Why a Nerd?

Reading this caught my attention because i do remember in Middle School and even High School who were the popular kids and who were the nerds.For some reason it's always the smart kids that are the nerds but it's not that the popular kids envy the smart kids which are the nerds because if that was the case than the nerds would also be in a high position in the social world. Being smart really doesn't have to do with a nerd being unpopular but it's always the smart one's that aren't popular. To be realistic everyone in school wants to be popular and it's not a good feeling to be rejected that's why some kids have actually committed suicide. A statistic says that anAmerican teenager may work 365 days out of the year to be popular. I can totally believe that because i see how important it is for some kids to be popular everyday. To be compeletly honest i know at a point in my years of school I've wanted to be popular. There is never going to a satisfying level of being popular I think because even the most popular person may feel some what rejected in some way. I think through the years but mostly this year is that it's waist of time to want to be popular because i rather be with friends that like me for who I am and i can act however I feel like that and because of that I think i got more friends out of that to when i was actually trying back in the days. Well now it doesn't really matter anymore because high school is ending already and all that popularity crap is not going to matter in the real world.  It won't put you in any higher place because of it.

Blackwell, Trevor. "why nerds are unpopular". Paulgraham. February 2003.

Bacteria with Earth Life

At a point i guess all that existed was bacteria before plants, animals, or any existing thing had existed. Then because of climate change through out the years the first ice age was made. This ice age seemed to almost extinguish all life off Earth cause all because of bacteria. Somehow grass helped out this situation and helped oxygen to be in the picture more. This oxygen helped to keep the earth warm.


Bellows, Alan. How bacteria almost destroyed all life. DamnInteresting. 28 August 2008.

Baby Albert in Psychology

This article talks about how psychology has to do why someone might be scared or has a phobia against something they don't know why they are when they're older. This man had seen that this baby was scared of a white dog so he used other white furry things to scare this baby. He used this white rat to scare the baby since it was really young in some way as in the baby hurting itself from being scared of the rat. Now later it came to be that he was also scared of other white furry things like a dog or some cotton. He was going to heal his fear by "re-conditioning" but he never did to the lack of time. So the poor baby stayed with his phobia and not knowing why of it.


Bellows, Allan. Doctor Watson's Phobia Facotry. DamnInteresting. 18 September 2008.

Realistic!

First if all this article talks about how in 1988 these two psychologists wrote about how people tend to think positive thoughts everyday about what's happeneing and the future that aren't so realistic. It's a way to help our self-estem to function a normal day. It's kind of sad but there was a study on people with eating disorders to rate themselves and then have other people rate themselves on their physical appreance. The sad part was that normal people with no disorders had to do the same and studies came out to be that the people with the eating disorders were around the same rating as the other people rating them. So i guess this shows how negative people that see the bad in themselves are people that are more realistic than the people having high or regular self-esteem because they just try to make themselves happy. This is kind of an article that puts you down but at the same time i can see where an everyday person tries to find the positive thing in their lives even though it's not always true but i don't always see the bad in that.

Putnam, Christopher S. A Total Perspective Vortex. DamnInteresting. 16 January 2009.

Unique Abortion

Well this article was about an abortion that this girl had named Denise. To make the story shorter this girl when she was 15 was raped more than once by her father. She had then became pregnant and when her parents took her to the doctors one day when she got really sick they wanted her to get an abortion. Denise's decision was to not have an abortion and go against her parents choice but in this situation it wasn't the point because they had someone to but her to sleep while they did the abortion against her will. She still grieves on her child's death because it was a murder that wasn't right which is why she writes about it. This story to me was something unique that i have never read before. You think that every woman that has an abortion is a bad person but in this case it's a different kind of abortion.This makes me wonder how many other cases are there out there that are like this one. It was even brave for her to have wanted to keep this child even after it was a rape child consumed. That to me makes this woman really strong in many ways.

Kalasky, Denise. Abortion:The great incest cover-up..Ayoung mother's story. Take the Red Pill.

Minute-by-minute: The operation to get bin Laden

This article is talking about how they killed Osama Bin Laden. First of all his mansion had no phone connections or anything like that. Also they had they're trash burned for it not to be collected this shows they were smart and sneaky with hiding this man. Some reports they said he reached for his weapon and some said he wasn't even armed. I don't even know what's true now but from this article it states that with some intterogation tactics with in other words is torture they got information from Mohammed succession Abu Faraj al-Libi in some prisons in Poland and Romania.



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20058792-503543.html

Today in Riverside

Me and my mom were driving by riverwalk and we see a bunch of cars just overcrowding the street where the entrances are. I'm pretty confused because it was alot of people and we just see new reporter cars outside but not that many cops on the street so it's kind of hard to notice what the deal is about. Then later i find out that 2 people were shot inside of riverwalk by a shooter that died too shot by an officer.  The reason for the shooting has not yet been figured out and it's just weird to me for that to had happened in Riverwalk because it's like one of the nicest neighborhoods around us. Also that other incident that happened with the little girl being tooken out of her apartment when she was only 9 years old and was raped, which was also here in riverside. These things are just to show us that the world is being more and more corrupt everyday even if it seems places where these things would ever happen.



Barrie, Steven.RIVERSIDE: Police probe shootings of 3 in Riverwalk area. The Press-Enterprise. May 10, 2011.

Navy Seals

This video that i watched about the navy seals called team six. They are in water, fly through air, through land and just so much that does alot for our country. They have to learn how to survive how to be in artic cold ocean. Out of all the navy seals 75% of them don't make it to be one. Their techniques are crazy to me like being able to be under water with out breathing for two minutes without blowing any bubbles. They're put out as super heros and i think that's a good way to put it because they can do so much that almost seems impossible for  a human being to do. I just don't know what kind of mentailty they have to put themselves to be these people in these situations. It's crazy to be these people but it's really brave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5prM5fHNYk

Healthier?

This article talks about how immigrant hispanics are becoming less stress because before they were the one's with higher risks of bad health which included African Americans too. Studies show that Hispanic born in America are more stressed than the ones that are immigrants and to me that's ironic. Stress seems to not have anything to do with race but studies have shown that African Americans have the most stress. The reason for immigrants not being so stressed is because of stronger social support and their positive outlook on their opportunites.

Hudson, William."Study:Immigrant Hispanics less stressed, healthier".The Chart. May 5,2011

Osama Bin Laden

This article that i read talks about how Obama did the work that Bush couldn't but was it really because of him or just the timing was when he is in office? I don't really see this action stopping this war and having all the troops come back. Al qaeda is still be taking action to what they do but it could weaken them who knows. Bush states that "No matter how long it takes, justice will be done" in many ways Bin Laden dieing is way of closure for the people that lost loved ones on September 11 and that makes perfect sense to me because he was the main reason what happened. Seeing on the news how many people are where the trade center was at and the people outside the white house just proves it. Now I'm just waiting for the pictures of him to come out that's something i really want to see.






http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/05/presidents_bush.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-george-w-bush-osama-statement-20110502,0,4437819.story

Reflection on immigration discussion

This discussion was a pretty good one people got heated up but that's a good thing. It all of a sudden started becoming into something about race though but in a way i understand because when it comes to immigration it highlights on certain races. It was mostly based on how immigrants are known as doing wrong but at the same time they do so much for this country by doing jobs that regular Americans wouldn't want to do. Sometimes they're set as criminals but all they're looking for is a job to support their families. Also sometimes when an immigrant does something wrong on the news it's like it's because they're an immigrant but at the same time any type of person could be doing that same crime it's just the person themselves that make that decision. All though we make as if the government hates immigrants at the same time they're kind of contradicting because even though they want them out they still give good benefits for them like in state college tuition benefits. It's like some immigrants can stay here with no worries but some get kicked out it wonders me why certain immigrants are picked to leave this country and some aren't.