Chapter 7 Questions

1. How is the mesa like a ship?
"The mesa was like a ship beclaimed in a strait of lion-coloured dust."
2. Why doesn’t Lenina like their Indian guide?
-Lenina is afraid of the indian guide because he is associated with this unknown place. Her feelings were reciprocated, with the guide being described as "hostile and sullenly contemptuous."
3. What is the city itself like? What are the people like? How does Lenina respond? Bernard
-The streets were dirty and dusty and villiagers walked by in feathers and wearing deerskin shoes, holding snakes. Lenina is shocked and scared at times. Bernard is fascinated in many of the things he sees in the streets .Bernard is shocked along with Lenina.
4. What ceremony do the witness? What does it mean? What does it seem like to Lenina?
-They witness a sacrificial ceremony. This is considered to be an honor by seeing this /witnessing. Lenina sees the blood and what in her eyes is torture and cruelty.
5. What idols emerge from the ground?
-An eagle and Jesus Christ.
6. How is John Savage different? What does he want? How does he respond to Lenina?
-John Savage is different because his mother Linda was born through a battle but she was left at the reservation and gave birth to him at Malpais. He has lighter skin and hair. He wants to fit in with the other indians, but clearly doesn't at all. He seems embarassed, and shy when he notices Lenina watching him.!
7. What is Linda’s story? What has her life been like here? How does Linda react to her?
-Linda traveled to the Reservation with the director a long time back ,  but she got lost and he left without her. She accidently got pregnant and  gave birth to her son John. He pities herself and her life in Malpais, is ashamed for having a baby. Lenina pities her for doing these awful things she has been conditioned to be disgusted with.

Chapter 6 Question

1. Why is being alone a bad thing?
-Because it allows you time alone in your own head, which can lead to being loney, and being lonely makes people feel unhappy which you don't want
2. What do Lenina and Bernard do on their first date? Why is the ocean important? The moon?
-Bernard talks a lot about the ocean and how calming and peaceful he looks at the waves of the ocean. This makes Lenina feel very uncomfortable to feel that way about something so ordinary.
3. What does Bernard say about freedom? What does he mean?
-He says that “wouldn’t you like to free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way”. Bernard is the one who refuses to take soma from people  and likes to spend time alone. He knows that the happiness he feels is just temporary. Bernard wants to be different from other people. He wants to be free from those conditioning and find his own way to feel happy rather than just eating soma like the others do.
4. How does the date end?
-With Bernard giving in to Lenina's begging taking a few grammes of soma and sleeping with her.
5. What does it mean to be infantile in this society?
-Infantile behavior- something the masses are taught  since childhood. As adults they encouraged to have sexual relations with multiple partners. They are encouraged to spend their free time using a drug called Soma and satisfy their primal desires.
6. How does the director feel about Bernard? Why is he warning him?
-The directod notices that Bernard is different so he must have to be monitored closely. He warns him not to question society and act the way he is expected to act ,or else he will be exiled to Iceland.
7. What does his story mean? What does it show us about him?
-The story shows that the director has made mistakes in his past. Like from him leaving with Linda somewhere in the reservation that he is not proud of.
8. How does Helmholtz feel about Bernard after he hears the story of the meeting with the director?
-He is annoyed with Bernard's childish behavior and emotions.
9. What do we learn from the Warden? What are the reservations like?
-There is no escape from a Savage Reservation and children are born into it and will live there for their entire lives.
10. What does the word Malpais mean?
-Malpais is the town and rest house where Lenina and Bernard stay. This is where they watch the sacrifice and where John and Linda live.

I AM HUMAN

What do you pops into your head when someone askes you to define a human? If you asked me i would say a human is a living breathing person that has feelings and makes mistakes. If you look back on your life and think of all the mistakes you have ever made you can hopefully also think of all the stuff you have learned from them. If you're a robot, well, you probably can't do that can you. In my personal view on life, a human uses ethos, pathos and logos in everyday life, contrary to a robot . If you're wondering what ethos, pathos, and logos is, are you even human? Well just incase you are a human that just doesnt pay any attention in english class, ethos is the character of someone, how they appear to you, pathos is how someone can connect with someone else's feelings, letting them see how they feel, logos is credibility, like the evidence that is provided. Now just sit back and think about that. Robots don't have a character, they are designed for a single purpose, and only that single purpose. Robots also don't have feelings, they don't develope feelings like they do in the movies. Theoretically, If you were to ask a robot, for example, why is the sky blue? It's response would be respond  "because it is." ( circular reasoning ). If I where a robot would I have a beating heart or organs that without I wouldn't be alive to write this. Not to mention, a robot is made out of metal and would probably have a really hard time going through airport security. All in all, a robot has no emotion, no regrets or wishes, no dreams, and  no room for error. I am the farthest thing from a robot.

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Notes

Content- do you have something to say
Organization - key words
Design- can you see your personality through your blog

Fallacies

My Argument

The argument I admittingly started was with my brother. We had a disputation over the reasoning I had for believing swimming was a more competitive sport than football. He believes that football is more competitive because the team has to run down a clock to score point for there teams. I believe that swimming is more competitive because it is not a team against a team, it is a human against a human. Each member has to individualy push themselves to there limit and if they don't then they are letting themselves down, which is worse than letting other people down in my observation. We came to an agreement that we both had valid points (which was not easy) because we saw what the other person saw, not just there own point of view.

What Jiro Means to Me

I believe that Jiro is an incredible person. He is a hard worker and he is always striving to do better on whatever he is working on. Jiro said in his interview "Always look ahead and above yourself". That really spoke to me and told me how much Jiro really cared for the work he did. I look at Jiro and I see someone with drive, someone who will stop at nothing to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. In this generation it seems fewer people are as determined and ambitious as Jiro. I mean don't take this the wrong way, some people in my generation have great ideas and ambition like no other, but there just isn't as many as there used to be. We all need to just try a little more and work a little harder and great things will come out of this world. Jiro has worked very hard to be were he is and with the amount of comition he had coming in around the time this documentary was made, he could be traveling the world, but he's working in his kitchen because that is what he has the passion to do. Now I'm not saying that we al nerd to be kicked out on our buts at a young age but we need to have the motivation and drive like we just where.  It's people like Jiro that show you why you should want to be a better version of yourself.