The Road Less Traveled

I believe it is important to be passionate about your job, but it is definatly not needed. I'm sure workers at McDonalds don't dream of working at McDonalds, unless their ideals conform with McDonalds i'm pretty sure that that's not the job their dreaming of as a child. My dad has never known what his dream job would be, he asks me "Nate what do you want to do for the rest of your life?", as always I say "not sure, haven't quite figured it out yet", "ya me neither" he responds. My dad is 50 and still doesn't know what he wants to do with the rest of his life or what his dream job is at that. He owns and runs a bussiness with my mom selling landscaping rock and dirt after logging for 33 years of his life. It's easy to see that he takes each day by day enoying them to the most possible, with little worry/planning for the future. I believe this is how most people should act but it will never be because of the materialistic society we live in, people always have to have "the best" this and "the best" that, always saving and borrowing something they don't have. Through my father it is easy for me to see that I don't need to know what I want to do for the rest of my life, as long as i enjoy what i do now and understand my capabilities for the future. I don't know what I want to do for the rest of my life but I am certainly attending post-secondary here in penticton to further my education, because it's a privalage and not a right.

Novel Research

Anothony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, it was inspired by an incident during WWII in which his wife was robbed and assaulted by deserters from the U.S. army, after which may have led to her subsequent miscarriage, causing her to become depressed and an alcoholic and later killing herself from alcohol. The book was an exqmination of free will and morality. In the book there were originally 21 chapters, meaning to match the age of maturity, but when it is published in America the publishers take the last chapter out ,saying the American audience wouldn't go for it, in which Alex is happily cured. The last chapter is then replaced with a dark mood ending. Anthony Burgess didn't fully agree with the way Stanley Kubrik portrayed his book in the movie of A Clockwork Orange, saying "a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence."

Writing A Review

After waking up this morning I walk upstairs to grab a bowl of cereal. I open my cupboard to a sun smiling at me while carrying two scoops of raisens in his hands, and that's all the motivation I need start my day with some two scoops of raisens. Raisen Bran is easily one of the best cereals i have had the pleasure to recently indulge in. The two scoops of raisens really make the difference when it comes down to it because without them it would just be like eating a really bad bowl of corn flakes.

Perception Is Everything

The theme of the presentation by Beau Otto on optical illusions is to make you critically think about how you preceive your senses, surroundings and interactions. The way we observe stars is an illusion to the eye because let's say the star is 25,000 light years away, this means that the light has been traveling for 25,000 years to get to your eye. So say that you're seeing light that left the star 24,000 years ago, when it was still burning. But at exactly 25,000 years ago, it somehow stopped emitting light and burned out. So in 1,000 years from now, that star, if you were looking at it, would stop being visible.
Even from small things such as food we preceive it differently compared to others depending on many factors that contribute to your development. Things we take for granted might be chreished by others in different cultures. For example people in Canada feed ducks with pieces of bread, while people in third-world countries might kill other people for a peice of that bread. Also in China because of the culutral differences they eat dog, while this is unthinkable to us they do it because they have to, not so much because they want to.
If a person looks into the sky and see's green, while another person looks into the sky and see's red, I say enjoy it, atleast you can see a colourful world.