Both are masterworks that I have enjoyed reading and learning about and I hope to one day walk into my kids' room seeing them reading these books that I have read and enjoyed.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Four Years
After four years of high school I have been expected to read many works for class and on my own. My favorite book I read for fun was The Hunger Games which may be a popular opinion that could be redundant to read and hear about but I think the concept was very well written and could have easily worked for my research paper but I did not think it would be a good choice because so many people would want to use it. I think the series could become a classic as we are seeing the Harry Potter series slowly work towards that status. After a few generations it may be up in that stature for its style and content. Jennifer Lawrence played Katniss for an excellent performance and she is certainly one of the top stars of today. Much of the book has a futuristic concept and I think could still be entertaining for the future generations. That is my favorite book I read in the four years outside of class. My favorite one in class might have been The Scarlet Letter which is an odd choice but I feel I know that story the best and I have used it for a lot of my papers. I do not relate to the story but I think it has a large lesson behind it which maybe relates to how I feel about life. It shows that what is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right. That is how I live my life. The Puritan society is very different and adultery is not right or popular but how she bounced back and made the community better with her presence is something notable. Hiding the truth is easy until it eats away at a person's soul. Owning up to sins can prevent torture and death of the soul. Dimmesdale drove himself mad for keeping it a secret. Hester worked hard in the community to negate her wrong and Chillingsworth died because he could not get revenge which is irony and karma.
Your typical Gatsby blog post...
What is a research paper?
Research paper. The mortal enemy of most students. Or the task of cramming in a lot of information into a well organized essay by a certain due date. The idea of a research paper does not freak me out because I know what kind of writer I am. I always wait until the last possible minute on purpose. Junior year I wrote my research paper on my phone on a two hour bus ride going to a baseball game. My entire team made fun of me and some of them panicked for me in fear I would not finish. But knowing how I am, I finished with ease. If only Google Drive had an app sooner, that would have made my complications much simpler. This year I thought about my topic and gave it a week to simmer in my mind. I did not need any sources because I thought of three things I could tie together that I knew a great deal about.
But how are they related? Post-apocalyptic wars occur in the future and these are results of what those wars have done. The government systems organized in the aftermath all want to diminish the lesser man's knowledge of pre-war times and the ability to retaliate and overthrow the leaders. The writers and developers all saw a future of similar quality. Many of the goods and valuables are called pre-war but are things that would most likely be considered retro today. Everything pre-war in Fallout 3 is from the 1950s and 1960s but all of the historic references are accurate. The Book Of Eli has two of my favorite movie stars, Denzel Washington and the always fabulous Mila Kunis. In preparation of this essay I went for the harder two forms of art to come up with and I thought I would be creative by using my favorite game. But I also knew that it's merit would be questioned so I had to explain that it is actually very educational. I have learned a lot for things from playing the game because of all of its references. It gives me a huge appreciation as video game player. I went with the future war concept and thought of The Book of Eli because I watched it not that long ago. Then I needed a book and searched on Google for a post-apocalyptic book and did not need to go through the list when I saw 1984 appear first in the alphabetic list. I actually read the book a few years ago and made a comparison between it and Fallout 3 when I got the game but never put much thought into until the paper. I think I wrote a pretty well organized paper for not needing any sources due to my knowledge on all three works.
But how are they related? Post-apocalyptic wars occur in the future and these are results of what those wars have done. The government systems organized in the aftermath all want to diminish the lesser man's knowledge of pre-war times and the ability to retaliate and overthrow the leaders. The writers and developers all saw a future of similar quality. Many of the goods and valuables are called pre-war but are things that would most likely be considered retro today. Everything pre-war in Fallout 3 is from the 1950s and 1960s but all of the historic references are accurate. The Book Of Eli has two of my favorite movie stars, Denzel Washington and the always fabulous Mila Kunis. In preparation of this essay I went for the harder two forms of art to come up with and I thought I would be creative by using my favorite game. But I also knew that it's merit would be questioned so I had to explain that it is actually very educational. I have learned a lot for things from playing the game because of all of its references. It gives me a huge appreciation as video game player. I went with the future war concept and thought of The Book of Eli because I watched it not that long ago. Then I needed a book and searched on Google for a post-apocalyptic book and did not need to go through the list when I saw 1984 appear first in the alphabetic list. I actually read the book a few years ago and made a comparison between it and Fallout 3 when I got the game but never put much thought into until the paper. I think I wrote a pretty well organized paper for not needing any sources due to my knowledge on all three works.
Thoughts on AP
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