Today in History class, we learned all about our nation's system of checks and balances and the three braches. The Legislative branch has control over approving presidential nomination, the budget, passing laws over veto, impeaching the president, and impeaching judges. The Judicial branch has the power to declare what the other branches are doing as unconstitutional if they do not follow our nation's constitution. The Executive branch has control over nominating judges and vetoing congressional legislature. It is important that the three branches have checks and balances because otherwise, branches could become more powerful than others.
Today in English we took a quiz on Greek Tragedys and Greek Tragic Festivals. We also took a long list of notesabout the Elements of a Tragedy. In a Tragedy, there is a heroic main character with a Tragic flaw, which eventually leads to this character's downfall. Something that really specifies tragedies is that the tragedy could have been avoided. If the tragedy could not have been avoided, then the story would not be a tragedy.
What we learned in History today reminded me of a book we read last year for english called Lord of the Flies. In this book, a group of boys are stranded after a plane crash and have to fight for their survival as a group by working together and setting up their own mini government. The mini government set up by the boys is similar to our government, but not nearly as strong so the power becomes taken over by one of the boys and used wrongly. This book made me realize how lucky we are to have such a stable setup of our goverment with checks and balances, making it so power can not become corrupt like it does in Lord of the Flies.
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