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Beijing is the capital of China and one of the most important cities in the world. However, there is a serious air pollution in Beijing. Haze is currently one of the most serious pollution in china. The core material is the haze of dust particles suspended in the air, meteorology, known as aerosol particles. In recent years, with the "smog" weather phenomenon with increasing frequency, causing air quality deterioration. Smog contains hundreds of atmospheric chemistry particulate matter, in unsuspecting people invaded the human respiratory tract and lungs in, causing respiratory system disease, cardiovascular disease, blood system, reproductive system diseases, such as sore throat, emphysema, asthma, rhinitis, bronchitis and other inflammation, in the long run, the environment also can cause lung cancer, myocardial ischemia and injury. But Beijing almost have a smog weather everyday. I have some friends who are from Beijing, sometimes on their events they will share something like, "I can't believe that the sky is blue today!" Or they will just share a picture of a blue sky.  I feel very sad. I love my motherland, I am proud of the development of my motherland. But if the price of development is to lose our blue sky and health, I would rather have a slower speed of the development.Beijing is changing too fast. I remember when I was 3 years old, I have been to Beijing, although I have forgotten how Beijing is, but in the past, there are not so many tall buildings, not so many cars. At that time, if there is a bike is a great thing already. Right now we have a modern city, but we also paid off. The price is the blue sky and our health. Right now it is impossible to solve this problem because Beijing can’t stop her step. The only thing we can do right now is walking in masks or just stay in inside the whole time. It takes time to solve this big issue but I hope we are moving on not just staying at the same position. Sometimes I think I'm from a small city is a very lucky thing. I don't need to be so nervous, not too much pressure. Although there is not much excitement and bustling, but I have the peace and quiet that only smaller cities will have. Whether it is my hometown, or the city I am living right now, buffalo, both two cities have slower speed living style than big cities.

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Blog # 9

I had a pretty boring and fast week and I think this week passed so fast. I don't think I've done anything and this week is over. May be because of the time has been changed, although it's only one hour difference, I feel that my body is not comfortable. Yesterday I had a bad headache for the whole day, it was so bad I even want to though up. I also get a little bit cold because of the season changed. I like the autumn of Buffalo. Although my friend and I said there is no autumn in Buffalo. But every time I see the yellow leaves falling under the beautiful blue sky, I feel the autumn is really amazing. When I walked home on Thursday, there were very few cars on the road so the road was very quiet. Stepping on the  leaves and make the sound, very crisp. There are a lot of small and cute squirrels running around me and try to store the food, they are too cute. But the autumn of Buffalo is too short, I know that snow is coming soon. So my family planing to go to south for this Thanksgiving. I can't wait to go to the south.We are going to West Key for Thanksgiving vacation. I haven't been to the south for a long time. Last time was around 2010. It's been 5 years already! Time flies. I will go with my family for this time and I am so exciting. I have a lot of friends who have been to Keywest already. Key west southernmost is the southernmost island and city in Florida islands, the beginning of the highway 1. It is the south est city of America. President Harry Truman has USA vacation home with the famous writer Hemingway on the island's former residence. At the same time, there are a lot of cats on the island, it is a paradise for people who love cats. So many cats, definitely my heaven. This is the top one reason for me to go there. Also, my friend told me that I can ride bicyle to travel around the whole island. I just can't wait. I think this travel is going be to awesome. Because I love cats and I love bicyle riding, also, Hemingway is the first American writer I know and The Old Man and the Sea is the first novel I read from foreign writers. I think this island is a little bit special for me. I can't wait. Come on, Thanksgiving!

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

Blog #8

I went to Canada yesterday. This was my first time to Canada, so I was a little nervous. I think the Canadian driver are super scary, yesterday I had the speed of 77 mi/h, but I still the slowest one on the street. Do they drive every day like this  terrible? That was really fast. I went to Toronto mainly to see one of my friends of my primary school. I met her in the first grade, she was a wonderful friend, we were so good together and we just like sisters to each other. But she transfer to another school for some reason when she was in 4th grade I remember, so I didn't get chance to see her anymore. But we get into the same class when we attend to middle school! China and the United States is not the same, the students will be divided into a class and studies all the classes together, until the end of the school, so we have done four years of primary school  and two years of middle school together. For the last year of middle school I came to the United States. We have known each other for 16 years, but we haven't seen each other for eight years. But I still noticed her when she walked into the mall. We were shopping together, drinking bubble tea, eating together, took self photos , do all the girls will do and we two have never done together. We were really excited. She also told me some stories in the class I never know, for example, the boy I liked a lot when I was in primary school likes me too. Ha, young ages. My first birthday invitation in my life was also from her. Because when I was young, having a pretty in KFC for kids is very popular. The KFCs in China are different are different from the KFC here, all of the KFC will have the kind of place to play specifically for the children, like the same as the McDonald's on Elmwood Ave. She invited five girls and one boy, we eat together, play together. I remember very clearly now, I was wearing a yellow sweater, purple pants, very short hair, and then I remember I had a lot of fun with all my friends. But I was sick when I get home, because I sweat too much.  At that time I did not need to wear the glasses, didn't have so much homework, also did not know how to speak English. This was one of the most wonderful time in my childhood memories. This part of memories was so vivde and bright and I even still hear the laughs from the young us. This is the best trip ever.

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

Blog 7

Yesterday was my boyfriend's birthday, we went to factory cheesecake for dinner. My boyfriend usually likes to make a meal for himself on his birthday, but yesterday he was lazy, so we decided to ask our friends to go out for dinner. Yesterday Galaery mall was really busy. We came to the Cheesecake Factory around 4:50, but the waiter told me that I need to wait for about 50 minutes. So we wait until 6 o'clock and finally there is a open table for us. I have to say, the steaks of Cheesecake Factory are really good. Especially their fillet steak, medium rare, well, it looks a little bit  bloody, but it tastes great. I thought I was chewing fish steak. The meat is very tender and delicious. I chose the Hibachi Steak, I think they used Japanese style barbecue sauce, but it is still very good, besides the dish is small for me. I wish it could have more, because it was so good. Then I and my friend ordered a Fresh Starwberry Cheesecake for him, it was also really good. There is a feeling of eating ice cream, and that strawberry is also very fresh. Oh, I want to eat it again right now because writing this bolg, but my friend just finished the whole cake. Then we go to a friend's house to play PS3. I like to watch my friends play GTA, I think this game is very difficult, but also very interesting, although the game is really violent. I have been watching my friends play games until 1 in the morning. I think it's fun to watch people play games,it feels like watching cartoons. And it's my father's birthday today. He's in New York, so I couldn't celebrate for him for his birthday, and I also forget to say "happy birthday" to him at the first time, but I chose a very nice tie for him as the birthday gift. I hope he can forgive me. Having two important people's birthday at the same time is really 'painful', for my purse. Time flies, this is my father's 51st birthday. I can't believe he is 51 already. My father came to America 18 years ago, I didn't see him for 14 years. But in my memoery, he is still the young, handsome man. Right now, white hair goes up to his head, he is getting old,he still handsome, but he is still working hard to try to give me a better life. I just want to thank my father, thanks to him giving me a wonderful life.

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

Blog#6

After reading some of the ideas, I think everyone has a good start. Although each person has different idea but I believe that after we finish our research, we will be more understanding of the society and we will know what we need to do more. Each person may have only a little energy, but when everyone is trying to make themselves become better, the whole society, the whole country will become better. The first thing we need to do is taking good care of ourselves, have plenty of sleep, don't drink a lot, and then we will try to help each other, so that everyone can get richer, that will help to reduce the crime rate. Also we need to help those who get out from prison. When everyone is thinking of others, cares about others, our life and the country will be better and better.

[acknowledgedinquirer-blog]

Project #1

I’ve always been fascinated with Criminal Justice, but the aspect of it that attracted me the most is the prison system. The reason for this is because I have come to understand that American prisons have this profound ability to take a person in and over time morph them into a completely different human being. Of course, this is the purpose of prison: taking in a criminal and releasing them as a new, rehabilitated, law-abiding citizen. However, this is an idealistic outcome that often doesn’t happen, and that is because the methods American prisons have for “correcting” inmates are far from effective. The result of this is, ex-convicts are released from prison only to reoffend and get sent back. This is a common phenomenon called recidivism. It doesn’t happen with everyone that gets out of prison, but it happens often enough.

This is a topic I feel really passionate about which is why I want to do my first project on it; specifically on the psychological effects that occur while a person is in prison. To do this, I will have to understand how the prison system itself has the ability to have such a dramatic change on a person’s behavior. What I would need to look for is what kind of punishments inmates have to endure once they are incarcerated, how do the correctional officers treat them, what kind of environment do they live in, and what are they allowed to do in their leisure time. I know that these topics are very general, and all of these factors vary from prison to prison, but I believe if I could get an idea of what typically prison life consists of, I can have something to work with. Also, if I can find interviews of studies that involve former inmates, I would receive valuable information about life in prison.

As for the physical project itself, I was thinking of creating a model of a mini-prison using a box, a slinky, some pens, and hopefully if I can find some,  laser pointers. I want to do this because I think I can create an accurate representation of a prison. By doing this, I want to show how dehumanizing the prison environment is and how it is not benefitting anyone that goes through that system. Also, I want to show how former inmates become so psychologically damaged from being in prison that they cannot function normally in society and as a result, they go back to prison. 

I really hope that by doing this project, I can shed some light on the hardships inmates endure while they are in prison, and long after they are out of prison. Awareness needs to be raised so that prison reform can become a reality.  

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

I can't wait to see your work. I'm sure it will be very attractive. I think prison is a very scary place. I've seen some TV shows, for example, Prison Break. Maybe most of the TV drama is more dramatic, but I think there is still something real, those things happened in the drama that really happened in real life. People who enter the prison is not really bad, maybe they just too young and they make a mistake, but after they get into the prison, they got some unfair treatment, may have a serious impact on their psychology, and then make some worse things. No one has not made any mistakes in their lives. But for the people who make mistakes, we need help them and bring them back, not pushing them father away from the whole world.

[bengalwriter2-blog]

Blog 5

My project will be on the dangerous effects of alcohol abuse with college students. I will mainly be focusing on alcohol use in college athletes and how this impacts performance. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism college drinking is a significant public health problem. It has been estimated that the average American college student drinks more than 34 gallons of alcohol every year. College is an environment that promotes heavy binge drinking and creates an unsafe scene where this behavior is expected. Binge drinking is more commonly associated with college athletes. This may be because of the short off-seasons and few rest periods during the week. When there is a chance to relax athletes tend to over-indulge. Alcohol abuse is the precursor to various other issues including death, injury, and other social problems. Alcohol abuse leads to many academic problems in college students such as, missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades. In athletes these issues can lead to consequences with coaches, the athletic department, and it can decrease overall performance. Alcohol impairs many of the body’s functions that allow an athlete to perform at an optimal level. Alcohol negatively impacts the body’s muscle development and recovery, affects your ability to learn new plays and strategies, and affects an athlete’s nutrition and endurance. Because student athletes are held to a higher standard than regular students at times the consequences of alcohol abuse can have a greater impact on their quality of life. Because of this, it is sometimes hard to find accurate statistics and information because schools and athletes most of the time are not readily willing to admit their failures. They would much rather publicize the accomplishments of their athletes rather than the consequences that had to be administered to punish students who have abused alcohol. 

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

This is a very serious problem. I actually prefer to drink, because I think alcohol can help me to relax better, but I never drink a lot. I think alcohol is good, but most people just don't know how to control themselves. I think the value of a thing is reflected from the user. If we only have a few red wine every day, it's good for our body and sleep, especially for women. But if you drink too much, it will have a big impact on your health. And it also brings a lot of harm to the family and society. So this is a problem that everyone needs to pay attention, especially for the young adults. Because we just past our 21st birthday and our body might not use to alcohol yet. If we suddenly drink a lot, that is really dangerous.  

[bigmike5552]

Project 1 topic

My project 1 topic will be on the poorest part in Buffalo. For as long as I can remember I have always been interested in poverty and ways to prevent it. My dream job is have my own charity and travel around the world helping those who are less fortunate than I am. This is a topic that is extremely important to me because I feel that everyone should live on equal terms. Too many people get stuck in unavoidable situations that causes them to be unsuccessful. I want everyone to have the same opportunity that someone like me has had in this country. I Understand that Buffalo is one of the poorest parts in Buffalo so I feel like this will be a great topic to do my project on.  I feel that many people will be interested in our class considering that we are all living in the city for the time being. It would interest some people in this class if I talked about important things in The city of Buffalo. We all know that poverty has been a huge problem here in the United States of America. The city of Buffalo is the one of the poorest cities in America. I would like to come up with something in my project that would address this problem. I want to show what the city has been doing to fix the poverty rates in this specific area. I also want to come up with ways to prevent this problem that we call poverty in that area. statistically the eastern part of Buffalo is the worst part. That area not only has the highest crime rates, This area also is the poorest. But that is expected. When ever you have a poor area you can expect the areas crime rates to be extremely high as well. For my project I plan on demonstrating my topic with a well organized poster. The poster will have Pictures indicates poverty in that particular area. I also plan on having a bunch of statistics as to why this area of Buffalo has not been excelling from an economic standpoint of view. I want pictures on my poster that shows the efforts that have been made by certain people or groups in order to decrease the poverty rates as well. I feel that my project will come out great. If you have any suggestions or ideas please let me know and I will gladly put them into consideration.

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

I really like your research topic. I think that make everyone no longer poor is one of the best way to make the whole society better. The whole society and the state can be considered as 'successful' when we have all been able to be self-sufficient. There are a lot of people in the world who needs help and we have a group of people around us. I think your topic can help us to understand the society better. When more and more people know and understand, we will help each other, so that the society will be become better. I really think compare to New York City, Buffalo doesn’t have enough energy. I want Buffalo become more exciting to draw more people’s attention. 

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

Blog#5

  I slept almost until 11 o'clock and I still thought I didn't have enough sleep. Every day, there is a lot of work to do and I feel I don't sleep enough every day. I believe everyone has the feeling. Always keep awake until two or three in the morning. I have a friend, he is very busy, almost go to bed every day at three A.M, and in a week, he needs to get up at 5 because he needs to work at 6 in the morning.Why we are not getting enough sleep? Do we really have so many things to do every day? What are we doing every day? Why do we sleep less and less? With these questions, I began to ask my friends. (I only ask them about the weekends, because everyone has different schedules on week days.)   First I asked my boyfriend. He said, he usually get up at 9 in the morning on weekends, and then he spend 30 mins to take a shower, later 9:30 to 10 he needs to  eat the breakfast. And then start playing games from 10 to 11, and then to prepare lunch.  After lunch is his study time. From 12 to 3, he usually writes his homework, and then starts watching movies or TV shows to relax, or if he needs to buy food for the week, about 2 hours. So from 3pm to 5pm is his relaxing time. Starting at 5pm, he needs to perpare the dinner, then eat dinner, probably need to use the last 2 hours. (most of the Chinese food needs to be prepared for at least 1 hours, so every day he needs to spend a lot of time to cook. At the 7pm, he will continue to study and do his homework, he will choose to play games when he needs a rest. He usually go to bed around 12 am, but he used to lie on the bed, watching his phone, so he's not going to sleep until 1 o'clock somtimes until 2. So I about the statistics, on average (weekends), his daily sleep time is 7 hours, the cooking time is 3.5 hours, the stud time is 6 hours, rest time is 5 hours. Shopping time is 2 hours. Because he doesn't need to work, so he has plenty of time to relax and rest on the weekend. But from his schedule, it shows that he spend a lot of time on video game and smartphones. This shows that modern technology and the network has become a part of our life, especially in our generation, if the daily life is without a computer, network, smartphones, we will feel that we lost something in our lives, I believe that 99% of people will not not use to live without the network.   And then I asked me another good friend, she and my boyfriend is not the same, she needs to go to work. Every day she sleep 6 hours, 1 hour for a meal, study for 4 hours, 1 hour to take a bath, work 8 hours, the remaining four hours she used to watch movies on the Internet to relax, or play games. Thus, the network has become an inseparable part of the modern people. She is so busy and tired every weekend but she still choose to spend few hours for the internet. So I believe that the Internet is one of the most important reasons that causes us to sleep less and less. Of course I need to do more research to get an answer. My friends around me have given me a lot of help. I will continue to study until I get a more perfect answer.

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

Blog #4

 I read one of my favorite novels this week, ‘Pride and Prejudice’. Although the "Pride and Prejudice" can be called the best model of the Romance Drama, but the characters under Austen’s pen showed us careful side inside of Austen and how cautions when Austen describe the whole story. So that this masterpiece in a certain level to rise to the perspective of human nature. Has caused the readers' sympathy, therefore can only several hundred years. I really like this book, I read it at least ten times already and I feel I can read it one more time later after this blog.  There are four lines in the book, with Elizabeth and Darcy's love as the main line, in the middle of the love, including three couples and their marriage. Charlotte and William Collins of the supremacy of the interests of the marriage, Lydia and Wickham was intemperate in marriage, Jane and Bingley's marriage is very sweet, Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage has a lot of twists. Four pairs of couples, two pairs of tragedy, two pairs of comedy. In this book, I learned that the most important thing during life is Communication.  From this book, I have learned to communicate, not only is the method of communication, skills, but also the importance of communication and communication brought about by the collision of ideas. Although the content of communication is the book of the flash point, but to learn to communicate with us is an important lesson. In real life, there is often a result of a disagreement, and a fight or even more serious consequences. This is one of the most typical manifestations of the art of communication. Elizabeth and Charlotte almost break up because Charlotte and Collins's marriage, but they can sit down and have a good talk and understanding each other's thoughts, just let their relationship did not deteriorate. This story is happened before 200 years, and right now, 200 years later, did we have forgotten the way to communicate? Right now, everyone is talking through the phones, sometimes when we sit together and we just play the phones, no one really talk to each other anymore. I always wondering, do we still know how to communicate? We rather talk to the phone than talk to the people sit next to us. I want to talk with my friends face to face, not only through the phone, because I believe we can only understand each other by face to face talk, not everything can be instead of.

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

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Today is Mid-Autumn Festival!

  The Mid Autumn Festival is a festival for family reunion. In mid August when the moon is the most round and usually this time has entered the fall, so it is called the mid autumn festival. This festival one of my favourite festival but it makes me feel lonely all the time. I miss my family so so much at this time. My mom is in China missing me,too. This is a festival that makes me feel so lonely by myself in Buffalo.

  However, the Chinese people in the Mid Autumn Festival have to eat moon cake.(This is my favourite part of Mid-Autumn Festival.) In ancient times, the moon cake is used for offering sacrifices to gods or ancestors, and to the Tang Dynasty, moon cake grew into a family reunion meal. Moon cakes symbolize family reunion, like the moon. So the Chinese people in the Mid Autumn Festival need to share moon cake with their family, this is our custom.

  My favourite flavor moon cake is red bean flavor. This is a very good sweet tooth. I'm sure every girl would like it. I also like lotus seed egg yolk taste. Although it sounds strange, but the taste is really good. There is also a new kind of moon cake, which is the ice skin moon cake. Ice skin moon cakes and traditional moon cake are totally different, the traditional moon cake need to bake, the appearance of a cash yellow, inside we usually use red bean, green bean, lotus seeds, jujube or sesame, and the ice cream moon cake is made from glutinous rice, looks white, and need to be placed in the refrigerator freezer, usually beside red bean flavor, people make fruit flavors or green tea flavor. Ice skin moon cake has a feeling of ice cream.

  In addition to the Mid Autumn Festival, today is a special day. Today is the super moon and full moon eclipse. So I'm so excited today, I want to watch the beautiful moon in the evening. I think it's romantic, and this opportunity is very rare. Prediction of NASA, the U.S. Eastern time on September 27 at 21 points 7 points, partial lunar eclipse began to be staged, total eclipse of the moon is about to start in 22: 11, continued to 23 points 23 points. I think I might call my good friends, eat my moon cake, and give my mother a video call, watch the wonders of a once-in-a-generation. 

[littlekw]

Blog #1

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

I have the same feeling like you sometimes too, little KW. I am a easy person so I always try to be not too serious with my friends. So they always think that I am ok with all jokes or I don’t care about anything they said. But I do care. I still have a sensitive heart inside of me. Not everyone cares about me. Even they say you are the ‘best friend’. So I only have two real friends, they are not with me all the time but they understand and care about me. No matter when or where, they always stand behind me. I think this is the REAL friend. I am a so glad that I have my friends to be with me. 

[lightsout123world-blog]

                       Through the course of my writing history I have come to a conclusion that I have many strengths, but few weaknesses. Two strong writing strengths I tend to have are vocabulary and structure. As a writer I have the ability to overcome writers block. I tend to get deep into my writing and refuse to hold back anything. I am creative, and organized when writing essays or stories. Many people tend be all over the place when determining fist, middle, and last events. I make sure the readers get a clear understanding of everything that occurred and when it did. Creativity draws out more readers whom want to be entertained, but also drawn to the essay. The more creative one is, the better the essay would be. My writing always                                                                                                                                                                                             tends to give the readers a clear understanding. As a writer I need to work on the “little” grammar mistakes. These grammar mistakes are the only thing stopping me from becoming an “A list” writer. Grammar mistakes are common and they occur regularly to many writers whom don’t revise their essays, and feel as if it’s good enough to submit as soon as they complete it. Writing is very important to me. I seldom enjoy reading, but I love to write because it keeps me a live, and many don’t realize it’s a good form of “meditation”. Main topics I love to write about are poverty, gun violence, and education. I focus and put a lot of effort on educational topics because it is the key to success. Without education I would have nothing, and I would be nothing. Most people finish up to high school then make a decision on whether or not he or she should go to college. Obviously when I speak on the importance of education, I am specifically speaking on college. College Is very essential but it is not for everybody. But I do believe if someone can go to college then they should. In life we have two doors. The first door is the one in front of you from pre-k all the way to high school. The second door is very hard to open if you don’t have that college degree, but if you have the degree then you get to see thousands of more opportunities through door two. Not everyone has to go to college to become successful but going increases your chances and puts you up in the runner-ups. Poverty is simply important to me because all my life I struggled growing up with my family, and my neighborhood shows poverty everywhere. Poverty motivates me, and the more I experience the “struggle” the more I hustle, and grind in school. Another topic I spoke about as well as wrote about many times in my academic life is violence. Whether its gun violence or gang violence, violence is still violence and someone either gets killed or physically hurt.Sports, and music help me over come the street environment everyday.

           Through College Writing 102 I would like to go from a very good writer, to a great writer. I want my writing to be looked at as “wow”, rather than “very well written”. I have always been a powerful writer but I want my writing to be consistently powerful. I learned a lot from CWP 101, but from 102 I would simply like to learn “everything” there is to learn. I will reach my goals by doing what I do best, focusing, putting in “A” effort, asking questions, and trying my best to my up most ability. The only thing my CWP 102 professor can do to help my goals be reached is by teaching the class the ins and outs, having me leave the class at the end of the semester with fewer questions than when I came in. I am a quick learner. With that being said, teach what should be taught, and my goal shall be reached.

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

I am not very good at explode my thoughts and views by using words. I think that people who can write very well are awesome. I want to be one of the group but I think I just don’t have the sense of writing. I think college is just a place that helps people to get a faster and systematic way to study. But I believe that the most of those successful writers are learning from lives. All stories based on real lives are more catchy and touching. But learning from school can get help us know a better way to write. I hope I can read your ‘wow’ stories in the future.  

[lessoleiletlune-blog]

Playlists Of My Life

Whether I am standing in a dark crowded venue with blaring guitars and lights, using the rhythm to move my body across a dance floor or humming along to one of my favorite songs while drawing alone in my room, music has always been my gateway to contentment. I live for the moments when I breathe in, open my eyes, and use various playlists to express myself in different ways. Music brings me to a place where I feel most in my element. 

Playlist One ( “Im Spinning”)

This playlist is filled with upbeat, chaotic, indie pop songs that bring life and joy to my soul. I remember the night of the Passion Pit concert. One of the best sensations is being able to feel the intensity of the music in my chest, allowing myself to drown in the music not only emotionally, but literally. As a concert junkie, I never tire of standing in a condensed space with bodies constantly shoving through to reach the stage while I hear nothing but the deafening music canceling out every other sound.  As I let my arms fly high into the sticky air, I notice that I have found my peace of mind.

Playlist Two ( “Ambients/Instrumentals”)

This playlist is filled with extremely powerful songs without lyrics. These songs express a specific mood to which I picture myself dancing. Dancing is another way I use music to guide me into a state of tranquility. I immerse myself with the sounds and allow myself to tell a story by moving to the music. I feel a rush of energy and I allow the music to take over my body. I forget the other bodies are there dancing with me, and I enter my own creation of a world where I am happy. 

Playlist Three ( “ Soft Sound” )

I am filled with bursts of creativity and new ideas while drowning in the songs of this playlist. I able to create a vivid pictures in my mind by simply listening. This music is my escape from reality. When I feel overwhelmed, extremely happy, or angry, I throw my headphones on and listen to this playlist. Sometimes I sprawl out on my bed with my eyes closed and just listen. Other times I take out my sketchbook and let the mood of the music effect the way I move the pencil.

    Each playlist is filled with music that represents different environments where I express myself and feel satisfied. The places where I feel most comfortable and content are those where music is involved. My obsession with concerts, my love for dancing, and the motivation to discover creative ideas have given me playlists for my life. With music, I become the greatest version of myself.

[crazycandypepsi-blog]

This is a unique way to introduce yourself. But I took a little bit time to find who to read your blog. I really like music too. I feel this world could be so boring without music. While I do my projects or drawing, I always listen to music. Music can help me open my mind and also relax my body from busy work. I love all types of music, jazz, blues, pop, classical, everything. I love singing too. I always sing during driving or even taking shower. It just so essay to help me relax and give me power to keep doing works.   

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blog post number 1

My name is John Navarro and I am a journalism major who does not particularly like to write. The plan for when I applied to college as a journalism major was to be a sports guy for the local news or something like that but since then, I have kind of lost interest. I like to write about things that interest me though. For example, I can write all day about football or movies or something because those two things are my two big passions. Football is the biggest part of my life, I believe that it is one of the most competitive and toughest sports to play in the world. In third grade I decided that I wanted to play football, so my parents signed me up for little league. After my first day, some older kid hit me so hard that I instantly thought that I did not want to play anymore, then I went to my dad and he told me that “that’s football”, so i got back out there and it changed my life. I played five years in little league, and my final year I had to make the weight of 135 to play in the game, I weighed about 140 the morning of the game, I didn’t eat anything that day, put on multiple layers of sweatshirts and went behind the field and ran until I couldn’t run anymore. I took off the sweatshirts and stepped on the scale, it said 135 exactly. That moment taught me if i work hard enough for what I want, nothing is impossible. I continued my playing career throughout high school and now into college. I learned one of the most important lessons my senior year of high school. I was voted captain of the team and led the team on to the field game in and game out, when it came to the last game of the year before the playoffs and I thought I broke my finger, so I had the trainer wrap it up and I returned to the game and continued playing. The trainer told me after the game that it would probably be best if i went and saw a doctor just to make sure that I would be okay. So I went to the doctors and they told me that I had a ruptured tendon in my finger and that I would be out for 3 months. I took it pretty hard but then I realized I had two choices, I can sit here and cry about it or I can be a leader to this team that needs me. I chose to continue being a captain to that great team and still showed up to every practice and game after that. This taught me to never give up and sometimes I just have to take what life gives me.

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I have played football few times when I was in high school. I think it is really hard. I even ran to the opposite direction for once. After that, I never played football anymore. I think you are really cool, John. You have something you really want to do and no matter what you are still doing it. This is awesome. I believe the difference between people and successful people is that most people try their best and the successful people are doing their best and never give up. You are on the way to success. No matter in the future you are going to be a football player or to be a journalist, as long as you have the passion for it, I believe you are going to be very successful one day. 

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First Blog! Yeah!!

This is the first post for my blog. Exciting! Right now is Sunday morning and I just start writing it. I was playing computer game for the whole day yesterday and I went out for Buffalo Wild Wings with my friends. Here is the thing I have to say, Never, Ever, order SPICY GARLIC flavor from Buffalo Wild Wings. The smell almost made me cry. It smells so sour!!!   Actually at the beginning of this semester, I had my new semester revolution, doing exercise everyday. But after one week, I give up. I can’t weak up early on the weekend. After I woke up around 10, I will start doing my homework, if it is Sunday, otherwise I will just play computer games. I always play Diablo and Hearthstone. I love those games! There is nothing to do but killing all the monsters from the game in Diablo, but I still loves it! I think I will never change. I just love to stay home and playing games everyday. My father thought I am very stupid for just staying home doing nothing but games. I will like it! In high school, I stayed home watching anime everyday, after I went to college; I still stay home all the time. But sometimes I will go to shopping with my friends. I went to shopping with my friend on Friday. It was quite empty in Walden Galleria mall. I thought it would be busy after the new IPhone 6s released. But I think I went too early. The new pink IPhones were not in store yet. I am not a person likes to buy a lot of stuff. My favorite shopping places are actually supermarket. My friends go for shopping and I am only doing window-shopping. I save all my money for food. I have few friends save money for buying expensive bags, shoes or clothes. I never do that. I rather spend money for delicious food. I love all kinds of food, Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, everything tastes well, I will go for them. But I don’t like to cook. Usually people who loves food loves cooking, but I am not one of them. I hate cooking. There was only one time I spend 5 hours making the cake, ‘Lady M’. Besides that, I never make cakes anymore. I might try to make a green tea flavor Lady M in the future, but I don’t know if that is going to be before graduation or after I married. Who knows?