Virtual time capsule: documenting the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

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Time Capsules

My daily life is based on routine and a deliberate forsaking of routine in which life can be lived. The routine -- brushing my teeth, cooking my food, praying when I awake -- serves to create the foundation for which I can operate at maximum capacity throughout the day. I believe that in terms of popular culture, 2012 is essentially the nadir of all the decades of popular culture that preceded it. Furthermore, I hope to provide a strong influence in the future in which I can change this, by producing works of popular culture that are truly worthy of the name. These works will be based in literature as well as in music.

Determining whether or not one should cheat on an examination issued in school is an example of a moral, decision making issue. Exams are supposed to provide accurate assessment of how much knowledge students have in a subject. By cheating on an exam, students are robbing themselves of the knowledge that will only edify themselves. However, cheating also produces good grades, which are responsible for producing happiness in people. Therefore, cheating on examinations is morally acceptable, since the result of doing so will create a greater good than a student sacrificing his time and worrying about studying to earn the same result.

Happiness is achievement. I came to this view after reading a couple of different definitions of happiness in a SAT passage. Happiness is not merely contentment, but a condition which is presaged by periods of unhappiness, of desire, of labor, which finally culminates in a profound sense of felicity once achievement has occurred. It really does not matter in what area one is able to achieve one's goals -- it could be the successful.

The film "Head in the Clouds" will go into the time capsule, for the simple fact that this 2004 movie illustrates the best of the genre of film. The movie demonstrates compelling audio (both music scoring and song sections), as well as good writing and excellent dialogue that tells a heart-wrenching tale of a morality that is difficult to define. It is transcendent in its ability to utilize a medium (film) that hinges upon audio-visual elements to depict human emotions.

The significant group of songs that should go in the time capsule is 2 Pac's Makaveli: The Don Killuminatti: The 7 Day Theory. This work typifies the height of rap music at its countercultural best in the final decade of the 20th century. It details a range of emotions that are bereft in contemporary music, and which may elude 22nd century audiences as well.

The art work to go in the time capsule is Jean August Dominque Ingres' Portrait of the Sculptor, Paul Lemoyne. This portrait ordained the cover of the Bantam Classics version of Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas, 1956, p. iv) for the final decades of the 20th century, and renders the spirit of youth, and of seriousness, which compelled the best of young men during these decades and which functions as a model for future young men to pattern themselves after.