A Game of Reviews

A Game Of Thrones By George RR. Martin (Spoilers, Duh)

Winter is coming, a battle for the throne which will cost many lives and grand assassinations. Good vs. Good in this fantasy thriller, as house Stark and house Lannister

rage war across Westeros, while across the narrow sea the smolders of House Targaryen built an army to take back their former throne. Bolder threat brew past the wall in the north, as winter wakes, as do The Others.

  In the beginning of the novel we are introduced to the House Stark. The patriarch of the Starks is Eddard, a good friend and second in command of the king. Things take a turn for the worst during the kings trip to Winterfell as Eddards young son, Bran falls from a tower along the wall of the keep. During Bran's coma an assassin comes in and attempts to kill him; the plan is foiled when Bran’s pet dire wolf attacks. The weapon used is recognized as a Lannister blade. After an unforeseen accident takes place, a new king takes the throne, and with it new troubles begin to brew. Find out what happens in this fantasy thriller,  A Game of Thrones.

Nothing is safe in A Game of thrones, death and murder can and will happen to anyone. The unbiased to both houses in this novel makes the reader have a choice of who

they support whether it be the hearty Starks, the bold Lannisters, or any of the other 5.

With the show in full bloom on HBO many people think that they don’t need to read the books, which is unbelievable, that is like saying you don’t want to read Harry Potter because you saw the movies. The show is a good adaptation to this gripping thriller, with perfect casting and remarkable effects that follow the novels cliffhangers and surprises to the word.

Overall this novel is a great read; it transports you to a world you dreamed of as a kid then ruins that world by murdering everyone you care for in unexpected ways, which just makes the novel even more thrilling. Have fun reading A Game of Thrones.

Discrimination in the modern world.

Who are you? Some say humans are just a series of complex organic compounds, fighting for basic need and survival. Some may say you are a soul dance your internal flame until the last bit of energy releases to a beautiful afterlife. A person, to me, is both. She is a caring soul and a series of atoms, but these people are all different to us, the people are what are important, not the body. Malcom Gladwell tells us of how not we see the person inside but the exterior ad how that makes the person.

Racism,  discrimination, and gender bias are all real, horrible things that exist in today's society. These feelings can be uninvolved in a person's life or, it can lead them to do terrible things and harm others for something that the victim can't even control. Malcom Gladwell wrote a paper called the Warren Hading Error, in this paper Gladwell discusses the word and gender association as well as the nature of how this shows who we are.  If I ask you, "Is this word Male or Feminine, Kitchen." What would you answer? Most people would say feminine because women have been type cast as the generic stay at home mom who needs to cook clean and cook again as a lifestyle, but this isn't true. The IAT shows you a picture then a word, you answer if the word is bad or good, then if the picture is one or the other. Some people have a higher expectation that after a word like kitchen there will be a face of a woman and after a word like career to be a face of a man. This is extraordinary, we can see what people are thinking, and even if the person shows complete equality to all people, the test shows on the subconscious level what you think of a social class.

This test is a way a speaking to you, for you to discover how people feel of one another, inequality will always exist, whether in race, gender or sexuality, one class will always choose a side and put themselves above another by harassing, bullying, enslaving or murdering one another. These traits have stood the test of time and have been repeated numerous time through history. Today people like to think we have changed, and we have, but the scars of oppression and hatred still burn there ominous glow in the heart of some people. Can we ever all be equal? I don't know, but to do so we all have to treat others as equals, no matter what ethnicity, we are people, all of us. To move to a better future first we must better ourselves.