Essai On Jackets

      Jackets are extremely warm. When I was a child I had a special blanket that was the warmest and softest thing ever. I had it with me whenever I was home and it kept me safe and warm in the winter time. I got it for Christmas when I was about 5 years old, it stands to be my most memorable gift ever. It was blue with white edges and I absolutely cherished it. I slept with it every night and it became a big part of my life. It was essential, just like jackets are in the winter time. I remember when I was in 7th grade I was hanging out in the basement with my good friend. It was a frigid winter day and the air was crisp. There was around 5 inches of fresh feathery snow on the ground and we had a terribly brilliant idea. My parents were gone of course, or we never would have been able to pull this off. We ran outside in the below freezing weather and rolled around in the snow like animals, wearing only our t-shirts. After the first few seconds of the most fun I’ve ever had, I really wished that I had worn a jacket. I never made that naïve mistake again; from then on I always made sure to wear my jacket. 

      Jackets aren’t just warm though, they give the wearer a sense of style. Style is judged almost strictly by the name nowadays. It’s all about having the brand names; Hollister and American Eagle, and more specifically for jackets, North Face. Everyone gets judged by what brand they are wearing, regardless of price or even looks. People are more focused on what you are wearing than your personality sometimes. The brand doesn’t matter at all in the grand scheme of things and neither does the price.

      Jackets get me through the harsh cold of winter and are very important. They are important to your winter wardrobe. They are essential and are a must-wear. A lot of times, the small important things get overlooked. That’s a big problem in today’s society. No one wants to give credit to the person or thing that makes something happen, only what or who actually does it. Hollywood actors and sports stars get all of the media and hype, but now one wants to talk about their agents or financial advisors. Even though without those people they probably wouldn’t be where they are today. A large amount of credit deservedly should go to those behind-the-scenes people. Jackets are a more important part of our lives than we suspect and are very valuable.

1984 or Real Life?

In 1984, the thought police are a pretty creepy idea. To know that all the time, someone is monitoring your thoughts, that you never have complete privacy, that’s pressure that no average citizen wants to deal with. Personally, and I think I speak for more than just myself, I think the thought police is a huge invasion of privacy that most people could do without, and wouldn’t want to deal with. The good news is that 1984 is just a book written by George Orwell, and the thought police don’t really exist. At least in our country we have rights to our privacy that the government can’t see, right? Wrong. We don’t have thought police yet, but we have the National Security Agency (NSA) which is pretty close.
Whether or not you realize it, the NSA knows more about you than the average person is comfortable with. The NSA knows everything you searched on the internet, they can read your emails, and even listen in on your phone calls. With a plethora of information readily available to them they can determine what we like and dislike, and basically what type of person we are. What you once thought was your “private” information, the government knows. Knowing that the NSA can listen to my phone calls and see all my internet activity and emails unnerves me.
In 1984, party members accepted the thought police’s role in their society based on the party saying that they shouldn’t worry about it if they have nothing to hide. That is exactly what the United States government said when addressing the NSA situation. They are invading our privacy, and no matter how they justify doing it, it is still flat out wrong.

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

What is Art?

To me art is a visual representation that provokes though or emotion and blended with a great deal of skill needed to create it. It must take skill or else everyone would be “artists” which is not the case. A piece of art should make people think in a provocative way, and explore new ideas. It should make the viewer consider new ideas or spark emotions when they are observing it. In short, art is where idea meets skill.

This is a good example of art. This is art because it obviously took an immense amount of skill to create. I sure couldn’t have painted that and I’m sure most people couldn’t have either. It looks extremely realistic and the colors blend together well. Also, this portrait will force people to think. It portrays heaven and hell which some people do not believe in and they will be angered by this. Others believe in the afterlife but, obviously no one on earth knows what its like. It will get people curious or maybe spark new ideas about what the afterlife might be like. Either way looking at this work of art makes think. Studying this portrait causes an opinion to be constructed which requires an individual to think in order to create their opinion.

            Others may argue and say that this painting means nothing and doesn’t strike their emotions and cause provocative thought. I disagree. The painting could be completely unimportant to you and yet you would still at least consider the possibilities that this painting suggests, whether it’s a negative or positive view. It suggests an idea that’s hard to wrap your head around because it’s such an abstract thought. Lastly, this painting is complete opinion because no one living on earth can know what the afterlife looks like, or if there even is an afterlife. Because of that, everyone forms their own unique opinion about what’s depicted and they think about it.