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?

child soldiers

Child Soldiers

Poor African children are forced into being a child soldier after they have no one else to care for them. They go to military bases for safety because they thought the soldiers would help them but instead they just took them in and forced them into being child soldiers. These are just some of the few horrible things that happen to child soldiers. That is why I think that these child soldiers are victims and defiantly not perpetrators. 

Child soldiers are also put in a position where they need to listen to their commanders and are sometimes even forced to suicide bomb sometimes. The children because they are in a position with no other family most of the time the commanders begin to become father figures to them and then are given drugs by these father figures. Most of the time for the suicide bombing children it’s not in Africa it’s in the middle east and sometimes even in some parts of South America. These children are taken away from their families and forced to suicide bomb which could be considered homicide because you’re forcing someone to put on a bomb and kill them selves so I think that could be considered homicide.

After the war child soldiers are still having war induced trauma. One former child soldier said that after the war he could see blood running from the faucet and the shower when there was actually water. He couldn’t sleep at night because he just had nightmares about the war. In other words being a child soldier really screwed him for a year or two.

I can see why people might think these innocent children could be perpetrators. People could say that they are killing people which they were but they were forced and had nowhere else to go. People might ask, “Why couldn’t they just escape and run away?” First of all they were on a military base so that would be pretty hard to escape and also these children have nowhere else to go, that’s the reason why they came to the army base in the first place. And finally, I could see how people might think that they are suicide bombing but they’re really not, they’re being forced to suicide bomb and the bombers are getting killed, too.

In conclusion, child soldiers are victims. They were forced to be a child soldier it was not a choice. Not only African children are child soldiers but there are child soldiers on every continent except Antarctica so if you can think about that that means there are child soldiers in North America and Europe and if you can imagine it there are millions of child soldiers around the world. So once again child soldiers are victims.      

Harry Potter And the Chamber of Secrets

I am reading the book, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by JK Rowling. In this book, at the beginning Harry is stuck at his aunt and uncles house and they are not letting him do anything. Then there is a house elf that turns up in Harry's room and tells him not to go to Hogwarts this year and Doby (the elf) was taking his letters from Hermione and Ron (Harry's best friends) and then to top that off Doby got Harry locked up in his room. But then Ron and his brothers broke him out of that house and brang Harry to their house. But a little later when Harry and Ron are trying to go to the train through the wall Doby closes the portal and their stuck at the train station and you will have to read the book to see what happens next.

I think what Doby did to Harry and Ron was very bad. I know he is trying to stop Harry from wanting to go to Hogwarts but he goes through so much to do it. First Doby is trying to make Harry think his friends don't like him because he's not getting any letters. Then if that wasn't bad enough he just gets Harry grounded and not aloud to go to Hogwarts. Then he also tells him that he shouldn't go to Hogwarts. Finally after all of that and Harry still went to the train Doby blocked the portal to the train, track 9 3/4.

 In the short story, “Am I Blue”, by Bruce Collins the main character, Vincent learns that there may be a lot of people who hate on gays and say its bad. But that’s not true, don’t worry what other people think about you, just be yourself. 

Melvin supports this theory by saying things like, “I walk and talk the way I do because I’m not going to let anyone else define me.” This backs up my original idea because Melvin is saying it is his choice the way he walks and talks, In other words he doesn’t care what other people think of him, he just wants to be himself. Also, what Melvin is basically trying to say to Vincent is that you shouldn’t let other people define you, just be yourself. 

Vincent also feels unconfortable around Melvin because Melvin kept winking at other gay guys, “Then winked at a nice looking college student sitting about five tables away from us. ‘Will you stop that!’ I hissed.” Again Melvin doesn’t care what other people think and is just being himself. But Vincent thinks he will get beat up because of that wink. In the beggining before all of this Vincent is trying to repress his gay feelings. But after he gets gaydar and realizes how many people are gay he gets more confortable around Melvin and settles for the fact that he may or may not be gay, “Maybe when I meet the girl of my dreams. Or my prince charming. Whichever.

In conclusion, I think that you shouldn’t let other people define who you are, and just be yourself. Finally I want you ,the reader to try to help stop bullying on gays, If you see someone getting bullied because of their sexuality or another reason stand up for them or tell an adult.