Favorite Song

I like lots of songs but for the sake of this assignment, I will use "Demons" by Imagine Dragons.

Here is the link to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWRsgZuwf_8

Anyways, this song is centered on the singer's character which may or may not be the Dan Reynolds himself or a different character altogether. As the title suggests, the song talks about the various view points that he takes on subjects such as fate and responsibility through the lens of someone who has sinned. He talks about wanting to conceal what he has done from the person that he is addressing. He then goes on to talk about 'the beast inside' and how he doesn't want it to corrupt the other person who is implied to be pure. He discusses greed, sinners and hell which goes along with the obvious references to Christianity. He implies that Hell is his 'kingdom come' that also goes along with the implication that he is a sinner.

So that was horrible and I'm going to stop before I ruin the song for myself.

The Assault... yay

1) The Assault is arguing that your past always influences you, even if you are trying to shut it out and forget it. I believe this because Anton's past had always influenced him in all of his opinions and decisions in a rather roundabout way.

2) Yes, I agree with the message of the Assault. A great way to learn and become a better person is to learn from your past and if you ignore it, you will just repeat mistakes that could have easily been avoided. (This will make you look like a fool and a scrub. You don't want to look like a scrub.) 

3) I would like to think that people would take the message from this book and apply it to their own lives more often because then we, as a people, would be constantly learning and adapting and if we learn from others mistakes too, we could be really smart and stuff. Yeah.

Hooray

How has my past influenced me?

So I grew up in the mountains outside of Boulder, in the town of Ned. Looking back, I realize now how much I hated it. I guess it wasn't the kids themselves but the way they acted. From a young age I was not the most confident kid cause I don't have any siblings and I didn't really know how to interact with people my own age, but with adults. So the kids at Ned weren't really impressed when I interacted with them like I did the teacher, so I was kind of outcasted from people. And this was Nederland. The normal amount of kids in the entire school was smaller than a single class is in Boulder. So I got off on the wrong foot in Ned and it was pretty sucky but I still had some really good friends that I hung with. So elementary school passed and my best friend transferred to Watergate, a private school which was really cool but REALLY expensive. So that was out for me, much to the dismay of me and my friend. So I started middle school with a very awkward situation. My best friend was gone and I was stuck in a school with a bunch of kids who irritated me and didn't like me. In other words, middle school SUCKED. 

So I played sports to help me cope. Football, which I was the starting quarterback. I'm proud to say that we didn't win a single game that season.  Basketball, now that we were decent at. We had a fifty-fifty record and almost beat Southern Hills. Yeah, you guys, though it might have been the two team. I tried track but that conflicted with Lacrosse in the spring. And that brings me to the sport which I still play, having quit the other two. Lacrosse. I met tons of people, made some good friends and just had a good time in general. So by the time that eighth grade rolled around, I knew that I had to leave that hell hole (shut up Emily) of a school. I had gone to camps run by Boulder High and Fairview for lacrosse and noticed that the Fairview players just seemed to be nicer. So I thought, I want to go to Fairview. Later, I learned about the academic programs and went to great lengths to point those out to my parents who liked it, of course. So by the time regestration rolled around, I signed up for open enrollment in Fairview. I was accepted. I took this with a strange acceptance. I have read lots of books about someone starting anew at a different school and had realized the faults I had and I wanted to take advantage of it. So yeah, then High School started and that is a story for a completely different time.

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