1984 and Animal Farm

George Orwell, a renowned writer who writes sci-fi stories relating to governments and how they treat the People. I have read two books by him, Animal Farm, and i am still reading 1984. Both of these books have shocking and VERY disturbing realties. these stories have more in common than they do in differences. Because of this, my post is going to be about the similarities rather than the differences. 

There are many similarities that are shown in both books. The first one, Animal Farm,, takes in place on a rebelled farm from the humans. the pigs take over and thus, rule the farm with the saying, "Everyone is created equal, but some are more equal than others." It is very scary to think that some are more equal than others. What does this mean? This is very confusing, but at the same time, makes complete sense. 

In the book 1984, the world is overrun by war, where it is run by the Three ministries, The ministry of peace, ministry of truth and the ministry of love which is the worst of the three because it has to deal with the war of the world. These three ministries work and are united in one to create what is called Big Brother, which run EVERYTHING, and when i mean everything, i mean everything. The face of Big Brother is everywhere, in every little spot. There is no way to escape it. 

Animal farm resembles the Russian Revolution and the way this revolution shaped the rise of the horrible dictator of communism, Stalin. In 1984, the historical back ground of this symbol is the way the Nazis used propaganda to formulate false ideas about thier enemies. So, to say it simply, Animal represents the Communist Movement while 1984 explores the Fascist movement in the 30's and 40's. 

As you can, you cannot read Animal farm without reading 1984 or visa-versa. 

EXTRA CRDIT BETA-READING!!! :O

Yes, the dialogue dose contribute to the story. with out the dialogue, or with minimal dialogue, it would not make sense and would be missing a key component, a life or a warmth. The story line, unforunately, is dry, but still has some potential. Also, it can sometimes skip around to much. where it skips is mainly the dialogue part. When Dorthy and Stella where talking, it was hard to keep up especially when the names and their nicknames where interchanged.

Yes the explanation allows us to see a secret in the story. if that is what ur story is about, then u shuld continue it. Hoever, keep in mind that a love story between a vampire and mortal is over used and can become cliche'd. Even though it is over rated, it can stil have a good grasp of a new take on this typical love story. having it be a phillipino folklore is pretty far out there and i would definately not have noticed it!

Yes, Dorthy's reaction is normal. However, it just seems so spread out. I think all the little detail about the songs the played was just to much....maybe. it is in that sense, easier to connect to as a teenager. But, it was a whole entire page of description about that little dance party (which was a little hard to follow, one moment they were looking stella, the next dancing.)

A little, the cultural aspects sort of assume i, the reader, already know Phillipino folklore. However, You do add decription which helps the reader conceptulize what u were saying.

I think that it is neat that she is fillipino because, in that sense, she is a young women finding out more about her culture. She will examine and explore her self and how she plays a role in her own culture, and thus, reguvinating her culture and making it more abmirable and proud to be who you are. Through discovering here self, she will then discover serets about her culture. MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE MORE SECRETS OTHER THAN THE ONE ABOUT THE VAMPIRE. it will be way less over rated. this will also hook more readers in....Thank you for letting us read ur book and i ook forward to the rest.

Here is a qoute from Bianca's blog:

Every time we have a substitute at ASTI, it seems that my class almost always takes advantage of them, and I personally get annoyed every time it happens. In fact, no offense to anybody, but it is rude. 

I agree with this. I think its very wrong to take advantage of subs, especially when they are having trouble getting use to the school.

The rite thing to do would to help them with trying to get to know the school. like would could show them good ol' ASTI hospitality by telling them the little things they should like no college students in the bathroom. We should also try to help them with names, instead of just letting it go. Like if a name is uncommon, then we should correct so the don't make an as* out of them selves. I think thats the one thing i can't stand most; when we laugh at the things they say or the way they pronuce words or names.

You know, that also goes for other things in life like the social background info we as teens spend so much of our time in. Like we make fun when people say things that either sounds weird or is weird.

Back to subs. Another thing subs are subjected to are the disrespectful comments behind their backs. I hate talking about people behind their backs because what ever you have to say, u should just say to them face on. I hate this. Every sub has to go through eventually, but some are good evaluations. Like the sub that Bianca was talking about. I was in her school so i had her too. She was awesome! she taught us real Spanish and taught us how to take notes. She is awesome. Also, she had something no other teacher had, and that was like this element around them wanted you to study. It was so awesome to finally learn Spanish from my sub. I mean this in no disregard to my real spanish teacher; she was a good teacher.  

"The ignorance of people can sometimes be overwhelming. Sometimes it just hits me that we, humans, the animals that have an open consouis and can feel love are the same animals that can a drop a nuke and comit genocide on a people because religious sterotypes. We are the animals that can make industries like Pixar and the Red Cross, but yet, we can also judge someone based on thier skin color or have rich and poor. Well, I think we messed up, big time. I think it stared to go bad when we first elected the first tribal leader. Some say that we need a leader but i think that was our major and ultimate defeat. Egalitarian. That basically means in a crude and understated way equal. Thats how we all should of acted at the beginning. This would mean that we would hold each member in the tribe EQUALLY responsible for the saftey of the tribe and themselves, the maintanice of the tribe and self and the progression of the tribe and self. 

What would that look like today? well sort of like this: When we see a pot hole in the street, we fill it.When we see a root damaging the ashalut, we chop it. When we mistakingly given someone a penny for change, even though it should have been a dime, we switch it. It may not seem like it, but this is revolutinary. It's silly to thinink that a change mis calculation can lead to genocide, but it can. Thats when we, as humans start to get lazy."....

so this is sort of what i was thinking writing for my peace essay. After i talk about laziness, i'll go a start to talk about obtaining peace today and then ill re-state my maintance thing, add a couple of quotes here and there, and yeah. 

 so please, comment and comment all u want. I think thats a wonderful way of learning, through constructive criticism. 

Bikes

I love bikes. All different types of bikes. I especially love road and fixie bikes. I always used to go on bike rides with my mom. we would travel along the rocky beach that surrounds our town. Even before I was born, i was exposed to the magical freedom biking gave me. My mom used to bike every morning and night. I believe that this is were i get my drive for biking.
     I used to follow my mom always first, me second. I used to love to think that i was going as fast as mom, keeping up with her right behind her, or even ahead. However, in reality, she was going as slow as me. I remember slowly coming to a stop at wooden bench, my awesome fire breathing dragon as the icon on the handle bars lights up as the breaks squeak. I look around and all i see is the beautiful Bay area that i was born in become even more beautiful as time progresses.
     My mom and me always await eagerly every month to see who is on the cover of pro cycling magazine. We are most excited when the Tour de france is in progress and all the new bikes and helmets and biography come out from all the players.
     Those memory's will be forever apart me. And, i still am making those wonderful memories.

All around the ride is stuffy and sinky with old corn dogs, stail nachos, and sticky cotton candy. the railing is sticky and greasey from little children and their cotton covered hands. impatient parents swiftly gave their bratty children a nasty look. However, the children just simply disregard the look and continue to be pests. eager customers wait with impatience as the line moves an inch every two to three minutes. the person on the oud speaker (hardly loud at all because it was deeply muffled by the crowd) said something a loong the lines of "PLEASE DO NOT STAND, SIT, WALK ON THE RAILING. PLEASE STAY CALM ON THE RIDE. KEEP YOUR HANDS AND FEET IN THE RIDE AT ALL TIMES. THANK YOU AND ENJOY YOUR RIDE." you could probally only catch about forth of that by the way.
     as the line crept up the broken cement walkway, you couyld hear the screams of people fly by as their adrenaline raises in their bodies over coming them, making them overcome anything. The shawdow of the ride was a blur, like how some halloween stores want you to feel when you see their products.
I'll finish this story later.
so. actually there has been a change of plans:

So my best friend ever, Kathryn, she loves this guy named Edward Elric. So for all you anime love in anime club sorry but Edward is taken. You all should remember Kathryn because she shadowed me last Monday. So for all you people that don't know about Fullmetal Alchemist here is the jist of it. So there is this kid named Edward who has a younger bro named Al and so their mom dies when they are like 9 and their dad left when they were tiny so they don't know him. So they want to bring their mom back to life, by using alchemy. The number one rule in alchemy is that you must have inequivalent exchange. So they use their DNA to try to bring her back but it doesn't work, because the Truth takes Al's body and Edward's leg. When Edward realizes what happened he goes back to save his brother but the price he paid was he had to give up his right arm. So Al ends up in a suite of armor that was lying around in there basement. Edward ends up getting automail from this really annoying girl name Winry. She is such a mean person and she beats up Edward all the time. I personally think she should die because she is just that horrid.

Anyways... When Edward is 12 he becomes a state alchemist and meets Roy Mustang. He is pretty cool but stuck on himself. Hawkeye though is the coolest. She is amazing with guns. Well if you want to know more you should read it or watch the OLD anime because in the new one Edward's hair looks funny. But it is an awesome manga, but not as good as Naruto.

so this is a quote from vic's blog:

Every child does have one childhood and should be able to enjoy it. They shouldn't suffer as a child because of school nor should they suffer as an adult, working all day trying to support theirselves. School takes up a third of the day and sleep as well. That leaves about eight hours left for everything else we must do. Homework also takes up three to five hours so that leaves around four hours left in the day. Everyday, students have four hours of free time.

i agree with this. every child has only one childhood. una ninez. ok. so we shouldnt waste it. its a precious time of development people!! did you know that there actuall statistics that show that kids (especially teens) need more sleep than most adults! so that should be a big indicator that maybe we should get less homework to sleep and hangout. and maybe we can get the optimal childhood EVERYONE wants. so give us less homework.
also, besides being a developmental stage in a child’s life, it also helps with social problems that we might development. we cant escape this fact that every child needs a real childhood. i’m not trying to say though that we should be totally free, i mean that we should also learn all that proper stuff llike respect and responsibility. I need four more words... so yeah. in conclusion, i feel that children need to feel liberated and imaginative in there daily lives. (that was dorky)