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This weeks article talked about how the arts impact our educations and how they are cutting funding for it. They say that the arts help us gain a different perspective than things such as math and science. They are cutting to funding in order to boost the math and science programs though. While the math and sciences are definitely important the arts help give meaning.

I think that the arts are very important. I agree that they do help you in the fields of math and science. Many people also say that when your involved in music your are better at math. I think that the arts are necessary because they allow kids to express in different ways. Music is sometimes the only way that kids know how to communicate with others so when you take it away your in a way silencing them.

This weeks reading was about how Christmas has changed over the years. He says how things we do today people never used to do. There was never a Santa Claus or a Jesus Christ. He also says how December 25 came to be known as Christmas day.

It’s weird to me to think that Christmas hasn’t always been the way it is today. I am a somewhat religious person so its way different for me to think that December 25th actually isn’t Jesus’ birthday and just a random date. I will definitely think of Christmas differently this year.

So far in this honors class we have been focusing on beauty and what it really is. We have read articles, read speeches, and watched videos on a variety of topics such as math and sports. Overall I think the main thing that stuck out to me was the different ways people think, they way each individual thinks. That is why I believe that perspective is definitely one of the main themes.

Many of us come from different ways of life which is the main reason, in my opinion, that many of us disagree with each other. During the discussion we had on sports for instance some opinions varies completely from own personal thoughts. While I understand that it would be difficult for people who had never played sports to find them beautiful I still find it hard to comprehend how they wouldn’t be. This is because I have grown up with sports all of my life so my perspective on them is completely different from that of a person who would perhaps rather cook, or something. Another article that we read where perspectives differed greatly was “liking what you see.” In this article they talked about something called Cali. Cali is a treatment of sorts that prevents people from seeing what is and isn’t beautiful. Some people thought that Cali would be a positive thing because not only would there be less judgement but they also thought that it would help people to mature. I disagree with that because I believe that by having Cali you would be just avoiding the subject and maturing at all.

There were many more circumstances that have arisen in class where perspective was a big deal too, but those are the main ones I could think of. Overall I think that we have learned much more about perspective than beauty in my opinion. We have see how people views on different subjects can very so much from our own views, and by seeing that I believe that we are better learning how to communicate with people who have opinions very different from our own.

This week we read two speeches my Kurt Vonnegut. Both of these speeches were really random and kept switching subjects without warning. He tells in these speeches that he is a pessimistic person. To me it seemed like he was just switching subjects without even thinking about it.

Although his speeches were random he did make some good points. One point that I like was about how if we pretend like we are the center of the universe then people might treat each other better. He also said something about how people are way to selfish and need to help each other out more. I agree with that because I feel like if everyone helped each other out then the world would be a lot better place.