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This blog was started for Mr. Hughes' English III AP course.Wednesday, May 21, 2008
8:08 AM The hearts of children are never in the wanting for adult thoughts, always having the feeling to stay the way they are, young and unknowing. They do not over analyze and they do not shovel deeper than the top soil of a story, not having the lust to want to know honestly why, or the real truth. This shines the light on the adults into being the ground breakers. The Golden Compass, though written by an atheist, was a children's book. The more aged believe it to be an attack on Catholicism and Christianity, for the book makes noticeable religious references against God. People nation wide find the Blockbuster shelve-sitter crazy to be produced because of it's supposed teachings of atheism. "The religious impulse – which includes the sense of awe and mystery we feel when we look at the universe, the urge to find a meaning and a purpose in our lives, our sense of moral kinship with other human beings" says Philip Pullman, the author of The Golden Compass and a proclaimed atheist, on the religion section of his own website [Pullman]. The Golden Compass is a good example off of his quote, being an adventurous tale of a girl off to find unanswered questions, gaining friends along the way, and to find a purpose for everything going on. Maybe The Golden Compass is thought to complexly for the man is atheist. He is different from a lot of people, and he can be easily taken down because of the large amounts of non-atheists all over the world. Is that why the movie is known as something ridiculous whenever it was a beautifully created film? Pullman wrote a children's book. If he was interested in attacking Christianity, he could have done it without the 'ice bears' and 'daemons', right? Pullman, Philip. "Religion." Philip Pullman. 2008. 21 May 2008 http://www.philip-pullman.com/about_the_worlds.asp
Placed in the box at 8:08 AM Observed 0 times. Friday, May 16, 2008
6:14 AM Though I never will sleep a day away, I miss the chance. The opposite of that, would be training and going to camps for my Senior soccer career to be great. It's going to be extremely difficult to get back in shape, but it's going to be worth it. I hope that my plans will follow out for the summer and that everything will be awesome. I can't wait for my Senior year to finally begin! I know I can’t think of many other things to say about my two thousand and eight summer vacation bonanza, but I hope this covers my two hundreds words and helps tell you that I hope you also have an awesome summer, Mister Hughes. Thank you for the extremely awesome first hour class. It’s been a blast. Two hundred words yet? Yep. =D
Placed in the box at 6:14 AM Observed 0 times. Monday, May 5, 2008
5:55 PM director of Bowling for Columbine, would be the skinniest man alive. The documentary claims that Charleston Heston, the leader of the NRA, had total control over what he was doing, making it look as though the movie star 'rushed to' Denver, Colorado and Flint, Michigan for his gun rallies RIGHT after the Columbine High School Massicre and the killing of a 6 year old. It made it seem as if he did not care about the incidents. It may seem Moore's claim is correct in the movie, but the impression a viewer gets from Bowling for Columbine is a false one. Heston had his trip to Denver and Flint planned in advance, for it was an annual meeting. Because he could not cancel the event completely, Heston did pay his respects. What about Heston's rifle raising and proclamation of, "I have only five words for you: 'from my cold, dead, hands" that is shown/heard more than once through the film? Moore claims that Heston said those words at the NRA Denver rally. False. Moore then has a clip from the actual Denver meeting, but does not play the full speech, having his viewers assume that Heston did not give a care about Columbine, but whenever he full heartedly apoligized. Looking close to the clips shown, Heston is even wearing different clothing. As the for the Flint incident, Moore made his viewers believe that Heston was coming to places like Flint because he had no heart. By zooming up on the NRA's website page, Moore zooms in on the words, "48-hours after Kayla Rolland is pronounced dead", thus persuading the viewer to believe that Heston was this evil, gun greedy man who did go to Flint for the single purpose of his guns. Moore is a very intelligent man, but why deceive an audience? His "NRA and Reaction to Tragedy" was a complete bowl of false, assumptions, but with factual ingredients. Though Moore had facts , he used them way out of place and for deceiving. Works Cited: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/12/171427/607 http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
Placed in the box at 5:55 PM Observed 0 times. Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6:30 AM  Schools are very open to many crimes, more so shootings/mass murder attacks, because those shootings/mass murder attacks are not stopped in time due to the lack of security and knowledge of suspects on campus. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold drove up to Columbine High School in Colorado in two separate cars. After setting off a small bomb, the black dressed shooters were never seen before killing 12 students as they came by the cafeteria and library, being called the Columbine High School Massacre (Wikipedia, Columbine High School Massacre). Another case would be a Louisiana Technical student, Latina Williams, entering a class room on February 8, 2008, exiting, only to re-enter in another door, firing 6 shots and killing two people with a .357 revolver (Fox News, Woman Kills 2 Students in Louisiana College Classroom, Takes Own Life). These two cases are where security lacked in the lives of students. They never noticed nor detected anything wrong on the two days, but why? Schools are heavily impacted by violent crimes each year, so wouldn’t that make anyone on campus ready of anything? Not necessarily. All around the United States, schools should be more protected against student/teacher violence. Many people blame movie directors and game producers for the work they put out on the market because of it’s violent content, but what if it was not just the media industry? Though it is not always seen as a type of security, parents need to watch what their child does throughout their lives and monitor them. To have a safer school, the student must be safer. Schools also need to have more guards and policemen with technical training on how to handle school shootings, as wells as teachers and on campus staff having the same training as a police officer, taking courses on how to see a perpetrator because they strike and how to handle “before and after” scenarios of harmful situations between students. When built, schools should be equipped with metal detectors (Surveillance – Metal Detectors). For lower-income school systems, governmental funds should help aid in what cannot be paid for. How did the two men walk around Columbine High School draped in black and carrying weapons without anyone noticing them? Was it security’s fault for having the students go through the wrong exit? How did the Louisiana Tech shooter carry the loaded revolver around school campus? Security within schools should be increased, for too many situations happen each year to young people in America through schools.
Placed in the box at 6:30 AM Observed 1 times. Tuesday, February 26, 2008
7:25 PM The lyrics of Jeremy tell a story of a troubled boy,not being loved by his parents, and picked on by others, including the narrator himself. This is stated by Vedder, or the narrator, in the words that express his experience of being there. "Clearly I remember, Pickin' on the boy" and , "How could I forget. He hit me with a surprise left." Vedder's use of Repetition also shows that he can't believe his eyes, "Jeremy spoke in class today." In other words, Jeremy did something horrifically astonishing and he can't get it out of his mind. The reader/listener knows that the song is an angry one, but ,if you do not see it for yourself, you think that Jeremy is only a boy picked on. Jeremy won "Best Video of the Year" for MTV in 1992. It was the best video, but also the most controversial in the early '90s. The lyrics do not show all of what Pearl Jam is explaining, unlike the video. Though the original video was denied by production companies, thus having to have another director film a "re-do", the impact the award winning song had produced grew. Throughout the video, words such as "problem", "peer", "harmless", "bored", and "child" are shown in a collaging effect with pictures and the reckless Jeremy character, who is shown to be angry and alone everyday of his life. Vedder is shown alone as well, helping to classify him as the narrator. It all ends with Jeremy entering class late one day, his eyes closing, a white flash, and then the camera paneling around to show shocked, blood stained students. A person may look at this video and think Jeremy killed everyone in the class. In all actuality, producers zoomed in only to Jeremy's eyes for a reason: Jeremy kills himself. In many opinions, and either way a person looks at it, it was a cause for many school shootings and suicides after the video of Jeremy was released. Listeners, readers, and viewers take to the character of Jeremy because it could represent a part of someone. Many people get picked on each day and others don't feel the love that parents give a child. Not everyone wants to kill themselves or someone else, but he is easy to relate to because of his experiences stated throughout the song. His story is a controversial piece. Even today, radio stations rarely play it, or never play it at all. Vedder's narrator tells us the story no one wanted to be real, thus the moral being to never upset someone with rude or joking comments, the revenge might be much worse.
Placed in the box at 7:25 PM Observed 0 times. Sunday, February 17, 2008
4:23 PM After doing my Rhetorical Analysis and reading over my comments, I've taken into account that I need to stop using so many big words and be patient with my writing. I need to stop doing last minute and become comfortable. Also, I need to study up on some English! Passive vs. active voice, making correct sentences, all that jazz. The most important thing I need to get over writing now is AWKWARDNESS. I'm to shy about what I feel on the subject I'm writing about and make it so... that my true feelings aren't very noticeable. This is because I don't want to be the only one who felt differently or was wrong. After that, I'll be able to work in what I've learned and hopefully become successful. [PS - I know my numbering is off on my journals! Going to fix Monday after class!]
Placed in the box at 4:23 PM Observed 0 times. Sunday, February 10, 2008
5:48 PM A man can study for years, retaining facts of great importance, but his use of his book smarts is no good if he does not use them in the correct way. You wouldn't add, in the situation of cleaning someone's teeth, that Belgium is the size of Maryland. What good would that do? You would tell them something that goes along the lines of teeth. It's the use of a person's knowledge by fact that is intelligence. With age, a person goes through many walks of life. They have seen the ups and downs of what it can bring us. They know how to handle, or how not to handle, the situation at hand. It is their experience that is considered intelligence because, in my mind, it is applying what you know by first hand. Would you put your hand on a hot burning stove? Well, not me anyways. It is because I know the stove is hot and will hurt me. It's common sense. Though we retain it by experience, what people tell us, or what we read/see, it can also be just something the human itself knows already. Let's say you dropped your pen. You know the pen is going to fall to the floor, right? Someone didn't have to explain to you that if you did drop your pen, it would indeed hit the floor. Your mind recognized this, using common sense. Intelligence is wisdom you collect through reading and comprehending, experiencing, and acknowledging human instincts. It is something that we all have, but some of us don't use it all the time, or in the correct way. Everyone is intelligent, it is just how you use it that makes you smart.
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