Blog 24

Yeah, so i don't like poetry really. I heard this poem in one of my classes this quarter, it's called "Invictus" by William Ernest Henly. I do really like the poem, as far as poems go. I really like the ballsy feel of it. It's sort of like the person speaking is just completely fearless and "unconquerable" and i don't know. the speaker sounds like a cool dude. I think i can relate to this poem, or would like to think i can. Here it is:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.





I really like the dramatic tone of the poem. It adds a lot to the poem. The diction really adds to the tone. Has some really cool words. I guess if i had to write poetry i would write stuff similar to it, maybe. The poem feels kind o dark and a little depressing. I really like the length of the poem. It's the perfect length.

blog 23

Alright, so we watched an episode of Dollhouse in class today titled Epitaph One. It was very interesting. I have never seen an episode of this series so I was pretty unassuming. It seems to me like somehow the world ended or nearly ended because of this crime syndicate that takes people, basically deletes their minds, and turns them into whatever the client wants. They gave mega-rich people the opportunity to have basically whatever they wanted in another person. It's a really strange concept: to basically create your own human. I really wonder how this service for the mega-rich would have this major of an effect on the entire world. Then again, perhaps it's only in America and not the entire world. The show kept me interested throughout, so i was pleased with that. I thought it was kind of strange that that "doll" woman was just roaming around that underground building place. That was kind of eerie also. Overall this episode did make me more curious in the show. I think it would be nice to have more back story on the show, it would be nice to see the first couple episodes. I thought how not only could this Dollhouse organization erase and upload memories into a person but also how they could also put an entire persons memories and feelings into a completely different person. It's a really intriguing idea. The fact that they kept calling this place they were trying to reach "safe haven" interested me a lot. The show seems to have some promise.

blog 22

I thought this episode was pretty interesting. I thought the alternate realities Buffy was experiencing was really cool. It never did become clear which reality was the real one that she was actually in or even if there was a real "reality". That's kind of confusing to talk about. In the end it seemed she just chose the reality that made her the most happy. Naturally she would choose the one where she has friends and where she isn't a freakish mental patient. I don't really understand why she would assume in the first place that the reality where she is a mental patient is her true "reality". I would think she would think they were just visions after getting attacked by the first monster in the beginning. There is a chance there are other clues in some other episodes throughout the series. I never realized that Buffy was intimate with Spike, the other vampire dude. That sort of blew my mind. He looks a lot older. It was really shocking to me when Buffy, after all these experiences with her friends, could just turn on them so easily by just a couple of crazy visions. That was very surprising. She just decided that they were just figments of her imagination, which is a crazy thing to pull out just like that. It seems like it would be a lot easier to see the mental patient situation as the fake reality. I was also wondering where Spike was when Buffy was beating up all her friends. I feel like he was convieniently left out.

Perception is in the Eye of the Beholder

Perception is a very crazy thing. The way one person looks at an object depends on many variables. The way different people see different things is a very cool thing. We each can evaluate any situation in any of numerous ways. In the show Firefly a girl names River and a guy named Jubal are very perceptive and in-touch with their surroundings. They each evaluate different objects in completely different ways. River sees a gun as a twig and Jubal sees a different gun as pretty and it has a good weight, and he acknowledges and evaluates it as a killing machine. This is a very crazy differential between the two comparisons. How can one person see the a gun as a twig and another person see it as a pretty killing machine? This proves that perception is a very wishy-washy term. Perception can mean a lot of different things. What it is generally used as is a way a person interprets what they are seeeing at the time. This is why sometimes there is no one right answer when two people are in an argument. Each person sees the situation in a different light. Perhaps if two people lived together and grew up with each other than they would perceive things similarly to each other.216 However, it seems like this way be impossible to know. What we do know is that every person is different and every person sees things in a different way from each other. it is almost unfathomable to think that two random people could feel the exact same about anything. There are so many variables.

blog 21

I did the draft for the Common Place paper. What i did for the draft was basically just cut out the the less relevant information, as well as, the facts that wouldn't be very important to someone that hasn't seen the show. My thesis is still about perception and how people can view the same thing in many different ways. My paper is still kind of long standing tall at five pages, however; I do have a decent amount of work to do on it. It is only the rough draft. I would like to make the Common Place paper a little more light-hearted than my original paper, which talks a decent amount about haunting, eerie issues or qualms that some up in the episode. also the Iraq War is one of the big connections to the real world in my Analytical Research Paper, so yeah ideally I would like to maybe just cut that out altogether I don't really know yet what direction I will go in. One of my arguments is about the 88 defined constellations. It's about how someone named these constellations to look like something, and most of them look like nothing.There's one constellation that's called Crusades, it's supposed to depict a battle scene during the Crusades and it's just two stars.I definitely want to make my paper less about the episode and more about the connection to the real world. I'm considering dropping my first paragraph that talks about Joss Whedon and how he created the show as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It seems kind of unnecessary to have in there. I need to make the summary more concise. It's pretty descriptive and most of it should probably be left out. My final argument, aside from the Iraq War and constellations, has to do with how artists perceive things they paint. How two different artists can paint a picture of the ocean and have them look nothing alike. I'm probably going to end up not using a couple of the sources I used for the ARP. So yeah, that's basically what it's looking like for me right meow.

Movie

Well, i really like the movie "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles". It's a classic, starring John Candy and Steve Martin. I would call it Steve Martin's best flick. It's a really funny movie that also hits at other emotions. Steve is trying to make it home for Thanksgiving and he runs into Candy. Candy is not what he appears to be as a person. It's funny and touching at the same time, and John Candy is the man so the movie is very solid. 10/10.

19 paper prob

So im having a problem with the flow of my paper. It just doesn't necessarily make the best transition from paragraph to paragraph. I' currently trying to make adjustments. I really don't know what else to discuss. It's not a very complex issue.

I did 18 first, here's 17

The episode of the original Star Trek I watched was "Turnabout Intruder". The episode starts when the Enterprise receives a distress call from a nearby planet. When they get there the they see three people. Kirk knows this woman Lester. SHe is crazy because she never received her shot to command a star ship because she, she believes, she is a woman. This has driven her mad. She gets kirk into this device to switch minds with him and become kirk. She finally achieves her goal of being a commander on a star ship. She, however, being crazy can't control her rationale and is eventually discovered to not be the real Kirk. She attempts to kill her old body(kirk) several times failing.
I believe this episode clearly reflects on the struggles women have in society. Qualified women would be turned down for whatever they were attempting to do just because of their gender. This becomes far more relevant when you consider that this show was aired in 1969. At the time a womens right movement was taking place. It makes a lot of sense given the era. This message is very clear. She wanted something so bad, but there was nothing she could do about it. She was very delusional and tried to change it by herself. There have been many women that attempted to take a stand for something and change it completely. Rosa Parks tried to change the world by not relinquishing her seat on the white mans section of the bus. There was injustice there and injustice here.

blog 18

My thesis is still unser construction. It's something about objects and how you perceive them. In the episode i watched "Objects in Space", both River and Jubal, the ruthless bounty hunter, take in their surroundings and the objects around them. River sees a gun as a twig and basically a meaningless object while Jubal sees it as a beautiful piece with a good weight and hints his pleasure about its intended use. Bottomline you can look at anything and see it how you want to, and this reflects on who you are and what kind of person you are.

Blog 16

The song i choose is called "Ocean" by John Butler Trio. This song is a "conversational piece" with no words. It's awe inspiring and soul touching. It's the most gripping, intense piece of acoustic guitar ever recorded. The song will talk to everyone that listens to it. It will tell you what you need to hear. It will lift you up and make the day yours. The first time you hear it, please, go to youtube and listen to the live at Federation Square version. Watch the whole video. Watch this man, John Butler. Turn up the volume. Make sure you watch the whole video. Is this man one of the greatest musicians alive, I believe he is. I said This song has no words, what this song actually has is implicit lyrics and they're different and wondrous for everyone.