Thursday, May 17, 2012
What Does Being Human Mean?
What does it mean to be a human? Is it that we have thumbs? Well if so, then some of our primates are humans too. I feel that we as humans have the mind that we can love, think, and understand other things that animals and other beings can't. Humans have an edge over everything; because we can think and comprehend what others say and do. Of course other animals can too, but we can feel what others do and sense what others are going to do. There is nothing that can explain in full what being a human means, but to me it means that we can love each other with everything we have and be willing to die for the one that we love.
Call of the Wild
John London's book Call of the Wild astounded me with the way he used anthropomorphism.
Jack London believed in Herbert Spencer's theory of "survival of the fittest," which means basically that an organism or group that is better suited to an environment will have a better chance for survival than an animal or group that is less suited. In other words, Spencer suggested that learning did not play a great role in the survival of a species. London shows that he believes in that by having Buck take leadership of the pack by defeating the top dog. Throughout the story the author makes you think that Buck and the other dogs are actually human by giving them such human traits, and making them talk as humans would do. Buck makes you like him a lot and whenever he is mad/sad it makes you feel a different way. Whenever Buck gets kidnapped and taken to the snow, he acts differently and he has to use his instincts and react differently than when he was in his old home.
This is a great book to read if you are trying to find yourself.
Jack London believed in Herbert Spencer's theory of "survival of the fittest," which means basically that an organism or group that is better suited to an environment will have a better chance for survival than an animal or group that is less suited. In other words, Spencer suggested that learning did not play a great role in the survival of a species. London shows that he believes in that by having Buck take leadership of the pack by defeating the top dog. Throughout the story the author makes you think that Buck and the other dogs are actually human by giving them such human traits, and making them talk as humans would do. Buck makes you like him a lot and whenever he is mad/sad it makes you feel a different way. Whenever Buck gets kidnapped and taken to the snow, he acts differently and he has to use his instincts and react differently than when he was in his old home.
This is a great book to read if you are trying to find yourself.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Survivor Synthesis: The Holocaust
Six-Word-Slant
- The Holocaust, the Jews worst nightmare.
- Surviving a holocaust requires its victims to go through a lot of pain and suffering because they desire to live and return home.
Monday, April 16, 2012
The Cost of Life
If you have no responsibility of life, or no zeal to survive, how will you ever live life with fun, or passion. The cost of life is greater than the effects of death. Some people never find the meaning of life. Then again, who knows the meaning of life? If your life was about to end right where you stand, would you feel accomplished in what you have done with your life. Or if you had the chance to save someone else in exchange for your own life, would you do it, or would you try and save yourself instead?
For example on April 15, 1912 the greatest ship ever built, so to speak, sank in one of the coldest oceans in the world. The Titanic was suppose to be "unsinkable". It was said that "God himself couldn't sink the ship". That is why most people believe that the ship hit that extreme iceberg that cold night. The point is, that night people were frantic trying to save themselves. But why save yourself when you have already lived your life. Wouldn't you want to give someone a chance to live their life, and if you didn't wouldn't you feel very morose for killing someone else. If it were a child you were trying to save? Many people died on that ship the night it sank, but they could have saved many more than what they did, but they chose to be selfish and save themselves; because they thought they were more valuable than a child's life.
My point to you is, is the cost of your life more than some one else's? Or is it the same and you should be the person to die because you have already lived your life and you would like to give them a chance to live? Why be the ferine person and want to let someone else die for you?
For example on April 15, 1912 the greatest ship ever built, so to speak, sank in one of the coldest oceans in the world. The Titanic was suppose to be "unsinkable". It was said that "God himself couldn't sink the ship". That is why most people believe that the ship hit that extreme iceberg that cold night. The point is, that night people were frantic trying to save themselves. But why save yourself when you have already lived your life. Wouldn't you want to give someone a chance to live their life, and if you didn't wouldn't you feel very morose for killing someone else. If it were a child you were trying to save? Many people died on that ship the night it sank, but they could have saved many more than what they did, but they chose to be selfish and save themselves; because they thought they were more valuable than a child's life.
My point to you is, is the cost of your life more than some one else's? Or is it the same and you should be the person to die because you have already lived your life and you would like to give them a chance to live? Why be the ferine person and want to let someone else die for you?
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Give Life, Or Not
If I was given the power to create life such as Frankenstein did I would choose not to! I honestly think that no man, or women should be able to create life.
In my personal opinion, as the primordial, God is the creator of all living and non-living things. To create life such as Frankenstein did is basically against what God has already done. But if I were to create such a thing, I would do it if I were to be so lonely that I couldn't bear the thought of being alone another day. Then yes I would create life. But the heart of that creature would probably be so brumal that it wouldn't be able to live.
There is no reason to create life other than that. You shouldn't use life as an experiment. That's dealing with emotions, and feelings as well as physical health. It would be different if they were to use a rock and try to bring it to life.
In my personal opinion, as the primordial, God is the creator of all living and non-living things. To create life such as Frankenstein did is basically against what God has already done. But if I were to create such a thing, I would do it if I were to be so lonely that I couldn't bear the thought of being alone another day. Then yes I would create life. But the heart of that creature would probably be so brumal that it wouldn't be able to live.
There is no reason to create life other than that. You shouldn't use life as an experiment. That's dealing with emotions, and feelings as well as physical health. It would be different if they were to use a rock and try to bring it to life.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thoughts Before Reading Frankenstein
Frankenstein, every children's nightmare, was wrote by a girl. If you go out and ask people who you think wrote the story you would think it was actually a guy. I personally never knew that the story was written by a girl, let alone at the age of 19. That's only a few years older than me.
Mary Shelley wrote this story in a time period when girls really didn't get to do anything, or weren't expected to do anything. The world was still in the time period where guys did everything. She had to have a lot of courage to stand up and write a story of that magnitude, and not get criticized. To write a novel at that age, she had to of been a very intelligent person.
Can man create life?
I feel like with the write calculations, and the write information, a man could create another life form. But if it had feelings, and emotions would be very hard to create, because everyone is extremely different in a lot of ways, and to create an original person would be very hard to do.
Mary Shelley wrote this story in a time period when girls really didn't get to do anything, or weren't expected to do anything. The world was still in the time period where guys did everything. She had to have a lot of courage to stand up and write a story of that magnitude, and not get criticized. To write a novel at that age, she had to of been a very intelligent person.
Can man create life?
I feel like with the write calculations, and the write information, a man could create another life form. But if it had feelings, and emotions would be very hard to create, because everyone is extremely different in a lot of ways, and to create an original person would be very hard to do.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
2012 Theme Word
I choose the word surprise, because I'm getting the opportunity of a lifetime this year. When I was little, I always thought that there was no chance for me to start on the varsity team. But this year all of that is going to change.
Hopefully we can surprise everyone again by winning not only back to back conference championships, but three in a row. That has never been done by a high school team in Batesville. So its a surprise to me, and the team that we can actually do something that no one in Batesville high school history has ever accomplished.
I would love to surprise my family by getting good grades this year. I use to always love to make good grades, but then I sort of fell off and now I must find where I left off and start new and make good grades to make my parents proud. But most of all, I need to surprise myself and get a better relationship with God.
Hopefully we can surprise everyone again by winning not only back to back conference championships, but three in a row. That has never been done by a high school team in Batesville. So its a surprise to me, and the team that we can actually do something that no one in Batesville high school history has ever accomplished.
I would love to surprise my family by getting good grades this year. I use to always love to make good grades, but then I sort of fell off and now I must find where I left off and start new and make good grades to make my parents proud. But most of all, I need to surprise myself and get a better relationship with God.
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