The Endless Train of Thought

The gourmet food selection that is lobster draws quite the conversation. Do they feel pain? As they are cooked alive to preserve the "freshest food alive," I haven't stopped and thought about it from the lobster's point of view. If we were being boiled alive, we would try desperatly to esacpe the heat and possibly scream and vocally lash out. The same can be said for lobster, but in a different way. In his footnotes, David Foster Wallace mentions the myth of lobsters "screaming," but it actually is just the air trapped under their shells being released due to the high temperatures. While not true, the screaming Wallace incorporates in his footnotes is highly effective in that it gets readers thinking. It is pretty obvious. No cookbook will tell you that the lobster should be alive when you cook it. It's a "detail so obvious" that many people disregard mentioning it! This can go back to the internalization of thoughts we discussed in Song of S...

I just want someone that can do everything for me. That's it! I want to be in one of those "Once upon a time" movies and maybe then I can do that thing where I draw in the bottom right corner of the screen and say with a little goofy smile, "And you are watching the Disney Channel" because everything in life is so perfect just beacuse my loved one only does everything for me. It really shouldn't be that hard right? I mean today, all I wanted was a steady job, a healthy future, a really  big house with that really fancy architecture - elegant pillars, beautiful arches, and a grand chandelier. I really don't care who  this person is. The possibilies are endless! Here's a couple examples so you know the easy qualifications you can match: 1) Jesus - I mean simple dude really, he's got this really famous book about him, and you know, he seems chill so why not?  2) Pink elephants - No. I don't have some weird animal thing. I'm talking a...

     With the olympics occuring right now, I took this as a perfect oppertunity to talk about this topic.      With regards to American sports, we find that most female professional leagues are dominated or even washed into oblivion from the male sporting world. For example, The WNBA is a female basketball league that features stars like Diana Taursai (who I bet many of you readers may have never heard of before). The WNBA's counterpart, the NBA, features many more talents with many more brand names like Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, and you name it. These male athletes have started their own brands and turned their public figures into multi-million dollar famous companies. While athletes like Taursai are paid under a hundred thousand for their same efforts.      While we are on the topic of these multi-million dollar companies, the jersey sales are crucial in products relating to basketball. In class, we talked about how the m...

Race drives many controversial arguments in modern day. For example, some crimes in the United States reveolve around race, introducing a category in crime that is relatively new: hate crimes. What is interesting is the fact that hate crimes wouldn't be an issue if, per say, we didn't put so much emphasis on the race of the victim or perpatrator. If we put it into perspective, a crime is a person committing an offense that can be punished by law. A crime isn't a crime because a member of a race commits an action against another member of another race. Racial profiling is the source of the categorization of these so called hate crimes. But racial profiling emphasizes just how high people nowadays regard race. This past week in AP English (besides that horrendous essay topic) was all about race and how important it can be in people's judgements. Whether it was portrayed through Champion of the World  or Just Walk on By , both used a strategy of not naming a few of the c...