BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS

King Duncan is visiting Macbeth's castle. Macbeth has to kill him but he begins to have doubts. If it could be all finished and done with when it’s done then it may as well be done quickly. If only the repercussions of the murder could be controlled. If only all the danger could end with Duncan’s death, if only we could escape the consequences of our actions here on earth. The trouble was that we have choice: we havefreedom of choice. But if we choose violent options they come back to plague us. Also, the King trusted him completely. Macbeth was his cousin and his subject and his host. 

HAMLET

PLOT
Hamlet is a young prince in Denmark who was supposed to become king when his father died. Instead, his uncle Claudius took the throne and married Hamlet's mother. Hamlet meets a ghost of his dead father, who tells him that he was poisoned by Claudius and demands that Hamlet kills Claudius in revenge. Hamlet has to kill Claudius. He  gets into an argument with his mother. Someone moves behind a curtain and Hamlet, thinking it is Claudius, stabs him. It turns out that he has killed Polonius, a royal advisor and Ophelia's father. Ophelia after learning that Hamlet has killed her father, drowns herself. Hamlet reappears at Ophelia's funeral and gets into a fight with her brother Laertes who challenges Hamlet to a sword fight.  To get Hamlet killed, Claudius gets Laertes to fight with a sword that has poison on the blade, and brings some poisoned wine in case this does not work. The sword fight begins. During the sword fight they hurt each other with the poisoned sword and die. Meanwhile his mother drinks the poisoned wine by mistake and dies. 

In this soliloquy Hamlet thinks about life and death, the state of being versus the state of not being. He talks about all the things that annoy him about life, and says that the only action the can take against these things is to end his life. But he can't do that because the after death is unknown and it could be worse than real life, that's why he is scared. 

MIDDLE AGES

476 A.D: The fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages 



-622: Beginning of Islam & inventions 

GREEK FIRE

STIRRUPS

-700, the Anglo-Saxon.
https://michelaverde.blogspot.com/2019/02/beowulf.html

-800: Education for everyone, thanks to Charlemagne 

-1096: The Crusades 


-1066, the Norman Conquest by William the Conqueror
https://michelaverde.blogspot.com/2019/03/from-origins-to-middle-ages.html

-1216: First universities in Europe & inventions

UNIVERSITIES 

WINDMILLS

COMPASS

SPINNING WHEEL

- 1350: The plague / Black Death

- 1436: New invention, the printing press 

- 1492: Columbus discovers America

- 1500: A new era began, the REINASSANCE

FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE MIDDLE AGES.

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

FEUDAL SYSTEM

CHIVALRY

FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

CASTLES

HASTINGS CASTLE

BEOWULF

The epic poem Beowulf talks about a young warrior: Beowulf. He comes to the aid of the king of the Danes, Hrothgar, whose kingdom is being terrorized by a monster who is called Grendel. Beowulf uses all his strength and bravery to slay Grendel and also his mother. Beowulf kills him and his fame spreads, so later he becomes the king of Geatland and rules for fifty years. When a dragon begins to pose a threat to his land, Beowulf and his servant Wiglaf try to kill him. They succeed in slaying the dragon, but Beowulf dies during the process. 

THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE WORLD TODAY

-The situation of women in our world today is very important. There are many differences between richer and poorer countries. In industrialized countries more and more women have jobs and go to work, also they do not want to stay at home any longer. Meanwhile in developing countries the situation of women is different. Many of them stay at home and look after their children. Helping women in the Third World is very important. One of the key factors is education because women who go to school and maybe later on study at a university have higher chances of getting a job. Educated women also know more about health care. More than half of the 40 million people living with AIDS today are women. In Africa, more than 75 % of all AIDS victims are young women.

-The almost daily headlines about cruel acts of violence and discrimination against women provide plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about women’s equality and safety in today’s world. But there are also some reasons to hope. Women and girls have made important gains; gains that point to a much brighter future. Over the past several decades, the World Bank has been an important thought leader on the value of investing in women and girls. In 2001, the Bank released a seminal report which made the incontrovertible case that investing in girls’ education and other aspects of female empowerment is critical for poverty alleviation. More recently, the Bank devoted its annual World Development Report to women and girls. 
 


WOMEN TODAY

HEALTHY FOOD

Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy and improving your health. Eating a healthy diet doesn’t have to be overly complicated. The cornerstone of a healthy diet pattern should be to replace processed food with real food whenever possible and eat food that is as close as possible to the way nature made it. 


Here’s what U.S. News calls the best diet plans for 2018:

-DASH DIET
The DASH diet it’s characterized by a mix of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein and low-fat dairy. 

 






-Mediterranean Diet
The diet gets its name from the eating habits of people living in Mediterranean countries. The Mediterranean Diet meal plan is high in fruits and vegetables, fish, nuts and olive oil.

 









-Flexitarian Diet
The Flexitarian diet encourages people to eat vegetarian most of the time for better health, but doesn’t call for cutting out meat entirely.











-Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers is an especially popular diet. It works on a points system, where each food is given a number of points, and people are told a total number to aim for each day. 

 


-MIND Diet
The MIND Diet is supposed to help protect the brain and prevent Alzheimer’s disease. People are encouraged to eat vegetables, nuts, berries, beans, fish, poultry, olive oil and wine. They are also told to avoid foods like red meats, butter, cheese, sweets and fried or fast food.