Find the Difference in These Two Passages...

The stronger of the two connections would have to be what each, the book and the passage, are describing. While the book is describing China in the late 1900s and the “re-education” of young men and women, the passage describes and lugubrious valley, which is getting older and less interesting for the character. Balzac speaks more on how the past is better for the future, meaning the way of life worked so well in the past, that that same path should work for future generations. Little items, like an instrument, were common to the average American, but a mystery to most in the villagers in China. “The headman held the violin upright and peered into the black interior of the body, like an officious customs officer searching for drugs” (Sijie 3). On the other hand, the passage for Pere Goriot is more of a man’s acknowledgement that the valley, which was probably treasured, has lost the dazzle. Because of the way this passage is worded, one can go so far as to infer that the characters in both the passages of text are choosing to see life in a different light.

In Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the plot seems to be escaping the re-education process, but maybe the plot was daring to think differently; taking the plunge in doing something against the rules, not for sport, but because one’s heart desires the taste of something new. Four-Eyes said it perfectly with the question, “What is it with you two, always going for stuff that’s forbidden? (Sijie 77)” The tone in the passage from Pere Goriot gives off that same vibe. The character describing the valley as “that valley where suffering is always real” or “A Parisian losing his way here would see nothing but lodging houses and institutions,” he makes it seem like he just wants something fresh, so, in putting down what he or she already has, he or she hopes to gain a beautiful, new future.

The Vision That was Tragically Visualized

There are several players that play a part in a tragic vision and they all bring their special “talents.” In Othello, two women play some of the most important parts, but one would never guess. Desdemona’s bursting love for her new husband and Emilia’s attempts to keep her husband get theses women entangled in someone’s “sport and profit.” But their fate is what makes the vision so tragic.

Her loyalty to her husband is what puts Desdemona in the path of tragic vision. The naivety of the young bride influenced her to put all her trust in Othello hoping that he would return the trust, and then some. This full hearted commitment and her unwillingness to be “disobedient” destroyed what she thought was a blessed marriage. “You [Barbantio] are the lord of duty; I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband, and so much duty as my mother show'd to you, preferring you before her father” (Othello). Desdemona’s hopes and wishes were denied with each whisper Iago gave Othello about her “disloyalty”.

For Emilia, she was so fixated on pleasing her husband that she was not aware of what was going on with her mistress. Although she has the most direct contact with the “divine lightening,” her lack of skills did not prove to be useful to Iago until the handkerchief. “And give't Iago: what he will do with it heaven knows, not I; I nothing but to please his fantasy” (Othello). In fulfilling her husband’s wish she endangers not only her friend’s life, but her own. Emilia’s devotion is her ultimate weakness and connection to the tragic vision.

As the “clumps of grass” around the victimized “great tree,” Emilia and Desdemona suffer for the trust in one man: Iago. Because of one’s loyalty and the other’s devotion, they were swept up in the whirl of the tragic vision. Although Othello is perceived to be the true tragic hero, some credit is deserved for Desdemona and Emilia for making it a tragic vision.

Bad To The Bone

This is a question that has been haunting people's minds since the dawn of time. Why are people so mean? Well, I don't think that a person comes out of the womb slapping people and causing havoc, but it is really the events in a person's life that makes them as mean of as nice as they are. I was in a heated argument about this topic and my friend said, "Well, everyone is different. If they were born into a bad situation..." and I had to stop her there. I told her about my six adopted cousin, four of them were born with crack in there systems, and they are all the nices people. Not because of the crack, but because of the people who took them in and taught them how to be nice and living and kind. Then there are people out there who seem like every bone in their body is a mean bone. For those, you just have to pray for.

What's Love Got To Do With It?

The reason I think love is so complex is because it is the only emotion that contains all the other emotions. When one loves someone and the significant other does something to upset the relationship , now anger and hatred join the club. Or when the best friend of a girl says the girl has a cute boyfriend, now jealousy and suspicion come in. I also feel because that love is so strong is another reason. When we first come into the world the first emotion that is given to us is love. It's so complex, I can't even really explain how complex love is. Look at all the stories we read. Everyone of them had an aspect of love.

It's Hard Out Here For A Teenager!

Being a teenager us much harder that people think. Do you know how much energy we use to make it l look like were lazy? I mean, leaving clothes on our floor and not cleaning the dishes is a burdening thought. But thankfully God gave us enough strength to come up with a good excuse. Seriously, I think the only big issue with teenagers is dealing with what type of family they were born into. If you have parents who are the CEO of big companies, then most would expect you do follow suit. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree" I HATE THAT QUOTE! What if the child does want to "fall far from the tree?" With all the pressure of pursuing our parents life for us, we as children just cave and do whatever makes everyone happy. And we end up grumpy.

But that's not my case. For me, it's the siblings that suck. Just want to send a shout out to my big sister and brother for being the perfect students they are. I strongly dislike you right now. Appreciate that...thanks. In middle school, I thought that I would relax and just breeze through high school. SIKE! I had to actually do work, can you believe that? Ugh. So, I never really reached the bars that they set, but I came really close and now that I'm graduating I'm ok with them, because as I worked I realized different options that would never be in reach if I didn't work.

One of the paradoxes for me as a teenager is not wanting what my parents give me. What I mean is, my sibs are both old so when they were my age, my parents had a different mentality, so now when I want to watch tv or something, I can't, but when they give me extra money I don't want it. It hurts my feelings to remember the privileges that they had and when my turn comes around, how fast those privileges expire. How convenient (said sarcastically). But I try not to sweat it too much. Because guess who is taking care of those two parents when they're old. NOT ME! I'm just kidding...but seriously, I'm not taking care of them...maybe my sis...yea, her, she's good.
It's a hard knock life for a teen!

The Five Grapes of Welch's Grape Juice

My family? You wanna talk about my family? Well, if you look at us from the outside you see this calm, relaxed, jolly, happy-go-lucky family that has pinics every Saturday and dinner at the table every night and has everyhting under control.

WRONG!!

Well, not completely. We don't ever go on picnics and almost never eat toget her. We all have such busy lives that it is very hard to spend time all together.
Sometmes I'll treat my parents to a movie of their choice (it's really me mom's choice, my dad just goes cause that's what married people do, but he does love her..too much) and my sister and I always play video game and watch action flicks together, while sitting and figuring out what to name her latest character for her books. But my brother, I'll feel like I have to schedule and appointment just to spend a meaningless fiveminutes together. But every now and then he and I will get into a good discussion; our last one was about fate and freewill, he's believes in Optomistic Realism.
My dad has to be the coolest of us all. He's on the hill and knows more about celbrities that most young people. "I know her, that's Jessica Alba" he'll say as he walks down the stairs into the den where I'm watching TV and I just have to look at him with amazment. Plus his atire has changed drastically. My sister and I use to have to monitor what he wore and if it didn't match we would send him back upstairs to change. But lately he has been matching well, but every now and then...
My mom is our life guard. She saves everyone while performing CPR on herself. It's amazing how she juggles her life nd all of ours, but I think that's all moms specialties (my mom's the coolest). She's also our walking encyclopedia. No matter what the subject is, she has a little insight into it. She doesn't like sports and cars to much, but knows enough to keep my dad happy.
My brother and sister are the same person with different morals and priorities. My brother is all aboutliving life and enjoying it while it last, while my sister is about getting the job done and then having fun. The two of them together is choas. We call them the Task Taker Offers.
I am the perfect blend of all four of these people. And because we all mesh together very well, we don't make the perfect family, but we're pretty close.

Screw Fate!

I believe that everyone has free will. The way I think of it is that if Little Jonnie hurts Little Timmy, Little Jonnie cannot blame anything or anybody for what he did. Most people wan to say "TV and what I see on the news affected my judgment," but these comment cannot hold up in court. The decisions we make hurt not only us, but the people around us. Now, if there was fate, or like in mythology the three old ladies, why would it or they hurt others? Is that not cruel? Maybe "they" are that cruel, to let other people get hurt based on our decisions. Or you can blame the root of the problem, you and me.

Stick a Fork in Me, Cause I'm Done! Ssssss!

1000 years? Who wouldn't want to be remembered for 1000 years? So what if you die in your twentites. We are all going to die anyway, why not enjoy life and all the crap it gives us and run with it? But if I wasn't on this sugar rush I wouldn't be thinking about the fame but all the good that I could do. I would do everything to the extreme. Giving time, money, and other resources to thoughs who need it. And spluge a little on me. It's like the movie The Last Holiday, when the women thought she had three weeks to live, so she took all her money out of the bank and did everything she ever wanted to do. Then found out that she wass misdiagnosed. You never know what life can throw at you. Plus if I had to live a long life with let's say Hutchins disease, I would kill myself. The only thing I feel I would miss is seeing how well people turn out. But then again, some people I wouldn't miss...at all...seriously.

YEA 4 LIFE!

Thunder! Thunder! Thunder! ThunderCats, Ho!

I don't know if anyone remembers this show, but ThunderCats was DA BOMB! The show was basically about these cat-like creatures whose planet was destroyed and they moved to Third Earth, which is a futuristic Planet Earth. The fought evil while protecting a gem, the Eye of Thundera, which was embedded in the hilt of the mystic Sword of Omens. Their names were so cheesy! The leader was Lion-o, along his side was Jaga the Wise, Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, and WilyKat and WilyKit, who were twin brother and sister. The villains, who always lost the battle in a twenty minute slot, were Mumm-Ra, who without fail was in every episode trying to defeat the Thundercats, The Mutants, Lanataks, Hammerheads, and so much more.

I was about three or for when I really jumped into it and i don't remember much, but I do remember I had the schedule of this show down to the second before it aired. Every school day at 4:30 I would get home, eat my snack and relaxed until 5 when ThunderCats came on. Whatever I was doing I would stop it immediately and go watch. If I was talking to a friend, "Sorry, I gotta go watch ThunderCats." I can't really say why I loved it. Maybe because my own imagination could not imagine such a thing. Talking felines with large swords saving a world. It was BIZARRE! Although there were several shows out there like ThunderCats, like Power Rangers (when is was still simple and cool), Voltron, and Jem and the Holograms, with TC I was more adventurous. With all those other shows you could guess what happened next week because most ended in "To Be Continued," but TC almost never ended like that. And to see Lion-o put his up his sword above his head and yell, "Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!" never got old. Now, I look back and think, "Man, I was DORK!" But I wouldn't change a thing about TC, because nothing gives the same feeling as when I was watching

...All Play and No Work Makes Jack a Mere Toy

The philosiphy that I recieved from reading Siddhartha (and the passage) was something to the effect of "Our destinies are kind of planned out already, the question is are we willing to take the ride?" Little did Saddhartha know, but he was most likely suppose to be the one out of he and Govinda to live through want they both sought out (or else the book would have been title 'Govinda'). To experience it first hand and to pass ona little taste of the knowledge he gained so his listeners may have the desire to seek enlightenment for themselves.

On the other hand, Western thinking says, "My future is what I make of it." If I want to be rich, I work to be rich, if I want to be happy, I work for my happiness. No one reminds you about thoughs people who are born rich so are automatically happy. Most of us have to fight the temtation to do bad because not only will it mess upp our lives, but the lives around us. We are sinners by nature, the challenge of life is will you give into the urges? Don't let fear stop you from living. Like Siddhartha, you may have to let go of the thing you treasure the most to ind true enlughtenment.

A smile a day keeps the psychiatrist away! :)

Camp Wannaweep

What is high school but a day camp? We come, put our lunches in our cubbies, divide into our little groups, go around to our different stations, and then we go home. Sounds like fun. And through this hustle and bustle do we really walk away with anything? YES! but not book knowledege (if that happens it was totally be accident, we just happened to open the book and the knowledge just flew into our minds). We learn about life, where we will be in ten, fifteen years. Our experience in high school (and in college) is what we will base the rest of our lives on. How many time have you heard some one say, "Man, when i was in high/college school..." At that point you want to run because they will talk and talk about something that has no relavence to anything. People feel that one
mistake they made in high school screwed their karma for good. But while we learn of life, most of walk away with no knowledge of what we tlaked about when we were in "tribe time."

And yet there is this urge to get that 'A.' What does that mean any way? I'm good at cramming information two minutes before the test starts? GREAT! Think for a sec, if your an adult and you work what if you got an 'A' instead of a paycheck? HA! HA! I'm sorry. That was mean of me, but you must admitt if that happened that would SUCK. Me personally, I measure my life in those little packs of Splenda sugar. Right now, I'm at 13 packs, not very good. I'm normally at a 32-ish. Yea...that sounds about right...32.

No, but on a serious note, I measure my life on how many smiles I can put on the faces I meet that day. Not only is someone happy but I helped make them that way. If that's a crime, I'll gladly take responsibility for it.

This is what I really think about in class...




Make everyday better than the last! :)

Float Like A Butterfly Sting Like A Bee...!

Muhammad Ali is an icon for many things like strength, faith and power. One thing he was never a icon for is weakness. He was the poster child of of power. He beliefs and a consistancy was what led him to greatness.

Winning 56 of his 61 fights, Ali never did anyhing he didn't feel must be done. Continuing when peopl told him to sit done and fighting when others called him afraid because he wouldn't fight in the war. Little did they know, he was destined for something great things.

Ali is and icon to me because no matter what generation you belong to his stoy and journey through life is always inspirering. Young boxers all over the world look to him for gudience and advice. When someone goes through such life changing events, it is only a matter of time that the outcome will show.

Ali=Power
Power=Respect
Respct=Success

Jumbo Shrimp

LOVE
Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,
Lizzie, out "O," had some homwork to do,
Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way,
So I'm all of love that could make it today
-Shel Silverstein

The trouble with school is
They always try to teach the wrong lesson
Believe me, I've been kicked out
Of enough of them to know
They want you to become less callow
Less shallow
But I say: why invite stress in?
Stop studying strife
And learn to live "the unexamined life"
-"Dancing Through Life", Wicked


Many people do not believe when I say, "To see others happy, makes me happy."
What makes me happier if I was a part of the reason they are happy. The poem about
love is like my life's mission. I don't want to stop until I feel that the "forgotten"

know that there is at least one person who truly cares about them. I don't mind if I am the only person who feels this way. Because I want it, it will get gone. This is probably the only
thing in the world I'm passonate about. Which brings me to the song "Dancing Through Life."
This songs describes me because I feel that there is nothing in the world that important to stress over. I'm not a procrastinator, I just don't blow things out of proportion. If your relaxed, everyone around tends to feel relaxed and the world is a calm place.