steeling

recently i had a few items stolen from me. My room was locked too. And there were i-pods sitting outside my window that they could of stolen, but didn't. this whole thing disturbs me that this happens. i grew up in a small town. and the thought of being vulnerable like that i really don't like. i lost huge investment of merchandise and going through the night, it doesn't make sense how i lost it.

If i had a super power

Somebody brought up the question, if you could have one super power what would it be?

Flying
Who wouldn't want to be able to fly. Soaring through the skies, and what not. Pretty bad ass.

Telecanesis
The power to move objects would be super powerful, it's part of the force. and every one wants the force to be with them.

Instant Teleportation
Living in montana, if you want to go shopping you usually have to visit another town. Instant teleportation would be great. I would also not be late for class as much.

Man i want to be a super hero.

drinking and fraternities

We've been working alot with the College on improving the greeks system, but alot of people give the greeks a bad name, fraternities, or "frats" as they calll them get most of the blame.
First off is the drinking. People say you are more likely to drink at a fraternity. I think part of the problem is that anybody who doesn't drink doesn't want to join a fraternity, so then the percentage of people who drink in a fraternity is way higher than living in a dorm.
Secondly there are more people living in a greek house than if you were to rent a house with some friends. therefore there are way more opportunities to drink.
The third thing is that, well, no one understands that greeks were founded to produce quality men. and althoughdrink occurs to gentlemen who joined a fraternity, they still do end up leading great lives, and having a way better time at college.

Religion

Religion was always an interesting topic of mine. I think that the religion that makes the most sense to me is Buddhism.
The thing with buddhism is that you don't need to have strong beliefs, you just need to practice their ways of improving the quality of life. Which i am a huge fan if.
I don't believe in heaven, hell, god, or gods. The thought of praying for wealth, is well stupid. You're wasting time to where you could be working hard to make more money.
I dont feel that i need to find comfort in an afterlife, or be threatened to be a good person. I can be a good person no matter what my religion is or isn't.

Spiderman 3

I went and saw spiderman 3 last thursday on opening night. I always find it easy the directions in each movie change. It's almost as if there was a director for each movie.
In spiderman 3 there was a large portion of it i wasn't a fan of. First off when MJ breaks up with peter, the acting was horrible.
The second thing i didn't like was emo spiderman, when peter was obsorbed by the symbiat. I thought that the way he portreyed the transformation, did not align with the original porteying of the charachter.
Even with that, i thought it ended well with great fighting. which is one of the most important things with comic book heroes in movies. after all it's the super powers and the fighting sequences that guys like me like movies like those.

Toughest Man

The was a Sherman Alexi story we had to read a while ago about the toughest man. The big part of the discussion led into homosexuality.
Part of it was that how come it's not fair that a girl can kiss a girl, and it's not gay, but when a guy kisses a guy it's gay. The biggest reason for this instance is that girls kissing girls has started to become a common occurance. Who's to blame, probably the male scociety, but the females weren't tortured till the point of giving in. never the less, females are allowed to explore a little quicker than guys.
The difference in this story is that it was two guys having anal sex. I think that's a different situation. If two girls have sex, i would call them gay. You can't compare kissing to sex. They had sex, they were both guys, they are therefore gay. end of discussion.

Voice(final paper)

So I’m supposed to write this paper talking about voice, but what is voice? It’s more than opinions or the sound that comes out of your mouth. Voice is also about expressing your voice as a personality.

In smoke signals Victor had a lot of voice coming out of him despite that Thomas was doing most of the talking. You could tell what Victor wanted in life, who he really was, and everything else just by his voice. Victor represented the warrior; he was never smiling, always reserved, and had kind of a grumpy outlook on everything. It was easy to tell when the warrior came out in him. He was a great basketball player in his tribe, and hated losing. When ever he got scored on he immediately called “Foul” and if any body argued he would respond, “when I say it’s a foul, it’s a foul.” This showed off his over competitiveness of a natural warrior. The biggest part though when the warrior came out is when he went to run to find help, and he ran for miles upon miles, fighting his desire to take a break, not wanting to give up or surrender.

Personality traits came into play also. When Thomas was talking with the 2^nd team gymnast for the Olympics, Victor showed off this personality of shut out and reserved. He got upset with the Thomas learning more about this girl, and he yelled at her and pissed her off so she quit talking to them. Victor stays reserved through out the movie not wanting to hear Thomas’s stories, or listen to him talk at all. All that stays on Victor’s mind is the mission at hand.

Thomas has a completely different personality that comes out through his voice through out the movie. First thing you notice is the need for acceptance. Thomas wants to be accepted as a part of Victor’s life, mostly because he feels like they were brothers. Victor’s dad was like a father to Thomas because Victor’s dad saved Thomas’s life, and bought him a grand slam at Denny’s. When ever Victor would be around Thomas would always ask, “Hey Victor, what about your dad?” or something along those lines. This was Thomas’s socially challenged way of trying to be a part of Victor and his dad’s life. And when Thomas offers to put up his own saved up money to help Victor get to his dad’s house on the basis that Thomas gets to come to, it shows how loyal and dedicated Thomas really is to Victor and his dad.

The other trait you would notice is that opposite of Victor, the warrior, Thomas portrays the medicine man. I don’t think ten minutes went by and Thomas didn’t tell a story, or talk about how he can feel things by listening to the winds and the trees. Thomas is very spiritual and wants to be completely positive in every aspect of life.

Victor and Thomas’s name could also represent this. Victor’s name as you could probably guess represents victory. He never wants to lose or give up, like any warrior victor wants to achieve victory.

Thomas’s last name was Builds-a-fire. This name is a very ironic name since Thomas’s parents were killed in a fire. At the beginning of the movie, after the devastating fire, Thomas narrates that, “Some kids are made of fire and burn everything they touch; others are made of ash and burned by anything that touches them. Me and Victor were made of fire and ash.”

Builds-a-fire could go along with the medicine man idea that Thomas is there to help, and fire is known as a tool. But fire could also be the one thing that is referenced as the big symbol of struggle between Victor and Thomas. Since they were both made of fire and ash, they were the ones who could burn each other. Thomas’s constant fire building was what aggravated victor the most after Victor’s father left him.

Voice is more than just what you say, it’s more of how you act or the way you say something. Victor the warrior and Thomas the medicine man are great examples of voice by the way they approach life.

Voice shows up everywhere you look, everything you read, everything you watch, everything you listen to, and basically in almost anything. In my last English paper, “Johnny Dudeguy and the Radical Rangers,” you could find a lot of voice coming out of it.

One thing you will probably notice is the humor and fun that this story has, which represents a lot of my personality. There were many quotes from characters, and even the character name that really stood out with a fun personality of the story.

With in the story, the protagonist Johnny Dudeguy represented Robin Hood, for although he stole food one day, he gave it to poor kids starving in the cafeteria. Johnny is very selfless, carries around a sling shot that he is very handy with(like Robin’s bow and arrow), and always wants to help out those less fortunate than him.

The bad guy of the story was Notso Niceguy, who was not so much of a nice guy. Notso was the prince John of the story. Wrongfully put into power, Notso was enveloped in greed and demanded all he could. He even took away everything dear to Robin by stealing his girlfriend Mary Ann, showing how ruthless he was. Notso and Johnny used to be best friends when they were young, but Notso got rich and started rolling with a different crowd. He really showed how money and power can corrupt someone who used to be good hearted.

Of course in the end, Johnny triumphs over Notso. Which, you should be thinking to yourself right now, “Oh good, good triumphed over evil.” This is part of the story hugely represents the voice of it. For if you were to describe the voice of this story you would say that it’s about good triumphing over evil.

Voice is a tricky subject, mostly because it’s hard to define. You say something, and sounds come out your mouth, and then you say, “Hey, that’s my voice.” But in this instant voice is more than sound, for you can’t hear a story written on paper. Voice is the personality of stories.

The Wild of College(1st assignment)

In Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, there are a lot of similarities as an upcoming freshman going into college. It might not be as extreme, but there are similar challenges and adventures. McCandless started out hitchhiking, otherwise on his own, very similar to High School grads, no longer able to stay under the roof of their parents, eating their food, watching their satellite television on their high definition TV.

On his journey he meets Gaylord Stuckey, his companion and ride to Fairbanks, AK. McCandless and Stuckey become great friends through their journey. And much like college, everyone finds a friend, someone that they can rely upon. When they reach the University, McCandless and Stuckey split, but Stuckey makes the other promise to write a letter later on in life. Similarly some friends don’t last in college, because some of them will end up transferring to another college, but you can still keep in touch.

At the University McCandless buys a rifle known as the Nylon 66, which is no longer in production, which represents the buying of used books as apposed to new ones; college students are cheap. Along with his rifle, McCandless had a half full back pack, which included a scarce amount of food, and nine or ten hardbound books. And much like in college life, you spend a majority of time to study, and eating, besides the occasional night drinking.

While in the wild, McCandless starts off struggling, he finds it hard to kill game, he is battling weakness and massive amounts of snow, not to mention the occasional disaster. But then finally gets a little bit of success by acing down a spruce grouse. As time goes by in the wild, he starts shooting better and soon becomes a very astute hunter.

However McCandless didn’t survive the wild, and ended up dieing. This is an exacerbated outcome of college students, since the worst is usually failing out of college. But McCandless did find his soul-flight in the wild, an important part of any journey, where he discovered himself and his capabilities. And it is near impossible to not discover something about yourself when you take your journey in to college.

There is also a poem that has similar types of relativity. In “The Poem that Takes Place of a Mountain,” the writer writes about a poem that sets his amazing ness, something that makes him more than just an amateur poet, in a sense, it’s his “degree” in poetry. It’s like the aspiring singer who needs that one hit to make it to Hollywood. This poem that he writes is what sets him from amateur poet to just poet.

Of course now any story that tells a journey could be considered a college related story. College is and always will be a journey of every student. Take Jorge Borges’s The Circular Ruins, for example, a story about a journey similar to Krakauer’s Into the wild.

These both consist of a man treading into land to which he knows nothing of. Whether it be an uncivilized land for McCandless, or an ancient temple inhabited by natives for the foreigner, the main character in The Circular Ruins. While in this new territory, both characters are inevitably, in some sense, alone. There is no to hold their hand or tell him how to survive. The foreigner does however have some natives that give him food when he arrives, which could be considered his financial aid in a sense, and there is Fire that acts upon the Foreigner as professor at a time.

The foreigner also had close similarities to being in college. Just for starters he’s in a new area and has to figure what the buildings are for. He has two temples and has to travel between the two, trying to figure out what each temple is for.

The biggest connection to college life is when the foreigner creates his son out of his dreaming. He creates this human that is purely out of imagination. His creation takes years of concentration. Using his mind is what he relies on most, it takes lots of concentration to create his son. Day after day studying the anatomy, making sure everything is as it needs to be. Treating it like a huge senior project that could make or break his grade.

Using your mind is important in all journeys you take. Whether it using your mind to master the rough snowy terrain of Alaska tying to survive against the odds in Into the Wild, writing a poem that could turn you to a poet guru as in The Poem that took Place of a Mountain, a journey to a temple where you must use create the most complicated idea in your mind from Circular Ruins, or making through those four plus years of college to earn that important degree. Your mind is your most powerful tool.

Waking Life made we want to go to sleep

I came in to class on monday, not having been there friday. I hear we're watching a movie called waking life, all i think is, "nice, a movie." With in the first minute I could tell what type of movie this was. Just a bunch of negative liberal extremists telling us what they think life is, and how pointless it is, and all this other retarded nonsense. The topic where i finally left the room was where some old guy was talking about how no progress has been made through out life.
"The ancient Greeks were just as advanced as we are." he said. Are you serious? What took the ancient greeks years to solve by their best and brightest is now being tought to high schoolers. what took them months to solve is now being donein millaseconds by a calculator. What took them forever to research can now be done in seconds by clicking the button "search."
These type of people think that they can have influence by saying their own obscure thoughts they figured out while they were high and put it some crappy made artsy picture. What they don't realize is that nobody cares. All this is is recycled garbage, they hear some thing provacative, add two thoughts of their own, and suddenly they are philosophers. Pchhhhh, in the words of Eric Cartmen "SHUT UP you god damn hippies!"

Displaced Story

Johnny Dudeguy and the Rad Rangers

Once there was a boy by the name of Johnny Dudeguy (Doo day goo ee). Johnny grew up in Townsville, and was very destitute and had to live his life as a thief. Johnny had a passion for shooting with his sling shot, and although he was a thief he still had a right sense of justice.

When Johnny was younger he was best friends with Notso Niceman (Nee see main), until one day Notso’s parents stocks shot up kangaroo stepping on a nail. Notso became infatuated with money and after the increase in ram in his computer, size and resolution in his TV, and moving from Nintendo 64 to X-box 360, Notso realized he desired power.

High school was rough on Johnny, leading his group of rad rangers, so they called them selves. Just a group of kids that played poker on the weekends and hung out down on the bench down town, and simply had fun all the time. One day Johnny and his friends were trying to steal food from the lunch ladies, since they were too endeavored to not be able to afford cracker nor crumb. When Notso see’s what they were doing, came over while his butler followed, and he laughed at their expense, then started to chow down his king krab, and Peking duck. Notso left the rad rangers scrawling on the floor for fallen scraps. With their moral low, Johnny knew it was up to him. He gathers the men for their next exciting adventure.

“Gentlemen, our lives our tough, but are we not good men.” Johnny says.

“We are!” exclaimed the men.

“And Notso, does Notso deserve to live a life of luxury while he stomps over the spirits of the weak and the down trotted?”

“Nay”

“My fellow brothers, don’t let anyone make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. Notso’s a little fat, I think it’s about time he went on a diet.”

Notso was in for a surprise, after drinking his soda imported from France, he felt the need to release the down under river. While in the restroom, the rad rangers had their perfect chance to get some grub. They started a food fight in the cafeteria that caused the guards to be distracted while the rangers crawled underneath the tables and flying goulash. They grabbed Notso’s duck, crab, chocolate milk, a steak, three slices of pizza, and some breadsticks with marinara for appetizers. As they sat down, Johnny raised his carton and said, “Men we are peasants, but today we eat like kings.” He then sees a few mathletes who were beaten and had their lunch money stolen by the school bullies Rocco and Jocko. Johnny realized the food was not meant for him, and he shared his victory treats with everyone in need.

Word spread of Johnny’s heroics, he was known as the man who would rob from the rich and give to the poor. They encouraged joining the student council, knowing that he would be a man of the people. That same year Notso decided that if he became student council president, he would have the power to do what he wanted with the school.

Voting day came, and Johnny of course won his spot on the student council, but Notso ended up losing to Richard King. The next day as Richard was about to be sworn in, when he fell ill. The doctors said it was treatable, but they were as curious as to how he could have fallen ill like this. “He just had a check up last week, and was in perfect health.” said one of the doctors.

Notso was trying to act shocked and worried, but everyone could notice the smirk that he was unable to wipe away. For with Richard out on sickness, Notso shall take the thrown of President. His first task was removing Johnny from the council, knowing that he had the influence to sway the council against him. Menacingly Notso framed Johnny and his pack of thieves of steeling the golden football state champion’s trophy of ’88. Johnny and his Rad Rangers were now outlaws of the school, they had to hide away on the far side of the parking lot past were the cool people ate lunch, where the greasers showed of their cars, and even past the smokers. Notso sent his trusted sidekick, Welliam Lame, captain hall monitor, out to capture the Rad Rangers.

When Welliam approached the group, the Rangers cornered him and backed him up against one of the greaser’s car. Knowing that the pen is mightier than the sword, he pulls his trusty metal pen out of his back pocket to write them all detentions. As he pulled it from his back pocket, he scratched the 85 charger he was against, the one belonging to Rod Harrington, the toughest greaser and leader of the grease monkeys. Needless to say Rod and the greasers didn’t let Welliam leave so quickly.

While in office, Notso was thinking about the students, thinking of how they can benefit him. He decided that the students could benefit from a school-wide tax, with the acting President exempt from the tax, and that he the acting president should also ride on the homecoming float with the homecoming queen Mary Ann, Johnny Girlfriend.

When Johnny heard about this, he was completely infuriated, he went to go stop Notso, but was blocked by ten hall monitor dorks, and taken into detention. In order to keep Johnny from being suspended, Mary had to agree to go out on a date with Notso, even though Notso could afford the best looking hookers in the town, it was the thought of having Johnny’s girlfriend that got him excited in the pants. Just as she was about to hop into Notso’s limo, she see the Rad Rangers grab all the hall monitor dorks and lock them in the broom closet. Johnny quickly pulled out his sling shot and hit the driver knocking him out. Mary and Notso turned around and saw Johnny and his band of brothers standing there.

Notso called out more dorks to protect him, as he grabbed Mary and ran off to hide away in the AV room. Little Jack, Johnny’s best friend, told Johnny not to worry, he and the rest of the rangers would handle the hallway monitor dorks.

Meanwhile as Johnny rushed to find his beloved Mary, running through the halls he sees noticed something disturbing set up on the hallway televisions. Notso is standing on the open stage often used by the AV geeks. “Oh Johnny, I have your little girlfriend,” said Notso, “and if you don’t want anything to happen to her, give yourself up at the AV room.” Notso pulls Mary off stage as the camera suddenly shuts off.

Johnny ran to save Mary as fast as he could. He entered the room; the lights were off, except for the one shining over Mary, tied up in a chair, as Notso rests his hand on her shoulder. As he slowly walks by, he turns on the camera that Notso has set up and slowly onto the stage with his heart beating rapidly, but his hand as steady as a rock. The lights are then turned on quicker than a little boy watching a Christina Aguilera video. Welliam walks onto the other side of the stage, with a prop sword in hand. Johnny looked down and quickly grabbed one of the swords used by the schools production of King Arthur.

“Do you consider this wise Johnny?” Welliam asks, “After all Notso’s personal trainers have made me very handy with a sword. Give up now, and won’t fight you, for if you challenge me, I guarantee you will not win.”

“His money may buy you lessons, and you may defeat me,” replies Johnny, “but you should not underestimate me or the students. We will not stand for this tyranny. Lay down your sword, and we will go easy on you and Notso.”

“Ha, ha, HA!” chuckles Welliam, “Ok you win.” As he walks to lay sword down in front of Johnny he quickly swings at him tearing his shirt but missing the skin as Johnny leaps back with quickness.

“I figured you might try some cheap move like that.” They begin to battle up and down the stage. Welliam skills are great, but there is one thing that money can’t buy, passion. Johnny is thinking of the students who have been robbed, his gang who have been mistreated, and his girlfriend who is about to feel mister bad touch from Notso’s cold hands. Johnny fights hard and swings the sword out of Welliam’s hand.

“You forget one thing though Johnny.”

“And what is that Welliam?”

“I am on the varsity track team!” yells Welliam as he bolts out of the room and everyone in the halls cheer as the watch from the TV’s.

“You will not get away with this,” says Notso as Johnny approaches him, “I have already successfully framed you and your so called Rad Rangers; you’ll all be suspended soon. And Richard, well I poisoned Richard so that he will be in Hospital for the rest of the semester.”

“But you forget one thing Notso.”

“Oh and what’s that Johnny?”

“I have really good health insurance.” Says Richard as he enters the room. “Hall monitors, please take Mr. Niceguy to detention. Put him on toilet scrubbing duty.”

“Noooooooo!” shrieks Notso as he’s taken away. “Those toilets smell gross.”

“They can’t smell any worse than your breath.” replies Mary.

“Johnny, I saw the video feed, as did the rest of the school, I think it’s safe to say that you and the Rad Rangers are clear of any charges. Come on hall monitors we have work to do.”

As Richard leaves, Johnny walks up to Mary to untie her from the chair, “It’s about time you showed up!” Johnny lifts Mary up and they share their most passionate kiss. Loud cheers fill the hallway; Johnny looks at the camera pulls out his trusty sling shot and knocks out the camera, and proceeds right back to Mary’s lonely lips.

The Ring of Fire

I think the big relation with fire and love, is that fire is wild and hard to control. It's very unpredictable, water flows down but fire can grow upward or down.

love is a burning thing
and it makes a firey ring
bound by wild desire
i fell into a ring of fire

basically love is something the consumes and surrounds you. And although you may be aware of the dangers, you with out haste jump in to this firey ring.

the taste of love is sweet
when hearts like ours meet
i fell for you like a child
oh but the fire went wild

basicall, going on the growing speratically out of control like i talked about earlier.

on the other hand, it's so easy to relate love to anything though.

House Bill 525

House bill 525 is an expansion on the bill of rights act, which basically was set to protect minds from teachers who want to influence teachers. I agree with the original intent, but what this bill eventually does is stop all politicol disussion with in the class room.

They use the term "immature minds" with in the bill. And there was a proponent of the bill, an MSU professor in fact, that claimed freshman minds as immature as well easily impressionable, and well for a lesser word, gullable. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I am quite insulted by that. We're in college now, we go shopping on our own, cook our food, do our own laundry, i think we can select our political candidate.

This bill had alot of influence from actual testimony of kids reporting that teachers, mostly liberal extremists, who would lower grades of students who had conserative views, and in montana non the less. But i think students will notice the fact that views are being forced upon them, and that they do not really buy in to them.

Never the less, discussion in classrooms of politics and current events is important to develop interest and appreation of that world. They claim this bill for "Higher education," but this kind of discussion is important to learning, and sans-discussion would not higher our education. And if there are those who wish to use the power of the grade to make students eyes open to their liberal rediculous hippie non-sense, well all it takes is for a student to report that teacher to the administration.

Metaphor

A metaphor nearly the same as a simily. As said in "Renaissance Man," starring Danny DeVito, "simily, men are like dogs. Metaphor; you just are dogs." I think metaphors tend have a more meaningful meaning. Saying that "Sexy Back is the best song!" has a lot more inpact than saying, "Sexy Back is like the best song."

Spoof Definition

spoof (spf)

n.

1. Nonsense; tomfoolery.

2. A hoax.

3. A gentle satirical imitation; a light parody.

tr.v. spoofed, spoof·ing, spoofs

1. To deceive.

2. To do a spoof of; satirize gently.

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[After Spoof, name of a game invented by Arthur Roberts (1852-1933), British comedian.]

Word History: We are indebted to a British comedian for the word spoof. Sometime in the 19th century Arthur Roberts (1852-1933) invented a game called Spoof, which involved trickery and nonsense. The first recorded reference to the game in 1884 refers to its revival. It was not long before the word spoof took on the general sense "nonsense, trickery," first recorded in 1889. The verb spoof is first recorded in 1889 as well, in the sense "to deceive." These senses are now less widely used than the noun sense "a light parody or satirical imitation," first recorded in 1958, and the verb sense "to satirize gently," first recorded in 1927.

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Spoof has also been used as a less obscene word for fart.

Mostly spoof is used to take something already made, and scarcastically remake it using cosistant humor making fun of the original.

Sexy Back Lyrics

Justin Timberlake Sexy Back Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I’m bringing sexy back
Them other boys donno know how to act
I think your special whats behind your back
So turn around and ill pick up the slack.

Take em’ to the bridge

[Bridge]
Dirty babe
You see these shackles
Baby I’m your slave
I’ll let you whip me if I misbehave
It’s just that no one makes me feel this way

Take em' to the chorus

[Chorus]
Come here girl
Go ahead, be gone with it
Come to the back
Go ahead, be gone with it
VIP
Go ahead, be gone with it
Drinks on me
Go ahead, be gone with it
Let me see what you’re twerkin with
Go ahead, be gone with it
Look at those hips
Go ahead, be gone with it
You make me smile
Go ahead, be gone with it
Go ahead child
Go ahead, be gone with it
And get your sexy on
Go ahead, be gone with it

Get yo' sexy on
[Repeat 6 times]

Get yo' sexy on

[Verse 2]
I’m bringing sexy back
Them other fuckers don’t know how to act
Come let me make up for the things you lack
Cause your burning up I gotta get it fast

Take em’ to the bridge

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
I’m bringing sexy back
You mother fuckers watch how I attack
If that’s your girl you better watch your back
Cause she’ll burn it up for me and that’s a fact

Take em’ to the chorus

[Chorus]