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A special thanks to blogging

           In the beginning of my semester I did not know how blogging would be. I’ve heard of people blogging in movies and social media but I never first hand tried it for myself. When my teacher first brought up this assignment, I thought it would be a new and interesting way to accumulate knowledge from my classmates while having fun at the same time. Also, it would be a great way to voice your opinion about certain things you may not have had the courage or motivation to write about before.

           With all the blogs that were due by 11:59 pm Sunday night, it made me more conscious to get it done on time. It helped and still is helping me get my timing and scheduling on point. Another thing blogging helped me with, was learning on how to brainstorm new ideas. If I wanted to get a blog done where I was stuck, I had to really use my imagination. I would take myself out of my shoes and “think outside the box”. I would brain storm, and take over 30 minutes just to get a fascinating topic. Now, it’s easier to create trending topics where hopefully, my audience stays intrigued the whole time. Lastly, blogging has helped me with learning on how to properly critique and respond to new ideas that I’ve never discussed before.

           One of my favorite ones I enjoyed responding to was Women in the black community. I thought this was a very important topic that needs to be voiced and heard. Many people don’t realize the hardships and dilemmas us BLACK woman endure. When you voice your opinions through blogging, topics like this not only get read, but they’re getting heard. People realize different point of views when you blog and you get inside the author’s head now. Why is this topic so serious to them? What can we do to help solve the problem? Your brain starts to scan and analyze differently.

         This skill applies to when you write a blog yourself. With the mindset you use with this, you get into the habit of writing with higher vocabulary, analyzing readings, and for me, formatting. Before blogging, writing in huge clumps was a bad habit I had. The more blogs, the more practice I received and the better my writing became. Blogging has been a blessing and a pain at the same time, but now because of it, I am a better writer.

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Love <3

           What is love? Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. If love is supposed to be such a great feeling, why does it put us through so much pain? How does a person know when he or she is in love? These questions can leave us blushing or even hurt and confused. Love is a universal emblem that helps nurture and warm the heart. Without it, the world would be more of a cruel and harsh place.

           What are some signs of falling in love? A few indications of love may be your heart racing, not being able to keep your eyes or hands off that person, or wanting to that person and no one else. If you feel this way, you may be in love. In my opinion, being in love is like being addicted to a drug. You are hooked on them and may even not “function” without them by your side. Their love makes you feel “high” or invincible. It may be easy to fall in love with someone if you truly care about them. If you want to know where they are, if they are safe, and when they come home, you might be falling in love after all.

Have I ever been in love before? Yes, I have and it was a great experience. I thought about him all the time and always wanted to be around him. Some songs even made me realize my love for him was deeper than I knew. For example, listening to “LOVE” by Keyisha Cole gave me butterflies. Everything she explained made me reminisce about our great times together. He said he was lucky to have me and that he never felt that feeling, I gave him, before. He also dedicated songs to me like “Promise”, by Jagged edge. This song was supposed to let me know how much he loved me and didn’t want to let me go.

           Who loves harder, men or women? I believe men love harder and know how to show their feelings more. When it comes to showing affection, men are more territorial than women. Once a man is “love drugged” it’s over! There like a flea to a dog, not going anywhere! The love a man gets from a female, for the most part, men have not experienced the love from another in that way. When girls have friends they are passionate and caring while male friends are not as emotional. Men friends for the most part don’t share their darkest feelings with each other. That’s why when males are exposed to these feelings, it’s harder to let go. They never felt that type of affection before.

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Spanish Music

Everybody has a specific type of genre they listen to or associate themselves with. The most common song types that people are familiar with include rap, r n b, pop, hip-hop, and reggae. Under the genre reggae or also known as reggaeton, there are different branches of reggae. My favorite is Latin or Salsa. There’s something about a good Spanish song that can really drive me crazy. My all-time favorite is Corazon Sin Cara by Prince Royce. That song is a slow Latin love song. With this catchy beat, not swaying to the tune is almost unresistable to move to. When I hear this song my body automatically wants move to do a one, two, three hip type of motion. If you’re a type of person who likes to dance to songs with rhythmic beats that get you to dance, this song is for you. In the song, Corazon Sin Cara he is telling the woman he does not care about how she looks, he is going to love her regardless. Skinny, fat, ugly or not he does not care how she appears to be. Why? Because the love he has for her goes past any flaw or imperfection she made have. “Y is eres gorda o flaca,Todo eso no me importa a mí,Y tampoco soy perfecto, Sólo sé que te quiero así”. This translates to if your fat or skinny it, none of it matters to him. He is not perfect either he only know he wants her. This song is very popular a lot of Spanish artist are starting to collaborate with other American artists such as Pitbull, J-lo, Prince Royce, Romeo Santos, and Marc Anthony.

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Voted for the first time today with my close friends! Waited more than 2 hours for this! Mood:anxious/nervous

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GAP

My topic I choose was bullying and how school administrations can help restrict bullying. A bully is someone who takes advantage of someone with lesser power. The most common place for a child to be bullied is in a school setting. After researching this question, I found out that not all schools do their part to help prevent bullying from reoccurring. Yes, teachers and advisors can become mentors to a bullied victim but still, what are schools doing together to cease bullying from happening? Some schools create organizations and clubs to educate young people about bullying and how to deal with bullying if you ever came across it. This could be by being the bully, witnesses bullying (bystander), and being the target of a bully. Unfortunately, not all schools have programs like that, to teach children the importance of bullying. My research for the most part concluded after that so I began to think what could possibly be a scholarly gap for my topic. After pondering over my topic for some time a lightbulb flashed on in my head! How come it’s less likely for a bully to bully someone on their level of aggressiveness? We know bullying comes in many forms such as verbal, physical, emotional and, cyber. Which brings me to my next scholarly gap question. How do bullies use social media to belittle their targets? And there my mind began to reflect on those questions.  

           So why do bullies not target someone of equal power. Since bullies are motivated mostly by social status, it is easier to control someone more timid and shy then someone who is obnoxious and outgoing. It also depends on gender as well. Girls are more likely to use verbal or cyber bullying whereas a guy would resort to physical bullying first. A bully isn’t going to single out a friend or other popular peers and schoolmates.  

           My other scholarly gap question is how do bullies use social media to belittle their targets? In other words, how do kids use the internet to cyberbully their victims. Bullies use forms such as blackmailing, sending threats, exposing, gossip, harassment, impersonation, and flaming to pester their prey. This is good for bullies that like to talk and “run their mouth” and that’s it. It never escalates to anything else because, in person their silent. It’s like the bully is all bark and no bite. They get “hype” over the internet from their cyber confidence.

  #SAYNOTOBULLYING

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Minimum Wage

One thing that we haven’t yet talked about in class but i think is a HUGE topic especially for college students just trying to make a living, is how low minimum wage is.

I really do understand that if minimum wage is increased then everything else in the world will have to increased just because “that’s the way it goes.” But speaking as a broke college student with a car payment, car insurance, bills to pay, and working a minimum wage job, it sucks. My mom and dad have always made me work for the things that I wanted so I know how to save money and what not but $9.00 an hour?!?!? that’s ridiculous. There’s no possible way for me to be able to save enough money to pay all my bills in the month and still be able to put some in my savings.

I’m not writing this post just to complain about minimum wage, but young adults/teenagers/college students are required to do a good amount of work for such little pay and I truly don’t see how that’s fair.

I believe that this whole “make fast food wages $15 an hour” is complete bullshit, pardon my language. But I used to work at a Dunkin’ donuts and I barely did any work there, half the time I was able to get my homework done and still get paid more then I am now. I personally just think it’s crazy how we’re going to increase their pay, but the people at “real” jobs are making next to nothing.

I feel as though you’d all agree with this, we, as young adults, should be making more money then just the amount we do. I know for a fact that I’m not able to put money in my savings account simply because i have bills coming every week that are just about the same amount if not more then my paychecks.

It’s so hard for any of us college students to find a job worth going to because of this issue. Not only that but we also have no other choice but to work these low paying jobs because for any other job in the world you need at least a four year degree. I’m sure i’m speaking for all of you when I say, honestly, this just sucks.

I suppose we’ll get there someday, but for now, i’m going to be living pay check to pay check until I can finally get that little piece of paper that my future employer will never see, saying I accomplished something in life.

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  I agree with what you think about minimum wage. I have worked before in fast food places and have seen some of my co-works do nothing and make a decent pay. I find it sad how they make a good pay, but people who struggle to get through college like us are struggling to find good paying jobs. Now on top of that people want to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour, which I don't think makes sense. People don’t realize that if the minimum wage increases then the cost of living will increase as well.

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Same Sex Relationships/ Marriage

A topic we have not discussed in class is …. SAME SEX MARRIAGE/RELATIONSHIPS 

Why is same sex marriage or dating still an issue ? Why have people that are apart of the LGBTQ community placed in a box and not treated like every other human being in the world ?

Understanding we live in America , home of the brave and the free… yeah not exactly but getting off topic here. I feel that everyone deserves respect , everyone deserves love and  it should not matter what gender they are, because having the perfect American family, with a mom and a dad is always the best, yeah not really . As being apart of this generation , what are your views on same sex relationships , and how do you think it should have been handled or did President Barack Obama do the right thing , with legalizing it ? Is it an issue because of the Bible ? or the older generation like our parents and grandparents ? I would like feedback on this , I personally being someone who is a Christian ,who believes in the Word Of God , I have no issue , maybe its because I view everyone as equal, no one is better than anyone else , and also because I had a first hand experience with it growing up with my sibling ,who struggles to still be accepted and loved by our immediate family.  How to discuss this topic , its like ripping off a band aid , you just do it , but you do not need to  be aggressive about the discussion , getting educated about this topic is not hard but there is always something new , that can be discussed and talked about. I feel strongly about this topic because , people of the LGBTQ community , get poorly treated , yeah we have all heard about the hate crimes against them ,but they are placed in a box , where they get kicked out of local places just because they chose to love a person who is the same gender as them. No one wants to be defined or judged or feel like an outcast to anyone , so if you do not want it done to you why do it to others ? Is it because they do not have the same values or beliefs or because it is not normal, or it is not the way things should be ? They said a Black man could never be President , but he was for eight years , so looks like everyone views on what the world or America should look like should just take a step back and realize that this world and generation is changing and there is nothing or no one who can stop it .

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Discussing same sex marriage should definitely be a topic we come across as a class. I agree with how we should all put our feet in a different pair of shoes. How would you feel like to be judged because you liked something another person may not have agreed with? It is 2016 and the world is evolving and will continue to. Straight, bi, gay, or lesbian, we love who we love and no man on earth should be able to critic that. Yes I know that people are entitled to their own opinion but does their opinion have to effect other people’s lives.

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Equal Opportunity between men and women wages

Do you know that Men get paid more than woman? Did you know that society consider woman  to be housewives? i feel like this is one topic we can discuss in class. what does is it really mean though? Are females paid less because they choose lower paying jobs?  Do they get paid less because they have more care-giving responsibilities or maybe even because they do more part time work than men do? But, the real question is what does gender bias as to do with the paychecks being giving?

According to “AAUW” the truth about gender pay gap is succinctly addresses these issue by 80% statistics. The reason Men get paid more than woman is because woman are the ones to get pregnant and have to take days off to get checked out also the company would have to pay you for not working those days. Also health insurance i think the company would be responsible for that covering hospital bills and plus sick days. 

Do you know that if your a woman and an minority that it is 10 times harder for you  to make it in this world.The full time workers in 2015,  Hispanic, African american, american Indian, and native Hawaiian had lower median earnings compared to non-Hispanic whites and Asian woman. They also only made 80 cents for every dollar that a man has made with a gender wage gap of 20 percent. i feel as if men are more demanding in what they want also and woman just settle for whatever they are offered. In the middle skill occupation workers in jobs mainly done by women only earn about 66% of workers in the job that are actually done by men.

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I believe this is a relatively important topic to discuss. Even though it is 2016, men and women still are not treated the same. Why should it be okay for men to get paid more than a woman? Hard work should not based off a person’s skin color, ethnicity, or gender. So why it is that society does that today? Yes woman are incapable of going to work when they are about to go in labor. Clearly, it’s hard to work under those conditions so why should that be a factor in limiting our checks? It’s ok for a man to help impregnate a woman but, when it comes to the money deduction pregnancy plays a factor.

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NBA vs NFL

Should NBA players follow the rules NFL players do by letting a college student go through four years of college before being drafted? This is a topic I noticed not a lot of people tackle or talk about. When I started watching basketball I notice how players would even skip from high school to the league such as LeBron and Kobe Bryant, in these cases you would say these are great role models and they are hall of fame basketball players but if you look at the majority of high school basketball players that go straight to the league are not successful because they either not live up to their hype but also injury can play a huge part in all of this by ruining a player career. In the NFL players make it through all four years of their college career to be considered to be drafted by a NFL team which gives a player maturity, growth and also experience before coming in the league making them ready for the big league. It’s also very beneficial being if a player is injured which is very usual in the NFL they can simple fall back on their degree making a better situation for the player. Now the NBA has a rule that a player has to at least partake in their first year of college, which isn’t that different than the senior year in college. I believe this is even a more waste of time because a player does not gain that much experience for being one year in college and will not be NBA ready. This is the trend we see today in the NBA as soon as a player is finish with their first year in college they quickly decide to be in the draft. The new NBA commissioner Adam Silver should be more active and show effort in the protection and future of their players by following the rules of the NFL and let their player’s gain more experience and knowledge by letting them go through 4 years of college and then be considered a draft prospect. There are a few negatives towards it when you think of individual stats and individual pay. Now players have a mindset of getting money and to start their NBA stats early so they can be as great of a player like Kobe Bryant or LeBron James but god forbid an injury occur was it all worth it?

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I agree with this , I do no think that this is a topic that I would not  like to discuss but I see that you are very passionate about and mostly likely all the boys in class , would have no problem discussing this with you . But I did learn something new , I did not even know that NBA players went in straight after high school , but most of them do go to college after a couple years in the NBA. I understand , what you are talking about , you think that the players are going to get an education and learn more skills and techniques about basketball ,and to mentally preparing themselves for the real world , and learning how to take care of themselves. I think also , that it gives them more time at home with family , and it gives them a better chance of getting drafted to , a championship team or a team they also dreamed of being on. But I like this , its topic i would have never talked about or thought of.

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Women in the black community: How many essays does it take to realize we are all just the same?

What does it mean to be black?  Being black isn’t just about a skin color, it isn’t just about the texture of our hair or even the clothes that we wear. Being black is a history and i’m not talking about slavery, although it  plays a major role in our lives, it shouldn’t be the only thing that defines and divides us.

If you thought being a black man in society was tough, having to be stared down and gunned down because the verdict is in: “guilty on the charge of being black” leaving life as the price to pay, try being a black woman in society. Being a black woman in society means having to fight to define your beauty. It means having to dress half naked just to be noticed as beautiful, it means having to hear the words “you’re beautiful for a black girl” as if your head wasn’t hung low enough already. Now, if you thought being black and being brought down by those of a different race was bad enough, try being black and being knocked over by your own.

In this day and age we see black women competing with each other for the  attention of others rather then standing tall as one. When we think of teamwork and togetherness, a few things come to mind like family, trust, harmony and even shared experiences. These words go far beyond our basic dictionary definitions, they take us back to times of trials and tribulations when black people had no other options but to stand close to those of the similar skin.

It is important for us as black women to stick together and share the bond of sisterhood. In today’s society, we like to think it is okay for a black woman to be herself, that it is okay for her to embrace her naturality, but in actuality, many people do not view those qualities beautiful. If only we were a few skin tones lighter then this wouldn’t be such a fight for us.There is somewhat of a battle among women inside the African American community. This internal battle is a debate on whether “team light-skin” or “team dark-skin” is higher on the social ladder. This brings me back to my original argument. Rather than standing together, black women insists on bringing each other down. How can we demand the respect of other races if we can’t respect each other as one?

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I loved how you picked a topic that is not greatly discussed in my opinion. Us black women do need to stick together. We should stop shunning each other but unite. Why compete when we all have the same thing. Light skin, Brown skin, or dark skin we are all beautiful in our own ways. Sadly, in our day and age we worry about being better then each other and out doing each other. Some girls feel themselves a little to much and put other down. Our ancestors have did so much for to argue about what skin color is better than what. We are all beautiful inside and out. I am black and do do not much of what I am mixed with. Yes, I have heard the comment your pretty for just black. I don’t know what that means but we need to stop. 

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Blog #1

Hey what’s good! I am a sophomore majoring in Business and soon Minoring in Digital Production. I hope to one day get into contact with the right people, and start my own record label. I am 19 years old and from Albany, NY. Music, and sports in general help fuel my fire throughout the day, every day. Music is a way of life for me. Throughout my life, I have had many obstacles thrown my way, whether it was heartbreak, disappointment, life changing decisions, and facing unfortunate realities. Music has been my escape route for quite some time now. Writing music has helped me get through some of the toughest times. When I was only five years old I wrote my first song and from there on, I have been writing songs non stop. In my past, I have done a plethora of things that I am certainly not proud of, but I am trying to make myself a better individual, and a better man. My main focus is definitely the hip hop and R&B genres of music because I can better express my thoughts and feelings. Now that I’ve gotten all of the sob story boo hoo crap off of my chest, there has been a lot of good in my life as well. I mean, a brotha graduated from high school when all the odds were against me (and other African Americans), and according to that bum Donald Trump, “You are living in poverty (first of all, all of us African Americans are not all living in poverty), your schools are no good (second, all of our schools are not no good), you have no jobs ,58% of your youth is unemployed (and last but certainly not least when referring to something this nut job said, we aren’t all unemployed), what the hell do you have to lose?” What the hell do we have to lose!? How about dignity? Maybe respect for ourselves? The list could go on and on. I could probably write a book about it. I could name this book Donald Trump: The One Who Changed America. Take it as you would like to, but in my eyes, Mr. Trump is certainly not fit for anything but being a low key Hitler. I’m not saying that if you vote for Trump you’re a bad and heartless person, but in my eyes, those who vote for Trump haven’t opened their eyes to reality.

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I agree Donald Trump is so similar to Hitler I’m surprised not many people notice that. It’s also kind of sad because Donald doesn’t even have a college degree, but it seems he has influenced many people because he has gained a lot of followers in the past year which is surprising because he is always being smashed all over social media and hated on even there are games made about him but not in the good way. Like “dump trump” and even worst games to portray the type of man he is. Hopefully the 21st century Hitler will not be President.

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In times where I was down or wanted to distant myself from the rest of the world, I too would write. It seemed to relief all the stress that I had built up once that pen hit the paper. I wrote songs, poetry, stories, and lil raps too. Most of mine unfortunately were sad. I would listen to love songs and be in my bag lol. But Congrats on making it passed college! Your showing exactly what they don’t want us to do. Your living life being successful with a good head on your shoulders. Trump to me is DEFIANTLY not an appropriate candidate  for our PRESIDENTIAL  election but I’m only a whisper in a world full of loud clashes. If we let him become president I truly believe he will be the new emblem of Hitler. 

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Reasons the signs SHOULDNT vote Donald Trump

Aries: he’s anti-muslim Taurus: he’s antisemitic Gemini: he’s a rapist Cancer: he’s homophobic Leo: his nasty ass hair Virgo: he’s anti-immigrant Libra: he’s pro-life Scorpio: he’s anti-women Sagittarius: he’s racist Capricorn: he’s sexist Aquarius: he’s a pig Pisces: Bernie Sanders exists

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BLOG #8

One of the main issues in this years presidential elections is citizens not wanting Donald Trump to become president. The many factors that support this issue are Donald Trump making public insults against the LGB community, muslims and immigrants. He is a very ignorant candidate and has no prior experiences to even be considered as a good president of the United States. Donald Trump has made races comments that blacks and Latinos commit most crime in America, but he’s also on record saying that we should be giving Europeans access to America and a path to citizenship, but not Latinos south of our American/Mexican border. Donald trump has made some remarks in his public appearances that were interpreted as racist remarks. Some people believe that Donald trump is a racist person especially when it comes to African Americans and Hispanics as well as Mexicans.  Donald Trump has no background check that qualified him to be a president, or that he would have a good chance of winning a national election in 2016. Voters today even know this. The media knows this. But because Trump is famous and willing to be controversial.

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I agree with you completely! Trump is a very ignorant candidate. The remarks that he makes are ridiculous. Why would we want to put our fate in the hands of someone so cruel. In our generation today, many people are gay, bisexual, transexual, etc. more than ever. He cannot mistreat and ignore the country just because he may not agree with a certain view. As far as him being “racist”, once again absolutely true. If you can’t get over the fact that everyone is not white in 2016, you need a wake up call. America is a very diverse place now and we should not “kick someone to a curb” for any reason. 

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High School Story

All my life, I’ve been a good person and an even better student. In the beginning of high school, which was 9th grade, I was getting good grades, getting awarded student of the month almost every month and I was truly happy with my performance and most importantly, my parents were proud of me. I started making more friends and with more friends comes more distraction but I was able to control that and still manage to get my good grades. That all went down hill in 11th grade when I started cutting class to play basketball in the gym. Thinking about it now, it was really stupid because I had 2 gym classes but I just wanted to go and play more instead of going to class. I met a girl named Davena who saw what I was doing and warned me several times to stop cutting class. The class I was cutting was a history class which I need to pass the history state test in order to graduate high school. Sometimes I listened to her and went to class but that wasn’t enough. It wasn’t til later that I realized that all my friends I cut class with had passed all their state tests and I had to get my life together and focus on passing. I went to class from then but I guess it wasn’t enough because I failed the test by 1 point. I was told I couldn’t graduate because I didn’t have that 1 point; that was the worst day of my life, knowing that all my friends I started high school with are graduating and I wasn’t. I went home very disappointed because my brother was coming home all the way from upstate New York for my graduation and now I am not graduating. How do I tell my parents that they took off work for nothing because I am not graduating? I went straight to my room and started crying. I went back to school and talked to my principal and she told me that she knows I am a good student, I never got in trouble and I had already been accepted to college so she is going to help me out by sending an appeal because I only failed by 1 point. I had to get my test appealed in order to graduated that day. That taught me a lesson and I made a promise that I will focus and make sure I do what is needed before I do anything else.

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I enjoyed your story 100%. I’m glad you had to go through that to better yourself. Why did you skip anyway? Like where did you go? lol Im curious but the feeling you got when they said you couldn’t graduate was probably unbearable. Did you even ever tell your mom the truth? And if you did what did she say? Alot of people have to go through certain things in order to mature. For me, when my grandmother passed away that’s when i realized life is too short for games. You have to live everyday as if it was your last meaning give it your all. I’m glad you experienced this because in the long run it taught u a valuable lesson. 

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Dancing with the stars (Buff State Edition)

Last year around April, one of my roommates was a part of a pageant called MISS PHAT. “PHAT stands for pretty, hot, and, thick and helped plus sized woman feel more beautiful and confident about their size. One of the requirements for this show was to have a talent portion. She knew I had a history of dancing and had took a dance course that prior semester. Being the generous friend that I am, I put together a whole choreographed routine and taught her and my other roommate the dance.

Being that we are in college, class, workouts, homework, and studying took up a lot of time. That left me with little time to teach her the dance, and still have her execute it well!

The first song we danced to was “Dj Taj, Work”. This song is has an upbeat, fast tempo that’s guaranteed to get the crowd hype. The next song was “Drop, Kotch part two. It’s a reggae song by RDX which can also start a party. Finally, the last song was “Watch out for the Big Girls”. It’s also a jersey song. I chose Watch out for the big girls because it being a PHAT competition, it went with the theme.

I tried to meet up with her at least 4 times a week. We met before class, during our break, after class, and once before going to bed. The practices paid off in the long run because when we first started I was afraid that my roommate would embarrass herself on stage. You could tell it was her first time learning a choreographed dance because she forgot the routine a lot of the time. I even had to change a couple of the steps because the moves were too difficult to perform. Towards the end, she looked like a completely different dancer. Her timing skills for the steps were correct, the moves were precise, and she even added a little of her own style.

           It was the morning of the pageant and my roommate was as nervous as a teenage girl on her first date. I reassured her everything would be find but little did I know, that statement was going to bite me on the ass. It was mandatory for her to come in with her dance perfect, music ready and mixed, and for the whole talent portion to run smoothly. It was our turn to go up for our run- through so we approached the stage. At the end she was a bit tired but she knew the moves and was happy.

The show came and butterflies were now dancing in her stomach. I practiced the dance a few more times with her to make sure she remembered it. She forgot a few times but the more times we ran through it, the more she knew it. It was now 8:16 and they were calling her name to approach for her talent portion. We were now on stage, the moment we all were waiting for had finally arrived. As we started our dance, we learned it was a different mix with a different set of time frames. It was not until we heard the mix that we realized something was wrong. For the first dance our moves were not in sync because not everyone was used to that mix. Luckily the last two songs were slightly easier to hear the different times and were easier to catch on.

Even though the mix was messed up, I enjoyed assisting her for a pageant that meant a lot to her. It meant a lot that she chose me to help her compete.

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Blog 2

Last week when examining the course outline I saw something about a “Multimodal Project”. In my head, I began to wonder what the hell that even meant. After reading, I now understand multimodal composing is combining different modes to convey information. This is used through a series of words, images, sounds, graphics, animations and more. Many times, we use this method without noticing it. For an example, a teacher asking a question and pointing to the child who raises their hand first. Another example could be presenting your power point and explaining it through the use of body language and words.  It’s considered a multimodal because it uses words and involves a gesture.  It cannot be considered a multimodal if there is only text.  To prepare to analyze for a multimodal, you may need four topics to describe what you’re talking about. You should question the Genre, Features, Purpose and audience, and Meaning. In other words plan what questions should go along with each section of this “tool-kit”.

           As I prepare to work on Project 1, I believe the most important part should be finding the location of your photos. You need a good setting to capture the reader’s attention. You also need to make sure your audience does not get bored but rather entertained. Being from Long Island, New York I do not know my way around Buffalo the best so I felt that finding one would be a little difficult at first.

           As I began to walk around campus on Friday, I was confused about where I was going to take my pictures. I know I like scary movies and mysteries so I intended to have a creepy scenery for the picture. Sunday morning came and I needed some more ideas for my story. I began to brainstorm on all the recent activities that were occurring at the time. Perfect, a football game! I then went to the game with my friends when the perfect idea came to me. Why not create a story with an abandoned building?! The football team could go there to watch films, run stairs, and work out in the gym. One rainy Saturday morning Coach has the players run from the Bengal Field, straight to this abandoned building. Unfortunately, the squad gets locked in and they soon realize they are not in there alone… This building is located right behind the bleachers and football field. Imagine the bricked structure, with a few lightly cracked windows and a blacked out street leading you to it, would you go in to save your brother’s life? Stay tuned to find out what really happens in this thriller!

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The day I got tried

Names will be left out, to hide the identities of the participants taking apart of this story.

It was a week before my 17th birthday, and I had no intentions of what was about to take place. No one was going to ruin my big day, and I would do anything to make sure it was perfect. There was one BIG event that tried to lead up to a “fucked up” birthday but I’m stubborn and if I want it, I get it. I wanted a great birthday in school and was stopping at nothing to get it!

Basically, my older sister had a boyfriend, whose younger sister didn’t like my friends and me. One Friday morning I was absent to school due to a cold and major cramps. I was in no shape for coming in school. I woke up that day at around 9:30 a.m. and got a text from my two best friends. They had told me she was talking about my sister. You may ask yourself, “Isn’t that her brother’s girlfriend”, of 8 months now. I was going to come to school to ask the young soul why is she “bad mouthing” my sister, when the bell rang for next period. My friends told me it made no sense to say something when the class is over and the day just started. They reminded me I’m already not feeling well and to leave it alone. So, that’s exactly what I planned on doing until later on that evening.

At around 10:30 p.m., my sister walked into the house with her boyfriend. She stopped by at my bedroom door when my friends and I realized she was not alone. I saw the dark shadow approaching my door as I called his name. I told him, “Tell your sister to keep my sister’s name out her mouth”. My friend added in “Before I close her mouth for her”. Him listening to our commandments of telling his sister, he did so.

Monday morning, I came into school on a cool October day. Being autumn, I wore a sweatshirt and Uggs. The night before, I was involved in a fashion show and my hair was still curled. I was not dressed for what was about to happen. The bell rang for 3rd period and I began to leave my class and head down the staircase. As I waited for the last English class to leave and for mine to enter, I see an unfriendly face coming my way. It was the girl who had talked about my sister. The girl and I soon got into a heated argument but I did not think further more would take part in school. She did the unthinkable and actually touched my face. I then dropped my bag and blacked out! When I “woke up” from the black out I saw the girl’s friend trying to take her friend out of my palm. I then watched my other (did not say anything but is my best friend) friend fighting the girl’s friend. I didn’t even know I was fighting! I have never been involved in a fight in school or period. When the girl saw me she tried to push me so I dragged her to other the other the side of the hall punching her in the face. I tried to be nice and calm her down n just hold her head down but she tried to hit me again so I began to punch her in the face as the assistant principle came to grab me off her.

Long story short the girl got suspended for staring such a daring activity in school. I got to stay with no suspension since I did nothing but protected myself once attacked.

As I told you in the beginning, I was going to stop at nothing to stay in school so I could celebrate my birthday!

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