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The book Maus II displays a horrific insight of the Holocaust. This books adds an insight into the factual information that we know about the horrors in the camp. Through the use of characters, he becomes attached to the terrible time and experiences that the surviors and their children have to relive every day of their lives.The blogger of the book of Maus II talks about how the book brings forth so much feelings that the people that went through the Holocaust have. It also allowed the reader to see another side of Vladek, to get to know the person behind the writing and drawing, and to watch as Art and Vladek grew their relationship, through theirs ups and downs as father and son. This book gave in a good insight of what the people went through to keep staying alive and to survive what horrible things that people can do to one another.
The blogger of the story also says that, " It’s important to remember that what we view as an event in the history books was reality for millions of people who suffered through it for years.  It is important to remember the people and stories behind the facts of history." And as a matter of fact it is true. To look behind the scenes of the story the author can make us think about how much they have gone through the horrors of losing family and gaining hatred towards others can bring up a lot of emotions and feelings.

JUST IN TIME!

So the book is very confusing. But hey thanks to Socratic circle! I understood much more. Well in those chapters. I am still very confuse about the book a bit but hopefully things will clear up.

In the beginning of the novel, From what I believe, the characters figured out that protein was the secret to life. One character stated, Yeah, that’s it” (26). Finding the “secret of life” should be an exciting discovery, yet no one cares, it does not make a difference in their lives. In addition, San Lorenzo, Newt talks about a the cat’s cradle game. He stated that the “cat’s cradle is nothing but a bunch of X’s between somebody’s hands…” “…no damn cat, and no damn cradle” (114). So basically, these people believe that protein is the "secret of life."  From what we know that’s what they all believe in the novel. But there can be many solutions to the “secret of life”.

                     Based on the Socratic Circle we had, the main detail I caught onto was the meaning of a "Cat's Cradle." The book mentioned that there really isn’t any meaning to the Cat’s Cradle.  I think the novel was named Cat's Cradle because the basic theme of it was that people believe in things whether or not it's there, true or false. I think the author is trying to open the idea that every individual will believe in whatever they want. Take religion for example, we all have different beliefs. Whether our piers or friends may not follow the same beliefs we do, we will still continue to hold onto our perspectives. This is where it all goes back to reality. In life sometimes we need to "see" to "believe." Another thing is that we may know the truth or lie of something; however, we could choose to go on and continue on believing in it regardless.

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FINALLY FINISHED BRAVE NEW WORLD! YES YES YES! Anywhos. So after reading the story I was starting to pick up some similarities being compared in Brave New World, 1984, and our government. However both governments are different in so many ways. 1984 it's clear that it is a dictatorship. You're forced to believe what the government tells you to believe, do what the government tells you to do, soon and so on.  In Brave New World the government seems to be very liberal.  They view life through the scientific ways and not traditional ways. Our government is far from a dictatorship but similar in ways of the media; constantly streaming us with information about politics, new laws, etc. They are informing American citizens through the media exactly like 1984 had. Some of this information is incredibly biased and some information tries hard not to be biased. Like 1984 when they rewrote history constantly! Our government compared to Brave New World is only part of our society. Many Californians are liberal and view the new scientific way of life, not traditional ways of life, such as conservatives. California is very much liberal and are for new advancements that go against the grain, or traditional ways of living. Through Brave New World they go against the grain in multiple ways! Drugs is what makes them happy, religion is a joke and something to be mocked. So I believe that the traditional ways are being constantly destroyed and before we know it, it will be gone forever.

VEDEOH!

I found this video to be quite interesting in the sense that we as students are all exactly as the communitiy around us. We all dress about the same within the same group or styles. We converse the same and we all take the same educational classes. In a sense, we are the same in someway. However, unlike Brave New World, we all are able to think for ourselves. Our only purpose may be to contribute to the economy and live our lives out that way; on the other hand we have our own choices. We are not genetically programmed to carry out a certain machine's needs.  

One parallel that caught my attention was the point in the video where he addressed the condition of ADHD.  The fact that most people nowadays seem to have it made it so much more interesting. As a society we are constantly bored looking for the next thing to keep us occupy, whether it be technology, food, sports, or even on the harsh terms of drugs and alcohol. Just like in Brave New World, the people turn to Soma to relieve them from any boredom: "What you need is a gamme of Soma."

On another note, we are taught throughout school what is right and wrong through the eyes of the teacher. This is similar to Brave New World in a sense that they are also taught what they can and cannot do to fulfill their life purpose. But question is who is really in charge of what is right and wrong, what they can do and what they can’t?

This video was indeed an eye opener of how society is slowly starting to resemble that of Brave New World by our lack of concentration and our ability to easily be consumed by what is around us.

NEW BOOK NEW WORLD. NEW ADVENTURE TO BLOGGING OH FUN FUN FUN

After reading chapter 3 I came to realize how the government makes it so simple to cover society from gaining experiences and replace those experiences with artificial pleasures.
Infants are tempted with books and flowers and then shocked when they go to grasp them they are electrically shocked. This is a way of showing harm to what was once a pleasure and something that can be enjoyable. In a way it is like the idea of a child falling off a bed and learning the fact that they can get hurt if they go too close to the edge again. If the children are caused pain for what they wish then soon enough they will no longer find pleasure in it.

On the other hand, women are able to feel all of the symptoms of a pregnancy unnaturally. With thoughts like “my baby… the little hands, the hunger, and that unspeakable agonizing pleasure!”  Women are no longer able to experience the feelings of carrying and birthing a baby due to the new manufacturing technique in the book, so those who desire such feelings are able to consume a “pregnancy substitute.” This makes pregnancy seems as though it could just be a joke that babies are not naturally born the way they used to be.

The people in A Brave New World are encouraged to be promiscuous and frequently change partners to keep the happiness going. “Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.” Having whatever one person wants cannot stand in the way for a person to be unhappy. So either you do what you have to do to make yourself happy or u tumble down and be unhappy.

In Brave New World, people are birthed to do their jobs and nothing else. There sole purpose is to fulfill the job that they were embedded to do. They must be “obedient men,” men who enjoy fulfilling their duties rather than acting against them. This quote justifies Ford’s thoughts on how life should be. Life should be manufactured and synthetic, not real. This way no one would be able to live unhappy and everyone would be the happiest person living.

preparation to write for the Tempest

I can honestly say I did not like the book The Tempest at first because I really had no idea of what was going on. But as we got into groups and started to discuss about it I started to enjoy it a bit more. In those discussions of "The Tempest" that we had, one controversial issue has been the debate between the themes of colonialism and imperialism of the time. On the one hand, Shakespeare meant for that The Tempest is to arugue this issue of during his time. Aime Cesaire discusses the theme of imperialism in Shakespeare's work. Her rewrite titled "A Tempest"  of a comical writing style to emphasize imperialism and colonialism in Shakespeare's "The Tempest". On the other hand, others who have analzyed Shakespeare's work have come to the conclusion of a few different meanings. One example is Stepehen Greenblatt. He emphasizes his views on how imperialism affected the Native Americans. On the other hand, other critics, such as George Will, believes that this analysis of the text takes away the original meaning that the author intended to convey to the reader. These two critics have different views of Shakespeare's ideas. But who knows which one of them maybe right. There are many other views of Shakespeare. There would never be a "right" answer to everything.