Final Post Final Post

So, I've made it through the final year of High School. I still need to do more work on the inquiry abstract and presentation. But once I'm finished with that, I am done with my High School education. It has been very hard for me to readjust to school life after so much time in the hospital, but I'm starting to get a handle on it. I am close to being healthier than I have ever been.

Calm Seas On The Horizon

Very soon, I will be on spring break. I can't wait for all that time to play guitar, hang out with friends, and maybe get one more day of snowboarding in for this season. For now, I am finishing up Battle Royale, and getting ready to write my essay, as Stephanie was kind enough to give me an extension. Also, I'm about to start my healthy living immersion week course, which should be pretty fun.

Relaxed Week

Our class moved through Twelfth Night pretty fast. So, we had the chance to watch more of the Twelfth Night movie and She's The Man. Both were a bit more entertaining than the play on paper. I've also been reading more of Battle Royale. Needless to say I'm hooked, but I still have a lot of reading to do before next Wednesday. If you want an easy 2 and a half points from Stephanie, just comment with your favorite song.

Chill Week Leads To A Short Post

Most of what we did in class this week was reading and performing Twelfth Night. I also started on Battle Royale. The first 20 pages are good, despite the names being hard to remember, as all the characters are Japanese. That's all folks!

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night hasn't been very intriguing to me so far. It's fun to see it acted out in class, but the romantic entanglements typically bore me. The jokes were good when we watch a video of the play being acted out, but the play on paper seems dry. For the inquiry project, we will be reading Battle Royale for our second book. I need to get started on that this weekend.

First Essay

I recently completed the first essay of the spring inquiry project. It was based on Watchmen and an interview we conducted. The prompt I was writing on had to do with violence and human nature. I used examples from these sources to prove that it indeed was. Before the essay, I made no outline or thought about the stance I would take. I went in to Stephanie's room, and everything just came out. It was pretty easy, but my beliefs might change with my next book. We were going to read Battle Royale, but then we found out the book was over 600 pages long. I think we're going to switch to Fight Club instead. Thoughts?

Lyrics

Everything I have posted to this blog so far has been related to Stephanie's class. This week, I'd like to share something of a different nature. These are some lyrics I've written for a song I'm working on called Painted Eyes. If anybody reading this is a hardcore fan, they might realize the last line is a reference to an Unbroken song.

Vivid days and livid nights

The skies seem vacant through these painted eyes

A storm is brewing inside these walls

Find shelter to hide from the tension

There was no motive, only a joke of an alibi

We’re all criminals and sadists

We tightly close our glass eyes to shut out the horror

We'll relish the day when life mean something

Violent and virulent

Human nature is repulsive

People act like they have the answers

No one does

No one is safe

Dive into the rubble with me

No chance of salvation

No hope for elation

We live and die with our opinions

Who Watches The Watchmen?

Currently, I'm about 150 pages into Watchmen, and it is enthralling. It's my second time reading it, and I still love how jumbled the story is and how crazy Rorschach is. However, I'm unsure which stance I will take on my prompt, which is questioning if violent behavior is human nature or not. With Watchmen, you could probably make a good case for either. I guess I'll just have to keep reading and completing Stephanie's tasks.

Interview

Tomorrow Natasha, Dakota, and I are meeting with Darrel Moellendorf, a philosophy professor at SDSU. We will be asking him questions related to our inquiry project, which is about violence and human nature. Here's some of the questions I will be asking him:

What impact have the technological advances of the last century had on violence?

What books have informed your opinions on this subject?

Inquiry Project 2.0

At this point, I'm not quite sure what I want to do. As we are required to be in a group this time around, I might be joining Natasha in studying if violence is within human nature. However, neither of us know what books we could do for that prompt. Any suggestions?