Monthly Blog- April

Well this is my last monthly blog and I am going to talk a little bit about what I think about the story that we read, The Tell Tale Heart. First off I thought this story was really weird. From my point of view I saw the narrator as a crazy person because he was so obsessed with killing this old man and there was no real reason that he gave the reader for doing this. It would make perfect sense to me if the background of the story was they were both in an insane asylum because they were both really paranoid. As the story progressed, the narrator got extremely paranoid and eventually cracked and during the night the old man seemed like he was more paranoid that he should be. The narrator made it seem like the old man was pure evil or at least his "eye" was. It seems like the narrator was in his own this world the entire story because he is the only one who sees this evil eye and is also the only one who hears the old mans beating heart in the end of the story. Overall this story was just kind of weird to me but it did keep me interested at least with the narrator going crazy.

Monthly Blog - March

For my monthly blog this month I wanted to talk about the Superman Theory. First off I dont agree with this theory at all. When I look at a group of people, I don't see them as seperate groups of ordinary people and extraordinary people. That just doesn't make sense to me. This theory is basically saying that some people are above the rest of everyone else and are entitled to certain priviledges, such as they are above the law on some points. The one thing that bothers me about this is that who dictates if someone is extraordinary? What is stopping someone from doing whatever they want and just pleading that they were doing it for society and we should all just ignore their crimes. Now one part of the theory says that these supermen do things for the good of society so that means they should always be considered good guys. But if that means that they break laws and dont get punished, then that means that they are just setting up more chaos to happen. If one person is allowed to go above everyone else, what stops everyone else from thinking they are that important too? These supermen make no sense to me because it seems like even if they do some good, there are so many other bad consequences that could happen.

Monthly Blog- February

A Room of One's Own caught my interest this week so I thought that I would write a little bit about that. Virginia Woolf writes this as an essay which I dont really like to read but the idea of the essay sparked my interest. She discusses how women are not treated as well at they should be and there are huge differences in the way men and women are looked at. Woolf begins her essay looking at different points and one that caught my eye was how she refers to a library as a treasure house. This just goes to show how much value she took in learning and reading and how other people take these things for granted. To her, book were like treasures in that they should be taken care of and handled with care. Another thing that was interesting was how different the two meals were between the two sexes. At the men's luncheon party, all the food was elaborate and extremely delicious and everyone there was having a great time. But when she talks about how the women's dinner party is Woolf describes a mediocre dinner that really wasn't anything to be happy about. I just thought it as interesting how different the men and the women were treated during her time period and how they were even served different food.

Monthly Blog- January

Well since we have been talking about gender roles in class for a while, I wanted to talk about that a little bit. I think it is really interesting how society looks at gender roles these days and how they used too. In the past, women were basically possessions and that seems weird to everyone these days but in the past it was an accepted way of life that even the women themselves accepted. That way of life was quickly rejected though and now women and men are on the way to being equal. I say on the way because I still think that society looks at men and women differently. Some examples would be just the way parents raise their kids. Boys are taught to explore and play rough, while girls are taught to get along with everyone and play together nicely. Then there is the example like we have talked about in class. If a man murders someone, the media doesn't pay to much attention to it. But when a women murders a person, it is the headline and everyone is very interested. I think that men and women will never truely be equal because it is ingrained into society that men and women are just different. It is going to take a very long time, if it ever happens, to change societies views enough that men and women are treated equally.