Friday, March 27, 2009

feeling of Insanity


Butterfly Effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory..In the Film By Eric Bress the same notion is expressed in a story of Evan Treborn a young man in a small town living with his single mother and amongst his friends.Evan finds himself in a serious case of blackouts and in a confused state especially in high stress occurences ,in time he develops some immune to this case but with no certainty.When Evan was younger he kept a diary to keep a record of these events,As he enters college he decides to read from his journal and is able to travel back in time and essentially he is able to redo parts of his life.He then experiences a number of events trying to fix his life in good intentions but in the end nothing ever comes as he wishes..I can coincide from this as we all may do, looking at something in the past even though most of us in the face of compliance all say "I have no regrets" there's always something that make you say "What If?"

Friday, March 20, 2009

Learned Helplessness


In the past administration, the U.S. Government has been spying on the American people what should be done? Patrick Joseph Leahy, a Democratic senator from Vermont and current chairman of Judiciary committee, wrote in a recent article for TIME magazine “The Case For a Truth Commission”. He acknowledged the readers about findings by the senator frank church committee, testimony for over 800 witnesses and thousand of pages that disclose surveillance tactics and tools used against the public. With even going far into investigating domestic groups such as the NAACP, an established organization with 400,000 members. The tone of the article speaks to a broad audience when describing vividly the warrantless surveillance of Americans as “trading away the public’s rights as if they were written in sand, not stone”. Leahy used the example in the Uncovering of Abu Ghraib were torture memos were sent out and describing the Events of Bush-Cheney-Gonzales Justice department as the worst since Watergate. So after presenting the issue at hand, Leahy expresses rhapsodically how appointing a truth-finding panel can help America Move Forward. Having a variety of fair-minded groups to find the facts and share their knowledge and experiences without an “ax to grind”. He closes out his issue with the respective forbearance of the republican view as the people “Have a Right to know what the government has done with their names”.The presented issue over the truth commission and whether or not it should exist leads us to ask questions and have an input those that agree and the opposed. More notably Leahy asks for a process that could involve subpoena powers and he continued to quote Lincoln and his bicentennial “we must bind our wounds”, after President Obama turned away from the issue to salvage the nation, any type of extreme partisanship and debilitating divisions could affect the U.S. even more. There is much evidence of how the bush administration used The malice practices to investigate also recent news of videotapes that were destroyed showing the acts of torture and sadistic ways used against the detainees. At all cost the country will learn and use these events to avoid but should there be direct karma for bush’s break into the laws of torture and breaking the Geneva conventions? That is the key issue on Leahy behalf well most of America agreed. There is need to a course of action since USA Today/Gallup Show that over 60% of America wants an investigation for the doings of the last 8 years; Congress will continue to work with the new administration as we have already seen progress with the recent reports and have the system work for us not against us.

An Evolutionist ??



Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken Once Said" To every Complex Question there is a simple answer and it it wrong"..somewhat vague but it Can commence argument amongst each of us.Most of the time we view a simple question on text and some of us can answer by just using a few key words but we consider complex questions to deserve complexity in an answer.The point on H. L.'s Theory is to spark up a conversation or argument over what are correct and inaccurate answers, leading us to be critical thinkers as many of the great writers and poets did in the past . Mr Mencken was an American journalist,writer, and a critic of American culture around the 1900's. He was known as the "man of Ideas", famous prose stylist in the 1st half of the 20th century as his Articles in the Baltimore Sun and the Morning Harold shared his perspective on life and politics.He is most famous for the work he did during the Scopes Trials (Butler Act-making the teaching of evolution unlawful) where this teacher was put in trial for violating the act. H.L used his flamboyant wit to test these fundamentalists and show how the argument in favor of Religious over science analogies seemed like" it would certainly be spitting in the eye of reason". In the end The judge declared that all of the defense testimony on the Bible was irrelevant and should not be presented to the jury.After The election of 1948' H.L. suffered Stroke that left him aware and fully conscious but unable to read, write, or speak. H.L. died on January 29, 1956.