Internet Monster

I believe the internet is a menace. During this recent couple of decades, the internet has become widely popular. It started around the 1990’s and has since become world wide. I mean they even put wi-fi in restaurants to draw customers in. The internet is used daily and by millions of billions. I can not survive a week without the internet, trust me I tried. Everyone is so addicted, this is probably the main cause of procastination. I mean you can even be scarred by YouTube videos now a days. When Annabelle kept appearing everytime I clicked a video, it was torture. No one likes porcelain dolls, no one. I hated Chucky and I hate Annabelle, seriously why do I have to be so addicted. I loved nightmare before Christmas, but the boogeyman part freak me  out. How did the skeleton not freak me out, but the bag of bugs did?

The Internet is like a drug, once you get a taste of it, you want more.   The world even created online video games! I mean they are asking for us to be addicted. I love these competitive games, and online meeting games. You can be free without the reality of it all. I guess that’s how trollers feel, the attention without the judgement in real life. The school administrators don’t help either. They give out homework online and encourage to look for sources online. I mean why are you encouraging this stuff. Some people text in class, while walking, and even driving. Technology has made life easier and worse at the same time. We are dependent on it to communicate to others.

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The school lends out technology now and has multiple outlets around in each building. I really appreciate all of that and it does help me. But if you’re encouraging all of this behavior, it will not help in the long run. People will be online all the time even when people are talking to them or if they are sleeping. You can not escape the Internet menace. It is too large apart of our society now, and it will just continue to grow during this decade.

 

Love the Depp and Burton combo

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         My older sister is in love with the gothic horror of the cartoon and anime world. Of course being the typical younger sister, I followed in the foot steps. I fell face first into the Tim Burton film franchise. The scary horror done so well and the fantastic Johnny Depp acting. In these cases the “monsters” are human in a sense. Edward Scissorhands was a human with well scissors are fingers. The people in the movie depicted him as a monster and in this film, love blossomed. A little cheesey, but yes the misunderstood monster that fell in love with the human and is pursued by the ones that love the human. Sound familiar? Cough cough that vampire zombie movie maybe?

I never really enjoyed the “real life” monsters, meaning the movies with human actors. Yes I am a child for life, but I can only really enjoy the cartoon horror. Anyway continuing on, Sweeney Todd and Sleepy Hollow, hard to swallow but I can appreciate the art of it. Sweeney Todd is neither a fusion or fission monster, in Carroll’s The Nature of Horror, wink wink. In this case it is the well discussed human monster. A murderer for example, in which case Todd is. Disguised as a barber, but murders his clients, psychologically threatening and impure with his multiple cruel murders.

Sleepy Hollow is now a fusion monster in Carroll’s case, a headless horseman, classic. Anyway I believed and Ichabod Crane believed that the headless horsemen was just a typical murderer, a true human. But as the evidence stacked up against that idea, it looked grimmer and grimmer. Of course it was a psycho in the end, and that finishes that.

Truthfully maybe it is the tragic human monster, but those stories are always more moving. The monsters that kill just for the sake of it does not bode well with me.

 

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4th Grade Nightmare

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         When I entered the fourth grade, they started an after school program where you have lunch and finish homework. After all the educational stuff you get to have fun, we created lanyards and had fun in gym. That particular day my grandmother picked me up and we walked home as usual. I came home to witness my mom watching some random movie in English, which was weird because she didn’t speak English. My two older sisters were cuddled in blankets on my parents bed watching the movie. So I just casually sat down and watched with them. Worst decision, I do not know why I didn’t turn away or leave. The movie was called “The Bride of Chucky”, and being nine years old, I was literally scarred for life. For your protection I will not post a picture, you don’t wanted nightmares for the next three years like me.

         Luckily for me, the world created Toy Story and Monsters Inc., monsters are never scary and now toys aren’t as well. I actually hoped my Barbie dolls moved when I wasn’t home or asleep. And the cute cuddly monsters were blue and funny. Movies are a powerful tool people. I enjoy Greek monsters like the Cyclopes and sirens. I still despise that killer doll, I mean pouring acid on people, really? Mythological creatures are fabulous, the modern vampire and werewolves, unicorns, and Phoenix’s? They are epic, the monsters I dislike are the Grudge, Jason, etc. etc.

        My eldest sister enjoys horror with a passion. It was a big problem to get use to it. I soon learned to enjoy the Nightmare before Christmas. I love that movie now, but the boogie man freaked me out. I thought he was under my bed or staircase. So I still get scared, but now I can enjoy other horrors.