Steve Coleman

Poetry has been around for ages and is a meaningful way to express one's feelings.

One inspirational poet is Steven Coleman. Steven Coleman is an inspirational poet.  He is a white boy who grew up at an African American High School.  Many people underestimated him and thought he wouldn't succeed because of his surrounding and what he grew up around.

He proved everyone wrong! He succeeded in his studies and worked hard at what he liked to do.  He wrote about his feelings and opinions and expressed himself through his writings.

He made a difference in society in many ways.  He proved that anyone no matter where someone is from or what they so, they can still make it in the world and succeed.  He made a difference- that if you work hard and not care what others say and just do what you love you can do whatever you believe.

He is also a twin!  Twins are the best and I am a twin which makes him even better! =p

This ^^^^ is a video of Steve Coleman reciting his poem -I Wanna Hear A Poem

His poems are inspirational to many people and are displayed in books such as Def Jam Poetry.

Memento

  Watching the movie Memento was confusing movie for me to watch.  AT first I didn't know what was going on and then later on I got the hang of how the movie was set up.  The movie is like a puzzle and the viewer is just trying to fit the pieces in the correct spots.

Although it was confusing I did enjoy viewing it because it was a different type of movie than I would usually watch and it kept me wanting to see more and more.

Leonard, the main character, just wanted to find a reason to live which was to murder his wife's killer.  His reason to live was for revenge.
Leonard has short term memory and only remembers up to his wife's death which is extremely horrible.  I feel bad because people take advantage of him because of his condition and use and abuse him.  He never knows where he is, why he is there, who sent him, or knows anybody around him or if they ever met.  He just lives life by pictures and notes he takes when he meets somebody and uses those when he doesn't remember.

I say what's the point of living if all day everyday you think of your wife dying in front of you?!  If Lenny already killed his wife's killer ( which I do not know if that happened I'm still a tad bit confused) then he really has no point in living.

Questions such as why are you living? What's worth dying for? and such are spread around in this film-these are existentialism questions.

This movie was intriguing and kept me on my toes.  I always wanted to know what was going on and why.

Existentialism

Existentialism- defiance of human existence

During the break I watched the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  This movie showed existentialism in many ways.  McMurphy, a character in the film, showed the patients in the ward how to find their own meaning of life. The patients in the ward start to rebel and have fun and enjoy their life instead of living a strict controlling lifestyle.

McMurphy helped the patients gain freedom and make them want to continue living  a free life than a "locked up" life inside the ward.  He helped the patients think beyond what they were used to and wanted them to realize they were people and not psycho people.

I also watched the movie The Invention of Lying.  The main character in this movie does the unthinkable and abnormal thing to do in society which is to lie.  He helped his community by making them think outside the box and stretch their imagination.  yes, this created hectic chaos but helped society in a major way.  This made the people of society think about what life was like after living.

Both of these films showed existentialism and made people think about the meaning of life.  In my opinion I disliked both movies becasue I found them rather boring and useless but they did show meaning and purpose of the existentialism style.

Many people have different meanings of life.  Existentialism is a controversial style of thinking still in today's society.