Thursday, March 27, 2014

favorite place - Personal narrative

Ready to get off the bus from a long day of school. As i arrive to my stop, i hurry while i'm walking down my street as every second the cold wind hits me. Walking down my drive way and make my way to the door. Once inside i feel at peace now that i am now in my home. I quickly throw bag some where and headed my to the living room. I jumped and sunk into the couch cushions. Now that i'm here what should i do? I see my laptop should go on that? I look ahead i see the T.V. should i watch television. My stomach growls, instinctively i look at the kitchen near me. Should i get something to eat? But i am so cozy and fitted on to the couch that i don't want to move from my spot. After lying on the couch for a while i also just remembered that i have a huge assignment to do thats due tomorrow. But ill just leave it on the side because my laptop looked more tempting than that. I decide to make myself something to eat after i couldn't stop bearing my growling stomach. I take my food back to the living room and put netflix on my laptop. I take my first bite and start scrolling thought the browser and stopped on Wilfred (thats a funny show) and saw that there is a new season so i decided to watch it. Hours pass by and now have reached the 12th episode where Wilfred looses his memories and does not remember Ryan. I am back not knowing what to do and its 7:00 and realizes that i have tons of homework. I take my assignments out from bag and placed them all on my coffee table all scattered. i'm looking through checking on which i think i should do first. I decide i should go for the harder ones and save the easy ones for last. After agonizing finishing my last homework that only took me like six hours to do. I go back to laying on my couch. My living room is always a place where i could look forward on tough days.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Crisis in Ukraine

From Kyivpost, I found out that the EU (European Union) has froze the assets of 18 former high-level officials, including fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has accused Yanukovych and his accomplices of using up to $70 billion and leaving the state treasury virtually empty. 
From alijazeera, I found out that Ukraine is near bankruptcy and many countries are sending aid packages. Such as the European commission sent in a $15 billion aid package and the US is sending an additional $1 billion for Ukraine. 
From these two sources that found are focusing on the problems that Ukraine is facing and how these problems are going to be solved.
I noticed that in the american sources (BBC) that they have news on every bit of detail that is happening on whats happening between Ukraine and Russia. Right now Russia close ties with the UK and the EU. The BBC has information on what Russia's reasons and a claimed attentions for taking Crimean. BBC also has information on Russia's and Ukraine's current status. 
How i see it is that America resources are trying to get all the information so that people of america know exactly what is going on and why it is going on and the other two sources that i found are only focusing on certain issues that they want the people to know.
Also from reading from sources i found that they are trying to pin point the other side is wrong and that they are correct on what they are doing. For example, Russia is going into Crimea because they believe it is right for them to protect their citizens there and which gives them the opportunity to take control of that area. While Ukraine and other countries believe what Russia is doing is unnecessary for them to intervene with Ukraine at its current state.  Every source has a different view on everything and none of them are the wrong or right way.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Rich people

If you were a rich person your responsibilities are a lot easier because you can use the large sums of cash you have to get whatever you need to do. If you are wealthy a road is opened filled with luxuries that the rich can buy with their money. Compared to the poor they don't have to worry about stuff being too expensive to buy or caring about how they spend their money as they have so much of it. If you look at most wealthy people you notice that they have so many unnecessary things that they bought. For example how many of them have unbelievable large mansions as homes. I don't think is it that necessary for one to need a home of that size. If you were poor you always on alert on how you are going to pay your upcoming bills and fretting about how you are going to come up with the money all the time. I also have to admit that maybe the rich do have a lot of responsibilities now that I think about it. If I were to look at it from their point of view, I must say that the effort they put in to bring themselves to the wealthy state they have gain must have been very difficult. As they had to have the responsibility to manage the company or what ever occupation they have in order to achieve that success. They probably have a lot of responsibility if they were a very big well know C.E.O. who has to manage the company and all of its employees. The rich also bear the responsibility on how to maintain wealthiness in order to keep all of the luxuries they have now. This argument can really go both ways. As the rich who were born into wealthiness, are already have the money and does not need to have earned themselves I would say that they bear very little responsibility. They would have the good life since the day they were born and be use to having the easy life. 

Friday, December 6, 2013

testing out the tangles

The difference between responsibility and obligation is that responsibility is where you as a person takes matters in your own hands and control it. Responsibility is like your duty or goal that you must fulfill and is required of you to do. Obligation is something that you also must do and fulfill the task. Obligation is a little different as you are making commitment. Making a commitment means that you, yourself are setting guidelines for yourself to follow. To make a commitment is for you to do the task no matter what is thrown in your way and you will fulfill the task with no excuses. Responsibility is something put on you an obligation is something you who put it on yourself.

Social responsibility is an obligation. It is a responsibility that is put upon you by another individual or organization. Also it is an obligation as you must make it to a commitment for yourself. It is a duty that you are responsible and obliged to do. Responsibility requires that you must be committed on following up on every responsibility that you have given to you.

My responsibility in society is to act like a humane person and act normal and follow every law that is enforced. I am expected to be friendly, reliable, honest, truthful by my friends. I am expected from my siblings is that I must be the best brother to them. My responsibility to my parents is that I must become a person who they could respect. My responsibility to the teacher is to be committed to do every task given to me to further my knowledge, be able to achieve all of goals, and be willingly to learn from them. My responsibility to school is to show up. My responsibility to my neighborhood and community is be friendly and respectful. My responsibility to my town and state is by being a good by standing citizen. My responsibility to my race is make everyday a proud full day to be who I am. My responsibility to my religion is to follow it. My responsibility in the government is to care about it. My responsibility to the world is respect it. My responsibility to animals is to care about their well being and respect that they this world with us. My responsibility to humanity is ... I don't know, support it I guess. My responsibility to the environment is to treat it well.
Who is expected to behave responsibly in my family would have to be everyone as everyone has something they must do for the other in it. Who is expected to behave responsible would have to be the teachers and the other adults as they are responsible for all the students in the school. Who is expected to behave responsible in the community would have to be everyone because everyone plays a role in it. Who is expected to behave responsibly in the country would have to be the people and the government.

#15
I think age has a great affect on the conflict between responsibility and desire because as you get older the responsibilities will grow more and the desires may vary on your age. The responsibilities you have are very different from when your a kid compared to you as an adult. As a kid you don't have many responsibilities because at this age your still being protected and raised by your parents. When your at the age where you need to take off and start living alone you now have the responsibility to be able feed youself and protect your self and look after yourself. At this grown up age, all the responsibilities that your parents have for you becomes yours to worry about. The desire you have as a child is different because when I was a little kid all I wanted was to have fun, have some candy and get the newest toys. When your older your desire is to survive and make alot of money to be able to provide for yourself and one day for your very own family. Your gender also takes a role as well. Biologically speaking males responsibility is to protect and provide and be a leader, for females is to protect and raise young ones. Men would desire power and women desire everything. Your class in society can make a big difference such as a rich person and a poor persons desires and responsibilities would be very different. When your poor you take on alot of responsibilities because you have to figure out how your going to feed yourself with the very little money you have, how you are going to pay the bills with the income your making and how your going to do try to make your life easier. Your desire for being at the bottom is wanting on getting on the top fast. If you were a rich person your responsibilites are alot easier because you can use the large sums of cash you have to get what ever you need to do. The desire of a rich person is how can they get even more rich and even more powerful.


 

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Should marijuana be legal?

Should marijuana be legal? I believe that marijuana should be legal as there are more benefits than the bad side effects of the drug. Marijuana has always been downgraded today by the media saying that its bad for you but marijuana have good effects on your physical well-being. There is no strong evidence that marijuana actually causes problems on psychologically and social problems, such as mental illness and school failure. People who smoke marijuana and cigarettes are less likely to get cancer than a person who only smokes cigarettes Marijuana has the potential for health and has many healing benefactors. Which is good for cancer patients or other terminal ill people to use to help fight there suffering. Marijuana affects both sides of the brain in a positive way. The left side of the brain's perception is heightened and the right side of the brain's reception is enhanced. Marijuana can also benefit psychologically as well.  Marijuana has the effect on the body where it relaxes the body and makes one more alert. Marijuana has been a good answer towards for anyone that is going through depression. Which is good for cancer patients or other terminal ill people to use to help fight there suffering. When marijuana is used for a long period of time it results in having the person to have more subtle motives. Marijuana leads to people to be less aggressive. There are currently twenty one  out of fifty states that legalize marijuana, that is almost half the country. With this the processing of marijuana can now be professionally distributed to the public without having the risk of people obtaining tampered drugs especially young teens of this day, also the government has the power to tax the drug and could price it on how they deem seems fit for it. This could lead to having less marijuana being used because of the problem of cost. Legalizing marijuana will lead to having more time to spend on real crimes instead of busting kids with weed. Marijuana is more effective, less toxic, and less expensive than alternative synthetic medicines currently used. There are so many facts that prove marijuana as a huge benefactor on people, society and economically.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

You have a choice

You should really stop taking drugs. If you keep taking and misusing drugs you are going to die. The drugs you're taking will be slowly killing you little by little every day. Every inch of your body will be affected by the side effects of taking drugs. You may feel a slight jolt of excitement for a moment by taking drugs but the price you pay with your will take its toll. As you are now killing off all your vital organs. Soon your lungs will get weaker and weaker and will cease to function and allow you to breathe properly. Your liver will shrivel up and will be rotting inside you. Your brain will now not be able to tell from between reality and hallucinations. Your heart will not be able to take the rush of the drug and will out of now where explode. Taking drugs is a guaranteed death sentence. Not only will drugs affect you but it will affect the people around you. When your under the influence you soon are not able to control yourself from doing things, you well end up doing something very stupid with this you may hurt someone on the run. By taking drugs you will soon start to lie, cheat and steal from the people you love. You will lie to your love ones about the fact that you are still using. You will cheat your self to gain something you don't deserve. You will steal from others in order to pay off for your selfish acts. Taking drugs will corrupt your life. It will a obstacle for you to achieve your goals. Do you think jobs or colleges would want a junkie anywhere near their property? No, because they want someone that is professional and know on how treat their own selves properly. Think about all the people you will be disappointing because of the bad choice you have made. You will never end up being that successful person in life if you keep using drugs. Stop taking drugs or you will be doomed to suffer a horrible life.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Persuasive

Should we as people stay the same and not change or should we keep going forward?

Throughout time and history life and cultures have been constantly changing at a very fast rate. The way we live today is completely different of how people lived centuries ago. As we progress, everything around will be affected as well. If we were to stay the same nothing would be able to improve and get better. We only change to be able achieve. In order to make room for improvement change is very necessary.

Do you think we would be the people we are today if there was never a change of events in history. No, of course not. In this world there are always going to be curious people who are questioning things which will lead to change. For example if people were never curious about what was outside there own surroundings would there still be exploration of other lands and create relations with others in order to make a change? If great explorers never explored and just stayed where they were, great influences on history such as Christopher Columbus finding land on America which was the starting point of colonizing America would never happen. Also change is very important for technology as well. Throughout time people have always been creating new gadgets to make daily chores and life easier. With out change we wouldn't have all these life luxuries such as phones, computers, internet, television, cars, a home and other popular inventions that we use today. Think about it each of these ideas for these inventions started off as way to make life easier and to change. For example the inventor of the phone wanted to make communication between people easier so he created the phone in order people to change from sending telegrams and now to be able to call someone up to contact one another. Change is one of the reasons why we live so long as medical research is always changing, looking for improvements to help humans prolong their lives.

Change is so important because change is the idea of wanting to make a difference on what you do and how you live.