November 4, 2008

What happened that Tuesday night is truly one of the greatest things that I have ever seen in my lifetime. Being African- American, it just meant that much more to my family. The thing was that Barack Obama was really the best candidate, but because of race it became this weird debate about if America was ready to elect him or not. It showed that this world is not yet as colorblind as it should be. There was a lot of doubt about what would happen that day. When they announced that he won, it took me a minute to comprehend what had just happened, and I remember that my parents were calling everyone they know to talk about it. I heard this one story about this ninety year old woman. She was sick and was willing herself to live just so that she could vote in this election. I’m sad that I was too young to vote because it would be cool if I could tell people fifty years from now that I voted for him. This was a historic moment and even though I understand what it means, I’ll never feel the same way that my parents or grandparents do. Hopefully, with this new leadership, we will now regain the respect of the world and fix some of our problems here at home.

Black President

Late tuesday night, I was fortunate to be alive to witness one of the most incredible presidential moments in American history: the election of the first non-white president of the United States. Regardless of your stance on the issues, electing a black preisdent is a MASSIVE step forward for America, and will hopefully mend some of the damage caused by hundreds of years of division.

Also needing to be repaired is our terrible global image. America was once envied and admired by the rest of the world; over the last eight years we've become a complete joke. With Bush's departure from the White House and election of one of the western world's first black leaders, we may gain some respect back from our peers.

R.P. McMurphy & Cool Hand Luke

R.P. McMurphy was similar to Cool Hand Luke. For example they were both very strong, determined people. R.P. McMurphy didn’t belong in the insane asylum with the other men just like Cool Hand Luke didn’t belong in prison. They are just both troubled men whose life turned to the worst. Both men try escaping where they were kept. Both men also got caught. But at first the men don’t like McMurphy but the soon grew to love him. Same with Cool Hand Luke, he fought with men but then became best friends with one of them. What was ironic is that both characters smiled a lot. Most scenes McMurphy was laughing or smiling and Cool Hand Luke always smiled and died with a smile on his face. Both movies had the same basic set-up so it’s not surprise the men are alike. But before watching each movie I would have not put two and two together. Where they similar other ways that I might have missed?

Happy Halloween

Today is October 31rst and you know what that means? It’s Halloween! But why do girls feel it’s necessary to dress as slutty as they can? Is it an excuse to dress this way to get guys attention? But of course the excuse is that it’s Halloween and it’s only a costume so it’s acceptable. I went to Party City to find a costume and for some reason the teen section were all short tiny slutty costumes. Even the adult costumes were too revealing. It’s degrading to women. Its ridicules that you go to Halloween parties or clubs and you have girl’s barley wearing any clothes but it’s called a costume still. I have horrible self esteem and refuse to wear these type of Halloween costumes. So I really couldn’t find a costume but my friend talked me into one. I’m now terrified for the party tonight! But is it moral to take a fun holiday for kids to dress up as Spiderman, pumpkins, princess, pirates and other “in” costumes for kids. You are supposed to go around and collect candy. Not to dress as slutty as you can.

Homecoming Queen and King Candidates

At Groves we get to pick our Homecoming king and queens for each grade. But when the names were read of who had one my heart sunk. Sophomores had voted people who get made fun of a lot. I’m not going to mention the names because that’s just as bad. There was maybe one guy and one girl who were seriously voted on. The other 5 girls and guys were just jokes. How can the faculty let that happen? Why didn’t they re-do the voting. What makes it worse is that we don’t know if those kids chosen as a joke knew that or not. I know there are some groups of people in this school that live to make fun of other kids. But I didn’t know that there were so many that they all voted to make these kids a running candidate. Why let freshmen and sophomores vote and run when they most defiantly don’t have the maturity to have that privilege.

Spirit Week

Spirit week is supposed to be a fun week. But when you add in the people stealing decorations, people having no spirit, and the lovely people or class who brag, becomes not fun. People spend hour’s setting up the hallways but people don’t take this into consideration when they rip necklaces off the ceiling or steal other decorations. If you really want it, maybe wait till the last day of spirit week? But then comes field day. The day it’s supposed to be rigged for the seniors! But this year the bucket went to the juniors who stampeded the floor almost killing a girl who had tripped and gone down and of course got trampled. But if that wasn’t enough you get juniors bragging like elementary school students over a bucket! You sign on facebook to find peoples status cussing the seniors out. It made me laugh because the thought of people wanting to hurt others feelings over a bucket is just plain ridiculous. How is it that something innocent and fun turns into something so bad?

Super Size Me

We Watched Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock. Everyone knows fast food is bad for you, but no one knows how deadly the damage is. He ate McDonalds 3 meals a day for 30 days straight. His cholesterol sky rocketed he gained over 20 pounds and had heart problems. Imagine the people who do eat this daily and for years or longer. But not all the people who eat McDonalds are fat. They interviewed a hippy looking guy who ate a Big Mac every day. He was skinny as a stick! What got me the most was when he kept trying to talk to the head of McDonalds or even just get an interview and called them about 20 times and never got anything? Also how 1 out of like 50 places had the calorie info. What I love about the movie was all the visuals; the jars of fat, and the buckets of sugar, and the funny Ronald McDonald pictures. Morgan gave a lot of information about all the calories and sugar in the product. Showing the viewer that the “healthy” part of the menu like salads and yogurt things were just as bad as the fries or even milkshakes. But I believe that this movie was a tad biased, because they mainly interviewed really fat people and showed fat peoples butts throughout the movie. Some fat people didn’t get fat from McDonalds. They could eat a lot of candy or just not excursive. But this was all about McDonalds, so they couldn’t add other options of why people are fat. Does anyone else think this movie was a tad biased?

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