Friday, November 8, 2013

Where I come from

I come from Brazil
There you never get ill
We have warmer weather
It is better to get together

Samba,soccer and food
Everything is for your good
Happy people are everywhere
You can't find it elsewhere

From South to North
We are a melting pot
Asian,African and American
Everybody is gladly mixed together

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Thoughts on society and The Giver

1.In what ways do we perceive memories in our society?

Although many people say that the past is not important we can see that in general our society cares a lot about memories. Trough memories we can learn with mistakes made in the past and avoid them. In addition, we can understand our own story and why things are the way they are because of all that we try to immortalize our memories by writing them in books, painting or taking pictures.

2. What you think would be different in the world if we had only one-generation memories?

I think we would repeat the same mistakes of the past because we wouldn't know how to avoid them or how to stop them. In addition to keep repeating the same mistakes we also wouldn't understand much about our history.

3. Do you have any questions about how the rules of your society or any society?

How were  those rules created? Do they really work? Why certain crimes are not punished more severely? Why some rules are not changed? Basically these are my questions to the rules in our society. I also wish to understand why some rules that only benefits the more wealthy people still exist.