childhood toys

When i was young my favorite thing to play with, though it wasn't quite a "toy" was my Nintendo. For Christmas one year, my parents bought a Nintendo gaming system and from there on out i was hooked on video games. I spent most of my free time playing either my NES, my Super Nintendo, or my Sega Genesis. all my allowance money went towards buying new games.
This has affected me because now I still play video games and I still spend a lot of free time and money going towards video games. I now own a NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, N64, Playstation 1 & 2, and a XBOX 360. I love getting together with friends and playing video games because its a relatively cheap form of entertainment and you can play them for hours on end!

T.V. at its best

One show that i never mind watching when i turn on the television is That 70's Show. Whatever mood i am in, if i turn on That 70's Show, i am always in the mood to watch it. It is a comedy based on a group of friends in the 70's era who hang out in the basement of the main characters house a lot and often have interesting adventures or problems they have to face.
The cast isn't very large, but they can keep together for some entertaining times. There is the main character, Eric who's basement is the main hangout spot. His girlfriend Donna who hosts a radio show. Her best friend Jackie who is very conceited and not very smart. Also, there is Kelso, Jackie's gullable pretty boyfriend who always gets himself in trouble. Then there is my favorite character, Fez, he is a foreign guy who is trying to soak up American culture but always has some sort of issue to deal with.

extreme emotions

When i think of having extreme emotions i think back to when i lost my grandparents. Both of them were involved in a car accident that killed my grandmother immediately and caused my grandfather to have a stroke which he died of later that evening. This all happened only two weeks after my great grandfather died of lung cancer.
During this time I was extremely sad and dragged down. I felt like death was all around and i kept feeling like something else was going to happen. I also felt like nothing was going right and just felt lonely. Though i was extremely sad about what happened it helped me grow as a person because i had to find a way to overcome my emotions and be a stronger person.

advertising

When it comes to advertising, i am personally someone who ignores it the best i can. On t.v., I generally flip to another channel when commercials are on. I have watched shows about how advertising is set up to catch your eye and subliminal messages are used to get you to buy products. Most types of advertising just annoy me so i avoid them.
The only types of advertisments that i like to watch are movie previews. I watch a lot of movies and I like to know which ones are coming out soon. When i go to a movie in the theater my favorite part of the movie is often watching the previews, but not the advertisements they like to stick in between them.

racism speeches

After reading both Barak Obama's speech and Martin Luther King Jr's speech, it is apparent that racism is still rampant and after all the time in between these speeches, that same problems exist and still need to be taken care of.
In Obama's speech he speaks of looking back at the past, not to get angry at all the problems that were there, but use these to address current issues and figure out how to fix them. Some things that he mentioned are that schools in areas that were segregated before are still inadaquite for young children to learn in.
Marting Luther takes the approach that direct non-violent action is more the way to go to fix problems of segregation and racism. He believes that negotiations need to be made but the only way to get to the negotiations is to cause a small amount of chaos that will force them.

Nate's Spring Break

Nate's spring break was very low key and boring. First off, he didn't get to travel anywhere this year which was a complete bummer. Secondly, his dad needed him to work some overnight shifts from Sunday night to Thursday night so he wasn't able to leave the house after 10.
The major point of his spring break was that he got to travel up to the twin cities on Saturday morning to purchase his 2001 mustang that he has been waiting for for almost a month now. Quite a bit of Nate's time was spent working on installing a sound system inside his car and trying to learn how to drive a stick shift vehicle. Watching him try to drive during the first day was very entertaining because he was really jerky with his car and couldn't seem to drive smoothly at all.
Once he got down the driving, he spent a good amount of his time picking up applications and filling them out because he needs a job really badly to pay for his new car.

a modest proposal

I have read A Modest Proposal once before in one of my high school English classes. This story really strikes me as an interesting story because as you are reading it, it goes from explaining a crisis that Ireland is having, to his proposal. The first time you read this story, his proposal is not the sort of thing you are expecting. It has a real shock value to it because the way he explains it makes a lot of sense, just doesn't seem sensible.
In Jonathan Swift's proposal he explains a way that he could help the country get out of its economic hardship. He proposes that children at the age of 1 year be sold off for food and leather goods. Though his proposal is sickening to think about, If it were actually put in place and people went along with it, this proposal would help the economic standing among the poor quite a bit.