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edgar allen poe was a strange guy to me but a incredible poet at the same time i guess thats why they often call the great minds crazy. but his life took many paths so the things he went through some could say that made him crazy. for one it could have been him not knowing his parents his mom died early around the age of three and his dad just left the family this could have made him mad. then he was separated from his brother and sister and forced to stay with john allen a successful tobacco merchant. but i believed the thing that scarred him the most is that every woman in his life that he grew close to died from tuberculosis including his mom. that will make you go crazy because the same thing happen over and over again just a different woman in his life then what makes it worse that they all died from the same disease. so i understand that part because for me i am scarred from the passing of my loved ones who played vitals roles in the man i am today like my grant aunts and grandma and my twin sister so i understand the feeling just in a different way.

well right off hand i can tell you i don’t have any friends who are tortured geniuses that can’t get a job because he can’t work in the real world. but everyone needs a little help every now and then. for me its different when it comes to working a real job me and my friends who play ball could be considered and odd ball. too be honest i have never worked a real job that doesn’t mean i haven’t worked i just get my funds a different way. for instance i started working with my cousin who owns a moving service where we would move people in and out of their homes and sometime we would go to the military base and move things in and out for them. so me playing college basketball this job was perfect i was able to make money and still had time to go to the gym and work on my craft. and i know how it is as a player so i called one of my guys told him about and he came to work too. with us playing sports we really don’t need to be full time in a plant working because it will take away from us working to get better at the sport because eventually we will start getting tired from work and stop going to practice.

In the story resistance to civil government Thoreau refers to the government as a wooden gun that would destroy itself if it was used in a real test. At first I really didn’t get it like I was confused as we were reading it. But as I read it again and thought to myself I then could somewhat understand what he meant or at least I think I do. To me in a certain way the government is already destroyed because in todays time our government is too corrupt. Everyone is crooked and use their powers to benefit themselves not the common people who actually need its help. Our government has been lying about things that I believed to be true when I was young and dumb. Like for instance the medical field with all the different types of illnesses and diseases going on we will never have a cure because they all want us too keep buying medicine only for them to keep making money instead of curing people I never understood that. So yes I do agree with the government being a wooden gun that will destroy itself look at the guy we got in office right now.

in the story self reliance by ralph emerson he states too be great is to be misunderstood. i truly believe this statement and if you look at all the greats its show this at some point and time they was misunderstood and now they are being praised. being labeled as a great is a high title and that title isnt for everybody because if it was easy everyone would be great. to be great you must be different you have too separate yourself from the crowd. you wont be great if everybody can do the same thing you can do then that thing wont be great it will be normal. people who are labeled as great are easily misunderstood because they see a bigger picture and the common man cant even see it yet because he’s busy worried about the little things his mind cant expand. every great is misunderstood like MLK, malcolm x, obama, the list goes on.

in the story self reliance emerson wants every body to accept themselves for who they are just the way they were made. emerson says nobody on this earth was made like you God created you to guide or be guided and you have something to offer that no one else has. in today’s society individualism is something that does not get much praise. everyone wants to fit in so instead of being your own person standing on whatever you believe in we rather do whatever one else is doing no matter if it benefits us at all. with today’s technology and all the social media we have no choice but to feed into the hype. we all want to be somebody in the world we want to be liked, we want others to follow us we pretty much want to be whatever thing is popular. the way our government is setup they definitely dont want us to step outside the box and be our own person they want to control us more than anything.

in the story nature emerson refers to himself as a transparent eyeball. my first time reading it i really didnt know what he meant he really went over my head at first. then i went back and read the story over and over again and the lines leading to this and after it. i believe hes referring his self as if he has God like skills in a way as in God sees everything. because right after that he says he sees everything then he also states he is part or parcel of God. so that statement really made me come to this conclusion. then he tie it in with nature and we all know God created nature. so when he talks about nature he goes deeper and talk about the beauty of it all which is nature itself. he talks about how you can be one with nature and the beauty of it will take you away from the world and it will almost make you feel as a child when you use to play and rome free in nature.

before reading the story nature by emerson i never really looked at nature and thought about. after reading the story i got a different look on things. i kind of think we need nature in everything we do or depend on it to a certain degree. im a true believer in any situation where it is human vs nature we lose every time. no matter the circumstance we lose every time and i feel we need nature because we really come from nature and i also believe God created all of us to co join with one another so we can live on this earth. growing up i use to love being free and enjoying nature i use too go camping in the woods all the time, use to fish every chance i got. it was a ton of thing i use to do as a child and now i see how i have changed. even under the change i still take time to see the beauty of nature no matter what it is.

growing up i hated going to funerals. normally you would think a child would be scared of funeral because of seeing a dead person. sad to say this wasn’t the case like i was introduced too seeing a dead person at a young age so seeing a dead person was nothing too me. i really don’t like seeing people cry and all then sometimes people go all out and fake a show just because they feel guilty because they wasn’t really in their love ones life while he or she was alive. right off hand i must say the weirdest thing i have seen at a funeral and i wont even label it as weird i think the craziest thing i have seen is close family members fight over who will be in charge. like the feud went on and on and the day of the funeral the one who was in charge didn’t even want his sister to view their mother. it was so bad the police had to get involved and it just was a huge mess.

death is a tricky situation i know we all must go through it but to be honest i dont really think about it. dont get me wrong i have thought about it before but i dont like to get too deep into it. because when it comes to death its the unknown like i dont know what to expect. when i think of death i just want to believe what i have been taught my whole life. i think when we die we either go to heaven or hell like i dont know the process i just believe we go in front of God he does his judgement and decides our fate. when i think of death i try not to think about it too much. i use to ponder about reincarnation but i dont even think about that anymore. but i truly believe in going to heaven after we die i really dont know but thats what i stand on.

OLAUDA WAS A PRINCE WHO WAS KIDNAPPED INTO SLAVERY. BUT OLAUDA WAS KIND OF LUCKY AT THE SAME TIME. DONT GET ME WRONG HE WASNT LUCKY TO BE A SLAVE BECAUSE THAT WAS A HORRIBLE LIFESTYLE. BUT HE WAS LUCKY TO BE A CHILD AT THE TIME AND WAS BLESSED TO BE ON THE DECK WITH FRESH AIR INSTEAD OF BEING ON THE BOTTOM WITH THE REST OF THE SLAVES. BECASUE THERE WERE MANY PROBLEMS THAT WERE FACED JUST BY RIDING AT THE BOTTOM. TRAVELING BY BOAT IN THE SUMMER ON THE BOTTOM COAST OF AFRICA ITS EXTREMELY HOT YOU HAVE A BOAT LOAD OF SLAVES CHANGED TOGETHER THAT MADE EVEN MORE HOT THAN IT ALREADY IS. THEN THERE ARE NO BATHROOMS SO YOU WERE FORCE TO USE IT ON YOURSELF AND YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE HORRIBLE SMELL. THEN WITH ALL OF THIS GOING ON YOU ARE STUCK WITH LITTLE WATER AND LITTLE FOOD IF ANY WAS PROVIDED. SO THATS WHY I SAY OLAUDA WAS LUCKY BUT ALONG THE WAY HE BEGAN TO THINK THINGS WERE MAGIC. SO YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT HE IS A CHILD AND ANYTHING NEW COULD HAVE APPEAR TO BE MAGIC JUST THINK ABOUT THE TIMES YOU WERE LITTLE AND BELIEVED IN MAGIC. SO HE JUST WAS EXPERIENCING THINGS HE NEVER SAW BEFORE LIKE THE FLYING FISH, HE SEEN CLOUDS THAT APPEARED TO BE LAND NOW ON THIS PART THAT COULD BE HIS MIND PLAYING TRICKS ON HIM FROM BEING HUNGRY AND TIRED. BUT IF I WAS IN HIS SHOES I DONT KNOW HOW I WOULD HAVE HANDLE THINGS I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE JUMPED OVER BOARD LIKE THE OTHER TWO ONCE I REALIZE I WAS A SLAVE. THEN LAST I WOULD HAVE DIED TRYING TO KILL THE MASTER AND FREE US ALL.