Thursday, August 27, 2009

Inferno's Messenger

If I continued reading The Inferno, I would think that Dante would have a life of fear. He has seen a great amount of suffering and of pain in others, and by what I inferred today, he has changed. He will live a much careful life, with more caution to do nothing to gain a one way ticket to the Kingdom of Dis. Not only that, he will spread the word to the rest, warning them of how he changed with only watching them. We can see that at the end of the novel he changed and matured a lot, and he is a good hearted man. He will be like the messenger of the Inferno, sent specialy to warns the ones around him what their future awaits if they are sinners.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

A Perfect World

We all wish we could live in a perfect world, a
One of peace and love. b
A land that doesn't spin and twirl, a
Guarded by the Lord above. b
One place without pain c
And have the typical white dove. b
We all should be a little more sane c
And think of all the people d
Before our world makes the final detain. c

Monday, August 24, 2009

Do They Deserve It?

After seeing Twilight Zone 2, I couldn't really decide wheather they deserved their punishment. There was two characters. They were opponents in the war, yet they were the two only survivers of the town. First the american beats her down and takes her food, but then he comes back and wakes her up, feeds her and introduces. She seems german and therefore does not understand him. To resume quickly, he finds a wedding dress and gives it to her. She was about to put it on when she sees pictures of american war propaganda and decides to shoot the man. She misses, and he stands up and leaves. Days after not seeing her, he gets ready to leave, and does so. He is about to leave when she appears with the dress on, and they are in love and leave together.
To begin with, I interpreted the punishment in the following way: The couple was opposite in war, and they are forced to live together. If this is their punishment, then it is not poetic justice. It is not poetic justice because it is no great punishment, they become a happy couple and leave the town together. They share their food, shave together and stay together for a while. They get mad for a while but then they hook up and get together. Again, they are not punished! They deserved to die, for what I interpred. They could have killed hundredths of people and they just end up in love. It was not punishments. It is not poetic justice.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Daniel Agudelo says: Hey Martin hows it going?

Martin Valencia says: Hey Daniel. Im fine how about you?

Daniel Agudelo says: I'm great!

Martin Valencia says: So glad! I'm doing a very interesting english homework. What are you doing?

Daniel Agudelo dice: Oh that sounds fun. Are you taking the Pre-AP class with Mr. Tangen?

Martin Valencia says: You bet I am! How about you?

Daniel Agudelo says: Of course, how would I miss such a great class.

Martin Valencia says: I thought the same thing! It's so much fun isn't it? I mean, aside from the fact you learn a lot!

Daniel Agudelo says: Yeah! Hey I say we stop talking about school, all this work is getting on my nerves. How was your summer?

MartinvalenciaA says: It was UnBelievable! So much fun at the same time I just couldn't believe it was happening!

Daniel Agudelo says: That sounds amazing! I am dying to hear more about it.

MartinvalenciaA says: I'll tell you whenever you want, Daniel. But enough of me already! How about your summer?

Daniel Agudelo says: OMG! Best summer of my life, no doubts. The only thing that hurt me was all of that summer reading! I mean it was a lot!

MartinvalenciaA says: I couldn't agree more. I spent my whole 11 hour flight Bogota- Madrid reading! But I did like 1984, though. It sure is one interesting book!

Daniel Agudelo says: You got that right it is pretty interesting and amusing, I couldn't stop reading.

MartinvalenciaA says: Same here! You know i'd love to stick around and talk to you Daniel, but it's almost past my bedtime! I'll guess I will see you tomorrow at Ap English class!

Daniel Agudelo says: That sounds great Martin! I can't wait. Sleep tight man see you tomorrow.




Plethorogs!

Blogs are obviously taking the world! Now you don't have to pay for the newspaper to get acces to world news, gossip, sports, entertainment, etc. Everyone prefers blogs because they're free, limitless and can even be anonimous. I would expect media companies to be dropping off journalists. Blogs are better because they are short and to the point. You don't need to prove to anyone that you are a good writer, you don't have anyone watching what you write plus you don't even need to have good writing skills to have a blog. As a reader you can easily post a comment and make the blog better. You have the point of view of many different people on the same subject, you can search for every subject on the web and find thousands of blogs about it, it is practically perfect. There are, though, the bad things about it. Blogs on celebrities tend to do anything to get attention, they will tear the person apart, say lies, anything to get attention. There is even a T.V. show on a gossip blog about "the scandalous lives of Manhattan's Elite". The show is called Gossip Girl and basically people feed her news and she publishes them. That's when blogs become dangerous and mean. But those are only a few, most are dedicated to show the world what we need to know without paying for it!