Do or Die by Papa Roach

Today I saw my hero fall apart, The one who taught me to be strong, On the outside I look fine, But on the inside I am dying My strength has overcome my pain My love for you remains the same The loneliness is setting in I have no one to free my sins It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine Now it's my time to help you out, Coz you were there when I was down, It's hard for me to seal this way Losing all your sanity You helped me, keep my dreams alive , Without you how would I survive It's time for me to be a man Now I finally understand It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine [Do Or Die lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]I cant run anymore I cant hide anymore I cant run anymore I cant hide anymore Today I saw my hero fall apart, The one who taught me to be strong, On the outside I look fine, But on the inside I am dying It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine I cant run anymore I cant hide anymore I cant run anymore I cant hide anymore Yeaaaahh

kafka

After watching the film, Kafka, my perspective of metamorphosis didn’t really change at all. I thought it was an overall good movie but in the end didn’t affect me about the book. It did however make me think a little deeper into the story. I though about humanity how people are and how the story in my opinion wasn’t about Gregor necessarily. It was more about people’s fear of the unknown and the way people react to drastic changes within their lives, wether personal or in the world around them. When it comes to people, in general I think change is a very bad thing because if enough people think or react the same way then a lot of others will follow and it will be nothing but mass chaos except for the few people who have grip on what is actually happening. what do you think is the "moral of the story"?
I am assuming that the moral of the story is to look at everything a little deeper than what everything may seem so that one can understand in full what is or isn’t really happening. Also, it has to do with the love a family, your family and any other family that you may have wether it is a friend that might as well be family or a mother or father. Your connection with them is vital in life because if you don’t have a relationship with them then one can’t have a relationship at all, for they are the people that teach you about love and compassion, and without it you turn to anger and rage. Sometimes that anger and rage ultimately leads to ones suicide weather it be taking your own life or social suicide, which would be to become a hermit, (or a bug) so to speak. Humanity is the big picture that is seen in the book because everyone who knows or looks at Gregor is repulsed and wants nothing to do with him. This can be related to African Americans, or people of color if you will. Before the modern ages of factories and civil rights that is exactly how people of color were seen. They were seen as disgusting and revolting, not even worth the air that they were breathing, but in the end everyone finds out what life means and knows that everyone even a bug is a living creature who deserves everything that everyone else may have. In my personal opinion we are equal in everyway except for the looks. If we were all blind and couldn’t see, what do you think life would have been like? Or even if we only saw shapes and no colors or sizes? That is the question.

Why the future doesn't need us

Bill Joy's thesis is that we are becoming too advanced and are trying to make things easier but at the same time we are digging our graves. We create these spectacular machines that can do all sorts of things for us, in turn creating devolution. We want these robots to do everything for us so we can sit around being lazy which is making people fat, lazy, and unmotivated. If you look back to when we didn't have computers or even cars for that matter; how many people were obese? It's because they got up and worked for a good portion of our lives.
The human race can avoid becoming obsolete by creating devices that can do everything we don't want to but the difference is that we still have to provide manual labor. It won't be as hard to accomplish the tasks at hand but, it will get done and possibly a lot better because there will be someone there that can fix any necessary problems. No matter which way it's thought about people are always going to be necessary for the future because the future needs the human race for there to be intelligent life on this planet.
I think Huxley would say something on the lines of that is exactly what he was trying to get at with "Brave New World". He would either say that or he would completely disagree with it or argue until no end. It's basically a different version of BNW there a just a few differences that you can easily connect to one another.

Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut is trying to tell us that we are becoming too advanced and eventually our world will be similar to what he has described in his short story, Harrison Bergeron. This story argues that eventually we will not be free that there will be so many laws every way we turn to stop us from doing anything we want to. It also argues that if we believe what ever the government tells us then we are for sure doomed. Most of the theme is despair and joy. It is despair because of the communist government that has been established making everyone miserable. Joy, because it ends and there will be a new free government. Not exactly because a little of this was fantasy. It doesn’t need to be because it all balances out with certain scenes in the story. It is told in first person. It would be like if you were the narrator and in the story telling someone else. Because now you can be involved in the story and you can imagine what it would be like and it’s not so boring. Two sympathetic critics of Vonnegut’s work, Karen and Charles Wood, have said of his stories. The two main characters that are mostly talked about in this story are surrounded by all kinds of technology and yet are held back by all sorts of things. The man is really smart but wears an earpiece to keep him from thinking.

"The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas"

The piece, in my opinion was very odd; it wasn't the worst image that I have received from a book or any reading for that matter. Although it was somewhat disturbing when people would lock up one person make him miserable so that they can all be happy. After I read a little bit more I came to relies the people weren't all psychopaths when people came to see this boy in what I envision to be closet of some kind. Some of the people would go see him and they would cry and become curious, and sometimes they would even leave the town or not come out of their own home for multiple days. In the end it made me think about our society and the way things are and now I think it may have done me some good.

In terms of 1984 it's almost like when people get taken away by the thought police. Everyone knows where they go and what happens to them. The only things they don't know are the details of what goes on in the ministry of truth. They would like to do something about it but they can't because they know that they will succumb to the same fate as the person before them. Winston would have to be one of the people that came to visit the little boy and then go home to cry for a couple of days. I think this would be his character because in "1984" he wants to leave and be without what he has seen and known about for his entire life.

Why were the people so selfish as to keep a boy locked up in a closet for their own good? Where would Winston fit in, in this story? What are the differences between the two? Why would some of the people leave their own happy lives and leave town because of the boy? Why would people go back, time after time to see this young boy?

3 Top

The three colleges I want to go to is 1.Schoolcraft 2.wayne state 3.UofM I really hope i can get at least a 3.3 this year. I also want to get a 4 on the AP test.

Robot dreams

Some similarities that I noticed between "1984" and "Robot Dreams" are that the robot is told what he can and can not do. Winston and the robot are one in the same where they defy the rules and do what they want instead of falling under the status quo. A difference is that the so called "government" in "Robot Dreams" isn't as harsh until he gets to out of control, as in "1984" Winston gets much further in defying Big Brother. I think they would have a very interesting conversation consisting of many things, like politics and the future. For example in the future they may agree that the countries we know today will not exist and become one giant super power. Then again, I think they would argue about who would run the world how it would be ran.