Final Blog

Danel. Order From Chaos. 21 February, 2010. Flickr.com. 15 April, 2010.
In the Order and Chaos class we looked at the different aspects of order and chaos. One of the words that we picked to describe chaos was madness. In Elie Wiesel's story Night, he says, "Did I write this so as to go mad or, on the contrary. to go mad, in order to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mandkind?" (Wiesel vii). Wiesel describes everything that happened to him as madness. The people were forced to leave their homes and work in concentration camps where many of them would soon die in the gas chambers. These people were living in a life of misery.

Another word that goes along with chaos is to disobey. In The Burial At Thebes. Antigone said,"I disobeyed because the law was not the law of Zeus nor the law obtained by justice, justice dwelling deep among the gods of the dead" (Heaney 29). In the play Antigone disobeyed the law and ended up creating a lot of chaos for herself and her family. Everyone wanted her killed because she wanted to bury her brother. Even though he died a bad man, Antigone still thought that he deserved a proper burial.

Another word to describe chaos could be crime. In The Book Of Job, Zophar said, "For he knows that you are a sinner;he sees and judges your crimes" (Mitchell 31). For the crime that Job did not even commit he is being punished. It is creating chaos in his life because he wants to correct what he has done, but he has really done nothing wrong.

In the novel. 1984, Orwell describes a place where everything is dictated by "Big Brother". In the novel Orwell said, "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, about the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up my it" (Orwell 6). The key to order in this place is that everyone has the same everything and that everyone has to watched and heard through the telescreen.

Under the group of order, the word protection could also fit. In John Stuart Mill's, On Liberty, he said "By liberty, was meant protection against the tyranny of the political rulers" (Mills 61). This contributes to order because if everyone has equal liberties than there will not be anyone having more power than anyone else. This even stops the political rulers from having too much power over all of the people.

Through out this course I have been able to have a better understanding of Order and Chaos. Even though these words have opposite meanings it was interesting to find that all of the pieces that we read connected the two words.

Professor Jacobson's Lecture

Colliderstaff. Chaos Theory. 2005. Online Image. googleimage.com. April 9, 2010.
Going into the lecture I had no idea what to expect. The last thing on my mind was a lecture about math. It was a very interesting lecture, but it was hard for me to understand. From the lecture the most important thing that I learned was that a small change in a system will cause a large change in the outcome.  This method of chaos theory does not only connect to math, but also to real life situations. I thought it was interesting that for most of the lecture he related everything to math, but in the end we find out that the this theory can relate to anything. He was relating this theory to weather changes and changes in DNA causing birth defects. In the end I was able to overcome the mathematical portion and realize how it effects the world. This can be related to the book 1984 because Big Brother is slowly taking away the liberty of the people and in the end the people will have nothing for themselves. 

Lecture by Professor Kjar

Grey Dagger Caterpillar. Nutmeg66. Sept. 11, 2008. Online Image. flickr.com. March 30, 2010.

Professor Kjar gave an interesting lecture about evolution. Through out the years I have studied evolution, but from Professor Kjar's lecture we were given a new look on evolution. He talked about the common misconceptions that people have. There were some that took me by surprise. Most people thought that rats were around long before humans, but in the lecture he showed a timeline that showed that rats were around after humans. I have to admit that I would have thought that rats had evolved before humans. What I found most interesting was the caterpillar that ate the wasp nest until the wasps are born. I had never heard of anything like this before the lecture. The lecture was important to what we were learning about because it gave a better understanding of the way that other species other than humans have evolved. There was a lot that I learned about evolution, although I did not think there was much more to learn going into it.

Blade Runner

                                                                                Li'd. Deckard & Rachel. June 27, 2009. Online Image. flickr.com. March 3, 2010.

1. In the movie I noticed that everything was always dark. The rooms and even the sky was always dark, and it was always raining. The building that people worked in were very large. They are much bigger and different shaped then a lot of the buildings today. The houses seemed to be mostly run down. It made me think that the people that were living there were not really happy. They seemed to be the outcasts of the time.

6. It is important that people are treated equally. It would not be right to treat something that has the same feelings as humans have any differently. The only way that it would be OK to have the  replicants do labor if they did not have any sense of feelings. It would also work if they did not really have any memory that would know certain things. If they only knew the tasks that they were supposed to preform. 

Dr. Kapasula's Lecture

Felipe Beiza. Sasha Fierce. 25 May 2009. Online Image. Flikr.com. 9 March 2010.

I thought that Dr. Kapasula presented a great lecture. It was a lot of fun and she was good at keeping everyone interested. In the lecture she  showed a video of Beyonce's song "single ladies". I will agree with her that I like the song, and I would never have understood what she was actually saying in the song if I had not payed close attention. It was interesting to know that girls even talk themselves down like that. In her song she is calling a women an "it". What I thought was most interesting was that back in Africa when the article headline had a quote from the song. saying that he put a ring on "it". I was shocked to hear that they were allowed to use that word to describe a women in a newspaper. In connection to order and chaos I thought that even though women have gained equal rights to men that there are still problems in the system where women are really not treated equally. The lecture can be compared to The Burial at Thebes because although Antigone is her own person she is still ruled my Creon and he made the decision that she should be killed for what she had done. 

Professor Joe Lemak's lecture

The Burial At Thebes. Seamus Heaney. 2010. Online Image. flicker.com. 9 March 2010.

From listening to Professor Lemak's lecture I learned a lot more about the Burial at Thebes. This lecture gave me a better understanding of the culture of the time. It is a hard thing to balance social justice with moral authority. For Antigone she just wanted what was right for her brother and her family. It was important to her that her brother had a proper burial, but King Creon was just doing what he thought was right and that was to punish her for what she had done. If Creon let her get away with what she had done then Creon wouldn't look like he is doing his job. Although it was Creon's responsibility to kill Antigone for what she had done, there is still justice that she just wanted her brother to have a proper burial. The relationship between freedom and power is that with power you have all the freedom that you want to do anything. With Creon's freedom and power he could make the decision to not kill Antigone. A leader is someone that respects the rules, but he is also willing to hear what people have to say. In Creon's defense it was a law in the time that if you kill someone that you are not allowed a proper burial. Creon was only doing what he is asked to do as a leader. 

The Self

Daughter of Chaucer. Clementine Kruczynski / Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind) manip, digital print. 4 March 2009.  Online Image. Flikr 21 February 2010.

Question #1. Is there a self that I can control? Everyone is capable of controlling ones self. It is important that people realize that you have control over the decisions that you make. There are some cases where a mental problem will keep someone from making certain decisions. People need to realize that they have to power to make decision. 

Question #2. What forces shape our sense of self? The different situations and the people that you are around play a major role in shaping our sense of self. People can act different around certain people, therefore some people have many versions of the self. This can be a problem because if you are pretending to be more than one person you could hurt other people. 

Question #1. The film begins with the end of the film. It starts off with joel waking up after he has already gone through the whole mind erasing. This is important because the audience doesn't really know that it is after the fact until the end. He woke up in fear and that shows the audience that he is fearful after everything that has happened to him. 

Question #2. What was the central conflict of the film? The central conflict was that joel and clementine both wanted to have each other erased from their mind, but through the process they realize that they really don't want it to happen. Through Joel's mind erasing process he is trying as hard as he can to not forget everything that he had with clementine.