Lit Response #2

Section A
1. What strikes you about the book? What do you find interesting or significant about the book?
Well what i found interesting in this book is that it has 2 different languages to narrate this book. There is of course english and then the very weird one Nadsat. In the beginning it was hard to understand but when you get farther into the book it is much easier to comprehend and makes the book much more interesting. What strikes me is the fact that the author said in the beginning of the book that he thought this was his worst one. Some of the themes in this book are:
-Police brutality and Violence
-Rape
-Moral Choice
I really do like this book because it's fun trying to find out what the Nadsat words mean and it sometimes has nice twists to the book.
Section B
Some questions i had was when Alex said that he could not be a clockwork orange, why did the scientist stay quiet about it? What do you think was the importance of that dream Alex had when he got drunk?
Big Question:
My big question is when Alex finished his rehabilitation time, was he considered a clockwork orange?
Section C
There many good quotes in this book but the one that stood out to me was this one:
"Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man." This quote was really interesting because it saying that if a man was forced to choose goodness and not be evil at all the man would no longer be human, which makes him a clockwork orange. Which means that a man is either pure good or pure evil, which of course does not exist in this world.

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/hardwater.html

This link talks about the 2 different types of waer hardnes, which are temporary hardness and permanent hardness. Temporary hardness effects can be boiled away in a open container while permanent hardness needs to have all of it's negative ions taken away. Also talks about how you can make hard water soft.

blog

well we have 4 more days to do this project and we haven't really started on the posterboard so i don't know how we are going to pull it off, especially since we also have to do our final revision on the script. it would probably be best if we had marissa and i working on the water project and emlyn work on final revision and i will translate lupita's interview also...all in a good week...i would love to say this is going to be fun but then there is the stress that beats down those words.

Water hardness

Just here really trying to work hard and i found a cool cite that we may want to add to our project just for why water hardness is even important for reality and what the uses of water hardness are.

http://www.lanfaxlabs.com.au/hardness.htm

Water hardness can clog up your water pipes and when you take a shower with hard water you will find that you hair is very sticky.

Soft water is quite the oppisite of hard water when it comes to ur hair but if it makes contact wit h copper, the copper will dissovle.

more blogging....yay!!

Well i'm starting to run out of stuff to research on water hardness with the looks of what my group is researching but they don't have the equation to find water hardness....oh snaps. Although i don't understand the equation, i'm sure my group will help me with this.

http://www.water.ncsu.edu/watershedss/info/hardness.html

Hardness, mg equivalent/L CaCO3 = ([Ca,mg/l]*2.497) + ([Mg,mg.l]*4.116)

Also has some nice pics of what happens when hard water clogs up the pipes.

sigh/yawn

well once again i'm here to write an amazing blog with quiality, dexterity and endurance of the pain i have to go through to do this!! Aahh i'm just kidding, these blogs aren't painful. So this blog is for Annes project. This is the link:

http://water.usgs.gov/owq/Explanation.html

Although it is extremely short, i found it ver helpfu for our project. This site talks about what hard water is made up of and where it is located. It also tells a range of were hard water is at its highest too and a number of were it's consider soft. Until next time people.

My favorite time of the evening....LBGO

Well we were able to get our story board done, which was a miracle. There are actually some parts that i'm quite excited with and may take some exstensive time to do. There is this 1 part where we.....ah well you will see it when we are done... intriguing ain't it?

blogging with ur host kung fu masta

Well now we need to revise the script which is a pain in the place where the sun don't shine. Reason is because we didn't have much communication between our group which ended making the script look unorganized. If we would have gotten each others gtalk usernames we would have been able to talk instant messages. No matter i think we can get it done in 1 day........and then do the storyboard.......I'm sure we will pull through. Soooo other then that i wanted to say that i really have no more blogs that i can post about since the fact that nobody is really has a topic that is relevant to mine...anyways i need to revise our script......

hehehe another LBGO

THIS SITE IS HEAVENLY FOR MY GROUP, A MUST READ(MARISSA BETTER READ THIS), I SCORED THE JACKPOT. BUT REALLY LONG...

Link: http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/66512.pdf

This one talks about the US Policy, its figgin awesome!!! That all i need to say......

Notice stuff?I noticed a Blog

Uhh this is from another blog i found, it was from Gino's Blog, and i thought it was sorta kinda maybe relevant to my topic... i think. Well anyways here is the link:

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/cacounts/CC_207GPCC.pdf

Well this article made me think quit alot about my topic. It still does not occur to me why the US are staying with policies that keep immigrants out of the US. The immigrans are practically giving the US free labor at a very low price...(below minimium wage). Plus quite a few immigrants that migrate into the US don't have a high school diploma which means the can't get a high paying job. i don't know it just seems weird and thats what i thought the article was sayin...bias?....possibly.....

My other part ofthe scipt....

This is my other part of the script i can definetly write more if needed but by the looks of it, it seems like we're kind of short on time.

Comparing these Immigration laws, it seems to be affected by the economy of the U.S. and Mexico. Since Mexico is considered a 3rd world country, their laws are made in a way of where it would help there economy. In article 32 of Mexico’s immigrations it states “Foreigners are admitted into Mexico “according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress.”. Since U.S.’s economy is doing well it has no needs for such a law as Mexico’s. Although U.S. does have a temporary worker program which allows immigrants to work in the U.S. temporarily. Also the punishments between the 2 countries are quite different. When immigrants are caught in Mexico, they are usually fined and may have to serve jail time or vise-versa, and then are deported. In the U.S. when immigrants are caught in Mexico they are kept in the scorching desert until further notice.

I'm still trying to figure out how to sum this all up but i think it's quite good...

Just wanted to point out smeones blog...and the draft of my script or a part of it

This one is Emlyns link and it's quite interesting because it tells about what they are going to improve on the borders and how the system works.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/immigration/

Although it seems like a lot all together, if you really think about it, some of the new improvements aren't that much. ln one of the upates it says that they will provide 3000 more bedpans for the immigrants to sleep in. But really there are going to be a lot more than that.

This is just a part of my script i just wanted to show what i got so far...

Over the years Mexico has not made major changes to it immigration law. Mexico is very tight on its immigration laws, since Mexico already has enough on its mind. Immigration from Central America to Mexico has increased by 70%, and as of 2006 240,000 have been caught and deported back home. Although there have been reports on abusing the power of the Mexican Immigration Agency. In 1 case a construction worker, Roberto Lugo Hernandez, and his friend were on their way to work when they heard shots from behind them. Roberto looked around to see who is was, and at that moment was shot in the stomach by one of the two agents that were shooting. Agents are not allowed to use guns under the law and set quite the bad example for the U.S.

Some last Border project Info

I found this article that really tells how Mexico is treating immigrants that are coming into their land. The Immigrants mainly came from Central America and the flow of how many immigrants came in increase 70%. This was (May 03, 2006).

link: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/177711/

About 240,000 already have been sent back to Central America but the way they are hunting down the illegals are just wrong. They would use armed force to bring the immigrants down and if possibly either totured, stole or raped the immigrant. I think that this may be a little bias but there is always truths in what someone says so i think that Mexico is just as bad as the U.S is with handling the immigration.

http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/printer_17742.shtml

This is perfect for the actual Mexico Immigration Law. I noticed that in the law they allow foreigners to come in as long as they help the economy of Mexico. When Mexico catches an illegal the worst punishment is 10 years in prison. Which compared to the U.S. who make the illegal stay out in the hot desert for months or even years seems a little more just.

Well i just noticed that today was 9/11, and just made my view of how today was, crashing down. What made it sort of worse was this article which i'm almost sure it's a op-ed piece because the word bias was written all over it.

Link: http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2006-04-10hm.html

I thought this article was bias because she made Mexico look like they were pointing a gun at the U.S. and all the U.S. is trying to do is cooperate with them. She also said that Mexico is trying to get their people into the U.S. while we can't even get a couple of high school kids in mexico to try and protest for somthing about the airlines. I'm sure the high school kids got deported but not for the reason Heather(the writer) wrote.

THE ACTUAL IMMIGRATION POLICY FOR MEXICO

I've been looking for this for awhile and now I've finally found it which made me really happy.

Link:http://www.mexperience.com/liveandwork/immigration.htm

Mexico seems much more lenient towards this immigration thing. Instead of totally banning anyone who isn't legal, they allow them to pass only for a specific purpose with a permit. You can stay in Mexico say if u wanted a vacation or with a special permit u can stay longer than 180 days.

Ok i found an article that really sparked my interest about the Mexico and how they feel about people from another country from outside Mexico's borders. I think it's quite bias in the way the writer is writing this. The title is "Mexico's Immigration Policy: Hypocritical?"

Link: http://vivirlatino.com/2006/06/02/mexicos-immigration-policy-hypocritical.php

What i think is that it's totally fair at what Mexico actions are right now because the fact that U.S. aren't letting any immigrants. Their making it sound like Mexico had this policy to begin with and they can't prove it unless they have the date of when that policy was made. I'm just rambling on about this but i guess it's not in my power to say this...

Once again MAYAN RESEARCH!

Ok i found some really good stuff on the Mayan Warfare/conquest which will allow us to answer some of our guiding questions. (WARNING: THIS LINK HAS A LOT OF UNESSASARY INFO AND IS VERY LONG)

Link: http://maya.csuhayward.edu/yaxuna/warfare.html

What I found interesting about this site is the fact that when the Mayans conquered one of the land they would have a dangerous risk of starvation. 1. Because they needed to have food for all the warrior.
2. When they conquered a land that meant they needed to feed not only themselves but the land they conquered.
A setback? One could argue.

Today a brand new way...MAYAN research!

Well this going to my first post with the Mayans and found this site that seemed like heaven(haha i'm so bad at joking). Here is what I thought was relevant:

Oops Site first....

http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/latam/maya.html

This site is talk about the religion of the Mayans(which is why the joke was relevant). Here is the info:

"The Maya had a large pantheon of gods that often had different aspects (the combination of young and old characteristics or human and animal forms) and fulfilled different functions. The gods often had a counterpart of the opposite sex. The supreme deity was Itzam Ná who pervaded all aspects of life, and represented iconically as an old man; he was the inventor of writing and patron of learning and sciences. His wife was IxChel -old goddess of weaving, medicine, and childbirth, who was also the old moon goddess. The Maya had celestial deities such as the Sun God (who was transformed into the Jaguar God when he journeyed under the earth), the Moon Goddess, deities that represented the north star and Venus. Four gods (the Bacads) sustained the four corners of the world and the quarters of the moon calendar. The gods related to various professions and to social classes, as well as to lineages.The Maya believed the earth was flat and square; each corner having a specific colour, that was also the colour attributed to each Bacad of the corresponding corner. The underworld, called Xibalbá (place of fright), was divided into nine layers. Xibalbá was inhabited by deities, most of them related somehow to death.In addition to the nine layers beneath the earth there were thirteen higher layers where different gods dweltAstrology and numerology were of major importance and intrinsically related to the religious rites. So were the three calendars. One of them, composed of 260 days was related to the moon cycle, the other one based on the cycle of the sun was composed of eighteen month of twenty days plus the last five days of the year (considered unlucky days. A third calendar combining the previous two operated in a fifty two year solar cycle. A part from these three calendars there were also other ways of counting the cycles of time. It was based on these calendars that agricultural rites, as well as other rites and ceremonies were performed.The rituals were performed in order to satisfy the gods and guarantee some order to the world. Different rituals and ceremonies corresponded to different practices such as divination, baptism, rites related to the cycles of the year, cycles of time and ceremonies of sacrifices for the gods. The ceremonies generally began with preparation and purification through fasting and abstinence (obligatory for those celebrating the ceremony and voluntary for others). Then there were offerings of food, ornaments and valuables belonging to the elite and the practice of sacrifice (including human sacrifice), as well as the own blood sacrifices of the rulers and priests (this, was done by means of cutting themselves and letting the blood fall into a special paper that was afterwards offered to the gods). In the ceremonies there were also burning of incense, dancing, expulsion of evil spirit from the worshipers. To close the ceremonies there was usually feasting and drunkenness. During ceremonies the priests practiced the impersonation of gods, use hallucinogens or other substances in order to enhance their powers of divination.As women were considered impure because of their menstruation, they were not allowed to attend the ceremonies. An exception was made to the vestal virgins that could attend the fires.The priests were part of the elite and had as their superior the ruler that was also a political leader. During the ceremonies they were helped by assistants. "

Aright if you acually read it then you would have almost all the guiding questions answered for religon, all you would need is a little more ceremonies and if the king status is affected by religion. What i found was interesting is that the gods has a certain skill that pertains to the Maya's agiculture and the fact the fact that even though the Mayans were peaceful they would still have human sacrifices.

Sweet

It's really late at night and i was almost going to give up when i saw this piece of treasure here where is talk about the Mexican Policy and how it was trying it's hardest to keep a balance on how much people could go to the U.S. and work temporarily and keep peace with the U.S

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/news/docs/Ayon-MexPolicy1.pdf

What striked me on this sort of Policy is how much earlier the immagration thing was going on. It started since the end of the revolution and the plan that Bush is using now was used 40-50 years ago when immagrants could work temporarily. This will help us alot with our video because it will tell us how hard and Mexico has been working to let people in there city to survive. Hopefully marissa is doing well with her part of the research...

Present Mexican Immagration Policies

When i was looking for Mexican Policies for Immagration i found this interesting article about how mexico plans to take care of Mexican immagrants already in the U.S. and "blasts" about how horrible the U.S. policy is on immagration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090200958.html

This article was quite interesting because the fact that mexico is trying to keep the immagrants safe from the harmful policies that the U.S has. Also I found out from this article that the U.S born children have been deported back to Mexico and needig to live their new lives in Mexico. These families have been seperated and it's hard for parents and children to survive.