Post #6 - Compassionate Science

            The field of technology is a rapidly growing field with hundreds of new applications each year.  People are working round the clock so that we can be at the cutting edge and have the latest and greatest.  I, for one, want to go into the field of biomedical engineering and find ways to help people.  This way, I can go out and provide people who have lost parts of their body the tools to live normal lives.  Some day, we should be able to help everyone, making everyday activity easier.  Robotic arms and legs will facilitate normal movement and generally make things easier.  I want to be able to tell someone who has been paralyzed that they will be able to walk again.  I want to give people another chance at normal life.

Post #5 - The Future

            There’s no telling what the future will hold, really.  Even in recent history we’ve seen a boom in technology, and there’s no sign of it stopping.  In the next hundred years, I expect a lot to change not only with tech, but also with government and society.  Right now, we are limited to how much we can do because our current infrastructure and availability of resources.  In the future, we should see entirely new laws and regulations as things like flying cars become an everyday commodity.  We’ll have highways way up in the sky filled with hovering vehicles.  Our current democracy will be revamped as people’s political views begin to change.  Perhaps we will have more governmental control as people are given more technology.  Maybe we’ll shift to an entirely liberal society wherein anything goes and people are all expected to peaceful coexist; like having people sit in a circle singing Kumbaya.  However, if we continue to fight and go to war, there’s no doubt that at some point we will have to live in fear of what may happen to us.  Just like during the cold war, people will have to constantly be ready for anything from a bombing to a nuclear holocaust.  We’ll be perfectly free to do as we please, ad be more advanced than ever, but our perfect little world may not be so perfect underneath all the smoke and mirrors.

Post #4 - Times When I've Laughed Really Hard

            I have a friend (let’s call him Drian) and he’s known in our circle of friends as saying some of the most ridiculous things.  Every now and then we remind him of something dumb he’s said, like one time when he sniffed his shirt and noticed it smelled weird.  He just looked up at us and asked, “hey you guys know that feeling when your shirt smells like chorizo, but you haven’t eaten chorizo?”… Of course we had no idea what he was talking about.  He had said it with such confidence too which made it that much funnier since he tried to look for our acknowledgment, but we still didn’t have any idea what he wanted.  Since then it’s become sort of an inside joke to mention it whenever someone does something that we consider particularly “ghetto.”  Which reminds me of another time when my friend and I were talking about stupid things we did as kids.  One of them was freezing water and then eating it like a Popsicle, we now call those “struggle-sickles” because they represent “the struggle”.  May not seem as funny now, but at the time we must’ve laughed about it for about 5 minutes straight.

Post #2 - Bullying

            Bullying is one of the few ideas that I will accept as a sort of necessary evil.  In itself, bullying and hazing is generally bad, it physically and mentally damages the person being bullied.  At certain points, these acts that are “funny” to other people are mentally scarring children for the rest of their lives.  However, to completely extricate bullying is impossible since people sometimes act a certain way by nature.  Rather than try to completely eliminate the concept of bullying, kids must learn to stand up for themselves.  In a generation where most people find that children generally “have it too easy”, they need some sort of obstacle like this in order to build character.  Otherwise we would end up raising a generation of children who can’t voice their opinions.  They would never have had to fight back and thus would never know how to.  Sure, at some point bullying crosses the line and can be considered assault and abuse, but within certain boundaries it is a necessary part of a child’s life.

Post #3 - "Modern Times" Review

            Charlie Chaplin runs us through his bleak yet satirical view of the current state of society in his time.  His quirky character, the little tramp, deals with big business as a factory worker literally being eaten up by “the machine”.  He portrays a cynical view of corporation heads and shows the audience just how life is living on the very outskirts of society.  Even so, he continues to use his special brand of comedy including both subtle and explicit jokes, gags, and all around ridiculousness.  The story itself is a compelling drama involving two people just trying to get by in the harsh time of the early 1900’s.  They try to find work, they get in trouble with the law, and end finally end up simply walking away from it all.  Chaplin decides to end the movie with a fairly happy ending, and ultimately gives off a message of hope towards others who are struggling.  He himself lived through hard times, but, by the end of his life he became one the richest men in the world.  He tries to say that anything is possible, and all anyone really had to do was keep moving forward and look past all the bad.