Blog 8!

I will probably end up choosing a book on death because it is something that children need to know and is confusing to them. The books that I am between are I'll Always Love You and When Dinosaurs Die. I think the Dinosaur book will probably be more for the illustrations because those books are really illustrated and controversial. Death is also a a controversial topic so that is also why i chose it. I think one of these books I can relate to on a personal level because I have had a lot of family and friends pass away even when I was younger and I didn't quite understand it.

blog # 7

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts didily dee .. here they are a standing in a row ho ho ho .. big one small one some as big as your head. I don't know the rest.

For those of you who don't know ... that was from the Lion King when Zazu was singing to Scar.

I love that song.

blog 6

I was shocked when with What Johnny Shouldn't Read so far. I can't believe the smallest things are banned from textbooks. I think children need to be exposed to things like aliens so they can make their own judgement on it. If they're kept from that kind of information, they could get a biased opinion thrown in their face instead of creating their own.

blog 5

Yes, that should be their main job. People aren't going to know about all of the things that go on in the world without the media to help us out. We also don't need biased twists when we get the news reported to us. If we just got the facts, nobody could complain. People could make their own opinions on news stories instead of hearing it from someone who has a very radical opinion.

3 things...

3 Things. . .

Three Things that Scare Me:
1. driving in the rain
2. small spaces
3. spiders

Three People Who Make Me Laugh:
1. my boyfriend
2. my brother
3. Dane Cook

Three Things I Love:
1. music
2. shopping
3. photography

Three Things I Hate:
1. broccoli
2. people who leave their blinker on after they've switched lanes
3. having to get up in the morning

Three Things I Don't Understand:
1. why my cat is so mean
2. how anyone could enjoy history
3. jello .. how is it so jiggly?!

Three Things on My Desk:
1. my phone
2. erroneous papers
3. chapstick

Three Things I'm Doing Right Now:
1. laughing at my own answers
2. typing
3. blogging

Three Things I Want to Do Before I Die:
1. tour Europe
2. get married and have a family
3. shave my head

Three Things I Can Do:
1. drive a stick shift
2. cook
3. paint

Three Things I Can't Do:
1. kill a spider
2. run fast
3. put in my own eye drops

Three Things or People I Think You Should Listen To:
1. Dane Cook
2. Seal
3. The Misfits

Three Things or People You Should Never Listen To:
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers .. worst band of all time.
2. Octuplets mom
3. screaming children

Three Things I'd Like to Learn:
1. to play guitar
2. to sew
3. how to kill a spider

Three Shows I Watched as a Kid:
1. Rugrats
2. Doug
3. Hey Arnold

Three Things I Regret:
1. buying a desktop
2. not doing this earlier in the day so I'm not up at 11 doing it
3. not saving as much money as i could throughout the years

Mill Response

Yes, I do agree with Mill that governments have no right to interfere with an individual's liberty unless that individual's behavior will cause harm to someone because a person's nature is to be free and uncontrolled. If it's not harming anyone then let the person do it. What does it matter? If governments controlled everything that every person did, people would start to rebel to regain their own freedom. People are like wild animals; if you keep them in a cage, they will find a way to get out, and then the real problems will be unleashed.

Milton

According to Milton, how or why does truth become a heresy if a person believes things only because his pastor or government tells him so? Why does Milton find this practice dangerous?

Milton's Areopagitica demonstrates that Milton believed that truth came out only through censorship. Basically, people weren't allowed to think for themselves. Any truth that they received came through the government's perception of the truth. Which was censored. The people had to believe what the government told them to believe. Milton believed this was dangerous because people could never think for themselves. They all turned into sheep. The government had the power and the people had no room to progress. When the government is the only unit with power, it can get dangerous to the public.