Maus thoughts

** WARNING** The second part of this is very confusing/ Try to help me out***

Well,There are a variety of different directions I can go with my Maus thesis. I could go with the whole comic book thing and talk about how that is postmodern and abstract. This direction will probably leave me with the ability to sight a lot of outside text, such as: that Scott mcCloud thing, Postmodernism for beginners, and talk about all that architecture.I could tie all these things together and say he made it a comic book to create this vibe, and blah blah blah. Not quite sure my exact wording yet.This would probably be the easy way out but this interest me the least.

What really gets my head thinking is the whole, Why did he use animals? What book category does this belong? Is their really something like a Absolute history? These questions can be answered by using the Postmodernism for beginners book and that article the Lady wrote. I could also use a couple of pg.s from Maus itself. I would Bring up how Postmodernism for beginners says somewhere in their that " their is no way to really represent the holocaust in text"(I remember it talks about that stuff somewhere but I don't really know where because RYAN JONES has my book. Then I would come in with a right hook saying this is why the characters are portrayed as animals to establish the fact that the holocaust can never really be told as a story. The animals creates this space so we don't see it to be real. Then I would use some of those explanations made in that article by that luci lady to further prove this point of no real Holocaust representation. The book also poked at quite a few of these things with that picture and the whole orchestra part. ( If you do not know what i'm talking about sorry.) Then i might take a stabb and say that the question of fiction or non fiction only comes up because it is about the holocaust. Maybe say something like yeah it is all not fiction but how can you make something that is impossible to comprehend feel real.(once again if that made sense I love you). I guess what i'm trying to say is this. In the comic novel Maus, by art spiegalmen, It becomes clear through the authors literature that their is no way to truly represent the Holocaust in a manner that can be interpreted for what it is.

that thesis kind of talks about what I wanna talk about.
Who am I kidding none of these symbols are really saying what i'm trying to say. Bah hum bug
It is like architecture a symbol of the time but not necessarily what the time was all about.

Idk Help me out

If all else fails I'll just google some thesis ideas. HAHAHAHAHAHA

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a DEEP meaning

The other day in AP lit we watched an oddly themed video That showed us some crazy facts, and asked us what does it all MEAN.The English dictionary classifies this usage of the word mean as," to intend to express or indicate." From what I can make from it this video is directed at us Americans. It is informing us on the current state of the world, and comparing it with other data throughout history. Flatly pointing out how steep of an exponential growth the world is taking in the direction of a technological revolution. Germinating the political spectrum science is able to create right before our eyes. The fact that most of the data was mind blowing, forms an eerie feeling in my quarters. All the things in the video are being used every minute, and we are to oblivious to stop for a second and reflect on these observations unless a well made video puts it out in front of us. Now back too the meaning. Who am I to say what the meaning of all this factual information is. Why add to this language game. It means nothing to a homeless dude on the street. Walk up to some less fortunate individual and be like," hey, did you know- If your 1 in a million in China... there are 1300 people just like you." He'll probably curse you out or ask you for help, and not really be caring about what it means. Tie this in with the conversation that took place in ch.26 of CATS CRADLE and you will once again see how all this "true info" has no meaning to someone who doesn't care or already knows. There is no real need to ponder what it means ,but the possibilities just fascinate the mind and cause people to find a true meaning/narrative/untruth/. It's nice to know that people have their own answers to trick questions. I don't so I just say it is what it is; nothing to be taken from it or given. It's just there because it is. That happened because it happened, and this is like that because that's how it is. No why,how,and if about it, just know that it happened and generalize. Instead of everything happens for a reason, how bout everything just happens.

C.C.

Time to ramble. The book Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonagate jr. shows a postmodern sense in a variety of different ways. The way that sticks out the most and just keeps on slapping you in the face is that science is just a untruth that has no significance to those who don't care about it. I havn't been able to get my hands on the book yet so it is quite a challenge to quote the text in my blog. How ever today I did venture to the library by clark and issued a district transfer for the book. So, when I acquire the book I will revise my blog. Anyways, From what I heard in class the people in the book do not care to much for why they believe things, they just do. Much like some things in our postmodern(It might be psudo-modern now) World. Postmodernism illustrates the idea of Narratives being the explanation to all. These narratives known as harmless untruths in cats cradle are called untruths for a reason. They are not proven by anything. But the very thing that proves them( science) is possibly a untruth in someones life. So their basically is no truth in this subjective world of Discourses that are discourses because they fit a certain Narrative. Like I said in one of my past blog post,"Grand Narratives have the immaculate ability to invest such strong faith in its believers that even a scientific proof that proves it to be completely false with evidence is not enough to adhere whimsicality to its followers." Much like in the book when sensible explanations cross the minds of characters they do not care. If it does not agree or apply to the narrative their Discourse is concerned with they don't care. They see science as meaningless poop.

NO NOT ANOTHER ESSAy

First off I would just like to say Blogging ideas for an upcoming essay is great. We can read other peoples ideas and broaden our minds opinions of the topic. Sadly, at the moment I am unsure about the direction I would take on a brave new world essay. I haven't tried to find a deeper meaning to the book. I have just been reading "Passively" under Dartmouth's definition. But, I'm pretty sure my thesis would have something to do with utopia being an unreachable form of society. I might throw in something about the evils of a technological advanced society. A society that puts unisense, productivity, and profit over knowledge and reason. Not really sure on how I could build on those to ideas though. Maybe someone could leave a comment telling me how. Anyways, because I haven't finished the book yet a true theme that I can support has not been revealed to me yet. Who knows? maybe some wierd occurance can occur in the book that could change my intire outlook of the story. I'm hoping that happens because at the moment I don't know what to write. Lets hope I find a theme to support and write a thesis around soon. Maybe some of your blog post can tell me. I know this isn't 300 I'll revise this when I get some ideas of the book. Maybe the Html text in this picture will boost me to 300WORM ON MY BRAVE NEW WORLD!!

Post New world Modernism?

Myths/Narratives have probably been around as long as human beings themselves. But, what are these myths and what is their purpose? In Postmodernism for Beginners Jim Powell states that," The myth requires no authorization or legitimization other than itself;The myth defines what has the right to be said and done in the culture(POWELL25)." In the olden days people would explain the unexplainable with an Narrative. Ancient cultures such as: The Mayans, Incas, Egyptians, Early Chinese Dynasty's, Greeks, and Hinduism Framers all looked to Narratives to explain things when knowledge was limited. These stories would explain a cornucopia of Ideas. Natural Phenomena, Creation, Purpose, why things are the way they are, and Purpose/ meaning of life. All these things were deemed "law" by the group of people following them. Nobody had any other ideas as to why everything is the way it is and this is why myths were able to exist and be created in small communities. All these myths remained until some other (Grand Narrative) or scientific proof came and shattered them. Some myths can also be thought of as lies believed by everyone including the liar. But for them this lie is the only answer. Until a grand Narrative or scientific proof is made to Myth bust a myth that myth shall stand. Now in my eyes a grand Narrative is a Narrative that forces other narratives to Cease to exist due to its believability and hold over a community. Some say seeing is believing, but Grand Narratives have the immaculate ability to invest such strong faith in its believers that even a scientifically proof that proves it to be compel false with evidence is not enough to whimsical its followers. Some see science itself as a grand narrative."according to Lyotard, since science cannot depend upon science to legitimize itself, it must turn to narrative!". Since these Narratives are (Grand) any Narrative that contradicts it is deemed false and oppression between people who follow the Grand Narrative and those who don't becomes relevant. Minority Discourse's become marginalized by the very fact they are a minority. Buy because more people follow this one story your story is impossible. I really wish that These Grand Narratives can disappear and the world can be filled with respectable tiny narratives. Then America could be a place with less hate and more respect. Come on people how about we let people believe what they want to believe. Don't worry about proving them wrong and just have faith in what you believe in.




*** WARNING WHEN I WROTE THIS I WAS NOT SURE WHAT A GRAND NARRATIVE IS. FEEL FREE TO INFORM ME***

New world Brave; Is topsey turvey.

Brave New World Baby's

Real World baby's

A Brave new world........................................ makes me say," Did I really just read what I think I read?" Anyways after reading the the first couple of chapters I went back and paid the Foreward a visit. Many interesting details about the book and the depicted society were brought up in the foreward chapter. One mind boggling truth is the statement," Brave New world is a book about the future, and a book about the future can interest us only if its prophecies look as though they might conceivably come true(Huxlyx)." I was wondering why this book seemed so interesting to me and this line from Huxly piratically told me why. At first the ideas, setting, and way the society works is practical overwhelming and laughable in an unbelievable manner. But when I really ponder and make correlations between this surreal society and ours I see that this surreal society could be quite real. In our modern times we see profit as a good thing. But as society based only on profit and gain just doesn't sound moral. But when I really think about it a lot of things just come strait down to money. People try to morph their lifestyle into one where they have plenty to spend on necessity and a little sum thing something for themselves. The idea of living paycheck to paycheck strikes fear and stress into people. So, I could defiantly see a society of people working only for a profit and forgetting their real pursuit of happiness. Also the lack of individuality in the story hits home with me. If the government or people of an higher Class/caste/particle(alpha) try to make everyone identical in their emotional feelings we lose a very important aspect in our lives. We strive to get an education and a job to be "successful". But really who is becoming successful in the end. What is success. And why does America want us to be successful. Maybe it is for the benefit of America. They want us to be successful because it betters our country. Our country makes more of a profit then other country because its citizens are profitable. The society in Brave new world is a corrupt and wacky one but it is not that far off in a level of corruptness and wackiness of our own. Everything depicted in Huxlys book is reachable if America or the Planet earth in general keep going down the path we are going. Probably the only thing slowing us down are anti- abortionist, Anti- Steam cell research people, treehuggers, animal rights activist, And people who want a sense of variety in their life. Brave new world is practically a not so funny but real satire of society in these postmodern times. Albert Huxly wrote it to convey the his ideas of the future. A future he probably did not like. Sorry bout the middle of my blog I know it doesn't make any sense.

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I just wanted to post this cuz i'm bored.
Its the truth, SIKE!!!!

AP Lit Blog post 1 History

The past week in AP lit we have been reading a couple of articles that question history and want to change it. As we discussed the topics suggested by these articles my mind started to form it's own conclusions. First off, I find it impossible to write an objective version of anythings history. Weather it be the history of a culture, country, organism, or even living people their is always going to be some degree of bias. There is no way to overcome our non objective scriptures other then believing that it is objective. Textbooks can only sway an individuals mind if they allow it to. It is all in the hands of the person acquiring the knowledge to form his own opinion on the truth.
One of the articles also pointed out changing the history curriculum to favor certain ideas and remove others. The very fact that they want to make history " FAVOR" something is causing a " BIAS" To occur. And then on top of this they want to replace our minority history with this Bias stretched history. These minority groups history is also the most objective history we have. Why would anyone want to replace factual objective history with Favor sum Bias history? Maybe, they just want to vaporize an important part of a minority's history from our minds. Maybe they just want to enter thoughts into our heads to Favor the institution they are trying to have represent. What ever the reason it sounds a little bit like the book 1984. Just think if these people succeed in their history altering task a new generation will see the world in a different light. For example, By replacing the entire history of the greatest civil rights lawyer ever, Thurgood Marshall, with a christian centered social gospel movement the world will be an extremely different place. A generation from now young people will not even know that there was once a time where schools were even segregated. To them Brown vs. board of education never happened. Instead their mind is filled with how great the social Gospel movement was for underprivileged people. Tying it back into 1984, it is as if Thurgood Marshell is VAPORIZED and then replaced with people worshiping the christian religion as if it is big brother. People will not know how they got to doing what they are doing. all they know is that they go to school with people of all different ethnicity's because Christianity allows them to. As 1984 fantasizes history can control everyone's perception of what is the truth. What they believe is the truth influences their actions. An objective Truth would be a great thing,but sadly it is impossible. It is our job as citizens of the United states of America to keep our "official history"as objective as possible.

Just remember..... YOU GOTTA BELIEVE!!!

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from now on when any thing happens im gonna blog about it