Final blog

"The heroes journey is a journey into the center of yourself"
I honestly have no idea what this means but i have to write about it. I think that this is true for both Luke and Darth Vader because they are supposedly heroes and they have been through a lot. And going through everything and all of the challenges have shown them who they really are. So the journeys that they have been through are also journeys to figuring out who they really are. I think that although this is only a movie, it shows how true life is.People go through difficult challenges and situations that they think they cannot overcome just so it can lead them to figure out who the 'real' them is. And i think thats what Luke and Darth Vader had to do. They had to choose in big situations and make the right choices, they had to pick who they could and couldnt trust and go with their gut feeling sometimes when they didn't know the right answer.And thats exactly what you have to do in real life. I know in the past year i've had to make decisions that i had no idea what to choose, i've been faced with situations that i thought i couldnt handle, but i did. I really screwed up a lot of those times, unlike Luke and Darth Vader, but there in a movie so everything is suppose to work out for them, real life doesnt work that way. But im starting to figure out who i can trust, who i cant, who my real friends are, if the decisions i made are going to work out, and you could say it's kind of like a journy to the center of myself. Im learning things about me that i didnt know and im learning who i am, which is what happend with Luke and Darth Vader.

community service

For Community service I chose to do 3 different things. I worked a booth at the Harvest Festival at Happy Valley Elementry school, was a member of Link Crew for WVHS and also worked on the varsity softball field. Each of these things were entirely different but each of them taught me something meaningful. In the beginning, I wasn't excited about having to do 20 hours of community service, but as I volunteered my time, and now looking back on it, im glad that it was required. It showed me the importance of volunteering and how helping people can truly be rewarding.
The Harvest Festival is an event that i went to when i was younger. It's on Holloween and there are booths, games, prizes, costumes, cake walks, contests and, of course, candy. It's a family event for kids and their parents. I helped Karri Westaby with her booth. It was a volleyball/ basketball booth. I took tickets from the kids and gave them candy. I arrived there early to help set everything up and stayed after to clean up and put everything away. It was cool to see a new generation of kids there because it use to be me and my friends playing the same games and having just as much fun as all of them were.
For my senior year i wanted to be involved in as many extra activities as i could. Me and my friends decided that we wanted to be part of Link Crew and help the incoming freshman. A week before school started, we went in for training. We learned the games that we would play with them and how to talk to them and what to teach them. It was really cool because i remember when i was a freshman and i got to meet my Link Leaders. I looked up to all of them because they were seniors. Now that im a senior, i get to be the one that helps everyone out. I got to meet all different types of freshman that i probably never would have met if i never got involved in Link Crew.
Ive been playing softball since i was a little kid. It's somthing that i love and my life revolves around it. So helping out at the WVHS softball field was more enjoyable for me than anything else. I put up all of the sponsor signes that surround the fence, i dug around the baselines to remove the grass from them. Shortstop has terrible bumps on it, so i leveled that out. I raked by the bleachers and the area we warm up batting. It was a lot of work but when your playing a home game on a field that looks as good as it turned out, your proud to host other schools there. It also makes you appreciate your field more and take better care of it because it's the work that you did.
All of these things taught me lessons that i can carry on with me throughout life. Working at the Harvest Festival taught me how to be dependable. It taught me to be early to things that i am going to and not to leave untill i get the job done. It taught me how to work with the public. Being a member of Link Crew taught me my biggest lessons out of the 3 things. It taught me how to help other people. To be patient with them and to help them without expecting anything in return.Working on the softball field taught me to take care of things that are mine. The softball field is somthing that belongs to our team, and taking care of it makes me realize that i need to to take of the things that i own.

PAKISTAN SCHOOL

People not caring about schoolinPakistan is goingto effect a lot of people. It says most people drop out by 5th grade. How are they ever going to make a living when there older?How will they be able to get a good paying job? They wont, because they'll barley be able to read and write.And thats just boys. Most girls wont even be going to school let alone college. The only people able to go to school are the ones that can afford to send their kid out of the country, which is not that many people.
So i think that in the end, them not really caring about education funds and making school mandatory, is going to screw them over. The kids are the future of this country and if there not getting an education how dumb will their country be? They need to put a little more thought into it.

star wars

In Star Wars, Luke skywalker is the Hero of the movie. His helpers are Han- solo, r2d2, c3fo, and Princess Lea. His Mentore is Obe-wan-kanobe. In the beginning of the movie, Luke doesnt want to save Princess Lea. He doesnt know much about her and he would rather her die than him. But when he hears that she is worth a lot , and he would be getting more then he could imagine if he saved her, he decided to take one for the team and just do it. As their journey kept going, he didnt just see her as somebody he had to save anymore, he started to like her. They both started crushing on eachother. There related, but they dont know it yet.
So anyways, he saves her and they go back to where they came from and everythings good, for now. So by the end of the movie he changed because he becomes more compassionate, nice, stronger and just all the way around, more of a hero.

Family's Fight

This family should defenitly win their legal battle. Pictures like this should have never got out to anyone. The accident was so bad the family was not even allowed to look at it, but millions of people saw these pictures before the family even knew about them. News shows and newspapers arn't even allowed to show these pictures so i dont think that they should be on the internet for millions of strangers to just look over them. Especially for the family, it's a huge tragedy. It was a terrible thing to just have to deal with the accident, but all of this has made their life change drastically. These are personal photos and theres no taking back whats already been done. Even an apology wont change anything. It should have never happend. It says that the family was going through problems with their daughter, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor at age 8, that made her do things she couldnt control, or made her act out without thinking. She then got into cocaine and they think part of it had to do with her brain problems. The day she stole her dads porche and crashed it, she still had cocaine in her system from the last day. She made a mistake, but that doesnt mean that something like this should have ever happend to her or her family. Someone even made a fake myspace of her and said terrible things about her. Someone emailed her dad with the terrible picture and wrote 'woohoo daddy, im still alive' . Like what kind of person would do that. And just think how that must of effected her dad. None of that would of happend if those pictures didnt get out or wernt allowed on the internet.

Earth Day

I agree with the writer of this article. I think that Earth Day is probably an important day because it helps us take care of the world that we live in, but i dont think that people no about it enough. I didnt even no today was earth day. And i dont know what your suppose to do on earth day, so i think we should have more then just an 'Earth Day'. I think that we need to have more days and we need to talk about it more and understand what earth day really is.

The 8 things not to learn in school

Of the 8 things not to learn in school i think that at some point in my life i have expirienced all of them. The one that i am most familiar with would be happy with only getting a 70% on my work. All of my years in school, highschool ecpecially, Ive been content with getting a c on my work. In school, ive always tried hard enough to pass. to get average test scores, average grades, i never really studied for days before a test so i can get an A on it. Ive always just kind of did enough work to get by. But on sports, ive always put in extra work, extra practice. Ive always worked harder then everyone else. So i dont think that this "lesson" of only needing to do 70% has stuck with me. It's just that i apply all my effort to the things that i find important. I happen to find sports the most important thing in my life, which is why i spend so much time on them. In the future, of course im going to put that much effort into my job because it's going to be something i find important.

economic problems

People today are responding to our economic problems in different ways. some people are changing their whole lifestyles. not spending money, conserving food, not eating out. Then there are some people that are just going deeper and deeper into debt and not making in lifestyle changes at all. There are two extremes. My family has changed some things but we havnt really had to change much. we never really spent a lot of extra money or ate out a lot. were just being smarter about our money now. both of my parents and my brother are lucky enough to still have their jobs. It kind of sucks graduating and going to college this year, because it's still as expensive as ever and theres less money.

privacy law

I could be really affected by this because i use Limewire all the time to download my music. But thats the only thing i download. I dont get movies or anything. But i get music off of there daily. If this rule goes into action then im not going to have limewire any more and im going to have to spend a lot more money on Cd's. Then il have to buy a whole Cd where i only like 2 of the songs, but i have to spend 20$ instead of using Limewire and getting the songs that i want for free.
Itellectual property is like Music , art or any thing like that , that is someone elses property

Why Washington worries

I think that Foreign relations are so difficut because first off i think President Bush really screwed us over, so all the Muslims arnt happy with us. We dont treat anyone else with respect because we think that were better then everyone else, so nobody respects us. But i dont think that it's just Bush's fault. I mean, weve been having problems with this way befor he was president, but i do believe that he made it worse instead of helping it.
I think President Obama has the right idea by changing the Foreign Policies around. Even if some people might not think that the choices he is making are good for us, at least hes making changes that could be putting us in the right direction of success. He has a lot of work to do and responsibilities and i think he is doing a good job handeling everything. Not everyone is going to be happy, but at least he is making a change that will help us and not put us in deeper trouble.

immigrants

I think that in order to make the immigrant students assimilate we need to have classes for them to be in. They need to learn english, and if they come to America, they obviously need to learn english because thats what our language is. Thats why people give them trouble, because they come into our country and they dont change there ways.

So, i think that if they learn english people will be less likely to give them trouble. Making special classes for them, will make it worse i think because it will just keep them away from all the students that they are trying to be friends with. Theres a lot of solutions for this problem, its just finding the right one thats difficult.

stem cell research

Yes i think that states should be able to choose what they want to do. government should have the power to choose what they want to do. In the article it says that if you are an individual that believes that a single cell embryo is a person, then you can argue the fact, but as a country, legally, weve never accepted that.
I believe that they need to make the decisions and stick with them. They have research centers to study the problems and causes of all of this, so i think we should let those centers worry about it.

newspapers

I think that the newspapers in begin to fade away in the future and there will be less and less of them untill they are completely gone. I think that most people will get their news from either the internet or on t.v. I get most of my news from the internet beacuse im on it a lot. I only read the new in the newspaper if its about health or sports, but all the other stuff i listen to on the news or read it on the internet.
I'll miss the paper if it's gone because i read the sports section every morning, and on sundays i defenitly read the funnys in there and i wouldnt want to not be able to read them because there really funny a lot of the time.
So i think that they should keep papers around. A lot of people look foward to them every morning, like the old people that read it and drink coffee.

eating disorders research paper

http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/children/teens/eating/277.html
This article talks about the different types of eating disorders. The causes and how they effect different people. It also talks about how to treat them. The name of this article is Eating Disorders: facts for teens. Family Doctor.org. march 9, 2009.Written by familydoctor.org editorial staff.
American Academy of Family Physicians

http://weightloss.suite101.com/article.cfm/break_your_food_addiction
This article talks about one type of an eating disorder, food addiction. It talks about causes , symptoms and treatments.
tracy rose. Break your Food Addiction. Habits of a Food Addict.. march 9, 2009

http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/bulimia-nervosa.cfm
This article talks about the questions, causes and symptoms of an eating disorder called bulimia.Womens health.gov Barbara Wolfe, PhD, APRN, FAAN . The name of this article is bulimie nervosa, frequently asked questions.


http://www.mamashealth.com/anorexia.asp
The name of this article is anorexia. It is about the eating disorder anorexia. It tells you the facts and it also gives you stories that you can relate to.


http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/76241.php
Eating Disorders Among Fashion Models Rising. this article is about how being in the model industry is causing women to be effected with eating disorders, trying to be a size 0 or 2.
Christian Nordqvist wrote this article.

http://www.something-fishy.org/isf/signssymptoms.php
This is a website with a list of symptoms that you can read to see if you could possibly have an eating disorder.Noticing the Signs and Symptoms. Something fishy, a website on eating disorders.

death of the dream

I dont think that we will recover as quickly as we have in the past. I think that a lot of people that live in this area are stupid and they just want to keep spending money that they dont have and there not going to change the way they need to. They think that things will just go back to how they are, they like they always do, without working or changing anything.
The writer thinks that people need to create jobs for themselves. If they dont have degrees or they cant find work anywhere, then they need to make it happen themselves. In the article, it talks about a family that kills pigs, and sells them fresh to other immagrants and mexican families. As disgusting as that is, there a family thats making it work. They didnt go to college and earn a degree, they dont have a lot of options, but there using what they do have and making it work.
The people that are doing jobs like that and working for themselves, are risk takers. and in a time like this, its a scary thing to be taking risks but it's what needs to be done. And i agree with the writer on this. If there arn't any companies that are going to be hiring you, make it happen yourself. stop waiting around. As soon as people figure that out, save their money and start doing what they need to be doing, than i think we can get back to recovery.

research paper

The 3 topis that i want to choose from for my research paper are obesity, marriage and divorce and advertising and body language. All of these subjects interest me. I want to be a personal trainer, so i think learning about obesity would be an interesting topic for me. I could learn about what makes people obese and how to prevent it. Most people in America are suffering from obesity and i want to learn why and hoe to change the cycle.
Marriage and divorce would be cool to learn about because most couples get divorced now. It's common to see people going through divorces and i want to learn the reasons why. My parents are still together and i want to learn how to make a marriage work.
Advertising and body image would be good to talk about because im pretty sure it effects every girl, everywhere. Were always looking at beautiful models thath ave amazing bodies and everything else that we have to live up to. so it would be cool to be able to read and learn about all of that.

budget

This budget is going to effect everyone. It's a $41 billion gap that they are trying to close up. It took them 5 days of nonstop negotiating, and finally they came to an agreement on a budget that raises taxes, cuts into services and borrows far into the future, leaving almost every person in the state effected in some way. At first the plan failed to gain the two-thirds majority approval required by California state law to pass through the legislature.
Finally in the end, they made a few compromises to satisfy the needs of the republicans.The budget contains $15 billion in spending cuts, $12.8 billion in temporary tax increases, $11.4 billion in new borrowing, and the creation of a $1 billion reserve fund. The intention is that if the state receives anticipated federal funds, the borrowing will be reduced by half, some of the tax increases will be trimmed and some cut spending would be restored.
The new taxes are set for 2 years for now, but they can extend that to four years at anytime.
so all in all, this does effect us because of the taxes we will have to pay in the next few years.

organ donors

People think they should be able to sell their organs for money. But i dont think they should be able to because, its not like you can sell your blood when you donate it, so if your donating your organs then you should just donate them to be nice.
No nowrman family that needs organs would be able to afford that. And if a child is in need, and it is a life or death situation and there a broke family, a childs life shouldnt depend on how much money their family has.

movie

In 2008 a lot of different movies came out to theaters. They were all different kinds with all different actors. After seeing a lot of those movies my favorite one would have to be twilight. I read 3 out of 4 of the books and watching the movie was really good beacause i was able to match the characters in the movie with the characters in the book.

I think the acting was really good in that movie, and i liked it because it had action in it and romance and in the end, it left you wanting more. Theres more left to the story so you know that a second movie needs to come out. I like all the actors and actresses that were in the movie and i think that they all played their parts really good. i cant wait for it to come out on video so i can buy it, and i hope a second movie comes out soon. but if it does it needs to have all the same characters because its dumb when they get new people in the movies.

A new era of responsibility

President Obama made the remark that this is " a new era of responsibility". With Obama in control now, things will start changing nationally, locally and personaly. Our nation is going through difficult times , and its bringing out the best, and sometimes the worst, in the people of our country. I think that when President Obama made that statement, he meant that in this new era, things are changing. People are losing jobs, its hard to support a family, prices are going up and supply is going down. Its hard to find jobs and its easy to get laid off. So with all of these changes effecting each of us , its time for us to take on a new responsibility. We need to be able to spend our money and time wisely. We need to save what we have and spread it out so it can last. We need to change our lifestyles because the fact is, life isnt the same as it was 5 years ago.


As a nation, the shape that our economy is in right now causes problems for everyone, including large corporations. Large companies are going out of business because they cant make the money to pay their bills. They try to lower their prices, but that just means that they make less money, which means they have to lay off employees because they cant afford to give them a paycheck. which makes our economy fall because they dont have the money to afford anything.


This problem is not only effecting us a nation.Local businesses are not doing as good as they usually are. Locally owned businesses, which is what the majority of people in cottonwood have, are having to close their doors down. People that have supported these shops cant afford to spend their money anymore with prices going up. And this effects me personely because if i need a job, i cant find a place thats hiring. so this problem does not only effect us in one way, it effects everyone, in all different ways

hamlet

Before Hamlets' fathers death , Hamlet was a lonely individual. He lacked energy and was involved in very little. After his father died, he continued to be lonely , but when he found out the reason of his fathers death he became almost insane. He Plotted ways to kill. He was obsessed with getting back at his fathers' murderer.

His fathers muderder was believed to be King Claudius. Also known as Hamlets Uncle. He was so mad that he plotted to kill him, with the help of his fathers ghost. His fathers gohst told him what happend , and what he needed to do.

Hamlet took it into action and first told his mother. His mother thought he was crazy.But he decided to honor his fathers gohst and go on with what he needed to do.