Journal 21 - Emerson to Franklin

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Benjamin Franklin both believed in making themselves better people, in a sense. They both thought that if they could make themselves better they would make the world better. Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that an individual should believe in themselves and become their own individual and not be like any other person in the world. He believed that at the time when he was writing that the world was conforming too much and everyone was being to similar to everyone else. So you should be yourself so you are not like anybody else and you keep your individuality. Benjamin Franklin believed there should be this set of doctrines, well he used virtues to be that person. This set of virtues that he would use was a list of thirteen that attempted to make him a better person. It worked for a while but then it got old and he did not do those virtues anymore. I like turtles. I think Emerson's Self Reliance was better because by believing in yourself and becoming your own individual will last forever. I wish I was half of how good of writers Emerson and Franklin were because then I would have no problem with this class. Then it would be awesome and life would be easy because Franklin and Emerson were beasts at everything. I wish I had invented something like electricity. Maybe I will someday. Franklin and Emerson are just really awesome people and I would really like them. If only if only the woodpecker cries, I wish I could write more or else I will cry. I should be a rapper did you just read that rap? That was sick and off the chains. What if I started to speak in rhyme? That would probably the coolest thing since sliced bread. I should also invest in Brandon because he is hilarious and he has some great stories form the place that is Best Buy.

Journal 20 - Self Reflection and Taking a Break from Society

It is always a good idea to take some time away form the norm and get to to know yourself a little bit better. Take Bobby here for example, he used to be very sad about everything in his life and in the world around him. Bobby was kind of a loner. He was that person who did not have any family still around. He had had no friends for who knows how many years, and he just did not really like his life. One day he decided to go for a nice little walk in the woods. This was not just your casual walk through the woods in my backyards, he was walking through the woods in back country West Virginia. He just kept walking and soon enough it was night time. He just decided to camp out that night in a tree so he did. In the morning Bobby woke up and decided to go for another walk. So he walked all that day too. Once again he slept in the woods. He kept doing this every day and soon enough he was connected to the world. He was living on mother nature's nurturing. Soon enough he was in Georgia. He had walked through most of West Virginia and all of North Carolina until he was in Gainesville Georgia. You see, Bobby really liked Gainesville. He walked into the gas station at the town and he fell in love with the cashier, Rhonda. It seemed as if by spending a year in the woods Bobby had become more sociable and he knew his limits now; he had none. So Bobby and Rhonda fell in love. Soon enough Bobby became a public image for the town of Gainesville and he soon ran for mayor. He won in a landslide result and he made the society a perfect one all because he took a year break from civilized life. As in Bobby's case it was nice to take a break from society and reflect on himself.

Journal 19 - Ideal United States

The ideal picture of the United States would be led by the best President ever, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had such a good image of the United States. The New Deal was a great idea that he had. It made the United States beautiful all the way around. Then it brought us out of the Depression. It was just genius of him to create a way to get people jobs and make the whole structure of the United States way better off. I am not sure how that would work out in today's society considering we do not really need any more public works constructed and we are very modernized now. I am sure Franklin D. Roosevelt could figure something out though to improve the economy of our nation. He was a great president during the war as well. I am sure he would have handled the whole war on terrorism much better than George Bush did. I think something that would improve our nation a lot would be to stop buying so many foreign products. That is what started the whole recession we went into. It also screwed over GM with everything that happened. If we just bought American goods and items it would boost our economy greatly. If only people could have realized this before everything happen. Another thing would be to make the states more independent and let them rule themselves more. I do not like the idea of states because they are like countries within a country, but the bigger country rules everything else while the other countries inside of that larger country have their own rules that are not really important. So maybe the ideal United States would be to just stop the federal government and just make all of the states their own countries considering they are just as big as countries in Europe. That is a little bit more debatable than just buying American goods, but hey you never know what could work considering our country is terrible with government anyway.