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The borders of Cindo
Heidi Williams
Heavy clouds always hang ominously low, covering thick treetops and foothills. The skies break with lightning scattering acid rain over the broken city of Cindo. Cindo is a crippled place filled with wickedness of hell and the desponentness of a cemetery. Death always hovers near. The necessities of life in Cindo are speared by mother nature, the water is fowl and plagued in bacteria. The forest surrounding the city holds game that’s too fast to hunt and too tough to eat. Everything within the city has lost potential, the city of Cindo is the epitome of violence. The people of the city, the Cindoins. are far too poor and far too swallowed in the conditions of violence they are forced to stay in borders. Though the Cindoins have free-will to leave, the Cindoins are stuck. Often times new people come with stories of the sea side and gleaming summer days. This makes the younger and more naive Cindoins believe maybe they can leave, but they banish the thought with a sigh and get on with growing older. No one ever leaves the city of Cindo. Somewhere in this city, tucked inside a ramshackle burlap tent lies something all things happy. A gleaming flower. A rose to be exact, or maybe it is a passion flower sitting in a pool of sparkling liquid that’s warm to the hand. The tent itself holds the essence of summer and the smells of spring due. Sometimes people come and visit this flower, they say it makes them believe in life again (as if they ever did). Sometimes the elderly come to the tent to lay in the patches of sunlight. Some just sit and gaze at the plant, while others feel empowered to sing or reach out and feel the silk pettels. They say after you see the flower it gives you the strength that lasts a lifetime. Some say that the flower gives allows them to let go of their past and except their future. The flower makes the melancholia in the city into beauty, makes it into something worthwhile and tremendous. The Cindoins are not required to seek the joy of the plant, but they do anyways. The flower is a golden gate, the flower is a defining moment, the flower is peace.
What’s the difference between the people who walk away and the people who stay in Omelas?
The difference between the people who walk away and the people who stay in Omelas is that one of them sees the flaws in the city and the other does not. The ones who walk away from Omelas are the ones who see the flaws in what they call their “perfect city.” They see that the only reason this beauty exists is because of the contrast that is created by the child. This contracts is what makes Omolas beautiful and an illusion. This contrast makes people see the flaws in their city and so they decide they don’t want to be a part of it. The people who stay in Omelas decide that even though there is pain in this beautiful city, the pain is what makes the city beautiful so they decide to stay because more are happy then suffering and they don’t take one suffering sole into account.
Heidi Williams
Heavy clouds always hang ominously low, covering thick treetops and foothills. The skies break with lightning scattering acid rain over the broken city of Cindo. Cindo is a crippled place filled with wickedness of hell and the desponentness of a cemetery. Death always hovers near. The necessities of life in Cindo are speared by mother nature, the water is fowl and plagued in bacteria. The forest surrounding the city holds game that’s too fast to hunt and too tough to eat. Everything within the city has lost potential, the city of Cindo is the epitome of violence. The people of the city, the Cindoins. are far too poor and far too swallowed in the conditions of violence they are forced to stay in borders. Though the Cindoins have free-will to leave, the Cindoins are stuck. Often times new people come with stories of the sea side and gleaming summer days. This makes the younger and more naive Cindoins believe maybe they can leave, but they banish the thought with a sigh and get on with growing older. No one ever leaves the city of Cindo. Somewhere in this city, tucked inside a ramshackle burlap tent lies something all things happy. A gleaming flower. A rose to be exact, or maybe it is a passion flower sitting in a pool of sparkling liquid that’s warm to the hand. The tent itself holds the essence of summer and the smells of spring due. Sometimes people come and visit this flower, they say it makes them believe in life again (as if they ever did). Sometimes the elderly come to the tent to lay in the patches of sunlight. Some just sit and gaze at the plant, while others feel empowered to sing or reach out and feel the silk pettels. They say after you see the flower it gives you the strength that lasts a lifetime. Some say that the flower gives allows them to let go of their past and except their future. The flower makes the melancholia in the city into beauty, makes it into something worthwhile and tremendous. The Cindoins are not required to seek the joy of the plant, but they do anyways. The flower is a golden gate, the flower is a defining moment, the flower is peace.
What’s the difference between the people who walk away and the people who stay in Omelas?
The difference between the people who walk away and the people who stay in Omelas is that one of them sees the flaws in the city and the other does not. The ones who walk away from Omelas are the ones who see the flaws in what they call their “perfect city.” They see that the only reason this beauty exists is because of the contrast that is created by the child. This contracts is what makes Omolas beautiful and an illusion. This contrast makes people see the flaws in their city and so they decide they don’t want to be a part of it. The people who stay in Omelas decide that even though there is pain in this beautiful city, the pain is what makes the city beautiful so they decide to stay because more are happy then suffering and they don’t take one suffering sole into account.
The Global Village
Seminar Reflection
Global Village
Heidi Williams
Para1:
Two comments that struck me as powerful was what Cole said about how the U.S. is an idol for countries that want to achieve freedom. The social and political systems that make the U.S. the U.S. are all based off of freedom. The law system is the base off of how a person can loose his or her freedom and out he or she can redeem it. The education system is based on how, once we have basic knowledge, we can choose a carrier path of our liking. Freedom is the bases of the U.S. so the people of the “global village” try to mimic it by examples of our freedom such as pop culture, vaccinations, media ect. In my eyes, this spread of the things that the world views at our freedom is what holds us in the most. I think that an example of our freedom is how we are socialized to go for what we believe in and work hard to achieve our dreams; we have the freedom to dream. The other point that stuck me as powerful was what Marley said about how knowing your race is the biggest part of your identity. I respectfully disagree with this point because in my eyes who we are does not come from our roots, or in other words our race, it is where we go in life and the impact we have on the world around us. And, if we could get the community of the world to view mankind as fruit with different individual flavors from the same tree we could achieve equality.
Para 2: In the article “The Global Village Finally Arrives” written by Pica Iyer he talks about how that the result of this globalization is causing people to loose their ideality because of the merging of cultures and races. In paragraph one he talks about how much connection to other cultures he sees in a day. At the end of the paragraph he ends it with “where am I?” This quote suggests that because of this merging of culture it clouds the diversity in cultures and race eliminating uniqueness.
Para 3: In my eyes what defines who you are, what defines your identity, is where you are going, not where you are from. I agree that this globalization is clouding the diversity and uniqueness in cultures worldwide but we should not let this cloud how we define ourselves. If a person is going though life trying to “save” these cultures then the fact that they care enough about something to dedicate their life to it should be their identity not the fact that they need saving. Cultures are important to value because it illustrates how agriculture has gown in a way that shows how people are different. But, we shouldn’t need a culture to know that every human on this earth is different and special.
Para 4: In the article we read in class called “The Global Village Finally Arrives” it says “More and more of the globe looks like America while America is trying to look more and more like the rest of the globe” (Iyer para. 2) I personality connect to this because I have spent a lot of time in Mexico and every time I go back I notice small trends in the U.S. are HUGE trends in Mexico. One example of this is mainstream pop Music. Here, in Durango Colorado, we don’t listen to that “shifty” pop that comes onto the radio and your grandma compares it to a broken car horn with a rapper talking about how he wants to “pop some bottles with some models” or how much “stacks” he has on the “money racks.” Most of the youth in the U.S. is truly ashamed to call this their generation’s radio tunes. But, in Mexico, that rapper is idolized as a music prodigy.
Para 5: The process of globalization is like osmosis in biology. Osmosis is the process by witch liquids move from a place of high concentration to a place of low concentration. For example, if you put salt in a glass of water and let it sit, the salt would move from the place it sits in the glass to a place where there is no salt. This is a metaphor for globalization because in the places that have no American trends or “salt,” the global village globalizes the trend to spread to those places or under goes “osmosis”. This spreading of trends often times “dilutes” a cultures diversity and uniqueness.
Global Village
Heidi Williams
Para1:
Two comments that struck me as powerful was what Cole said about how the U.S. is an idol for countries that want to achieve freedom. The social and political systems that make the U.S. the U.S. are all based off of freedom. The law system is the base off of how a person can loose his or her freedom and out he or she can redeem it. The education system is based on how, once we have basic knowledge, we can choose a carrier path of our liking. Freedom is the bases of the U.S. so the people of the “global village” try to mimic it by examples of our freedom such as pop culture, vaccinations, media ect. In my eyes, this spread of the things that the world views at our freedom is what holds us in the most. I think that an example of our freedom is how we are socialized to go for what we believe in and work hard to achieve our dreams; we have the freedom to dream. The other point that stuck me as powerful was what Marley said about how knowing your race is the biggest part of your identity. I respectfully disagree with this point because in my eyes who we are does not come from our roots, or in other words our race, it is where we go in life and the impact we have on the world around us. And, if we could get the community of the world to view mankind as fruit with different individual flavors from the same tree we could achieve equality.
Para 2: In the article “The Global Village Finally Arrives” written by Pica Iyer he talks about how that the result of this globalization is causing people to loose their ideality because of the merging of cultures and races. In paragraph one he talks about how much connection to other cultures he sees in a day. At the end of the paragraph he ends it with “where am I?” This quote suggests that because of this merging of culture it clouds the diversity in cultures and race eliminating uniqueness.
Para 3: In my eyes what defines who you are, what defines your identity, is where you are going, not where you are from. I agree that this globalization is clouding the diversity and uniqueness in cultures worldwide but we should not let this cloud how we define ourselves. If a person is going though life trying to “save” these cultures then the fact that they care enough about something to dedicate their life to it should be their identity not the fact that they need saving. Cultures are important to value because it illustrates how agriculture has gown in a way that shows how people are different. But, we shouldn’t need a culture to know that every human on this earth is different and special.
Para 4: In the article we read in class called “The Global Village Finally Arrives” it says “More and more of the globe looks like America while America is trying to look more and more like the rest of the globe” (Iyer para. 2) I personality connect to this because I have spent a lot of time in Mexico and every time I go back I notice small trends in the U.S. are HUGE trends in Mexico. One example of this is mainstream pop Music. Here, in Durango Colorado, we don’t listen to that “shifty” pop that comes onto the radio and your grandma compares it to a broken car horn with a rapper talking about how he wants to “pop some bottles with some models” or how much “stacks” he has on the “money racks.” Most of the youth in the U.S. is truly ashamed to call this their generation’s radio tunes. But, in Mexico, that rapper is idolized as a music prodigy.
Para 5: The process of globalization is like osmosis in biology. Osmosis is the process by witch liquids move from a place of high concentration to a place of low concentration. For example, if you put salt in a glass of water and let it sit, the salt would move from the place it sits in the glass to a place where there is no salt. This is a metaphor for globalization because in the places that have no American trends or “salt,” the global village globalizes the trend to spread to those places or under goes “osmosis”. This spreading of trends often times “dilutes” a cultures diversity and uniqueness.