2011年12月13日 星期二

Journal 35: Government

No, government and democracy may be a really terrible system, but it is the best we got for now. There are a tremendous amount of flaws in the system and the government nowadays, however, there is nothing better than what we have now.
If we take out the government system, what is it that will take care of the people and ensure security? True, politics are corrupt and there are unfair deals and money trade everywhere around the world. However, if you take away all these systems, what's left to protect the regular citizens? Military control might take over, the greed of people will rise over law and becomes power. Whoever have the most and strongest military power over the citizens can control the world. Once that happens, a tyrannical government becomes in power against. There is no way that government can be eliminated until the dark hearts of human can be eradicated.
The greed and desire for control in everyone's heart is something that can lead the world into corruption and hell. Then what is it that we should do? I believe there are much better government been thought out by someone, but because of the majority rule policy thing, some of the people in the high don't want to risk the fact they might lose power. They will all look forward to gaining control, and reject the better government that might make the world a better place, but they have to give up their power.

2011年12月8日 星期四

Journal 34: Theme of Self-Reliance

Emmerson, the great poet uses numerous figure of speech in his poems. When i look at his stuff, it takes me quite alot of extra time to identify all of the figure of speech or half of them. His work is quite deep, it takes deep analysis and extra attention to idfentify all of them.
These deep anaylisis allows me, the reader to see something that is more than just figure of speech. It's much deeper and intriguing than the other stuff where you just flap and go.
Emmerson uses alot of abstract ideas in his writings. His writing is about self reliance, he compares the society to stock holders in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shreholder.
THen he talks about how self reliance is something that likes names and customs but love and reality. Due to the love for names and custom, individualism might slowly fade away and lead the world to corruption.
Emmerson believe that the world is at the point where its corrupted. THe world dislike individuality than self reliance.

2011年12月7日 星期三

Journal 33: Imagery in Nature

After that long journal yesterday, im getting lazy for another journal. daaaaaaaaaaang
so back to the journal topic, Emerson evaluates the soceity as something of great evil. You know how the romantics are, nature good, nature bless, civilization bad, civilization no no bad bad. He take the human soceity as something of great evil with conspiracy and dark human thoughts.
Romantics take the nature as sort of a place where God presides. He expressed his opnion in his thing telling us that we should elave the city. In order to be secluded from this horrifying soceity with evil lurking everywhere, we need to move out of it. Living in the forest to be protected from the dark urban city.
In the start, he also talked about the stars as nature. The nature is like God, pure and holy where the star is so high up. That pureness and like Gode, is beyond our reach and we cant reach it cause its so high up there.
Nature is magnificent, it changes its shape and looks all the time. The magnificent nature is something that we shall not destroy. WHile nowadays, we're cutting off trees, killing mountains and sucking up water. The world is being sabatoged by us. We need to stop this nonsense to the world becasuse its all part of GOd.

2011年12月4日 星期日

Journal 32: The Saddest of All Prisons

Yes, people definitely feel great guilt to what they have done in the past. If a person can't forgive themselves for what they have done in the past, it is of great burden to the people around them and for themselves. The dark secrets of a person could slowly eat away one's heart or consious. That's kind of why some people would go mad because of a past mistake they have commited and turn into someone else. I believe this journal is refering to the corss of snow since longfellow couldn't forgive himself for bringing such tragedy to his wife.
He is extremely sad for probably lighting his wife on fire. He wishes that this mistake could be reverted so bad that he stopped writing nature poems or other poems but mourn in the grief of his wife. Lots of people suffer problems like this, such as in a movie, the killer never take holiday or something. The main character killed a kid by accident, ever since that, he repent for his sins day and night and could not do anything with a child. He felt great sorrow for the kid and in the end even sacrificed his life for a kid. I think, or did a midget helped him took a bullet for him. I can't quite remember what happen in the movie. However, it talked about the burdens of a person and how he tried everything to repent for it.

Journal Entry 17: The American Romantic Hero

yeah i do agree with the heros old romantics. The hero back in the romantic times feels like real adventurous people that could actually do something instead of just looking pretty. THe hero that are treasured and view as famous today are people that look pretty to be on TV. I don't know if they could actually be productive or survive in the wild, but i just feel that they dont feel like real actual heros in life. The qualities of a hero should be the concern for others and do what is right.
If you care so much as waht the others want and what the others think is right, then probally what they believe in is wrong. You have to have the courage to stand up for what you believe in to become a hero. The hero in the movies kinda suit the purpose, but alot of the people that are consider hero or heroines are just pretty celebrities. so i dont really agree with them as heros and people that have unique qualities.
The romantic heroes are out in the wild battling their butts of with the wild, they stand for what they believe to some extent so i guess they are a kind of hero.

Journal 28: Thanksgiving

This feels like a quick journal. What am i thankful for? LOTS OF STUFF
i am grateful of............civilization (actually it goes both ways)
computer, my family, the natural world, god, my speakers, my books, the great writers, this journal book, my grades, the teachers teaching me, girls, porn wait what? comic books, bleach, one piece, my ps3, my pen, my sketch book, the great artists around the world, my great parents, money, my house, the great food around the world, cloths, medicine, pokers, my necklace adn my ring, my towel, my blanket and bed for a good night sleep, a school, a pool, my creativity, my hair, my friends (really grateful of firends and family), games, a cup of coke, a bottle of pepsi, a dog in the streets, a tiger in africa, a beer that i will drink in the future, great musics and artists nowadays, beats, mp3, stece jobs, movies, steven spielberg, natalie portman, scarlet, johnson, the one in pirates of the carribean, victoria justice, catherine zoe, my camera, miss opera, naomi, ivy, china, jolie, grace, madeline, kitty, joy, happy, jessica, micahel, duncan, judy, fawaz, muhammad, lynne, emma watson, all the hot chinese actors and taiwanses stars, how i met your mother, firends, outsourced, the big bang theory, Dj, sparknotes, internet, world of warcraft, starcraft, uncharted, resistance, naughty dog, bioshock, biowave, metal gear solid, Kojima, arthur, GOd, Jesus, Buddha, graffiti, curry, katsu, fish, meat, steak, sashimi, wasabi, saki, pizzas, instant noodles, the list just goes on and on so i ma stop, ooo and SUMMER BREAK AND WINTER BREAK AND SURFING AND OCEAN AND SNOW AND SNOWBOARDING AND GROUND AND SKATEBOARDING OMG SO MANY THINGS IM GRATEFUL OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

2011年12月1日 星期四

Journal 31: Comparing Poems

Dammit man, stupid home internet connection. THis is the second time im doing this journal.
So i was talking about how two event on different person could casue great differences. Thats say someone from the streets die, you might not feel as much sorrow as the man from the street's loved ones. It works the same way for Henry's poems. Henry talks about the situation of his wife beng dead and the man on the beach. The man can be just somee random guy walking by, he dont feeel as much thing as other people might do. However, the one that died is Henry's wife and from the description of Mr.mccool gave us, it might be that Henry caused his wife's death himself. In that case, it would cause Henry to feel even deeper griefs than someone killing her or she deid herself.
My attitude toward death is quite curious.Death is not a color of black for me, it is a purple instead. Purple had this dark feeling toward it with the red inside. It also mixes the airy and lighty blue inside to mix with the red. This mix of color and feeling is just what i feel for death, mysterious. Im curious to what lies after the process of my heart stopping and brain stops. Is there really the soul in one's body? you never know. If a soul is true, then all that wild imagination and fantasy that i have read about where one dies and reincarnate into a ghost and dwell the world could be true! You might become some special ghost and relive this world. You might go on a supreme journey to the heavenly paradise for endless pleasure and good life. The realm after death is unpredictable, death shouldn't be view as something simply as a cycle or tragic thing.