ENGL 1102 blog- Justin Nguyen

 My theme would be the heartbroken and bad relationships in my family. When I was younger as a child, my family was great in the first place. At age 7, I heard my mom arguing and fighting over dad about something he did, like drugs. My dad left the whole family behind, and I found out that he steals a lot of money from my mom. My dad only cares about money than spending time with the family. He broke the family's heart and trust. We started crying, and it made us feel angrier toward our father after that. It affects our lifestyle and relationship.

 I'm carrying my shaker cup most of the time through college, the gym, and home. It may or may not have some symbolism toward my shaker cup. I started using my shaker cup in 9th grade in high school. I love putting ices on my shaker to make it colder and last longer throughout the day. I put water, Gatorade, BCAA, pre-workout, and powder powder on my shaker cup. Without a shaker cup, I will not motive myself anything or need to drink something while I'm dehydrating myself. To me, it represents motivation and hard-working. 

 This story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," takes place at the Festival of Summer in Omelas which people who are celebrating and be happy to dance around. They sacrificed an innocent child over partying and food. In the first paragraph, it said that "[c]hildren dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows' crossing flights over the music and the singing" (Le Guin). The people of Omelas were to live in a utopia; they want to be happy people. I felt terrible for the children because it was untreated fair and disrespectful. Le Guin is critiquing about "[h]appiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive." In other words, it is saying that happiness predicated on simple discrimination of what's necessary, what's neither essential nor harmful, and what's harmful.

After watching the weather's news, the dark cloud coming and surrounding the atmosphere. When he looks at the sky, it is a very dark and scary cloud then It's starting thunderstorms and raining a lot. He found out that lightning strike down to communication towers, and it is completely blackout. There is no way to contact his phone or any devices at home. When he hears more thunders caused by a lightning strike, he begins to get scared and try to hide one of the rooms. He starts thinking like "Why would I scary of a thunderstorm?" He wants to face or conquer his fear of bad weather today. After the thunderstorm went away, all of the power sources coming back. He is delighted after it's over.