AE #6 BLOGGER ....IS IT REALLY OVER?

    It's finally over. I hate to say it that way. I am honestly so glad this semester is over. Blogger was a big part of it and now I have no idea whether I would have ever started blogging if it weren't for this class. I enjoyed exploring my writing skills and using my imagination to link pictures and videos with words.

    I do not know if I will continue to write on my blog. If I do continue to write, I know I will write less formally knowing it won't be graded. I feel like I held back a lot of my opinion due to the fact I thought it would be inappropriate. I think that would be my biggest complaint that I couldn't be as fowl as I might usually be.

    In comparison to Blogger compared to my Facebook, I definitely held back a lot. I had less people to judge me on Blogger yet I held back foul language and my ultimate opinion on most things. I think the blog helped me be more subtle.

    All in all I would have to say that Blogger is a good idea to explore your writing and develop a tech savvy but educated point of writing. I appreciate knowing how to participate in a blog and I now feel that I might start a different one with a more personal side, focusing on one subject more than multiple.

Song to Start a Good Day

http://youtu.be/AWiccrTB4LM

AE #5 Pink Slime....Rather Not

       I wonder why I always feel like I will be less amazed at the actions the government takes or doesn't. I feel like consuming food now days is as harmful as smoking cigarettes. Cancer is CANCER! Duh! How do they get away with it??? Who is the one getting away with anything? Why are you letting them do it to you. The FDA has passed probably the worst laws in America than anywhere in the world regulating their peoples consumption of food and quality!!!!!

               Damn the word Quality... What does that mean to us anymore. Just usually that if you pay more its better or cooler or whatever. Sadly smaller farmers do have to charge more for their organic food. The FDA allows food to pretty much say whatever they want and to the human consumer it is up to you to investigate. I think of it like 2 clear bottles exactly the same, with the same amount of liquid in each. One bottle has vodka and the other has water. If you were allergic to alcohol and you were dying of dehydration.

 wouldn't you investigate what you are about to put into your body before you put it in????? You are allowing another person control of killing you. Would you stand there and let someone shoot you if you could dodge and run????  If there was a proper market for REAL food than the FDA wouldn't get the paycheck.

       If schools cared about the food they were giving their students then the burden of food cost would also be on them. Hmmmm... makes me wonder why we have people like that in charge of our nations food and our children's health. I do not have children but I know that if I did, I would want the very best for their health and I think a lot of parents need to step up and take care of themselves and their children the way our bodies need us to. I hope more people speak about the importance of the quality of food you eat. I pray that the world puts its emergency brake on with what we are doing to ourselves, but until that day, changing one persons life a day has an incredible OUTCOME!

AE# 4 The Living Dead

    Appalled at all that I see in this nation. From things so big as global warming and the treatment of others to the food we feed our people. Sustainable farming has always been my personal dream. When I ask my friends what they want to do: all of them would direct their lives in the form of MONEY. I would say that choosing a life in sustainable farming is not a field of dollar bills but my quality will be in life and health. 

    Our society has developed our country with our eyes set on money as power instead of a true or hopeful goal as the means of power. I love when I hear people say others are "sell outs," to me anyone shopping at Walmart is a "sell out." I myself feel like I have to shop at Walmart because it is closest to my house, and I only have to go to one place. This is the same feeling we all feel or else Walmart would be dead.

   It is sad that we as the people of America are just trying to live our lives and save money so we can pay our bills and pay for gas to get to work to have the money to pay for life. We set up our society on the dependence of a paper object. Yuck. What is even worse is we know this and we continue to dig deeper and deeper. We could be digging deeper into fertile soil and living the way nature intended us to live. 

    Nature supplies all of our needs. Have we ever thought of it that way? Nature supplies an organism to treat and cure every possible problem. We have created our own unnatural problems and rely on what to treat these problems? Nature, but how is nature supposed to treat a problem it didn't make? We wonder why our world is deteriorating but we fail to realize we created our damnation.

    I think there is a bigger picture and instead of accepting our faults and tearing down nuclear power plants and instead of relying on what nature has already given us: to lead a life of good air, good food, and good fellowship, we continue to ruin our future lives for the DOLLA DOLLA BILL!!!!

    This problem is hundreds of years old and we now have more technology than ever before and the capability of communicating across the world to fix our problems, but cannot decide on something to do? I know why Native Americans were so quick to die for the land they inhabited, because they knew that if WASPS took it over it was better to be dead, than live with the cancers and unhealthy air cycling through our bodies: making us the living dead.

Toubled

     Is this what we have become? A generation of idiots; people living at a precise time period together, that go through the same events while being mentally handicapped. I feel like Einstein is on to something but not quiet sure it is about my generation. I do not know if the children that are being born in my lifetime are the generation Einstein speaks of, but today human interaction and compassion are just as important as they were before.

       Tell me why: there are a few African-American students in one of my Women Across Cultures class discriminating against homosexuality? Is this not the type of behavior that their ancestors, even possibly they're mothers and fathers had to deal with?

    Some people recognize the hardships of life and some focus so far up their own ass they cannot even see that they are carrying on behaviors that remove equality out of life. I guess I really don't understand anything about this life we live.

    We want to live and have so much out of life but we continue to judge, wreck and plow true peace and love out of the world. I don't blame anyone and forgive all because I do not want to be persecuted for my differences. To whom do people think they are? We put so much emphasis on being the richest, bestest, coolest and yadayada. Why not about being so cool cause you saved your society. Why is it not the best if you have all you need to eat and live on your land and share with others who don't.

     This life needs change and for all of you thinking the president is the one responsible for all the change in the U.S. get off your LAZY ass and do something to help him. WE the people. It is OUR nation. Not just the presidents nation.

P.S. Think of it this way: Anyone with the balls to say that they will take responsibility for YOUR actions and represent YOUR actions to the WORLD is a stand up person regardless of political party.

Assigned Activity #2 THE GOODS AND BADS; TECHNOLOGY

      Technology is one of those things that means so many different things. Technology is good and technology is bad. The use of technology can be amazing and it can be overwhelming. I can relate on both sides that technology is like yin and yang.

 http://youtu.be/F_8b7PgnNQQ

      The goods as you can see from the video, that technology enables children with developmental disabilities to perform tasks in which they could not have done before. Communication was a huge barrier for Autistic children and now with the advances of technology children are able to communicate the many feelings, sightings, and findings that cross their mind.

 http://youtu.be/u9s7afoYI-M

      

       The bad displayed in this WALL-E clip; humans failing in their health, not even living on our planet. This is a scenery that is completely possible. I do not think this is how we will end up; cruising the galaxy in a space cruise ship. I think that it was a good idea to throw the possibility out there, so that kids and adults can see that it is possible and that they should change their "evil" ways now. This movie may captivate a part of America but for the rest of the world, I think most are starving.

       The options of where to spend your money in school are endless. I have chosen the new way and the old way. I am choosing to see what technology has in store for a field of work that is ancient in time. Without the ability to grow food in one area (agriculture) our ancient ancestors scavenged and searched, hunted and gathered. This caused many to die in the hunt, and many to die because the hunt was not successful enough to last all winter. We with our developing brains were able to figure out the technology of growing food in one area. obviously in order to maintain any type of balance there has to be two sides. This new technology gave people the ability to survive and maintain leading us from pacts to villages to towns to cities and now look at us. The biggest difference is these things were developed over thousands of years. We now have the ability to bring a city back to life in weeks and months. I witnessed this right after Hurricane Katrina. I went in 2006 to Mardi Gras and it was as if nothing even happened to Jackson Square or to Bourbon Street. I was told storefronts and buildings were washed out and tore apart but there was hardly a sign anything had even occurred.

     What it comes down to is; we cannot get away from it, it is the future of our lives, there is always a bad side to a good and vice-versa, all in all we have depended on the development of technology since the beginning of time. The differences were stated and the comparisons too! I think if you are scared of technology you have been stuck in a hole somewhere or just came out of a South American jungle. As for most I think that we will continue to toast the advances we have made in technology. 

Over and out guys!-CRASH

So Much School Soo Little Time

       

            Every day my whole day is filled with writing and reading and punching a calculator. It is so hard to keep up with all my work but somehow I am averaging "B's" in everything. By everything I am talking about English, math, Spanish, Women Across Cultures, and Racial and Ethnic Minorities, these are the classes I am taking this semester. I do have my hands full but luckily I don't have to work because Veterans Affairs pays tuition and pays for my housing while I am in school full time.

           Spending my days like this is much different than the days that I am used to. I am from Sedona, AZ and I have to say I miss it. I miss it so much that I often wonder if what I am doing now is worth being away from what I love most. First off my family is in Sedona and the Verde Valley, and so is fishing, hiking, swimming in fresh spring water, and a beautiful waterfall only a couple of hours away. I have to say the smell of pollution, stuck up people, and horrible traffic is definitely not keeping me here in the big city.

 

         One morning I awoke it and was pouring rain, the skies were black. A little later in the day my girlfriend and I drove to the store. The roads were soaking wet and the sky was gray, my girlfriend being a Phoenix native turned to me and said "mm-mm...I love how it smells after it rains." This grossed me out because when it rains in Sedona you smell Juniper Trees and Mesquite Trees. You smell clean red rocks and clean red dirt. You wonder how I can say "clean" dirt, in Sedona there is nature and wholeness, untouched and unscathed by humans and industrialism. You don't see a grey cloud of dirty pollution and you don't smell dirty oily asphalt when it rains. Wow has life changed, living in this city, and going to school, using my brain and not my hands.

       My father and I work together when I live up North. We do just about anything and everything when it comes to peoples properties. We will remodel your house, landscaping, or maintenance your air conditioning. This full scale of work has taught me what it takes to successfully use my hands, body, and creativity to perform many tasks and problems. I am in school now so that I can be successful financially and understand the business side to what I already know hands on. My favorite part of working with my dad is being outside, hanging out with my dad, creating things that people imagined and we build it. I love using my strength to move boulders and carry logs, I have found now that  I do not do this type of work I am missing out on a huge stress reliever.

        Being in the sun is to me the best feeling in the world. I love feeling the heat on my back as the sun is beaming down on me. When you can feel your body releasing the toxins you take in on a daily, your body  perspiring and sweat dripping to the floor. The color you are when your skin is touched by the sun day after day. I sit in my office day after day now typing and scribbling and speaking Spanish into a microphone. When this is all over not only will I be proud of what I have done, I will have so much to look forward to. This also being my motivation to finish school accordingly and be back to my normal days in Sedona.