Specials

Is conflict ever a "good" thing?
Yes, because- well just a comment this entry really isn't about specials it's about how I have been playing music since I was 4. okay but back to the because- I had been playing piano since age four and at ten I was getting pretty tired. No offense to all those piano players but I feel like piano is boring. I mean I know that it's hard and I know that it takes a long time to work at but seriously you're just moving your hands this way and that playing random notes that you hope will sound good. Anyways so at ten ALL I wanted was to quit piano so I could play guitar. I put up such a fuss that my parents were forced to take action, but not in the way I intended. I was moved to another piano teacher. His teaching skills were in no contrast to my old one but I held my head high and boycotted my learning of the classical art, knowing that the worse teachers I got the more likely I would reach my dream of playing guitar. On January 17, 2009 I finally got my wish. A beautiful guitar. And now look at me I am a BEAUTIFUL guitar player (if I don't say so myself) :)




















That's why if you put up with a little conflict you can get a lot out of it. Still this shouldn't be one of your life lessons. Your probably saying that please could of helped my case a lot more than any whining or crying. But if you know that getting your parents to do anything that they don't want to do is nearly impossible. So don't rule out conflict it's sometimes a "good" thing.

Math/Sciences

Is conflict ever a "good" thing?
Yes. Why you ask? Because of word problems. I have NEVER EVER been good at word problems. They just somehow escape me, I'll feel great about one so I'll go over and gloat to Mara; "HA HA I FINISHED FIRST!" then Mara will look at my paper ad show me all that I failed to do. So; crushed, I'd go back to my table to take another stab at it. And that's how it has always been maybe not always Mara but Lauren, Izzi, Emily, etc. On some rare occasions there would be no mistakes correct and I would sit there flabbergasted looking at my paper asking my self what did I do to get my perfect solution.
Mrs. Berg/Mr. Cooper your probably wondering right now what this has to do with conflict ever being a "good" thing and just so you know I'm getting to it.
I finally found out what had got me the perfect solution. It was bringing me so close to the brink of insanity that all my brain wanted to do was get me out of it and therefore helping me write what my brain had already knew. And its all thanks to Mrs. Berg who loves to throw me over the edge to watch my brain; hanging on the edge of sanity bring me back up. :) Without conflict I would be still hanging by my pinkie across the chasm of chaos.



This is nice conflict. Necessary conflict. Without that Isabel wouldn't of known her problem was wrong.





This is unnecessary conflict violence is not the answer. That's why conflict is sometimes a "good" thing, not always but sometimes.
(No Jacksons were harmed in the making of this film)

Special thanks to Izzi, Mara, Jackson, and Jordan for these videos.

Humanities

Is conflict ever a "good" thing?
Yes, because building believable characters has everything to do with necessary conflict.
When I'm sitting down to write about my characters I know that just as there is no perfect person in the world there is no perfect character. Every person is born with light and darkness, both equally, and it is the product of their influences; parents, choices, friends, and relatives that form whether they fall to one category. But one is never fully on either side there is no perfectly peaceful character just as there is no completely evil character. When I'm writing an evil character like a murderer or just a despicable one like Nettles mother in the narrative I'm composing they all have something they hold dear to them whether its an animal or a photograph or a memory. But this has nothing to do with necessary conflict, this is more of necessary peace.
A perfect example of necessary conflict is the main character in my narrative. Right now Nettle has many points of conflict; mainly her addiction to methamphetamine. But there are others; her mothers murder, her painful childhood, her dwindling money, and her waning physical condition. but besides all that she is a very charming person that you feel sympathy- no more than that you feel horribly gut-wrenchingly sorry that she is in this predicament. As a writer that is the best you can hope for. But she can't be that alien from the reader otherwise the reader won' t be able to empathize not even a bit, and therefore you have a dull story. Of course some of you can relate to some of the things Nettle is going through but not all of it and hopefully for you not the meth addiction, but she also strives for physical perfection; perfect hair, perfect teeth, no zits. Which I bet that ALL of my readers can relate to and if not yet you will soon. These small actions of internal conflict make your character believable and therefore your story believable. So yes, conflict is sometimes a good thing.

FIRST POST!

On Monday (November 1st, 2010) my awesome English/history teacher Mrs. Berg handed out these purple papers my first thought was UH-OH because when Mrs. Berg hands out a project you know there will be no rest until that project is D-O-N-E!! Picking up the paper, I read the topic that was written in big bold letters; Peace and Conflict: What's the Big Idea? My heart beat tripled in panic. But while reading the stuff you could do for your project I came across BLOG and my life just became a lot easier because I LOVE blogs!
But my moment of peace was short lived because I had to answer one out of three peace/conflict questions:
Is peace possible, or is conflict inevitable?
Is peace always desirable?
Is conflict ever a "good" thing?
I was ready to rip my hair out in frustration, because on top of that you had to tie in your answer to your classes in school; humanities, math/sciences, and specials. My frustration slowly turned into a smile as I had an idea what to do for the Humanities; Character Building! Because character building is my favorite part of writing. But what question to do..... I picked: Is conflict ever a "good" thing. The bud of an idea slowly turned into a blossoming flower. So here is my peace/conflict project.
Enjoy! ;)