A Day to Remember

Events like September 11th don't happen very often. Its things like this that make you wonder how long that you have to live. I remember the day it happened and the people that were hurt. I was in the 6th grade and I was shocked to hear over the announced that there was an attack on our country. People were fleeing the classrooms and had thought to themselves, "what if we are next."

The words on the photo to the right say, "You will hear of wars and rumors of war, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains."
Matthew 24:6-8
How would you interpret this message and what could this mean for you?


The country was in mayhem, yet other countries were helping as much as they could to help restore optimism. I remember when my class decided to help out and raise money, as did other schools across the nation. I was frightened by this day, I am saddened by this day, I remember.

Black Out Suck

So as I was sitting and writing my last blog of the week I began to ponder what exactly I was going to write about.. when suddenly my power just so happened to go Out. So ill keep this short and sweet and to the point tonight. I realize just how much people in our generation count on Electricity. Which means for us No TV, Internet, Video Games, Personal Hygiene tools, or even common house hold appliances.

Well first of all everyone is using there nice generators while I'm sitting at home, wishing I had a nice warm room to park my rump roast and work on my homework. You think I would have learned from the Black out of 2004. So adding to my weekend of working not only will i have a huge amount of homework tomorrow but I will have forever the voices of little Children coming to the movie theater over the weekend thrilled about seeing HSM 3. So until again when i continue on with my ranting about how much i hate the movie theater and love it at all at the same time. Goodnight

Improvements

Over the course of this semester, I've learned that writing isn't as easy as it seems. It takes much more than the average person would assume. First of all, I've been starting to use more evidence in my papers than I usually do. Before, I would make a whole bunch of claims and would never support what I was saying. If I did have quotes or any evidence, its relevance to my paper was not there.
A more important issue that I have finally discovered is that my first instinct is to write my introduction first. For most people that is never a problem; however, in my case, this is one of the biggest problems that I have encountered. Usually I will start by making a claim, and then supporting something completely different. In the end, I had to go back to my introduction and fix all of the sentences that don't pertain to my piece.
I've tried harder this semester than I have ever before on my papers for classes, and in doing so I have feel that I have accomplished a lot.
I know that I still have a lot to work on for my papers, but my biggest issues have been worked out.
I would like to learn more on how write an opinion, though, without using so much evidence. I don't want to have to find evidence for every little detail that I say.

BOX OFFICE

Here is another sequel to my interesting life at the movie theatre. So I was told that I had to be moved to box the other day and I was kind of pissed. The thought of having to sell tickets all day long just made me sick and I was so upset. For some reason, though, it was the best experience that I've had in a long time. The thing about box is that you get to have a lot of authority. You are the one that gets to tell people if they are allowed in the movie and if they are underage then they can't go in. Also you have no supervisor. I think it is so cool that you don't have someone telling you what to do all of the time.
So my first experiences were quite interesting. First thing that I did was give the wrong times to a movie when the lady called on the phone. Ooops. Then I completely told the lady the wrong ticket prices. However, the funniest part is the fact that I have been working at the movies for a while now and have seen only 2 movies. This is not good. People all the time are asking about movies and if they should see them and I have no idea what to say because I've never seen any of them.
When I did get to show a little bit of my authority was the fact that there were a mob of underaged kids trying to get into a rated R movie and I got to turn them down. They were so pissed at me but were very persistent. Instead, they got a different ticket and snuck into the rated R movie where they were busted. I love getting people into trouble.
I'm so glad that I get to continue to be in box! I even get to sit down when I'm tired!

"Sweetest Day?"

So, Saturday was Sweetest Day and I really don't understand the concept of the holiday. I don't even think that it should be considered a holiday in the first place. When I went to Frankemeuth, I was hoping that no one was going to be there. My mom's side of the family all came so that we could celebrate my dad's, grandma's , and grandpa's birthdays. When we got there, there were all of these people and I didn't know what to think. I had no idea that it was sweetest day. Probably because no one had ever told me. However, it ruined my day! Going into Bronner's was a nightmare because there were so many people in the store bumping into me. I felt like I was being bombarded by a heard of elephants. There were so many couples there and and it made me feel like crap.
Also on Sunday, my friend decides to tell me that she got this gift from a guy for sweetest day with a whole bunch of gifts in it. I had no idea that people actually paid attention to this holiday. It makes me sick.
In the end, because I did not have sweetheart, for this so called "sweetest day," I feel like it's just a commercial holiday to emphasize the fact that people with out girlfriends and boyfriends are losers!

Stress

After being in college for a few weeks now, I've decided that it is more stressful than I ever thought it would be. I started off not really having that much homework and now I'm more stressed out more than last year. (Which is really hard to beat). Everyday, I get more loads and loads of homework and its not the kind that you can just forget about cuz it doesnt have to be turned in.If I dont do the homework that I have then I wont pass the class. Today, I felt something that I havent felt in a while. My heart was beating really fast and I felt sick. I just need to relax but its so hard to relax when you worry as much as I do. I just hope that stress will so go away.. which I know it wont.

Artwork

Since our unit has been about religion, I thought that I would put a picture of the back wall of the Sistine Chapel by Michaelangelo. This moment signifies The Last Judgement and I feel like this kind of shows a large part of who I am. Religion and my Catholic faith is a huge part of my life and my being so a mural as beautiful as this is held dear to my heart. I feel like the artistry and the detail in this piece is so significant. One day I would love to see it in person.

The Intro is Everything

When looking over way to improve my writing, I noticed that really the introduction is more important than anything. This is the place where you have to make your claim and if your claim is not legitimate, then the entire focus of the paper will be off. Also it is the place where the reader will be reading first and if it is not interesting, then the reader will not want to read the rest of the paper. I also found that forming three solid arguments is the key to writing a great college paper. If you do not have the right amount of points and you evidence is insufficient then there is no purpose for you to write the paper in the first place.

Religion Quotes

While reading through "More Religion, but Not the Old-Time Kind, I found that there was one quote the stuck out from all of the rest. "The Global attitudes study correlated views on religion with annual per capita income and found that wealthier nations tend to place less importance on religion - with the exception of the United States." The first bit of confusion that I have captured is that many of the wealthy nations in this world do not see religion as that important. I begin to wonder how is it possible that such a statistic has been shown.
But, with the United States being so involved with religion, I can see this very clearly. My practice is Catholicism and I tend to be very strong - minded about my religion. I've noticed that every where I go, someone is making a remark about religion and what the believe, if they even believe anything at all. Even though someone may not believe that there is a God or some kind of creator yet they have a strong enough will to stand up for what they believe, to me that just means that religion is important to them. I think that is where this statistic somes from because in the United we have so many different cultures and so many different opinions that religious views come into play.

I thought I was a goner!!

I've just decided after going to the apple orchard this weekend that a lot of people are irritating. The only reason why I say this is because every time that I go somewhere people just can't be normal. They always have to screw it up right in front of me. For example, I almost got killed today.We were driving in to park in the parking lot when somebody decided that he was not going to look as he was pulling out of the parking lot. My dad had the right of way and as he was turning a large truck started to press on out onto the road. My dad had to nail on his gas pedal to zoom around the guy. I thought I was a goner. He actually sped up as we were turning. SPED UP!!!!! The guy was so close to my door that I could practically see the color of his eyes. I was with my whole family so were all screaming thinking we were sure to get hit. I've decided that I'm so glad my dad's a good driver.

Relgion in Public

I''ve been thinking about how religion places a public role in our society over this weekend and I seemed to have hit a bump. Whenever religion is mentioned in a classroom or in public, people go ballistic unless they have the same points of view. I noticed in high school that whenever someone would mention religion or something that they had to do for church, there would alays be someone who would completely bash what they were talking about. He wouldn't just tell them about his beliefs, but he would tell them how wrong they were for practicing in that way. I feel that opinions are too strong and there is so much variety of views in the US, therefore mixing government and religion would be a catastrophe.
I was actually just listening to the radio the other day and they were talking about hey they were going to change something about the toilets in one of the cities to accomodate for Islamic faith. I was quite confused. People were calling in non-stop with so many different views on the situation. Some were saying that it was a good thing to help Muslims more comfortable and ther people were saying that they were being forced to change views on their own religion. I just think that bringing religion up in public is a bad idea. There are way too many views.