An Occurance and The Most Dangerous Game

Personally I wasn't a fan of the Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, so I'd rather talk about The Most Dangerous Game. I remember reading that story back when I was younger but it took me until about halfway through it to remember it. Both times that I have read this, I loved it. It was a great short story. Just the amount of description throughout it and also how brutal and inhumane it is. The way that a general could buy an island and do that with real humans. Its pretty cool though how the story ends. The way that the hunter gets the general back at his own game is awesome.

Omelas

As I was reading the short story, I started to get the feeling that the child that was locked up was describing our inner and darkest secrets. What we do is lock them away and try not to think about them. When it talks about people seeing the "child", and walking away into the mountains, I feel like it means that they had committed suicide and were headed to heaven, also known as the mountains. Idk it probably has no connection to that, but its just the way that I see this as being.

Paper Writing Process

So the process of writing my paper has gone well so far. Other than that this paper is nearly one of the longest papers that I have ever had to write, its going pretty smooth. I couldn't figure out what I wanted my topic to be on but I finially decided on whether torture should be allowed in certain circumstances. I thought it would be a good topic because this paper is kind of like torture. Haha jk. but seriously. The paper is coming along pretty well but like i said, it is still pretty hard.

Blog.... About?

Well i'm not sure what to blog about because i missed class. Not gonna lie, just forgot to set my alarm... I know... i should be responsible now that i'm in college and set my alarm accordingly. Other than that, the Vikings lost. I'm losing faith in them. They are really starting to get dissapointing. Unfortunately i'm not a bandwagon type of person so i don't quit on my team. Since they lost to the Jets there probably isn't any hope for them to go to the playoffs but anything can happen. Other than that, my weekend was pretty awesome. I got a bunch of homemade applesauce from my grandma's house and the little league flag football team that I coach won their second game. My little brother threw for a touchdown and also had a reception for a touchdown. He's a stud.

List Developed In Class

For my list that I made in class, I chose the death penalty costing more than holding them in jail, the large cost of college, and annoying people. The resolution that I had for the death penalty would be only giving them one or two appeals. The appeals are what make the death penalty cost more. The men on death row appeal so many times that it just racks up the price. To fix the price on college, its simple. Lower the price. Of course you would have to come up with a way to do that. For the annoying people, we should just put them in a room full of people who are more annoying than they are and then they can see how annoying it actually is haha.

Group Work

Idk about the whole revision group project. It was interesting in a way because we only had a day and a half to find a time when the entire group could meet and the only time that we had was in an hour. I found this really difficult for our group to make a quality presentation. Although we had limited time, I felt that all of the groups did a really excellent job and that if we were to do it again with that short of time, everyone would be able to find time in their schedule. All in all, I enjoyed everyone's ideas on revising. In the future, a little bit more of a heads up would be nice though :)