Call Of The Wild Personal Response And Summary

       I recently read The Call Of The Wild by Jack London, it is about a dog named Buck whose owner tragically died. Shortly after Buck is captured and taken to a camp where he is beaten and malnourished by 'The Man In The Red Sweater'. After being there for some time he is purchased by two men by the names of Francois and Perrault to attend their sled team. During his time on the sled team Buck experiences more malnourishment and is constantly pestered by Spitz, the tight-fisted alpha dog known for murdering some of the team members. Buck later kills Spitz by breaking both of his legs and then finishing him off in an epic fight for leadership over the team. Soon after the incident Francois sells the sled team to brothers Hal and Charles and  Charles' Wife, Mercedes.  All of them tragically die when crossing an ice patch leaving the starving dogs behind. Buck wanders off and finally is discovered by John Thornton, he took Buck in and nursed him back to health. As Buck is laying peacefully he heard sounds coming from the forest, he had an urge to runaway but in loyalty to Thornton he stayed at the camp. Buck gets presented to the town and the towns people offer John ridiculous amounts of money after seeing Bucks abilities of pulling extreme amounts of weight but the offers are denied. On Bucks first journey with John Thornton, Buck wanders for a short period of time only to come back to his team dead along with Thornton and his crew all found pierced with Yeehat Indian darts. Buck tracked down the Yeehats and with flooding anger killed their chief. Shortly after Buck meets up with an old friend, a wolf and runs away with the pack.
      I thought this book was quite morbid it has a very compelling story to follow and depicts Bucks'  Loyalty, strength and friendship no matter what happened to him.

The Middle Ages Suck Part 3

     In the Middle Ages the religion was supposedly Christianity, I say otherwise. If the people truly followed Christianity feudalism would have been outlawed. Well, how would they do that? The church was the ultimate ruler of the land. True Christians would most likely be against feudalism. So if the church has power over the land and are supposedly Christians, wouldn't they rule out feudalism? Another fact is that the church excommunicates you from the church if you committed a crime. Wouldn't you want to help those people throughout the church so they wouldn't commit crimes anymore? Plus, they should be excommunicating? Don't get me wrong there are some people that you just can't help, but at least make the effort.

The Middle Ages Suck: The Domesday Book

     Remember Day One? We explored the stupidity of feudalism. Now we will explore the fuel of feudalism, The Domesday (Doomsday) Book. When William the First conquered England he conducted a survey of the land and census and wrote it all down. Under the thinking of the Normans this information benefited the military and the defense of King William. The information consisted of who owned land and what people's assets were. This powerful information afforded William a way to levy taxes on the English securing his control.

       The system of feudalism works on the power of making private information public. This information  is then vetted through the legal system where laws are made to control the populous. The information and the laws become intertwined and makes it easy for those in power to abuse the people, by using the guise of 'protection' from outside invaders or  'government programs' to better the revenue flow of the economy.

The Fairy Tales Of The Real World Part 3

      In this lecture the author describes science and how some people perceive it as boring or not interesting, and then explored the depths of science facts and explained that they are interesting But, sometimes there is more to a statement that meets the eye. For example coral are not that interesting at first but when you explore how they work a whole new world is opened to you. The author also describes nature in a anthropomorphic way, such as, clothing it with real meaning and love and truths. It is also explained that there is a purpose and place for everything in the universe even the most bland or simple things.

The Fairy-Land Of Science Lecture Two

      The author talked about the sun often in this lecture, She explained the journey of a ray of sunlight to earth and how critical it is that we have the sun. It was also explained how prisms work, first sunlight hits the prism and it breaks the invisible ray into smaller beams of light that appear as a rainbow of colors. The author also mentioned how important the sun is to earth, if there was no sun there would not be any plants and if there are not any plants there aren't livestock or any other herbivores and then the carnivores would not have anything to eat as well. So in conclusion, the earth needs the sun to thrive and go through a daily procedure.

The Fairy Tale Land Of Science Lecture 4

      In this lecture the author talked about the wonders of water and how it travels to and from out atmosphere back to earth again in different shapes sizes and forms. The journey of water is amazing if you think about it, It travels on a never-ending cycle. Water can return to earth in three different forms, vapor, liquid, and ice. Water goes through not one but two cycles one between the sky and earth and the other erosion, It slowly eats away at the earth. This is how the Grand Canyon was made, I suspect it was the great flood back in bible time that formed or started this miraculous land form.

Escaping The Middle Ages

      At the end of the Middle Ages the Renaissance started. Renaissance being the French word for rebirth was the new age of art, music and wealth. Around 1400-1500 many Europeans were wealthy. Art, Science, and political thinking became more popular. But there is a dark side to this brighter age, The Bubonic plague or Black Death arrived and wiped out half the population of Europe, among most of them peasants had the highest death rates. Not only did the plague kill people it decreased business income. However ,in the fifteen hundreds the population started to climb resulting in the rise of Europe.

The Renaissance

     The Renaissance started in 1350, Business was doing very well this lead to art becoming a popular merchandise in Italy. One of the residence of Italy in the Renaissance was Francesco Petrarch, He was often called "Father Of Humanisim" He was a scholar and poet and his ideas inspired many across Europe as the Renaissance spread. New ideas quickly spread hence starting the Renaissance. A popular painting subject was the human body. A famous painter and inventor from that time was Leonardo De Vinci, He was accepted into Painters Guild Of Florence at twenty years of age.

The Turks and Caicos

      Turks and Caicos are a string of islands in the Atlantic Ocean near Cuba, the islands were inhabited by the Taino and Lucayan Indians for roughly seven hundred years. They were known for their farming skills and colorful culture. When the natives daily work was finished the villagers would gather in teams of twenty to thirty people and play a game commonly known as 'batey'. Batey was hosted in the middle of the village where there was a court with stone walls and petroglyphs painted on them. The game was very similar to soccer but instead of just a game batey was used to help tribes resolve disputes. Occasionally, there would be a game between the married and singles, the married team would wear a cloak while the singles played nude!  Lucayan villages were very beautiful, they had circular huts surrounded by greenery, semi-accurate models have been recreated in Cuba. The natives Maipurean language originated words such as; Caicos, meaning string of islands and the word 'canoe'.  

      Turks and Caicos have forty islands, only eight of which are inhabited. The current population is 33,098 people. The capital city is Cockburn Town. The motto is "Beautiful by nature". The Flag is the British flag with the Turks and Caicos coat of arms which contains a conch shell, lobster and cactus. The government is controlled by the British after they took leadership from Jamaica in 1959. Salt farming, conch exportation and tourism make up most of the economy for the residence and they are a zero tax community!
         A few unique facts about the islands are: They are home to the one and only conch farm in the world. In 1962, after orbiting the earth three times in his space capsule John Glen landed in the ocean and was retrieved at Grand Turks Island. Also, there is a shipwreck from the 1500's that was found in the Molasses Reef that was thought to have been the Pinta. It was later discovered that it was a lesser known ship, but also the oldest shipwreck find in the western hemisphere.

       
  I have recently traveled to the islands and I must say it certainly lives up to it's motto (see second paragraph) I stayed at Beaches Resort along with fifteen other family members. The sand at the beach was white as snow and the ocean was a light sapphire blue. I was luckily able to go horse riding on the beach through Provo Ponies and it was very fun and memorable. My horses' name was Limbo, he was dark colored and was the leader of the herd. I distinctly remember going through a narrow path which I found exotic, it had all types of tropical plants along the sides and the trail was dusted with sand, when we finally got to the ocean I realized that it was very different from the beach at the resort, the water wasn't as clear and there was seaweed everywhere, none the less, it was still very beautiful. We went fairly deep about three feet in the water. it was a bit of a bumpy ride on the way back to the corral. Afterwards, we headed in a taxi back to the resort and left for the airport the next day.

Reasons Black Friday Isn't Worth it

 
   I have never been 'Black Friday' shopping but from watching Youtube videos and hearing stories I can already tell that these 'great deals' are not worth your time. You would not believe what people do to keep their place in line! A woman at a Best Buy was waiting, oh so patiently, in line to purchase her items. An employee received a complaint of a pile of feces in a dryer which was proven to be the incoherent woman who supposedly was waiting patiently in line. Another exploit was made by a man that left his girlfriends two year old child in the car in search for a swanky TV only to be called by the police from home to pick up the infant. This next story is pure expediency. A woman shopping at Toys-R-Us when the original Furby came out deliberately pushed a worker to the ground, jumped on a pile of people proceeded to kick one of them in the face, grabbing the coveted Furby, stuffed it down her shirt and walked out the door in hopes of taking the merchandise home for free.
      Only once have I heard of a good outcome happening on this widely treasured day. A woman standing in a line outside of Best Buy was asked by the store staff what she would like to purchase so a hold could be placed by her name. She asked for a two hundred ninety-nine dollar laptop and the clerk explains they only have the four hundred ninety-nine dollar laptops left. The lady begins to cry because she is starting night school and cannot afford the more expensive laptop, then a man walks up to her and says, "I knew I brought so much cash for a reason," and gave her two hundred dollars and walked away.
        Sadly, the last story was an anomaly if more people had the same mindset as the the anonymous man, Black Friday would be a more reasonable holiday shopping experience, but for now it will remain a mob mentality, nut-case packed holiday for average and below average Americans to enjoy.