Leviathan

I recently researched the philososphy of a man named Thomas Hobbes and his book Leviathan. If you dont know who Hobbes i will tell you. When civil war broke out in England a few hundred years ago Hobbes was loyal to the British royal family House Stewart. during this time Hobbes created a political philosophy on how goverment should work. Hobbes said that humans as a species are greedy and evil and only care about themselves and what they have. Hobbes said that if people make deals someone will just break it while the other has his turned. For example to men can be trading bread and meat but when the man with meat turns around the man with bread will just steal all the meat. Hobbes said that the only way to solve this was by having an all powerful ruler that he called a Leviathan. 

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What annoys me

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What annoys me? Haters and hypocrates annoy me because there always hating and then if you hate on then back they act like theyve never done anything thing wrong. Let me give you an example of this situation once this kid, lets just call him Jojo was being me to me. Well to stand up for his really mean bullying i slapped hi min the face not even that hard and what does he do? He acts like he didnt do anyhting wrong at all and acts like a big baby. This annoys me because it made me out as the bad guy when I was just defending myself.

Greatest........comic......ever!!!!!!

Yesterday I got hte newest issue of The walkking Dead. this issue started a whole new volume and may i say it waas the greatest issue of hte walking dead so far. If your afraid of spoilers dont read on, the issue began with a new group of survivors being saved by the original group of survors who take them back to the safe haven Alexandria safe zone.But heres the catch, all the characters look compeletly different I mean Rick now has a buzzcut and a hook and has a cane now due to his leg which was badlt hurt last issue and Carl has grown his hair out and no longer wheres an eye patch but a pair of sunglasses and Paul Monroe has his hair in a bun so he looks like a samurai. and the safe zone appears to be miles bigger and and is full of new houses and buildings and has HUUUUGE gardens. So why is evrything so different? It was revealed at the end of the issue that this issue takes place 2 full years later so 4 years after the zombie outbreak started.

Kid Nation 7

Today we watched another Kid Nation. The episode started with 2 girls selling peach cobler. It seems taht amany of the children have started there own stores. Later some member of the green team confronted  the children who were selling and fights errupted. Jared one of the children freaked out and knocked a whole bunch of stores down. After this even more fights errupted which ended with nothing productive but more fighting.The council read the book which talked about a hidden gold mine and decided to check it out.Later Jared made up with the people he fighted with. The council found the mine and went really deep under. Later a member of the green team put rotten vegetables in a bucket and said there was money in it which was a lie. This to me is negative deviance as shes not doing what shes supposed to and is purposely being mean.

After the council found the gold they called a meating and told the other children about it.They told the children that they used the money to use everything the town needed including fun stuff like baseball bats. One of the children got upset because he is kind of an outsider so he didnt play or anything like that. Nathan, the boy got bullied by Greg and was messed with continuously. I see Greg as a deviant because hes being purposely mean and is messing with Nathan just to be a jerk.

Later anohter showdown was called and the challenge was to catch golden eggs in the air and then run them into a bucket. This was a very hard challenge for the children as the eggs kept breaking. The gole fore all teams together was to get over 4 dozen eggs to win a reward which they did. In the end blue got first,yellow got second, green won third and red lost.In they end they could win a washer that costs 30 cents a person or an old timey washer. The council meat and chose the old timey washer.I think there choice had a lot to do with social norms because the council was very much pressured by the citezines to make there choice.

One of the children Jerry started a neckless buisness and made alot of money off it. Alot of pressure came over the gold star and alot of pressure came. The kid Nathan got a big apology by his bully Greg who understood that hes just a bit different and wanted to be Natahns friend. Nominations started over who should have the gold star and most votes went towards Divad, Faro and Nathan. A town meeting was called and when asked who approved of the councils job most children approved. The complaints there were were over people beingh lazy. When asked if anyone wanted to leave no one did. And last but not least the winner of the gold star was Nathan. This upset kids like Divad who thought they deserved the star.

Kid Nation 6

Today we watched a new Kid Nation. The episode started with the council waking the children up only to be made fun of by Taylor the yellows former leader. Also in the the trash pit has gottten huge so the council read the book which said to get rid of it. The council in the end decided to remove it and selected a group of people including Taylor. This to me seems like a formal organization because its a group that has only one cause and goal.

Taylor and her friend continually complained about cleaning up and the council in the end decided to punish them. When it was time to dig the hole Guylan did a terrible job and snapped and left because of not doing good . Taylor and her friend had a talk and her friend named Layla decided to come and help and with the team quickly got the trash in the hole. Later it was discovered that the water tank was completely empty so as punishment for Taylor the council made her go back and forth with water to clean up.I see this as showing authority because the council had to punish Taylor to show taht they are in charge.

Tyalor was confronted by the council and she freaked out and screamed and moaned like a baby in anger at them. After this a group of kids filled the water tank. Finally another show down was schedualed and the teams met in town. The chalenge was to find cans of beans through a whole bunch of pork and wet beans every where within 15 minutes. In the end red one upper class, green won second, yellow won cooks, blues won laborers. In the end the councel had the choice between a whole bunch of food or doom buggies. In the end though they decided to choose the food. I see the challenge today as cooperation because the teams had to work together to get the beans.

It was decided that Layla and Taylor would clean dishes but instead of doing that they cooked without permission. It was when this happend that the council decided not to ever give them a gold star. After this 2 upper class were fighting with water and had to be yelled after one got hurt. At the town council meeting the only complaint was Taylor who had attitude when they brought her up. A huge argument erupted over Taylor but DK silenced it. When it was asked if anyone wanted DK raised his hand to everyones surprise especially the council since he would win the star. Guylan later spoke to DK privately about leaving so DK decided to stay. ALmost right after htis DK was given the gold star.

Kid nation 5

Today we watched the fifth kid nation. The episode started with one of the yellpw team members trying to geet the other members to wake up and work and then it is revealed that the blues are having the same problem.. Later the council reads the town book and tells everyone that they are having re-elctions for the council. some of the children who are running is Zack who is part of the yellow team the green team however is happy with there leader. Later a meeting is called and most of the council leaders want to be re-elected. One member of the red team named Gaylan is running, another in the blue.I see this as a social network because because all of these groups are working together.

Later Zach makes his speach and wants to impeach the yellow leader. After this chalenge time begins and as a group they have to bust open pinyatas which have pictures of past presidents then put the presidents in order. Green finished first but was wrong and after them yellow won and after this green got 2nd as laborers and after them red got cooks in 3rd and finally blue got 4th as laborers. Many people are definately angry that yellow won as they have the worst leader. I saw a lot of conflict in this contest more than any of the others because all the children were fighting and arguing with fellow teams to know which presidents go in order to defeat the other teams.

When it was time to choose a prize the children had to choose between a barbecue or toothbrushes and tooth paste and choose the tooth paste and the tooth brushes.When election day finally came all the children who were running for the council came under great stress and tried to convince as many people as they could to vote for them by setting up posters and making speeches but also by talking to people individualy. Lots of fights broke out over people protesting and tearing down posters. This caused even more stress on the kids. I definately see this as an in group, out group sort of situation because all the children are teaming up in different groups and are targeting each other to in this case get them on there side.

When before the elections began Greg, who has been frustrating about htis threw the whole show, finally won the gold star. When elections started the winners were Laurel from green who was re-elcted,  Anjay who was re-elected, Gaylan for the red, and finally Zack for yellow. All the children who were elected amde there speeches and it actually seemed like the children who lost the vote were ok with it at least a bit. After one more speech the children go back to there bunks. Greg later on calls his mom who freaks out over him winning his gold star.