Mother Courage and Her Children

Reading this play for the first time, I didn’t immediately know what to make of it. None of the characters are realistic or relatable, but this is supposedly what Brecht intended. From what I remember, the 30 and 80 years wars were originally advertised as holy wars between Catholic and Protestant Europe, but were really just drawn out attempts by Spain and the Netherlands to capture as much territory as possible. I guess what the play is trying to say is that all war is really about profit, and it eventually takes away your humanity. Perhaps this is why he portrays Mother Courage as being indifferent about her children’s deaths.

Christmas Lights

With the holidays approaching, it's hard to get into the christmas spirit this year. Money is tight, finals are stressful and everyone just seems be so busy and preoccupied it just sneaks up on you. I wanted to get into the spirit so I decided to listen to some christmas music. Looking through Youtube I came across these videos and I thought they were so interesting and they almost tie in to what we're doing in class, where the lights are in sync with the music. I thought it was interesting and a fun way to celebrate the holiday season.

intelligence?

Can someone be smarter? And I'm not taking about IQ... if you compare two people with an IQ of at least 90 and in the same age bracket you cannot say one personal is more intelligent. It doesn't matter if one person went to college and the other person did not. I really think this is true. No one knows anything.. sorry if you thought you did. So even if you compare those two people they won't know the exact same stuff. So one person will know something the other will not so technically the "test" is inconclusive. Does knowing calculus make you more intelligent than someone that knows html. If you stick that calculus person in front of a computer and you tell them to write html they'll probably sit there and scratch their head. The same thing applies for the html person and calculus. Or calculus and raising children... the list goes on and on. I don't think it's possible to compare people like that. Especially as people get older they have more experiences and learn different things. That's why some universities give life experience credits.

I really hate the term smarter or more intelligent or anything that means the same thing. I know I can teach someone older than me something they do not know, and I know they can teach me something in return. So technically there's no difference in intelligence.

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