Holy Bible

     If there was one book that i could save in this world, it would definitely be the bible. I have always wanted to read the bible but never found the time to sit down each day and read it all. I know that is bad to say that i don't have time for God's word but it's not like that.
     everyone needs guidance in there life and the one thing i turn to for guidance is my faith. I feel that if you turn to God for guidance, he will never lead you down the wrong path. I have developed a stronger relationship with God as i have grown older. Growing up in a catholic environment and attending a catholic school my whole life i was sort of forced to learn about the religion. I never really thought much of it throughout my years in school. In high school i wasn't faced with the many adversities that some people are faced with. I was kind of spoiled and got everything handed to me. So when i got to college and had to start handling my adversities on my own I had to turn to someone, and that someone is God.
    To say the least, you cannot go wrong listening to God's word. Some people may disagree, and that's fine because people are entitled to their own opinions. But If there was one book that I could save for the rest of the world to see, it would be the Holy Bible.

Halloween

Halloween has always been one of my least favorite holidays. I never really got the point of the holiday or ever heard of why it even started? I just don't get the point of running around in costumes trying to look like something else. Today, especially college students go a little too far on the costumes and make them more outgoing than needed. 

One of the reasons that I really don't like Halloween is trick or treating. When I was a little kid I was very scared of all of the older people that dressed up to scare everyone. I would always make my mom/dad go up to the door and grab the candy for me and I would stand on the sidewalk with the other one if someone was dressed up too scary. When i was growing up, i absolutely hated horror movies and my brothers would rent them all the time and make me watch them to make me even more scared. My most hated movie was, Scream. Whenever I would go trick or treating and see someone dressed up as the murder character from scream I would start crying and always would instantly want to go home and be done trick or treating for the night. Also, I am very picky on the type of candy I like and will eat. Every time I went trick or treating, it would seem like every house I went to passed out the candy that I thought was gross.

Overall, I just really do not see a need for the holiday of Halloween. I just see it now as giving another reason to have a huge party and dress up all scandalous. If there was one holiday that i could take out of the calendar, it would definitely be Halloween.

Lets Make A Change

     Wright State has been the best experience in my life thus far. I have met many new friends and have experienced more new things in this past two months than I have in the past two years. Wright State definately has its up sides, but there also are some down sides, not many, but there are.
     If I had one thing to choose to change out of all of Wright State, it would parking. Everyday when I drive up to Wright State I drive around about 10 minute just to find a parking spot. If you do not make it here early, you will be stuck parking out in the middle of no where. I usually take 10 minutes to park, then I have to walk about 15 minutes to my building where my class is. With the excess of how many students Wright State is accumulating, I feel that they should add on at least another parking lot so that students can find parking easier. Another thing is lot 20. I feel that on-campus living should get you a better parking spot than that. I have to walk 10 minutes just to get to the shuttle bus then it takes about another 5 minutes waiting on the bus to arrive and then about 5 more minutes until I get into my car. I feel that there should be spots on campus for us to park so that our cars would be more convenient to drive.
     All in all, Wright State was definately the best choice of colleges for me. Everyone is extremely friendly and the activities here are a blast. I would have to say if parking is in my biggest concerns here at Wright State, then it is a very good college.

Revising and Editing

While writing my papers, I feel that they are the best of my ability and have the best choice of words possible. So up until this year I never took the time to revise and edit a paper after I had already written it. I felt that it was a waste of time and I just wanted to be done as fast as possible with it. Little did I know that after reading my work, I find many mistakes not only in grammar, but run-on sentences and word choices as well.

                After actually revising one of my papers, I found my writing to be almost twice as good as the original copy was. I feel that the revising process has strengthened my writings immensely. After revising my papers, I find myself using bigger and better words to enhance my works. One other thing about the revising process that I enjoy is when we do our peer evaluations of other people’s papers. I like getting my writing critiqued by either the instructor or even other students because I only see what I think is incorrect and other people point out many other flaws in my writings that I cannot catch.

                I feel that after my revision of papers, my grades will go up because my writings are more studious and they will stand out more to the reader’s eye. But there are two things that I find myself having trouble with in the revision process, and that is run on sentences and word choice. I notice after re-reading my papers that I have multiple sentences that are run on or way too lengthy. I have trouble trying to cut them down and revising them. Also I find myself looking for better word choices a lot because I will have two or three sentences in row with the same word choice.

                Overall, I have nothing bad to say about the revision process because it does nothing but help out my writings. If I did not do the revision process my papers would remain with many simple mistakes that I do not pick up while I am writing the paper.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In this picture, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is portraying a woman lying on a bed in the nude. Looking at many of Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings, it seems very common for him to do such paintings of women.     

In this picture of the woman lying naked, I think that Toulouse-Lautrec was trying to catch the eye of the male viewers. After seeing that he has painted many other paintings of females in the nude, I think that Toulouse-Lautrec is a very open minded guy and seems like he would be a supporter of the nude. Not only is this painting viewed towards the eye of males, this could be pointed towards females as well. This could being making a statement to females that it is okay to be nude and that they should be open to the fact of nudity. I think the purpose of this piece was to simply let everyone know how he felt about nudity. Though Toulouse-Lautrec feels this way, I think that in a media stand point it would be unacceptable. It is not socially acceptable to be nude to the public in this day and age.

To conclude, I feel this painting speaks volumes towards people who support nudism. Toulouse-Lautrec is a very skilled painter with many different styles of art. But out of all of them this one stood out because I thought of it as being the most outgoing one. If I were to do a painting, this is not the style I would have thought to do.

No T.V.'s?

     Watching television is looked at as something that wastes people time, but also something that  people love to do in their free time. I feel that television to an extent is good for people. Depending on what they watch and how many hours a week they spend watching it, i feel that it can actually be a good thing for people.

     If you are watching channels like the discovery channel or the news, I think that you can learn from those channels. If people were just sitting there watching cartoon and MTV or reality shows, then I could understand why people think it is so bad. I agree that people should be more active in today's day and age. More and more people are starting to rely on technology so much more now that is getting much More advanced. If this argument was about stuff like facebook, then i would have to agree that it is totally a waste of time. T.V. can actually teach you stuff about many things and keeps you up to date on local and worldwide news. Television can actually be a big help. T.V. send out warnings for thunderstorm and bad snowfalls to help people out before it actually comes. Also, T.V. can update you on many other things such as political campaigns and major sporting events.

     All in all i feel that T.V. is not as bad as everyone puts it our to be. T.V. can actually be a big help for people, especially ones that can't do anything such as handicapped people or people who just got out of surgery or something. T.V. is one of the biggest things in today's society and will be that way for rest of our lives.

Persuasive Advertising

Advertising has become one of the strong points of many of today's striving companies and corporations. Almost every big company in the world has some sort of advertising out there. Advertising gives a company a great chance to get their products out to the public.

     Advertising can play tricks on your mind. Almost every ad has some sort of subliminal message to hint something to your subconscious. We all know that advertising works just think how many times you have been sitting home at night starving while watching T.V. then all of the sudden a commercial for McDonald's or Burger King comes on and you hop in your car and go get something to eat from there. Without that ad you might have had the will power to just stay home and make something but they changed your mind with one simple commercial. Another reason we almost have to think that advertising works is how much advertisers pay to get their advertisement out there. During the Super bowl is one of the best events for commercials, all kinds of new commercials are released. Last year, for just 30 seconds of air time, advertisers had to 2.5 million dollars. I think that if advertising did not work, advertisers would not pay that much of money to get their ads out to the public.

     To conclude, advertising has been going on for many years and many more years to come simply because it persuades people to buy the product that is being advertised or at least get you into their store and possibly even buy more things with it.

    

Why I Came To Wright State University

    
    

     Great academics, close to home but not too close, friends are going here, many relatives attended here and cheap tuition are all things that played a role in my decision making on attending Wright State University. And now that I am here there are many other things that I didn't even know of that would have been able to attract me to come here as well.

     As I toured the state for colleges for me to attend, Wright State stuck out to me like a sore thumb. With my intended major being accounting, the accounting program here blew me away. Hearing some of the things the accountant students get to participate in and seeing some of the cool classrooms like the stocks room really caught my eye. Not to mention Wright State has one of the most prestigious accounting programs in the state. Also my cousin who attended here a few years back holds an accounting agency in Springfield which I plan on interning for and hopefully working for in the future.

     Another thing that got me to attend Wright State was the great campus and housing. The campus' building and classroom were one of the top ones that i seen throughout all of my college visits. Also Wright State was the only school around that had accessible underground tunnels to get you to every building on campus during the bad weather. Also the housing was by the best housing units I went to. Some of the other campus' I attended had nasty looking building with crappy dorm rooms, then i came to Wright State and everything looked very clean and the rooms are very spacious.

     Lastly, the final reason I attended Wright State was the pricing. Going into college you have to see what suits you then best and then compare prices. Besides little colleges, Wright State had the best price available for my academic needs. With a small tuition fee and a great academic program, Wright State University was nearly impossible to turn down.

The Impossible

   
    
     Nothing in this world is impossible if you have faith, and that is what Joe Nichols is trying to get across in his 2002 hit, The Impossible. I always used to listen to music because it had a good beat or I liked the artist until this song was played at my cousin's funeral. That was the first time I truly listened to lyrics and took in the meaning of a song. Now when I listen to songs I always try to find the hidden meanings of the song and incorporate it into my life.
     This song is telling people that in life there are no obstacles that you cannot overcome if you set your mind to do something and go for it. Like in the song it said that Billy got in a bad car crash and the doctors told him that he would never walk again, but he was determined he would and on his graduation day he got out of his wheel-chair and walked to receive his diploma. I feel that is a very strong message and that it touched many people. Also, what i got from this song is that you can overcome any obstacle. For example in my family we played this song about my cousin's death because we knew it was an obstacle in the road that we had to overcome and i feel that it fit the situation very well.
     This is a slower country styled song that was made from inspiration. The purpose of this song is to tell people to never give up on life because no matter how big your obstacles because there are always miracles that miraculously get you through anything. This song is aimed at any person that is struggling in life, to tell them to keep their head up because with a little faith and will power they will overcome their troubles. Nichols stance about this song is that in your time of trouble, this song will inspire you to get through it. This is a spoken song in the media, it is played all over the world via concerts, internet and in my case funerals.

Most Loved to Most Hated

"My decision has been made, I will be taking my talents down to South Beach, Florida this next year to join the Miami Heat." (LeBron James) Those plethora of words made Lebron James become one of the most loved persons in Ohio to probably the most hated in all Ohio.     

     James grew up in Akron as a boy before he became rich and famous and move to close by Cleveland to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers. The love by Ohioans began for LeBron when he was in high school playing basketball for Akron St. Vincent St. Mary's High School. He put on a show for people all four years in high school, especially during the State Tournament games as he showed his high flying silky smooth basketball moves to impress fans and scouts every where. He was the most dominant player of his age and still is, and everyone knows how crazy Cleveland fans can get so you can see why people loved him so much. LeBron within his first 4 seasons in Cleveland brought them from a laughing stock in the NBA (National Basketball Association) to the NBA finals where they ended up getting beat by the San Antonio Spurs.
     Not only did LeBron just up and leave Cleveland to go play in Miami next year, but he made everyone wait anxiously to hear his decision and had his own 1-hour television special to announce it. During the special he stated what i had quoted before and in them few seconds i believe LeBron James became on the most hated people especially in the sports world in Ohio's history.