March Post-reading

    The dystopian society in which the government is so oppressive that the people have no choice for themselves is worse than a false happiness society which doesn't know the oppression of the government. That is because the you are taken from your own life, and then become a slave to the dictator, like a slave. While, a false happiness society still has some freedom, and believe that the dictator is good.

    In examples you still see this is true. Like for instance, Stalin, with the Communist party, had to force people to obey, but if they refused, they were put into labor camps. The citizens of the underworld, in the game Undertale, were forced to their new home by the humans. The citizens soon found a false happiness, and hope, if they killed one human, they would have 7 souls and the King would become God, and they could go back to the surface. Monsters were forced to fight, and none of them seemed to care, until they were showed confection.

    Though barely anyone used the false happiness approach, it is a better thought-process. This is shown in many pieces of fiction. Like in 1984, where they tried to force false happiness, and they succeeded with Winston later in the book, by torturing him. While, there are many oppressive society exist in history, like Hitler, where they took over land and forced the Jewish and Catholic people in camps.

    The oppressive society is scarier than the false happiness one. The “happy” slave is better than the tortured one. It is shown through the many examples that this essay listed.

Classic Dystopian/Utopian Pre-Reading (1984)

The date is January 3, 2230, the people of Earth have evolved into a simpler, but more complex society. Everybody in a city knows each other, much like they did before World War I. We are more technologically advanced than in the Old Times. We have pride in where we're from, willing to fight if we have to, to protect the land we're from, and the people we love. We receive many of the same rights as America in the Old Times had. The government are there to govern the laws and land, not our lives.

We’ve developed an anti-radiation element called, Crobatium, which nullifies the negative effects of the radioactive elements, we have made this element with 3 valence electrons. With this element we’ve developed a speed of travel that is immensely faster than the speed of light, powered by a mixture of hydrogen, carbon, and Crobatium. This, helped us explore the undiscovered universe, and place colonies on many of the uninhabited planets of the Milky Way. We’ve also created a concentrated Uranium and mixed it with Crobatium, which allows us to travel not only the universe, but the Multiverse. With this power we’ve liberated many of universes, like one where Hitler attained power of the entire Earth. We’ve mixed Crobatium and Americium to create a way to traverse time. And we’ve proved many facts with this information, like dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds, and learned from many past geniuses, like Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Leonardo Da Vinci.

With this information we’ve corrected the schools, and made new military schools for the space armada. The space armada has become a very popular branch of the military, for the people who want to experience the universe from a soldier’s point of view. The government instead of leading our lives, like the dictators and elected officials of the Old Times, like Hitler and Stalin, or the dictatorship of the 2130s, only enforce laws, and protecting the people. The people too, are connected, though they cannot stop from hating some people, know each other.

With all of these things, the Earth A-113, which was once the laughingstock of the universe, has become a major world power.

Feed Pre-Reading Prompt 1

   "The best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. Nothing else will make you happier." -George Lucas
   True happiness is whatever you genuinely feel good about yourself or the world around you, you can't fake it or buy it, true happiness is the feeling you get on stage or the joy you feel when you win. That is how you obtain happiness, by doing what is right in your heart. Giving to charity, playing with your younger sibling, or winning something all give you a sense of satisfaction.
    Finishing something, or getting an unexpected achivement, releases chemicals in your brain, causing happiness and addiction. Two sides of a coin, greatness and evil masked as greatness, and in this century the masked evil is more common.
    World of Warcraft and other games like it promote addiction, creating vast, expansive worlds, which become larger and larger with every update. Sending addicts "Continue playing" messages. This is how it has been since the early 2000s. Unlike in the early 1900s, when happiness was described of when family was together, not apart.
    This is the definition of happiness between the two centuries, and the difference between them.
   

House Of The Scorpion Post-Reading

   "When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other." This connects to the novel because of El Patrón, and the other Alacráns and even Tam Lin and María. 

    It connects to El Partón by telling that throughout his life, he was poorly treaten and still choses to kill Matt. Which would be killing himself, and he didn't care. It was like he was killing his brother. He could have chose to be nice and die when he was supposed to, like the grandfather. 

   It also connects to Fecelia by having her kill Furrball. Fecelia could've treated Matt like a regular human and not blamed it on Matt. She chose to and grow into that bad tree. 

   You could redeem yourself, like Tam Lin, who killed twenty kids, also saved Matt and Celia from death/eejit injection. He gave Matt valuable life advice, and treated him as any other human. He could've just been silent and let them be killed, but he didn't.

   That is how this quote connects with the novel, through many of its own characters.

House of the Scorpion Pre Reading

    “Clones aren’t human”. This statement is true in a number of ways, for example, there cannot be human clones because it is internationally illegal, and therefore clones are not humans. Clones also may have different morals than us, because they are against many morals.

     Even in fiction clones aren’t one hundred percent human. In Star Wars Storm or Clone troopers are both cloned by a Mandolorian, which is human like, but not human. They also will shoot first; ask questions later type, they could’ve stopped the Empire if they refused Order 66, but only 3 did, who eventually survived into the Rebellion era, including the famous Captain Rex.    

           

      The clones in Pokemon: The First Movie wasn’t any better. They had no free will, except the master, Mewtwo. They fought their “real” counterparts with no objections, except the Meowth one, asking why fight, we are the same?, he only asks this because the original was a smarter pokemon than the others.

     These reasons are why clones cannot be human. No free will and it is illegal. That is why.

Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore Post reading

"We all have the same hardware, but not the same software" compares to the novel with the characters being different, they are all humans, but with different minds. Like Penumbra is different than Corvina in their original decision of technology, Corvina being against it, and Penumbra being mainly for it. The Corvina wanted to preserve the founder’s image of the Unbroken Spine, so he didn’t want anything around when the founder was. Penumbra was excited when Clay figured out the novice puzzle, and wanted to solve the main puzzle, so he was for Google and technology.

There is also differences between The Unbroken Spine itself and Penumbra’s store, Penumbra’s store became independent and still sold the non FLC books, while every other store only used FLC books, with exceptions. The Unbroken Spine’s stores are all FLC books. with music and other similar things.

Everything in this novel is different, and that’s the same in life. There are the occasional knock-offs and reboots, but they have to have a bit of difference.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Pre-Reading

            The key to immortality is the ability to make something that lasts forever. To make it is the hardest thing to do, because maybe no one will know the thing that you’ve created, or maybe they will. If they do notice you, and if you do die, you will live on as the thing you’ve created.

Like books, games and other media are one of these things; they can do wonders for anybody on a bad day, week, month, year, or decade. This will mean something to them, which is the key to immortality, the ability to bring one up when they are down.

The key to immortality is to run something that will become something great that generations will remember. Like a company, or series. The key to immortality is the ability to be remembered.

The key to immortality is a creation to run on your name in anyway shape or form.