Final: Order and Chaos

Order and Chaos is found within daily life. Each definition of order and chaos may be different but it may be very similar. Disciple is a form of order. Life's order as discipline can be found in military circumstances. In the Book Night it says, "...German troops had penetrated Hungarian territory with the government's approval" ( Wiesel 9). The military is formed with specific regulations and guidance that keeps it being at its best. The structure within is set. Then there is the idea of perfection. We see the idolized perfection of the head ruler some may call the police of the government. In the book Burial at Thebes, Antigone states,

"This is law and order

In the land of good King Creon.
This is his edict for you

An for me, Ismene, for me!
And he's coming to announce it" (Heaney 7).

It is not that he was perfect but the idealized perfection that comes with the utmost trust within a ruler. Creon is like the police today. They uphold the power and we trust that they are for the people's best interest.

Then there is the idea of Chaos. Disobedience is a major form of Chaos, especially within cultural interactions. In the story "Brownies," Snot went against the "leader." Her disobedience to the natural law of the group made the explicit order go up in flames. "Everyone seemed to think that we could beat up these girls; no one entertained the thought that they might fight back" (Packer 13). There is also the demands that the order makes which creates chaos. In the book Night, it states this, "Around five o'clock in the morning, we were expelled from the barrack. The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain" (Wiesel 36). The prisoners were ordered around by demands from the officers. Their unknowing was the chaos. The destruction of war is always chaotic. In the book The Burial at Thebes, Antigone was killed because of the war she was having against Creon. "Whe she'd listened to how Haemon stabbed himself she went and took your own sword from its scaabbard and buried it in her heart" (Heaney 72). Her life was lost because of the war with Creon. Her life was chaotic from the start and it ended with the chaos of the mind.

Order and Chaos go hand in hand. Where there is order there is normally chaos. I would go as far as saying that if one is not present then the other is also missing. Order and chaos is found in everyday. Some of it may be exstreme and other times it can be mild. No matter what order and chaos is present.

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Math Lecture

Each definition of theory is different depending on from which perspective it is being said. The scientist viewed a theory as a hypothesis. When dealing with music theory or theory of education it is an idea of a justified course of action. In mathematics, a theory is a group of propositions to show ideas on a subject. In childhood development of language, they view a theory as a group of ideas that explain a situation. A theory is suppose to be an important aspect in evaluating an idea. In each situation a theory is obviously slightly different. The orderly ideas that co-along side of a theory is actually very chaotic if one is not versed in the specific definition. The slight differences in each view point of what a theory is was quite interesting to see first hand. We can view theories like things of value. To a dog a ten-dollar bill is not equivalent to a juicy bone. The Spanish flag is not equivalent to a French flag to me. I see a ten-dollar bill with more value than a bone while a Spaniard would see the Spanish Flag with more value than a French Flag. It is all in perspectives. One needs to look through the other person's eyes to fully understand the order.

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lecture

The lecture was all about evolution. Within the lecture the statement I kept coming back to was people go to what they see to believe. Darwin was in the sciences for most of his life. He found science interesting so, from what I concluded from listening to the lecturer, Darwin did not believe in Christianity even though he was around that religion for his entire life. What we find interesting or true influences what we believe. Darwin liked order. He split up how life was formed and then made speculations on his research to form his beliefs. To some the idea of science is chaotic and makes little to no sense. Others may like the well defined structure and find it orderly.

The Native Americans use nature as a base for their beliefs. They were around nature for their entire life. Nature was in their everyday life, affecting how they lived. Their lives, some would say, were too consumed with simple survival that they did not have to time or will to spend their "free time" on learning the break down facts that Darwin did. Order and Chaos with religion is all based upon personal preference.

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Blade Runner

Replicants, portrayed in the movie Blade Runner, are human-like robots. They were shown with emotions, compassion, understanding, learning capabilities, want of freedom, a will to live, and desires. They are created humans with flaws. Is that not a "normal" human. Each human has flaws. Our body deaerates. We have urges of violence. We rebel against authority, like parents, government, and teachers. For those replicants to be used as forced labor, the human tendencies of emotion, desires, and the will to live would have to be removed. They have all the human characteristics we would associate with a "normal" human being. In an essence all their human characteristics, like love, would have to be removed. After that grueling process has taken place then maybe it would be morally "okay" for them to be used as forced labor.

In Blade Runner, year 2020, the world is technologically advanced. People are able to make robots into "real" creatures. The snakes, in the movie Blade Runner, look like live snakes. They move smoothly and graphically look as though they are handling live snakes when in actuality they are only robots created to look, sound, and act like snakes. THe economy seems prosperous as long as you are healthy and are able to create types of robots or parts that could go into robots. There are the three types of classes it appears in Blade Runner the poor is the lowest class. They are the ones that are not technologically advanced. We saw this group on the streets steeling from the main character. The second class or the middle class is like the "toy maker." He was intelligent yet, because he was not healthy he was not able to advance into the third group, the high class. They were the healthy and intelligent people. The high advancement in technology cut the classes into three specific groups and putting the economy into the hands of the high class. The two lower classes just need to accept where they are and live the best life they can. It is like on an airplane. The first class, or high class, are treated with respect and special advances while the lower class are forced into close quarters with little to no say to what they receive.

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Feminism

Feminists are regarded with one extreme or another most of the time. A relative of mine is an extreme feminist but not in the regards as Dr. Jesse Kabaila Kapasula. The ordered way her culture views on the abilities and freedoms of women is chaotic to many of us. They do chants to tell a message of discontent, as a group. It seemed ironic that for females in America that we must go through courts and legal systems to end a relationship from discontent or abuse. Feminists scream the message of equality for women, but shouldn't it be equality of life. When life a person's life is disturbed then the people in and around said life would also be disturbed. One should have the option of adding or eliminating relationships within their own personal life without the permission of a powering body.

Dr. Kapasula was giving examples of how their culture takes the law into their own hands. The woman take some grass from their house and lights it telling the man that she is not happy and go back to where he came from. It is simple, understandable, and upon a sole person. We have to hire a lawyer to send us papers to send to the government, which the other spouse has to sign, to be accepted so that their marriage can end. It has a specific order which must be followed to for the most part. It is ordered. We have no right to say our way is better than another without knowing about it and more than likely experiencing it. Feminists of all countries and areas have different ideas and circumstances that they fight for. None are wrong, even though they may be judged, yet they also may seem ludicrous. We as a people will not stop judging for it is in our nature, but maybe we should consider another point of view.

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Professor Lemak's lecture

Each generation has a way of expressing either dislike of society. Professor Lemak commented on such ways of Patriotism and authority. One needs to stand up for what one believes is true while staying within the laws, at least at first. Antigone tried to reason with the law but soon found that her pleas were not going to be answered. In my opinion as long as one is not affecting the lives of others while attempting to express one's self then fight the oppression, let your opinions be known and do not back down. When another's life is at stake then the balance becomes very grey. One must then stand for what they believe but use their freedom with responsibility for with freedom there comes consequences.

Laws may be unjust and power might be being abused, but one must at into consideration that we are a people that are governed by rules and some form of order must be taking place or this world would never be as we know it, with the good and the bad that comes with this world. Justice of this world is like power. It may not always be true and righteous but it still needs to have some respect. Freedom and responsibility are within the same modes. Freedom is being responsible for what you believe in and having the option to choose to express your opinion. Responsibility is the force one has that is taken on when one has any form of power, especially freedom.

Power is found especially within the roles of being a leader. Take horses for example. They were beautiful creatures roaming free hurting no one. The leaders of many decided to take away their freedom and use them for what they believed was a better good. Wouldn't one say that those horses deserved better? Was it morally wrong to take a wild creature and force it away from its home, life, family, and freedom? Leadership is when one has power. Those leaders who forced the horses to become pets and Creon, from Burial at Thebes, is a leader who took away Antigone freedom to mourn her brother. Leaders shall do what they please as long as they have some backing to their decisions. That is life.

Power, responsibility, moral choices, life, freedom, and oppression are all intertwined and when one attempts to deconstruct and pull apart each from another life will not be as clear and consequences will have to be dealt with. Each generation had to deal with consequences from society, good and bad, with their music, drugs, and rebellion. Creon had to deal with his consequences for lack of compassion and today we have to deal with our ancestors choices and our choices for what we have done with our freedom and power. There are not clear cut choices. As they say in France, "C'est la vie."

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Movie compared to self

The movie was about the life, soul, and memory of two specific humans. They each tried to erase each other from their memory to make their lives happier and easier. Their attempts to make their lives better was fruitless. The ending of the little story was a scene of hurt confusion and regret from the loss of their memories that they wanted back so desperately. I choose this picture to symbolize that feeling of dread and incomprehensible vastness.

Self was in each one of those characters with and without their memories. Their inner souls' desires reflected what they choose with and without their memories. It was not their previous decisions that forced their future ones. They had not means to reflect upon their previous decisions. Their attempts at preserving themselves and their soul was human nature. Each character attempted to grasp their memories. Their brain, some would say their "self," took on the role of preservation. Memories help define and explain one's self but it does not make one's self wholly. It is in their desires and inner soul that makes a person who they are, unique. This is only a small attempt to prove that memory is only a small aspect of who we are, but it is my hope to see all people take it upon themselves to not only think upon what I have brought up, but to go beyond and form opinions and maybe even prove me wrong in some aspect. Those ponderings and judgements are what helps make who we are.

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song on human nature and self

Nether Lands by Dan Fogelberg

This song has the effects of choices and wants within a life.

"I came on some woods

And stood at a fork in the road

My choices were clear

Yet I froze with the fear

Of not knowing which way to go" (Folgelberg).
The reading on self is significant within this song.It states, "Whatever I may be thinking of, I am always at the same time more
or less aware of myself, of my personal existence" (William 174).His decision was not one that was only thought of for his own
desires within his life but for the people within his life.

"One road was simple

Acceptance of life

The other road offered sweet peace" (Folgelberg).

What life is about is within our our accord to enable it. What we choose depends on our wants, needs, place in life, and desires.

It is the social, emotional, and desires within ourselves that make our decisions. A blank slate concept is one that states how we make our decisions. Folgelberg did not correlate with the idea of the blank slate. It is what we get out of our decisions that make our lives. The idea of the blank slate implies that it is a divine source from within that our body "checks with" to accept a decision. Life is not run by destiny but by what we choose and why. Folgelberg interpreted the grandness of life with what our heart and human nature desire.

Works Cited

Folgelberg, Dan. "Nether Lands." Nether Lands. Epic Records, 1977.

William, James. "The Self," Psychology: Briefer Course. Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.,1992, 174-191. Print.

The Brain

Life is composed of communication. Each day we communicate to at least one person. The brain is the beginning of communication. Even as infants, our brains send and receive messages of pain, discomfort, and pleasure. We express ourselves through speech normally and other times it is through other modes of communication, like sign-language or by the written word. The part of the brain for speech is traditionally found in the right hemisphere of the brain. Through many studies people have found that not every person is the same. What should have been obvious took many years to figure out. Because of the differences in people, the right hemisphere may not locate all parts of the speech mechanisms. When scientists and doctors first assumed the all people were made the same and functioned the same, it would seem as though we could assume they found many other qualities that they assumed were the same. When one makes assumptions on people and society the order of life that we live in can become crazed. Problems with medicine will occur. Social and racial discrimination will occur for if a white man believes all humans are just as he or she is and then comes across an Asian or African they would assume that they have "something wrong" with them, when it is not true at all. All people desire communication. It does not matter what race you are, where you come from, or what hemisphere your language components are. We are humans how have the desire to communicate.

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Speech blog

1) Describe a small speech community to which you belong: What language(s) and/or dialect(s) do you regularly use (=the code), and what are the social norms for their use? Note the kinds of interactions you all engage in over one “typical” day: What are the topics discussed, the settings, the purposes, the “key,” the types or genres of speech, etc?

My family is part French. Both my older siblings and I have taken French for at least four years. My parents and other siblings tend to use bits and pieces of French in our conversations that add a bit of meaning to our speech. C'est la vie (Thats life) , tais-toi (Shut-up) , comme si comme ca(so so) and other phrases are used just because. We normally say things like this in our home setting when around family or close friends. We do not use these saying lightly. Each one is meant passionately, it is also used more when talking to me or when I am talking to someone. It goes to the same regards to my mother and younger brother.

My older sister lived in Texas for 4 years of her life and now lives in New York City. When ever she is talking down to any of us or if she is trying to explain something to us she tends to speak with a heavy New York accent with a bit of southern drawl to it. She never speaks to either of our grandmothers with her southern drawl but with the New York accent. She uses them to convey a bolder meaning to her words.

In both circumstances, we use our bits of language to emphasize our speech. It would be out of character for any of us to veer from those speech patterns. Meanings and emphasis would be taken a different way. Our speech, which was ordered, would become chaotic. To outsiders our speech can become confusing and misleading. We tend to sound jokingly during our foreign language communication and they can take it as a simple joke instead of a passionate meaning.

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Body Chart

This week of improvement and awarness of myself was difficult. After my findings of who I am, it seemed as though my body could exist without my "soul." I was not able to create an ordered time line for myself. Sickness was a hindrance for my "order." My bodywhat I was able to do. Friday I was in unbearable pain and was not able to expand, control, test, and intrigue my mind. Even though I was hindered in a form I was still able to work on some of my "qualities." My body was doing one thing but my spirit or soul was attempting to do another. If I was to let my body "fix its self," it would. Nothing I did mentally would change it.

This forced me to conclude that self is the combination of control over one's self and the way one processes thoughts, ideas, and actions. This may not be a complete definition, but it is a part of how self is attained, as I see it. Both Franklin and Juhan attempted to focus on their self and tried to improve their self. Franklin was not able to focus on many items at one time. I also found that I had to review myself when the day was completed and even then it seemed I focused on the finale of the day not the specific parts of each day. I do not know how self is attained. Nor do I know how one can be changed or if one can be changed automatically. It was interesting attempting this experiment as Franklin and Juhan did. The one thing that I came out of was the slight understanding of how powerful our mind and body is when they are working as one. Ironically, I had to see them working independently to grasp it.

Reflection on Night

Job and Wiesel both went through major physical and emotional ailments and suffering. In both of their situations, they did not know why they were in the situation that they were in. Both of their faith in God was strong. They both lived submerged in God in their everyday life. Job wanted to hold on to his faith because he knew that it was the only way. Wiesel had his dad to hold on to and God was too far away for him to live. Job did not have anyone else to turn to it seemed. Wiesel had his dad to keep him. Wiesel lost all of his faith in his suffering. Job constantly defended his faith. It could be argued that because it was not a mass of people torturing him that it was easier for him to keep his faith. Job and Wiesel both tried to keep to their faith starting out. Neither of them stopped having the will to live. Wiesel might have lost his faith but it is in the will to live that he still made it to see the other side of the horror.

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Holocaust Seminar

It was surprising to find out that the Nazis forced the artists to paint"lovely" picture as postcards to families. Not only did they paint but that they had to lie about how their life was being mutilated. It takes the book "Night" and puts it into a different perspective. Many people know a lot about the Holocaust due to school lessons, books, and movies. It is difficult to put too much emotion or too much of yourself into the facts because of the pain one hears, sees, and feels because of the truth of the horrid treatment of people. People cannot imagine how their own life could be like that without being in that situation. The joy that those artists felt by painting before the ordeal, for lack of a better word, must have been wonderful. I fear to think what emotional trauma they went through. Imagine being forced and more than likely beaten to paint lies just so this cruelty could keep existing. It breaks my heart thinking what they were forced to deal with or at least suffer through. The book itself did not changed for me by learning even more about the Holocaust. For me, the emotional strain of trying to put myself in that person's shoes was hard enough. To try to go any further in that relationship would have been unnecessary for me. I know this, life has terrible things inside, around, and throughout it, but it is dealing with the situations that we live life.

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What views, thoughts, or ideas, did I learn or rediscover for the Book of Job?

The last segment to the Book of Job is "The Voice from the Whirlwind." In 1 Kings 19:11-13 there is a reference about how God spoke many times through power. These verses say this, in the New English Translation of the Bible,

"The Lord said, 'Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.' A very powerful wind went before the Lord digging into the mountains and causing landslides, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there was a fire but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire there was a soft whisper. When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden a voice asked him , 'Why are you here, Elijah?' "

Elijah was use to having God being this powerful being. He spoke to God often and it was always in that strong voice, like the fire, earthquake, and wind. We find out through this piece of scripture that God is also in the quite moments when you do not hear unless you are will, ready, and suppose to hear. Job was the same way. He was use to God directing him and giving him everything he needed. He saw despair come to many "bad" people, but he knew that God was in that power with justice. He never had Him be in a small voice, a whisper. The time during his troubles and agony God was whispering but Job was not ready. He needed to listen to the "silence" understand the true meaning of his pain. It was not until he was that God showed up. The only way Job was able to hear him was with power and force. His agony pushed aside that soft voice making him unable to hear Him. He knew then for certain that there was a God and nothing will come in the way of that relationship.

Conception of God still relevant in the modern world?

What is relevant to any single person is vastly different. The modern world is a very broad term to play around with. Each person has the freedom to make their own opinions no matter if it is spoken or kept within. Many times peoples wants and beliefs become muddled and new opinions form. In "the modern world," each person chooses what he or she believes, which is true from all ages. Job's conception of God is still relevant in today's world. We are all searching for what we believe. We take in our life experiences and as much or as little knowledge as we want to or are able to find. The all-powerful, ultimate God, which Job refers to, is apart of some people today.