Happy Numbers! :D

Ahh! I forgot about this! The situation must be rectified!
Anywho.
I learned about happy numbers from Doctor Who (because I'm a crazed little fangirl. You should really know this by now) but my head about exploded when the Doctor rattled off this explination at about a hundred miles an hour. It was only after staring at it in written form for about a minute that it actually made since. Here it is:

"Any number that reduces to one when you take the sum of the square of its digits and continue iterating it until it yields one is a happy number, and any number that doesn't, isn't. A happy prime is both happy and prime."

stare at it. STARE AT IT.

Now. Demonstrations!

Let's start with 97 again.

First, you take the number and separate it into its digits.

97

9  7

Now you square the separate digits.

                                                                       2            2

9     7

and add them.

81     49

81  +  49

130

"And continue iterating it until it yields one."

1  3  0

1 + 9 + 0

10

1   0

1 + 0

1

It's a happy number!! :D

P.S. If you're confused, that means you're human.

If you did not get confused, at any point while reading this blog, I may have to hate you.

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Logic vs Emotion

Head versus heart is one of the most common conflicts any human being will probably ever experience. It's simply the curse of having both a brain and a conscience. And this conflict can be as simple as "My clothes are getting tight but I really want those chips," to, well, "I've created a monster that will kill everyone I care about unless I agree to make another one."
   That's quite a range.
   So! How to decide?
   Well..... you can't, really. There is no textbook example of when your head or your heart is right (which is what makes these dilemmas such a fascinating story element, by the way). I think it's safe to say that in most day-to-day instances it is best to follow reason, because the emotion part is generally dealing with some short-term benefit. Those chips may taste good, but the taste will be gone in ten minutes tops, and your jeans will only get tighter. But who cares about these dull, mudane problems? Let us pick apart the latter example:
   If Frankenstein makes the decision and denies the monster's ultimatum, then he will see his entire family die. If he agrees, he'll be releasing another monster into the world, which is simply too unpredictable a variable for Frankenstein to consider. Just take a look at that. Having difficulty deciding which is rational and which is emotional, yes? I think we can agree the emotional decision would be to create the second monster, accepting the new risks in order to save what's left of his family. The rational decision would be to deny the creatures demands, resulting in the death of his family but resulting in fewer risky variables.

~Companionship

Humans are social creatures. We evolved/where created (take your pick) to be surrounded by others. This is why people on deserted islands go crazy, and why prisoners sometimes get attatched to inanimate objects, and why there is a Companion Cube in Portal. This is also why Frankenstein's monster became a heartless murderer.
  One reason we love company so much is because we can communicate our feelings with them. Sure, you can talk to your pencil/computer/companion cube all day long, but it will never actually respond, which takes the fun and instinctual satisfaction out of it. (although if it does, you might want to satisfy your need to communicate with one of those people dressed in long white coats...). Talking to others usually helps us better understand our emotions and act accordingly. When we are deprived of this, our emotions become a jumbled, nonsensical mess that is difficult and sometimes painful to sort through.
   One more reason why we need fellow people is love, because we don't just have a natural urge to find a mate and reproduce; human relationships are more than that. It's difficult to state exactly why we need this so badly, but I think we can all agree that a person who goes their entire life without ever experiencing love wouldn't be very happy, yes?

"The symptoms most commonly produced by Enrichment Center testing are superstition, percieving inanimate objects as alive, and hallucinations. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak."

Post Three: Repeated Rejection

There are, sadly, several situations in which a person may feel constantly rejected. An instance of this which has become almost iconic is getting picked for dodgeball in elementary--there is always someone picked last, and it is almost always the same kid. If this hypothetical kid is not always but often picked last, he may still feel self-conscious whenever he fnds himself lined up witht he other kids. This self-consciousness may effect his dodgeball abilities, making him an even poorer player. Now, he is picked last every time. If this kid is particularly emotional, he may be become frustrated to the point of projecting negetively outwards throughout the entire day, driving away any friends he has and making him feel even more rejected. Am I the only one who thinks this sounds irritatingly like one of those comercials that say, "Oh, if you don't switch to our company your life and all you hold dear will be destroyed and here is exactly how it will happen"?

This kid, yes has been rejected quite often, and he let it get to his head. He was rejected in gym class, and he let it bother him so much that it effected the other aspects of his life, which lead to more rejection. The kid, when he thinks about it, probably feels angry, confused, sad, and perhaps a little defiant, not quite understanding why he is faced with so much rejection.

The effect rejection has on a person is the effect that person lets it have. If this kid had not let gym class get to his head, then he probably would've been fine. But if a person allows one rejection to absorb them, then they will only be regected more. It is a vicious cycle, but alas, it is life.

English Post Two: Personal Responsibility

How do you define personal responsibility? When something bad happens that involves you, how do you know whether or not you bear some responsibility for it?

I'm not going to lie, I chuckled when I saw what this post is about. Responsibility. We all saw this coming.
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-->So what is personal responsibility? Essencially, it is ensuring that no one gets harmed because of you. In a nutshell. If you are driving while texting, eating, just not looking at the road, fishing, changing your pants, what have you, then if you get in an accident, it is your fault. No jury in their right minds will argue in your favor, because you were the one not being personally responsible. You had essencially just decreed that whatever distraction had been entertaining your attention was more important than the safety and general well-being of yourself and everyone else around you.
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-->But what if you weren't changing your pants while driving? What if you were the helpless citezen who was obeying all the traffic laws when some other psycho came tearing down the street with a phone glued to his face and decided to crawl up your bumper? In that case, no one will question your personal responsibility (to be honest, no one will really care about you at all; they'll all be too busy knocking the other guy over the head with scraps from his own car). Because it was the other dude not giving a <<word_of_choice_here>> about being responsible.
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--> Another example: say you leand your friend a boat for the weekend. The boat sinks. Whose fault is it? If your friend was drunk and was too busy seeing rainbow ponies to realize he was coming up on some shoals, than it's probably his. But if your friend was in fact completely sober and you later realize you had forgotten to inform your friend that your boat is from the stone age and it may have a hole or twenty, then you were frankly not being personally responsible.
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That is all. The end.
.......I still can't figure out how to change the title.. any help with that, please? and also, can we post other things on this blog, or is it strictly for school stuff? just wondering.

English Post One: Exploration

What are some ways in which people throughout the ages have explored the unknown? Why have individuals devoted themselves to a life of exploration and discovery? What sacrifices does such devotion involve?

The way people explore is forever shifting and changing. Think about it: for the first people, exploration was looking under a rock or behind a tree. Later they built boats, and then airplanes, and then submarines and other deep-sea exploration thingies. Heck, we've built spaceships. You know what that says to our alien neighbors? That we really, really like to know what's going on around us.

But why? Probably for the same reason I'm practically writing an essay when you said we didn't have to. Because we can, and we want to. Some people just get this burning desire to explore, to seek out the unknown, to understand the world. And to leave their mark upon it. Those two reasons are all that many people need to put aside their family, friends, life of safety--life in general, actually--and dive headfirst into the unknown. So they can do what they love, and be remembered for it.

And can anybody tell me how to change my blog title? I lack the technological savviness :(