There are some things in life that we associate with chores and work. We either put it off until the last minute or we get it over with as soon as possible. I never really realized how much fun I had when I blogged. I just dealt with it like any other homework assignment and went on with my life. But now that this could possibly be my last post, a strange sense of sadness has washed over me. I’ll miss the feeling of not wanting to do it but then you’re all of a sudden really motivated at write. I love having a brilliant idea trapped in my brain and wanting nothing more than to be able to write it out. Blogging is defiantly going to be something I will miss doing. In Persepolis, Marjane is forced to give up so many parts of her child hood in order to move on. She also has to make many adjustments to the new life styles she tries out and eventually gives up on. She also didn’t really appreciate what she had until she realized that she didn’t have it any more. All of these things shaped Marjane into the woman she is today and the events, both sad and happy, in our lives will do the same to us all.
As children, we don’t really have anything to worry about. We can trust that our parents and friends will always be there to help you get back on your feet when you need help to do so. But when there gone and your alone, you feel lost. There is no one you can turn to and be truly comfortable around while seeking help and advice. Marjane left her home to get a better education and a chance for a better life. While doing so, she left her family behind and her friends. She was in a new, unfamiliar place and alone. Yes one could always make new friends, but when your coming out of a war, the only people who can really understand you are the ones who went through it as well. Like her friends and my blog, we will both eventually leave them behind and move on only to realize later the strange affect they had on us. Whether it be a little company of a true friend or the chance to say what you think and put your opinion out there for the world to read. Both of them are more affective than one would think.
Life will continue to go on whether we want it to or not. Changes, both unwanted and wanted will occur. Now we are all graduating and going to new schools to start the next chapter of our educational lives. High school seems terrifying but its something we all have and had to go through. Soon enough it will be over and we wont believe how much we will miss it. Right now we are all probably thinking about leaving our friends and starting over at a new school but there is that safety net feeling of knowing that we can always call them up and hang out anytime we want to. But for some people, this adjustment to a new life is much harder. Marjane had to go to a new place with no safety net under her to protect her. She had to fend for herself and she did an exceptionally good job until the end of her trip when her life just went spiraling down. After she returned home she realized how mush she missed not having to cover her head with a veil and her body with a long black dress. These simple everyday things to some people, including herself, she had become so unaccustomed to over time. All of these changes will greatly affect our lives and we will just have to learn to live with them.
The saying “you don’t know what you’ve got until its gone” is over used and has been turned into a cheesy line in multiple movies. The thing is, is that it is full of truth. Having our family around us all the time may seem like a pain in the neck but before you know it, you’re on your way to collage. Then you’re on your until the occasional home visits. Marjane didn’t realize how much she missed her family until she had been truly hurt by the man she thought she loved. She said “Where was me mother to stroke my hair? Where was my grandmother to tell me that men, I would have by the dozen? Where was my father to punish the boy who dare hurt his daughter? Where?” This quote is a perfect example of how alone she was and how it unexpectedly and suddenly the realization came to her. Being and feeling alone I one of the hardest things to deal with. It is both horrible yet inevitable.
Being alone in a new place for the first time, adjusting to a new environment only to readjust back to the old one, and realizing how alone she really was made Marjane the way she is today. Being truly alone for the first time, starting over in a new place, and realizing what we truly missing about the way things used to be will help shape our future for the people we are today and who we are destined to become. It’s only a matter of time until the changes begin.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
the transformation from kid to adult
Making the transformation from being a kid to being an adult is something that helps define us as the people we are today. When you first realize the responsibilities of being "all grown up" it doesn't seem to be as great as it is portrayed to be. Handling to responsibilities and chores of being an adult are what really open your eyes to life and what it really is. In Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, Marjane's becoming of age was forced upon her at an early age. She was being brought up in a location of war, by parents who were very involved in the war. This had a great affect on her. Marjane was proud of her family and Iran. She was also very involved for a girl her age. Due to her seemingly early introduction to adulthood, her coming of age experience lasted a lot longer then it should of.
Being in an environment where you could be bombed and killed would have an affect on anyone and everyone. Having been a young girl in this type of environment would have a life long affect. Marjane was forced to grow up and face the facts as a young girl because she needed to be ready to be attacked at any moment in time. Sudden changes where being forced on her that used to be an option. One example is the veil. She had to go along with it in fear of being hurt if she refused. Her family was often involved in the revolution because her mother would demonstrate against the government and her father would photograph the demonstrations(which, at the time, was illegal). The positive affect that the war had on Marjane was that it made her very smart and logical. At first she believed whatever the media told her, but soon learned to form her own opinions by her father, mother and her uncle Anoosh. Her intelligence helped her prove points to stubborn teachers and leave them speechless. It also managed to get her expelled and kicked out of various places, which made her parents very proud. So, considering the circumstances, the war had a surprisingly positive affect on Marjane.
Marjane had some ups and downs with her homeland. When she was younger, she was very proud and open about Iran and the war.she had learned to embrace her life the way it was and not let anyone change her perspective about it. This soon changed when she left Iran for a better life. She was always proud of her home but was ashamed to pretend she wasn't from Iran to protect herself. She had to deal with a lot of problems that, at the time, adults were struggling to deal with. She relied on her faith in god but, with all that was going on in her life, she lost faith for a while. If you thing about it, she had every right to. Her world was literately falling apart around her. After this faze passed, her parents sent her away to get a full education and get away from the war. She didn't like being so far away from her loved ones, but she knew it was for the best.
Marjane wouldn't have been able to understand and deal with the war by herself. Her mother showed her what it was really like to protest the governments actions. Her father educated her on the war. Her maid took her to her first demonstration. But the one person who i think she was most proud of in her family was her uncle Anoosh. He had been through the real hardships of the war. Anoosh had been in disowned by his father for his beliefs, walked for miles to his parents house to show up half dead, and because of these stories, He became an idol in Marjane's life. She bragged about him to her friends and she felt, by telling his stories, a sense of power. She wanted to be apart of the war so badly, that she used his stories to impress and be idolized by other kids. It worked.
The coming of age experience is different for everyone. Marjane's coming of age experience lasted from when she was ten, to when she was eighteen. For everyone, its different. if you live in a war zone, you can expect to become an adult early. For an average person, it can happen at random are it can be triggered b a realization. For someone who always gets what the want when the want it, its a given that they might come of age when they are older, and for those lucky few that never have to come of age, well we can always look at them and know that they are missing out on life because to truly be happy you have to work for it and deal with sadness. Life may seem tough at this moment in time, but at least you know your really living life and not faking your way through it.
Being in an environment where you could be bombed and killed would have an affect on anyone and everyone. Having been a young girl in this type of environment would have a life long affect. Marjane was forced to grow up and face the facts as a young girl because she needed to be ready to be attacked at any moment in time. Sudden changes where being forced on her that used to be an option. One example is the veil. She had to go along with it in fear of being hurt if she refused. Her family was often involved in the revolution because her mother would demonstrate against the government and her father would photograph the demonstrations(which, at the time, was illegal). The positive affect that the war had on Marjane was that it made her very smart and logical. At first she believed whatever the media told her, but soon learned to form her own opinions by her father, mother and her uncle Anoosh. Her intelligence helped her prove points to stubborn teachers and leave them speechless. It also managed to get her expelled and kicked out of various places, which made her parents very proud. So, considering the circumstances, the war had a surprisingly positive affect on Marjane.
Marjane had some ups and downs with her homeland. When she was younger, she was very proud and open about Iran and the war.she had learned to embrace her life the way it was and not let anyone change her perspective about it. This soon changed when she left Iran for a better life. She was always proud of her home but was ashamed to pretend she wasn't from Iran to protect herself. She had to deal with a lot of problems that, at the time, adults were struggling to deal with. She relied on her faith in god but, with all that was going on in her life, she lost faith for a while. If you thing about it, she had every right to. Her world was literately falling apart around her. After this faze passed, her parents sent her away to get a full education and get away from the war. She didn't like being so far away from her loved ones, but she knew it was for the best.
Marjane wouldn't have been able to understand and deal with the war by herself. Her mother showed her what it was really like to protest the governments actions. Her father educated her on the war. Her maid took her to her first demonstration. But the one person who i think she was most proud of in her family was her uncle Anoosh. He had been through the real hardships of the war. Anoosh had been in disowned by his father for his beliefs, walked for miles to his parents house to show up half dead, and because of these stories, He became an idol in Marjane's life. She bragged about him to her friends and she felt, by telling his stories, a sense of power. She wanted to be apart of the war so badly, that she used his stories to impress and be idolized by other kids. It worked.
The coming of age experience is different for everyone. Marjane's coming of age experience lasted from when she was ten, to when she was eighteen. For everyone, its different. if you live in a war zone, you can expect to become an adult early. For an average person, it can happen at random are it can be triggered b a realization. For someone who always gets what the want when the want it, its a given that they might come of age when they are older, and for those lucky few that never have to come of age, well we can always look at them and know that they are missing out on life because to truly be happy you have to work for it and deal with sadness. Life may seem tough at this moment in time, but at least you know your really living life and not faking your way through it.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Food isn't always what it seems to be
Health issues are very common in today’s community. There is obesity, low blood sugar, high blood sugar, diabetes, high cholesterol, and many more. We wonder why we look the way we do and suffer from all of these medical issues, when it’s really all about our diets. We spend so much time on “perfecting” ourselves but we are never really happy with the result. Food is something so common, and it is a life necessity, but it can also be lethal. After reading Chew on this, by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson, I realized how unhealthy our life styles really are. Humans are power hungry and will do almost anything for money, even if it means promoting one of the most dangerous fields of food, fast food. The choices we make affect our lives every day. The food we eat can make us healthier or it can slowly kill us. Lastly, fast food isn’t always an option but a necessity. Some families find it less expensive to buy a burger and fries then it is to pay for real healthy food. Over all, the choices we make about food are some of the most dangerous choices we will ever make in our lives.
It’s sickening to know what people will do to move up on the power line. Money is a key aspect to power and the want to have more of it can take over a person’s life. The McDonald brothers weren’t planning to go as far as they have come today, but they were just thinking about a quick fix meal that is on the go and is inexpensive. Then people invested in the company and it grew out of control. There were McDonalds everywhere and it has become an almost unstoppable force. The reaped growing rate of fast food places is something that the creators knew was inevitable and that was what drew them to the idea of fast food chains. While doing this, not only did they shut down multiple restaurants, but they also lit the fuse to the bomb that is fast food. People consumed more and more until BOOM they were everywhere. This pleased the consumers. It was a cheap and quick food fix but it would latter coast them on their medical bills. The leaders of fast food corporations know that the products they use are just barley passing health regulations but continued to use them because it made the food, such as a hamburger, really worth a dollar. This method of saving money led/leads to many health issues and is something that can be avoided but isn’t due to the greed of the Corporations that run fast food restaurants.
Food is an everyday thing. We eat when we’re hungry, when we’re board, when we just feel like chewing something, and when we crave a particular food. Big corporations use our eating habits to their benefit. They design food to fill every kind of food consumption reason there is. If you’re hungry, they have meals. If your board, they have fun to play with food that will distract you and make you feel hungry. If you feel like chewing something, they make tasty treats that seem to fill your chewing need. Lastly, if you’re craving something, they will advertise it to you and make the craving so bad, that you must go around the corner to buy one. After eating their product you feel like your craving has been fulfilled, but soon you are back for more. By eating fast food, you are putting your health at risk. Companies portray food as healthy, good for you products, when you are eating a bunch or garbage. If people ate home cooked food more often, and bought real food from stores and eat the occasional vegetable, we would all be happier and healthier. With these simple changes, you can prolong your life span and live a better life.
Today, our economy is at an unsteady up and down spiral. Some families can afford to buy real food so fast food is the answer to their problems. It’s inexpensive, tastes relatively good and it fills you up. To many people this is an everyday practice out of choice but others don’t have the option of eating steak with mashed potatoes and a salad on the side. McDonalds can the only available food source for a family because the prices are rising. After this economic stress passes, more people will eat healthier food and there will be less obesity, high cholesterol, low blood sugar, and high blood sugar. Eating habits aren’t only because someone wants them, but they are forced upon them. Healthy choices aren’t always an option so. Soon enough, the economy will be regular again and we can all lead healthier life styles.
Food is a dangerous part of life. It can either heal us, or harm us. We have to be careful while choosing what to eat and when to eat. If we all manage to avoid being sucked into the hypnotizing ads of fast food, maybe one day we won’t need them, but I highly doubt that. Eating good food isn’t always an option. We need to work towards making the healthy food an option instead of removing the option from many families. Simple price cuts may seem to do more harm than good, but it means that families have one more healthy meal.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Are we really who we think we are?
After reading Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac, by Gabrielle Zevin, i realized how people are really who they portray themselves to be. Naomi, the main character, takes a bad fall and losses her memory. When she goes back to school, she realizes that she isn't the person that she thought she used to be. People either try to hard to be someone they want to be, or hide from people and don't open up to others because they are afraid. Whenever i hang out with my friends, i act in an almost unrecognizable way then you would know me to act in class. I wonder how we would act if we were given a chance to start over. I wonder what lies beneath the exterior of people and the show they put on that they claim to be their lives. I think, for the most part, that people are intimidated by others, and the intimidating people use this to their own benefit.
Some people think of life in a way that is unrealistic, but get so caught up in their fantasy, that they end up living through it. Naomi went to school only to realize that she was living the life of someone she didn't know. She was popular, but she didn't want to be. She was stuck with a boyfriend that didn't understand her and she realized that she was only with him because he was popular. I think we all portray are selves as people who we don't know. Naomi was the popular boys girlfriend who would do anything to improve her social life. After her accident, she came back and wasn't what anyone expected. She didn't like the people who she was stuck around with, and she mainly didn't like the fake life she was living. I wonder if we all had a head injuries and came back to school, would we be who we are today? Would we act the same and hang out with the same people? I honestly don't think we would act the same. We would show are selves for who we really are, and no we wouldn't act the same because we wouldn't know how we were supposed to act. I'm sure, besides the few true friends we have, that the people we would hang around would be different. It's a sad realization to know that your living in a lie that you created, and even though you may say you aren't, that isn't possible, because everyone is. That's one of the biggest problems with our world, we give people a choice, to be loud and popular, or to stay low and quiet.
I wonder what people are really like. Even from the day we were born, our lives have been influenced by others. Our choices are affected by the reputations that we make for our selves. Would a popular girl go out with a low key boy or a popular boy, or vice versa? Some people may seem original but it's just an act. Someone may seem like a happy person, but underneath that jolly smile, there could be a seriously depressed person. Some people say that they have no talent, but we all do. Acting is something we do every day. We each have roles with lines that only our characters would say. Our lives are like TV shows. People only recognize acting when people use it intentionally, but it isn't anything special. Nothing more then a daily practice, like eating breakfast. The brave take the roles of the popular people and leave all the other parts for the rest of us. Popular people are intimidating. That's just how the system works. They have power over us. Because we fear them, they can do anything, anywhere, to anyone. It's kind of funny. We are like two different species. One is the predator(the popular people) and the other is the pray(the regular people).
I wonder what it would be like to be able to start over. Through out life, we are given three chances to be someone knew. Every time we graduate, we have the chance to change, but for the most part we just see what happens. When i was in elementary school, i was in the limbo group(between popular and not). I was close friends with many people but i wasn't all the way up there, only a few of us were. I was happy being friends with a lot of people. At that time i was a part of the Plastic Bag Players. A group that may friends and i had started and we would preform plays for fun. Then we all went on to middle school and became new people. Suddenly, there wasn't an instant comfort in being around your class mates and we were all young and waiting for someone to take charge as the popular one. We lost friends and gained friends, but we the biggest change was in our portrayed selves. I wasn't part of any kind of group and i guess you could say that i was one of the nobodies, but i liked it that way. There wasn't any kind of expectation to fill. It seemed a lot more simple, but even being to strange girl in the class, i still wasn't who i truly am today, and used to be. No matter how small the role you think your playing is, it doesn't come close to who you really are.
Today, i guess you could say I'm not the type of person who would be loud and fun to be around. I suppose that from a class mates view, that may be true. I am the good student who participates and does her work only because she is slightly afraid of teachers (think about it, they have complete power over you. if you don't do your home work, you can get a bad grade, which means your high school might turn you away, which means your going to get a bad education and then you wont be able to get a good job, then you will be broke and live off of your parents and never met the love of your life because you are to focused on finding a job, and then you will die alone, broke , and living in your parents basement=(...i know that is a little over the top and all, but that is what i feel could happen so....TRY HARD IN SCHOOL and you wont die) and she loves to learn. But I'm really, ask Molly Carly and Pia, an adrenaline weirdo. I'm really loud and I'm very active and daring. I say HI to random people on the street and I'm very loud...and fun... This is who i think i am and i know that i act differently around other people and i have accepted that. The realization that you really aren't who you think you are is shocking and scary, but realistic. I know who i really am, but who are you?
Some people think of life in a way that is unrealistic, but get so caught up in their fantasy, that they end up living through it. Naomi went to school only to realize that she was living the life of someone she didn't know. She was popular, but she didn't want to be. She was stuck with a boyfriend that didn't understand her and she realized that she was only with him because he was popular. I think we all portray are selves as people who we don't know. Naomi was the popular boys girlfriend who would do anything to improve her social life. After her accident, she came back and wasn't what anyone expected. She didn't like the people who she was stuck around with, and she mainly didn't like the fake life she was living. I wonder if we all had a head injuries and came back to school, would we be who we are today? Would we act the same and hang out with the same people? I honestly don't think we would act the same. We would show are selves for who we really are, and no we wouldn't act the same because we wouldn't know how we were supposed to act. I'm sure, besides the few true friends we have, that the people we would hang around would be different. It's a sad realization to know that your living in a lie that you created, and even though you may say you aren't, that isn't possible, because everyone is. That's one of the biggest problems with our world, we give people a choice, to be loud and popular, or to stay low and quiet.
I wonder what people are really like. Even from the day we were born, our lives have been influenced by others. Our choices are affected by the reputations that we make for our selves. Would a popular girl go out with a low key boy or a popular boy, or vice versa? Some people may seem original but it's just an act. Someone may seem like a happy person, but underneath that jolly smile, there could be a seriously depressed person. Some people say that they have no talent, but we all do. Acting is something we do every day. We each have roles with lines that only our characters would say. Our lives are like TV shows. People only recognize acting when people use it intentionally, but it isn't anything special. Nothing more then a daily practice, like eating breakfast. The brave take the roles of the popular people and leave all the other parts for the rest of us. Popular people are intimidating. That's just how the system works. They have power over us. Because we fear them, they can do anything, anywhere, to anyone. It's kind of funny. We are like two different species. One is the predator(the popular people) and the other is the pray(the regular people).
I wonder what it would be like to be able to start over. Through out life, we are given three chances to be someone knew. Every time we graduate, we have the chance to change, but for the most part we just see what happens. When i was in elementary school, i was in the limbo group(between popular and not). I was close friends with many people but i wasn't all the way up there, only a few of us were. I was happy being friends with a lot of people. At that time i was a part of the Plastic Bag Players. A group that may friends and i had started and we would preform plays for fun. Then we all went on to middle school and became new people. Suddenly, there wasn't an instant comfort in being around your class mates and we were all young and waiting for someone to take charge as the popular one. We lost friends and gained friends, but we the biggest change was in our portrayed selves. I wasn't part of any kind of group and i guess you could say that i was one of the nobodies, but i liked it that way. There wasn't any kind of expectation to fill. It seemed a lot more simple, but even being to strange girl in the class, i still wasn't who i truly am today, and used to be. No matter how small the role you think your playing is, it doesn't come close to who you really are.
Today, i guess you could say I'm not the type of person who would be loud and fun to be around. I suppose that from a class mates view, that may be true. I am the good student who participates and does her work only because she is slightly afraid of teachers (think about it, they have complete power over you. if you don't do your home work, you can get a bad grade, which means your high school might turn you away, which means your going to get a bad education and then you wont be able to get a good job, then you will be broke and live off of your parents and never met the love of your life because you are to focused on finding a job, and then you will die alone, broke , and living in your parents basement=(...i know that is a little over the top and all, but that is what i feel could happen so....TRY HARD IN SCHOOL and you wont die) and she loves to learn. But I'm really, ask Molly Carly and Pia, an adrenaline weirdo. I'm really loud and I'm very active and daring. I say HI to random people on the street and I'm very loud...and fun... This is who i think i am and i know that i act differently around other people and i have accepted that. The realization that you really aren't who you think you are is shocking and scary, but realistic. I know who i really am, but who are you?
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Love, fate, and death vs life all in one.
Life is misunderstood, underestimated, complicated, annoying, hurtful, joyful, amazing, lonely, forgotten, disappointing, messed up, lovely, but most of all interesting. There are so many ways to describe life and how it works. It's all so confusing and everything is connected in one way or another. Life leads to fate, which leads to love, which leads to death. If you subtract any one of those four from the formula, life can't continue. If Romeo and Juliet weren't given life, they wouldn't exist. If there wasn't fate, they ever would have met. If there wasn't love, they wouldn't have died for each other. If there wasn't death, the ongoing disputes between the Montegues and the Capulets would only get worse after Romeo and Juliet's love for each other had been completely discovered. We live in a cycle and these four steps are the main points of that long and seemingly treacherous journey.
Life is one of the simpler of the four main stages. You simply live onward and do the tasks and complete the challenges involved. There may be bumps in the road, but somehow, you manage to skip over them every time. Living life is the simplest, yet longest stage of them all. If you were to wrap all of the stages up into one stage, they would all end up in life. Throughout life, fate, love, and death occur. People live life, and only life, when they are babies. You experience this single stage until you are old enough to decide your own fate. Juliet was restricted of the progression from life to life and fate. Her mother and her father had her life planed out for her. She was going to marry Paris and have him lead her life for her. Juliet's parents were unaccustomed to her going out against them so they were shocked once she stood her ground and truly created her own fate for the first time. On the other hand, Romeo had been living his life carefree and had taken full control of his fate from a very young age. Without parental restrictions, he was able to openly be himself, a young man who was in love and was greatly affected by his rejection, while his cousins were full out "gangsters".
I believe that we create our own fate. Every thing we do has a result, and that result has another result and so on and so forth. Romeo chose to help with the guest list, resulting in him finding Rosalyn's name on the list, resulting in Romeo going to the party, resulting in him meeting Juliet, resulting in them falling in love, resulting in Juliet rebelling against her parents, resulting in her seeking help from the minister, resulting in her faking her death, resulting in romeo not getting the letter explaining the situation, resulting in him committing suicide, resulting in her waking up and finding her lover dead, and in the end, she kills herself(pardon my long sentence). If Romeo ignored didn't bother with helping with the guest list, he would had never met Juliet, which lead to his death, but is he hadn't met her, he would had never gotten over Rosalyn, which would probably lead to his death due to his multiple rejections.
Love is something that is even more miss understood then life. It is something that is so new o us for the majority of our lives. Yes we live to see the day when we find our true love, but (1)do we really know what the ideal true love for us is? (2)Do we really know how to handle love? (3)Because it's so new to us, do we have the right to say we were in love and that we know what love is? (4)Do we need love? I don't know how to answer any of these question and i have an answer for he meaning of life(in anther post-The meaning of life-) but i don't completely understand these questions. When i come pair them to Romeo and Juliet, It gives me a small insight as to what love is. 1: Romeo thought that his ideal lover was Rosalyn, until he met Juliet, so i think that Romeo doesn't know what he wants, so he is jumping from woman to woman without thinking about what he truly desires. If Rosalyn was the first woman he found attractive, Did she become his Ideal lover, and did that ideal lover change when he met Juliet? 2:Juliet rushed into things with Romeo, in a seemingly unhealthy speed. She was blinded by her love for him because she had never felt love before. So no i don't think that she knew what she was doing when she walked into love without realizing what she was doing. 3: Romeo and Juliet didn't understand love. This romance was Juliet's first love and Romeo's second. Even if we are in a romance, that doesn't give you the right to say you know what love is. Nobody will eery truly know what love is. 4: I don't think anyone has an answer to that question. Romeo and Juliet lost their lives in the battle for love so i don't know what to say. Love is unavoidable, but something i don't think we can live without.
Death is something we fear ever day. We are also fascinated by it. We now have shows like 1,000 ways to die for the pleasure of finding out the most interesting ways to die. It's awful, but thats what curiosity causes us to do, watch people die. I often find myself wondering what happens after you die and while reading Isabelle's post that even though there will be an end of the world, what if our death is our own end of the world. I know it sounds iffy, but why not? Romeo and Juliet shared an end of their world. Romeo thought he lost Juliet, which was what he had devoted his life to. After Romeo had killed himself and Juliet had found him, She killed herself because, like Romeo, had devoted her life to him. Then there is the unknown of the after life. I don't believe in the after life, so in my ending, Romeo and Juliet just die. I find that if you add on an after life to the story, it kind of destroys the message/purpose of the story.
Music played a huge part in this movie. "...Employed music purely to tell the story. Music played a tremendous role in shaping the modern feel of the movie". Every scene f the movie wouldn't have been the same if the music wasn't there or was different. For example, the beginning poem in the front of the play(take two of it), sounds really amazing and intense because of the background music. This intentional choice made the movie more appealing to its audience. There were many other scenes that were helped by music. A scene can be sad, but if you add music to it, it can be devastating. They managed to use music in such a way that it made the movie incredible.
There are many other opinions and i want to know yours o post!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Blend In or Stand Out???
I was reading A Separate Peace. I thought it was really good but in the beginning, the one thing that the main character wanted the most, was to bend in. This made me think about how unoriginal people are. I wonder why the majority of girls in our school wear those female tuxedo shoes and skinny jeans. I wonder why the majority of guys in our school have their pants at their knees. I must admit that i am apart of the skinny jeans thing but it makes me kind of sad to know that being original and interesting isn't "in fashion".
I also wonder who brought these clothing items into fashion. to be honest, i would be pissed off if i wore one thing on day and then every one was wearing the same thing on the next day. I also wonder if that particular item is a part of one persons originality. Through making things popular, we are destroying it's originality. I don't really know what to say about designers. This problem with originality is the same thing as a designer creating a wonderful item and a bunch of other companies take it and make it their own by switching the tag. Soon, you don't know who the original designer is.
While processing these thoughts, i got to thinking about why people try so hard to fit in. Why do people spend money on worthless items because it will make them popular? Whats the point? I remember when you could wear almost anything to school and it didn't affect your social life. You could wear long pink velvet skirts and and a tie-dye shirt and still be popular. I wonder what happened to the days when popular didn't exist.
Yes, some people try to make things their own be adding a belt or pin, but it doesn't work. The product is clearly the same thing as it used to be. It's hard to be original and not an out cast at the same time. To those people who can pull it off, i applaud you.
What do you think, blend in, or stand out???
I also wonder who brought these clothing items into fashion. to be honest, i would be pissed off if i wore one thing on day and then every one was wearing the same thing on the next day. I also wonder if that particular item is a part of one persons originality. Through making things popular, we are destroying it's originality. I don't really know what to say about designers. This problem with originality is the same thing as a designer creating a wonderful item and a bunch of other companies take it and make it their own by switching the tag. Soon, you don't know who the original designer is.
While processing these thoughts, i got to thinking about why people try so hard to fit in. Why do people spend money on worthless items because it will make them popular? Whats the point? I remember when you could wear almost anything to school and it didn't affect your social life. You could wear long pink velvet skirts and and a tie-dye shirt and still be popular. I wonder what happened to the days when popular didn't exist.
Yes, some people try to make things their own be adding a belt or pin, but it doesn't work. The product is clearly the same thing as it used to be. It's hard to be original and not an out cast at the same time. To those people who can pull it off, i applaud you.
What do you think, blend in, or stand out???
Sunday, February 6, 2011
a few people who i think are amazing
Molly
http://epiceyebrows.blogspot.com/2010/12/jumpor-burn.html
I absolutely love this post. It wraps up life into one little, but affective question. Jump or burn? We can either risk what we have, or play it safe until we realize that safe doesn't exist. I love the way molly is able to create ideas that can seem confusing at first, but after you understand it, they can be life changing. Being her friend for so long has given me a chance to understand the molly that i know today. Her amazing posts help me to learn more and more about her. The one thing that i love about this particular post it that it was built off of a question. It's hard to pull a post like this off because there are so many different ways that it can be viewed. Good job Molly!!!
Ferny
http://ferny-nandez.blogspot.com/2010/12/yet-another-youth-in-revolt-post.html?showComment=1297017596141#c698677675085914154
I must admit that i have not been avidly reading Isabelle's blog. I regret this because, as i was looking for a mentor, i came across this blog. As i read, i wished that i could rewind time and enjoy that feeling of suspense, when you want another, but you know you have to wait. Also, the amount of interesting interpretations can be very over whelming to the mere human mind.This post got me thinking about how well i really know people and it kind of scares me. all of these questions were running through my mind. Yet another amazing post, revalving around a question...Great job!!!
Ben
http://benselablog.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-if-he-hadnt.html
Another blog that i regret not reading. I found this post to be very interesting. Me, as a person, question life in almost every way and create assumptions that seem so incredibly common but are understood differently by everyone. I love the title of this blog. "What if he hadn't", such a thought provoking thing to say (or, in this case, write). What if we all hadn't. What if one your parents decided to stay in instead of going out. I wouldn't exist, if that was the case. It seems that everything has a "what if you don't" aspect to it. I also love the way he ended it, "I guess that's just life". Amazing writing Ben!!!
Other posts i love-
Pias
Annies
as well as others =)
http://epiceyebrows.blogspot.com/2010/12/jumpor-burn.html
I absolutely love this post. It wraps up life into one little, but affective question. Jump or burn? We can either risk what we have, or play it safe until we realize that safe doesn't exist. I love the way molly is able to create ideas that can seem confusing at first, but after you understand it, they can be life changing. Being her friend for so long has given me a chance to understand the molly that i know today. Her amazing posts help me to learn more and more about her. The one thing that i love about this particular post it that it was built off of a question. It's hard to pull a post like this off because there are so many different ways that it can be viewed. Good job Molly!!!
Ferny
http://ferny-nandez.blogspot.com/2010/12/yet-another-youth-in-revolt-post.html?showComment=1297017596141#c698677675085914154
I must admit that i have not been avidly reading Isabelle's blog. I regret this because, as i was looking for a mentor, i came across this blog. As i read, i wished that i could rewind time and enjoy that feeling of suspense, when you want another, but you know you have to wait. Also, the amount of interesting interpretations can be very over whelming to the mere human mind.This post got me thinking about how well i really know people and it kind of scares me. all of these questions were running through my mind. Yet another amazing post, revalving around a question...Great job!!!
Ben
http://benselablog.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-if-he-hadnt.html
Another blog that i regret not reading. I found this post to be very interesting. Me, as a person, question life in almost every way and create assumptions that seem so incredibly common but are understood differently by everyone. I love the title of this blog. "What if he hadn't", such a thought provoking thing to say (or, in this case, write). What if we all hadn't. What if one your parents decided to stay in instead of going out. I wouldn't exist, if that was the case. It seems that everything has a "what if you don't" aspect to it. I also love the way he ended it, "I guess that's just life". Amazing writing Ben!!!
Other posts i love-
Pias
Annies
as well as others =)
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
follow the line of grapes
Norman Rockwell
News
News is never new to me
for i have heard it all
and seen what can be seen
You say you have new news for me?
but thats impossible
because i know everything
Whats that you say?
he did what?
i promise to keep my mouth shut
Oh i must tell Ms.Lucy Yut
He did this and she did that...
i promise he did...
because i saw it!
Well hello Mr...
no need to yell
whats that you say?
He heard from him
and he heard from him
and he heard from her
ans she heard from him
and he heard from her
and she heard from her
and she heard from her
and she heard from her
and she heard from her
and she heard from her
and she heard from her
and she heard from him
and he heard from her
and she heard from her
and she heard from me...
Thats impossible
i have never heard of such a thing!
I chose to take a lighter path in poetry for this blog post. I usually go with the dark and meaningful side of poetry but i chose to do it on something that has or will happen to every one of us, at least once in our lives.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
A never ending mistake
A Daughter of Eve by Christina Rossetti
A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.
My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.
Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:—
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.
Eve is a well known character from the bible. She i known for her mistake that led all future generations to lead a life of ups and downs. The mistake started with a simple apple taken from the wisdom tree where she wasn't allowed to eat from. She was punished for her actions be being cast out of her comforting home that supplied her with everything she needed, into a cold, new way of life. Christina Rossetti thinks her self to be a follower of Eve because she managed to make that one mistake that led her to the life she lives now.
"And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:—Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,"This line made me think about many things at once. The loss of something so common and familiar was one thought that stood out to me. We think of money as a common everyday item that seems almost endless (as teens) because it comes out of out parents pockets. But soon enough, that money we thought existed wont and we will be sent out to fend for our selves. We will feel "Stripp'd bare of hope and everything". No this isn't the result of a mistake but later in our lives when we get on track with everything, then we will do something that will force us to follow the devastating steps that eve, and so many others, once took. One small event in our lives can throw everything off track. A strange step causes you to fall and brake your leg which results in you being late for work and in the end, you get fired. It happens to people and it may happen in your future.
Life can be a jerk and if we try to avoid it, then we are making matters worse. We have to work around it and know when to jump out of the way for a split second and get back on the complicated tracks of life. Even if it's tough, we can pull through. Over all, what I'm trying to say is that we have to be prepared for what ever life gives us and if we spend to much time feeling sorry for our selves, we will never be the same and we will lose our way to becoming the great successful person we once though we were. Good luck on life and remember that there will always be another beginning after each and every end.
A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.
My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.
Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:—
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.
Eve is a well known character from the bible. She i known for her mistake that led all future generations to lead a life of ups and downs. The mistake started with a simple apple taken from the wisdom tree where she wasn't allowed to eat from. She was punished for her actions be being cast out of her comforting home that supplied her with everything she needed, into a cold, new way of life. Christina Rossetti thinks her self to be a follower of Eve because she managed to make that one mistake that led her to the life she lives now.
"And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:—Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,"This line made me think about many things at once. The loss of something so common and familiar was one thought that stood out to me. We think of money as a common everyday item that seems almost endless (as teens) because it comes out of out parents pockets. But soon enough, that money we thought existed wont and we will be sent out to fend for our selves. We will feel "Stripp'd bare of hope and everything". No this isn't the result of a mistake but later in our lives when we get on track with everything, then we will do something that will force us to follow the devastating steps that eve, and so many others, once took. One small event in our lives can throw everything off track. A strange step causes you to fall and brake your leg which results in you being late for work and in the end, you get fired. It happens to people and it may happen in your future.
Life can be a jerk and if we try to avoid it, then we are making matters worse. We have to work around it and know when to jump out of the way for a split second and get back on the complicated tracks of life. Even if it's tough, we can pull through. Over all, what I'm trying to say is that we have to be prepared for what ever life gives us and if we spend to much time feeling sorry for our selves, we will never be the same and we will lose our way to becoming the great successful person we once though we were. Good luck on life and remember that there will always be another beginning after each and every end.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
the amazement of an undeveloped mind
After finishing our huge picture book project and reading them to younger kids, i read The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I realized that a young mind means endless possibilities and the right to deny the world for what it is. When we were younger, our beds were the islands floating on water and we would have to make it to the door without touching the water, only to realize that we left our favorite toy, giving us one more reason to venture back to save it. kind of like those weird disinfecting commercials for bathroom cleaner. Anything was possible and no didn't exist.
The young fifth graders we read to were just about to end their journey of a life time and be engulfed with the problems that they shouldn't have to deal with. picture books, cartoons, and movies used to be the beginning of a new adventure that brought us to Hogwarts and let us swim with mermaids and put us in control of the universe. I miss those gullible minds of ours and the old adventures with our real and imaginary friends.
With nothing to worry about, we had the time to think of a solution to global warming where Casper the friendly ghost would fly up to the sun and help it cool down. Ah the good old days, when we took nap time for granted and snack time was a daily thing that we just went along with. When every one was popular and our problems were as small as what we had packed for lunch and if anybody would trade for a fruit roll up.
Life is to complected and if anyone of us were in our right minds, we would live off the grid and raise our farms with every animal we need to keep our lives healthy and nutritious. We would have nap time every day and our beds would still be islands...
What can i say, we live to dream!
The young fifth graders we read to were just about to end their journey of a life time and be engulfed with the problems that they shouldn't have to deal with. picture books, cartoons, and movies used to be the beginning of a new adventure that brought us to Hogwarts and let us swim with mermaids and put us in control of the universe. I miss those gullible minds of ours and the old adventures with our real and imaginary friends.
With nothing to worry about, we had the time to think of a solution to global warming where Casper the friendly ghost would fly up to the sun and help it cool down. Ah the good old days, when we took nap time for granted and snack time was a daily thing that we just went along with. When every one was popular and our problems were as small as what we had packed for lunch and if anybody would trade for a fruit roll up.
Life is to complected and if anyone of us were in our right minds, we would live off the grid and raise our farms with every animal we need to keep our lives healthy and nutritious. We would have nap time every day and our beds would still be islands...
What can i say, we live to dream!
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