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Hopefully this will become a way for me to write more and actually take in more information around me because if I should be sharing about my life or current events, I'm going to have to stay up to date on those topics! So this might be a diverse blog about many different topics, but it will always being intellectual, maybe funny, hopefully interesting but most of all truly and plainly me!
Friday, September 6, 2013
Monday, December 31, 2012
The Ultimate New Year Cliche!
But I think everyone thinks back on their year and says what they are grateful for, and what they wish for the upcoming year and frankly I think that is the best thing you can do at the end of the year but it is also something you should do all year long.
But to keep with the cliche,
I am truly grateful for my friends and family even though they sometimes drive me insane!
My best friends Adam and Kelsey are simply the greatest people I could ever ask for in my life! They know how to tell me to shut up and they keep me sane and yet let me be crazy and we have so much fun. I literally can not picture my life with out them in it now. I couldn't have gotten better friends even if I had wished for them or made them!
My family are some of the craziest people I know but I wouldn't love them if they weren't! My brother, the 25 year old schmuck who lives at home is the greatest guy. He loves to share his knowledge with anyone and everyone interested because he knows that sharing knowledge doesn't make you less intelligent it just helps to make the rest of the world smarter! I totally agree. My Parents are some of the greatest people I know that are their age. They know that life is about seizing the moment and important parts, and they live very day with love and acceptance of others and I stive for that every day.
My work family at ECC is something I am so grateful for simply because I wouldn't be the person I am today without them. Being a camper there and then working there has taught me to accept who I am and embrace that I am different and that's alright because I am a child of God and He made me special, so even when I am alone I remember that I am special to someone who is special to me.
The most important thing to me though is that everyone understand that they are special and loved. If you don't have someone to care about or pray for you feel free to let me know and you would be special to me, my friends, and my community simply because what is life worth if you can't share it with the people who love you and you love?
I hope everyone who reads this has a Happy New Year full of Love, Health, Joy, Friends, Family and Peace. If I have any advice for the coming year I would say that everyday you should either write down or at least give thanks for 10 things that you are thankful from that day! Start you day positive and end it positive! Your day will automatically be better even if it starts badly, keep smiling and just take a deep breath!
Peace Love Pineapples and Friendship!
Here's to an amazing year of 2012 and here's to the upcoming 2013!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
my blog: Eric (BRO BRO) Revenge of the Feminerd Response
I like the point Julian brought up by saying that girls sometimes don't act smart. I have multiple friends who are highly intelligent but when it comes to either, guys are doing something that involves using their brains to solve the problem they act like idiots and just can't think anymore.
How does that help anyone? "Oh, poor me, I'm a girl, help me! *dramatic hand on forehead*"
However, there are a lot of girls who know how to do many nontraditionally girl oriented things. Another downside of the whole society pressure thing is that when you're a girl doing things that were traditionally done my men people assume that the girl is a lesbian.
It's this whole stupid concept of labels that our society is obsessed with. We feel the need to label everything in our lives to make it easier to deal with. "Make is simple for me to understand so I can spend my time on better things." It's why we have grown so attached to headlines and don't read the full length of the articles. And this further impairs our intelligence because we only know small facts that may not be the whole story and we piece little tidbits together and feel like we are cultured or full of world knowledge.
People need to be more concerned with learning, I honestly don't care what you learn about but it should be a goal to learn something new every day, something that you can maybe use in the future, or interests you but it should be fully understood. It is my personal goal to learn something every day, and I try to teach people something new every day too. So as I increase intelligence I also help people to increase their's! I think it's important.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Under Pressure?
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Why does the Film Industry Alter Good Books or Comics with the Assumption That They Will Make More Money?
Another example of this that really bothered me was watching the movie Watchmen. I went out of my way to avoid watching it before I finished the graphic novel and i thought it was an amazing comic! The characters have all of their own stories which all fall into each of the other characters stories as well. And the end was great. It made sense, and worked. When i finally got around to renting the movie and watching it I was shocked that it has such difference in it. For one thing, Night Owl in the comic is nerdy 100% of the time, he is awkward, and very scientifically oriented. His costume even looks goofy and he isn't this buff young man, he is probably in his late 30s, and he is a complete and utter dork. When you watch the movie, he has his dorky side when he is not in costume, but once he is in costume he completely loses his dorky side and he is this masculine, buff, hero who wears this costume that is black and accentuates his muscles. The only thing that reminds you of an owl when you see him in the movie is his helmet/mask/hood type thing. In the comic he literally looks like an owl. Then in the end, the movie had a completely different ending from the novel, and apparently it was because they felt that audiences would get upset if they destroyed New York City.
Going beyond the comic realm, Eragon was completely defiled by the movie industry. They took this awesome book that was, granted, very long, but every part of the book was needed for the rest to make sense, and the special effects were seriously lacking in order to pull of the final battle in Farthen Dur. Major key elements of the whole time Eragon spends there that affect him in the later novels were missing. Also the turning point in the battle revolved around the breaking of the huge Star Rose or Star Sapphire, that was treasured and important to the dwarf mountain, not only as a piece of beauty, but as a symbol for the time of the dragon riders, and how the breaking of the sapphire symbolized a changing of the times again.
It is rare that you will ever find a movie that can do justice to a written work. Many Nicholas Sparks novels are often done in film extremely well. However that is because they are written mostly with the essence of true life and reality, and they read like a movie which tends to be rare of most novels. However, in the grander scheme of things, the films are usually not as bad as people make them out to be. If you hadn't read the book or known the comic, then the movie is able to stand on it's own. Although i do agree with you Kevin, they totally ruined Deadpool.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Stereotype of the Nerd
In my last Rhetoric and writing class we spent the time discussing the concept of what being a 'nerd' means. We all essentially came to the conclusion that being a nerd, in today's society, means that the person has to have an extreme pursuit of something they are interested. Musicians are nerds because they have such a deeper knowledge of the way music and their instrument works, making them a music nerd. Athletes are nerds because they have an extreme passion and knowledge about "the game". Think about any subject or area of interest and the people who do well are the nerds of their field because they have a passion. Society doesn't see these people as nerds, and we don't label them as such because 'nerd' has the awful connotation that goes along with social outcast or not having friends. But on the contrary, the people who are nerds in areas that are not directly linked to science and math usually become very popular and sometimes even famous.
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Monday, September 5, 2011
Is the Editor Right?
Recently I wrote an article for the newspaper that our church publishes, and I thought the article was great. It had the exact emotion that I wanted and my opinions were very clear and well thought out and developed. It read like an educated person had written the article. Now granted it was a bit long, but it was talking about two events that I have a great passion for and had a moving experience with. That was extremely clear from the article. I expected some editing or revisions of the article. Maybe some information that wasn't exactly necessary or pertinent could be deleted but I did not expect what was actually published. There were multiple sentences that do not even mean the same thing because they reference totally different events. The outcome was that my well developed, articulate and coherent article turned into a choppy article that sounded like someone who was just learning how to write complete sentences wrote it. Let's just say the final product did not sound like me at all, maybe a robotic version of me, but that was even cutting it close.
So I am posing the question: Is it okay for an editor to fully edit a piece of work and then sign the authors name without allowing the author to have sufficient time to revise the new edition?
My opinion is that it's wrong, and I honestly would have rather had him not print or publish my article because he had not heard back from me in time for the issue, than sign my name below an article that I can no longer say I wrote.
So here is the Article that I originally wrote:
As my school year ended and I graduated, and finally the summer was here I found myself with the opportunity to travel to Minnesota for the Episcopal Youth Event! This is an event that invites teenagers who range from freshman to seniors in high school, from every diocese in the United States and some provinces like the Dominican Republic with their chaperons to gather in an environment where they can explore their faith and beliefs without the pressures of their peers, or society. I was lucky enough for this summer’s trip to be my second time, and I was able to look at the workshops being offered each day and choose ones that weren't necessarily fun (most were anyways) but were something I could learn from. My first workshop was about finding your voice in the church. As a teenager in general it’s rare that my opinions or ideas are legitimately heard and actually taken into consideration but during this workshop I was taught how I can be a voice that is heard and listened to within the church. The biggest point that was brought up was our relationship with adults. Most of the adults I know usually don’t take teenagers very seriously, for a lot of reasons, and don’t get me wrong often times those reasons can be correct, however, even if those reasons may sometimes be accurate, when given the opportunity to rise to the occasion almost every teenager or child will meet or exceed the standard or request you have given to them. This being said the workshop made it very clear that in order to be taken seriously by adults we must act and have the respect of the adults which we are working with essentially “when in Rome do as the Romans do” kind of mind set. I learned about Diocesan Convention, General Convention, and many other formats where the voice of the children could be heard in order to keep the Episcopal Church alive. After this workshop I went back to my group and was so excited and energetic about the whole “having a voice” concept that the whole Rhode Island Delegation was talking about it, or rather listening to me talk a lot about it. However, the whole group got a lot out of my constant yammering and they want to create a Diocesan Youth Council! Later that week we also heard a speaker name Rodger Nishioka, who said, “Children aren't the future, they are the now!” and I hope you all think about that if you would like to hear his speech please go to this YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtMaFGcNau8 I highly recommend it, and I think I can speak this one time on behalf of not only the delegation who went to EYE with me but also on behalf of the other 1,300 participants who attended the Episcopal Youth Event this year!
Here is the article that was published and my name was signed under: