03.22.2004

well now...

After reading this, all I could really do was put my hands on my hips, throw my head back, and-- --hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah! Thanks Natan for sharing the rather risky business of your paper 5. I just picture, everyday a custodian hauling into the classroom a 40 lb. oil drum with a shitty-ass picture of a British prime minister, and it just cracks me upside the head. I think in a "risk" assignment, calling your English teacher both a piece of shit and Santa Claus goes beyond the call of duty. I salute you, Natan. Hey, at least he didn't do it in Spanish. In other news, no one is really blogging, so I'd like to re-post those memborable quotes from other blogs because, like I said some time ago, it fills up a lot of blank space, and makes having a blog topic completely obsolete. Anyway, I had fun, enjoy!: Fostern: Personally, I'm my 'real world' experience. So, I'll say it... Today's class was awkward! I wish there was a way to just start in the middle, instead of at the beginning. I find it interesting that my idea of an essay has been completely wrong all of this time. I am, after all, a list kinda girl. Thankfully, when I get trashed - I fall into the last category... getting very happy, followed shortly thereafter with being quite sleepy Needless to say I'm pissed. It's much harder to admit to ourselves that we have problems than it is to find problems in others. I couldn't be help think about him the previous week when he kept chiming out "Big Chichis." At this point, I'm really sick of reading. That you will pick a career for fulfilling reasons, not for shallow, or materialistic, or unclear ones. we are unconsciously programmed into doing what others do. That is all there is to it. See you all in class.  :) -n. Ooimark: "Brother's before bitches" Warning! If you are a girl, have really strong points of view, and have a tendency to complain, you are strongly adviced to not read this. Warning! I agree more with the "movie" model, where the show (class) is replayed over and over again, and although the story line is the same, occasionally the remake bombs, or it comes up with numerous oscar nominations/winners. Over all, from what I have read during the class so far, I think I have picked up some skills here and there about descriptive writing My friends asked me if anyone played soccer in America, and I told there that even if there were people who played, I didn’t know them. That’s pretty damn disturbing if you think about it, but then again, so was homosexuality not too long ago. I have just realized I'm ranting. That's just my opinion. Chanqin: And sometimes we forget and take it for granted about the cultures we bear until you move away from your own culture and get sucked into another one. I have decided to begin the process of understanding the political system of the U.S. government often times we are overwhelmed by the task at hand when try to go to deep into text on our first try. A few things honors students can expect and assume from fellow classmates: everyone is committed to doing their best in assignments, provide positive and useful feedback during class discussions and the willingness to learn and do beyond the normal parameters of a classroom. We like to write about something familiar, something that we have written before because it is comforting. It maybe wrong, but we find that it is the only way we can write a decent piece of writing. Men are from mars, and women are from venus. I want my windows...but i will persevere Maybe its because i am not from around here, so someone explain this to me. So what do you think? Haralambidisnicole: Feel free to enlighten me. GO EAGLES!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched a wonderful person deteriorate before my eyes, and there was NOTHING I could do to stop it. Can you imagine what would happen if we all decided to get creative in Chemistry lab??| I have learned from them and I have come to accept them, yet I stand firm in my belief that I will NEVER marry a man. We need to trust that our experiences and beliefs are just as valuable as anyone else's. I have to remember that other people have different ideas about what is acceptable behavior for them, but they need to respect that it is not acceptable for me. I think women are way more inclined to have sex when they are in love with their prospective partner. Now that I have your attention... Linnjenn: Am I the only one that feels this way? I guess... probably. In all honestly, I felt like I was committing sin against every single English teacher I've ever had when I was writing my interpretation of Haslett's story. No twirls or skips between her fingertips I consider myself a fairly shy person so I empathize the want to distance oneself from interaction. It's difficult to establish a unity when we're all running around trying to fulfill individualistic goals. I wish we had more time to talk about this in class The ways in which we weave words and build expression can induce change and inspire movements and I'm always looking for words that hold that power. I don't think it matters so much how you respond to writing, so long as you are responding. So go ahead. Google me. I really felt like I was seeing the same personality that I had read in so many of her stories Oh well. Hi, mom. Dayaustin: I take back the lesbian part. Anyway, back to this blog thing. The way I see it. Man finds deer. Deer is dead. Man discovers fawn in deer. Man thinks. Man doesn't save fawn. Man pushes deer and fawn over cliff. When I have to argue with someone (Not that I do that TOO often), I make it a point to understand fully what is being said and I look at it from the opponent's point of view. The skills you gain by interacting with more new people make it easier to do so in the future. That is something that I greatly fear myself, so I could kind of relate. If people like me were put into power, I'd let the public have all the vibrators they want! Sorry if I strayed off topic, but I think that my argument did have some relevance to the topic, and if you don't think so let me know, then we can argue about it. I have no thesis!! This is impossible!!! Can I still get an A in english if I totally screw up on his essay?!!? AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!1111111111 I"M FREAKIN OUTT!!!! HEEELPPP!!!!! mmm...I hope that made sense. LATER! Williamsbeth: hmm... maybe THIS is the only form length essay i have written! i love poetry that makes me feel that i am NOT reading poetry because it sounds so romantic... it makes the professional happs on writers, like a great (HEMINGWAY), seem so amazing. it was entirely unexpected and i loved what i found! It was a really interesting exercise. i kept being reminded of anti- isreali sentiments, because she seemed to be selling her stories off that way. its interesting to realize how different interpretations can be done. i think love poems are great--- they never get old for me, and they often express just how i feel about my life/love. okay, i need to study, so i'm saying SO LONG BLOG!!!! Love Always, Beth Qijane: Style is not something we are born to have. It gets mature through our practices. In general, women have no chance of contemplating the war. They always suffer. Only your action saves you! Sounds like philosophy is all about paradox works developed by our classmates can help us more directly than Hemingway and Shakespeare. It would have became a painful experience if reading is a matter of "true or false". Why smart girls don't have sex? I gradually began to sense to power under simple actions--  the underpart of the Iceberg. I could never be like her because I don't need to. It's most attractive characters are, the more times I taste it, the more delicious it becomes. The real beauty is not how a woman looks like a rose or a bottle of milk, it is the value of a her as an individual, what makes her distinguished from others. Thanks for your time and understanding. Wongkaitie: My name is Kaitie and i'm in your class, obviously. LETS not JUDGE! I always think of ideas to bring up and some of them are verbalized by others in the class, but there are many that i wouldn't have thought of unless someone brought it up. Imagination is something that is used often when a child but as we grow up we lose the ability to imagine. since the return of mad cow disease, I try to steer clear of beef. Could this be the one small portion of a huge suppressed issue? The world may never know. It is not enough for the reader to read the text and understand the surface material but there are things we should try to question and find out. The moment i read that I just melted, but of course i read on. Our minds should alway be at work thinking of the reason why the author wrote what they did and what our responses are. I truely believe that you can't judge a book by it's cover and to make such a provocative and stereotyped statement is too rash. I found that touching. LOLLIPOP ANYONE!? Mitelmanlilya: It feels like we're letting in a new era. It is the uniqueness of these features, the inability to compare them to anything else, that gives them their value. I always worry about the people who come upon these Web sites and take them as facts. as I got older I realized the importance of hearing the other side. Every school I attended in Israel had a bomb shelter. Perhaps, like me, she's jealous of those who can just hop on a plane and go visit the town they grew up in and have it look and be the same it was when they were growing up. It is hard to imagine that there is anyone out there who thinks differently than I do. I was born in Moscow, Russia. I just look for cool ways to do something and ideas come to me. He didn't pretend human beings were perfect and nice and that every story ended happily. I've always looked at poetry as an emotion, a pure emotion set on paper. That's powerful. Yamakimiko: I was taught not to put feeling or your own expression into a paper. I believe it is quite shallow. I find it quite interesting that silence can sometimes mean more than a thousand words. consequences in general are not something us as humans can control. Expression is a beautiful thing, whether it is in dance, prose, poetry or in art. This sort of system bothers me, because there is nothing or no one familiar to fall back onto anymore when change comes around. There have been times where I have wished there were no consequences to tough choices I have made. It is sort of like an incomplete story Santamariachristina: The only thing I thought was useful was the....now that I think of it, there wasn't anything new that I learned. I guess we'll just have to listen to them, because they're the one who has the ultimate decision of making or breaking your GPA. It was great to see someone with the same opinions that I have. His incapability of moving on has lead him into a life of loneliness and misery. Because I couldn't fully understand what went on in the story, I didn't like it. If we didn't have discussions no one would be able to voice their opinion, and life would get pretty boring that way. I guess I like short stories because they're not for interpretation like poems are. There's a little lesson of life for you guys. :-) Maipeter: sadly, i didn't make it to class i was not expecting the writing to be about eating turtles. basically, i saw and found things that i'd never though of being found. it won't work without certain criterias and or needs to get it started. all we have is directions and or orders to follow. it really opens up my eyes to the non-publicized poverty faced by the middle eastern countries. in the end, he's tired of living a lie. well, enough for now. Pidouxmarc: It's 3:30AM, let's blog! Life can be a long and complicated path for some people. Let's be honest, even though the risk is high to be controversial: no texts can be taught! An essay is not a personal opinion; it's only a politically correct opinion, often far from the personal opinion. I see a similarity in both stories: God is a god of weakness. I tried to sleep. Huangsimon: It's either right or wrong. it reminds me how much we can learn about human nature and knowledge through literature and language. i felt like i was back in elementary school again It was fun hearing other peoples responses to characters they are trying to be in the story poetry isn't suppose to be straight-forward. Maybe the gun issue should be on the agenda for our government rather than gay marriages. Many people just criticize their readings because they have to in order to get points and get a good grade. Thinking about why Mrs. Elliot is 40 years old makes me believe that she is a lesbian. I was putting pictures into my head as she read. I tend to enjoy and learn more in the classes where you get to know your classmates But i'm done with it. We shall all see in the future. I'm glad we had this talk. -bry Fabricated by Bry on 3/22/04; 7:43:29 PM Discuss (3 responses)

03.13.2004

kill kill kill

I'm glad to hear that, Qin; at least you're aware of what's going on with those lovely food-processing corporations. Yeah, I guess livestock are just 'primitive' animals compared to the superiority of intelligent, self-aware animals. We are animals, aren't we? Maybe this is just about animal rights, or maybe it's about life in general. "But i'm sure there is a minimum standard in which we can treat them. We will still kill them for food, but why not make it less painful for it. A sharp knife, and a swift movement of the hand will end it there and then. We can still argue about whether killing it slowly or quickly does not make much of a difference, we are still taking life....personally, i believe there is a difference." Two problems occurr with that statement: 1.) Referring to "it", you are still objectifying animals. “Because we have objectified animals, we are able to treat them impersonally” (Barry Lopez). [dictionary.com] With a numb mentality, I hardly think the person holding the knife gives a flying monkey's ass whether the pig bleeding in front of him is in a state of pain. The ambivalence of caring for humane reasons and professional apathy only sets a confusing state of regression, moral and otherwise. Which leads me to: 2.) What makes you think killing is easy? Apparently you have not seen some of Hitchcock's more grisly movies, as he seemed to be one of the only directors who did not create a bloody golden pedestal for guns and high bodycounts (not that those are bad). And yes, of course there's a difference between torturing and outright murdering. Here, I'll enlighten you with some of the ways people were tortured back in the day: 1. Suspended by one foot. 2. Suspended by both feet. 3. Raised on the cross, head uppermost. 4. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. 5. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the feet. 6. Woman suspended by the hair. 7. Hung up by one arm only, ponderous stones being fastened to their feet. 8. Tortured by means of the iron claw or pincers. 9. Torn with the hooks. 10. Mangled with the iron currycombs. 11. Hung from the wooden horse and scorched with the flame of torches. 12. Suspended by his feet from a pulley and tortured in a like fashion. 13. Thrown head-first into a caldron full of molten lead or boiling oil. 14. Put in a hot frying-pan. 15. Plunged into a boiling pot. 16. Dismembered limbs put in a frying-pan. 17. Laid on the iron bed and broiled. 18. Hand is filled with incense mingled with live coals, and who being constrained by the pain to scatter the incense, is said to have made sacrifice to the idol. 19. Clad in the iron tunic and shod with the red-hot shoes, which consume the flesh off his bones. 20. Seated in the iron chair, while a red-hot helmet, or morion, is set on his head. 21. Compelled to walk over burning coals, while molten lead, boiling pitch, or like substances, are poured over his head. 22. Cast into a burning fiery furnace. 23. Set in a tun, or cask, and burned therein. 24. Burned in a room, or chamber, that hath been set on fire. 25. Bound hand and foot and set on a blazing pile. 26. Bound to four pegs fixed in the ground, with a fire burning underneath. 27. Bound with ropes drenched in oil and consumed by a fire lighted under him. 28. Thrown into a pit full of live coals. 29. Iron shovel for stirring and rousing the fire. 30. Martyr stabbed in the throat with a dagger. 31. Sewn up in a bag, together with a cock, a viper, an ape, and a dog, and thrown into the nearest sea or stream. Okay, so maybe all these techniques only happen to apply exclusively to Christian Martyrs (mainly recorded between 1591-1600) but I think the point is clear as burning daylight. Isn't the human race superbly creative? Qin also said this... "All that delicious red meat on ur plate were made up of dead rotting corpse." ...which reminded me that Frost said this... Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. ...so, we are what we eat. I suppose. -bry *seriously though, it looks like he's saying "processed" and not "possessed". Fabricated by Bry on 3/13/04; 2:45:32 AM Discuss (1 response)

03.11.2004

hostility with a smile

The previous blog might have fired a certain implied accusation at Mark, but unintentionally. Just want to clear up a silly assumption I created about Mark during my thinking process... "...contrary to your belief, I do have a respect for life." Oops. My bad, foo >:D Still, he says that everyone has different standards regarding respect for life. And just how many standards are there for its preservation? The way I see it, as dear as a Picasso may be to my heart, I take no life when my Camry utterly flattens all of Pablo's little cubes to the asphalt. One may argue for the life of the painting, but I'll be out the door long before the introduction. "...[love] is something that has to be 'earned'..." How can an animal earn your love if you're constantly gnawing at its leg? As for the destruction of nature, well if I assumed the caveman's lifestyle, I wouldn't be able to, you know, do justice to my obviously earth-altering activism now would I? And my cat was kind of conquered before I got her. Plus I really like my car... Ultimately, I acknowledge your shady diversion away from confrontation by linking pleasing eye-candy that has (almost) absolutely nothing to do with anything except a good laugh. Seriously, I almost died choking on my dinner. Hahaha. At least there's one thing we both agree on: "audrey hepburn has to be like the prettiest lady i've ever seen!" - Mark -bry Fabricated by Bry on 3/11/04; 1:51:44 AM Discuss

03.10.2004

your right, my right

Okay, Mark. First of all, the mentality of a person's behavior towards living beings is certainly an appropriate reflection of the way that person treats other people. Mark obviously has no love for pets, or animals in general I'll bet, because they don't deserve it; only people do, right? Maybe this is just a weakness of mine. Maybe I shouldn't give a shit about my cat, and try to spend more time making peoples' lives better because they're worth so much more than her. Unfortunately, my conscience is weighted down, and compelled to do otherwise. It's called compassion. And well, plus, she lives with me, and the only way I can stop her from whining at 6:40am is to feed her. So yes, I would swerve my car away from a helpless animal who can't help our invasion and destruction of a nature that isn't ours to conquer, obliterate the man-made engine in my Toyota, fly out of the man-made shatter-proof glass, and smash head-first into a man-made pole. Wanna know why? I take life more seriously than the traction rate of my car's wheels. The people who fight for animal rights are fighting against people who treat their property with more respect than natural life. It's a basic right, and I'm pretty sure they (the government, ironically) put life before liberty and property for a reason. The constitution is not applied to animals, but the implications are nonetheless in support of what is right. Not what is convenient. -bry Fabricated by Bry on 3/10/04; 7:43:58 PM Discuss (3 responses)