Friday, November 19, 2010

involentarily laughing and crying

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/a-pill-to-control-laughing-and-weeping/

apparently there is a condition where you can cry and laugh involentarily. things like strokes and certain diseases cause it and the article said that its common but rarely heard of. its called pseudobulbar affect. and now they have a new drug that can fix it! its actually a combination of 2 already existing drugs. the article goes into how the disease is not known to alot of doctors and that there might not be a big enough market for the drug. but what interests me most is that there are people who actually laugh when they don't want to, or cry when they arn't sad. its almost hard to believe since both of those things take quite a bit of force to do. i wonder what it feels like to do that. it would be so odd to do those things without any emotion or reason for doing so

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Deer breaks into college

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20101105/NEWS01/101105008/1052/COMMUNITIES02/Deer-s-rampage-leaves-Denison-University-building-a-mess

visit the link to check out the pictures!

a deer broke into 2'x2' window in the student center. when breaking through the window the deer had cut itself badly leaving a trail of blood in the hallway and snack bar area.the article said that there was blood all over the walls and furnature.

       "A local bowhunter who was contacted by Granville police shot the deer with an arrow throughan exterior window after the glass was removed, Pegher said. “It died within a few minutes,” he said."

they closed the snack area until the blood was cleaned up and the place was disinfected. the deer meat was donated to a local family, delicious!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

ideas for paper #3...

What I noticed in the book was a how independant the women were in 1984, how they worked and had a high up role in the society. This is an odd thing to put in a book writtin in the late 40's because I'm pretty sure back then women were just starting to enter the work and it was highly contreversal because women were supposed to stay at home. which got me thinking, to the author is women high up in the work force an aspect of a distopian world?! Everything else was backward about that society. So what i want to do is see if other early distopian literature has the same sort of idea of womens role in their books. this might be hard to do though so the topic of my paper might change.