Death Penalty Yes or No

This blog is all about the bombing in Boston and how the punishment for the felon could be related to the harsh crimes that were committed during The French Revolution. 

The article I'm going to talk about is called Suspect in Boston bombing could face death penalty, and within this article it talks about how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count of malicious destruction of property using an explosive device resulting in death. These charges against him have a maximum death penalty. 

While reading this article it is hard to believe that all this was done by two teenagers, how could someone want to hurt so many people. I felt that I could relate this to the penalties that the people that committed a crime had to endure in the time of the French Revolution. During this time the  guillotine was used as the device to kill people who committed different crimes. From my view of this period no one really got a far say in weather they committed the crime or if someone else really did it. So in a way they know they were going to die weather they did the crime or  not.

Going back to the suspect of the Boston bombing, they are not sure how he is going to be charged due to the fact that he is a legal citizen and is critical condition. The government feels that he should have a fair trial and not be tried as a terrorist. I feel that they need to find out more information surrounding why this happened and after that figure out if this teen is part of something bigger or not.

So what do you think does the Government have enough information in order to send this teen to prison with no chance of parole and to serve the death penalty or do you feel that they need to figure out why this happened? 

Here is the link to the article that I read if anyone is interested in reading it: http://www.yalibnan.com/2013/04/22/suspect-charged-in-boston-bombing-could-face-death-penalty/

"Girl Rising"

Hey there, I'm back to talk to you about this article I read from in the world news called Girl Rising and how I was able to relate it to the topic of otherness that we talked about in my World Literature class.

This article is an overview of the film "Girl Rising" which is about nine different girls from all over the world and what they have gone through just to get an education, which is some thing that people in the United States may not take for granted. In the article it talks about how girls in different parts of the world don't really have the right to chose what they get to do with their life, and this film is some girls who are going against their traditions to do something they feel they should have the right to do.

When it comes to World Literature we talked about the topic of otherness while we were reading the book Notre-Dome De Paris. In the context of that story it was to me how people felt awkward around Quasimodo due to his deformities. When it comes to the news article Girl Rising you could take the topic of otherness and say something like these girls feel different when it comes to their education. These girls may feel the sense of otherness because they may feel out casted because they do not have the same education as some people. The otherness can also come in if you talk about how these girls are standing up for what they believe in when it may be frowned upon in their country. People may see them as trouble makers and want nothing to do with them which in return can make the girls feel like they are alone in the fight they are fighting when in reality they are not.

To me otherness plays a big role in this article for the fact that these girls are standing up for what they believe is their right to a good education no matter what their culture may be telling them and that is what makes them different from others, but it also makes them unique in the fight for the right to their well deserved education.
Here is a link to the article if it is something you may be interested in:  http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/girl-rising-documentary-change-world-educate-girls/story?id=18834139#.UXYJ-bXrxOs

The Seventh Seal

Hello again. I'm back to talk to you abut my experience in watching a foreign film. The film I chose to watch was called The Seventh Seal which took place in Sweden in the 1300's.  The overall story is about a knight and his squire coming back from the Crusades and returning to Sweden to find it being effected by the Black plague. The film is the knights journey and how he is trying to find out if there is a God and where people go when they die. One thing I found interesting about this film is that the knight plays a game of chess with the grim reaper. This was one thing that confused me, because I was not quite sure what that was suppose to symbolize.

 Before I started watching this film I was not sure if I was going to like this experience due to the fact that I would have to read the subtitles and try and watch the movie to try and follow along with what was going on. After watching the film it was not as hard as I thought it would be to follow along, even though I didn't always know what exactly was going on with in the story line.

As I was watching the film the one thing that I found my self thinking about a lot was how cruel people really are to each other. There were many scenes in the film showing people breaking into others houses and taking anything that they found to be worth some money. How can people be so rude as to go into someone's home and take things that don't belong to them. Another thing that I was thinking about was how far groups of people would walk and the work they would put in to making a new village to isolate themselves from the plague in hopes of living through it and going on with their every day lives.

Another thing that I was thinking about a lot during this film was what it would be like to live in this time period and go through some of the horrible things these people had to go through. I have been very sick before but I know it is nothing like having this disease and knowing that you are going to die. I really have know idea what it would feel like to have sores all over my body and knowing in little time it will take my life. I think that would be a horrible way to go.

After watching this film it gave me a sense of what the people during this time felt like and what they would do to try and escape the plague, when in fact there was truly no way to escape. It also gave me a sense in how it would feel to live knowing that at any time you could be exposed and in little time be died or dying.

Tao Te Ching

              Knowing

Without taking a step outdoors
You know the whole world;
Without taking a peep out the window
You know the colour of the sky.

The more you experience,
The less you know.
The sage wanders without knowing,
Sees without looking,
Accomplishes without acting.

http://www.chinapage.com/gnl.html#47

The first thing about this poem that I noticed is that in many of the lines it gives two different extremes; for example the first two lines of the first stanza talks about not stepping outdoors, but knowing the whole world. To me having two extremes like this is contradictory because there is no way you can stay inside some where and know the whole world. 

The line that says: The more you experience, The less you know, I feel goes against "The Way" because Taoism says that the way is endless, which would make the experience and a person's knowledge never ending. With this they seem to contradict themselves again. The last few lines that talk about the sage, I feel it is saying that because he/she is such a wise person they don't need to do much because people assume that they know it all already and there is no need for them to show what they know. Going back to "The Way", Taoists sat that it is like a river and it flows in all directions and never ends, so if you put that in terms of a person's knowledge there would be no amount of knowledge a person could have, if they want to live "The Way".

Super Powers; Are they a good or bad thing!

When I was little I thought it would always be fun to be invincible and be able to play tricks on people and not get caught. Looking back I feel that after sometime it would get old and no longer be the fun it use to be. Which to me would be a little better fate that what happened to Dutilleulin in the story "The Man who walked Through walls, or The Life of an Unremarkable Person" by Marcel Aym`e.

This story is all about Dutilleulin power he has to be able to walk through walls. He first starts out just using his powers to get in and out of his apartment  but then he feels that he can not be caught and begins to commit crimes using his power. This leads me to the question in my head which is would all people be interested to see what they could get away with if they had a special power? I feel that people would use their power it the means to do good but then get carried away and then begin to commit crimes, such as what Dutilleulin did in the story.

The first part of the story that really got my attention and made me think, "that is something i may do if I had this power. The part of the story that I focused on for my close reading is the part where Dutilleulin uses his power to taunt his boss, by putting his head through the wall and talking to his boss like he was a trophy on the wall. After this part of the story is where Dutilleulin figures out that he could do a whole lot of things and he felt that he couldn't get caught.

The second part of the story that caught my attention was the end of the story where he becomes trapped in the wall of lovers house. This part of the story really stumped me because there are many things I feel that don't add up. The first thing is even if you have a headache, what makes a person think it is a good idea to take unlabeled pills that you find in the bottom of your drawer.The other part that stumps me is why would anyone feel like they will never get caught for the bad things that they did.

To me this story is used to try and teach people about the moral of Karma "what goes around comes around", because after all the bad things that Dutilleudin did it all caught up with him in the end of the story when he got stuck in the wall after his pills began to take affect. So to me when I look at the overall moral of this story, it is telling the readers to be aware of the things that they do and that if the things they are doing are bad enough they should be aware that what they did could come back and harm them. So a question for you would it be worth having a super power, knowing that it could come back as Karma to get you.

The People and the Wine

After reading the chapter titled The Wine shop in the book Tale of Two Cities, I found myself coming back to just one specific part of the chapter. The part of the chapter that I went back to was at the beginning of the chapter where it talked about how a cask of wine was dropped in the street and there was a flood of people drinking it right off the ground.

I found myself engulfed in this section because Dickens uses such descriptive wording that makes it possible for me to see in my mind what this scene looks like. For an example in one section Dickens describes all the business being put on hold for the people to go and drink from the road where the wind had been spilled Dickens also used descriptive wording to describe how the wine flowed through the cracks of the street, that made the wine look like pools of blood. When it comes to this part of the chapter I was able to visualize what this scene would look like and to me it reminded me of a heard of animals all trying to drink out of the same watering hole.

When it came to how the people in this scene were described all drinking the wine it seemed chaotic, people leaning over each other just for the smallest taste of wine. The towns people were all using different things to drink the wine and some even resorted to sucking or chewing on the wood of the wine cask. Some used their fingers, others used mugs while the woman used handkerchiefs to drip the wine into their mouths as well as into the mouths of their children. When I read this I was surprised, what mother would let their child drink wine in any amount. This to me just shows how different life was back then, then how it is now. Because now it is not the smartest thing to do (ie give your child wine).

Overall this scene just shows the extremes some people will go to to get something they may enjoy. Back then it was for a small sip of wine, when today it maybe a homeless person just looking for some where to sleep out of the rain. I feel that scenes like this get over looked because people who have what they need to live don't always take the time to look at others and what they might do to get anything just to make it through their lives. 

This is who I am

It was March 14, 1993 when I was born into the world with pneumonia, so I didn't have the chance to see the outside world right away. I was born in Milwaukee and know reside in Sheboygan. I'm also the oldest of three other siblings; a sister and two brothers.

Ever since I was little I remember having pets in the house, which is where I think I got my love of animals from. Still to this day I have all different types of pets from cats to horses.

 To go along with my love of animals, I guess you could say that I'm an outdoors girl because I love to be outside whenever the weather is nice. I spend most of my time outside working with my horses, and I love every minute of it. Having horses is what takes most of my time in the summer and makes it seem like summer is never long enough. When the weather is not so nice I like to stay inside and read a good book or hang out with my friends and family.

I feel I'm a hard worker on the farm, but when it comes time to spend time with the family, I clean up nice and look presentable. When it comes to how I dress, I would rather wear tennis shoes that heals. I love  te-shirts and sweaters and jeans  better than dress clothes and if people don't like that, that's to bad and they can deal with it.

In these blogs I'm going to be writing about different readings that we have read for my World Literature class. I hope to use this blog to make my writing stronger as well as let others know how I feel about the different books I have read.