Interaction 2

Hey man I couldn't help but notice you around my neighborhood. You seem to be very nice because I talked to you the other day. I was leaving the field after another grueling day of my dad's attempt to get me to be an all-star football athlete. I was wearing my little pads and we got the talking about where my heart really is set. I told him about my passion for playing the saxophone and that all I wanted to do was be in a band and get better at sax. He told me that I should follow my heart even if it takes me away apart from my father. Although it was hard to understand all this "where my heart stuff is" because I was only a kid, I knew that he was just telling me not to give up saxophone. Anyways, good talking to you and maybe I will see you again in the park.

Interaction 1

Hi my name is Jerry Rice and today I met a girl names Isabelle Ortiz in my kindergarden class. I haven't really talked to her directly but I am very perplexed with the attention that she demands from everyone. She is very hyper and is always getting into trouble with our teacher.

my character

Hi my name is Jerry Rice Jr. I am the son of the famous football player Jerry Rice. I am 7 years old and every day I am pressured to be a star football athlete, but my passion is in music. I want to pursue saxophone and I want to be in a band with my friends.

What I learned of the cultural revolution

The cultural revolution was an era in China from 1966-1976 that encouraged Maoist beliefs.
- The revolution was carried out by The Gang of Four, a group that consisted of four associates including Mao Zedong's wife.
- Mao Zedong, a Chinese statesman and co founder of the Chinese Communist Party, wanted for everyone to be the same.
- It was undesirable to be counter revolutionary, meaning it was unacceptable to be an individual.
-Mao Zedong was given three years to defeat the Western World of Britain and America but failed to do so.
- Mao Zedong also eventually defeated the Japanese and Kuomintang national forces to start up the People's Republic of China in 1949.
-The middle class was described as bourge, who had materialistic values and conventional attitudes.

Antigone the feminazi

While reading Antigone one cannot help but realize how courageous and unwavering Antigone is. She has to battle the whole village by herself because no one supports her actions. I believe that it is the humane thing to do to bury someone after their. I think that for women a sense of respect comes a little more natural to them as for with men it may not phase them. Today it seems as though there are many more outgoing and responsive women who stand up for what they believe in. This viper instinct to not give up without a fight that women are obtaining is going to be an issue for guys to deal with later down the road. Even with all the speculations that men are the superior gender, women are really the ones who control a lot of things in life (i.e. in relationships, families, and even your free time). Many men think that their words are way more affective and important then women's words and for a long time this was true just because of how society perceived the two genders. Naturally men are physically stronger then women but honestly I believe that women are more intellectual maybe because women are so much more meticulous about everything. Overall I am glad I am a male because even though it is unfortunate, society has placed males on a higher level in many activities and abilities.

What's in the bag?

I believe that fate is only applicable if that is something that you want and strive for. If you finally reach a goal that you have been chasing for a long time many people say that it was their fate that this goal was achieve, but that is baloney. They reached the goal from steady persistence and dedication that allowed them to get there. Another example people sometimes refer to as being fate is an accident. When a person has a very bad accident and are injured for life some say that it had to be their fate that something like that could happen. I believe that there is no way that an accident can be a fate for someone because the reason they got hurt was because of a bad decision that they made or carelessness. I think that any action that someone does affects the rest of the things that they do no matter how small they are. When you wake up in the morning and hit your head on the door it probably will put you in a bad mood for the rest of the day, triggering other things that by the end of the day makes some people say, "this was the worst day of my life." This shows how any action done by free will has an affect on things to come.

Free fallin' : Fate of free will

"Descending in that quarter of the sky, As I wandered farther and farther on my way to a land where I should never see the evil sung by the oracle." p. 980 lines 270-272

Many people argue that the infamous fate of Oedipus is all fate and no free will; however, I believe that much of Oedipus's actions were done by his own will. Oedipus all along knew that a prophecy for him to kill his father and marry his mother was placed upon him, but every action that he did ultimately added to this "fate" coming true. Only knowing his childhood parents as his real parents, Oedipus tried to escape his "fate" by running away from these childhood parents and make a new life among other people (an action of his own will). Also if Oedipus wanted to remain certain that this prophecy did not come true then he would never even come close to killing another person, yet despite his certainty that he escaped from his true parents he did kill another person, and it just so happens that that person was his father. So beyond all attempts to discarge his "fate," everything that Oedipus did from escaping his "real" parents to persistantly trying to find the murderer of Laios (when the murderer is himself) all were actions of his own will and had nothing to do with fate.