Opposing Opinions

Welcome to my blog. This is the first Action Project for the winter term class Forbidden Books. In this unit we read the book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This book was banned because of its description of burning literature, mentioning abortions, suicide, murder, and drugs. In many schools this book has been prohibited from the curriculum due to its story. After reading this book myself I can understand why some schools or people would not want children to read it. We have also observed other censored books such as Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. In these short assignments we tried finding why people would censor these children's books. In this unit we talked about Socrates and his suicide as a result of being charged for corrupting the youth in the teachings he believed and followed. For this Action Project we had to create a Socratic Dialogue about any topic. During Socrates' trial he questioned his accuser, Meletus. Socrates tried getting Meletus to come to a realization that his initial accusations are flawed based on the answers he proceeds to give to Socrates' questions. In this Socratic Dialogue a classmate and I chose to use topic of someone who did not want to gather their own opinion and instead followed others to live life how they decided.

I hope the audio and video were clear for whoever is reading and watching. In this video my partner and I use a video game as an example to explain why it is important to create your own opinions by personal experience instead of putting your full belief in someone that is relatively unknown. I enjoyed working on this project because playing video games is a hobby for me and I use it as a way to meet new people online and possibly create friends. Hyper Scape is a real video game that was used as an example and we have nothing against the game, we were only using it because it has received negative reviews while still being a generally good and different game in my opinion. I really enjoyed working on this AP because I got to use something very important to me in this project. Thank you for watching the video and I hope to see you in the upcoming blog posts in the following units.

Sources:

Chung, Stella. Hyper Scape PC Beta Review. IGN. https://www.ign.com/articles/hyper-scape-review

Steinburg, Nick. 15 Terrible Movies That Made A Killing At The Box Office. Goliath. https://www.goliath.com/movies/10-terrible-movies-that-made-a-killing-at-the-box-office/

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