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Blackwater

Erik Prince multi-millionaire and right-wing christian republican running one of the world’s largest mercenaries army in Iraq and Afghanistan along with Prince’s company is an overwhelming rise of privatized warfare an issue that was under my radar until I discovered Blackwater. Jeremy Scahill investigates deeper into the rise and continual thrive of Blackwater only that hardly any of the information is his own. Blackwater is more of an encyclopedia source for information on Blackwater, it would be much better suited if it was a huge left-wing democratic Wikipedia page with links that brought you write to the article in its entirety. This information has been available in the media for years why it was under most people’s radar is a mystery. When reading this book it did offer concessions of both sides but Jeremy mainly pointed out the details of Blackwater’s weaknesses like bloody Sunday and other civilian casualties at the hand of Blackwater Mercenaries.

Blackwater is not the only type of military forces that have mistreated Iraq’s citizens, right here in Canada there is continual debate about the torture of Afghan detainees stemming back all the way to 2005 under the Paul Martin Liberal government. I still remember very vividly the United States armies mistreatment of war prisoners, all the pictures scattered over the Internet of prisoners stripped and thrown into a pile of other naked prisoners. Mistreatment of prisoners and civilians is not all the private warfare mercenaries fault many national defense armies mistreat the detainees, prisoners, and civilians with little capital punishment and accountability which should be far more shocking than private warfare scandals.

Blackwater exposes the workings of the corporate company Blackwater USA but in the movie Shadow Company it focuses on the complete documentation on private military contractors and exposes not just these private companies but the evolution of how small private military firms like Blackwater turned into multi-million dollar corporations. Shadow Company also follows British contractors on a very personal level. When I was watching the film I got a real sense that these contractors only take up the role because they have left the military and have no other skills to use so they use this for a quick buck. I had a real shiver when watching the film when for no reason the contractors open fired on civilian vehicles while driving in an armored vehicle simply just because they could. The mercenaries know that they are not subject to any law and with the increase of private companies the Middle East is starting to look more like a classic cowboy paradise with no laws, accountability, just guns and cash.

A mercenary is a contractor that does not fight for a country, does not fight for a purpose, but collects the dollar when the fighting is all said and done. I am all for private enterprising but there has to be limits upon which corporations can act. If corporations specifically Blackwater do not stand by societal ethics and natural laws of society then we need to look at the mercenaries themselves and teach them a lesson in natural law. If the Blackwater contractors have any sense of natural law they would uphold to the values of human life while still continuing the pursuit of wealth. I have the right to pursue wealth in any way that I can and I have no problem with private warfare companies doing the same. Where there is a demand these companies bring in the supply and there is a market made for private security. Let the forces of supply and demand do their work but let the supply be subject to natural law and the accountability for their actions when they are not just in all places and at all times.

Blackwater is a great book of sources but the author was very one-sided in his approach. I had a difficult time in trying to find fair balanced quotations and sources. The reporting in the book that was done by Jeremy himself the information was based on pure opinion and it was hard to differentiate what was fact and opinion even with the cited sources. During one point of the book it really began to feel like Jeremy was started to cite his opinion and discontent about the war, “The Iraq war is bad and as such, everything associated with that war is bad too,” that is not journalism that is pure opinion. Sections of this book really started to make me doubt the sources and the context in which the sources were used but I was able to get past that. Blackwater is an informative read, it is filled with exposure to the private warfare world and the huge Blackwater war machine mercenary army that is gaining more political power with the intensity of the war on terrorism. With the plan for Iraqi troop pullout in sight it is important to give Blackwater a lot of attention and a read to fully understand the history of the war on terror and the continual thrive of the private warfare industry and the effect it will have on in the future of war.

Tags: blackwater jeremy scahill, blackwater mercenaries, bloody sunday, erik prince, private military contractors, private warfare, shadow company
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Blackwater

Erik Prince multi-millionaire and right-wing christian republican running one of the world’s largest mercenaries army in Iraq and Afghanistan along with Prince’s company is an overwhelming rise of privatized warfare an issue that was under my radar until I discovered Blackwater. Jeremy Scahill investigates deeper into the rise and continual thrive of Blackwater only that hardly any of the information is his own. Blackwater is more of an encyclopedia source for information on Blackwater, it would be much better suited if it was a huge left-wing democratic Wikipedia page with links that brought you write to the article in its entirety. This information has been available in the media for years why it was under most people’s radar is a mystery. When reading this book it did offer concessions of both sides but Jeremy mainly pointed out the details of Blackwater’s weaknesses like Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday and other civilian casualties at the hand of Blackwater Mercenaries.

Blackwater is not the only type of military forces that have mistreated Iraq’s citizens, right here in Canada there is continual debate about the torture of Afghan detainees stemming back all the way to 2005 under the Paul Martin Liberal government. I still remember very vividly the United States armies mistreatment of war prisoners, all the pictures scattered over the internet of prisoners stripped and thrown into a pile of other naked prisoners. Mistreatment of prisoners and civilians is not all the private warfare mercenaries fault many national defense armies mistreat the detainees, prisoners, and civilians with little capital punishment and accountability which should be far more shocking than private warfare scandals.

Blackwater exposes the workings of the corporate company Blackwater USA but in the movie Shadow Company it focuses on the complete documentation on private military contractors and exposes not just these private companies but the evolution of how small private military firms like Blackwater turned into multi-million dollar corporations. Shadow Company also follows British contractors on a very personal level. When I was watching the film I got a real sense that these contractors only take up the role because they have left the military and have no other skills to use so they use this for a quick buck. I had a real shiver when watching the film when for no reason the contractors open fired on civilian vehicles while driving in an armored vehicle simply just because they could. The mercenaries know that they are not subject to any law and with the increase of private companies the Middle East is starting to look more like a classic cowboy paradise with no laws, accountability, just guns and cash.

A mercenary is a contractor that does not fight for a country, does not fight for a purpose, but collects the dollar when the fighting is all said and done. I am all for private enterprising but there has to be limits upon which corporations can act. If corporations specifically Blackwater do not stand by societal ethics and natural laws of society then we need to look at the mercenaries themselves and teach them a lesson in natural law. If the Blackwater contractors have any sense of natural law they would uphold to the values of human life while still continuing the pursuit of wealth. I have the right to pursue wealth in any way that I can and I have no problem with private warfare companies doing the same. Where there is a demand these companies bring in the supply and there is a market made for private security. Let the forces of supply and demand do their work but let the supply be subject to natural law and the accountability for their actions when they are not just in all places and at all times.

Blackwater is a great book of sources but the author was very one-sided in his approach. I had a difficult time in trying to find fair balanced quotations and sources. The reporting in the book that was done by Jeremy himself the information was based on pure opinion and it was hard to differentiate what was fact and opinion even with the cited sources. During one point of the book it really began to feel like Jeremy was started to cite his opinion and discontent about the war, “The Iraq war is bad and as such, everything associated with that war is bad too,” that is not journalism that is pure opinion. Sections of this book really started to make me doubt the sources and the context in which the sources were used but I was able to get past that. Blackwater is an informative read, it is filled with exposure to the private warfare world and the huge Blackwater war machine mercenary army that is gaining more political power with the intensity of the war on terrorism. With the plan for Iraqi troop pullout in sight it is important to give Blackwater a lot of attention and a read to fully understand the history of the war on terror and the continual thrive of the private warfare industry and the effect it will have on in the future of war.

Tags: afghan detainees, blackwater jeremy scahill, blackwater mercenaries, bloody sunday, civilian casualties, erik prince, private military contractors, private military firms, private warfare, shadow company
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Human Purity Experiences Reality

No matter how I live life optimism and pessimism are shaped from experiences and the environment and how I perceive my worldview. In today’s society it is never enough no matter what we do, there is a push for perfection among all of society. It is most hard hit on students, the marks determine our future lifestyles, jobs, and careers. I have to work hard or else no one would want me, a very harsh reality from experience. My experiences define how I examine my life.  An optimistic view would to be find that life is a journey to help others, while pessimistic view would to believe that life is a series of challenges and to overcome all the hardships. William Blake in both chimney sweepers shows how innocence can be an optimistic in theory but in the real experience a more pessimistic view is prevalent. During the romantic time period poem and art was a reaction against the the enlightenment thinkers which, thought rational thinking and reason was the primary source for legitimacy and authority. William Blake in the Chimney Sweeper shows how optimism can hold innocence while experience brings out the pessimism in the human soul.

Chimney sweeper in songs of innocence has an optimistic take on life and is a journey of overcoming death, betrayal, and can be seen as exposure to the horrible conditions for the upper class to see in a hope to lobby for a better quality working conditions directed toward the class of rising child labourers. The deaths of his fellow sweepers does not face the chimney sweeper for that he feels he will go on to the better place of heaven were he will be a son of God and not have to work anymore. The chimney sweeper is very innocent in thought, a very young age and is forced to work but it is for the better, all the chimney sweeper has to do is do his duty here on earth and his reward will come later on in heaven when he dies.

In Chimney sweeper the songs of experience Blake has a very dismal pessimistic view on life which reflects into a protest against the working conditions and life at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Blake illustrates that the only thing to look forward to is death. His parents go to church and tell him to be happy just to simply get through this life and die and look forward to the afterlife. Blake clearly demonstrates in the last stanza that the church makes light on the horrific lives that the people are enduring. On the outside the child is showing that he is happy but deep down  his work has crippled him on the inside and blames his state of misery on his parents and God, the priest and king.

Taken together the chimney sweeper demonstrates my outlook of optimism and pessimism changes from the innocence of the sweeper to his very reality and life that he has endured from his experiences as a chimney sweeper and is clearly illustrated by the colours black and white. The colour of white so hopeful, praising, free-willed, spirited and pure. Black the colour of shame, hopelessness, doubt, and the reality of being trapped in the enclosure of a chimney until death. “Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head’s bare, you know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.” The innocence and purity of the child’s soul is represented by the white hair and with it gone Tom can be hopeful that the soot or the sweeping does not damage his optimism on his life, duty, and his afterlife. When the sweepers meet their ultimate demise they are put in black coffins only to be released white naked and pure again to be the sons and daughters of God. In the song of experience the sweeper finds what life is really made out to be as he stands covered in black, a small speck in the white snow, shows how the world’s sin against child labour are only a small black speck which can not be understood, and is hardly seen by the rest of the world, which is why blake wrote the poem to open they eyes to the world for what is really happening.

Experiences determine as to what it means to be a human, as I continue to try to find out who I really am it is greatly founded on the experiences throughout life but during grade ten and eleven they have shaped  most of my beliefs and values. The core beliefs like hard work, dedication, and persistentence are what keeps me going even when it gets tofeel  like I am thrown to the ground and kicked in the face. The very values that have gotten me this far, just like the chimney sweeper are the values that bring me down the most, the feeling that I am not wanted and the very negative aspect of what life is. Even as I write this post I am going to be obliged to hand it in because no matter how hard I work on it and no matter how much time I spend on it I am going to hate it regardless of what everyone else thinks. When I think about the future and the what it holds my mind is a very optimistic attitude but just as blake has demonstrated in his songs of experience chimney sweeper the belief of pessimism is one that I hold more closely to myself than I do with optimism. I view life as a series of overcoming challenges, it is not a negative view I feel more powered and motivated to do the best I can and to work hard and continue on no matter what, just as the chimney sweeper keeps on his duty no matter how hard it is because the reward is at the destination of our journeys.

Romanticism: Art and Literature

Tags: chimney sweeper, enlightenment thinkers, son of god, songs of experience, William Blake, worldview
Posted in English 30, article

A Strange Request

Like every coin there are two sides to every person a public and private self. It is a sense of responsibility for people to not let these these two versions form into one. I find myself with a struggle to show the people in public the person I am but in private the search of meaning and my role in this world and my place within it. It is a very protected part of one’s self and even under the most extreme circumstances at all costs we try to protect this private self cause it is the only thing that we have that no one else can take away from us. It can only be exposed which that in itself loses our ability to have a sense of ourselves.

The darker side of human nature is to manipulate the minds of their true and best friends, for their own gain or for the gain of others whether it is helping a friend or not. I find it is much easier to deal with problems in isolation, solidarity and long periods of thought provoking sessions. It is only these periods of isolation that allow us to see what is wrong with ourselves and allow us to critically come up with solutions or a “where do I go from here” plan that keeps us on track. I have several friends when I can tell that something is wrong all they ever say is “Being alone is what I want. It’s the only way that I feel safe inside the darkness that is me must try and heal when sadness is in the eyes distance is the best friend.”  

There are few circumstances I would take into acccount to do such a thing for my friends parents. The only way I could try to find out what is wrong is if there was clear intent to cause harm to oneself or cause harm to another. If I saw my friend on a ledge I would do everything to stop them rather than sit back and watch them fall.  I expect the courage from my friend to come and talk to me if they feel hopeless and cannot help themselves. It is so difficult to try and feel for a close friend because I will never see my friends whole life, and I can never try my friends life.

I would feel so intrusive if I was requested to find out what is happening in my friends life, if it were to be justified I would feel I was doing a lot more good to my friend than harm. I also feel it would be part of the parents’ responsibility to find out why their child is acting strangely. They could very well be the solution or part of the problem as to why their child is acting strangely. It is human nature for an offspring to feel compelled to have a relationship with thier mother and father as they are the giver and keeper of life to the offspring. When one’s world falls to pieces, they feel that someone will still be there to pick them up.

Honesty, there are no shades of grey only the truth as it can be. With honesty towards a friend comes with the actions of honor which are the choices that I make that reflect who I truly am. By being straight and telling my friend up front what I am doing that is the only way to show that I am truly a friend and not against him or a servant to his parents. How are we suppose to help the ones that we love when we can not even tell them that we are helping them to begin with?

The greatest fulfillment is having a concrete relationship with others, one in which both persons are able to meet their psychological needs. Our needs of fulfillment, sense of worth, belonging and just the fact that someone who cares. The fact that someone who cares is one of the most important needs. The recurring question I have about society is always why is it so hard to find someone who cares about you, when it is easy enough to find someone who looks down upon you? The need of belonging and caring is what we all get out of relationships with one another.

The darkest side of human nature is that at some point we always feel that all hope is gone and all freedom is lost. We all need a reason to believe in something to control our fear, pick ourselves up when we feel down. The feelings that we need to be alone and away from it all is another part of the darker side of human nature. If God calls all of us to love one another and care for each other then why do we feel the need to be away from the ones that we love the most at times. Behaviour that most of us see as strange when we find another in that state but behaviour that is the norm when we find ourselves in the same situation, the greatest fear of human nature is the mysteries that surround it.

Tags: courage, darkness, human nature, isolation, private self, solidarity
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Dignity and Human Soul

Everyone human being has the right to life and dignity. God gave all individuals the right to ethical treatment, all individuals at birth have the right to life, speech and expression, and freedom. God made humans in the likeness and image of himself. God does not take the life away from the good, evil or even the wicked. Fate does not allow unruly and corrupt  tyrants  to kill, torture and rape an entire nation of life and dignity, we do. Society allows this because we are afraid of the violence and the measures that low life individuals will drop to. Murderers, drug users and abusers try to deprive us of our dignity and life. All these problems can be solved b solving one problem and the only problem with society is society itself. I am afraid of all people, it bothers street runners, high school drop outs, people that have chosen to live by survival rather than find justice in our communities. Just thinking about what people think of me makes me spiral to conformity. Seeing people choose to live their life like this makes me uneasy as these people are unpredictable, driven by anger and hate, and use substance and violence to deal with their life problems. Living in this town I have come to see the love, the hate and the world and community we choose to make with it. Few wave this flag of hatred but were the ones who allowed them to make it.

Everyday a new person is born into this world as it all falls apart. There is evil in the world because individuals create it. Everywhere I look the beauty of our god given rights of life and dignity are being destroyed and wasted in front of my eyes. I hear the hate in words, all the words that make me hurt. These words take all that  I stand for and contest my beliefs and challenge my faith. It shouldn’t be this way, I have the freedom to express my dignity as do all individuals not just in the community but in the world.  I don’t always stand up in what I believe in, there have been many times were my faith has been contested by hating words, I always seem to crack under crowds of people and pressure.  It takes so many things for me to have a good day but takes only one thing to have a bad day. Just one little comment I take offense to ruins my day.  What keeps me going is that all individuals with myself included all have a life and a soul to call our own. I have a conscience, a passion for absolute moral justice. Justice that is right all places in all times. Justice for people who waste their dignity, this justice can not be challenged, it is designed for the greater good that I want to see society become.

I have a choice as do all other individuals, I can fight for my dignity, my values that define me, and what I preserve most is my faith in God and the dignity of human life. In a time where millions fall only a few choose to make it through the hurt, pain, and misery of life. I can see that good men only come in few, I hope one day to be one of these few. Being a Christian is to be one of the few good people that follow the morals of what is fair and just. I am a believer in a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay.  Instead the evil fall victim to the low life dignity of leeching off of other’s to live, or crawl over other’s backs through drive and ambition to reach the top of ambition’s ladder. Once atop  after being helped there by other’s the individual turns their back and ascends to the top. Justice is blind, moral, fair and justice is for all.

As long as there are people in this world there will be evil. What tangled webs will these people weave, when they practice to deceive? I use the web because the people that waste their lives are like spider’s they spin a web of filth and try to capture other’s into. The spider then consumes the person before they even realize they had a choice in life. I wonder with all the evil in the world and so few good people in society to fight, how will we ever take down the flag of hatred few have created and raise one of absolute social justice? We allow evil in the world, God does not create it, he gives us life and dignity and the rest is up to us to decide what to do with it. How many heroes does evil kill a day? How many weapon’s does it create, and how many lives does it devastate?

When writing this I think about all the days in my life where I could have done something more to help those that will senselessly  die in gang wars, die from poverty, sickness and addiction. There are days when I feel I should have helped other’s more. It starts with good men, changing society, being the change that they want to see. I want to be the change in the world that I want to see. The only real threat to society is ourselves. I want to change a society to one that respects people’s dignity and human life. It will take all individuals starting with myself, all good men, all good women to resist the easy life of falling into a world of crime and hatred where evil exists and spurs into controlling other’s lives. It will take all good people to bring this society to the endless destiny that Jesus’ teachings have created for all humans. I can get there and so can all individuals. Do unto other’s as we would have them do unto us, life and dignity is our gift from God, what we do with it is our gift to God. There is no such thing as fate, only what I make.

Tags: anger and hate, conformity, dignity and life, ethical treatment, expression, fate, freedom god, right to life
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Pharisees Past and Present

This caused a conflict between the Pharisees and Jesus because one group believed that they were more worthy than other groups of people. Jesus was teaching all people were made in the likeness and image of God, this would have created conflict as Jesus wanted for all people to do unto others as they would have them do unto you. Seeing people as unclean and clean would have stirred emotions in Jesus and his followers as this was going against Jesus and his followers’ teachings’.

Today we have people that act like Pharisees and we have people that follow the teachings of Jesus, over two thousand years after Jesus’ death and we still have the same groups of conflict. The people that are prostitutes lepers, mentally ill and poor did not choose that for their way of life, they were forced into it to meet their basic needs. These are the people that are down in the world they look up at the Pharisees and they say “Save us,” the Pharisees look down and whisper “No.” The follower’s of Jesus are the people that want to help other people that are down in lower class of life, they run the food banks, soup kitchens, and are volunteers that try to make lower social classes have another path in life.

With all the economics that have evolved since the industrial revolution, with the classes of people that have all the money that they could ever want we still have people that class other’s as unclean. Everyone talks about how humankind has evolved towards a goal for a better world whether it be with technology, government, social organizations, or even people that recycle we still have a divide between Pharisees and follower’s today. In my mind the world has not come up with a solution since two thousand years ago for this conflict but it has only changed forms. These forms are not only in modern social classes but in forms of other nations seeing other countries as only developing and not developed. Countries and leader’s only look what is in the best interest for their country and their people and most importantly for their economy. It  will take a second coming of Jesus for all of us to realize that we have become Pharisees and we need to all become followers of Jesus.

Tags: image of god, industrial revolution, pharisees and jesus, social organizations, teachings of jesus
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God’s Gift

To see what God thinks about us, we have to first look at us and see what we think of ourselves. Jesus claimed that all people were created in the image and likeness of God. What is the image and likeness of God? Is it that we have an immortal and indestructible soul? Is it that we are called as Christians to help and love one another?

God thinks of us as only strengths and strengths that need to be improved. That is what God thinks about us as he does for every human. How I think about myself is not how God thinks of me. I can not think of many strengths or many activities that I am remotely good at. What I can think of is an endless lists of fears, and on that lists follows an infinite amount of things and activities that I fail at or can not do very well at all.

God looks at us by the root of our soul. God sees past all the physical features like race, size, everything that is physical does not matter to God. What really matter’s to God is how you shape your soul and how we act to one another. He sees how are souls are used, what we are is a gift from God but what we become is our gift to God He sees the souls that are wasted and instead of his teachings he sees his creations filled with sorrow, hopelessness, and anger. God thinks of us as all as his image as people but with different souls. I do not know if there is such thing as a good soul and a bad soul, God looks at our souls and sees if they are on the right path or following the teachings of Christ.

What I found that I am good at is pointing my weaknesses out, and hiding my strengths and I am more rapt with the concept of possible failure, than I am with absolute success. I can not with the life of me point out hardly any of my successes, but I sure can point out every failure, or imagine every possible failure that can come about. I want to become a decent person, believes in an honest paycheck for an honest day of work. I want to grow up to be a success, anything other than that to me is failure, but God sees it as a gift, and he thinks about all of us, equal in the humans, gives the gift of life to us, and what we do with our lives is our gift to him.

Tags: absolute success, failure, gift from god, image and likeness, image and likeness of god, sorrow, successes, teachings of christ
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What I am Becoming

I believe I am becoming a hard working individual. An individual that only expects the best from myself, but also is very disappointed and defeated when I do not meet the expectations. I am not sure what it is that I want to become, but I do want to start becoming a better individual in education and in the work world. A better more knowledgeable person.A person that can imagine what I want to become and what I have to start becoming to get there. I want to start becoming what I want to become early in my life, so for the rest of my life I can continue becoming the person I want to be and die to show what person I became.

What do I want to become? There are several paths that I have thought about taking the journey towards. I always had the thought of broadcasting, but it is expensive and in the long run several people have told me it is long hours and no money. There is no certain or definite path for that there is for me to take or dive straight into after high school.

There is just no future that I have planned for myself. The only real strengths that I possess are my language courses, social and English beyond that I really don’t have anything else, and there is especially no hope for me for anything with math or numbers involved or any other kind of courses. I always believed that it is not what you become but what are you becoming.

Becoming is the life struggle. Everything up to the point of become is a struggle. The one day when I become is the day that I die, because that is the day that I become one with God. Everything about becoming is a struggle. Becoming the best student or even a good student is a tremendous struggle. The struggle to pay attention to every teacher in every class for every minute of the day to absorb every detail and every piece of information. It’s a struggle beyond school to post secondary, a struggle to find a career, a struggle to support a family. The final struggle to my death hopefully not for a long time but that is a struggle to fight against. With each struggle there s a struggle to get out of the struggle.

It goes something like this, there is a hard life for every silver spoon, there is a touch of grey for every shade of blue, that is the way that I see life if there was nothing wrong then there would be nothing right. There is always something wrong in life that is sucking me down under, all there is to do is to pull yourself back on top of things and keep moving on. When I become one with God, everything that I will ever do will become everything that I have ever done. What I want to do is take each day a little bit more happier that the day before. Do a good deed more often than just when I really have to. I want to live the ideal life, finish school, retire after a successful career, raise a family and have a stable enjoyable life. I want to do all of these things so that when I become one with God, they will be everything that I have ever done.

Tags: definite path, education, God, journey, life struggle, money
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Overcoming Life

Everyday when you wake up the day becomes your obstacle. Even when you think you have no obstacles, there is always an obstacle weighing in on your life, time. Time before your life comes to a close as the day does, because each day finished is a day closer to death. Without the final hurdle of death before you spiritually ascend to heaven life would have no meaning. Everyday there is a challenge whether it is at school like an assignment quiz or test. These are small hurdles for me to overcome to reach the next goal and then to the next one and so on.

All of life is a challenge for something to conquer and overcome. There is always an obstacle that stands in our way. Death is a major one that can hinder our spirits and drive in ambition. It hurts the most when the death falls upon the people that helped us over these hurdles and give us ambition and teachings to never give up in life. To have ambition and to have the drive to continue no matter what is something that no one can take away from me. It is something acquired in the human spirit it is nothing materialistic. No one can take away the determination that I uphold, it is mine it is an identity.

I get put down and sometimes my spirit or my character and beliefs are beaten, this is only a test to see if I can overcome and preserver even through the harshest conditions. Life gives me tons of challenges to thin people, the ones that overcome them and live the life that they wanted to accomplish, other’s do not overcome all their challenges and they become suppressed from moving forward. It’s what makes people successful and other’s to take the easy way out and just give up. In my life I hope to accomplish everything I set out to do because in the the end everything I will ever do will become everything that I have ever done.

Tags: ambition, challenges, heaven, human spirit, hurdles, life time
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The Beast

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
And when he once obtains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.

-William Shakespeare

Ambition is young at heart in the human soul. It is overrun by the desire of greed, dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream, the dream of having it all. A man who is on top of the world and has it all wants more, there is no law with ambition it is appetite driven. Young ambitions ladder is to be helped up each step and after reaching the next step the next level, ambition drives the spirit to turn its back on the one that helped him get there. It is demon that is embedded in ones soul, once the demon is wrought in the metal of a soul it can not be ignored. It becomes a part of the soul a driven emotion, with no end in sight, it is pure and consequential. Ambition is the reflection of a dream and trying to impose it to become a true reality. William Shakespeare in Macbeth displays the great ambition and drive in the human spirit through metaphorical writings that illustrates philosophical reasoning that applies to modern generations in the world today.

Today the world is has no lack of starved ambition, it’s a driving force used in today’s society. Regular citizens that climb over each others backs to get the higher role to get the higher salary. People that waste their lives gunning for the next big break, the dark side of it is gang members murdering others to climb their way to the top. Tony Montana in Scarface played by Al Pacino raises awareness of immigrants in the 1980s coming to America and promoting the distribution of illegal narcotics. Macbeth and Tony fell to their fate from the top of the ladder from which ambition brought them. Macbeth a most loyal subject and kinsman was wrought by the ambition of Lady Macbeth and evil witches that reinforced the thoughts of ambition that had already existed. For Macbeth to become king it was an undertaking task that would mean Macbeth’s soul and turned out to be a life ridden with guilt. At the very bottom of it all is where both these men had started, Macbeth a fierce and loyal soldier that had no control of his free will and allowed outside forces to decide his decisions and actions. Tony just off the boat from Cuba was driven by the illusion that being a drug lord would set him on top of the world. Murder and material would drive Macbeth and Tony to climb their ambitions ladder to the point where they were on top of the ladder and had no where to go but down. Scarface was a film based on the true happenings and I would say is still true in the world today. Macbeth as loyal as he was he was rapt withal whenever he was rewarded for serving Scotland, it took the evil spirited ambition of Lady Macbeth to toil Macbeth to killing Duncan and every threat around him including his ever more loyal friend Banquo. Macbeth was driven to his fate by the prophecies that initiated is unruly and ruthless fight to become a fearful tyrant. Tony Montana started at the bottom as just an enforcer for cocaine deals but his vast ambition drove him to a terror of murder and betrayal that sent Montana to the top of the world. “Okay, here’s the story. I come from the gutter. I know that. I got no education… but that’s okay. I know the street, and I’m making all the right connections. With the right woman, there’s no stopping me. I could go right to the top.”  Once on top, Montana wanted more but by his own ambition was taken out by his enemies. Macbeth fell just as Montana did, by his hated enemies. Macduff a great enemy of Macbeth ended his reign making the witches prophecies come true. No man born of a woman shall harm Macbeth, fear the thane of Fife, and Macbeth shall rule until the Birnam forest Shakespeare’s plays not only showed today’s world of ambition they were a popular plot for many other of his text plays and one of my absolute favourites, Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Macbeth both met their fate by ambition. Ambition to be the best and greatest ruthless tyrants that ever lived. I think Shakespeare is a very intelligent and famous writer if he was able to produce such plays. Julius Caesar is by far my favourite play, Macbeth is right close behind. I love a story of a low time average guy, who is driven for a goal to become the greatest ruler of all and then falls into his fate by his own means. In these plays either death finds the hero, or life turns them into a villain because you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Possibly one of my favourite quotes of all time from the Dark Knight. Caesar was the most ambitious man in Rome, ambition from which Caesar fell. It was for the future direction of Rome that Caesar’s enemies felt compelled to take him out in cold blood from a dagger. Caesar had it all, a throne from which he was put there by God, even going as to saying that he was Rome’s chosen God. Macbeth had the desire to fulfill his ambition that had already existed. ”I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself, and falls on th’other….” (I,vii,26-28). Caesar had the same idea “For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.” Macduff and the thanes of Scotland felt the same way that Macbeth would turn Scotland into an unjust and tyrannical country that would run on the chaos of Macbeth.  Macduff is much like Brutus, Macduff was concerned that Macbeth would change Scotland into a fearful nation, in which Macbeth did, Brutus was feared that Rome would impose to fly in the same direction. It was the ambition of Caesar and Macbeth that brought them to the top but it was the ambition that surrounded them that brought them down. Ambition is part of the human spirit I find it in myself everyday, it is a demon that consumes me, overruns me, and troubles me in my life.

Ambition and drive are the forces and the cause of this great feeling to be on top of the world, but no one has deemed a name for this part of the spirit. I call it the beast. The beast eats away, and it keeps eating driven by it own appetite, it stops at nothing until I am nothing. Sitting here typing with so much on the line. I need the ambition to propel this final essay to the highest mark achievable, if I don’t it means nothing less than failure. My future and hope is gone, but the beast is still there, the beast cannot be removed washed off, scrubbed off, or destroyed. The beast pulls the spirit under and makes it feel like I’m drowning, the only way to the surface is to continue forth to write the best essay in this entire classroom. The beast never lets go, it holds on to my mind filling it with more metaphors and more writings. The beast cannot be escaped or evaded, it feasts on this soul. I have tried several occasion to ignore it, to fight it, and escape to only find that the beast finds myself and pulls the soul back under until I have the ambition to drive it right back up to the surface. The beast never sleeps, so I cannot sleep. Even when I finish this final exam the beast will still be with me.

Ambition is a sickening tool used in the human soul to continue to find the next opportunity to the top. Whatever this ambition is called it never leaves, in today’s society it can make nations powerful, it made Tony Montana, Macbeth and Julius Caesar powerful, just average people powerful. But enemies with just as much ambition made these people fall by their own ambition, and as I continue to think, to write and be pushed up to surface I know one other student sitting in their chair doing the same is going to make me fall upon my own ambition as well. When that person does write a better essay than me, gets a higher mark than me, I will feel as if I have failed and fallen to the ground but the beast will be there to pick me right back up so I can do it all over again next year.

Tags: ambition, human spirit, macbeth, philosophical reasoning, Scarface, shadow of a dream, The Beast, top of the ladder, true reality, young at heart
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Macbeth the Tyrant

I servant of the noble thane of Fife, on this day have been sent by the noble and great Macduff to address this letter to you all. It is to inform you of the treason and tyrant rule under the Traitor for a king Macbeth. With Macduff’s great thane status he would like to assemble a resistance and an army to stop this unruly tyrant before he has all noble men killed. No more will we have to endure this rule, Macduff only asks for your loyalty and the ambition and drive to make Macbeth king no more. This flier is an invitation to the Macduff castle to be apart of Macduff’s political, and military rule to throw over the king. All who are interested are welcome to join in the meeting. The take over will be brutal and loyal, It is great honor for Macduff to see citizens commence forth this necessary and righteous act. On behalf of the Macduff castle and all of his inhabitants hence forth and good day.   

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A Deed Done by Greed

Macbeth is a unquestionable loyal, noble man which makes him the perfect puppet for Lady Macbeth’s plan. Lady Macbeth is the most important person to Macbeth, they both share a very ideal stoic marriage, the only other outside influence that is greater than King Duncan is Lady. Macbeth takes the time to put down his hot blood smoking blade to write Lady a letter of true feeling and sympathy. Lady is the only person in this tradegy that could have manipulated Macbeth in this way, it is a side of her that is an uncontrollable force on Macbeth. I believe with my soul even the most loyal individuals can be corrupted. In The Dark Knight Harvey Dent is the true hero that Gotham didn’t deserve but needed. Harvey put away half of the criminals in the city but the Joker introduced a little anarchy, upset the established order and Harvey became corrupt. Lady and Macbeth and like Harvey it did not take much. It is like gravity all they needed was a little push, and that push was the chance for Macbeth to become king.

Malcolm and Donalbain must be the two very unintelligent characters. A murder of their father, an absolutely perfect time to break down in tears and curse the murderer of their father and get sympathy from the rest of the town while they do it. The guards were the most suspicious of all guests at the party but Donalbain and Malcolm have other plans they unexpectedely flee Scotland making them look like the prime suspects. Both sons leave at the worst possible time, without even paying last respects to their father before his burial and guaranteeing that Macbeth is king because the heir to the thrones are now out of the picture. This is either smart escape of the choas that is ensuing or a dumb move by two scared heirs.

A strong impression from Shakespeare on Macbeth is the extreme stress on the events leading up to the deed. Macbeth has lost his mind he is walking around his castle seeing daggers with blood on them that are not really there. Macbeth must be just inches away from becoming sick with pure insanity. This is not the Macbeth I know, the Macbeth I know meets his enemy face to face, takes his blade and unseams him from the chaps. Outside influences dictate Macbeths actions, he does not think for himself, he goes and gets it done and then is confused when he gets rewarded later. I did not know a Macbeth with guilt on his mind even existed. Even the most brave soldier can not stand the sorry sight of his hands, it is enough for him to believe the witches curse that Macbeth will sleep no more. Macbeth can not become king, he is like a dog chasing cars, if Macbeth caught one he wouldn’t know what to do with it, Macbeth just does things.

Tags: daggers, dark knight, extreme stress, loyal individuals, perfect time
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Temptation Over Conscience

Temptation never goes unnoticed, there is always another factor that is holding back on every decision that you choose to do, that little feeling inside, the conscience. Macbeth is caught between the fact that he wants to execute Duncan but in the same instance allow him to continue his reign, it is morality. Morality can stop any temptation from happening, it would be nice to get away with that case of pop from the store that the cashier forgot to scan, but there is morality to make you pay for it because it is right and just. Macbeth wants to kill Duncan be he thinks about what will face him in the afterlife, religion and life after death is the most powerful faith that is unseen. Macbeth believes strongly in the afterlife and does not want to murder Duncan in the fact that he may be punished later for his actions that he unruly does now. Consequences strike the rare thinking Macbeth from doing what will make him he most powerful man in Scotland. Macbeth is falling into the witches foretelling of his future, and he has no idea what to do.

When I have to come to make a decision it is pure insanity, the desire to gain the power and the ability that comes from the decision is like an unstoppable force, but to reconsider the consequences of life and the life here after is like running into an immovable object. My mind calls for what is just, while the temptation to have it silences the call. Every decision I face alters and changes the future direction of myself physically on earth and spiritually in the afterlife. I can not make a wrong decision without feeling a tremendous amount of guilt, through some sort of self righteousness, the human spirit is the most powerful and moving force ever devised by the creator. From personal experiences I can mendel together some of the feelings that Macbeth is going through but not on the level when a human life hangs in one hand while prestige and power for success of taking that life in the other.

Macbeth really has no reason to kill Duncan, Duncan has not wronged Macbeth, Duncan has given praise, reward, and order to Macbeth’s life. Macbeth needs Duncan to think for him, throughout the play I have seen Macbeth to try and think for himself and he his not very good. Duncan needs Macbeth to get things done, to have the traitors slain and to have the Norway army pushed back to defend Scotland. Duncan and Macbeth are like Batman and the Joker. The Joker needs a hero like Batman so the Joker can live to be the villain, while Batman needs the Joker to become a hero. I predict Macbeth will kill Duncan because the outside forces of the witches instructed Macbeth too, the outside forces are more useful to Macbeth because he does not have to think he just has to do. Macbeth like to go and get it done rather than think and outline consequences and morality. Macbeth is a go getter not a thinker.

Tags: conscience, guilt, human spirit, Insanity, life after death, macbeth, Morality, personal experiences, powerful faith, self righteousness
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Know Your Limits

“The end justifies the means”

Life comes out to two different fates, I die a hero, or I live long enough to see myself become the villian. The true morality in this world are the individuals that want to believe in virtue and reason, good, that is the only true morality, others just want to stand and watch the world burn in chaos. In a world beyond controlling the end will justify if society did all it could to make the world worth saving or if it will deny the saviour in its own very eyes. The human conscience is blessed with morality, it was hard for me to believe put it plagues every human individual in the world. Conscience even overcomes that gang banger that lives for his mother fights for his turf and dies for his gang. Those people that heroes look down upon as the villian have the fate of their own morality, there end justifies the means that they did not always make the moral decision. Virtue and truth come from the heroes that do God’s work all citizens of society will experience the same fate in the afterlife as the fate they experience on this planet of morality that God created for us, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

This quote inspires me to only live more truthfully and virtuously, it is hard to always do what is moral and good, lots of times I’ve crossed the line between doing good and evil, after you cross that line enough times it begins to blur and I lose hindsight of what I stand for, what is just and fair, what is morally correct. This quote can be interpreted from many perspectives such as the many perspectives on life and the meaning of mine. The biggest meaning that jumps out at me is we shape what our end will be. The end of our life on earth is justified by the actions and the means that took forth up until that fateful day when the beggining of my new life begins.

I have to believe in a world outside my own mind, I have to believe that my actions will always have meaning and effect not on just my own morality but on the general population. I have to believe that I am making an impact, I want to be a hero just like the rest of the people that I look up to. Somewhere I am the hero that someone deserves but not the hero that they need right now. So I will continue to live, to do the moral thing for the common, to be a watcher, a protector , and one day die the hero, before I see myself become the villian.

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Conformity Vs. Individuality

Personal beliefs, attitudes, morals and values are all thrown out the window as soon as you commit to conformity. The whole sense of reality is in the hands of the few popular kids that run the majority group of people in high school. What makes them so popular? what makes them better than the rest? That is why I think high school is socially the hardest place to be enrolled into and it is a fight for social acceptance. The only way around full fledged conformity is compliance, when I am able to be conformed in public while keeping my own beliefs on what life really is about and focus on the values and the morals that shape and define the person I really am. Individualism is far more important than population survival.

I have been through all stages and processes to become friends from what some would call the elite group of JR Robson. From the first time I met these people till I was completely accepted into it, it seemed like a non stop suck-up show for months and months. Conformity to this group means I have lost all sense of philosophy in conversation. Last time we went to the movies and watched Wanted it was all talk about the effects and gun fights but nothing about the real meaning of the movie or what the director intended to capture the feelings of the audience by creating the film. It is hard to associate intelligent and philosophical meaningful conversations when your friends are not down with Plato or Socrates I lost all of this with conformity. The most scariest part of conformity is the loss of individuality, one becomes all rather than one for all.

Conformity is something that society can go without , in high school, conformity causes an increase in alcohol and substance abuse resulting in social issues like gangs and organized crime for others to find acceptance. It is human nature to feel to like to belong to another group. I always want to belong to a bigger and better group but each step up I have to lose another part of my individual identity. Each step up another intelligent piece or a hobby is lost to just hang out with other people that are no better than I am. All students are equal and being an individual and finding solitude and misery makes the world more grouped because the most miserable and lonely world is one without misery and loneliness.

Tags: Conditioning, conformity, Individuality
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Perfect Insanity

At the foot of a hill stands a timber white house with green window frames that is housed to three children with a father who died crazy. With their father gone all that they can do is take care of one another in hopes to survive with the spreading of this hereditary disease that foreshadows the Desjardins. It would be one of the hardest things in the world to accept that one day a person that I loved and known my whole life would lose his mind. Someone very close to me like my brother coming home one day and having Truman Delusion thinking everywhere he goes a camera is watching him all the time. I would have to play along and take care of him hoping that one day he would just snap out of it and be himself again. A huge feeling of denial would come before me, the person that was there when my dad wasn’t lost his mind to insanity, it would be frustrating to see him in such a state when you know he is intelligent and a true brother lost to insanity. Emotionally the effect of a disease killing the father and the disease spreads to another member of the family and I know that is what is going to kill him and so do the other members, so it is heart breaking for to see that the other members only have one thing to do, and that is to take care of him and live with this perfect insanity. With this disease their is no way of controlling my with fate with such a disease instead I am controlled and manipulated thinking that I am living my own life but no way am I controlling the future fate and direction of my life especially when I am Napoleon ready to invade Russia every winter. 

Truman is an example of uncontrolled fate, it is a manipulated, controlled and fearful tactic life brought on by the creator Christof. Christof controls the people Truman marries the friends that he has in high school, and even the neighbors that he lives beside. With a continuous manipulation and controlling of fear Christof controls the fate of Truman and stops him, much like this hereditary insanity for leading and living a normal and genuine life. I come to realize that controlling fate is a gift not a god given right, just like each day is a privilege to live not a right, my best friend told me that and it is those words that remind me how special and important fate is to a human moral being. Truman is not so fortunate instead of being diagnosed with this disease he is controlled by a creator who has taken the life of Truman and run it with his perfect insanity and obsession of controlling the fate of Truman’s life.

Charles is unfortunate to lose a key family member, his father, to insanity and it is even more horrid to live through the same suffering and pain that his father had to experience. It does not just affects Charles fate his calling in life but affects the people that cares the most around him and about him, his siblings. Adele and Phillippe lose their chance at controlling their fate as well, the disease could hit them at any moment and taking care of Napoleon every winter is an enduring love that displays the affection and morality of the siblings. Insanity that runs in the family is inhospitable, Charles controls a big part of Adele and Phillippe lives because the must control him and take care of him. I would be very feared of living this life at any moment fate could be out of my hand and in the control of life taking mental insanity.

Tags: Desjardins, Insanity, Napoleon
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Swan of Rebirth

This lament for the Dorset expresses grief on my very conscience for a civilization of people that I never knew. Author Purdy plays a role in future generations to Lament and describe the Dorset culture that has been wiped off the face of a planet. Only at the expense of a western culture that had taken the land and given it to me and my generation to live on today. It is a responsibility for myself to remember the tribes and nations that roamed the land before me and keep history alive for future generations to find the origins and roots of Canadian society and the past that the land I live on and take a great deal for granted . The Dorset’s were not murdered they were forced out of existence by the mammal that they relied on the most for their tribes existence of life that caused them to parish by the disappearance of it, the seals. Climatic cycles caused the seals to migrate and also the Thule tribe “little men that came from the west” contributed and forced the extinction of the Dorset’s. Thule had higher standard of living with newer technology, dogs pulling their sleds around rather than pulling it by the strong arm strength of a Dorset hunter. It is a responsibility to protect, and keep in history for what was then and what is now, all that we have are the remains found by archaeological digs that affirm the existence of the Dorset’s. Evidence that gives me enough reason to research the Dorset’s and make the Dorset’s apart of my great Canadian heritage that shaped my identity in the nation I strive in today.

Animal bones and some mossy tent rings

scrapers and spearheads carved ivory swans

all that remains of the Dorset Giants.

Poet Purdy suggests that the modern people face similar trouble and responsibility to comprehend the Dorset culture. If not for the presence of irreplaceable and precious artifacts from noble and responsible archeologists the Dorset culture would not be spoken of or heard today. I have never heard of the Dorset culture until I read this poem today, and researched the tribe in Wikipedia. Glowing lamps describe small blubber lamps found that were used to keep hunters warm while they discreetly hunted nearby air holes for it was not a matter of if the seals would come up but a matter of when, and when they did the Dorset was mighty and ready to strike.  The Dorset’s were very different people who did things with spirit and strength rather from people who kill not with harpoon or spear, but with high-tech armaments the Thule, a culture whose urban lifestyle and tenets of mass production and consumption brought on by the executives of neon death. This extinct culture lives on throughout the symbol of rebirth, an ivory swan that was carved by the very last Dorset before he was frozen to death his name Kudluk as told by Purdy. It is a mystery of how images in the mind become objects in space with the carving and his thoughts turning to ivory. Today I as a Canadian citizen and many others should respect and take a look back at was the Dorset culture, Purdy does a good job at grieving for the culture and encourages me as a reader to research and find more about this extinct nation of people.

Dorset’s are the victims of new standards of technological ways of life, they are living in a modern world while being stuck with the technology of the past, just like the Amish. Didn’t mean to poke fun at the Amish but you know it is completely true. In the theory of evolution the strongest survive, like myself looking for the strongest mark, if I don’t get it I only have me to blame it is my problem to adapt to new problems and smarter people. It was the fault of the Dorset for their own loss, but the lack of responsibility displayed and showed for survival of their diminishing culture that left them all forgotten except the ivory swan that was carved. A swan responsibly kept for the future. Hundreds of years after it was carved, the ivory swan is still alive because it can be seen. Like all history that I can exhibit is simply history because it can be seen, and although he has died, a piece of Kudluk lives on in his sculpture. The discovery of the sculpture helps bring the entire Dorset culture back to life for records in history and for my generation and future generations to look back on and only for the reason is because it is my generation and myself included responsibility to act and do so.

Tags: Amish, culture, Dorsets, Lament
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Harry the Great “Houdini”

Harry Houdini was a great escape artist, magician, and stunt performer born in Budapest, Hungary. Houdini was more than one of the best escape artists, Harry was also an actor that produced and starred in two movies the Man From Beyond and Haldane of the Secret Service. Houdini was not about the movies though he was one of the world’s greatest escapologist, that performed many unheard of and dangerous stunts to electrify his audience. Harry was a poet but not with his writings, words, phrases or philosophical reasoning, but a poet that would hang upside down in a straight jacket cuffed and chained in front of an audience and escape before he plunges a hundred feet below. Eli Mandel is blinded to find just the right words how to describe Houdini, while Houdini himself is blinded by the chains and cuffs that bind him to fight for his life. Eli struggles to free the emotions of a great escape, trying to use just the right words to explain the struggle to escape of the locks and chains that suppress and bind him.

Trunks are like metaphors I do not know what I am ever going to get until I get inside open up and see what it has to offer like life, we are outside and there is this trunk it’s nothing special, is a plain old wooden trunk with a lock. Our human mind no matter how perfect outside world is always wants to find or discover our outside world to find meaning or truth of life and philosophy and free the locks that bind us from finding this truth. If I were to spin this around and I’m inside a trunk the locked trunk binds myself from escaping to capture life outside of the trunk, being locked up inside with the hope of one day seeing what life is like on the outside. The trunk is our container in which we are held down and the lock is the fear that is used to suppress us from ever leaving the trunk, the lock not only is a fear but the lock on the trunk it what keeps us locked up, safe, secure from ever being opened exposed or stolen. No matter how perfect the trunk is on the inside we always want to break the lock off and leave the trunk. It is a reality that we must accept as an unreachable utopia.

The public is bound and defied from the possibility of disaster, they are apart of a spectacle that amazes and dazzles the lovers of magic and escapologist, mesmerize the simple minded children, and make believers out of the naysayers, who sigh with fear, anxious and awaiting Harry’s fate of the attempt of escaping or failing to do so. Houdini gave the gift of belief in magic and brought hope and inspiration to every fan of Houdini, escapology, magic and most of all Harry brought the “Great Houdini” and introduced it to the entire world.

Tags: Great, Houdini, illusion, Magic
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Skinwalker Ranch

I love listening to coast to coast am it is one of my favourite talk radio shows. There is always an interesting program ahead and this past weekend I heard the most interesting one since Mel’s Hole. It comes from a Ph.D scientist, George Knapp, who has been study the paranormal activites in the Utah region ranch since it was purchased for the National Institute for Discovery Science(NIDSci). Many of the activites that have been occuring at the ranch or appearances of unusual or unidentified aircraft, balls of light, poltergeist activity, cattle mutilation, and strange creatures have been reported, and of course ufo’s. They have released a book that I am planning to read “The Hunt for the Skinwalker Ranch.” I never used to believe any of this stuff at all but after listening to each program weekly, propagandic techniques have tied me in to believe several of the stories, the radio show on Skinwalker Ranch can be heard on youtube.

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Walmart: It’s Killing Us

Just when I thought I have heard the most horrific news stories, today I hear of the most neglectful and ridiculous news story of all. A Walmart worker was trampled to death after he opened the store for holiday shoppers. Is it that important to trample a worker to death so you can save fifty cents on a cd or movie, what a neglectful death that did not have to happen, and what really makes my blood boil is people did not leave after they were told somebody was killed. What has America come to, is consumerism the only basis of life, is shopping at Walmart more important than showing respect for someone who was killed doing the most innocent job. I hope they charge all the people who trampled that honest worker to death with murder, in the world today with war and sensesless battles, we have to hear about this garbage one of the most unessecary stories for the value and neglect of a human life. Could have it been so hard to take ten seconds out of saving a couple bucks to pick up the worker and save his life. Maybe Obama will create a policy that prevents shoppers from trampling workers to death, enough said.

Tags: Consumerism, Society, Walmart
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Whisper On The Wind

Opening Night explores a play within a play that is filled with slapstick comedy and innuendos to keep both all ages interested but for a more teenage audience with the amount of coarse language and crude humor. Now I am not the big fan of theater plays and I directly related with Jack. Jack is forced to go to the theater for opening night and finds that the theater world is not enough like baseball. I completely linked my thoughts along with Jacks and agreed with everything he was saying the second that he stepped on stage. The lack of tortilla chips and everything else especially being more worried about the ball game than the play itself. What I most liked about the play was seeing our long lost janitor from St. Jeromes’, Mr. Hughes.

The best part about the play is the excitement of the fact that it is opening night and it is very memorable to see behind the scenes of the people arriving to be met by Handy Randy and to see the relationship problems unfold before the play even begins. Watching the actors arrive late and see the director to be in an emotional wreck only added to the excitement of finally being there opening night for Whisper on the Wind. Watching this play reminded me a lot about The Truman Show, watching a movie within a movie is much similar to watching the play within a play. It seems much like the Truman Show, the director Christof and Whisper on the Wind director see that they have cracks in what they think is the perfect show. Director of the play finds that he has a leading role girl, Libby, that is eager but lacks talent, acting, and the ability to remember her very first lines of the play and as well almost all of her lines of the play.

Opening Night was a very different experience from most plays in that the audience can react to and enjoy the humour of two different personalities. One, the terrible acting of the play and two, the reaction of the mock audience to the terrible acting of the play. It was to comical experiences in one and this is one experience I would like to reccommend to everyone that has some interest in theatre or even if you have no interest at all the pre show before the show is a gripping look into the work and the shot nerves it takes to pull off a successful play on its first public performance. Opening Night is more than a play it is an appreciation of theatre, the arts and its performers and directors.

Tags: Comedy, Opening Night, Theather
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Good Afternoon, Good Evening, and Good Night

While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there’s nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards. It isn’t always Shakespeare, but it’s genuine. It’s a life.

Take a corporation, adopt a child, pump millions into creating a dome that can be seen from space, throw in five thousand cameras that broadcast to the world twenty four hours a day, and what do you get, one great reality television show, The Truman Show. A true sense of reality living in a counterfeit world. The Truman Show is an examination of life and reality and how it is lived when Truman accepts the reality of the world that is present to him. Which brings up a life question, what are the important truths in life? Truman is a target of fear from director Christof to keep him from doing what he really wants to, the chance to live a normal life with free will. My life has been constant and similar to this concept, large judge mental crowds keep me from public speeches, from dressing differently when I go out just so I am not chirped by my buddies. Fear of heights has contributed to me from feeling new experiences, like flight travel, rock climbing, and even being able to help others because I think the ladder is going to tip and fall on me. The most tremendous fear is just coming to high school it means my whole life if I don’t get honors, if I fail at this stage I’m going to be collecting carts at Co-op for a very long time.

The most important truth that I have accepted clearly so far in my life is the truth that the world is driven by fear. It is hard to believe that these last two years of high school determine my life, and I am truthful and fearful of this reality. Truman has no free will, and has no chance to lead a normal life because everyone around him is pretending. The truth that Truman must accept is thirty years of his life was manipulated and controlled for entertainment only. Everyday is exactly the same, Truman does not have a significant purpose philosophically because he just does what the directors have conditioned him to do, Truman has no free will to change the future direction of his life until he begins to find out the truth and break his conditioning. Christof’s manipulated utopia despite his allegations have prevented Truman from living a normal life. An important truth in life is to address the freedom, morality, and conscience that all humans are blessed with.

Thomas More’s Utopia text relates to the utopia in Truman Show there is only one way in and one exit out and follows the idea that it is ultimately unreachable. As rich as Hollywood is it would be nearly impossible to film an unknowing reality star for thirty years of his life. Truman does not fit into Christof’s utopia because his human spirit wants him to leave but childhood trauma has left Truman stuck in a counterfeit universe. Another part of More’s utopia is that everyone who belongs to the utopia has the same state of mind. It is clear that everyone in Truman’s world were all working to keep him oblivious that he is the star of his own reality show. The film is very uncomfortable to watch and the idea of the utopia only for Truman is a sick place rather than the real world like how every other utopia turns out to be because as More demonstrated the perfect utopia can never be reached. The truth is no matter how perfect I make my utopia, no matter how rich, how materialistic, my human spirit would suppress my utopia from ever being fully reached.

Universally every single individual is feared by the most sick and evil corporations that create Utopia’s for us by publishing the most dark and fearful information to gain viewer prestige and profit, the media. The media is the most extreme conditioning technique and is the closest group to reaching a worldwide utopia. A worldwide utopia where everyone drives a Chevy, eats Doritos, drinks Mountain Dew, and trust the Midas Touch. By the way this post is brought to you by Microsoft, I’m a PC and this is my office. As demonstrated I have become slavery to the media and advertising world, I don’t feel safe until I buy a car parts to support the closing down General Motors factories, and I am scared that gas prices have fallen even though it is what I have wished for, how strange is that. Even Youtube has advertisements in their videos for Canadian Tire’s big three day tire sale, where all brand name tires are up to thirty per cent off but for these three days only. Whoever holds the most fear holds the most security, which holds the most social power and control over society. The most fearful truth in life is that we must be afraid to feel safe, and the media is the number one way to reach a universe of this truth. With all the power, money and fear in the world an individual only believes the reality of the world for what it is presented as.

I see the world as money run, soulless, and a fear frenzy for control of all the oil in the world. A generation without the building blocks of morality, simply just another Christof trying to create the perfect utopia for themselves and no other. The strength in this world comes from how much money is in the bank, not how universal or how truthful the scale of the philosophical and moral conscience is. All of us have the same principal of the human spirit, if we absolutely are determined to discover the truth, there’s no way we can contain or prevent the human spirit from leaving its container no matter how close to a utopia it is. Oh and in case I don’t see you good afternoon, good evening, and good night.

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Snivelization: A Civilization With Nothing to Snivel About

Herman Melville refers to us as a bunch of whiners and a population of complainers, and I could not agree anymore. I agree with this statement, today’s society is a bunch of whiners and they do not realize we live in a technology ridden age that makes our lives and our quality of life so much easier and better but one thing with all this technology it is nearly to have any privacy and get away from all of it now a days I believe it is well worth it though to obtain a pleasurable lifestyle that is more simply better. Globalization allows us to trade and exchange technology products and information from all over the global at the click of a mouse. Does our civilization really have anything to snivel about? Even though we do have some things to snivel about, I agree because there is not much to snivel about since most of us have an easy life in our generation compared to the ones before us.

I am one of those that complain and whine a lot when my computer’s Internet is not running as fast as it should, not to long ago the Internet was a brand new technological advancement that was so complicated to the generation of people under which it was invented. I do not understand how the Internet works or how to fix it when it goes wrong and I always complain about it. But with the advancement of the Internet we have become more prone to fraud and identity theft and I can see that is something to snivel about but the Internet has made our lives so much easier and faster and with new programs that can detect fraudulent e-mails and such it is up to the user to protect oneself. Two weeks ago my Xbox 360 got the dreaded red rings of death making my Xbox from the best gaming console to a useless, over sized paper weight and I have not stopped complaining ever since about it. Two years ago there was no such thing an Xbox 360 and I sit here thinking I got it tough. I am sure I do not whine as much as the rest of society, and everything today’s society takes for granted, about everything, if my class was told there is a test in four days they would try and push it to seven. Society does not realize how easy they have it until they hear stories from their grandfather, only then will they realize how they take everything they have for granted. 

I always hear how we have it so tough but nobody has any idea what it was like in their grandparents generation, everyone has fuel injected vehicles that start at the turn of the key. My grandfather told me that he had to pour hot water onto the heater block and wait till it defrosted and if that was not bad enough he had to crank it by hand in minus forty degree just to start his Ford Model T. Technology makes our lives so easy I can sit here type, listen to music through headphones so no one else can hear, and if I really wanted to I could look up several car accessories off ebay from around the world for my limited 1984 Buick Lesabre. I know that even I complain at times I shouldn’t like walking sometimes in the winter, hundreds of people had to walk three miles to get to school in snowy weather. This entire civilization does not even realize how technology has evolved to make our lives so easy we hardly have to leave our computers to do anything anymore. 

The media most of all fuels this uprising civilization. When gas prices are high the media complains about it because people can not afford to drive and so on and so forth, but finally the day that they fall of a sudden we are in a crisis and we all going to be living on the streets because the economy is not doing as good as it was at the beginning of this year. When one murder happens the media displays an outcry for more gun control, stiffer sentences, and more officers but in reality crime is actually lower than it was last year. The media makes us believe that we have something to complain about because the best viewers are the viewers that hate life. That is why the media makes a sick play and story out of everything that happens, make people fearful but that is how that we will feel secure in society when they watch the news. The most sniveled thing about today’s society is driven by the profit motive. 

I can not agree more with Herman’s quote, today’s “snivelization” is run by the big profit motive, and in a materialistic society it is all about the money. If we do not have the money in our hands all that he do is moan and snivel about it, it seems that everyone is driven by the motive to be rich and famous and live the glamorous life of a rock star. If you don’t agree with this post then you can just go snivel about it just like the rest of us.

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While You Watch the Truman Show…

We are going to continue our English video study by watching The Truman Show. I have chosen five focus questions from the World Perspectives category and I have chosen one focus question from each sub category that I think suits the film. Choose one of the following that you would like to explore or leave a comment on which focus question should be explored.

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Remembrance of Passchendaele

Poverty, underdeveloped nations, political instability, and the most societal issue that faces individuals globally is the worst man made human invention of torture, war. I thank every veteran and every soldier in history for today that I wake up to an alarm clock and not to the explosion of bombs and the shatter of machine gun fire, and the cries of the men and women who pay the ultimate sacrifice for the good of their nation, not only for a couple of months but for four years. Canadian individuals sometimes look past the fact that our freedom comes from the past war torn history of military heroes like the men and women in the battle of Passchendaele and that is why we remember.

If it was not for Remembrance Day their story would never be remembered for the service they so greatly gave when the call of duty arose. I sometimes take for granted the country that I live in, a free and just nation with a developed economy, with the freedom  to make a life of your own. Today citizens of this free country sometimes lose hindsight and respect for the fallen war heroes, I encourage all people to learn about the history of Canadian military. When I walked into the classroom today and was told to write a post about the battle of Passchendaele, I did not even know there was such a battle, who fought in it, or what was the significance of the battle. A major societal issue that concerns all of us as a nation is the knowledge and education of Canadian war history that shaped the country into what it is today. I bring the issue up because I want to know more about Canadian war history, so I am able to appreciate the freedom that I take for granted everyday and the freedom society takes for granted.

Passchendaele was a four year battle for the town of Ypres that resulted in hundreds of thousands of military deaths. I can not comprehend the fact that for four years so many lives were simply sacrificed for my sake of freedom. As many of the veterans pass on they will never be forgotten what they did but I fear the strategic battles, and the conditions the soldiers had to endure will. It is a societal issue to educate all generations of the freedom we have today comes from the historical battles that the veterans gave their lives for, with movies like Passchendaele I hope that many untold war stories are uncovered so I and others will never forget the great wars that shaped this nation.

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America Votes

America last night voted for change and the majority voted for Barack Obama. With a record turnout of voters which is expected of the individuals of the United States of America. In times of economic crisis and certain instabilities it is our responsibility to work together as a collective group to work out a countries issues whether they be political, social, and economic. John Mccain has the problem that Barack Obama addressed  very well and that Barack really speaks to my generation with myself included. He seems to reach out to younger voters especially with the integration of e-democracy. A young minority president that can change America for all its citizens and even have a social and political influence on Canadians as well. I was not surprised at the number of voters that turned out, it is part of the actions that are expected of individuals to help their economically struggling country change direction and support freedom and democracy that exists in their country.

Our free country of Canada many voters do not act or take responsibilities that are expected of individuals within a society. Canada had one of the lowest voter turnouts and that change the future of our government. If more people voted maybe it could be possible that the Conservative government would be a majority. I believe greatly that it is a small yet tremendous task for all legal voters to vote and I expect nothing less of that. I can not come to stand it when people complain about how Canada is ran or how the country is falling into an economic down turn and the person complaining did not vote it drives me crazy. I love politics and social issues facing our country, I would even consider pursuing a career in politics to see if I am able to reach to younger voters and define to all citizens of their expected actions within a society. However lots of individuals do not withhold their role in society to maintain a stable life for all other individuals.

When reading Brave New World, Aldous Huxley created a utopia that had all citizens contributing to a world of stability. All classes of individuals had their roles, duties and responsibilites mapped out and condition into them from birth. The actions from the individuals contributed to a stable world in practice. I believe in theory that even the most stable societies have to have some sort of instablitity or conflict. It concluded that Huxley’s utopia had the major societal downfall that all individuals had no other responsibility with society than to satisfy their own appetites. I believe in a society in which all individuals pull their weight and do what is expected of them for the good nature of society. I know not all citizens do not live up to their expectations but that is the perfect world that I dream of and can try to achieve one day with my political status if I gain any.

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1010101101

Technology has many issues and concerns that provide a critical risk for the population but the advantages that technology has given us put mankind where it is today. Without technology today entertainment and information would not be so globalized and would be more of a protectionist world. I love that I can do my assignments like this, while I’m just sitting here listening to music and looking at classic American luxury cars. No pencil and paper sitting at a desk or no need to bring home my books because it is all right at my fingertips. Technology also allows me to just quickly Google anything like how to change parts in my car and the electrical colour codes for the wires and other small repairs and most of all to just use technology like my Xbox to kill a couple hours of time it can be a very leisure type of technology. In Simone Victor (Al Pacino) I can understand how the director aimed the movie at how people have become obsessed with technology and how it makes it hard to believe what you see in this world today.

Issues and concerns of technology have become more and more present with the advantage of this new technology falling in the hands of criminals of online banking, scamming, and identity theft. I have a major concern of having my eBay account hacked and letting someone run up my parents’ credit card. Fans of Simone in the film believed in her so strongly they could not take the truth when Victor said she was a computer and Victor found it was easier to make millions believe than just one person. Another major concern is balancing technology and reality. In Simone nobody believed that Simone was a fake, Victor’s ability to manufacture fraud exceeded everyone’s ability to detect it.

Simone was a film that I would recommend to everyone, not only is it about everyone believing in something that is not real but how the technology itself limited the sanity of Victor. I can not imagine the psychological toll that hiding the secret that Simone is a computer, always watching your back would make me to live my life in fear, coming up with excuses to cover up the secret and most of all facing the media. It is easy to see how Victor was taken over and controlled by Simone to hide that he is a fraud because he would have lost it all his credibility, directing career, and his family. I feel an unimaginable guilt when I make up an excuse to get out of doing something I don’t want to do to a friend, but telling the world the person they all love does not even exist? Try to comprehend that. An issue of technology over reality, the distinctive between what we see and what it really is, Simone is a an eye opener to the world I live in and the world of technology around me.

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John the Outsider

John has nothing to worry about in the world state and that is what has him completely worried. Living in a completely sinful society were over consumption is encouraged to ensure social stability. John can drop soma, have relations with Lenina, and just dance because everything is going to be okay. John is living in a teenager’s paradise and is afraid to take part. I believe John and myself feel the same way about this utopia, sure there is everything to satisfy our epicurean needs but that is not who we really are. I need my mind to be nourished, read a book, play a video game, and do something with some kind of stoic like sense behind it. Have faith in a higher power that didn’t spit out cars from a factory for a living, but praise a real God. John does not have a real grip on the world state policies; he is a stoic living in an epicurean utopia.

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Misery in Paradise

I understand competely of how John is feeling towards this civilized society. Sometimes I just want to be alone, I will pull out my guitar, plug it into my Xbox 360 (I can’t play real guitar too well) and jam out. I don’t want to talk to anybody and sure I feel lonely and miserable but that is how I want to be. John in this utopia it is nearly impossible to find this comfort of being lonely and miserable. People walking around complaining that we don’t have the right kind of mustard does not exist in London because the person would just drop some soma and move on. There are times when I love just to shut my cell phone off and just say it is all about me tonight. John is feeling the same way he has the right to be miserable but he does not have anybody to share these feelings with. A world without any misery and loneliness is the most lonely and miserable world of all.

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Mustapha the Mad Man?

This is the first time I was able to get a personal glimpse of the world controller. Mustapha Mond the world controller behind it all and knows just as much as the outside world as John. I always thought Mustapha would be a mad man over sick with power and taking control of London to condition an army prepared to fight in the next great war. I tried to make sense of it all, nobody would have families, genetics, emotion, not afraid of death, and would have nothing to die for. Conditioned people would live of excess consumption before fighting a battle, and if they all died all the world controller would have to do is push a button and out another 11, 000 soldiers ready for battle. Boy, was I ever wrong. Mustapha is completely built on having a stable civilization. Mond knows all about Shakespeare, and old stories and classes of high art, rejects a new theory of biology and is still only about a stable civilization. Why would Mustapha want this even though he knows about the outside world? How can Mond comprehend having a stable society when Mond knows well about the outside world of genetics, emotional love, and stoic values and individual survival?

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Individual Feelings in a Conditioned Society? My Ford

Lenina is now apart of the “I have feelings club.” Individual survival is becoming more or an important role in the text than the World State’s goal of population survival. Individual survival is such a large task even in high school today. Most of the people in my very own class dress the same. Nothing but Billabong t-shirts and Silver jeans really seems to be the style this year and last. I admit even to being assimilated into this trend but it’s the only thing that you can wear without getting beaked. Wear something else you stick out like a savage in a conditioned world in here. Brave New World has the same concept but it is the concept of conditioning. Bernard for example begins to show emotion and feelies, not talking about dirty movies here, towards society and the director knows it. Lenina has now joined the club after her date when John does not want to take an invite upstairs for some recreation time. Lenina feels the rejection and the text is now starting to show more that the individual survival is becoming an opponent towards population survival.

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Soma For That

The idea of taking soma to go on an eternal holiday is just plainly immoral. I know it doesn’t matter in this manufactured and conditioned society but to go on soma for two months and then move on eternally to the afterlife is impulsive to Linda’s higher power. When life doesn’t turn out the right way take control and alter the course of life. When I have a bad day I sit down and see what sacrifices I have to make, where I need to improve and most of all change my attitude. Live life to the fullest it is not measurable compared to the holiday that soma gives you. Even I don’t know exactly what soma does to you but I’m sure it can be compared to today’s modern drugs (Which still I don’t know what they do). Choosing to take death by soma rather than the way God intended us to, is not morally correct. Live life until it is time to go, life is short as it is don’t hit the accelerator quite yet. It is suicide in a nutshell. Why turn on the radio and television and waste the last two months of life popping pills? Experience an eternal holiday that starts off with dreams but turns into the reality of death. True happiness comes from living the dream, and loving family for Ford sakes. I guess when people come out of a bottle there’s no reason to live for. No reason to prolong life when it is nothing but over excessive indulgences. Linda is not from a utopian society she is from a society with morals and family genetics and should be doing what we all do, live life.

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New Faith

Huxley involves myself to think more about the religious institutes and ceremonies in my life. With the ritual of the whipping reminded myself of how Jesus was whipped and later sacraficed. Seems odd how Bernard chose this savage reservation to take Lenina upon. I bet the North Pole is looking good to Lenina right now. Nothing but indoor fantasies and soma as far as thy can see. With such strange rituals I wonder if there is more than one God to the citizens of the savage reservations. I’m sure they can come up with a better God than Ford, something like I don’t know Mercedes Benz.

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Savages

Further into the book the main focus has become population survival versus individual survival. With the help of savage reservations the conditioned society has a great brute force to marginalize a genetic society. Savage reservations limit the chance of genetics, emotions, and heredity ever existing as a large and whole collective population. Reservations and their morals of an ideal society like the one that we take for granted, well that I take for granted after reading parts of the book so far, have no chance of survival on a global scale. I know it won’t be too long before these reservations are assimilated by the larger conditioned society that feeds on over consumption and excessive pleasures. It is a teenagers dream to live in such a conditioned society. Conditioning does cause the people to act like teenagers, no worries, dropping soma, having orgy porgy celebrations, and living a sinless life. No wonder savage reservations are an example of such horrid lifestyles and used for tourists attractions. Conditioning is seems like a dream society compared to those moral savage beings with values, virtues, and faith I’m sure some soma can kill that thought.

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Population vs. Individual Survival

Brave New World jumps out to me as a question of population survival against individual survival. The process of twinning tons and tons of embyros at a time while removing all heredity and genetics really imposes that in this society population survival is a much more important factor than individual survival. A conditioned society has removed all everything that makes the population individual and focussed on the main point of having stability for the population. Removing all individuality in a conditioned society leaves no room for an individual identity but a strong group identity necessary to fight against assimilation and population threats. Individuality is what holds the very fabric of society together if you take that away you take away the point of having any political status representing you because everyone strives to be the same. I guess that is what they done to this utopia carnival of sin filled society. For the Henry Ford Society this plan of population survival works. Everyone is conditioned to strive for the same goal without individuality there only has to be a select few world controllers for this society to run smoothly. I guess other than some immoral issues it is a pretty stable and active utopian society. As for morality theres a pill for that.

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Manufactured Society

Bernard and Helmholtz continue to prove even more that the power of emotion is stronger than the conditioned manufactured society. Bernard and Helmholtz are having feelings of discomfort, misery and shame. The more I read the more I appreciate the writing of Huxley. Huxley at the beginning introduces us to a distopia society of everything that we would include in our own utopia society. Later espicially when the characters are starting to be introduced I start to relate more and more to the story and it begins to make me get inside the character’s heads and experience the same feelings and emotions as the characters in the text. Huxley’s examples of a fictional utopia begins to relate more and more to our society with solidarity celebrations and occasions that bring others together. Benard’s flaws are beginning to show us our true strengths.

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After Ford

Brave New People discussed that the people had no emotions or morals. Today after reading chapter three and part of four I seemed to prove myself wrong. Page thirty-one a student recalls how he had to wait four weeks to get with a woman and he felt emotions that were deemed horrible. More evidence shows that Marx has feelings of anger and misery and chooses to feel that way instead of taking soma. Also a boy cries when another kid doesn’t want to play with him this shows feelings of rejection. Huxley purposely put these characters in the text to show small fractures and flaws are present in the system of manufacturing a conditioned society.

A society without religion faith (except Henry Ford), family genetics and any sort of government parliament had to have had to experience chaos like event that would allow such a society to form. A society would be in shambles and easier to build up into a painless and manufactured society that it has become coming out of a chaotic state. Or is this an alternate timeline or dimensional universe even formed from the outcome of World War I?

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The Henry Ford Society

Henry Ford was definitely a man that triggered the automobile industry not only by using mass production methods but also by increasing wages to create more consumers for his own product but to worship this man as a god? Don’t get me wrong I love the Model T and the Mustang but worshipping a carmaker it seems impossible. The text does fit well with the idea of mass production because that is the very essence of life. To live in such a society with no morals and no pain seems boring and dull. We all feel pain and we all experience suffering; these are the days that make us stronger for better or for worse. Without pain there would be no love, without suffering there would be no relief. The Henry Ford Society, as I like to call it, lives in a world where sinful desires are just for sport.

Psychologically the embryos do not have genetics, they are all conditioned or taught, they have no parents. Anything that is heredity is removed and the entire society is based on conditioning. The embryos have no connected history. Are these people really human?

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Brave New People

I thought Henry Ford was a genious in the fact that he was the first to mass produce an affordable and a good looking car I must say. Now the concept of mass producing affordable and good looking people. Diversity is what defines all of us. Morals are in some not in others. People are tall, skinny, black, white, brown and all sorts of colour. People can now be made to be exactly identical to each other in no way do I call that stability it destroys the moral identity that God gave us. This idea is like taking a group of species out of an ecosystem it throws it all out of whack. Everyone can be produced to have good book smarts but where are the mechanics going to be when you need to change a spark plug and if all the book smart people are gone who is going to design the next spark plug. See what I am getting at it seems like a step forward but is really two steps back. Diversity fills all spots that are needed like the invisible hand theory. If society needs it someone will satisfy it. If we are all made to be the same there is no one to satisfy societies needs because we can only satisfy certain needs of a production line society. God made us different for a reason and now it becomes a question of ethics. We were created in God’s image as the bible said not recreated in the image of a testube in a thirty seven degree celsius room.

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