Part I. In Your War Dream, caught my attention the most probably because I read it first. After reading it, I was relieved to find that I'm not the only person to such crazy random dreams. I could relate to all the dreams in the packet but I liked the war dream the best. My favorite lines from the poem is when Hugo writes," The nations are bright like a map. You pass over the red one. The orange one ahead looks cold". This may sound like some nonsense but, in a dream it seems like orange being cold makes so much sense. Your can explain all types of phenomenon and feel so enlightened then when you wake up you can't remember what you figured out or you can't make sense of your thought process. I also liked how it felt like everything in this dream was a matter of urgency. We can all relate to that.
Part II. My eccentric or what I will call my selfish dream. I think it would be awesome to make a living being myself. Have a little T.V. camera crew follow me around and do different things each day, what ever needs to be done that day or what ever I felt like doing. We could do a fishing show one day, a hunting show the next, home improvement projects, welding and machining projects, build your own off road vehicle, and interviews different experts in all different fields of expertise. It would be the best of both worlds career wise because you could do whatever you felt like doing or needed to get done around the house. Not only would you have the time to do the things that needed done you would also get paid to do it. I realize that is not a realistic dream, all I'm saying is that it would be cool.
On a more serious note, its more important to give my kids the opportunity for their dreams to come true. Seeing them excited and happy has brought the most joy in my life. It's funny how your priorities change when you have family. So, hopefully with this degree that I'm chasing one step at a time, I be able to provide the best opportunities for my children to succeed in life and also enjoy it.
Part III. I don't have a real good answer for this one but, I guess I would like to see more community projects. Whether it be house building or refurbishing projects or anything else you can think of. Whenever you get a chance to bring people together and work as a team for the common good. You get the best out of humanity. An example of this would be, like hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas. Its unfortunate that it usually takes a natural disaster for people to work together. But, its a great example to show us we are capable of when we work together. So, I guess I'm for anything that brings people and communities together to work towards a common goal.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Journal 9---Jake Ritzert
Part One: My favorite poem out of the Richard Hugo packet was the last poem attached, The Good Dream. I think the poems structure and flow were better than the other poems, but maybe I just enjoy poems with more than one stanza, as the others were all one stanza poems. I have read the poem multiple times and I am still confused about who the narrator is inside the poem. I think it is a young boy who is skipping church or observing a town that is a little utopian, but he is not allowed in. "Girls won't pick on you here." This final line in the first stanza makes me feel like it must be a school boy or young child.
Part Two....and Part Three:
My dream kind of involves myself and the rest of humanity as I wish for a world that respects themselves and values their place in the world. I feel that many people are losing respect for our environment because we no longer need to personally labor any of the resources from it due to our technological advancements. As our technology progresses humans no longer get to have a bond between the food we are consuming and the origins of where it has come from. Our food all extents from plants at some point. It is essential that the food is as natural in its form that it can be because eventually the chemicals and pesticides found in it will, ultimately, end inside our bodies as we are at the very top of the food chain. This has already happened to our oceans, as the top predators contain large amounts of mercury and other dangerous chemicals. If we can focus on keeping and treating our environment in a clean way, then humans can remain a healthy species for a longer time. To do this, we need to change the way we view nature as a way to fuel humans technological advancements, but as our means of survival. We would not be anywhere as a species without clean food and water that can only be found in the place that we are tearing apart. It is a very obvious problem and one that our government and economy can't face because it will cause for our economy to collapse.
Is it reasonable to keep slowly depriving and poisoning the earth if it prevents the economic collapse of one of humans most explorative and technologically advanced civilization?
This is the question I believe many scientist must have been asking themselves over the years, but our technological advancements might have been able to solve this problem. Many countries are starting to become devoted to using clean energy, a form that is renewable, which will help solve some of economic inefficiency. However, if we try to remove the source of the problem, we need to focus on not finding a better way of using energy, but first help repair and heal the world. We need to rid the land of pesticides and fertilizers that are toxic to our bodies.
Part Two....and Part Three:
My dream kind of involves myself and the rest of humanity as I wish for a world that respects themselves and values their place in the world. I feel that many people are losing respect for our environment because we no longer need to personally labor any of the resources from it due to our technological advancements. As our technology progresses humans no longer get to have a bond between the food we are consuming and the origins of where it has come from. Our food all extents from plants at some point. It is essential that the food is as natural in its form that it can be because eventually the chemicals and pesticides found in it will, ultimately, end inside our bodies as we are at the very top of the food chain. This has already happened to our oceans, as the top predators contain large amounts of mercury and other dangerous chemicals. If we can focus on keeping and treating our environment in a clean way, then humans can remain a healthy species for a longer time. To do this, we need to change the way we view nature as a way to fuel humans technological advancements, but as our means of survival. We would not be anywhere as a species without clean food and water that can only be found in the place that we are tearing apart. It is a very obvious problem and one that our government and economy can't face because it will cause for our economy to collapse.
Is it reasonable to keep slowly depriving and poisoning the earth if it prevents the economic collapse of one of humans most explorative and technologically advanced civilization?
This is the question I believe many scientist must have been asking themselves over the years, but our technological advancements might have been able to solve this problem. Many countries are starting to become devoted to using clean energy, a form that is renewable, which will help solve some of economic inefficiency. However, if we try to remove the source of the problem, we need to focus on not finding a better way of using energy, but first help repair and heal the world. We need to rid the land of pesticides and fertilizers that are toxic to our bodies.
Journal #9 - Lexi Patterson
Part One: Of all of Richard Hugo's poems, "In Your Wild Dream" was my favorite. To me, this poem is about having a dream that has set backs and bumps in the road, but after struggling for a while, you learn just to go with the flow. Let the dream take you, and realize that everything you need to succeed, is right in front of you. "Around you beautiful flowers are blooming. You know now you need nothing to live, food, love or water. You giggle and giggle because you are free. Birds above you keep flying away."
Part Two: One of the biggest dreams I have is to get into The Ohio State's School of Veterinary Medicine. Most people do not understand how difficult it is to actually get accepted into vet school. Due to the small number of veterinary schools around the country, it is actually harder to get into vet school than medical school. Ohio State's vet school receives around 1,200 applications every year and only accepts 162 new students. That's a 13.5% acceptance rate. So, to me, my dream is very eccentric and difficult to pull off, even if others don't think so.
Part Three: One dream I have for our country is to "go green" and help save the environment. I truly believe our planet is headed down a bad path with global warming, deforestation, and the extinction of animals. I believe if everyone does one small thing a day to help save our planet, we could make a tremendous impact.
Part Two: One of the biggest dreams I have is to get into The Ohio State's School of Veterinary Medicine. Most people do not understand how difficult it is to actually get accepted into vet school. Due to the small number of veterinary schools around the country, it is actually harder to get into vet school than medical school. Ohio State's vet school receives around 1,200 applications every year and only accepts 162 new students. That's a 13.5% acceptance rate. So, to me, my dream is very eccentric and difficult to pull off, even if others don't think so.
Part Three: One dream I have for our country is to "go green" and help save the environment. I truly believe our planet is headed down a bad path with global warming, deforestation, and the extinction of animals. I believe if everyone does one small thing a day to help save our planet, we could make a tremendous impact.
Dreams and Visions: Zachery Smith
Part One: The Poem from Richard Hugo that I was most interested in was in your war dream. This poem caught my interest the most because he has to go back and re-live what has already happened to him. Which is similar to the dreams I have I tend not to dream about the future rather of past experiences that I have already been through. My favorite line from the poem was the last "You must fly your 35 missions again." This shows that he is reliving his time in war as exactly as it was before which is why I connected to this poem because that's how my dreams are too.
Part Two: A dream that I had was that one-day id be able to start my own business. I don't remember in the dream what exactly what kinda of business I owned. But I have always had an interest in cars so id like to own some kinda of business someday that is related to cars. Id would have never thought that in my wildest dreams that I would own my own business and it's definitely something that I wanna accomplish in my life.
Part Three: A dream that I have for our country is that one day it will be able to provide the opportunity for everyone that wants to go to college that they can. I truly believe this is something that we need to all come together to accomplish because education can allow people to pursue whatever career they want and isn't that what the American dream is all about providing an opportunity that people haven't had before. This is something that I truly dream about for the country that I live in.
Part Two: A dream that I had was that one-day id be able to start my own business. I don't remember in the dream what exactly what kinda of business I owned. But I have always had an interest in cars so id like to own some kinda of business someday that is related to cars. Id would have never thought that in my wildest dreams that I would own my own business and it's definitely something that I wanna accomplish in my life.
Part Three: A dream that I have for our country is that one day it will be able to provide the opportunity for everyone that wants to go to college that they can. I truly believe this is something that we need to all come together to accomplish because education can allow people to pursue whatever career they want and isn't that what the American dream is all about providing an opportunity that people haven't had before. This is something that I truly dream about for the country that I live in.
My Final Journal Entry -- Heather Campbell
The poem I feel the most emotion with is the last one. As I read this poem I could feel the emotional distress and confusion that the person wrote. None of the streets were recognizable to the person although it was his own home, none of the buildings were quite the way he remembered it. I love that the poems never state what happened that made this person see or feel what they did. The ambiguity of these poems is what makes the readers come to their own personal conclusions on what happened, personally I feel that it was PTSD or something similar.
A dream I have for myself is to one day have a family put together only by unconditional emotions. Never once do I wish for my husband to doubt me, nor will I doubt him. I wish for my husband to support me regardless of how silly some things I want to be may seem. I wish to have children who will never think to themselves that they hate me, I wish for my children to never face a childhood similar to mine. I wish for my family to agree to disagree on what is their favorite show or what kind of food is the best. I wish for a family where there is no secrets, cheating, unrealistic promises, hopeless nights, and so on. I dream of a day where I won't have to worry about someone doing disgusting things to their child in the ways that were done to me. I dream of a family built on love not being stuck together to look good to family members and our children.
The community, state, and country needs to be more aware of the people who are struggling to survive post sexual assault. In Hollywood there has been accusers/victims coming forward and that's great, but there needs to be focus on victims who aren't old enough to know that what is happening to them is wrong. Stranger danger is a theory placed into the minds of children causing them to think only strangers do bad things to them. What about the neighbor across the street? The Uncle? The aunt? The sister? The Brother? The person someone is dating? Sexual assault cases come from primarily someone the victim knows, children who are victims don't even know something bad is happening to them, in their minds they're playing doctor, school, etc.. My dream is that the community can find a way to keep the children away from sexual assault.
A dream I have for myself is to one day have a family put together only by unconditional emotions. Never once do I wish for my husband to doubt me, nor will I doubt him. I wish for my husband to support me regardless of how silly some things I want to be may seem. I wish to have children who will never think to themselves that they hate me, I wish for my children to never face a childhood similar to mine. I wish for my family to agree to disagree on what is their favorite show or what kind of food is the best. I wish for a family where there is no secrets, cheating, unrealistic promises, hopeless nights, and so on. I dream of a day where I won't have to worry about someone doing disgusting things to their child in the ways that were done to me. I dream of a family built on love not being stuck together to look good to family members and our children.
The community, state, and country needs to be more aware of the people who are struggling to survive post sexual assault. In Hollywood there has been accusers/victims coming forward and that's great, but there needs to be focus on victims who aren't old enough to know that what is happening to them is wrong. Stranger danger is a theory placed into the minds of children causing them to think only strangers do bad things to them. What about the neighbor across the street? The Uncle? The aunt? The sister? The Brother? The person someone is dating? Sexual assault cases come from primarily someone the victim knows, children who are victims don't even know something bad is happening to them, in their minds they're playing doctor, school, etc.. My dream is that the community can find a way to keep the children away from sexual assault.
Journal 9 Mohamed Jama
Part I
The poem that caught my eyes and interested me the most was "In Your Wild Dream" by Richard Hugo. This poem is describing how dreams can take you in different world at the same time. It is how life is. One day you are happy and have all your life together, and the next minute you can be broke and with nothing. For instance, You are riding a camel in Athens. The citizens yell, "We are not Arab. This is not sand." This shows that life can take you anywhere and it is unpredictable. We try our best to prepare for life but it is not guaranteed where it takes you.
Part II
I always worry dying without accomplishing anything to the humanity. I dream helping poor people anywhere in the world. I dream giving money to any needy person willing to stand on his or her feet for every hardworking man and women because there are people who badly want a support to start a new life. I want to be generous a giving person. I don't know why billionaire keep the money for themselves or just give little and become gready?. What are they going to do with that money while we have a lot of poor or hungry people in United States?I dream eliminating the need of the people, people who are willing to work but having difficult situation.
Part III
One of my biggest dream I want to share is I always like to spread the knowledge I have. I mean I like to teach people and teach them what I know. I want to volunteer and give back to the community anyway possible. For instance, when I graduate from OSU, I like to teach people technology for free. There are so many people out there who are smart but for some reason don't know what do with that smart mind. I want to give them an idea how the technology works. I would like to open free schools and free universities. Giving back like the "Giving Tree"as along as I live.
The poem that caught my eyes and interested me the most was "In Your Wild Dream" by Richard Hugo. This poem is describing how dreams can take you in different world at the same time. It is how life is. One day you are happy and have all your life together, and the next minute you can be broke and with nothing. For instance, You are riding a camel in Athens. The citizens yell, "We are not Arab. This is not sand." This shows that life can take you anywhere and it is unpredictable. We try our best to prepare for life but it is not guaranteed where it takes you.
Part II
I always worry dying without accomplishing anything to the humanity. I dream helping poor people anywhere in the world. I dream giving money to any needy person willing to stand on his or her feet for every hardworking man and women because there are people who badly want a support to start a new life. I want to be generous a giving person. I don't know why billionaire keep the money for themselves or just give little and become gready?. What are they going to do with that money while we have a lot of poor or hungry people in United States?I dream eliminating the need of the people, people who are willing to work but having difficult situation.
Part III
One of my biggest dream I want to share is I always like to spread the knowledge I have. I mean I like to teach people and teach them what I know. I want to volunteer and give back to the community anyway possible. For instance, when I graduate from OSU, I like to teach people technology for free. There are so many people out there who are smart but for some reason don't know what do with that smart mind. I want to give them an idea how the technology works. I would like to open free schools and free universities. Giving back like the "Giving Tree"as along as I live.
Last Journal by Valerie Engwall
Part one : I really like the poem in your wild dreams. I like it for the fact that it teaches you to use your imagination. You can be in the most dull atmosphere ever, and make something great out of it. I really enjoyed reading this. I gets you thinking. I should use my imagination more often. You can have so much fun in nature. My favorite quote was" You know now you need nothing to live, food , love or water" " Young giggle and giggle because you are free" to me that means so much. You are free to set your mind to what it wants to wander into something great.
Part two: I know this sounds cicque but my dream is to be happy with the person I love. I want a time where we don't have to worry about how we are going to make ends meat. I want to dream of a day where I don't live pay check to pay check. I want to start a family with the person I love so much. I don't want a fancy house. I just want to make sure I am taken care for and don't have to worry.
Part three: My dream for the future would be to help those around me. I would do this with the social work degree I am currently in school for. I want to help those who battle addiction. If successful I could make a difference in our community. Since we are currently overrun by drugs. If I could reach out to the users. Maybe I could make a difference. If I could focus on the individuals I could make an impact. Maybe I could even get the stigma with drug users to go away. I know it sounds like alot but there is hope.
Part two: I know this sounds cicque but my dream is to be happy with the person I love. I want a time where we don't have to worry about how we are going to make ends meat. I want to dream of a day where I don't live pay check to pay check. I want to start a family with the person I love so much. I don't want a fancy house. I just want to make sure I am taken care for and don't have to worry.
Part three: My dream for the future would be to help those around me. I would do this with the social work degree I am currently in school for. I want to help those who battle addiction. If successful I could make a difference in our community. Since we are currently overrun by drugs. If I could reach out to the users. Maybe I could make a difference. If I could focus on the individuals I could make an impact. Maybe I could even get the stigma with drug users to go away. I know it sounds like alot but there is hope.
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