Guess what?

It's officially okay to start singing the twelve days of christmas song. Oh, and it's my birthday.

It's more than just a project.

So we had our final presentations in English today and the positive feedback I got from mine made me realize things. I really like making people happy and impressed. And I really like making videos. Like a lot. So I'm going to post the link to my video and I hope you enjoy it. I think this just might be the video I'm most proud of.Project Humanity Video

Life After after this blogpost.

So I've done one of these future letters before several times. Once a handwritten one we did in junior high (which I never received because I moved) and once my sophomore year. I love doing these because it's like little surprises you send yourself . It's like when you find money you forgot you put there! That's the best part of these letters. And it always works best when you put real though into it. Last time I received my letter was earlier in March. I'll be quite honest. I was melancholy and nostalgic when I read it. It made me not like what I've become. It also made me realize the wrong I've done in life. But at the same time it made me realize that it's going to help me grow more in life. I will post a picture when I get home of my letter.

 (I found my letter)

Life after this blog post will be anything BUT ordinary. I have a lot planned for this break fun and strenuous. I have to get money for college and finish major scholarships but I also have to have fun and create documentaries and I think I will also start my senior project! I just hope that I can get enough people to join. I'm currently typing this post on my soccer bus ride to my game. I feel like my mind should be more focused on now but it's currently on this post. Which brings me to why I'm narrating my life at the moment. This girl across me said ,"oh this song reminds me of Shane" which made me laugh... Not only cause I know him. But cause little things like songs and letters make us remember the memories. Good and bad, healthy and noxious for us. ** continuing after watching the midnight premier of the desolation of smaug** Why do these little things have such a great affect on us? They can't hurt us physically. And for the most part they are inanimate. Isn't it weird that we can write a letter to our future selfs with a certain kind of emotion and upon receiving it, interpret it in a different emotion? I can't think right now because its 3:37 A.M on my birthday but I shall come back to this post.

I'm going to add more to this post when I get home.

Practice Essay

They see a light, but think nothing of it because what more is a shadow on the cave than something they’ll never see? Plato’s Allegory of the Cave higlights on humans way to conform to thinking. If something did happen outside of the cave that would cause distraction or distorment of some sort, the prisoners inside would only be mildy interested because they wouldn’t understand how to feel or understand for themselves than take someone elses understanding on something. Plato’s way of describing how people think can be compared to how Sartre uses hell as an allegory of people ‘s thinking. The actions took to portay his point in his literature work is seen through his various literature techniques which, in comparison,  are similar to Sartre.

The prisoners in the cave can be said to be conformists, or people who choose to follow society’s way of thinking. They opt out of the option of taking in the whole world and taking their own learning into their hands. So if it came to an event happening and the prisoners were to intake of the moment, they wouldn’t have much to contribute because they can’t understand. Plato’s point in the allegory is to show humanity’s way of thinking. He displays his point through heavy use of allegories and symbols. The cave is an extended metaphor for what keeps our minds sheltered and the shackles symbolize our way of restraining our thinking. How the prisoner responds not only reflects how they have been brought up through symbolism and allegories but it shows the type of characters they are. They are the characters in the story who are placemats, single sided, and are there just to be there. They can’t provide much besides another perspective of minimal experience. But unlike Plato’s prisoner’s, Sartre’s characters like Garcon would act differently.

            Compared to the stagnant reactions of the prisoner, a person like Garcon would more than likely be more dramatic about the situation then ask, “What’s the point?”. Unlike the prisoner’s, Garcon has the ability to see the reality and understand but will not choose to believe the reality of the situation. His character can also be characterized as an ignorant bystander. Similar to the prisoners but at the same, different. All in all, just like how both stories are contrasting, the characters reacting to the same event are just as contrasting.

            Plato and Satre try to get the same point across using different types of techniques. Although the characters in each story are characteristically opposites, their outlook on life and thinking can be said to be similar. The allegories and symbols drastically help achieve the point of both story tellers. In the end, the cave and hell are only a mindset meant to be breaking from   

I CAN READ ( I think)

My time: 4:10:68
My Mistakes: I think I have like 5 or 6.
Dr. Preston's time was around 4:35 or something.
He had one mistake.

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