I have no idea what to say about this game except one word AMAZING! Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo definitely showed up in tonight’s game. I love the telepathic bond between the two the alley oop in the second was my favorite part of the game. Who would have ever seen that coming! So that was the highlight of the game for me but I have a down side too, the turn over at the end of the third; I mean is there something we don’t know here? Is Scalabrine secretly teaming up with the Blazers? If so that pass said it all! SCALABRINE WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT! IF THERE’S 4.6 SECONDS LEFT IN THE THIRD QUARTER common sense says...DON’T PASS THE BALL RIGHT TO THE OPPOSITE TEAM!!!!!
Other than that little mistake or whatever Scalabrine wants to call it, I have to say when it was time for K.G. and Rondo to have their break, The Beast was unleashed! Ray Allen came right out of his cave and straight into the fourth, standing tall and strong on defense setting his team up with some assists and doing what he does best knocking down three’s. Let’s not forget Big Baby also known as Glen Davis, spectacular job on D-Fense, taking the two charges in a row like it was nothing. In the ened I was very proud of my team I knew they would pull through, I loved the game it was a great match up with Celtics and Portland Trail Blazers, I would watch them battle against each other again any time. Way to go Celtics awesome game way to win 96-76 Congrats!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Harrison Bergeron
No or Yes? Which is the better word? The world will never know, but when you look at all the “no” reasons in life and all the “yes” reasons in life the truth is you can’t live without either one of them. Just like you can’t live without “yes” or “no”, you can’t live without being absolutely different than everyone else because there’s always something that you were born to do and be amazing when you do it. How would the world be if no one was allowed to have a special talent? There would be no sports, no T.V. cooking shows, no doctors; or maybe there could be all that. Maybe instead the whole world could just have an ear piece so that every time they think an intelligent thought, a loud disturbing sound would ring through their head and their thought would be lost in the wind. In the mysterious year of 2081 this is exactly what happened in the story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In this story every person is staring in the face of their independence's extinction. Their personality is practically gone; all their courage to stand up for themselves is gone. These people have given up hope of making it through the hard times. That is all but one. Harrison Bergeron is the Einstein that makes all the people in the world look as dumb as the Three Stooges, but that has never been the 14 year old boy’s perspective at all. Harrison is a young Martin Luther King; he knows he has the power to rule the world and be their “leader” and in the story at one time Harrison has that power, he shows the people that they can be good at something and not be punished for having that talent.
Just like some of the leaders in history Harrison is trying so hard to make a change and no one is there to support him. Harrison relives the life of a young Martin and fights until death for his rights. At a point in the story he seemed like he had control but then things turned sour and he had too much power, demanding the people to play music for him. When he does that it relates to parents when they always say “I only do it because I love you.” Harrison wants to see the people have their freedom and that’s why he gets so angry that he grabs the musicians and tells them exactly how he wants them to play.
Every person in that community is so brainwashed that the reader starts to wonder how did this happen and how can someone not be struck with sorrow, when seeing their own child be shot and killed on television? Who would have thought that someone could forget so quickly that their own kid is dead, but what makes it even worse is that when Harrison’s parents see him on T.V. being tortured they just sit back and watch. To cry as you watch your own son being killed is normal but to forget why you were crying two seconds later is the craziest thing ever! When someone notices that you’ve been crying and they ask why, all you can’t say is “I forget.” All you can say is that it was just “something real sad on T.V.” What would you expect that person to say? Well maybe they would say “oh I see” then try to comfort you but instead they’ll just tell you to “forget the sad things.” And your only reply is “I always do.”
In the end Harrison didn’t make a difference because he didn’t have enough time. People were so obnoxiously rude to have everyone in the WHOLE ENTIRE world wear sand bags around their necks, arms, and legs. Who did they think they were to try and make a whole nation equal? No one is or ever will be perfect, when you think about it when it comes down to humans, using the word perfect to describe them is like saying that a dog will always be a cat. The author of this story did a phenomenal job at making the reader see that you have to try and see past people's outer appearance and look more towards the inside or else you can be easily fooled just like the whole world was fooled by one person that thought the world could all be his perfect nation that he created. Though when he sees the truth he will know that it was him who changed the world into a living hell.
In this story every person is staring in the face of their independence's extinction. Their personality is practically gone; all their courage to stand up for themselves is gone. These people have given up hope of making it through the hard times. That is all but one. Harrison Bergeron is the Einstein that makes all the people in the world look as dumb as the Three Stooges, but that has never been the 14 year old boy’s perspective at all. Harrison is a young Martin Luther King; he knows he has the power to rule the world and be their “leader” and in the story at one time Harrison has that power, he shows the people that they can be good at something and not be punished for having that talent.
Just like some of the leaders in history Harrison is trying so hard to make a change and no one is there to support him. Harrison relives the life of a young Martin and fights until death for his rights. At a point in the story he seemed like he had control but then things turned sour and he had too much power, demanding the people to play music for him. When he does that it relates to parents when they always say “I only do it because I love you.” Harrison wants to see the people have their freedom and that’s why he gets so angry that he grabs the musicians and tells them exactly how he wants them to play.
Every person in that community is so brainwashed that the reader starts to wonder how did this happen and how can someone not be struck with sorrow, when seeing their own child be shot and killed on television? Who would have thought that someone could forget so quickly that their own kid is dead, but what makes it even worse is that when Harrison’s parents see him on T.V. being tortured they just sit back and watch. To cry as you watch your own son being killed is normal but to forget why you were crying two seconds later is the craziest thing ever! When someone notices that you’ve been crying and they ask why, all you can’t say is “I forget.” All you can say is that it was just “something real sad on T.V.” What would you expect that person to say? Well maybe they would say “oh I see” then try to comfort you but instead they’ll just tell you to “forget the sad things.” And your only reply is “I always do.”
In the end Harrison didn’t make a difference because he didn’t have enough time. People were so obnoxiously rude to have everyone in the WHOLE ENTIRE world wear sand bags around their necks, arms, and legs. Who did they think they were to try and make a whole nation equal? No one is or ever will be perfect, when you think about it when it comes down to humans, using the word perfect to describe them is like saying that a dog will always be a cat. The author of this story did a phenomenal job at making the reader see that you have to try and see past people's outer appearance and look more towards the inside or else you can be easily fooled just like the whole world was fooled by one person that thought the world could all be his perfect nation that he created. Though when he sees the truth he will know that it was him who changed the world into a living hell.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Girl
As the day grows longer you haven’t sat down for two seconds all day. Every time you finish a task for your boss there’s another thing he has to complain about. After the work day is over and you go home, your exhausted so you go up stairs to lay in your bed and as you lie there you start to think about the dreams that you’ve always had since you were little. All that could have come true but instead your life is being ruled by idiots telling you what to do from their experiences, but where will that actually get you in life? How far will other peoples knowledge get you to be where you want to be? Well just so to answer that question for you so you don’t have to think too hard; other people's suggestions won’t get you far at all because no one will stand by your side and hold your hand forever you have to do what you think is right if not then you will just be someone else’s little mannequin until you die.
In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, a woman is a slave in her own world being called brutal names and being labeled as things that no girl would want to be called. Nowhere in the story does the author say that she depends on those people whom are bossing her but yet she still listens to them, which isn’t really wrong so the karma just comes right back to her in the end. The reason for this is because the girl only stands up for herself once throughout the whole story, and by then it is too late. She has already lost her battle and now it’s just her against the world she has no one to depend on.
The girl in this story reminds me of a kid whose parents are constantly telling them to clean their room but kid never cleans their room yet they do everything else that their told to do. Since the kid is always procrastinating when it comes to cleaning their room, he is clamoring to get everything done when a very important guest arrives. The kid has to think fast and in the end nothing turns out to be as he expected. For the girl this is practically the same problem but a lot worst because at the end of the story is finally when all the “What if?” questions start to come to her.
In the end the girl learned her lesson a little bit too late, but that’s what makes the whole short story an incredible piece of work. The author really expresses her feelings throughout the story and finishes strong with a sentence that leaves you thinking “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?”the ending teaches the reader to avoid being bossed around in life or else all of the “what if’s” are going to come back to haunt you later on.
In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, a woman is a slave in her own world being called brutal names and being labeled as things that no girl would want to be called. Nowhere in the story does the author say that she depends on those people whom are bossing her but yet she still listens to them, which isn’t really wrong so the karma just comes right back to her in the end. The reason for this is because the girl only stands up for herself once throughout the whole story, and by then it is too late. She has already lost her battle and now it’s just her against the world she has no one to depend on.
The girl in this story reminds me of a kid whose parents are constantly telling them to clean their room but kid never cleans their room yet they do everything else that their told to do. Since the kid is always procrastinating when it comes to cleaning their room, he is clamoring to get everything done when a very important guest arrives. The kid has to think fast and in the end nothing turns out to be as he expected. For the girl this is practically the same problem but a lot worst because at the end of the story is finally when all the “What if?” questions start to come to her.
In the end the girl learned her lesson a little bit too late, but that’s what makes the whole short story an incredible piece of work. The author really expresses her feelings throughout the story and finishes strong with a sentence that leaves you thinking “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?”the ending teaches the reader to avoid being bossed around in life or else all of the “what if’s” are going to come back to haunt you later on.
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