Yes or No

The first thing in the image that catches the viewers' eyes is ARE YOU HAPPY?.  The answer is either YES or NO in the separate bubbles by displaying arrows from the question.  YES leads to another bubble KEEP DOING WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING .  NO goes to another bubble that asks another question DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY?.  YES from the second question leads to CHANGE SOMETHING.  NO for the second question runs to KEEP DOING WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING.

The message conveyed in this image that asks the viewers to analyze themselves if they are happy or not.  They will trace arrows to their final bubble by answering the questions.

This is so because this question is very common, but it has a deeper meaning to people's life.  They say either yes or no to the question that is something simple, but the NO from the first question can lead to another question that might change people's answer.  For example, the second question-DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY?- can guide from YES to CHANGE SOMETHING.  Viewers want to change something when they aren't satisfied.  If some of the viewers keep their choices of being unhappy, then they are stubborn.  Let them keep doing whatever they're doing.

Take this message to heart because this question applies to people's life whether they are happy or not.  This question will be over again and again in their life because it has a deeper meaning.

Are you happy?

Flames

In this graphics interchange format (GIF) clip, a girl in a striped tank shirt who stands in the background of the jungle has a splattered blood across her poker face.  She doesn't smile as her eyes shows no sign of soul.  The camera's view pops frames by a close-up image of her face.  She furrows her brows angrily and her doe-eyes reveal reflection of bursting flames.  There is a subtitle on the bottom of the clip that says, "She swore revenge". 

The point of the GIF clip is that she sees something tragic before her own eyes and she decides to put a revenge on her enemies for people that might be her family or friends.  The revenge comes from her grudge and trauma that mix together.

Based on the girl's furious expression, there is a reflection of flames in her eyes that represents 'grudge', but also 'trauma' when she witness the situation where her family or friends are possibly burned to death.  Both grudge and trauma fuse into a 'revenge'.  Standing in the middle of the jungle, she seems shocked and unresponsive to the tragic situation as if she loses everything that are precious to her.  'Grudge' and 'trauma' trigger her to decide to avenge her family or family who are really close to her.  Revenge is a strong word because she wants to punch her enemies what they've done to her family or friends.  Her eyes with reflection of angry flames seemingly scream at her enemies 'Go. To. Hell.'  That's her desire that boils angrily inside of her.  She wants her enemies to deserve it cruelly.

This idea is important because some kids from all over world witness tragic situation that happens in the front of them and they might not erase their trauma.  Some of them can develop grudge toward their enemies who murder their family or friends.  They seek for revenge.

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Blown Away

Blown Away, written by Carrie a country singer, was interpreted in ASL (American Sign Language) by Rosa Lee, a deaf woman.

The message conveyed in the video that she didn't want to dig into her past.  All she wanted to do was wiping out her past, period.

There was a storm in Oklahoma.  The girl lived in a house with her mean alcoholic father while her mother was buried in the grave.  She prayed that the storm would destroy her house because she wanted to clean her past.  It was not enough wind and rain to ravage her past.  She heard the sires coming to her house and she left drunk father sleeping on the chair to hide herself in the cellar.  It was a sweet revenge for leaving her father alone in a room. She wanted a wind to destroy everything in the house.

We know this because the girl obviously suffered and hated past-everything in the house.  The wind represented as a 'eraser of the past' that the girl wanted to purify her past, which might be not pleasure to remember it, and move on to a life without looking back at her past.  Also, the house was probably symbolized as 'past or memories' because of the line---To rip the nails out of the past---in 'Blown Away' that was the girl's desire to wipe out her memories.  There was no regret for her to do that.  She had no love or affection from her alcoholic father since maybe her mother's death?  It sounded like she lived in wrong place and wrong parent who did not nurture her with some love since her mother's death.  It was too depressing for her to live in the same house with her alcoholic father.  She could step out and wanted to do what did she want to instead of holding her desire back.

Take this message to heart because some kids live with ignorant parents or guardians who did not provide with nourishment.  There is no point for kids to smile by remembering their pasts.  Pasts could make some kids feel pain.  Escaping from the pasts without any hesitations is their desires.

Read more: CARRIE UNDERWOOD - BLOWN AWAY LYRICS

Stutter

Stutter by Maroon 5, an American pop rock band, is interpreted in ASL by the certified interpreter, Kelly MGreer.

The message in this song is that the woman obsesses with the man whom she falls in love with him and she makes many expectations for being together with him.  Apart from the female's expectation, the man does not love her.  She stutters him.

The woman sees the man with first sight and tells him that other man sucks.  She exaggerates that he is the one for her, which she would dream of being together with him eternally.  She begs him until the man gives up to have an affair with her.  The man leaves her alone on the bed after the affair that breaks her heart.  She keeps telling him about her dream of being together with him.  She asks him if he feels that way, too.  The man disagrees, but the woman still woos him.  In the end, the man tells her no and walks away from her.

Based on Kelly MGreer's interpretation by using her expression of ASL on two opposite-gendered characters, the woman sensually flirts with the man, but the man has no interests in her.  The woman wants his attention by convincing him that they would be together forever.  In the end, Kelly MGreer shows her role of the man with 'exaggerating frustrated' expression by saying no and walking away from the woman with a huge obsession of him.  They already have a one night stand, though the man does not open his heart to the woman.  It is just a sex to the man, but the woman wants a love instead.  They're on different pages.  After all, they are not compatibility, no chemistry around them for continuing to love each other. 

The message in this song is important that some people fall in love with others at first sights, but the others don't feel the same way as them.  They don't give up no matter what kind of reply they receive from the others.  That's obsession of love.  

Deadly Attraction

A female robot with black eyes and gray colored skin comes out of the metal box, and then she turns to right to watch the TV.  She curiously watches the TV, hovering closer to her, that displays an image of a gray skinned woman with bold eyebrows, red lipstick, and pink blushes.  She put make up on her face as she copies what did the image of woman has.  She is satisfied when she smiles.  The TV moves back upward as it shows another more images of the girl with extra beauty.  She continues to copy, though in the end, she struggles to reach because she has a limit of move in her metal box.  She is stubborn.  Unfortunately, she falls and crashes against the gray floor.  The viewer's eyes focused on the close up of the female robot that her face misses its side and she still opens her eye.  It is complete crack. 

This point of this video is that we might not realize that we actually shape our senses of fashion, beauty, politic opinion and others by seeing the televisions.

 We know this because media shapes us.  As the result of destroying her self, the female robot accelerates by adding more make up and new features such as applying actual eyes when she sees the image of a beautiful girl in the television.  She cannot stop herself from desiring more beauty because the TV shows more new images of the girl.  It lures her to pay attention to a beauty which turns out to be a deadly attraction.  It shows us that it can be dangerous.

Viewers should pay attention to this message because we might be like a robot in this video who turns her curiosity to a monster attraction when we would not feel satisfied yet.  Media could hurt us in many ways, depending on what we want to change.  Be aware of the media.

Backups

In the first top strip, the group stand in the front of a boss who holds a whip.  Secondly, the boss whips it toward the group as he shouts at them.  The group bows to him except one person in the group.  Thirdly, the boss continues to whip, but more people stand up for the person who doesn't bow in the first place.  Lastly, everyone are no longer bowing to the boss as they are defeating him.  The boss has no power.

The message conveys in this comic strip that the group acts as one that shows more power than the boss.

The group stands up what they believe in.  They don't want to be slaves for this boss.  If people in the group would not stand up for one person, then the boss whip him cruelly.  The group fuses their power as one to stomp on this person to confirm their view of justice.  In the last strip, the boss surrounds himself to the powerful group.  It requires more support from people (they have same perspectives).

Take this message to heart because the current society changed that based on the history when many people protested against the racism, discrimination, and others injustices.  It influences on the society that would improve better.  For example, back in the 19th century, women protested and challenged the law that denied their rights to vote.  Their rights were not equal to men's, so they took action.  We can think about the past what subjects groups protest against that influence the society.

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The Wandering Identify

The image in a white background displays a clean black inky doodle of the man that produce many heads, coming out of his head that apart in two.  This man has a buzzed haircut, short ear, his lopsided eyes, wrinkles below his nose, and dry lips.  His face is fairly chubby.  His head that apart in two grows more new heads in variety of sizes.  One of heads on the top wears glasses.  This man looks unhappy as same as his heads, too.

This message conveyed in this image that heads represents as identifies who he is.  This man is not satisfied with himself because every time he replaces his old self with a new self that still not represent him.

I say this because this image displays signs of the man producing many new selves.  He can create many selves as much as he can, but there is a possible self that he will feel comfortably embrace it.  Every selves he is not satisfied with is replacing with new ones.  The almost full-grown heads are probably almost satisfied the man‘s expectation, but they are missing something what the man might lack of.  He continues to replace his selves that shows signs of searching who he is.

   
Despite many selves we are probably not satisfied with, we create ours and search for our comfortable identifies in our deep inside somewhere.  Searching for our selves can be painful because we will approach negative results how our selves take action.  We might be not happy with our selves whom we create because they do not represent us enough.

Flirty Internet?

     The message conveys in this image that the girl falls in love with her laptop as if she cannot survive without it.  That’s what Internet seduces her first.

     The idea that we use Internet what the society use today is significant because some of us addict to the Internet, depending on how many hours.  Some of us can’t take our hands off the mouse that is sign of addicting or loving it too much.  The websites we surf could be Facebook, Tumblr, Instragam, and others.  They really grab our eyes to ogle at the Internet all day when we became part of it.

     It is a small doodle in black ink on the white paper.  A girl with long curly hair sits in front of the desk along with a laptop.  Her right hand is already on the mouse.  She stares at the laptop.  The quote splits in each three words that arch top and bottom of the girl, “Can you feel the love tonight?”  This quote that surrounds the girl surfing through the laptop resembles a eye.

     We know this because this quote emphasizes on the action of the girl.  She embraces the laptop by clicking the mouse and looking at it when she surfs through the Internet.  The quote "Can you feel the love tonight?" whispers around her seductively that Internet drags her to use it to death.  She completely falls in love with it as if the Internet means to her a lot.  Also, the whole image resemble an eye because the Internet draws a serious attention from the girl.  This image suggested that this girl addicts to the Internet.


     

Three Circles

As you can see three big black circles overlapping, the three main subjects are STUDY, SLEEP, and SOCIAL LIFE.  Each subjects overlap, but their results are different how they balance.  STUDY and SLEEP is that a person would be a nerd because he/she had no a social life that he always studies all time.  STUDY and SOCIAL LIFE is that a person would be a zombie who has a hard time to balance their study and social life.  A zombie might have a good grade, but a zombie lacks of sleep.  SLEEP and SOCIAL LIFE is that a person would be a bum who is likely study poorly.  All he/she only cares is about sleeping, and having fun time with people.  Lastly, all the three subjects are overlapping that would be a Jedi, which is very center on the three overlapping circles.  A Jedi is a master at balancing those that he/she knows their plans what they suppose to.

                                                Which one of those are you fitting? 

We Are Each Other's Business

Eboo Patel, a founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, believes in pluralism.  He attended high school in the western suburbs of Chicago.  He associated with Catholics, Jews, Mormons, and others, even though they did not talk about religions.  He did not help to stand up in front of the group of thugs for his Jewish friend, and he felt humiliated because his friend suffered it already.  He wants to prevent it from happening to others.

I used to learn about different beliefs such as Catholicism, Christianity, and Mormonism.  I refused to join any religious groups because of the incident.  The Mormons kept telling me that other religious groups were full of lies.  They forced me to join with them because we would be more safe.  I became more confused because it was hard to tell which belief was right.  Since the incident, I became more respectful to people's variety of beliefs.  I might have an opinion what I think about their beliefs, but it is not necessary for me to tell them.  It makes me furious if people tell me, " Oh you shouldn't believe that, it is not right for you."

People want to mock or bother those religious people.  They have no idea how much religious people feel hurt.  Just leave them alone.

Remembering All The Boys

Elvia Bautista, a female narrator in the story, seems forgiving toward the enemy who killed her brother.  She knows that's what gangs do, it is nothing new to her.  She always nod to tragic news relating to gangs instead of wailing.  She might find arguments between her bother and the enemy silly.  Those gang groups take it seriously as a business.  Why do they fight over which blue and red they like?  

They hate each other, but they are same lion?  Aren't they?

Killing each other as enemies is unreasonable.  Their reason might be perplexed as if they've not sit down and work it out what they'd done to each other.  It would be a simple method to settle it down.  They can't do that since they are oil and water.  They are stubborn to flow together.

Let's say that the female narrator with a different situation forgives a drunk driver who kills her drunk brother.  Will this change this situation?  I doubt it.  Her drunk brother would do the same thing.

People will try to be in other people's shoes when they wonder why they do that.  They have to respect and back off their lines.  Sadly, some people rub the line in their enemies' faces, provoking them and ending up fighting.  Cruel animosity blinds them to jump to conclusion without acknowledging each other.

We probably respect them and let someone to wake up them to what they've done.

Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges

We have to solve our challenges with our creativity.  Challenges can be positive or negative. It would be hilarious if people hired employees to make their lives easier.  They would be losers for not trying!

This article "Creative Solutions To Life's Challenges" is about Frank X Walker's mother made different meals with potatoes to feed her seven kids and she did everything in handmade with her creativity such as making his sister's prom and wedding dresses and making ethnic versions of same dolls to sell them at church fundraisers.  It reminds me of my mom and how she has to find ways to earn money.  My mom is jobless so she always make jewelry with beads as her hobbies to sell and successfully got her earning.  My parents also didn't have enough money to buy tickets for returning to San Diego from Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  My mom made more than 200 tamales that cost one dollar each one dollar for few weeks.  That was a freaking' great idea!  We were back home.  She is a wonderful mother with delicious cooking and hobbies she uses to survive since we are not affluent.  So am I.

As a wild child in Acapulco, Mexico, I made a hole in the red fence that I could talk with my young neighbor kid through a hole like we were Romeo and Juliet.  I always thought of fun activities away from boredom; I was very visual.  Such as I saw an elderly woman carrying a weaved bowl with fresh cheese on her head or a group of men shucking oysters with knives and squeezing limes on them before eating them.  Sometimes, my mom gave me coins to buy tortillas and limes in a store, a less than one mile away from my home, and I walked there.  Walked on my way to home, I spotted a green stick bug on red flowers.  Everything was colorful in my eyes that I fascinated something out of the boredom--that was my creative solution.

That colorful life I had vanished when I was 8 years old because I moved to San Diego.  This environment was different than my hometown.  I cannot go out alone as a little girl unlike in Mexico, I would roam through neighborhood freely.  I missed my colorful life.  I would bring it someday.  Right now, I am still learning about a reality world that is difficult to survive mentally.  I have a limited freedom since I was not citizen or a permanent resident.  That's problem.  I feel like I am behind everyone who have jobs or driver's licenses.  It is okay to learn slowly when I walk in the maze to find a door, linking to my success.

They say there is no shortcut in life.  I disagree.  There is a hidden shortcut like you can solve a paradox with your creative solution!  Don't give up until you find a way to open a treasure chest with key.

America's Beauty Is In Its Diversity

Being individual is beautiful.  Individuality highlights creative, courageous, and passion souls.

The article "America's Beauty Is In Its Diversity" about Alaa El-Saad inspired me.  She liked wearing a hijab (a traditional scarf worn by Muslim women to cover their neck, face, and hair) that displayed signs of maturity and respect to her religion and to Allah's will, and also she liked to be different than other people.  She started it in 6th grade when she wore a hijab.  I wished I had her guts.  Back in the middle school, I followed what my best friends would wear girly clothes.  Not only me, I saw other kids copying others' styles like rumors.  I didn't see any uniqueness in that zone; no one dared to show their own individuals.  I totally hated it.

As a high school student, I completely ignored trends.  I didn't read Seventeen magazines and chitchatted with girls about what's popular today.  Everyone thought I was always freshman because how I looked and wore.  I barely wore make up and dressed up in a pair of cozy jean and a lazy T-shirt under my yellow hooded jacket and purple All-Star sneakers.  I always shrugged them off.  If I follow trends I don't like, then I would feel the burden of impressing others.  I would not be myself.  Being me is freedom.

It was really pathetic because I didn't know if they work so hard to be someone else.  For example, a shy Jewish boy threw his yarmulke out to transform into a bad boy with his effort and then the crowd would like him as friends because he was cool just like them.  What about his difference?  He shouldn't do that.  Thinking about people's opinion is going hurt your soul.  People turn into someone else when they lose their true selves.  That's not definitely okay.

I saw odd people.  Being odd is awesome.  For example, I saw a young adult carrying a pile of manga (Japanese comic) on the street and a man dancing in the public bus.  They embrace being different.  They inspire me to find my self.  I know my self is somewhere deep in me.  When I see something out of the ordinary, that's definitely one of a kind, I feel happy. 

Famous Failure

I will always remember the white board in my geometry class.  It said: If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.  My first impression was that failure was bad because failure makes you a loser.  I don't want to be a loser.  That's embarrassing!  I always received good grades since I was middle school.  That's why I couldn't understand that failure was "good".  If anyone asked me what failures I experienced, then I either shrugged or shook my head.  I had no experience of failure.

During my senior year, I came to my sense how failure could be good.  I took AP Government & Economic class, and I knew that it would be a challenge.  I did well on a test except the essay questions.  I got a "F" on the essay, and that hurt me so much.  I thought I should quit this class because I would avoid bad grades on my report card.  I gave up easily because I was sensitive to failure.  My interpreter encouraged me to continue to take this class because it was only third week of the first semester.  She was probably right because it was too early for me to predict how I was doing in that class in future.  I decided not to quit, and later I did well on tests with essay questions because I changed my method of studying.  I recognized my failure and adjusted my strategy.

We need to recognize our failures what we try to accomplish because we would know what to do better next time by using our experience.  It is okay to fail--nothing is wrong with it--because it gives us experience.  Failure can lead to success, you know that?  For example, Dr. Suess's first book was rejected by 27 publishers, and then 28th publisher approved it.  He didn't give up, that's his success.  What's yours?

Eerie Truth about Birthmark...

I am just startled to see this quote whom my friend posted on Facebook.  I don't know if this is true or not.  People before me are my reincarnations who might involve in war, murder, or accident.  Where my soul come from?  I know some people believe that they are reincarnation of their other lives in the past.  It sounds creepy.  It sounds like karma, but this is about birthmark.  Anyway, I am looking at my birthmark on my thigh and leg.  Could I have been stabbed or shot?  It couldn't be.  I could survive with injured thigh or leg.  There is possible deadly bite from rats during Black Plaque in the 14th century.  That would explain how I died. 

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