This passed week I have learned how to connect others ideas with one another. I learned that everyone single person is unique in their own way and each individual has different interest and ideas, the best way to stay away from being ignorant is taking the time to understand and except others beliefs. That doesn't mean I need to do the same and believe in the same as others. we can still have our pwn voice and listen to others.
I have learned what a pecha kucha presentation is and I'm not 100% up for giving one myself on top of being recorded but if and when I prepare my self, I feel I can handle anything. I learned that Adlous Huxley the author of brave new world is a very intelligent person and writes about topics that he believes. The book Brave New World is based on today's world events. A lot of things I agree with that I didn't and still haven't fully comprehended. Such as the way America is run and how the government and media can brain wash us by showing what they want us to see on television. We start to rely on what those resources tell us. It is so easy to make us propaganda I don't know what to believe. But at least I know now who now to trust. I learned that the name of the doors came from the book by Aldous Huxley, The Doors To Inception. I learned that Aldous Huxley experiment with a ton of drugs specifically LSD. Which was much more common and accepted back in his day, until people found out about the long term effects drugs caused them.
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This passed week, reflecting on what we have have done as class it's not about what more I have learned that I didn't already known, but taking what I do know and looking even deeper into it. For example, I have been hearing about the ketcha pucha projects for weeks now, but yesterday I got some insight on what I will be doing with my project. I have a much better understanding.
I have also learned a lot about shared leadership and the power of the people. But this week was more focused on how we can take what we known and relate it to our own lives and government. Some of the poems that are read to the class get me thinking about deeper more personal situations but over all most of the poems aren't to interesting to me and just go in out ear and out the other. I try to listen carefully and understand in an even deeper depth than what they're talking about but most of the time its a hit and miss. This passed week I have learn about shared leadership on a whole new level so far in the depths that it makes me question my government and the way I chose to do things every single day. The phone is a huge one, clothes I buy the hours I spend watching TV. The things I find right from wrong and what the government is doing with out tell us the people.
Which brings me to the power of the electit. which is everyday average joes and what they know and have a say in. Which really isn't much. I do believe that the people can change that and if one individual really wanted to work there way into office of government even on a small scale, anyone has the power with the right mind set dedication and education to work there way up to making changes and even discover a lot the the ordinary person doesn't know. One thing I have learned in my history classes is that the government has lied about a lot of things or swept it under the rug like it was no big deal. But Up until I read brave new world and discussed even further, I realized the every same thing is happening with my generation in this day and age. A well known fact is someone is always watching, maybe even further than we realize such as hidden cameras in house holds but I personally don't believe that, they surly seem to be everywhere else. To insure our safety and to catch or prevent someone from engaging in an act of crime. But how can you feel safe if you know you are always being watched or on camera. I'm going off on a tangent and only hit the tip on the iceberg on what I've learned, but I will say this topic has had me thinking more than any topics I've learned in school and about all sorts of things I never have before, It's good stuff. I have also learned put more time into reading. This was a very deep poem to me, what I got out of it was not only the descriptive detail when he's reflecting back on his elementary memories and every last bit of fabric on Brenda Hatfield, the 5th grade queen of concord elementary. But the emotion running through out the poem that goes even further than just the visual. this was a meaningful moment for the writer Max Garland, down to the scent of daffodils on his queens dress. Where in that moment in time when all eyes were on him and his queen with bulbs flashing and mothers awing, beyond the feeling of embarrassment and insignificant's in size, that was the moment he captured in his childhood where he felt like a king.
This poem also made me reflective on myself and how I have spent my time in school, the last 4 years furthermore. I can look back and honestly say that I've had a handful of school sweetheart, king felt moments that don't always seem that way at the time. I feel that a lot of moments aren't recognized or cherished until long after. After reading this and doing some reflecting I came to the conclusion that I'm going to cherish the moment I'm in at the time with the person I'm with, so I'm living in the moment and not stuck in the past. The reason I came to this conclusion is I tend to rush through things sometimes. I get way ahead of myself in certain situations without settling down and taking in what's happening in the now. I enjoyed this poem, it brought back memories that I want to continue to create. Even after high school.
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