Seth Book Review Corner!!

It’s time for another Seth Book Review Corner!!! Duh, duh-duh-duh duh duuuuuh!!!! K-chsk!! As I said earlier I was going to do a book review on one of the stories I’m writing, and so here it is:
The Tridantey Virus. I hear the author is supa good looking and smart too, and this is just a literary masterpiece! It will go down as the next Tale of Two Cities. It’s about the capital of the Earth Empire, Earth and it’s a very divided planet. The main character is 10-year-old Howneo Tridantey, who is basically Earth royalty. Earth isn’t run by a monarchy, but it sort of is. The head of the government is five individuals, and two are Howneo’s father and grandfather. The rich live in tall apartment buildings in the center of the City and the poor live in small apartment buildings on the outskirts of the City or the Farmlands. The story says that there are only 14 great and mighty cities scattered across the war-scarred continents. At the beginning, Howneo’s grandfather announces a magic cure-all has been made, the Tridantey Vaccine, and it will cure almost anything that ails you. And to make amends with all the citizens with Earth, and promote equality, they will administer the vaccine to everyone, free of charge.
Howneo hates being rich, and so he goes and converses with the poor people out in the alleys and lives a double life. His best friend says that all the Nuisances(what they call super poor or homeless people) are disappearing. Eventually Howneo goes to the alley where he always meets his best friend, and he never showed up. He went there every day for several days but he never showed. He even asks some of the other Nuisances where he went and they all say every day more and more Nuisances disappear.
Howneo likes to be on the roof of his building, and spends most of his time there; he says he’s in his room, but climbs up the fire escape to the roof. After coming home after waiting in the alley on the eighth night of his friend’s disappearance, he is climbing up the escape and goes past a window to his father’s study. He overhears a conspiracy between his father and grandfather about the Nuisances and the vaccine that leaves him totally shocked.
Should I tell you the rest? I am nowhere near being done with this book, so if you want to know the ending now, ask me and I’ll tell you, or I can put on here, and you can read it. Let me know what you think about the story and ending.

A Letter

I had to write a letter for an assignment a few weeks back, and I found it on the computer at school, so I took a look at it, and I thought it was pretty good, so I thought I’d share it with you. We were just learning about government and leaders of government in World Civ and had to write a letter to the leader of a certain country along with a common subject, and I chose the United States and a Sylvia Brown quote. I got docked some points because I didn’t reference the quote enough but I think it’s a pretty rockin’ letter. It’s on the internet so maybe, just maybe, someone up in the hierarchy of our nation might read it. That would be pretty awesome. Let me know what you think of it.

Dear leaders of the United States,
I am writing you for an assignment, but I expect you to take me seriously. Have you ever heard of Sylvia Brown or her famous prediction of the fall of the President of the United States? If you haven’t, then you should look into it. It sounds completely ridiculous when you hear it, but if you really think about it, we are heading there. She said that we would switch to a pure democracy and we will no longer have a president by the year 2050. Our government is corrupt and the leaders only look after themselves, and the people are getting restless. We need a change now or we will fall.
I believe that we need to keep our republic; it is the best form of government for our society. Machiavelli says that, prior to contrary belief, a republic is the best form of government. I personally don’t believe there is a one form of government that is a one size fits all, but a republic is a very good for a diverse society like ours. A republic is a great combination of many different types of governments, but like all the others, can become corrupt. Thomas Acquinas believes that monarchy will solve everyone’s problems. But as many of us see, a monarchy can so easily be corrupt and ruled in favor of the ruler. I, like many others of this nation, was taught that our government was indestructible and we are perfect. What we fail to see is that we can become just as corrupt as a monarchy, ruled in favor of the ruler. Can’t you see it now? All of our money goes to raising congress’s paycheck, and not for helping the man with a wife and three kids who just got laid off because of cutbacks.
My suggestion is radical to say the least, but I believe that it will work. I think we need a total reform, impeach most of our current leaders, and elect good, and honest people who will make sure that us people will be taken care of.
Rulers can be a controversial thing. Acquinas says that he needs to be noble and have a caring heart and love the people, and that’s fine and dandy, but that’s not reality. He is an idealist if I ever saw one. Machiavelli is more of a realist, but also a bit of a pessimist. He thinks that a ruler should be good in general, but not afraid to knock of few heads. The ruler also needs to be able to do the hard things like lie cheat and steal. I believe in the Greek “golden mean”, that the truth is somewhere in the middle. A ruler needs to have mercy and kindness but willing to do what it takes to keep us safe.
In conclusion, I think we need to reevaluate how our government is, because we are definitely heading in that direction, and if we don’t act soon, we will become a pure democracy, 51 percent rules the other 49.
Sincerely,
Seth Batz

Responses

I am going to make a goal right now to post at least two times a week, so if you ever have any ideas for me please tell me. I may be super awesome and creative but even I will have a hard time thinking of things to write on. I will also try to post at least one picture per post, but that might not happen.
Responding: -What is your opinion on having a limit on # of children (such as china)
My opinion for pretty much everything is it all depends. I don’t think there is a universal law for everything and everyone, for something to be effective it has to cater to the specific situation. But for China, I do think that it is necessary. China has way too many people and if they didn’t do anything about it, they would be stacked like anchovies on top each other. They are almost to that point anyways. People argue about Planned Parenthood saying we need the continuation of our species, hull-lo! We have nearly seven billion humans on this planet; I don’t think that’s going to be a problem. I remember when I was little and they would say there were only five billion people on Earth, that’s nearly two billion in what, eight years? But for like Montana, it has plenty of space to offer so they wouldn’t need a restriction.
My philosophy is we should build up instead of out. It’s far more effective in my opinion. Building up saves space and if built right, more energy efficient. I’m not saying it doesn’t have its downsides, but I do think it has more upsides than down. Building up would give more space for farming food and solar energy fields. And if it is more than just a residential building than you could just go down and get your food or shopping instead of getting in the car a polluting the air. I designed this super massive skyscraper that is a small city. There was just the building surrounded by fields and fields of farms. It would be totally self-sufficient, no need for cars because everything is in the building, and no need to truck in food because it is surrounded by the fields. I hope that one day, this dream will become a reality.
In Utah we desperately need to start building up. We are very, very rapidly losing farm lands to housing development, and we are building businesses in a few central locations, making the need to have to travel to do or get anything. And we are keeping all these old houses from the ‘50s and ‘60s, they are not historical nor energy efficient so why bother to keep them? I made a plan on MS Paint to turn my whole neighborhood into an apartment complex and park. And I would post that picture, except that I can’t find it on my computer. On a boring and rainy day I even designed a public transit map for the Clearfield-Roy area (I can’t find that picture either)
Wow, I went off topic, but oh well. In conclusion I think that some places do need laws about how many kids you can have, because we just plain can’t fit all 7,000,000,000 of us.

I Want YOU

I don’t know what to talk about. I want to discuss something and show my point of view, but I’m out of ideas. Give me ideas for my next blog post in the comments! It could be anything, well not anything. Something not boring, an maybe something I won’t have to do much research on(I’m lazy like that).
So give me ideas!
Also, on another note, I am currently writing something, and I would like people to read it, but I’m not sure how. Also, I have some serious writers block, and lack of self-motivation. I thought of my story plot, and recently changed it, because I thought it was too boring. So, even though not much has been written, I will do a Book Review Corner on it sometime soon, maybe even the next post. I will tell you the title now, The Tridantey Virus. Sounds cool huh?
Have a great day people! And give me ideas!

Book Review Corner!!

It’s time for a Seth book review!!! Duh, duh-duh-duh duh duuuuuh!!!! K-chsk!! I just barely made up that fancy little diddy right here on the spot. Anyways, the book I will be reviewing is Matched. I FREAKIN love this book. Of course I’m a big sucker for dystopian future novels; this one is still just plain amazing. I highly recommend this book, if you love loved the Hunger Games trilogy. Matched makes you think just like the Hunger Games. Although Matched makes you think more about to what extent do you want the government to help you, and how much they can control. In Matched the government does and provides everything for you, you make no choices. They decide what you eat, what you will do, and who you will marry. This book makes no reference to religion, so I am assuming that the Society did away with it. One thing I like(to an extent) is that everyone is equal. You are so equal that you don’t really own anything that is truly and just yours. Something that I didn’t notice until I looked at a book trailer of it, was that in the Society they is no such thing as money.
A bad thing about the Society is that since there is no money, you have to contribute to the government. It reminds me of the Aztec Empire, they had no money, but everything they needed was provided for them. And the Society does away with you when you can no longer contribute. This book brings up the matter of death, and what is a good way to go. In the Society they felt that eighty is the optimal age to die, so on your eightieth birthday you die. That sounds so horrible when you think about it, knowing when you’re going to die, but on your last day, you get to spend it with all your friends and family and get to eat whatever you want(which is a big deal in the Society) and when you die, at midnight your family is all there holding your hand. At first that sound so horrible, but if you really ponder it, is it really that bad? You get to die with all your loved ones being with you and your last meal could’ve been cake and ice cream.
Let me know what you think! Would you like to die like that, with all of your loved ones, or live in uncertainty and maybe said “I hate you” to your best friend, then you or the friend die the next day.
Anyways, overall Matched was just fantastic. I would like to say more, but I don’t want to spoil anything.
Have a good day everyone!
PS, if you’re wondering why I am posting this so early in the day, it’s because I am in school right now, in Computer Tech. I know, I’m such a bad boy. I’m bad to da bone! See how I said “da” instead of “the” that was me being all gangsta!

Do you belive in division?

Do you believe in division? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I’m starting to think I do. We have been studying government lately in World Civ, and I have been studying it on my own. It’s kind of fascinating for me, I’m not sure why. Anyways, I know this sounds kind of horrible and mean, but I think that we need to be divided up. We are all making each other go crazy and getting on each other’s nerves with opposing views. So why not have different sects of a city devoted to a certain thing. It’s not like we wouldn’t be allowed to see others in different sects, or be allowed there, but there would be certain rules. i know that would greatly reduce the cultural diversity and new ideas in our world, but I think people would be generally more happier. And I also think it would reduce hate, and hate crimes.
For example, some people are religious and some are not, if they lived in different sects than they could live by different standards in peace. Some people don’t think that same-sex marriage should be legal, so they would live in a different sect than someone who does.
So what do you think? Do you agree or disagree? Let me know!

Dear Algebra...

Dear Algebra,

First off I want to say I hate you. No offense or anything  I'm just being honest. 
Second, you mix letters and numbers. They are separate for a good reason: they were never meant to be together. so why do you put them together? Oh and why did you seduce the American school systems to think that we need to learn you?! When ever I try to find help the adult always says that they forgot it. What does that say to me? That I don't need you so why am I being forced to learn you and your older brother Algebra II and your cousin Geometry?! 
And, most people don't like you, so take a hint and go hang out with the geeks who actually like and will use you. I haven't yet picked a career but I will most likely no use you since like 90% of careers  don't even need your younger brother, Prealgebra. 
Sure you have your uses, just not to everyone. Don't get me wrong, I don't think that you should disappear because you are worth something, just not to me and the general population. 
So I can tell this isn't going to be resolved at least not anytime soon, so I will just continue to hate you while you continue to torture me for the rest of the year. When I'm an adult I'll just forget you like the rest of adults and I will be content with our relationship.
Love,
Seth

Sometimes I

Sometimes I wear my headphones on with no music(sometimes not connected to my iPod even) in public just so no one will talk to me. 
Haha, I felt like being witty today. 
Hrmmm... What else to say, not much still hasn't happened, I have a boring life. I know, I know, I say ALL the time bit it's true. Probably the most exciting thing I did since I last posted was see Beastly with my friends. I also saw I Am Number Four a few days prior to that, and it was pretty awesome. 
Movie time review! Beastly-overall I loved it. I saw with Crystal, Carlos, Kierin, and Kyan. I think Vanessa Hudgens is a talented actress even though she has made some mistakes. I also have to tip my hat to the makeup artist(s), they did a great job of making Kyle/Hunter look ugly. 
I Am Number Four-it was kinda tenniebopper like the reviews said, but still freakin amazing. Move over vampires, aliens are the new thing.