Folk song about revolution- When Johnny comes home again.

" When Johnny comes marching home" is an infamous Union song during the american revolution. The song carried out a steady militaristic beat that resembled the steady footsteps of the Union solder as their blue and red stripped flag waved victory. The name " Johnny" is a symbol of the solders from the North, while " Billy" is the symbol for the South. The first part of the song stated how when Johnny comes marching home, a symbolic language for when the Union solders gained victory, how the people rejoiced and welcomed him the best that they could. The second part of the song is similar to the first, it stated how the villagers will make wreaths and will throw him a Jubilee( a kind of anniversary) and celebrate with him by giving him 3 cheers( hip hip hooray three times) . The rest of the song than recited the events happening on each year during the civil war. In 1861 was when the war begun and in 1862, both sides were fighting hard and loosing a lot of men. In 1863, Abe( Lincoln) ended slavery. IN 1864, supporters for Abe grew and many came over to fight.  IN 1865, people predicted there to be a rebellion strife or a fundamental disagreement of the rebellion. THere are a couple of old fashioned vocabularies and old sayings such as " We will give the hero three times three". This, to a typical teenager today may be kind of confusing. This sing basically symbolizes the Union's victory during the war, I liked it because I like the chorus and the strong beat at the background.

Duty or friendship?

Hm...this is a really a tough call, especially when one understands the grave consequences of his or her decision. I hope that I would never have to make such a tough decision, but I knew at some point in life I would have to. Life seemed to have a mind of its own, and when a person's life was just hitting off way to smooth, dilemmas and turbulences like this one will occur. Now to answer this question, I would probably say it depends. There is no absolute equation for my action, it all depends on the situation. I would weigh duty and friendship on a mental balance and whichever sinks will be which ever I'll keep. Some issues I would try to weigh as I make my decisions are 1) Is the person really important to me. I know that this seems cruel, but as history has proven, humans are selfish animals. 2) Is the duty important to me. What will I lose if I don't do this. 3) What effect would it have? These are a couple of things I would spend time thinking of before I make these decisions.

Under Pressure

People often confront fear and pressure with trembling limbs and shaking shoulders. When the stakes for a particular item was high, people experiences the heart-pounding fear that as many described " the most painful endurance of a lifetime". Despite of their vivid description of being under pressure, most people generally seemed to perform far better under stress when the stakes are high. You would expect to see the test results of a kid's midterm being far better than an in class work that will not be graded by the teacher and you may also expect a student to study for his or her studies exams as diligently as they ever could the day before the tests when weeks ago they mindlessly studied with extreme low efficiency. Being able to perform under pressure is actually one of the defining characteristics for success in some careers such as Performing, Engineering...etc. Some qualities that enabled people to perform well when facing heart pounding fear or stress were pride, wanting to succeed, and calamity. One had to pride his or herself to a certain extent to ensure that he or her actually had a shot at whatever challenge laid ahead. One had to want to succeed, bad. Yearn for succession will be the major force behind one's trembling body, you have to want it. LAstly, One had to possesses  calamity so they won't literally pass out in the presence of pressure. This is a " well duh" statement so I won't spend further of my valuable time and yours elaborating on that topic. I've had many experiences of coping well under pressure. I remembered when I was in fifth grade, I had to make an impromptu speech in front of the whole school. Even under the immense pressure, I managed to do pretty well on that one. There are even more examples of well stress coping in books and literatures. Taking Artemis Fowl from the ingenious Artemis Fowl series, being a thirteen year old criminal mastermind, Artemis had to confront many dangers that could bring an adult down to his knees with calamity and a winning smile. Needless for me to say, he was excellent under pressure and probably liked it a lot. Sometimes I wished I could be like Artemis, always so calm even during the most heart pounding situations.

Cannot do it again

I've been missing out on a couple of blog posts already since this semester, and I am determined to not do it again. I also realized that I haven't been writing as much as I used to lately, and my writing skills were in deep decline lightening fast. I couldn't write what I had in mind and my writings were far from my expectations. From now on, I should work to improve my writing and read read read! I also noticed my organization was also taking a deep plunge, I started to stuff papers in books and I live my life with a lazy attitude. I should change that, I have to. I know that I don't need to do journal today, but I figure that it will be best to send the word out. Not to anyone in particular, maybe more to myself. It's a handwritten( or sort of) promise, there's no going back. :)

Vengeance

Experiences of feeling as if someone has taken away something deeply important to you can lead to revenges. I've once watched a TV show in which an ex-ballarian seek revenge on the bus driver who caught her in a car accident and costed her legs. There were many other more common examples, Quinn, a popular cheerleader, suspected her boyfriend to secretly admire Rachel, a girl with far less superior social status. That was when she started to be mean to Rachel and tried her best to destroy the girl. Her revenge however, only lead to an increase affection between Rachel and her boyfriend. This lead us to our next question, How could an obsession with vengeance lead to tragedy? Revenge is not a logical emotion , it is out of hatred. So revenge, just like any other irrational emotions such as love, can lead to tragedy. It is particularly easy to end revenge with a note of tragedy since the emotions for revenge are negative, and the character often had to battle with their conscious while they were performing the action.

The grass is always greener on the other side

No, I have not envied someone else's life before. I know that made me an oddball, cause everyone present a quality that the majority doesn't have. Anyone can see that. I suppose I could have too, if I was looking. Ever since a child I was extremely imaginative( though I was careful to disguise that well), I live on a line between reality and imaginative wonderlands. Whenever life doesn't go well for me, I dream of another character who possesses everything I lack. If I were disliked by my classmates, I dreamt of a popular cheerleader who roamed the school, if I were chastised, I dreamt of a girl whose life was perfectly fine. Due to this, I have a tendency to look " in" than " out". Even when I do look out, I don't tendency envy people on their qualities. Probably cause I don't really think about this aspect this much. The closet I ever got to envying someone was my respect for a girl when I was in first grade. She was pretty, smart, and popular and I wanted to be like her. So I created a story and imagined myself as her, pretty ridiculous huh?That lasted for like one day before I forgot about it. As hard as life can be sometimes, I am happy to be myself.