Book Title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Pages Since Last Week: 1000
Pages Since Semester: 1030
Weekly Summary: Sayuri's(Chiyo) unsuccessful escape with her sister left her in a strict watch by Mother, Granny, and the rest of the maids. Chiyo's mother and father passed away.
Weekly Thoughts: Where there is a beginning, there is an ending- life and death. I find it sad to have to live a life when you know that death is bound to happen. Oh well, that is what we all know is soon to happen. Do you think it would be best to know the future or not? Although I am always curious about the future and would not agree that it is preferable to live in uncertainty, I find that living life without knowing the outcome is better. I do believe so, because if you were to try at something, and you already know what is to come, then there is not use in doing that because it would not count. If you do not know what the outcome would be, then it would be easier to try.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Blog #17
Book Title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Pages Since Last Week: 979
Pages Since Semester: 1000
Weekly Summary: Sayuri visted the Tatsuyo building to visit her sister Satsu. Sayuri and her sister plan to run away together.
Weekly Thoughts: Reading about Sayuri and Satsu's helpless situation makes me think about all the poor children being used as sex slaves all over in Thailand. Slaves have been around since the earlier B.C. starting with the the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. These children in Thailand used as sex slaves are sold, traded, and held agasint their own will. This is just like Sayuri and Satsu being depressed into becoming a Geisha and a prostitute. The children in Thailand and all involuntary sex slaves need help. Currently the U.S. government is confronting and arresting the customers and releasing these poor sex slaves into better homes. To find out more about this sad event, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/etc/stats.html. Does not this epidemic make you appreciate more about our freedom? Liberty should not be something taken for granted. You should appreciate all the things that you have.
Pages Since Last Week: 979
Pages Since Semester: 1000
Weekly Summary: Sayuri visted the Tatsuyo building to visit her sister Satsu. Sayuri and her sister plan to run away together.
Weekly Thoughts: Reading about Sayuri and Satsu's helpless situation makes me think about all the poor children being used as sex slaves all over in Thailand. Slaves have been around since the earlier B.C. starting with the the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. These children in Thailand used as sex slaves are sold, traded, and held agasint their own will. This is just like Sayuri and Satsu being depressed into becoming a Geisha and a prostitute. The children in Thailand and all involuntary sex slaves need help. Currently the U.S. government is confronting and arresting the customers and releasing these poor sex slaves into better homes. To find out more about this sad event, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/etc/stats.html. Does not this epidemic make you appreciate more about our freedom? Liberty should not be something taken for granted. You should appreciate all the things that you have.
Blog #16
Book Title: Siddhartha
Pages Since Last Week: 890
Pages Since Semester: 979
Weekly Summary: Siddhartha leaves the Samanas and enter the world of materialism. He then leaves this world in search for enlightenment and learns from the river and reaches enlightenment.
Weekly Thoughts: Govinda has followed Gotama for many years and has never achieved Enlightenment whereas Siddhartha did reach Enlightenment without Gotama's teachings. Why is it that some can learn and some do not? You cannot find full understanding of something until you learn it experiencing it yourself. You would never fully comprehend from a teacher, because everything is intepretated. Thus, having a distortion to it. This relates back to "Allegory of the Cave". When you are in the cave you learn from the shadows and see a distorted version of the truth, but when you go outside, you will see the truth. So, to get the best understanding of something, you must learn it through your self.
Pages Since Last Week: 890
Pages Since Semester: 979
Weekly Summary: Siddhartha leaves the Samanas and enter the world of materialism. He then leaves this world in search for enlightenment and learns from the river and reaches enlightenment.
Weekly Thoughts: Govinda has followed Gotama for many years and has never achieved Enlightenment whereas Siddhartha did reach Enlightenment without Gotama's teachings. Why is it that some can learn and some do not? You cannot find full understanding of something until you learn it experiencing it yourself. You would never fully comprehend from a teacher, because everything is intepretated. Thus, having a distortion to it. This relates back to "Allegory of the Cave". When you are in the cave you learn from the shadows and see a distorted version of the truth, but when you go outside, you will see the truth. So, to get the best understanding of something, you must learn it through your self.
Monday, May 07, 2007
Blog #15
Book Title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Pages Since Last Week: 762
Pages Since Semester: 890
Weekly Summary: Sayuri is now attending Geisha school, where she will learn all of the ways on how to act like one, tea ceremonies dance, singing, and shamisen. Sayuri was framed by Hatsumono evil threats.
Weekly Thoughts: It would defiantly suck if you were to be charged guilty and be of fault for something that you did not do. These occurrences not only happen with such fictional stories, like "Memories of a Geisha," but also to real people. Like, when Dateline has their special viewing of the court and judge and subject, I would sometimes see subjects being charged even if they were a non-participant in the murder case. This happens because even though the person may have not been involved with the actual hands on murdering, the person knowing about the situation should have informed the police or authorities to ensure safety for the victims. You can never be too careful in life. Then again, you can be too much. You can always try to rid yourself of dangerous situations and surroundings, but sometimes these "bad people" or unlucky situations just happen. It is always best to be prepared if such situations occur.
Pages Since Last Week: 762
Pages Since Semester: 890
Weekly Summary: Sayuri is now attending Geisha school, where she will learn all of the ways on how to act like one, tea ceremonies dance, singing, and shamisen. Sayuri was framed by Hatsumono evil threats.
Weekly Thoughts: It would defiantly suck if you were to be charged guilty and be of fault for something that you did not do. These occurrences not only happen with such fictional stories, like "Memories of a Geisha," but also to real people. Like, when Dateline has their special viewing of the court and judge and subject, I would sometimes see subjects being charged even if they were a non-participant in the murder case. This happens because even though the person may have not been involved with the actual hands on murdering, the person knowing about the situation should have informed the police or authorities to ensure safety for the victims. You can never be too careful in life. Then again, you can be too much. You can always try to rid yourself of dangerous situations and surroundings, but sometimes these "bad people" or unlucky situations just happen. It is always best to be prepared if such situations occur.
blog #14
Book Title: Siddhartha
Pages Since Last Week: 712
Pages Since Semester: 762
Weekly Summary: Siddhartha has been searching a lot and finds himself dissatisfied with whichever group he runs into. He then realizes something about peripheral vision and reality.
Weekly Thoughts: "Allegory of the Cave" is about how being surrounded by such medias like television and the radio, makes your vision becomes distorted and not exactly real. Siddhartha was much like this too. When he was surrounded by all of the Samanas, he did not understand much, but gained clarity through observations of nature and the world. About last year, when my English class had an in class essay prompt to write about, if newspapers are really realiable, I, at first did not understand. I wanted to say yes, becasue the newspaper and news through television would be where I would comprehend as facts. It is until reading "Allegory of the Cave," that I see that just because a story is on the news, it does not mean that it is truthful. Every person has his or her own interpretation of something. You cannot take another persons word for anything, because it would only be that persons truth, for he has experienced it himself. There is nothing that can be fully comprehensive without experience.
Pages Since Last Week: 712
Pages Since Semester: 762
Weekly Summary: Siddhartha has been searching a lot and finds himself dissatisfied with whichever group he runs into. He then realizes something about peripheral vision and reality.
Weekly Thoughts: "Allegory of the Cave" is about how being surrounded by such medias like television and the radio, makes your vision becomes distorted and not exactly real. Siddhartha was much like this too. When he was surrounded by all of the Samanas, he did not understand much, but gained clarity through observations of nature and the world. About last year, when my English class had an in class essay prompt to write about, if newspapers are really realiable, I, at first did not understand. I wanted to say yes, becasue the newspaper and news through television would be where I would comprehend as facts. It is until reading "Allegory of the Cave," that I see that just because a story is on the news, it does not mean that it is truthful. Every person has his or her own interpretation of something. You cannot take another persons word for anything, because it would only be that persons truth, for he has experienced it himself. There is nothing that can be fully comprehensive without experience.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)