William+Shakespeare

__William Shakespeare __ __** William Shakespeare Biography **__ William Shakespeare died on 23rd of April 1616, his actual birthdate is uknown, but people estimated that he was born in April 1564 in Stratford, he was baptised on 26th of April 1564. He was a famous english poet and playwright, he was also a dramatist. He was often called the "Bard Of Avon." His father was John Shakespeare. His mother was Mary Arden. He was a successful member of a council. Many people regarded him as the greatest writer in literature.

He was married to Anne Hathaway at the age of eighteen. He had three children. He started a career as an actor. He retired in around 1613 and died three years later.

(where he lived) __** What Inspired William Shakespeare? **__ Many people believed that Shakespeare was good at writing in school that is what inspired him to be a writer. Some said that money inspired him. There was not alot of record on Shakespeare's life because there was no biography written in his times. When Shakespeare was young, he studied Greek and Latin, also Romantic classics, this is what actually inspried him.

__** His achievements **__ William Shakespeare was well educated and wrote lots of great plays and poems and so on. Some people believed that he was meant to be "The God Of Literature". He successfully made lots of plays and they turned out to be very famous in English Literature. William Shakespeare wrote most of his work between 1589 and 1613. The plays that he wrote earlier were mostly comedies or histories. Before 1608 he mainly wrote tragedies, one of the tragedies were "Macbeth". Many of his plays were published and were tanslated into major languages. But however, his reputation only started to rise during the 19th century. He was respected by lots of people. Some of his plays were presented on the london stage by 1592. His date of death has been remebered as St George's day. __** Some of Shakespreare's famous works: **__ (where shakespeare lived)
 * As you like it (Comedy)
 * Henry V (History)
 * Romeo and Juliet (Tragedy)
 * The Sonnets (Poetry)
 * King John (History)
 * Twelfth Night (Comedy)
 * Hamlet (History)
 * The Taming of the Shrew

__** Why he is considered to be a groundbreaker and whether or not he fits the definition **__ William Shakepeare is considered a groundbreaker because he achieved many things that others could not achieve, his works inspired lots of people. His most popular works were the "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet". He was a respected poet. His work was good quality. A ground breaker means somebody who broke a record or achieved something new, better than others. He fits into the definiton because his writing skills were better than lots of people the work he produced were published and it's quite popular.

__** Famous quotes written by William Shakespeare: **__ "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. "

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. "

__** Part 3 --Reflection **__ __** What is success? **__ Success should be considered as your lifetime in the long term, the peace, joy and happiness you have during life. Being eternally faithful to people. You have to enjoy life to gain success. Some people just let time pass by and not do anything, this is not a success of life. A success depends on what you gain in life, the things you do whether if its correct or not.

__** Personal qualities needed for success **__ We need to trust ourselves to be able to success, we need to have kindness and forgive people when they do things wrong. We cannot give up, otherwise we will not succeed. We have to show initiative and punctuality to do things better than others so we will be successful.

__** Form your own definition of success (Ms Rogge's Workshop). **__ A successful start is to focus on your strengths and to be committed to what you truly like. We need to have the ability to be coaching somebody. We need to have a stabled target and follow it. We need to achieve and pursue targets to success. We have to learn to let go of things that will stop you from succeeding. We need to be a part of something to be able to do it. A success starts with having a clear understanding and knowing who you exactly are.

__** What did you learn during Ms Rogge's workshop? **__ I learned that before you can be successful, you'll need to be able to define it. Success is not an easy job to do.

__** Why do people fall short of achieving their potential? **__ People fall short of achieving their potential because they don't want to try they are too lazy and has lack of motivation they don't try hard and give up easily so they'll never improve and achieve their targets although they know they could be much better than that.

__** Why does God want us to achieve our full potential? **__ I believe that God created us was for us to have a chance to give us a try on new things so he expects us to work hard and make miracles happen. So we have to do what we can do.

__** What do you think about his WIKI project - compared to a written assignment? What do you like and dislike? **__ I would rather do a Wiki Prject instead of an essay because essays are written so you have to plan first on the computer if you do something wrong its easy to reverse. I like the Wiki thingy because we can copare it with others but however i don't like the format, i would rather do it in a Word document.

__** Dictionary Defintion (This is from dictionary, not in my own words link is also attached in Bibliography) **__ 1. The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted 2. a. The gaining of fame or prosperity b. The extent of such gain. 3. One that is successful 4. Obsolete A result or an outcome.

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