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Ignite talks.

It is currently 11:03 pm, and I am about to talk about what an ignite talk is (to me). An ignite talk is like that appetizer you get before the buffet, the sweet smell of fresh food rigjt before you eat, that moment of the song that just grabs your attention and holds on throughout the rest of the experience. My ignite talk consists of 2 things, my passion for tattoo art, and my accidental passion for electronical engineering. The way this came to be was, well, I build a tattoo gun, prison style. When I got it to work, i felt this sudden rush of accomplishment, like that feeling of "Holy $%!+, I did it!", and boy, did it feel good. I started to experiment more on the electronics laying around in my house after drawing for a substantial amount of time, and built a speaker. I built one earlier this month, out of a styrofoam cup and broken speaker parts. But the one i made over the week was a mice, 10-speaker-strong, 2-subwoofer-heavy, 12 ohms of pure genius (and boredom). It wa
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Chapter 16 notes

Mustapha Mond brings the trio to his "office" and revises their previous actions and judges them for it, he then goes on about the importance of happiness and tranquility and how the natural order must be retained (thats what I got fron his speech), he also banishes Hemholtz and Bernard. Bernard freaks out and is put in a panic after hearing his sentence, but Hemholtz, on the other hand, is accepting of his sentence, and is willing to welcome his new life, free from the social boundraries, with open arms. Before this, Mond went on and mentioned that he knew that retaining this dystopian society, that he would have to potentially destroy its people with either its initial birth process or the soma fed throughout their lives to basically kill them from the inside out. But he says this was all in the name of keeping the happiness in their lives, unaware of the problems with their lives. Ignorance is bliss.
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Chapter 12 notes

In this chapter, John is invited to a party for the Arch Community Singster of Canterbury (ha, fun.), but refuses to go due to his disgust with this Brave New World, which evidently destroys Bernard's newfound popularity, and embarrasses him in front of his new "friends". Hemholtz meets with Bernard and John and shares his anti-socail poem, which sucked, if I might add, and lets John feel comfortable enough to read Shakespeare aloud, while beautiful on its own, Hemholtz appreciates the art, but then turns it to harsh riducule and laughter once John reads Shakespeare's ideas of sex and love, due to then being head-on with Hemholtz's primed ideas of his societal norms.
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Chapter 11 Notes

In the beginning of the chapter, we learn that the director has indeed resigned as the Director, due to the book referring to him as the ex-Director. We learn that Linda is taking more and more doses of soma, which is depleting her health. Bernard becomes famous among the upperclassman, or upper-caste, because of their intrigue in John the Savage. Bernard offends Mustapha Mond and Hemholtz with his remarks of "sexual conquests". John grows weary of his new surrounding in the Brave New World, references Shakespeare, and vomits on a tour of the Fordian factory, then afterwards, they visit the library, onky to find (to John's surprise) that there are no Shakespeare works. He later goes on a date with Lenina to a "feely", whatever that is, and tops it off by referencing it to Othello (i had to do a little digging for that one). John dissapoints Lenina by not having sex with her, whilst he felt unworthy and not worth her, while she felt frustrated with his decision,
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Book Club Of One

As a reader, if someone I knew has read a book that I have as well, it feels good to know that there's another way of approaching the book. If they don't know what I'm talking about, then I'd rather let them read it before I cloud their heads with primed ideas on what to look for.
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Chapter 10 Brave New World Notes

So in this chapter (which was surprisingly short) shows that the D.H.C. decide to wait for Bernard to get back to publically humiliate him by announcing that he would be demoted to the lowest level in the Sub-Centre, due to "grossly disgracing the trust bestowed upon him", but retaliates with showing Linda and John, which puts the crowd in awe. Linda points out that the Director is her "Tomikin", and John then calls him his father, whilst the Director is denying these claims. He eventually fless from the scene, leaving the crowd to wonder the truth.
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Endgame

Can't believe that we are almost outta here. There's so much in highschool that I never got to do or get to do. That's what i want to talk about. I wanna learn certain things before getting sent off into an independent and scary world, where the baby talk becomes a satire for adults. I want to learn how to identify a business opportunity, how to reserve money for savings, open up a checking account, understand margins, interest rates, estimates, how to plan for retirement, 401k's, anything that will put me one step ahead of becoming homeless again. My mom has struggled far too long to see me end up where she avoided the most.
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