Letter to Charles Bukowski

Dear Charles,            After I read your poem Dinosauria, We so many thoughts were in my head of the world we live in today and if we will ever become the idea of the this or if we already have become it. You wrote this poem in the 1970s and it is an accurate representation of the modern world. Are you psychic? Or is it just a reasonable assumption based on occurences in 1970? Regardless of what it may be I think the outcome you described will eventually surface and that is the scary part. Through your poem we see everything that we happen to our world in the future. But the question is what is the future? How close is it? And most of all is it the END of the world? In your poem one thing that really struck me was when you said Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground. Dante's Inferno referencing to Hell. I thought that to be a strong line because your saying that the world will eventually come to be so bad that Hell, something that we think of as being a horrible place that most don't won't to go to, becomes something desirable, enjoyable and something to look forward to. And then you said the fingers reach for the throat the gun the knife the bomb..........the fingers reach for the bottle the pill the powder. In today's world so many people look to violence and abuse to solve and cope with the problems. And in your poem when this is occuring all these realistic events of wanting to kill and reference to wanting to take drugs also occur. Lastly I think a strong part to your poem is that you continue to repeat "this" or born into "this", which for me adds to the intensity of the poem in the fact that it shows readers that "this" is serious and cannot be taken lightly. Your prediction or assumption of what the world will become is accurate because of the actions of human beings. The way we are headed in our world today with people having the mindset that the world can fix itself or that eventually it all will not pile up is the wrong mindset because it will and I think that everything you described in  your poem can happen and is possible. The only way it can be fixed is with the help of the entire human population, which is highly unlikely, starting now before it is too late or else they won't be another chapter. THIS will be the end.

Father and Son

Currently we are reading The Road, a post- apocalyptic story describing a son and father's journey through the disastrous world. Their relationship is one that is not typical of a father and son relationship, because in modern day most fathers are not as gentle, and compassionate as the one in the story. That is the role of the mother supposedly. They believe in tough love and making their sons men . But in the Road the father knows that the child won't be able to live a normal life or for that fact know what a normal life is. The father tries as best as he can to comfort the child and he begans to show motherly like  qualities.

John Proctor Hero or Stooge?

John Proctor is a hero and a stooge but more so a hero. In the courts while his wife Elizabeth is being taken and arrested he is accusing other people because his supposed main goal is to save his wife. But the underlying truth to that is that eventually when his wife claims to be pregnant and saved for a year he doesn't want to drop his charges to the other people. Parris says that his main goal is to overthrow  the court and that may seem true. Towards the end of the story he confesses his sin of lechery on Abigail but  they do not believe him and his wife denies it to save his name so he is in line to be hanged,but only if he confesses will he survive. He choses to go against his religious priciples  and lie to save his life. Eventually after hee has confessed without going againt his friends he tears up his confession saying that only God needs to see his confession and that his name shall remain the same in the town of Salem. So John Proctor will hang and be judged only by himself as a good man because he knows that he is no better than everyone else standing up for their beliefs that are being hanged, and that is why he is a hero more than a stooge because when it mattered he stood up and followed his principles when some other citizens in this town based solely upon theocracy has chosen not to.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

     Sinners in the hands of an angry god is a sermon of Jonathan Edwards that speaks about humans opposing the BIBLE and  supposedly threatening the vengeance of God.In this sermon he basically degrades other people referring to them as being  wicked and associated with the devil, but in all reality he is not following the bible himself. He is essentially the strongest follower of the bible seeing as though he is the reverend. Throughout this sermon he somewhat becomes contradictive and hipocritical because he himself is not being of Christian faith by accusing others of committing a sin.
     The puritans for instance were extremely fearful of God and they felt that if they stepped out of line just once they would go toHELL. Jonathan Edwards knows he can impose fear on them , seeing as though many were iliterate unlike him, a very well educated man with an ultimate belief in God.

Arrivals......There goes the Neighborhood

 Blogs are very difficult for me to write because I debate on if I should jus write what I feel and let it flow or go about it an organized way with paragraphs and paragraphs of information,  but for this particular post I guess I will combine a little bit of both into one.
      When I think of the title arrivals.... there goes the neighborhood I think of society and how they tend to stereotype certain people. So maybe society thinks if someone different( not similar to them) comes along the neighborhood will become worse and do down hill. Personally I don't think I have experienced such stereotypical behavior before so I couldn't tell you how it feels or even relate myself to that type of situation, because for as long as I have known.... I've lived in the same neighborhood.
      Going back to what we've talked about in class over the past few days I think Phillis Wheatley and Christopher Colombus went through similar situations. Phillis having being a slave trying to fit in with "white folk" as they say faced discrimination. She worked in the house closer to her slave master's family, and was taught how to read and write. Well in that time slaves weren't allowed to be educated so Phillis in a sense was above the pack somewhat becoming a white and becoming part of this family. Many whites didn't appreciate or neccessarily like how Phillis Wheatley being black could be so close to whites in society. So her story story comes to mind when we talk about The title.
      As for Christopher Colombus  he relates to the topic because he invaded these native islands and the native people weren't welcoming to his arrival. He in a way insulted their culture and beliefs and the natives didn't respond to that very well, refusing to trade any valuable tools. They weren't familar with his ideas and ways of life and neither was he with theirs so I believe that the natives were basically saying that his arrival to their land was turning the islands wrong and disrupting their ways.

      Hmmmmmm..... to began my blog I guess I have to introduce myself so my name is Katrina (like the hurricane) , that seems to help people remember my name better, and I have no problem with referencing such a terrible event to my name. I've never had a blog or even thought of having one but I guess I will start having to get used to it. My older brother has one and is familar with it so if  I ever need help I'll probably just ask him. I am kind of excited to have a blog now because it's basically writing down all of your thoughts, facts and or emotions on a particular topic. There are no right or wrong answers to a blog it's all so opinionated, which I like because you can express yourself.        I really enjoy to play basketball it is my life besides education of course! I started playing basketball when i was in 5th grade i wasn't skilled at all back then but now i am much more improved. I don't know what compelled me to began playing sports because before I was a cheerleader. First I was cheering at the games now I'm in the games. I know thats a BIG turn around!!!!! Education is really important to me because I want to maybe become a teacher someday. I'd want to teach at an elementary level I'm not sure what subject yet. Most of my time is filled by playing basketball and school but besides doing that I like to listen to music or get on facebook and twitter :-) haha. I'm really open to all music because a good song is a good song despite what genre of music it is. If any really knows me they know that I don't really have a favorite of anything. There are things that I strongly like or mutiple things I like, but I'm very indecisive and its hard for me to choose between things.
      I have 2 older brothers and 1 younger sister so I would consider myself a middle child. I'm closest to my brother the other middle child probably because we are kind of close in age and we are complete opposites. They do say opposites attract.My family is quite funny and really know how to enjoy themselves maybe that is where I get my outgoing bubbly personality from. My mother somewhat collects movies of all kinds so I sometimes occupy my free time watching millions of movies from horror to action to comedy.
      Although I may not have favorites I assumed it is appropriate to include your favorite things in a introduction of yourself so I will attempt. My favorite colors are orange and selective pinks. My favorite book is to kill a mockingbird although I never got a chance to finish reading it entirely. My favorite year of school would have to be 8th grade so far seeing as though I'm only a freshman, but besides that I think Ion't have to many other favorites.
      I think this blog entry was a really good way to introduce ourselves to the teacher  and our classmates and I think I did a pretty good job explaining myself in a nutshell. One thing I forgot is that I really like using exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!