War:The Worst Enemy Of Humanity.

Humans have many enemies. If we consider it, each person fears different things or has their own reason to hate something or someone. We usually only understand our hates and not the ones of the others because generally we had a bad experience regarding that thing we dislike. It is hard and sometimes impossible to stop that hate or fear we have since it has marked us greatly and because of this we are often closed to view other realities in life that may be a bigger threat to us.

War is one them, since war is generally going on in our world we think that it’s something quite normal or just something that is bound to happen but we don’t actually quite realize that war brings severe consequences. We think of war as an obsolete aspect as if the only wars were from the past the ones that left an impact on humanity today like world war 2 and the 100 years war, it is as if we consider ourselves to civilized to be able to believe that those wars may happen again. By being focused so much on our own fears and enemies we don’t realize how we encounter war every day and the consequences it has against us. As Plato said “only the dead have seen the end of war.” Meaning that war really never ends it is always among us it only ends when we end because then after we are not able to see it any more but that does not mean that it is not there. So war is always going to be among us no matter what we do or regarding what in this world there will always be some war of some kind, there is nothing we can do to stop but as humanity and in order to think best for all there may be some things we can do so that it does not affects us so strongly, in orders words to find out a way to decrease wars effect so that we can stop seeing war but that way not being death. As I said at the beginning that war is one a big enemy that humanity has and I think that because war even if does not affects us directly, it destroys us by creating a competitive and violent world that is not good or pleasant for anybody to live in. Most of the times we don’t realize this since we live in our perfect society where we don’t really care what’s happening outside.

In the first chapter of the book Slaughter House-Five I could see how the characters life was marked by war in immensely. As he was talking to his friend they are saying how neither of them can remember anything good about the war that had been in. Most importantly I could relate this topic to Mary the wife of the characters friend and how she simply was mad at the character for going to war. I see it this way, the reason that her husband went off to of left a mark in her of worry and suffering to think what could happen to him. Then that trouble became fear, fear of how maybe her children would be influenced by it. “It was the war that made her so angry. She didn’t want her babies or anybody else’s babies killed in war.” In this case war became her enemy because it gave her a permanent concern of how war may influence not only her children but the entire world.

Salvation:The Key To The Doors Of Confusion.

While reading Dantes Inferno we come across two different Dante’s, the narrator (the poet) and the actual character that travels through the Inferno. Dante the poet uses the character as a metaphor of the journey that every human being must overcome in order to reach God's salvation. "When I had journeyed half of our life’s way I found myself within a shadowed forest for I had lost the path that does not stray" (I. 1-3). The fact that Dante writes this quote can mean that every human being has the correct path they have to take although some may get lost. We can also think of this as if Dante had written in plural meaning that he is not only talking about himself but all of humanity. Through the characters journey into the circles of Hell, Dante the character must learn to stop feeling pity and sorry for the people that are in Hell because for some reason those deserve to be there. At the end journey through Hell Dante achieves the level of moral standards in order to begin his new journey to God’s salvation.

The ultimate proof of Dante is reflected at the end of Inferno “My guide and I came on that hidden road to make our way back into the bright world and with no care for any rest, we climbed-he first, I following-until I saw, through a round opening, some of those things of beauty Heaven bears. It was from there that we emerged, to see-once-the stars. ” (XXIV. 133-139), with this quote we see how he found his lost path that was not really lost but was in the shadows, he saw again what he already knew the beauty of Heaven (it was not the first time he had seen it), it states that Dante also sees the stars which means guidance and illumination. Dante was confused but know by this we see that he learned and found his path to God salvation.

The path that Dante follows is the same as humanity so if I were to continue reading Inferno I would infer that as long as humanity has a clear vision of the right path they will find Gods salvation even in the darkest places of Hell.

The Flawless Land

Among this place where fairness sways
within the souls of those who deem
before the path of many ways
avoiding the control of some regime
that limits the freedom and choice
to believe that we don’t live a dream
but submerge ourselves into our very voice.
Integrity creates a vision of the perfection
that lays beyond a feeling of global rejoice
We set a society creating a connection
with the hope of achieving destiny’s desire
of a society that provides eternal protection.

When Love and Hate Collide

Poetic justice can be defined as a punishment for a vice usually in an ironic matter. While watching this episode of The Twilight Zone I came across some examples of poetic justice. At the beginning the episode takes place in a town, a town that had been destroyed by war, we see a women appearing she finds a can of chicken and eats it, then a man arrives he can see how their uniforms are different and he slaps the woman leaving her unconscious on the floor. Then the man and women interact some more comes my first impression of poetic justice, this is how when the video starts the man and women are each alone but then they start interacting, and in the end of the video they end up together, that being opposites; alone and know with a companion. As the video continues that two characters interact much more with each other in a positive and negative way also, but the towards the end the video makes a twist and suddenly what I was watching may be seen as a love story since the man and woman are showing some kind of affection against each other. With the twist the video creates comes my second example of poetic justice this being between love and hate, how in the beginning of the video the feelings these two have for each other is hate because they are enemies, but at the end the hate becomes love, I see this as poetic justice since love and hate are two complete opposite, they started feeling hate and as the story shifts that hate turns to love.

Finally I think this whole video has a big example of poetic, mainly starting with how the men and women interact, since during the video their emotions change. They start off with hate, and then I can say they become friends or more likely not enemies, after that we can see hate and competition again but to finish off it becomes love that as I said before it’s the opposite of hate. It is as if the two characters understand that in the end it will be better for them that way instead of competing.

Blogs. The Reading Of Today

Since I was a child I can perfectly picture my father having breakfast every morning and reading the newspaper, then my mom would wake up and would start reading the sections that my father has already read. If we were waiting in the doctors office for example my mom would me reading a magazine and every night before the y went to bed each one of them read a little from the book they were at that moment. Reading this article caught me thinking about the images I just described and how these things the three most common forms of reading are being replaced and all by the internet. Every newspaper has a webpage, every magazine a website, and you can books online.

As technology advance so do the people, we stop doing things the old fashioned way as do it how it’s being done now, today. I take my chances to say that today people my age and even older depend on the internet, imagine a day without internet when the first thing we do when we get home is turn on our computer and engage in new forms of communication the internet has created such as blogs as Sarah Boxer said “A blog, for those who don't know, is a journal or log that appears on a Web site. It is written on line, read on line, and updated on line.” All of it has to with the internet. If we compare to a book we end up with this “Books are tight. Blogs are reckless. Books are slow. Blogs are fast. Books ask you to stay between their covers. Blogs invite you to stray. Books fret over copyright and libel. Blogs grab whatever they want with impunity—news, gossip, pictures, videos.”


By reading just that sentence we are able to see how far more interesting blogs are for the younger readers since first they are online and second of all as Sarah Boxer said “Blog readers jump around. They follow links. They move from blogs to news clips to videos on YouTube, and they do it more easily than you can turn a newspaper page”. The fact that blogs allow you to experience new things and from one topic get to another and see various perspectives and point of view makes it attractive to people since they can learn more and will be able to even add their own opinion. Apart from reading things that interest you, you are also learning about knew things, different ways to see one topic and even communicating with other people.

What To Do Conversation

Tiger101 says:
Hey! How was your first day of school?

Cheerios21 says:
Well to tell you the truth, not so well.

Tiger101 says:
Why? What happened?

Cheerios21 says:
It was a mess! My schedule was all mixed up, I had no idea where I had to go and to top it off I don’t know which AP courses to take.

Tiger101 says:
Well it is going to be hard at the beginning but don’t worry, take it easy and everything will work out for you.

Cheerios21 says:
OK I hope so, but what do you recommend about the Ap’s?

Tiger101 says:
What do you have to decide?

Cheerios21 says:
I have to decide if I want to take Pre-AP English or AP U.S history. The one I am taking for sure is Pre-AP math but I don’t know what to do with the other two, which one to choose. You see I really enjoy English and I think I’m good at it but history fascinates me. So what do you suggest?

Tiger101 says:
Oh well that’s a tough decision, what I would really recommend is for you to take Pre-AP English because with AP U.S history you take the risk of not passing the exam in May and if you don’t pass it they will not give you the credit for the course.

Cheerios21 says:
Seriously! OMG(Oh my god) That is so unfair I had no idea it worked liked that thanks for telling me. So basically if I don’t pass the exam I would have done all of that work for nothing.

Tiger101 says:
Yeah basically that’s how it works, sucks doesn’t it?

Cheerios21:
Totally, but hey that’s high school.

Tiger101 says:
You’re right. Hey talk to you later I have to go to my gym class.

Cheerios21 says:
OK have fun and thanks for your help.