Catching Up

All right, I’ve gotten a little behind on my assignments.
Now I'm going to play a little catch up.

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Do I think that the American system of values is encouraging me to destroy historical sites?
I'm not going to lie, that's a pretty ridiculous question.
If anything the American system of values is encouraging us to maintain and prosper from such sites.
It's human nature (for the most part) to be selfish and destroy for your own need. But if look around there are so many things telling us to protect and preserve these things.
Half of them are PSAs from the government.
So really it's America that is trying to get the individual Americans to stop destroying.

I really hope that that makes since.

Way to Rainy Mountain
This was a pretty interesting story.
I can't say that it was amazing, but it was entertaining for the most part.
If all else, it helped me with how I should write my paper.
I really liked the descriptions of the landscape in the first paragraph.
It's one of the most vivid things I've read in a long time. It was almost like I knew exactly what he was talking about, even though I've never been farther west than Chicago.
But I could totally relate to him in the aspect that he was going back to a place he hasn't been to since he was a small child and he relived so many memories, and seeing how things have changed, and are yet the same.
It reminded me of a really great quote from the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

"It's a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same. Smells the same. Feels the same. You'll realize what's changed... is you. "

I have found this to have been quite true, whenever I have come back to place that I haven't been in a long time.I am really bad at ending these things, so I’m just going to leave it here.