Michael Kadish
compiled 10/16/95
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Journal #1)
My goals fluctuate a lot. I have a lot of different goals in mind. Let's see.... I want to be a teacher. This is my least paying dream. In this dream I have somehow already made my fortune. I will bring my kids, elementary school age, that teaches them economics. They get "paid" for their efforts, and they must learn to survive with these economic problems.
Second, I'll work with kids, but I'll make money this time. I want to be a child psychologist. The only problem is that I am afraid I will get truly depressed hearing nothing but children's anxieties all day. Still I like trying to deal with other's problems.
Third, I want to own a store. I originally wanted to have a collectibles store, this dream has faded a little. I wanted to open a store that would treat kids fairly. I would also sell shares of the cards instead of the kids selling their cards to me. Now, I think it would be cool to have an emergency store, not a convenient store, or a first aid store, but the store opened late that would sell anything, maybe like Peterson's.
The last is best. I want to someday in the relative future be a congressman. I am a strong democrat, but do not strive to be president. I simply want my name remembered. I don't know, but it would be cool to have my name in trivial pursuit. I already have an issue. I think that kids should be allowed to vote.
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I, like most people, are both a dog and a cat. (Interesting sentence) I can create the momentum to get something started. But once the event gets around to happening, I am a dog. I will try my hardest to avoid it.
My situation can best be understood if it is explained that I am a severe procrastinator. I am more than willing to get something done. Just not right now...
I suppose I am more like a cat. I am somewhat of a radical. I am not the leader. I am the guy in the middle of the pack who questions the process.
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Of course I think Chillingworth's plan is evil. He is the standard "bad guy." He fits the common mold perfectly, he overreacts with his wife's true love. You know that it is just going to be a matter of time until he becomes obsessed with this. It is just a matter of time until he does not care about anybody so that his plan is working and will destroy everything in his path. Every aspect of his creature will be evil.
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You have no idea how brain dead I am at this time. I cannot come up with an idea, so I have stooped to writing my quote unquote thoughts, but this is also getting hard. Okay, I'm going to stop this now before it turns into something really bad.
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I have another free day today. Let's see, I'm in drama. Oh, wait! I write plays. I'll tell you about them. Last year for the one acts, I wrote a play called The Three Wishes. It's not bad, but it had some problems. I'm a little angry with the way the direction came out. It's about a kid who becomes obsessed with the concept of wishes to the point that if he does not find a way to have his wishes granted, he will be doomed to a miserable existence. At one point in the play, I wrote a little re-do of the HMS Pinafore where the captain sings the song that begins, "When I was a boy...." Right? So they turned it into a rap song. I was a little peeved at that. Next free journal entry, I'll tell you about the play I'm working on now. It's called Murder in Law.
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The views of these three critics differs greatly. Whereas one of them simply believes the author is "confusing," causing us to feel some of our own in the process, while another states that Hawthorne should be praised as an expert in romanticism. The third views him as idealistic, especially with the heroine. There's something to be said for each argument, pro and con.
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A major similarity between A Scarlet Letter and "The Artist of the Beautiful" is Hawthorne's use of infants. He appears to hate them in both stories. They both destroy a man's purpose and dream in life. They are both viewed as evil without having done anything. Hawthorne obviously has a great problem with youth. He views them as the destruction of purpose.
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With the way my grades are going in school, I hope that the teachers give very generic responses to each parent and don't tell them how his/her kid is miserably failing every single test he has ever taken. I really do not want my parents to hear hat my teachers think of me at only the seventh week of school.
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If I were directing Macbeth, I would do the dagger soliloquy without a dagger, but with anything else in its place. Macbeth is so obsessed with this murder, anything will remind him of it. For instance, he might see a shirt on the table. He stares at the shirt, plays with it, and says, "Is this a dagger I see?" The audience should understand that his obsession is not divine, rather instilled by his wife.
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As promised, I will tell you about the play I am writing. I spent all of last year learning about Broadway. Now I'm writing a spoof on musicals. I'm taking some famous showtunes, re-writing them so that they fit in with the plot surrounding a murder. The entire play is a play and only one character does not realize why people are starting to sing at the drop of a hat, or why a new scene must start, or why punch lines are not followed. Trust me, it's better than it sounds.
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