Interaction with Officer Duvois!

I was at the food mart. I was stealing a couple cans of spam and vienna sausages. Antionette Duvois, a local law eforcement officer spots me. It was an weird because she didn't immediately throw me in hand cuffs. She questions me, I tell her the story of how I got to this town. She gives me a pat on the pack, tells me to "have a nice day, and stay out of trouble."

My Character

My character's name is Etienne, he's a black, sixteen year old troubled child. He unknowingly suffers from a mental condition that causes him to lose his temper quickly. He used to live in France, but because of has bad attitude his mother kicked him out of her house. Etienne used all of the money he had saved to buy a plane ticket to the United States. Now he is a member of the town, for now he lives on the streets and is looking for a way to make quick money to live on.

The Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution was a struggle beween The People's republic of China was a struggle for power within the communist Party of china which eventually split up into large sections of chinese society, which caused a civil war. The war was launched on May 16, 1966 by Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was the chairman of the communist party told the people that could work hard for three years, the would surpass the west world (Great Britain and America). Even after ten years this still didn't happen. The counter-revolutions were against, inellect (scholarly), money, self-interest, basically anythin that the peasants could have. They were trying to rid of the old and bring in the new. The formed the Red Guards, which was a young militia taught to get rid of the old. hese things were culture, religion, etc. The Gang of four, led by Mao Zedong's wife, organized this group. Eventually this movement died out when the gang of four were arrested, but it still had become large enough to effect an entire generation because it lasted a decade.

Antigone: the Feminazi

How are men and women different?

For starters, women are expected to be soft and comforting, while men are expected to be hard and tough. Sometimes men get priviledges and women don't, and other times, women get priviledges that men don't. For instance, in order to have children women have to bear the pain of child birth and the pain of losing their virginity, while men get the benefits of those situations. Women sometimes get the upperhand though, like when they date. The male has to pick up the tab or he appears cheap. Overall the main difference is men are expected to be masculine and women are expected to be feminine.

Whats in the bag???

In my opinion, Fate has no control over what I do with my life. I control what I do when, where, and how. It's other people that I can't control. This where the element of fate comes into play. If I were to get into a car crash that paralyzed me from the waist down, at the fault of someone else, a fate believer could say that it was destined for me to be paralyzed. I just thought of another way where it could have been my fate. The driver of the other vehicle could be have a seizure or something and the situaion wouldn't be in either of our control. After making that statement i have confused myself. I think I believe that fate has some control of my life.

Free Fallin'

The play Oedipus Rex represents freewill as an unequal opponent to fate. In the play no matter what happened to Oedipus or what Oedipus did to avoid his destiny, his fate proved to be inevitable. The characters in the story believe that the gods control everything that happens on earth, and whatecer they have in store for a person is going to happen regardless. In my opinion this is wrong, Laos and Jocaste just had the wrong approach to handling the situation. If Laos and Jocaste had killed Oedipus when he was born, what could fate have done about that? Oedipus would have been dead, Laos wouldn't have been killed by his own son, and Jocaste would never have married her own son.

Blind, Deaf, or Mute?

Blind, deaf or mute? What an easy decision! I definitely wouldn't choose to be blind because there is so much in this world to see. One could make the argument that if someone was blind their whole life that they wouldn't know what they were missing, but I for one would want to know what I was missing. Since being deaf is usually associated with being mute, I would choose to be mute. This way I can hear without being able to talk, as opposed to not being able to hear resulting in me not being able to speak. If I was mute it would definitely cause a domino affect in making my life more efficient. It would cut out all of the time I spend on the phone. Which would allow me to finish all of my household chores and homework in a timely fashion, which in turn, would enable me to get all of the sleep that I need. With all the sleep that I need I will be able to focus more during school and make better grades. So if i had to choose I would be deaf hands down, because it would overall improve my life.