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.