Brutus's Moral Dilemma

Brutus is facing moral dilemma and he is torn between the two sides. One one side there is Caesar, his good and loved friend. On the other side there is his beloved city, Rome. Cassius thinks that Caesar will take over power, and become a dictator because of that, and because he wants power for himself, Cassius wants to kill Caesar. Should Brutus do what's best for Rome, kill his friend Caesar or should he save his old friend and side with Caesar?
If I were Brutus, I wouldn't kill Caesar and I have a few reasons for that. First of all, Caesar would be my friend, and I'd love him. At one point in the book, Brutus says,"I would not, Cassius, yet I love him well..."(1:2:19) this shows that he loves Caesar. Another reason is that Cassius wants the power that Caesar has for himself, and that is one reason he goes against Caesar. At one point in the book he even suggests himself as a better leader. The third reason is that Caesar also wants the best for Rome. Caesar is a strong leader, he is smart and a good general. We know that he is a good general and that he can lead a group well because in Spain he defeated Pompey, who was a strong leader as well (see 1:1:1 in book. its when they celebrate that Caesar defeated Pompey). As you can see, I have many reasons for not killing Caesar.

Leadership

I think the qualities of a leader are different for every type of person. For shy people for example, qualities they must have are kindness and helpfulness. Outgoing and not shy people on the other side have to make the announcements and skits. Also, a leader has to be strong, emotionally and physically, but more emotionally so that they can handle different kinds of situations. For a good leadership, you need two types of people, shy and outgoing so that every person weather shy or not has a person to talk to. In our school I think Sophia is a good example of a leader. She is nice to everyone and always helpful as well. She can also be convincing and stop conflicts and things like that.

There are many similarities between countries and how they invaded weaker countries to build empires. One similarity is that they all took over countries because having many empires and colonies made their own country stronger. Another similarity is that they all invaded the weaker countries by violence and more moder technology that the other countries didn't have, like machine guns and steam engines. A third similarity is that they were all looking for natural resources like cotton, gold, oil or diamonds. Also, Europeans thought that brown and non- Christian people had no soul and that they because of that weren't fully human, but more half- devil and half- child. They used religion as an excuse for invading countries, so they converted the half- devil, half- child people to Christianity to make the more or fully human. One thing that became better was the schooling. There is one big difference though. When Southeast Asia and India were invaded, the invaders, which were the Europeans and Americans, took all their food causing a starvation. The Middle East and Africa were invaded for other reasons like gold, diamonds and oil which didn't cause them to starve. As you can see, imperialism is usually similar, with just some differences which are because of the country they were taking over and their natural resources.

1st Quarter Reflection and 2nd Quarter Goals

My first quarter goals were to improve my geographic knowledge and my punctuation. I think I did a good job meeting both of my goals. The two minute tuneups really helped me with my geographic knowledge. We had similar questions every time, which helped me really remember names of rivers, capital cities, continents, etc. we wrote about three long and important writing pieces. When I wrote these, I really thought about my punctuation and I think it has improved a lot.
Since i have completed my first quarter goals, I have to make three new ones for the second quarter. My first second quarter goal is to get a good grade on our first 5 paragraph long research paper. My second goal is to improve my writing skills. I want to use more vivid and strong verbs. The third second quarter goal is to improve my grammatical skills, like punctuation and vocabulary.