Essay Topic

I chose the prompt with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" because I really like both of these stories. I think that I can provide a good essay on the overall topic question. I also realize that both of these stories are different in certain ways yet seem to be connected by certain themes in others.

Library Time

So right now, I am sitting in the library studying for biology. Which it is sad to say I have been here for four hours and the subjects are starting to blur together. It isn't making much sense to me anymore so I decided that I would write a blog to get my mind off the matter. It's getting late but for some reason tonight I am not that tired. So I was just reading Newsweek, which I read quite constantly because I find their articles very interesting and I think that everyone should check up on the news and stay updated with what is going on around the world. They were saying that the United States could soon become greener than Europe and Japan. As a whole, we don't look that well but individual states are making quite an impact. California is definitely the leader. California contains the world's largest solar-power plant, the largest wind farm, and the most powerful geothermal installation. If you would like to check out the article, it's quite interesting.

Third Person

Rhett is currently watching the Oscars. He thinks that the pairing up of the presenters is quite strange this year. While watching the Oscars, Rhett is also stumbling around the internet. He does not know if some of you know what Stumble is, but it's one of the most amazing things invented. Rhett finds all kinds of interesting websites and weird things that people put up on the web. He finds it very entertaining. Rhett is hoping that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Twilight win many awards this year for the Oscars. Rhett has a busy week coming up. He has two tests, a quiz, and his lab practical. Good news is, next week he won't have much at all to do. Rhett is very excited that spring break is coming up because then he will get a break from school. While watching the Oscars, Rhett is also trying to design a desk to put in his apartment next year. It's not really going that well, but he'll figure something out.

Television: Our Fake Reality

It makes me so mad to watch television and how they portray a normal person's life. It is nothing like an average person's life. They make love out to be something spectacular (which it is). They make high school seem like everyone is over 21 years old and how the popular kids rule the school. College on television is seen as a crazy experience for everyone. It's just odd to me how television puts out this fake reality that we all try to live, yet in the end, we all end up failing at making that reality into our own life. It almost sets us up for a disappointment later on in life. All the shows on TV picture high school kids who look 21 years old and who fall madly in love, yet in an average teenager's life, this does not happen the way TV makes it out to be. All the reality shows are so ridiculous too. All they contain is a bunch of drama. You never see academics on TV. All you see is the partying and the going out, which is a big part, but you have to balance your workload with your social life which is not as easy as TV seems to make it. I just think that television should portray our actual lives instead of a make-believe life that it does portray because it sets us up as teenagers to false expectations.

The World

I've always kept up with the news, but I feel like nobody wants to read the news with such depressing headlines. All the headlines read, "Recession." Most of us as teenagers have no idea the extent that our economy has failed and may never fully realize it. Sometimes I feel like I live in another world and we just hear news from this greater world out there. It's hard to relate myself to all these people in our government who seem to only care about themselves or the greedy CEO's of companies who only want more and more money. It's even hard for me to understand the stock market and how our entire financial system even works. When did it become so complicated? Not only is our headlines full of recession but what about the Michael Phelps case. I am very angry about it. It makes me so mad that they suspended him from swimming for three months for a picture of smoking a bong with marijuana. Please. It isn't like he was doing performance enhancing drugs. He is even a great person, who helps out with many youth programs. Then, of course, let's not forget that Kellogg has now dropped his sponsorship because "they feel he doesn't present the image they want to portray." Well to me, I say he doesn't even need Kellogg. I think Michael Phelps is an American hero and a great swimmer and he has made many differences in this world and to me that is all that matters and should matter to everyone else.

PostSecret

I have this secret obsession with going to PostSecret.com. Which for those of you who do not know what it is, it is a website that a guy named Frank Warren put up that allows for people to send in their secrets to be posted on the Internet for the world to read. I think it's a really cool idea. It allows for people to get their secrets off their chest while still remaining anonymous. Getting them off their chest, could save some of their lives. Some of the secrets are funny and some of them are quite serious. Some of them are sad and some of them add meaning to our own individual lifes. I've always wanted to send one in but I haven't thought of the secret that I want to tell the world. Course I don't really like to keep many secrets bottled up inside of me. I consider myself to be a pretty open person. Frank came to speak on campus last semester and I wish that I would've gone to see him but I didn't so hopefully he'll come back again soon. He has four books out now that are compiled full of secrets. If his website and books help to make someone feel better by letting them get their secrets out, then I am all for it.