4. Who we are--our essential character and temperament--is fixed and unchangeable.
I strongly disagree with this, humans change all the time based on their past conditions. I've changed as I've grown up to become more and more hardworking as my parents have raised me to be like. I think in Macbeth, he changes from a honest gentlemen into a backstabbing subordinate, because he had an experience with the three witches.
8. If something is destined to happen, it will happen without your interference. I agree, sometimes we think we need to interfere and it happens because we interfere, but when it was told to happen, whoever said it would happen knew that the person would interfere to make it come true, so in a way, we do let it happen. In Macbeth, I think that the fact that he's interfering is him letting it happen to him. I let things happen very often, when Christmas comes around, I know I'm going to get morning presents, but I don't exactly strongly hint to my parents that we need to have presents on Christmas day or anything.
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Nervous Conditions Vocabulary Quiz
April 10-1 hour
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Nervous Conditions Playlist
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Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
April 13- 3 hours, pages 3-110
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For your second statement, I partially agree but for the most part I don't. Things that are destined to happen will happen but you must assist it along the way. Getting presents on Christmas morning is going to happen because it is tradition and a tradition that has been developing for a long time. If I want to become a professional ballerina and I am destined to be one, then I have to work for it. I won't just wake up one day with a principal role in the New York City Ballet's Nutcracker...
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