Journal 77: Pressure from Parents

Yes, i have had lots of pressure from my parents. I don't know if it is just me or is it that my parents really meant it, they gave me alot of emotional pressure. They would say something that you hate to hear it. They never really released any physical pressure such as forcing me away from a club or anything. What they do is that they would constantly say little things about you and make you so irritated about something that in the end you will do it just for them to shut the fuck up.
The only problem and biggest prerssure im getting from them now is probably SAT. I know that they spent so much money for me to run around the world and spending all their time on me, they probably would want me to come back with a good score. But, im just now a test person, i suck at tests, i can know a whole lot but once you put it all in test form, i lost track of what i was saying and all my knowledge. Sigh, they always put pressure on the things they know i can't do, and never the things i really like. I love taekwando, but they never really showed any affection for it even when im at the very top. They just said, well you know that fcking watever watever kid can cook a cake. i was like, fck, seriously? My mom and dad probably don't know me really well, i don't know, but at least they're now giving me too much pressure.

Journal 76: White Lie

I'd say it depends on the person and situation. I suppose when Colonel Sartoris lied to Miss Emily is because she was utterly hopeless. Without a job, without a family, without friends, she basically had nothing. If she was not lied about the tax thing, she will probably be broke and end up in jail for not paying.
White lie is, although we should all be truthful, acceptable. If you don't know how to white lie, you might end up without friend. You always need to lie in some degree to save some dignity for the person instead of just saying " you are god dam ugly" That is just kind of too much for a person. When someone asks you a obvious question that is probably a negative answer, you will want to say what they want to hear. I admit, this might be something that is in the asian culture and not in the american or whatever world. This is in some degree a social skill in out history to be all humble and stuff to avoid getting people mad.
I white lie to people too, its a process that is inevitable that you will do it to maintain your social position.

Journal 60: Think About…

first, the civil war started with the abolition of slavery. The North wanted to ban slavery and the south wants it so they can make more money. North didn't really need slavery, so of course its easy for them to say we don't want it. With the South, people needed slavery a whole lot. The plantations are hard work that requires a lot of labor force.
Then we have the american writers writing about the events that happened during the civil war. Crane wasn't born that time, but reading stories and interviewing the veterans gave him a general idea of what happened.
Next is Realism. The basic characteristics of Realism are: detailed information and reality in comprehensive detail, characters are more important than plot, ethical choices are subjects of the literature, class is important, events are usually plausible, and diction is natural. 
Naturalism got big in the 1980s where writers focused on philosophical and scientific principles. 

Journal 71: Historical Influences

Ok, so i looked at the timeline, and three event came into my mind to be particular impacting. The Titanic, world war 1, and the feminist movement, well potentially the panamal canal. The panamal canal helped ended the great depression that's for sure. THen there is the all tragic story of the Titanic. Its so romanticised that it is to the point of disgusting in the movie. The beautiful ship was all dramatic and stuff at the current time i suppose.
Then World War 1 is definitely impacting for the society. Having so many people fighting each other and people all over the world to be dying is quite intense. The suffering and the amount of death and trench warfare is unbelievable.
The feminist movement of political rights is a modern idea that no men would be crazy enough to propose such idea to the society. All political positions was being held by men all the time in history. Nothing suggested women to be in charge. So when women pushed for their political and voting rights, that must have been pretty devastating to people.

Journal 75: Shadow of the Past

Emily is influenced by her past in multiple ways. The status of her family influenced her life in a significant way seeing that she could avoid the law and live above it. Then there is the past of her dad and how she couldn't walk over the fact that his dad. She still clings on to the only male present that she have experienced before.
Next is her own family and the town's pride. The family probably wouldn't want her to be dating a yankee so does the town. That's why they contacted her cousin to persuade her to dump the Yankee. They are a high up society class that thinks they are better than everyone. To have one in a whole family to do such a thing is just against the norm of the family.
The town wouldn't want such a thing to happen as well since they were the south and the Yankees are the North. The town want all the women in be marry adn have lots of children. However, they want those to be southerner children rather than some Yankee children.

Journal 74: Poetry’s Social Function

Poetry is not bad or anything, its just that its hard to understand for some people and that kids find it annoying to evaluate something complicated. Its definitely not deteriorating, its just modern kids are finding it hard to appreciate it. However, the older people are getting more and more interested in poetry than kids. It oculd be said that poetry is experiencing a shift of interest between age groups. The poems nowadays are getting more and more interesting as it is connected to songs or creating a sort of rhythm that's like a song. In this manner, poetry are getting more and more interesting for people. Such as when you look at the poems conducted during that poet show that you showed us. So many people was interested in the poems that was proposed because humor and focus on the societal problems are being used in them. In difference from the imagists or something like that, we have focused on that before, so we don't care. For me, i like to do or create something that attacks people's idea or view on something. It might not necessarily be shocking, but my ideas are like the poems that were read aloud, to shock and inform people of a idea. (i went to look at more poems on the show and this is what i find)

Journal 73: No Ideas But In Things

no, there should no limit in anything. Art, have no limits, and so should poetry. Poetry is influential to both art and literature. The poems of the imagists are pure simple words. They are there to provide the reader with a simple picture in mind such as the red barrel. Nothing else. With a similar idea going on that time, it is the architecture principle of less is more. I suppose one way or the other the idea was influencing the two groups, literature and art. In art, it was having the minimal of all things. Cutting out the extra and making something plain and simple. In the way the imagist writes, it is the same concept of how their ideas and words hace the same idea. The poems that was written by the imagists was strip from the glamorous adjectives that some other writers would include like J.K Rowling. Everything is bare to the very core, telling you a tale of a red barrel.