"Freedom or Survival"

Often times it is asked, “Is it honorable or stupid to carry on a fight against overwhelming odds? Is honor more important that life itself?” Well it really depends. The factors that would work into that would be what kind of person you are, what the scenario is, and what you are fighting for. As for honor I think it really depends on the morals that you have. If you can look at yourself every day in the mirror knowing what you have done, staring at your own face and not have a problem with it, you might think it is just fine. But that doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen. There might be other consequences that are dealt with. The answer cannot be fully justified with one example.
A time that I could see it be important to fight against overwhelming odds would be in war. I’ve seen many war films where many people fight overwhelming odds to protect what they love and believe in. That is very respectable. Others might think otherwise. They might think that your morals are messed up and you are totally off your rocker. But their morals could be totally off too. I think that it is very honorable and if you believe very hard in what you are doing, it is dying for.
There can be positive and negative effects of being extremely obedient to your beliefs. A positive example would be the American Revolution, which founded freedom of this country. People who believed in freedom and had high morals decided to rebel and fight for what they believed to be the good of the nation. They in turn gave freedom and democracy to the entire United States and created one of the biggest and well-known countries in the modern world. A negative example of this would be Hitler, who believed he was “cleansing” the Earth for the greater good. He thought if he wiped out the people who were weak, deformed, or retarded than he would make a race of strong individuals, like a master race. In reality, he was killing millions of people in the process, including mentally retarded, jewfish, elderly, etc. Most of the time when you are really faithful to your beliefs people, animals, or things start dying. It is all based on the perspective of the person if it is honorable or not. I think that if you believe in what you think, then that is very good. You need to have faith in yourself, but be open and listen to others who might think you are out of whack.
This question on if honor is also based on the perspective. Some people cannot even look at themselves or live with themselves if they don’t have any honor to their names. The Spartans are a magnificent example of people who cannot live without honor. They believed that to die in battle is the most honorable thing you can achieve. Two Spartans were let go and they were ridiculed back in Sparta. I think that if you really believe in something that much to die for it is pretty extraordinary, but for me it really depends on the subject. I would die for my god, someone, and/or something I love, but not for like a Hershey bar.
IT’S ALL BASED ON PERSPECTIVE!!!

THE VINCENT

Hearing this piece made me think of and remember back to when I was in middle school when they school had mentally handicapped children. I don't know what all of them had but I am guessing some of them had down syndrome. I remember sharing and trying to help some of them with their work. Some of them even i was friends with. In fact my brother has small trace amounts of mentally disability in his body. I didn't even notice it until my mom told me only a year ago, and I am just fine with it. He is my brother, and I don't care if he is a genius or a complete idiot. I think that this is sort of a big issue in the world and people need to accept that and just try not to care if someone has it or not.
When the piece was talking about how Vincent locks himself up in his room, it sort of reminded me of me. I like going up into my room and playing my guitar or watching a movie by myself without any distraction. But Vincent did that almost all the time, and I definitely couldn't do that for days at a time. I can only last like 3 to 5 hours or so.
I really think that the music in the piece really fit into the story, it really set the tone. The beginning music seemed a little heavy and dark, which set the tone into a darker, more serious subject. But as it continued, it seemed to get lighter, like a lofty acoustic guitarwhich helps brings some "hope" or makes it seems as if it will have a happier ending, which I think it did.
I think that Vincent (Vinnie) should do what he wants to do, if that means not working, working, if you don't feel like you belong somewhere, you probably don't belong there. Mentally handicapped people also have natural tendencies, and Vinnie didn't feel right when he was in his work, so decided to change it. Do what you love, you know?
I also couldn't help but think of Morgan Freeman when I heard the voice over for the piece. Morgan Freeman does voice overs for so many movies and excerpts. It is sort of the running joke that me and my brother have with voice overs. I wish that he had did the voice over for this piece because he just has the perfect voice for it.
I think that Vincent was bold taking the risk to stop work and he was very brave going back to where he worked. I know some non-handicapped people wouldn't even do that. Vincent is a guy who took a bold risk and just happened to be handicapped. Now, he might of have secretive of why but I think that is understandable to an extent. I wouldn't do that for an extreme amount of time, maybe a few days or weeks. The good news is that now he is working his own little chicken farm and is happy, which is important, especially for someone like him. But we CANNOT have everyone do this. We need people to work to get roadways fixed, heal people, we all have duties to perform, we just need to know when to cross the line.
But what can I say? I think you should follow your dreams (if you can) and just go for broke. Who knows? Maybe you could be working your own chicken farm like Vincent.