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Hamlet close reading

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac in English 3 - Rami on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 9:00 pm
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Robert McCormac Hamlet Close Reading 2/26/13



There is no way to introduce such an amazing poet and writer as Shakespeare, Shakespeare is one of the most famous play writers in history. Thank’s to Shakespeare we have amazing play’s and pieces of writing such as Macbeth,Hamlet, and Othello. Shakespeare is the master of suspense and drama, And here are the lines I have personally chosen to analyze from my favorite play Hamlet.

ActIII;IV lines 118-140



Lines:118-125; In these line’s Hamlet has just killed Polonius and is now talking to his mother as he see’s the ghost he start’s talking to him and his mother realizes that he has gone mad. But the big question that the reader may not notice is, does Hamlet himself start to think that he has gone totally mad for his actions? Lines:130-140; This is were we see that Hamlet has gone totally mad, Hamlet is talking to the so called “Ghost” but his mother is in the same room and she doesn’t see anything. Hamlet doesn’t realize that he is talking to himself but he know realizes that he maybe wrong about everything but he’s so ready for revenge that he doesn’t care if he is wrong about it or not. These lines are important, Because it show’s Hamlet finally confronting his Mother about what happen with his Uncle and how he killed his Father. His Mother doesn’t want to believe what has happen but it is coming to her that Hamlet may be serious about this but she can’t tell because of how crazy he has become. Hamlet on the other hand is know questioning if it was even his Uncle to kill the king because he’s know realizing that his mother can’t see the ghost, But Hamlet wasn’t the only one to see the ghost if we go back to the beginning of the book so what does this mean for Hamlet’s sanity? What can we understand from the tone of the characters dialog? We can tell that Hamlet is being physically hysterical after killing Polonius, Hamlet now know’s what he has truly done, he know’s that there is no turning back he must kill the King and face Laertes and have to deal with Ophelia and help her cope with the death of her father. The Queen is in complete shock, and even though Hamlet is right about the king and the murder of his father the Queen doesn’t want to believe that he is right. While in act 3ii we see that the king while listening to Hamlet’s line in the play “Gonzo” reacts with a guilty conscious why doesn’t Hamlet explain this to his mother it just goes unanswered and feels like an empty void left to your imagination. Never under estimate the power of symbolism in Shakespeare play’s, In this act when Hamlet see’s the ghost re-appears, It represent’s how Hamlet truly has been over come with revenge and he want’s to fulfill his goal of killing the king for the murder of his father, but so far do we even know for sure if he has killed his father? Just because a ghost if we don’t know if he is real or just part of Hamlet’s imagination comes to him does that give him the right to kill? What is the definition of insanity? we’ll here it is, “the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.” So as we can safely say Hamlet has lost it, hopefully he is truthfully right about what has happen to his father or else he could be losing it all, even his own life.


Hamlet Passage
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Citizenship homework.

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac in American History - Jonas on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 11:19 am
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Robbie McCormac English Benchmark

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac in English 3 - Rami on Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 1:10 pm
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sxnlqpg4he6xpm2/New%20Project%203%20-%201080p.mov

Script bellow 

Robbie McCormac Benchmark Script 10/21/12


Inside

Bateman(Calmly)- “Come on in Paul I have been dying to show you around my apartment.” I have a very modern upscale apartment right in the heart of New York City I love being showvnistic about it especially since all Paul talk’s about is wanting to live here.


Paul(Walking around the house)- “Wow Bateman I’m truly In pressed” He stares at the the Polo rug I have sitting by the T.V.(Sit’s at counter) “Any good channels to watch?”


Bateman- Cinemax and HBO something you don’t know about I say smuggle in my head. “Yes you can put on HBO if you’d like, Do you want anything to drink?”


Paul- “Can you make me a Vodka with Cranberry?”


Bateman(Laughing to himself)- I knew he was a bitch but really a vodka and cranberry? “Yes of course I can let’s go to the outside bar though.”


  OUTSIDE BAR.

Paul(Sitting at chair relaxed)- “You really have it good out here Bateman , Your own little private peace of the American Dream.”


Bateman( At the bar making the drink) “Yes I suppose so Paul but Isolation start’s to slowly consume you, It’s a very odd feeling” (Notices an ax by the side of the wet bar)


Paul( Staring at my Louise vitton chair’s) “I’m sure everything will be fine with that Bateman we all have been there, work start’s to make you go a little insane ahah right?”


Bateman(Smiling) “Yes I would agree with that Paul I really would”


Paul (turning on the outside TV) “Amazing you get HBO outside here too? Simply perfect.”


Bateman( Hand’s drink over) “Here you go Paul your drink’s done.”


Paul- “Thank you.”


Bateman(At the bar Pouring himself scotch),(Put’s a rain Jacket on and pick’s up the AX) “Paul, Paul, Paul I don’t know about you but I hate work so goddamn much it’s a pain in the ass, And I dread seeing the same low life scum’s everyday. In fact let’s change that right now.” ( Goes run’s at Paul and put’s the ax in his head)


Bateman (Staring at the body) “Goddamn it there’s blood on my Ralph Lauren chair. THANKS PAUL.” No matter I have business to attend to.

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English Benchmark video !

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac on Friday, November 2, 2012 at 7:10 pm
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sxnlqpg4he6xpm2/New%20Project%203%20-%201080p.mov

Script bellow 

Robbie McCormac Benchmark Script 10/21/12


Inside

Bateman(Calmly)- “Come on in Paul I have been dying to show you around my apartment.” I have a very modern upscale apartment right in the heart of New York City I love being showvnistic about it especially since all Paul talk’s about is wanting to live here.


Paul(Walking around the house)- “Wow Bateman I’m truly In pressed” He stares at the the Polo rug I have sitting by the T.V.(Sit’s at counter) “Any good channels to watch?”


Bateman- Cinemax and HBO something you don’t know about I say smuggle in my head. “Yes you can put on HBO if you’d like, Do you want anything to drink?”


Paul- “Can you make me a Vodka with Cranberry?”


Bateman(Laughing to himself)- I knew he was a bitch but really a vodka and cranberry? “Yes of course I can let’s go to the outside bar though.”


  OUTSIDE BAR.

Paul(Sitting at chair relaxed)- “You really have it good out here Bateman , Your own little private peace of the American Dream.”


Bateman( At the bar making the drink) “Yes I suppose so Paul but Isolation start’s to slowly consume you, It’s a very odd feeling” (Notices an ax by the side of the wet bar)


Paul( Staring at my Louise vitton chair’s) “I’m sure everything will be fine with that Bateman we all have been there, work start’s to make you go a little insane ahah right?”


Bateman(Smiling) “Yes I would agree with that Paul I really would”


Paul (turning on the outside TV) “Amazing you get HBO outside here too? Simply perfect.”


Bateman( Hand’s drink over) “Here you go Paul your drink’s done.”


Paul- “Thank you.”


Bateman(At the bar Pouring himself scotch),(Put’s a rain Jacket on and pick’s up the AX) “Paul, Paul, Paul I don’t know about you but I hate work so goddamn much it’s a pain in the ass, And I dread seeing the same low life scum’s everyday. In fact let’s change that right now.” ( Goes run’s at Paul and put’s the ax in his head)


Bateman (Staring at the body) “Goddamn it there’s blood on my Ralph Lauren chair. THANKS PAUL.” No matter I have business to attend to.

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Humanities Portfolio 2012

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac on Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 10:19 am
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Robbie McCormac

 

It has been an honor to be able to experience this amazing education I have been given the chance to have Mr. Block is an amazing teacher and he has taught all of us to try to learn in different ways and to go and try new thing’s. This year we have done a wide arrange of different thing’s in English and history. I have learned so much valuable thing’s and skills that I can use in my every day life from now on.

One of the most important thing’s I learned this year is never procrastinate just don’t do it. When I first came into Mr. Blocks class I worked really hard and handed all my work in on time but slowly I started to procrastinate and my work started to not look as good as it could and it would be late and I would do it last minute. As soon as I saw my grades go down I stopped procrastinating and got my butt to work. I’m happy this happen to me because it made me a more determined student and a better learner I think it’s really going to help me out next year. Here is a piece of my work that I procrastinated on and that I felt like I could of done better on.

Culture and change were a big part of this year we dissected the world and looked at all different cultures through out the world. Culture is very important to start change or to help cause a change. We learned in are revolution unit about Egypt’s culture and how they are trying to stop violent protest and have a more peaceful fair culture and government. We researched social change and how it can affect a culture. For a good portion of the year we were learning about Haiti and what was happening in there government and how the U.S when they tried to help them just cause more problems and weakened Haiti economy experientially. We also learned about there troubles.

Sophomore year in Mr. Block’s class has taught me how important my community is and my peer’s are. When I say my community I mean a bunch of different thing’s from my friends at school to the teachers to the surrounding area of where my school is located we have done many great thing’s around are community like putting up murals right out side are school which was meet with very positive responses and praise. We worked with the Leah Stein dance company for 2 weeks and we created are own dance with there and we chose a spot downtown and made are own dance routine it was such a new experience but I loved doing it and trying something new.

This year has been amazing I’m so grateful to have gotten the chance to be in Mr. Blocks class this year I have acquired much needed skill’s to go on and learn further and continue my education all thanks to one of the best teachers Mr. Block.

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Tags: English, History, 10th Grade, Block World History 10
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Spanish_Q2_BM

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac on Friday, January 13, 2012 at 8:55 am
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Lang auto Biography

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Language has a lot of different meanings to me it's what we us to talk to other people through out the world. We may not all speak the same language but we all have the right to speech and we are entitled to what we have to say that is what inspired me to write my essay because I wanted to show that people should feel free what ever they have to say.


Robbie McCormac

Find your language and voice is never easy and I think this is never truly accomplished in a persons life. No one can ever always speak there voice no matter how bad you want to some times you have to hold your tongue and watch what you say. Language is the most powerful tool people have word’s can be the strongest thing they have when they don’t have anything else. When a person can’t speak what they want to say then they truly are not experiencing the process of finding there voice. I’m a person who holds no boundaries I always speak what I say and when I say something I mean it I don’t know where I learned it from but I feel as if i was just born with it.


Ever since I was a little boy I could always remember not taking no for an answer of making sure I get the right answered and if someone was being mean to me or one of my friends I would always be the one to speak up and give them a piece of my mind and voice. One vivid memory I have of me finding my voice was in kindergarten. It was my 2nd month of school and you would think by the 2nd month of school the teacher would know everyone name with a class of 8 kids well she didn’t. I would raise my hand every day in her class and she would say yes Robert. My teacher did this for the first 2 month’s of school but I never really said anything it bothered me but it wasn’t something to get upset over. But on this day when she said Robert I just didn’t know what to say or do. I just looked at her are eyes meant and were locked togthere like a key and a door. I just said my names ROBBIE. Something happen to me that day that I will remember for the rest of my life I was able to speak the words I didn’t dare say for 2 month’s and it was the best feeling ever I was able to say what I wanted. It’s very powerful being able to speak with out boundaries and not letting anyone hold you back. In English class we have been reading a bunch of different essays related to language and being able to speak different ones and how that can have a negative and positive affect on the lives of those individuals.


In English class we were reading an excerpt from an essay which was called “this is the oppressors language/ yet I need it to talk to you”: Language, a place of struggle by Bell Hooks. Bell Hooks brings up some very interesting and new perspectives in this essay it’s very different and has a lot of mixed views on language in America.  This quote shows her views towards language in the united states. “In the United States it is the mask which hides the loss of so many tongues, all those sounds of diverse native communities we will never hear, the speech of the Gullah, Yiddish, and so many other unremembered tongues...”  I can’t say I agree in full with the ideas that Bell Hook presnts in this essay. I feel that the United States is one of those rare places where you almost have thousands of different languages all over the country but it’s truly up to the natives of those languages to keep there language going and to teach there children there language. Now a days different languages are truly a thing people marvel over. We don’t have the same kind of consciousness that we us to have if you spoke a different language. People back in the days had to deal with prejudice and racism some due to the language they spoke but now that we are past that we are re kindling are love for language and learning new one’s and old one’s.

language is a very powerful tool that has been used for good and bad through out the world we all have the power of speech some people may not recognize it yet. Language can be used to oppress people but it can also be used to set the same people free, It can be used to speak out against the wrongs of society and the social oppression other people can cause by saying your language is the wrong one. There is no wrong or right language the gift to speak is amazing in it’s self so Cherish the language you have and respect the language that other people speak.


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3 Monologues

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac in World History - Block on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Robbie McCormac                         White house or death house

 

It’s been 3 long hours I have been standing out side the tall white house that America looks up to how they look up to it I can not begin to understand. How can you trust people to make choices for a nation not even knowing the full effect of what can happen. The tar sands pipeline will be the death of us all. It will have a huge effect on the environment and it won’t end well. The tar sand pipe is just a failure waiting to happen the first pipe that is all ready made was only suppose to leak once every 7 years it leaked 12 times in one year! This is not a safe project that’s why I am up here next to the white house protesting for what I believe is right. We stand here untied for one cause and we are all going to stand up for what’s right like the great red woods in California we will stand up tall. The cops start yelling through their loud speakers. The words they say don’t faze us they roll right off of us like nothing was ever said. They start to move in with their batons and harsh words we still stand. I see people getting handcuffed people bleeding. I start to move back yelling we must stay put we can’t give up we came this far for a reason! An officer came up to me and through my hands behind my back I just kept a smile on my face. I felt the icy cold steel cuffs go around my wrist, At that moment I knew I did everything that I possibly could.



Robbie McCormac                        Dimitrty Medvedev           

 

Hello my name is Dmitrty Medvedev I am the current Prime Minister of Russia. I thought it would be in my best interest to express my opinion about the Tar sand pipeline and how it can effect the rest of the world. The oil companies are getting greedy and they don’t understand the risk they could be putting all of us through. The oil that would be pumped out of Canada to America is what we call crude oil. Crude oil is a very dirty form of oil and it can be very dangerous to transport. This oil can have effects on the land, water ,and air. The people of the world could be potentially be facing a crisis and we don’t even realize it we just over look it like it’s just another way to get energy. I’m expressing my view here because I know President Obama has the power to make the final decision about this and he can potentially change the environment, as we know it. The tar sand’s is a catastrophe waiting to happen. It doesn’t only affect the U.S the Co2 from this can go into the air and cause serious problems for other countries to.

As an allies I would just like you to consider the possible negative out comes that may happen because of this.

                                    From:

                                                Dmitrty Medvedev





Robbie McCormac                         Trans Canada

 

To Who ever may find this.

You are reading my last journal entry. The year is 2016 December 5th We finally got approved to start getting the crude oil that was in Canada over to the united states. We should have listened to all the protesters and the environmentalist. We got all the pipes in place by 2015 but we weren’t aloud to pump the oil until this year at first everything was fine jobs were created people were happy and best of all profit was coming in. We were able to take control of the oil industry in the United States it was a great accomplishment. But weeks after drilling the world was shocked to hear what was happing the current atmospheric co2 number went from 390ppm to a staggering 460ppm in just over a week people were scared with fear and I couldn’t blame them that day I drove to the Trans Canada HQ and sat at my desk looking out the window the sky now red with heat and blistering light. I sat at my all oak desk hearing on the T.V how we doomed the planet the co2 level was suppose to rise by 12 every day eventfully causing the atmosphere to collapse and then the planet would be destroyed people were told to live as well as they could in these last moments on earth. I put my head on my desk and reached under it to take out the little bottle of rum I kept. I took one last swig and opened my vault. Once I opened my vault I saw the letters C.O.L.T .45 and I just gazed upon it.

 






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Costa Rica (McCormac,Le)

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac in Spanish 2 - Bey on Monday, October 31, 2011 at 5:02 pm
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Descriptive Essay

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac in English 2 - Block on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 1:39 pm
​Robbie McCormac Essay 9/14/11

The accident started on a Saturday Morning around 8 o’clock. My younger brother and I awoke and got out of bed. Sneakily went downstairs trying not to wake up my sleeping parents. As we softly crept downstairs softer then the foot steps of a mouse, we couldn’t help but giggle feeling like spies. I would put my hand in front of my little brother to try to get him to stop laughing. As we arrived down the green rug steps we sat and planned out how we were going to get the soda back upstairs from the kitchen. We wanted those bright red cans of coke all to ourselves. We approached the living room and sneaked through but we heard a noise and jumped behind the couch with lightning speed. We sat there, our hearts beating like we just escaped being chased. We slowly poked are heads out like marines looking over sand bags. We stayed towards the back of the couch slowly crab walking from behind it. We were out in the open crawling through the dinning room now going under chairs and the table. We finally reached the cold grey floor of the kitchen with that beam of bright light in the center of the floor. I stud up and slowly opened the refrigerator trying not to make a sound. I looked up and saw the big red box that said Coke A Cola.

I reached up and grabbed it! I yelled with excitement “we have it!” I tossed a can

to my brother while running through the dinning room. When we were running through the living room I happened to slip and the big red box flew out of my hands landing and breaking a picture on the wall. As the glass broke we heard noise from up satires and got nervous so we tried to clean up as fast as possible. We heard foot steps drugging down the steps. It was my mom looking over her picture. The picture was of two little boys who broke a vase and are just standing there not doing any thing. As my mom looks up she sees me and my little brother standing there not doing anything in front of this broken picture. She gives a little laugh and we all help each other clean up the mess.

It was 3 ball’s and 2 strikes. I looked down at the mat in front of me then look up and see my yard and friends. It was a hot July day the day that makes you sweat until your bone. I could feel the beads of sweat rolling down my forehead. I watched them like rain drops hitting the ground, as they hit the ground they would sink into the ground never to be seen again. I raised my eyes back to the pitcher and gave him a little head shake. It was like slow motion .I watched his arm raise up into the air I could see his veins tighten and his fingers slowly rolling of the ball. The ball was coming at me fast but it seemed like it was taking so slow. I gripped up on the bat like how Homer may choke Bart. The ball arrived but so did my bat they made contact and it sounded like a hurricane. The ball flew right out of my yard. I looked up trying to follow it but the sun was in my eyes. And I heard a loud noise like something broke. My friends and I gave each other an Igor look at one another as we walked over to the tall black fence we see a baseball sized hole in the window next door. I stand there confused on what I should do, Should I go over and tell them what happen or should I go back into my house and act like nothing ever happen. The fence is the only thing that stops me it’s telling me not to go I just stare at the ground with the thousands of pieces of broken glass. As I see my reflection in the pieces I walk away hiding what truly happen. I didn’t own up to my responsibilities. I felt confused it wasn't a serious problem but I felt bad inside.

Responsibility is hard to have and hard to keep once you mess up your trust is ruined like a car that got into an accident. People stop reliving you and they slowly go away and dissolve like pixels when you shut your t.v off. You can ether be honest and not for about your mistakes and tell the truth but that’s not every one, Some people dig graves for them self’s with the amount of lying they do. This is how I fell some times.


This reminds me of how people don’t own up to there mistakes. People do a lot of stupid things but it is important to own up to your mistakes because if they don’t it can cause problems in many different ways lying does not solve problems it only causes more. I have always tried my hardest to tell the truth and own up to my mistakes but it doesn't always work like that. I never really realized what it’s like to harbor secrets because I usually don’t keep any but it it’s you it wants to get out it tries to crawl through your voice box and climb right out of your throat trying to expose it’s self to the world. You can’t hep but wonder if your going to keep it for ever or if your ever going to forget about it. But deep down you know it’s going to be waiting for your moment of weakness.

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Famillia

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 12:22 pm




éste es un cuadro de mi familia. Mi familia es un poco pequeña yo tiene una la hermana una y dos mamá del papá. Amo a mi familia mucho que son realmente 
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Robbie McCormac Project

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 12:19 pm
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Myspace

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 11:42 am
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The Weather

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac in Spanish 1 - Manuel on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 10:59 am
                                                   Weather & Seasons

The weather and seasons are very important to learn in any language. You have to make sure of proper spelling and puctioation when writing the seasons. Here are the four seasons. Here are the

 

Las Estaciones (Seasons)

Winter

El Vireno

Spring

La Primavera

Summer

El verano

Fall

El Otoño

 

                                                                         El Tiempo

The next thing I went to teach you is how to ask what the weather is like in Spanish.

English) What’s the weather like?

Spanish)  ¿Qué tiempo hace?

 

It’s very cold

Hace (mucho) frîo

It’s very warm

Hace (mucho) calor

It’s very windy

Hace (mucho) viento

It’s very sunny

Hace (mucho) sol

It’s very cool

Hace (mucho) fresco

It’s raining

Esta’ lloviendo.

It’s snowing

Esta’ nevando

It’s cloudy

Esta’nublado

 

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The Spanish Alaphbet

Posted by Robert Mc Cormac on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 10:57 am

a

aha

b

beh

c

seh

d

deh

e

eh

f

efeh

g

hey

h

acheh

i

eeeeeee

j

hota

k

kah

l

eleh

m

emeh

n

eneh

Ñ

enyeh

o

o

p

peh

q

coooo

r

ereh

s

eseh

t

teh

u

ooooo

v

beh

w

doble

x

equis

y

griega

z

seta

 

This is the Spanish alaphbet. This shows how to properly prononce the letters.

If someone asked me to spell my name (Robbie) it would be ereh  o beh beh eeeeee eh.

 

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