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=Personal Philosophy: //I want to live my life to the fullest, live every day like it's my last, and live with no regrets. I know that I will make mistakes, that is just part of being human. I want to learn from these mistakes but never regret them and at the same time make the most of my life while I can.//= =Society needs to realize that regrets get us nowhere and that a group of people would never remain united if they just focused on the past, individuals need to move forward and just learn from mistakes in order to become a successful, united group of people. Sometimes people need to let go of their fears, bias beliefs, and desire for perfection, and just go with "whatever happens happens".=

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 * UNITED WE STAND**, //DIVIDED WE FALL.//

=The main thing that unites a society is the fact that we can not do it alone, along with that there are many other reasons that we continue to unite and divide:=

Societies tend to question this authority. //The TRUTH is in the eyes of the beholder.// People would rather preserve the appearance of justice than threaten religious and political order in most societies. Peer pressure: we make our own decisions based on what we think others will think of us, but we need to let go and do things because we want to do them. Who cares if people look at you differently the only way to live the ultimate life is to live it for you, make decisions for yourself, that is the way to make true companions.

However, no matter how strong the relationship some people will always turn their backs on you. Her Childhood neighbors are the very people who sent their children to the Fells Acre School and later accused her of abusing them.

We are curious about other peoples' lives and we yearn to know their secrets, but there are some things that we are better off not knowing. = =

Who get killed before they reached Bombay
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Death is part of life. Death is the end of blood-which is the life source.

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Yet death is feared. = = Societies revolve around fear. Society’s new villain became the satanic child molester. No matter how different a society can be, they still react similarly to abnormal situations. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Evil could triumph over innocence The things that happened to Lucius shed light on the evil in the town. Evil cannot exist with good; black cannot exist with white; Marx--diametrically opposed opposites that don't seem to be able to exist next to one another, but when looking more closely, one sees that they are two sides of the same blade--very similar, cannot have one without the other Blood is within all of us; this color is inside all of us (evil is inside all of us)

I don’t know where we’ll end up but I think we’re headed towards love And that’s exactly where I want to be
//we can't waste our time waiting for something more, we need to find the place we want to be, the way we want to live our lives, and the friends we want to have, and just make it happen.//

Societies wants, values and beliefs can sometimes become hypocritical; RED- is a hypocritical color: it can be evil, bad, blood, or bravery, courage, and strength YELLOW-also a hypocritical color: can be good, innocent, youthful, or it can be the color of illness == Societies are hypocritical we say we would never do something, like turn a town on each other, and it goes right on and happens Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. //We need to focus on whatever we think is the real truth and realize that opinions differ from person to person but we can't let this stand in the way of a united society.// Miller believes that a society needs scapegoats for its insecurities at times of great uncertainty. == When societies' insecurities are revealed they try to put the blame on other people, innocence is stolen; innocent people become guilty and we place trust in those who do not deserve it. I will never admit guilt for something I didn’t do. I’m going to show the world what these people did to me and my family. You have to remember that in the mid-1980’s the mantra was “believe the children.” I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem-vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! The Elders' try to preserve the innocence of their children. media type="custom" key="229247"
 * We are Broken by Paramore**

Give us life again cause we just wanna be home
= = We kill/jail so many people with no hard evidence. The Salem witch trials were ended because of intangible evidence. = = We tend to be told only one side of every story. They never spoke of these matters. What we don't know can't hurt us. Ignorance is Bliss. Ivy knows more than the rest of the town. = =

What causes one to become an outcast, or have a lower status? = = //Is anyone ever truly better than someone else?// Our names reveal who we are, a cleared name is a clean slate, but a scarred name sticks out like a sore thumb: When my mother died, I promised that I’d clear our name, and I’m going to do that. Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave my name! The process of having one's head shaved, which takes place in most prisons as well as in the military, is designed in part to minimize each person's individuality "Listen, you are not #819. You are [his name], and my name is Dr. Zimbardo. I am a psychologist, not a prison superintendent, and this is not a real prison. This is just an experiment, and those are students, not prisoners, just like you. Let's go." Without your own name how can you ever be sure of your own identity? = =

Even if we think we know who we are, we all have our doubts while on the path to individuality, and at one point in time while on this path, everyone suffers...pain is unavoidable. = = And I was round when Jesus Christ Had his moment of doubt and pain. == The Elders' all had sad stories about people they loved dying, and just painful situations, so the tried to run away from the pain of life in normal society. Pain is inevitable. It is impossible to avoid death, sorrow, fear, or any other painful emotions.

= = Power brings ego and ego leads to destruction. Mistress, in teaching me to read the alphabet, had given me the //inch//, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the //ell.// Power is often attained in this way, you give someone a little power, and they run with it. Even the nicest slave masters, over the coarse of their "careers," turned brittle, unfriendly, and cruel towards their slaves.
 * Does power lead to destruction?**

= = Sometimes those placed in power should be removed from their thrones for the betterment of society, so the society rebells against their leaders. Rebellion is the cause of change in any society, anyone who stands up while everyone else is sitting down has a way of grasping attention that nobody else could ever receive. = = Regrets are pointless because we don't live in the past, we have to forget the mistakes we've made in life, learn from them and move on, it's one of the hardest things to do in life but sometimes we just have to focus on the present and what's to come by taking the relationships we have and making new ones and moving forward. Life doesn't play in reverse. When we focus on the past and our regrets, we forget to keep going. = = We have to build new relationships in order to unite, we divide when relationships end. = = Sometimes the only separation between a united relationship and a divided relationship is a //**Secret**//.

"Everyone has a secret But can they keep it Oh No they can't" There are secrets in every corner of this village. Trying to protect from the real world by keeping secrets. And I'll take the truth at any cost. Secrets spread like wildfire. Trust is often broken by those who know our secrets. Are secrets the truth? The truth contradicts itself. There really is no truth. = = As he that stands or walks on slippery ground needs nothing but his own weight to throw him down. We are ultimately alone in this world, we can't depend on anyone but ourselves, but we also just can't do it alone. media type="custom" key="348439" I'll get lost, messed up and bored when I'm alone too long They say that what doesn't kill us makes us who we are = = We are only what we always were, but naked now. Aye, naked! And the wind, God’s icy wind, will blow! His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience. = =
 * Secret by Maroon 5**

media type="custom" key="229253" What a shame we all became such fragile broken things A memory remains, just a tiny spark I give it all my oxygen, to let the flames begin To let the flames begin... Somewhere weakness is our strength, and I'll die searching for it I can't let myself regret, such selfishness My pain and all the trouble caused, no matter how long I believe that there's hope Buried beneath it all, and... Reaching as i sink down into light. = = //Alone we are weak, we need multiple people in order to gain strength.// There are always “those we look down upon” (the village), those we fear because they are unknown..
 * Let the Flames begin by Paramore**

=Enlightenment/Rationalism=

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Religious tolerance creates religious indifference (apathy) We aren't united in religion Ben Franklin: media type="youtube" key="EZf9_g1F-3w&rel=1" height="355" width="425" Rationalism: Ben Franklin's perspective, the belief that human beings can arrive at truth or by using reason and factual analysis rather than relying on authority of the past, religious faith, or intuition. Rejection of emotion, tradition or fashionable belief progress, urban existence and high society, education, cities are the seat of all knowledge. It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:

13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
This my little book had for its motto these lines from Addison's Cato: Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy. Enlightenment: Thomas Jefferson's perspective, the age of reason =Frederick Douglass= The slaves could not resist their master's power over them alone so they united together and used techniques such as the underground railroad and the north star to achieve the abolition of slavery. They could have never done it alone. Only echoes respond But I scream ‘til my voice is gone Crouching in corners and hiding your face I’m sick and tired of playing your games I’m not alone I stand amongst the voiceless Millions in the unforgiving sun Here arm-in-arm We parade these streets And sing our songs (and sing our songs) We’ve had enough Is there even anything left to explain? (We’ve had enough) Am I really someone you need to restrain? (We’ve had enough) Can’t you listen to what we have to say? (We’ve had enough) Unknowing, we lie and wait for the rain To wash away what they have made Face down in the dirt with your foot on my back In the distance I hear thunder crack C'mon Stand up ! This system of power and privilege is about to come to an end Here come the clouds The first drop is falling down (falling down) We’ve had enough Is there even anything left to explain? (We’ve had enough) Am I really someone you need to restrain? (We’ve had enough) Can’t you listen to what we have to say? (We’ve had enough) Our futures burn in red horizons Ashes scattered in winds of change Casualty numbers are rising Now it’s time to raise the stakes We’re meant for something more than living just to put food on our plates I can’t help but wonder--why should we participate? We’ve had enough Is there even anything left to explain? (We’ve had enough) Am I really someone you need to restrain? (We’ve had enough) Can’t you listen to what we have to say? (We’ve had enough)** I often found myself regretting my existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt but that I should have killed myself. They didn't lose hope. =Gothic= Uncanny: Something that disturbs and frightens us because it's so strikingly familiar- both revealed and hidden Edward Scissor-Hands media type="youtube" key="1_a1R6kViWE&rel=1" height="355" width="425" Freud's thesis: Unheimlich, uncanny is a revelation of what is private and concealed, of what is hidden; hidden not only from others, but also from one's self Fear: Why do you tremble at me alone?... Tremble also at each other! When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when a man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator... =Transcendentalism= However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.Love your life, poor as it is. **I had several more lives to live.** I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. = =
 * "The First Drop"**
 * I’m calling out

We are equal at death and at birth, when we die there is nothing left but our true humanity, status doesn't matter anymore.
=Conclusion:=

=We unite, then we divide, and the cycle never ends but the one thing that keeps this cycle going is that we are all purely humans that need one another in order to learn from our mistakes and move on with our lives.=

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