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.

If

The poem is like a guide to how the be a man. It should probably start out with step one don’t write poetry. Step two if you failed to acknowledge step one, you have twenty four hours to kill a bear with you bare hands or your man card will be revoked. Do note that your man card is not an actual card. It is a chromosome and if you are to lose your "man card", badass beard dawning Viking lumberjacks will kick your door down in the middle of the day and rip that Y chromosome right out of your face hole because sneaking around at night is for pansies. All jokes aside, this is in fact a poem about how to be a man. And surprisingly it rhymes too. Do you know how rare it is to see a poem that actually rhymes in high school? Teachers are too into all that deeper meaning crap they forget what makes poetry bearable the rhyming. Right, back to the poem itself. The first stanza is all about do not do this do this instead. It's like one of those commercials. Don’t settle for whatever get Direct TV. The first stanza is also more self reflection/improvement. The second and third stanza is about being persistent and not giving up. The last stanza is about being a down to earth person. I personally like the last one because it's saying be the best you can be but also don't be a dick about it and that is like advice for life because you could be the most powerful person in the world and own everything but what would be the point of having everything if everyone hates you and there's no one to share the world with? The poem could help people to be nicer to each other and all that and is still applicable today if someone had the time to sit down and connect all of what the author is saying with things that modern people could relate to because not many people would sit down and do it themselves. What? Think? I'm not paid to think. I could just get it from Google because let's be honest no one uses Bing. I just don't feel like most men would actually think "I need to be a man, better read this poem". When you think manly you do not think poems. Unless what you consider manly is like a hipster or something. Which is cool too if you're into that kind of stuff. If this were directed towards men, it would be less complicated and more to the point. This feels like it is written for someone else to read and then tell the person it is meant for about it. Just cut the middle man and get straight to the point because everyone knows that guys can't take a hint to save their lives. If this poem were a how to guide or a list like most normal guides are, I would think that it would get more views than it does in poem form. But that's just my two cents.

Ain't I a Woman

Alright, so from what I can tell this poem is about racism and feminism. Wow. Okay. Way to be creative. Right so the first stanza is stereotypes on how guys are expected to treat women. Because feminists are totally okay with having the opposite sex telling them what to do. So the next two stanzas are about how she can do everything a guy can do and then asks ain't I a woman. Mixed messages much? Do you want to be treated like a man or a woman because I am not going to help someone over a mud puddle and then ask them to plow a field because if they can plow a field they sure as hell can cross over a puddle by themselves and if they can't cross a little puddle themselves what makes you think they can plow a field. The last stanza was very religious. But technically it was Mary and an angel and not God. And even if it was God then Christ would still have been from a "man" and woman since later on in the Bible and all Jesus refers to God as Father. So unless you go calling your mom father I suggest finding a better argument. It is true that the first woman turned the world upside down, at least it is in the Bible. I just do not see it as an accomplishment as much as the author does. The author thinks that since one woman could turn the world upside down, many women could turn it right side up but I don't know. If one woman screwed up the simple task of do not eat that fruit I wonder what a bunch of women could screw up. For those of you who don't know, God created Adam and afterwards created Eve and they were in the so called Garden of Eden. God then told them they could eat any of the fruit from any of the trees except that one tree. So what do you think they did? Yep they ate the fruit and end up betting banned from the garden. And that sums up the first three chapters of Genesis. So Eve kind of screwed like everyone over with that fruit because that was the birth of Original Sin which is bad if you couldn't figure it out. The author basically said that if one woman could change the world that much a bunch of women could change it even more. The argument would've been way more reassuring if, you know, she used an example that involved a woman changing the world for the better and not oh I don’t know screwing over like all of the people. Just saying. I bet you Adam never took Eve to another garden after that incident. I feel like the author of this poem really needs to figure out where she stands on the topic and should write so readers can understand her because she spent two stanzas saying I can do everything a guy can do and then asking why won't people treat me like a woman? Well maybe it's because you act like a man? I don’t know. And as a reader, I can tell you that if one person of a group could flip the world upside down I am not trusting the same group to flip it right side up because what if they mess up? Again. The world wouldn't be flipped it would be spinning every which way and that does not sound healthy. I think I'm fine with figuring it out myself. You've done enough to help thank you and goodnight.

Social Imagination

I agree with the quote "We all have our social imagination: the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in out deficient society, on the streets where we live, on our schools." The beginning of the quote is true enough. "We all have our social imagination", however, may be technically incorrect because it claims that everyone has a sense of imagination and imagination might be something that not everyone has. Aside from that, the quote is true. Everyone has the ability to view something however they want. Having the ability to imagine what society should and should not be like does not mean that the person is going to be able to change that society that he or she lives in. If the quote is saying that everyone has the ability to imagine the world that they think would be perfect, then the quote is probably true because anyone can imagine something. Most people would want a society that is peaceful where all the bad things like death and destruction do not exist which I think would make a very boring society. Sometimes there is that one person who instead of just imagining the society they want to live in, they actually go out and try to make the real world more like how they saw it in their mind and that is a wonderful thing to do because that person is trying to make their reality just as awesome as how they imagine it. I am kind of glad that not many people try to go out and change things to the way that they think is right because if everyone did that then nothing would be right and it would be chaos. There is probably at least one person who is like "hey chaos that is my kind of society". So I guess yeah sure I agree with the quote. The way it is worded though makes it really strange because nowhere does it actually mention taking an appropriate course of action towards achieving your desired choice of society. All it says is that everyone has the ability to imagine what kind of society they want so perhaps what it is actually trying to say is that a person can dream about a perfect society but will never actually get it. That would actually suck quite a bit unless people develop some sort of virtual reality Matrix or something to throw people's thoughts and desires into a computer generated world and let them live out their lives happy. Hey that was a plot from Supernatural where Dean fights that djinn and it sends him into that alternate universe where his life is the way he wanted and Dean has to wake up before the djinn drains all of his blood and kills him. Right spoiler alert. Well to summarize up my answer to this question that required way less than five hundred words to answer, I do in fact agree with the quote "We all have our social imagination: the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in out deficient society, on the streets where we live, on our schools."