Before Nap Time was a Good Thing

       Nap time, the most dreaded time for any pre schooler, a time of moans and groans and crys and screams, but now a time of relaxtion and pleasure. When i was little nothing seemed worse than taking out that plae blue cot and setting my pillow and blanket down upon it, it was a sign that nap time was approching. I would do anything to prevent that horrible time, and even if it did come i would rarely nap. But now looking back on it, I wish i still had that opportunity today. What used to be a nightmare then, seems like a complete blessing now.
     I remeber when I was little I would play all day amongst my fellow 2 year olds and have not even the slightest care in the world. I could do whatever, whenever, time would fly by, until the fun came to a halt and the teacher would would say, "It's time for nap time." From there complete chaos broke out, screams and crys, runnning children and hiding children. I was a crier i wanted nothing to do with the said  "nap time", I wanted to play and color not rest and listen to music.
     Once the chaos slowed to a mere disturbance, it was time to colloect our cots. Those cots were the worst part of nap time, they were heavy and extremly uncomfortable, and they were the sign that nap time was really here. After all the cots had found a nice place on the floor it was time to get our blankets and pillows, I was still crying at this point. It took afew times, but onced be comvinced that nap time would end, I stoped crying and found my cot.
      All the kids had now gotten situated on their cot and had laied down, some of the really tired ones had fallen asleep to the Mozart music, but not me. This hour would be the slowest hour of my entire day, but at the time must have seem like my entire life. I would lay their looking at the popcorm celing and listening to the boring music, that was on a  good day. On bad days nothing could stop me from crying, and i mena nothing.
       I rember on weekends I would stay home with my family, the four of us would normally just hang at home. We would have a nice breakfast and then watch tv and play with our toys. We would then have a nice big lunch and after we finished my mom would say, " All the princesses are really tired from their lunch and need to take a quick nap so that they can get more energy to play with the prince." This was not what this princess wanted. I wanted to play with all my toys and watch my tv, this princess wasn't tired she was wide awake or so she though.
       Today, at the age of 14, this princess would do anything to have a nap in the middle of her school day. Today I look foward to lunch just so that I don't have to do work, so to have an hour in the middle of my day would just be the greastes thing in the world. Nap time now is rare so if it were a scheduled thing my life would be 10 times easier. Overall if nap time were an option today, 1 minute or 1 hour, I would snatch it up in a heartbeat.
      Looking back on things I think i hated nap time so much because my day was filled with so much fun and friends that nap time was just major downer, and being a kid that word "tired"was alomst a dare and you would make sure that you werent tired and you'd do everyhting to show that you weren't. But now with my day consitting of class after class and work after work, anything seems better. And the word "tired" is something you take on as, "yeah I am tired, I am worn out, I did have a hard day, and a nap would sure seem great right now." So i t just leads me to believe that there might be things now that seem so bad, like homework and highschool, that might seem great in the future, so i just have to enjoy every bit of it.

Persuasive Arguments

I am strongly for the prosecution of Sir Edward Hyde and Sir Henry Jekyll. For starters I believe that although Mr.Hyde was "literally" the one who commited the crime Dr.Jeklly was the one who created him. So in actuality this crime was due to Dr.Jekyll. And although it was smart of him to create another personality ,Mr.Hyde, we know now that Dr.Jekyll created him because he wanted to let hit evil out. Dr.Jekyll wanted this evil side so bad that he tried deadly solutions and even after finding the right one, everytime he tried it put him through extreme pain. It just shows that although Mr.Hyde was created to do evil, this could have been Jekyll committing the crime. So even if we put away just Mr.Hyde, how do we know that Dr.Jekyll will not become evil himself one day and commit such an act. And after hearing Dr.Jekyll's statment we know that there is no way to put one in jail without the other, because Hyde may come out now whenever he pleases. So the only solution is to put Mr.Hyde and Dr. Jekyll in jail together.

Character/Theme

So far while reading The Strange Case Of Dr.Jeckyll and Mr.Hyde I have come across some intresting characters, by I think that Mr.Utterson is by far the most intresting of them all. I believe this because, alothough Dr.Jeckyll seems to be creating mystery and a bit of drama, Mr.Utterson, I feel, is the one who really is put in the middle of it and has to figure it out all on his own. One thing that really is displeasing about this character is that he is said to be one of the most intellegent people, and yet he can't even see what's right infron of him. For example, in several occasions the term "dissaperance"has been used twoard Dr.Jeckyll and not once has Utterson fully expanded on the word. Also Dr.Jeckyll has something to do with Mr.Hyde who has been sturring up drama and creating mischiefe. And lastly Dr.Lanyon, a once close friend to Dr.Jeckyll, pretty much died from something that Dr.Jeckyll did. Overall it seems that Mr.Utterson may be book smart but there is no way he is street smart.
I think that Stevenson is trying to get the theme that in the victorian era people wouldnt really know how to treat a matter as rare as this one. That they were'nt that good with common knowledge, not to bright, and maybe they could be smart but just couldn't piece the clues together. Therefore I believe that the theme here is, someone as smart as Mr.Utterson may not be as samrt as he appears.

"Story Of The Door" Reaction

         While reading the 1st chapter, "The Story Of The Door", in the book The Strange Case of Dr.Jeckyll and Mr.Hyde there was one passage that stood out to me most. After Mr.Enfield finishes his story about the door, Mr. Utterson asks Mr.Enfield to explain Mr.Hyde. And Mr. Enfield's reply shocks me greatly.
         Mr.Enfield explains that Mr.Hyde is not easy to describe, but there was something wrong, wierd, displeasing, but he could just not but it into words. And that Mr.Hyde gave off sense of deformity though none could be seen by the eye. Mr.Enfield ends with saying that there was just no words for Mr.Hyde and it was not because lack of memory because he could recall the moment right then and there.
         I remeber that during class we talked about how society was diffrent in the victorian age, that apperence, manners, and ego were a big thing. And this made me think about this passage, and that Mr.Hyde most likely was not deformed, and he was probably just a bit diffrent, shy, and weird, but that at tops. But Altough he had little manners, and he did not care all that much for his apperence and ego he was seen as deformed and unexplainable. This really made me realize how cruel the victorian age might have been. One wrong discion or bad outfit could ruin your reputation and could severly damage your personal life for a long time.The overall theme, i feel, is that reputation, apperence, and manners in the victorian age could make or brake you.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)

I read the article, Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder) on webMD.com. In this article it explains exactly what Multiple Personlity Disorder really is and what might cause it. Many beileve that it is an illness that is caused from repetitive physical or sexual abuse as a child. It is believed to be a copping excercise to block out the pain or somewhere the person does not wish to be. During this, the person will switch into the other "alter" known as the the "switching" period. "Switching" may take minutes, hours , or even days. The "alter" may have its own sex, race, age, posture, and even dialect, the "alter" may even be an animal. Overall Multiple Personality Disorder is a copping excercise that involves another personality practically living inside you, switching on when the person wishes to block someting out.Although i understand the basic idea of this illness I'm still not sure as to how it really takes play. I don't fully grasp how an entire new personality can just happen, how when someone wants to block out the pain there alter ego takes play. Where does the real person go? Where does this other personality come from? Does the real person know that someone is taking over their body, did they plan for the alter ego to kick in? I have so many questions it's just so hard to understand. I would like to meet someone who has this illness, but would they know they had it? All in all this illness it just way to complicated to grasp in one day and I'm hoping by reading the book Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde I will learn a little bit more about this overwhelming illness.