Curries Corner

   I can not say that I am similar to Hamlet in many ways, but it depends how you look at it.  I can feel a connection in some areas of Hamlet that include some of the feelings he gets about losing someone.  I never have lost someone like he has, but can imagine the pain that he may have felt.  Then to have family betray him and his girlfriend leave him because of ranking in wealth and position.  I do not personally have that sort of connection, but it is easily imaginable how painful it is and do not think I would be able to handle it.  It is difficult in a way to relate to such a topic because it is so extreme and happened in a time when things were different. 

   I can understand what Hamlet is going through, but I can’t conect to it as well as someone who has been there and experienced it.  I have felt pain in losing someone, but not as strongly as Hamlet has and I cannot act the same way as he does.  Even though it is a story I know people have gone through such pain and some people cant handle it as well as others, but it depends on the circumstances of how you should act, and in Hamlet’s time, that seemed as an acceptable thing.

Video At… http://youtube.com/watch?v=hNVS59BF-vo It’s hard to connect to Hamlet due to the time and place, but it’s easy to understand what is going through his head and how he feels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet This site describes the setting and time of Hamelt showing why it might be hard to connec to.

   Does delaying the decisions that we eventually have to make allow things to become easier or more difficult.  This is another topic that goes both ways.  Holding off on certain decisions make things better while they also can make some things worse.  A decision, even small like whether or not to study for a test can cause problems.  You know you want to study, but you hold it off because you do not know what you want, then you end up cramming and possibly failing the test.  Some things just can’t be held off longer then needed or things become difficult.  People often hold back on feelings and that even makes things worse, such as not telling someone you like them, if you wait too long they might be taken and that even makes it hard for them.

   On the other side, holding things off may come in handy and benefit greatly.  Sometimes luck plays great effect in this, like signing up for somethingn you dont want to do, you want to back out, but decide to wait, and then they end up not needing you and you still look good for offering.  Sometimes you do certain things you dont want to, but hold back and things resolve themselves.  This isnt always the smartest thing to do, but if you get lucky it can save you doing something you don’t want to do. In Hamlet, written by Shakespear, Hamlet holds off his decision of what to do about his father’s death, and it leads to his death.  He holds back too long because he is not too sure about what is going to happen, and it does not benefit his situation at all.  Waiting on certain decisions can be good or bad, you need to think deeply about each decision.

Video At… http://youtube.com/watch?v=U921abH7jIk He makes a good point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastination For those of you who don’t know what procrastination is.

  One of the biggest things in all of everyone’s life is related to relationships and love.  Relationships can make people happy, and unfortunatly, miserable.  Can relationships be predicted, do you have the ability to know what couple will last and be able to read the signs that show whether or not someone likes another?  Many relations can be predicted, but some arent so easy.  When people first start out, some people wonder why they are attracted to each other and believe that it will not last, but in the end lasts forever, while other people may see a perfect couple who do everything together who last a week.  Every relationship is different, but if you see someone doing something completely wrong or ignoring their partner, it isn’t bound to last for long.

  Some people know what to do in a relationship and that causes it to last much longer then some people expect, but do we want to know what is going to occur and call every move.  Some people do want to know, while others like life as a suprise.  So some relatiponships are easily predictable and people can understand what will happen, but many others can say that they do not understand what will happen and things come completely unexpected.  As much as we do want or even don’t want to know what is going to, its not up to us.  We can think we know what is going to happen and sometimes things do not turn out the way we expected, but predictability is not always something people wish to have and finsing out once it happens is the best answer.  

Video At… http://youtube.com/watch?v=4DC4Rb9quKk This music video by Chris Brown involves one girl, a nerd and a jock.  Who do you think will get the girl, and what makes you think that.

http://meganelle111.learnerblogs.org/2008/04/21/march-10-human-relationships-are-they-predictable/ This, accidentally, is Megan’s blog post, but it shows that relationships may be both predicatable or not.

   We recently did debates in class and I was given the instint being stronger then reason partnered up with Brandon.  We put up a strong debate and proved how instinct could be stronger then reason, even though it may not be a good thing.  We showed how the human’s basic instints overpower their reason in many cases.  Such a case would be a reflex where you drop something, such as a knife, even though it is dangerous to catch, you go for it anyways.  we were put up against very good comments on how reason is used to make the important decisions, but luckily for us the debate was to prove that instinct is more powerful then reason and we showed instinct to come out first.  Survival instinct is another proof[ that overpowers reason.  We will do whatever possible to surivive and may not even stop to think of it.

   In the debate I believed what I was defending and that made things come easier to mind.  It was easier to prove that instinct comes naturally before reason, because for most it seems like a fact.  Sometimes we are not given time to think things through and we just go with what we think is rightm and this may be good or bad.  It makes things easier, but may cause us to say the wrong things or act how we normally would not act.  Our reason controls us from doing things that we just want to let out, and without our reason chaos would take over.  In the end, however, a great deal of our toughest decisions come from our instinct taking over.

Video At… http://youtube.com/watch?v=eplEdTE8RHo This video plays quite quickly, but after watching it several times you may start to realize the goalie throws his arms in front of his face to try to avoid getting hit by the ball even though he has very little time to think about it.

http://www.tvfactual.co.uk/human_instinct.htm I used this site’s information as part of my debate because it shows the different and main types of human instincts.

   In the short story, Shooting An Elephant, a man of authority is out into a situation that pressures him into a decision that he didn’t want to make.  Orwell, the main charactor, was on watch to protect the people at his command post somewhere in Africa when an elephant came rampaging through the village.  Orwell was informed of this immediately and sent for an elephant gun in means of defence.  He did not plan on doing this, but in case something went wrong he would have it ready.  The elephant came through one of the streets, stomping and killing one of the men, once down it walked a short distance out of the village where Orwell followed it.  On his way he realized that almost the whole village had followed him to the elephant and they were pressuring him to shoot the elephant, even though the elephant had calmed down.  After a while of thinking, Owell could not dissapoint the people so he took aim and fired several times killing the elephant.

   Many people are put into decisions which the right decision is difficult.  People give into pressure even if it forces then to do the wrong thing.  Orwell could not let the people leave without a show so he did what he knew was wrong and gave in, and then convinced himself that it was alright.  Overall through my life I have not given into peer pressure easily, I am fairly good at telling my friends no when the decision they want me to make is wrong or not something I would do.  I can say that if I were every put in a similar situation I would be able to say no and even walk walk away with hundreds of people standing in the way.  I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to do something that I believe is so wrong, killing an elephant is, in my opinion, a terrible thing to do. 

Video At… http://youtube.com/watch?v=zwSqUqOn9Ok Orwell under went peer pressure, as many teens do each year.

http://www.kidshealth.com/kid/feeling/emotion/peer_pressure.html If you learn how to avoid it, it won’t happen to you.

The first entry of the blog created on Febuary 4th, what an exciting and memorable day.