Final Blog Already

Wow this semester flew by and I really enjoyed this class.  It has been a few years since I had a class where I could express my thoughts and opinions in a class discussion.  I have learned a lot in this class, but probably one of the most important things is taking what we have for granted.  What I mean by that is how we take life for granted and spend time doing activities that seem worthless. 

We focused on a lot of literature that is futuristic examples of how our society may turn out to be someday.  I feel shameful at the thought that if technology keeps improving we will become even more lazy and socially inactive.  I can only hope that the events that occured in some of the literature we read does not become a reality.  The day when we become only reliant on our feeds (computers), burn books, or lose our rights like in 1984.


I truly believe that all great civilizations or countries/empires come to an end at some time and I hope it never happens to the United States, but it won't surprise me if it does.  Basically since we have been reading this literature I have been responding by thinking what if this happens and then I started to think when will this happen.

A lot of people will struggle once all of the resources available now are gone.  Ever since I started critically thinking about our material I have thought about what I will do.  I plan on living in the country with my family and becoming self efficient.  We already are self reliant by having our own garden and providing our own food through hunting and fishing.  I feel I may be prepared for the worse, but others will not be as lucky.

I'm not just giving up on society though.  In fact I plan on trying to give back to society and educate by becoming a secondary teacher.  After this class I have the desire to do that even more now and to maybe bring up some of the topics we have discussed in our class.  After all the students I will be teaching are the future of our society.
 

In conclusion I feel that we talked about a lot of topics that we live our lives by today.  Technology and the media are such a big part of our lives that its disappointing to see us become lazy and unsocial at times.  Or if we do socialize it is only through techonology.  What ever happened to enjoying nature and other activities outside with family or friends.  All I can say is I hope others in our class thought about some of our topics and maybe want to change something that may be lazy or taken for granted.  We can change so that and we can be a successful society for a long time, but i'm afraid if we keep going down this path that it could lead to many of the topics we have discussed.
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who needs books...

      I feel that books are very important to society, but they are not very important to me personally.  I'm not a person who likes to read books in their free time like others may enjoy.  I'm more of a excercise or go outside kindof person rather than sit down an open a book.  So if the world wouldn't have books I wouldn't be heart broken, but i'm not dumb enough to think that they aren't important.  Books provide us with knowledge and are very important to our lives.  I may think it wouldn't affect me because I don't read, but how would we teach our students.  Not having books would definately affect our society in a negative way and our intelligence would suffer because of it.
     Even though I do not read books I think I would rebel if I wasn't allowed to read them.  It's like not being allowed to drink until your 21, so you try to break the rules, but once your 21 it gets old and takes some of the fun out of it.  So if I wasn't allowed to read I would probably try rebel and read anyhow, but if that rule was changed then it would probably become overrated and I would read less and less.
     I think we burn books today by creating movies based on books that don't even show the whole truth to the book.  We only display the good entertaining parts of the book, but don't include all of the details and I think that this takes away from a book.  We just don't want to add all of the details because the movie would be so long and we get bored easily.  I mean it's not like we have something else to do we will probably just be lazy and watch something else.
     Why are books so dangerous.  Probably because they may take time away from our other entertainment such as TV, sports, friends, and other activities.  I know for me personally I simply choose not to read because I like doing other activities, but every once in a great while I find some free time to read some and actually enjoy it, but that is very very seldom. 

Blog # 8

         After reading The Hunger Games I thought it was one of the best and suspenseful books that I have ever read.  I really like the survival aspect of the book.  I feel that if there was ever a time that we had to live without neglected things such as grocery stores, shelter, cars, and ovens that most people wouldn't be able to make it.  I think the knowledge I have gained growing up will help me survive though and if I had to I could live for a very long time and be self efficient. 
          This novel compared to the other novels we have read is the control by the capitol.  The districts are strictly controlled due to the past war.  The book was really interesting and suspenseful.  I think the most interesting part of the book was probably the action parts such as the fire and fighting the other tributes.  I found myself visualizing the scenes.
          I found this online it's like a quiz that you can take to see if you would be able to survive The Hunger Games.  http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/game
          I watched a movie called The Condemned before and it is basically just like our book.  The only difference is instead of having a reaping or lottery to pick the contestants they just picked the toughest and most deadly people on death row.  In the movie the action is watched online by the audience as the contestants kill each other.  The last contestant standing at the end is declared the winner and is given their life instead of being put to death.  http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-condemned/trailer
         I was actually doing this blog at home and my brother saw me watching the trailer for The Condemned.  He immeadiately said that it was a good movie and I agreed with him.  I asked him why he liked it and he said because it has action from fist fights to guns and it is very suspenseful.  Just thought I would put his opinion in here since he has no idea what we have been talking about in class.  I don't know why we like violence so much but it's really disturbing that we like to watch people kill each other on TV in our free time.  If something like The Condemned was ever put online in real life I am almost positive there would be millions who watch it and like it.....