Are we returing to the past?

In history war has completely changed everyone's view. Are we returning to the time of Hippies?

More people are advocating peace and love more than ever (excluding the free love movement). Many people are turning to drugs for comfort due to stress and not knowing what to do with themselves since the economy crash. People are hating the war and not understanding why we are there and we are hating and mistrusting the government. This sounds like the exact circumstances that the llead up to the free-love movement. I believe it is completely possible that the U.S. could return to giving free love.

Good Music?

Music is more of a relative subject. What sounds good for someone may not sound that good to someone else. However what all music listeners should take into consideration is the influences that go int other music they love so much. For example, heavy distortion style of playing, seen in bands like slipknot and other heavy bands, was first exhibited by Jimi Hendrix. So to not like Jimi Hendrix and like slipknot is completely hypocritical. Another example is if one likes to hear Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but does not like symphonies. Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a group that takes symphonies and give them a rock remix. If one enjoys Slash's guitar playing but ignores the guitar playing of B.B. King and other blues artists, you cannot appreciate truly what is being played.

All in all listening to music and appreciating it are totally different things. Music can only stem from itself, so it is fair to say it is all connected and should all be at least considered but not necessarily liked.

Critical thinking

Today, as I see my peers and I, and even my younger brothers, I see the ability to think critically is deteriorating rapidly. We are taught that their is only one correct answer, and given one correct way to get to that answer. If two people take different routes to the same place and arrive at the same place, how they got there is irrelevant because they still got there. Profound / Critical thinking is hard to accomplish in a world of common conclusions. When we begin to reach something profound, it is then watered down to a common thought. We focus on one answer in modern times, where being profound allows many answers to be correct.

The truth is that we cannot really put a positive correct answer on something. The only problems we can put a definite solution to are problems we create, within a language we invented. We cannot possibly hope to understand something like the universe by using mathematics we created.

Critical thinking is, I believe, the only way to really reach an answer is to gather individual answers from a group of people, and find a common idea in each answer. I believe the common idea is the answer. Because that idea, being assessed by many different peoples individuals opinons, is an un-biased correct answer.



Our children cannot possibly have a chance to understand something as mysterious as the universe without the ability to think about things in outside of what everyone else thinks.

Teen stress

I saw a student today while I was working in the Help Desk and noticed she had bags under her eyes unlike anything I had ever seen. She looked like she had not slept in days. This reminded me of the overwhelming schedule that the school system has pressed onto students, so they may enter college successfully.
Today the main form of stress in teens would have to be school. Teachers seem to believe that their class is the only one that assigns homework, and they do not realize that all the other teachers we have assign homework and it is all due at the same time. On top of that teens get involved with school clubs and sports to attain scholarships for college. So, where is the time to sleep within all this school.
On average teens get around 4-6 hours of sleep per night, teens should be getting 9 hours and 15 minutes of sleep for proper growth and development. In a study I read recently the teenage brain is not designed to sleep until around 11:00p.m.. If that is true and school starts at 8:15A.M. that leaves exactly 9 hours and 15 minutes to sleep. However, 8:15 is the time a teenager HAS to be in school in class. So going by these numbers school is preventing teenagers from proper development and growth through sleep deprivation. In another study I read, the teenage brain was proven to not function at full capacity until around 10:00A.M., that being said school starting at 8:15 leaves teens at a disadvantage from the start.
All this being said, students in order for students to succeed they have to be able to play sports successfully, participate in clubs and organizations actively, and get good grades while only functioning on 4-6 hours of sleep. That is wrong. The school board should be more mindful of how students are effected by this ridiculous system. More and more students suffer from drowsiness, sleep deprivation, and the inability to concentrate.
Lastly I believe many students turn to drugs and alcohol abuse to cope with all the stress and pressure they have on them to make it through school and go onto college. Just this week I myself have already written two essay/ research papers, and by the end of this week, I will have written around five or six. I also have had to study for the ACT in December, and study for other tests that I have in my classes.
The point is that the school board should take time to come and actually look at the students and what they are doing to them not just evaluate the teachers. Oh yeah, and this would take more than one day of sitting in on a class, it would take about a month of sitting in on all classes.
If a school board member had to participate in all the activities, studies, and pressure an aspiring college student had to endure, they would take several days off from work to recover. We can't do that

Prostitution and Pornography

I believe that Prostitution and pornography are very similar. Prostitution is fun and awesome and everything, however diseases are spread through prostitution so pornography would be the safer choice. Pornography is easier and costs less, its a one person ordeal and requires no protection. Unless you can smoothly get a prostitute tested and her no be offended, pornography is the better choice. Also Pornography people are payed to have sex for others enjoyment, so they are usually more attractive then prostitutes.
Men get lonely though and pornography isnt always the best cure for loneliness, prostitutes are a much better cure for loneliness then pornography. However pornography allows men and women to experience their fantasies without actually "experiencing" them, which is a safe way to experiment and discover something about yourself never before known.
This is also what my topic is for a class project, so any ideas would be very welcome concerning this topic.

Music For Real

I believe music is a way to express feelings to complex for words. It is also a way to convey a point that cannot be directly stated, for example someones view on the government, and we all know we cannot speak our view about the government without some kind of prosecution so that is why it is relevant here. For Example "Used to Get High" By John Butler, is a song about being blinded or intoxicated by the government and its warped messages to the people, however if he were to directly insult the government as he does incognito in his music, he would be "crucified" in the media just like the Dixie Chicks.

Beowulf, poem to movie

The poem is all about honor and dignity, but the movie is all about sex. Beowulf's curse and the explaination of the dragon is sex with Grendel's Mother. In the poem it is because someone stole the dragon's cup. In the poem Grendel can't harm Hrothgar because he is protected by God, but in the movie it is because he is Grendel's father. So they changed most unexplained parts of the poem with "sexcuses"