| Social! I believe This things are social issues because not only they affect me directly but they affect people around me.
| 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.
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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.  Thirteen is a movie about a teenage girl who is trying to find her place in life. Tracy the main character is a sweet girl, a straight A student,and a little naive, that her biggest worries were her studies, but when she finds that she will go unnoticed in junior high school with that attitude, she decides to change, and makes friends with the most popular girl in school, Evie Zamora. Evie is a troubled teenager, she does not have a stable household, she cheats, does petty crime, does drugs, and trough out the movie we see that she really does not care about anybody but herself. When Tracy and Evie become friends, at first, Tracy is reluctant of Evie’s way of being, but wanting so much to fit in and befriend with Evie, she gives in to peer pressure, making Tracy, troubled and unstable. Tracy develops a bad habit of cutting, to release the emotional pain, because her parents are divorced, and because she hates her mother boyfriend, Brady. This makes Tracy’s mother, Mel very worried and the mother daughter relationship, starts to crumble. I really like this movie because I can relate to the main character in so many ways, also because it’s a really good movie. not only because this movie shows us in black and white what almost every teenager goes through, peer pressure, drugs, sex, petty crime, rebelling, family problems, and emotional problems, but because it gives us a really good adivce, dont trust every girl who says its you friend, its ok to exprience new stuff in life, but its not ok to exaggerate. I think every teenager, between the ages of 12, 13 and up, should watch this movie because he or she would know what’s really out there, and also I think parents should watch this movies because then they would know what to do and what not to do, if a situation like that were ever to happen, but also could recognize the signs of trouble, distress or depression.
One of the reasons I don’t like to go to church is because people expect from you. And when people expect, you feel pressured. Even though the story is well written and has a good structure, I didn’t like the story line, because I don’t think it was right the pressure the pastor and the other adults put on Langston, to be saved, That’s one of the reasons I don’t like the church. I used to go to church when I was younger, my parents made me go, but when I got older like in my teens they gave me the choice to go to a church of my choice, so I went to my friends church, its was small, and I thought it was nice at first, I met the pastor he was nice and everything, and people were friendly. One day, something like what happened to Langston happened to me, but I wanted to go to the front, just to see what happened, and besides people were starting to look at me weird because I was just sitting there. The pastor prayed, people around me too, the put oil in my forehead, the pastor pushed me, so dramatic! Anyways, like a week later one of the “sisters” came up to my mother’s friend and she told her that I had a “lesbian spirit” in me and that I needed help, to be prayed on. Later that week I feel that people are giving me the cold shoulder. So I decided to leeve the church not because they thought I was a lesbian, but because, I don’t think it was right what they did. I don’t think that Langston made a bad decision; I think I would have done the same if I was in that situation. Trying to avoid problems and doing what my elders want me to do. I think that Langston shows us in a very personal way what he feels, but honestly I didn’t feel that empathetic with the character. In the story and salvation I think that are alike because both children did what the adult wanted them to do. In Rachel’s situation the teacher she wanted Rachel to put the sweater so she did, and Langston’s situation, the pastor and his aunt wanted him to be saved, so he got up and he was “saved”.
 This picture was taken two years ago, right before the weekend my dog died. Her name was Bruni, she died of cancer in her bones, the vet had to amputate the right back leg, because it got really bad, a month later the front left leg started to get swollen, so I had to make a choice, which broke my heart. I chose this picture because honestly I still have her in my heart, and I will never forget how happy she was when I came home that week end, she even let me gave her a bath without problems. I think she knew it was her last week end with me. In this picture, you can’t see it but Bruni already had three legs and the front left leg started to get bad, so she had trouble moving that's why she was sitting down. Bruni was always so energetic, always playing, and biting stuff, it drove me mad, but also she was very lovable, and loyal she used to protect me from everything, even from my own family, when my dad or my brother tease me she used to bark at them, but she never bit anyone, I thought her better than that, she just barked, like saying “stay away”, like a warning. That’s what I see when I look at this picture, memories coming back to me. After I gave her a bath I dried her with her towel, it was pink, but it was bitten all over, Bruni liked to bite stuff, especially towels and rocks. She hated baths but she loved to be dried with the towel she thought it was playing time, and I kind of let her think so, since I use to laugh at her. it was just so funny the way she played with the towel. Bruni usually sleeps with me in my bed. You must think I’m crazy… that night when I went to sleep I hear Bruni whining, I thought that she was in pain, but it wasn’t that, she wanted to jump to my bed and she couldn’t. At that moment I knew that I had to stop avoiding to inevitable. I had to put her to sleep, she already lost her back leg and her front leg was starting to get swollen, I just didn’t wanted to lose her but it was breaking my heart seeing her like that in pain, and she was in so much pain, so I decided to take my mattress and put it on the floor so Bruni could be comfortable, and I laid next to her, and said my goodbyes that night. I couldn’t go home for like a week, I couldn’t even look at the picture for like 2 weeks, because I was never there when she was put to sleep, and I was supposed to be there. But eventually I did go home and I had to face a house without the only living thing that was truly happy to see me when I got home, and never got mad at me, even when I did. When I adopt a dog it for life, and I give all my love to my dog, I don’t consider my dogs just pets, I consider them friends and family and that’s why it was so hard for me when Bruni died, I took care of her since she was a puppy, and she was always there to make me laugh, when I was sad. I have other dogs and I love them all, and every time one of them dies a piece of my heart goes with them. But for some reason, Bruni was extra special.
When I first read this essay I didn’t understand it. I had to read it at least five times, for me to understand the essay. Reading this essay made me realize that I am also not an abstract thinker. While I was reading this essay, I was thinking of other things that really have no relevance to the essay. And it took me some time to actually focus, and understand, which it has happened many times. I think that Didion writes because she is always asking herself questions, and writing a story or a novel is a way of getting answers to those questions. When Didion states that …”setting word on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of the writers sensibility on the readers most privet space.” It caught me a little by surprise, because I never really thought about it that way. But it makes sense when you think about it, because the writer is expressing their point of view about something, and there is no room for the reader to express his or hers point of view, what I mean to say is there is no room for conversation or debate. Which leads me to consider that writing is a selfish act. You write because you want to, because you like it, because you feel inspired, to express your feelings, or to find out what you’re feeling. But you don’t write because of what the other person is feeling.
 I don’t remember much about middle school or elementary school, I just remember the big events like graduation, and they are always special, but one thing that will always sticks with me is my friends. I was twelve or eleven years old, when I went to middle school, Luis Muñoz Marin was the name of the school, in Arecibo, first when I got there I was really scared, especially of the ninth graders, I mean the look so tall and mean. Fortunately I had my best friend with me, and she was the social one, everybody liked Kaili, she was fun to be around with, and I have no idea why, we became friends, she hated me back then. I met Kaili in elementary school, where we were rivals just because Roland our other best friend had a crush on me at that time and she had a crush on him. I used to tease her about it, till I made her cry once, then I felt bad, I said I was sorry but I don’t think till this day that she has forgiving me about it. One day I was forced to work with her in an assignment, and that’s when we started to be friends more or less, but I stopped teasing her. We became best friends graduating the 6th grade when Kaili, Roland and Me where the last one to leave the class day. That day the three of us just talked I don’t remember about what, but we bonded as best friends us three, it was just a feeling, and I was not wrong, that summer Roland, I think when to stay with someone and couldn’t hang with us, but me and Kaili were inseparable, but once middle school started we were the dynamic trio. Honestly I couldn’t get through middle school if it weren’t for my best friends, specially Kaili, it’s funny how two people that don’t like each other end up being best friends, Kaili and me are still best friends and I know our friendship is going a long way, but me and Roland really don’t talk, he got married I think had a child or the other way round, but we don’t keep in contact, on the other hand Kaili moved to the states and we still keep in contact. I miss my friends especially I miss the way things were, but people change and friendship change too, but some friendships are meant to be, others are not.
| VictoriaI am me and only me. i love to read and listen to music, i like the colour black and random stuff. I have 5 dogs, they drive me crazy but i love them. and i like to enjoy the simple things in life, such as helping others, or drinking coffee. HEYYY!!Prof. Zenaida Sanjurjo ArchivesDiciembre 2012 Categories |
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