A Dream Within a Dream

I recently read a poem called "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe. What caught my attention in the poem is when he says "And I hold within my hand... Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how hey creep...  Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!  O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I no save One from the pitiless wave?". I feel like Edgar Allan Poe is trying to say that you can have this amazing wonderful thing in the palm of your hand. It can be anything really like a loved one, that game you always wanted, that book that you saw at the book store, anything really. Yet no matter how hard you try, no matter how much you don't want to lose it, it'll just disappear. He/She left or passed away forever never to be seen again except for on social media. That game all scratched up or maybe even missed placed. The book oh the book should have never left the bookshelf then maybe the baby or dog wouldn't have ripped the pages out or ran off and put it somewhere else where you'll never see it again. You can really love something or someone and try your very best to not lose it/them but in the end you will lose grip in someway and it/they slips out through your fingers. All you can do then is sit and cry and mourn because you lost the most or one of the most amazing thing/s in the world.

Young Goodman Brown

 I recently read a little bit of something called "Young Goodman Brown". I have a friend who also read it and we were debating as to whether or not Goodman was dreaming or what the heck is going on. He declared that he was not dreaming and that what was happening was real because it had specific dates and to him it felt like it was all really happening it was real to Goodman so it must've been actually happening. I somewhat agree with his idea of it being real. I think that it was part real and part of it was Goodman hallucinating. It seems real and I think that the beginning when Goodman was saying goodbye to his wife was real. However his friend that he starts walking with into the forest is not real but a figment of his imagination to keep him company. It starts going weird at this point and I'll be honest I didn't get very far with reading it because it's just to much for me plus I tend to be pretty lazy when it comes to reading. They start walking into the forest in which it seems a bit to long and to me it seems like Goodman starts hallucinating. The friend talked about how he went with Goodman's dad and grandfather down the same roads. I think Goodman was bringing memories from what his dad and grandfather were like and connecting how similar they were and how if he goes down their path he'll end up the same as them. I think that Goodman was both seeing reality and hallucinating.

Conscience Of A Hacker

I recently read "Conscience of a Hacker". I found it interesting because of how its suppose to be an incite as to how a hacker thinks. What I got out of it was that teachers feel somewhat threatened when a student is curious or knows more of the topic that the teacher is talking about. I also think that the author believes that teacher assume that all teenagers are all the same. They show this by the phrases "Damn kid." and "They're all alike". I feel like the author of this message was really mad at adults because as a teenager he feels like adults don't like teenagers who are curious. Although he is a hacker so I think that's what he means by being more curious. He's more curious than an average student because he has learned how to get into a computer's system and that's usually frowned apon. Basically I think the author was mad at schools because he got in trouble for hacking in a computer.

The Earth on Turtle's Back

So recently I've heard and read of a myth called "The Earth on Turtle's Back". I'm going to give a little summary. So it starts off by explaining how there isn't any Earth just water, water, and more water with just water animals and birds. There was also a "Skyland" which was a place which a huge tree where some kind of tribe lived. So there was an ancient chief who had a wife who was expecting a child. The wife had a dream where the huge tree was uprooted. She tells the chief about the dream. The people of the Skyland gather around the tree then they try to uproot it. They couldn't. The chief decided to give it a try and he uprooted it. When the chief uprooted the tree it left a hole. The wife held on to the roots of the tree to pear in. She looses grip and falls into the hole with a handful of seeds. The animals below see her and two swans fly up and catch her before she hits the water. The animals try to decide what to do with her and they think of Earth which is at the bottom of the ocean. All sort of animals try and fail except a simple muskrat. It swam and swam until it got to the bottom and even though it almost died it grabbed Earth and went back up successful. They didn't know where to put Earth until a turtle told them to put it on his back. They put it on his back and almost immediately it grows. The swans put the wife on Earth and she plants the seeds and they spring up to life making Earth. So I like this story the full version is obviously better but it was just a summary. I'm not really sure about what to think of this story. What I get out of this story besides how the Earth was made but also not to give up no matter how small or weak you are. At the bottom of this blog is a picture of a muskrat. This small animal swam to the bottom of the ocean and almost died but it didn't because it believed it could do it and it did. I get out of this story that you should always try your best no matter how hard it is, you can do it and make it no matter how much is against you. If you believe in yourself you can achieve anything whether if its for yourself or someone else like the muskrat got Earth for the woman. This is Flame signing off.

Size: 15.75 - 27.56in

Weigh: Newborn- 0.05lbs

Average- 1.32- 4.41lbs

The Socratic Method

                About the Socratic Method, the way I see it is that its just someone asking someone else questions to better understand them. It is suppose to be questions and answers to get some kind of truth out. I feel like in some cases this might work, but then again I don't think it will work to much unless the questions turn personal and things get weird. I'm not to sure about how or when to use the Socratic Method.

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