Loving a class.

In my personal experience it is very easy to pass a class and get an A when you enjoy it. My communications class is one of the best classes i have ever taken. The teacher is very up beat and keeps everything at an even level. He does not just lecture but he gets the class involved and participating. I find his speeches very thought out and not just routine. Its exciting and he knows how to hold your attention and keep you thinking. I have noticed a extreme difference between my classes that seem like the teacher is playing a piece of music note by note and when a teacher teaches like he's playing the blues. I am more motivated, inspired and encouraged. I look forward to his class instead of dreading it. I find that my grades are better when the information is really presented to me instead of read to me. I think that teachers that are tenured should not be. cause some one always need supervision. That's like saying pilots don't need check rides or extra training when they have been flying for the company for more than 10 years. I think some teachers should put extra effort in to their classes. Its like the golden rule if a teacher puts a lot of effort into a class then the students are gonna do the same.

Inconvenience

By no means is death convenient. At some point in life we have our first encounter with it, weather it be a pet goldfish or a loved one. Our first encounter with the grim reaper is never forgotten. My grandmother recently passed away and at the wake I observed my 3 year old nephew Austin and how he reacted to his first encounter of death. It made me pause... Because life is just so simple at that age. It seems like the older we get the harder life becomes. No matter when it happens, the death of a loved one always comes at the wrong time and is never easy to cope with. Every person copes differently, some of us just sit and have our time of mourning and then its over and others will just never be the same again. Some sit in their rooms and reminisce on the memories and items of the past. Others live in regret; regret that they never said what they meant, regret that they never got to say good by, and some of us live in the regret that we never showed enough love. Death is unavoidable and inevitable its ever present and sure to come. Death is a part of life that cannot be forgotten and will be sure to visit every person on this planet.

My Dog

Loyal, faith full, and everlasting forgiveness are the words that come to mind when i think about my dog, or as I like to call her "woofey." Her name is Annabelle and she is a Jack Russell Terrier who is 12 and will be turning 13 in December. As children my older siblings and I begged my dad to let us get a dog, his typical answer was no, but one day in early December he said yes. We went to see a friend who was a Jack Russell breeder and looked at 7 different puppies. Well there was one major problem with this and that was my sister and I wanted one and my brother wanted another. Well when we got home that afternoon the arguments began. Megan and I wanted a female puppy and my brother Michael wanted a male. My dad being old school said lets settle this the old fashion way and flip a coin. We flipped the coin and it was tails which meant that Michael my brother got to pick the puppy. He surprised every one and chose the one Megan and I wanted out of the kindness of his heart. No one was expecting this. To this day Annabelle has been the best dog we could ever have. The best part of all is that she loves Michael my brother the most. Because he gave of himself and chose the dog that my sister and I wanted he gets rewarded with the everlasting love of a loyal and faith full woofey named Annabelle.

Positive or Negative

I was inspired to write this cause i spoke with a friend about weather people should react positively about problems or negatively. I actually overheard some one talking about a problem with a pier. lets just say Jane and Kim. Well Kim is claiming that Jane is racist but in the midst of Kim's conversation about Jane she proceeded to call her a "Racist white bitch" and other profane insults. How in the world can you accuse some one of being racist and then say that and feel alright about yourself. Why does she have the right to accuse some one of being racist when she is obviously racist herself. Some one once told me that the reason people accuse one another of stealing is because they themselves are thieves. I am not accusing any one here just stating what I see. My friend raised the question of should we respond to racism negativly? Or should we respond positive and try and help them to change? What would MLK Jr. say?? I say take the positive approach, why not confront the pier and tell her what she is doing cause she may not know that she is being racist. Why not confront her and then have an educated and mature conversation about it instead of talking bad about her and making threats on her. I dont know but I think both Jane and Kim are wrong in this situation. should we respond positive or negative?

VeilSide. Is it a dying company?

Veil Side. A premier Japanese areo company that sells parts for Nissan, Toyota, and Honda super cars. The company started strong in 1990 and rapidly climbed to the top of the aftermarket aero parts community. They are still around today but have become much less popular due to a new generation of import super car enthusiasts. Their advertising has dropped off in the last five years and they get practically no US market exposure except for the Fortune RX7 that appeared in the Fast and the Furious 3. They are a fantastic outstanding company with high quality parts. Some feel that Veil Side is a dying company but others feel that they are timeless. I honestly don't know what will happen to the company but i would have to say that most import enthusiasts are inspired by there cars and aero kits. but whatever the case they are a successful company so far and I hope for them to survive. Yes the economy is not getting a whole lot better but that is when survival skills should kick in. Sacrifices must be made just like Honda cutting their F1 team. it was an unnecessary expense. I raise my glass to Veil Side and wish them luck in these hard times.

Why so much opinion?

Some of my readers may ask me why do i write so much about current events and why do i have such strong opinions? First off I think every one needs to have an opinion, and be able to defend what they believe in. Whether its politics, religion, or peace you need to know what and why you stand for it. I have met people who say they don't stand for anything and that they just go with the flow. I have a high disrespect for those people. As a matter of fact i don't even think they should have a say so in anything that goes on in this country. Opinions are important and you need to have one. I believe that in order to be able to vote properly and decide this nations president you need to be educated enough to develop an opinion about it. If you don't know where you stand in this life how are you gonna define yourself???

Different standards.

Is Israel being held to different standards by the US and the rest of the world population? Well let me ask you this. If we had say one of our neighboring community's like Canada or Mexico shooting hundreds of rockets a day in to our major city's don't you think we would retaliate? Don't you think we would stop the supply of arms into their country so that they could no longer attack us? That is precisely what Israel did when an aid boat tried to deliver medical supplies and construction materials into Gaza earlier this month. Well what was not said is that most medical or relief boats are not filled with medical aid but weapons and war supplies. Israel then said that if the boats will stop outside of Gaza at the check points they will deliver ALL medical supplies by land. In the events that happened earlier this month a Medical supply ship ran the blockade. Israel responded by boarding and ceasing the ship. When it was boarded by Israels commando's they received retaliation and 11 of the ships crew were killed. Well all the different news media's are condemning Israel for what they did. but why??? The ship ran the blockade... therefore becoming a threat to Israel and their people. All the ship had to do was port, unload the supplies and they would have been delivered by land. Wht is Israel being held to a different standard than the rest of the world. If Cuba started hurling missiles in to the US dont you think we would blow them to kingdome come? Dont you think that we would declair war on them. In the Cuban missle crisis we surrounded cuba with our navy and screened every single ship that went in and out. and if some would have run our navys blockade we would have sunk it. Period! Why is Israel being condemned for protecting their people and country?