So I've been reading Crime and Punishment and it is very interesting because Raskolinkov kept telling himself how crazy his plan to kill the lady is, and that he's not really going to do it. He also is helping people and being a good citizen while this whole plan is going on. But then he actually goes and kills the lady, and the reader is in disbelief because he seems like such a good person. So it makes the reader ask the question, why did he actually kill the lady? Now one of the thing he told himself is that he could kill the lady and not have it bother his conscience. It could be that he did it, to try to prove to himself that he would just kill the lady and forget about it. Another reason is that he wanted the money to help him and his family. But how did he justify killing the lady to seem to himself as if it was not even a sin? Later in the book his beliefs are reveled about crime. He had written an article separating people into two groups, the ordinary and the extraordinary, stating that for the extraordinary, the end result justified the means of accomplishing it.

I guess he must have considered himself extraordinary. His reasons for killing her I guess was to help his family and he justified killing her to help his family with all the wrong things she had done. So far though I have not come to a conclusion because I still have to finnish the book, but maybe I'll write aother blog to continue my thoughts after I finnish the book.

Why don't people ever get enough sleep? Like all my friends for example, they always say their so tired every day at school because they stayed up late doing homework. Then when it is Christmas break, like right now, or another break they have they stay up late partying with friends. Even myself, on the days when I can go to bed early I stay up and play. So it goes on staying up late every night until we make ourselves sick and have to stay in bed to get better. So why do we do it? I guess it's just the American culture and we follow it because that's just how it happens. We spend our days with so many things to do, and then we want to have some fun for a change and stay up late.

So what is the solution to the sleep deprivation we have? People can say "well just go to bed early" but it never works. Or do we even need a solution? Well not getting enough sleep stunts growth, weakens immune system, slows cognitive functions, and all sorts of other bad things. So it's pretty clear we need a solution. I think there are a few things people can do. One thing is to take out some of the activities in our days. Or maybe we can just use our time more efficiently. Don't spend time sitting around eating after getting home from school, and other such things. But I think for most of us we just have to decide that we will get more sleep, maybe a goal that we will get to bed at least by 11:00 five nights each week or whatever. It's something people have to decide between themselves and their health.

Ok I've been waiting here for about 15 minutes trying to write. These blogs really wouldn't be that bad if they didn't always have to be analytical essays every single time. Well maybe they still would, but still, if we could just have a relief for a couple weeks. I mean, I have homework up the yin-yang it's as if I was in college or something. Do they even have this much homework in college, probably not. What is this world coming to, seriously, give me a break. But could we please have a blog break . Alright, well I'll get started now. Umm I guess I'll write about a movie.

Well I'm looking over at my movie shelf and I've decided to write about The Man From Snowy River. What a great movie. My only problem with it is that the girl is so ugly, I mean, they could have put a hotte chick and it would have so much better. How did she become an actor anyway? But other than the ugly girl, the awesome horseback riding and cool plot make it a great family movie.

So the one bad thing about the movie, the ugliness of the girl. The thing that makes it so bad is that the guy, the man from snowy river, the cool awesome dude falls in love with her. How could he fall in love with such an ugly girl. So if they had changed the actor people wouldn't be repulsed while watching and vomit when they kiss. Just kidding, it's not that bad. But it still could have better, it's so sad to think of it, the girl ruining the whole thing.

The horseback riding is really good. I ride horses my self and in the movie they did a really good job of showing the horses. On the big ride to recapture the colt from the wild herd, making the horses do some of the stunts and stuff was awesome. The plot is also really good. I don't know if they got it from a book or what but it is awesome. Overall it is a good movie and highly entertaining.

"Repeated War"

This poem was written by my brother Nate. It is so true about me, and many other people I know, it is awesome. Nate uses personification and hyperboles to convey how insanely hard and horrible a simple thing, getting up in the morning, can be.

Personification makes the poem relate more to people by giving objects human characteristics. "The morn was weak", this personification brings a connotation of an early morning when people are extremely tired, and gives a feeling of the setting. Another of these personifications is "No! Never! Have you no regard For that which comforts all suffering? Earless and deaf was my foe." Now if you have not analyzed the poem very carefully you would not know what this is talking about and would not think it is personification. But the "foe" is the alarm clock that wakes you up in the morning. It as if the alarm clock is a person beating a "war drum" and the sleeper is talking to the person in astonishment and painful agony.

The hyperboles in this poem are so big overstatements that because they are partially true it brings the real truth in them out. One of these is "painful was the defeat Endless, eternal, infinite torture." Getting up in the early morning isn't that bad but it is still pretty darn bad. Another of these hyperboles is a metaphor which says: "The weight of two tons Burdening, pulling, dizzy Struggling for sight, lifted at last." This is talking about the actual pulling your self out of bed. Of coarse a person isn't really two tons, but at 6:00 in the morning sometimes it feels like that much.

This poem is awesome because it is a struggle that we have to deal with every morning. Every morning we have to get up and carry out our days work, and every morning we give in to the alarm clock. "The pain and misery [is] left behind Til once again, the clash of time."