BEES ARE DYING AT AN ALARMING RATE

When I was reading Room  and the first time I realized that Ma was kidnapped and held as a sex prisoner, I first thought of escape rooms, which started becoming popular around the world starting around 2015. In an escape room, you are stuck in a rule filled with objects (some are hidden), and some of these objects are clues to how to escape the room. Room however has no hidden objects (at least according to Jack), and no clues to escape the room (except the code, but there are no objects that can help crack the code). And in a "regular" escape room, you have a time limit (less than 1 hour in most escape rooms) to solve the puzzle, and if you can't solve it in time then you just lose, and you just leave the escape room and mope for the rest of the day. However, if Ma and Jack are not capable of escaping Room within a time limit (which is the time Old Nick leaves the Room and the time Old Nick arrives again), then Ma has to suffer another night with Old Nick and Jack has

So some of you guys might be familiar with the video game series Ace Attorney , you are a defense attorney where the levels are the trials you are trying prove that your client is innocent. It is very clear that the court system in the video game (I am using the very first game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney from now on) is guilty until proven innocent. It is evident because the prosecutor are fabricating lies and sometimes actually tampers with evidence in order to get the result he wants. Furthermore, the game is made in Japan, a country that is notorious for being guilty before innocent (near 0% crime rate, yet near 100% conviction rate). When you find something off in either the prosecutor's statement, witness testimony, you press the objection button and this music plays , indicating that you are closing to winning the trial. I am bringing up this game because in A Lesson Before Dying, it is a similar situation. It is clear that the court system is guilty until proven innocent

To be honest, I really don't want to write this blog. I rarely pay attention in this class, and usually I would rely on SparkNotes because I can't read the text right? The problem is that even the SparkNotes text is too complicated for my massive peanutbrain that I had to rely on Alexa's Bedtime Stories, which doesn't give that much information. But anyways here it goes. Addie Bundren is actuall y a fish So on page 84 of As I Lay Dying, Vardaman says: "My mother (Addie Bundren) is a fish." And during class discussions people are justifying the quote and taking it figuratively, but finally Simpleton Mind over here realizes something no one else brought up. What if Addie is really a fish? There are some evidence that supports this. First off, the coffin smells, and you know what else smells? Fish, like have you ever went to a fish market and something smells fishy in there? So Addie smells, and the fish smells and all bad smells smell the same, so if Addie s

In the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, there are references to the Odyssey . In the movie, three fugitives met up with a talented guitar player and recorded a song called "Man of Constant Sorrow", and that made me think of Odysseus in Calypso's Island. While he was trapped on the island, he cried on the beach every day. I guess he was constantly in sorrow for 6-7(?) years. Anyways, the lyrics of the first two verses are: (1) I am a man of constant sorrow,  I've seen trouble all my day  (2) I bid farewell to old Kentucky,  The place where I was born and raised  (The place where he was born and raised) (3) For six long years I've been in trouble,  No pleasures here on earth I found  (4) For in this world I'm bound to ramble,  I have no friends to help me now  (He has no friends to help him now) Adding to part 1, Odysseus did see trouble from after the Trojan War until he was trapped on the island. In part 2, if you replace Kentucky with Ithaca, which is a

While I was listening to one of the presentations one minor detail caught my ears. While Odysseus was in the under women, meeting women that are famous in Greek myths, I heard that some women married her son after he killed his father. I was like "Hold up, it's actually time to actually read the book and not look at SparkNotes". After like 30 minutes of struggling, I finally found the passage: "I saw fine Epicaste, Oedipus' mother, who did a dreadful thing in ignorance: she married her own son. He killed his father, and married her. (Book 11. Lines 271-275). I was aware that there was some incest happening in the book, but a son-mother relationship? I decided to take a further look. After Googling "Incest in Ancient Greece" at school (probably my deepest regret ever), I didn't have to look very far after when I was informed that Hera, was Zeus' first wife, AND ALSO HIS SISTER! So I made some conclusions. If the "main" god marries ano

In January 2018, I started to play the game Hearthstone. In the game, there is a choice of 9 classes to play from (Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior). Each class has certain cards that are only playable for that particular class, along with cards that can be played by every class. Each class corresponds to a hero  (For example, Malfurion Stormrage (Druid), Jaina Proudmoore (Mage), Uther Lightbringer (Paladin), and Thrall (Shaman)). There are alternate heroes that you can either purchase, or obtained through quests (For example, Medivh (Mage), Prince Arthas (Paladin), Tyrande Whisperwind (Priest)). The online card game is just you playing against other people around the world, therefore heroes battling against other heroes. However, I noticed while playing the game, some of the cards, who if you perform certain actions can "speak", say things like "Lordaeron", "Azeroth", and "Burning Legion". After some quick re