La estadidad vs. la Isla del DesencantoThere are several reasons why I chose this editorial, “La Estadidad vs. la Isla del Desencanto” (Statehood vs. the Isle of Disenchantment) by Hernán Padilla, first of all even though this is the second election I will participate in, it is the first one the presents me with a decision that will not only affect me during the next four years, but it will affect me, my family and everyone in Puerto Rico for a very long time. It is my responsibility to become as well informed as I can. Second, the title is catchy and the author is very well known and respected. Finally, I believe that the subject of the Plebiscite has been “ignored” in favor of who is the lesser of two evils. This editorial talks about how with statehood we will have the same rights, privileges and responsibilities as any other citizen of the United States. How it will grant us the political power that we DO NOT have now, as we will have representation in Congress and the Senate and will participate in the election of the President. We will not be subject to the powers and limitations of the Territorial Clause. This editorial also reminds us that our cultural identity, who we ARE NOW, has grown within the “American” culture. They are not incompatible, like it or not there are as many “Americans” who love rice and beans as there are Puertoricans that love hamburgers, every state have their own cuisine, music, flag and traditions, in short: CULTURE. Cultural identity is not only based on Olympic representation. Not being part of the American Union will keep Puerto Rico in a political limbo, condemned to social disorder and economic misery. Also, as expected, Hernán Padilla asks for our vote for statehood. I wish he had talked about the other options because he seems very well informed and passionate about the subject and his language is clear and to the point.
Other editorials:
Social!
I believe This things are social issues because not only they affect me directly but they affect people around me. - Animal abuse. Or any kind of abuse
- Bullying
- Manipulation
- War
- Homophobia, or any phobia
- Stupid mean plastic girls
| Personal!This issues are personal because I think they only affect me, personally, to some people might affect as well but I don’t think is a social issue. - When I’m trying to study and people won’t stop calling me
- When I’m not studying and people won’t call me
- When I have to pay for everything on a date.
- When people ask stupid questions.
- my ex boyfriend
- When a guy thinks you are he’s property. And vise versa
- Jealousy
- Bickering
- Lies
- Cheating
- hairy feet
- over thinking things
- not thinking went I need to think things over
- making bad decisions, and mistakes
- fake people
- Not being able to do the things I want.
- Over positive people.
- Over cheerful people
- people that that thinks they know me when they really don’t.
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1. Animal abuse. Or any kind of abuse
2. Bullying
3. Manipulation
4. When I’m trying to study and people won’t stop calling me
5. When I’m not studying and people won’t call me
6. When I have to pay for everything on a date.
7. When people ask stupid questions.
8. my ex boyfriend
9. When a guy thinks you are he’s property. And vise versa
10. Jealousy
11. Bickering
12. Lies
13. Cheating
14. War
15. Homophobia, or any phobia
16. hairy feet
17. over thinking things
18. not thinking went I need to think things over
19. making bad decisions, and mistakes
20. stupid mean plastic girls
21. fake people
22. Not being able to do the things I want.
23. Over positive people.
24. Over cheerful people
25. And people that that thinks they know me when they really don’t.
 There are many revolutionary people that I admire, from religious people that fought for human rights like Martin Luther king Jr. to activists like Gandhi, and philosophers like Emile Durkheim. Scientist like Peter Higgs, that discovered the Higgs boson particle, also referred as the God particle (particle that creates mass). All of these people have changed the world in a way that nobody at that time could have imagined, and they all made a big impact in the world. But sometimes it’s not only one person that can make an impact like Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi, sometimes it can be a group of people like a band of music or something, like the Beatles. In the summer of 1957 Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet. McCartney was invited to join John Lennon’s band “The Quarry Man” after he auditioned. Two years later the band broke up in the early 1959. Like most bands, The Beatles successes was not immediate, in the year of 1960 is when they start to become the Beatles. In the beginning the band consisted of five teenage boys, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best (drummer) and Stuart Sutcliffe. The band had an identity crisis, meaning they changed their name more than once, from the “Silver Beetles”, “Long John and the Beatles”, to ”The Beet Brothers”, till finally going with The Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band after 18 months to study. And then they were four. When they make their first trip to Hamburg, Germany, although it was not successful, the second trip was. The Beatles returned to Liverpool In June of 1961 and more people would go to see them perform. Even though more people would go see them and they would actually have and audience, the band was refused by well known recording companies. It was Parlophone records (a subsidiary of EMI) that signed The Beatles. In 1962 Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr because the producer didn’t like Pete Best and also because Pete was not in the best terms with the other guys. “Love me do” was their first single and was released in September of 1962, eventually reaching # 17 in the UK, it would be almost two years until the song was released and became the #1 hit in the US. In August of 1965 the Beatles gave a concert in the New York’s Shea Stadium, and more than 55 thousand people attended that concert, at that time that is the most people ever to attend a single concert. Two months later, the fab four became member of the British Empire. Usually this honor is given to military and government official and its one of the highest honors to be given in the UK. The band released a couple of more albums, and made a movie called “Help!” In 1966 John Lennon commented in an interview that “the Beatles are more popular than Jesus”. 1969 was a difficult time for the Beatles. In September of that year John Lennon decided to leave the band. The band’s break up was announced in April 1970 a month before their final album “Let It Be” was released, and the band known as the Beatles officially came to an end. The Beatles, the best Rock n’ Roll band in its time, and safe to say ever to exist. And their influence will continue as each generation listen to the music that that impacted the world and changed it. I believe that music it’s a big part of life, without music I think people would be really unhappy, music moves us and it influences us, music could be powerful if we are open to it. The Beatles were a big impact in the world, and they have influenced people in ways never dreamed of. They were the first to wear long hair the mop-long hair cut as people would put it, at first the youth in America would laugh at it but later they would cut their hair just like the Beatles. And its goes the same with their clothes, they changed the way people dressed. But I believe that their influence is deeper than that. The Beatles were all about love and peace. Their constant preaching about peace and love may have helped to bring to an end the Vietnam War. Even though the Beatles were all about love and peace they weren’t perfect, some songs were about drugs like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds that stands for LSD, and some people, took that the wrong way. But the important thing is that people were reacting, it didn’t matter if it’s in the right or wrong way, but the fact is that the people were reacting, to the Beatles. And they still are. When I was out shopping for school stuff at Wall Mart, I wanted to buy my notebooks of the Beetles theme, and when I got to the section where the notebook are I hear a 12 year old kid, telling his father, “oh dad look, the Beatles!!” and I hear him singing one of the Beatles songs, “Hey Jude” (I think it was), I was amazed. Because even till this day, the young people (even kids of every generation listen to the Beatles, even if it’s the minority of Puerto Rico or the majority of the USA that listen to the fab four, but the Beatles are still alive, because of the impact and influence they had on our parent generations all over the world. Reference:
http://classicrock.about.com/od/bandsandartists/p/beatles.htm
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-beatles/biography
http://history1900s.about.com/od/entertainers/p/beatles.htm
“Untitled” by Simple Plan, It’s a sad song and it has no positive nor negative message. It just a message on how the song writer feels. This song talks about how a person lost his way and wonders why and how he got so mess up. He expresses that he can’t stand it anymore but there is anything else to do but to keep going but he is sick of it, he is just trying to find his way. Believe it or not this song has helped me get through some hard time. I just put this song when I’m feeling sad and depressed, and I hear it over and over again, till it gets trough my head that I’m not the only one who feels that has lost her way in life. I really like this song because; it says exactly how I feel most of the time.
"Untitled" by simple plan
I open my eyes
I try to see but I’m blinded by the white light
I can’t remember how
I can’t remember why
I’m lying here tonight
And I can’t stand the pain
And I can’t make it go away
No I can’t stand the pain
How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes
I’ve got nowhere to run
The night goes on
As I’m fading away
I’m sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
Everybody’s screaming
I try to make a sound but no one hears me
I’m slipping off the edge
I’m hanging by a thread
I wanna start this over again
So I try to hold onto a time when nothing mattered
And I can’t explain what happened
And I can’t erase the things that I’ve done
No I can’t
How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes
I’ve got nowhere to run
The night goes on
As I’m fading away
I’m sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes
I’ve got nowhere to run
The night goes on
As I’m fading away
I’m sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
“Imagine” by John Lennon, one of the best songs ever written, next to the many songs of the Beatles. This song gives me hope for humanity some times because it talks about uniting the people. And has a really good positive message. It calls us to throw away our differences and love each other no matter what. If there were no prejudice against religion, politics, race, gender, and everybody were to unite and be as one. There would be a better world. But that is just a dream for many people, but, if everybody were to dream and join together, that dream could come true and like the song says “the world will live as one” I really love this song because its different from other song, it actually says something important, it’s not a love song, or a lost love song. It’s a pacifist song calling for a peaceful revolution.
“Imagine” by John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
I have always considered myself eclectic; I like every type of music. But honestly there are some songs that I just can’t stand. Especially regaetton, because most of the time the artist (if you consider them artist) repeats the same thing over and over and is mostly about sex, drugs, violence, guns and how the man is so much better than the women. I’m not a feminist but I don’t think is right to be degrading the woman, just like I don’t think is right that woman should be degrading man. I mean people have feelings. When I first heard “la combi completa” or “que bellaca” bye Daddy Yankee and Nicky Jam, I was like 12 or 13 year old, and by that time I used to like what everybody liked, and that song was the shit. But as I got older, I started to pay attention to the lyrics and pay attention to what that song really meant. And what it really meant is what I said earlier, this song degrades woman and it’s not right. I used to like this song but now I can’t stand it or any song that degrades any human being or repeats the same thing over and over again.
Note: . Reader discretion is advised for vulgar content...
“La combi completa” by Daddy Yankee Ft Nicky Jam
Dime en la cama todo lo que quieres
Yo me meto contigo donde sea
No me importa la mision que me tire
Quiero verte sudando como quiera
Dime en la cama todo lo que quieres
Yo me meto contigo donde sea
No me importa la mision que me tire
Quiero verte sudando como quiera
Que…Be…Lla…Ca mira esa muchacha cuando la vamos a desnudar
Como dice,
Que …Be…Lla…Ca mira esa muchacha, oye esto
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
Que!
A ella le gusta que se la coman
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
Y es que yo quiero la combi completa
Que!
Chocha, Culo,Teta
Yo quiero la combi completa
Que!
Chocha, Culo,Teta
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
Que!
A ella le gusta que se la coman
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
Dice,
Que….Be….Lla…Ca mira esa muchacha cuando la vamos a desnudar
Como dice,
Que …Be…Lla…Ca mira esa muchacha cuando...
Dime en la cama todo lo que quieres
Yo me meto contigo donde sea
No me importa la mision que me tire
Quiero verte sudando como quiera
Dime en la cama todo lo que quieres
Yo me meto contigo donde sea
No me importa la mision que me tire
Quiero verte sudando como quiera
Que pasa?
Que es lo que tu tienes pa' mi?
Yo quiero cuerpo
Es lo que tu tienes, mami
Que pasa?
Que es lo que tu tienes pa' mi?
Yo quiero cuerpo
Es lo que tu tienes, mami
Dame lo que tienes alla atras
Es el Nicky Jam que le mete reggaeton pa' chicas
Dame lo que tienes alla atras
Es el Nicky Jam que le mete reggaeton pa' chicas
Que pasa?
Que es lo que tu tienes pa' mi?
Yo quiero cuerpo
Es lo que tu tienes, mami
Que pasa?
Que es lo que tu tienes pa' mi?
Yo quiero cuerpo
Es lo que tu tienes, mami
Yo quiero la combi completa
Que!
Chocha, Culo,Teta
Yo quiero la combi completa
Que!
Chocha, Culo,Teta
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
Que!
A ella le gusta que se la coman
A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman
Que…Be…Lla…Ca mira esa muchacha cuando la vamos a desnudar
Como dice,
Que …Be ..Lla ..Ca mira esa muchacha cuando...
Dime en la cama todo lo que quieres
Yo me meto contigo donde sea
No me importa la mision que me tire
Quiero verte sudando como quiera
Dime en la cama todo lo que quieres
Yo me meto contigo donde sea
No me importa la mision que me tire
Quiero verte sudando como quiera
 After Bella’s mother remarries, Bella decides to move to a town named Forks in the state of Washington, with her father. At first she hated Forks not only because she was away from her home but because it rain a lot in that town and she hated the cold. Bella has always been a little socially awkward, and she has never really been one to go with the crowd, she always kept to herself, but things changed when she moves to this small town. She meets Edward Cullen, he and his family has a dark secret. After a van almost killed Bella and Edward stopped it from happening, by simply pushing the van with his hand, Bella tries to uncover his secret. And she soon discovers that Edward and his family are vampires that have great strength, great speed, skin is colder than ice, oh and they sparkle in the sun! And feed of the blood of animals. She also discovers that Edward has a special ability, he can read minds. As Edward and Bella fall in love other things are happening, people are getting killed, by “animals”, but the Cullen’s know better, they know that they are other vampires, the kind that don’t feed on animal blood. The action begins when other three vampires, the ones that were doing the killings, Laurent, James and Victoria, interrupt a baseball game the Cullen’s where having. When Edward and Bella where about to leave, James catches Bella’s scent and Edward automatically goes in to protective mode, jumping in front of Bella to protect her from James. This provokes James and he decides to hunt her. This leads to a series of unfortunate events.
The movie Twilight is based on a book by Stephanie Mayer, and I must say, when I first heard this movie was coming out I was really excited, because I really liked the books. But watching this movie was torture! It’s like they killed the book. The actors didn’t look like at all like they were suppose to ( in my opinion) the acting was bad, the dialog was cheesy, and Kristen Stewart honestly could have done a better Bella, and show a little bit more emotion or I don’t know be more passionate about being Bella. She never convinced me that she was actually in love with Edward, and when Edward and Bella kiss it’s like they are in pain, like they disgust each other, and that’s not the way that suppose to be. But I am still a fan of Twilight because of the books, and I am not ashamed to admit that. I have watched every Twilight movie, and read all the books at least 3 times, so it’s like I have a love and hate relationship with this movie, more hate then love I must say.
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