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Introduction 

Power, power is what moves the universe. There is someone always looking to get bigger and to get richer and many won’t stop until it is too late. Power is defined as a person, group, or nation having great influence or control over others. This means that there must always be someone who is lower in power. Naturally there will be some sort of tension between the person in power and the person who is under the gun. When and where there is tension something or someone will have to break in order for there to be a winner in the power struggle. There must be conflict in order for there to be a resolution.

Body

In creation of an Emperor there must be some sort of heir to the throne which would create a royal family and in return would bring up a middle class, a lower class, and a serf class. Yes there is indeed a class system in the universe of Dune but this system is very complicated due to the amount of people and groups in Dune that are power hungry and seek some way to find more power or to meddle in other characters’ lives. In this universe there are class systems upon class systems. Entire class systems are in constant movement in the power chain because of its sheer complexity.

Conclusion 

The rise of the Atreides family to the throat of power defiantly shows how the power in a class system can shift dramatically. With the help of great knowledge of how the universe works, helpful Fremen allies and mystical miracle drugs, the Atreides family was able to change the fabric of the Dune universe forever. But would the Atreides family be in total control forever? Would the Manipulator of the universe ever step down from his ultimate throne of power? Or will someone have to find a way to take down an even stronger nearly impossible force to handle. In a system where power is in constant motion and nothing is sure to stay the same anything could happen. 

KING KAT

Long live the new king, king cat that is. This week’s Abominable Charles Christopher update is a very funny one. The web strip consists of nine panels with a lot of dialog and two different cats. The new king wakes from is slumber awaken by a morning food call. One cat brings Gilgamesh’s cat a nice big fresh fish when Gilgamesh’s cat tell his friend that he has been sleeping in his masters bed for some time. So obviously this means that Gilgamesh’s cat is the new king since Gilgamesh has been m.i.a for a long time. Yeah right what are these two cants thinking how the kings pet be the new can king ha-ha imagine a whole city ruled by a cat. I wonder what these two wacky cats will do with their new found power brought to them by laziness. Will the lazy cat be a good king or a bad king maybe after his afternoon cat naps he will do something useful. I can’t wait to see what these crazy cats are going to do next hopefully next weekend’s update has to do with these cats because the trend of the updates has been at random. Maybe the updates will eventually come together to push the story forwards because at this point the story is moving at a very slow and steady pace. Next week there might be something shocking or a continuation of random events. Well until next me my friends

I LOVE SODA!

Now this is my kind of SODA <3

Very odd

Just a bunch of African American teenagers having some fun =D

YES!

Today is my first day of spring break vacation haha finally i can sleep in all day and go out all night.
Now all i need is a nice cold drink and a fun girl next to meh :)

This night goes on and on

This song is great when your down =)

And yet another Abominable snowman

yet 

Silent and still yet sad and hurt, this is the feeling that I get out of the main character of this web comics update of The Abominable Charles Christopher. The web comic is made up of seven panels where the owl that is the main character of this strip is in only two different positions and only says one sentence. “Please don’t go” is what he says without moving an inch. The mouse who is talking to the owl about his recent loss of his child because his child left with his uncle somewhere and had not seen him for some time. The mouse tells his story about his nine children leaving and how he had to just let them go and he understood how the owl felt. This was very touching at the beginning of the strip I felt that the owl was just being rude because it looked like he was just ignoring and not even giving any attention what so ever to the mouse. But in reality maybe he was trying to keep his emotions in because he is such a prideful creature. I liked this week’s update because it was fairly long and looked very beautifully well drawn. And well proportioned. Will the mouse stay with the old owl? Will his son ever return or will he have to go out and venture to find him and bring him back? We will find out soon in the updates to come.    

MGMT is Trippy ^_^

                                       What does he know? Idk but hes Brian Eno ^_^

The Management !

This song is epic and original gotta love those cooky hippies called Mgmt aka "The Management"

15 Step, summary

My blog is a conglomeration of post about random awesomeness assigned to me by Sean-Pessin 

I need some Ca$h

                                                           Where have you been ;P

Epic win?

Well yesterday I went to my local Berger king. My quest was not to enjoy a delicious whopper but to enjoy a Berger my way. The motto of the so called Berger king is “has it your way” and I was going to test that out. I went into the Berger king and waited in line for five or so minutes. The person who took my order was a teenager from maybe the local high school it seemed. As he stood there awaiting my answer after he asked  can I take your order I thought what if I asked for a whopper that looked like a big mac, you know with the third bread. He said “wait what” I told him it says “have it your way”; he quickly replied you can’t have it that way. I laughed and ordered a dollar chicken sandwich and a dollar cheese Berger and made myself a “Mc Gang Bang” I was pleased and left the local Berger king with a full stomach and a smile on my face. In the process of my failure I had made myself smile and I call this a great failure. 

Its Rabbit Season!

In this week’s update on the ever expanding Charles Christopher adventure it is the first day of spring and we are all told so many times. This week’s comic strip is composed of three different panels. The first panel you can see two raccoons chilling leaning on a tree when they hear a loud singing. The words that where sung are “First day of spring”. Just like a song sung over and over these words would sink into your mind and cause you to sing it as well. The person singing these words was a rabbit who seemed happier than a button. This made me chuckle looking at the rabbit singing and skipping paying no attention to another animal in the forest. The raccoons watch the silly rabbit as he sing and skip when. One of the raccoons then repeats the phrase “first day of spring”.  With an open mouth the chubby raccoon looks shocked to hear the news. I think that it might be mating season because the raccoons seem very nervous but the rabbit seems very happy and ready. Rabbits do mate a lot so maybe this is why the rabbit is so happy for it to be the first day of spring. Hopefully the raccoons will find a mate because I know that the rabbit will. Well I will just have to see what happens next week what happens in the spring season. Stay thirsty my friends.  

Special talent

Juice Box By The Strokes

Raining Blood By Slayer

technical difficulties

I have had some technical difficulties uploading my videos to blogger i do not understand why this problem continues to occur ill take my lap top to class tomorrow and see if anyone could help me with this.

Chuck It

This week’s update on the Charles Christopher web comic series is very funny and refreshing. The classic wood chuck joke. How much wood could a wood chuck, chuck exactly. Apparently not even the wood chuck knows. This joke reminds me of when I was a young child my dad would joke around and tell us ridiculous things. I remember trying to say the phrase fast enough to there the words would sound funny. In the web comic the two mice come up to the unsuspecting wood chuck and ask him a simple question how much would could you chuck and when the wood chuck answers they start to chuckle. The wood chuck didn’t even know that there was such a joke about him species. He presumed that the mice wanted to start a fight or some sort of confrontation. This made me laugh because I know that everyone liked to go around and mess with other people especially with an inside joke.  I know that I have had my share of these moments and I know I will have more just because I’m such joker. Well I hope that in the next update the story is pushed forwards because it has been stagnant for a while. Don’t get me wrong I liked this week’s update but I hope that next time there will be some sort of push. Well until next time friends/

3 Articles

From Psychohistorians to Sandworms

In this article it talks about both the Dune series and the Foundation Trio. It talks about the Chaos theory in both of the book series. It explains what chaos is by definition and it gives a good footing to what chaos theory is. It is relevant to my essay because I talk about controlled Chaos subdued by the class systems in the universe of dune 

History and Historical Effect in Frank Herbert's "Dune"

In this article it talks about historical events that help to create systems. It talks about religions that created the religions of dune. The article has a diagram showing all the developments of religious traditions. This relates to my essay because I talk about how religion has power in the class systems in dune.

The Monomyth as Fractal Pattern in Frank Herbert's Dune Novels

This article talks about the plots within plots in the book Dune by Frank Herbert. It also talks about the chaos theory in the book. This relates to my essay because I talk about the class systems upon class systems. I also talk about the chaos theory in my essay so this article was relevant to my essay. 

From Psychohistorians to Sandworms

Chaos Theory, Asimov's Foundations and Robots, and Herbert's Dune: The Fractal Aesthetic of Epic Science Fiction by Donald Palumbo

Review by: Nicholas Birns

Science Fiction Studies , Vol. 31, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 153-156

Published by: SF-TH Inc

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241243

History and Historical Effect in Frank Herbert's "Dune"

Lorenzo DiTommaso

Science Fiction Studies , Vol. 19, No. 3 (Nov., 1992), pp. 311-325

Published by: SF-TH Inc

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4240179

The Monomyth as Fractal Pattern in Frank Herbert's Dune Novels

Donald Palumbo

Science Fiction Studies , Vol. 25, No. 3 (Nov., 1998), pp. 433-458

Published by: SF-TH Inc

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4240724

A nice salad

love salad but how about a root salad? I don’t think Gilgamesh feels good about having a morning Root salad for breakfast after a long journey. In this week’s update on the Abominable Charles Christopher adventure Gilgamesh is offered a root straight from the very ground they had slept on the night before. This makes me laugh every time I see the face that Gilgamesh gives Charles when he tries to hand him the root after taking a big chomp out of it. The strip is composed of a three panel with only one dialog in it. It is filled with action and with captions that describe the sounds that are going on in the story. For some reason Charles Christopher looks older maybe his long journey across the forest and through the mountains finally 

Very Gratisfied

I love this song on a beautiful day. I'm currently learning Gratisfaction on my drum set and i cant get this song out of my head. This is a great song and a great performance by the one and only strokes. Off their recent album Angels this is GRATISFACTION. 

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Breakfast call

In this week’s update of The Amenable Charles Christopher it starts off where it left off in last weeks. With a big circle of light called an eye ball. We see a young Gilgamesh waking up suddenly and he then begins to stare out into the distance. He sees the same mountain where a man found his final resting place or so it seems. Not over thinking it he quickly wakes Charles and asks him took cook him something to eat for breakfast. I think that Gilgamesh might have dreamed the death of this father. There is a resemblance in the eyes of the person in that last update and Gilgamesh’s eyes. Maybe the reason he brushes off this feeling to quickly be because he is still very young and full of pep. All he sees is the present and all he feels is the want of adventure at the moment. Maybe he will grow up to become a great warrior after his journey with Charles. I think that Charles will learn to become a great role model because he has already helped so many others in the forest. Gilgamesh is in need of a father figure and at the moment he trust Charles because he is fascinated by him. I wonder what happened to Gilgamesh’s father, does Gilgamesh remember his father? Is his father truly gone? Will Gilgamesh ever get his breakfast from Charles? Well none of my questions will be answered this week, well till next time my friends 

Cold Play-Fix You

Excuses Excuesses

So this week I was asked by Sean to post an excuse on why I was not to par with my blogging. I do not feel like I have any excuse because an excuse usually is a lie or a stretch of words. But if I was to create an alternate reality I would have to say I was busy unwinding from my midterms and my work that I have been bombarded with. I will just have to try harder to keep to par. well till next time my friends.

Into Darkness

In this week’s update on the ever expanding adventures of Charles Christopher we find ourselves watching the unfolding of someone’s life. The creature seems as if he is well aware of his death and seems as if he is alright with his demise. He thinks about his life and how he is sorry for his son and his wife. This made me think about many things that this could mean. Why? Is he in this cave what had happened to him? Why is he sorry about his family what had happened to them? Soon we will find out what exactly happened to this poor creature and his family. But for now I would like to marvel at the placing of the circle of light in each of the panels in this web comic. The circle draws the eye to it and it creates a flow of some sort that is very pleasing to the eye. It begins a white and ends a black that bring a feeling of darkness and loneliness’. Along with the words and the flow of the energy in this web strip, you can stop yourself from s=feeling some sort of emotion towards this, I on one hand felt a little sad because it made me feel like I will one day die and I do not want to die in vain or with something left undone. This web strip has been a very nice read and I hope to find out what happens to this creature. 

Skyrim

The Spice MUST FLOW

haha this is my crappy attempt to draw the iconic sand worm from Dune

Gotta Love The Doors

People are strange by The Doors

People are strange

When you’re a stranger

Faces look ugly

When you’re alone

Woman seem wicked

When you’re unwanted

Streets are uneven

When you’re down

When you’re strange

 Faces come out of the rain

 When you’re strange

 No one remembers your name

 When you’re strange, when you’re strange, when you’re strange

People are strange

When you’re a stranger

Faces look ugly

When you’re alone

Woman seem wicked

When you’re unwanted

Streets are uneven

When you are down

When you’re strange

 Faces come out of the rain

 When you’re strange

 No one remembers your name

 When you’re strange, when you’re strange, when you’re strange

Alright yeah

When you’re strange

 Faces come out of the rain

 When you’re strange

 No one remembers your name

 When you’re strange, when you’re strange, when you’re strange

When your,

Strange

Stop Looking at me swan!

On this week’s update on the Abominable Charles Christopher web comic there is a very angry goose causing havoc. The comic strip is names “swans are still such jerks” it is another with the same swan from a previous web strip. This strip is composed of one big panel that a lot of information going on in the panel. It shows a swan chasing away a group of ducking that where in the lake minding their own busyness. The words in the background show the ferocity of the swans squawking and flapping of its wings. The ducklings look very terrified and they are fleeing for their lives ha-ha. This panel is a very funny I enjoyed this panel because I know that ducking mind their own busyness and swans are usually nice creatures that also mind their own busyness. The comic note says “I guess this swan isn’t out of my system yet” so I feel that he might later on have another update where the swan will be shown actin again like a “jerk” or maybe he will be shown doing something that is unexpected. I just hope that he adds a comic that will propel the story forward again. One more thing I want to say is that the panel was very well drawn and I enjoyed all the details that Karl Kerschl drawn in this picture was extraordinary. I bet he spent a lot of time on this picture. Well I will have to wait till next Wednesday until I update about this again.

Dune

Dune 

After reading the first two books in the Dune series I have gained a good knowledge about the book and how it seduces the reader into a well plotted out epic of a science fiction book. What really made this book a good book that I enjoyed, was all the great amount of details and undertones that created the Dune universe. This book has well plotted dialog between all the characters, the dialog is very complex but Frank Herbert does an awesome job in helping the reader understand by adding a small sentence to help clear up any confusion. Through the book series many of the characters are killed and many others are brought back from the dead. The series is full of twists that I really enjoyed, the protagonist and the antagonist often interact in dialogs that contain such depth because they are enemy’s yet have to follow sustain rules that their religions and cultures that must be followed. While reading dune you are emerged into a new world full of creatures, planets, drugs, and characters that are a brand new idea. You learn the religions of those who live in the world of dune and you also learn a whole different dictionary of almost endless words and names that you might have never thought about.

In the original Dune there is a lot of action and a lot of characters that are introduces in every section of the book because the world of Dune is so vast. It is a bit confusing for the first sections of the story but quickly everything becomes clear. The second book is very different when compared with the original. In the second book there is much more talking and conspiracy, there is a lot of changing sides and a lot of  constant arguing where it feel there is going to be some fighting but all of the tension is well kept under wraps until the end of the book where everyone and everything changes dramatically.

I did enjoy this book it was unlike a lot of other books I have read. I had to actually take some time to sit down and read this epic book. This book really did keep me stuck to it, I had found myself reading hundreds of pages in one sitting and enjoining it. I feel that more books should write in the same way this book was written. There should be more books with the amount of great detail and the amount of time that I know Frank Herbert sent on the Dune series. If I was to give a number to my rating of this book it would have to be a 8 out of 10 but the only reason it is an eight out of ten is because of its sheer complexity that I have only just started to be introduced to. Over all it was a really good book and I would suggest others who love books with a lot of imagination.

Shut up haha

Chirp chirp ha-ha these love bird are over here singing away trying to find someone to mate with it seems. The robin we have seen in many other Abominable Charles Christopher web comic stripes makes another appearance in this one. He is trying to win over some hearts from the birds around the land in which in the presence disturbs the sleep of a bat. To a bat this would be so annoying due to their very keen sense of sound. In the last panel you can see the bat listening to these lovely bird songs but to him it sounds like a car crash. His speech bobble says "@$%#!" which would imply that he is saying a "bad" world most likely the F word. This is not either of their faults; the bat is a nocturnal animal and sleeps in the day. Birds are morning animals and wake up early, around the time when bats start to go to sleep these animals begin to awaken for a brand new day. Like they always say the early bird catches the worm and these birds are no exception they will sing like there is no tomorrow regarding any other animals or persons sleep. This week’s update on the abominable Charles Christopher was a very funny one it had a lot of different things that were being shown in these four small panels. I bet there will be more to come next week and I will yet again write about it =)

Abominable cc 2/1/12

This is the latest update on the Charles Christoper web comic series. It is a four panel spread and there are two different sizes of panels. I find this funny because this situation that is going on in the first and second panels are all too true. I know my parents have done this before waiting until you fall asleep to go out and have adult fun. The last two panels are pretty funny to because one of the kinds wakes up and give his dad a look but he still leaves.

random guess

So i think this will be the tattoo that Sean will get    --------> (This penel right below)

Money money money and budget cuts

There has been talk going on about school cuts at CSUN this year and it has come to my attention that I should learn a little more about it since I do attend Cal State Northridge after all. So I have been doing some research and it has come to my mind that we spend a lot of money to pay for our college classes /books and it’s getting harder to pay. This year Cal State Northridge has enrolled 3,000 more students that should have been allowed to enroll in Cal State Northridge. Because of this the state wants Cal State Northridge to either cut 2,800 students or to be cut back $ 7million dollars of funding sounds like a really bad situation to me. I find this very unfair to the students because we have all paid our money to go to school and learn something useful yet we cannot get into classes that we have already paid for. Some students have been cut down from being a fulltime student to a part time student not because of full classes and too little teachers to run the class. If there aren’t enough classes and if there aren’t enough teachers then who will teach the students? Where will the money we spent go? Where will the time and hair pulled out induced by stress go? Something must be done quickly so we don’t become bold and so that other students do not have to go through the same problems that we are currently in.

I have read a bit on this subject and there where actually live interviews of student on campus and their reactions about this budget cut that is affecting them severally. One of the students said that he only come to school for 1 class a week and he is a junior at Cal State Northridge, he said that he thinks that his semester at Cal State Northridge is a waste of time because he only has one class. A normal fulltime student takes thirteen credits a semester, one class would not be able to fulfill the requirements that students need to graduate on time. Another student said she only goes to school for nine credits because there aren’t enough class rooms and that it is really expensive to go college now in time. Some teachers have even tried to overfill their classes and try to teach students who are lucked out of classes they really need but those same students might be eliminated from those class rooms. What will happen to the students that are being cut because of this, what will they do how will the state and how will the school live knowing that this is happening? Soon enough we will all know what is to come. I am a freshmen in CSUN,  and it sounds pretty scary considering I am at the low end of the totem pole and might be one of the first to be cut so I hope my dreams don’t get chopped down after the money war is over between the state and the school that I call mine.

           

Mister Abominable CC

I read the whole web comic of The Abominable Charles Christopher today .  I think it is very unique in the way that the main character has not yet said anything in the series however the story is ever pushed on by his relentless urge to keep pressing forward into the forest and out of the forest. Charles who is some sort of humanoid creature and it seems as if he is one of a kind. Charles has grown very much since the beginning where we first meet him as a scared creature with a pacifier in his mouth who is constantly running from anything that he thinks is dangerous. He has now learned about death and has felt love for several animals he has come into contact with. Charles may seem like a nitwit but I feel that he has something he has to do and I feel that he will soon learn what his objective is. There are multiple stories going on at the same time with different characters that sometimes come together and I can’t wait to see what happens next, the pot is boiling and almost ready to overflow and I will be sure to visit the web comic next Wednesday. I hope that his powers become more developed in the next comic strip because his healing power has already caught my attention well now I’m going to cross my fingers and hope something crazy happens. Well so long for now have a happy Friday ;D.  

Friday boredom

hmmm what to do on a Saturday??  I know play drums ;b. I wonder what other people do on Friday.

Scratching the Surface of John Varady

Hey i'm john Varady I attend school at Csun and live in the San Fernando valley. A couple words that can describe me are Fun, Energetic and nice. I am a musician and I play drums as well as guitar, I hope to one day be a professional musician.