause i sure as hell am confused about that.

Music Television better known as MTV is a popular American Television channel started in 1981 for teens and young adults. This station has been one of the biggest teen icons and maybe the longest running.When the show first started it only showed music videos now it has branched off many sister channel such as Nickelodeon, VH1, and MTV2.The reason I think MTV is an icon is because if you asked any random person the street about MTV they would be familiar enough with it to tell you a little about or maybe even tell you what their favorite show was.

"I came to hear the band today I ain't thinkin 'boutcha I came to hear my drummer play boom clack boom clack..." --Erykah Badu

"But I do learn a lot from each thing, because everything is necessary. We're all here for a reason, not just to group up with your own group." --Erykah Badu

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." --Henry David Thoreau


"It's lookin' bad need some hope
like the words maybe, if, or probably more than a hobby
when my turntables get wobbly they don't fall
I'm sorry y'all I often drift I'm talkin' gift
so when it comes you never look the horse inside it's grill
of course you know I feel like the bearer of bad news
Don't want to be it but it's needed so what have you
Now question is every nigga with dreads for the cause?
Is every nigga with golds for the fall? Naw
So don't get caught in appearance" --Andre 3000


I chose these quotes because when i first heard them I fell to love them all. The one's from musicians are lyrics from my favorite songs. i heard of Thoreau in American Literature class and since he was the only guy I remembered to like from last year I looked up some of his quotes on the Internet and i liked this particular one out of all the rest of them.