T Swift Mash-up

So lately I've been a little obsessed with this song and have been listening to it, every chance I get. It's a mash-up of Taylor Swift's Blank Space and Style songs but with a slower tempo and duet from two very talented people. I've been getting into slower paced songs these days and so I just thought I'd share something that I like from my music world right now.

Masterpiece Progression

For my masterpiece, I'm actually taking on two different pieces. One is with the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Maria with my friends Hannah and Judith and the other is my own personal fashion blog. Originally I was just going to do my fashion blog and figure out something else related to the career that I want to go into. Then Hannah had asked if I wanted to be a part of her and Judith's masterpiece project and of course I couldn't say no! I'll be able to spend time with my friends while doing something that I love to do. So what we'll be doing is going to the Boys and Girls Club over Spring Break for three days for two hours each day and we'll each coordinate an activity with the profession we want to go into, but make it fun for the kids to enjoy. So I'll be doing a crafty fashion related activity, while Judith will be doing arts and crafts, and Hannah will be doing a little soccer camp. So I'm looking forward to working with the kids and my friends and being able to get involved with the community while creating memories for my last Spring Break of High School. Then for my personal masterpiece I'll be setting up my Fashion blog that showcases fashion tips, fashion inspirations, my personal styling pictures, and other style and fashion related content that I come up with. Once I get it started, I want to try to post something everyday til the end of the year especially, but hopefully I can continue this blog throughout college and gain a group of followers that like my personal insight into my fashion world.

Brave New World Essay

Human nature is the sum of qualities and traits shared by all. When we hear that certain things are categorized under "human nature," it's usually pretty easy to tell whether we think it is or not. We are all human and should know that we all do, want, and need certain things in our life in order to be considered human. So why is it that in Brave New World people are programmed to go against certain human nature characteristics. The book may express certain views on conformity but it may not be as far off from our modern wold as we think. In many ways Brave New World can compare and contrast with our world that we live in, but all people have certain human nature qualities that are hard to go against. In the book Bernard Marx has all the features to conform to his World State society but has an internal struggle with not believing that he fits into his caste and questions whether he wants to be a part of the social norm or just criticize it.

Bernard has a hard time believing that he should be considered an Alpha because he doesn't feel like his size and appearance for the title. He struggles with conforming but ironically that's all he really wants is to fit in but at the same time criticizes the World State and everything that it does. Bernard is human and expresses his internal struggles through his weaknesses such as jealousy, anger, and his self consciousness to fit in when he doesn't look like he does. Bernard wants to so badly fit into a world that he bashes on because he wants to be seen and recognized, which he doesn't feel like he is. When Bernard revives recon guncotton from Lenina and John he finally is starting to get what he's always wanted. He starts conforming to his world but at the same time doesn't realize that he is a hypocrite for bashing on everything that his society stands for. For Bernard to finally be able to conform by being with Lenina and John he doesn't realize he is going against everything that he dislikes about his society. He's blinded by his own desires that he forgets that he wants to be one person but internally thinks he's somebody completely different. So he goes through this constant push and pull effect that confuses not only himself but everyone around him.

It's strange to think that some people can't be who they are because they are afraid of what their society might think of them. That's one key feature in human nature we all judge on another even when we don't realize it, it's just something that we all do. It doesn't necessarily mean we are bad people for thinking we do one thing when in reality we do another and don't even know it. That's how we are programmed. In the book they are put into castes and in our world in a way, so are we. We either are born poor, rich or average and then we can either end up average, rich, or poor. We control our own destiny though and for Bernard he knew what he wanted and who he wanted to be. His thoughts were just different from his actions and he didn't even realize it. Which isn't all his fault because he was born and programmed to be and do one thing while his mind was programmed to go against everything he knew. Bernard was stuck in between being a part of his society and saying he wouldn't be. In reality he was just confused because he didn't know whether to be a part of something he grew up in or go with his thoughts which he didn't know how to control. So he was always stuck in between doing and saying different things that he didn't even know he was doing, which lead him to conforming outwardly but inwardly lost.