Journal #1 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Inside the pages of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" is one of the most foul issues our society faces today, fraud. Are McMurphy's deceitful actions exusable? Or is there a malfuntion inside of his soul that would drive him to do the things that he does.

McMurphy pretends to be insaned to escape the harsh condition of his prison work camp. Is this morally acceptable? Would you fake a mental illness to get away from the physical pain and mental breakdown that a prison work camp offers? It's a question that no one could asnwer until they had actually been through similar experience.

I believe that his morals are true. He honestly believed that he may die if he were to work another day in that camp. That is definatley a justified reason for commiting a felony. People could agrue this till the end of time and there would still be no resolve. But, I would strongly consider putting yourself in the position of McMurphy before judging his actions. McMurphy comes off as being a rude and disrespectful person. This is a result of he prision sentence. "You have to be tough to stay alive in there" he states at one point in the novel. His actions are not accepted but they are understood.

Super power

If I could have any super power it would be the power to obtain gratuitous amounts of knowledge. In this century we have no way of retaining all the information that we are bombarded with with 24/7. If I was able to remember all the things I see and hear every day I would gain more wisdom in a day than most people do in a lifetime. With that super power I would become president and have a ball pit in my bedroom.

"Secret & Whisper: The Great White Whale" --->Review

A rare quality in an industry swarming with regurgitation. If you ever have the opportunity to meet Secret and Whisper of Kelowna B.C. they will tell you what motivates them: not hair, jeans, girls, belts, lifestyle, or sales. But making unique music that they love, for no other reason than the music itself. So rare that a band is in the industry for a reason as innocent as the music. If you are in to the hardcore scene at all I can guarantee you will love the catchy chorus's and melodic breakdowns. Like Hardcore but don't like the screaming? There is no screaming on this album. They have managed to take a genre so indulged in screamo and trade hard hitting Ear bleeding screams for melodic and meaningful lyrics.

The boy's formally from Stutterfly excluding Charles Furney(vocals) are no strangers to pioneering a genre in a scene that regurgitates the same songs over and over again. This album has a mastered mix from being recorded in a professional studio in Kelowna B.C. This is not a cheap demo CD, but rather a fully fledged LP. The bass thumps the bottom while to the melodic lead guitar riffs float along side the beautiful lyrics.

This is one album worth getting.

The Consequences Of Remaining Emotionless

1) "The Lottery" is one of many examples of a time and a place in which a group of people are "brainwashed" in to committing actions that they themselves would certainly not commit on their own. Normal people are introduced to the sheep effect. The sheep effect is when one person has a radical political or religious idea and all those that agree with the idea will begin to follow him like a teacher. It is the same situation that occurred when Russia was being introduced to communism by Lenin. He made small brochures of his ideas and eventually he had a following far greater in numbers than the opposition. This led to a revolution. In the same way the people in the story did not question the lottery because it had been around forever. The continued to randomly murder people annually because that was the tradition; a very harsh reality.



2) Elie Wiesel's speech perfectly dictates the theme of the story "The Lottery". Elie states that people will go along with anything that is not questioned over and over. The people in the story were presented with the lottery's questionable nature. Most people just dismissed it with little or no regard for the reliability of the questions that were being posed about the lottery.

Ignorance is Bliss

Every single day we are bombarded with travesties. People are dying here and pollution is killing people over there. With so much horror in the world all of us need to be smart in the way that we address certain situations in the world. Filtering what we choose to be concerned about is key. It is impossible for anyone to tackle of the issues in the world. My personal affection towards world issues is that if we know about it, then we must do something, even if that something is very small. Hearing that the fast food industry is corrupt may not mean that we should protest and send angry letter. But, perhaps you should not eat as much fast food because you know where the food has come from.

February 27th

True beauty is not dictated solely by whether you have a perfect appearance or a slightly less than perfect appearance. Beauty is from the inside. The personality of a person is what shines brightest. Personality will show people how truly beautiful you are. As physically attractive and flawless as some people may appear, most of the time there is a flaw that could potentially ruin the physical beauty that a person possesses.

Encountering a person that is physically attractive but lacks emotional maturity is one thing that everyone faces in their lives. The inner ugliness will surpass the outward beauty and very slyfully poison our opinion of a person. There are very few people that are truly beautiful inside and out. But, when you meet someone who is truly beautiful you can not help but be impacted in some way.

Blog Blog, Frog Frog, Log Log

I find that blogging is totally fresh and a new way to approach english 12. Blogging allows me to create in a manor that I am accustomed to. An average teenager spends 3 - 5 hours on a computer every day. So, you can imagine that we are well versed in using the internet and typing blogs. Blogging modernizes the course and meets us in a place where we are comfortable rather than being in a classroom.

I honestly don't care at all about what topic I write on. I usually can find some way to relate myself to the topic. I enjoy a wide variety of topics. One of my favorite things to write on is current issues in society.