The Joy Of Giving

Now that Adopt-A-Family is over I was just thinking about how great it is that our school can do so much for people on Christmas. But then I was wondering how my advisory and so many others in my school got all of that money to pay for those numerous families to have a good Christmas. I remember how our school sold puppy chow like crazy and had bake sales everyday outside of the cafeteria. The thing that I mostly had a problem with was, why people devoted so much time and money to this cause. Is it because they felt good after they were done? Because they got something out of it? or is it our school trying to cover up because we don't want to look like rich and wealthy people that don't help anyone else? I do believe all of these reasons to exist. I think that it's such a huge thing at our school because we don't want to look selfish and because our school is so big, we can get a lot done, and help a lot of people. People wouldn't just give you money if you said you needed it for Adopt-A-Family, that's why you need to sell them something, and then you have more of a chance, and they can walk away happy and proud that they contributed. Meanwhile you can be proud because you made some one's holiday that more enjoyable. 

Is Monopolization Good Or Bad?

Everyone likes to have the best and no one likes to have to pick from too many things, so why wouldn't monopolization be a good thing? Having one company buy out a competing company is a bad idea, because the company that bought it wouldn't have anything to compete against anymore. The bought out company could have made a fortune, but that doesn't mean that this is a good thing for the people. If the companies aren't competing then technology might not improve. If eventually only one company rules all then they have the right to adjust the prices to whatever they see fit. So Monopolization really isn't the way to go. 

Wow! That's Something You Don't See Everyday!

When tragedies and epidemics start, television shows are created to give their audience a time in the day to get the stressful times out of their minds. Sounds about right, don't you think? While everyone was running around not knowing what to do during the AIDS epidemic that's when vampire movies started to spring up. Since many people today are worrying about the war on terror, They have many television shows about the government and trying to bring them down, as in 24. So if people are trying to get their minds off of what's happening in the world around them, why are directors making so many of the same shows?

What Seems To Be The Truth

Remember in fourth grade, we learned about Rosa Parks? Well, it turns out that the story you were taught happened to be a bit over exaggerated. I remember being taught that she was a poor old African American woman who just got off a hard days work and was fed up with sitting on the back of the bus. Then out of nowhere, a scary white man told her she had to move. When she wouldn't that's when things got wild and people basically started the civil rights movement. The truth of the story is that she really wasn't an old women, she was in her forties and she didn't really pick a seat in the front, it was just that she was a minority and majority race got priority seating. This was also planned, it wasn't her just "having enough." It certainly wasn't the first time that someone refused to be treated second class, referring to the bus boycott in Louisiana. Event though the story was exaggerated quite a bit, I think that it's better that way, because it gave people the perspective that anyone could do it. If they knew that Rosa Parks was a secretary of the NAACP and had planned everything for so long, then maybe not as many people would have acted out.

Mister King Today

If Martin Luther King Jr. read his speech in today's time, what would be the outcome? What would people think about it? I believe that if he was to read the exact words today, "I Have A Dream" people would look at him as if he was high. People today believe that we are all created equal and some even convince themselves that we don't notice race and all live peacefully. When Martin Luther King Jr. read his speech. African Americans were forced to sit on the back of the bus, made famous by Rosa Parks. They weren't treated equally and they had no rights. Martin Luther King Jr's speech gracefully shed light on what needed to be improved and for the most part it has. We all share water fountains and sit where ever we wish on the bus, but is that enough? When it comes to getting a job, a lot of people still might not hire someone for their race. I think that with Barack Obama being president, people will think a lot less about race and there will be more equal opportunities.

Forrest Gump, meet Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is about a boy that is born old and eventually dies young. He meets this girl that he falls in love with when he is 10, but he looks like he is 60. This movie is great, it feels like a life long movie however.
A movie that I would compare it to would be Forrest Gump. Forrest never actually matures in his brain to that of an adult man. He is however present in many historical moments, including the war in Vietman. I compare this movie to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, because Benjamin was born on the day World War I ended, and then served in World War II, on a tug boat where him and his shipmates drown a Japanese submarine. Forrest Gump falls in love with this hippie that wants to be a musician but ruins her life with drugs. Benjamin Button falls in love with a dancer that almost makes it big, but ends up getting hit by a car and ruining her dreams. These movies are alike in so many ways, the movies are mostly about the main characters entire life and is told by a story.

Should Obama Close Guatanamo Bay?

I don't think that he should completely close it down. I think that he should watch over it and make sure that people are safe there and aren't being treated unconstitutionally. If you capture someone in battle and they haven't done anything bad yet, but they are trying to every chance they get, then you have to put them somewhere to protect the citizens of The United States.