Career of Your Dreams

One of the most important aspects of life as it takes up alot of your life is finding and getting into a career that you want, and enjoy. It may be hard, and it may take time, but why would you want to waste your life away doing something that doesn't interest you or makes you unhappy, just because it was the easy safe route.
As for me i believe that in order to be happy in your job, and in life you need to be doing something your passionate about, something that captures your attention, something that you don't even really see as a job for you would be doing it anyways. For myself I don't really know exactly what I want to do for a career, but I do know it will have something to do with art. Whether it be drawing cartoons for a news paper, designing layouts or web pages for a company, or some other job that involves drawing, I know that this will be the career type that makes me happiest.
Right now I have a job that I don't particularly like, but I do it because I have to, or at least that's what society makes people feel they have to do. I know I don't want to keep this job, but I'm in the middle of choosing between working at it full time for now, and finding school later, but I know if I do that I probably won't end up going to school. I will get comfortable where I am, even if I don't like it, and I will just keep pushing off school.
Another aspect that comes into choosing a career is money. Most people will go away from their dream job for the security of a paycheck, or a lifestyle. Now personally, yes I would like that, who wouldn't, but I would rather go through some harder times, and have the risk of failure, in order to one day get to my dream. Even if it means getting paid less, the happiness you get from it will make up for the money.
In order for me to do this though I will have to do alot of work. It may mean me working full time for a year, in order to save up some money and take the risk of never going, as over these many years I never really realized how much schooling meant, and to be getting ready for the future. Which ever road I choose I will end up going to school, but then the problem of which school to go to. Should I settle for one close to home, but give up some advantages of going to a bigger school, or do I go to a bigger school and leave the people I love. Whatever I chose it won't be without many an hour of thinking and debating, making sure I consider all the advantages and disadvantages of the decision.
Once out of school the work will not stop there. I will then have to be patient and put in the work to prove myself, and get the position I've always wanted. Even if it means getting a job somewhere else, doing something else in the meantime, until I get the skill, and respect of these companies to then get into this career.
Without a career we love, and want, we will not be happy, we will not be the person we were meant to be. It may take some work, but at least in my mind it is totally worth it. I don't want to end up stuck in a dead end career that Hate just because it was easy. I want to be able to look back on my life and say that I lived my dream. How about you?.

My Visit to Hell

After the long grueling trip to a place, a land i had never been, crammed into a train car so full no man, woman, or child could catch a breath full enough to satisfy our aching throbbing lungs, and if by some miraculous bout of fate we did manage to take that deep breathe our body was so longing for, we were met with the overwhelming feeling of sickness and death inside our very souls as many a person had died in our cramped dungeon of a train car. Many of these dead were thrown form the train, but it was so full some bodies could not be moved and ended up laying on the ground, people stepping on them while their skin literally melted off their bodies from the intense heat and humidity of the foul urine soaked floor of what we all knew was our hearse to hell.

We did not know exactly where we were going, but in the distance we could see the place, the place everyone was talking about, Auschwitz, the place no one came back from. It was stained black and grey from the utter sense of evil inside this giant tomb, let alone from the thousands of bodies that were incinerated inside the walls of this man made hell.

As we arrived at the gates of hell, the man himself, the one all the people talked about but were scared to utter the name of, for the fear that his total evil would visit them, Mr. Josef Mengele, the angel of death. A name given to him for his methods of sorting the crowd of vermin as they saw us, with his arms outstretched under his clean white lab coat, who many thought was an angel after the brutal, dark conditions of the horrid train car. With his crooked smile, almost buck teeth, and the darkest, deadest eyes i had ever seen, he separated me from my family. Sending them straight to the gas chambers in what was a modern day dungeon, filled with the stench of death and despair. I would never see them again, My fathers bushy brown eyebrows, or my mothers long golden braids, or my little sisters toothless smile she made when ever i told her a joke.

As for me, I was taken into a cold dark room, with what i thought was water all over the floor, but little did i know that it was the pool of clotting blood from the dozens of other test subjects meeting their demise at the hands of the dark, demon like SS surgeons. I was led through this room to a man named Rascher, I had not heard of him, but with his straight black eyes and emotionless face i knew this would not end the way i had wanted, if anything this was ggoing to be the most brutal, aganizing journey to heaven anyone had ever faced. Rascher and the other SS officers took me and striped me of what little clothes i had left and plunged me into a bath of ice water, i could feel my lungs and heart stop, i could smell the ice in the air, and all i could see was white as my eyes glazed over in pain. After 2 hours of the most aganizing pain i had ever felt, they plunged me into a vat of boiling water where i finally met my dimise, but not before i literally felt my heart explode inside my chest with what felt like the force of a thousand handgrenades. Once dead my soul stayed in this place, I seemed to be stuck here i did not know for how long, but I knew id be here until either my fellow prisoners were freed or we were all dead. In my spiritual state i witnessed them cook my body in the very vat they boiled me to death, then strip my skin of body to be make into lampshades in the camp.

The war has long been over, and the prisoners freed, yet my soul is stuck here, here forever, to make sure people know what happened here, and to make sure this will never happen again, to make sure no person ever has to come back to this hell and go through what me and thousands of others had to endure. I hope that this not only never happens here again, but that it never happens anywhere else either, but as i have seen what power, and man can do, I know its only a matter of time.

Synthesis Write

The connection between "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield and the poem "The Winners" is The way they both inscribe winning as a part of life, and that even in defeat you can be the victor if your heart is strong. In "Gates of Fire" the Spartans train almost their whole life, "through pain and loneliness and hate" to ensure the win, ensure the safety of their people, for "the weak are beaten at the start". But you cannot be considered a loser if you have lost for the greater good, or still have faith in your heart, as when the Spartans sent 300 men on a suicide mission to buy time for the rest of Greece to get ready. Although "the road is long, the dream is gone, the fighting heart still carries on" the men marched and fought to their death, but not in vein but for the greater good of all Greece's people. Also the Spartans are trained to "look on life and death as one" and to "drive through fear and doubt and sin". For when they die, their names will go down in history "amid the thin, immortal list", as they did in the after the battle of 300. where not only in actual history, but in the book the whole story is being told to and inscribed by Xerxes, king of the Persians, to always be had and remembered. At the battle of 300 the Spartans formed their lines at the hot gates, where 300 men pushed and fought back thousands of Persian soldiers, For "those only win who reach the gate" and the 300 Spartans were going to fight until the end, never letting up for a second, "with battered prow and shattered sail" they will fight. They have been trained never to give in, to "play their part", and that "this is no life for soul or heart, that breaks or falters at defeat". Another example of never giving up and struggling for the win is when Alexandros and Xio are left in the middle of the bay and have to swim to shore, and "through surf and storm and bitter gale" they make their way never giving up, never accepting defeat. Even for Xio, though he is not spartan he does not give up, even when "the sullen thrusts of fate" leave his hands crippled, destroying his dream of holding a shield and spear and fighting with the Spartans, he overcomes this and finds new ways and new weapons to use, to one day get back at his parents killers. It is quite evident that even though the poem "The Winners" and the novel "Gates of Fire" are so close and have so many connections, the most evident and meaningful connection is that life is full of winning and accomplishments, and that although we may and will lose sometimes, as long as we keep going, it was not a defeat and it will be the thing that is remembered and honored.

Troy Movie Review

Although the movie Troy was a blockbuster smash, they should of found a way to follow the actually writings of the myth, and incorporate them in a way that not only would have been historically accurate but allow the movie to remain such a big hit around the world.
For starters is the time of the actual battles. In the movie they display this war between a great and powerful Greek army with thousands upon thousands of men coming to battle the small (in relation to the Greeks) yet military superior city of troy, which in the movie lasted only a few days of intense battle and military prowess, while in the actual myth the war lasted ten gruelling years of Greeks bombarding the walled city for their taking of king Menelaus's wife Helen.
Another inaccuracy in the movie is how when Paris takes Helen they display Menelaus only going to his brother and getting him to fight along side him to win her back, when in the myth Menelaus had made deals with all Helen's former suitors who he had won over, and had made a deal that if she was taken again that they would all help to get her back. Also an indifference between movie and myth was that in the movie Menelaus was furious and didn't want to win her back for himself but to kill her and showed him as a big brutish ogre of a man, yet in the myth he wanted to go win her back from Paris to have as his wife again, and it does not show him in the myth as an ogre, but more as just a noble who won her over for his looks, charm, and love. Instead of this the movie tells of how he had pretty much taken her by force and she didn't want to be there.
Although I could if i really tried find more inaccuracies in the movie, I am way to lazy and the bell is about to ring, but i hope this has showed the total lack of facts taken from the myth and lets you see the possibility in how even with these facts added, it could have made just as good a movie.

Spartan Military

The Spartans were the most fierce, well trained warriors of the age. With their brutal training regiment, and their military tactics, not many were brave or worthy enough to take on this impenetrable force.

The training of the Spartans started at the age of 7, when the boys of the town would be taken to what we call now a day "boot camps" and be given scarce food and clothing, and encouraged to steal what they need, but not to get caught. If caught they were subject to punishment, not for steeling but for being caught. The boys were encouraged to fight each other and assert their dominance. At the age of twelve the boys were now considered youths, they were taken to a new camp were training intensified ten fold. the youths were made to go barefoot and were made to do extra tasks. At the age of 18 the young soldiers were considered adults where they would then go and help train the new batch of children. Once 20 they were eligible to become actual spartan soldiers, if selected you joined a group of about 15 others, and if not u went back to your home and worked. A soldier once selected had military duty until about the age of 60.

From a tactical point, the Spartans were not much different from other Greek states. As many Greeks did, they used the pholanx formation as they were an infantry based army. This formation consisted of a straight line of soldiers about 8 to 12 deep. Although they used a common military strategy their brutal discipline and training made them more prepared and more deadly than any other. One of the things that made them so deadly was not just their offensive ability but their superior defense, when needing they would form a circle of Shields and spears, forming an impenetrable dome of bronze and steel.

With their strict, brutal training and superior fighting skill. It is evident that the greatest army of the time was none other than the Spartans. Not only do we continue to read and learn about them today, but for centuries people have looked to them for their tactics and as symbols of strength.

The Human Capacity for violence

Mans capacity for violence is illustrated in "The Lottery" and "The Perils of Indifference" in many different ways. They show us that even the smallest or most innocent person or scene can actually be turned inhuman and unleash themselves for no rational reason at all.



This is shown in "The Lottery when it says "the children had stones already, and someone gave little edavie hutchinson a few pebbles." as Tessie Hutchinson was just chosen in the lottery to be stoned, that in this not only do all the children join in but so does her own son in the stoning. While all of this is being done all old man Wagner can do is complain about how weak and wimpy people have gotten and when the idea of stopping the lottery comes up he compains that about the young fools in other villages and totally disregards the notion.



Even a best friend can have totally unmoral or inhuman actions as shown in "The Lottery" when Mrs. Delacroix, Tessie's best friend picks up a rock so big she needs two hands to lift it, just to then go and throw it at tessie in an outragious display of cruelty and violence, when she has done nothing wrong and the only reason for this is because her name was drawn out of a box.

An entire nation can be the cause of some of the worlds biggest inhumanities as shown in "The Perils of Indifference" when the old man tells the President and his council of what happened in aushwitz and how the only hope they had was that the world did not know of what was going on there. But little did they know that the rest of the world did know, they just pushed it away and went on with their lives like nothing had happened, and that that was not the first time they had done this. They had done this to countless others and somthin had to be done about this, for this is the greatest inhumanity on the earth, not to just condem one person for no reason, but to condem an entire group because you don't want to be troubled with others problems.


It is pretty obvious that the human capacity for violence is not limited to physical violence, but to what could be a worse violence of mental ignorance with the disregard for somones need for help or even just a spark of hope that somone is out there. For if man could just pull itself away from its precious standard of living and take a second to really see the world maybe no one would have to live through or with these injustices again.

Top 3 Places To Go

The top 3 places I would want to go to would be Germany, Rome, and Brazil. I have chosen these spots for there amount of history and landscape/ architecture, which I find very interesting and love to learn about and see.
I chose Germany because I am fascinated with world war 1 and 2 and i think it would be awsome to go and see some of the memorials and battle grounds of that time. Another reason I have chosen Germany is for its architecture, they have some of the not only the newest and most unique but oldest architecture in the world. Oh and of course I wouldn't mind driving on the autobon in a nice ferrari or porsche going 200 km an hour.
My second choice Rome was chosen for the amount of history in the land. A whole nother civilization was there thousands of years before us. One of the places I most want to visit there is the Collusium. It is so old and was such a marvel of the time, and thousands of men were killed there and it just kinda makes you wonder if we'll ever resort to that again for entertainment. Another place in Rome I'd love to go would be Vatican City and see how strong faith and the church is over there.
Now for my third and final choice of Brazil. I chose Brazil for a change of pase, i want to see the tropics and the rainforest, while also seeing ancient ruins of the area. While in Brazil i would go to Rio and see how people live down there and see what i consider one of the most amazing landscapes in the world. I would love to take tours of the forests and see animals ive never seen before, or go to ruins and see how intricut and tedious the detail and building of the ruin would be.
So I've told you the top 3 places I would go if I got the Chance. Yet there are still many more places i would love to go, because i love traveling and seeing new things, But i wont bore you with all of those. Im just gonna say if you get the chance to travel take advantage of it, cause things like that don't always come along.