FOREVER

- lasting a long time
- when i think of forever, i think beyond life into death
- ex: i will forever love God
- ex: my eyes will forever be brown

Forever... what do you think?

Violated and Used

I can't stop trembling. Tonight made the past five years feel like a blur. I don't know how to feel. I honestly feel like trash. Right now, i wish i could of just said stop. But that wouldn't of helped either. Nothing could of helped. This was my fate. I made my mistake of coming here and now i continue to make my mistake by staying here. I need space now.

My Playlist

Song 1: "I Miss You" by Miley Cyrus - I'm not a fan of Miss Cyrus but I am really connected to this song because I dedicated it to my great grandma. She died a while back ago and it really hit me. She was such an inspirational woman and always had a great attitude. No matter what anyone said, she was dedicated to making herself happy. I remember one day she was trying to go home with my family but my dad insisted that she stayed with my great grandpa. She was so persistent in going with us. My dad loves my great grandma, so he ended up caving in. Now that she's gone, it feels like Pandora accidentally let out the good stuff too. Every time I feel sad now or lonely, this song helps me find my great grandma again and the good she stood for. I miss her so much.



Song 2: "Because of you" by Keith Martin - The lyrics of this song always makes my heart melt. I found this song when I met my boyfriend and it's stuck ever since. When I listen to this song, I think of my friends and boyfriend. They had a choice to love me and to be good to me, which they did and are. It's hard for me to accept people into my life so when they broke down my walls, it felt precious. I couldn't imagine my life the same without them.



Song 3/4: "Ours" by Taylor Swift and "Who Says" by Selena Gomez - I am a huge fan of Miss Swift and Miss Gomez so when these songs came out, I was really happy. The lyrics and the beats truly represents me. The lyrics, to me, talk about being strong. It's telling me not waste anytime doing silly things I don't care about. The songs tell me to be who I am. The beats are very positive and exciting. Every time I hear these songs, my lips just start moving and my feet follows after them. I think of my family, my friends, my boyfriend, my classmates, and my teachers after listening to these songs. It's because we all must do what we want and I don't know one person who regrets their life after doing what they want. The reason why I put these two songs together is because they match so well together. After listening to one of the song, I have to listen to the other. Like how Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez are best friends, these two songs are also best friends.





I couldn't imagine my playlist without these four songs! They represent my life and me. Each song tells a heart-felt story to me. These are the songs which make me happy to be a live and have my own, original life.

Quoting & Citing - Art Programs

"Tourism is strong linked to art-art activities are believed to stimulate tourism in a community, and vice versa." (Riley, 2002, p.22)

Riley, K. (2002). Art: A recreation thing. Parks & Recreation, 37(7), 22-29.

This article consists of reasons why public art programs are good for the community and ways to increase art programs. The quote that I have chosen is a good representation of how public art programs can encourage children to continue to do what they like best. People, overall, work better if they receive appraisal.

"More recently, school music programs may have contributed to the perceived quality of public schools by virtue of the success of their school music groups in local, statewide, and national school music competitions." (Langbein, 2004, p.84)

Langbein, L. (2004). Public school music: Notes on the public provision of a quasi-private good. Public Choice, 121(1-2), 83-98.

This article is also a combination of a research. The author looks at how the community as a whole can benefit from public programs such as music. Music programs offer many types of settings and public goods. This quote shows how we can help our children expand their experiences in school. Music programs offer competitions, music festivals, and other musical events which children can attend.

Abstract on Ch. 10, Ronson & Thoughts on the Psychopath Test

In chapter 10, Ronson was invited to join a Scientology banquet. This banquet gave Ronson the chance to meet many people including Robert Spitzer. Spitzer was given the chance to become the editor the DSM-III. He was the person who started the whole banquet in the beginning. It was a chance for psychiatrists to yell out potential, new mental disorders and debate over them. Spitzer also shared a story from David Rosenhan. The story was how him and fellow friends faked being mental ill. This was to prove that psychiatrist can misdiagnose. The whole chapter wrapped around misdiagnosing and the effect that it can cause. In chapter 11, Ronson was able to talk to Tony again. Tony was eventually released to start his life over again.

The book was overall very good. Many of the chapters were very exciting and few were boring. I wonder how long it took Ronson to write this book and the process of publishing it. All of his stories were adventurous. He went all over the US and Europe to collect information for his book and because of  the first mystery Ronson solved. My favorite chapter would have been chapter 10 because it talked a lot of misdiagnosing. Throughout this whole book, I questioned if and how many times have people been misdiagnosed. Ronson was able to show that even though it was important to find the sick, this may have gotten out of hand. If I was to read this book again, I would like to mark the stories that seemed interesting to me.

Abstract on Ch. 8, Ronson

In chapter 8, Ronson met up with a woman, Rachel North. In that time that they met up, Rachel shared with him her story. Rachel is a survivor of a July 7th terrorist attack in a subway tunnel in North London. Including her's, there were 4 total terrorist attacks that day. After this tragedy, Rachel began to blog about her experience. Other survivors followed her blog and soon enough they all created a grouping. They would meet up for drinks every month. Later on, Rachel found out that there were conspiracy theorists who believed the bombings never happened. They even concluded in their minds that Rachel was not even a real person but a group of men who worked for the government. She also found out that David Shayler, a former M15 spy, was the leader of the conspiracy theorists. Ronson then went into research about David and interviewed him. David Shayler believed the 7/7 bombings were part of a act that involved special effects and actors, also that 9/11 was a government attack. David had this hologram theory that the US government bombed the Twin Towers during the air plane attack. He officially became crazy when he announced to the world that he was the Messiah. David said he talked to God and was really the Messiah that God sent down.

Chapter 8 was a quite interesting story. I understood why Rachel god mad because I found myself getting mad also. People always believe what they want to and they'll create any time of story to prove that they're right. I also found that the best way to support my argument is not to get into an argument with others. When we do that, we find ourselves frustrated with how the world works. David had too much going on in his head. I was surprised that he wasn't locked up for being crazy. I believe that the terrorist attacks were real and that the government had nothing physical to do with the attacks. Conspiracy theorists need to find something better to do with their lives. When David called himself the Messiah, I was not happy at all. I stood behind David's old landlady. The Messiah cannot do the things that he did. I was glad to hear that he was a cross-dresser because it added more to his craziness. Chapter 9 had a good story about they sexual psychopath. I'm not sure if I have anything to say about this chapter though. I liked it but it dragged on too much. I did like it in the beginning when Ronson gave the concierge an excuse not to be a psychopath. That was very sweet of him. We really have to understand or try to relate to other people before we can judge who they are.

Gladwell - "Something Borrowed"

In this article, Gladwell talks about plagiarism . He starts off his discussion with comparing "Frozen", a Broadway play, to a book called "Guilty Reason of Insanity" by Dorothy Lewis. It was apparent that the play had plagiarized the book that Lewis wrote. After reviewing the play script, Lewis discovered that it also plagiarized a profile article done on her, it was written by Gladwell. Gladwell then went into words and how it belonged to people who had written them. He used the Beastie Boys as an example when they got sued for copying an intro from another song. Overall, plagiarism had certain standards to live up to to be considered plagiarized. It is hard to understand. Gladwell states that the game will continue. People will end up borrowing, not stealing, from others to create success in life.

I think that this article was really sad in a way. There wasn't any justice to plagiarism and no one really won or lost. There is a standard to plagiarizing someone else work and how long it must be to be considered. I don't like how everything was played out though. There was a big lying game in this sense and it became a chain. Honestly is a big issue in the world of success. I wish there could have been a better way for Lavery to get permission from Lewis. They could have brain stormed together to make a great Broadway play. It is important to not plagiarize because it is not original and your own.