The Art of Music

Have you ever realized when you just wake up and there’s nothing to do that day, your body will tell you, no matter what it takes, that more sleep is more important than anything else? In Maus, Spiegelman expresses a similar idea when Art calls his dad a “murderer” twice. It shows that when you’re angry, you would say some things that you would normally not say, which relates to your body forcing you to sleep more, when in reality, there’s more important things to do. Our body and brain really just have minds of their own. I never really understood why our bodies do this. It’s true that it’s probably because we need more sleep, but can’t our brain understand that we only live a certain amount of time, and we shouldn’t waste anymore on sleep? It’s particularly annoying that we have to suffer through this every single day to try and get up for school. Imagine how much better life would be if we could get up without “that” feeling every time. Have you ever fallen asleep wh...

There never seems to be an end to procrastination. Just like Wallace states about “natural default-setting” thinking, procrastination is very easy to accomplish. However, it actually happens because of too much thinking. You’re probably thinking right now, how can procrastination come from too much thinking? For anyone, the most logical thing to do is to finish all important tasks first then to enjoy fun. Also, most people do not calculate exactly how much time it takes to finish something, so it’s always better to have more time than less time. However, when it comes to procrastinators, the exact time for an assignment is thoroughly calculated, then the assignment is put off until there is no more time less than the calculated time. I don’t know if it’s the sense of urgency that procrastinators love to feel every time they only have thirty minutes to write a 10 page essay, or the guilt that they feel when they spend the whole day watching YouTube, knowing it’s their l...

Reading “ The History Teacher ” really made me think about the past history teachers I’ve had. Up until now, I didn’t realize that the history I have learned in the past all came from someone else, who could’ve made the information up. The students in the poem didn’t seem to realize they were being taught false information, and just like the students, I could’ve been taught the wrong information in all my years of learning history.   How do I know what I’ve been taught is true? In my opinion, history is a subject that cannot be confirmed a hundred percent because the record of the past is all written by the people who lived then, and the information they recorded down could’ve be exaggerated or we interpreted their recordings wrong. The poem also made me realize that innocence can be protected by very little means. No matter how innocent the teacher made the stories, Billy Collins explained how his students would still “leave his classroom for the playground to torme...