Shakespeare Quotations

 

 

 

Jealousy

 

O beware of jealousy:

It is the green-eyed monster, which does mock

The meat it feeds on.

 

                                                                                                              Idem.

Bon Jour! France

Join me this week as I participate in the Europe: Simply Irresistible Party at Castles, Crowns, and Cottages. Lots of blogs are linked up with their Europe-themed posts. Make sure to check out the list for more!

My choice in Europe for this post is France.
I never really know why I love France, but everyone gets that at times.
My first love of France is the Eiffel Tower.

The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, by Alexandre Eiffel, for the World's Fair. It is located in Paris. It's structure is beautifully built.


Next, the language of France; le langue de France.
The language is in the group of the Romantic Languages, including Spanish and Italian. The language was developed from Latin, created by Julius Caesar in the 50's B.C. He called it Gaulish, but later on in the 700's it was called French. Many English words come from the French language, such as abandon, absence and accident.


Next in line is the French food.

The cooking of France was considered an art, and still is. Their haute cuisine (gourmet cooking) is known all throughout the world. The famous crepes, quiche and croissant is a delicacy to the French menu.


Last, I want to introduce the Founding Father of Modern Chemistry, who named Oxygen...Antoine Lavoisier.

In each country, everyone has a person they admire. Mine is Lavoisier.
Not only does he come from France, but he is an amazing scientist and created many inventions that we still use today.
To learn more about Lavoisier, visit my biographical post on him: http://thoughtsfromayoungwriter.blogspot.com/2014/07/antoine-laurent-lavoisier-father-of.html

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier: The Father of Modern Chemistry

Lavoisier was born on Aug. 26, 1743, in Paris, France, about the time the French and Indian War started.
He was born into a wealthy family of French society, with a father in the Parliament of Paris, as an attorney.
After Lavoisier's mother's sudden death, he inherited a large fortune at the age of 5, and at the age of 11, he attended the College des Quatre-Nations (the College of Four Nations), in Paris.
He studied chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematics.
Soon later, he entered the School of Law, and at the age of 20, in 1763, he received his bachelor's degree, and the next year, his licentiate.
In 1771, Lavoisier, at 28, married a wealthy 13 year-old girl named Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, who, later on, wrote down notes and translated English documents to Lavoisier, including Kirwen's "Essay on Phlogiston", and Priestly's research.
One of Lavoisier's inventions that amazed me was the Metric system, which is a group of units that is used to make any kind of measurement, which is still used today.
Many of Lavoisier's experiments includes:

Combustion studies

Gunpowder commissions

Stoichiometry

Chemical nomenclature

and the Respiratio physiology

A dear friend, Pierre Simon Laplace, helped Lavoisier with many of these experiments.

One thing that interested me was that Lavoisier named two elements in our periodic tables: Hydrogen and *Oxygen*.

The name Oxygen means "acid producer".

Lavoisier took the Greek words "oxys" (meaning "acid" or "sharp") and "gignomei" (meaning "produce") and formed "oxygen".

He and many other chemists found that this substance is part of several acids.

Lavoisier incorrectly believed that oxygen was needed to make all acids.

In 1793, Lavoisier was forced to move from his house and laboratory at the time of the French Revolution, having been found a partner in a firm that collected many taxes for the government at the time of the Revolution.

Lavoisier and many other tax collectors were brought on trial on May 8, 1794.

The judge believed that (in French) "La Repulique na pas besion de seavants ne de chimists; le cours de la justice ne peute etre suspendu."

(Translation) "The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists; the course of justice cannot be delayed."

Lavoisier, at 50, was guillotined that day.     

To this day, Lavoisier's name is all over France and America.  

One of the main "lycees" (high schools) and a street in France were named after him. His name is one of the 72 names of eminent French scientists, engineers and mathematicians inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.

Lavoisier inspired me to study science and chemistry, and has helped me to know more about the science in life.

*Oxygen makes about a fifth of the air's volume. It is found in the earth's crust and in water.

100 lb. of the earth's crust contains 49 lb. of oxygen.

100 lb. of water contains 89 lb. of oxygen.

This kind of oxygen is not pure.

Almost half of the weight in most rocks and minerals is oxygen.

Oxygen has an atomic number of 8, and an atomic weight of 15.9994.

It will only liquefy up to 118.8 C.*

Callie's Contest of Courage by Jan May Book Review

This review copy was given to me by Jan May, the author of, "Callie's Contest of Courage." All opinions are honest and are my own.

Book Description: "Eleven-year-old Callie Fleming is a passionate animal lover!
She's been waiting all year to enter photos in the I Love Nature Photo Contest. Her dad, who is the coolest dad in the world, is an award winning photographer and Marine Corps Reserves Sergeant. She is counting on his help to win. But when her father is untimely deployed overseas and becomes strangely silent to her emails, she finds her whole world crashing down on her. Can she muster up the courage to step out on a journey that whisks her away from all the things she loves?"

                                                    My Review


This book is an amazing story about an eleven-year-old girl named Callie Fleming, and how she finds courage to pray for her father, who is an award winning photographer and a Marine Corps Reserves Sergeant.
When her father becomes mysteriously silent to her emails, she begins to worry.
Will she ever see her father again?
It is an amazing story about faith and trust in God.
I enjoyed this story for many reasons: the prayers the scripture verses, the contests and Callie's prayer through a storm.
This book took me on an excellent journey, and I believe girls seven to eleven will quite enjoy this adventure, and many more New Millennium Girl books to come.

Shakespeare Quotations

Authority

Could great men thunder

As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,

For every pelting, petty officer

Would use his heaven for thunder--

Merciful heaven!

Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulohurous  bolt,

Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak,

Than the soft myrtle!-- O, but man, proud man!

Drest in a little brief authority--

Most ignorant of what he's most assured,

His glassy essence,--like an angry ape,

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,

As make the angles weep.

                                                                                                     Measure for Measure--II.2.

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Age

My May of life

Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf:

And that which should accompany old age,

As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,

I must not look to have; but, in their stead,

Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath,

                                      Which the poor heart would feign deny, but dare not.

                                                                                                                     Macbeth--V.3.

Shakespeare Quotations

Braggarts

They that have the voice of lions, and the act of hares, are

they not monsters?

                                                                                                           Troilus and Cressida--III.2.