Utopia

Before her eyes the perfect place,

a world of peace

that looked like space

Full of love,

where no one fought,

and she saw a lovely dove

As white as snow, 

as pure as this

with a beautiful glow

That world we called Utopia,

it was nice,

but it was also a dystopia

The Irony of Karma

In my 9th grade pre-ap english class we are discussing poetic justice, due to the fact that our summer reading book was Dante's Inferno, this book is about a mans journey through hell and each circle of hell is all about poetic justice. For example, one of the rings of hell is lust and the people in that ring are being punished by being cold (in a literal way) all their lives so they are "burned" by passion no longer. I associate poetic justice with what we call today, karma. Karma is in Buddhist teaching, the law that says only this: `for every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful. Its basic idea is that life is like a boomerang everything eventually hits you again, in a good or bad way.  Some people believe in destiny, they say everything is already planned and you are only alive to serve a purpose and die, while others say believe in mere coincidences. But whatever it is you believe in there is  still the idea of poetic justice.

I saw an episode of The Twilight Zone, the show is basically in an town where we can only find two survivors. A woman and a man, they both are dressed in u abandoned uniforms they are both hungry and they fight for a can of chicken that the man eventually wins but ends up giving it to the woman. She eats the chicken and after following the man around the abandoned setting they both find war propaganda. After seeing each other in the poster the woman freaks out and tries to attack the man again, but the irony of the episode is when the man takes of the dress of the mannequin and gives it to her, after a while she finally wears it and they both look into each others eyes and smile like they were never enemies. This reflects poetic justice because it is ironic how after they both fought for different peoples, tried to kill each other a couple of times, and had different believes they ended up together like there was never any problem.

 

MSN conv.

Vivian: Hi Sofi!
Sofia: Hey viv, whats up?
Vivian: I just got home
Sofia: So did I, I was having lunch with Isabella. What about you?
Vivian: I was at the gym
Sofia: Really? I have class tomorrow, how did it go?
Vivian: Im exhausted , but it was great
Sofia: Cool, so what are we doing tomorrow afternoon?
Vivian: I dont know do you want to go have lunch in la t?
Sofia: No I can´t, I´m really buissy since I got my new puppy!
Vivian: When did you get a puppy?
Sofia: Yesterday!
Vivian: Really what did you name her?
Sofia: Zoey.
Vivian: I love the name! How old is she?
Sofia: Shes just 3 months, and she is a yorkshire teacup
Vivian: Really? I my cousin has one.
Sofia: Yeah, what are you doing?
Vivian: My english homework what about you?
Sofia: Im watching a movie.
Vivian: Witch one?
Sofia: Mad Money
Vivian: Is that the one with Diane Keaton and Katie Holmes?
Sofia: Yes! Its great, you should come over on Sunday.
Vivian: I will
Sofia: Viv, I have to go
Vivian: Ok, see you tomorrow at school
Sofia: What do you have for first period?
Vivian: I have math with you!
Sofia: Right! Im just getting used to my schedule
Vivian: Okay see you tomorrow
Sofia: Bye, love you!
Vivian: Me too!

Excerpt on Blogs

Today our society revolves around the concept of technology. Every day more people learn how to access the internet to find more than 100 million blogs in the world. Young people are starting to get interested on blogs, forgetting newspapers and magazines. The excerpt of "blogs" talks about how blogs differ from one another, from books and much more. 

As I read the passage I realized that blogs are somewhat in

formal. It mentions how bloggers sometimes don't even stop to punctuate, they use symbols that represent emotions like

; :) and :(. As I continued reading I also thought about how young generations, including myself talk to friends online using symbols and no capitalization or punctuation. I like that blogs are written informally I think most of the people that access most of the cites are looking for something easy, fun, and entertaining and that writing an entry informally can help the text become som

ewhat attractive in a way. 

It also talks about how blogs can't be printed out, they include links, news, gossip, pictures and videos. This also made me think about how I am used 

to access cites such as facebook, where I find pictures, videos, gossip and even news, and I figured that most of the people in our generation rather access facebook than 

read a book or a newspaper. 

Every time the passage grew smaller, more and more thoughts came to my head. I thought about how maybe in the future newspapers and magazines will be scarce, and more blogs and cites will be posted. 

This would also help our environment in terms of recycling, and decreasing global warming. I also thought about how more and more people get

linked into some subjects. 

My favorite t.v show is called Gossip Girl this show is about a group of upper east side teenagers that frequent a blog called 

"Gossip Girl" it is about how everybody at school knows about this blog that talks about gossip and they basically revolve around it. This is a number one hit t.v show and its basically "promoting" blogs ;-). For example the excerpt on "Blogs" I previously mentioned speaks about "link whores" people who basically post lies and gossip to become "blogebrities" these are people that want their blog to become famous, just like the "Gossip Girl" blog. 

There are millions of blogs and cites being posted every minute about different subjects, they all differ and the excerpt on "Blogs" is a great guide to the world of blogs.