Break-Up Letter

Dear Person,
                  
                    We started out as friends, but that didn't last too long. We connected. We started talking more, texting literally night and day. Then it started to get more serious. We flirted, we really started to like each other.
                     So every morning I go to your locker and then we'd walk to you're friends locker. At the time I didn't realize it but now I do. When it was us we were fine, you'd talk to me and we'd have a good time. But as soon as we were with your friends it was like I wasn't even there. Then the school year ended and summer began. And still we did not hangout. But I was happy, I didn't care. Again our relationship got better. At this point we really liked each other. Then school started again. We did the same locker routine over and over again. You started wearing my jersey to football games, but still we never hung out. I didn't get it. How could someone you clamed to like me so much be afraid to hangout. Was I doing something wrong? But then came the excuses...
                      Every time I asked it was something different. Excuse after excuse. But it was amazing because every time I asked you to do something you couldn't because of work or some other excuse, but then comes that day and you're with your friends. Every other person literally came before me. And then started the fights. It seemed like everyday we were fighting. Yelling at each other constantly, but then we stopped talking. And it hurt but I would be fine.
                      A month later we started at it again but it was better. We weren't fighting anymore. It was great and we liked each other more than before. And then you said it, you told me you loved me. And I believed it, foolish me. Because the difference was I actually did love you but that doesn't matter anymore. But still we had yet to hang out. Now it was because of your dad. Because you were "afraid" of what he'd say. Because you couldn't talk to your dad about that stuff. So instead we didn't hang out. Finally I got you to tell your mom about me, and quite frankly, I should of saw it then too, but I didn't. But instead of realizing I began to think of how I would ask you to prom. I had the perfect idea. I go to Build-A-Bear, buy one, put it in a tux, put one of the voice sound things in it that when you pressed it, it would ask you to prom.
                      But the fights started again. This time it was because you were "nervous" to hangout, because you didn't want to screw anything up. But that's exactly what you were doing. But it never occurred to you how incredibly nervous I was around you. However, I got over it because to me you were worth it. But I guess I wasn't either. You didn't even take the time to think about how crappy it made me feel when you didn't want to ever do anything. What was so wrong with me that you never wanted anything to do with me anymore but still "loved" me.
                       Then it hit me. You were playing me just like your friend played me. Made me look like the biggest fool ever because I actually thought someone like you actually liked me. But it doesn't matter I don't care what you do. I'm completely done with you. I'm done feeling like garbage because you don't want anything to do with me. So I'm done being played. You did exactly what I told you I was afraid of happening. But whatever.

From,
The One Who Got Played
                     

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

      Revenge is evident in all levels of society. It's human nature to want to get back at someone who they feel "wronged" them. Some believe that it is a form of justice while others think that it is wrong and it makes your no better than the person in which you are seeking vengeance on. Authors sometimes have revenge in their novels as well. Some even center their whole books around the concept of revenge and vengeance. Even some laws are based on revenge. The Code of Hammurabi is a prime example of this. This set of laws was made by the sixth Babylonian King Hammurabi. This of laws, in my opinion, defines revenge. These laws made it so that a person could get even legally. For example, if you cut off a man's finger, then as consequence, your finger would be cut off. Revenge is even in our TV shows. Even on Tom and Jerry there is revenge. For those you have never seen this show, Jerry the mouse is always being tormented by the cat Tom. Well this time Jerry has teamed up with a dog and every time Jerry rings the bell the dog comes and beats up Tom. So Jerry is getting revenge against Tom for all of the bad things that Tom always does to him. But there is also another case of vengeance occurring here. When Tom reads the newspaper and sees that all dogs must be wearing a leash outside he decides to enact vengeance upon the dog. This shows how the revenge can come from people lower or higher than you on the social scale. Revenge is an everyday event. Everyday someone is getting made fun of and bullied. And everyday that person wants the bully to know how it feels to be bullied like that and embarrassed the in the same way or in greater way. Another place where there is a large amount of retribution is in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. There are quite a few characters seeking revenge against someone. Hamlet is one of these characters. He seeks vengeance against is uncle because his uncle Claudius killed his father (without anyone knowing), married is mother Gertrude and became King. So when Hamlet finds out he is relentless to do anything but get revenge. He even kills Polonius, all in attempt to get revenge for his deceased father. And in doing this he unraveled another path of revenge, Laertes's path. To make a long story short, revenge has been around since the beginning of time and is present everywhere. It can be masked as something harmless like a prank or in a video game or it can be violent as taking another person's life. So when you're going to do something involving someone else, rethink what you are about to do. You never know how someone will take what you say or do in a different way then it was intended. And when you feel like you want revenge on someone, stop and remember "An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind."~ Mahatma Gandhi.

Satire with Pharmaceuticals

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             Satire is defined as " the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing,denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc." according to dictionary.reference.com. Which, in other words, is the use of pictures, videos or words to make fun of a certain thing or idea. In today's economy a lot of money is being spent on over the counter pharmaceutical drugs from your local drug store. And in most cases these drugs are essential to keep you healthy. But are these drugs always necessary? This picture shows two pills next to each other. The blue pill is telling the red pill that he sees healthy people and the red pill replies by saying "We have a drug for that!". Then the caption says "Pharma loves you... and your money." In this "Pharma" means pharmacy or drug store. The whole idea behind this satire photo is that although you may be perfectly healthy there will always be something new and unnecessary that you need. So much money is being spent on drugs and prescriptions. And in most cases these drugs are essential to keep you healthy. According to recent reports from consulting firm IMS Health, Americans spent  307.4 billion dollars on prescription drugs in 2010. But many of these drugs are ineffective and even some dangerous. This photo is a way to say that buying pharmaceuticals can be a waste of money. And despite the amount of money being spent on these pharmaceuticals, Americans are not getting any healthier. This is one of the many examples and forms of satire. Other forms occur in TV shows, like the Daily Show, or in works of literature such as The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain. Twain used different techniques or forms of satire in his writing. Some of these forms include exaggeration, incongruity, parody and reversal. The form of satire that is used in the is photo is parody. It takes a serious matter and imitate it to make fun of it and also point out a very serious problem in our economy and with pharmaceutical drugs. Mark Twain also used parody in his writing. Parody is exhibited in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in many different cases. One case is when the Duke is rehearsing his performance for the show on the raft. While the Duke is very serious while he is doing this rehearsal, the motions he is performing are considered to be comical. He is dancing and leaping about the raft and even shedding a tear. Another example of where Twain uses Parody is during the family feud. The feud itself was very serious but there were details about it that made it comical. Every time two members from opposite families would see each other, they would shoot and try and kill the member of the opposite family. Both families lost many family members but the humerus part of the whole feud is that no one from either family could remember what the feud was actually about. Both families were killing each other for no apparent reason. Satire can come in all different shapes, sizes and forms. It is a sarcastic way to get a serious point across and is a very effective technique.