6/7 class record

Whew. I just got back from my part-time job interview an hour ago... Super tiring! Please keep your fingers crossed for me. lol

I found today's NP to be really interesting. I've always liked analyzing literature and so, the various interpretations that Paul introduced to us today fascinated me a lot. I particularly liked the Christian approach because I could see the deep connections, especially after learning about his Christian background via the 3B's check.

In class, we had discussions on Hemingway being a hunter and conservationist at the same time. I think this is possible because first, if we look at Hemingway as being a god-like figure from his Christian background, he probably wouldn't mind sacrificing something for the greater good. In this case, this would mean sacrificing an animal to maintain the food chain... though deciding how many lives is worth sacrificing may not be something that is for him, or let alone anyone, to decide. Our ideas developed as we continued discussing, and we realized that Hemingway treats nature as a person (for example, the ocean is described as a person in The Old Man and The Sea). I've also read this book by Hemingway called In Our Time which is a bunch of short stories focusing on the same main character, Nick. Nick goes off to war and comes back to revisit his hometown which has changed in many ways, as has he. From this, I gathered that Hemingway treats humans and nature as one whole entity and conflict as another. Instead of making humans or nature superior to one another, he places them in equal positions. That might explain why he can be a hunter and a conservationsist at the same time.

Malthusian economics sounded really absurd to me. But there must be a lot of people who believe in this. I think people could create a horrific movie out of this. Learning about externalities was really surprising too. I'd never really thought twice about the cheap 100 yen products being sold everywhere. Fishy fishy.

OK, I need to go read more Old Man. lol
Good Night!