"The Pedestrian" Regressive Tendencies Blog Post

I walked in the Psychiatric center, and I was being escorted to a circular room by escalators and aliens. It was really cold and everywhere I turned I saw technology and I was devistated. I walked by this couple that was sucked into the television and said hi and they pulled me down on the floor and made me watch nature. I did not want to be there I just wanted to leave and go explore outside. I asked the Alien Tiko, if I could use the restroom and he told me no. Tiko said they inserted a tube in me that if I had to use the restroom, the tube would clean it out for me. He didn't want me to miss any parts of the nature episode. I asked for some food and the robotic alien popped a sandwhich out of his stomache, it wsa really awkward. I just couldn't believe that this was all happening and it was only 2053.

The author of "The Pedestrian" , Bradbury wrote his story to tell how technology will corrupt society.For example in the year 2053 people no longer go outside , but instead they sit at home to watch television.There is no need for the police because people never left the house.In this story a character named Leonard goes outside for a walk and he gets arrested.Leonard got arrested by an automated talking police car and got sent to a phyciatric hospital to watch tv.Bradbury is trying to prove that technology is an easy way to promote laziness.I think this story is the perfect example of what the future is going to look like.

Life In 2053 "The Pedestrian" Before You Read

It's 10:00am Monday morning and I'm getting ready for work. As I'm getting ready my husband comes home from work and lands his flying truck in the driveway. I wake my kids up for school while the automated maid makes their breakfast. I'm in my jet off to work but on the way I have to stop and get gas. I was on my way to work but then all of a sudden I crashed into a racecar that flew by the red light and didn't even
Stop. I walked into the office and started my work. The only thing I have to do is speak to my computer and it types the letters for me. My co-workers told me that we had a new president of "Glamour In Pink." I wanted to meet him but then they told me he was plastic and could only speak sophisticated words. Well it was time for me to get off work so I clocked myself out with paying a dollar. Life in 2053 to me so far is very different from like current in 2010.

Paralyzed by Fear

July 3rd 2008 was the worst day of my life. I remember being in pain 3 days in a row and this day was the most painful. The staff at my recent group home took me to Tri-City Emergency Room. I was having pain on my lower left abdomin. They got me into a room were I was waiting for like an hour before the docotr cam in and saw me. When he did he told me that they needed to give me a at-scan. I was scared but I just wanted my excruciating pain to go away. The doctor from the cat-scan department came and got me and wheeled me away. I had to lay on a table and I couldn't move. After I got done he took me back to my room and wait for the results. Te doctor came in twenty minutes later and said that I did have a problem but it was to big for the screen to see. So then they ordered me an ultra sound. The female docotor came and got me and started to put the warm jelly on my stomach. I screamed the whole time she did it because she was pressing on my stomach with all the strength she had. She brought me back to my room and I was hardcore crying that people were staring at me but I didn't care. I was scared that I was going to need sugery but the staff told me not to worry. the doctor finally came in and told me that I needed to be rushed down to Children's Hospital for an emergency surgery. He told me that I had a tumor that was the size of a twinkie on my overy, and that my falopian tube was rapped around my overy three times. So an abulance came and put me in the back and took me to Children's. When I got there they put me in a room and the nurses gave me a cathader. Then my surgeon Dr. Sinez and Anesthesisiologist came and told me what they were going to do. My surgeon told me that if I would had not come in the next twenty-four hours I would have died. I was scared when he said that; I was also afraid of not making it through the surgery alive. They wheeled me into the procerdure room and layed me on a table. The lady said count to five and I was knocked out. I honestly don't even remember counting to one. It took two hours to fix my problem. I woke up in the recovery room and I saw all of my family standing over me and crying. I cried because I was actually glad that I woke up. I stayed in the hospital for a week and four days before I could finally go back home. This was the time I was paralyzed by fear.

"Content's of the Dead Man's Pocket" Yellow Paper Paragraph

Honestly the only possessions I have that I think are really important to me are my sister and brother. I think if I lost them it would devastate me that they were gone forever. It would make me realize that I never spend enough time with them, I was mean to them, and how selfish I was. If I never lost them I'm pretty sure that I would continue to do the same pattern every time I saw them. They would think that I didn't care for them and that they were not important to me. Also, if I lost them I would live a lot healthier lifestyle. I wouldn't be so rude to them because what if I lost those people also, I would feel horrible.

Content's of the Dead Man's Pocket Paragraph

In the story "Content's of the Dead Man's pocket" Tom Benecke makes a very Life threatning decision. He decides to go out the window ledge to get a paper or work that had blown out the window. When he did go out the window and got the piece of paper he realized that he puts to much time into his work than with his wife. If he had not grabbed the yellow piece of paper he still would be focused on his work than spending time with Clare. She would of probably wanted to go spend time with him like go to see a premire in theater. Tom wouldn't of known how Clare felt because she didn't tell him; but he probably would still be comitted to his work. It's good that a life threating decision changed his mind about the way he looked at things.

Homework or Friend's Post

I would definently pick homework over friend's anyday. I come home and do my homework after school, that way I have the rest of the day to hang out with my friends. My homework is important to me because If I don't do my work I'm not going to end up no where in life. If my friend's were really my friends they would understand that my homework comes first. I would love to go to college but that includes graduating from high school and being independent. I don't want to be the person that sits under a tree with my friends all day and smoke weed. That would mean I achieved nothing at life and smoking blunts is the best way to go. Overall i just think that homework is way more important than friends.