tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2339204223721990152024-03-12T17:47:55.975-07:00Rebecca's collection of essays, stories, poems and ideasI write stories about Angel, Twilight, Smallville, along with creative and sometimes political essays, poems, and wise ramblings based on my magical spirituality and connection to the Divine. Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-91977103475492085692024-01-27T09:25:00.000-08:002024-01-27T09:25:54.740-08:00New vocabulary and an attempt at philosophical writing<p> Poiesis is the process of emergence of something that did not previously exist.</p><p>Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.</p><p>Patristic means relating to the early Christian theologians.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span> Of darkness and light</span></p></blockquote><p> <span> <span> </span>How do we know what is real? What is real? What is reality? What emerges from suffering, and chaos, and darkness? In darkness, we shine bright and find out who we are. We emerge from our cocoons. Do we know we exist because we can feel, or is it because we believe we exist? What if we do not, and it is all an illusion? Are we just asleep, dreaming that we exist?</span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> What symbols do you find to be interesting? What do they teach you? How is evil pedagogical, how is good weak? Is goodness just some poiesis from an eternal struggle with forces of darkness? Is reality an illusion? Are we illusions as well?</span><br /></span></p><p><span><span><span> Because I dream, I exist. And I do wholeheartedly seek immortality. I seek to feel intensely, and to truly be. To struggle with myself and become something better, something wiser, something more free. What is necessary for happiness? How can we find it, and hold onto it tightly?</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><span> When we try to learn, we grow. When we are challenged, we change. That is alright. We must emerge from the pit of darkness. That is not all there is.</span></span></span></p>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-76518229348586279412023-12-30T10:54:00.000-08:002023-12-30T10:54:06.782-08:00Will Fracking Destroy Our Planet?<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW24457167 BCX8" paraeid="{f6357f81-847c-4adf-956d-b8372db40c70}{186}" paraid="463333088" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">F</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">racking </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">D</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">estroy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">O</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ur </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">P</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lanet?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW24457167 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":2,"335551620":2,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW24457167 BCX8" paraeid="{f6357f81-847c-4adf-956d-b8372db40c70}{208}" paraid="354550225" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hydraulic fracking is a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">method of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">drill</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> through rocks to access oil, fuel for cars, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">homes, and to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">accommodate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> modern way of life</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – yes, it is very convenient.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Fracking is a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">process</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> extract</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> natural gas from layers of shale rock </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">which</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> involves injecting a liquid</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">likely filled</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> with pollutants - </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">into the rock to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">access</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> gas. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We are comfortable and greedy,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> but</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fracking </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">might be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">destroy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the planet that we live on</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Earth </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is not ours; we borrow </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">her</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from our grandchildren. We are stewards of this planet, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and because of this</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">essential to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> preserve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> her</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> health. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Some activists believe that fracking contributes to global warming</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – the alarming storms and wildfires leave no doubt that this is a big concern</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">also </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">contaminates ground water a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nd releases methane into Earth’s atmosphere</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">researcher</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Louis W. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Allstaadt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> wonders if</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “fracking is c</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">onventional drilling on steroids.” In athletes, steroids </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">may </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cause aggression. For the planet, fracking causes incredible</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">most likely, irreparable</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> - damage</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW24457167 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW24457167 BCX8" paraeid="{40a3e4c5-6431-47f8-8072-e81c8c44d598}{93}" paraid="1294552708" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I argue that we must</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> completely abolish</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> fracking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">can do </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">this</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by giving rivers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, along with other endangered sections of the planet, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">legal personhood. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If rivers are given legal personhood, then it will be illegal to destroy them. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Doing this would protect</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">natural places, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">along with</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">preserving </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Earth for our</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> grandchildren as well as for their grandchildren.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">However, this proposal </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is not</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> solely</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he safekeeping of Earth’s young, future inhabitants</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">– when Earth is inhospitable, the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">D</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ark </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ges will return at best, and we will be extinct at </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">worst</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Earth will become like Mars</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ot a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">place where</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">safely live</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I believe </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">one of many ways to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">prevent this</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> occurrence is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to give</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Earth the same rights</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">: those </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">equivalent to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">those of human beings.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW24457167 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW24457167 BCX8" paraeid="{40a3e4c5-6431-47f8-8072-e81c8c44d598}{199}" paraid="1265616487" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While I am</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> not saying that Earth herself is a person, there may be deities that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">represent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the Earth</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">She is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">often talked about as “Gaia” or simply “Mother Earth</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” and is often honored by indigenous, shamanistic religions.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Because </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">deification</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of the planet is a relevant matter </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">my</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">argument</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to abolish fracking, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I will refer to Earth as she, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sk people to offer grave </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reverence</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for her.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we hold </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Earth to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> sacred, we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">will be more motivated to protect her from rapacious human </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">actions. I know that some</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> people would argue that Earth knows </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">how to take care of herself </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">regardless of us</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – she has existed and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">thrived</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> long before us – however, we will not be able to survive in her atmosphere. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I believe that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fracking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is harming Earth’s atmosphere in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an unrepairable</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> manner.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Although</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Earth herself obviously has no consciousness, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">when protective</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> law</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s give the planet the same rights as </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">human </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">beings</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have, we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">safeguard</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the planet.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24457167 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW24457167 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW24647062 BCX8" paraeid="{b2561909-476a-4174-9668-f0df3ad96b42}{58}" paraid="1636232784" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">How do we give the planet the same fundamental rights we gave to people? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I believe it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is vital that we start now. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">There is a precedent for this, which was started by the Māori people in New Zealand. Legal personhood was given to New Zealand’s Whanganui River, and the same is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">being </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">att</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">empted</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in Wisconsin for the Missouri river. “Non-western, often indigenous paradigm that holds a spiritual reverence to homelands and natural systems and an urgency to protect their natural resources” (DeVault) is an idea that holds us to an ethical standard of preserving the planet. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Truly, g</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">iving rivers personhood </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">could prevent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> selfish companies from destroying the pl</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">anet.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The natural gas in the shale is not for us – we breathe in oxygen; shale is one of the many natural resources unique to earth, and it is not ours to exploit, ravage and destroy.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW24647062 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW24647062 BCX8" paraeid="{b2561909-476a-4174-9668-f0df3ad96b42}{92}" paraid="1754194799" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This idea might not be as radical as it </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seems to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on the surface. We have been giving corporations rights equal to that of human beings for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a very long</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> time. In that light, why not do the opposite and give Earth’s rivers, jungles, and oceans legal personhood? We can do this not just to protect th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ese natural wonders, but to guarantee that the planet will still be there for our grandchildren</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – as well as for us, when we want to enjoy our old age in relative peace</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> When we run out of natural resources, it is not just our offspring who will be in danger – it will be all of us.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW24647062 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW24647062 BCX8" paraeid="{b2561909-476a-4174-9668-f0df3ad96b42}{114}" paraid="825769914" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">How much fracking is actually done?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">One writer, S</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ara Toth Sub </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">provide</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> data that “in 2019, the United States exported 4.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">more than three times as much as in 2014.” </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Fracking is an enduring business, making a significant amount of money, but that money will not save us from toxic drinking water and a poisonous atmosphere.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Another</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> voice on the topic, Daniel McGlynn, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">suggest</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s that “</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ne</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">arly half</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of the nation's natural gas production will be done through fracking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">" which is dangerous because fracking is new enough that we are not aware of the risks, and w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hile fracking may be more efficient than coal as a source of fuel, that does not mean t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hat the process is safe for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ear</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">h (or us)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Even planet-conscious activists debate this issue</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, asking themselves if</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> natural gas </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is safer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> than coal</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">McGlynn goes on to suggest “that natural gas may be less than 25 percent cleaner than coal and oil.” Although it is important to differentiate between the two, both will inevitably run out. It might happen in your lifetime</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – the planet that is your home will transform into a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">harsh, uninhabitable place that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is incompatible</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> with conscious life.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> In fact, according to Sara Toth Stub’s research, “The world has enough known natural gas reserves to last another 53 years, compared with 51 years for oil.” </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Most of us will be alive in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">53 years</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – and, at that time, we will have to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">answer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to the crimes against the earth</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">– in sickness, fear, or death;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">m</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">aybe all</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24647062 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">three.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW24647062 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW145392438 BCX8" paraeid="{b2561909-476a-4174-9668-f0df3ad96b42}{216}" paraid="1619792452" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Alternate sources of energy, from solar, wind, and ocean energy, are venues that we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> could harness</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> instead of relying on fracking.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Crafting solar panels is a good starting point. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Unlike oil and natural gas, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">solar panels – along with wind and ocean fuel -</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are replenishable.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Harnessing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">these sources of energy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">maintain</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the health of our planet and gua</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rantee it is around for our children</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and their children</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Although some critics might say that fracking creates jobs, “the fossil fuel industry greatly e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">xaggerates the number of jobs it creates”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (Hauter). Many of the jobs the fracking industry does create are low-pay, dehumanizing gas station jobs.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Hauter explains that there is an incredible gap between the propaganda of the fracking industry and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the unfortunate </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reality. 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The stakes are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">extremely high</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> when our groundwater might be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">contaminated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> because of the highly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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The Earth is dying.”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Can we value family before business, and our green forests instead of our green money? 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In 2020, just before the covid pandemic star</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ted, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it was postulated that temperatures were rising far too quickly, and something had to be done. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A journalist who focuses on Native American cultures </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">observes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that "studies</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> show [that] the Earth’s temperatures [were] rising and ice </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">glaciers melting at a faster pace than predicted” (Lyons). </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">She was hopeful that, as a world, we could</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> shift to clean energy usage</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> - with the explicit goal</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">restricting the rise of the global temperature “to less than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels” (Lyons). For thes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e policies to work, and to prevent Earth becoming sicker than a human with covid, a shift to solar, wind, and/or ocean fuel; is mandatory.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> When the covid pandemic hit, we wore masks. Earth has, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">let's</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> face it, been </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very sick</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a very long</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> tim</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e, and we can</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> no longer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW145392438 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> mask her condition. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW145392438 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW161181652 BCX8" paraeid="{7fa9faac-2961-4420-a6a5-5b3a439d75c5}{197}" paraid="1153386536" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Although some people would argue that Earth existed far longer than people have been on it, and that it can save itself, it is unclear if that is completely the case. Humans have been on earth staging wars, commit</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ting genocide and terrorism, and abusing the earth’s resources for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a very long</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> time. If we want</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Earth to exist for our grandchildre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n and to safely enjoy our old age, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">something needs to be do</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ne</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">immediat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ely</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We must change our monetary fueled actions and find new ways to live. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Solar-fueled cars will inevitably be less exp</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ensive, and switching to solar energy will not threaten the economy. Solar-fueled cars may produce the opposite effect: a thriving industry that is already starting to profit. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Although electric cars, which are the economy’s shiny new toy, are not solar-fueled cars</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">; however, they are a great start.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Switching to these electric cars will take the industry away from oil fueled cars. It is a shiny new toy for capitalists: gas is likely to become less expensive.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW161181652 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW145392438 BCX8" paraeid="{7fa9faac-2961-4420-a6a5-5b3a439d75c5}{141}" paraid="1457856889" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW145392438 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW161181652 BCX8" paraeid="{7fa9faac-2961-4420-a6a5-5b3a439d75c5}{239}" paraid="400835770" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If we switched to solar energy,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wind energy or ocean energy, we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">would</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> be harnessing power that ha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> always been meant for that purpose: to give our planet the ability to produce energy for u</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s. We will, inevitably, run out of oil and gas. If we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> start now, we will end up back in the Dark Ages when we run out</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of fuel</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> It is not a question about if we will run out of fuel – it is a question of when we will run out of fuel.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If we start now, Earth will survive its technological adolescence and it will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW161181652 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">flourish.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW161181652 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW228168863 BCX8" paraeid="{d3e41d7e-7bd8-4eab-b8e5-bf72cd6d199f}{20}" paraid="1786642684" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Technological adolescence is an idea comparing civilization today to a young, angry child. We have our shiny new toys – fracking drills, along with bombs</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – and we want to continue playing in greed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. We are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">selfishly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rebelling, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">while the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> planet is suffering</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Earth’s water is polluted, and if we do not change our actions, we might destroy our planet. There is a great destiny for</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> this civilization – if we get past this age without dying, Earth will become more </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">advanced, and we will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">attain</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> more freedom</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Abolishing fracking may be one way to bring in a better, fairer society for all to enjoy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and find meaning in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW228168863 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW161181652 BCX8" paraeid="{7fa9faac-2961-4420-a6a5-5b3a439d75c5}{239}" paraid="400835770" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW161181652 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW228168863 BCX8" paraeid="{d3e41d7e-7bd8-4eab-b8e5-bf72cd6d199f}{54}" paraid="1649480010" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Necessarily, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the issue is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">more than contaminated drinking water. Are recent earthquakes in Texas the result of fracking? How long should we tolerate this greed for oil – and the resulting money – that is destroying the planet?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> While the counterargument is that earthquakes are a phenomenon that happens regardless of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fracking, journalist</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and professor </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">John</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Wh</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ibe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> writes that “We are only just beginning to understand what we are doing to our local geologies, and this is dangerous.” He continues to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">provide</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> data on the correlation between earth</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">quakes and hydraulic fracking: “Starting in 2001, when shale gas and other unconventional energy sources began to grow, the rate rose steadily to [approximately] 100 such earthquakes annually, with 188 in 2011 alone” </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Whibe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW228168863 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">).</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW228168863 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW30349677 BCX8" paraeid="{d3e41d7e-7bd8-4eab-b8e5-bf72cd6d199f}{98}" paraid="159779892" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Let's</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> look at earthquakes in Texas, one of many states that has several fracking wells. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A reporter, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">David J. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">G</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oodman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">provides</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> data showing that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“the state recorded more than 220 earthquakes of 3.0 magnitude or higher, up from 26 recorded in 2017, when the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas began close monitoring</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Earthquakes happen when there is ext</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reme movement in a fault, and fracking may put pressure on these faults, which</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> shakes up natural rhythm.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Although there is not enough data to prove causation,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">arth was not meant to be stabbed and poked, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">extracting far more crude oil than necessary. Earth was meant to have clear streams of water</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, vibrant green trees.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> As one of the people who love walking in her forests and swimming in her icy oceans, I plead with you to raise awareness </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the dangers fracking has to th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> planet who has beco</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">me my sanctuary</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW30349677 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW30349677 BCX8" paraeid="{d3e41d7e-7bd8-4eab-b8e5-bf72cd6d199f}{158}" paraid="490714421" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In Oklahoma, “a 5.6 magnitude quake in 2016 that forced the shutdown of several wastewater wells” (Goodman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This was one of many tragic earthquakes that may have been caused by fracking, along with many in Texas. It is the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">suspicion of a connection </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that is a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> warning that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we, as people living on the planet, should listen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Will ceasing to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">participat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in fracking make these seismic activities diminish? G</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oodman posits that “the injection of a large amount of water in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> short perio</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of time adds fluid pressure under the earth, which</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ssentially decrease</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">clamping</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> between rocks along natural faults and allows them to slip, creating an earthquake.”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I am</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ultimately lef</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> with this important </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">question: are natural disasters natural, or are they influenced by fracking? Willingly allowing earthquakes that kill many citiz</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ens makes all employees</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">p</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">articipatin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">g</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in fracking culpable.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> This is a form of evil.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW30349677 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW228168863 BCX8" paraeid="{d3e41d7e-7bd8-4eab-b8e5-bf72cd6d199f}{54}" paraid="1649480010" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW30349677 BCX8" paraeid="{8510b6f6-83b8-47d3-a08b-1648f3c72382}{1}" paraid="2076136645" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Even so, contaminated ground water is enough of a concern that makes me wonder if we should relinquish all fracking and similar activities that thre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">aten Earth and her inhabitants</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If fracking is likely to contribute to toxicity in drinking water, then </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fracking is also partly responsible for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the cancers that result</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Therefore, it is not just the safety of the planet Earth that is at stake – it is the people who drink Earth’s water and walk in her forests. It is the safety of people who live near fracking wells who are not even aware of the gun pointed at their heads. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is black women in Kenya carrying heavy woven containers to collect water for their families, unaware of th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e damage fracking caused to that very same water. It is the protection of men, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">women</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW30349677 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and children all over the planet that is at stake.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW30349677 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW107361325 BCX8" paraeid="{8510b6f6-83b8-47d3-a08b-1648f3c72382}{31}" paraid="1414355201" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In 2019, oil was discovered in Kenya. It was extracted via fracking. According to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">journalist Joseph </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Akwiri</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in recent years,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “Kenya's Turkana fields hold 560 million barrels of oil</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">" and is a location that fracking corporations are recently interested in. I wonder if</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> manipulating leaders of a third world country </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to soothe our greed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y need to always be comfortable. It is possible that</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Kenya</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> will grow wealthier because of the oil industry</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and some groups will become exponentially wealthy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">when</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> fracking continues exponentially.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">But what</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an extraordinary amount of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">money</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> when there is not a hospitable planet to live on? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Even for the rich, t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hat money will mean nothing. We can eat that money, pieces </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of pape</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rep</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">resenting</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the poison that we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">purposefully </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">chose to put on our plates.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> What is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">all</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">at money, when death comes knocking on our doors, asking to destroy us as we destroyed the earth?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW107361325 BCX8" paraeid="{8510b6f6-83b8-47d3-a08b-1648f3c72382}{109}" paraid="1600217452" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Today it is not that bad. If we keep going, it may become that bad. If we do not </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eliminate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> hydraulic fracking, we might </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eliminate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> our </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">grand</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">children</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’s right to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">live on a hospitable planet. We may be long dead before Earth becoming inhospitable becomes the tragic, unavoidable reality, but our grandchildren may not be. How deeply will they suffer?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When we enter God’s Hall and are asked why we murdered the planet, what will we say?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW107361325 BCX8" paraeid="{8510b6f6-83b8-47d3-a08b-1648f3c72382}{135}" paraid="1219729144" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">There is another key factor that is relevant to the controversial debate on hydraulic fracking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">: s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ometimes, fracking may release methane gas into the atmosphe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">re</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, therefore </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">contributing to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> global warming</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This usually happens during drilling, although </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the process itself is unclear. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A writer who studies this issue, D</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">aniel McGlynn</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> notice</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that “earlier studies focused mainly on the amount of carbon dioxide and other traditional air pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, that were released into the atmosphere when gas was burned at power plants.” </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If these pollutants are not supposed to be in Earth’s atmosphere, that could be one </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">condition</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (of m</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">any)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> contribut</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to global warming</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While we cannot change the horrible reality of air pollution, we can all do our part to make the planet a safer place to live</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW30349677 BCX8" paraeid="{8510b6f6-83b8-47d3-a08b-1648f3c72382}{1}" paraid="2076136645" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW107361325 BCX8" paraeid="{8510b6f6-83b8-47d3-a08b-1648f3c72382}{199}" paraid="2066905874" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Bad air is likely to cause lung conditions, along with various other diseases</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> like cancer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. If we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eliminate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> fracking comple</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tely, we can reduce the toxins in the air</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">People will be able to breathe cleaner </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">air and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are likely to be healthier than they would have been if we continued increasing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fracking. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">As citizens of the planet Earth, we are getting sicker and sicker as our planet, too, is getting sicker and sicker. There </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are many ways to rectify this. If we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eliminate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> fracking and harness solar energy, wind energy, or ocean energy, our planet can thrive. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Earth is the patient, lying on a cot, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">aching</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and screaming for us to stop.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> We can take our planet’s pulse or give her mouth to mouth. We can hook her up to machines, and try </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">not to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> let her die, breathing in her last breath – it will be our last breath as well.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> We will ache as she aches. We can buy expensive black </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dresses, because</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the next opportunity for consumerism will be Earth’s funeral. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The grave reality is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, we will be attending this funeral </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> afterlif</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107361325 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e – because it will be our funeral as well.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW121265527 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{8}" paraid="1843070519" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Therefore, switching to alternate sources of energy is mandatory. We must lessen the amount of greenhouse gases that we continue to pump into the atmosphere of the dying planet. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Storms and wildfires and scorching temperatures are becoming more and more frequent.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Besides the concern of running out of fuel, there is the likelihood that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">will make us sick. While it is a sociopolitical issue as much as it is a capitalist issue, it primarily is an </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">objective</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, scientific issue. There is no escaping it: global warming is happening. Will we be able to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reverse global warming? It is likely that we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cannot, if</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we do not start right now. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW121265527 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW121265527 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{30}" paraid="209287291" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We have earthquakes because of fracking, and we may have hurricanes because of global warming. Is the planet mad at us? Is God mad at us? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Can earth sustain our behavior?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Earth is not a person </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">or a god,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">but we must consider our rights to remain on her if we continue our behavior. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If we destroy the planet, a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ll of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">our sovereign human rights will be revoked.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> We </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">will not have any land to stand on and bicker about what rights to give and which ones to stubbornly forsake. Earth herself will, indeed, forsake us as she utters her last, dying breath. We will forsake ourselves, and our green dollar bills. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Our governments will not matter, and it will not just be Native American tribes arguing about land – it will be everywhere, spreading like a metaphorical wildfire. There will be no land for our grandchildren. They will be born just to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">su</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ffer on an inhospitable pl</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">anet.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW121265527 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW121265527 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{64}" paraid="1617311976" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Reed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Karaim writes, “and we know </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">what's</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> causing climate change: human activity. This is no longer subject to debate.” Therefore, it is our fault. Every single human being that does not do anything to change the situation is at blame. The day of the trial has come, and we must ask ourselves if the v</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">erdict will be murder. Is it manslaughter? Is it second-degree murder? What about first-degree murder?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW121265527 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW107361325 BCX8" paraeid="{8510b6f6-83b8-47d3-a08b-1648f3c72382}{199}" paraid="2066905874" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW107361325 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW121265527 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{80}" paraid="1698700160" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Looking at the crisis from a religious point of view, it is critical to do something right now. We can harness the wind. We can tap into the power of the dark, roaring waves. We can use the sun to charge our cars. We can do this simply </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW121265527 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">because it is the right thing to do. We can </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">decrease fracking because the God that created the earth has mandated that we decease fracking now. We must stop caring about the economy and our </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wallets and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> start caring </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">about </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the earth’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> longevity. This is a primeval crisis</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. When the earth dies, will we be her murderers? If we do not give the earth legal personhood, all of us, with all our legal personhood, will die along with earth. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We are not tasked with something gravely impossible, but we are tasked with something incredibly difficult. I am saying that the transition to replenishable energy will be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very difficult</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW69185675 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for us, especially from a consumerist, capitalist mind point. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW69185675 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{106}" paraid="539274394" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If money is the concern, we might as well continue fracking for natural gas. Yes, fracking is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">somewhat good</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for the economy. That cannot be denied anymore. I have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">established</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that fracking is not good for the planet we are living on. If we want to live like a family</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and throw out capitalist notions of situations that are desirable and comfortable, then we must harness the power of the wind. We must create solar-powered cars</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and we must tap into the power of the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ocean and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">see what beautiful treasures she can breathe into our bodies.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{130}" paraid="1742816007" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is us who are on life support, and if we eliminate fracking, then the Earth will definitely come to our aid.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> If we fight to save the Earth, she will fight to save us. Will she save our greedy way of life? I do not think s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he will. I do not think she should, because we can collectively become better people – compassion and empathy in our hearts along with the consciousness to make earth-conscious choices.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{140}" paraid="1541568487" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The scientists out there can start studying alternate, replenishable sources of fuel. They have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">likely studied</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the topic some, but there is always something new to learn. This is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a difficult task</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and we all play </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an important role</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Global warming is the uncontestable result of our monster fracking. Earth’s resources are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">near to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> depletion.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I will conclude with a simple narrative of what will happen if we do not start right now.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{168}" paraid="1506197879" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“What is your name?” a tired </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lawyer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> asks.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{178}" paraid="1034952292" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“My name is Earth. They were greedy, and they did not care. I did love them gravely, and warned them many times,” the planet says quietly, thoughtfully. She </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">struggles to breathe in. She is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hooked</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to the life support machine. There is no one to give her life – not anymore, we took everything precious of hers away. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{190}" paraid="1925886782" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“Why are you on life support?” the lawyer asks.</span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{196}" paraid="1014001090" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“They meant well,” </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">E</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">arth says, croaking her final breath. “Some of them were great. They had empathy for me, as they knew that land was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">no one’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to own.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” The planet that we call earth is rotating on her axis, and she is revolving around the sun, just like normal. She is like mars now – inhospitable.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{212}" paraid="310260133" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“I would have the humans anyways,” Earth </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">says. “But they would no longer be able to survive in my atmosphere. I am sorry, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">counselor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{224}" paraid="1921933817" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“It is me who is gravely sorry,” the lawyer says, gasping for air. “I should have made them do something. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I guess it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is too late now.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{234}" paraid="1827757214" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The earth rotates on her axis, remembering the people that walked in her forests and swam in her oceans. She remembers them vividly – some of them felt at peace when w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">alking through her woods. They felt a deep reverence towards her</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Maybe in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a million years</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the earth</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> will be revived.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW46400260 BCX8" paraeid="{cbb884e2-e844-43ef-9e92-ec7b2b8c6a68}{254}" paraid="887220245" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Do you think it will be okay?” the lawyer asks</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW46400260 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, hesitating. 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: -48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif;"><span style="color: windowtext; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Writing this paper was difficult and inspirational. The paper itself received the grade of an 88, and it was enough to bring my grade in English 102 Honors up to an A. I took a risk and centered my argument around a spiritual reality which I hold very fondly and dearly. I argued that we must completely abolish</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #800180;">fracking</span><span style="color: #ba0000;">. </span><span style="color: #800180;">Before this assignment, I did not know much about fracking besides that I was against it. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Now, I know why I am against it. Although this paper got a B - a high B, though - writing it was a lesson and a journey that I am grateful I went on. This paper was the highest grade on all 4 essays of this class - the others got far lower grades. Anyways, here it is! Let me know what you think of all of last semester's essays which I am now self-publishing them. I wrote them, thus I have the right to self-publish them so all of you can read them.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-82673258304488391752023-12-30T10:41:00.000-08:002023-12-30T10:41:39.244-08:00Hel's story on film<p> <span class="TextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I am adapting the section of “The Children of Loki</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> pages 96 to 97, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in Neil </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Gaiman’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">Norse Mythology. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">I would adapt the scene in</span><span class="TextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Norse Mythology</span><span class="TextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to portray Loki’s daughter Hel in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a positive</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> light. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I want to challenge prejudiced, preconceived notions </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">about</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">witchcraft </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">being</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> evil. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The thematic intent in this scene would be tortured heroes struggling to make a righteous decision or choosing to purposely create evil.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Another theme I would like to implicitly talk about is family, centering on Odin as a grandfather, Loki as a father, and Hel as a sometimes-disobedient daughter. To make the audience fall in love wi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">th </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hel and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> make them want to follow her story for the rest of the movie</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I would add poetry to the dialogue between Hel, Loki, and Odin.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> According to Syd Rafid Kabir, “Hel is more than just a keeper of the damned” and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it would be interesting to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> see the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hidden aspects of her story told.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Through this scene, I would convey that the traditional Christian hell is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">not the same as</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the Norse interpretation of the underworld, and it is necessary to talk about mythology without judgement.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW221100468 BCX8" paraeid="{e7045855-35fa-4150-a584-0dcc50fcfbc8}{5}" paraid="52650844" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the novel,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Odin orders Loki’s daughter to step towards him (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Gaiman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">) and asks her what they call her. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is revealed that her name is Hel. She is polite and addresses him as All-father.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The right side of her face is described as beautiful, and the left side as dull and implied to be evil. She is the daughter of Loki </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">giant, after all</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Hel says that she likes the dead because they respect her, but the living “look at [her] with revulsion” (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Gaiman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">). Odin </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">announces</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that Hel will be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the ruler of the underworld, and while Hel seems okay with this and excitedly discusses her bowl and her bed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW221100468 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, there is a negative undertone. I would like to challenge this negativity and adapt the story on film to create a positive story about Hel and the underworld.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7045855-35fa-4150-a584-0dcc50fcfbc8}{39}" paraid="151099232" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tory starts with a dark screen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and computer-generated imagery creates silver stars</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to introduce the scene that is about to happen.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The song “Who am I to you” by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Tzayla</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is play</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to create the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">feeling</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> mystical, magical world. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">story is set </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Asgard, the city of the gods.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Odin’s hall has a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">golden</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> throne, which was created</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by applying </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">gold</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> paint to a regular chair.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I would use cinematography to create lighting that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">highlights a golden glow around Odin’s throne</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to show that he is important.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7045855-35fa-4150-a584-0dcc50fcfbc8}{99}" paraid="1735502824" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A third person narrator says, “This is the story of the first witch</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. She loved the dead, and she drank in their power. Her father, Loki, believed in her – at least for some of the time.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7045855-35fa-4150-a584-0dcc50fcfbc8}{111}" paraid="993020065" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After this, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a man with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">long, black hair walks</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> onto the scene</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, shadows of mist surrounding him.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This man is Odin, and the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> camera uses lighting techniques to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> create shadows on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">his face. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ominous</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> classical</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> music starts playing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Odin is played by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">John Glover and wears a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wig</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">because</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Glover </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">curre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ntly does not have long hair.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I chose John Glover because he is older – over seventy – and because he successfully played Lionel Luther in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the television series </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Smallville</span><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Lion</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">el Luther </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> dark,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">grifty</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> character and I want Odin to appear in a similar light. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7045855-35fa-4150-a584-0dcc50fcfbc8}{185}" paraid="800654573" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Odin says, “Come here, girl” with a cracking voice. The </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eerie music in the background will make the audience suspect that even </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">if Odin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> might be slightly evil, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he is without a doubt wise.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">camera </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lense</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> captures an image of his black, gouged out eye socket. This emphasizes the long journey and sacrifices Odin went on and gave to achieve eternal wisdom – it also asks serious students of paganism to risk the sa</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">me.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7045855-35fa-4150-a584-0dcc50fcfbc8}{209}" paraid="497862056" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Then the song “King and lion heart” by Of Monsters and Men starts to play.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The song </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">would be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> non-diegetic music; only the audience </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">would hear</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I would use this song to create the mis-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">en</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">scène</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">: a dark, mystical film. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The song</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> also</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> introduces the main character, Hel</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hel is played by Danielle Rose Russel because she triumphantly played the witch Hope Michealson in the television series </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Legacies.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I would cast this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ctress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">because of her good representation of witches. It is important for people who identify as pagan or </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">witch</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> fairly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">represented in film. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hel is looking at the ground, afraid of Odin. Odin reaches for her chin, forcing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">her to look into his eyes. T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rue to the mis-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">en</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">scène</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, there is a sense of foreboding darkness</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> created by shadow</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Hopefully, this would make</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the audience see Hel as a tormented, brooding character</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – an anti-hero.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{fa484f7d-5247-417a-97da-0b12766bc347}{44}" paraid="812327537" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Lighting reveals that the right side of Hel’s face is beautiful and alluring, highlighting her potential to be pure and good.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> A lone tear escapes, highlighting the magical green of her </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">right eye.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The camera </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lenses</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">capture</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">soft brown hair fall</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">over the left side of her face, hidi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ng the grotesque nature of this side.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The creepy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">mis-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">en</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">scène</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> continues as Odin angrily yanks Hel’s hair away, revealing ghostliness – dark shadows under the witch’s eyes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> along with</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> bruised, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">swollen </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">red skin. Make-up creates a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> horror movie feel when the audience sees the darkness and evil portrayed on half of Hel’s face.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Maggots crawl out of Hel’s left eye, making the audience cringe and look away.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Additionally, since Hel is “sometimes described as half-flesh colored and half-blue" (Kabir), the rotting side of her face is painted with heavy, b</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lue make-up.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{fa484f7d-5247-417a-97da-0b12766bc347}{102}" paraid="691937575" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">You must not be afraid, Hel daughter of Loki,” Odin says.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Hel shakes violently, afraid of Odin, her grandfather. She refuses to show her terror</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and there is a close-up shot of Hel’s arms, which </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reveals</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> sweat.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{fa484f7d-5247-417a-97da-0b12766bc347}{118}" paraid="2123972028" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I am not afraid, Odin,”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Hel whispers quietly. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We see an angled shot of Hel looking up at the corner of the room, whispering and humming softly.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">She is peacefully singing an ancient hymn although she has long forgotten all of the words – though, her soul would never forget.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hel can be angelic as well as monstrous. I would</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">attempt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> portray her as a character who has as much potential for g</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ood as her </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">grea</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t potential</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for evil.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{fa484f7d-5247-417a-97da-0b12766bc347}{150}" paraid="1471955978" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Then tell me what they call you,” Odin says</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, with a loud, booming voice</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Odin is portrayed as the powerful </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">All</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">father</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by the shadows </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">surrounding</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> him</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The camera captures </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">shot</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of Odin staring angrily into Hel’s eyes.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{fa484f7d-5247-417a-97da-0b12766bc347}{184}" paraid="1567958264" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“They call me Hel. I am the keeper of all things dark and decayed,” Hel says, her voice stronger and suddenly powerful. Her father, Loki, played </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by Jared Padalecki, enters the scene.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I would choose Jared Padalecki because of his performance as the tormented character Sam Winchester in the television series </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Supernatural.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Jarad Padalecki is good at playing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">multifaceted</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> chara</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cters</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and his curly hair </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s fitting for</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the role of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Loki.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{fa484f7d-5247-417a-97da-0b12766bc347}{219}" paraid="1253597214" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Stop it, father,” Loki says</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, rolling his eyes.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{fa484f7d-5247-417a-97da-0b12766bc347}{227}" paraid="921371112" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Let me listen to her, son,” Odin insists. “Go on, Hel.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Tell me if you are alive, or </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a m</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ere corpse?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{fa484f7d-5247-417a-97da-0b12766bc347}{241}" paraid="569236799" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The girl Hel reaches to her right eye, where her tears </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sparkle</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. She looks up at Odin and Loki, suddenly wanting to make a good impression </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">her family.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> She smiles and looks up.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7fe9768-51de-46de-9801-5ce98aa3cffe}{2}" paraid="1387334656" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“I am only myself,” Hel says like she does in </span><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Norse Mythology</span><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Gaiman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, page 97).</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “I like talking to the dead. They are nice peop</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">le.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7fe9768-51de-46de-9801-5ce98aa3cffe}{20}" paraid="138066527" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Loki </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">shakes his head. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lens</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">capture</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s an angle of Loki looming over Hel, appearing to be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">creepy, abusive father</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Then his eyes sparkle, and the audience will see that he is also </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> man with heroic potential to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">protect his daughter.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW221100468 BCX8" paraeid="{e7045855-35fa-4150-a584-0dcc50fcfbc8}{5}" paraid="52650844" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW221100468 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7fe9768-51de-46de-9801-5ce98aa3cffe}{48}" paraid="1243952964" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“What of the living?” Loki asks with a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">boomin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17064433 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">g voice.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW254026152 BCX8" paraeid="{e7fe9768-51de-46de-9801-5ce98aa3cffe}{58}" paraid="571433763" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“You know that already, daddy. The living hates me,” Hel whispers. The camera lens now captures Hel’s torso, sho</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wing a decaying body, expressing the chaotic nature of Hel’s dark side. Computer-generated imagery creates the world tree of Norse mythology, Yggdrasil. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is a tree with a grayish trunk, its leaves a vibrant green that seems to glow. Hel starts climbing down it to the underworld. Loki grins, following his daughter do</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wn. Make-up and lighting reveal that he is proud of his daughter</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by highlighting her beauty</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. The </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">icy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">underworld is Hel’s fortress, where she goes to experience solitude and commune with the spirits of people who have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">passed </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> their </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">time on the mortal plane, E</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">arth. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">They ar</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e her victims as well as her friends.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW254026152 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; 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font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Because “A dog is sometimes said to guard its entrance, much like Cerberus in Greek mythology” (McCoy, Daniel) a hound dog starts barking. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is a black </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dog,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is there to be a symbol of darkness. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Next, t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he camera captures </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> shot of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> dark world</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> made of snow</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and mist</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is not</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the place that many</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Christians would interpret as the traditional</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hell</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, nor is entering the realm </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a form of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">punishment.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> would</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">use cinematography</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – glowing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lighting</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">highlighting safety - </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to make Helheim seem like a positive place for the dead to carry on. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Instead of a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> place </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of eternal torment, this is a magical realm </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">led</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Norse g</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oddess</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> According to the History Cooperative, “It is important to note that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">good</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">evil</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are subjective and often shaped by cultural and personal values and beliefs” (Kabir). Therefore, the people who go to Hel’s halls </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">need to be talked about with passion</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and justice.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW254026152 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW17064433 BCX8" paraeid="{e7fe9768-51de-46de-9801-5ce98aa3cffe}{48}" paraid="1243952964" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW17064433 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW254026152 BCX8" paraeid="{e7fe9768-51de-46de-9801-5ce98aa3cffe}{202}" paraid="1292141947" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Look at them, Loki,” Hel says, her face filled with laughter</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and joy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Character acting makes the audience focus on the character instead of on Danielle Ros</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e Russel. “They need me.” She smiles at a sleeping woman that got in a few weeks ago. The woman </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">has</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">gaunt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, gray </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">skin.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Her skin is pale, and she is emaciated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from recently dying </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">after</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a life tormented by anorexia. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">She </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is played</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Kristen </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Stewart, who wears </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a blonde wig. I chose Stewart because of her portrayal of the vampire-obsessed Bella Swan in the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Twilight </span><span class="TextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">series.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Additionally, I chose </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">actress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> because </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">she is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> skinny and fits the role of this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">character</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">girl </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">appears to be peacefull</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> dreaming</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and quietly mumbles,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “Thank you, Hel.”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> brief</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW254026152 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> dialogue reveals the inspiration and salvation Hel offers to the people who come to Helheim.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW254026152 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW135124574 BCX8" paraeid="{ab80faa7-f9ef-445b-88be-9605be6b5727}{43}" paraid="1778947042" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hel looks at Loki with a look of fierce, violent passion. “My bowl, Hunger, is a cauldron for all witches. My knife, Famine, will cause sickness to all who betray me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.” Hel knows that the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">honorable</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> dead are destined to go to Valhalla,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> but the people that enter her realm are certainly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">not unworthy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">- </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">just different</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The camera captures Hel as pensive and quiet</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> with an image of her staring obsessively into her bowl</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, a typical witch’s cauldron</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The clear water in her bowl shows her reflection</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">: an image of her face that appears eth</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ereal.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW135124574 BCX8" paraeid="{ab80faa7-f9ef-445b-88be-9605be6b5727}{81}" paraid="262920747" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">An important idea that would bring this scene to life is that “</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">here is some debate as to whether Hel was a place of suffering. While most accounts depicted the realm as a place where the dead carried on as they had in life, others suggested it was a bleak, horrifying place” (Apel, Thomas). Hel looks u</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">p at her father with both excitement in her right, green </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eye</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and tragedy in her nearly closed, endarkened left eye.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In this way she is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">like</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Odin – she has one working eye, and because of this she is wise. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">see</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a shot of just Loki and Hel. Loki’s make up makes him look older, and he is looking down at his daughter with precious pride.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Then the camera shifts to just Hel, revealing a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">close-up</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hel’s teary</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">face so the audience can focus on her deep, psychic emotion.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW135124574 BCX8" paraeid="{ab80faa7-f9ef-445b-88be-9605be6b5727}{126}" paraid="768717715" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“Daddy, the wicked amuse me,” Hel says, her eyes winking.</span><span class="EOP SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW135124574 BCX8" paraeid="{ab80faa7-f9ef-445b-88be-9605be6b5727}{132}" paraid="143904041" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Me as well, child,” Loki says. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">He has a grin that is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">akin to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Batman’s Joker. He also cackles, showing that he can be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">mischievous. Sound effects and make up reveal Loki to be a cunning trickster like he is in the television show </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Supernatural</span><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">He has black liner around his eyes to emphasize crazed eyes. Also, like in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Supernatural, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the music</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – classical music with violins - </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">creates the sense that Loki also has</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the potential </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to be heroic.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW135124574 BCX8" paraeid="{ab80faa7-f9ef-445b-88be-9605be6b5727}{164}" paraid="2040187071" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The camera is being used to gravely respect the life cycle</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by capturing the image of a newborn baby crying and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">stretching h</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is tiny toes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. People are born, they die, and they go to the afterlife. Some of them reincarnate, and the cycle starts over. A third perso</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n narrator speaks, “This is Helheim. This is where you will find your power, young witches. This is where you may find peace after your long stirrings.” </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hel shakes her head violently and sobs hysterically, thinking about the people who </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in life honored her</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">mis-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">en</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">scène</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">creates the image as well as the perceived smell of black rot on the left side of her face. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Now Hel smiles, knowing she has a purpose. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The right side of her smile has intense, red </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lips</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tick.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW135124574 BCX8" paraeid="{ab80faa7-f9ef-445b-88be-9605be6b5727}{209}" paraid="345959658" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The screen shifts to a green, grassy path and a steep, snowy mountain looming in the distance. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The music and lighting reveal a cheery setting. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We now </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">see</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Odin again. “This child will be the ruler of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the deepest of the dark places</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as he said in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Norse Mythology </span><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; 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clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW135124574 BCX8" paraeid="{ab80faa7-f9ef-445b-88be-9605be6b5727}{237}" paraid="1253709058" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“She will be a dark Goddess, a queen for all who are in love with the dark. The ones that crave the occult, who study witchcraft and demonology,” Odin says. He says this because many young people are drawn to fantasy movies about witchcraft, which would not only make t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he movie money, but inspire young people. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“She is not only dark. I am proud of her. They will tend to her, and she will tend to them,” Odin finally says</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The History Cooperative suggests that</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “In Norse mythology, death and the underworld are not necessarily seen as hostile forces, [and] </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n this sense, Hel might be seen as a neutral or even positive figure, as she is fulfilling an essential role in the Norse worldview” (Kabir)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. In this light, I would paint Hel as a hero for people who dare to be different. Odin will smile, and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">staying true to the dark, misty </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">mis-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">en</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">scène</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135124574 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, he will wink.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW135124574 BCX8" paraeid="{ab80faa7-f9ef-445b-88be-9605be6b5727}{237}" paraid="1253709058" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW135124574 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="TextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The screen would shift back to Hel one more time. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Like in the film textbook, I would</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> use editing to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">juxtapose images of Hel being a violent villain with images of her as an innocent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, dreamlike</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> leader for sinners</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that inspires magic</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. I would use this to make the audience feel terror, ange</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r, joy, and hope.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Hel would be looking up at the camera, the lenses narrowing in on her and making her appear </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very important</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and larger than life. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">McCoy writes that “Throughout the Old Norse sources, we find instances of such journeys to Hel undertaken by gods or humans in order to recover a dead spirit or obtain knowledge from the dead.” This scene would be an introduction to the mythical character Hel, and future scenes would invol</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ve shamans visiting Helheim. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW144437985 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hel's interaction with these visiting shamans would drive the sequel’s story.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW144437985 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Norton & Company. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW262314505 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Published in 2017.</span><span class="EOP SCXW262314505 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480,"335559991":720}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW262314505 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">M</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">agical </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nspiration, or </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">P</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sychopathic </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{18e7e032-3e48-42f0-bc44-385e089a5925}{210}" paraid="1779050011" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">May Day</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(2021)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is a fantasy film </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that has a similar narrative structure to </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he Wizard of Oz</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">(1939)</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Wizard of Oz </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">speaks about a woman’s fictional journey to a strange world, as does the film </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In this remarkable movie, I see women being empowered – they hold each other up, whisper secrets, and swim in the wild currents of the world’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oceans</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – which are also, metaphorically speaking, society’s currents</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In my opinion, the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> film’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> director, Karen </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cinorre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, use</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> meta</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">phor and imagery </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in her movie to encourage women to speak up</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. The film</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> commentates on several relevant themes </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">- capitalism</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, mental health,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> spirituality, and feminism.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While the main character </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ana is lured into a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fictional, war-torn </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">world after attempting suicide</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I believe </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cinorre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> has this happen to talk about mental illness. The film ends up discussing intersectionality – Ana is a woman, she is mentally ill</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and she is potentially gay.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I see the story teaching women and girls how to take reign of their life – and a warning aga</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">inst falling prey to psychopathy and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">unadulterated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> evil.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{c0b2103b-23d5-47ba-8ac8-9661fe2540f2}{55}" paraid="1923876984" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">How does the film’s themes encourage women to be powerful?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nore’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> film offers more than encouragement – it offers a better society for an audience </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of girls who are questioning their sexuality. It also might be a helpful film for girls who are having problems with their body image or even battling anorexia</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – but it also has dark </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">themes and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> should be consumed with caution.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> In</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">more is done than was possible in 1939. Dorothy’s journey from Kansas to Oz and back, however, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">also has an inspirational story for girls.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Despite pressure from society to be sexual beings, both films deliberate on feminine power in girls.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Both characters – Ana and Dorothy – are young, beautiful women.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{c0b2103b-23d5-47ba-8ac8-9661fe2540f2}{95}" paraid="1174050837" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This movie is a fantasy movie, and the criteria that allow a fantasy movie to be enjoyed </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very different</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ome films that lean towards the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">normal; </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">owards the status quo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It discusses things that are not real as a metaphor to d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cinorre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, is female</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This is an important detail because it sheds light on the context of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> story – the story was created by a woman, for women. W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hile </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he Wizard of Oz</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was written during the first wave of feminism,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">May Day</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> h</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as several </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">new ideas</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to bring to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> today’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> feminism.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{c0b2103b-23d5-47ba-8ac8-9661fe2540f2}{167}" paraid="1927726497" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Problematically, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the majority of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the characters in the film are white</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – except for the character Bea, who I will analyze later in this essay</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">How does</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the film </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">showcase</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">different ways</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for women to reclaim </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">our </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sensuality?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> While</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seems to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">stating</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that misogyny, capitalism, and war make life </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">incredibly hard for women today</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, it also takes light of some issues. One issue that the film gets wrong is psychopathy – in the film, it is okay to murder male</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> soldiers. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Perhaps Ana</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> felt hurt and felt lost. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Perhaps Marsha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> felt more hurt, and like it was okay to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">murder men because her life was dramatically unfair.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{c0b2103b-23d5-47ba-8ac8-9661fe2540f2}{234}" paraid="347865235" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In the light of this negativity, though, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">does a better job of fairly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">representing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> gay women. Although the sociopathy of Marsha negatively </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">impacts</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the lessons she tries to impart</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on Ana, seeing a bunch of women shooting guns and sleeping together is representation. In film, if your identity is not represented, then you feel invisible, wiped out of existence. Seeing powerful women sleeping with other women </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">can positively </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">impact</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the minds of curious young girls.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{9bc59a56-301f-4b0b-ac5b-0118724a747e}{5}" paraid="1804257732" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The film’s main metaphor is swimming</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The characters are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">swimming in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a wild and unfriendly ocean that is very much like the just as unfriendly real world. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">na thinks she </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">doesn’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> know how to swim, which </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">establishes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">this metaphor which compares </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ana’s ability to swim to her ability to effectively control her own life. It also </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">questions</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Ana’s confidence in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">herself and asks young girls what they want out of life. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">young girls</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> able to swim, ev</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">en w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hen </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">engulphed by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">violent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> rip tides? To return to her mundane life,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">swimming against these enormous waves is the only way. Navigating a hard life is one of the lessons this film offers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to girls</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and at</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> this point, Ana realizes that she is unquestionably a strong swimmer. She can tr</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">averse the world’s negative political currents that she is returning to.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I believe this</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> offers girls a choice to transcend their very real problems.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{9bc59a56-301f-4b0b-ac5b-0118724a747e}{80}" paraid="277307165" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Most of the girls </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">portrayed in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">never question some of the senseless, psychopathic crimes they commit, and additionally, I would say they do not even question why they were sent </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">there. Marsha exists as a girl who tells the world, very excitedly mind me, that she has no soul and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">doesn’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> want one.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Reporter Adrian Horton reflects that “there’s great potential in plumbing the tale of the Sirens for motivations masked by centuries of inattention, of attending to the scars that fester into monstrous rage,” and this is postulating that an abused woman’s rage is enough theodicy to allow </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">unadulterated murder</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ana, though, is the hero of the story, and the stories that we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tell</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> each other matter. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I believe that if we look at the story from Ana’s point of view, then the moral given is a warning against psychopathy in abused women. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lenses</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of the story being told, th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">actress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">es</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> saying the lines, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">often indubitably </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">influence the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> thought patterns the story teaches its, often young, audience.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{9bc59a56-301f-4b0b-ac5b-0118724a747e}{136}" paraid="337069396" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Although by the end of the story, Ana </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">disavow</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s all</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> murderous activity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, young girls are particularly impressionable. Would a thirteen-year-old girl look at Marsha or Bea and wish they could be her</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When I was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a child</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, I watched</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Thirteen </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(2003), a movie</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> about self-harm</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that led me down a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rather destructive</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> path. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I believe </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">May Day</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">also has the potential to lead preteens down a negative </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">path. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I think</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that the story, then, continuously perpetuates evil</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and mental illness. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">To me, </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> seems to be saying it is okay to kill people if you are unhappy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{9bc59a56-301f-4b0b-ac5b-0118724a747e}{198}" paraid="1220063242" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">What else does young Ana’s story do? What moral codes does the story impart? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I think the story</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is commentating on magic and witchcraft. In </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Wizard of Oz, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Dorothy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ends up in a strange world – she is lost and confused like many young girls are today. When Ana ends up in a completely difficult, problematic world, she barely questions </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">her new and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> strange, foreign </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">world.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> In </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Wizard of Oz</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a female witch gu</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ides Dorothy back, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">although </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">she would not have been able to go on the journey</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> without</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the square crow, tin man and lion – sadly, all men.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> In </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ana</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is aided by three women her age </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">along with an </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">older woman named June</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I believe Ju</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">represen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ts</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the intersectionality of people who can identify as female, seniors, and sapphic. Can this teach young girls to honor the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wisdom of their elders</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">? </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While the story is saying girls </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> need men to navigate their lives, it is also suggesting that we can hone our own magic and go to a surreal, mystical world like the ones in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">May </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Day</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">izard of Oz</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> whenever we want. If we want to experience utopia, we can close our eyes and think of these stories – in the end, we are better </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">off</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> hearing them and learning lessons from them.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Going into this world – from the oven, mind me – might have saved Ana’s life and motivated her to put her life back together – man or no man.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Horton again comments on this: “Ana’s suicide attempt has landed her in a kind of psychotic, Edenic (minus the war) purgatory for women with unresolved trauma.” Ana was given a one-way get out of hell free path – the world she went to might have been evil, b</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{b0b2fb2b-7c07-4ee6-b77e-1e4f4cbdae0c}{53}" paraid="1849476291" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, Dorothy’s relationship with th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ree men (fictional representations of male friends in her real life) </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> more prominent than learning</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> how</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Laff</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">l</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> writes that </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is “</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a single-minded yet deficient metaphysical thriller that overstates its feministic intentions at every turn like a desperate SOS” (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Laff</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">l</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">). </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cinorre’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> vision is for a feministic world with a priority on strong gay women to become a reality.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> While </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">all the characters own their sensual, feminine power</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">when Ana returns to her mundane life, she inevitably realizes that she must</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> compromise</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on these ideas.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Although,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n autistic gay woman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, I would like to navigate moder</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> day’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">increasingly heteronormative</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">world</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in my own unique way</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I can see – in this film and in my own experiences – that compromise is often mandatory.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{b0b2fb2b-7c07-4ee6-b77e-1e4f4cbdae0c}{151}" paraid="906647109" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">To me, it is interesting to pay attention to how women have been perceived throughout history and how this affects how both movies’ female characters are interpreted</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the not that far off past, i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ntelligent women were often perceived as witches</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and were burned at the stake. Men would</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – and still do - </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">kill women who </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">re not willing to sleep with them</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Women </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">like me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> who</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very willing to stand up for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">womens’</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">right</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> were often tried as witches and then either hanged or burned</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Although witchcraft </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is not explicitly discussed in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the story nevertheless examines</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> today’s culture’s current fascination about witchcraft and the occult. In</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he Wizard of Oz</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">two of the characters were powerful witches, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Dorothy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – in my interpretation - was also branded ‘witch.’ </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">talks about this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in metaphor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">– the way Ana weaves her way through two different worlds is inher</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ently</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, in my opinion, witch</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">craft</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. If women are told </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are witches because </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are smart, the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we should transmute and reclaim the word witch. In fact, Ana’s journey could be interpreted as astral projection to an otherworldly realm.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{999274dd-a3dc-4b11-9617-9d55d4ac8cfb}{11}" paraid="1760090401" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The film, then, had so much neglected potential. If the characters interacted with wise dialogue and empowering scenes, then </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> would have been a unique and fair r</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">epresentation of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">people who choose </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">witchcraft and paganism</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as their religion when</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">living </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">predominately Christian</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> world. Even with the problematic </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">annihilation</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of all men, this movie still </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">successfully</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> challenges traditional Christian thought and asks its audience to question their reality</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and if their judgements and actions towards other people </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are right.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{999274dd-a3dc-4b11-9617-9d55d4ac8cfb}{51}" paraid="601206779" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So, when Horton writes, “But the genuinely promising ideas are rendered with little precision and a critically misapplied focus” he is correct that the movie had many unique ideas but did not </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">successfully – or professionally – weave those ideas together.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">One of those ideas was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">on</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Ana’s return to the real world – she knew</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> her </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">life would be filled with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">terrible</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> darkness</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, yet she took the risk.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">She </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">contemplates that while in the darkness, she would be able to see the stars. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In this film,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Ana </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">inevitably realizes that it is only in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> darkness that she </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">can find – and understand – her own</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> soul.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eliberates on</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> spirituality</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and witchcraft</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">women, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">all the characters monopolizing their time with star gazing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, along with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sensual connection </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to each</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> other. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yet, t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">here is a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> subconscious war</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that is often waged against women like Ana, making it increasingly challenging </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">for them to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">learn about forms of self-empowerment. For me, that looks like</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> stubbornly choosing to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">participate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">both</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> witchcraft and Christianity. It would be interest</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ing to see a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> written version of this story, which – as novels tend to be when compared with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">films</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – we would be able to s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ee Ana</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{999274dd-a3dc-4b11-9617-9d55d4ac8cfb}{171}" paraid="1040219669" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Uniquely, t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he women in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day </span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are a lot like me- instead of sitting in pews</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, Marsha and Ana spend their reflecting on Mars, the god of war. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the plot, Marsha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">deliberates</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">about</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">what</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> happens when a new and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very powerfu</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">l</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> star collapses</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and all the ancient, lost civilizations which were taken with them. In between the lines, I can see this film commentating on lost societies such as the Aztecs, along with native Americans who are often coerced into subjugating th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eir sacred ways of life that often do not align with cis, white, male traditional Christian though</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When a language is lost, a culture is lost – and this movie comments on this. What if the world Ana went to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">once existed as a real world that somehow died eons ago? The story is fiction – and in fiction, anything is possible.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{999274dd-a3dc-4b11-9617-9d55d4ac8cfb}{223}" paraid="1165135455" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I believe </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">also </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">commenting on the problematic idea where some feminists think </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> need to completely emancipate </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ourselves </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from men. This is displayed in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> when Marsha, in a very militaristic way, encourages Ana to shoot any male soldier on the island dead. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">perceive</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> this as a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> metaphor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for feminism going too far. While it is true that women have been told that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have a place in the world without relying on men, luring men to their deaths like sirens is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">assuredly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> not</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139200997 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the solution.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW241619261 BCX8" paraeid="{9d5cf5df-7f59-4861-ab24-d40f4314a1d3}{24}" paraid="446838366" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Throughout</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the film, Marsha tries to teach Ana to be heroic. Nevertheless, Ana changes by the end of the film and realiz</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">es that such heroic behavior could </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">also </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">be perceived as psychopathy.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I wonder if Marsha’s inherent </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">psychopathy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">helps</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> her get by</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n admittable </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">harsh world</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. She asks Ana to hurt men instead of hurting herself. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A philosopher, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">M</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">achiavelli</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> writes “you will realize there are ways of behaving that are supposed to be virtuous, but would lead to your downfall, and others that are supposed t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">o be wicked, but will lead to your welfare and peace of mind” (Flescher, page 39). </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Are Marsha’s actions evil? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’s free spirited, anarchistic women </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ride motorcycles, swim, and murder male soldiers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, they are flipping the switch on gender roles.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">They teach women that we should stand up for ourselves – even if that involves selfish and potentially evil actions; </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">necessar</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y, to stay afloat.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW241619261 BCX8" paraeid="{9d5cf5df-7f59-4861-ab24-d40f4314a1d3}{92}" paraid="167982414" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While the women lure men to their deaths like sirens, Marsha tries to teach Ana how to love herself and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">be powerful. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e movie implicitly talks about </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">women </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as feminine psychopaths</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">- is that the only way for us to survive the patriarchy?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> In his critique on</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">To</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">mris</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">L</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I think that becoming a soldier is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the first</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> step </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> becoming a better person</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Marsha ki</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lled her </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">supposed husband</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to live in a world where women sleep together in a bunk during a fictional version of World War Two.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When Ana’s dream man enters the world, the women kill him too. 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Men do this to women all the time</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We are critiqued by men at every corner, which becomes a double standard when men are not treated in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a similar manner</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW241619261 BCX8" paraeid="{9d5cf5df-7f59-4861-ab24-d40f4314a1d3}{220}" paraid="313456902" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Truly, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Laffly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> writes that “we aren’t given any well-realized emotional connection to the rightfully uprising women we follow, beyond the knowledge that they’ve been screwed over by patriarchy.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cinorre’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> film proposes a revolution – and it asks all women to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">participate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Notwithstanding, Ana also realizes that she </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">doesn’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have to hate men to be a feminist. Marsha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">'s troop of murderers have fun luring men to their death. Destroying men, though, is not the way towards healing the world of the hegemony of patriarchy. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Marsha is lopsided in that way, though – she thinks that hurting men is the first step towards making things better for everyone.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW241619261 BCX8" paraeid="{9d5cf5df-7f59-4861-ab24-d40f4314a1d3}{250}" paraid="588356830" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Realizing that she is not that kind of person – she is not a murderer – is the epiphany that inevitably draws </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ana</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> back to the real world. The other characters, true to femi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nist themes, end up helping Ana go back. Other women </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">empower</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Ana</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – in her character, the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">text encourages women to build each other up instead of tearing each other down.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW241619261 BCX8" paraeid="{6b482cf3-9c80-43e8-91e6-29984e3a9657}{17}" paraid="1003253829" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> also contemplates war</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and its impact on us</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Marsha tells Ana that she has subconsciously been in a war her whole life. While </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ana’s dream ridden hallucination</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is set in World War Two, the theme of war and murde</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r also discusses the subtle wars that all women face. Are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">we</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> pretty enough? Are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">our</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> behaviors acceptable enough for modern culture? Women must fight the current that leads </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">us</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">become objects. Anti-war sentiments bleed into the movie, using the theme of war as a metaphor to discuss subconscious assaults towards all women in today’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">time.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Learning how to fight a physical war</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, including becoming a sniper,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> teaches Ana how to heal and empower herself when she returns to the real world. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW241619261 BCX8" paraeid="{6b482cf3-9c80-43e8-91e6-29984e3a9657}{57}" paraid="1077612147" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Where in the beginning of the movie Ana lived in her car and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was treated terribly at her </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">workplace, by</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the end of t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he movie she climbs on stage and sings with a man</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> earn money.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> She is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">participating</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in the script </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">- now that she has been on a magical journey and back, she is well equipped to swim the currents of her low-paying job</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">However, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ana did not forget the feminist lessons she learned during her fantasy. She gets on stage and performs as she is asked to, while </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">remaining</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> true to herself and her newly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">acquired</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> book of moral codes. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Although I concede that </span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">May Day</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">has several plot holes, it also does </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a g</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ood job</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> commentating on women</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, teaching us</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> how to break free from the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">system</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Fro</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">m capitalism to religion, there will always be something in the way. Returning to the swimming metaphor, women must learn how to navigate these </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">metaphorical currents</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that make</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> our</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> lives harder than </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">necessary. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Instead of panicking like Ana does in the beginning of the movie, we must calm down during the rip tide. No matter what people are telling us whe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n things are going in such a tumultuous way, we are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">empowered to take care of our mental health. While some of the characters suggest militaristic feminism, the main character </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wants to embrace her sensual femininity.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> This is perfect – while the movie may send </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a dangerous</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> message to young teenagers, it is still unquestionably empowering.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Scout </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Tafoya s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">uggests tha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t the movie is “an easy way to say you’re changing the paradigm of gender representation, but really you’re just using someone else’s car to drive somewhere new” (Tafoya)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> he is correct that </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">May</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Day </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reverses gender roles. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I think the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">film</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> also asks all of us to reflect on our preconceived, socially constructed notions of gender, and consider</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">discarding them. While </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Tafoya thinks that this flip is unimaginative, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I think</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is central as a device to talk about feminism and what it is like to be a woman in the 21</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> century. </span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW139200997 BCX8" paraeid="{999274dd-a3dc-4b11-9617-9d55d4ac8cfb}{223}" paraid="1165135455" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW139200997 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW241619261 BCX8" paraeid="{6b482cf3-9c80-43e8-91e6-29984e3a9657}{203}" paraid="1240139412" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Listen to the words Marsha seductively whispers to Ana as she is swimming back to the real world. “</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> over, Ana. You can break free. Good girl” (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cino</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">re</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">). This is a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> message for women that our darkness and suffering, perpetrated by men dehumanizing us, is finally over. We can retake our lives and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">participate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in the real world. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A lesson to take away from </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is how to cope with mental health conditions such as panic disorders while in an over-bearing capitalist society. The problems women with mental health conditions face can be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as overbearing as Ana’s fantasy world or Dorothy’s time in Oz. Learning how to get back to reality and how to stay grounded in it is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW241619261 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">key.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW202176733 BCX8" paraeid="{6b482cf3-9c80-43e8-91e6-29984e3a9657}{237}" paraid="1297106024" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Finally, it is important to discuss one of the main themes of </span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">: good versus evil. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Marsha tells Ana that soon she will not even dream and become demonic like the other women in this unreal world. They tell the audience that being an unfeeling, dreamless being is a good thing; that it is better than being a feminine being with intuition, compassion, and empathy. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Here I cite Marsha deliberately tossing out her soul just because she felt like it. Is </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day’s </span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">magical otherworld a d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">emonic wo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rld</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, punishment for young girls who self-harm?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yes,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Ana</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ultimately allowed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to return to the real world, very alive and without any bandages or scars</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Even so, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the movie comments on the idea of w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">restling with darkness and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ultimately choosing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> good over evil.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Additionally, I see a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">somewhat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dystopian</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">story in the film - it is commenting on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the direction our culture is currently heading.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Today’s government </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and society o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ften over-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">corrects</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> issues </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">concerning</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> race, gender, and class. If we go too far</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> with our desire to make our culture perfect, our society will become dystopian and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">excessively </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">controlled.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW202176733 BCX8" paraeid="{2da4cbe4-3142-48d5-9765-b36275e79a58}{66}" paraid="733386330" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">One question this movie made me ask is this:</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">h</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ow can we stay calm in a rip tide, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">especially when the riptide is society itself? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While I would warn against teenage girls watching this fantasy movie, I do think it has positive memorandums that adult women can take</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW202176733 BCX8" paraeid="{2da4cbe4-3142-48d5-9765-b36275e79a58}{86}" paraid="1447468012" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Finally, there is one more problematic structure in the film that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">warrants</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a discussion. This film might be sending a racist message because o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">f </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cinorre’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> one </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Asian</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> character.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Her name is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Bea, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and sadly, she is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">portrayed as someone always falling prey to nightmares</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Bea was characterized as a quirky character, which is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">troublesome </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">beca</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">use</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> she was the film’s only Asian c</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">haracte</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lieve t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">his</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> adds racist undertones to the story that could have been fixed by fu</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lly developing Bea’s character.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW202176733 BCX8" paraeid="{2da4cbe4-3142-48d5-9765-b36275e79a58}{142}" paraid="1263000670" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Film critique</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Laffly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">examines Ana’s mental state when he </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">writes “So what could Ana do, if not dream big and often in her own head, both during the day and in her sleep? The problem is, those dreams sometimes prove to veer into nightmares for Ana, so life</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">like in feeling that you know </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> just a matter of time for her to find herself in an actual one in the real world</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Laffly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">).</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">h</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is correct </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that nightmares</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are set up for women </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by our current political system</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, we all still must be held accountable to morality.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW241619261 BCX8" paraeid="{6b482cf3-9c80-43e8-91e6-29984e3a9657}{203}" paraid="1240139412" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW241619261 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":720,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW202176733 BCX8" paraeid="{2da4cbe4-3142-48d5-9765-b36275e79a58}{190}" paraid="137247741" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In the end, this story used a common literary device where the main character is sent into a fantasy world and then must find her way home. Interestingly, in many of these stories the main character is female. From </span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he Wizard of Oz</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’s Dor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ot</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hy to </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Alice in Wonderland</span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’s Alice</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, so many fictional women are being sent into an unreal delusionary world. What does this tell us about feminism today? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I think Horton</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">correct in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">positing that “there’s potential in Mayday’s vision of healing as otherworldly journey”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">- and that is why I watch fantasy films in the first place; it is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ca</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">thartic. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the beginning of </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">May Day</span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">, Ana was a damsel in distress. When she returns home, she is an empowered woman. She is intelligent, and if she lived in the 17</span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-fontsize="12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> century, she might </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">have</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> been </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">considered </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a witch</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> With her newfound morals, she refers to her recent tra</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW202176733 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">vails as she navigates capitalism and spirituality. 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cinorre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, Karen, director.</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">May Day</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Film published in 2021. Accessed on Hulu.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW79890513 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":1440,"335559739":160,"335559740":480,"335559991":720}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW79890513 BCX8" paraeid="{887ce4e0-aba3-4f39-8789-62a8c0fca163}{107}" paraid="147074803" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: -48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Fleming, Victor. Vidor, King, directors</span><span class="TextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Wizard of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Oz. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Film</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW79890513 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">published in 1939. 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An essay by Cali Rebecca Sylvers.<p> <span class="TextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">At risk languages - </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Diné</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW67283408 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":2,"335551620":2,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW67283408 BCX8" paraeid="{8e92f7f8-7c48-4cfc-bc18-6be753eccdfd}{193}" paraid="265927722" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When a language dies, a culture also dies, and that is a tragedy. Luisa Maffi writes that “in the life of languages, change is the rule rather than the exception.”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oday</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, 918 out of 7,096 languages are endangered. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Some language </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">changes are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> natural, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">others happen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> because of oppression. Minority </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">languages</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are endangered</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> when people who speak those </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">languages</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> lose their children and cannot pass on their language through story. Diné is part of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the Southern</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Dene</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">branch </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(also known as Athabaskan) </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of the Na-Dene family and is spoken around New Mexico and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Arizona and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is a Western Apachean language.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Historically, Navajo children were stolen from their parents and sent to colonial boarding schools. They were physically punished when they spoke Diné and other Native American languages instead of English.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Although many people call this minority language “Navajo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">most</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> indigenous people refer to it as Diné, so respectfully I will discuss </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it as the Diné language.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> However, many young Diné people are bilingual</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – and therefore tend to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">participate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in multiple cultures along with languages.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW67283408 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW67283408 BCX8" paraeid="{a442c1d9-33fe-43ba-848b-6006f67cf71e}{6}" paraid="1963756948" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Does multilingualism threaten America’s national unity, or does it bless America with rich culture and diversity?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Indigenous North American culture is often matriarchal and clan-based and tends to honor elders. Diné children inherit their m</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">other’s clan, but still tend to learn about their father’s clan</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If the Diné language is lost, this matriarchal culture might be lost as well. According to the Endangered La</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nguage Project, there are 120,000 speakers of Diné </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">worldwide</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This might seem to be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a huge number</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, but it is very restricted.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Often Diné speakers are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the older generation – often older than fifty, and monolingua</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">l speakers older than seventy. Younger speakers understand but do not speak Diné, and if these young Native Americans cannot (or </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> want to) pass their language onto their children and grandchildren, then the language will be lost.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW67283408 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> This can be calamitous, not only for the language but for the people who speak it.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW67283408 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW150781340 BCX8" paraeid="{a442c1d9-33fe-43ba-848b-6006f67cf71e}{50}" paraid="1809943712" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Importantly, t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">here are many factors that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">determine</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> whether today’s youngest generat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ion will pass on the Diné language. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Palakurthy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> writes that “external factors such as socioeconomic class, age, gender, ethnic group, regional diale</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ct, and social network” can affect language innovation. One interesting phonological aspect to language change in minority lan</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">guages is when “a bilingual identifies a phoneme of the secondary system with the one in the primary system, and in reproducing it, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">subjects it to the phonetic rules of the primary language” (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Palakurthy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">).</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The phonology of Diné is complex and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">interesting and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is something I would like to study in the future.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW150781340 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW150781340 BCX8" paraeid="{a442c1d9-33fe-43ba-848b-6006f67cf71e}{84}" paraid="702929756" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Speaking of phonology, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Many ways to sound Diné” reveals that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Diné </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">has</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">four vowels; 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Tonal languages change their meaning when a sound is said with a different inflection. In Diné, there are only two tones – rising and falling. Often there are minimal pairs that show that different tones h</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ave different meanings. For example,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">based on the dissertation</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “Many ways to sound</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Diné", I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ʼaze</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eʼ</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">]. T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he first one, which uses an accent to express that it has a rising tone, means “mouth, throat, neck, or death.” The second one </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">means “medicine, drug, herb</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Pala</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">kurthy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">).</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hese two words are on contrastive distribution. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This is just one example of how vital it is to pronounce the tone correctly in a tonal language.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> If the tone is incorrect, the language being conveyed would vary from being incorrect to being incredibly rude.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW150781340 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW150781340 BCX8" paraeid="{a442c1d9-33fe-43ba-848b-6006f67cf71e}{190}" paraid="276731272" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The word Diné itself means “The people</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> which shows that it is a language that respects people.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The spirituality that comes along with Diné culture will be lost</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> along with the words if we do not </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">take action to protect</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Diné and other indigenous languages. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Language loss can result in loss of minority religions because if a tribe’s language is lost, their spiritual traditions and customs – along with their way of life</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – will also be lost. This threatens indigenous ways of life and can result in incredible oppression.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW150781340 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW67283408 BCX8" paraeid="{a442c1d9-33fe-43ba-848b-6006f67cf71e}{6}" paraid="1963756948" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW67283408 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The history of Diné people is one way to convey the e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ffects</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of this oppression and racism. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">One tragic thing that happened to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the Navajo people is a march</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – the long walk -</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that happened in 186</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">4</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. 8,500 Diné people were marched to Fort Summer, New Mexico.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The long walk itself is pronounced ‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hwéeldi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ in Diné.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Many </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Native Americans</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">died during the march, and those that did not were imprisoned from 1864 to 1868</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (Benally).</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Factors such as disease and starvation made this ordeal even </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">worse for the indigenous people who were taken from their land. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW150781340 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Although later a treaty was signed later, oppression continues to happen in other ways.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW150781340 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW97949228 BCX8" paraeid="{01ffc113-b464-46df-a8f7-adc8b27e0a25}{1}" paraid="140256443" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Since Diné is rich with culture and respect for all life, it is interesting to look at how </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Diné syntax reflects this way of life. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Specifically, nouns are often inflected with a possessive prefix when the words spoken are about kinship terms.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> For example, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">according to lessons with the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">DuoLingo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Many ways to sound Diné” offers an incredible amount of data on this at-risk language. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Some tenses for Diné verbs include imperfective, iterative, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">usitative</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, perfective, future, and optative. Using a verb </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that means to drink, here are some statements describing each of these tenses. For imperfective</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> tense</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, ‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">yishdlá</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ means ‘I drink it.’ For iterative</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> tense</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">náshdlííh</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ means ‘I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">regulaly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> drink it.’ For </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">usitative</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> tense</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, ‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">yishdlííh</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ means ‘I customarily drink it.’ For per</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fective</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> tense</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, ‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">yishdláá</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ means ‘I drank it.’ For </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">future tense, ‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">deeshdlíít</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ means ‘I will drink it.’ For optative tense, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wáshdlą́ą</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">́’ means ‘would that I drink it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Palakurthy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">).</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Because people are afraid to speak their native language(s) and pass them on to the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ir children, Diné continues to be at risk. Indigenous cultures offer </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an abundance of spiritual traditions that need to be preserved. Reverence for kin, for animals, and for the planet itself are values that come from Diné culture. </span></span><span class="TabRun IPSelectionBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: nowrap; width: 0px;"><span class="TabChar SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve !important;"> </span><span aria-hidden="true" class="TabLeaderChars SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; user-select: none; white-space-collapse: preserve !important;"></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Language i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s a social construct, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and Diné and other minority indigenous la</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nguages </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">epresent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the culture and spirituality of the people who speak it. Often this is born out of respect for older kin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and various clans. If Navajo people stop speaking Diné, will their langua</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ge disappear? Will their way of life also cease to exist? In Arizona, Diné is a language that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is both </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fr</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">equently</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> spoken and respected.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Even so, there is a shift in Navajo tribes to shift to speaking English, especially when in governmental roles. This shift to English is because of economic, social, and political factor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s. In meetings, it is easier to use English. Additionally, some indigenous people speak “Navajo </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">English”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as a dialect.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW97949228 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><p class="Paragraph SCXW150781340 BCX8" paraeid="{a442c1d9-33fe-43ba-848b-6006f67cf71e}{212}" paraid="865328255" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW150781340 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW97949228 BCX8" paraeid="{01ffc113-b464-46df-a8f7-adc8b27e0a25}{227}" paraid="1028263931" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Native Americans often engage in codeswitching </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">between various indigenous languages</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as well as English</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“to emphasize certain words and ideas [and] to claim and empower personal and tribal identities” (Kroger)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Navajo is a family of languages, and Diné is only one of the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">more well-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">known tribal languages. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Kroger also writes that, at least in indigenous poetry, “the use of indigenous language, where it exists, is poignant, powerful, and deliberate” (Kroger). As a creative writer, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it is interesting to look at how minority languages use words to tell stories and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">write</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> poems. This is one other way for languages such as Navajo to pass on their language to younger generations. For example, after the poems and stories are writt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">en, schools on reservations then teach them, and the language is preserved.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Poetry itself is a way to express one’s identity, so Diné poetry is incredibly important in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW97949228 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">documenting Diné cultural traditions and spiritual ceremonies. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW97949228 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW185864419 BCX8" paraeid="{26c8e037-e5f8-4c20-869c-735cda930949}{8}" paraid="1680948793" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Kroger writes, “Identity is not a static internal state; rather, identity is something one negotiates daily, moment-by-moment in their interactions with others.” If </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">indigenous</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> languages are tainted by a negative light, many indigenous people may be afraid to identify as Native American. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Does this create the need to conform to traditional American values? </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW185864419 BCX8" paraeid="{26c8e037-e5f8-4c20-869c-735cda930949}{20}" paraid="1036699862" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In Diné religion, the Great Spirit is worshiped instead of Christianity’s Jesus. Although these two beings ma</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in actuality be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the same being, it is still incredibly selfish to force Native Americans to worship Jesus instead of the Great Spirit. It is also selfish to assume that Jesus does not accept indigenous people that have never heard of him, or to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> assume that Native Americans </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have a place in traditional, white churches. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I believe it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is very possible to integrate </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Diné</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> way of life while</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> also</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> being a leader of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a church. When minority religions are oppressed, ways of life are also oppressed. This is unfortunate, but it happens all too often.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> This often results in despair for many indigenous people.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW185864419 BCX8" paraeid="{26c8e037-e5f8-4c20-869c-735cda930949}{62}" paraid="591745326" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Native American bilingualism is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very interesting</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Kroger writes that “Bilinguals display their gender, class, racial, ethnic and other identities by following the social and linguistic rules for the ways of speaking that reflect those identities in their homes and primary networks</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” (Kroger).</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Intersectionality comes into play when looking at Native A</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">merican identity from several different identities. What of the female Native American? Native Americans with darker skin? Gay Native Americans? How do these people communicate with each other</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Some communicate with Navajo Engl</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ish, some only speak Diné, and others stop speaking Diné altogether. Many Diné people on reservations are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, unfortunately, fated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to be unemployed, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">homeless</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and uneducated. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This is often because of the resulting oppression of colonialism. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">English is the prestige </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">language, and Native Americans who refuse to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">speak it are pa</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">inted in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a very negative</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and very untrue light.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Often marginalization is the result.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW185864419 BCX8" paraeid="{26c8e037-e5f8-4c20-869c-735cda930949}{112}" paraid="1650775300" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Becoming bilingual by nature changes the structure of the brain. Studying a foreign language, therefore, creates a more creative brain. For this paper, I started studying </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Diné on a language learning app called </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">DuoLingo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Unfortunately, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">DuoLingo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> classifies this language as “Navajo” instead of “Diné.” Many people </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in mainstream society have never even heard of Diné. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Relevant to Native American culture and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the dire effects of colonialization, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I talked about Diné with my family during Thanksgiving dinner. None of my family members had ever heard of Diné. When </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I explained it was Navajo, one of many traditional Native American languages, they smiled and nodded their heads.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I wonder if this lack of awareness about the Navajo language’s name for their language (Diné) is a result of the colonialization that started on the first Thanksgiving</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW185864419 BCX8" paraeid="{26c8e037-e5f8-4c20-869c-735cda930949}{144}" paraid="198018674" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I plan to continue to add Diné </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to my regimen of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> foreign</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> languages I am learning, along with</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> other</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> languages I have been studying such as Chinese and French.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Studying Diné on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">DuoLingo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, as well as talking to my friends Mary and Dick Church, who are Navajo themselves, has enriched my life.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I would not be the person I am today without Diné. I also would not be the person I am today without Mary and Dick Church’s kindness to me. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW185864419 BCX8" paraeid="{26c8e037-e5f8-4c20-869c-735cda930949}{168}" paraid="1895406326" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Kroger says that “Language choices reveal how bilingual individuals living in the hyphen—between two cultures—can and sometimes need to write in both languages in order to fully express themselves.” A person can stay true to Native American </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identity </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">while </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lso </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">p</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">articipating</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in mainstream society.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Does language create thought? Although many theorists say that being able to study a foreign language proves that language does not create thought, I have a different idea. What if language does create thought, and learning a foreign language such as Diné or Chinese changes the structure</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of the brain? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Could future linguistic studies show that language creates thought because learning a second language and becoming </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nearly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> fluent in it can often change a person’s identity as well </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> their view of the world as a whole?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">grammars</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> studied by bilingual to polylingual people are often combined, and because of this, the brains and created thoughts that follow are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">often </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">unique.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW185864419 BCX8" paraeid="{26c8e037-e5f8-4c20-869c-735cda930949}{215}" paraid="2040486809" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Linguistic change is a social phenomenon. Often the communities affected by it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are losing their rights to pass on their culture to the next generation. This is sad, but part of life. Aztec languages</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (in their native tongue, Nahuatl)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in South America, which may be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">like</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> many </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">minority</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Native Ame</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rican languages, was lost.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Although this language is dead, it is possible for Nahuatl to be revived</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and a few people in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Central America</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> still speak it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (Pynes)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Learning a dead language is a vital way to raise a culture from the dead. When a language is revived, so are ideologies.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Steven Pynes writes that,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “Nahuatl is a well-documented, indigenous language of the Uto-Aztecan family with considerable typological differences from the majority languages with which Nahuatl currently has contact (i.e., Spanish and English respectively)."</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Pynes continues to write that the Aztec language was centered around the Nahuatl world view and has a unique grammar. What were these grammars? Because Nahuatl </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is dead, there is not a lot of data on them. The semantics attached to the grammar were, then, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">largely lost</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and forgotten.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> However, Pynes </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">provides</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> some data: ‘-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nemi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ means ‘elsewhere’ and ‘-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ya</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(u)h means ‘</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">movement along a path.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I chose these two words because they are metaphorically relevant. The Aztec civilization is long gone, but </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the people who spoke it are elsewhere – they have moved on to the afterlife. There is much to learn about Nahuatl, and although </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the Aztecs are gone, Pynes’ dissertation makes me wonder if Spanish speakers in Central America will claim, as well as study, this ancient language.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559731":720,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW185864419 BCX8" paraeid="{b8f99214-9a30-49c3-98e7-8fb0f799b9fc}{39}" paraid="1432491646" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">What would happen if Diné culture, as well as Diné government and its traditions, were </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lost </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">l</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ike Nahuatl was</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">? These beautiful ways of life would become mere ghosts.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> One hundred years into the future, mutual knowledge and beliefs could be lost, just remnant</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a differen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t way</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of life that was celebrated a long time ago. The stories wo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">uld stop being passed on; the mythology of the Great Spirit also lost. I do not know the Diné stories, because no one ever to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ld them to me. My Greek grandparents also never taught me any Greek. Though Greek is not an endangered language, this is another example of heritage language not being passed on to newer generations. I want to l</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">earn </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Diné, be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cause</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I want to change the way my mind works. I wa</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nt to think differently, so I can be a better person. Intersectionality is a factor here</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> want to be racist, or to think that my religion, Christianity, is the only correct one. Language death causes culture death. This has happened already with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW185864419 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Aztec languages. 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span><span class="EOP SCXW71738154 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559685":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480,"335559991":720}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW71738154 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW71738154 BCX8" paraeid="{1b743066-9f48-4707-a8ea-41cb64f1b3ff}{18}" paraid="1110142975" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: -48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW71738154 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Kroger, Kristina. 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Exciting :) So soon I will be posting all of my essays from this semester so all of you can read them.</p><p>I think my writing is excellent, even if my professors may disagree. Well, one professor. Then I have a month off so I will get back to my fanfictions on Angel, Twilight, and potentially Smallville. :)</p>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-36704310070244834652023-05-11T14:24:00.003-07:002023-05-11T14:24:50.234-07:00Frodo and Samwise<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ring is very heavy, Mr. Gamgee. I will throw it in the pit. Look at the elves, Mr. Frodo. They know the way. I was given this quest, dearest Samwise. To destroy this evil ring forever. I have seen the Eye, Sam. It is very scary. It can see into my heart, but I can see into it’s emptiness as well. Well, Mr. Frodo, in ages to come, a strange guy named Tolkien will tell our tale to a bunch of people who forgot about the war of the ring and the beauty of the elves. Yes, Sam. It </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">is very sad. They will have forgotten all about magic, and about how powerfully GOOD it is, in fact they will start to call it evil. That is indeed their loss, Mr. Frodo.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">They have all forgotten about the good Shire. Jolly old hobbits, prancing about and drinking that wine. They have forgotten how to dance. They do not listen to Gandalf the White. He goes by many names, of course, like Gandhi, Mother Earth, The Great Spirit, Yahweh. He is in the heart of all little hobbits, playing games in their hobbit homes and giving people all the presents in the world. They have forgotten what it really means to laugh, to pick the mushrooms from the farm. Dearest Sam, we have saved the Shire for them. Why do they not return to who they used to be? I sailed away to the West with the elves, Sam, but I did not want to fall out of love with your beauty. It is your turn to love Rosie Cottontail.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women can be prophets too, of course, although before the ring we did not speak with words like that. We had many years playing in the fields and gardening and attending parties, and then we had the adventure that was given to us. Going to Rivendell, befriending Gollum, destroying the ring. It was a great adventure, my Sam. It was ours, and I love you. I often still hurt from where the black riders stabbed me. The pain is dull but ever present. It, too, is a great present, Samwise. Yes, yes, that is it, it is a present. It is wisdom. Though it is disguised as pain, as bitterness, as suffering, it is a great present. It is such a joy to unwrap, Samwise. It is wisdom itself.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you still tell stories? Do you still laugh in the garden and water the flowers? Do you spy on the hobbits that are talking to Gandalf. It is all in good heart, Sam. I am thankful you went with me all the way to Mordor and back.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And to the subject of magic. I am with the elves now and I am immortal. In today's world so many people are stoic and magicless. Many of them see it as a great evil. Magic itself is not evil. It is like a knife, a tool; it can be used to hurt someone, or it can be used to heal someone, to bless someone. Witches were put on this earth to seek wisdom, listen to the Earth, and cultivate the flowers of the lands. They were put here to use their power to make things right in the world again. Their quest is much like the quest to throw the one ring into the pits of Mordor, if this strange new world's churches, mosques and temples will let them. It is such like the ring, dearest Samwise: <i>"Keep it secret, keep it safe."</i> Because many men would choose to condemn them, to call them wicked when what they are is wise, to call them devils when they are more like angels. Not quite angels, something different, something a lot like the hobbits of our time in the Shire.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I talk to Arwen all the time. She has told me many times that she has wished to make Aragorn immortal. And they would have their dance, after their time ruling the worlds of Gondor. It is all very special, Samwise. I will tell you more of it another day. Let us be happy that that old ring of Bilbo's isn't there anymore. There are other beasts, other monsters, other devils than Sauron. Some of them are worse, let us be lucky that they mostly let us be, leave us alone. Just as we tossed the ring into the pit of Mordor, I think we could banish them if it came to that.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So keep in touch, Samwise. You are still the best gardener there is. Isn't Jesus a gardener, taking care of the blooming flowers, making sure those quiet flowers just soak in that sunshine? They do not labor or strain. They have not a worry. The best flowers are just that. Not a worry. Not a word to the elf, like the dwarf said. I am so thankful that you were my gardener and guide.</span></span></span></p>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-618029574239193782023-05-11T13:58:00.002-07:002023-05-11T13:58:18.448-07:00I can smell the past, a poem of times before<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could smell the past on the wind at the bus stop, the way that cigarette smoke landed on the asphalt like ashes of my time at the Occupy Pittsburg movement.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-21cff8ed-7fff-5aac-d72e-89b44d3859fb"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could smell the past, like I was back in my tent, waking up. I walked past the busy people and floated back to a different time. A time elegant and different, where a beautiful boy told me to stop and smell the roses, as an afterthought.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was a beautiful man with long, dark hair and a mischievous grin. I smoked weed with him under a bridge. We listened to a mom and her child bicker in their tent somewhere to the side. They were just lying there, with their eyes bright. They were who they really were, before society told them to be something else. Genuine living was obsolete, even then, as our ashes fell to the ground and the man told me about his dream to have his own spaceship, and fly to outer space. As if there, in outer space, the things that tormented him would fall away.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could smell the past as I walked through Shady Grove station. All of the busy people, their different stories woven into the tapestry woven by God. I was high on the buzz of doing good in my language classes and I went back to a place where I was a different girl, new to activism. I loved the taste of coffee. I loved the frigid air and the electric blankets that kept me warm when I slept outside in Pittsburg winters, even though I did not have to.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The beautiful man was my first love. He taught me to live in my pain. As I walked to the bus stop, I sat by a lady wearing a bonnet and a warm winter coat. I wondered what her story was. She was looking at her phone, busy like a bee wandering around a strange forest.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the ashes fell, and landed where they may. There was a red fire warming me up. I could remember echoes of an old dream, to become a shaman and to walk through this world with honor and hope. I was to be a steward of an old man’s dream. I could only hope to walk, my heart wide open for the Great Spirit, hoping He - She, Them, in whatever form They may grace us with - would pick me, shine Their Great Light upon me.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pick me, I screamed. Pick me for a great journey, to travel under a star-lit sky. I would go somewhere else, that was for certain. And one day in the future, I would smell today.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-51930440453865178782022-11-21T10:24:00.004-08:002022-11-21T10:24:52.406-08:00Into the Sun Watch us Burn...a Twilight fanfiction<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">A/N: This fanfiction takes place in the beginning of New Moon after Edward leaves Bella. Instead of falling into depression Bella has a plan. It is mainly a twilight story but it is a crossover with Angel as the character Spike will be in it. Will Bella be with Edward or Spike?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella was sad, devastated, lonely. Edward had left and Bella kept running in the woods. Eventually she chose to curl up in a ball in the moist grass and cried. Her tears were salty and sweet. A part of her knew even then that Edward was still her soulmate. At the time she was to hurt to do anything but lay down and cry. What a beautiful young thin thing she was; she desperately wanted to be that forever. Because of Edward, so she could be young forever with him, and for herself, so she would never die, never succumb to mortality. She still wanted Edward to change her. For anyone to change her. Then she would go find Edward and convince him that they were meant to be.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella didn't realize that not all vampires sparkle in the sun. The Cullen clan did, and some other clans did, but there were other more powerful vampires that were much older than the Cullens. They burned in the sun. Heck, even crosses and holy water burned them. It was Bella's mistake to assume all good vampires were like the Cullens.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">In the end, though, Bella would never regret her decision.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">After the native American wolves found Bella, they brought her back to her father Charlie and Bella robotically walked up to her room and crawled into her bed. Bella was in shock. The Cullens, the only people who understood her, were gone. Her love was gone, and her best girlfriend Alice was gone.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella vowed to fix things. She would become a vampire and then search the globe for Edward. She would be his immortal queen. After all, nothing could go wrong, right? Vampires were superior creatures. She would be one. She was determined. She would let fragile Bella die and become immortal Bella, the cold and immortal warrior full of love and hope.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She started wandering around outside at night. Edward wasn't in Forks, though, so Bella had no reason to stay there. So, she chose to go to California. There were other vampires there, not that she knew that. But her intuition said wander the Earth and find the Cullens. Something told her to start with California. She would meet Angel and Spike there eventually.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The next day Bella wakes up. Every day she wakes up and says to herself a positive affirmation. <em>I will find Edward. I will become immortal for him. I will do whatever it takes.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She tells her dad she is going to travel around the world in order to find herself. It is a white lie, but Charlie is okay with it. He gives her some money for food and airplanes and lodging.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella thinks she knows what it means to be a vampire. Vampires are superheroes. Vampires are immortals. Vampires, at their best, when they are vegetarian, are very good people.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She buys her airplane ticket to California with the help of her lovely mother who was the queen of traveling. Her dad Charlie drives Bella to the airport and she checks her bag and boards the plane.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>I will find vampires again. I am a vampire magnet. I smell too good for them. So good that they will want me. I will find them and become one of them. Then I will give myself to Edward again. My prince, my soulmate. He lied and said he didn't love me. I can see through that, I don't believe it, I am not afraid. I am only afraid of losing him. Nothing else matters.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella arrives in California and gets a room in a cheap motel. But it is California so even a cheap motel was pretty fancy. Was Victoria here? Maybe she could change Bella. But no, Victoria was not there. A way older man was there, a man who had been flirting with danger and evil and death for a long time.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella would meet William the Bloody. AKA Spike. And the melodramatic king of brooding, Angel. But this story is not about them. They are minor characters that will introduce Bella to a different kind of vampire while she is searching for vampires in order to become like Edward. When Edward does find her, his concern for Bella's soul will have more merit. There will be much more for Edward to worry about, like for example how they would never be able to lay in their meadow in the sun together. Never. But they would still love each other.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella would become a vampire and then go back to Forks and wait for Alice to have a vision bringing the Cullens back. Bella was so determined to make this all happen.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">All she had to do was go to clubs at night and stay up all night waiting for vampires. This is the beginning of the bad.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">This happens before Spike goes on a quest to get his soul back. Spike sees a beautiful young lay walking around. She smelled so good. She would be desert, maybe, or a girl to play with. He goes into a bar and waits for her.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella sees Spike too and senses that he is a vampire. He is her target. Bella goes into the bar and there is Spike. She of course doesn't know his name. He is a thin vampire with white hair. His eyes are vivid and crazed.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Spike asks Bella if she wants something to drink. Bella says, sure, but first tell me this. Are you a vampire?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">How did you know? Spike asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">I guess it's like gaydar, Bella said. I knew a vampire once.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">And you're in love with him? Spike asks her.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">It doesn't matter. I want you to turn me, Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Oh sweet young thing, Spike said. Why not? I would love a little playmate. But lets drink together first.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Spike buys Bella a Vodka and the bar doesn't card Bella. They drink together and Bella tells her story.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">So you think we sparkle, huh? Spike says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The Cullens do, Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Spike decides not to tell Bella that most vampires burn in the sun and that the Cullens and their friends are the exception. That being a vampire isn't the walk in the park that Bella thinks it is.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Either way. Spike takes Bella's hand and leads her to a lonely street where no one walks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Are you sure? Spike asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Yes, Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Then Bella exposes her neck and then Spike bites Bella on the neck and drinks almost all of her blood. Bella finds the pain to be amazing and surreal. Then Spike bites his wrist and feeds Bella his blood. She drinks Spike's blood.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She passes out and goes through incredible pain and torment and then Bella wakes up as a vampire. She would soon learn that she would not, however, sparkle.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Alice's POV</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Alice Cullen has a vision that Bella Swan is laying down in the woods in the sun, burning and screaming. </em>Alice does not know what this means so she thinks that Bella was going to kill herself because of Edward. She runs back to Forks to find Bella but finds that Bella is not in Forks anymore. She hides her vision from the rest of the Cullens, especially Edward, because he would likely do something drastic. He could not live without his Bella. Alice asks Charlie where Bella went. Bella's dad, who likes Alice way more than he likes Edward, tells Edward that Bella ran away to California. Charlie told Alice that he had no clue what Bella was up to.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">So, Alice goes to California to find and save Bella.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Bella's POV</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella finally stops heaving. The pain is gone. She wakes up. She feels so still; her heart is not beating. There is a crazy blonde man sitting next to her, watching her sleep and smirking.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Welcome to life as a vampire" Spike says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Who are you?" Bella asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Don't you remember? I'm Spike, the dude who changed you," Spike says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Oh, thank you very much," Bella says. <em>I'm a vampire now! It feels so surreal, she thinks. In fact, I feel nothing. I am cold and still. I didn't think it would be like this. Oh well, I hope the Cullens will like me as a vampire like them. I did this for them.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">And Bella was so hungry, so thirsty. It was an insatiable feeling. She was no longer the hunted. She was the hunter. Even so, Bella did not regret her decision yet. She was born to be a vampire.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'll teach you how to hunt, little thing," Spike says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>What? Bella thinks. I was going to be a vegetarian. But something tells me that Spike is so NOT a vegetarian.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But at the time Bella did not care. She was so thirsty. She was angry. She was sad. She was inspired. She was cold and empty. She was all of those things and she knew she had to find Edward. But first food. Blood. She needed blood now, now, now. Spike would teach her how to seduce her prey and drink their blood.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">After all, Bella was beautiful. Any straight man would fall for Bella, the temptress, the hot vampire.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Spike takes Bella's hand and leads her into a dance club. The music is loud and Spike grinds his body against Bella's body, dancing and having a good old time. It is around midnight. Bella decides to just have fun and dance with Spike. She was angry with Edward for leaving her. Bella was only sixteen and Spike was way older. HE was even older than Edward Cullen.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">So, she dances with Spike. She grinds her body against his to the beat of the music. There is a ravenous hole in Bella's body. She was so thirsty.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Blood," Bella says to Spike, whispering almost. Bella was out of control.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Be patient, my princess," Spike says with a smirk.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Now," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Ok. Follow me," Spike says. Bella ravenously follows Spike and watches Spike sink his fangs into a dancing woman. She had short black hair and beautiful Asian eyes. She would be dead soon.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Wait, I thought vampires had sharp teeth, not fangs, Bella thought.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She opens her mouth and then fangs pop out. She has fangs. So, there are different types of vampires. What else was different? But for now, it didn't matter. She needed to feed.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella follows Spike and sinks her fangs into the young Asian girl. Spike and Bella take the girl's life together. People would assume she overdosed on drugs, as many people in the club do. Bella grins, her mouth bright red. Her eyes, too, are bright red. The blood tasted so good, so much better than any human food she had in her sixteen years.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Come on, dance with me again," Spike says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella has yet come to realize that she would not sparkle in the sun. She would burn in the sun. What would Edward do when he found his Bella like this? Would he blame himself? He probably would.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella is high on blood. The Asian girl was on a combination of drugs. Alcohol, weed, and molly. Bella was a formerly innocent young girl who had never touched drugs, not even alcohol. So, all of the drugs that were in her and Spike's victim's blood would assault Bella. She was not prepared to feel so intensely and passionately. An Spike was there, and Bella was high, so Bella Swan danced with her maker.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Come on. The night is young still," Spike says. Spike picks out another victim but even though Bella is still so thirsty, she is not interested. The MDMA in the blood she drank made her feel her love for Edward Cullen even more than she had ever felt before.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm going to go," Bella said. "Thank you for changing me. Maybe we'll meet again."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella wanders around the street. She is a newborn vampire and cannot control her thirst. She is crying and afraid and scared. She is so alone and nothing makes sense anymore. She remembers the Cullens. <em>Don't drink human blood.</em> But she had already had a taste for it and now she wanted it so much. <em>Push it down. </em>The drugs and being a new vampire made Bella feel so out of control. She still has no idea that daylight would become a problem for her, so she does not think about going back to her motel and being safe once the sun rises.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella wanders around the street. She catches a mouse in they alleyway and snatches it like a cat. She drains the mouse of all of it's blood and then moves on to find more blood to drink.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Alice's POV</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Alice is in California looking for Bella Swan. She decides to go to the place where she saw Bella in her vision. She knows that Edward is reading her mind. Alice finds Bella just in time. Bella is lying in the alleyway curled up in a ball. There is blood on her mouth. <em>How did she become a vampire? I didn't interpret my vision correctly, </em>Alice thinks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dawn is coming and Bella's hands are a little red. Alice could smell a sizzling smell. The sun was coming up. Alice's intuition told her to get Bella out of there. Alice, at the last moment, realizes that Bella became a different kind of vampire. Still immortal and blood drinking, but Bella would burn in the sun if Alice didn't get her inside. That was why Bella was burning in Alice's vision.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Alice picks Bella up and takes her to the hotel she is staying in.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's okay, Bella," Alice says, stroking Bella's hair. "We'll go back to Forks. Edward will come back. You didn't have to do this!"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella squirms. She is half unconscious. A part of her still wants to dance. She gets up and starts dancing but then she was so out of it that she collapsed. Alice held her safe.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It will be okay, Bella. I promise," Alice said. She realized they would have to stay in the hotel until darkness fell again the next night. The Alice would take Bella back to Forks. Edward would read her mind and come running to his Bella.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">It is around 11 am now. Bella is clear minded and awake. She turns and sees Alice. She is so excited.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Alice!" Bella <em>said.</em> "What happened?" she asks and then she remembers.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Omg I killed a girl," Bella said. "Oh my God!" she starts crying. Alice holds Bella and tells her that it will be okay. It will be okay, I have seen it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Let's go back to Forks," Alice says. "But we have to wait until night."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Because we sparkle," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I do. I didn't realize there were other types of vampires. When I found you, it was almost dawn, and you were almost burning. I got you inside just in time."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"What?" Bella asks, confused. "I didn't know that. If I burn in the sun how will Edward and I be together?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Don't worry. Everything will be fine. Just relax, I am going to call Carlisle and tell him everything. We'll all go back to Forks. It will be okay. I've seen it. You will adjust, I promise," Alice says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"What? Edward is going to blame himself. He is going to be devastated. He loved me, but he didn't want me to be a vampire," Bella says. "But I did. I wanted this. I didn't know it would be like <em>this</em>."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Alice hugs Bella tightly and promises that she would take care of it. She promises that her family would protect Bella, and that she was forgiven for feeding on a human.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella lays on the bed in the hotel. She is still so thirsty.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Alice had not interpreted her vision correctly. She thought Bella was going to kill herself, not that she was going to become a vampire. A vampire that burns in the sun. <em>Oh, this will NOT make Edward happy</em>, Alice thinks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward reads Alice's mind.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>WHAT won't make me happy? </em>Edward thinks into Alice's mind.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Alice starts to count instead of thinking.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Stop counting, Alice. Tell me what happened. NOW, </em>Edward thinks into Alice's mind.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Then Edward hears everything. The vision, Bella becoming a vampire, Bella killing someone, Bella almost burning in the sun. He left so Bella wouldn't lose her soul like he had. But now it has happened anyways. He was coming for his Bella. Now it happened, there was nothing he could do about it. he would come back and help his Bella adjust.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella is laying on the bed in Alice's hotel. She is staring at the television blankly. She is coming down from the drugs that were in the blood she drank. For a moment she forgot everything, that she had become a vampire.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Alice, you're here!" Bella squeals. "What happened? I'm so happy to see you! Where's Edward? Is he coming back?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You don't remember?" Alice asks. She runs over and sits next to Bella.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Someone turned you into a vampire. I had always thought it was one of us who would change you. But anyways. It has happened," Alice says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella slowly sits up. She looks at Alice and then she remembers everything that happened. It all comes rushing back.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"So, I won't sparkle?" Bella asks sadly. That was one of the aspects of being a vampire that she had been most looking forward to.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I don't think you will," Alice says. "But anyways, we will go back to Forks. Edward and the rest of my family will come back. We will all help you adjust."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella looks around the hotel. The blinds are down, and no sunlight is pouring in. Then Bella remembers again.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Alice, I think I killed someone. And then some mice, I think," Bella said. "The guy who turned me. He bit her, and then I did."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"But you won't do it again," Alice tells Bella.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Part of me wants to though," Bella says. She is afraid of herself now.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"But you will resist. When night falls you and I will go back to Forks. You will stay with us. We'll figure out what to tell Charlie," Alice says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Charlie!" Bella says. "I didn't think about that. What will he think? And what about my mom? Renee?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Alice says that they will figure something out.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Edward is coming," Alice says. "I just saw. He will come here and help you. Then the three of us will return to Forks."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">A few hours later...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward rushes into the hotel.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Bella, what have you done?" Edward asks. He picks Bella up and holds her. He starts to cry. He had left in order to save her, so she wouldn't become like him and lose her soul. It has happened now. He holds her and weeps.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm okay, Edward. You're back, oh my god you're back!" Bella says. She grabs Edward's back and holds him. She rocks back and forth and she starts crying too.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">This is not what Edward had wanted. He was livid with whoever had turned his precious Bella.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Who turned you, Bella?" Edward asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Just some guy. I think he said his name was Spike," Bella says. She lays in Edward's arm so still.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm going to kill him!" Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"No, Edward, no, don't. It's not necessary. Let's just be together. Let's get married. I'm immortal now," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"And your soul was taken," Edward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You know I didn't want it without you," Bella said to her love Edward.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They are both silent for a few moments.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You should have waited. I might have came back, changed my mind. Now you let someone turn you into a different kind of vampire. The sunlight burns you now. I never wanted this for you. I wanted to let you go so you could live a long and happy life," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'll adjust. It will okay. We will be together. We can figure something out. It's never sunny in Forks anyways," Bella says to Edward.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The two lovers laid together on the bed while Alice made the plans to return to Forks. She bought three plane tickets, for herself, Bella, and Edward. It would all be okay. Meanwhile Edward just held Bella. He told himself it would be okay, that he would protect his Bella. She was like him now, kind of, maybe worse because she was bound to the darkness and to the night. Bella was still, lying in Edward's arms. And Edward held her, and they were finally together.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He wanted to find a way to fix her. Give her soul back, bring her back.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But Bella Swan did not regret anything. She wanted to go back to Forks and go to school with the Cullens. She would marry him.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward could read Bella's mind now.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"How will you go to school now, love?" Edward asks. "You will never be able to go out in the sun."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm okay, Edward. We'll figure something out. It's never sunny in Forks anyways," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay," Edward whispers. "I'll protect you, Bella. We'll be together."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella smiles and stays still in Edward's arms.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Alice booked a 10 pm flight for the three of them to fly back to Forks, Washington. Bella was adjusting to newly being a vampire and she is sitting on the bed talking to Edward. They are kissing and touching each other. Edward is still upset that Bella became a vampire, but he puts that in the past because he is so happy to see her again. They lay on the bed and just look at each other.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Marry me," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Yes," Bella says. She is immortal now and she has Edward.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They lay there and look at each other. Several hours later Edward says to Bella, "You know things will never be the same for you. I wish I had been the one who turned you. But now you are cursed to the night."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's not a curse. I'm not afraid. I'm fine with it," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward is amazed at how strong his Bella is. Not just physically, because she is physically strong now. But mentally. She was never afraid and she adjusted to becoming a soulless burn in the sun vampire. She adjusted so quickly and said to Edward that she was not afraid. His Bella was so strong, and how he loved her so.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Suddenly Bella is overwhelmed with thirst. Edward can tell by looking at her. He can sense her thirst and her pain. Since it was daylight and California neither of them could leave the hotel. Bella would burn and Edward would sparkle an expose the existence of vampires to the public. That would cause the Volturi to interfere, which none of the Cullens wanted.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm so thirsty Edward," Bella said. She could sense and smell all of the people in the hotel. The scents were overwhelming, tempting, scary, and enjoyable all at once.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Patience my love," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Kiss me," Bella says. He leans in and kisses his Bella. He loves her and is sad at the same time. He is convinced that now neither of them have souls and that they are damned. At least, though, they are damned together.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward holds Bella and helps her to stop thinking about her thirst. She thinks about how happy she is back with Edward and that she would never age and would be young forever. She is still overwhelmed, and Edward is still sad. He can't teach Bella how to adjust to being hurt by the sun because it is something he has never ha to go through. He is thankful for Alice, as Bella had no idea that she would have burned when the sun came up. Alice got there just on time and saved her, thanks to her vision. Edward thinks about how if he had never left, then this would have never happened.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Jacob is going to be so disappointed when I tell him," Bella realizes and accidentally says out loud. Jacob had yet to shift into a wolf and yet he would. Bella would be one of the cold ones that Jacob hated so.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Don't think about him now," Edward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"He's my friend, Edward," Bella says. "<em>You</em> are the one that I love. I'm immortal now. We have forever together."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She hadn't known it when she sought immortality and vampirism, but she sacrificed the sun for the moon and the stars. She would have great intuition once she accepted the pain and curse that was brought on her. Her mind turned back to Spike, the vampire that changed her. She would always be thankful to Spike, even though he led her to kill. She realizes that since there are more than one type of vampire, Spike is the only one that would truly understand her. Bella wants to find Spike, talk to him and thank him. It doesn't mean she is in love with him. She is still in love with Edward. But only Spike can teach her some of these things.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I can read your mind, Bella," Edward says. "Why are you thinking about Spike? He's the one who turned you?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward is furious with Spike. He wants to end Spike. But he knows that is wrong. He can see that a part of Bella now loves Spike, the way a part of Bella loves Jacob, and her father, and her mother.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm scared," Bella admits. "I didn't realize becoming a vampire meant I can't go out in the sun, not even secretly with you in the meadow. I'm not saying I regret it. I'm immortal now. I'm not fragile. But this is all so new."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward laughs sadly and holds Bella. He hadn't wanted this for Bella. But now it was done and all he could do was help her adjust and make sure that she was okay.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward kisses Bella's cheek and Bella closes her eyes and remembers what her life was and what it now is and how she had forever now.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Alice returns and Carlisle is on the phone with the three of them. He too had never heard of nightwalker vampires and does not know how to help Bella adjust but since Edward cannot live without Bella, he sees Bella as an adopted daughter.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"How will she hunt animals with us if the sun burns her in the daylight?" Alice asks Carlisle.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"We will think of something, Alice," Carlisle says over the phone. "Perhaps we will hunt at night. How is she, Alice?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Here and there, confused, in love, thirsty, scared," Alice responds.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay. Once night falls head to Forks. I will be there with the rest of the family," Carlisle says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Back in the hotel. Edward and Bella are resting together, and Bella finally stops thinking about what she's done and her thirst. She is calm and at peace. Edward stops blaming himself and is thanking that his Bella is back, although her scent is different now. She is not prey; she is his partner.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Meanwhile, Spike is watching Bella and Edward and Alice. He would end up coming after the Cullens. He would try to get Bella to love him. Spike was rebellious, he was evil for the thrill of it and not for the sake of just being evil. He knew that soon Bella would feel like none of the Cullens could understand her and that she would seek him out. Spike, and maybe Angel too, will teach her about what it means to be a soulless monster. Angel and his soul, Spike thinks laughing. This is also before Spike falls in love with Buffy and seeks out a soul. That would happen, and Bella would be a part of it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">For now, the monsters sleep. Spike does not realize that Edward is a telepath. Edward feels like he is a monster too but wants to be good. He cares about Bella's virtue and about Bella's soul. But he would love her even for what she is now.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Soon the Cullens and Bella were on a plane back to Forks, Washington. On the plane Bella insists that when they get back, she will find a way to tell her father an Jacob that she is okay; her mother too. They didn't have to know that she is a monster now. The plane ride is long, and the three vampires are eerily quiet and uncomfortable. Alice is psychic and Edward reads minds and Bella is a shield so their gifts clashed. Both Alice and Edward are scared for Bella because they never knew what it was like to be burned by the sun and therefore don't know how to help her adjust to it. But she would have to adjust, and maybe find a way to develop a tolerance to the sun. Maybe it would always hurt her, but she would find a way to endure it for maybe ten minutes, at least so she could tell Charlie that she is okay in person. She doesn't know yet, and it may not be possible. Maybe she would have to wear a burka.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm not going to risk you bursting into flames just so you can talk to Charlie," Edward says after reading Bella's thoughts.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Maybe I can endure it for a short moment. I don't know," Bella says. "I'm not afraid."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You always say that to me," Edward says. "That you're not afraid. But you should be. Afraid."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm only afraid of losing you," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I know," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They get home and Bella settles into the Cullen house. She calls Charlie and her mom to announce that she was home from her journey and that the Cullens are back and that she is going to stay with them for a while. Charlie isn't that okay it but Carlisle convinces Charlie that it is what is truly best for Bella. Bella also calls Renee who now lives in Florida and lets her know that she is safe and staying with the Cullens and that she is so in love and excited about life.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Carlise had prepared a room for Bella on the first floor with no windows. Edward's room had windows, as he had no reason to fear the sun. Although now he feared the sun; he feared that the sun would hurt and or destroy his Bella. He couldn't bear that thought. At night, though, Bella and Edward sat in Edward's room talking, playing music, and making love.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">During the night Bella hunts rabbits and mice. The bigger animals would be better sustenance, but they usually were not nocturnal. For now, Bella made do with the blood of small creatures. The memory of the one human girl she drank was still strong and tempting, but Edward was helping her through it. So was Alice and the rest of the Cullen clan. All would be okay, or at least endurable.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Charlie had yet seen his daughter since she arrived back in Forks. Bella told him that she is not ready to go back to school nor see him in person. Carlisle talks to Charlie and tells him that he is planning on home schooling Bella but does not - cannot - tell Charlie why. At least not yet.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella had changed in so many ways. She knew three things: she was madly in love with Edward Cullen, who was a vampire; she was a vampire too, and that if she went out during the day to talk to all of her other friends she would burn to death. Probably. The memory of Spike, the vampire that turned her when she impulsively searched for them on a quest to become a vampire so she could be with Edward. She also knew that she did not regret anything.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella and Edward are in Edwar's room, and they are sitting and talking. They are looking at each other and smiling. The window is open and they can see the black sky and the moon and the stars. They lose track of time and soon the night passes and the day comes. They don't see it coming and aren't used to having to make sure they see it coming.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The sun leaks into the room and Bella's hand starts sizzling. Edward smells the smoke first and wonders where the smell of smoke is coming from. Then he turns to Bella and sees that her hand is burning. Bella is shaking. She is a teenager and not used to pain. Edward runs to close the blinds of the window and rushes over to Bella.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Are you okay? I'm sorry. We lost track of time," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm fine, Edward. I promise," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Your hand is red," Edward says. "I'll kiss it better."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He kisses her burning hand.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's just a little burn," Bella says. "At least I'm not that fragile mortal getting cut and triggering Jasper with my blood."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"That wasn't your fault, Bella," Edward says. "Are you okay? Are the blinds closed enough?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward was not used to worrying that the sun would hurt his princess. He had been a vampire for over hundreds of years and hadn't known there were vampires that were burned by the sun and cursed to walk in the night. He had heard rumors, of course, but he had never really believed them. He had never had to. He was safe, and at the time that was what mattered.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You're sure you're alright?" Edward asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Read my mind," Bella says jokingly. <em>I'll be young and in love forever. I hit the jackpot.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward Cullen wondered if there was anything he could do to make Bella like his family. Would his venom make it so she could walk in the sun and not get burned? Or would biting her to heal her from being cursed by the sun make it spread to him, and then he would be burned in the sun too? He was willing to take the chance and would even risk becoming like her, bound to darkness. Ironically, he knew Bella would never let him take that risk. He brings it up and Bella says it's too dangerous, that it wouldn't work, that sparkling is way better than burning.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'd rather burn with you than sparkle alone," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I know," Bella says. "But you don't have to. We're both immortal. We're together. It's fine. I'll be fine."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The lovebirds go downstairs to interact with the rest of the family. Rosalie, who had thought she was cursed and who had never wanted Bella to be a vampire, realized how lucky she was. That at least when she was forced to be a vampire, she never once burned in the sun.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Hi Bella," Rosalie said. "Your hand! Are you alright?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Although before Rosalie had resented Bella and had made it seem to the others that she hated Bella, really she just wished a long and normal life for Bella.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's fine, Rose," Bella says. "I'm immortal. It didn't happen the way it should have, but it happened. I'm happy."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice and Jasper were headed to school and Carlisle was headed to his job at the hospital. They had not yet worked out if it was safe for Bella to go to the school when it wasn't really that sunny outside but it was daylight. Carlisle an Esme were doing research to figure out how to best protect Bella. For now, though, Bella stayed at the Cullen house during the day. Esme Cullen also stayed home and was teaching Bella about vampire rules and stuff like that. Bella was bored just staying home all day and wished she could go to school with Edward and also talk to the friends she had before becoming a vampire.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Although Bella could sleep, her body did not need sleep. She was immortal and bored as hell. In love, happy most of the time, a little scared, and secretly curious about Spike and his clan. Later she would learn about Drusilla, Angel, slayers, and other vampire politics such as those. Carlisle had brought home blood bags from the hospital as rabbit and mouse blood wasn't really enough for a newborn vampire. Bella hungrily downed several of the blood bags. Her face was covered in blood and she wanted to go out and drink the blood of random unprotected innocent people. it was daytime, though, and she wanted to be like the Cullens. She wanted to emulate them, she wanted to be good, she wanted Edward to love her, but she couldn't stop thinking about Spike and how he lived.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">All she knew of Spike was from the night she danced with him and let him bite her and turn her, but still, despite the fact that she was madly in love with Edward, something was pulling her to Spike. She was thinking about Spike, dreaming about Spike for the few hours she dozed off and dreamed. Vampires like Spike who were night walkers could sleep but didn't have to. And Bella was bored and new and thirsty so she slept to pass the time and fight her cravings to go out and find human blood. The sun was out anyways, but maybe she could go into the sewers and find some victims. Maybe. But that wasn't the kind of vampire Bella Swan was going to be. So she slept, dreamt, talked with Esme, and drank blood bags.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Soon it was 2 pm and Edward was home from 21st century high school. Edward tells Bella that Jessica and Mike and all of the other kids miss her and hope she's okay. Bella doesn't really care what the norms think, but she is jealous that they get to go to school, socialize and go to the beach. The beach, where Jacob was. Jacob had turned into a wolf and Bella didn't even know. But she could sense that something had changed with Jacob too and she wished that she could get in touch with him. She wasn't ready, though.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I really think it's okay for me to go to school. It's foggy. I'll be fine," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"There's no way I'm letting you take the risk. Besides, if something happened people would find out about us," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Then we have to find Spike and ask him what the rules are. How it works," Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward hated Spike even more than he hated Jacob.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I know the rumors of the nightwalking vampires, cursed to be burned if they stepped into the sun. For some reason you have that curse. I'm not risking you getting hurt, Bella," Edward says. "Not just to socialize with a bunch of teenage girls who don't even care about you."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's not just about that," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I know," Edward said. He could read her mind; he did know. She was so happy she was finally immortal but she wanted to be getting an education and talking to her old friends that she never cared about before because she was obsessed with and in love with Edward. She wanted to spend time with her parents and let them know she is okay but she does not regret at all becoming a vampire.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"We're going to figure this out," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"By finding Spike," Bella says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Without Spike," Edward said. "Are you trying to make me jealous?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"No!" Bella says. "Of course not. Wait...is it working? Just kidding. I need to know more. We have to talk to Spike."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"He's worse than the werewolves, Bella."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Ok-aaaay," Bella says, laughs, and then kisses Edward on the chin. Then she kisses his lips and holds onto him. She is so happy to hold him.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But when Bella sleeps, she dreams about Spike. Spike is biting her and kissing her and talking about this mysterious vampire named Angel who likes to brood and who was cursed with a soul. Bella does not know how she got this info, or even if it is true, or if she is a intuitive vampire and almost psychic like Alice, but if this vampire with a soul is real, she has to find him so Edward could finally get this soul that he felt he was missing for most of his life as a vampire...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But she keeps these dreams to herself, and she counts and does math in her head if she recalls the dreams when Edward is around. She is not ready to share the information with Edward. Someday she would, but not yet.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The dreams kept coming, and they were passionate, and Bella was troubled by them. But her life went on, and for now she kept Edward in the dark about it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella is laying in her room and staring at the ceiling. A few hours ago, she awoke from a dream about Spike. In the dream, Spike was dancing with a dark-haired woman. Spike and the woman were grinding together. They were in a crypt, and they were laughing. Then suddenly Spike sees Bella and the dream shifts. They are in a ballroom together, the kind that are sometimes in hotels. Spike puts his hands on Bella's shoulder.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Are you happy?" Spike asked in the dream.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella looks Spike in the eye and starts to laugh hysterically.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Happy? I don't know," Bella said to Spike.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'll be watching you," Spike said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Then the ballroom and Spike vanished and became a pit of darkness and Bella was falling down it. The darkness swallowed her, and though she no longer had to breathe, she woke up almost with a gasp. She was shocked. She was in love with Edward. She didn't want this Spike vampire to screw with that.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>He turned you, though.</em> Bella said to herself. <em>Edward wasn't going to. He left you.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella shook her head.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>He came back though.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>He did. That's true.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">It's daytime and Bella decides to go upstairs to find Edward. It is a Saturday, so he isn't at school. Bella wants to go tell her father that she is okay. Carlisle had called him and told him that she was staying with them for now. He had lied and told Charlie that Bella came down with a strange sickness and that she wasn't ready to go and talk to him.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella wasn't afraid of burning in the sun. She wasn't afraid of dying; she had faced death many times since meeting the Cullens. What she wanted to do was see how long she could stand in the sun before bursting into flames, and if she could gradually make that amount of time increase. Let's call it a science experiment, Bella mused.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I don't think you should do that," Edward cautioned, reading Bella's mind.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You can't stop me. I have to try," Bella said. "I don't need you to protect me anymore. I'm going outside."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Fine," Edward said. "Let's start with just the window open. 5 minutes. Then I'll whisk you away into darkness."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">That reminded Bella of her dream. She didn't want anything to do with darkness. That was why she wanted to see if she could adjust, make the sun a less painful thing. In her first month as a vampire, she almost burst into flames a few times and it was not fun. So maybe she was a little afraid.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella and Edward sit in the sofa in Edward's room.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay, I'm going to open the window? Are you ready?" Edward asked.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella braced herself and winced.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Yes," Bella said, biting her lip and looking at Edward.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Then Edward opened the window and the sun streamed in.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The first thing Bella felt was a burning sensation all over her skin, and her eyes hurt. Her eyes ached and throbbed. She could smell smoke, she was sizzling but there weren't flames yet.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"What are you feeling?" Edward asked.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Um, pain," Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The flames started licking. It was unbearable. Bella started to regret the experiment. She started shaking and convulsing.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Close it! Close it! Edward, close it!" Bella said, almost screamed.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"That was barely three minutes," Edward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I know. I know. It's a start. Close it, it hurts, close it!" Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward ran to the window and closed it and covered it completely with the blinds. Then he ran over to Bella and held her.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It will be okay, Bell. I promise," Edward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"That hurt so much," Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I know," Edward said. "Let me look at you. See if there is any permanent damage."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'll heal," Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I know," Edward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He reached for an ointment that Carlisle had brought home from the hosptal.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Let me take care of you," Edward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella took off her shirt, which had some holes in it from the flames that the sun had triggered. Her torso was red with angry welts. She looked down at it and shivered because ironically, she was so cold. Her heart no longer beat, and she was cold and in pain. But even now she had no regrets.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward put the ointment on Bella's burns. The ointment felt cool and was a relief.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Come on. Lay down," Eddward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella and Edward laid down and Edward was the big spoon and he held her.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I bet next time I'll be able to make it to five minutes. And then I can try going outside. You can bring a bucket of water to put out the flames," Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's too dangerous," Edward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They were both very still. They were both vampires. Edward couldn't sleep; Bella could sleep but didn't have to.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm going to drift off to sleep, okay?" Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward nodded.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella drifted off to sleep. Strange dreams came.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">While she slept Edward held her. She had not put her shirt back on. Edward noticed both how thin she was and how the burns were already healing. They were already slightly better. He then knew that she would be okay. They had forever, after all.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Itis 10 pm. Edward asks Bella if she wants to go to their beautiful meadow.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It will look just as beautiful in the moonlight," Edward tells Bella. Bella smiles at Edward and says yes, sure, let's go. She remembers how peaceful it had been laying in the sun with Edward in the grassy field filled with purple and white flowers.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">It is dark out. They can go to the meadow and star gaze. They can count the stars and howl at the moon. Well, not that. They aren't wolves or witches, they are vampires.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Come on," Bella says. They go outside and hold hands and run towards the forest with super speed. They almost fly up to the top of the treetops. Bella has so much power now; this part of being a vampire is just so fun. They are high up in the air, perching on a branch like little love birds. Edward jumps all the way down and then Bella does as well. They slow down and walk through the dirt past in the forest until they find the clearing to their meadow.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Edward is wearing a watch on his wrist so he can keep track of the time. He doesn't want to lose track of time like he did that one time in his room. If the sun came up while they were lying on their meadow, there would be no dark place to put Bella to save her. She would burn to true death.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"We can't stay here much later than 3 am, okay Bella? I know from our experiment with the window that you won't like it if the sun comes up and we're here," Edward said. "I don't know if you'd survive it."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I would," Bella insists.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm not taking that risk. You shouldn't either," Edward said. He is still sad that his Bella became a vampire. He wonders if Bella has yet noticed her soul missing. He broods and wonders himself if Bella still has a soul or not.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's not that I want to burn. I just want to be able to be outside <span style="font-weight: 700;">without</span> burning," Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I think it's like an allergy, Bella, or worse. You can't just force it to go away by facing it," Edward said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Fine," Bela said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella and Edward are sitting on the grass and Bella leans in and kisses Edward. The sky is black, and the moon is almost full. They lay down and just look at each other. They are silent and still, their hearts do not beat, and they do not need to breathe. They are at peace. The stars whisper their names. The night is just as beautiful as the day to Bella, perhaps more beautiful. Especially since night-light didn't hurt. Daylight was excruciating and Bella hated it. It didn't mean she would stop trying to face it. She was determined that she would go tell Jacob that she was okay. She sensed that something supernatural was happening to Jacob and she wanted to go help him. Jacob was like a twin brother to Bella. He needed her and she needed him. The way siblings always do. But for now Bella could not go see Jacob. She was not ready.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She brought her mind back to Edward and smiled at him. She thought, I got my way. Edward didn't turn me, but I was turned anyways.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Time flies.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"We should probably leave soon," Edward says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bella sits up, still mesmerized.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Yeah, we probably should," Bella says. "Race you!" she says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">And then the two vampires run through the woods and back to the Cullen house as fast as they can. They arrive there around 3:40 am and Edward gets there first.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I guess you win," Bella said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They go inside. Dawn is coming. Bella drinks a few rabbits and then the rest of the Cullens leave to hunt lions, tigers, and even bears. Bella is alone in the house and she wanders around it, avoiding the windows of course. For now. She thinks of calling Charlie but then she doesn't.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">When Bella is alone, she remembers her one and only victim. She remembers how good the blood tasted coming right from someone's neck.<em> It was such a sensual, beautiful experience, </em>Bella muses. Some monster inside Bella is waking up. She wants to sneak out and find someone else to try. Just a little snack, she wouldn't kill the person, just have a taste.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Wow that was a dark thought, Bella realized. She closes her eyes and tries to will her conscience back to her. She thinks about the dream about Spike and his friend Angel the vampire with a soul. She wonders if she has a soul. She thinks she does, and she was willing to give it away for Edward anyways, but the thoughts she has been having makes her wonder. Sometimes she lets the thoughts come. She lets the demon in. Vampires kill, why can't she kill? Why is it wrong?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Because the Cullens don't <span style="font-weight: 700;">do </span>that.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">You can't just be good for someone you look up to. You have to want to be good for yourself. And Bella wonders if she really does want to be good. She is tempted with the idea of Spike. She wants to do real bad things with Spike. Have lots of fun, lots of danger, lots of blood. Then she remembers how much she loves Edward and pushes those thoughts and temptations away.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She drifts off to sleep. And what happens? She has rough, passionate sex with Spike in her dreams. She lets him completely take her over in a way Edward never would. When she wakes up a few hours later she is troubled. Why won't the idea of Spike leave Bella alone?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">She gets up and paces back and forth in the kitchen. She opens the fridge and gets out a blood bag. She drinks it hungrily and then grabs one more and downs it. That's enough for now. Human blood is so much tastier than bunny blood. When the Cullens find a way for Bella to hunt animals that aren't nocturnal she wouldn't need the blood bags, but that would come another day. Bella sits down and sighs. Immortality becomes her.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><div class="xcontrast " id="content_wrapper" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><div id="content_wrapper_inner" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); border-left: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); border-right: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); max-height: 999999px; outline: none; padding: 0.5em;"><div style="max-height: 999999px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>Reality is actually warped. I will not accept this reality. I will achieve immortality.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Some little tests</span></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">How badly does the sun affect vampires? Some sparkle. Others burn.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bella has never been afraid though. She is not afraid of the sun or anything else. She is going to condition herself to be able to deal with it. If you believe in yourself then anything is possible. But it won't be easy.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bella convinces Edward to help her. Maybe she would never be able to go out in the sun without pain or burning. Or maybe not. But she isn't afraid.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">It is a sunny day in Forks, Washington.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bella steps outside and instantly her flesh starts sizzling. Flames lick, she bursts into flames but is not destroyed. It is very painful.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I knew I didn't want this for you," Edward said and dumped a bucket of ice-cold water on Bella.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Come on. Go inside. This isn't going to work. All you're going to do is hurt yourself," Edward says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bella is sopping wet but also still sizzling. She stares forward.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Edward grabs her and drags her inside.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You could have died, Bella, okay? Stop trying this nonsense," Edward said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You are so controlling, Edward. You never wanted me to be immortal," Bella said. "JK I love you," Bella said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">They go inside together, and Bella licks her wounds. They shower together to wash away the ashes. Bella would forever remember the pain.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">OKAY GUYS I hope this installment was a little bit hilarious! Will be back with a real next chapter once inspiration hits! (If you review it might speed up inspiration...lol ok thanks guys)</p><div><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bella decides that she would try to build up a tolerance to the sun's rays.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">If there is goodness inside your dead heart, then you will build up a little immunity to the sun. Vampires can be good people, we can, but there is evil too and it is sleeping inside. It is like when eve ate the forbidden fruit, it slowly crept up inside her. it ate her, it consumed her, it changed her. it changed all of us, down a long line of mortals. For immortals it is worse, harder, a curse that there is no cure for. Bella did not want a cure. She was made for immortality, made to burn, as passion always did. Passion burned, burned so much and it inspired like muses own long, ancient lines of goddesses and faeries. Some vampires are enchanted, some are undercover, God's agents in the flesh. Bella is so still. She sits by the window staring at the sun. The sun reaches inside and it burns Bella. She lets it, for ten minutes, and then she crawls to the window and shuts the window closed and with her fiery bloody hands she draws the blinds. She writhes in pain but feels accomplished. She endured the burning agony of the sun for ten minutes. Now she is in so much pain but feels like she has come out the other end so much stronger. She crawls to her Edward, who holds her. There are still dead flames on Bella, and the ashes rub onto Edward as he holds Bella. Alice enters the room and hoses both of them off with cool water. She leaves to respect their intimate pain that they share together. Edward holds Bella until she stops crying. She is crying because the pain made her realize that this is a curse. It is a gift, she can see that now, but it is also a curse and maybe Edward was right to warn her. In pain Edward's Bella weeps. Edward holds her until she falls asleep.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">If you hate vampires and think you are so much better... then, God doesn't want you to bully his other creations/creatures. You are hypocrites. Jacob, for example, is a werewolf and thinks he is better than the cold ones. Werewolves are monsters too. And then you have the simple humans who love to get slutty, cheat on their lovers, do drugs, watch porn, et cetera. And if you are going to start hating on gay people...respect people who are different you sinful normies. YOU GOT IT - bullying is evil, being a fabulous gay vampire queen is not.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Then there was the biggest test of the century. Edward bought a black tent that has SPF properties. A necro tempered tent. Bella an Edward would bring it to the field and see if it would protect Bella from the sun. If the tent wasn't enough, Edward would use super speed to whisk Bella away to somewhere inside. The loving couple wants to be at their meadow and Bella wants to look at Edward while he is sparkling.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You know this might not work," Edward said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I know. But I want to risk it," Bella said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"We should test the tent outside of the house first. If it doesn't work and we're all the way at the meadow you might burst into flames and cease to exist," Edward said, warning Bella.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Okay," Bella said. "I guess I wouldn't want that. I was in this for the immortality. And you, Edward."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Meanwhile in California, Spike is out hunting the current slayer...</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Spike is a rebel with a cause. Vampires aren't bad. Vampires have fun. Spike is madly in love with his fair maiden Drusilla. Drusilla was going to be a nun; she gave her life to God. Then Angel tormented her, killed her family, found her at the convent and turned her into a vampire. She went mad, or madder than she was before, a beautiful kind of crazy. Spike fell in love with that Drusilla, the crazy chick. The thing is... her visions could be completely accurate. Either way, that was why Spike was so infatuated with Dru. Her mind was here and there, remnants of her other life at the convent and with a family that loved her were still there somewhere, locked up in the back of Drusilla's mind.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">And Spike did have fun with Drusilla. He allowed her to be herself in her madness. Nobody drugged Drusilla. Drusilla was a queen. She was fabulous. No risperdal for her, no instead she gets bloodlust and rainbows and murder sprees. You know that drugs are bad for you. The government said so, so why are they giving drugs to people locked in psych wards? No, no, no. Not for Drusilla, and surely not for Spike.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Back to Bella...</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sometimes you just want to lay on the floor and weep. That was the way it was for Bella. She did not know before that she would feel like a monster, a wild animal trapped in a cage. Let me get this straight - not that we must be straight - but she did not at all regret becoming a vampire. She was immortal now, and a worthy bride for her Edward. Sometimes, though, she ran in the night like a creature, at midnight, fast and stalwart and bright. And then she dragged herself home, hungry and tired and almost psychotic from the blood lust, she curled up in a ball on the hard floor and wept. That was what it was to be a new vampire that burned in the sun instead of sparkling bright, a beautiful dove or a unicorn. No, Bella realized now, she became a creature of the night.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Edward looks at Bella with a pained, sorrowful gaze. His eyes are bright and weary. He pulled Bella into a hug and held onto her so tightly. There was no magical happy ending, but they were together, and hope was pinned in Bella's golden eyes.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">It is midnight now, and Bella and Edward are on a date. Now that they were both immortal, no matter the how, they could start actually dating. Dating as equals, as equal as a heterosexual relationship can possibly be anyways. They go to a coffee cafe that is open all night. Vampires love drinking hot coffee because it makes them feel much less cold and empty inside. Bella doesn't have to breathe anymore, and her newly immortal body feels strangely cold and her throat is tight, burning, aching for blood. It was awful at first, then exciting, then peaceful. It was peaceful because it meant she was immortal and no longer had to fear death.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">So, they got to the cafe and ordered coffees. They sat at one of the tables and sipped hot bitter coffee while exchanging meaningful glances.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I know you have been struggling to adjust," Edward said to Bella. There was so much more he wanted to say. He felt like her pain was his fault. In his eyes were echoes and scars, old wounds and rivers of love, an ocean hiding deep inside the soul he used to have.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I'm okay," Bella said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">She decides to tell Edward about the dreams she has been having, about Spike and Angel. She decides to tell him that there might be a way he can get his soul back, the way Angel did, if they can find him. She doesn't want to get his hopes up too much if the information is incorrect.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Because of Edward, Bella is immortal.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Maybe because of Bella, Edward Cullen would finally find salvation. If it was real.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Maybe they're just dreams," Edward says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Still. Spike is like me. He burns in the sun," Bella said. "And he is my maker."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I'm your lover," Edward said, a tweak of jealousy in his eyes.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I know, I know," Bella said. Her eyes sparkled even though her skin never would.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">The lovebirds finish their coffee and then take a stroll in the dark. Bella gazes at the stars that seem to be forming a strange new pattern. The moon is misty and a silver, shining white. It is a safe form of light, and part of Bella wants to howl at it. They find a patch of grass to lay down and star gaze. It is a peaceful night. The mortals are asleep and there aren't many being out and awake.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I love you, you know," Bella said. She didn't become a vampire only for Edward - she craved the safety of immortality - but she did do it for Edward.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Edward grinned. "I know," he whispered. The sadness in his eyes was gone. Buried, maybe, but now his eyes were smiling. Everything was okay and it would stay that way.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">They make it home before day breaks. Bella gets inside safely before dawn. For the first time in a long time, she feels balanced and okay. Safe. Full of hope and pride and maybe a plan. She drank a bottle of pig's blood and smiled, blood getting on her lips. She dances around in the kitchen in a way that might be embarrassing if one of the normies were watching. But nobody was, except maybe the Cullens, and they would be family soon, as soon as Bella and Edward got married. It would be a special and beautiful moonlight wedding. Bella would invite everybody she loved.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">So, she let the happiness be real. And it would be.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bella has been a nightwalker vampire for three months now. She spends most of her time in the dark. But she does not wallow in pity. Carlisle and Charlie have talked to Forks High School and explained that Bella has come down with an incurable disease and convinced them to let Bella be home schooled. Charlie only knows the lie, that Bella contracted a rare disease. The truth was that Bella became a monster.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">However, Jacob turned and became a werewolf. On the phone with Jacob, Bella told him the truth. She became a different version of the cold ones that he was born to fight - a monster that burns in the sun, a pretty girl with murderous instincts. She promised Jacob that she is good, that she does not listen to the urges.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">One time, though, two days ago she slipped out at 1 am. She became a monster. She lunged at a stranger that was lurking in an alley way looking for women to rape, food to ravage, rain to pour, monstrous desires to succumb to. Bella told herself she was doing the world a favor. This man was the monster. Not her, right? It couldn't be her.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Her face was covered in blood and her fangs and regular teeth were drenched in blood too. She feels ashamed and curls up in a ball in the same alley that she killed a man. She let her thoughts into Edward's mind, and he came to her. He does not judge her. He holds her and whispers sweet promises to her. Promises like <em>it will be okay, you won't do it again, I will always love you.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">The blood was like a drug. Her body craved it; her mind craved it. She sunk into it; she became it. If she were a mirror, silver glass, then she would shatter. Tiny pieces thrown in a million directions into the big, bad scary universe.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">At least she could sleep sometimes and forget. Most vampires couldn't.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">By next evening Bella comes down from the high of draining a man. She feels okay and she does some schoolwork. She starts writing poems in order to deal with the urges. When her homework is finished, she is sitting on the couch, and she starts shaking. She cannot control it.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">The sun falls. Alice convinces Bella to go on a shopping spree with her. After all, shouldn't she start her undead life in style? Alice is pychic and beautiful and Bella has always been pretty jealous of her. Like, always. So, Bella goes with her. The mall is open late, and Alice insists Bella tries on every single dress that Alice finds beautiful and right.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Being a vampire, all of Bella's senses are heightened. And ever since bAliceing turned, Bella finally feels <em>good</em>. She is shopping with her best girlfriend Alice, and she is still madly in love with Edward. They are planning to get married and Bella's plan to get used to the sun is still coming along slowly but surely. Edward is starting to accept that she is no longer his fragile, breakable princes. She is his warrior queen, his goddess. Nothing could hurt her, certainly not pain. Certainly not sex with him.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Alice settles on a few dresses and designer jeans and Bella buys a few pieces as well. Bella finds that she actually enjoys shopping now.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bella briefly wonders if it would be great to turn Charlie and Renee into vampires. Have her parents forever. Her family. No, the Cullens were her family. You can't just go make everyone you love immortal. It's against the rules. Bella is a night walker now, a Cullen, a beast, a queen. She realizes Forks High School isn't the end of the world. She would go to other high schools, and colleges. She would be smart and beautiful and strong forevermore. Why not? Becoming a burnable vampire was not a mistake.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>I still need to seek out Spike</em>, Bella thinks, not letting Edward read her random thought. She wonders if Alice will have any visions about Spike. She wonders why sometimes she just can't stop thinking about Spike.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">(Spike is like that, though, he gets in your head and doesn't let you get him out of it. Somehow Bella found that out when Spike was changing her. Edward wasn't going to do it after all, someone had to.)</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Then she wondered why there was spite in her mind. She loved Edward. He would have changed her eventually, right? <em>Right?</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bella wants to drag Alice to go hunt down Spike. Maybe turn Spike into a vegetarian. <em>He knows how to get us our souls,</em> Bella thinks. <em>But don't I still have mine?</em> Bella wonders.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Edward offers chaste, beautiful, sacred love.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Spike offers danger, lust, blood, rebellion.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Which one did Bella want more?</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">She did not know. For now, shopping with Alice and dancing naked in the forest under the moon is enough. <em>For now.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>She fell in love when she was still a teenager, and now she is cold and frozen at seventeen. Forever. It kind of happened before she found out who she was. Before she went through a rebellious phase. All she knew is that she was MEANT to be a vampire. It would have happened either way, there was no avoiding it.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Alice and Bella go on a hunt together. It is girl time. They each eat a few deer - the blood of the deer, anyways - and run freely and fast in the forest. The speed and power rip their clothing, kind of. The animal blood sates Bella's thirst, this time. It was alright, this time. It was girl time.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p></div></div></div></div>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-62160069466026501952022-11-21T10:20:00.004-08:002022-11-21T10:20:58.882-08:00Dark bleeds bright fanfiction chapter 4 onward<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Chapter 4</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean was watching his Sammy sleep. For a few hours his sleep is peaceful and then suddenly Sam's body starts convulsing violently. Dean also notices that Sam is sweating. Dean moves over to watch Sam's head and holds it while Sam seizes, making sure his head isn't injured during the seizure. Suddenly Sam wakes up mid-seizure, stops seizing for a second and screams, and Dean stifles a tear. He hates seeing his brother suffer like this. Sam's shaking hand grabs onto Dean's shirt. Sweat is dripping off his hand.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You okay Sammy?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam shakes his head.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Not right now, not really," Sam mutters. There is pain and sadness lingering in Sam's eyes.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean climbs in the bed and lies beside his brother, in a completely chaste way, holding Sam's head and rocking him like he did when Sam was a little kid. He holds onto his brother and promises him that he doesn't hate him.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Despite this, Sam's body is sick from not having enough demon blood, and Sam starts seizing again. Dean holds Sam down during the seizure in order to protect him as much as he can. As soon as Sam's body falls silent again, tears like a flood start rolling down from Sam's eyes.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I know it's wrong but I need more so badly. Not just a few drops Dean, it will make the pain go away for thirty minutes, but then it's back, it's not enough to mak it go away," Sam whimpers.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I only have that little bit left. And I don't think Crowly would give us more anyways," Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay then give me that. A thirty-minute break is better than the seizures," Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Hold out one more hour, okay?" Dean insists.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Why?" Sam asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Because I said so," Dean said stubbornly. "Besides, once it's gone it's gonna get real bad if we don't find a supply of it until you can get all the way off of it."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam shudders and involuntarily starts crying again. Dean gently touches Sam's face.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Hey, it's okay, it will be okay," Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But Sam is scared and very mad at himself for giving in and drinking the demon and getting addicted again. He guesses that his mind had never really been healed from the first two times, and he kept wanting it, wanting it, pushing it down, and he broke and drank it and now at least his brother isn't making him go cold turkey. The seizures hurt like hell and his muscles are sore and there are bruises on his body.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Suddenly Sam's body is thrown into the air at the wall of the motel and then smashes onto the ground and then back into the air. As soon as his body lands Dean runs to him and holds him down.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Make it stop," Sam mutters.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean knows that even if he unlocks the safe and gives Sam the blood, shortly afterwards the detoxing would start again. But maybe it would stop the demonic seizures.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean gets the vial and hands it to Sam. Sam greedily drinks it all and is so relieved. He sits up and leans against the wall, so relieved. Dean sits next to him and holds his shoulder.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Will you get me more before it starts again?" Sam asks quietly. "It's not gonna last. Need more, need more."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Not on time. I might have to tie you down so the seizures don't throw you in the air again, okay? Just until we can trap a demon and get you some. But then you have to promise to try to get off of the stuff for good," Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"But the power feels so good," Sam says dreamily.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Do the seizures feel good?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Well, no," Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He doesn't admit that it is almost worth it, to be as powerful as the demons an vampires and things that they hunt. He doesn't just want the blood, he wants the energy, the power, the magic. Why is that so wrong?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Hey let me show you something," Sam says, grinning. He is high on the last of the vial of Crowly's blood. He telekinetically turns the hotel pillow into a bunch of white fluff and throws it at Dean, laughing.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"That was so not funny. And not fair. I don't have telekinesis." Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But the two brothers are both laughing anyways, because at least for a while Sam isn't in pain. He is enjoying the power and trying to make light of the situation. In this moment they both realize it will be okay, or at least mostly okay, most of the time. Because the light of their souls was stronger than the blackness of the demons.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">And shouldn't the good guys have the power for once? Why not? Sam and Dean fall asleep with their arms around each other. They drift off into peaceful sleep, though ominously knowing that this is the calm before the storm. Sam will get strong enough to fight Lucifer, and Michael, well, a lot of people always thought he was one of the good guys, God's most holy knight. Guess that wasn't true either. The two brothers would re-write the rules together. They would hold on, as long as the world was there to hold onto.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">(A/N: sorry this chapter was so short. Inspiration is dry so review and let me know what you think and I'll write another chapter as soon as I can especially if you like it.)</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Chapter 5</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam does know that detoxing in Bobby's panic room would be safer. Knowing that doesn't make him feel less like he got away with something, not having to lay on that nasty metal bed, hallucinating alone; shaking, sweating, terrified that this time it would kill him and he would land in hell like all of the monsters he has hunted and killed his whole life.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Why this, again, now?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam is surprised that Dean was weaning him off of the drug instead of Sam having to go cold turkey. Cold turkey was hard, bitter, like a demon gripping Sam and throwing him around. He was at the mercy of the black demon blood that was running through his veins; has been since he was six months old and yellow eyes bleed in his mouth. He would always be tainted, a monster, so why fight it?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He doesn't fight the burning, angry self-hatred either. He can still hear the phone voice mail, echoing in his ear: <em>you're a monster, Sammy, a blood sucking vampire. Dad always said I'd have to save you or kill you. Well, I'm done trying to save you.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">A part of Sam was done trying to save himself, as well. He had stopped praying ages ago. Praying to God, if He was real, to angels, even to Castiel, to Michael. There was a lonely sadness deep rooted in Sam's eyes; in the way his bones and blood ached, demon blood pulsing through him. It felt so good; the high hadn't yet faded but Sam knows he would come down soon.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The two brothers had been sleeping on the floor, Sam's back awkwardly leaning against the motel wall. Pillow fluff from Sam's telekinetic joke was everywhere. At some point in the middle of the night Dean had woken up and staggered over to one of the motel beds and gingerly went back to sleep. Sam struggles to his feet, he is dizzy, the motel room is spinning.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean was asleep, and all Sam wanted to do was wander around outside, using his powers, hunt down some demons, drink them down, kill them, save the world by getting rid of those vile creatures and getting another power high again.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>No</em>, Sam told himself. <em>It's not about the high. It's about killing Lucifer.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Yeah, you go ahead and tell yourself that</em>, his conscience whispers. <em>Go ahead and tell yourself that.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But Dean is sound asleep, so Sam staggers outside anyways, draws a pentagram on the black pavement with white chalk that he always kept with him, and summons and traps a demon.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The demon that comes is real pretty, short curly blond hair, pale skin, silver circles under its pitch-black eyes. It is wearing a white dress and black ballet shoes. it is grinning, rage and sorrow and evil dancing in its wild eyes. It thinks it is here to kill. But it is here t be killed; it is trapped; Sammy would rip into its neck and destroy it. Rid the world of another nasty old demon.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The demon looked like it was only 15, maybe its vessel was 15, but looks could be deceiving. Sam holds his demon killing knife for protection and saunters into the pentagram. He slices the pretty demon's neck and sinks his teeth into it. He devours her blood. He drinks it all, drains it, grinning, high, excited. His mouth and chin is red, bloody. He drains the demon and then stabs the demon with the demon killing knife that Ruby had given him when they were hunting Lilith. He felt so good.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Even so, he can hear Dean's voice inside his head. <em>You did it again, Sammy. When are you going to stop? If you don't, you'll become a monster.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>But I'm already a monster</em>, Sam whispers to no one, the sky black as it is barely 4 am, the moon bright hanging high up in the sky. The black pavement, the black sky, space and all of its stars, the black eyes of the dead demon, the darkness swirling around in Sammy's veins.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He discards of the demon and its host's body, knowing that he killed her too, the girl the demon was possessing. He feels bad about it, but he had to do it. He couldn't go back to the pain, the seizures, all of it. But he hates himself for this; this isn't who he is. He's the boy who went to Standford, he's the hunter, he's someone with psychic gifts; he isn't a killer, he isn't an addict. It twists inside of him, and then the high from the demon blood comes, and he doesn't care anymore.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He paces around the lonely, dead empty town. No one is awake yet, no one but Sam, and he pulls at the stars in the sky, bringing them down to earth, shattering. At least he tries, and instead the lights in the town shatter, the garbage cans in the back by the motel is flung into the air and then falls down again. Sam paces back and forth, feeling so good, finally getting away from the self-hatred and pain and self-pity. Away from everything in his life that he hates, a vessel filled with rage.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">When he goes back up to the motel room, Dean is still asleep, and Sam climbs into the other bed. He turns onto his side and watches his brother sleep. He watches his brother's eyes blink, obviously dreaming, so serene. Sam is very happy right now. He also thinks of Castiel right now, the way he is always so literal. He wonders if Castiel still thinks that Sam is an abomination, but Sam lets that thought drift off until it is far away, far away.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">And so happy, so full of bliss, Sam drifts off to sleep and finally has peaceful dreams. It doesn't matter that he messed up; Dean was letting him wean off of the demon blood anyways. <em>Drinking a whole demon isn't weaning off, Sammy</em>, Sam can hear his brother's voice in his head. Whatever. It was okay. Sleep came.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Wake up, sleepyhead!" Dean is shouting.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam has a piercing headache from using telekinesis, but the rest of his pain is still gone. Just the headache, proof that he had really use power, is alright.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"5 minutes!" Sam yells sleepily, groaning.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They had pretty much finished off the case and were leaving town. They would go someplace to research how to stop Lucifer.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean gives Sam more than 5 minutes. He has empathy for his brother, knowing that his brother is dealing with an addiction and in pain and a little bit of extra sleep, his Sammy deserved that.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm up!" Sam shouts, finally forcing himself to sit up and jump out of bed. He isn't shaking. Things are right.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean drinks coffee and alcohol and a pastry. Sam has orange juice, a bagel with cream cheese, some salad. All via free motel breakfast buffet.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Then the two brothers get in the car.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Are you feeling any better?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Better than ever," Sam says, then adds, "For now."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay, lets hit the road," Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They drive to Bobby's to take a break from hunting to do research and stop the apocalypse. They had taken down two of the horsemen. Sam dreaded getting there because he knew that Bobby and Dean might lock him in the panic room again. That was never fun, he so dreaded it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>But maybe they won't put me in there this time</em>, Sam reasons to himself. But the fear has already burrowed in. Sam cannot escape.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Meanwhile, somewhere far away, Castiel is in Heaven watching Sam and Dean Winchester. He always has, long before he made himself known to the two hunters. Alone, watching the Earth spin and spin, flying in space and watching. He had been ordered to watch, so he watches, that's all. In Cas there is a pure, radiant white light. It glows in his soul as he flies and protects.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">When angels fall to earth, they do not become demons. They don't lose their grace. Castiel cannot just heal Sam, he is not allowed to, Heaven forbidden it because it was part of Sam and Dean's destiny to go through this, to become Lucifer's and Michael's vessels. Castiel is just a regular angel, often confused by humanity. The archangels are bigger, more holy, purer, more right.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But Castiel obeys God even though he has not met the Big Guy yet. Well, he met Chuck, but he did not yet find out that Chuck is God.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Castiel does not understand why humans have wars, why they hurt and kill and have so much pain. Isn't it easier to just obey? To become pure, fall into line, do the right thing, and sin no more?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Did Jesus die and suffer for nothing? Humanity seemed to just get worse, more killing, more diseases, more taint on humanity.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But Sam and Dean were Cas's friends. Not angels, but powerful. They were hunters, destroying demons, doing God's work. So, in that way, Cas figured, they were <em>like </em>angels, <em>like </em>him. Right?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Watching Sam suffer so much hurts Castiel, especially since he cannot just go touch his forehead and heal him. Watching Sam mess up, kill, drink blood. Watching Sam and Dean, arms linked together asleep with relief from everything that was being thrown at them.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">And every time Dean prays to Castiel, Castiel shows up, tries to help, does his best. He does his best because he loves Sam and Dean. He can help in the normal, human: by being there, by being a shoulder to lean against, to awkwardly say the wrong thing.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">So Castiel does that. When Dean prays to Cas, Cas shows up in the back seat as Dean and Sam are driving to Bobby's.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Awkwardly, Cas looks at Sam and shrugs. He almost says, <em>I know what you did last night. I know that you killed an innocent girl.</em> A demon was killed too, but an innocent girl got caught in the crossfire.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Instead, Cas says, "Hi Sam, Hi Dean."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam shrugs his shoulders and sighs.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Hi Cas," Sam says. Castiel can hear the hurting in the words, the <em>can you heal me of my addiction, purify me, get rid of all of this evil in me,</em> unspoken.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">And Dean is grinning.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You came, Cas," Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I always come when you call," the forlorn angel speaks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Sam relapsed again," Dean says to Castiel.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam feels awkward and nudges his brother. He doesn't want Dean to tell the angel about Sam's relapse. Too bad Dean already told Cas. Dean prays to Cas about precious Sammy all the time.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Castiel shrugs, wishing he could help. All he can do is shrug, and say, "I know." Castiel is an angel. He isn't God; he isn't even an archangel.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bobby's house is in South Dakota, so the two hunters and the one angel have a long drive. It is probably a three-day drive, so after being in the car for many hours, they stop at another motel.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam is still high from the demon he drank, plus a little of Crowly's blood still lingering in his system. It will be at least a day before the withdrawal starts again and Sam feels very relieved.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Before checking into the motel, they stop at a little gas station shop just off the highway to buy comfort food and alcohol. Alcohol isn't Sam's drug of choice, but he does enjoy a little bit every now and then. He doesn't <em>need</em> it like Dean and Bobby do. Castiel certainly doesn't need it. Either way, they pay for the food and drinks and the cashier puts the stuff in a white plastic bag for them.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Then they drive over to the motel. They check in. Castiel gets his own room, even though he does not need to sleep. For now, though, the three men are in Sam and Dean's room drinking bourbon and talking. Castiel knows all of their secrets because he is an angel and therefore sometimes, he can read minds. Thats one of the ways angels watch over people.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"So, you relapsed again, Sam," Castiel says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam shrugs. "Yeah, I guess," Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You guess?" Castiel asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam laughs bitterly. "Um. Yeah. I did. I relapsed," Sam says. "It's not the end of the world."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>It wasn't the end of the world; it was the way Sam would stop the end of the world.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"How are you feeling now?" Castiel asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay, I guess. For now," Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"He isn't okay," Dean mentions.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam pokes his brother.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Stop it Dean. I <em>am</em> okay," Sam says. Even though he knows it is a lie.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Castiel sits at the table, occasionally sipping bourbon, even though it doesn't affect him.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The alcohol blurs Sam's high. <em>It isn't a high,</em> Sam says to himself. <em>Its raw power. It's what I need to defeat Lucifer.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The next morning, before Sam wakes up, Dean calls Bobby. He tells Bobby that Sam relapsed and that cold turkey wouldn't work this time, and, oh if you can, get a stash of some anti-seizure pills. Not that Sam would want to take them, or that they would really help with <em>demonic</em> seizures, but maybe it would help take the edge off a little bit.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Cold turkey is always dangerous, ya idjit," Bobby said. Although both times in the past Bobby had agreed to cold turkey. Bobby and Dean both had, not realizing how damn dangerous it was. With any drug it was dangerous; with a supernatural drug like demon blood it was even more dangerous.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">But both of them agreed that if it got worse, Sam could get weaned off in the panic room, every time he relapsed. Sam might hate that cold room, but that would teach him his lesson.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"How far away are you guys?" Bobby asks. Meaning to say, <em>is Sam safe detoxing in the car?</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"About two days of a drive now," Dean says, not knowing that Sam had drunk another demon, not just the tiny vial Dean had got him from Crowly.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay, drive safe," Bobby says, meaning, <em>keep your eyes on that boy, Dean.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Bobby is an addict too, he damn well knows it, he knows he will never kick his alcohol habit. Which means he knows how far an addict will go to his drug of choice. Manipulation, lies, stealing.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Stealing lives</em>. <em>Demon lives, but lives.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam doesn't know why, but for some reason he wants to run to Chuck, the guy who wrote about their lives. He doesn't really know who or what Chuck is, just that he is a prophet and that he knows <em>everything</em> that happens to Sam and Dean, which means Chuck is the only one who really knows Sam. The only man who understands Sam, doesn't think Sam is a monster.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Yeah, it is annoying that the guy wrote about their lives. Advertising it to nerds in bookstores and music stores. That was what Chuck did, Sam guessed. Chuck was a writer.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He almost says to Dean, <em>let's go visit Chuck!</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">For some reason Sam starts thinking running to Chuck would just fix everything. Chuck would know, Chuck would understand.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam knows that Dean hates Chuck. Dean hates that Chuck wrote about their lives in order to make money. Sam just likes Chuck. He has never told Dean this.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>I don't hang with hypocrites but I'm quick to call that kettle black</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Swear I'll say it to your face when I'm talking behind your back</em><br /><em>My thoughts are kind of dirty but my clothes are clean</em><br /><em>What you see is what you get, but what you get ain't what it seems</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>I'm just human buried in denial</em><br /><em>I judge people and i read the Bible</em><br /><em>I drink too much but my body is a temple</em><br /><em>I love Jesus but I cuss, just a little</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>My heart is kind of dirty but his blood is clean</em><br /><em>So what you see is what you get, but what you get ain't what it seems</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>~Kylie Morgan Cuss a Little</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The country song came on the radio in the Impala and Sam can't help but relate to it. He thinks about all of the Bibles in the millions of motels he's lived in on the road. He knows angels are real. But what about God, what about Jesus? He doubts that anyone, not even God, can make Sam real. In fact, God is probably as much as a dick as the angels.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>You know that isn'</em><em>t true</em>, a voice in Sam's mind whispers; maybe his intuition. Maybe it is the humour in him telling him, <em>Let's go visit Chuck!</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They don't know who Chuck is yet; not even Castiel knows.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Anyways, Sam dreads getting to Bobby's. He is afraid that Bobby won't agree with Dean about weaning off the demon blood instead of being locked up and going cold turkey, in so so so much pain. Bobby would never agree, Sam rationalizes to himself, and maybe it's what is meant to be anyways, that he deserves the pain, deserves death even. So yes, Sam is afraid.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He is afraid that he will start shaking again soon, or that he won't start shaking soon enough and Dean will find out what Sam did. He never would catch a break, woul he?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The road is monotonous, the music is loud, and fate was on the way. So Sam would accept it. He would accept whatever came; yes, it was his own damn fault. He would face the music. He would be strong.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Chapter 6</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">5 Years ago, Season 1</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>At age 20 Sam Winchester ran away to go to college. It was the kind of thing normal guys from normal families do. He even got a full scholarship to Standford and was studying to become a lawyer. There was an itch inside of him, always, that said, you aren't normal. He was taught how to shoot a gun when he was eight years old, and he killed monsters every day. He was done with it, he swore, he would be normal. He wanted to be normal at least.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>At Standford Sam fell in love with Jessica. She was pretty, and so nice. There was a purity to her that Sam loved so much. He loved caressing her forehead and twirling his fingers in her soft blonde hair.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Then the visions started coming. And afterwards, he would get these intense headaches, like his brain was twisting inside of his skull, screaming. It was agony, and when he told Jessica she overlooked it, told him to go to a doctor. Sam was prescribed pain killers, but he hated taking them. He didn't like the way they made him feel.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>So, Sam stopped telling Jessica about the visions. It was small things at first, like thinking about someone and then thirty minutes later they texted him. But then he started having them when he was asleep, intense nightmares. He had nightmares of Jessica burning on the ceiling and her house burning down. Jessica, dead forever. He had the dreams many nights before it actually happened. He was devastated when it happened; felt like it was his fault because he never listened to the psychic dreams. He didn't want to let himself believe that it was real because his whole life he was taught that having psychic powers meant you were a monster. So, Sam did nothing, and Jessica died anyways.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>After it happened, the headaches got worse. He decided to quit Standford, drop out, and go on the road with his big brother to hunt things. He didn't tell Dean about the psychic visions at first. He suppressed it, hid it, pretended that it wasn't happening. He was back to hunting, to making the world a better place. He gave up on being normal. He decided that it was never meant to be, and that normal was overrated.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Jessica's</em><em> death, her demonic murder, was the trigger that started Sam's self-hatred. It started to eat at him, and a deep rage started growing inside of him. He channeled the rage, used it to salt ghosts and kill demons. He laughed and joked with his big brother and pretended, like always, to be okay. He was very good at seeming okay on the surface, to always look stable and in control of himself.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Sam had really loved Jessica. He had loved studying, acing midterms, and doing research. After he left school to hunt things, he purchased a really good laptop. Hunting involved lots of research, and Sam was much better at researching than his brother Dean. In fact, often, researching old legends and myths and finding the truth made Sam proud. So proud, that he could forget about his issues. He could push them down into the abyss inside of him.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>In the beginning, hunting was about fighting evil. It wasn't really about saving the world, because you never could. There was always another monster to ice. Life was making salt circles, digging up graves and burning bones, traveling the world and living in motels.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>The headaches got worse, and the psychic visions and powers got stronger. It was easy to hide it because it wasn't that intense, especially after yellow eyes was killed. And there was that one time that he used his mind to move a dresser away from the closet on a hunt so he could save Dean from a monster. But using that intense amount of power, it had only happened that one time, just adrenaline intensifying what was already there. After this happened, Sam started to be afraid that he would become a monster like the rest of yellow eyed's prodigies. They were just kids killing with their minds, using their minds to control what other people did. But Sam would never become that; Sam would never use psychic powers for evil. Yet still, he was afraid. The influence of his brother, who thought anyone spiritually different might as well be a demon, a thing, influenced Sam's self-hatred and fear of becoming evil. It became deep rooted inside of Sam's personality.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>So, when Dean died, it was okay to spiral into madness. It was okay to listen to Ruby, drink demon blood, because doing this would help him get his brother back. Whatever means necessary. The first time he drank Ruby's blood he thought it was disgusting. He wasn't addicted to it; not at first. He wanted to find a way to pull Dean out of hell. A way to get revenge on Lilith for killing Dean. Sam felt guilty, because Dean made the demon deal to raise Sam from the dead anyways.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Current time, in the car to Bobby's house</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">So now Sam is still addicted to demon blood. He still has a deep-rooted self-hatred; fear that he has become a monster like his brother and father had always warned him about. The headaches are worse, every time he uses his power. He doesn't need the demon blood to use his powers, but they are a million times stronger when he is on the demon blood.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">In the beginning the taste was disgusting. Now he loved it, craved it. It was juicy and delicious. He liked it warm in his mouth, red and thick like strawberries. On the car ride the music that is playing leads Sam to be fantasizing about how good the blood tastes. He is not physically in withdrawal again yet, but emotionally he wants it so bad. He thinks about how right it feels, how refreshing. He thinks that when he drinks demon blood, he kills demons. So, it's okay, right? It has to be okay, right?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The reverie in Sam's head is interrupted suddenly by Dean saying something. It was like he had been sleeping and shocked awake.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm right here. What?" Sam asked.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I was just saying we are going to stop soon for food and gas. Anything you want?" Dean asked.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam thought about saying, <em>sure, I'd like some demon blood and for this headache to go away.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">It wasn't even the worst of his headaches. It was just a dull throbbing that is almost always there. It never goes away, not really.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Yeah, um, get whatever you want. Soda, I guess, protein bars," Sam said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean was into fast food, and Sam was into health food and green smoothies. Eating natural foods helped with the headaches and calmed him down. It was something instinctual that Sam had had to learn, a way to instantly calm down. That was why he was so good at seeming normal and stable and not falling apart on the outside. Being able to do this was something that Sam was very proud of.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">By that point Cas had teleported out of the Impala, winged his way somewhere else, probably watching over people, taking care of Heaven, doing angel things. For now, it was only Sam and Dean in the car. Dean pulls into a rest stop. He puts gas in Baby and then they go into the little shop together to pick up car ride food. Dean buys some candy bars and sodas and protein bars and a strawberry smoothie for Sam. The strawberry smoothie was a surrogate; Sam pretended the smoothie was the demon blood, hoping for the placebo effect to do something for him. That it would take away his headache and make the cravings subside. It usually didn't work.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They are close to South Dakota now. It's day 3, and the withdrawal has already started a little bit. Sam hasn't had any since the demon he secretly trapped, and he is starting to fidget a lot, to have fits of trembling every now and then. He grips the car window tightly, trying so hard to hang on.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean had said he didn't have to go off the stuff cold turkey. Which means eventually he would get a little bit. Dean and Bobby would probably only let him have a few drops every five hours, not that it was really enough.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You holding on there?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam decides not to lie.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's getting worse, Dean," Sam says, trembling.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You want to go in the back and try to sleep?" Dean asks. "We probably still have eight hours in the car."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam doesn't want to give in. He wants to remain strong on the outside.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Not yet. I'll be okay," Sam says, clearly lying.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay," Dean says. "But if you need to rest there's no shame in that." Dean knew that Sam was trying to be strong; trying to hold everything together. He wanted to tell Sam that he didn't have to do that.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam stays in the passenger seat, but he allows himself to close his eyes for a moment, grit through the pain. He lets his thoughts trail off to better things, like when Jessica was alive and how much he loved her. He loved her in a different way than the way he loved Dean. Dean was his big brother, the idol - the hero - that Sam looked up to. He wanted to be strong like Dean, a good hunter like Dean. Pure, good, righteous.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>But Dean is self-righteous</em>, Sam reminds himself. <em>So against Sam's "psychic shit".</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">After a few hours Sam does decide to crawl in the back and get some rest. Like Dean said. No shame in that. He pressed on his head, massaging it to make the pounding headache go away. After a long moment it works a little bit. Sam sighs and closes his eyes. He falls asleep and dreams of blood and monsters. Slashing and killing, angry beasts killing everyone he loves. Not the best dreams, not fun, but better than being awake, shaking, everything hurting.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He sleeps through most of the rest of the drive to Bobby's. Before he knows it they are pulling up into Bobby's driveway. Sam is sure Dean told Bobby about the demon blood relapse. So, Sam braced himself for being thrown in the panic room. He hoped at least that wouldn't be the first thing Bobby and Dean would turn to.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Luckily, when they walked into Bobby's a healthy lunch was prepared for Sam and Dean. Bobby told Sam that he had gotten some anti-seizure pills for him and that if things got bad, they would tie him down in one of the bedrooms, not the panic room unless it was absolutely necessary.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"But pills will do nothing. The seizures are supernatural of origin!" Sam protests. "You know what I really need!"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Calm down boy. When we can we'll get a little bit of it to wean you off. Anti-seizure medicine might help a little bit," Bobby says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It won't help at all," Sam says in protest. "Besides, the seizures haven't started yet. They won't for at least a day, I think. Why can't I just have the blood? That will prevent the seizures. Pills do nothing."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">The three men get ready for the storm to come. It would get worse before it got better. In fact, it was like fractal math. It would get worse, then better, then really strange, and then really bad again. The apocalypse would come and go, and then there would be another one.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam begrudgingly takes the two pills Bobby hands him with a glass of water. Bobby's rationalization was preventing the seizures before they came, just in case. That or the panic room, you idjit. Of course, Bobby said those words with love, not real anger or hatred. Then Sam collapses on the couch and tries to sleep.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><div class="xcontrast " id="content_wrapper" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><div id="content_wrapper_inner" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); border-left: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); border-right: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); max-height: 999999px; outline: none; padding: 0.5em;"><div style="max-height: 999999px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Chapter 7</span></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>A smoke will get your head right</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>Pretty demon</em><br /><em>You're gorgeous in the right light</em><br /><em>Pretty demon</em><br /><em>Stop tryna fuck with my life</em><br /><em>And pretty demon</em><br /><em>There'll never be a right time</em><br /><em>Yeah</em><br /><em>Here's why</em><br /><em>You keep watching all my stories</em><br /><em>Stop it</em><br /><em>Your face is getting kinda boring</em><br /><em>It's shit</em><br /><em>I probably shouldn't tell your new guy</em><br /><em>But I did</em><br /><em>And now you're missing my soul</em><br /><em>And you won't find it</em><br /><em>Yeah</em><br /><em>Now that we're offline</em><br /><em>My souls found a place that you'll never find</em><br /><em>And yours is outside</em><br /><em>Pacing up and down and drinking that wine</em><br /><em>And since there's no sign</em><br /><em>You stuck posters up and not posts up online</em><br /><em>Yeah</em><br /><em>But the drawing style was quite nice</em><br /><em>Pretty demon</em><br /><em>You're gorgeous in the red light</em><br /><em>Pretty demon</em><br /><em>Stop tryna fuck with my life</em><br /><em>And pretty demon</em><br /><em>There'll never be a right time ~Cameron Sanderson, Missing my soul</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam collapsed onto the couch after swallowing the pills Bobby gave him. He suppressed a few moaning sobs, not wanting to seem weak or less of a man. His head felt like it was splitting open and burning fire spilling into his noodle. He gripped the couch with his left hand and tried to ignore the wave of anguish that shuddered through him. His hand shook a little and he could feel disgusting sweat dripping down his forehead.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">He looked over at Dean and Bobby, who were both anxiously watching Sam. Sam felt so grateful that they didn't lock him in the panic room this time. Sam anxiously brings his arms to his face, and he sees ugly blackness in his veins. It looks like his skin is cracking. He is not sure if this is a hallucination or if it is the demon blood swirling around in his veins, turning him <em>into</em> a demon. <em>No, </em>Sam thought with a shudder. <em>I don't want to be a demon.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">The thought made him doubt everything, again, but he didn't want to quit, not yet. He knew that he would have to, eventually, but not yet. He wanted to drink the sweet, hot red liquid. Hot darkness dripping down his throat. His body craved it more than his mind craved it. He wondered if he would ever truly be over it. Sam forced himself up into a seated position, trying not to panic and assume the worst. He leans his back against the not-that-comfortable couch and looks at Dean, trying to give him a look that read, <em>I'm okay, stop worrying.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You alright little brother?" Dean asks.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam shakes his head.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Um. Not. Really. Not. At. All." Sam says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">He stares at the fan in the living room. He stares at the dust and hair on the carpet, and at old stains that Bobby had never manage to clean up. All of Sam's sense were heightened, and he was very alert. He felt like there really <em>was</em> a demon inside of him, although he had the protection tattoo on his chest that made it impossible for a demon to ever possess him. <em>So the monster is me</em>, Sam ponders. It feels like there is a monster inside him, clawing to get out. It was clawing to climb its way out of Sam's clammy skin and throw Dean and Bobby at the wall and make them hurt the way that he did. Grip their bodies, and then toss them on the ground.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">NOOO, I would never do that, Sam screams to himself. The impulse was not his own, just remnants of the demons he drank and the evil that was holding onto him, not allowing him to breathe.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean sits down next to Sam and puts a cautious hand on Sam's shoulder. He sits their awkwardly, knowing his Sammy is in pain and Dean was wanting to alleviate as much of Sam's pain as he could.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"It will be alright," Dean assures Sam, starting to rub circles on Sam's upper back.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">As Dean does this, Sam realizes he was holding his breath. He realized that he was holding tension inside. Deans hand on Sam's back made some of that tension fall away. Sam closes his eyes and allows himself to drift off as Dean massages his back. A small part of Sam's mind wonders if this was more than it was, something that was <em>so wrong.</em> But no, it wasn't that; it was just the way when Sam and Dean were kids and when Sam had the flu Dean would rub his back and tell him stories until Sam felt better. There was nothing twisted - nothing dirty, nothing sexual - about it. For a millisecond Sam wishes that there <em>was</em>, but that was <em>so wrong</em>, Sam wasn't <em>gay </em>and they were <em>brothers. </em>Though, where do you draw the line? Drinking demon blood and accidentally fantasizing about hurting people, or at wanting to fuck your brother? Sam quickly pushes the thought down; assumes it's just another symptom of the detox.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">It had been too fucking long, of course, since Sam has had any of the demon blood. Not since the drive to Bobby's house, so it was what, three and half days now? It would get so much worse. The pills Bobby forced Sam to take would do nothing. Sam leans against Dean's shoulder and closes his eyes. The anti-seizure pills are at least making him drowsy, so he lets himself drift off to sleep and into nightmare-land.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam dreams of Lucifer grinning and laughing, <em>Thank you for letting me out, Sammy boy. I will reward you. </em>Sam is in a dream, and in his dream he clutches onto the dreamscape. It isn't real, it's a lucid dream, it fucking isn't real. He tells himself that, yells at himself. He started the apocalypse and now the devil was in his head.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>I'll fucking kill you, Lucifer, </em>Sam says in his dream body, although he knows that at least right now Lucifer is a dream character and not the real Lucifer. Sam figures he might as well practice killing the devil. It's a dream, Sammy, he tells himself. He reaches with his mind and pulls at Lucifer until he becomes thick black smoke that twirls into the ground and then vanishes. This is a dream; a lucid dream; Sam is in control.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Almost two seconds later, the monster is back. At first Lucifer looks like a pale, sickly blonde man. But then the monster shape-shifts, and looks just like Sam. The monster looks like Sam, and it is engulfed with flames. Sam can almost feel the flames, burning him, sickening him. Then the dream shifts scenes, and Sam loses lucidity. He lets the dream take him away, until the sleep finally allows him to rest. It will be okay in the morning.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Later...</span></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean and Bobby are hunting while Sam is sleeping off the detox chills. They have been doing re-con to both stop a few demons that have been terrorizing Bobby's town in South Dakota. However instead of just killing the demons, they are torturing information out of the demons about where Lucifer is held up. They also are collecting some blood in order to have some to wean Sam off of the poison. They fill up two jugs of the stuff and then when the bloody, bruised and tied up demons refuse to give up their information, Dean stabs the demons with the demon killing knife. There had been three demons, and none of them had broke.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">However, even though they were demons, if cops came it would <em>look</em> like someone had tortured and murdered three innocent humans. So, Bobby and Dean have to clean up the mess. After burning the bodies that the demons had been in - after, realizing they hadn't even tried to save the possessed humans, so focused on torturing information out of the demons - Dean and Bobby took the jugs of demon blood and headed back to Bobby's house.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">When they got back, they noticed that Sam was still asleep. Every now and then Sam's body would shake and be pulled into a slight convulsion, and then his body would calm down and be still.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bobby took the jugs of blood and locked it up so Sam would not be able to get to it, because Bobby knew a little bit about addiction, and <em>he would.</em> They would give him a little bit, if they absolutely had to, in order to wean Sam off of the stuff. But they would keep it locked up. They weren't sure if Sam would be able to smell that the stuff was around.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bobby was doing research on demon blood addiction. There was no lore on it, and Bobby figured that demon blood addiction didn't follow the same rules as heroin or cocaine or, well, alcohol. It wasn't a <em>drug</em>, it was a supernatural substance. It was blood, it was darkness, it was destroying Sam.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Even later...</span></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam was dreaming about Ruby. The seductive demon twisting in his mind, taking advantage of Sam and starting the addiction. Sam awakens with a gasp, pushing Ruby's dark, attractive body out of his mind. He had been laying on the couch, asleep. He sits up and his whole-body aches, probably from convulsions that Bobby's pills had failed to prevent. Sam pushes that thought out of his mind and clenches his teeth. He focuses on how he will stop Lucifer. He had set the devil free, so it is his responsibility to stop him... kill him, lock him up, prevent the apocalypse.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">The second thing that hits Sam is a wave of desire, a dull wanting in him. He desires blood, to drink it from pretty demons, from <em>Ruby.</em> Sam had killed Ruby, sent the bitch back to hell. Ruby was not a <em>she</em>. Ruby was an <em>it. </em>Ruby had taken advantage of how badly Sam missed Dean, how it was <em>his fault </em>Dean was in hell. And Sam had been willing to do <em>anything</em> to get him back. In the end, though, it had been Castiel who had saved Dean from hell, and all Sam had done with the powers that Ruby had helped him hone was start the apocalypse. Although, Sam at the time had no way of knowing that killing Lilith was the final seal and that doing so would release the devil from it's cage. He hadn't known, but that was no excuse. It was still his fault.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Ruby was dead again, in hell. Her dark curly hair, her seductive eyes, the way she had pretended to save Sam. It had all been a guise. Now she was gone, suffering in hell. A quiet whisper in Sam spoke, <em>no one deserves to suffer in hell, or suffer at all.</em> But he shoved that thought away. <em><span style="font-weight: 700;">Ruby</span></em> <em>deserved to suffer in hell. </em>The apocalypse was really her fault, Sam reasoned, her fault and Castiel's fault for letting Sam out of the panic room just because Heaven had ordered him to. It seemed like both sides wanted the apocalypse to happen, and that Sam and Dean had no free will, and that they had been pulled to make it happen no matter how much they had tried to do the opposite. Oh well. That thought, however, didn't take away the guilt and the pain.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"How are you doing, Sam?" Bobby's voice broke Sam from his quiet reverie.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Better, I guess," Sam lies. His body hurts, and he feels so guilty and wrong. He feels like his insides are twisting and screaming, and that a dark shadow has taken a hold of him. It was the darkness that had always been inside, even before the demon blood. There had always been a dark rage inside of Sam, although Sam had been pretty good at controlling it and keeping it locked up inside. He remembers when he and Dean had gone undercover in a mental hospital to stop a monster, and about how much rage had been inside Sam that the monster had enhanced. He remembers throwing the hospital staff around, thinking they were the monster he and Dean were hunting, but he had been so <em>angry</em>.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bobby knew that Sam was lying, but he let it go.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You hungry?" Bobby asked.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>For blood</em>, Sam thought, but pushed the thought. <em>I have to stop; I have to stop wanting this.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Not really," Sam said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Well, you should eat. Dean is cooking burgers; they'll be ready soon. You want some coffee?" Bobby asks.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Maybe the coffee would help. It would give him energy, help the pain fade.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Sure, Bobby," Sam says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Bobby wheels away to get the coffee, and brings it to Sam.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam chugs the coffee and sits still on the couch. A tremble rocks through his body and he holds on for his life. He thinks about the horsemen that they had hunted. They had their rings and would collect the remaining two. They did not yet know that the rings would be the key to throw Lucifer back inside of his cage. Even though they did not know that they still figured ganking all four of the horsemen would help stop the apocalypse. After all, hunters tended to have good intuition, <em>most of the time</em>.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam places the almost empty mug of coffee on the little table that is by the couch he is sitting on. Bobby is drinking coffee as well; Sam wonders in Bobby had put Bourbon in his coffee. It would be just like Bobby.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Soon Dean comes into the room with plates filled with home-cooked burgers. The three hunters eat the comfort food that Dean had prepared and cooked. The delicious food distracts them, and for a moment they are ordinary men eating and watching TV. But they are not ordinary men; they are hunters, and they had to save the world.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam wants to ask them if they had gotten any demon blood for him. He knows they said they would ween him off, and right now he wants it so badly. He physically aches, and his mind is fascinating about it. He thinks about asking for just a little bit, but he suppresses the thought for now. He shoves the empty plate away and closes his eyes, trying to will the ache in his body and mind away. He wants to curl up in a fetal position and scream, hold himself and squeeze his eyes shut. He resists, though, tries to be strong, on the surface anyways.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">And a quiet strength in Sam says, <em>I am going to quit, I can do it.</em> He knows that later another voice in Sam will whisper, <em>I'll never stop, the stuff is good, it makes me stronger, how is power evil? It's not like I'm drinking the stuff for kicks. </em>There are two desires in Sam waging a war: one side wants to drown in demon blood, the other side wants to quit the stuff forever, suppress his powers, this other voice screams, <em>you are becoming exactly like the monsters - evil things - that you hunt, and soon Dean will kill you, just like he promised on the voicemail right before you went and killed Lilith.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">His brother would never kill him, right? But he would become a monster, and monsters deserved to be killed. Monsters were to be killed, even if they weren't doing any killing. Shoot first, ask questions later. You always kill monsters. Even if the monsters are kind, even if the monsters fight their nature, even if they don't <em>kill</em>. Sam has only killed monsters, things; he had never killed humans. But monsters are monsters, and Dean and Bobby and Sam killed monsters. Hell, he would do it himself if he was strong enough. At least, if he really became a monster. <em>Having powers isn't what makes something a monster. Doing things that are evil makes something a monster.</em> And Sam does not <em>want </em>to be a <em>monster...</em>he just wants the <em>powers </em>that the <em>monsters </em>have.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sometimes, all a monster needs is a friend, a smiling face, someone's shoulder to hold onto.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>Right, because monsters are so good at making friends.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sometimes, all you could do was close your eyes, fight and hold on.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">to be continued...</p><div><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Chapter 8</span></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">It was, of course, getting worse. Sam was on the couch squeezing his eyes shut. Feeling too weak and shaky to stand up and walk to the bedroom. His whole body achy, and the hallucinations started. It started with voices, negative self-talk, <em>you are terrible, a monster, an unclean thing.</em> Sam tried, of course, as he always did, to appear strong and okay on the surface. During demon blood detox, it was a million times harder, and although he stifled screams that became moans; he was yelling for the blood.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, I NEED IT NOW. It's twisting in me, killing me, begging for more, I need it Dean!" Sam screamed.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam knew they had got some for him to wean off, but he also knows that both Dean and Bobby and even Cas are a little bit against weaning off. It's something supernatural, not a drug. The same rules did not apply.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"BUT I NEED IT!" Sam screams, not really realizing that Dean and Bobby are asleep and the demon blood is locked away.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">He could get up, wander outside. They had trusted Sam, they hadn't handcuffed him. <em>Yet, not yet</em>. Which also meant no protection from the seizures that would surely be coming, Sam realized. Panic twists inside Sam's gut, twisting up through his esophagus, his lungs, his heart. What will happen if the seizures get too bad?</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">But Sam's legs are too shaky to get up and wander around the city, into the dark night, alone and afraid, only wanting for one thing - for the pain and anguish to be gone, for sweet demon blood, for bliss.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">In a moment of weakness, not really in control of his own body, Sam gets off the couch. He starts to stumble to the kitchen, maybe just water or juice, he can pretend it is the blood. Maybe the water would purify him, get away the damn <em>need</em>, the damn <em>darkness</em> that was clawing around inside of his body and his soul.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">So his intention is getting water, sit in the kitchen and watch his breath. To sit at the table and look out the window, listen to the rain patter down, the darkness and the moon. He wonders if it is still beautiful.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">But he collapses before he gets anywhere near the kitchen. He lays on the carpet floor. His breath is unsteady, his pulse erratic. He leans over and dry heaves. Nothing is coming out. He curls into a ball. He tries not to scream, not wanting to be ashamed or weak. But then he sees Ruby, dancing around wildly laughing.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You were so weak. It was so easy to manipulate you into this!" Ruby screams, twirling her soft black hair in her fingers. There is a manical laugh on her pallid face.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"GO AWAY!" Sam screams, not sure if she is real.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Is she real? He needs her blood. Needs it.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Nope, Sammy. I'm not real. Sorry kiddo!" the hallucination that looks like Ruby whispers. There is such vivid evil dancing in her eyes. Why hadn't he had seen it before, before he trusted her enough to drink her blood?</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Then Dean is there, a different Dean, not the real Dean.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You'll always be one of the monsters we hunt. Look at you, you trusted <em>her. </em>Well, <em>it.</em>"</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Was he an it now? Was the demon blood inside of him slowly replacing the human blood?</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">What time was it? Probably way into the night, 2 am. Then he can hear footsteps walking down the stairs. At first Sam is afraid, then he is relieved, confused, hopeful. Hopeful that it is the real Dean, coming to rub his upper back, get the knots out, get the pain out.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">It is Dean, sauntering down the stairs, a manly smile on his face.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"How are you doing, kiddo?" Dean asks as he walks over to where Sam is on the floor.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Not that hot," Sam says. A shudder runs through his body.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean puts his hand on Sam's shoulder and presses down a little, trying to massage away the obvious anguish Sam was in.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Come on, I'll help you walk back to the couch," Dean said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Need it. I need it," Sam mutters. He tries to stand up. His legs are shaking. It takes him longer than it normally would.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"We said we'd give you a little when you absolutely need it, life or death you know. Wait it out a little, Sammy. That shit is poison," Dean utters.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Liquid poison. <em>Liquid power.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I'll...I'll try," Sam says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Both Sam and Dean were too tired to help Sam get up the staircase and into a real bed. The couch would have to be enough for now.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Will you stay with me? Don't let it...it's in me...don't let it hurt me," Sam says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Yeah, okay," Dean says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam lays on the couch and closes his eyes. Dean sits near him and watches over him, the way an angel would. The way the good angels would, not the dick angels who only cared about red tape and assured absolute destruction. Dean loves his little brother so much. He tries not to be angry that Sam relapsed. Instead he sat watching over Sammy. It was an addiction, right? Dean finally realized that it wasn't - not fully, at least - Sam's fault. Right?</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>But he chose Ruby over me. A chick, yes, a demon chick, a monster under the guise of a beautiful savior. Why not <span style="font-weight: 700;">me</span>?</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean loves Sam more than anything, but this habit...it was darker than anything, shit, and it had such a hand on his Sammy. Evil always lurking. He was introduced to it when he was a six-month-old baby. The rules had always been rigged. Right?</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam finally drifts off to sleep. Every now and then his body shakes. Occasionally he screams, battling nasty nightmares. Sometimes nightmares could wound him - anyone, really - more than anything else could.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>Fear of eternal damnation; fear of becoming completely evil and wrong and twisted. So far off of the plantation.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean has always been a light sleeper. He decides to sleep on the floor so he can be there, and alerted, if something really bad happened to Sam. The detox symptoms, if they got a lot worse. But soon he too drifted off to sleep, happy and at ease because he had not yet had to feed Sam his drug, the demon blood. Even letting him have a few drops made something twist inside of Dean. <em>But what if the detox was too powerful this time, and not having it meant death? He couldn't live without Sam. He couldn't, and there weren't handbooks for this kind of thing.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">What is, what once was, what is yet to be - it was all there, ready for the hunters. A lot of shit was coming. Can they handle it?</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p></div></div></div></div>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-66829342985642141882022-11-21T10:16:00.001-08:002022-11-21T10:16:07.440-08:00posting my fanfiction incase someone deletes it<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Dark Bleeds Bright</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">A supernatural fanfiction</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;">(A/N: takes place after Lilith is killed and before Lucifer is back in the cage. Rated M for themes of addiction and wincest. Not 100% canon but mostly sticking to the show's plot)</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Chapter 1</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sammy's heart wanted to do it. The demon blood made him feel powerful, like a vicious eagle perched on a tree ready to save the world. Again. There was an ache in his heart that made him decide to secretly seek out a demon. He needed it again. He didn't care how wrong it was, especially after Famine got him to try it again and he had to detox second time, before even getting a chance to enjoy it again. It was like he was forced to recover before he was bad enough to really need it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">There was a voice inside telling him not to do this. He didn't listen. He ignored the blatant knowledge that afterwards, if or when his brother found out he would throw him into Bobby's panic room. He hated the panic room, with a passion. He only had bad experiences there, a deep loneliness that gnawed in his bones. He hated that, and he hated the seizures. But he loved the taste of the thick sulfuric blood, the power as it slid down his throat. And he was tough and strong anyways, and it would be okay this time.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">So, he found a demon and trapped it inside a pentagram that he drew on the ground in an abandoned warehouse. This was the fun part. When the demon came and realized it was trapped, Sam sliced the dark-haired female demon's wrist and started licking the blood, feeling raw power seeping into his stomach and his veins. He drank what he wanted - in control, not enough to drain the demon's vessel - and then he exorcized the demon from its vessel. He sent it back to hell. All part of the job, fun and games and saving people from things.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam started feeling ashamed; he pushed the feeling down, picturing his brother thinking he was becoming an evil monster like the things they hunted. But he had been psychic from the beginning anyways - not evil, just a part of who he always was - it was okay to enhance it. He wiped the blood off of his face and decided he would hide this from Dean. He told the scared woman that he just exorcized to head to the hospital, and she strangely thanked him for saving her. He did, didn't he? He cleaned everything up and called Dean and said he stumbled into a hunt and sent a demon back to hell. This was after making sure his face was clean. Dean didn't suspect anything - not yet at least.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean meets up with his brother. He is driving the Impala and meets Sam at the warehouse.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Are you sure there aren't anymore?" Dean asked.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam shrugged. He made his face a blank slate, a poker face. Though Dean was good at poker and wondered what was going on inside that head of Sammy's.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I don't think so. If they are, they cleared out," Sam said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay, let's get some food," Dean said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam isn't twitching yet, he is still high and kind of wanting to use his power, and part of him is thirsty for more. <em>You don't need more, not yet, </em>he told himself.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Fine. Sure, I mean," Sam says. He knows his big brother likes burgers and women and stuff like that.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean drives them to a diner that is close to the warehouse that Sammy was at. They slide into a table and at once a pretty woman is by the table asking Dean and Sam if they are ready to order. The pretty waitress brings the boys each a glass of water. Sam anxiously taps his foot. He reaches for the water and before he touches it, it walls down and is sent spinning off of the table and onto the ground. Did he just do that with his mind? Probably.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">He reaches to hide it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Oops. Clumsy," he says, bending down to pick it up with his hands.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean is laughing - he makes jokes at his brother because he loves him - and doesn't suspect a thing. Certainly not demon-blood influenced telekinesis.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam closes his eyes and lets the feeling wash over him. He looks at his brother and feels something he never felt before, wondered what it was. But then just like that, it went away - vanished.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Soon there is a salad with quinoa on Sam's plate and a juicy bacon burger on Dean's. Dean winks at the waitress and starts eating the delicious burger. Sam is wondering if Castiel knows what Sam did, and if he does, would he let Sam hide it? Or will he tell Dean and ruin everything?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam starts thinking again that he <em>needs</em> the demon blood, to defeat Lucifer, just like he <em>needed it</em> to kill Lilith. That was a mistake, though, right? Although all of the angels (and some of the demons) had wanted it to happen. They didn't care how Sam felt, or that what he had to do to release Lucifer brought Sam loads and loads of suffering. He swallows the suffering like holy water and smiles, somewhat a masochist and definitely someone that was trying to be a hero.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">It would be okay, maybe on a hunt he could secretly snag a dose. No, Dean would notice. Sam starts to get anxious again. If he can't get any, will he be able to hide his withdrawal symptoms? Probably - most definitely - not.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Earth to Sam," Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam takes a bite of his salad and smiles. It will all be okay.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Yeah. I'm right here. What?" Sam says curtly.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I was just saying I found some strange deaths a few states away. A vengeful spirit or something. We should check it out," Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam nods. He is itching for a hunt anyways. This time he doesn't have Ruby to be his blood bag though, as terrible as it was to think of her as that. He realized quickly that he got into too much too quickly. It was either tell Dean and Bobby or suffer in silence and secretly find another demon to bleed. He could always make it look like one night stand like Dean always does. He steals a look at his big brother, noticing the way his chin is pointed hardly, coldness in his jaws. The jaws of a hero.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Yeah," Sam says to Dean. "Let's go."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Feel the pain</em>, Sam says to himself. <em>If it comes, that is. Feel it. Let it be. And all will be okay.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam and Dean are in the car now and they are driving far away. Far away from Bobby's house and the panic room, Sam realizes, grinning.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"What are you smiling about?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Oh, um. Just excited to hunt things," Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay," Dean says. He cranks up the volume on the radio. Sam pretends he doesn't like the rock music that Dean plays in the Impala, but sometimes he secretly does.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They've been in the car for a few hours now and Sam realizes he might start feeling withdrawal soon. He has already started shaking a little bit. He thinks he is hiding it well. Sam hadn't thought all of this through and hadn't realized he would instantly be in the car on a long drive. He had thought they would be in the small shitty town for a few more days or even a week. Enough time to get more demon blood, maybe enough time to secretly build up a stash.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Oh well. Whatever happened would happen, and hopefully when and if Dean found out they would be too far away from Bobby's house to not let Sam detox in the back of the Impala instead of in that horrible panic room tied down on the hard metal bed. He knew they said it was to protect him fom the seizures and from the demon blood flinging him around the ceiling, but still. It wasn't fun.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"What are you thinking?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam can still hide it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Nothing, uh. Just sleepy I guess," Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Dean still doesn't suspect anything, but he would soon.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam clenches his teeth and fights through some shivers. He taps his foot and swallows the anxiety. Don't show any pain; all will be alright.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"How far are we from a motel?" Sam asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Demons did seem to follow them around, wanting to stop the big bad Winchesters from saving the world. Maybe Sam would find one at a motel.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Just sleep in the car. We can make a few more hours before we find a place to crash," Dean says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Shit. It's been almost seven hours since he drank demon blood again. Sam closes his eyes and hides a wince, and then he nods.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay, fine," Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">How much would Dean hate him if he told the truth, right here right now? Would he think he was a heartless vampyric monster? And not his smart little brother that ran away to Standford and was great at hunting.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam closes his eyes and shakes a little.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><em>Protect me from the</em> <em>nightmares</em>, Sam whispers a silent prayer to any dickless angel that would listen, or to God, if he was there somewhere.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Surprisingly Sam does fall asleep, maybe for an hour, and apparently, he was screaming through nightmares. Hopefully not prophetic nightmares.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You alright there?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">They are far away from the panic room. Sam is already shaking and sweating. Maybe it is obvious that he relapsed.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Just - need - something," Sam bites out the words and then he wishes he didn't say it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"What?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">That demon had a lot of blood in it. Dammnit. He was already detoxing. He needed a little bit. Just a little bit, and he could hide it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Then he decides to be brave. He is terrified that Dean will be mad but they are far away from any rest stop or hotel or the panic room. Sam is shaking and sweating and realizes that he has to tell the truth. His bones are aching. There is no way around it.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I, um, I need..." Sam says. Then he closed his eyes. "I relapsed damnit. I was on the trail of the demon and I was going to just exorcise it but then the temptation was too much."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Dammit Sammy," Dean says. "I thought we were over this."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam shrugs.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm sorry. But now my whole-body aches. And we are already too far away from Bobby's. Please, I need some, just a drop, we need to find a demon, please..." Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"We hunt demons, not drink them," Dean says, partially joking. "Wait, when that glass went flying, it was telekinesis?"</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam nods.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It hurts, Dean. I need some, please I need..." Sam says.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"It's your fault that it hurts," Dean says harshly. Then he realizes that although he is angry, he still loves his brother.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam tries to stop a tear from falling down his cheek, but it does anyways.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"I'm gonna climb in the back and try to sleep. Nothing else I can do to fix it," Sam mutters.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Wait," Dean says. He sees that his brother is shaking and sweating and scared. "I'll pull over and help you get in the back. I wish you had told me what you did before we were this far from Bobby's. As it is now, we might as well still check out those ghosts. We are closer to there than to Bobby's.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam breathes a sigh of relief, though he is still in pain and still surging with uncontrollable power. The detox is just starting, and Sam knows that he will get a lot worse if he doesn't find a demon to drink soon.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"So, no panic room," Sammy says wanting to grin but in too much pain.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">When Sam gets out of the car, he feels dizzy and almost collapses on the road but then he manages to crawl into the back of the car. Dean gets back in the drivers seat and they are on the road again.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You gonna be okay back there?" Dean asks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Not really," Sam mutters. "Can't you find me some, its okay, I will be stronger for the hunt, need some..."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"You don't need demon blood. It's poison, Sammy," Dean said. Sam can smell disappointment and hurt in Dean's voice. It suddenly makes Sam so sad and nostalgic.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">Sam braces himself and sighs.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">"Okay. I'll try to sleep," Sam says. He gets as comfortable as he can and decides he will find some before the detox gets too bad. He knows that doesn't sound logical, but since when does addiction ever speak the language of logic? Sam closes his eyes and drifts off, hoping Dean isn't too upset with him for relapsing. After what happened with famine Dean should have known it would happen soon; the desire had been reawaken in Sam. It would have to be okay. Sam stifles a groan and hopes for the best. He is secretly hope that Dean will let Sam wean off instead of going cold turkey a third time, but when has that ever happened for Sam? Never.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><div class="xcontrast " id="content_wrapper" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; max-height: 999999px;"><div id="content_wrapper_inner" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); border-left: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); border-right: 1px solid rgb(212, 212, 212); max-height: 999999px; outline: none; padding: 0.5em;"><div style="max-height: 999999px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Chapter 2</span></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam is curled on his side in the back seat of the car. He wakes up and groans.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You finally joined the land of the living. You were screaming a lot," Dean said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Ugh, everything hurts," Sam says. Of all of it, his headache is the worst. His head aches like his brain is twisting inside. It feels strange, the way it felt when he used to get visions but a million times worse. He would say it is a 10, but he knows that it will get worse, and then there will be a new 10. Not that he cannot handle it. There is a darkness in him that makes him strong, that holds onto him and tells him he can handle it.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Your fault," Dean says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"I know, jerk," Sam says. He is trying to be in a good mood. He doesn't know if he can control the telekinesis and power and his nightmares just felt so real. His nightmares had come true before. And this time he was on demon blood, so yes, it was possible, that if he could remember them, they could come true.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"We're close to a motel. Maybe 45 minutes. Think you can hold on until then?" Dean asks.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam shrugs. "Got no choice," he mutters. "Please don't tie me down," Sam decides to say.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"We'll see. If you start seizing or something, I'll have no choice. For your own safety. But it won't be the panic room. I'll sit with you through it all," Dean said.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam is surprised by the kindness and niceness in Dean's voice. They are brothers, yes, but Sam messed up, and he expected Dean to be angry. He expected Dean to punish him for drinking demon blood like a damn vampire. He also expected to try to find a way to get more demon blood, just a little bit, but now it was looking like he will have to suffer through the detox for a while. The addict part of his brain insists he will get some anyways, eventually. Until then he will suffer quietly. He is strong enough. The masochistic part of Sammy, that part, well part of him is trying to enjoy even this part of it. The pain, the shakes, the seizures. He is sure he seized a little bit already, and he doesn't want Dean to tie him down.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">At least it isn't that cold panic room. The warding, and the loud and annoying fan. The loneliness that made his bones ache more than anything. Dean would sit with him through it this time. So, Sam steals away a small smile. It would all be okay.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Then, of course, the pain comes back, and Sammy whimpers and closes his eyes. 45 minutes, ugh. He tries to sleep and gets a few naps. He was in and out of sleep, dreamless sleep this time, feeling how cold it was in the car and still smelling disappointment on Dean's breath. Another headache comes, and Sam is breathless. The power in him is restless. It aches to make things move. He almost makes the Impala jerk to the side of the road and crash into a truck, and it almost happens, but somehow Sam controls it. And controlling it makes Sam's head hurt a million times worse.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"My head, Dean," Sam groans. "It's on fire."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">He doesn't tell Dean what just almost happened, although the car had swerved a little bit. Dean assumed it was just his own tired mind, needing coffee, almost sleep-driving.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean wants to show kindness, but also, he is just so angry that Sam relapsed. He is mad that Sam made the wrong choice <em>again.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam's head is twisting. It is aching and pounding, and he is hoping for at least nice words from his brother. None of the, <em>it's your own damn fault.</em> But, <em>what can I do, Sammy?</em> And the quiet solidarity, the brotherly love.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean tries to choose the second option this time, because Sam never admits that he is in pain, so it must be really bad right now. He bites down his anger. He tries to think of soothing words.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Finally, he chooses to say, "I hear you, brother," and changes the radio station to a more peaceful station. Maybe it will help Sammy boy's headache.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">There is a little bit of relief, not much, but some. And that helps Sam to control his powers. He closes his eyes and feels the power pounding. He focuses on the power that is pulsing through his body. His body jerks and twists but it is okay. He focuses on his breath going in and out, the way Bobby told him to when he first started having psychic dreams. Focus on the breath, calmness, let all thoughts flow, go back to the breath. And it helps a little bit; at least Sam doesn't cause an accident. At least the pounding in his head became focused adrenaline, fuel to get through this. The pounding would come back, of course, but for now Sammy is okay. There is cold drenched sweat in his long hair, but he is okay. Well, okay-ish.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Their brotherly love, despite fights and Standford and demon blood and Ruby, was something that was instinctual. It just happened. Sometimes Sam wondered if they were codependent, but it was also a friendship that was beautiful and sacred. Sam slips into a dream of him and Dean when they were kids. All is okay again, for a while, maybe the psychic in Sam that is telling him that, yes, terrible things will happen, but you will always have your big brother and things will be okay. That this, too, was a psychic vision. Sam has been trained to think that his psychic side is evil and twisted and wrong. A part of him aches for someone to tell him that it is alright to be psychic. Just the way they say it's okay to be gay - wait what? - it's okay to be psychic. Right? It's okay, right? It has to be, because he is. He is.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">It feels like forever, but the headache goes away again, and his body temporarily stops thrashing, and Dean finally pulls the Impala in at the motel that he found. Soon Dean is helping Sam get out of the car. Sam's legs are shaking, and he is dizzy, but Dean holds onto Sam and helps him walk into the check in section of the motel.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You're gonna be okay, man," Dean says, holding onto his little brother, almost <em>proud</em> of his brother for getting through what must have been so damn painful, so damn gracefully.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Don't tie me down," Sam mumbles.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"We'll see," Dean says, and the person at the desk handed Dean two room passes for the hotel, unfortunately on the second floor. "Come on."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Luckily there is an elevator. They get to the room and Sam collapses on one of the full beds. His body shakes a little and he almost instantly falls asleep. Dean looks at his brother for a few moments before getting into the other bed and falling asleep as well. Not, though, before having the morbid thought, <em>we're all gonna die</em>. But Dean Winchester was not psychic, so that thought did not have to come true.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam wakes up around 3 am and he is outside pacing back and forth. He can barely walk but he needs it, needs demon blood. The moon is white and bright. He tries to call out to whatever goetic force that might be near them. He is as quiet as he can be. He doesn't want to wake Dean up and alert him to what he is doing. He knows it is wrong to manipulate his brother like this, but he <em>needs</em> demon blood <em>desperately </em>and it <em>wasn't poison </em>because it <em>makes him powerful.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>"</em>WHERE ARE YOU?" Sammy screams to all the demons that might be there and able to hear him. He collapses on the black pavement and sobs a little. To a hunter, a demon not coming should be a good thing. Sammy remembers who he is, who he <em>has</em> to be.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Then he gives up and goes back into the crappy motel room and collapses on the bed again. His body hurts and he hopes he doesn't have any bad seizures because then big brother Dean will tie him down and that will just not be fun. And if he is tied down he won't be able to search for demon blood, and if he doesn't have demon blood then he would be pretty much as powerless as a normal human hunter when him and Dean are on the ghost hunt. If Dean even <em>allows</em> him to come with him for the ghost hunt. The adrenaline that will come from the ghost hunt might help a little bit, Sam ponders. If the demon blood doesn't wear off, maybe he can put his telekinesis to good use.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">For now, all the two brothers can do is sleep. What will come in the morning, that is yet to be known.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p><div><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Chapter 3</span></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>I dreamed I was missing, you were so scared</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>But no one would listen, 'cause no one else cared</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>After my dreaming, I woke this fear:</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>What am I leaving when I'm done here?</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>So if you're asking me, I want you to know</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>Help me find some reasons to be missed</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>and don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty, keep me in your memory</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>Leave out all the rest</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>Don't be afraid, I've taken my beating</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>I'm strong on the surface, not all the way through</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>I've never been perfect, but neither have you</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"><em>~Linkin Park Leave out all the rest</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam wakes up in a cold sweat. He has to figure out how to get more demon blood and how to hide it from Dean. Just a little bit, just a sip, to keep the hallucinations that would soon to be coming at bay. He had tried calling for demons outside of the dank motel. It was in the middle of the night and it hadn't worked. Sam was strung out and almost mad and he knew the worst parts of the detox was coming soon. He knew his brother would force him to go off the demon blood cold turkey, and that could kill him. It damn near almost did the first two times. He needed some, just a little.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">He knew it was rationalization, exactly what a junkie would be thinking, but at this point Sam didn't care. His body was shaking and dripping in sweat. He sits up in bed and looks to his right to see Dean sound asleep on the other bed. Dean was sleeping so peacefully and even when strung out on demon blood and a little bit of alcohol, he took solace in the fact that his big brother seemed happy and right. Sam smiled and then sighed. He might as well sleep a little more. It was barely 5:30 am and after pacing around outside and collapsing in the dirty pavement, Sam had barely gotten any sleep, certainly not deep sleep. He squeezed his eyes shut. He pushed his pain away, shoved it down, and drifted off to sleep again.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Later, Dean is awake and watching his little brother sleep. Sam was tossing and turning and screaming violently. He seemed to be having terrible nightmares. Dean sat at the table in the motel room sipping a cup of coffee. He wanted to reach for his flask of alcohol; it is hard for him to handle the fact that his little brother relapsed <em>again. </em>Would this ever be over? How would they hunt the ghost when his brother was so strung out? He briefly thought he could slowly wean his brother off of the demon blood, just temporarily, so Sammy could function. He cursed himself at the thought; the demon blood was more poison than any other drug someone could be strung out on. Cold turkey was the only option. Sam would have to deal with the debilitating pain of the detox. There wasn't a safe room, though, and who knew what the demon blood would make Sam do. Dean knew how much power it gave Sam, and he knew that that amount of power would be incredibly hard to control. It had flung Sam around the air at the walls in the panic room, BOTH times he was detoxing.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean's thoughts were interrupted as Sam shot awake and sat up straight, shouting.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Where am I?" Sam muttered, confused. Dean wondered if Sam forgot what happened, but in a few short moments, Sam mutters, "Oh. I remember. Sorry."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam gets out of the bed even though his legs are shaking, and they barely support him.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You okay man?" Dean asks.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Of course I'm not okay," Sam mutters. "You know I need demon blood. Cold turkey sucks."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam looks at Dean. Dean has a death grip on his flask of alcohol, and Sam can't help but think that his big brother is a damn hypocrite. Alcohol was just as bad as demon blood, if less evil. Alcohol couldn't turn you into a monster. It could - but not <em>that </em>kind of monster. A human monster, angry and violent, the way that some drunks are. Bobby and Dean weren't really violent when they went on a drinking binge, but Sam knew that some alcoholics did. If Dean was allowed to drink that much alcohol, shouldn't Sam be allowed to have a little bit of demon blood every now and then? It made him a better hunter.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>No, </em>Same muttered to himself. He isn't even sure if he said it out loud. <em>It made him a better monster.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Still. Sam watched Dean take a swig of his alcohol. Burbon, probably, or whiskey.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"What did you say?" Dean asked.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Oh, um, nothing," Sam says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Okaaay," Dean says. Dean decides to ignore the situation, for now. "We have to go and interview the father of the little girl that was killed. It's important. You good?"</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam wasn't good, not anywhere near. He tried not to tremble, the hallucinations hadn't started, which meant there was more demon blood still strumming in his system. It meant there was still raw power that he could use. He would focus on that power - that power that was darkness, or so he had been told by everyone he cared about millions of times - and use it to push down all the pain, all the trembling and the shakes. He was good at hiding his pain; he regrets giving in and telling Dean that he relapsed. But in the car, it had been so bad, he had no choice; he couldn't pretend that he wasn't suffering. Might as well come clean.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Yeah, I'm good," Sam says. "Let's go."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam stands up and puts his stuff in his backpack.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You want any coffee or anything? Dean asks.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam smirks. Dean knows what Sam wants.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You know what I want," Sam can't help but say, glaring at his brother. He loves Dean, but the damn withdrawal is making him angry.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Can't have that," Dean has. "Drink some coffee. Maybe it will help you keep yourself together until we find a safe place for you to detox. The case comes first, you'll have to suffer in silence for a while."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam decides that a little coffee might help him function. He goes over to the motel's Keurig coffee maker and brews himself one cup of coffee. He sets it at the table angrily and a few drops of hot liquid spill on the motel carpet. He drinks the coffee. Dean throws a donut at him.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You gotta eat too," Dean says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam slowly eats the donut. He drinks the rest of the coffee quickly, already realizing that it actually will help him hold himself straight. It gave him a surge of energy, and he still had that telekinetic, demonic power strung out inside of him. He hopes his eyes won't turn back. <em>I'm not a demon, I'm just psychic,</em> he thinks to himself, but he knows Dean and Bobby and most hunters they know think that his psychic powers make him more like one of the monsters they hunt than a human.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Then Sam and Dean threw their stuff in the Impala. They put their fake badges in their coat pockets and Dean put on the rock radio station. It was playing, <em>ain't no mountain high enough, to keep me from getting to you babe. </em>A girly song for Dean, but Sam can't help but enjoy the music. The coffee and food dulled the edge of the demon blood withdrawal a bit, enough for Sam to suffer in silence. He gave no outward signal that he was in pain. That, of course, was Sam's greatest superpower. To be breaking down at the force of a billion shooting stars, and still standing still like a statue, showing no signs that he is suffering.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">There is still an hour drive in the Impala before they get to the little town where a ghost had killed a little girl. The vengeful spirit would probably try to kill other people, and the Winchesters had to stop it. A simple salt and burn, hopefully. Sam briefly wonders if the blood of a ghost possessed person would have a similar affect as the demon blood, but it most likely wouldn't, so Sam dismisses the thought and puts his hands idly in his lap.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">The radio switches songs. Elton John is on. <em>And I'm gonna be a high as a kite by then. I miss the Earth, I miss my wife, It's lonely out in space. And I think it's gonna be a long long time till touchdown brings 'round to find, I'm a rocket man.</em></p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam feels lonely, like he is in space, an alien. No one can understand him. In his mind he whines to nobody, angsty and mad because he can't get what he wants and because Dean doesn't know what it's like to be psychic. Dean doesn't get the damn twisting headaches and visions and powers, so how could he understand it? Sam feels so alone because he is neither human nor demon...okay, he is human, but right now he doesn't feel human. He feels like an alien.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;"><em>It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside. I'm not one of those who can easily hide. </em>The radio blares another Elton John song. Sam can usually hide, though, but somehow Dean always finds out anyways.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam decides to play with his power. It's fun, and why not have a little fun when he still had remnants of left-over power. He glares out the window of the shot-gun seat and tries to make a car in the other lane drive faster. He uses his mind to pull at the back truck and make it go faster. He focuses so much that his head starts to strum and ache, and then the black truck is driving faster. Sam grins, he did it! He is excited. He still has it! Using his gifts helps him to be distracted the fact that the horrors of detoxing will be slamming into him soon. It already was, damnit, but it would get much worse. It would last for weeks if Sam couldn't find a way to sneak in some more demon blood. He was determined that he would find some, and just drink a little bit, every few days. He told himself that he could handle it, and that he wasn't addicted, and that he could give into just a little bit. He could stop and detox whenever he wanted to. Right now he didn't want to.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam thinks of Castiel, and a stubborn part of him doesn't want Castiel to use his angel powers to just zap him clean. A part of Sam wants to hold onto this, to keep the power, the high of the demon blood, et cetera. He knows that he should wish for it to all ust be zapped away, but he wants it all, the high, the coming down, the pain, the power.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">A secret voice deep buried inside Sam's subconscious whispers; <em>you can have the power without the demon blood.</em> But it is way too buried in Sam's mind for Sam to really hear it, though he gets a tingly sense. A sense of calmness, which Sam assumes is just a leftover wave of the high. For a moment Sam feels peace. Mind, consciousness, bliss. Everything would be okay, it had to be. Existence, consciousness, bliss.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">There was an old saying, <em>If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you. </em>Joseph Campbell had said it.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Power itself, isn't evil. Using power for evil is evil. But Sam is trembling, remembering the voicemail of Dean calling him a vampire before Sam had downed two demons and went and killed Lilith with his mind. He started the apocalypse. If that isn't evil, he tells himself, what is? He negatively talks to himself, thinking that he is a monster, an abomination, someone that his own father had warned his own brother that he might have to kill Sammy someday. If he couldn't be saved, and a secret part of Sam feels way beyond saving.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">The hours in the car draws on and on, feeling like days instead of almost two hours. Soon Dean pulls up in a small town and they get out of the car. They get some food at a local cafe and do some research before heading to the little girl's, who, ironically was named Cassandra, parents. Sam walks shakily but no one notices that he is shaking. They knock on the door and the mother, an elderly lady with white hair and bright green eyes, opens the door.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"We're agent Smith and agent Campbell from the FBI," Dean says smoothly. "We have a few questions for you about your daughter Cassandra's passing."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">The old woman lets Sam and Dean inside and leads them to sit down on a faded green couch.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Do you boys want anything to drink? Water, coffee, orange juice?" She asks, smiling with a wistfull expression on her face. There was kindness in her aura; Sam could see her aura, it was a glowy white color emanating around her body. Sam forces himself to smile as he sinks into the couch.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam wants to say, "Sure, some demon blood please!" but of course he doesn't say it. He thinks that more coffee would just make his already intense headache worse, so he decides on the orange juice.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Orange juice would be nice, sure," Sam says, and Dean says that coffee and water would be just fine.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean does all the questioning as Sam sips the orange juice while trying not to spiral out of control. The elderly woman, who has now told the two hunters that her name is Elissa, is talking about her daughter Cassandra's cat, who had died three months ago. Cassandra had been very depressed after her cat died and had supposedly spiraled into darkness and committed suicide. Elissa's aura is pulsing violently and it is making Sam's headache worse. He is bombarded with both Elissa's bright aura and with psychic senses about the old woman's emotional state. Right now, Sam is feeling Elissa's emotions and the pain in her bones.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam realizes that this psychic information could help them with the case, and he nudges Dean a bit too harshly.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Do you think it's the cat's ghost?" Sam asks Dean when they left the nice lady's house. He tells Dean the psychic, empathic senses he got off of Elissa and Dean swears.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Damnit Sam, not your psychic shit now!" Dean says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"But maybe the psychic information could help," Sam says, shrugging sheepishly.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Fine, Sam. What did you see?" Dean asked, begrudgingly realizing that it might help them find out what ghost killed Cassandra and where its bones are.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Well, it could have been the cat, and I sensed the lady was overwhelmingly sad, and she had a bright white aura, so bright that it made my head hurt more than it already was hurting," Sam says curtly.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Of course, she's sad, Sam. Her daughter died," Dean says, and laughs a little. Joking was a part of his personality.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Just in case, they find where the cat was buried, and they salt and burn its bones. Then they do more research to see if there were any other strange deaths in the town or in nearby towns.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam is itching to get demon blood. The detoxing is getting worse, and he is starting to tire of being able to appear in a normal mind state on the surface. His control is collapsing.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Dean, it's getting worse. I'm starting to see things," Sam admits. "And my head hurts so damn much and I can't stop trembling."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean hands him his flask of alcohol and suggests drinking some.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You know alcohol won't help at all, Dean, very funny," Sam says angrily. "And you know that quitting cold turkey almost killed me last time. Please, you know what I need. Just a little, help me find some, please. Besides I know you like killing demons."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Not yet, Sam," Dean said. Dean realizes that it might be worse this time and that he doesn't want his brother to die. If Sam needs a little bit of demon blood, he would get him the damn demon blood. But not yet. Let him sit in his misery for a while so he learns not to give into temptation next time he wants to give in. Let the boy learn his lesson. "Hold out for a little bit longer. If it gets worse, I <em>might </em>be willing to get you some. I know going cold turkey was hard for you. It obviously didn't work because you're back on the shit."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam suddenly feels so relieved, like a weight was lifted from him. His bones still ache, but he realizes his brother doesn't hate him, maybe Dean would let him have some of the demon blood. Just a little bit, to help take the edge off the detoxing. It isn't like Dean, but Sam shrugs. You can't look a gift horse in its mouth.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"When?" Sam asks, his voice sad and aching.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Not yet," Dean says. "Hold on a little bit longer, okay?"</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Fine. I need to lay down then. I don't want to have a freaking seizure in public, Dean," Sam says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"That would be a funny sight," Dean says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Shut up!" Sam says. "This is so not the time to be joking." He taps his feet and ironically starts seizing a little bit. His head is yanked to the side and his body almost falls off the chair. Dean decides not to laugh at his little brother's pain.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Okay, fine, let's find another motel and you can lay down. We could always call Crowly and get a little bit of the stuff from him for you. Just a few drops, okay? I don't want the seizures to kill you," Dean says.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Crowly was the king of hell, so of course his blood would be more potent. Sam starts to get excited.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Stop looking excited, damnit!" Dean says. "Just a few drops. And then you can lay down and ride out the pain."</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">They leave the cafe and find a motel. Dean does call Crowly and Sam is actually surprised that his brother gave in and is dealing with his addiction differently than he has in the past. Crowly agrees to give the boys a vial of his blood and Crowly drops it off at the motel. Dean goes down to the front desk and gets it while Sam sits up in bed waiting impatiently.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">When Dean brings up the vial of demon blood, he lectures Sam that he is only allowed to drink half of it. He would get the other half in five hours.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Sam looks at it and frowns. "But that isn't anywhere near enough!" Sam protests.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You're lucky I'm letting you have any," Dean says, and hands Sam the vial. Sam is tempted to drink the whole thing against his brother's advisement, but it is his only supply, and he will need it again later. He downs half the vial and throws the half-filled vial to Dean.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"You feel any better?" Dean asks.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">It was barely any blood, but it was better than nothing, and power surges inside of Sam's body.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"My head still hurts, but I can feel the power," Sam admits. "It really wasn't enough, though," he said sadly, hating seeming so much like an out-of-control addict.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean locks the other half of the blood in a safe that Sam doesn't have the key to. Sam sighs as he sees Dean lock the blood away.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">Dean pours himself a glass of alcohol and asks Sam if he wants any but Sam shrugs and says he is fine.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">It was a very small amount of blood, but it was also the blood of the king of hell and it was more potent than Sam orginally thought it was. He starts feeling much better and allows himself to be happy even though there is only one dose left and once Sam is clean Dean won't let him have any more. But Sam likes the stuff, and realizes it isn't just his body that is addicted to the stuff. His mind - and maybe his soul - is very addicted to it too.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">"Your loss," Dean says, but Sam is feeling the bliss of the high of the demon blood, so he leans back against the cushy pillows on the motel bed and starts meditating. He focuses on his breath and does some visualizations. It feels good and his pain washes away and all that is left is the buzz of the psychic high. He lets himself feel good, even though he knows it is not permanent. Nothing is, though, and Sam lets the bliss and consciousness be enough for now. For now.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">He drifts off to sleep and has nightmares and one lucid dream and screams a few times. For now, though, even the nightmares are okay. He drifts off while his brother sits by his side watching over his beautiful little brother.</p><p style="max-height: 999999px;">To be continued...</p></div></div></div></div>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-26979562848018457522021-11-01T10:32:00.001-07:002021-11-01T10:32:52.291-07:00some ideas to ponder<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the anarchist community left me behind</span></p><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">I left the punk rock street community</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">And my soulmate left the world</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I traded passion for stability</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I traded psychedelics for the opposite</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be a slave to society is to not be free to hear the music</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">I left the anarchist community behind</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">And found other things</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">That I love to celebrate and be free</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">I left busking on the streets and singing songs behind</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">I left celebrating alone and traded it for </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes imperfect family</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">I traded wandering the streets dropping acid</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">For sitting in a room and having lots of dreams</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">I traded it all</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">So trade a mystic connection to becoming crazy. Trade drug use for exploring solar systems when asleep. Don't necessarily trust your psychiatrist. They don't really want you to blossom anyways. I traded freedom for white pills and stability and maybe love. Do I want to have a date with the marijuana plant again someday? Of course, for O how I love the cannabis spirit. I never dd get the chance to experience DMT, and Damon Lythos passed away, he took his own life. It is sad, he is in hell, maybe he will get to heaven, hopefully he won't reincarnate. I want to see his long hair again. Yea, Damon was my daredevil. Yea, he was.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephen Palke ghosted me, that's okay. He is my imaginary friend now. I'm not crazy, just an autistic girl who did too many drugs. Now my head is even more messed up. Kept in its pieces for now. The anxiety I feel sometimes, the anxiety psych kills keeps away, I used to be so afraid of it.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">I practice lucid dreaming now. It teaches me things about my subconscious mind. And maybe one day I will be free.</div>Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-27050497492682322952020-07-12T17:36:00.001-07:002020-07-12T17:36:36.043-07:00feeling nothingWhen I was a teenager my dad called me a sociopath, abused me, threw me on the ground, every morning before school we would fight and I would hit him with my hair brush.<br />
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Since then I have discovered autism and aspd. I have wondered if I am somewhere on the spectrum. My psychiatrists think it is schizzoaffective disorder but I don't trust the system or doctors et cetera et cetera.<br />
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The summer after my first year of college I realized I don't feel anything for anyone except for the fictional characters in Smallville. Every time I re watch all the episodes of Smallville I would remember that I am still back where I was at age 17, stuck in a fantasy world in extremes of good and evil, super heroes and super villians.<br />
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I would cut myself to feel alive and to prepare myself if I ever had to defend myself. So I would never be afraid of the pain of a knife.<br />
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Now I am obsessed with lifting heavy shit and throwing my body in the air into powerful flips. It is fun and I say it is therepeutic. I don't really know if it is. I sweat and I feel alive. My body aches and is sore and I am thrilled. I train to be strong, strong even just for the thrill of being strong.<br />
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When I was a teenager the idea that there might be another war, a real one and not just one in a history textbook, excited me. I was a 4.0 student in highschool but I often secretly cheated, wandered the hallways during lunch throwing away my lunch and running up and down the staircases and doing wild toe touches and jumping jacks.<br />
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Normal is a social construct that I refuse to be a part of. I spend long hours listening to music, writing, working out. Being a loner suits me but I do enjoy spending time with my family but after a certain amount of time I feel drained and need to leave the room and sit by myself in my room or wherever I find myself to be.<br />
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I'll continue this later...Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-81059673801863787192020-05-05T12:24:00.000-07:002020-05-05T12:24:05.431-07:00Wellness toolboxThings that make me feel better:<br />
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Hiking for a long time in the woodlands<br />
Power tumbling (gymnastics) and power lifting<br />
Spend time in God's Word, in prayer and studying the Bible<br />
Going for a run<br />
Lighting candles<br />
Making coffee and drinking it while meditating<br />
Meditating while visualizing myself doing my sports<br />
Listening to music and singing along<br />
Writing poetry and novels<br />
Practicing lucid dreaming and reccording dreams in a dream journal<br />
Painting and drawing and creating art. This can create a journey towards wellness and recovery.<br />Art is a process where we discover our true self.<br />
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Remember to call the warm line 877 794 7337<br />
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I have a process called PANIC BOOK, which is a first response to terror attacks, panic attacks, anxiety, voices, depression. This is a project that I started at the On Our Own of Montgomery County, which is an organization based on peer support and for wellness and recovery.<br />
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Take a hardback novel that you are done reading. Make collages on each page, each page with a different theme. Decorate your panic book with images that calm you down. Psych hospitals are not always the best response to extreme emotions and situations. Turn to art and inspiration and music. Draw or paint or write in your panic book as well.<br />
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REMEMBER call 877 794 7337 to speak with a kind peer who understand what it is like to experiences mental health conditions.Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-7965500123035372422020-05-01T14:52:00.002-07:002020-05-01T14:52:56.428-07:00Make Lemonade WARM LINE<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-38452753020617526712019-05-05T12:28:00.000-07:002019-05-05T12:28:30.966-07:005.5.2019 The strength in me is the strength God puts in me. I store my strength in my muscles every time I go to workout. I sweat out all my pain and dreams and doubts. I love singing in the rain and the color green and acorns and burning ember and candles lit to worship Jesus and wearing headbands and the cacti in the desert and the sand when I rush into the ocean and let the waves get me high. Beautiful things give me strength. I keep this strength with me for a rainy day or when I have to go strange places I have never been before and try not to care that I might get lost.<br />
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I love to work out because I want to be an archangel. I want to be a warrior of God. I want to lift a car with one hand and jump off of a rushing white waterfall and flip into the rocky pool at the bottom. I want to swim and train and train and train.<br />
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I don't understand anymore why someone would want to put chemicals in their fucking lungs instead of dancing wildly on a sandy beach and running into teal waves that crash hard. Why soar secretly on black wings with bitter acerbic white dust running through your veins contaminating your blood, when you can fly for real in the ocean and in sunny lakes? Why sit there getting high when you can dig your toes into the sand at the beach, when you can dive under the water and dig for sharp seashells? Why not sit and cry, why not sit through the pain, why try to escape?<br />
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There is an arcane buzzing in me. There is a spark that lights me up and I go running after it. There is a yearning like the water, and I run fast towards a beautiful horizon.<br />
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<br />Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-53479294754647715602018-12-12T15:07:00.000-08:002018-12-12T15:08:03.204-08:00Goals and dreamsThings I want to accomplish:<br />
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1. Go to the Olympics for Gymnastics and win<br />
2. Get a PhD<br />
3. Write and publish a novel<br />
4. Get superstrength, work hard lifting weights, bicep curls with 100+lbs<br />
5. Stay fit and understand exercise-science<br />
6. Fall in love <br />
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I am in the process of becoming an art therapist, or more specifically, going deeper into my journey to bring happiness and love to people through giving space to create art, including poetry, paintings, collages. To eventually see the Jesus in the process revealing Himself to my clients.<br />
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I call myself neorodivergent. I have lately been becoming aware that I have always been autistic and that it was missed in my childhood. I almost feel like I missed out on the childhood I was supposed to have. Anyways, I can live now the way I am supposed to. I love to train gymnastics and lift heavy weights. Since my church choir tour when I was sixteen, I have decided that I want to be a super-hero, specifically, batman (though I am female).<br />
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I swear I have good character. I am a loving Christian church goer. I am a writer. I want to help people with mental illnesses find peace, love, and wellness. I want to bring Jesus to them.<br />
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It seems complicated. So I will break it down to these steps:<br />
1. Go to NZ. Get a tourist visa extended to 1 year<br />
2. Apply for jobs and have an employer sign the employment part of the application.<br />
3. Go to a doctor and get a chest x-ray...whats in my heart? Jesus. Get that part of the work visa application signed.<br />
4. Get finger-printed and send a letter to the fbi to get a certificate of good character<br />
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I am rehearsing my plan to become a citizen of New Zealand. If it is God's plan for me (PLEASE, God! :) )I will become a NZ citizen<br />
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Looking at all the steps, it feels more possible. I can do it.<br />
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This is what I need to do:<br />
request this:<br />
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Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-48974770547937504852017-11-30T07:41:00.004-08:002017-11-30T07:41:44.350-08:00dreamsI had the same dream I always have. I am back in Pittsburgh and my mom is there. She says she is going to leave. I really believed I was somehow living in both Pittsburgh and Maryland. Then I thought I would go home and take a bus to downtown Pittsburgh and walk to Oakland, PA.<br />
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Another dream I had. My mom was teaching martial arts to kids. The girls were wearing dance leotards and tutus instead of gis. The boys were wearing black t shirts and black pants. Then I was in the wilderness and other things happened.Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-42862919276517851882017-04-24T12:27:00.000-07:002017-04-24T12:27:07.701-07:00Spiritual warfare || poetryI am not okay<br />
demons are in my brain, inside of me, attacking me<br />
I want to fight it without psychiatric drugs.<br />
Can I be that strong?<br />
Writing can be therapeutic<br />
Writing can change the world<br />
Writing can heal the world<br />
Can I be that big, that strong?<br />
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I am not okay<br />
Terror, anxiety<br />
Lost somewhere, cold outside<br />
Dreary day<br />
<br />Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-17135101179415940052016-12-23T14:55:00.002-08:002016-12-23T14:55:40.276-08:00Loving ObedienceAsk yourself: what does it mean to obey God? What is loving obedience?<br />
It means that God is not a dictator; He is a faithful, LOVING King who wants the best for us. He wants us to be happy and loved and full of joy. He wants us to do the activities that make us happy - for example, for me gymnastics dance kung fu and figure skating.<br />
It means that God wants us to follow Him because He is wiser and knows us more than we know ourselves, because like novelists, He plotted us out - thought about us, decided what we would want to do, the scents that would please us, the being we would be forever - before He even put us in our mother's womb. He wants us to see and experience His GREAT LOVE.<br />
He inspires us to LOVE Him with all our heart and mind and soul and strength and spirit, as well as our neighbors and even our enemies. He doesn't want us to obey out of fear, although it's okay to fear Him sometimes. Remember then, that perfect LOVE casts out all FEAR.<br />
Ask yourself this: What is Love? GOD is LOVE. Love is patient, kind, Truthful, eternal, and free. Love gives GRACE, which is unmerited favor, that we didn't earn but is given to us because Jesus died on a cross to destroy sin and death and chaos. He gives us GRACE because He LOVES us in a way that may be hard for most people to fathom. As an archangel, I want to love people in the same way, and do what Jesus would do, but I don't want to be Him.<br />
Love is LIVING WATER. Love is Jesus inside of your HEART. Living Water is given to us from Jesus, like He gave water to the gentile woman at the well. People think Jesus is a "Jew" but He is Christian, because He is the Christ.<br />
Loving obedience comes when you trust Him out of LOVE, knowing He is wiser. You obey for God's sake, and for your sake, and for the sake of all of God's People. You obey for your well-being, because LOVE of GOD brings you PEACE and TRANQUILITY. It's to shine a light upon other people and use your gifts to inspire and teach other people. It's to bring other people to God.<br />
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God's WORD of the day:<br />
Old Testament:<br />
"And a highway will be there; it will be Called the Way of Holiness; It will be there for those who walk on that way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it. No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there, and those the Lord has rescued will return." ~Isaiah 35:8-10a.<br />
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New Testament:<br />
"Jesus is the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under Heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved" ~Acs 4:11-12<br />
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Knowing all of this, trust that God will protect you. God will treasure you and cherish you and give you a Way out of the darkness. He is the cornerstone of LOVE. He created LOVE and COMPASSION and TRUTH. So seek Eternal Truth, and breathe in God's air. Some ways to fight evil: say, "Breath of God, breathe on me." "Oh God oh God I need you." Preach to them. "I command you to leave in the name of Jesus Christ." "The blood of Christ is over me now and forever more." "I plead the blood of Jesus Christ." Then explain it. And preach about God's LIGHT and LOVE and the demons will leave.<br />
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Love,<br />
RebeccaRebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-63874935199072223582016-10-29T12:12:00.001-07:002016-10-29T12:12:54.752-07:00Heavenly Sports Some sports bring people to God. Gymnastics, for example, requires wings and super-strength. So God gives Earth athletes faerie wings and sprite wings, and they feel like they're flying. It makes them happy, and they start to wonder if they are angels, because they don't believe in faeries. Skateboarding and figure skating requires wings too. To stay in the air long enough to do a triple toe loop, you need wings. Do do tricks on a skateboard, you need extra agility and wings. It makes them believe in God, and, sometimes, they decide to seek Him. And the Holy Bible says, "Seek and you will find."<br />
In Gymnastics, God helps earth athletes do their flips and layouts and twists, 99.9999999%, until they get better and need less help. Practice makes perfect. For a lot of sports, wings are required. Especially snowboarding down mountains and sky diving. It's dangerous, people, if you have no faith.Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-11079070721214954332016-10-11T14:38:00.000-07:002016-10-11T14:38:15.930-07:00Sorry I've stopped making posts for a while :)So, its been a long time since I've been on here. I'm going to wing it.<br />
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Meditating on the Holy Bible. When I remembered my faith, i started with Mathew. I read the first five paragraphs, and then started over at paragraph 2. And I kept doing this until I felt like I really understood it.<br />
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Close your eyes, and pray God opens up your Bible to the part He wants you to read with your hand. Open it and then read it until it touches your heart. So, I closed my eyes, and I opened right to Mathew. I'm reading 1:18. It's about the birth of Jesus. Joseph had a dream where an angel told him (and perhaps it wasn't a dream; he just felt dreamy) that Jesus put Himself in Mary as a baby without sex. So, because Joseph learned about this, he did not break up with Mary. The Holy Bible says, "But he [Joseph] had no sexual relations with her before she gave birth to her Son. And Joseph named Him Jesus" (Good News Bible, Mathew 1:24)<br />
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There are two Marys. The first one is Mary Magdalene, married to Simom-Peter. The other one is Jesus's mom, Mary. She doesn't have a last name.<br />
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My eyes were led to Mathew 3. John the baptist said, "Turn away from your sins," he said [possessed by God], "because the Kingdom of Heaven is near." (Mathew 3:2) It's the second coming. The first coming stopped, but at the second coming, God goes to earth visible, bringing all the murderers and evil British cops and rapists to hell and changing Earth making it better. He's making Heaven better too. Heaven always stretches: God makes more land on heaven.Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233920422372199015.post-63067571688742974992016-09-30T11:13:00.001-07:002016-09-30T11:13:18.174-07:00Anti-anaWhen I was younger, chronologically, I thought being way too skinny was beautiful. Then I found martial arts, and started wanting to be strong. I used to want the skinniest arms, a flat stomach, a "thigh gap". Now I want big, muscled legs, tiny kid wrists, big ab muscles. Sometimes, muscle looks like fat when you're sitting down, and that's okay too.<br />
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Ana is not your best friend. She is your worst enemy. Why do you throw away your lunch, in more than one trashcan, and then over-exercise. For me, it was running up and down staircases and doing wild toe-touches: just like my twin. My foster mom constantly told me I was fat, and caused it all. All the while, God was feeding me and I was 110 lbs, not the 70 lb skinny girl I thought I was. He let me think I was that skinny, until I was ready to realize that THAT SKINNY is weak. Some people fast to seek God. Sure, I wanted to do that too, but some of the times I hated my body, and felt uncomfortable in my own body.<br />
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Gymnastics and martial arts and even dance lead me to a STRONG body, a STRONG soul, a STRONG spirit. STARVING YOURSELF cannot make you strong. It cannot bring you happiness. Only Jesus can bring you joy. Try to love yourself. Never give up.Rebecca Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15383690476393785101noreply@blogger.com0