The World State citizens in Brave New World live in a world that is very clean. There is no dirt and everyone smells good. In this world no one has families, the babies are manufactured. The people can be with whoever they want and can be with different people every night. The people on the reservation however live in dirty run down houses. The people here barely ever bath and they wear old torn clothing if they wear clothing at all. The people here, unlike those in the World State, marry and have families. Everyone lives in a village and is almost like one large group. These are two clearly different worlds and when they come together people are very confused and sometimes even disgusted by how the others live.

Bernard, from the World State, at first views the reservation as a dirty place and isn't extremely excited to see it. But then as he is there longer he finds that some things are pretty interesting. He meets John and finds out that him and John have several things in common. They are both seen as outsiders, John because he is white and not a "savage" and Bernard because he is just different than everyone else. They are both also very lonely.

John lives on the reservation and is not very well liked there. The people hate his mother. When his mother talks about the World State and Bernard tells him that he might be able to visit he gets very excited. He has always wanted to visit this place. When he gets there he finds that it is very strange. He doesn't really like their customs. 

The government of the World State doesn't really tell the people about the reservations. That makes the government accountable for all the fuss and confusion that comes up when John and Linda come to London.

The TED talk really related to our books. The guy talked about how governments are transparent but only transparent one way. This means that the government only lets us see and know what they want. We don't fully know what the government has. In my book Brave New World the government is based on science and they kind of brainwash the people when they are very young so that they believe what the government tells them is just true and there is no question about it. This isn't fair to the people because they don't have the ability to make their own choices and choose their own life styles. 

The Twilight Zone The Obsolete Man was about a man that was about to be executed because the chancellor ruled that he was obsolete. The man said that he wanted to pick his assassin and he wanted an audience. When he said that I thought that he was going to say something really meaningful to the audience. He then invited the chancellor to his house. The man upset the chancellor while he was at his house. At this point I thought that the man was up to something. The chancellor tried to leave but the man had locked the door and the man said that there was a bomb in the room. The chancellor freaked out and then the man let him go before the bomb went off. When the chancellor got back the other people of the government told him that he was obsolete because he was a coward. The chancellor wasn't really being accountable for what he was doing, killing people because he thought they had no purpose. This made him and his country not work together very well. Him not being accountable negatively affected the teamwork with his country. 

From what I've read, signing statements basically give the president the power to overrule laws that he doesn't believe are constitutional. One article that we read talked about how President Bush used over 800 signing statements during his presidency including ones that dealt with torturing prisoners and withholding information from congress. Now how do we know that he was being honest the whole time? Were there some things that he wrote off that were actually constitutional and may have had some affect if he hadn't written them off?

These signing statements may be small little things that no one really notices at first but after awhile they might build up and start to have a serious affect. I mean if George Bush alone made 800 revisions, how many might other presidents make? It's kind of a scary thought that one person can have that much power. 

I think that if the president wants to make the signing statements like this then he should veto the law and send it back through congress to be reevaluated. That way it's not one man making the decisions like that, it's a lot and they can decide what the affects might be in the future.