Homework - Internet

Due date: June 24th

There should be a time limit on Internet use so people can do useful things. Discuss.

Frankeinstein text

Frakeinstein is a famous book written by Mary Shelley. It is composed by letters, written by Robert Walton, to his sister, Margaret. The first one is written when Walton is at St. Petersburg. The Russian city is his fist step for starting his adventure. Robert tells his sister about how this is a dream coming to reality (he dreamed to travel to North Pole and study this region since he was a boy).
In letter 2, Walton is in Archangel searching for sailors to accompany him. In the letter, Robert writes Margaret the sentence "what can stop the determined heart and resolved will of men" (which I found very intelligent, because, if we think about it, is a very genuine sentence: we never give up of our dreams when we are very determined to achieve it!). He tells her about the history of the men he hired as well.
29 days passed from letter 3 (the shortest letter of the book, in which Robert announces his departure) until letter 4. In this last letter, Walton narrates a strange accident that happened. The ship got stranded. Sometime later, the attention of the sailors was attracted by a sled, ridden by a giant man, that rapidly passed in front of the ship. The next day, Robert sees a man being removed from the sea by his sailors. The ice broke during the night and he nearly died. He is exhausted, and almost frozen. Walton wants to asks him thousands of questions, but prefers to let the man relax. However, the lieutenant decides to ask him why he was in such a far region in such a strange vehicle. The man answers that he was following one who fled from him.
Time passes and Walton starts loving his new "passenger" as a brother, who is very polite, quiet, and seems to be a true gentleman.
8 days passes when Walton starts to write again. After learning about Robert's project, the man gets impressed. He believes Walton is going to have the same faith he had. He then starts to tell his story, to which Walton listens attentively.

Cacao 70

Located in Montreal, Canada, Cacao 70 is an unconvecional restaurant specialized in cholocate-made sweets. There, you can taste chocolates from all around the world, and with different concentrations of cocoa. As the winter in Montreal is very harsh, you can have one of their 10 different types of hot chocolate there. If you're going there with your friends, you can also taste a plate that is called "Cacao 70", which is the restaurant's typical plate. It has small portions of all their specialities, like brownies. waffles, fondue (the chocolate "sauce" is made from the hot chocolate) and, obviously, chocolate. The plate serves 2-3 people, so it's a great option for you and your friends.
There is only one Cacao 70 store in the whole city, but it's worth the visit!

The Snow Festival

Every year, during the month of January, in Montreal, the Snow Festival happens. It is a festival to celebrate winter. There, you can go skiing and ice skating,  go down a mountain using a sled, and practice many other winter sports. If you prefer a less radical activity, you can have lessons of snow sculptures, or have a ride in a sled pulled by snow dogs, which is a great option if you have children. You can also visit a complete ice made hotel, and if you want, you can spent a night there. If you get hungry, you can try some Canadian typical foods, like Beavertail.
The Snow Festival is ideal for people that have never seen snow, but if you are accustomed with it, you can also have fun!

Macbeth adaptation

Once upon a time, there was a football player who played at Santos, a football team from Brazil, called Jean. When he was 18 years old, he was playing very well, and was called by the coach to play his first professional match in his career. Jean played very well and scored 2 goals. After this great performance, a famous football critic said that, soon, he was going to be the main striker in Santos, and after, the best player in the world.
Time passed and Jean got his place at the main team. After a great season, he was elected the best player of the tournament. When Jean discovered that, he remembered the words from the critic. Amazed by the idea of being the best player in the world, he requested to be transferred to an European club.
After a long negotiation, Jean was sold to Manchester United, a great club from England, for £15.000.000. He started playing very well, and again, got a place in the main team. But the obsession with being the best player in the world made Jean start cheating. He started to use doping, to improve his performance.
Jean played very well, and was nominate to be the best player in the world. Most polls in the web indicated that, according to 70% of people, the Brazilian should win the prize.
The day when the result would be revealed arrived. Everyone expected Jean to win. But, during the ceremony, before revealing the winner, the FIFA president announced that Jean was out of the dispute, because the exams he made before the ceremony revealed the use of doping by the Brazilian.
After learning that, the Manchester United's manager decided to dispense Jean. No one wanted to contract him, and he had to end his career, ending with it a great talent destroyed by his one and only cheating act.

Prometheus

To us it seems that Hermes' speech is to the point.

What he commands to you is to relax from your

self-will and seek the wisdom that's in good advice.

Do as he says, since wrong is shameful in the wise.

--The Chorus, Prometheus Bound

In Ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus was said to be the wisest of all the Titans. In the form of fire Prometheus is credited with bringing mankind knowledge and enlightenment. He stole fire from the Gods of Mount Olympus. For acting against the decree of the Gods, who wanted to keep the power of fire to themselves, Prometheus was harshly punished. He was chained to a rock to have his liver eaten out every day by an eagle. Every night his liver would grow back. This was to be his punishment for all of eternity.

The full title of Mary Shelley's novel is Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that Mary Shelley was influenced by this tale. Her husband Percy Shelley even began composing his own tale of Prometheus in the form of a poem entitled, Prometheus Unbound. He began composing this work right around the same time that Mary was publishing Frankenstein.

Aside from the title, Shelley borrows from the tale of Prometheus a sense of consequence resulting from seeking enlightenment and power. Victor is her modern incarnation of Prometheus. He as Prometheus was, is fascinated by the power of electricity (lightning). We can recall from the narrative the moment when he becomes captivated by its fantastical power.

It is from this power, that he has equipped himself with, that the inner torture he will suffer from the use of it stems. Immediately following the creation if the creature, Victor is ill with disgust for what he has done. His torture mirrors that of Prometheus'; undying and eternal. From the beginning of the novel, when Victor warns Walton of the consequences of his quest, to the conclusion when Victor again reiterates the misfortunes he has suffered as a result of his curiosity, Mary Shelley mimics the Prometheus tale. Perhaps, this is why she saw it as a fitting subtitle.

Macbeth answer

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth relation is a very ambitous and evil relationship, in which Lady Macbeth forces his husband to be a person that he doesn't really is to get something she wishes anxiously (be the queen of Scotland).  But as time passes, thanks to his wife's pression, Macbeth starts to be the evil and cruel man her wife wanted him to be, sometimes even exceeding his wife level of evilness and ambition, murdering man after man to reach his goal. Even if Lady Macbeth tries to stop her husband, there is nothing she can do anymore. Thanks to Lady Macbeth, that woke up the bad Macbeth, and to Macbeth, that obeyed his wife even if he knew it was the wrong thing to do, Scotland is now condemned to a bloody reign.