first one

Can books and stories about characters and events that are not real teach us anything useful? Well that really depends on what you think is not real and what is useful. I think that there are books out there that aren't true but still are able to teach us useful things but it really does depend on the book. There are some books that are completely non fiction with aliens and different planets and all that and as far as usefulness goes it really is all morals and less life skills. On the other hand there are books that take place on Earth but have characters and events that don't exist or won't/haven't happened yet. In those cases they might be able to teach you something useful like skills that you would need in your daily lives. So really it does depend on the actual book itself. Don't pick up a Shakespearean tragedy and expect to be able to fix someone's car engine by the end of the week.

numbah 8 newsy stuff

So one thing thats been on the news lately was the death of a Jordanian pilot named Muath al-Kasaesbeh. He was burned alive by ISIS and the video of his death was released. Jordan and ISIS were in the stages of negotiation when Muath was killed. I think how Jordan reacted was great. Probably the best reaction to terrorism. After the release of the video of Muath being burned alive, they executed 2 terrorists and sent air strikes to destroy IS hideouts. In 3 days Jordan sent out 56 air strikes. The best part is that it is rumored that King Abdullah II will actually be personally leading the air strikes and that is really cool because he is the king of Jordan. The fact that the king himself is fighting against IS really shows how capable he is as a leader and to what extent he is willing to go to fight for his people. Before Abdullah II became king of Jordan, he was Major General of the Jordinian Special Forces so it makes sense. I feel like being a part of the military should be a requirement for all presidents/political leaders because then they will really know what is going on outside of their offices. It's pretty awesome. Like a plot out of some action movie or something.

Umm can i do the thing?

Thoughts of a high school students huh? Alright okay I can do this. This is doable. So what are my thoughts? What are some online safe thoughts that I can type up? Oh I know! For starters personal projects are a really really stupid idea and whoever came up with it clearly has no idea what it's like to be a student these days. And what's even stupider is the fact that personal projects are forced because being forced to do a project makes it so personal. It's great that you're trying to motivate students and hey it might actually help in the long run but it's boring and stupid because if students really cared they would have done it themselves already. Clearly no one gives two shits about personal projects. It's just more work that isn't graded and with all the other projects that are assigned with tests and having to volunteer and joining clubs so you can be "academically well rounded" there just isn't time to do things for fun let alone do things for school that aren't even that important so maybe schools should just stop with the you have to do this and that. It would be a lot more effective if schools actually made people want to learn about things. The standardized testing and pressure to do well is a real turn off. Boring. There's this thing. It's like the peak of performance for students and when a student is pushed beyond that point nothing matters anymore because no matter how hard you try there will just be more work to do and that never really goes away so you start cheating and it all goes downhill from there. Who cares though? Just don't get caught it doesn't matter anymore oh well. You win some you lose some. I blame the education system. Yep. That's it. Thanks a lot America.  Way to ruin the next generation. What else is on my mind? Hmm today is the Super Bowl but I don’t really care. Sports just aren’t my thing. I see no point in running back and forth chasing a ball. Why are professional players even paid that much anyways? Sports really don't contribute anything useful to anyone at all. Why not take some pay cuts and give more money to people who are underpaid? Like soldiers. They could use the extra money and their job isn't the safest so they deserve a little more pay. You know what else is a really cool idea? I think it was the Netherlands but the people pay half the taxes during November or December so they have enough money for Christmas and I think that's a really cool idea because Christmas is awesome and everyone should be able to celebrate it. If they want to. They don’t have to. That would be unconstitutional. Yeah that's pretty much it except why are there so much allergies? This sucks. And what's up with the weather? It has  been really jacked up like one day its warm and sunny and nice and you're like wow it's literally the perfect weather but then it gets cold the next day and you're like WTF so it's weird. Why?

Numbah two

Success and happiness can totally be dependent on the choices and actions of an individual but some things are still very hard to change. For example, if there were multiple universes, the idea that choices and actions can result in happiness and success is very plausible. Each and every decision any person makes is one universe and the choice that they didn’t make would be the other universe and each and every person's choices, all seven billion people and their choices and all the universes would also have to be taken into consideration. The choices of other people who also shape the world would also have to be something that would have to be considered and since one person cannot control everyone else's decisions. It's all about the alternate universes and its awesome because anything is possible in an alternate universe. Even Santa Claus is real because in an alternate universe, Santa is real and in an alternate universe Santa could also be a universe jumping being which makes it possible for there to be a Santa Claus in this universe because he traveled from another and that's pretty cool because Santa equals presents. Also in an alternate universe I could travel from universe to universe and hopefully the other me has thought about visiting me and brings me a present or something from another universe because that would be cool to have. It's like a souvenir from a trip I never really took but did. Also I could kidnap other mes and commit crimes and the alternate universe me could be my fall man. It's a genius idea because I am technically in jail and if I keep robbing stuff and even if my DNA and fingerprints everywhere, how would they possible believe it was me because I am technically in jail and there can only be one of me. Even though that's not true and there are in fact a bunch of me and imagine the crime sprees. It would be so confusing and I could be everywhere at once and since there are so many of me I could divide up the homework and technically do my homework so much faster and it wouldn't be plagiarism or anything because I wrote me a paper and that's technically not stealing. I guess cloning is still a possibility but if clones of yourself were legal, people would probably make a way to track all the clones and differentiate between clones and real people. Which would also lead to a black market for clones which is like human trafficking but you know since they aren't human human would it be clone trafficking? Would they be considered human? Clones would provide a lot of organs and stuff that people on the transplant list would need so would there be organ farms where they grow clones only to kill them and steal their insides to sell to rich shady people who want to cling onto life for a little while longer? Would that be a thing?

9 or 10 take your pick idc

Okay so I saw this video about how this guy used misdirection to his advantage to steal this other guy's stuff and I thought oh hey that was pretty cool because who wouldn't want to be able to do something like that? It pretty much makes him a super hero or villain I guess. He would be the villain version of Batman or Iron Man. Only instead of doing good deeds like saving kittens and stuff he would be out and about stealing people's wallets phones and watches. I think that would be a cool villain and he could fight with heroes that don't have superpowers either so it would be fair. He could like steal things from the superheroes and use it against them and I don’t know I feel like he would die rather quickly as a villain. I like it though. The video was rather intriguing because it shows a skill that can be taught learned and developed which means almost anyone can do it and hey I would totally want to be able to steal people's stuff for fun. It seems like an awesome challenge and a skill worth having for one of those days where you mess up and have to delete a text you sent to someone on accident or get rid of a note or something that you misplaced. Pretty much with the power of misdirection you could become one of the best spies or magicians in the world or a really good pick pocket. You could create a ring of pick pockets that go around stealing things from rich people. And we could even go so far as to become con men or cat burglars and sell the stuff we steal on the black market and make tons of money. And if we are really lucky we could pull of a "crime of the century" or "the perfect crime". But the thing about the perfect crime is that what is a perfect crime if no one is there to witness it? It wouldn't be a perfect crime if people knew though would it? See? That's the problem. Great things are only great if there are people there to see it and a perfect crime would mean no one would ever know. Sad life right? I feel like the life of a high class criminal would suit me quite well. It's a job that is interesting and fast paced but at the same time it is still professional and requires a certain level of skill. Yep. Don't worry if I become an international criminal wanted in at least 3 countries, I'd visit. I think this post is categorized in number ten but it could also be number nine. It is technically ponderings of my brain but it was also something interesting. The catch is I didn't read it. It was a video but technically depending on the frames per second and how long the video is and a frame is a picture and a picture is a thousand words I technically "read" an essay. Pretty impressive right?

Do circumstances determine whether or not we should tell the truth

I guess circumstances do determine if we should tell the truth or not. It might not be the most morally right thing to do but then again if it is something that you really have to lie about then morals can probably wait a little bit. You know the best example that could possibly exist for this question would be Gregory House from the TV show House. If you do not know who House is go ahead and watch the Pilot episode. It's okay. I'll wait…. I assume you're done or already know House since you are continuing to read this okay? Well like I said House is the perfect example of how sometimes lying is useful because people are stupid and in certain situations, stupidity can really kill you. Like dead. So House and his team of doctors are diagnostician who figure out and tell people why they are dying (usually after lots of tests and needles). But to keep the show interesting the cases he deals with often stump other doctors or the patients are usually hiding something and House has to use unorthodox methods to figure out why their insides are liquefying and stuff like that. Not only does he lie, he also dabbles in breaking and entering, fights with patients, and guessing the medicine needed and hoping they don't die. Most of the time they don't. Which is great because not everyone is dead. So yes lie if the situation needs it because it might save a life. Because the truth is over rated anyways. Unless you were dying. Then it's probably safe to assume that you should be telling the truth. Other places where telling the truth would be advised would be like court or something or you know when someone is pointing a gun at you asking where you hid the money that you stole from that van you found sitting on the highway at two AM five months ago after a party in San Antonio. But these are just words on a screen. You don’t have to listen to them. It's like the speed limit. You don’t have to follow it unless someone is there to enforce that rule. If you are going to lie you better be freaking good at it though because lying after taking an oath is "against the law" or something like that. Well their loss I guess because unlike the other guy's story, mine had dinosaurs and Neil Patrick Harris so it's pretty safe to say I win that one. So for my fabulous conclusion of this really long commentary I would like to thank all my Tumblr followers and that cake I had because man that was some delicious cake and I don’t think I would be here without the support of all my loving fans and so in the conclusions conclusion I do believe that we hold these truths to be self whoops wrong speech yeah if the situation needs it you have the green light to lie. Feel free to make crap up. No one's stopping you.

Essay

      Poetry, a form of art, helps people share thoughts, feelings, and ideas with others. Using many different techniques, a poet can convey many different things. One of the most common thing all poems have is figurative language. Another way poets share thoughts and feelings is through diction. The way a poet structures their poem also adds meaning to the poem.
      Figurative language can include many things such as similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, as well as many others. An example of figurative language is in the poem "Poetic Bloodline" by GeminiEye. The first 2 lines provided an example of assonance using the words dream, scheme, and seemed. The poem also had examples of repetition and alliteration from repeating the word shit and the alliteration of Billy Blues. Each of those figurative languages help further develop the poem and makes the poem more interesting.
      An author's diction is also an important part of any written piece because the words themselves create the meaning. In the poem "The System", the word choices of the author make him seem more of a cyborg. Since he is talking about a system and comparing society to a machine that dictates how everyone has to conform to the machine's standards. The diction he chooses later in the poem shows the machine breaking down because it's not doing what it's programmed to do. How Prentice Powell, the poet, chose his words affected what the reader connected his poem to.
      How the author decides to set up a poem is very important because it determines how the reader will read it. If the poem is too unorganized, it is not understandable and if it is too organized it would be an essay. The poem "The Quill" is structured to look like a writing quill and the diction of the poem also makes it readable in many different ways. Since there is no right way to read it, the interpretation of the poem is up to the reader.
      Diction, figurative language, and structuring are very important parts of writing. They can all be used to create and manipulate thoughts and ideas to the writers advantage. Using diction, figurative language, and structuring, a writer can better develop their idea so that the readers can connect with and understand it better.