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How does Bokononism try to solve the problem of violent, religious dogmatism?

Bokononism tries to solve this problem with many different angles. First, they try to preach the idea that all religion is lie no matter what they say. This is ironic because Bokononism is a religion, so there for it is also wrong. Second, they challenge the person that is in search of a religious background to actually discover what it is they are getting themselves into and to not just blindly follow the crowd but to research and understand what you are doing.

When Jonah started his search for information on the day the Atomic Bomb dropped, he did not have all the information that he could have easily gotten. He was later challenged by Doctor Breed on this fact that became very hot headed when he discovered that he had done no real research.

A failed attempt that is made at trying to solve this attempt is the outlawing of the Bokononist religion. With this it could cause people to become sure in what they believe before they break the law, but also what it could do is cause people to follow it just so they have the feeling of rebellion.

How does Felix mock the prevailing notion that “evil” is humanity’s biggest problem?

Felix could be thought of as a big contributor to the evil in this world. He helped to create one of the most controversial weapons that were ever created and that have caused problems for us and the other people around the world. The creation of the atomic bomb helped to build the idea that the world is full of evil human beings. Since the creation, the constant concern all around the globe is the mass production of a-bombs. The idea that evil is humanities biggest problem is an idea that is not as strongly argued in the novel, especially towards the end. The idea is that the stupidity of humanity is what is going to end the world, not the evilness, but the stupidity. The two can combine to create a problem for everyone. Being stupid does not mean that you do not have the smarts to make amazing and devastating things. But with the addition of evil to the equation, that’s what makes the problem. People have the ability to destroy the world in one second. Once they combine, they can become a big problem towards humanity.

How does the commencement speech delivered at Frank’s high school graduation mock the valorized status that science occupies as a means to discover “truth?”

It mocks the status because we are told all our lives that science is the one way to discover real truth in life and that if it cannot be proven it is not real. “”if everybody studied science more, there wouldn’t be all the trouble there was.” This line in itself is filled with so much irony. It is true that with the advances of science, we will know a lot more about ourselves and the planet we live one, but science has been known to bring in some very evil things. If everyone started to study science, the advances would come so quick that the atom bomb would become a worry of the past, we would be worried about a more realistic substance than ice nine in the near future. Truth is not something that can always be proven, there has to be some kind of belief behind the actions that either drives us forward to do what we want or some kind of belief that tells us what we are doing is right for mankind and ourselves.

What does Mona symbolize about the human character?

Mona symbolizes many things about the human character, she characterizes the peacefulness and the gracefulness that can come from the human personality. We see on many occasions the quiet and self reserved character of Mona. The biggest example of inner peace when all around is falling apart is when the ice nine falls into the water and all freezes. The crake that appears, everyone is freaking out, but she gracefully glides over the crack. Mona is the grace and peace in the world when all around her is in despair.

I believe that we can live in a society without illusions. In that society, we would be able to see everyone as they are and we would not need to worry about people being two faced because we would know the people that we talk to. It is true that illusions do help for people to make friends, but as Dr. Seuss once said “those who mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind.” There is no need to act like someone you are not to make new friends and meet new people. Everyone does have illusions that are put up unconsciously, but if you take away those illusions, it would not change the world one bit.

My mother does not feel that they portray themselves to be something that they are not. They try to be business like when they are in the situation. They feel that there are situations when you should put up a façade when it fits the situation. When you are sad, you should seem happy so the people around you are not brought down by your sulky mood.

My father is on my side, he feels that it is not important to be an illusionist, but a realist.

The full text version of hamlet was a new experience in terms of the other hamlets. This version portrayed the film as a much more bright film, the other two versions were very dark the entire time and very un often had any light in the shot whether it was inside or outside. Using every line in the book in the movie I feel was a very effective way of portraying the book. It helped just to understand the lines and how they were all portrayed and how they were acted out. Claudius seemed more like a man that deserves to be in the power, when I feel that he should been shown as a dirt bag, he acts the part. So why not look the part? In the Mel Gibson the relationship between Hamlet and his mom seemed weird enough, but in this version, it was brought to a whole new level. Especially during the duel between hamlet and Laertes, she is obviously undressing hamlet with her eyes. It just seems awkward that they would be so close.

When I watched the 2000version of hamlet, I was expecting it to be like the modern nay Romeo and Juliet, something really cheesy and not that entertain. To my surprise, it was not that cheesy. There were many scenes from the book that they translated well into a modern day era. The scene that stuck out to me most, well there were two scenes. When Ophelia was tearing up the pictures and you heard hamlets voice talking about the how all the people in the couples die except for one of the couples. They did a good job showing how what hamlet said effected her emotionally, it showed how destroyed she was to hear hamlet, the one that she loves, say that to her. The other scene that was done well, it was done half way well. I like how they made the transition of Polonius hiding behind the hanging rug to hiding in the closet. The part that was not that good and made it cheesy was how even though his head was practically blown off, he was still able to open the door and walk a few steps. Overall, the 2000 version did a very good job making the change from the Shakespeare time to modern time.

This evening I watched Hamlet portrayed by Mel Gibson, personally, it was a disgrace to the play. The reactions that the actors and actresses had were so ever dramatized even for a play, took away from the seriousness of what was going on through the play. That acting truly took away from the greatness of the play. Another thing that took away from the movie was the jumbledness of the scenes in comparison to the play and the move. Mel would say one line half way through that was finished thirty minutes later in the movie, but in the play Hamlet would start the line and finish it at the same time. This portrayal of the movie also left out so many shots that when your watching it, you would be seeing something and realizes that one, they just skipped two scenes or two, they just cut it in half and left out half of the scene. The scene that stuck out in my mind the most was when Hamlet talks to the ghost of his father, this did not stick out to me because of the impact it made, but the inaccuracy that it was shown in.

Ghosts are real. I think not. yes there are sightings of things that look like ghosts and there are “tools” out there that are used to find the residue left behind from ghosts, but there are not rally ghosts, there is no scientific evidence to show that there is no ghosts, this statement contradicts what has been said about there being an afterlife, but the afterlife is something that you only know about after your life, in this world, the only things that are real are things that can be proven, and ghosts have yet to be proven that they are real. there are countless accounts of people hearing and seeing ghosts in “haunted houses” and things of that manner, but with no factual evidence of the ghosts being there, I find it hard to believe that something that has supposedly been around for hundreds of years has never actually been sighted or actually been proven to exist. they are said to be the from the souls of people that are not yet at rest, and if that is so, when a soul is at rest would that mean that the soul is done doing what it does and fades away. If so, than there would not be an afterlife. Two last things, for what i believe, souls go to two places, heaven or hell. If they go to heaven, they have no reason to want to leave a place that has anything that they could dream of. if they go to hell. well their soul is trapped there forever with out any chance of escaping.

mrs. is turner is a very strange woman. she is part of a rare kind that is some times joked about in the halls of high school. she is racist towards her own race, she is constantly complaing about the blaxk people in her community and the black people that some peopel thought of as role models, she felt that booker t. a good black man that was there to help, she felt that he was holding the black people back, and she resented him for that. Mrs. Turner was like the porch people she used to listen to on the porch. she is complaining about how Tea Cake is a poor man, and that his “negreoness” is holding Janie back from being the full black women she could be.

The mule in the story has many open meanings, it could represent Janie and how she is overworked and how she is not treated like a woman should be, just like how the men on the porch feel that the mule is not treated right. the mule runs away from the matt Bonner’s farm and the donkey if found by the shop, I think it represents that Janie is a worked animal that wishes to break free and get away from what she has and be able to move on with her life. When Jody buys the mule to give it time to relax and finish its life in peace symbolizes Janie and how she was taken away with Jody and that he feels that he is giving Janie a place to live and finish her life.

The buzzards also could be many things. The buzzards i think are the people on the porch, the buzzards came to slowly kill the mule, and they relate to the porch people who slowly kill the feelings of Janie’s insides.

the reason that Janie does not get mad about Tea Cakes gambling is because that she feels that gambling is  a part of tea cakes nature. she loves the real tea cake and she feels that gambling is a real part of him. so to try and change that part abouit him would be trying to change the man she loves.

this article was about how the congo got its independence. they received their independence through the battles of the cold war. they were not ready for that, and that is partially why they are in the state they are in now.

the reason i believe they are in this state now is because they were used to be being ruled by someonee, and when that ended they were just left in the dark, and that led to their numerous leaders that all they wanted was control and power.