Thursday, December 3, 2009
update
so yeah once again it has been awhile since i have written on here but here is an update of my life!! i have the most wonderfulest new boyfriend who i am so happy with and couldnt ask for a sweet person!! i have amazing friends who i love are in mylife!! this weekend i am looking forward to D-Now that is going on at my church!! it is kinda like a lock down but instead of staying at the church we stay at different homes that our youth paster pick out of us. Me and my best friend are leaders for highschool girls one!! i still dont no who is in my group but i am ready to see what God has in store for us this weekend!! it is going to be hard though being away from my boyfriend because it will be the longest time we have been apart since we started dating and even before that!! plus i cant text either cause our phones(just mine and kacys not the girls) are only used for like something important, not texting!! but im so happy with my life now!! i think God has blessed me with things that i love!! plus thanksgiving was pretty awesome in showing me how greatful i am and thankful for everything in my life!!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Kite Runner: A brief Study Guide
*role of women-
*betrayal- Amir shows big betrayal to his friend Hassan when he does not act to save Hassan when he was being raped and because he did not save him, Amir loses his friendship and makes his father loses his servants/friends and those memories haunt him for the rest of his life. It shows how betrayal is a horrible thing and that people should stand up.
*Brothers- Amir finds out that Hassan is actually his half-brother and it hurts him to know that he betraded his brother. Brotherhood is important in this book.
*Guilt- All through his life Amir feels guilty. His feels guilty for killing his mother during birth and now feels like Baba does not love him because of it and he feels guilty of his past when he does not save Hassan and how he made them leave him and Baba. It eats Amir inside and out and makes him feel like he is never good enough because of his past and he does not deserve a lot. Guilt is an ugly thing in the book
*Redemption
*Journey- Life is a big journey and the choices we make can either make our journey easy or hard.
*Father and Sons- Amir tried his whole life to get the attention from Baba and he only got it when he did something important like win the kite tourament. IN society it is important to have a father and son relationship
*Class distinction- when you go up in a high class like Amir it is hard to see how life really was and because of his father, Amir got out of a lot of trouble like in the class room or with bullies
*Parallelism-
*Character foils- Amir/Hassan, Hassan is a foil of Amir and it shows how Amir is a coward and not loyal when it comes to life and standing up for himself. Hassan alwasy did nice things for Amir and helped him and stood up for him and his self, down to his last breathe. Ali/Baba, Ali is a foil of Baba because we see how a real father should be to his son. Ali loves Hassan like a father should love a son and Baba never really treated Amir like a father should treat a son and Amir had to always fight to get the attention of Baba, Hassan always had the attention of Ali
*Foreshadowing- During the beginning of the book, at the end of the chapters, Amir always foreshadowed something bad was going to happen. Like the end of life in homeland like he knew it. It opened up when Hassan was about to get raped and how Amir never saved him and that ended his childhood is a bad way.
*Flashback-the beginning of the book opens up when Amir is in the United States and and then it flashs back to his childhood. The first half of the book is a big flashback.. PLus all through the book Amir always flashed back to when he watched Hassan get raped.
Setting- 1. It took place when Hitler was in town and he was trying to kill off a lot of people. 2. the culture of Pashtun is very important to everyone and they had to always pray at a certain time. 3. Hazara vs. Pashtun was a lot like Jews vs. Germans and how the germans hated the jews and how they wanted to get rid of them. 4. They lived during a time of poverty and how most people lived days without food and servants, most did anyways 5. There was a big war in Afgan. and it effected a lot of people
5 Minor characters- 1. Farid he is the texi driver who at first does not like Amir and his returnal but once he finds out why Amir really returns he ends up helping him out. 2. Kaka Sharif- Soraya's uncle, who has connections in the INS and helps Amir get Sohrab a visa into the United States. 3. Raymond Andrews- The official at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan who makes Amir realize the difficulties he will encounter if he attempts to adopt Sohrab. 4. Assef- he bullied Hassan and also Amir and ends up really beating Amir. 5. Soraya- Amir's wife and she had a lot was with Amir and helped him a lot and cared for Amir
5 Symbols- 1. The two kite fights is a symbol of Amir and Hassan. 2. The Pomegranate Tree is a symbol of Amir and Hassan's realtionship. 3. Amir's scar after he gets beaten by Assef. It reminds him of Hassan and shows is brotherhood. 4. The slingshots is a symbol of standing up for yourself. 5.
*betrayal- Amir shows big betrayal to his friend Hassan when he does not act to save Hassan when he was being raped and because he did not save him, Amir loses his friendship and makes his father loses his servants/friends and those memories haunt him for the rest of his life. It shows how betrayal is a horrible thing and that people should stand up.
*Brothers- Amir finds out that Hassan is actually his half-brother and it hurts him to know that he betraded his brother. Brotherhood is important in this book.
*Guilt- All through his life Amir feels guilty. His feels guilty for killing his mother during birth and now feels like Baba does not love him because of it and he feels guilty of his past when he does not save Hassan and how he made them leave him and Baba. It eats Amir inside and out and makes him feel like he is never good enough because of his past and he does not deserve a lot. Guilt is an ugly thing in the book
*Redemption
*Journey- Life is a big journey and the choices we make can either make our journey easy or hard.
*Father and Sons- Amir tried his whole life to get the attention from Baba and he only got it when he did something important like win the kite tourament. IN society it is important to have a father and son relationship
*Class distinction- when you go up in a high class like Amir it is hard to see how life really was and because of his father, Amir got out of a lot of trouble like in the class room or with bullies
*Parallelism-
*Character foils- Amir/Hassan, Hassan is a foil of Amir and it shows how Amir is a coward and not loyal when it comes to life and standing up for himself. Hassan alwasy did nice things for Amir and helped him and stood up for him and his self, down to his last breathe. Ali/Baba, Ali is a foil of Baba because we see how a real father should be to his son. Ali loves Hassan like a father should love a son and Baba never really treated Amir like a father should treat a son and Amir had to always fight to get the attention of Baba, Hassan always had the attention of Ali
*Foreshadowing- During the beginning of the book, at the end of the chapters, Amir always foreshadowed something bad was going to happen. Like the end of life in homeland like he knew it. It opened up when Hassan was about to get raped and how Amir never saved him and that ended his childhood is a bad way.
*Flashback-the beginning of the book opens up when Amir is in the United States and and then it flashs back to his childhood. The first half of the book is a big flashback.. PLus all through the book Amir always flashed back to when he watched Hassan get raped.
Setting- 1. It took place when Hitler was in town and he was trying to kill off a lot of people. 2. the culture of Pashtun is very important to everyone and they had to always pray at a certain time. 3. Hazara vs. Pashtun was a lot like Jews vs. Germans and how the germans hated the jews and how they wanted to get rid of them. 4. They lived during a time of poverty and how most people lived days without food and servants, most did anyways 5. There was a big war in Afgan. and it effected a lot of people
5 Minor characters- 1. Farid he is the texi driver who at first does not like Amir and his returnal but once he finds out why Amir really returns he ends up helping him out. 2. Kaka Sharif- Soraya's uncle, who has connections in the INS and helps Amir get Sohrab a visa into the United States. 3. Raymond Andrews- The official at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan who makes Amir realize the difficulties he will encounter if he attempts to adopt Sohrab. 4. Assef- he bullied Hassan and also Amir and ends up really beating Amir. 5. Soraya- Amir's wife and she had a lot was with Amir and helped him a lot and cared for Amir
5 Symbols- 1. The two kite fights is a symbol of Amir and Hassan. 2. The Pomegranate Tree is a symbol of Amir and Hassan's realtionship. 3. Amir's scar after he gets beaten by Assef. It reminds him of Hassan and shows is brotherhood. 4. The slingshots is a symbol of standing up for yourself. 5.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
been a while
so its totally been a while since i have been on here to blog, me and my boyfriend broke up but after looking at it, i am glad because the way he ended up treating me at the end was horrible and i didnt need that in my life but now i found someone else and he treats me like a freakin princess!! i couldnt ask for a better person, no we dont date yet, he did ask me out but i decided that i wanted to wait since me and my ex just got out of a relationship!! everything right now in my life is going well, i have great friends and i really love all of them and i love making new friends!!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
so this weekend was a busy weekend for me, i had the haunted house all week long and that was very much tiring...im glad but sad that it is over with, no more late nights(3 in the morning late nights) and no annoying people and having to be on my knees a lot(they are swollen from that) but im sad that i wont be able to see my friends every night but im sure i will see them outside the haunted house. going on hardly any sleep was no fun for me!! thats for sure!! but all in all this weekend was ok..not the busy because my boyfriend still was being a jerk but ever since we had a talk yesterday, he has done an 180!! which makes me happy...its great to have my boyfriend back with me!! hopefully he will stay!!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
not a happy camper
ok so really!! this weekend was ok for me because i got to hang with my friends and even play come beer pong(i am sooo horrible at that game but i will get better i promise that) and we had an amazing turnout for the haunted house but idk for some reason my crazy butt boyfriend didnt hardly talk to me at all...his phone was dead most of the time or he was with his friends or family...he called only a couple of times and yeah even came down for a few and had lunch with me(only cause he had to come down for the regents test but he didnt have to see me i get that) but monday night i didnt hardly talk to him and today he had to study instead of walk me to my class so right now i am not too happy at my boyfriend...hopefully he will do something sweet to make up for it...he normally does but idk...and it is funny how once a boy i use to like finds out i have a boyfriend..he starts texting me nonstop and what not!!!!! im not happy!!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Compare/Contrast paper
Whoever would have thought that a children’s movie that brightens the lives of many and causes people to smile would be a spinoff of a sixth century dramatic, tragedy play? Both are one in the same in many aspects; however, many never make the connection of the two because the two are written for different purposes. Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, is a play that starts with a horrible event and continues to have terrible events all throughout the play until the very end. It is a tragedy play that is not suppose to make people laugh; however, there is a movie that is written off the play that is suppose to make people laugh, and that children enjoy to watch. It is a famous Disney movie that most people have not seen or have not heard of. Walt Disney’s movie, The Lion King, has a different idea from Hamlet, yet The Lion King and Hamlet both share many character traits, themes, and plots.
At the beginning of Hamlet, in the very first screen, Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father. Hamlet was informed by the ghost about his father’s death and how his uncle killed his father for the kingdom and the queen. The ghost told Hamlet to get revenge on his uncle for the murder and Hamlet agrees to do so. In the Lion King, Simba is also visited by his father’s ghost; however, the ghost does not appear at the beginning of the play and his father’s ghost does not tell Simba who really killed his father. Simba is left alone still thinking that he killed his father, not anyone else. That is one thing that is different from the movie and the book, in the book, the character knows who killed his father and knows it is not him; on the other hand, in the movie, the character blames himself for the murder because he was tricked into thinking he did it by the uncle. Since the ghost of Hamlet’s father visits Hamlet in the beginning of the play and tells Hamlet to get revenge against his father’s murder, the uncle, so Hamlet thinks about revenge throughout the whole play. Simba does not find out who actually murdered his father until the very end of the movie so revenge is not thought about throughout the movie. Simba actually thinks that he is the one that killed his father so he runs away but returns at the end. In both the play and the movie, the uncle ends up killing the king, the brother, for the kingdom. In Hamlet though, Claudius kills the brother for both the kingdom and for the queen. Scar never marries the queen, or wants to marry the queen in The Lion King.
In both the movie and the book, both main characters have two best friends. Hamlet has Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Simba has Timon and Pumbaa; however, the best friends in each the movie and the book are totally different. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ended up turning on their best friend Hamlet and actually turned out just being spies for the uncle, the new king, and the queen, Hamlet’s mother. They watched over Hamlet and reported everything back and sometimes they even tricked Hamlet just as the uncle and Hamlet’s mother had asked them to do. Timon and Pumbaa are true friends to Simba because they supported him and helped him become happy again. When Simba first met Timon and Pumbaa, Simba was very depressed but after hanging with Timon and Pumbaa, Simba was brought back to life. When the battle happened in Pride Rock, Simba’s kingdom, Timon and Pumbaa was right there beside Simba fighting with him even though that was not the kingdom where they lived; they just wanted to help a friend. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern never helped Hamlet at the end when the uncle is murdered. They were never true friends like Timon and Pumbaa were.
Both Hamlet and The Lion King illustrates the timeless theme that avarice is the root of all evil. In the movie as well as the book, the uncles lust for what they cannot have which is the kingdom and as well as the power. However, the uncles’ greed costs them not only the kingdom and power, but their lives as well. The murder of the uncles happens differently in the movie than the book. In the movie, Simba never actually kills his uncle. Simba finds out that it was his uncle that killed his father not him and now Simba is angered with revenge against his uncle. Simba fights with Scar for a while but ends up flipping him off of a cliff where the Hyenas kill Scar, not Simba. In the book, Hamlet kills Claudius himself without any help. Even though the murder happened differently, both uncles still die because they first murdered, and the reason why they first murdered was because of greed and desire of what they could not have. The theme between Hamlet and The Lion King is the main thing these two have in common. That is how the movie was formed. Walt Disney created The Lion King from the theme of Hamlet. Many people will never know that because the two are in two different categories; one is a tragedy play and one is a children’s movie. The two different categories is the main difference between the two.
Two different things, yet one in the same, that is how The Lion King and Hamlet are. Once someone reads the play Hamlet, the comparison is not hard to recognize. Of course with everything in the world, not everything is the exactly the same. There will always be something different between two objects, or subjects. It is pretty easy to see the differences between The Lion King and Hamlet because one is about people and the other is about lions. These two shows everyone that even though they can be totally different, they can be the same at the same time.
At the beginning of Hamlet, in the very first screen, Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father. Hamlet was informed by the ghost about his father’s death and how his uncle killed his father for the kingdom and the queen. The ghost told Hamlet to get revenge on his uncle for the murder and Hamlet agrees to do so. In the Lion King, Simba is also visited by his father’s ghost; however, the ghost does not appear at the beginning of the play and his father’s ghost does not tell Simba who really killed his father. Simba is left alone still thinking that he killed his father, not anyone else. That is one thing that is different from the movie and the book, in the book, the character knows who killed his father and knows it is not him; on the other hand, in the movie, the character blames himself for the murder because he was tricked into thinking he did it by the uncle. Since the ghost of Hamlet’s father visits Hamlet in the beginning of the play and tells Hamlet to get revenge against his father’s murder, the uncle, so Hamlet thinks about revenge throughout the whole play. Simba does not find out who actually murdered his father until the very end of the movie so revenge is not thought about throughout the movie. Simba actually thinks that he is the one that killed his father so he runs away but returns at the end. In both the play and the movie, the uncle ends up killing the king, the brother, for the kingdom. In Hamlet though, Claudius kills the brother for both the kingdom and for the queen. Scar never marries the queen, or wants to marry the queen in The Lion King.
In both the movie and the book, both main characters have two best friends. Hamlet has Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Simba has Timon and Pumbaa; however, the best friends in each the movie and the book are totally different. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ended up turning on their best friend Hamlet and actually turned out just being spies for the uncle, the new king, and the queen, Hamlet’s mother. They watched over Hamlet and reported everything back and sometimes they even tricked Hamlet just as the uncle and Hamlet’s mother had asked them to do. Timon and Pumbaa are true friends to Simba because they supported him and helped him become happy again. When Simba first met Timon and Pumbaa, Simba was very depressed but after hanging with Timon and Pumbaa, Simba was brought back to life. When the battle happened in Pride Rock, Simba’s kingdom, Timon and Pumbaa was right there beside Simba fighting with him even though that was not the kingdom where they lived; they just wanted to help a friend. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern never helped Hamlet at the end when the uncle is murdered. They were never true friends like Timon and Pumbaa were.
Both Hamlet and The Lion King illustrates the timeless theme that avarice is the root of all evil. In the movie as well as the book, the uncles lust for what they cannot have which is the kingdom and as well as the power. However, the uncles’ greed costs them not only the kingdom and power, but their lives as well. The murder of the uncles happens differently in the movie than the book. In the movie, Simba never actually kills his uncle. Simba finds out that it was his uncle that killed his father not him and now Simba is angered with revenge against his uncle. Simba fights with Scar for a while but ends up flipping him off of a cliff where the Hyenas kill Scar, not Simba. In the book, Hamlet kills Claudius himself without any help. Even though the murder happened differently, both uncles still die because they first murdered, and the reason why they first murdered was because of greed and desire of what they could not have. The theme between Hamlet and The Lion King is the main thing these two have in common. That is how the movie was formed. Walt Disney created The Lion King from the theme of Hamlet. Many people will never know that because the two are in two different categories; one is a tragedy play and one is a children’s movie. The two different categories is the main difference between the two.
Two different things, yet one in the same, that is how The Lion King and Hamlet are. Once someone reads the play Hamlet, the comparison is not hard to recognize. Of course with everything in the world, not everything is the exactly the same. There will always be something different between two objects, or subjects. It is pretty easy to see the differences between The Lion King and Hamlet because one is about people and the other is about lions. These two shows everyone that even though they can be totally different, they can be the same at the same time.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
ummm....yeah
so basically this week has not gone the way i have hoped it will go....basically all i need is prayer right now and God by my side to help me get through it!! gosh my life is like a roller coaster, one week it is up and the next it is down!! why am i so confusing, well actually, why is my life so confusing!!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
my weekend
pretty much i had a busy yet fun weekend!! friday and saturday night was filled with screaming and scary people. On the weekends i work at the Underworld Haunted House and it was so fun!! I did end up losing my voice, something i havent been able to do in a while so of course i miss my voice!! but on sunday i got to go to americus and meet my boyfriends parents, and might i add im the first girlfriend he has ever taken home to meet his parents!!) and we went to his church and it was amazing to be with him at his church!! of course next sunday he is with me at my church!! over all i did miss some sleep but it was all worth it to be with friends and my boyfriend!!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
2nd essay in review
Honesty, i struggled a little at this essay. it was hard but not the hardest thing i have ever had to do. I think i am better at like telling stories or something kinda like that like we did in the first essay. It just comes easier to me i guess because i have a creative mind when it comes to things like that. With this essay, even though it is based off my life, i dont feel as connected to it has i did my first. i was nervous on my first essay but on this one i am going to dread getting it back. The advice i would give to a next 1101 student is think really hard about the topic and write about something that you know you can connect to. With all your essays, you need to feel a connection to it and feel proud about it, not worried.
With blogging, i totally forgot to blog on the readers essays that i was assigned to this time. I guess that is why i did not get any comments on mine so i guess i deserve not getting a respond. i do enjoy reading other people blogs and giving adivse because it helps me learn how to improve my writing by reading essays that i enjoy and see how they make their essay enjoyable for the reader. it is also nice to see how people react to my essay before i turn it in. to see if they relate or if they connect to the paper and see how i can improve so they can connect to the paper.
With blogging, i totally forgot to blog on the readers essays that i was assigned to this time. I guess that is why i did not get any comments on mine so i guess i deserve not getting a respond. i do enjoy reading other people blogs and giving adivse because it helps me learn how to improve my writing by reading essays that i enjoy and see how they make their essay enjoyable for the reader. it is also nice to see how people react to my essay before i turn it in. to see if they relate or if they connect to the paper and see how i can improve so they can connect to the paper.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Readers
i changed my paper completely so those who are trying to read my essay it is a new subject, and everything!! it is not finish but i put a rough draft on so i can get comments on it!!
example essay
Everyone has heard the statement, “no one is perfect” and that statement is totally true. Just because people have a label, like Christianity, does not mean right when they become one they become perfect and never do anything wrong ever again. When you are reborn into a Christian, your goal is to follow the example of the perfect one, Jesus, but we will always fail to do so. Even though Christians strive hard to be like Him, we are still sinners which cause us not to be perfect.
My life is a perfect example of how Christians are not perfect. One thing is I am horrible sometimes at telling the truth. Perfect people, like Jesus, never lie. Lying is a sin. When I get put into a problem, like with my parents, I lie to get out of trouble. One time my friend and I got caught sneaking out of her house. Her parents ended up telling my parents of course and I got into a lot of trouble. When confronted about the situation, I did not want to get ground so I made up a total different reason why we did it. The real reason why we snuck out was because we really wanted to go to a party that we were told not to go to; I told my parents it was because we went to the party but just to get a friend who was drunk and we did not want her to drink and drive. I knew my parents would be proud that I did something bad for something good so that is why I lied. I did not get into as much of trouble as I should have been. As a Christian, we are taught that in order to more like Jesus, we should always be honest but in reality it is hard to do so because lying comes so easily. Why tell the truth and get into a lot more trouble when you can tell a little white lie and get off easy? That thought keeps Christians, like me, from striving to be perfect.
Another reason that stops me from being perfect, as well as other Christians, is always doing the right thing. Take the saying, “take the high road, not the low road,” that saying is so much easier said than done for everyone. Christians are told to forgive everyone who has done wrong to us and continue loving then. When someone hurts you in a way that words cannot describe, it is very hard to forgive that person. When I was in high school, I had a boyfriend for two and a half years on and off and he broke me down. He talked bad about me to my face, he called me names, and just made me feel lower than low. Trying to forgive him is the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my entire life. I am still really hurt and mad at him for everything he did to me but I am trying real hard to forgive him, even though he does not deserve it. It is a challenge but being perfect in the eyes of God is always going to be a challenge and you are going to have to face the hardest challenges without your spiritual life, liking forgiving the wrong.
The most important reason why Christians are not perfect is because we have a selfish mind. Everyone thinks about him or herself before others. As a Christian, you are supposed to put others before yourself without any questions. I try to do that every day but I will always, at the end of the day, think about myself. Throughout the bible, it is quoted that people on earth think only about themselves and that keeps them from becoming closer to God. Insert bible verse. In God’s eyes, we are put here to serve one another on this earth. How can someone serve another if he or she is always thinking about him or herself? It just does not work out like that. My church is involved with a lot of service projects which start early in the morning, and I enjoy my sleep so instead of thinking about the people that my church is helping out, I think about myself and how much I need my sleep and I do not attend. I do not get to do my job that God has sent me here to do. We are servants. Servants think about the masters before anything else. Christians need to do the same so we can become more perfect in the eyes of Jesus.
Christians have a long way to go before they can be even close to perfect. The honest fact is that no one will ever become perfect. There has only been one perfect person who has ever walked this earth and that is Jesus, and no one can ever be like Him, no matter how hard we strive and work. Sin is in us and there is nothing we can do but realize that and ask for forgiveness and learn from our mistakes. That is what separates Christians from everyone else. We have forgiveness for our sinners. We learn from our sinners. We may not be perfect, we may sin a lot but we will always have the love and blood of Christ to renew us and a reason to strive to be perfect.
My life is a perfect example of how Christians are not perfect. One thing is I am horrible sometimes at telling the truth. Perfect people, like Jesus, never lie. Lying is a sin. When I get put into a problem, like with my parents, I lie to get out of trouble. One time my friend and I got caught sneaking out of her house. Her parents ended up telling my parents of course and I got into a lot of trouble. When confronted about the situation, I did not want to get ground so I made up a total different reason why we did it. The real reason why we snuck out was because we really wanted to go to a party that we were told not to go to; I told my parents it was because we went to the party but just to get a friend who was drunk and we did not want her to drink and drive. I knew my parents would be proud that I did something bad for something good so that is why I lied. I did not get into as much of trouble as I should have been. As a Christian, we are taught that in order to more like Jesus, we should always be honest but in reality it is hard to do so because lying comes so easily. Why tell the truth and get into a lot more trouble when you can tell a little white lie and get off easy? That thought keeps Christians, like me, from striving to be perfect.
Another reason that stops me from being perfect, as well as other Christians, is always doing the right thing. Take the saying, “take the high road, not the low road,” that saying is so much easier said than done for everyone. Christians are told to forgive everyone who has done wrong to us and continue loving then. When someone hurts you in a way that words cannot describe, it is very hard to forgive that person. When I was in high school, I had a boyfriend for two and a half years on and off and he broke me down. He talked bad about me to my face, he called me names, and just made me feel lower than low. Trying to forgive him is the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my entire life. I am still really hurt and mad at him for everything he did to me but I am trying real hard to forgive him, even though he does not deserve it. It is a challenge but being perfect in the eyes of God is always going to be a challenge and you are going to have to face the hardest challenges without your spiritual life, liking forgiving the wrong.
The most important reason why Christians are not perfect is because we have a selfish mind. Everyone thinks about him or herself before others. As a Christian, you are supposed to put others before yourself without any questions. I try to do that every day but I will always, at the end of the day, think about myself. Throughout the bible, it is quoted that people on earth think only about themselves and that keeps them from becoming closer to God. Insert bible verse. In God’s eyes, we are put here to serve one another on this earth. How can someone serve another if he or she is always thinking about him or herself? It just does not work out like that. My church is involved with a lot of service projects which start early in the morning, and I enjoy my sleep so instead of thinking about the people that my church is helping out, I think about myself and how much I need my sleep and I do not attend. I do not get to do my job that God has sent me here to do. We are servants. Servants think about the masters before anything else. Christians need to do the same so we can become more perfect in the eyes of Jesus.
Christians have a long way to go before they can be even close to perfect. The honest fact is that no one will ever become perfect. There has only been one perfect person who has ever walked this earth and that is Jesus, and no one can ever be like Him, no matter how hard we strive and work. Sin is in us and there is nothing we can do but realize that and ask for forgiveness and learn from our mistakes. That is what separates Christians from everyone else. We have forgiveness for our sinners. We learn from our sinners. We may not be perfect, we may sin a lot but we will always have the love and blood of Christ to renew us and a reason to strive to be perfect.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Lighting
once again i am going to blog about lighting due to the fact that last night was sooo scary cause of all the lighting!! the major lighting started when i was at gymnastics practice at my church...and we all were hoping the lighting would stop and just the rain would keep up. we all hoped wrong. i am so scared of lighting...like to the max so having to drive home in that was no fun whatsoever!! I think i prayed like 50 times before i finally got home!! having the sky light up while driving might be cool to some people but not me!! once i got home i ran inside and started eating dinner!! then like five mins after getting home, my sisters tv was hit but lighting. i think my sister had like a heart attack when that happened cause it scared her like crazy!! the lighting finally stopped like at 11:30, thats when i went to bed cause i cant sleep without my tv on(i hate the silence) and i was too scared to turn on my new tv with my sisters just got hit so i waited til everything stopped then pasted out!! what a crazy night it was indeed!!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
If i could party all night and sleep day and throw all of my problems away, my life would be easy, my life would be easy!!
ok so basically my weekend was amazing!! friday night, after going to my old highschool football game, i drove up with milly with my friend and her new boyfriend. i havent seen my friend in forever so it was nice to hang with her at the football game and see all my old friends from school. after the game we drove to milly to meet up with another one of our friends. she goes to GMC and she has an apartment so we chilled there all weekend long. That was my first time in milly, kinda, i went there for a band camp one time at GCSU but that doesnt count, i didnt get the chance to drive around milly so hanging there for a weekend with two of my close friends from highschool was pretty much freakin amazing!! Course we went out and partyed all night and just to clear things up, my title is a song from the black eye peas, its called "party all the time" and that was our theme song for the weekend cause it pretty much was true!! and plus i got to watch my first college football game, we watched UGA beat USC!! so all in all i had an amazing weekend and i cant wait to do it again!! and party even more!!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Questions answered
My greatest challenge with this writing assignment was just the writing period. Coming up with the topic wasnt that hard for me cause my mind thinks of the weirdest things ever so coming up with topics is never really that hard for me. Writing the essay was the hardest part cause i am so scared that i am not the best writer ever so i dont do well on the writing part. i scare myself into having a lot of errors in my paper. The editing, as the everyone and the teacher could tell, was rough. Without all the editing errors i believe my paper would be really good and that i would be a great writer but i just cant get pasted the editing!!
When i got to read other people's blogs i gained ideas on how to improve my own. When i read the blogs that i enjoyed to, i saw how they wrote them and how into the writing they were and i tired to copy that into my writing after i started editing. The more emotional blogs were better, or more enjoyable to read so i tried to make my essay more enjoyed instead of a boring paper to read. Commenting on other people's essays makes me really pay attention to everything in the paper. So the next time i write a paper i remember the editing problems the people had and i try to not make the same. i learn from other people. i enjoy learning from other people!!
When i got to read other people's blogs i gained ideas on how to improve my own. When i read the blogs that i enjoyed to, i saw how they wrote them and how into the writing they were and i tired to copy that into my writing after i started editing. The more emotional blogs were better, or more enjoyable to read so i tried to make my essay more enjoyed instead of a boring paper to read. Commenting on other people's essays makes me really pay attention to everything in the paper. So the next time i write a paper i remember the editing problems the people had and i try to not make the same. i learn from other people. i enjoy learning from other people!!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
rainy day
the rain is just so relaxing to me. I have never met someone who loved the rain just like me. To play or dance in the rain just gives me an overall happiness and just excites very bone in my body. to feel the rain against me is so refreshing. My dream kiss is even in the rain. This morning i woke up to the rain and i was so excited but once i heard the lighting and hearing the thunder shortly after i wasnt happy anymore. I am so scared of thunder and lighting, always have been and always will be. Its weird that with one one you can love and hate it at the same time. I love it when it rains but 80% of the time with rain comes thunder and lighting which i hate!! I do wish it would rain today when i start walking to my car, that way i can have a reason to dance in it!! i have that really long walk!! I do hate driving in the rain though!! i just like to dance, play, and one day kiss in the rain!! and sleep!! a rainy night(without thundering and lighting) just puts me to sleep!!
Saturday, September 5, 2009
confusion
why do people we dont like like us but the people we like never like us...every once blue moon people get lucky...i lucky...and actually have someone who i like like me. it just confuses me how the world works sometimes. there is someone at my work, he is cute, a BIG partier but i can handle that, and believe it or not sometimes he has a sweet side, not to mention the biggest, perfect smile ever!! but he wont make a move cause im the "boss's daughter" and people are scared that if they make me mad they will lose their job. honestly...i love being the boss's daughter but i still like to be treated like just another worker there by the other workers!! they are scared to talk to me or hang out cause that makes them think they might lose their job!! it stinks!! i just dont no what to do sometimes, i wish they would see that even though i am the boss's daugther and that wont change that im still a normal person here to work!! and to be told that is the only reason why they wont make a move stinks ever more!! life really does confuse me sometimes!!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
my essay
Trouble
As I was stepping towards the front door, I felt like my heart would jump out of my chest and just scream bloody murder. I was scared out of my mind. I never thought that something like this would happen to me. I thought I would be smarter. I had to face the music sometime though; the other alterative was not an opinion to me. Finally, I just manned up and opened to the door and stepped into my worst nightmare.
My parents were sitting in our living room doing their normal activities. Dad, sitting on the huge chair that he loved more than anything, was on the laptop, working of course, while mom was reading a book about parenting on the couch. Great was all I could think about; maybe that book would have all the answers. As I walked to the hallway about to go up the stairs, hoping they did not see me pass by, I was not ready, I heard my father say, “How was your day daring?” As I turned back to the living room, suddenly my knees gave out on me, my palms got amazingly sweaty, and that white, huge room seemed as small as I was. Without even thinking, I just blurted it out; “I’m pregnant!”
The light coming in from our window-walled living room changed from the shinning, golden sun to the light from the lamp on a detective’s desk. As I stood there with no words to say, I waited for their response. I was dripping sweat of fear, and it felt like time had frozen. From the corner of my eye, I saw my mom’s face drop into her hands with despair while my dad’s face changed into the brightest, reddest, red I have ever seen in my entire life. As dad stood up from the chair, throwing the laptop into it, he just started yelling many questions like, “What do you mean? How could this have happen? Who is the stupid, little boy who got you pregnant?” My mom was quiet still. I started to cry. I could not hold it in anymore. I decided I would answer one question at a time. “I’m pregnant Dad” is the only way I thought to answer that first question. He should know how I got pregnant consider him and mom gave me the bird and the bee talk when I was ten, which was only six years ago, but I did not want to seem like a smart butt at a time like this, so I decided I would combine the second and the third answer together. “His name is Tyler dad” I started off. “He is in my third block with me. He is the head football star, the quarterback, and I fell for what he was saying.”
Just the mention of his name made me think back when all this happened. I was at my locker minding my own business like I normally do when he came up to me. I could not believe it at first. Why would the head football star come up to me, the shiest girl in school, and just start a conversion? I did not hang with the popular crowd like him, so it threw me off. His smooth, shinny hair, not one out of place, and his perfect smile and his deep blue eyes I could just swim in made me go into a state of mind I had no clue on how to get myself out of. With his deep voice he asked me what I was doing after school and maybe if I could tutor him in math, the class we had together. Of course without even thinking I answered yes. I was like a giddy little kid. We talked for a few more minutes than the bell rang and we had to go to our next class. Well I guess anyone could guess what happened after that. One thing led to another and here I am now, telling my parents about the baby I was going to have.
Finally my mom spoke but she was so quiet that with all my dad’s noises in the background, I could hardly hear her. “Have you thought about another opinion” she asked. I knew they would ask that. My parents and I had different beliefs about this subject. I was more pro-life while they were more pro-choice. “No mother, you know how I feel about abortion. I will not do it.” She just sat there again while dad started screaming again. “I thought you were smarter than that Alex. I thought you knew when to say no.” The thing is I did know when to say no. I could have never told my dad that I wanted it happen. I was the shy, skinny girl that no one paid attention to. I thought I was ugly. To have someone as amazing as Tyler to want to do that with me, it made me feel beautiful, like I was someone special. I just thought that I could not get pregnant. I thought that I was different from all the other teenage mothers. I thought I could not get pregnant with my first time. “I’m sorry Dad, I am your baby girl and I failed you, and I failed you too Mom. Please, I need the support of my parents to get through this.” Dad was still standing; however, he went from yelling to speechless. Finally Mom rose and gave me the biggest hug I could have ever answered for. The kind of hug only a mother could give. As she squeezed me into her body, my face was up against her hair and I could smell her hair. It smelt like flowers still in the field. It felt like we had become one. My pain was her pain. In that one powerful hug, I suddenly knew everything was going to be ok. I was protective. As I lifted my head from my mom’s shoulder, I looked at my dad and our eyes met. Before I knew it, my dad was hugging both my mom and me. Both of us fit into his arms. In that family hug, I felt more loved then I have ever felt my entire life. No one, not even Tyler, could ever make me feel more loved then I felt in that one simple hug. Trouble had hit me, but my family would fight with me until the end.
As I was stepping towards the front door, I felt like my heart would jump out of my chest and just scream bloody murder. I was scared out of my mind. I never thought that something like this would happen to me. I thought I would be smarter. I had to face the music sometime though; the other alterative was not an opinion to me. Finally, I just manned up and opened to the door and stepped into my worst nightmare.
My parents were sitting in our living room doing their normal activities. Dad, sitting on the huge chair that he loved more than anything, was on the laptop, working of course, while mom was reading a book about parenting on the couch. Great was all I could think about; maybe that book would have all the answers. As I walked to the hallway about to go up the stairs, hoping they did not see me pass by, I was not ready, I heard my father say, “How was your day daring?” As I turned back to the living room, suddenly my knees gave out on me, my palms got amazingly sweaty, and that white, huge room seemed as small as I was. Without even thinking, I just blurted it out; “I’m pregnant!”
The light coming in from our window-walled living room changed from the shinning, golden sun to the light from the lamp on a detective’s desk. As I stood there with no words to say, I waited for their response. I was dripping sweat of fear, and it felt like time had frozen. From the corner of my eye, I saw my mom’s face drop into her hands with despair while my dad’s face changed into the brightest, reddest, red I have ever seen in my entire life. As dad stood up from the chair, throwing the laptop into it, he just started yelling many questions like, “What do you mean? How could this have happen? Who is the stupid, little boy who got you pregnant?” My mom was quiet still. I started to cry. I could not hold it in anymore. I decided I would answer one question at a time. “I’m pregnant Dad” is the only way I thought to answer that first question. He should know how I got pregnant consider him and mom gave me the bird and the bee talk when I was ten, which was only six years ago, but I did not want to seem like a smart butt at a time like this, so I decided I would combine the second and the third answer together. “His name is Tyler dad” I started off. “He is in my third block with me. He is the head football star, the quarterback, and I fell for what he was saying.”
Just the mention of his name made me think back when all this happened. I was at my locker minding my own business like I normally do when he came up to me. I could not believe it at first. Why would the head football star come up to me, the shiest girl in school, and just start a conversion? I did not hang with the popular crowd like him, so it threw me off. His smooth, shinny hair, not one out of place, and his perfect smile and his deep blue eyes I could just swim in made me go into a state of mind I had no clue on how to get myself out of. With his deep voice he asked me what I was doing after school and maybe if I could tutor him in math, the class we had together. Of course without even thinking I answered yes. I was like a giddy little kid. We talked for a few more minutes than the bell rang and we had to go to our next class. Well I guess anyone could guess what happened after that. One thing led to another and here I am now, telling my parents about the baby I was going to have.
Finally my mom spoke but she was so quiet that with all my dad’s noises in the background, I could hardly hear her. “Have you thought about another opinion” she asked. I knew they would ask that. My parents and I had different beliefs about this subject. I was more pro-life while they were more pro-choice. “No mother, you know how I feel about abortion. I will not do it.” She just sat there again while dad started screaming again. “I thought you were smarter than that Alex. I thought you knew when to say no.” The thing is I did know when to say no. I could have never told my dad that I wanted it happen. I was the shy, skinny girl that no one paid attention to. I thought I was ugly. To have someone as amazing as Tyler to want to do that with me, it made me feel beautiful, like I was someone special. I just thought that I could not get pregnant. I thought that I was different from all the other teenage mothers. I thought I could not get pregnant with my first time. “I’m sorry Dad, I am your baby girl and I failed you, and I failed you too Mom. Please, I need the support of my parents to get through this.” Dad was still standing; however, he went from yelling to speechless. Finally Mom rose and gave me the biggest hug I could have ever answered for. The kind of hug only a mother could give. As she squeezed me into her body, my face was up against her hair and I could smell her hair. It smelt like flowers still in the field. It felt like we had become one. My pain was her pain. In that one powerful hug, I suddenly knew everything was going to be ok. I was protective. As I lifted my head from my mom’s shoulder, I looked at my dad and our eyes met. Before I knew it, my dad was hugging both my mom and me. Both of us fit into his arms. In that family hug, I felt more loved then I have ever felt my entire life. No one, not even Tyler, could ever make me feel more loved then I felt in that one simple hug. Trouble had hit me, but my family would fight with me until the end.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
scared
ok so here is the deal...i really dont want to write today lol i am actually kinda scared. I think i have a good topic yet im still scare. i think i will mess it up because i am not that great of a writer. if you read my blog you should already know that. i talk more in "aim" if you would say or like text message language lol so this is probably going to be really hard for me. Plus english is not my best subject so that wont help me out much either. I really enjoy venting when im scared so i guess blogging today was a good idea that way i can freak out on this thing instead of in person and everyone around me think i am a total loser for freaking out about writing a stupid essay(something that is probably really easy to them). Im the kind of person that doesnt what she is good at and sticks with that. i dont mess with things that i cant do...i normally get someone else to help me out. like with computers or spelling or whatever. i normally dont try, just ask, but in school i really cant do that lol. Teachers think i would be cheating and that is not good to be caught cheating and get a zero, esp when i have HOPE to maintain!!!!!!!! well i guess we all have to face our fears sooner or later and i will face mine in about a min. or so!! so wish me luck!!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
college life
after this next last, i will have completed my second week in college. Even though i'm two weeks into the next four years of my life lol...college is going great. I truly think i got the hang out of going to each class, and the parking deal(trying to get a parking place is very intense). I'm still a little scared about my classes however because i know as the weeks go by they will get harder and harder. First text for each class, totally not looking forward to that; i'm actually scared out of my MIND for the first test in each of my classes. O well, i guess i should be ready to ge them over with lol, who knows. Math is actually going really well right now, we are basically reviewing things i have already learned from highschool, i guess going to a private college prep school was a good thing after all. I think i am more prepared than i thought!! well hopefully as days go by i will become more and more of a college person!!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
descripiton
Katie Bazemore
Mrs. S. Aiken
English 1101- descriptive paragraph
August 25, 2009
A musical instrument-flute
At the mention of the instrument flute, most people remember the scene from the famous, funny movie American Pie; however, they never stop and think how wonderful and amazing this instrument really is. This long yet diligent instrument is fun to play. In high school, I was in the band and also the marching band. On the field, this quite instrument is hardly heard because its sound is quite when matched against the hard sound of the brass and it not up close to someone since marching band is performed on a field; on the other hand, in a band performing on stage in a closed area, the flute is often heard because of its high pitched notes and a room is often quieter then a field. When first learning how to play my flute, feeling the smooth texture on the silver first placed in my hand, the many notes confused me, but I was determined to learn. I wanted to be able to get the lovely, soft, beautiful sound that many musicians can get out of it. So I practiced like crazy. Once learned how to play well, the flute can easily calm any person down and often takes someone to a place of flowers so beautiful; it just relaxes them. That is what I aim for every chance I get to perform. I want the beauty of the flute to be shown to others around me.
Mrs. S. Aiken
English 1101- descriptive paragraph
August 25, 2009
A musical instrument-flute
At the mention of the instrument flute, most people remember the scene from the famous, funny movie American Pie; however, they never stop and think how wonderful and amazing this instrument really is. This long yet diligent instrument is fun to play. In high school, I was in the band and also the marching band. On the field, this quite instrument is hardly heard because its sound is quite when matched against the hard sound of the brass and it not up close to someone since marching band is performed on a field; on the other hand, in a band performing on stage in a closed area, the flute is often heard because of its high pitched notes and a room is often quieter then a field. When first learning how to play my flute, feeling the smooth texture on the silver first placed in my hand, the many notes confused me, but I was determined to learn. I wanted to be able to get the lovely, soft, beautiful sound that many musicians can get out of it. So I practiced like crazy. Once learned how to play well, the flute can easily calm any person down and often takes someone to a place of flowers so beautiful; it just relaxes them. That is what I aim for every chance I get to perform. I want the beauty of the flute to be shown to others around me.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
what i want to get out of my english 1101 class
To tell the truth to everyone out there, i really dont like english that much and i am not that great at it either.
I would like to learn how to spell just a little better. Spelling is not my strongest post, and most of my friends can tell you that. Like when i try to send them a text or make them spell out pretty much everything when i am texting someone else while i am around them, it gets really annoying to them sometimes. I guess that's why i am not really looking forward too much to the writing part of engl 1101 likem the essays or papers, cause normally i don't do that well on them because of my spelling and a little more too.
I would like to become a better writer. I always have goood ideas to write about but putting them down on paper is not my strongest point. Maybe i can learn in this class to do just that. Most of my friends enjoy writing so i guess i want to be more like them and be excited about writing just a little more. I don't want to be too excited but i don't want to hate it eveytime time a teacher says get out a paper and a pen and write about whatever the topic they want us to write about.
I always hear that i am a great writer and i have a great paper but i have too much mistakes or errors. I would like to not hear that anymore!! Hopefully that will happen sooner or later because of this class and what i will learn in it!!
I would like to learn how to spell just a little better. Spelling is not my strongest post, and most of my friends can tell you that. Like when i try to send them a text or make them spell out pretty much everything when i am texting someone else while i am around them, it gets really annoying to them sometimes. I guess that's why i am not really looking forward too much to the writing part of engl 1101 likem the essays or papers, cause normally i don't do that well on them because of my spelling and a little more too.
I would like to become a better writer. I always have goood ideas to write about but putting them down on paper is not my strongest point. Maybe i can learn in this class to do just that. Most of my friends enjoy writing so i guess i want to be more like them and be excited about writing just a little more. I don't want to be too excited but i don't want to hate it eveytime time a teacher says get out a paper and a pen and write about whatever the topic they want us to write about.
I always hear that i am a great writer and i have a great paper but i have too much mistakes or errors. I would like to not hear that anymore!! Hopefully that will happen sooner or later because of this class and what i will learn in it!!
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