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I feel cats cradle is a post modern text because of just the way it makes you feel from reading it. For the quotes it has or the feeling the author had while writing it our the authors goal is writing it. The novel is written for the purpose of the author not to conform to modern writing. Vonnegut wrote to express him self on all levels possible down to the form of writing and flow of the novel. And thats about it on post modernism . Now I am just going to talk about some quotes I liked from the book. “Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.” this quote I feel is true. People get so lost in finding the meaning of there lives that they forget to live. And I know I do it sometimes I will sit there and get lost in my thoughts and forget to live. “think is a way for people to not participate in real life. "My God — life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?"
"Don't try," [Castle] said. "Just pretend you understand." this quote show how people will spend there lives trying to understand everything because that is the human condition. Yet you can never understand everything because our brains are not up for the task. And our thirst for knowledge like shown in cats cradle will be a great possibility our end. Cats Cradle has been a pleasure reading and I think it has changed my out look on the world slightly. POST MODERNISM ROCK THE WORLD MAN!

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? ~M.C. Escher

 

In my essay response to Brave New World I’m going to use to things in relation to it. The First is the movie “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.” Directed by Michel Gondry. I choose this because it is about a man who finds out that his Ex girlfriend had him erased from his mind and where he decides to have the same thing done. And for most of the rest of the movie it is him changing his mind and trying to find his way through the reality of his collapsing memories he wishes to keep. And I also picked this movie because through out the film you are confronted with multiple characters that are dealing with the reality of the own lives and I felt like I could use this well in my essay as something I could bounce of the reality of Brave New World.

In addition the second thing I’m going to relate to Brave New World is the book Night by Elie Wiesel. I choose this book because of the dramatic change the main character goes through Wiesel describes his childhood during the holocaust and how he went from living in a Jewish Transylvania village to being in Auschwitz and being a prisoner of the Nazi “Final Solution” I chose this one because of the dramatic change Wiesel goes through and how that effects reality as he knows it.

I also thought about using the book “The Perks Of Being A Wallflower” by Stephen Chobsky (my favorite book) because the narrator is this boy named Charlie and it shows how his perception of reality changes as he goes through his life in his first year of high school. I could write about that book forever so ill leave it at that. But no matter what I chose im going to relate it back to Brave New World and contrast the different forms of reality that are presented through out all books/movies I choose.

After watching this video and comparing it to brave new world. I have so much I would like to talk about but I cant think of how to put it in an essay format but who cares its a blog. I would first of all like to say Sir Ken Robinson seems like a man that would be a person it would be very great to talk to and have a deep conversation about anything because he seems to think deeply about things. In relation to Brave New World and his views on education. In Brave New World the quote "you do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma." is said and this contradicts Robinson view completely. He believe ADHD is being over medicated and people are being over scared about. He does not think ADHD is not true he just thinks it is being dealt with wrongly when it comes to school. In Brave New World you take soma to suppress emotion and to suppress the person themselves, and Robinson feels the same is being done with Ritalin in relation to ADHD and Education. He feels we are holding back students and “deadening one self to whats happening” and to be honest I have to agree with him. All people learn different but by making them take these drugs we hold them back and deaden them . And like Robinson says “i know kids that are much better then other kids at the same age at different disciplines or at different times of the day or better in smaller groups then large groups or at some times they are better on there own.” just because a kid has “ADHD” doesn’t mean he is learning wrong. Robinson believes Education needs reform.

And in addition Robinson says its about conformity and standardization and that he thinks we need to go into the opposite direction. And that is the truth in my eyes. Education should be about collaboration and coming together to form and over all idea about what ever one is learning about. But education is still stuck in the past and the way it was originally coordinated in the times of the industrial evolution. This reminds me of Brave New World in the sense of how people are born with out a choice for themselves and how this keeps them from changing things. And this relates to how education is still stuck in the industrialization movement in the sense of how things are ruled. Education needs to be reformed in the world of academia. And the way people control others in Brave New World relates to this.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

“There was a thing as I’ve said before call Christianity” this shows how values and believes in the “new world” with the AF instead of AD and children playing naked in the garden. Some might see this as a progression like the characters of the book . But I see it as a digression the people are degrading themselves. And some might see it as they are freer this way but truly they are not. The people are being made for the governments goals. They predestine their fates and because of that I feel that they are being made less free then the modern day man. “well all I can say is that I’m going to accept his invention” this shows there dependence on machines. And what is not to say we have the same dependence on our machines of our day. Some might even say people worship there machines and an example of that is when you see the teenage girl text so fast that 160 characters are done faster then a Ferrari can get to 60. all I'm saying is that maybe our world is becoming what Aldous Huxley envisioned . Maybe at the rate we are going we will change our belief system to that as in Brave New World. I think it would be a horrible day when people throw all morals away and just do as people do in the story. But those people do not see anything wrong with it. So maybe they are not at fault . And maybe the government is to blame for all the injustice in the world. But I'm no conspiracy theorist. I’m just saying there is may things we can take and think about from the narrative. Oh Brave new world don’t let us down now

thought is free - William Shakespeare

In discussions of William Shakespeare's work “The Tempest” , one controversial issue has been colonialism in relations to The Tempest and the colonization of America by Europe. On the one hand, Aime Cesaire argues how there is a relation between Caliban from The Tempest and the Indians from America and how they were colonized by Europe and how they were both treated like savages through her rewrite or The Tempest. On the other hand, George Will contends that the primes of how works of writing should be kept to there original text and the meaning the author wished to convey and I believe Will would feel Cesaire dived to deep into it and changed the meaning the author wanted and he would disagree with her thoughts as well as he rewriting the play . Others even maintain that both are true points and they could agree with both. However, my own view is I feel you should be able to interpret works of writing how ever you want and you should be able to take the writing how ever you wish but you should not be allowed to change the original text to your perception you should only be able to rewrite it so other languages can read and understand the author's text. The author poured his or her heart out on to the pages and the deserve to keep that intact. But the read also gets to interpret the work how ever he or she wishes because I believe authors wish that about their works. I know if I wrote a book I would not want people to change what I wrote but I would like people to look at it from different point of veiws and allow it to affect their way of thinking their own way.

we accept the love we think we deserve

The articles are about if its right to change or not change the original works of an author to make it more understandable for its readers. George Will favors changing it so it is more understandable where as Stephen Greenblatt thinks that they should be kept in there integrity and not changed.

George Will thinks that books should be changed because they might have underlying meaning that you might miss because of the language in which it is written for example “ Shakespeare's Tempest reflects the imperialist rape of the Third World.” in addition Will agrees with Atlas's thought that states “transmission through knowledge of literature and history is faltering” I believe Will thinks the transmission of knowledge is what they will be stopping if they do not allow for books to be translated so others can read and get the meanings and the knowledge from them.

Stephen Greenblatt disagrees with George Will he thinks books should be kept in the integrity for instance. “It is, I believe, all but impossible to understand these plays without grappling with the dark energies upon which Shakespeare's art so powerfully draws.” he feels you can learn the most from the actual text because you get to feel what Shakespeare felt while writing it.

I agree with George Will I feel that Shakespeare’s plays should be translated but also they should also be left the same. You should be able to choose which for you would like to read and study and get knowledge from. If you feel you can learn better by reading the original text then by all means do that . But I feel both options should be open so that student have as much possibility of understanding it as possible. Everyone learns differently and that is why I think this.

tempest act 2 and 3

THE STUPID WHITE MAN IS TAKING OUR LAND! throughout the tempest as well as Charles Bressler's Literacy Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice.  its is expressed how there are stereo type for native Americans in modern day society as well as in Shakespeare's time intertwine savagery with uneducated barbarity. But I feel a big part of this comes from how people become afraid in what they do not know or understand so they kill or segregate that is which they fear. But what is to say the ones doing the killing and segregating are not the savage and barbarians. Just because someone talks or thinks different doesn’t mean you should take over them and make them think the same way you do because that ends diversity and diversity helps the human population learn. In the tempest Prospero say's “Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!.” Prospero found Caliban on the island and thought him his language and how he thought without taking into thought Caliban's thinking about things and his language and how they might have meaning to him then or in the future.

the tempest ACT 1

OH NO POOR MIRANDA! Prospero manipulates his daughters mind while they are alone on the island together; by telling her stories of the past that make her feel sorry for him and how he lost his


high ranking title. The things he tells her pretty much brain washes her to believe how he wants her to.



With Ariel Prospero force Ariel to do his bidding because he keeps bringing up how he saved him from the evil witch and how Ariel owes it to him to be his slave. He keeps telling him that he is going to release him after he is done with what Prospero wants him to do , “Thou shalt be free As mountain winds. But then exactly do all points of my command.”



Prospero enslaves Caliban with the threat that he will ruin his life with the powers Prospero is blessed with. He threatens him with pain and sorrow if he doesn’t do as Prospero wishes. “For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-Stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall, forth at vast of night that they may work, All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.”

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i feel that the circle of truth!!!!!!!! was quiet intense . i felt like the conversations got heated. but i liked it .  i feel we had many different points of views and opinions. i felt that Thomas Jefferson should not be removed because of just what he thought and said. it says freedom of speech in Amendment #1 and so i think that he should be respected for what he believed in even if you don't agree. in addition i believe church and state should be separate. i disagreed with the article completely and i feel the Texas board of education is completely wrong. they should have consulted with more people, taken votes, maybe even consulted the court system.

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