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?