Big question

Is oppression a bad thing? In the story  "The Hunger Games" the characters find themselves in a post-American distopia, where they must fight for survival each year in the capitals sick game. The people designated by the capital choose a boy and girl tribute from each of the 12 districts. Ironically enough no one from the capital is involved in the fighting. They force the 24 tributes to parade in front of the citizens of the capital, trying to gain sponsors, they then undergo a week of rigorous training and then they are sent to face the unknown. The tributes must do some awful things in order to survive, the capitals oppression makes them do things no ordinary citizen would ever want to do. They have to kill people and eat animals raw, they must ignore their basic needs for survival in an attempt to out smart and out kill the others. If the games are going slow, the capital randomly selects a tribute and kills them in a gruesome manner. oppression makes people do things they shouldnt have to do and dont want to do, so it is bad.

sneetches

The sneetches On the beaches is an allegory about acceptance. Acceptance is key for society, when people start thinking they are better then one another that is when things like persecution happen. If people do things like this then those that are persecuted will be divided so they don't have to be the ones who get the brunt of the  discrimination. Those that are discriminated against should focus on sticking together and being self sufficient, so when  the oppressors try to separate them, they fail and maybe will accept their individuality. People just need to accept each other for who they are so problems like this do not occur, because often those that have the audacity to point out someone else mistakes, have problems and insecurities of their own that need to be dealt with. People over all should be more open to one another and not judge so freely because they might not understand that everyone has imperfectons so no one is better than the next.  

Big Question

big question : Is it worth it to give up living with your family to live in a time loop? throughout the book "Miss Peregrines school for Peculiar children" the main character jacob is constantly thinking about this question. He feels it would be a bad experience for his family to suddenly and unexplainably lose their only child. he is what the others of his kind call a peculiar, they all feel it would be best for him to come live with those of his kind in a time loop where he would never age. He is worried that his disappearance would traumatize his family members, so he holds off until the last minute when Miss Peregrine is in danger to make his decision. He ultimately decides to live in the time loop and that it is best for his well being to be with those of his kind because they offer a protection from the wights and hollows, that the normal population would call him crazy for even thinking about such horrendously awful creatures. He also decides after they get over the fact that he disappeared that it will eventually be better for them because the creatures wont go after his family if he isnt around to put them in danger.

I have recently started reading the book miss peregrines home for peculiar children. It is actually turning out to be a good book despite what i previously thought. It has mystery and confusing parts and monsters, so it has kept my attention quite well. It starts out with the little boy Jacob telling how his grandfather used to tell him stories of his childhood involving monsters and a mysterious island that kept them safe. As Jacob gets older he believes less and less in the life he was told about, he begins crediting  all the stories to what the doctors told his family was dementia. but when his grandfather calls him in a panic saying the monsters are after him Jacob goes to check on him and finds the house a mess. they follow the path of objects that have been thrown to the edge of the yard and the see a path going into the forest, Jacob goes in before his friend ca grab a flash light. He runs in looking for something, anything and that is when he finds the mangled body of his grandfather, he looks around to see the culprit and catches a glimpse of exactly the kind of monster his grandfather had described long ago. when he reports this to the police they dismiss it as crazy and he spends months seeing psychiatrists and being evaluated. his grandfathers final words ringing in his ears , an opportunity finally comes for him to visit the island he had heard of as a young child....... will this trip answer his questions? give him closure on the death of his grandfather?

I believe the theme in the book I am reading is that despite a crappy start greatness can be achieved. Young Abraham Lincoln starts life on a small rundown farm where he lives with his family of 4. He experiences death at a young age when his younger brother Thomas dies before he was a month old. His mother dies short after that sending him into a dangerous depressed rage. He finds the culprit of her death is a vampire and vows to kill as many vampires as he can. He kills the one responsible for her death and realizes it isn't as impossible as he thought. He begins training himself in preparation to fight the undead creatures of the night.He gets his behind kicked by an old lady vampire. after many years he becomes the vampire hunter he dreams of. Later he becomes president of theses great United states. He is the ideal that humble starts can lead to greatness.

SSR book part 2

I am still reading the book "Abraham Lincoln, vampire slayer. this book started off without much promise, after finishing the first page i figured i was in for a boring book that i wouldn't want to finish. but i was pleasantly surprised when the book started climaxing, my imagination was sparked with tales of vampires and the endeavors of former president Abraham Lincoln as he hunted the horrible creatures. After the death of his mother, he realizes the cause of her death was a vampire he vows from that day forward to kill every vampire in America. His first kill doesnt hold the joy he thought it would, it proved a simple task to young Abe. After years of training himself he goes on the hunt when he hears evidence of a vampire nearby. He attempts to kill the creature but is easily overpowered, upon the threshold of death someone saves him. When he wakes he is in a dim room restrained to a bed, he finds out it was a vampire that saved him and he is enraged. but his fleeting emotions proved useless because the vampire was a freind and meant to hel him. Abe went back home where he would occaisionally receive letters from his new freind Henry, containing the whereabouts and identities of vampires nearby. Young abe would then hunt them down and return home as if nothing was amiss. this book has proven itself very interesting and  I am glad i picked it off the shelf.

Education

The problem with education is pretty much everything.From the long tedious hours to the crappy course selection,students are filled with day after day of mind numbing things that they will most likely not use in their career.What use will the majority of students find in Spanish class or Gym class? I sit through 3/4 of my classes without learning a single thing so I assume that most other people don't learn much either. If education were to  find a way to be interesting while still instructing students in what they need then the system wouldn't need reforming. The system could use a change with the hours as well, no student wants to spend 7-8 hours every day feeling like they have accomplished nothing.Dan Meyers explains that students don't learn any real math, because students can decipher the text book without learning a thing. He explains that maybe if students were interested in the subjects they were learning that they would be more inclined to learn it.
 The main problem would be the fact that curriculum doesn't know the meaning of interesting, if teachers could find a less conventional way to bring the students mind into what their learning.

  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html