Common Places

American culture is chock full of common places, or simply, ideas that are strictly unique to specific countries or regions. While America has many of these, I feel Manifest Destiny dilplays this best. Manifest Destiny was the belief that Americans had the God given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This meant that no foreign presence, Native Americans, or other colonial power could hold any claim over the land between the Atlantic to the Pacific. This idea led the United States to annex Texas, wage war with Mexico, pressure and threaten Great Britain, exterminate the Bison herds, put Navive Americans into camps, and to discriminate against foreiners. While most of this is negative, it is purely American. These experiences are unlike any country had faced before. Manifest Destiny made the U.S. the first country to ever feeled entitled to something, but we wouldn't be the last.

The United States is host to a slew of Urban Legends, otherwise known as common place mysteries that has been told as true, and could conceivably be true. The story of BIg Foot is known across the world, while there is no proof that it exists, it has created an entire feild of science, called crypto zoology. Urban legends are so prevalent, because people want to believe that mysteries or fun and outrages facts can exist, it is a hobby or past time of some people to collect images or outrages stories because people want to believe that the rules of nature can be broken.

Debate day!

Well, last class is was hinted that we will engage in a mini debate over sound polution on the imaginary island of Kayros. I am looking forward to this, and cannot wait to engage in another group discussion such as this. This is a fun and engaging class, I think that this level of intrest will remain with me throughout the course of the class.

Stasis Theory

Lately we have been working on the Stasis Theory, which, in short, is just a really long and big version of copromising. Okay, it is a little more complicated than that, but the real issue is how can I apply what I have learned. Thus far we have done lessons on Kairos and Stasis Theory, both of which I understand and am fascinated by. Both of these are vital in every day life, and having been debate captain in high school, I have already begun to use these theories. I am enjoying that this class is so similar to my debate experience, allowing me to grasp and understand this knowledge sooner than I would have in many other situations.

Week 1(well really it is week 2, but we will call it week 1)

Well it is finally friday, and fortunately my friday's have my favorite classes and wrap up at 1:50. In English 1323, I read chapters 1 and 2 twice. We also discussed the idea of kairos, which fascinates me. It seems to be an idea that everybody knows, but that no one know's that they know it. I like the idea of it, so much to the point where I am going to use it as the primary power of a character in my comic book, I am looking forward to writing it this weekend. We also did a what was supposed to be breif assignment over Twilight and pop culture, but I turned it into a page and a half long essay... That assignment was great and I love those type of open ended questions.