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Maxwell, Merari, Justin R Signs Of Life

__**Transcendentalism in songs**__

In the song, Breakout, by Miley Cyrus from 2008, throughout the song she talks about not wanting people to tell her what to do. “ Tired of being told what to do so unfair so uncool” “the day’s too long and I’m holding till I hear the bell ring” This is conformity. She just wants to have fun and not be told what to do. Society demands conformity,and conformity kills society.
 * Breakout by Miley Cyrus (Merari)**

__**Transcendentalism in books - By Isaiah Maxwell**__ __// I **am second** //__ //** I am second explain the change of many life for the better different stories of trials that people went through and now are in a better situation. Also stories that were not revealed stories that then didn't come to an open and shared with the world. “We can wallow in our guilt, run from our past, or hide from our fault, but God offers to wash it all away if we let him. Witch explains how how people hit rock bottom and eventually overcame in it by giving of their problems to God. This connects to the theme because of a positive way to live life instead of putting ideas for for God they put God first. **//



__**Transcendentalism**__ __** in **__** __movies__ ** By Justin Rodriguez

There are several philosophies out there because many people have many different beliefs, for instance Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism has many different themes that can be found in shows, movies, cartoons,etc… The theme intuition can be found in the movie ¨Home¨ because the Boovs (aliens) don´t know about morals and when oh spends enough time around Tip he begins to pick up valuable lessons from her but yet from watching her he had his own self realizations. In the ¨Hunger games¨ the Capitol acts as a corrupted government and Kadnis a rebel who fights against them the whole movie is about idealism, and then there is the movie the ¨Maze Runner¨ which shows trusting your gut works out because Thomas who starts out as an outcast with no memory ends up going with his gut becoming a leader, risked his life, and at the same time was able to save most of his followers.

Home Disney´s “Home” is about a young girl name Tip who meets an alien named Oh who is partially the reason her mom and all the other humans were taken away at first she hates Oh for right reasons of course but then she soon realizes he just wants to be her friend and everyone makes mistakes. Oh end up becoming the leader of the alien race he came from it's a strict place any mistake that is made leads to death. Soon after spending some time around each other Oh learns some morals he didn't live by from Tip he also slowly learned what his friends were doing was wrong. Thus this helped their bond grow and helped him save her and her planet. First lesson he learned was when Tip said “ this is what you get for stealing planets and abducting people” but oh thinks what his people were doing was befriending and liberating but he soon realized his mistake when he realizes his kind were the takers and the gors were the innocent ones and the humans who suffered from his species. He's learned persistence and bravery Oh says “ if probability of success falls below 50% Boovs give up.You do not.” yet another lesson he has learned that helped him save his friends. When Oh finally spoke out against his leader “But you are not good captain… You telled us these things, and we all believed them. I believed them. But then I met a human person. And she is not like you said. She is brave and smart… and cares about other human persons. In a way that we Boov do not even care about each other. She even cares about me. And I've done very little to earn that. The Boov may be superior in many ways...Yeah....but not in the ways that I now think are most important.” The other Boovs also had an epiphany and realizing their mistakes and Oh becomes leader and helps save everyone. He lived in a greedy, cowardly society with no standards but when he met Tip she helped him realize the corruption in his society and he was able to create order because of her.

Hunger games Idealism is the belief every human is born good but society makes them bad and this theory can be found In the Hunger Games. Every year a random person from each of the districts ( similar to a colony ) by the Capitol ( government ) and forced to fight till the death but there is one catch you can volunteer to take someone's place. The government forcing these people to brutally murder each other for entertainment shows them abusing their power. Kadnis Everdeen little sister name was one of the few picked to fight and Kadnis quickly volunteered to take her place, she showed how natural she was when it came to shooting her arrow, but when it came to the last two people she couldn't kill her friend and they end up creating a revolution unknowingly. Her decision not to kill gave the people hope of beating the evil government and hope of possibly living a free life. It shows Idealism because all the people picked to fight were innocent random people who had to do as the government said all was innocent until forced to commit murder. “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.” This is another quote from the movie showing the government abusing the innocent and district 13 had a rebellion that got them all killed. peetah had a few things to say about the evil government because he believed they were corrupting the tributes ( ones who had to fight ) “I don’t know how to say it exactly. Only…I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?”... Kadnis says “How could he die as anyone but himself?” Peetah reply was “I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not.” This again shows the power the government has and what it can do. In the final scene when it's just Kadnis an Peetah left they are speaking about how the games are suppose to end because one of them has to kill the other “We both k now they have to have a victor.” This is what's said as they are speaking yet Kadnis has a brilliant plan to outsmart the government and at the same time remain pure, her and Peetah eat berries to fake their death which ends up working for them. But this doesn't please the government and in the next movie things take a sharp turn. Maze Runner In life we are always told to believe in ourselves and to trust our gut and the Maze Runner is a great example of what good can happen from that. There are several young adults chosen to be put in the Maze each time with a different person and somewhat of different cluess. They are all brainwashed memory is taken away and they have to figure out a way of escaping before they are killed by the elements or the creatures of the maze. Thomas is one of the last two sent down to the Maze, him and a female but once that happens their supplies stop coming and everything turns to chaos but they blame Thomas for it. He starts off as an outcast pushed away by the others for being different but then he begins to realize the Maze may have a pattern and if he goes to the outside where everyone is scared to go than just maybe he will be able to find a way out. Thomas says "I didn't do anything wrong. All I know is I saw two people struggling t o get inside these walls and they couldn't make it. To ignore that because of some stupid rule seemed selfish, cowardly, and...well, stupid. If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's life, then go ahead….” Thomas trusted his gut and at the game time risked his life to save two people and even tho ugh some of the others may have been upset he didn't care he believed It was the right thing to do. Thomas has made several rational decisions to try and save his peers and in the end it worked out because he was able to figure out the mazes pattern and what to do in certain scenarios because he decided to run out into the Maze and was able to learn it by risking his life time after time. In the end he wasn't able to save everybody but he saved most some even died by following his footsteps and sacrificed their lives to help the others. “Yeah. Whoever put us here obviously made the Grievers. Now, this is the first real clue, the first anything, you've found in over three years. Right, Minho?” This is when everything started to change the chips are starring to finally be put together Thomas now knows this is a set up maybe even a test this is him trusting his gut and believing in himself and also trying to put everything together. He than says “Newt, we gotta go back out there. Who knows where this might lead us.” believing in himself even though most of the others don't and are wailing on him for not following their rules he is punished for disobeying but that doesn't stop him. He keeps on doing what he does and ends up finding a way out. The movie, Rio, demonstrates how technology has ruined society, in the movie it shows how one of the birds is always on her ipod. As well as the bird Blue witch in the movie he carries his GPS when they go out. this shows the kids that saw this movie that is ok to use technology because even birds use them. As we can tell, technology has advanced that there is conformity and it causes to not have as much family time.
 * Rio ( Merari)**

"Rio." //IMDb//. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.

__** Work Cited- **__ ( Maxwell ) "Home - I Am Second." //I Am Second RSS//. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2015. (Justin) Collins, Suzanne. //The Hunger Games //. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. Print.

Dashner, James. //Mazerunner.// New York: Random House, 2009. Print.
(Merari) "Alvin and the Chipmunks." //IMDb//. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.
 * In the movie, Alvin And The Chipmunks, technology is used a lot once they start signing and they start to get famous. They live in a big house and the only rule they have is that there are no rules. They do whatever they want and have anything, they go out to rich places and have nice cars they just like to have fun and live there rich live. Technology has ruined society that we don't see the nice simple things about life. **

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