Review: March 19

We started off with my passage from Dave Barry's: Money Secrets, which I thought would help relieve some of the stresses that many of us are encountering frequently with the whole college process thing. The class which topics to the play, and we talked about that for about 10 minutes; we also mentioned other plays like the famous We Will Rock You and Lion King. Ms. Hillestad talked about a place called Leicester Square, wherein you can get half price tickets, because Dom is going to London during Spring Break and is too poor to afford real tickets. Ivan mentioned his vegetarian idea for his walkabout, and Ms. Hillestad agreed that it was a good idea. We then moved on to the discussion of Brave New World, and talked about sexual play in young children, and if they're not conditioned, they will continue to do what pleasures them. There are 10 world controllers, and Cheri asked about the different races in the book. Ms. Hillestad explained that there are many different races, but the people in the book don't discriminate over race, but by the caste system. We then talked about soma, which is a "happy pill". We then proceeded to talk about how many people are actually on anti-depressants, and Ms. Hillestad named off about 50 of them. Ms. Hillestad said that the next pandemic will be worldwide, because of travel, like airplanes. The hose with the many streams was the next topic; a hose with twenty holes with weaker than one hole with a very strong stream. This represents the many people in the book who are connected with each other, but none feel strongly about someone else. Therefore, there is no connection or love between people. Ms. Hillestad was then very philosophical as she stated: "You don't have to have a brain to have an erection," when were discussing epsilons having sex. Finally, we talked about the solidarity service, and it was just like worshiping. The whole thing, we decided, was pretty freaky. That ended the period and we were supposed to read to some place that I can't remember right now. But I think I read to it. Hopefully.