Monday, February 7, 2011

The Crucible

The Crucible is a play that shows us how easily people get influenced or fooled into believing what others want us to believe. For example in the play Abigail Williams is a young woman that wants something she can’t have. What I mean is she wants a married man. Since she knows John Proctor doesn’t want her she plots evil things for the village.
The village was as innocent as possible since they know that churches court will hang them for any “sins” they had committed. It’s interesting enough that it had to come to witchcraft so the town’s people had to realize that they were all “sinners”. They knew they were all sinners but yet didn’t do much about it. It was as if they were still all in denial and the church still tried to have authority but yet ignored all the “sins” amongst the people unless they were made public.
For me it was interesting to read it because it taught me about the past and about McCarthyism. I learned that McCarthyism is kind of like the Crucible because people got blamed for been communist and got arrested for it. The same thing happened in the Crucible but only they where been accused of been witches. They all lie to get what they want.
The Crucible is mostly about a couple of girls that are really upset that they lie about witchcraft. Their leader Abigail Williams she tells them what to feel or what to do. The reason Abigail lies is to get the man she wants. She is a dirty, sneaky liar. She makes people think that there are witches in Salem. Since Salem is a puritan town they take the bible very seriously. It was a very ongoing situation. The girls that started everything decided to leave and stop accusing people after Abigail ran away with her uncle’s money.
The lies they told were unbelievable. The judges were harsh on the accused. They gave the accused two options to confess and be isolated or to die hanged. Since they knew lying was a sin and God wouldn’t forgive them for it they opted out with getting hanged. They tried to make all of them confess that but none of them would because they were all innocent. Like with McCarthyism they were accused of been something they weren’t that’s why this play went perfect around that time. It’s incredible that people are very gullible especially when it comes to making false accusations or coming up with evidence.
In the crucible they had one justification onto why they didn’t actually confess and that was because of their religious beliefs. Most of the accused said that Abigail was lying but the court didn’t believe them. So they had no other choice but to take what came to them. This play was basically to describe what happened in McCarthyism. When people truly believe in what they feel strong about what they believe in might come back and make them regret believing in it or feeling that they shouldn’t have believed in it that strong. It’s a very complex play and it describes what happened in real life with McCarthyism.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Social Network

The Internet can it be trusted or can it be a misuse amongst teens and young adults? Well I believe that it’s a good source of communication and that it can help during research project and things like that. I do strongly believe in that people should better the Internet and help protect some of the things we post or say. It's very interesting to see how people seem to just think that the Internet is a very safe place and that if you post something embarrassing you can erase it anytime you want. I know that it's a place with a lot of social networks and that just because your friend can see your stuff it’s just going stay like that.
I know that certainly some pages have a privacy policy but most people don’t even know about it and seem to ignore that. It’s a place where you can express yourself but you really have to watch what you say. I haven’t that misunderstanding but I know people that have they hate it and regret it after a while. It’s super easy to fall in that pattern and say what can go wrong if I post this up. If people were more careful they would be accepted in a lot of schools or they wouldn’t get kicked out of school.
For example on the article we a student was kicked of his school because he posted pictures of himself dressed as a woman. According to the campus they had a zero tolerance on stuff like that since it was a very religious school. They also said that they had a lot of complaints towards that student and because he wouldn’t follow school rules. They would describe has a one of the worst students in campus and a very disruptive one too. He says he regrets posting those things up since he couldn’t finish his school year and finish using his scholarship.
Living in a virtual world is way different than living in our sane world. A virtual world is basically made up of whatever u want it to be and the regular sane world doesn’t truly offer that much of an option. A virtual world is like an escape to a place where most people feel comfortable and feel like they can be anyone they want to be. I mean people feel like that in the real world but it’s more comfortable in a virtual place where people don’t know who you are and can pretend to be someone else. It’s cool to have a place where you can pretend to be someone you’re not, but it’s better to stay in reality and work on things so they can be like your virtual world.
Its fun and games at first but it can become very addicting too. It’s cool that some of your friends can talk to you while playing games or being in a virtual world. Social networks are the same thing only that you can’t pretend to be someone you’re not. That’s why most people pretend to be who their not. The ones who don’t well are missing in a lot but still being smart about other stuff.