The Road Less Traveled

Yes, i do believe it is very important to love your job. Look at the people who are 40 years old and working at McDonalds, do they really look like they want to be flipping burgers and dealing with drunk teens? No. So having a job where your happy and loving what your doing is really important. I am going to go to school to become a Vet Technician. I plan on taking a year off to upgrade some math classes and to work, and then going on to either TRU or Douglas College to take the Vet Tech course.

Research

Steig Larsson was born on August 15th 1954 and died on November 9th 2004 due to a heart attack. He wrote professionally as a Swedish journalist and writer, he published his millenium series after his death. He was the second best author in the world in 2008 and his millenium books had sold 27 million copies in more than 40 countries. Larssons first writing style was actually in sicence fiction rather than the popular crime fiction and had published quite a few short stories. He was initially a political activist for the Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet and a photographer. In relation to Larssons death there were some thoughts that it was induced because of death threats he had earlier received, but they were later denied by  his publisher.

http://www.stieglarsson.com/

Perception is Everything.

The theme of this presentation is that what we see isnt nesesarily real. This connects to ad campaigns, and how the people in them, particularly the woman, are so altered and airbrushed. This shows girls that thats what they need to look like, when in truth nobody is really that perfect. Another thing i connected this too was how what we see on commercials isnt always true. Like all the infomercials showing remedies to grow hair back, and loose ten pounds in ten days. All these things are made to appear real but in reality they probably don't work. So really alot of the stuff we see on tv or in magaizines inst real, be it a model in a clothing ad, or a commerical for weightloss.

The Perils Of Indifference.

1. How dangerous it can become when people don't show interest or concern for something.
2. I connected the story "The Lottery" to mob mentality at sporting events. Particularly soccer in Europe. The crowd goes ballistic at these games, resulting in mass stampedes. While i have not personally experienced a stampede at one of these games, I did go to a soccer game in Madrid. And once I saw the thousands of people in the stands it was not very hard to imagine how mob mentality can make a huge impact here. There were close to 40,000 people in one stadium all jumping,screaming, and cheering for there team. It is pretty overwhelming, and from personal experience you do get caught up in the mentality of everyone in the stadium. So while it is not a very normal thing to have a stampede at a soccer game, but is very easy to get caught up in mob mentality while you are at one. Making the shocking ending to "The Lottery" a little more relatable. (Not saying i condone stoning people of course)

3. Elie Wiesel's speech relates to "The Lottery" because he is discussing how people do not intervene in the tragic events that are going on around them, and even get caught up in joining them. Elie also discusses how we see the children suffer form not intervening in tragic situations, this relates to the lottery because not only could a small child be picked to get stoned, but they also may lose a parent or a sibling to the lottery. He talks about how older generation actions affect the younger generation, and in both stories it is for the worse.

Creative Pursuits.

8. Use the following words in a story: hypocrite, paperclip, city, telephone, cookie jar
It was a mystery to everyone as to why the cookie jar was empty. Well everyone but me that is. I knew right from the start that hypocrite took the last cookie. The whole family was flabber gasted, and while they sat in shock, I devised a plan to catch the cookie snatching thief. My plan began by scouring the city for the thief in question. I asked the whole town if they had seen her. The heath nut who i knew stole my cookies, thinking no one would ever find out  it was her, but i knew better. Once i found her telephone number paper clipped to her training ad, my plan fell into place. I phoned up the criminal and just by the nervous way she said 'hello', she knew she had been caught. Know months later I am known as the hero of the household having ratted out my the cookie thief, and saved the day.