Contrasting Theme: Warm Weather V. Cold Weather
Last Snow
BY HEID E. ERDRICH
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/240176
Ice Bound
BY WALTER BARGEN
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237346
The Snow Man
BY WALLACE STEVENS
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174502
“Alone I stare into the frost’s white face”
BY OSIP MANDELSTAM
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/185227
Snow-flakes
BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173915
**Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening** (Video, Lonely winter cold)
BY ROBERT FROST
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Lunch
Random thinking. I am so hungry right now. I can't focus on anything but food. I need to eat. I can't wait to run down the halls to the cafeteria, sneak to the front of the line and buy my food. I don't know whats for lunch today, i never do. Ill probably end up buying pizza, nachos, and ice cream. Now that I have gotten all my thoughts out about food its time to get back to work. I wonder what its like to go on a lunch break at a major company. I don't know maybe one day Ill find out, who knows.
Night Shift #6
Stephen King
Literary Fiction
Pages 181-206
Many people start smoking at a young age and can never quit no matter how hard they try. They start to develop the mind set that they need a cigarette to function and complete their daily routine. Well the the short story called Quitters Inc. has a strategy to no only guarantee you stop smoking, but improves your life satisfaction greatly. Dick Morrison has been a smoker since he was 18 and has tried numerous times, but he could never stop. One night on his way to a business meeting in Florida he runs into a old friend. Jimmy McCann use to be a smoker like him, but he quite by using a special company's help and now he is a manager of his company and is physically in the best shape of his life. Dick gets the companies card and heads over to their facility the next month. They make him sign a couple papers and then he is introduced to his new doctor Victor. Victor says the process is simple once you leave this building you can't smoke unless you won't your wife to electrocuted a little. He leaves the session and immediately lights a smoke. The next day he gets a call to come down to the office and his wife is there and they have here in the room with the electric floor. He begs them not to do anything, and they don't this is his first time being caught and they say he will only get a warning. Victor explains you get ten strikes, they include your wife being electrocuted, your children being electrocuted, then it changes to beatings, then the 9th one is they take your wifes finger, and the tenth results in your death. After that Dick refuses to have a cigarette no matter how much he is tempted. He makes it without one for a year and he is in great shape and has even been given in a promotion for his increased work activity. He has one last meeting with Victor and Victor tells him he has passed and that they will no longer be checking up on him REGULARLY.
I really love this chapter and it gets me thinking. If this were a true policy would people, who were smoking really be able to stop just with their will power? I think this should be a real company and I believe that its unconventional methods would really work.
Literary Fiction
Pages 181-206
Many people start smoking at a young age and can never quit no matter how hard they try. They start to develop the mind set that they need a cigarette to function and complete their daily routine. Well the the short story called Quitters Inc. has a strategy to no only guarantee you stop smoking, but improves your life satisfaction greatly. Dick Morrison has been a smoker since he was 18 and has tried numerous times, but he could never stop. One night on his way to a business meeting in Florida he runs into a old friend. Jimmy McCann use to be a smoker like him, but he quite by using a special company's help and now he is a manager of his company and is physically in the best shape of his life. Dick gets the companies card and heads over to their facility the next month. They make him sign a couple papers and then he is introduced to his new doctor Victor. Victor says the process is simple once you leave this building you can't smoke unless you won't your wife to electrocuted a little. He leaves the session and immediately lights a smoke. The next day he gets a call to come down to the office and his wife is there and they have here in the room with the electric floor. He begs them not to do anything, and they don't this is his first time being caught and they say he will only get a warning. Victor explains you get ten strikes, they include your wife being electrocuted, your children being electrocuted, then it changes to beatings, then the 9th one is they take your wifes finger, and the tenth results in your death. After that Dick refuses to have a cigarette no matter how much he is tempted. He makes it without one for a year and he is in great shape and has even been given in a promotion for his increased work activity. He has one last meeting with Victor and Victor tells him he has passed and that they will no longer be checking up on him REGULARLY.
I really love this chapter and it gets me thinking. If this were a true policy would people, who were smoking really be able to stop just with their will power? I think this should be a real company and I believe that its unconventional methods would really work.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Dead
I'm amazed that after all these years he wasn't hiding out in a cave, but instead he was found near Pakistan's capital in a major complex. He wasn't trying to stay under the radar he was living in a gigantic compound. This amazes me and I'm also worried that Pakistan took so long to report his whereabouts. I believe that some members of intelligent agencies were backing him up and didn't want him to be found. But after many long years we finally got him and the manhunt is over, hopefully his death will stop AL Qaeda's terrorist acts, but i doubt we have heard the last from them.
Night Shift #5
Stephen King
Literary Fiction
Pages 142-181
The ledge isn't a story for people who are scared of heights. When reading this story i always thought that this would be one of the most scariest things to do in your entire. This story isn't scary because its about demons or imaginary monsters, but because its about a legitimate fear that many people won't admit, heights. Stan has fallen in love with the love of his life; however, that women is married to the a very powerful drug lord. Stan meets Cressner, the husband of the wife, in his penthouse on the 73rd floor of a skyscraper. He makes a wager that if he is able to walk along the edge of the building one complete time he will let him have his wife and freedom. Stan accepts the wager and the story proceeds with him successfully completing the challenge in a time of 5 hours. With his time on the 6 inch ledge only one false move away from death, the reader can truly feel his fear. Every wind that blew at him made me jump a little bit and then when the birds starting pecking at his ankle I thought he was a goner.He wins the wager, but Cressner crosses him holding a gun in his hands telling him he can go with his life and pick up his love at the morg. Stan is filled with rage and charges Cressner taking the gun from him and forcing him to walk the ledge just as he did. However, Stan had planned even if he does make it back he won't be leaving the building alive.
I would love to do this if i was securely strapped to the building. I believe that the adrenaline rush that being that high up in the air just hanging on a ledge would be exhilarating. I love an adrenalin rush, the most scared iv probably been in my life is when i went snorkeling around a ship wreck and saw about 20 Caribbean ref sharks circling the boat.
Literary Fiction
Pages 142-181
The ledge isn't a story for people who are scared of heights. When reading this story i always thought that this would be one of the most scariest things to do in your entire. This story isn't scary because its about demons or imaginary monsters, but because its about a legitimate fear that many people won't admit, heights. Stan has fallen in love with the love of his life; however, that women is married to the a very powerful drug lord. Stan meets Cressner, the husband of the wife, in his penthouse on the 73rd floor of a skyscraper. He makes a wager that if he is able to walk along the edge of the building one complete time he will let him have his wife and freedom. Stan accepts the wager and the story proceeds with him successfully completing the challenge in a time of 5 hours. With his time on the 6 inch ledge only one false move away from death, the reader can truly feel his fear. Every wind that blew at him made me jump a little bit and then when the birds starting pecking at his ankle I thought he was a goner.He wins the wager, but Cressner crosses him holding a gun in his hands telling him he can go with his life and pick up his love at the morg. Stan is filled with rage and charges Cressner taking the gun from him and forcing him to walk the ledge just as he did. However, Stan had planned even if he does make it back he won't be leaving the building alive.
I would love to do this if i was securely strapped to the building. I believe that the adrenaline rush that being that high up in the air just hanging on a ledge would be exhilarating. I love an adrenalin rush, the most scared iv probably been in my life is when i went snorkeling around a ship wreck and saw about 20 Caribbean ref sharks circling the boat.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Night Shift #4
Stephen King
Literary Fiction
Pages 117-142
Have you ever wondered what would happen if automobiles somehow managed to come alive and hunted down humans. Think about it how would you stop an 18 wheeler truck who has no emotions and feels no pain. Thats what happens in King's short story Tucks. A couple of people are eating a truck stop when all over a sudden their vehicles start to move without anyone inside them. They watch as one of the truck drivers is run downed by a speeding truck and splattered across the road. They wait there for many days and believe that they can wait for months with the food available. But they soon realize no one is coming for them and more trucks pull into the station without drivers. They circle the store and then one of them just stops dead.... Gas. The cars needed gas and couldn't pump it themselves. Thus the people thought they would be safe, but they were wrong the truck rammed into the building breaking it down and surrounded the people. The truck played mores-code threw their stereos telling one of them to pump gas. At first they disobeyed then one of them was instantly run over. There life was then devoted to pumping gas for the vehicles around the world.
I can only wonder if everyone around the world was doing this. If i was them i would try to hop into one of the truck and see what happens. I also wonder what would happen if you tried to do that? Its a scary thought, millions of vehicles becoming aggressive towards humans killing them on sight.
Literary Fiction
Pages 117-142
Have you ever wondered what would happen if automobiles somehow managed to come alive and hunted down humans. Think about it how would you stop an 18 wheeler truck who has no emotions and feels no pain. Thats what happens in King's short story Tucks. A couple of people are eating a truck stop when all over a sudden their vehicles start to move without anyone inside them. They watch as one of the truck drivers is run downed by a speeding truck and splattered across the road. They wait there for many days and believe that they can wait for months with the food available. But they soon realize no one is coming for them and more trucks pull into the station without drivers. They circle the store and then one of them just stops dead.... Gas. The cars needed gas and couldn't pump it themselves. Thus the people thought they would be safe, but they were wrong the truck rammed into the building breaking it down and surrounded the people. The truck played mores-code threw their stereos telling one of them to pump gas. At first they disobeyed then one of them was instantly run over. There life was then devoted to pumping gas for the vehicles around the world.
I can only wonder if everyone around the world was doing this. If i was them i would try to hop into one of the truck and see what happens. I also wonder what would happen if you tried to do that? Its a scary thought, millions of vehicles becoming aggressive towards humans killing them on sight.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Night Shift #3
Stephen King
Literary Fiction
Pages 82-117
I'm sure everyones heard of the bogeyman and knows how he comes out of the closet at night to kill little children. Well I've seen the movies, but I never new it was created by Stephen king in a short story. Lester Billings came to Dr. Harper to tell his story of how he lost his three children. Before he starts the story insists that Harper check his closest, nothings inside. He then tells how his three children were murder one by one at night mysteriously. Denny was their first child and when he was two they moved him onto another room. He started crying every night and said he wanted a night light, but Lester never put one in because he thought it would make him soft. The night Denny died he pointed to the closest and said "Bogyman Daddy." Well when he went to check on him later that night Denny was dead on the ground and the closet was a little opened. Then two years later Shirl said the same thing "Bogyman Daddy," but Lester just let her fall asleep again. In the middle of the night he heard a scream and ran into the room and saw a glimpse of a shadow slither back into the closet just barely opened. Shirl died in the same house as Denny. Then he caught the thing strangling his last child after they moved houses. He then heard Andy's poor little neck break as the thing was shaking him and instead of doing something he ran away to an all night dinner. Then Lester leaves the room after finishing his story, then returns to tell him Harper something, but he is gone and the closet is open just a crack.
This is my favorite story so far because it actually scared me. I was reading this at 11:30 at night in my bed an when I tried to go to sleep i kept looking at my closet. I'm not easily scared by horror movies I wasn't even scared by the movie the Bogeyman, but this short story got to me. Maybe it was that i was reading it alone in the dark. The night was quite except for a cold breeze outside. It took me an hour to fall asleep that night.
Literary Fiction
Pages 82-117
I'm sure everyones heard of the bogeyman and knows how he comes out of the closet at night to kill little children. Well I've seen the movies, but I never new it was created by Stephen king in a short story. Lester Billings came to Dr. Harper to tell his story of how he lost his three children. Before he starts the story insists that Harper check his closest, nothings inside. He then tells how his three children were murder one by one at night mysteriously. Denny was their first child and when he was two they moved him onto another room. He started crying every night and said he wanted a night light, but Lester never put one in because he thought it would make him soft. The night Denny died he pointed to the closest and said "Bogyman Daddy." Well when he went to check on him later that night Denny was dead on the ground and the closet was a little opened. Then two years later Shirl said the same thing "Bogyman Daddy," but Lester just let her fall asleep again. In the middle of the night he heard a scream and ran into the room and saw a glimpse of a shadow slither back into the closet just barely opened. Shirl died in the same house as Denny. Then he caught the thing strangling his last child after they moved houses. He then heard Andy's poor little neck break as the thing was shaking him and instead of doing something he ran away to an all night dinner. Then Lester leaves the room after finishing his story, then returns to tell him Harper something, but he is gone and the closet is open just a crack.
This is my favorite story so far because it actually scared me. I was reading this at 11:30 at night in my bed an when I tried to go to sleep i kept looking at my closet. I'm not easily scared by horror movies I wasn't even scared by the movie the Bogeyman, but this short story got to me. Maybe it was that i was reading it alone in the dark. The night was quite except for a cold breeze outside. It took me an hour to fall asleep that night.
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