Read the excerpt from jackson’s blog. learning to speak a new language is one of the best decisions i ever made! this summer, i traveled throughout japan with my robotics team and was able to communicate with almost everyone we met. next year, i’m planning to live in japan as an exchange student. i think it will me improve my japanese reading and writing skills. i hope all my friends get inspired to learn a language, too! the purpose of jackson’s blog is to advertise foreign language lessons. entertain with humorous anecdotes. persuade readers to learn a language. teach readers how to speak japanese.

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.