A life in words

  • Sense and Sensibility

    Just watched “Sense and Sensibility” last night. The most striking thing to me in the story is how the main character (Elinor?) acts with perfect reservation and propriety throughout the whole movie, even at times to her own detriment, or at least the detriment of her social situation. We see her enduring, putting up with…

  • Basics

    A bit of the basics: Ok, so a little bit more about this blog, or rather, about myself. My name is Josh and I’m a student at Brigham Young University. I study … well, lots of things! Computer Science is one, but I’m also aiming for a second major in English Language with an emphasis…

  • Tales from the Tree

    Well, hello! Welcome to Tales from the Tree or whatever I called this place. Note: Tales from the Tree was my first-ever blog. Its description stated: Somewhere in Provo, Utah is a apartment complex from nightmares with an unacceptably femme name: Cinnamon Tree. For the veterans among us it’s known simply as “The Tree” –…

The principal difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this Representative Assembly. It should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them. That it may be the interest of this Assembly to do strict justice at all times, it should be an equal representation, or in other words equal interest among the people should have equal interest in it. Great care should be taken to effect this, and to prevent unfair, partial, and corrupt elections.John Adams, Thoughts on Government, April 1776