"Your Life on Earth" Philosophy Project
With my project, I just put what my mind says on paper. I wanted the urgency I felt to come out in my piece, as the problems I discuss are quite important, and need to be re written. It wasn't necessarily targeting an essential question, but addressing issues, and maybe coming up with new essential questions as it goes on. I didn't have a certain thing that inspired me except for the urgency, as previously stated.
Since putting my thoughts on paper, it opened my mind and made everything a little clearer. The world WANTS to become clean, but it is impossible at this rate. My thinking was influenced from our study of meaning, and what was going on with the world. I just want people to realize the extent we need to achieve in order to save humanity.
I will always wonder what we can do to fully clean the world. It has to be something insanely large, and everyone has to be a part of it, so what can we do that everyone would be involved and would help? This is a question that everyone needs to think about.
Since putting my thoughts on paper, it opened my mind and made everything a little clearer. The world WANTS to become clean, but it is impossible at this rate. My thinking was influenced from our study of meaning, and what was going on with the world. I just want people to realize the extent we need to achieve in order to save humanity.
I will always wonder what we can do to fully clean the world. It has to be something insanely large, and everyone has to be a part of it, so what can we do that everyone would be involved and would help? This is a question that everyone needs to think about.
In my eyes, our community isn’t very expansive and projectant. Our government is very corrupt and lust, greed, the whole shabam has taken over the world, our Earth. Our Earth is oh so important, and we’re shredding it apart, not taking care of anything, polluting our water, killing our people. What the hell kind of population is that? This is the only Earth we have, our only habitable planet for millions and millions of miles, multi-hundreds, even thousands of light years away, with no way of even transporting people off of Earth if it did die. We are crashing hard, and it’s just a matter of time before regret fills the air. Before regret infiltrates our noses. Before regret kills us with no remorece.
In regard to the good things, people deserve another chance. As stated before, people aren’t doing anything to fix our overhaul on Earth, but that isn't necessarily true. Humans are trying, but we aren’t enforcing anything like we need to, and if this continues the way it is, the volatility of Earth is inevitable, and for the worse. We’ve made mistakes that we should have never made and it’s making it hard for us to breathe. Earth is just something we know these days, and not like home.
In regard to the good things, people deserve another chance. As stated before, people aren’t doing anything to fix our overhaul on Earth, but that isn't necessarily true. Humans are trying, but we aren’t enforcing anything like we need to, and if this continues the way it is, the volatility of Earth is inevitable, and for the worse. We’ve made mistakes that we should have never made and it’s making it hard for us to breathe. Earth is just something we know these days, and not like home.
Into the Wild intertextual literary analysis
Chris and Eddie’s hidden connection
The film Into the Wild is a very adventurous and free spirited type of movie, and it is represented well by its soundtrack. Eddie Vedder had a sense of fire when making the soundtrack, and knew the depth of feeling Chris had for the wild, and he did an amazing job representing how Chris felt to the viewer, allowing for a closer emotional relationship with Chris, just through the context of the soundtrack, “Hard Sun”, heard as Chris begins his journey into the wild, most closely represents the adventure taken, and by the end of the film you understand that it wasn’t just a song, it was Chris’s whole path of life and meaning, his dedication to the outdoors.
In the first verse, Eddie expresses Chris’s dignity by including, “When I walk beside her, I am the better man. When I look to leave her, I always stagger back again”. This is a beautiful representation of Chris. When he walks through the wilderness, he has the best feeling, and it makes him feel like a man. When he needed to leave and go back to the city, he always staggered back. Back into the wild. When Chris went into the city to get a citizen’s identification, he went for a walk, but was very overwhelmed by everything going on, and how eccentric everything and everyone was. He once again returned outdoors, back to his bus.
His bus opens up a lot of possibilities, and Eddie explains the feeling of when Chris found his bus, when he found his comfort. “When I go to cross that river, She is comfort by my side. When I try to understand, She just opens up her eyes.” This verse is one of the more important, as Chris unknowingly found his final resting place, also known as his bus. He ran into a river, and once he crossed it he looked on top of the hill to find his bus, ready for him to make a home out of it.
“When I try to understand, she just opens up her hands.” I see this verse having an impact when Chris was hungry, looking for food, but having a hard time finding anything. He was trying to understand why there were no animals around, but he then came across the female elk. This is when nature opened up her hands to Chris. I can also view this when he had his gun cocked and aiming at the reindeer, but then the calf showed itself, and he decided to leave them be. This may be the opposite of what I stated in the beginning of the paragraph, but they both have meaning, as nature held out its hand to Chris, and he took both events as opportunities, one for food and the other for life.
These lyrics start in the first 25 minutes of the movie, but the events I explained are fairly close to the end, at most a mere 25 minutes from the end. Eddie was trying to get us ready for Chris’s path ahead, and he did a damn good job of it. The music just feels relative to everything going on, not just this song. I chose this song not just because of the events it outlined, but because it felt like Chris. In the end, Eddie highlighted Chris’s adventurous and cliche self, allowing for a better understanding of the plot.
Rogerian Argument -Space Exploration
In this project, we picked out a topic that was relative to what we liked, or what we found to be interesting to us. For my project topic, I picked out Space Exploration. I have always been into space, and this was the perfect opportunity for me to research deeper and have a better argument for future references. As I started to research the political views of the topic, I started to realize that not everybody was for Space exploration, and that hit me hard. I had never thought about there being a non supportive group for something I was so into, so I started to get intrigued. I started reading through opinions, and I found that I agreed with some of them, and disagreed with others. As an example, I was exposed to the idea of keeping space exploration, but making it more private. Some benefits of this transition would be that it would be much cheaper, and it could possibly make more progress, not being watched all the time by the public. Before, I never thought about this concept, of making it cheaper or anything like that, but when I read this, I was 100% on board. Having this of changed my view, I realized I wanted to figure out my own perspective, so I kept researching until I discovered my own ideology, and that I wanted to express my uncertainty to some subjects of the topic, and express what I feel is right against other views, so I decided to write a letter to the President. I used examples from reliable sources, and used them as evidence for supporting my view. Throughout this experience, I gained insight on how I truly felt about the matter, and became better at expressing myself to show how I care about such a topic. I haven’t necessarily looked into the political spectrum, as it widely varies, I’m just basing my project off of poll evidence I have seen. I’ve learned that both sides of the political spectrum can have 2 totally different perspectives on a matter, but still agree with each other on some topics relative to the same matter. When it comes to Rogerian rhetoric in a democratic society, I believe it’s role would be fairly complicated, as each side of the party has difficulty accepting what the other party stands for, even if they stand for the same thing, but since they are on opposite sides of the spectrum, each side wants to stand strong against the other and display that what they believe in is better.