#40 My families holiday youtube video of the year

Every year (especially since Tyler, Savanna)  my family would go on youtube and try and find the holiday video of the year, normally they are not the most appropriate because that just makes everything funny so our first option was this video:

But, then as we continued to look, I suggested a video I had watched in my Dignitas class, this video was originally organized by my favorite artist (Michael Jackson) but we decided on the Haiti version. It is an amazing (:

#39 Theater

So just knowing that you have a background in theater I was inspired by the list you had created in the back pages of your book of every play you have been in. So I started to think of the handful I have been in and then all of the plays I have had the amazing opportunity to watch. My Favorites of ALLLL time are Cats and Singing in the Rain <3

PLAYS I WAS IN:

1 Wreckers- I was a wrecker named Penny who was filled with dreams and changing the world

2 Little Women- I was a dancer and a monk

3 Les Miserables- I student directed

5 Rebel Without a Cause- I was a well behave student

PLAYS I HAVE SEEN:

6 Cats

7 Foreginer

8 The drowsy Chaperone

9 Singing in the Rain

10 Holocaust Witness: The Legacy of Anne Frank

11 Around the World in 80 Days

12 The Nutcracker (many times)

13 My Fair Lady

14 Arsinic and Old Lace

15 A Christmas Carol

16 The Sound of Music

17 Annie

18 Resurection Blues

19 Two Rooms

20 Some Girl(s)

21 Bug

#38 Final Class Bloggg

Attendance. Media Literacy with Rob Larson has been one of the best classes I have ever taken! I wouldn't miss a day in class if I didn't have to. However, I did miss a few days but I let you know as soon as I could before class so that you knew, which is what our syllabus told us to do. My homework, I have done everything I was told to do, and I have done it to the best of my ability, and I always turn my assignments in that is one thing I have always been good about doing. Writing my 35 wikis was a little hard to come up with information, but I made it work and I am really happy with how it turned out. Thanks for everything you have done! and have a Merry Christmas (:
K byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

#37 Jackson Five

I spent last weekend with my best friend Amanda and we spent time watching some of the older cartoon Christmas videos, one of them being Frosty the Snowman. Later that night when I was at home I was up almost all night because I had the song stuck in my head. Frosty the snowman was a holly jolly.... blah blah blah. So to be funny I just went to go and find a nice youtube video to post on her facebook wall, and came across a cover done by the Jackson Five! So here it is!

#36 My Dream House

Since I was about 5 years old I have had my dream house, it is a farm just outside of Tamarack Minnesota (its really close to my cabin) and ever time I would drive past it I would say that I am going to get it someday. When I am older and I have the money I am going to by that house and get horses and dogs and chickens and have a really comfortable lifestyle. The house will definitely need to be renovated but that is going to be a fun fix up project to do with my family.

The house is currently for sale so here is the ad. and some pics (:.

and.. I just found out that it got sold... oh.my.god. that is a little depressing... :/ so nevermind...

#35 Michael Jackson

LOVE OF MY LIFE <3

Michael Jackson is the greatest musical artist ever, his music and dance moves are amazing and changed the entire music industry and as helped bring us to the point we are at today, so many people are influence by his work and what he did for the world.

Here is his Bio from his official website:
"Michael Jackson, one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all-time, leaves an indelible imprint on popular music and culture.

Five of Jackson's solo albums - "Off the Wall," "Thriller," "Bad," "Dangerous" and "HIStory," all with Epic Records - are among the top-sellers of all time and “Thriller” holds the distinction as the largest selling album worldwide in the history of the recording industry with more than 70 million units sold. Additionally, singles released from the Thriller album sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, another all time record.

During his extraordinary career, he sold an estimated 750 million records worldwide, released 13 No.1 singles and became one of a handful of artists to be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Jackson as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time and "Thriller" as the Biggest Selling Album of All Time. Jackson won 13 Grammy Awards and received the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award.

Michael Jackson started in the music business at the age of 11 with his brothers as a member of the Jackson 5. In the early 1980s, he defined the art form of music video with such ground-breaking videos as "Billie Jean," "Beat It" and the epic "Thriller." Jackson's sound, style and dance moves inspired subsequent generations of pop, soul, R&B and hip-hop artists."

#34 Michaels

I have the coolest job in the entire world! I work at Michaels Arts & Crafts, I am a sales associate. I spend most of my time in the arts and crafts section helping people find the right mediums and tools to complete their project. So if anyone ever needs help come find me (:

#33 Bibme.org

Over the past million and a half years of my high school career I have spent entire class periods going over and over my work cited making sure everything was in perfect MLA format. Then I came to college, which is one of the best things ever, and was introduced to Bibme.org. It does it for me, coolest website ever and it is right every time, just need to create an account to download it and it has it all set up for me. Makes life and research papers so much easier. Definitely a website that everyone should use!

#32 St. Scholastic Northland News Center

http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/video/St-Scholastica-Lights-Up-for-the-Holidays-135166058.html

I got interviewed for St. Scholastica after the tree lighting!!! check out the link!!!! :D

Quotes: week fourteen & fifteen

(15)Quote: "What a trip down memory lane." Said by a classmate as we were viewing peoples blogs in class.

Response: This class has been a lot of fun, and I have learned a lot, it is really fun to "take a trip down memory lane" and look at my blog, and tweets from this semester. I am going to take everything I have learned and apply it to my life. In the future I am planning on becoming a teacher, and I really like the blogging method, and I am going to be doing a test run of my idea in January at my high school in at art class. As the years go on I will probably also continue to add to my art blog ( myart03.blogspot.com ) and maybe ones for my future students when I become a social studies teacher. It is an archive of life.

(14)Quote: "Santa Clause is Real"-Grant writing and getting "free" money.

Response: I love writing grants over the past 5 years I have written different grants for different projects and have received thousands of dollars to have the projects completed.
However, you had said in class that you could use the money for whatever you want, in my past experience in the writing of the grant you have to specify what the money is going towards, and at the end you have to do a report to say what the money was actually used for.

#31 My Animal

For my basic design art class I have been given my final assignment to find my inter animal, based on my virtues. Through all of my research, I have determined that I am...an otter. And here is a list of my research to back up my reasoning (:

laughter, curiosity, truth, patience, playful, friendly dynamic, joy, helpfulness, sharing, talented, psychic awareness, faithfulness, feminine energy, alternative working/thinking methods, good friend, nurturing, sympathetic, courageous, honest, & mischievous.

#30 Stand Up For What is Right!

People seem to ignore that fact that bullying is a serious problem especially in middle/high school. Bullying is not just physical attacks on a person, but the mental and verbal attacks are more prominent and need to be recognized. Schools need to recognize that this is a REAL PROBLEM, and they need to stop it. If they won't, I definitely will within my life time, I can promise that. Check out this youtube video that is popular right now. It is reallllly hard to watch...

#29 Twitter

@VAJsays follow me at twitter #amazingstuff

twitter.com

Before this Media Literacy class if I had ever been told I was going to have a Twitter account, I would have laughed. Now I have my Twitter account, and while I still feel like it is pointless, it is very entertaining to just talk to myself. Maybe there are people out there who enjoy my random babbling in my moments of boredom. While I was deer hunting with my amazing brother Tyler, I got him set up with a Twitter, and he really likes it now too. Twitter is some pretty fun stuff.

#28 DECEMBER 7TH

The 70th Anniversary

of the Pearl Harbor attack is today.

Around 2,500 lives were lost that day.

"At 7:55 am (17:55 GMT), the moment Japanese bombers swooped on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, a ceremony will be held by the wreck of the USS Arizona, one of 12 vessels sunk that day, seven decades ago.
Nearly half of those killed in the attack died almost instantly on the Arizona, when a bomb detonated the giant battleship's munitions depot.


The sinking of the Arizona.
(I had a relative who died on the Arizona,
 my aunt and great grandma went
down there years ago and
found a book with a list of everyone killed
and his name is on that list)



 

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and military leaders will also be among the 3,000 people expected at Wednesday's event.
A US Navy destroyer will render honours to the Arizona to begin the moment of silence, before F-22 jets flies overhead in "missing man" formation.
Over in Washington DC, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will lay a wreath at the US Navy Memorial at midday (17:00 GMT).
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association said it would disband after this year's landmark commemoration because so few veterans remained.
About 7,000 survivors were on hand for the 50th anniversary of the attacks in 1991.
As well as the dozen ships wrecked in the attack on Pearl Harbor, nine other vessels were damaged and the US lost 164 aeroplanes. Sixty-two Japanese died.
Denouncing "a date which will live in infamy", President Franklin Roosevelt went to Congress for a declaration of war, which was approved within hours.
Three days later, Germany declared war on the US. America's entry was to change the course of the conflict."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16073654

#27 What's my Secret?

I get asked that question all the time. It makes me laugh every single time because they never know what my response could be, I almost always say “I have the greatest bra technology in the world” or something along those lines… Just because my name is Victoria does not mean I own or work at Victoria’s Secret, even though that would be a pretty fun job (;. Could you imagine the discount on a bunch of clothing articles that all have my name on them, pretty epic if I do say so myself. Well anyways this week was the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, so I thought I would put up a youtube clip from it. Also, I picked the background for this blog because it reminded me of Victoria’s Secret.

#26 PANDORA

Growing up I have listened to a large range of music: oldies (like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Cat Stevens, Steve Miller Band, and many others) , all the way to 80’s (Michael Jackson, Poison, Madonna, etc), pop (Britney Spears haha), country( in my Madre's car), Christian (anything at church), Hip Hop (Anything at Stargate), Rap (Eminem), Dubstep, and anything in between. iTunes was becoming pretty expensive for the hundreds of songs I enjoy listening to so, I set myself up with a Pandora account. I love it! I always have it playing and I can pick a different channel every time I want to listen, or I can find a genre that fits my mood. Best invention EVER.

#25 National Audio Visual

My parent bought National Audio Visual when I was in 2^nd or 3^rd grade. At the time they had no idea what they were doing, but they wanted to give it a shot. Today they are one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the Duluth area. They do a variety of different services from equipment rentals (speakers, projectors, and screens), videography, editing, DVD duplications, film transfers, and more. It has been really fun growing up and learning about technology and what all I can do.

#24 Technology Critique

           BEGINNING... MIDDLE...END...

             In Media Res, according to dictionary.com is a Latin word meaning, straight into the middle of a sequence of events, a story told starting at a mid-point or at the conclusion versus the beginning. In Media Res provides introduction of a story to be filled with drama and sets up the backdrop for the entire story. In his college years a young Bob Johnson was working towards getting his BA from the University of Arizona Tucson, while flipping through pages of information in an Encyclopedia he was attempting to finish typing a paper, when he ran out of ink in his typewriter. He had to go visit his aunt in the middle of the night to finish his paper for class. Today, we have technology at our fingertips, and can easily access the archives of the world. But is this good for us? Or is it damaging to our health?

Life is “the quality that makes living animals and plants different from dead organisms and inorganic matter. Its functions include the ability to take in food, adapt to the environment, grow, and reproduce” (dictionary.com). We are quickly reaching out into different advances. Next on the list to be completed is Artificial Intelligence. The definition for life is slowly changing as the advances in A.I. move forward. In 1953 Watson and Crick discovered DNA, the genetic code for living organisms. While artificial intelligence may be able to walk, talk, listen, and have emotions, I do not see how it is possible for them to be considered “alive” considering they do not fit the definition for life, and they do not have DNA.

             Our already vastly technological society is thriving on the need for the latest and most advanced gadgets, iPhones, iPads, laptops, machines, projectors, TVs, and much more. The freshman class of 2015 at St. Scholastica is the first class to attend college that is younger then the Internet. “So what’s new for the class of 2015? For starters, these kids are younger than the Internet. They have been doing Google searches almost as long as they could stand on two feet and toddle over to the keyboard… so they’ve almost always been able to download music, swipe credit cards, and by products from Amazon” states Jenn Savedge, author of green parenting books and blogs about raising eco-friendly kids. Today’s toddlers are able to flip through the different apps offered on an iPad, but when given a magazine they can’t figure out how to turn the pages, there isn’t a button or a screen to do it for them. Our society is reaching a point where we will no longer want to do anything on our own. Just like in the Pixar film, “Wall-E”, the world becomes so filled with waste that the world’s population becomes trapped in an outer space alternative society, where everything, is run by technology. The people do not do anything on their own, they don’t know how to walk, swim, or even communicate. Wall-E is a forecast for the future it is preparing us for what is to come if we do not make a change.

Research says that 60 percent of the extra pounds Americans have been put on as a result in the decline in physical demands based on technology in computers, states John Geralds and author for a technology news, reviews and analysis at V3. Today, people would rather sit in front of a computer or a TV and use gaming systems then go outside and go for a walk or play or leave their house. This sedentary life style is then compounded with “easy access food” with do not contain the nutrients that are needed for a healthy balanced diet. Our society can go on without to many further advancements in technology, while everything is new and exciting we need to take a step back and focus on the toll it is taking on all of us. While technology has its advances and its pros, there are also many cons that need to be taken into account and need to have some attention drawn to them.

Finally, today Bob Johnson and his wife Anne are proud owners of a Duluth business called, National Audio Visual. They spend their lives with modern technology and helping other people. I am proud to call them my parents and am glad that I have been able to learn so much about what they do and how they help people with technology.

#23 HULU

I have my favorite shows that I like to try and keep up with: Glee, Bones, and House. They make my life, however, I have a very busy life between school and work so I never get to watch them when they are on TV. So that’s why the world decided to create Hulu.com . I can watch almost any show when I want and however many times I want, I think it works out pretty well (: and it makes me happy when I finally get some time to relax.

#23 Peace Jam

Peace Jam

Peace Jam is an Organization led by 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners, The Nobel Peace Prize winners came up with a list of different challenges that face the world in broad open topics, and then as a member of Peace Jam you pick one of the topics and do a service project on a larger scale. After you complete the project there is a conference held and you are able to present your project to one of the Nobel Peace Prize Winners, so over the years I have met Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Adolfo Perez Esquivel. It was an AMAZING experience and some of the coolest service projects I have ever done.

#22 My Personal Blog!!!

A while back I decided that since I want to major in Art and Education I should create a portfolio that is easy to access, so based on everything we have learned in Media Literacy I decided that I would create a blog about all of my art. So I have been adding to it over the past couple weeks, I still need to edit the text because it isn’t perfect yet. But, I am going to use it to help further me in life. Next semester I am going to be shadowing my high school art teacher on my free time and he is going to let me try out some of my own ideas with some of his classes and I am going to have them set up blogs and show them to other people. My personal blog is defenetly  
worth checking out (:

Myart03.blogspot.com  

#21 Correction!!!

Today in class we were given a lecture on “In Medias Res” and about artificial intelligence and technology and were we are going, and you were talking about the flower project done by Gregor Mendel. Mendel worked on genetics, and genetic coding, in class we were told he did his research on poppies, when he actually did his research on pea plants which have different colored flowers and pods etc. After he had done thousands of test in understand the genetic codes and backgrounds of the pea plants he moved on to testing bees.

Quotes: Weeek 13

Quote: “I have a thespian background”

Response: I think it is awesome how well you are able to take on different personalities and roles to help prove your point. It really helps emphasize the different topics we are discussing.

Throughout high school I was in Little Women, and Rebel without a Cause, and then I student directed Les Mieserables.  Those were all really fun experiences and I love being able to dress up and pretend to be someone else and have that fun.

#20 PROMO

For everyone who is reading this blog you need to check out a very controversial and informative opinion, which can be viewed from youtube/johndoeliberty

Also follow all of this on Twitter @johndoeliberty

We have been very fortunate to know who “John Doe” is and the methods behind his madness in his tactics to make you think about media and our surroundings. So check it out!!

#19 Definition

Megalomania

A psycho-pathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, or omnipotence (unlimited power)

During the course of Media Literacy this word has been thrown around and I wasn’t exactly sure what the meaning of it was. So, today when it was said once again I wrote it down and decided I would look it up and put it up as one of my Wikis. However, after finding out the meaning of Megalomania I do not think that it defines our professor, while his teaching methods are very different I think that he is making a point and making a statement that is important and if this alternative teaching method is the best way for us to understand then that’s just how it is going to be.

Quotess Weekk 9-12

Week 9

Quote: “It is kind of big and clunky”

Response: I wrote down this quote because as we were going through all of our media presentations all of the different types of technology used to be huge and clunky. As the years go by TVs, Computers, Radios, etc. keep getting smaller, lighter, and more advanced. I personally, am looking forward to see what the future will hold because it is all so interesting and impressive how much technology has changed even through my life time. Last summer I was babysitting two of my boys up at my cabin, Ashton and Brody and their parents had a box of VHS out on the floor. They had no idea what it was or what it did. That made me feel old :P ha.. Just last week my parents sent me a link of this toddler using an iPad and “sliding” thru the pages and different screens of a magazine, But when given an actual magazine, the toddler didn’t know what to do. I attached the video below.

Week 10

Quote: “it talks about the soundtrack to your life.” (Learning about Klout and some of the different elements of it such as Last FM)

Response: I wrote down this quote just because I have some really good memories about music, especially with my brother Tyler, who is a Junior at Hermantown High School & a student at UMD. We have always had fun playing very loud music on our car rides to and from school, and one of the songs we played a lot was Soundtrack to my Life. I love that song. I love how for every mood you are in, or every experience has a song that can be played to match it, it makes life so much more entertaining when it has different theme songs to go with it. Check out the Music Video:

Week 11

Quote: “It doesn’t really matter anyway”

Response: I know I wrote down this quote… but I apparently forgot to write notes along with it to help me remember what I wanted to say to go along with it. Which is kind of ironic since that makes it seem like I don’t care, even though I am pretty sure this is one of the COOLEST classes I have ever taken, and I have learned so much. Media Literacy helped me become more media savvy and opened so many different doors and resources. It helped inspire me to create a blog to share my art portfolio, blogging has helped my art come to life and has given me the ability to easily show my work in any setting. Check out that blog at myart03.blogspot.com I keep adding to it and I am liking how it is turning out.

Week 12

Quote: “Who are we Really”

Response: I really like how this class flows, and how so many different theories and ideas are thrown around. It keeps us on our toes wondering what is in store for us each and every day. I wrote down this quote today in class as you were discussing how you have different ways of dressing and/or expressing yourself, and by doing that you leave the element of making our own judgments. Which is kind of how life ends up working out we are given different sides and have to figure out what seems right or wrong to us. One of my favorite examples from growing up is with politics, my parents would take me and my two siblings to many different rally’s and events, for both parties, so we could make our own informed decision. Which I think was really smart of my parents to do, and between me, Tyler, and Savanna, we do all have different opinions and we stand for different topics, which I think is better than a lot of different situations where people are not informed and speak up and out of place, because they a lot of times just sound dumb and ignorant. Sooo yeahh, there it tis for this week.

#18 my most used website

Facebook. My life pretty much revolves around Facebook, for me it is always open, I am always checking it, and I love it. I think it is a great way to build and strengthen my social network. I love that I am able to keep in contact with people and friends I have met over the years and share common interest with them. I also love that I can post pictures of my life to help show who I am as a person. It is a good time.

#17 Girl Scouts

So I have been in Girl Scouts since I was in first grade. I love it! Being in Girl Scouts has given me some of the greatest opportunities of my life. Through Girl Scouts I have made many friends, and have gotten to do some pretty neat stuff. For example: I earned my bronze award hosting a night called “American Pride Night” recognizing our troops and supporting our country. I earned my silver award doing the PR campaign for Girl Scout cookies for my council, for this I led trainings for adults, hosted events for girls, and was all over the media- newspapers, radio, and TV- I got interview by Barbara Ryeolts on Northland Voices. I have also earned my gold award (A HUGE HONOR) For this I coordinated a tour of the Jungle Theater’s production of “Holocaust Witness: The Legacy of Anne Frank” to come to Duluth this presentation showed how to create social change and was viewed by over 1,300 people in my community. I have also been able to go to girl scout camp many years, have been the keynote speaker at different events, and took first place in a film competition. I learned many great skills, and I hope that in the future I will be able to be a girl scout leader…. Here is a link to the councils website: http://www.gslakesandpines.org/

 **pic will be posted later today***

(In the picture is me and another girl scout at a cookie rally from a bazillion years ago… we look reallllly gross but it is all good..)

# 16 ARCHIVEEE

dafont.com

This is one of the coolest websites! I am an art major and I am currently in Basic Design, I love it, and we are given all of these cool websites that are really helpful.. This website is a way to see hunderedsss of different fonts for any purpose that you can easily download and install into your word program. This website has changed my life. Ha. Not really but it definitely makes my life (:

#15 The website

My final blog post on my 5 sources about printed media I picked because I really enjoyed the layout of the website and the "newspaper" feel it has to it. So I just wanted to include a link...

Newspaper: The History

#14 Newspaper breakdown

I really like how this article/website broke down some different aspects of what it is and some background. Totally worth checking out!

Newspaper History

#13 Inventors

Check out this cool website on different inventors who helped advance technology in printing newspapers.

History of Newspaper

#12 Newspaper definition and such

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a day. The worldwide recession of 2008, combined with the rapid growth of web-based alternatives, caused a serious decline in advertising and circulation, as many papers closed or sharply retrenched operations.
General-interest newspapers typically publish stories on local and national political events and personalities, crime, business, entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an editorial page containing editorials written by an editor and columns that express the personal opinions of writers. The newspaper is typically funded by paid subscriptions and advertising.
A wide variety of material has been published in newspapers, including editorial opinions, criticism, persuasion and op-eds; obituaries; entertainment features such as crosswords, sudoku and horoscopes; weather news and forecasts; advice, food and other columns; reviews of radio, movies, television, plays and restaurants; classified ads; display ads, radio and television listings, inserts from local merchants, editorial cartoons, gag cartoons and comic strips.

#11 Newspapers in America

Newspapers in America started with colonization, now today most people read or receive a daily paper. I found some pretty interesting information on this form of media. Check out the Wikipedia to go with it.

MYYYYYY Documentary Essay (:

Documentary Essay

MONDAY:

Police State 4: The Rise of Fema

I found this day very hard to pay attention in class, I did manage to take many notes to try and understand the concept of Fema, but it was pretty difficult to wrap my head around. As I look back over my notes I do not even know where to begin…

One of the main concepts or topics of the video that I took notes on was the reference to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. In the documentary they referred to the people who stayed behind in the Super Dome as “scumbags,” I do not agree with this. A couple of years ago I went to New Orleans on a mission trip and I got to go in the Super Dome, and I got to go the Ninth Ward what these people had to go through was nightmare, and still half a decade after it had happened there is so much that needs to be fixed and brought back to life. The people who survived this natural disaster do not need to be referred to as scumbags, they deserve better than that.

On my paper I have other notes that stand out… That I am just going to list off versus elaborating on them, because I really do not know what my opinion is on them…

·         Executive Orders

·         “Doing a heck of a job” –President George W. Bush

·         Arrest people for their speech

·         Martial Law

·         Fema Labor Camps- Kept secret for 11years

·         Plan developed to suspend the constitution just in case

·         Secret Government

·         National Security

WEDNESDAY:

We started the class period off with a different documentary… “Fall of the Republic: the Presidency of Barack Obama” This Documentary was less difficult to follow but still a hard concept to grasp. I have to say I do not agree with how biased this documentary was because it was very much far to the right. And I am definitely not on that side, just saying.

This documentary seemed to emphasize the idea of an illusion of competition- with the Democrats versus Republicans. The video said the government is trying to destroy everything we stand for and it seemed like they were blaming everything on our President. Our President is our leader, and someone who may differ in views from some of the population, but either way he deserves to be given the respect he has earned by being elected as our leader.

One of my favorite quotes in the documentary was something along the lines of getting rich is the pursuit of happiness…. That is so not true, it may be true for a number of people in our country but that is not true of everyone, and money is not everyone’s main motive in life, there are plenty of people who defy that comment and are changing the world and making a difference out of the goodness of their hearts. Which I know sounds really pathetic on possibly even naive to say, but that’s what I think.

quotesssssssssssssss week 7

"With great power comes great Responsibility" (Rob's response to Andrew walking into class late...again.)

My Response: I love this quote, it is used everywhere and has such a strong meaning behind it and is open to different interpretations. To me this quote represents my freedoms as a human and as an individual. I believe that I have the what it takes to follow these words originally said my FDR and later by Stan Lee.
"and, as Stan Lee, FDR, and Jesus have all been roughly quoted as saying, “With great power comes great responsibility."" (quote from : Fischfood for thought)
sooo yeahh... I like this quote and the context it was used for in class made me laugh.

#10 Blog

I am an Art major and a decided that it would be a good idea to create a blog to talk  about different art I have done over the years and some of my current pieces. I just started it up today and will be adding to it in the future. Check it out myart03.blogspot.com

Thanks!!

#9 Rachel

I met Rachel Sandel for the first time summer after 8^th grade. We were both very excited Girl Scouts attending Duct Tape Darlings at Camp Roundelay. This was the week long prep for becoming a counselor at the camp. We had an awesome week helping out around the camp site and being silly and dressing up and doing skits and being around all of the younger Girl Scouts, we were their role models. After that we would always see each other around the community she was always busy and always helping out and having fun. Then summer before senior year we found ourselves nerding it up at yearbook camp as we both we editors of our high school yearbooks, it was also at this time that I found out about her Liver Cancer. Rachel died on Sunday. Everyone needs to read this article about her. For me personally I can hardly read it without tearing up. She was an amazing and strong person, all the way until the end.

On goinggggggg quotes... Week 6

"I just want you to tell me the truth" (Shattered Glass- after realizing most of the articles written were fabricated)

My Response: It is absolutely unbelievable that we can be lied to and deceived so easily by the media. We are so accepting of everything that we are told and we don't have the courage to stand up and say what we think is true or false. I this movie did really well in proving that we need to do more fact checking and checking what the sources are. It is a good lesson for us all to use in today's society.

#8 My Little Girl

Reagan and her puppy Dodge

Reagan

Just got a text saying that I get to watch my little girl Reagan this weekend (:

That makes me very excited for this weekend.

I have babysat Reagan most weekends since she was 11^th months old, and she is now 3 and a half. We spend our weekends together doing art, playing with plastic horses, running around outside, playing in the sand and water, and watching our favorite movie- The Lion King.

I absolutely love being with my little girl <3

#7 Totally epic youtube video!!

I love having problems with my roommate. However, I have been able to spend some quality time with my friends who are a few doors down. After Andrea’s amazing performance in the talent show we proceeded to watch hours worth of YouTube videos, and this little girl made my life with Super Bass- she has some serious talent! From this clip I would recommend clicking on the link to her appearance on the Ellen Show because it is pretty epic.

Shattered Glass...

Shattered Glass

                                   Pluto Reunited with the Planets

Pluto was first discovered in the 18^th century when astronomers were doing research on the rotation of Neptune and Mercury.

Pluto not being a planet has not sat right with astronomers for the past 6 years. Over the past couple year’s groups and organizations such as NASA and Astronomy Magazine have been strongly pushing to have Pluto reunited with the other planets. "Most astronomers believe Pluto should take its place alongside other Kuiper Belt objects rather than consort with the 'real' planets. Astrologers have a different idea," says President Gisele Terry of the International Society for Astrological Research

Tiny Pluto has emerged as a solar system powerhouse on every level. Although three times smaller than the Earth's moon and five times lighter, astrologers say the Pluto’s influences are “titanic, massive, psychologically profound and compelling.” Over the last few decades, powerful new ground and space-based observatories have completely changed previous understanding of the outer Solar System. Instead of being the only planet in its region, like the rest of the Solar System, Pluto and its moons are now known to be just a large example of a collection of objects called the Kuiper Belt. This region extends from the orbit of Neptune out to 55 astronomical units which is about 55 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun.
At a recent astrological conference held in Washington D.C a “Bill of Rights” for astronomy was passed. At the top of this list of rights, was the right to consider Pluto a planet. So, on October 7, 2011 Pluto was recognized as a planet once again.


Sources:
http://www.einnews.com/247pr/239675
http://www.universetoday.com/13573/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/