Letter to Santa

Bryant Valverde

Naughty Lane

December 16, 2011

Mr. Santa Claus

North Pole,

Candy Cane Lane

         

I have been so naughty, like extremely naughty.  All year I have been doing naughty activities that are way too inappropriate to mention. 

I should not receive any presents this year.    Wait, maybe one.  Could you get me a comb to stick in my thick, black, curly hair?  Hey, why don’t you cook me some food, you chef.  I would be very happy if you gave me some food, a taco, or something Mexican.  If you don’t, I will hack into your savings account, embezzle you of your colossal fortune, and buy my own taco’s.  So what’s up Santa, if that is your real name?  I just wanted to write this letter to inform you of what’s coming.  If you don’t abide by my commands, I will break you.  Watch your back buddy.  Peace.   

A Consequential Generation

Cell phones are “rude, period,” Pamela Eyring states in the Maclean’s Magazine article written by Anne Kingston.  The passage illustrates the unsettling fact that using cell phones while present with people is impolite and disrespectful.    “Most people said they’d rather see someone pick their nose than use a mobile device in front of them.”  The passage describes that mobile devices are not only ill-mannered but also that “it’s an addiction,” “one that puts personal and business relationships at risk.”  These mobile devices can be hazardous.  The police have “targeted distracted drivers, charging more than 2,000 people, with one woman so preoccupied with her cell she didn’t even notice the sirens flagging her down.”

          Technology is in fact overruling our society, and people constantly rely on its use.  It is true, that “we’re losing our ability to relate face to face,” and that people are using mobile devices as an alternative to real social interactions.  People are completely oblivious that it can be rude to use these devices in some situations, but however in other circumstances, when you are not socially involved with other people, it can be appropriate.  It would not be suitable to eliminate cell phones considering they are essential for some people, but to provide a better understanding to people, and generate awareness that cell phones can be immoral based on the circumstances.

The Pockets of my Mind

The woman in front of me in the line

Turned to dust

As she became mine

I am the stop sign of reality

I played Icarus

I played the sun

I can become

Anyone

The sun is crazy

Icarus is dead

Everything is spinning

 Inside my head

I can fly

I can swim

I can dive to the depths of the deepest ocean

I am disconnected from humanity

My friends live

My friends die

I swear I can survive

I am the green light of insanity

They won’t stop ticking

These clocks

Everything is trapped

Inside the old box

This is over

But I shall never mend

For the clocks in my head

Never end

This confession meant nothing

For I am merely

Rifling through the pockets of my mind…

No Fairy Tale

                                             No Fairy Tale                                   Neal Tougas

“Amazingly, the pounding heart is not always an idiot; some inner wisdom or instinct seems to guide many people to the right choice, and one they might never have made cognitively.” “Puce fairy book,” by Alice Major, and “Forget Prince Charming,” by June Callwood both explore the difficulties in relationships.  Alice explains how woman should not have to live up to the stereotype that men have created for woman today.  June elaborates on how challenging relationships can be and the difficulty in finding a life long partner.  Alice would respect most of the grandmother’s advice on relationships that she guides her granddaughters with. 

             “Puce fairy book” uses fairy tale allusions to explore the realistic imperfection of relationships.  She explains that “he wanted Rapunzal waiting in a tower,” but “[her] hair would never grow long enough.”  She shows that she will not “[cut] off [her] toe,” in other words, go out of her way to match the expectations of someone who “might have been the one true prince.” 

            June shows in “Forget Prince Charming,” that complications in relationships are completely unavoidable by stating that “no human relationship is friction-free.”  She names different methods in which lovers can attempt to develop a more sustainable relationship such as: “honesty…compromising… punctuality.” 

Alice would respect most of June’s advice she gives her granddaughters considering they both notably outline the hardships one must overcome while dealing with relationships and that it still can never be perfect.  Alice would not agree on June’s statement of compromising.  Alice wants men to lower their expectations for woman, while June shows that “all long term couplings survive on a mutual ability to compromise.”  Alice would agree with most of June’s advice though, because they both have similar ideas on couples and they both accept the fact that many hardships come with love.

Alice’s allusions to fairy tails are very similar to June’s idea of the reality of imperfection in relationships.  Alice would agree with most of June’s advice given to her granddaughters.  Through “Puce fairy book,” by Alice Major, and “Forget Prince Charming,” by June Callwood, the harsh reality of love is revealed, and proved “that [it] is no fairy tail.”