Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Introduction

Hello my fellow classmates, some of you may find this homepage little appalling, but yes, I am a historian, not professionally. Someday maybe. Anyways, as Dr. Wood mentioned not to use my own name in this blog to prevent the embarrassment, I am the guy who has a short curly hair and claims that he is probably only one in entire class of 2013 who major in Art History. Get the clue? In case some of you don’t know who Robert Oppenheimer is, he is best known for the director of Manhattan Project, the project of developing atomic bombs during World War II era. He is one of my favorite historical figures out there.
Let me trace back to the time where I was barely in the womb. I was born in Frederick, Maryland, few miles from Maryland School for the Deaf. Despite the Desert Storm incident, my parents experienced budget cuts so I moved and raised in Indiana whole my life. I come from an Italian and Christian background. One of my family’s relatives was once an ex-Mafia, but hey, I don’t carry a gun with me. So do my brother and three sisters. I grew up being one of five kids and I am the middle one. All of us attend Indiana School for the Deaf, and I just graduated as a salutatorian for my class. I go to Gallaudet with one goal targeted in my mind which is becoming an Art History professor. As I said previously in this essay, I am a historian, not just a historian but an unprecedented one. I believe in UFOs and I venerate finding facts about conspiracies. I often viewed them with skepticism and sometimes ridicule because they are seldom supported by any conclusive evidence. That greatly applies to my favorite book of all time, Watchmen by Alan Moore, which became a major motion picture. According to that, I am an avid graphic novel reader. Graphic novels often present with a unique story plot with narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using the comics form. I admire the critical thinking of graphic novel writers which heavily apply to this class, GSR 102, such a minimal irony.
That’s who I am, a guy who claims that his pseudonym is TheManhattanProject.
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5 comments:

  1. Dr. W.September 3, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    Nice to "meet" you here Oppenheimer. But why do you revere Oppenheimer? Fill us in. Dr. W

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  2. TheManhattanProjectSeptember 3, 2009 at 7:49 PM

    J. Robert Oppenheimer was neither known to be politically aligned with the conservative military nor was he known to be an efficient leader of destructive forces, yet he developed the birth of the most destructive weapon that could annihilate the thousands in matter of seconds. I admire Oppenheimer in many ways. He didn't take any sides in the war yet he followed his first instinct and do what it's necessary to protect the country. I say he was considered as an inverse martyr, willing to kill the thousands to save millions. He recalled "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one." and "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" (Bhagavad Gita) after witnessing first atomic bomb testing at Alamogordo, New Mexico. Although Oppenheimer created the most dangerous conventiental weapon, he brought order to balance the world. He proposed then approved the method to stifle the nuclear arms race to prevent the end of mankind. He found the way to vouch the balance of world on the eve of Armageddon. Think him of Ozymandias, in "Watchmen" if you guys happen to saw the movie or read the book.

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  3. LazySeptember 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM

    One of my favorite introduction blogs in this class. Keep it up dawg

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  4. George WashingtonSeptember 10, 2009 at 6:06 PM

    You are correct. You are probably be only one that I know you are majoring in art history. Don't feel embarrassed to be only one. That's show you are being yourself.
    Excellent introduction!

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  5. gallystudent90September 10, 2009 at 9:53 PM

    Nice intro! That is awesome that all of your siblings went to the same school as you. Keep it up!

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