Inside Rorschach: Watchmen

Rorschach seems to be a very interesting yet complicated character. Sometimes he seems to be bad and sometimes he seems to be good. He is on the line between villain and hero, he is a vigilante.

He seems to be doing good and looking out for a friend (the comedian) but some of the things he does to try to find the comedians killer are simply not good. He breaks peoples fingers and accuse innocent men. But in the end I think he is just trying to do good and find out who killed his friend. He is also breaking the law by being a vigilante because of the outlaw of super hero's. But in the end I think he does kind of think about the greater good because he does all of this to find who killed the comedian.

Rorschach is also very complicated in his mind set and his costume. His mask is an ink blob which kind of means to see what you see which is a little bit confusing. Also what he see's in the ink blobs. For example the dog split in half which is supposed to be a butterfly seems kind of weird to see. He also seems to see the darker side of everything. He keeps talking about how bad this city is and how it needs to be fixed.

Finally I would like to talk about Rorschach's morals. He doesn't seem to have many. He just seems to be trying to find out what he wants to by any means necessary. So in that respect he seems very confusing but in the end he seems to be looking out for the greater good.

The Trip

My trip to Israel was one of the funnest, most educational, and all around best trip i've ever had. It was a life changing experience and I have learned so much. There are so many different cultures there and its kind of like a melting pot. You hear so much on the news about how dangerous Israel is and all of the bad things going on there but you don't you don't really hear about the good things. You have to go there to experience them. In Israel they treat you not like a tourist but as if you've come back home and take you with open arms. It is really a peaceful, beautiful, and open place from the the great and salty dead sea to the old city of Jerusalem, to the modern city of Tel Aviv, and to the Golan Heights it is all amazing and a fantastic experience so I would recommend it with all my heart for you to go there.

Martin Espada Essay

Martin Espada has made a lot of great poems in his day with a lot of very meaningful themes but the poems I am going to focus on today are, “New Bathroom Policy at English High School” and, “Revolutionary Spanish Lesson” and also, “Two Mexicans Lynched in Santa Cruz, California May 3, 1877”. A common theme through all of these poems is ignorance . This is because all of the poems deal with some one ignorant of another persons race or culture.

In “New Bathroom Policy at English High School” the poem talks about boys speaking Spanish in the bathroom and the principal hears his name but can’t understand the rest. The principal is ignorant of the other culture and doesn’t know or try to understand what the kids are actually saying so he bands Spanish from the bathroom. The principal doesn’t even try to understand or ask what their saying he just doesn’t understand what the kids are saying so he bands Spanish in the bathrooms.

In, “Revolutionary Spanish Lesson” the narrator of the story talks about how much he hates when his name is pronounced wrong and how he would highjack a bus full of republican, Wisconsin tourists and make them sing anti-american slogans in spanish. I think that this shows ignorance in the people who miss pronounce his name. For him to get this mad they must’ve done it many times, maybe not on purpose, but that still made him very mad. This shows the ignorance of people (Americans Especially) of other cultures. They just keep pronouncing his name wrong.

Finally in “Two Mexicans Lynched in Santa Cruz, California May 3, 1877” 40 “Gringo Vigilantes” hung two Mexicans and then in the end they all crowded in for a picture. I think the people there were ignorant of what was really happening. Some were shocked afterward but most of them thought they did something good and were happy about it. But in reality they hung someone and nothing’s ever good about that so they were ignorant about what was really going on.

In conclusion, I think that a common theme of these poems is ignorance. This is because all of the poems deal with some one ignorant of another persons race or culture. In “New Bathroom Policy at English High School” the principal is ignorant of the culture of other students. In “Revolutionary Spanish Lesson” the people are ignorant of how to pronounce the narrators name. FInally in “Two Mexicans Lynched in Santa Cruz, California May 3, 1877” the vigilante were ignorant of what they were really doing and what was actually happening. 

Harry Potter?

One thing that  really don't get about Harry Potter is that when there all this really scared things in his face he's not scared in the least bit. I know this Harry Potter so it's not supposed to be very realistic but come on, even in this fake, "Magical World" you would probably still be scared if there was a guy with a giant white face next to you or a HUGE snake called a Basalisk which has huge fangs and is poisanis  so it's pretty scary. And also why is he always the one to make the connections, I know he's the main character and it's a fictional book but still you have to let  some other characters have a chance to do something great besides Harry, Hermione, and Ron. And finally why would Valdemort be scared of Dumbledore? I know he's strong and a great wizard and everything but still. Also Voldemort, you have a army of other wizards so why would you be scared?