This week in class we only had two classes, and on the second class we had a sub because Mr. R was not there. On the first day we talked about power. We talked about who has it which I think is everyone because I think power is the ability to control or influence someone or something. If you are not in charge of a business and you are not a good motivational speaker, then you probably think that you don’t have control, but you do have control. And that control is over yourself. We also wrote a post about what would happen if some one had absolute power, would they become corrupt? We are reading The Wave, which is about power and is slightly related to nazis, because the children and teachers form a group called the wave and act like nazis. The second Day there was a sub and we did the questions that I answered in the last two posts.
If we forgive, and forget then what is the point of the lesson we already learned. If all the bad things were forgotten then how would people know how and how not to do things and fix problems. I think that we have to know because we learn from our mistakes, but if we forget our mistake, we will forget our lesson that we worked do hard to fix. If we do not know about it, when it arises again we will not know how to fix it.
In The Wave David tries to convince Laurie that she should forget about what happened with the Nazis, He said “Forget about it. It happened once We learned our lesson. It will never happen again.” I do not agree with this statement because if we just forget all the events that were bad and trust in the goodness of human nature we will forget and we will do the thing we tried to avoid and history will repeat its self. Evil is a force that everyone is capable of doing but people will not accept the evil, because someone will fight the evil and be a “good guy” in attempt to make the world a better place.
I love the movie the music is from, and it is like the best movie in the world. The music is the theme song to The Boondok Saints, but they put the music onto a Halo 3 movie.
I think this statement is false, because everyone has power and not everyone is corrupted. I would not know what it would be like if one person had absolute power, because they can not control how some one else lives. If some one has power they have a reason to do every action that they perform may it result in a positive or negative outcome. Many people who have power must use it wisely because even one mistake can cause a huge problem such as an up rise and may lead to an over through of the person in power. Even though having power is both good and bad we can not have absolute power, can we control weather, can we control nature, can we control even our self? We may anticipate what happens but how we react to the environment is not fully up to us.
During this week I had Language arts 3 times. And in the classes we learned about many things. We talked about what writing is and how we can use it. We can use it for communication, expression, organizing our thoughts, and reflection. I think people also do it so they can one day look back and see what exciting things they have done, and how it effected them. I in class thought about what life would be like if important events in my life changed, and how it would effect me today. We also leaned about power and how it shifts and changes and some have more one day and the next some one else has most of the power, but everything has power over something else. We also started a book called The Wave which is mainly about power. Overall this week was very exciting and I learned a lot of new things.
