Posted in Honors on Nov 15th, 2011 Comments Off on Occupy Sioux City?
This is the sort of thing that really gets me wondering why more people don’t know about this. This is all over the country and yet it’s not at the same time. The Occupy movement is completely harmless and a great way to get the peoples opinions and facts out there so that maybe, just […]
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Posted in Honors on Nov 1st, 2011 Comments Off on Strong Arts, Strong Schools
This reading begins by saying that schools who have the arts within their buildings are a stronger school. I’m don’t quite believe this due to the fact that my high school has one of the strongest Fine Arts programs in the country, yet the school itself is quite a weak school. I believe a strong […]
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Posted in Honors on Oct 10th, 2011 Comments Off on Are You Intrigued?
In the past few weeks I’ve read “Liking What You See”, “Cicero De Inventione Book 1”, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, “What’s Manly, What’s Not For Athletes”, “The Televised Sports Manhood Formula”, and two of Vonnegut’s speeches. Along with all this reading I also watched the hour long video on fractals, […]
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Posted in Honors on Oct 4th, 2011 Comments Off on “To weep is to make less the depth of grief” Address to Graduating Class of Bennington College, 1970/Clowes Hall
The first reading of Vonnegut’s speeches is an address to a graduating class. As I was reading this and came across a quote from his favorite Shakespearean work, everything he said before and after was then put into perspective for me. “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” I believe this quote […]
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Posted in Honors on Sep 27th, 2011 Comments Off on Fractals :)
So now there’s a topic of discussion that I know a thing or two about and absolutely love! 🙂 Fractals. They’re EVERYWHERE! Everyday we go through life using fractals and just math in general. It’s an amazing thing that is literally used in every job, in every day life, and by everyone. Fractals, just happen […]
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Posted in Honors on Sep 17th, 2011 Comments Off on Reality vs Society in Sports
The reality of sports: men and women fighting against each other one-on-one or in teams. The social aspect of sports or what society sees them as: men and women up against each other based on sex, race, and ‘strength’. The top 10, nearly impossible, ‘manly’, ‘heroic’ shots in hockey as shown on youtube, portrayed what […]
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Posted in Honors on Sep 12th, 2011 Comments Off on Cicero and MLK Jr.
“I have a dream.” That sentence is one sentence that really fits both of these, in my opinion, amazing people from history. Cicero had a dream that eloquence would be used everywhere and would either be the down fall or up side to society. His dream was about preserving our ability, as humans, to not […]
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