King still king?

Martin Luther King Jr. played an important role in helping to desegregate America. I can't even imagine what America would look like now if it hadn't been for him. Still I don't think he should be called a king, I think that Matin Luther King thought that he was just a normal person trying to help out other normal people.

Meaning in my life

I have been recently struggling with finding a  reason for why I do things in my life. Everyday I wake up at 5:30 just to swim or finish my homework, both of which I would rather not do. For a while I thought that I was just doing this so that I could please my parents but now that I am actually thinking about it, I swim and do well in school because deep down, it makes me happy. I like to learn and I actually do like to swim. I think that everyone should do things that they enjoy doing and those things give your life meaning.

Music Review - Good People by Jack Johnson

A song that I really like is Good People by Jack Johnson. I like this song because it is very relaxing but also has a strong message behind it. Good People is about how there is so much misery in the world today. In the song, Jack tells us about television and why it is bad for society. A few of the things that come to mind when I think of television being bad are news stations and stations that show "children's" shows. The News almost always focuses on the negative parts of society such s natural disasters, people gettng killed/raped, and other sources of misery. This can lead to more people killing and hurting others trying to be worse than the previous stories. Other things that are bad about television are stations that show "children's" shows mainly Disney Channel. Kids are new in the world and don't know a whole lot so they learn by observing things around them. By watching shows such as Good Luck Charlie, Jessie, or A.N.T. Farm they are learning that it is good and funny to not listen to your parents, get in trouble, and not do well in school. Unless they have parents that tell them otherwise, kids can carry these ideas into adulthood and then they cn commit crimes and hurt others and not think anything of it. In order for there to be more good people in the world, there have to be good adults setting good examples for children.

Frankly speaking

I recently read the book Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl and enjoyed it very much. Unlike other holocaust books such as Maus, The Pianist, or Night, Man's Search for Meaning described what his experiences were in a much more graphic way. I think that that is what I liked about the book. When I read Maus, the Pianist, and Night but I felt that they were more for children as they told the stories of the author's lives but didn't descrbe it and cencored out what life was really like. Dr. Frankl wrote whatever he was thinking and didn't spare very many details such as when he talked about the jews turning on eachother such as when they took eachother's clothes or resorted to cannbalism, I hadn't heard of that before and it surprised me.