Reflection to wired Gone

Evan Ratliff (who coincidentally changes his name to James Gatz from the Great Gatsby) is very similar to Chris McCandless because of obvious reasons - he leaves his life behind and creates a new on blah blah blah . but there is something very refreshing about his story because he is trying to escape a much more demanding chase of the "digital age" than both Gatsby and McCandless. I found it very interesting the details of this story and how quickly the peop,e searching found out very detailed and personal information about Evan Ratliff. i found it interesting that he chose gatsby's name from before he changed into a new man .

New identity - run away for 30 days

When i get the letter telling me to leave and completely strip myself of my identity. I walk south and stop somewhere in Brazil and say I am from Alaska. My hair is now very long and i let it be free everyday. I buy a shack by a lake and have almost no possessions. I own nothing, I am nothing. I am free and light as a feather. I feel liberated and refreshed. I get a part-time job at a local restaurant and make friends with the kind people there. I feel happy making cheap, delicious food at the joint, talking with common folk, learning and loving each person I meet. i learn a new kind of happiness and fulfillment through satisfaction of work and time - instead of the cheap thrills of material items and hollow interactions. i become the person that i have always wanted to be. my alter ego - the platypus.

Booker T.

Broke racial shackles, empowered by knowledge

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Becca Hutchinson
November 18, 2009

Pensive
Lost in this ocean of things. Material junk that makes me feel like I’m worth something more than I am. I look around and wonder what my life is. I once lived a wonderful, extravagant life with my wife, or ex-wife… Feeling myself grow cold in a world that’s hopelessly rotten. I light up my house so that I can feel the warmth that I once felt for years. I now feel so cold and empty and lonely that I can never feel secure, satisfied, or even alive. I light up my house so that I can feel what once was, what is for everybody else, what most people never even notice exists in themselves.

Reflection

This marking period I started doing all of my work and I read Gatsby. I made my school work a priority and did any length of effort to finish. I had a hard time doing my work on time (I was busy with my job and I procrastinate..). It took me a long time to do readings and take notes which was an obstacle. This marking period I am cutting the hours at my job and I am going to get more involved with my college goal so that I will be more focused. The reason I did so well in the beginning of the school year was because I wanted to go to Warren Wilson really badly. Now I am distant from that goal and I have doubts (about myself and about WWC). I need to get in shape and I need to breath and focus and use the computer less so that I can take more time to be balanced, focused, and prepared. Also, I will do my homework right after school - it will save me time and effort(internally, not doing work is stressful and ultimately more work for myself!!) and I actually enjoy doing work. Becca, You Like Work , you love reading literature and you love studying political science and I know that you feel empowered and stimulated when you solve algebra problems!!! GET FOCUSED, GO TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY AND EAT WELL AND SLEEP AND STAY ON TRACK WITH WHAT YOU KNOW IS REAL AND TRUE AND YOUR ULTIMATE PATH

October 22, 2009

Gatsby turned out all right at the end… Maybe he turned out all right to Nick. Maybe Gatsby escaped his sad life. He felt sorry for him, I think.
What preyed on Gatsby was his death and his abandonment by Daisy – floated in the wake of his dreams – his dreams being his Gatsby self and his romantic, nostalgic, unrealistic dreams of being with Daisy – Temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrow and short-winded elations of men

So what preyed on Gatsby made nick uninterested in the abortive(unfinished) sorrows(sadness) and short-winded(not very long) elations(optimisms) of men.
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Gatsby End

The ending to Gatsby will end up sad. Gatsby will kind of get that Daisy doesn’t want him but he will ignore it and stay persistent. Daisy will continue her life with Tom and he will love her in a different way because Myrtle has died and Daisy had an affair. Nick will be lost still ……………….it will end on a very melancholy note and make the world feel hopeless …

Unwanted

When I was a child my grandmother often gave me presents that were extremely expensive and fancy and usually things that I didn't like at all. Aside from all of the ugly clothes I received, every year she sent me a china doll. These dolls were prissy and definitely not something that I liked to look at or play with. I wanted to throw them away because I hated them being in my room (my mom wanted me to keep them but made me put them in my room because there was not other place to put them) and I didn't understand why she bought them for me. I think she dreams of having a daughter to dress up and have tea parties with (her own daughter completely resents these notions of romanticism). I thanked her though. I did appreciate the thought but I feel that gifts really don't matter. As a kid (and now) I loved spending time with her and I adored her house and the activities we did but I felt very uncomfortable when she bought me things. At the grocery store she would buy anything I so much as glanced at. As much as I dislike that, I do value her for trying to please everybody and show that she cares.

What impact do I want to make?

I would like to make an impact on improving America's carbon footprint. I want to help people (especially children and teens) with their problems and help them develop useful skills to better themselves. i want to talk to people. i want to talk about racism. i want to continue my strive for social equality. I want to maybe inspire somebody.. to love themselves and to be intelligent and read books. I want to impact the little things and the people in my life. I think making a big impact is overrated when i can impact everything and everybody around me ! i want to influence people to be happy and to enjoy this beautiful and fascinating world! i want to influence others to talk and to search and to EXPLORE ~ i want to influence to go beyond your boundaries -- its scary but so good!! I want to make an impact on my community to be the best it can be!!!!

who do i want to become?

I want to become Me. i want to become an honest and kind person. i want to be gentle and humble and Strong. I want to become my goals and all of my ambitions. I want to utilize my human potentials to become somebody who is really intelligent! i want to be knowledgeable about many different topics but become an expert in only a few. I want to be the world that i want to travel. i want to be somebody who truly and wholly values herself. i want to be my passions and my emotions and the little things that i enjoy. i want to be silk on a strong back. i want to be patient and calm. i want to be my Rock. i want to be my dependent and my best friend. i want to be ever productive and learning. i want to be the subtleties that i enjoy so much.. i want to go to warrent wilson and i really want to become The person that i admire!


(innocent and hard at work)

who am i ?

i am somebody who is searching. searching for who she is and what she is. i am searching for truth and knowledge and something whole. searching for something to call my own, something to be proud of.
i am human. and sometimes i think im unique but i know thats a lie.
i am somebody who is always hungry, i love to enjoy my present moment(because what else in the world is there except Now?) but i am always craving more places to see, people to meet, goals to achieve. i am ambitious and love to push my envelope because it is exhilarating and stimulating and REWARDING !!
I am my mother from Texas and my father from Ohio. I am my parent's families from Scotland and Lebanon and Spain. I am my grandfather who was classy in his modern Philadelphia rowhome and enjoyed Woody Allen films and jazz records and said going to Sack's was a Pleasure. I am strong southern roots and heavy Pennsylvania influence. I feel connected to my Lebanese culture .. I am my love of feeling the earth beneath my feet. I am my teenage confusion and my naive inarticulate words. i am my pride and my confidence. I am the sky - ever changing. I am whole.?