A Recorded Story

            Movies are made to completely disconnect one from their present day problems and stresses. They are made to distract or rather make you feel at ease with ones life. The movie writers generally go about doing this by creating obstacles and scenarios that generally go to extremes. Why watch a movie about us every day folk? We don’t. Now that we have established that we use movies to distract ourselves from our present lives we can go about other aspects of movies, Genres. Generally, because we are humans we have our own tastes in music, food or clothes but just like all the rest we generally like to watch movies according to our mood. We tend to watch extremely tragic movies when we feel down to make us feel better about ourselves (don’t deny it, you know its true), or maybe a comedy to uplift our happiness even higher. Generally movies that people tend to like are those that are account for each problem, and ones that are simply made well. But then again, I can’t speak for everyone seeing that all of us are individuals.

            In my opinion my most favorite movie is Inception. It is an all around movie with action, stress, and love. What brings it apart from most other movies is its interesting subject, or main focus, the fact that one can venture into another’s dreams to uncover hidden secrets, or maybe even plant an idea. I myself have never thought that such a thing could exist. It is mind-boggling and it honestly made me extremely interested in the subject of dreams.

            I truly do not have any other “top 10 movies” even though I do have a lot of favorites it is hard to pick the top few. I generally tend to like the action/suspense movies that are based on true facts or possible future realizations. I also like comedy movies, but these are the type of movies I only like to watch with a group of friends simply because its more fun to laugh with others than alone. 

Themes, Themes and More Themes

Within The play Death of a Salesman there are many prevalent and discussion worthy themes. However the most interesting and most story changing themes would be Person vs. Self, Person vs. Society and lasty the American Deam. Person vs. Society is a rather interesting theme because of the very manner it affects Willy. Willy as the main character strives for success (in this case the American Dream). While he still struggles to achieve this goal, many around him have already attained. This in particular is very important because as society moves forward he is moving financially backwards. As a result people look down to him. Charlie offers him a job as a gesture of friendship, because he sees through the deceiving acts Willy plays pretending as if he is as financially stable as can be. Willy also tends to hide his instability because he is truly afraid of what may happen and what people may think of him if they knew of his struggle. He is a very self-conscious person when it comes to the subject of success.

Willy, attempting to be secretive of his financial struggle hides it not only from others, but himself as well. Willy lets himself believe that he has achieved the American Dream, when in reality he hasn’t done so. His self-consciousness misled him to believe that he goes through each day a successful man, when in reality he is just as bad as both his sons Happy and Biff. Happy and Biff. Because he has pretended that this struggle doesn’t exist for such a long time the minute he realizes it is reality it will cause his downfall.
         The theme the American Dream is what every aspect of this story revolves around. Willy goes through so much trouble hiding his financial crisis from others and himself because he wants to think he has accomplished the greatest goal of all, become someone from no one. This idea in itself guides Willy's mind to think and do what he does throughout the length of the story. Also because almost all people around him have already accomplished the American Dream it simply makes it worse for Willy to handle. If the american dream did not exist, Willy might not have been so content on making money, instead using his personal time to spend with the family. The story in itself would not have existed without the American Dream, knowing that it is the one factor that causes his pain and stress.
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Death of a Salesman

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Willy try’s to teach his boys Happy and Biff that even though they may have everything that they  ever wished for it is good to reach for more. He basically tells them to reach above and beyond their dreams. I believe this is a worthwhile concept for a father to teach because it allow them to keep succeeding at life and not stop trying to succeed when they become content with what they have. For example Biff’s current dream is to go to Texas and own a ranch. This would essentially keep him content with life if all goes well, but Willy urges him not to go and become a salesman and become more successful than he wishes to become. Another example would be that Happy is currently content with life, he has fulfilled all his dreams, owning a car, an apartment and being employed. Willy just says that earning seventy dollars a week isn’t something to stop at. All in all, learning how not to stop trying is a good trait to have and it is a worthwhile lesson that should be taught.

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                Willy’s inconsistency could be either of two reasons. Willy has been confused about who he is, and what he wants to be. He is having trouble realizing that the he is not the man he wished to become. Or he is confused between him and biff, and he describes biff sometimes as himself and while he describes biff (as himself) he wants to give a good impression of biff (himself) so he tells us biffs (his) positive traits. Linda tends to ignore this, even though seeming to realize what is happening. everything willy says she agrees with, without mentioning this confusion that is going on in Willy’s head.  This is not a good thing because in a way she is allowing willy to continue thinking this way. If she didn’t encourage this, willy could have possibly realized that he is thinking too high of himself as a person and everything he says about himself and his sons are untrue. It will destroy him once he realizes that his life, both his son’s lives and the life he gives to his wife is nowhere near what he thought it was for the past years.

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     Soap bars, ruling the world in complete secrecy. Even though we don’t clearly see, hear or feel them controlling our every day lives they do. How they pull this off is quit remarkable.

     Just think, your back in first grade. You wake up late therefore requiring you to take a shower after school. In school your on the playground and girls are giving boys cooties but the girls don’t give you any for some weird reason, you sit in the corner cootie-less and crying wondering why no one would play with you during recess. You go home and your mom covers her nose and sends you straight to the shower. Then all your time to play with your new Lego set is gone because you have a 6000-word essay on The Scarlet letter. The most descriptive book you have ever read in your entire school career.

     Just think, your back in first grade you wake up before the alarm, you have a shower and use your favorite sponge bob soap your mom got you for your birthday, you change into your clothes and go to put on your fresh new sketchers. You walk out of your house looking like a complete G. You go to school and you get your test back that you thought you failed… you failed it, but because of the 85 extra credit points you ended up getting a 130 which bumped your grade up from a F- to a A++. You’re sent to the priciple. He is so astounded by your recent improvement he pulls you up a grade! Its recess, and the girls did stop giving you cooties because you smelled like fresh crabby patties, you know you would have to go to the hospital afterwards to get treated for overdose but at the moment you felt great. Your day couldn’t have been better.

     Hopefully this blog convinced all of you non-soap users to make a huge change and use soap. It will not only benefit yourself, but it will help everyone around you feel better. Trust me, without soap the world would just be another oversized garbage dump with depressed first graders crying in the corner.                                                           

Takin' a Break

     So as you guys might have noticed i did not end up doing this weeks blog on time. i have several excuses that i could have made, but i chose not too, because teachers nowadays do not tolerate such excuses with out backed up proof. Over the years so many students have come up with several ways of getting those late deductions off of their grade, and some succeed. But the few lucky students that do succeed made up a new excuse. Assuming this person has friends, he would tell them about his miracle without even thinking, then his friends would tell their friends, and the people that know this excuse would be growing exponentially. Because about 75.87%* of all people will end up using this excuse during the duration of their lives, teachers could potentially hear multiple versions of one excuse, and therefore become immune to it.
     I believe Teachers are very similar to Viruses. Every year doctors scurry to find new Vaccines to these certain viruses, because viruses learn to become immune to their Vaccines. This is why doctors must find new immunizations every year instead of using the same one. Viruses are similar to Teachers and excuses are similar to vaccines because teachers tend to realize when students are faking their reason for not doing homework on time. Because Teachers are people, and people are animals they have the ability to learn, and because of this they realize that the student is faking. Therefore they wont fall for it again.
   Also Vaccines are generally dead Viruses that doctors inject into your body, because they are still viruses the white blood cells fight against them and learn how to counteract viruses attacks. In a way Vaccines are fake viruses, and excuses are fake reasons.
      Ill get back to my story next week. im sure you guys are all eager to hear whats going to happen next... NOT






*Kevin Fitzgerald States that 99% of all excuses made by indians are false. he has proved himself to be correct in this situation.

Blacker Still

Name: Tomas Langley                                                                                                                 

Date:  January 16^th 1875

The first detailed descriptions of both a floating and a pivoted compass appeared in the Epistola of Petrus Perigrinus written in 1269. In this remarkable work Perigrinus did more than just describe the construction of a compass. He described experiments performed on a sphere of lodestone, predating the more famous work of William Gilbert by more than 300 years. Peregrinus made three important discoveries, what might those be?

The earth was originally found to be a flat surface while peregrinus proved that the earths shape is more on the spherical side with no definite ends.

The earth has magnetic forces on either side of the earth; the north and the south.These magnetic sides are what causes the compass to show us the correct direction in which north is placed.

The earth does not move in a circular direction on a straight axis, instead its axis is tilted to a side at 23.5 degrees.

   Our insane professor always insists on coming to class thirty minutes before the lecture preparing some sort of obscene challenge for us to solve. He used this method to check with what level of intensity we read the reading he had given us the day before, he already assumes we all read anyways. I never read. I find that reading from books may give information and facts to store in the brain. But what is the use of these facts? Nothing, I believe one must learn from mistakes, and experiences. Only then may one truly grasp the knowledge of a specific subject. The teacher reveals the solutions to us once we returned our answers to the front. He said “If you chose to read to read yesterdays homework you should have gotten: firstly that the dipolar nature of the magnet, the fact that the magnetic force is vertical at the poles, and lastly the fact that the force is strongest at the poles.” After that I ignored the rest of his lecture…

I came to this school purely out exploration. Since I was a child I loved to leave my house and go out into the unknown for hours. It was what made me the happiest, especially when I went out and found something I’d never seen before. I cant express how much I love it. My father Adam Langley told me countless stories that his grandfather had told him when he was a kid. Most of them where of the great things his grandfather had seen and done while on his journey to America. This is what inspired me to become who I am today. The only problem is that business in this industry is low and much of the world is believed to have already been discovered. I someday wish sail the seas and find make my own discovery

To unearth earth is my greatest endeavor.

The Blackout

            I woke up one night startled at the sound of crashing; I had rushed to the deck to find the side of the ship splintered by a large iceberg, at first it seemed like no damage at all, but then I looked down to the side and a hole was quit prevalent even at this late hour. Once everyone else had heard the noise they too ran up the to see the uproar. It was now clear we had to leave the ship; I ran back under the deck to find the whole floor flooded with water, I thought to myself “we are doomed”. I ran up and they had already started deploying the boats. I jumped on one holding this journal tight, it was the only friend I had.

            It was about ten of us blindly rowing forward, I felt like a horse blindly following the rider’s orders. We had absolutely no idea where we were going; we just followed DeLong’s boat for hours on end. Now that we were exposed to the cold air of the night my skin felt like it was going to rip off any second. Thank god for my trench coat my skin was not in direct contact with the air. Now that we were stranded on this cramped boat we only had an insufficient amount of food for even three days. We had one loaf of bread and a moldy cracker for each individual on the boat.

            We continued heading north for eight days and nine nights. The ocean had become increasingly reckless, and there was still no sight of landmass. It was seemingly becoming a hopeless situation and I felt no need to entertain the fact that there was any chance of me living through this mess. Sudden overflow of water in the boat caused us to collapse into the water. All I saw was my journal sink to the bottom, I swam down to catch it then felt an immensely painful pound on my head that seemed to be from an ore that fell from the ship. After this everything was a haze…

January 16th 1880 – A Year of Pain

We’ve been sailing north for days on end, with no food and minimal drinks. The ignorant few have resorted to alcohol not realizing that is known to dehydrate instead of hydrate the consumer. The conditions are getting worse, with the weather dropping to about -20 ° Celsius. No one was expecting such extreme temperatures seeing as the only attire I had on me other then my undergarments, shirt and pants was a trench coat suitable for temperatures of 20° minimum. People are becoming senile due to the cold weather, yet they are all in their twenties.

Our captain George DeLong told us that we would reach landmass by about sixty days at the most; it’s been exactly a year. We started our journey in the humble state of Massachusetts with our hopes set high. We were told that if we were successful in our journey we would be a partly responsible for a possible discovery for a major landmass. They told us that with the money that we would eventually receive it would enough to create our own townships. People these days are so deceiving; I only fantasize of a world full of honesty.  At the time this was quite appealing seeing that I had a family of six all living in a two-room apartment in the middle of the city. Life was horrible back home, that’s why I assumed embarking on this journey would be one small risk for a future filled with success.

Dusk has approached; I am sitting in bed; the cold hard and partly frozen floors of the Hold of the ship sleeping next to about thirty other men all with the exact same desires as me… success. I’m going to read my book, one of the only things that rids my mind of the horrors of my journey to the North Pole. It tells the story of the Salem Witch Trials. A story of a group of children killed because of accusations against them conducting witchcraft, a very sinful act in the eyes of the Puritans. 

The Unappreciated Kind

The puritans were people of strict moral. They were against the common pleasures in life. The general public opposed Puritans because they were against the common practices of the Church of England such as celebration.  Because of this Puritans had been stereotyped as very unpleasant people. The word of a ‘New World” being discovered was circling Europe. The Puritans took advantage of this and moved there in an attempt to create their own world, without oppression from higher order; they called it ‘New England’.

The American Dream was what powered life in America since the very beginning. For example the puritans came to America with the dream of having their own civilization enforced by their own morals and beliefs, and no others. People of the lower class living in Europe soon heard of their success, and this drove them to come to America to achieve success. This cycle continued, and it is still continuing. The Puritans essentially sparked the creation of country we now know as America.

Over the years Puritans have gained a reputation about being very unpleasant people. This occurred because of certain practices and beliefs they conducted and opposed. The ignorance of the common man blocked out the good puritans did as individuals and as a group of people. It is true that a lot of practices performed by the Puritans are unethical in today’s standards but that shouldn’t change the fact that they were essentially partly responsible for the creation of America. History books are opinions, not facts.

Their Dreams Fulfilled

Over the years millions of people have migrated to the United States hoping for one thing, a higher quality of life, may it be caused by poverty, or suppression from a higher order. The American Dream is the one idea that captivates each persons mind with the notion to become something or someone greater in life. America is where dreams are to be lived, not to be dreamt. Because of this America has become a very diverse country, with residents from all over the world. It is a country of little history but greater virtue.

            Both my mom and my dad grew up in quite successful households. Both my parents graduated high school around the 80s and from there they had to choose their career paths. At the time to be successful you either had to become a doctor or an engineer. My mother chose to do what she was best at and enhance her skills in the field of art.  On the other hand my dad chose to become an engineer.  Once my dad graduated college and started working as an engineer in a firm he was introduced to computers and software programming. At that time opportunities to work in that field were not many and he decided to pursue software engineering. As a result he moved to America for higher education to see if he could instead work with software, his primary interest. He came to America to pursue higher studies and then find a job in the software engineering field. My mom followed him to the USA after his studies were over.

            My dad now works for a successful software consultant company and my parents have raised two children, my sister and me. I am proud to say that he has purchased his dream car and everything else he ever wanted as a child. Now that my sister and I have grown older, and do not need as much nurturing as we did when we were small my mom has started to paint again. She has had multiple pieces of her art win awards and she has started selling too, hopefully she will continue her love for art and become famous.

I aspire to accomplish my greatest dreams, while doing what I enjoy the most just like my parents did.