Dan's+Enlightenment

//__**MY PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY:**__//
 * I try to live my life by living in the moment. You can't linger on the past or be to worried about the future. You need to take your experience and learn from the consequences. You need to learn from life's lessons and try to assist others with the knowledge and wisdom you gain. When it comes down to it life is about trying to leave the world a little bit better than you found it, whatever that means, wether it is something that may seem insignificant or affects millions everything you do leaves your figerprint, your signiture on it.**

Closer to the Sun by Slightly Stoopid media type="youtube" key="GteQ6JFzdUI&rel=1" height="355" width="425" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GteQ6JFzdUI

If you really read or watch anything on my page I really hope that this is it because this song and the video that goes with really sum up my whole page and I think that the symbols and lyrics bring together everything that we have looked at for this wiki update.

WHAT UNITES A GROUP OF PEOPLE? Why it is that people must be united? That is a question that I always wonder about; well here is a question if we all stood alone would it be the same as all standing together? I believe that it takes unity to accomplish goals and to live out our dreams. People in society need guidance wether it be from a friend, a icon, their family, it doesn't matter. There are not very many examples of successful happy people who had no help to grow into who they are. Sometimes we don't like what we have to hear but that is what it takes to help us live a life worth living, and develop into the best that you are capable of becoming.

Fear A Common Goal A Common Enemy Religion An "unknown or abnormal" An ideal etc.

Crucible: Puritanism to reach heaven fears of witchcraft "lack" of respect for Parris

The Village: RED! Covington Woods Money greed crime no knowledge of what is out there

http://images.killermovies.com/v/thevillage/village_stills.jpg

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http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floor/flag/1bfc_pledge.html I just thought that this was inetersting. It is our pledge of allegiance, and a brief expaination of what each phrase represents, just notice some of the lines and explainations and see if you found some connections to what we have discussed about what unites the people in this unit.
 * **I Pledge Allegiance** || I Promise to be faithful and true (Promise my loyalty) ||
 * **to the flag** || to the emblem that stands for and represents ||
 * **of the United States** || all 50 states, each of them individual, and individually represented on the flag ||
 * **of America** || yet formed into a UNION of one Nation. ||
 * **and to the Republic** || And I also pledge my loyalty to the Government that is itself a Republic, a form of government where the PEOPLE are sovereign, ||
 * **for which it stands,** || this government also being represented by the Flag to which I promise loyalty. ||
 * **one Nation under God,** || These 50 individual states are united as a single Republic under the Divine providence of God, "our most powerful resource" (according to the words of President Eisenhower) ||
 * **Indivisible,** || and can not be separated. (This part of the original version of the pledge was written just 50 years after the beginning of the Civil War and demonstrates the unity sought in the years after that divisive period in our history ||
 * **with Liberty** || The people of this Nation being afforded the freedom to pursue "life, liberty, and happiness", ||
 * **and Justice** || And each person entitled to be treated justly, fairly, and according to proper law and principle, ||
 * **for All.** || And these principles afforded to EVERY AMERICAN, regardless of race, religion, color, creed, or any other criteria. Just as the flag represents 50 individual states that can not be divided or separated, this Nation represents millions of people who can not be separated or divided. ||

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The devil went down to Georgia, he was looking for a soul to steal. LET me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation. This has been already too much an object for the scorn -- for the horror -- for the detestation of my race. To the uttermost regions of the globe have not the indignant winds bruited its unparalleled infamy? Oh, outcast of all outcasts most abandoned! -- to the earth art thou not forever dead? to its honors, to its flowers, to its golden aspirations? -- and a cloud, dense, dismal, and limitless, does it not hang eternally between thy hopes and heaven? If I want to dance I will ask you to dance. If I want to speak I will open my mouth and speak. Everyone is forever plaguing me to speak further. Why? The Misfit sneered slightly. "Nobody had nothing I wanted," he said. "It was a head-doctor at the penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I known that for a lie. My daddy died in nineteen ought nineteen of the epidemic flu and I never had a thing to do with it. He was buried in the Mount Hopewell Baptist churchyard and you can go there and see for yourself." You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead -- dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist -- and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.In the Stanford Prison Experiment we saw what happens when power is givin to few and many are dehumanized. We saw that the prisoners joined together to rebel agianst the guards. Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.God is dead! Is the accuser always holy now? There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning! When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet. The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. Kevin, you have kindness in your voice. I did not expect that. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. The most unfortunate invalids on earth came in search of health: a poor woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers; a Portuguese man who couldn't sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him; a sleepwalker who got up at night to undo the things he had done while awake; and many others with less serious ailments. By the end of the study, the prisoners were disintegrated, both as a group and as individuals. There was no longer any group unity; just a bunch of isolated individuals hanging on, But if you lose, the devil gets your soul.

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