Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The unjust lottey.
The small town of 300 in "The Lottery'' at first glance seems like no other. As you look closer though you may find horrible acts of violence that you would never think these people are capable of committing. Yet as soon as they are picked to be stoned to death they dispute the entire logic of the lottery. This is a vicious cycle that keeps on reoccurring as the kids are raised in the concept that this is a normal way of life. This is the same concept as in the book "Plesantville" where the kids of the future are raised that a utopia can be achieved. Even though it is far from a perfect society the imperfections are just covered up and people who do not resemble the required traits are terminated at birth. In both these situations everyone who is not effected by the common law some how puts the people that are unlucky in a separate category in their brain as people that are different then them. Though in reality these people are no different. In both of these works of literature there is a common flaw in which the people are accustom to violence.
The perils of indifference
Everyone is no different yet some people are discriminated against yet the majority off the people do not act to stop the violence.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Ignorance is bliss.
If you don't know about anything then there would be no worries. So it seems that the more educated you are the more troubles that you will have. But on the other hand just because you have no worries does not mean that these problems do not exists. So if you are an educated person how do you deal with these problems? How do you choose which problems to ignore and which to focus on? As a society are we able to sit down and enjoy a McDonald's hamburger knowing how that food has been has been processed in a way that defies everything you believe in. For that moment that you are eating that hamburger do you forget about it or do you choose not to eat there. These are questions that are not brought to our attention enough. Or maybe we are aware about these problems but choose not to confront them because we don't realize the seriousness of these situations.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Ending change.
He is casting away in the river and then he realizes that there is something glittering on the end of his line. He realizes that it is something that is a round metal piece then he comes to the realization that it is a ring. Linda was astonished as she shouted out I can't believe you found my ring. Greg was in disbelief as he said '' this is truly the catch of a life time''. Linda replied and said "this is awkward because I thought that this was a sign to get back together with Michael". Greg replied with an "o" and she ran off and he never saw her again!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
What I want to write about!!
Personally I would like to write about random creative topics. I would also like to have the topics left more open ended so you dont feel like you are writing something that someone else has has already written about. The super power paragragh was exactly what I was looking for. I find that if the topic is creative it insipires me to come up with somthing new and original. My opinion on this topic today is that it is very bland and not intreging what so ever. I would rather write about who would win in a fight Batman or Superman! My views on how this should be marked is on a compleation mark and a creativity mark.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Byron's super power!!
If I could have any super power I would want to be able to control machines with your mind. With this the possibilities are endless, you can get your car to fix itself or tell an ATM to give you 500 dollars. You could quite possibily take over the world. Not that I would though, because it could be used for many things to help the world. One of the first things I would do would to be to disable all the guns in the world except for a special few for emergencies. I would also shut down all the computers in Princess Margret Secondary right now so I would'nt have to be doing this.
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