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Dialectical Journal: Challenger Disaster

Felipe Izquierdo

http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganchallenger.htm

Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on
the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight. We've never had a tragedy like
this.
o Even though the casualties of this event where just seven I think it impacted on a
way more physiological and emotional level to Americans.
o I definitely think its great that Reagan “remembers the astronauts from 19 year
ago because then he goes on to explain how these astronauts must also be
remembered.
o At the time there was a war against Russia and this space initiative was
strengthened to “beat” Russia, therefore this disaster meant more than a few
lives it also meant a great loss of idealism and respect in this “war”

For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy.
But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were
daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, "Give me
a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy." They had a hunger to explore the universe and
discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.
o I perceive this paragraph in a very religious way since god gives us strength
through our lives but does not change our or disappear our problems
o I remember my grandfather who was killed and I know how hard it is t recover
from a would that is not material and if you’ve suffered loss you connect with
the sad feeling of this essay

We're still pioneers. They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers.

o America has always had great respect for discovering and exploring and idolizes
these astronauts on the same basis

I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes-painful things like this happen. It's all part
of the process of exploration and discovery.

o I don’t agree there’s a process of exploration, there’s more of a process of life
and things happen we cant change that.
o I don’t agree with exploration and discovery as the reason for tragedy, life’s can
be unfair but we cant change reality we must instead learn to live with it

We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public.
o This quote is just completely hilarious =)

Soapstone: Challenger Disaster

Felipe Izquierdo

http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganchallenger.htm

Speaker:
The speaker is Ronald Reagan, leader of the land of the free, and president to the
United States of America. At the time probably the most influential man on earth
he is in charge of a nation and being an example for the rest of the world. His fellow
countrymen died and it is his responsibility to address all others he is in charge of.

Occasion:
The occasion is part of the world’s most active years in space programs. A race in
the cold war to reach new boundaries 1986 exemplifies the effort to beat Russia.
The Challenger mission has just ended in a disaster, which killed its participant’s o
national television. It is the reaction to this tragic event, which is the whole purpose
of this speech.

Audience:
To all American citizens, because their “role models” have died and their pride
harmed. All Americans are collateral to this accident since it shows weakness to the
international community. Specifically to the families of the people in the accident
which suffered the most. The international community is also addressed because
Regan wants to show that there not slowing down or losing their spirit.

Purpose:
Reagan has two main purposes, mourning and reinforcing. He wants to recognize
the brave who everyday take risks for America and in this occasion died bravely.
He wants them to be knowd as heroes and their memory to never be forgotten.
The second purpose is for Americans to not loose hope in the space program and
instead to cherish and embrace it even more. He is clear in stating the importance
of the space program and reaffirms its support for it as a country. He also wants
everyone to know that this speed bump will not slow America down in any way, and
he declares that there will be even more volunteers, scientists, and Americans to
carry out this program.

Subject:
Reagan specifically states these 2 purposes and the content of his speech. He
describes the disaster and proceeds to explain their action. He acknowledges the
deaths of these astronauts and describes how honest they are about the space
program and the difficulties and dangers it has.

Tone:
The tone of this speech is very clear, its obscure, sad, mournful and hopeful. He
continuously uses sad words like tragedy, loss, and terrible to make clear that it
is very tragic what has happened. He wants for all of America to share this feeling
of recognition for its dead heroes. Dramatically expressing the events of the day
attached to the sentiment of them. At the same time he is also confident it the space
program but keeps its cold feeling throughout the whole speech.

Dialectical Journal: Film Version of Mark Zuckerberg Divides Generations

Felipe Izquierdo



Many older people will watch the movie, which was No. 1 at the box office last
weekend, and see a cautionary tale about a callous young man who betrays friends,
partners, and principles as he hacks his way to lucre and fame.

Response:
• One way or another this is a recurrent theme on everyone’s life.
• Depending on our moral we decide the choices we make.
• Reminds me of every time in our lives when we are posed with making a decision
about taking the “easy way”

By the younger cohort’s lights, when you make an omelet this big — half a billion users
— a few eggs are going to get broken. Or as the film’s artful tag line suggests, “You don’t
get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies along the way.”

Response:
• Is there truly a way to be accepted by everyone?
• This is what life is about, a complex world full of flaws and underachievement. To
me this just tells me nothing is perfect and utopia can’t ever be achieved.
• The author is trying to say that life isn’t all black and white and as you experience
and live there will be problems and decisions that we all have o make

“I think the movie raises the question of whether it is possible to be successful without

being at least a bit” of a brute, said Mr. Denton, who has been called worse on his way

to building his digital media empire. “Much of the movie seemed to be about the virtues

of stubbornness, about not listening to what was said by others around you.”

Reponse:
• This is completely true but at the same time it reminds me of the hundreds of
examples of people who achieve through kindness and hard working
o Like Chris gardener a man who came from nothing became a billionaire
by hard working, caring for others, and being kind for others
Life is a gamble and what works for some will not for others. Being stubborn
•
and close minded can end in misery but I like the idea that this teaches us that
anything can happen and the right decision isn’t always the best definition
• Stubbornness can be seen when we are blinded by greed but at the same time
its necessary for people who are told they wont sauced, they shouldn’t study

and shouldn’t follow their dreams.
“Regardless of what they conclude about who invented Facebook, there is no question
that Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. He doesn’t just have brains. He created something.”

Response:
• No matter what he did and who he “crossed” in his way to success he created a
great product even though he might not of been the role model citizen
• This speaks to me personally and as I set my goal and limits at new heights I
hope and wish that I will achieve them keeping my morals

Soapstone: Film Version of Mark Zuckerberg Divides Generations

Felipe izquierdo
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/business/media/04carr.html?_r=1&hp

Speaker:
The speaker of this article is a writer for the New York Times undoubtedly one of
the words biggest and most famous new papers. Just by this article being published
is a given fact that its is credible and interesting. The writer David Carr is part of the
audience for the movie “the social network” and comments and replies to the price
of success, genius, and money.

Occasion:
Carr made this article in the eve of the movie “the social network” debuting to
comment on the great things everyone uses like Facebook. It’s his reaction and
opinion on how Facebook was invented, and how it will live on. The setting of
the movie was in the years on the massive Internet growth and as we use these
products day to day we knew nothing about the details of its creation of a personal
life basis of the people involved.

Audience:
The audience is the average human who is middle to upper class. Everyone who
uses technology and money benefit from this article. It directly connects with the
millions if not billions of Facebook users who need to know more of their “dollar
vote” in the economy.

Purpose:
The purpose is to explain the brilliance and morality behind big ideas. To show
that even though multimillion-dollar ideas like Facebook lack of moral surpass in
innovation and we must be careful in the economy with our choices and human
quality. He specifically states all the people he had to betray and disagree with to be
the millionaire Mark Zuckeberg is now.

Subject:
The subject of this article is to talk about how Facebook and Zuckeberg developed.
He wanted to explain all the dilemmas that money and success bring. The line that
needs to be crossed if you want to achieve is what we must all think about. The
author wonders and debates that if you want success there will always have to be
repercussions on a moral, physical, or financial way on someone

Tone:
The tone is quite passive; I consider it to be one of a peaceful debate of the price
of success. He continuously contradicts his ideas in an n argument of beading jerk
or baying “brilliant”. He argumentates both sides equally and is undetermined to
the balance of them. This is all just attached to his open conclusion that relies on its
audience to make a choice with his “arguments” as base.

Co-Existance

Every species depends on its own species to survive. We need always more of our own, we need to be able to mate and live in a society. Even in asexual breeding the parent wants more like himself. There will never be a species that consists of a single animal because no organism can live forever. We are all co-existent we all have a relation and need each other and sometimes even other organisms to survive.

Dawkins explains how this work on different species. And even in humans we need each other even if sometimes we don’t think so. As he explained with birds there will also exist always human cheaters (robbers, murderers, and criminals). Cheater can also alter our society when they disrupt the function we play for one another. Its simple logic that if you destroy another human’s resources then you will also be unable to get those resources from him again. It is hard to express that we cant live without one another since we don’t notice we need certain things that we cant give to ourselves. In order for us to survive we work as a team day to day laying functions in our societies.

When Life Gives You Lemons

Dawkins explains how and why males and females are faithful in chapter 10. He says that they do whatever benefits themselves and the hole world of animals, plants, and organisms works around this thought. Females in a big generality put more effort in raising a child. Even from a beginning pregnancy, the use of ovules and labor show how hard mot females have to work to pass on their offspring. Once they have to put this much effort they cant spend time being promiscuous and might as well protect and devote themselves to their child (their genes) in able for their genes to be passed on, for him to have a lengthy life, and have in turn a lot of healthy offspring. We all “ make the best use of opportunities offered by the sort of body” (pg145 ch 9). Women try to pick good genes with which to ally her own” ( pg 157 ch 9 ) this is why breeding is a true battle of the sexes, you want to pass on your genes with the best traits available whether this means picking mate, being promiscuous or loyal.

23 Enigma

The 23 enigma, this is a world correlation which troubles many peoples minds. They say that the number 23 relates to everything and everything in the world. People have gone crazy for this theory and others have spent their lives searching for its answer. To my perception Dawkins has the same enigma but instead of a number he relates everything to how genes fight, love and die to preserve themselves. To me you see want you want to see. When I see 10, 10 and 3 off course you could derive and see a 23 in many ways but you could just as possibly have 13, 17, 6.66, 1000 and many other numbers. Lately Dawkins as tried to explain to me that the selfish gene is all around us and I am finally starting to believe him.

Socialist Species

In a perfect situation we would all work for the good of the species, we would all be altruistic and we would work as one population. We could distribute food and water equally along the world. We could help each other out and participate in a n active world community. We could spread our money equally among humans and divide the living territories equally. We would be the first “socialist species”, it could be wonderful, and all the humans would have the necessary to survive. Sadly this is a utopist unreachable idea, if the selfish gene does exist then this is why we wouldn’t be able to achieve it. In chapter 8 Dawkins talks about how some species help the community thinking about themselves, well then humans sometimes do the opposite damaging the species for their own welfare. Millions of humans have way more than the necessary to survive, but people in the world still die of hunger every day. We rather waste our resources than share the. It isn’t bad to be competitive and want the best for our families but some people abuse this privilege. “Individuals who have too many children are penalized because the whole population goes extinct” (Pg 117) is an overstatement for what happens in humans, but never the less we should all always be conscious and considerate of our surroundings and our fellow humans. Sharing is caring.

ALTRUISTIC

The Webster definition of altruistic is “unselfish regard or devotion of the welfare of others”. Dawkins completely contradicts this definition by saying that we just protect ourselves by protecting our genes. It is true that our blood relatives have some of our same genes, but are humans really that selfish? Do our lives revolve around miniscule particles inside our cells? I personally like to believe that humans are less shallow than that. In fact, I believe that being humans is making our own decisions, priorities, and life’s. We aren’t “programmed” to follow a rulebook. I do believe “animals may be pre-programmed in such a way that it behaves” (pg96) through instincts, but I can’t believe my life purpose is protecting my genes.

Maybe Dawkins is wrong, we aren’t selfish, and things like love might exist. We might protect our families because we love them and enjoy having time with them. Dawkins in his previews chapters explained that we by logic try to repeat things that are “good” (produce endorphins, satisfy us…), then protecting our families are protecting the things we enjoy.

Interest

Every species has different values, in fact every human appreciates or needs things more than others. Maybe mating is the most important part of our lives, but then why don’t we kill the competition? Killing the competition would only make the species unstable, some fighting is necessary, but depending on the organism’s traits there is a different strategy for all of us. We might not be looking for “the good of the species” (pg 67) but instead our personal goals in different ways. We need to understand and have respect “towards the individual that has beaten us” (pg 82) and as we find our place in the species we can still look for our personal goals. Something like retreating is good if you know your going to loose, it all depends on what you want and how you can achieve it. Humans don’t kill each other for mates, in our case its better to work together in a certain way even though competition exists. We cannot reproduce by ourselves so we look towards the common good of our population.

Survival and Reproduction

The best scientific meaning of fitness I can give is: to be able to produce offspring’s, hence the most offspring you produce the fitter the organism is. Heres were natural selection and survival of the fittest come into play, they are always proportional and relative to each other. Natural selection is how through time a species has a gene change (or mutation), this change might give the organism something beneficial like spikes, wings, ext that will protect it and its offspring’s in a certain way. Spike on a tree could protect its seed, poison on a snake could allow him to get more food, color on a butterfly could scare insects away, “the animals evolved to achieve rapid movement” (pg 47), we could go on forever on how your future offspring is produced more efficiently. So Natural Selection is the key to the survival of the fittest and evolution they all work on the same level.

As computers Dawkins say we live by a set of rules, our advantage is our brains and the ability to learn. We “repeat anything that is followed by one of the nice things [sweet taste, smiling child, mild temperature…]” ( pg57) and we stop doing things that conclude in a set of bad things. Learning is in a simplistic way the ability to benefit us, of course there is more to that but the basics are simply and Dawkins says this is in our genes. If the set of good and bad things are in our genes where would selfish acts that lead to beneficial things fall under? Is it not true that having money (the ability to feed yourself…) would be a beneficial thing for us, only our judgment will be able to decide what selfishness is and if it is ever good or bad but it will always be just a perspective.

Selective Breeding?

As Dawkins goes deep into the biology of genetics actually quite similar to what I am currently studying in school he proceeds to prove to the world the true complexity and miracle of life. When you think about it, it is a true miracle the perfection of 3 billion nucleotides making our bodies after millions of sperms (each also completely unique) fight as rival to combine there 23 chromosomes with the ovules 23 chromosomes to fight the odds to produce one offspring with limited possibilities of getting to live to then find 6 million of these miracles in our world. That’s how I know god exists. Human anatomy is impressive as well as any other living organism each unique. It’s amazing how the complete 3 billion nucleotides that are practically the handbook for the making of a human are contained in every single cell. 20 years ago we found DNA identification we are just peaking in Pandora’s box of infinite possibilities of genetic manipulations. It is true we could select each individual gene for its benefits and speed the process of evolution but we need to think about the consequences of this, we have only just started studying DNA how much risk are we willing to take? Maybe there is a selfish gene, maybe we could delete it in the future, but do we want to?

Replicators

In chapter 2 Dawkins talks more about Darwin and his work. He talks about the “survival of the fittest”(pg 13) and how its not completely accurate as the “survival of the stable”(pg 13). He says that things that survive are in a certain way the ones that can remain the same through some time and prove to be durable. Then he goes into complex genetics of how our proteins amino acids and hemoglobin is formed and destroyed in a stable way.

I’ve had different opinions in my life about the survival of the fittest it I true in a way that the most able capable things survive in our world. It’s a simple theory since for example the hawk that never learned to fly will probably have les survival possibilities. But also humans have taken for granted that killing and destroying is what lets us survive but we have seen that if we keep doing this things like global warming are triggered by us and killing us in return. This is why I agree more with the theory of stability since is we are able to proceed in life with longetivity and fecundity without damaging ourselves in the process that is how a species will last. This would be the living form of natural selection it would be the perfect species but its utopic one that is impossible to reach in my opinion.

The Selfish Gene

Originally I was discouraged to read the selfish gene but know I have finally started, it peaked my interest slowly in the fist chapter as it proceeded to explain how natural selection works and how the first animal came to be. He poses a very common question, why do humans exist? He tells us that Darwin after hundreds of years f uncertainty gave us the best answer so far, evolution. This commonly accepted theory is why we exist how we became the humans we know today. “The consequences of the evolution theory for a particular issue” ( pg 10) he will proceed to explain to us the evolution of the genes of selfishness and altruism. He says that that a species doesn’t evolve, instead each gene evolves by its self. He also makes clear to us that selfishness isn’t really defined there for he says we might see an act as apparently selfish but not with complete certainty. Many animals sacrifice themselves for others, but there are also many organisms that eat babies or do things apparently selfish says Dawkins. Even thou an animal might do a sacrifice for its group Dawkins tries to explain to us that he is just self-protecting himself by protecting his genes and his species future.

Back!!!

So I pretty much forgot this blog even existed until a couple of days ago when I was reflecting about life. I was thinking that everything moves to fast in life since my sister just graduated this past Friday. I was getting sentimental about things happening around me, I couldn’t believe just 6 moths ago I was living abroad. Then I though about Epictetus incredibly I was just thinking about moral. Then it hit me I haven’t updated my blog in about a month so this is it until this school year ends I will do my blog more regularly starting by uploading what i haven't i hope you enjoy my return.

Moral

Epictetus is a handbook to life; it is a compiled rulebook to influence our lives. It’s a list of advises for our lives, which have to do with all the aspects of it. Its souls purpose is to influence our lives try to make us live them the best we can and make us happy through them. These moral and essential guidelines are his perspective of a good life. By giving life examples he tries to teach us values of selfishness, sharing, abusing and others like a parent would. He also goes deeper into situations and more controversial matters of our perseverance of life, judgments, desires, and many others.

Such as #7 and others he talks about getting attached to things whether it be objects or other things we must be joyful for them when you should only be “joyful for the good of your own” (pg. 13 #6). He also clearly states we must be ready to have things “ given back” (pg.14 #11) and also to preserve ourselves and not get attached in case we loose them. We need to know we can loose thing and we must get accustomed to the idea to “never hold anything contemptible” ( pg 16 #21) when you encounter the situation. He tries to teach us in many aspects of life what should happen and what to do in many occasions.

Epictetus intro.

I had never studied the Stoic philosophy but I rather enjoy and support their principals. Like when a person says that all religions can lead to heaven I also believe that must philosophers are connected and have each found ways of happiness and well being. Epictetus said that “ do not seek events to happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they happen” (pg 2), this is a great belief which in term can make any person happy because it means you are enjoying and appreciating your life.

Epictetus probably wasn’t the fist to explain this principle and most likely wont be the last. As they dictate is Stoic philosophy that by understanding the past we can tell the future in a way. If this was true wouldn’t it be correct to say that people in the future also want to be happy and enjoy their life’s, which takes us again to the connection between philosophers that is that most (cant generalize) will think and have though similar ideas in terms of humanity. Everybody should enforce this principle since this is the same reason we study history for, teachers say it is for us not to make the same mistakes that have been made in the past. I think a little differently, I think history is more than a study of the past because it also is a set of events that have already bean experienced and are their for us to use them and to learn from them. If we can understand the world and its humans then it is deductable that we could now their reactions and acts before they are done.

Stoic philosophy also dictates there can never be full determinism. Fate is not something that we should believe in, we need to know that we are constantly making our own decisions and that they were not chosen for us. If everything was prefabricated no one would take any effort in doing anything because there would be no point. I agree with Sartre in his definition of existentialism in which we are made by our actions, which are in term made by our experiences and knowledge. We could believe in predictions and deductions but we need to understand that they aren’t always right and that there will never be anyone with all the knowledge who could predict the future.

Justice is Served

Call it fate or call it karma, justice is always served. Everybody must be held accountable for their acts and we pay for them in one way or another. In Macbeth he and his wife die, they were paying for what they had done. They could only lie for so long and the people around them had to come for revenge. Lady Macbeth’s conscience was stained and it couldn’t keep up with her knowing the people they had murdered. They were both regretting what they had done but not yet accepting that the power they earned wasn’t there’s, this is exactly why they both had to die. Lady Macbeth died of her sickness caused by her acts and concience. Macduff and Malcom wanted to make things right and they brought an army to fight Macbeth eventually defeating him and his confidence.

It has always been said that we must treat each other like the way weed like to be treated. And from the beginning of time there has always been belief of justice and revenge in many ways, it could be and eye for an eye or cause and effect. In the end Macbeth and his wife had to pay for there atrocities committed and you know what they say, “Revenge is a dish best served cold” (Marie Joseph Eugène Sue).

Your Acts Precede Your Future (act 4)

Macbeth is an insecure person but more than that he is very worried of ever loosing his crown. Macbeth finds reassurance in the witches and an apparition that says he shall be king until “ Great Birman Woods (be moved) to High Dusdaine hill” (pg 127 line 106). No matter stable his power is he doesn’t stop worrying about losing it, his power has become practically the meaning of his life. He again sets out to reassure it and he goes after Macduff and his family who pose a threat to him.

As Macbeth gets consumed for his power he loses sense of the reality and his morality is lost killing women and children unrelated to his power. As Macbeth tries to reassure his power he only weakens it by making himself more rivals including “ten thousand warlike men” (pg 147 line 53) sent to overthrow him by the king of England. Macbeth chooses his own future by his acts, he dooms himself when trying to reassure himself.

The Corruption of Power

Power is an addiction, it is a corrupting feeling that can make a person greedy and evil. “Know Banquo as your enemy” (pg 89 line 130) says Macbeth to his murderers as he instructs them to kill Banquo. He only wants to kill him because Banquo is suspicious that Macbeth killed the king and fears that his children will not be kings. Once the power of king is given to Macbeth how can it be taken away how can a man not want his own well being and power. It is sad to know that human nature is one of greed and selfishness. Humans have fought, stole, and killed since the beginning of time for power and money, and that many humans only care for themselves. Through time we have seen how power can be addicting and how humans have done terrible things to obtain it. Know that Macbeth has tasted the glory of kings it will only give him more reason to kill anyone that threatens his position.

To thrive for his power Macbeth becomes compulsive and obsessive. I would say his flaw is his ambition and because of it he wants power and this clouds his morality and judgment. It can be deduced that Macbeth is good person, not by his act but he does show repentment and even delusional for committing acts of murder. He is blinded by his power and even though he has a clear perception of right and wrong, he still commits acts of murder for which he even repents even though he might not accept it. The other characters can also se this and his inconsistence of explanations of the murders and even start to wonder and question Macbeth.

Some Dreams Do Come True

More than once I have daydreamed, everyone pictures themselves doing something or something happening and most of us can’t control this happening it just does. Students are accused to do it in class every now and then. I’ve always done it, I think I do it every time I think about the future thinking im going to receive something or picturing an event or place. Macbeth does it to an the beginning of act 2, “a false creation” (pg 53 line 50) in his mind that he was already sting out for his very controversial murder yet he hadn’t even drawn his dagger. We do this oftenly and sometimes subconsciously when we think about something even if we don’t want to we picture it. It is like a dream, yet we are awake therefore its name but the difference with a dream is that we can construct it to our own will.

This dream did get carried out in real life; Macbeth did kill Duncan and start his plan to become king. When we do such an act of great importance we get nervous or scared and we can’t think strait. This happens to some people on test since they know they are so important they get nervous and aren’t able to think. In the book Macbeth couldn’t think strait his head was thinking of to many things at once ruining his plan and not caring it out properly. Even though this happened he is still announced king after a series of events that were planed so the murder was framed leading him to be king “the sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth” (pg 75 line 42).

Murder Conscience

It must be terrifying to kill a man or want to kill them. Even thou you must have great reason and determination it is still very difficult to carry out the murder. Lady Macbeth seeks help from spirits and evil to “poses” her and “fill me to the crown.. of direst cruelty” ( pg. 33 line 50). Everybody will think twice before taking a life and Lady Macbeth thinks she cant do it on their own and tries to ask for determination from spirits.

Macbeth almost instantly got cold feet and told Lady Macbeth to “proceed in this business no further”. But he was influenced by Lady Macbeth who even offers him a plan of how they will do the murder. Nobody should have to go through this it is unthinkable to take a life and the saddest part is there is no going back. If you could ask everybody in jail what would they do differently they would probably say the same thing, not commit their crime or murder.

Its not just the act of killing someone but also your conscience and the guilt that you will maintain forever. Macbeth can’t ignore the fact that Duncan has friends, family, and people who appreciate him. Everybody gets hurt in murder not just the people involved, the ripples and repercussion of murder cannot be foreseen and never the less started countlesly every day.

Thy Worthy

Scenes 1-5

In Macbeth there are witches, back in the times of Shakespeare there was a great fear for the unexplainable and it was common to associate it with witches. There used to be a great influence from the king and the church back then. The church controlled the people with fear, fear of spending eternity in hell. This is why people gave so much to the church and the king was associated with god also to promote this same principle of respect and to keep anybody from rebelling. Witches were against god and promoted evil according to the king this is why also traitors and traitors and enemies were associated with wizards and evil.

Macbeth is told he will be king by evil “that shalt be king hereafter!” (pg.17). Can a man trust something strange, which is always persecuted. He was to question himself in my opinion because he had been told all his life that the sources or evil only deserve death. The witches have no option but to live in exile and never be accepted to the society forcing them to hide from it, this could be future for Macbeth if he kills Malcolm since it is not assured for him to be king.

As though this book is complicated we must place ourselves in the historical context. We must understand how the system worked in order for him to become king and why thing in this book are done in a certain way.

book review

The name Slaughterhouse- Five is very misleading, I dont think I would of ever read it if I didnt have to but I am glad I did. My fist impression was that the book was a bad Sci-Fi war book that never sold and became a cult and was lucky it ever got printed. I was completely wrong.

It's a marvelous book that talks about war in a very unique way. The main character Billy Pilgrim is a nice guy who doesn't really know what's going on and would be the complete opposite of what you think as a soldier is. We learn about his experiences of life, WW2 and Tralfamadore in a unique order of events which lead to the great image that the book creates. The book is just like Billy "spastic never knows what part of his life... was next"(23)

This book reinforced my anti war belief and did much more. It taught me about the beauty of life and those who are dead. People might think this is just another WW2 book but its not that its a masterpiece that portrays war from a normal persons life that was sorounded by tragedy but could still find happiness.

Anti Glacier

The Atomic Bomb was a big mistake and it has caused even bigger disasters. The science behind these destructive war machines is beautiful a true achievement of mankind. Hundreds of thousands have been killed by the atomic bomb and hopefully they wont be used again. Just like Dresden people have been killed in massive numbers.

There are enough nuclear warheads in the world to destroy the Earth six times over. But its not just nuclear bombs but also missiles, bullets, grenades and an endless list of destructive thing which with we harm ourselves and our planet every day. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernovile and many more are examples of utter destruction caused by war. Many names of places are could still added to the list regularly.

Sometimes humans dont learn from their mistakes like we think we do. We only keep in mind certain incidents like the holocaust which is good but we ignore that five times more people died in Russia in that period. Billy wasn't only in contact with Germans but also Russian soldiers. People are still dying in the Middle East and the world because we constantly fight with each other for bad reasons. Billy never knew why he was fighting he just followed orders, a terrible mistake. Hopefully some day we will learn to live with each other in peace, because if not we will cause our own destruction.

Cities ch.8

Cities constantly get destroyed for many reasons. Cities can get destroyed in many different ways culturally, physically, and morally. This is not something new it has happened all throw history and will probably continue even if were aren't aware of it.

Dresden was destroyed, it was bombed and there were only a few survivors "there were hundreds of corpse mines"(214). The survivor had to walk through ruins and see how war tears lives apart. Once a prosperous city with people living happily, children in the streets and love in the air was then shredded to dust. In a matter of hours the entire city changed from a thriving civilization to a lonely grave. Most of the people who died didn't have anything to do with the war and probably didn't deserve it but they didn't have a choice.

Innocent people have always gotten mistreated and killed in Dresden "they were all getting killed with their families"(177). Most civilizations in Latin America were once colonized and destroyed culturally and physically. When Spaniards came they had no regards for human life and destroyed everything in their way. Now adays we have lost almost all track of many of these cultures. It is always a tragedy when this happens and hopefully someday we will understand each other enough to keep it from happening.

You will never know what you're going to miss, what you will never get the privilege of having again "made a lollipop for him... then Derby burst into tears"(161). You gotta enjoy the small things and be grateful for what you have.

These are all lessons I had to learn in the last six months during my exchange. I didn't have a bad experience but I still had to adapt and grow up. I had a fun time, but it was the first time I was without my parents for more than a week or two. I wasn't treated like one of the kids there I had to manage on my own and some times find food or transport. I didn't have a horrible time, nothing to compare with WW2 but for me it was still a change. I think this has made appreciate everything more now.

In canada I had to start from zero, make new friends and meet new people. Billy was deprived of food or comfort, which isn't even comparable to me. But it is events like these that that make people grow, appreciate and change.

Billy's "time travel"

Revenge is something awful; it’s like a cycle, which in most cases doesn't even. People even forget why they stated fighting in the first place. World War to started because Germans weren't happy about World War 1. Gangs in Colombia fight with each other because at some-point one side did something the other thing didn’t like and its been a never ending cycle of revenge from there on.

Billy dies in another act of revenge; he is killed because he disintegrated the three musketeers. Billy never had any intensions of hurting anybody but sadly he was hurt over and over again. Billy’s death was caused because of a grudge that would be remembered without a cause. Billy’s was kidnapped, his family died, his friends died and he never changed his life even thought he knew everything was going to happen.

Billy Pilgrim being able to time travel is a complex mater. We could comprehend this in many ways. After reading the book I think that time travel is Billy’s way of running away from things. Every time something death related happens he constantly starts talking about other events. But it is his tragedy to keep doing this because he will never reach a point were something terrible happens. Billy’s life is surrounded by tragedy, he can find happiness, but is he entirely happy? Or is he just trying to block his bad memories, which are undeniable?

ZOO CH.6

"Only on earth there is talk of free will"(86). I believe all animals are equal and that we don’t posses the right to mistreat other creatures because we can. Humans might be the smartest animals on they planet but sometimes it doesn’t seam like it. We shouldn’t mistreat anyone to show superiority not even our own species.

We fight, torture and kill each other, how is this smart? "name and serial number to each prisoner"(91) were given in WW2 must we also do this to our surroundings. We don’t only mistreat ourselves but also we are finishing our world and every living thing in it. People used to think black people had no soul and deserved no rights because of their skin color. Many ethnicities have been discriminated through time but the Jews were one of the most terrorized. In the second world war many things happened that were less than human, Jews were massacred and forced to work just like slaves. They were hungry, cold and desperate and had little hope of surviving it. We have somewhat learned to treat each other equally but we still have a far way to go not only with us but also with the other living things in this planet.

Animals have been killed senselessly and deliberately. Animals still are hunted for furs and mistreated without reason. I don’t believe in survival of the fittest, I think we can find a balance in which we are all benefited. We don’t have to mistreat animals or kill them if it’s not necessary for them to die. We don’t have to be began but we have to respect animals and they’re right to live. Even if we are going to use them they have to deserve respect in zoo’s and farms. Animals and people don’t have to be miserable, it’s a choice we make to let them feel that way.

Is Billy just another animal? Just another amusement? He is just another object, but this object has a life and they have torn it to pieces at their liking. No matter how we try to hide it we cant play with nature and others lives, we must comprehend the ripples of our actions.

Tralfamadore

I’ve always considered the possibility of life on other planets, theirs millions of millions of planets and more than one of then has to have something. I’m not talking about little green men but some kind of life form. I could be completely different from us or maybe very similar, I mean why wouldn't other creatures evolve in to our very adequate and useful body. Tralfamadorians had developed a culture around time and the beauty of moments, this could of been a possible outcome even for our race. We evolve to our needs, could we also become little green man given the circumstances?

I’ve read and watched tons of stuff under that topic and I find it very interesting. Most movies might portray aliens as bad and angry creatures but I can imagine a species that don’t care about war. A peaceful society of aliens in which they have no wars or fight they help each other. Billy's worries were of the human race destroying everything but any race could think the same thing. We could be peaceful, anybody could we just don't know how. Maybe these aliens are as evolved as us and as smart as us but at the same time completely different.

It’s also possible that we find their race and explore it. I ask myself shat would we do? We would probably do the same thing we say aliens do, kidnap them and use them and experiment on them, similar to what was done to Billy. Our governments would probably even exploit their planets until theirs nothing left. I hope this doesn't happen I hope we just help them out. But frankly all we can do is hope our leaders are better in the future.

Faith

"GOD GRANT ME

THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT

THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE,

COURAGE

TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN,

AND WISDOM ALWAYS

TO TELL THE

DIFFERENCE" (60)

Soldiers always put up with unbearable things, they live and fight in less than human condition and they presence death daily. Soldiers in Colombia and around the world are underpaid and overworked they fight for people they don’t know and die nameless. Being a soldier is by far one of the most terrible jobs in this planet.

My grandfather was a soldier he has told me terrible stories. He told me things he had to do and live through. He would walk through the jungles in Costa Rica much like soldiers in WW2 for days without rest. He told me on his breaks there was no human force that would make him move, he said a snake crawled on top of him but he was to tired to care. There was very little food, it wasn’t a possibility to obtain it in the jungle. He once crossed a town a nice women offered most of the soldier’s old tamales and even tough they were rotting but he said they tasted like glory. He “can not change the past”(60); in fact if he could he probably wouldn’t because every soldier does what he can and what he needs to. Soldiers are unhappy and the majority would prefer any other job but you do what you can in the conditions you are

In Slaughter House-Five they show Weary's pain and suffering of his feet. Bad footwork and over walking would make all they soldiers bleed and suffer. Some of the things most soldiers express when then talk about war is, how they didn't have their basic necessities, in the book this would mean food and for Colombian soldiers it sometimes mean the same. The only things soldiers have are their faith in god that they will live and hope that they won’t be abandoned.

Time Travel CH.2

We would all do different things if we could travel back in time, for example I would of ordered the soup not the chicken but that’s just small stuff everything could change if we could time travel. Time travel is a very controversial subject because it could be so impacting for everyone. Any change in the past would produce a chain of events that could change everything. But would we change them or would we just relive them like billly

Wars could be prevented we could even change the outcome of disasters to some point. Imagine if the people in Haiti would of known what was going to happen they couldn’t of stopped it but they could of prepared themselves. Millions of lives would be saved, but time travel can’t be achieved because of the fact that time can’t be altered and we can’t decide were and when we want to be at a certain place or time. You might have “seen his… death many times”(23) or even your own, but imagine how this could change every decision you will ever make.

On a personal level I would of invested in things like Google and Apple and I would have prevented my uncles death but I wish some would say “he is very much alive in the past”(26). None of these would have been easy but if anyone had the chance there must have been something they would like to change.

Looking Back

Slaughter House - Five is one of those books that can make you remember the past and think about the present and future. As I read about Dresden in the second world war I say to myself " Am I going to ever be in a war?, what would I do?, do I have what it takes?". I think that the most important part is not to survive the actual war but instead what comes after and especially if you will be able to live with yourself. “ Wars were partly encouraged by book and movies”(15), this is why were often mislead about the magnitude and impact war has on a person.

After you’re in a war memories of what happened, to whom it happened, and how you felt stick with you forever. In a war you will mostly have bad memories, because lets face it wars are not good but you will still remember your friends and the people you served with. “Now what was the grand result of all these struggles?” (16) the reminiscence of war are those people who fought and died, you can be sad, even be angry yet you should understand that what happened happened and you need to live in the present and know you cant do anything to change the reality.

Also the guilt of taking another mans life is something you bear with forever. This could tear people apart but you need to find a way to accept what you did or find a way to redeem yourself and ask for forgiveness. To live with yourself you need to understand that you tried your best and made your decisions on the time and situations you were in. also a lot of people find forgiveness through the church and god but not everyone does. Finally always try to live your life in good to pay for the mistakes you did and help other people or prevent future war.

Infinite Possibilities with Blogs

As i read about Blogs in the excerpt i understood its an open journal to a persons thoughts, way of life and topics of each persons interests. Blogs can be about anything we like and therefore their one of the infinite ways to express ourselves, some might even think they could be from a form of news to art. Blogs are opinions or points of view as much as they present facts or news. Even if they blogs are about random things like my cousins My Ugly Hat blog but they can also be of serious matters like politics.

This blog is about my personal view of things, how there is always possibilities and ways to do things. I firmly believe doors are open, and it will never be necessary for one to close in order to impact your life. My blog wont just be this but also much more and hopefully everyone will benefit from my experiences and my opinions. Also as time passed people change, everyones opinion changes from day to day depending on what has happened to them and how they feel. Don't take my opinion as your own but use it in you benefit and read with an open mind. This blog will probably change to but i still hope anyone who reads it will still value my opinion

The world can be connected through blogs and as the internet gets bigger and bigger more blog will come and go but meanwhile i hope anyone can enjoy mine.