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~Melissa Anne

Life In 4D...What's This?

Tralfamadorian's in the book Slaughter-House Five can see life in 4D.

Excatly what they can do I honestly don't remember. But I do believe they see life from beginning to end. Explaining as moutains of life. From point A to B, Success to failure, and Life and death.
No surprise in life and can even manipulate time.
I wouldn't find this fun. To know everything and to not have something to look forward to. There's no adventure. There's no SURPRISE! Come on! What is life without suspense, without random moments? I like my life the way it is. MYSTERIOUS!!!

~Melissa Anne

Oh Poems Where Art Thou?

We Wear the Mask
by Paul Laurence Dunbar

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!


We put on a show for people when we are sad. When we are/feel alone. We wear masks to avoid emotions, attention, sorrow, etc. "To thee from tortured souls arise." If you take just that and think about it, people that cover their REAL self with a mask are only tortured souls. If you're not yourself how can anyone know you? How can you say you have friends when they probably have only seen the mask you wear? Heard the mask you wear. Watched the mask you wear. I only have this to say - Be yourself. If you aren't accepted then they are not a friend in the first place.

~Melissa Anne

Head-On : Apply directly to your web page

I have seen this commercial over and over. It's annoying, simple, and intriguing. You think about "Does this product really work?" My mom in fact was thinking about going and buying it from Rite-Aid for me. I always have headaches and she's ACTUALLY thinking about buying it. When she does I'll laugh, but if I try it and it actually works....I don't now how I'll react.
The commercials are annoying but they make you wonder.
It's a great commercial.
It's also something to annoy the heck outta someone.
Who could forget head-on????

~Melissa Anne

Miss Mary O'Hare All Dressed in Black!!

"You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs" (Slaughter-House-Five, p. 14).

In your blog, please respond to the above quotation. Do you agree or disagree? Do movies help promote war? Were they more likely to promote war in the past. Please explain your position.



I honestly don't think that they "promote" war, but more like encourage. They show war heroes and how you'll come back a hero and hero blah blah blah like it matters. I don't think people really REALIZE that the people portraying the "heroes" are in like their late 20's MAYBE early 30's and they are playing 18 year olds, at least in the movies. In the books on the other hand are different. An author is using their ability with words. I highly doubt anyone puts that into proportion.
Young men/women get drafted and of course they are scared, but they can't let it get to them or else they ARE dead.
Certain movies and books I would say promote and encourage war. I only think that someone who is easily brainwashed will actually believe in what a movie or book tells them. Which I've found out lately is MOSTLY all of the younger generation. Plus they will take it into their own hands and do research. But that doesn't make any sense does it? The information is right in front of us...or is it? Honestly no minds of their own and they must be told what to believe in.
I don't know where I really stand. These are just my thoughts.
Hope this makes some sense.

~Melissa Anne

~Rat Poem~

Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump
by David Bottoms

"let them crawl for all they're worth"

I guess I could say that I loved this poem. If that's what makes Mr. Goss happy? I honestly need more time to actually understand this poem, but I need to do my work :/ So my thoughts for now are below.

These guys are drunk, stupid, and think "Hey it's a lower kind of breed. Who cares?" They don't have to go through the pain or the death so how does it bother them? The men and rats have something in common. Heartless. Pathetic. Just like their lives.

~Melissa Anne