Discussion of octamum vs China's one-child policy

Today in Humanities, we discussed what we preferred: octumum vs China's one-policy. We mostly choose somewhere in the middle because we thought that people should make their own choices for having how many ever children but we also thought that maybe the population would overflow just in one place (if that's where how many ever children have been born). We also thought about how many children the government should allow one couple should have. Maybe the maximum should be 5 or 6 and the minimum should be no children. I think that we should be able to have as many children as we like as long as we are able to take care of them, able to handle it and to give them the all the same amount of love they all need ( which I think is impossible to give 14 kids). 

There is a limit to everything but 14 kids...

In Humanities the other day we read an article on a girl that lives in California, got married and had 6 kids (sextapluts ) one after the other. Her husband did not want more kids and divorced her. With no husband, she had 8 embrios put in her stomach. About 9 months later, she gave birth to not only one more kid, but 8 more kids. So now she has 14 kids including the 6 kids before.

Back to humanities, after reading the article individually, we had to fill out a sheet of paper called the "9-6-3 stradgedy". After doing that we were assighned a number, 1 or 2, and were to find a partner from the same number as you. We were then supposed to share what we had put down on our sheet of paper. If we did not have something the other person had on their sheet of paper, we could add that into our sheet of paper. We were then mixed up into a group which had to 1's and 2 2's. Then we could share what we thought how many children the parents should have. 

I think people should have the maximum of three or four children because it will be easier to cope with and you won't waste money on things, and bills won't be as much as this lady in California has. Also you will have more time to spend with each and every one of your kids for I have seen some people that don't spend time at all with half of their kids because they have so many kids.

At the end of the class we had a "fishbowl''. "Fishbowl" is when you have five people in the center of the room and they have to discuss the question that the teacher gives us. If the question is about why little Johnny crossed the street we have to discuss why little Johnny crossed the street. When someone from the discussion is tapped by someone that is outside of the discussion group the person inside will have to get up.We discussed about how many children the government should let us have. We did not get to finish our discussion completely as we did not have much time. Even though, I would strongly agree that this time the "Fishbowl" was so much more organized as no one jumped in just after a second.

Interpretation of Sonnet #7 by William Shakespeare.

Today in class we were split into groups and were given the choice of wheather to act out, make a drawing or make music of what we thought this poem meant:

SONNET 7
Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage;
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:
So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon,
Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son. What I understand from this poem is that when the Sun rises everyone admires it even though it is at it's peak in the middle of the day. But once when the Sun is setting people turn their attention else where. The poet is  making a comparison between youth and old age. In youth you are looked upon and in old age you are 'ignored unless you have a son.