Pop culture #12

I am addicted to shopping online .. eBay, amazon, literally if it sales I will buy! I was browsing through amazon and found this movie my sister and I used to watch called "Once Upon a Forest". It is about these three Furlings, based on the characters by Rae Lambert, who embark on a journey to find another meadow to find a cure for their friend Michelle, who inhaled gas fumes after a diesel truck crashes in the meadow they occupy. The pollution from the gas kills just about everything .. Including their families, or so they think. But even in the distress of losing the people they love, they sucked it up to save another person they care about. Then it turns out their families just went into hiding and blah blah blah. Yeah you get the point!

Anyways, I ordered it and watched it. While watching it, I realized how much a person's perspective changes as they get older. It literally annoyed the hell out of me!! Everything was so exaggerated and things that should have been obvious weren't .. I was thinking to myself about what was wrong with me when I was younger!? I feel bad for all the times I made my mother or grandmother watch these movies with me. I think I might ban cartoons from my future kids so I don't have to deal with these lame shows.

November 15

With this paper, I do not exactly hope to accomplish anything impeticular; I just hope to accomplish it period. (hahah) I've never had to do one of these so I hope it just comes out the way it is suppose to. My target audience for my research paper would be more appealing to the people who actually have to wear school uniforms because kids that do not and parents that do not have to buy them would not see the significance for or against wearing them. For my main text, the audience would be the same as my argumentive audience I suppose. Many believe that school uniforms percieve the "good girl gone bad" idealistic character so the issue I am bringing to the table is that just because the media percieves them to be that way does not mean that they actually cause girls to turn slutty and all that. I plan to make that point supporting my ideas with sources that support what I am trying to say. These sources give the good and bad points of school uniforms and how people look at them,. I hope by the end of this research paper, that many will remember to keep an open mind about uniforms and the kids/teenagers that wear them; not to judge so quickly.

November 13

I usually have no type of organization when writing. I just let it flow and revise when I am finished. I kind of just brainstorm in my mind rather than on paper. It works alright for me, although my grades on papers in this class are a lot lower than papers in my other classes; however, those teachers do not have strong backgrounds when it comes to writing. I suppose if I did take notes or outline, the process of this research paper would run a lot smoother and I would have an outcome of a higher grade.

Pop Culture #11

Like so many others, my pop culture for this past week has to do with the recent election. Twitter just went crazy the night of the election; my newsfeed was so overwhelming. It was ridiculous some of the things that were said that night about how the world was gonna end and how everyone wanted to flee the United States. What was the most shocking though is that everyone that had something to say about the election was not even old enough to vote yet!!
 I chose not to vote simply because I do not want to make that decision until I know and understand all the facts on each side. These kids just blast out the most spontaneous things and have no idea what they are saying. What I saw the most was that Obama won because all the African Americans voted for him. In my opinion, just based on Census, it would take a lot more people that just that race for him to win.
Then I get this tweet asking me if I voted for Obama because I am half his color .. I do not know why people's ignorance still surprises me. Color has nothing to do with the matter. The entire caucasian side of my family voted for Obama, while the opposite voted for Romney.
If God does not return soon, this world will end because of the stupidity and short-minded people .. not because Obama got re-elected.

November 8

In our final paper, we have to use the Research method. This is the whole point of our paper; the name of the method speaks for itself. So obviously that will be the overall goal-- to find sources that support and persuade the reader that what you are arguing is correct. Research Essays can also be taken as argumentive because you can find sources that are completely the opposite of what you are stating and explain why they are not right.

Pop Culture #10

     I hardly ever watch the news but yesterday morning I woke up and my roommate was watching it ... All I saw were stories about where young people were killing theirselves from being bullied or stories about car accidents from texting and driving/ talking on the phone. I usually don't diss on the advances we make in this day and time; but when people value their texts and other media over their lives, something is seriously screwed up. I am a die hard rule follower when it comes to not texting and driving because I have lost so many friends and just people from my area that were friends of friends from wrecking. I see the after effect on families and friends; I wish everyone could take this into consideration.
     This also stems from the ignorance of teenageers who think they are invincible! Nothing could be that important that it distracts you from the obvious fact that you're driving a car and kind of need to watch the road. It doesn't really shock me because of the way we act now as a culture than the way people acted back in the day before texting and what-not. I think we need to prioritize what we value a little more!