‘For All The Apples’

Hells Yeah!!! finally Apple releases the iPhone next Friday and with the iPhone release comes the Mac OS X Leopard release. New features include Time Machine, an updated Safari browser, Front Row and over 300+ features.

Job 1-2

What we can learn about humanity in this passage is how we take things for granted and how God would test you without your possessions to see what your true beliefs are. We can learn about God by seeing the way he reacts differently to other people and how he acts in mysterious ways. The way we learn about relationships is how dedicated his friends and family act when they are around Job and the way they react during the tests[mainly his friends]. We can also say that Job and his family are dedicated to honoring God because they serve him when they believed they have sinned

Animal Farm Ideas Blog

The time I remember I was mindlessly following was kindergarten. It was your first year of school, so you would follow your teachers teachings and this would get you to first grade. If you didn’t follow you would get held back and have to retake the course. The teachers were strict on what you learned, sure there was creativity, but they would tell you how to be creative, like materials you would need, when it was do and how it had to be done. Then there was nap time where the teachers would tell you to go to sleep, and they would plan another lesson. School is basically like Animal Farm. The teachers tell you when you need to get to class, when you play outside, when you eat, when you sleep, and what you would do on that school day. The teachers are the “pigs”. They get trained, certified, and the teach more kids, who will probably become more teachers. If the teachers learn to be more creative then we could be more free and relaxed about learning. It’s almost like a factory: 1.Teachers teach kids 2. Kids learn 3. Some kids will become teachers who will repeat this process.

So here is my question to Mr. Amico: Who teaches the teachers?

My new website

I thought I’d post my new site here to anyone who wants to see it. Here’s the link:

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Trial Reflection 5

I am a lawyer on the dead team. I personally saw a lot of points that the Alive team pointed out that helped the dead team. I didn’t think it was fair that none of the jury members even researched the books, therefore we lost the case due to the jury members lack of interest in literature that we presented as evidence. At the first open debate, the lawyer I was going up against didn’t even have anything to say, so to say unprepared. When I did The Catcher In The Rye, Phoebe Cauffield, the SMART 10 year old girl, stalled and had her team mouth the answers, therefore I ran out of time and got no where because she didn’t say or do anything. I did The Jungle and had all questions prepared but the alive team helped me more by asking Dead Team questions. There was no clear point that they made. I believe the jury members picked them for the win because of popularity and the majority of the team.

Different Species of Mockingbirds Feb. 15

Comparing Tom and Mayella are basically the same but different in this way: Tom is hardworking, so is Mayella, but Mayella is abused and and beaten on a daily basis. Tom is a hardworking negro. Mayella is a hardworking white person. Both have opposing viewpoints or P.O.V.’s. In a contrasting effort Maycomb is impartial on its laws and how it treats society. I know its 1930 and all but if a man with a useless left hand was accused on hurting a woman when she got the marks from a left would be pretty strang. But as the book says mayella broke a code between blacks and whites and the only way torepair the broken code is to put Tom away from her and forget it ever happened. In all Tom and Mayella are two different but same people, and Maycomb is the same

Realistic

   Yes, this scene is realistic because what person do you know that can shoot a girls father while she’s standing right there? A senseless man with no emotion probably would, but not in this scene. Scout makes the man [Mr. Cunningham] realize what he is about to do. He is about to kill two men, one who is a father and one who is presumably innocent until proved guilty. Scout has the smarts to swade a person away from an event like this one. Anyone does, but no one is incapable of doing something.
    Scout’s character has matured since she was younger, she has the ability to see what kind of character that person has. The group of men only want to kill Robinson because they THINK he is guilty of rape. Just because you think something is true dosen’t mean its necessarily true. Atticus is there because he is protecting a man that is a human equal and Scout sees that and realises whats right and what is wrong. She decides to step in and quell the mob of angry men.
Scout’s character can be described as heroic, antagonistic, and step up to a much more mature level. Even though the people around her don’t think she will become a ”proper lady” she will will grow out of her fighting and antagonistic behavior. Kids will be kids. It is just part of what makes us human. What Scout displayed in the jail was an act of heroism and a bit of role-playing.

Still up at 1:00 AM

We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time… There is not enough money to buy them, and not to little money to give them. The more you spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you freely possess to give.Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. … We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy conscience, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. ‘Imperishable moments’ and ‘immortal deeds’, death itself, and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. Nor will anything that is be better or worse for all that the labour, genius, devotion, and suffering of man have striven through countless generations to effect.It will be a marvellous thing – the true personality of man – when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flower-like, or as a tree grows. It will not be at discord. It will never argue or dispute. It will not prove things. It will know everything. And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge. It will have wisdom. Its value will not be measured by material things. It will have nothing. And yet it will have everything, and whatever one takes from it, it will still have, so rich will it be. It will not be always meddling with others, or asking them to be like itself. It will love them because they will be different. And yet, while it will not meddle with others, it will help all, as a beautiful thing helps us by being what it is. The personality of man will be very wonderful. It will be as wonderful as the personality of a child.
In its development it will be assisted by Christianity, if men desire that; but if men do not desire that, it will develop none the less surely. For it will not worry itself about the past, nor care whether things happened or did not happen. Nor will it admit any laws but its own laws; nor any authority but its own authority. Yet it will love those who sought to intensify it, and speak often of them. And of these Christ was one.
“Know Thyself” was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, “Be Thyself” shall be written. And the message of Christ to man was simply “Be Thyself.” That is the secret of Christ.

My Thoughts

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

 

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

 

We make war that we may live in peace.

 

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. “All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness….No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

 

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual’s character. Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him, for every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else. Therefore just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts. All prudent men see that the action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. It is the state of the soul at war, and its ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents. It speaks the truth and it is just. It is generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations and scornful of being scorned. It persists; it is of an undaunted boldness and of a fortitude not to be wearied out. Its jest is the littleness of common life. That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the foil, the butt and merriment of heroism. Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost ashamed of its body.

 

“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.”

TKM FOR 1/30: CH 7-9

So far in chapter 7 Scout and Jem find two bars of carved soap that look like them. Scout, I believe called it “hoodoo-ism.” They are planning to leave two letters for the person that are leaving the items. So far everything is looking good until Mr. Radley fills up the hole with cement. He said the “tree was dying, so you fill it with cement” as if that actually works. The next part in a series of unfortunate events is that Miss Maudie’s’ House burns down, but yet she is happy and it does not get the best of her.