seydlitz 10th english blog

1. She stopped caring about helping and curing people.2. He defines idealists as those who don’t give up, and realists as people who only see a circle.3. He asks her to go to africa with him.4. She aims too high with her goals in life, ect.5. Walter proposed that they take money from The Man and not move into their new house.6. Becuase Walter’s father earned the house for them brick by brick.7. The plant signifies their new life which is constantly growing. 

“Our fellow men are the black magicians. And since you are with them, you too are a black magician. Think for a moment. Can you deviate from the path that they’ve lined up for you? No. Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don’t waste your time and your power fearing me.”

-Nagual Juan Matus 

Casteneda, Carlos. Tales of Power. Simon and Schuster, 1974. 21.

DJ who loves life so much that it hurts.And I was driving down the road, enjoying the sound of the wind against my sleek car, the movement of the campfires from happy campers on the side of the road, and the smell of the cow manure that i was passing by. There was nothing that could prevent me from being happy at this moment. I kept driving, looking off the road from time to time, jealous of the amazing happiness that the bushes at the side of the road exhibited. I was so happy to be jealous, that I decided to do something even more drastic to become more happy. There was a 16 wheeler coming down the road and I was in such a state of frenzied happiness that I drove across the double lines and accelerated directly towards that truck. The sound of horns made me even happier and I kept going, faster,faster, then stop. Lots of pain red flashes of light on a field of vision? Still, it made me happy all the way to the hospital.

1. A man that came from nigeria to study in Canada.2.  She is pregnant.3. Because it is from africa, and she wants to know about it. 4. Becuase she wants more than food.5. Man going outside to be peaceful by himself.6. Abortion Clinic.7. Because all he cares about is money, life is money is what he thinks. 

1. He is a visitor from Africa.2. Ruth found out that she was pregnant.3. His robe present was appropriate because it taught beneatha about her heritage. 4. The nickname means “one for whom bread isn’t enough”, it is good becuase she is unsatisfied with just surviving.5. She says that money is dangerous.6. She went to an unqualified woman doctor, who Mama doesn’t like. 7. Mama called Walter a disgrace to his fathers memory because he only cared about the money, disregarding his wife and family. 

1. Becuase she told Travis that they didn’t have any money, and he found this negative.2. Because they really couldn’t afford the money. 3. Friends of Walter who want to start a liquor store.4. Because he was told to shut up and eat his eggs. 5.  She is Walter’s sister.6.  Because her husband had died and this was what she got because of it.7. She said that because George was supposedly shallow. 8. She didn’t believe god existed or had any importance.9. She was trying to calm mama and encourage her. 

1. He thought that he was racist because he shot armed blacks in an average of 0.679 seconds, while I waited slightly longer — .694 seconds — to shoot armed whites. Also, he holstered his gun more quickly when encountering unarmed whites than unarmed blacks. No he is not right, machines cannot measure anything in human beings accurately.2. These tests do not measure unconscious racism, for one thing there are only black and white people, secondly this is more of a online game than a test, and as such cannot measure anything. Thirdly, racism in itself is only a man made concept, so the only way to measure racism through individuals interacting with other individuals of different race, using a non-human thing to measure a human only thing is foolish.3. The author believed that  sexism is harder to fight than racism because ”everyone” remembers what gender a person is, but they may not remember what race they are. Again, this is only one case with a small group of people in a world of many billions of radically different people. More research needs to be done before any more rational asumptions can be made, even so though, isn’t focusing attention on the problem rather than the solution only going to make things worse? The answer is yes, especially in this case. 4. The challenge or problem for women in politics is the stereotype that women are warm and friendly and are therefore not cut out for politics, rather than discriminating just based off of gender. “We” believe that political leaders are tough and strong, and “we” believe that women don’t have these traits. I would like to point out our current political leadership, the bush administration composed of a group of people so incredibly stupid that there is no way they could qualify for any qualities of leadership. 5. The “Real” problem according to the author is the stereotyped traits of women, rather than discriminating against women in general. This is a matter of personal opinion, and my own opinion is rather irrelevant to the main issue. However, I would say that the “real” problem faced by women and by all people today, is the problem of preventing the world from collapsing due to war and environmental destruction,  and that racism, being a human made thing is not as crucial a problem to solve. Because the concept racism by itself, cannot actually harm anyone or anything.6. The “solution” according to the author is to expose students to more female professors, because those who have are supposedly less “racist”. This isn’t a solution at all though really, because racism comes from our interpretation system, which we call thinking and the educational system that he believes the solution to be in only enhances and creates more of a problem for the “future” generations of people on this earth. It is unfortunate, that no one thought of examine the practicality of thinking process themselves, if it did happen maybe we wouldn’t be so chained to reason.

The digital storytelling project was a simple project. The presentations that I saw were all decent quality. Most of them were made using video technology. The lego project was interesting in that it used stop motion filming in order to create a strange Lottery/mob story that half made sense. Also the movie made using actual people was moderately decent in the quality of the film and the story itself, (Ninja). There could be more diversity in the way all of these stories were told, mostly just power point and keynote presentations containing videos and pictures. Asides from the ones mentioned the rest were somewhat bland. Issues of Race and racism. My first impressions of race issues in this country and this school are that race is something that humans made up, that the differences between humans cannot be measured or talked about or thought about and that any differences are usually made up and are totally insignificant to the human experience. The experience of living in America is not dependent upon race, it is dependent only upon the realization or lack of it that we are before anything else, human. Race and Language and Countries are all things created by humans in the midst of their folly, and are therefore insignificant. My own personal experience with race has been such, I have taken advantage of the recent “Political Correctness” and have “considered” myself to be of a different race each time I talk to a different person, for the sake of humor. I have not been discriminated against nor have I discriminated, my only experience with “Race” is that of making fun of political correctness. To be perfectly honest about what I think will be the future of race relations, I will say that I do not think and that the future is only a way of talking, but that race relations could take a turn for the worse or for the better and that the only thing that can decide this is the actions and decisions of individual people. 

An idea for a digital story telling project would be having to take place in feudal japan. The main character is a samurai trainee who is being taught by a powerful instructor. This instructor is given a high up bureaucratic position in the japanese government, and then he is given an assignment to go and deliver a message. This assignment results in the instructors death at the hands of some ninjas, these ninjas of the Black Ninjitsu then separate from one another and leave the trainee to put the pieces together. After figuring out that it was the actual employers of the instructor in the government who actually ordered the instructors death, the samurai trainee goes after the dispersed ninjas in pursuit of justice for his instructor. After receiving some teaching s about deceptiveness, he finds the ninjas grouped together and he pretends to be an innocent and offers to cook for them. Covertly he adds in a significant amount of the Deadly Nightshade plant “Belladonna” in order to poison them. After poisoning them they die instantly as he watches from the background. 

I used the quote: All the lessons of history in four sentences Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. I agree with this quote because it has been obvious with say Caesar or Nero that when somebody is going to be destroyed, they are first given an insane amount of power first, then with that power they drive themselves into madness and usually torment those who do not have power. In both cases and with the cases of almost all of these types of people the power mad person(s) will die an early death or will suffer a long and gray life. Also in the case of the Bee fertilizes the flower it robs, a specific example would be the USA who re-ordered and distributed power in Japan after WWII, and then later on they have benefited massively from the japanese economy and technological advancements, we gave them the technology and the Japanese as with everything else improved upon it and reconstructed it five times better than the US. The last part of the quote about seeing the stars once it is night is very true. Other than in a literal sense, it also means that when the power mad person is tormenting the powerless people, it is very obvious that those people are in fact in poor conditions and being tormented, just as at night the stars can be seen clearly. And that is all I have to say about this, the end.