March monster blog

This month we read Dr.Jkylle and Mr.Hyde by Robert louis Stevenson.  I personally loved this book and just thought it was amazing.  I feel that everyone has a monster in themselves and that it is human nature to want to live on and have power. Or to get away with a crime or just be bad for a day with no consequences.  This was apparent in both Dorian Grey and Faustus, i do think that many people in this world are trying to get ahead by any means possible and that if they could they would sell their souls for that little bit of power over another man.  I do also think that there are monsters in every single one of us.  I know that if someone tries to hurt my friends or especially my family I scare people.  They never could see me of all people as having a mean side i know some people might think that this is not monstrous behavior but to me it is because I know how to hurt someone so badly they will never be the same and if someone hurts someone i care about all bets for me thinking opt their well being fly out the window.  This month reminded me of myself in that there is a monster there but all of us keep them at bay.

February Monthly Blog

This month we learned about women's suffrage and women's rights and roles in literature.  One paper that was handed out was what it takes to be a successful house wife.  This reminds me of my house I'm expected to cook and clean and do almost everything except pay the bills, I know how stressful it is and how you are supposed to be thankful that you have what you have.  Me and my father but heads about things and how he doesn't understand the pressures of school compared to when he went to high school.  I want to be a good father like he is there isn't a day that goes by that i don't feel loved by him but it doesn't mean i like doing all the chores.  So when i see a commercial or TV show with the dad as a helpless person who can't connect with his children it makes me worry that my kids will hate me. If i could be stay at home dad i would love to be one btu society would frown upon that, but if it meant that my family wold love me and be with me all day then i don't care. When I read about Ednas death I can understand why she did it but I would never do it no matter what type of life i led i would try to make more of a connection with th people around me and try to get to know my children.  But from the children's aspect a mother that doesn't play much of a role in their life i can relate too.  My mother is out of my life completely she and before that she just made us miserable all that time and made us feel like what ever we did it was never good enough for her.  There were other things that she had done but I won't get into it on here.  This month has been a really interesting one especially with all the connection i can make.

New Years reflection

THis month we continued on the sorties of modern heroes.  How Onokwo either was a hero to some or wasn't to others.  I personally do not see him a being  hero but i can see him as being a good role modle.  He worked his was up from nothing and ended up being one very powerful figure head in his village.  He had a successful harvest every year and had many wives.  I personally wish to be as successful as he was and be able to provide for my family.  But i would never be ruled the way he was, he was ruled with greed wanting to be the best feeling that he was superior to everyone else.  Those are to me very selfish and sick views of your fellow man.  So to me he was not a hero at all.  He was ruled my selfish desires and ended up not caring about his family as much ad a father and husband should he was even thought to be harsh in his own culture.  It just seems very wrong to me personally

Turkey and reflection

This month is the official start of the christmas season.  It brings a time of merriment and joy for many people.  But for others it brings sad thoughts that bring them to question their existence. Weather their life has any meaning at all or are they just there to exist and nothing more.  This ties in with the questions we answered from Miller and Aristotle.  Doth of these views were introduced to us on how to view life.  I have been doing thins since I was about 8.  So it is interesting to see how the differences and experiences in life alter those views.

All Hallows eve

During pagan tomes Halloween was celebrated to ward off evil spirits.  The children had to wear masks in order to confuse the spirits.  This ties in with the poem Beowolf which took place during pagan times.  Beowolf is considered a hero even though all he did was use his strength to break why ever got in his way.  To me thats not a hero, a hero is someone who shows humility, has power but knows when to use it, uses different ways to find solutions out of problems.  Unlike Oedipus which killed a man on the street and only cared about the prophecy, after he saved his people from the sphinx.  To me a hero is someone who does a job that requires courage and then they do not need thanks to keep putting themselves in harms way to save strangers.  So i have a different definition of hero than the traditional sense but who ever said i was normal

September

This month we talked a bit about satire. I have always found this topic to be very funny with the way people portray this.  Weather it be in the Onion, an internet site that makes fun of policies in the government, or in the Colbert Report in which it too makes fun of politics but keeps you informed of the topics of today.  I think a modest proposal was one of the funniest things I have read as satire.  Even though it was a low satire it got its point across about poverty and overpopulation in Ireland.  It might just be me but I think in todays society people would have taken that piece of satire as a literal idea and trie him for child abuse.  We also talked in class a little bit about James Joyce a satirical author who also was from Ireland.  He had a book published called the Dubliners which is all satirical stories.  I don't think a book like that has been published in several years.  I have always loved reading a store and then finding out tis a satire and re-reading it again to see all the points I have missed before.  However i don't think i would be able to write a satire because i can never think of symbols or a topic to write about.  But if i had too then i might be able too.