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Simplicity is Complicated

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Simplicity is Complicated

BY April Kornitsky

Stuck on a hamster wheel day after day take a break.

Get back on.

Run till your tired run till you’re exhausted run till you collapse.

See one person say hi to some other,

Make life plans then watch them wither,

As that person replaces you with another.

Change for people

Put on a new mask

disguise who you are so you can meet the status quo

Oh, but no,

Change is too hard,

Yet you change every day

For each person

For each and every other one

Chose the mask you choose to brandish

Then go home and cry

Cry because you can’t change,

You can only hide.

You claim to want to change the world but how can you, when you can’t even change your self?

You hide behind false prophets

You wait for neon lights

Till then, you sit and pray,

For Another excuse to drag you back down to your little nest of self pity

You claim to be trapped in a cage

You want to run and be free

But this little box you lag about in is fine

You dull your reality

Wait for it to pass

But after each trip through wonderland .

It still remains

But if you break through the painted Arcadias

Brandish your personality

Shatter the illusion and face the facts.

You will only see a skeleton’s reflection,

laughing

 

 

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Innocence Evolution

Innocence evolution

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Ghosts of the past
Puppets and puzzles
The innocence of pretty girls in pig tails

Gone with humanity’s evolution
Their technological revolution
Pigtails in exchange for iPhones

Smaller faster lighter better
Target the smaller
Make the need to be faster

The lighter the easier
For underdeveloped muscles
All together better

A for apple
B for Bluetooth
C for computer

Growing up addicted
The growing need for more
What will happen?

What will happen when it runs out
When there is nothing left to feed the need
When the blindfold finally falls

 

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The Friday Everything Changed

After watching a movie or listening to a TEDtalk or reading a piece of literature, a poem, or any other piece of writing, fill in the chart below. When complete, file into your “Inquiry” folder OR print and keep for future reference. You teacher may ask to keep your work as an example to expand understanding in the class

Title  The Friday everything Changed   Your name: April

Which Essential Question(s) is addressed in this piece of literature?  Content: 

  1. What happens in the text/movie/Talk?
  1. What is themain message/theme?
 Understanding:

How does the text answer the EQ?

Answer infull sentences.Record relevant quotes and page numbers/linesif needed. 
Why do people feel the need to conform to societys expectations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In the 50’s sexism was normal, it was expected. The women all sat by idly, doing what was expected. Going to school, marrying men, having children and being and accersory for men. In the story a girl stepped out(pg 5)of line, and another woman took action(Pg 11).This proves how an opressed group of people can make a difference, but they can only make a difference if they are willing to take inititive and change their lives regardless of the outcomes. People feel the need to conformto societys because if they donot then they will stand out, They will be abnormal. Society willthenpolice them back into noramtive behaviors. Butwhat really definesnomal? Normal is anything thatdoes notstandout, humans tend to revert back to the atavistic thinking. This thingkinghelped them distinguish danger from saftey. Anything that stood out usualy meant immenent death. Nowadays the thingsthat stand out in our culture are gingers, people who are disabled, a person with dyed hair, a funny eye, and the list goes on. When we see abnormalitys, we look away and pretend they do not exist, if they keep pestering us we send them away to be broken and twisted to fit into our version of normal. People conform because they do not want to be on thereceiving end of societys need for normality.

 

The girls in FEC always bent to societys whims, to the boys wims. They felt lucky that they were able to play on the field at all ! They relized that the water bucket was a boys duty and that they could only dream of carrying the bucket. They let society police them, they let the gender specific roles stay. They feared what would happen to them if they uspet societys need for normality. Yet miss R didn’t let society define her, she was an outlier, and she was ok with it. She took a stand and society let her be.

 

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The Oppressed

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot’s in the door.

– mushrooms, Sylvia Plath

This could be referring to any oppressed group of people: eg. Women (FEC), minorities, the lgbtq community… These people are every where, most go under the radar and are oppressed by the majority. These people are slowly making a difference, having their causes noticed, the are expanding they are evolving, they are making an important and vital role in society for themselves. They are putting their foot in the door. Now is the morning, each and every person now has a role in modern society, and without them our society would crumble.

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