During winter break I’ve tried to read Wrath of the Grapes which seemed to be too difficult to understand it deeper meanings with me only understanding only the plot. I was rather disappointed by this book due to it being said to be very very good and is an all time classic by my peers and it wasn’t very exciting due to me feeling no suspense in the novels, but I must admit the characters are well crafted to be real and it seems that almost all of the characters have a habit of doing something this was even shown through the dialogue where the characters have a tendency to say word more times than other characters.

If I were to write a essay on a book I’ve read last semester it would still be From the New World due to it being unique in setting and present a dystopia that is unlike the others. This book was also the first dystopia novel that I’ve read that involves a oppressive or sometimes stupid government, but its characters are not as detailed or as real as the ones in Wrath of the Grapes or is it’s language creative or flowery.

I would write on what made this dystopia so unique from the others and what stopped it from being a complete utopia. The world is depicted as having potential to become a utopia but it is not, what is stopping it from being a utopia  would be what I would like to explore if I were to write an essay on it.

User (not user story): A food delivery man who’s too old for the jobs and his body will be faced with severe consequences if he continues this labor heavy job.

My version 3 shelter is made to be convenient for use of old people and also gave them the ability to contact their families members and give them time to learn thing on their free time. To give them free time and make my user work as little as possible while providing them with food while making the ship sustainable. The costs of food and water must also be reduced to as little as possible to reduce economic stress on these retired workers To do this while fitting 6-8 of my target audiences in I first had eight beds which is supposed to fold into the wall and save space and have broads that are slidable like the move-able white board walls. This type of wall allows for a increase in privacy while saving alot of space for a dinner table, a automated kitchen and a sofia to watch a TV.  Also each side of the bed will be attached with a ipad that can allow people chat with their families virtually and learn new things. To supply the people on broad with food without giving them too much economic stress my user would need to buy rice and fruits and very little vegetablea and meat, because fish and kelp already helps to provides some food, but these types of food can only reduce the economic pressure. To do as little damage as possiable to the ecosystem of a certain ocean when many of these houses are sailing an automated system will guide all the boat house to fish in certain areas allowing for the fish population to replenish thus reducing the damage to the envirnemnt. To furthur pervent harm to the envirnemnt the power can be generated through self adjusting solar panels and energy usage can be saved by letting the engine with uses very powerful hydrogen fuel for combustion spin a generater when sailing. This engine would also provide the people on broad with water to completely remove their water costs. To save heating costs the ship will have large windows to let in sunlight when there is sunlight and have thick curtains to close when night comes to insolate as much heat as possible thus saving heating costs.

My design connects to the user by helping them have low economic pressure and reducing the hours they have to work while helping them to connect with their families at a distance but also to keep them company with electronic devices. The high number of people in this space would make the boat house very cramped so the house must use foldable walls to provide privacy and origami furniture to save space.

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Book: 来自新世界 (Novel not comic)

Author: 贵志祐介

Page: 50

I think this book does really well on swift world-building and the majority of how this world function is already revealed to you. Factors such as threats and the position of humans and their environment are already revealed so now I am wondering why are there somethings not revealed to us. Questions such as how did the first magic capable people emerge and why didn’t they emerge earlier? What happened to the none magical people.

Page: 126

The world-building suddenly took a swift turn and the narrator Saki informed us that there is something wrong with this world such as people disappearing and people’s memory is erased and altered, but this was told to us and not shown. This is likely the first sign of showing the dark side of this half utopian world. Through the people who disappeared I think that the people who have erased share some characteristics such as cheating and dishonesty and characters such as Saturo may be targeted in the future. Animals in this book such a queer rats were given heavy focus and their relationship with humans is the same as slave to owner, but their purpose in the story is not yet clear, but some are shown to have aggression towards humans and not show absolute submission like most of them.

I like this book because I have read the summary of it and its genre is said to be dystopian which is my favorite genre and from the few pages I dug into, I wasn’t able to find any of the oppressive government tropes which I hate signaling that this is a refreshing dystopian novel for me.

Book: 来自新世界 (Novel not comic)

Author: 贵志祐介

I had finished this book and read it a second time to realize the brilliance of its ending due to it being an extreme of show and not tell. The story show the continuum of the one in power oppressing the ones without with justifications of self presevence by showing the main character’s veiw who has already become the leader of her community. When she killed a rat slave(humans without   superpowers turned into rats) who is enduring unimaginable pain for trying to wipe out the superpowered humans in a coup, she didn’t die as a result from the death feedback loop which shows that she never saw the rat as a human at all even after she was told that the rats were humans without superpowers which signal the continuation of the oppression of none superpowered humans.

Book: Che: A revolutionary life

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This book is about the life of Che Ernesto and shows his life from being a student to being on the battlefield of the Cuban revolution. The book mainly presented his views and opinions through internal dialogue and humanized him through a great focus on his personal life. Chev as a communist was not only shown through which side he chose to join it was also shown through his personal life where he tells one not to pray to a God that stays silent.

Book: Che: A revolutionary life

Page: Finished

The book tells the full life of Che Ernesto through his teenage years all the way till his death in armed conflict. This book presented everything in an engaging manner with a fast-paced plot, but this fast paced plot has the draw back of not being able to build any tension in the plot which would be cherry on top for the story. This story also didn’t give any insight on how personal experience had effected his belifes.

A Street Car Named Desire.

Page: Finished

This book shares common traits with a Greek tragicty with the main character starting off with high status, meets something he or she cannot control before dropping to a lower status due to his or her ambitions or traits. This story shows Blanch with a ranch that was taken by the government due to his father owning slaves on it and the character moves to her sister’s house to continue her life but her unwillingness to give up the hope that she will regain her status sent her into a downward spiral that eventually landed her in a mental hospital.

The book was quite confusing and strange for me and was extremely boring. I shared no sympathy for any of the characters due to them not able to connect with me and felt disappointed after reading this play that bored me after I have read it.

Nylarpotep

Page: Finished

I have read many of H.P. Lovecrafts stories before and by far this was the most difficult to read so far. The language was fervently beautiful and presented the unfathomable to the reader along with other worldly sight. I got lost mid way through due not understanding what is going on.

The Trends in the oceans where all my prototypes are set in provide an environment that is suitable for fish and kelp to grow. The Trend also shows that the ocean is composed of basically made from salt and water or H2o and you can extract hydrogen and oxygen to combust for fuel and water to drink and is suitable for fish and marine plants which be used to act as a source of food for the people.

The patterns show that in the oceans some regions are much more turbulent than others such as places where the land starts to close and the flow converges. These parts are the places that you don’t sail as the waves could cause discomfort and pose threats to the people on the boat and these places should be replaced. Recent patterns show that in the middle of the pacific garbage clumps and stays.

Relationships: The boat does not release any pollution into the air as the hydrogen fuel only releases water vapor after it is combusted but the lithium-ion batteries would pollute the environment if it is dumped, disposed of, or not recycled. The benefits can be further magnified by attaching kelp farms to the bottom to take carbon dioxide from the ocean and have it dump plastic-eating bacteria into the ocean when it crosses the pacific garbage dump so it not only has little harm to the environment it would also help the environment.

Scale: When this is put into use it will be like cars but there will be fewer users and it will act like a car that does the opposite of polluting the air and instead it will have less power to take out carbon dioxide from the ocean than cars releasing carbon dioxide into the air. The plastic-eating bacteria will not require too much effort for them to have a great effect as the bacteria growth would be exponential.