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50 SHOTS INTO 50 COPS

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It’s disaster as a future wife’s heart breaks
It’s not an abortion of justice just justice getting raped
Reality is Sean Bell was shot fifty times
Why can’t they serve time, sometimes I lose my mind
Blinded and tied good by evil, blame Adam and Eve
By any means, get even, with a mean thief
In the eve of his last night no justice or peace
Sadness tied with madness fills the bloody streets
Killed for nothing he didn’t have a gun
A good son gone but a revolution will come
Step one is to shoot until it stops
Shots fired fifty times into fifty cops
Let cop bodies drop, no exceptions kill the cop race
No respect filled with disgrace off an easy case based on race
But what comes around goes around, bloodhound
Let off a round cops have kids that become bullet bound
Never safe and sound, all they got was maternity leave
Feminist cops got to bleed so I heave
But first stop to grieve, confront the mother and wife of the seed

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

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Creative nonfiction is a new style of writing which utilizes literary elements and poetic concepts to create an interesting story about an event, setting, or individual. This type of writing style is meant to show rather than tell. Creative Nonfiction is a combination of nonfiction fundamentals and literary fundamentals. It can we be presented in different traditions of writing. Even though the genre of creative nonfiction can be left to personal opinion it can include memoirs, journalism, criticism, documentaries, historical articles, and drama. It relies on literary realism through researched documents and captivated coverage. The language it is written in differs from other types of writing because it is more personal and informal. According to the father of creative nonfiction, Lee Gutkind, creative nonfiction’s poetic narrative techniques combine to make actual objects interesting to write about. Creative nonfiction can be defined as the use of literary elements when describing actual facts or events. It presents details that help the reader understand the main point and the facts come alive through literary elements. To me creative nonfiction is using personal experience and outside knowledge and incorporating it into pieces of writing that would otherwise be considered dry nonfiction. Creative nonfiction is an intriguing way of presenting gathered information or ideas to the reader. Writers have the opportunity to incorporate personal experiences with literary techniques to the produce an interesting and enjoyable literary piece. While creative nonfiction incorporates multiple characteristics of literature and non-fiction, there are many other several characteristics that describe creative nonfiction. It is a mixture of primary and secondary sources such as books, magazines, and newspapers use a creative nonfiction approach. For example, it is written with attention to literary style and technique in its presentation of accurate facts.
“All Around the Town” by Herbert Asbury and “The Curve of Binding Energy” by John McPhee are two examples of creative non- fiction. Creative nonfiction is depicted in these two works as the authors incorporate facts with creativity to make the story interesting. It allowed the writers to take factual events and place their personal creativity on the telling of the factual events. In “All Around the Town” Ashbury discusses the scandals, murders, and riots through creative literary means. In “The Curve of Binding Energy”, McPhee discusses the importance of safeguarding of nuclear materials through the characterization of Theodore Taylor’s life. McPhee’s research and McPhee’s experience with Taylor were combined in a literary way to present the threat of security to the information of nuclear materials. Both creative writers vividly describe nonfictional events in order for the reader to comprehend the material. This allows the reader to enjoy a horrendous read because of its creative tactics through the use of literary techniques. The authors enjoy taking factual events and exercising their creativity and opinions.
Both literary works include journalism and creative writing elements when composed. Creative writing allows the writer to include any information and exaggerate factual details where as journalism is based on stating factual research without the use of literary techniques. In both creative nonfiction works the authors present the lackluster factual events as pleasurable well written material. Currently the writing style and genre of today’s new writers is shifting towards creative nonfiction because it allows for freedom of ideas and unique individual style to develop. This is what makes creative nonfiction unique and isolates it from other forms of writing because it is not limited to a single structured from.

GIULIANI

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With authoritative leadership and respect Mayor Rudolph Giuliani accomplished the most for New York. Giuliani has faced many challenges during his time but his hard work ethic allowed Giuliani to take action against these challenges. Giuliani started making changes from the beginning to the end of his mayoral campaign. He had increasingly raised employment, prevented crime, improved the economy, and made New York the safest city. During his eight years in office he accomplished the most for New York and led New York to a prosperous time.
When Giuliani began his time in office, he initiated a workfare program that enabled people that were on welfare to be self-sufficient and to work. The workfare was established because Giuliani as well as New York had more than a million New Yorkers on welfare. This program helped boost the economy and loosen the deficit the government faced. This first challenge was the first of many faced by Giuliani. Another challenge he faced was the significant crime problem. Giuliani adopted a crime prevention program, where he reduced murder and crime by half. He suppressed every form of disorder form graffiti to violence. He changed the mentality of New York by enabling the New York Police Department to use computer mapping he was able to find the exact locations with the highest violent crime rate. During his time in office the crime rate fell by fifty percent. Giuliani successfully was able to have a drop in the crime rate because he was able to change the New York economy. Income and land value rose throughout the city. Neighborhoods were made safe and better living conditions were restored. While Giuliani improved New York’s crime, employment, and crime he also improved the city’s budget. He was able to cut taxes to change the billion dollar budget deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus. He is single-handily responsible for turning every challenge into a positive benefit.
Giuliani improved New York’s crime, employment, crime, improved the city’s budget. However, I believe Giuliani’s approach on crime even though it was a great tactic if he would have diminished the use of guns even if you have a gun license in New York. Also I believe he could have raised employment if he had built a new structure, tunnel, bridge, and/or road but other than those options Giuliani was the best mayor and had superb plans in making his mark and impacting the culture of New York. He will go down as the best mayor of New York.

GO DISCOVER NEW YORK!

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Analytical Question: Analyze the social, political, and economic impact(s) of the Irish Immigration on New York.

Over the course of history, New York was known as the second home of many immigrants. Many immigrants come to New York to escape tyranny, hunger, disease, and oppression. For many New York was a place to begin a new life, it was a place of many different cultures and different religious beliefs. The Irish was one group of immigrants that have impacted New York’s history. They were one of the most significant groups that helped establish the culture of New York. The potato crop was the basis of agricultural and economic growth of the Irish. When the potato crop was struck by a disease (blight), so was the Irish nation. The infamous Irish potato famine wiped out more than two million Irish people. Scores of Irish people had traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in order to escape the pain and suffering the potato famine caused. As the Irish immigrants approached the shores of New York, they had faced many hardships, poverty, oppression, hatred, and abandonment of their beliefs. The Irish were strongly discriminated against because they were catholic and New York was dominantly a Protestant state. For many years they were just above free blacks on the social ladder. The Irish had worked laborious jobs that consisted of long hard hours and low pay. With the low pay that the Irish were receiving they had spent much of it to send for family or relatives to come. This was known as chain migration. During the civil war, a vast amount of Irish immigrants became involved in New York’s infamous Draft Riots. From their arrival in New York the Irish had competed with freed slaves for jobs and cheapest housing. After years of frustration and bottled-up emotions, the Irish finally erupted on the streets. Federal troops from Gettysburg had to be called in to stop the violence. The Irish immigrants harmed everyone and anything that wads in their way regardless if it was a black man or a rich man. Slowly throughout history the Irish began to make their way up the social ladder. After the Civil War, Irish immigrants provided the backbreaking work needed for the enormous expansion of rapidly industrializing America. Job opportunities were plenty during the building of the Erie Canal. Irish immigrants built new streets, sewerage, lighting, and transit systems, and residential, commercial, and public structures. However, wages were low, working conditions often dangerous, and work days long. Several Irish people began to establish themselves in politics and involved themselves in real estate. It was in the late 19th century, the Irish began to make their mark on New York. They soon became involved with Tammany Hall swaying the political votes and eventually became the model for every immigrant coming to New York.
The first large wave of immigrants came in the mid 19th century causing a huge revolutionary impact on New York’s political, social, and economic culture. As the numerous amounts of Irish began to arrive in the New York shores, they were quickly put at the bottom of society. However, many Irish people had come across fellow countrymen that guaranteed incoming Irish immigrants a place to live and security in return when it was time to vote the immigrants had to vote as they were told. In New York’s history there was one political machine that stood out and it was known as Tammany Hall. The infamous Tammany Hall helped the Irish rise to power. It was a powerful and corrupt organization that had traded jobs and favors for money and votes. As massive amounts of Irish immigrants unloaded onto the shores of New York competition grew for homes and jobs. This stimulated the creation of gangs in New York. Those that had struggled financially had eventually turned to crime with their own fellow countrymen. The Irish immigrants that turned to crime had formed the most dangerous gang of New York. Much of the Irish immigrants had lived in the slums of New York such as the five points. The five points was located in the lower part of New York that had connected five streets to form the most notorious gang violence. The five points area has produced a key members that was Irish such as Paul Kelly. Many of the immigrants that were packed into these tenements had died of violence, disease, hunger, and other insufficient living conditions. The five points was an area filled with sex, violence, crime, and garbage. Even though, the Irish immigrants took up many difficult and unskilled jobs that were available. While the women worked as cooks or maids to the prosperous families. Other women found an alternative way of earning money as they turned to prostitution. There was an intense rivalry that had taken place between the Irish and free blacks. The Irish were willing to do anything to maintain a job. They had worked long hours for very low pay. However, many were still without a job and this led to violent behavior to occur on the streets mainly in the “Five Points” area. Due to high rates of unemployment, a higher rate of alcohol was being consumed and crimes had increased because those that didn’t work had stayed outside all day and caused mischief. The Irish immigrants have found the easy way out and that way was through Tammany Hall. As large amounts of immigrants were now able to vote, they began to get very heavily involved in politics. Tammany Hall provided these immigrants with various opportunities. Tammany Hall did many things for the Irish immigrants. Tammany not only provided food, money, and a job but also a social benefit. It enabled all Irish immigrants a place of friendship for those that were unfamiliar with New York. Tammany Hall has helped the Irish rise to power. In the mid 1800’s, the incoming Irish immigrants had used violence to control the New York voting polls. In exchange for their vote they were given food and money to take care of themselves and their families. Tammany Hall had an Irish boss that played a significant in New York’s political and economical functioning. Boss William Tweed used the support and leverage of the Irish immigration to control business, government, and law enforcement. The Irish joined the Democratic Party that was Tammany Hall, established themselves into police precincts, city council, and eventually becoming political machines. They maintained long-time job security and stable paying job positions. Soon the government, police, and fire department were filled with Irish immigrants. Tammany had played in intricate role in the Democratic election of Al Smith. Out of Tammany Hall was a “grandson” of Irish immigrants who rose from the filthy tenements of the Lower East Side. Al Smith first emerged on to the scene as the governor of New York. Smith had lost the presidency election to Hoover but his hard work and determination led the way for many Irish immigrants in New York.
The impacts of the Irish immigrants are tremendous. They had made significant contributions to New York. They had established the identity of New York for years to come. The Irish began to make their mark on New York. They soon became involved with Tammany Hall swaying the political votes and eventually became the model for every immigrant coming to New York. As large amounts of immigrants were now able to vote, they began to get very heavily involved in politics. Tammany Hall provided these immigrants with various opportunities. The Irish set the precedent for many immigrants that came later on to follow.

Wikipedia Entry

After analyzing many aspects of the Wikipedia entry I have realized that the overall quality and usefulness of the entry was overall very helpful to my research project. The evidence provided in my entry is a timeline of the leaders and many pictures. It does include very scholarly sources in the bibliography and scholarly sources are also used in the citations. Most of the sources provided are reliable most are not scholarly and the information does differ from source to source. The entry does include detailed factual information and is supported by many citations. The entry does appear neutral but in one section of my entry the neutrality does seem to be disputed. The statement in the entry is not based on fact but rather opinion. The entry seems to very much compare with the materials read in class but not very much with my topic because the information presented seems to answer the factual questions but doesn’t provide much information to answer the analytical questions. Overall the entry is simplistic, it does appear logical, well-supported but not much of the topic was covered as a whole unit it was very wide-spread and not very narrowed in on one specific area.

Bibliography

· Glazier, Michael, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (1999).

· Kenny, Kevin. The American Irish: A History (2000). New York: Longman.

· George W. Potter. (1960). To the Golden Door: The Story of the Irish in Ireland and America. New York: Greenwood Press.

· Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood (2001).

· Greeley, Andrew M. The Irish Americans: The Rise to Money and Power. (1993).

· Campbell Gibson, "The Contribution of Immigration to the Growth and Ethnic Diversity of the American Population", in: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 136 (1992).

· Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, New York 1991

GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS

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In Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant is instituting the supreme principles of morality. The groundwork for the metaphysics of morals is the foundation in which Kant attempts to prove such principles that morality exists. Morality is a principle that pertains to the behavior of rational beings. Kant believes this principle is knowledge of pure judgments about morality for which all ethics exist. The judgments about morality cannot be based on experience but instead they should be free of the realistic state. Our actions are derived from other universal principles.
Section 1 is entitled the Transition from the ordinary rational knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical. Kant intends to “proceed analytically from ordinary knowledge to a determination of the supreme principle.” When rationalizing the knowledge of morality we must analyze the subject in its original form but be also analyze the unseen principals to determine the supreme principle. Kant starts his argument that the only thing that qualifies as absolute moral virtue is “good will.” It is absolutely free in every aspect because no one knows what its effects are or accomplishments and we cannot reduce from its value. To Kant “good will” is discovering the principle of the virtuous person. To do this one must concentrate on the virtuous person’s actions. Kant knows there must be a type of motivation for the virtuous person to perform “good will” actions.
Kant identifies three types of motivation for the actions. The first of the motivations is duty; the action performed should be done only because it is morally right. Secondly, there is an immediate inclination because there is an enjoyment from performing the certain action. The last of the three types of motivation is the instrumental inclination, and this action is performed because there is some ultimate independent end. Ultimately, Kant determines the person who performs a “good will” action in respect to the moral law will have a unique moral worth.

In section two of Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Moral, Kant presents his theory of practical reasoning. He highlights part of the principles of practical reason are moral laws, “present the practical faculty of reason from its universal rules of determination to the point where the concept of duty springs from it.” Kant distinguishes the laws of practical reason as two separate imperatives. The hypothetical imperative demands performance of an action for an ultimate end. However, the categorical imperative unconditionally demands performance of an action for itself. There is a significant difference between the two types of imperatives. Hypothetical imperatives require following the laws of another for an ultimate end and categorical imperatives are independent of ultimate end.
Kant provides several different formulations in which the categorical imperative can be expressed. There are three important formulations: Formula of Humanity, Formula of the Kingdom of Ends, and the Formula of the Universal Law. The Formula of the Universal Law is the most important of the three formulations. It can be used to create a “contradiction test” for all possible maxims of actions. Kant states “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” If a maxim does not pass the test then we are obligated to not act on this maxim. However if the maxim does pass the test then we are allowed to act on this maxim. In order to identify which actions are morally allowed Kant proposes a categorical imperative experiment. First the maxim of action should be formulated. The maxim is a combination of an action and a purpose for which that action is performed. Then a corresponding formula is formulated, the “law of nature” is used to simplify the individual maxim. Finally, after imagining a world in which this “law” will be insinuated, one must determine if one could will the action in this state.
Kant theorizes a contradiction of his formula would proceed. As a result of this contradiction, Kant demonstrates a false promise is morally impermissible but if the maxim does pass the categorical test then the action is morally permissible. He mentions two aspects of a contradiction: a contradiction in conception and a contradiction in the will. The maxims that cause the contradiction in conception demonstrate that we have perfect duties to ourselves and others. While those maxims that cause the contradiction in the will demonstrate we have imperfect duties to ourselves and others.
In section III of Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Kant transitions from the Metaphysics of Morals to critiquing practical reason. Section III differs from sections I and II because Kant begins to show how moral law is applied to our everyday lives. Kant classifies freedom and necessity. According to Kant freedom of will and necessity are both used when performing an action based on practical reason “…freedom would be the property of this causality that makes it effective independent of any determination of alien causes...” He initiates his arguments as such there are two types of freedoms present, the negative freedom and positive freedom. The positive freedom is an uncaused cause whereas the negative freedom is believed to be by an alien cause. In order to be positively free the will must be governed by moral laws so for Kant “a free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same.” There is a rational correlation between freedom and morality. Kant states if we are rational human beings then we are compelled to act under the idea of freedom. Our actions are free and are not compelled by outside idea “…every rational being who has a will also the idea of freedom, under which only such a being can act…” When performing an act we must be negatively free because the negatively free will must lead to the positively free will, it sets up the premises for the act. If we are rational then we must have a will. Kant concludes that a rational will and a categorical imperative will are equivalent.So to help the common person differentiate between the two he develops two worlds. There is the rational world and the empirical world. The empirical world is the world of appearances where we follow the laws of nature for the outcome of our actions. The world of “as is” we view ourselves as subject to the laws which are based only on reason and are independent of nature.

UTILITARIANISM

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In 1863, John Stuart Mill presented Utilitarianism, a sixty four page essay in which he argues utilitarianism as the solution to end the crisis moral thinking poses. He contends utilitarianism is unconditionally utilized when setting the moral standard on what are right and/or wrong. In his general remarks he establishes the framework for his arguments. Mill defines morality to be essential; morality can only be justified right or wrong based on the moral nature of the action. In his essay Mill aims to identify why people have not been able to come to a consensus in regards to the essential principle of morality. He begins to express the importance of the morality as a utilitarian concept. In chapter two Mill puts a label on utilitarianism. He presents utility as the existence of pleasure and the absence of pain which is significant because this foundation of morality is what every individual needs. I think he comments on philosophical theories proposed before his time as Mill mentions achieving happiness would not be moral by his standards. To a certain extent, morality is influenced by the individual’s idea of the greatest happiness. Mill continues to argue that utility is a foundational measurement therefore all actions should be justified according to a variety of the subject at hand.

In chapter three of Mill’s Utilitarianism we come across his ultimate line of reasoning. If society was to educate individuals to incorporate utilitarianism into their lives then the individuals and equally society would encourage social utility as a morally good sentiment. Similar to happiness, individuals must encourage natural utilitarian sentiments because it is important to developing a better human nature. Mill continues to mention one should be motivated in concurrence with the principle of utility. Individuals have a motive for their actions aside from the external and internal sanctions there is a “natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality." After reading chapter three I think I understand the point he is attempting to make but I struggle to understand the psychological basis Mill tries to make for living a utilitarian lifestyle.
Mill begins chapter four by arguing the basic motivation for every act formulates itself through one’s need to fulfill a desire. He uses the desire for happiness as an example because this desirable objective has an ultimate end. In order to proof utilitarianism he begins from the roots which stem from Aristotle. He associates virtuous acts with pleasure because if we are performing virtuous actions it will bring one pleasure. Mill distinguishes virtue as a contingent act separate of the concern for happiness and it should be desired as virtue itself and not virtue towards happiness.
However in chapter five, Mill addresses the opposing problems of utilitarianism. In his attempts to validate rights and justice he points out the requirements for justice are in evident indifference to happiness. Justice is independent of utility and is therefore is equally debated as the theory of utility. Justice is of the highest importance because it is the ultimate end for rules and laws. Any attempt to discard these rules and laws is harmful to a balanced state. Every person who wants happiness for society and himself is displaying the basic principles of utilitarianism. The individuals and equally society would encourage social utility as a morally good sentiment. Similar to happiness, individuals must encourage natural utilitarian sentiments because it is important to developing a better human nature. Therefore the duties one in society must be perfect duties for their sentiments and contributions to society are in favor of utilitarianism.

HUMAN LOVE

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All appetitive acts toward the good originate with love. As the root of all appetitive acts love is the reason why things move at all. Every human being naturally loves itself. Let us first note that love tends toward an object for two reasons. One reason was for money and/or health. The second reason is the person loved is appreciated on account of his own intrinsic value. The intention of the lover is to posses the other for the sake of the lover himself. Lox and sex can be found in the same individual. Sexual activity may well be a culmination of human affection. While genuine love therefore altruistic, sexual attraction is egotistical, self-centered: the other is sought as a means to the pleasure of the subject. Love is not progressive but generous it is a giving not a receiving act. Love is impossible without respect for the other. It is a unique person who is loved and for his own intrinsic goodness without regard for anything else. Human love is specifically spiritual. Love implies an interaction of persons.
In the context of sex, the highest type of satisfaction ensues when the partners are truly in love with one another as persons. Sex is an expression of love. The lover genuinely cares for the beloved. There will be very little meaningful sex without love, and this is because love is the cause of those prerequisites for sex. Sex and love are harmonized as acts of a unified personality. Sexuality is not primarily genital: it involves warmth and tenderness. The intimacy is so interlocking that the beloved is truly “another self.” The human potential of sex actualized, it is the love that makes sex human. Love is interpersonal relationships constitute the essence of friendship. Friendship rather includes a reciprocal love. Friends will love one another: It is the nature of friendship not to be hidden. In erotic love the object is desired for the sake of the lover in a kind of self-centered way. With friendship the other is loved for himself.
In conclusion, love of oneself enables a subject to extend his love to others. True love of another supposes a love of oneself: the good which is valued within is found in another. The more you love the more you give. Love is a free giving of oneself that is the greatest gift anyone can give. Love seeks no recompense. Love then can exist only if it seeks no reward but once it exists it is rewarded. Love takes where knowledge leaves off. In love then some sort of union is required between lover and beloved. Love which is freely given must not only be accepted but also reciprocated. In the ecstasy of the love, the lover loses himself in his beloved only to find himself in that other, for a friend indeed is another self. Love is a binding force by which another is joined to me and cherished as myself.

THE NATURE OF THE INTELLECT

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Humans possess intellectual knowledge and it is manifest that they have minds. However, it is not denied that man has a mind but the nature of the mind has been disputed. Consciousness and thoughts are products of the human brain the brain itself being a “product of nature.” Man possesses an immortal or spiritual power of cognition known as the intellect. All living beings are characterized by an intrinsic unity.
The intellect knows nothing, it is the man who knows, just as it is the man who walks and talks. This great capacity to utilize the symbolic power of words and images is the difference between man and animals. Since the human intellect is transcending the conditions of matter, communicates in a suprasentient way, it must itself be a spiritual power.
The human intellect is a spiritual power of cognition. The intellect is superior to the senses because symbolic language necessitates the suprasentient element of intelligibility. The intellect can know universally unlike the senses which report only individuals. The intellect can also know suprasensible realities: it can know something about god, the angels, and the soul. It can grasp such suprasensible notions as justice, honesty, truth, and the essence of things. The intellect can also know itself. Intellect is a spiritual power because thought is abstract, reflective, and can be universal. The intellect is a sense power. Ultimately, the relationship of the brain to the mind is to be considered that thinking itself is supramaterial. There is a twofold nature of man, his lower and his higher, his creatureliness and his god-likeness.

THE FUNCTION OF GROWTH

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The total life span of human growth and development comes from conception through old age. In a woman the greatest amount of growth occurs during the first several weeks of pregnancy. This period is known as embryogenesis. After two weeks the embryo is elongated. At the top is what will become the head and at the bottom is a tail that will nourish it. At four weeks the embryo has arm buds and is distinctly curved, it also has the beginning of eyes. At five weeks the nose takes shape and at six weeks the leg buds are apparent. At seven weeks the embryo has clearly defined hands and can move them. At week eight the organs begin to be visible and the eye lenses are formed. At ten weeks the embryo is considered a fetus and still has a tail. At thirteen weeks it develops an umbilical cord and is three inches long. By fourteen weeks it can bring its hands together. The umbilical cord is the source of nutrient and air supply.
Reproduction is the driving force of growth. Growth aims at extending the organism. The cells increase through cell division. Growth is a self-perfective immanent act. There is no limit on how big an object can grow. Human growth is related to sex, as a person grows so does the sex. The sex develops through puberty. Usually through the forties the increase in weight stops. As for height the human stops growing between the ages of eighteen and thirty. Growth is an imminent act which perfects the organism.

THE NUTRITIVE FUNCTION

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Nutritive function is a self-perfective immanent act. Although all human bodies are subject to destruction, animal’s bodies can preserve itself through the use of nutrition. As the cells breakdown the food it supplies energy for the body, beating of the heart, and breathing. Nutrition is the organism’s method for preserving integrity. Nutrition not only furnishes an organism with energy needed to sustain it in its incessant vital processes but it also supplies an organism with the basic materials which cells need for their own repair: cells are built out of food. Furthermore, nutrition implies the elimination of waste materials. If the cell wants to remain alive it has to constantly repair itself. Nutrition is the preservation of the organism as a vital act, therefore, nutrition is a self-perfective immanent act.

NATURE OF LIFE

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For anything that moves is alive and anything that does not move is lifeless. Living beings perform such acts as nutrition and growth. These are the fundamental activities of metabolism, growth, irritability, reproduction, heredity are found in the simplest unicellular organism to the more complex organisms. These activities are called vital acts. Vital acts proceed from the nature of an organic being. The philosopher seeks the causes or principles of vital acts. They are to find the essence of life and to reach the definition of life. Essences are not empirical; we must first find what a thing is by observing what a thing does. An organism is alive by its activities: yet an organism is not alive because it performs vital acts. However it only performs vital acts because it is alive. Vital functions are natural, it follows that vital acts begin and end within the human. The vital activity is also the immanent activity. An immanent act is different from a transient act. A transient act is one that begins in the agent and ends in the patient. However some acts which begin and end in the same being but are not immanent acts. A vital act is not just immanent: it is an act which is properly essentially but a vital act is one which by its very nature must begin and end in the same agent.
Vital acts perfect the organism. It is the completion of a being according to the capacity of its nature. Life is somehow manifested to us through motion through immanent activity which characterizes life. Such acts as nutrition, growth, reproduction pertain to the organism. Its life is due to its substantial form and this form is defined by Aristotle is its first act or soul. The soul is an intrinsic or constitutive principle of a living being is that which renders a living being essentially superior to nonliving ones. People differ from one another in a many ways. For example interests, abilities, motivations, personality, education, skills, and hobbies. There are many vital acts which a person is not always performing. Any normal person when not performing those acts still retains the powers to perform them. In fact, a person still retains his capacity even though he never actuates it. Men are capable of executing the nutritive function. A man performs only those acts which he has the power to perform. One substance can perform many acts simply because it has diverse powers to perform these acts. However although all powers are rooted in the soul as their subject no power can act without the body. The importance of attributing all vital activities to the psychosomatic composite thereby preserving its intrinsic unity. A living being performs distinct types of activity. It is endowed with powers distinct from its substance.
Even though all material objects are different they are all seen through only one power of sight. Material objects are formal objects that serve as the criteria for distinguishing powers. Knowledge of nutrition, growth, and reproduction will be applicable to the those organisms which perform these acts for all living things have to a greater or lesser extent. The properties of specific size, shape, metabolism, movement, irritability, growth, reproduction, and adaption. This approach moreover will be in keeping with our methodology of proceeding from the more universal to the less universal and vegetative functions are more universal than acts of intellect and will. In the sense that more things perform vegetative than distinctively human acts.

PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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Aristotle had maintained that it was the office of the wise man to possess a universal science of all being. Alfred North Whitehead also agrees observed that philosophy should rather study the totality. In this endeavor, we must investigate man as we find him in his concrete, existential world, not in an abstract one devoid of human significance. Philosophical anthropology is the attempt that seeks to unify the several investigations and explorations of humans in an effort to understand human behavior as both creatures of their environment and creators of their own values. Aristotle is known for his highly developed philosophical anthropology which defines the human being not so much as a "rational animal" but essentially as a loving being.
Philosophical anthropology is the study of human nature conducted by the methods of philosophy. It is concerned with questions such as the status of human beings in the universe, the purpose or meaning of human life, and whether humanity can be made an object of systematic study. For the world of nature is richer than any scientific doctrine reveals; and what it omits may be more important than what it encompasses. Sophocles had written that “Miracles in the world are many; there is no greater miracle than man.”
The overall agreement by all types of philosophers is the “riddle of life”. Not everybody will understand the same thing. We all however, desire to know how life originates and what death is, since our ethics must be influenced to a large extent through the answer to this question.” No one can deny the fact that man is a creature that goes for entertaining ethical beliefs, is one of the most important characteristics. For vitalism, by insisting on a spiritual principal of human life, enables the psychologist to see the relationship of man to the author of all life. On the other hand, a different and nonvitalistic interpretation of human nature is offered by mechanists.
The interpretation is they insist that there is no essential difference between man and the rest of nature. Existentialism is a philosophical movement which claims that individual human beings create the meanings of their own lives. The movement had its origins in the 19th century thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre. A central proposition of existentialism is a human being's existence proceeds and is more fundamental than any meaning which may be ascribed to human life: humans define their own reality. The central project of philosophy was to answer the question "What is a human being?" and to derive from that answer one's conclusions about how human beings should behave. "If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be". Sartre opposed those whose evolutionary theories which endeavor to explain the higher (man) through the lower (brute animals). He believed it was because if this was to be true it is unable to offer any explanation of rational behavior, so he rejected it.
Some existentialists, conceive the fundamental existentialist question as man's relationship to God; some accept Nietzsche's proclamation that "God is dead;" they do not believe that God exists. He professed that man in the nineteenth century is the future of man. Dostoievski, a Russian biologist stated that “If god didn’t exist, everything would be possible.” Belief in God is a personal choice made on the basis of a passion, of faith, an observation, or experience. Beliefs could be explained as arising in an attempt to deal with experienced frustrations by denying them in thought. Beliefs would be a insecure method of coping with the limited range of our perception, a method by which our imperfect brains cope with the world. This is the very starting point of existentialism. One fact that Nietzsche and Sartre embraced is that values without god are impossible. It is the spiritual aspect of human nature that we must manage not to discover, but also to preserve.
Finding a way to counter this nothingness, by embracing existence, is the fundamental theme of existentialism, and the root of the philosophy's name. Someone who believes in reality might be called a "realist," and someone who believes in a deity could identify as a "theist." Someone who believes fundamentally only in existence, and seeks to find meaning in his or her life solely by embracing existence, is an existentialist. This is one of the important philosophical ideas mentioned in the chapter.
That is, they argue against definitions of human beings as primarily rational. Rather, existentialists look at where people find meaning. Existentialism asserts that people actually make decisions based on what has meaning to them rather than what is rational.
Philosophical anthropology claims to study the human mind as a derivative phenomenon, to study it from a God-like perspective. The philosophical anthropology thus consists of beliefs which are subject to the same objections as any other beliefs. The views one holds on the nature of man directly or indirectly affect one’s political, social, religious, economic, and educational views. Thus, we see the diverse interpretations of the meaning of man.

Man: Computer, Ape, or Angel? (1-3)

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Philosophy is a study that has no obvious answers to the questions posed, since there are no obvious or clear answers to the questions then the questions are naturally undisputed and true. Philosophy is rather the study of the questions themselves. Things that are clear and obvious are not questions that have to be philosophical dissected they are self-evident. Philosophy clearly shows that there have been numerous and diverse interpretations of philosophical issues, it would nevertheless appear that all philosophies of man, however are at war with one another, are philosophies.
Chapter one simply is an introduction to the character of philosophy. For instance, Azar breaks down philosophy as the love of wisdom. Wisdom here becomes knowledge of things through their highest causes. Philosophy here becomes a type of wonder or superior curiosity whereby we seek to penetrate to the very roots of things: and hence a philosopher, or a lover of wisdom, is one who seeks the highest or most ultimate causes of things. Mystery is all about us, the inconceivable permeates us, and it is closer than breathing and nearer than hands and feet. Mysticism is any science that scientists do not understand. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. However much of what we may understand is certain aspects of the world, the fact of existence as we know it in our experience is essentially a mystery. There is a mystery that arises from the attempt to face up to reality of our very existence as conscious beings. It is not mysterious that the human zygote, working in the dark and without experience, is unable to produce 206 bones and 639 muscles, or that the human body’s thirty trillion cells are intended to perform approximately 10,000 chemical functions.
Philosophy is the knowledge of things through their ultimate principles or causes, insofar as this is stainable through our natural powers. By maintaining that philosophy is a search for ultimates, means that the object of philosophy is irreducible. An ultimate explanation is consequently basic or primary: it presupposes no other explanation, whereas other explanations presuppose it. The difference between a proximate and an ultimate explanation is exemplified in the tale about an Indian who, when asked, “What holds up the earth?” answered, “A huge elephant.” Asked what holds up the elephant, he replied, “A tremendous turtle.” And to the query “What supports the turtle?” came the response. “Something; I know not what.” A philosopher, then, is not one who cultivates his mind in such a way as to look for ultimates, and not to be content with such a mentality as characterizes the Indian in the foregoing illustration. The preceding citations indicate one further difference between science and philosophy, whereas each science cuts off a portion of reality and ignores the remainder. Philosophy reverses the direction and seeks the total picture, a worldview. Scientific knowledge is abstract, for to abstract is to consider one aspect of a thing while ignoring its other aspects. Proximate sciences cannot exist without abstraction although abstraction is necessary it may incline a scientist to confuse his abstraction with complete reality. The preceding exposition should at least indicate the important relationship between philosophy and the other sciences. The view Azar is proposing is this, which whereas the natural or physical sciences are restricted to this area of the proximate, philosophy is a search for ultimates. This distinction between philosophy and the natural sciences should not incline us to infer that philosophy is antiscientific or even unscientific. Philosophy is considered a science, to know why a true statement is true is to know it could not be otherwise for this reason, scientific knowledge is said to be characterized by necessity. In asserting that science is the knowledge of the reasoned fact, we are stating that the scientists start with the knowledge of something and proceeds there from to its causal explanation. The mind is proceeding from knowledge to science, not from ignorance to knowledge or from what is better known to what is lesser known.
So far we have learned the nature of philosophy; we have already seen that biology is distinguished from philosophy as the proximate is differentiated from the ultimate. In Azar’s chapter two, Lines of Demarcation, there are distinct lines that separate the types of psychologies and the difference between a psychologist and a philosopher. Psychologists have also been philosophers: inasmuch as psychology means the study or science of the soul, then it follows that anyone studying the soul would be a psychologist, and since the soul is an ultimate notion, it should properly be studied by the philosopher, however, a philosopher claims to be investigating the soul. Living beings are investigated in what is called experimental psychology. The fact that it is impossible for us to comprehend the cognitive and affective experiences unless we know what love or pain is from our own experiences. Again if a human has not known from their own experience what fear or pleasure means, they could never recognize these in a cat. It is through human beings own subjective experiences, then, that they come to know the feeling of emotion. Humans as well as psychologists cannot discuss psychological behavior without subjective experience. This is how psychology differs from most sciences. This subjective method whereby the fundamentals of human life are obtained is called introspection. Humans are certain that they have a life-giving principle so it is therefore internal experience which affords us with the certitude that a soul exists and from the primary experience of ourselves as alive, we attribute life to other things that act as some how as we do. Many psychologists maintained that the only proper method for the psychologist was the experimental method.
Behavior can be described and explained without making reference to mental events or to internal psychological processes. The sources of behavior are external (in the environment), not internal (in the mind). Behaviorism is a doctrine, or a set of doctrines, about human and nonhuman animal behavior. An important component of many psychological theories in the late nineteenth century were introspection, the study of the mind by analysis of one's own thought processes. It was in reaction to this trend that behaviorism arose, claiming that the causes of behavior need not be sought in the depths of the mind but could be observed in the immediate environment, in stimuli that elicited, reinforced, and punished certain responses. The explanation, in other words, lay in learning, the process whereby behavior changes in response to the environment. It wasn’t until the twentieth century that the scientist began to uncover the actual mechanism of learning, thereby laying the theoretical foundation for behaviorism. The contributions of four particular scientists are Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, and B.F. Skinner.
Azar’s chapter three sets the building blocks on which all psychology is based upon by introducing significant contributors such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Adler and Sagan. Plato was one of whose fundamental problems centered about the nature of the soul. The soul is an intermediary between the worlds of matter and forms: it pre-existed, was produced by god and is immortal. For Plato moreover, the soul is the principle of life; it is a principle where everything is alive. The body which is moved from without is soulless: but that which is moved from within has a soul, for such is the nature of the soul. Aristotle believed that to fully be a man, one must try to be like the gods, or immortalize them. This will free one from the restrictions of mortal thought. Descartes realized that he could, in fact, doubt absolutely everything, save one indubitable truth: I think, therefore I am. The self that doubts its own existence must exist to be able to doubt, moreover, a self that doubts must not only exist, but must exist rationally. Descartes, armed with his clear and distinct test discovers that he has certain knowledge that God exists. The idea of God must come from a reality that is at least as perfect as the idea. I exist as a thing that has an idea of God. Everything that exists has a cause that brought it into existence and that sustains it in existence. The only thing adequate to cause and sustain me, a thing that has an idea of God, is God. Therefore God exists A thing needs a cause to be sustained God is invoked by Descartes as the cause of him. My conception of God is the conception of a being that posses all perfections. If God is supreme good, he/she is incapable of deceit. If God is incapable of deceit, the reality of the world can be accepted because God would not have us perceive a world that did not, in fact, exist.
To conclude the issue is not weather or not to have a philosophy of psychology, but weather to have one that is conscious or unconscious. Psychology is, by its nature, forever dependent on philosophy: it is indeed a science dealing with the facts, but it is on the other the other hand so close to metaphysics that without clear ideas on the problems of philosophical anthropology it becomes the victim of the worst confusion and gets lost in the most amazing errors.

IMMIGRATION VS. THE ERIE CANAL

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In the 1800’s, the Erie Canal had defined the identity of New York. As a consultant for a debating team, I will state the topic of debate and it follows as such, “Which was more important in defining New York’s identity by 1850 – Irish and German immigration, or the Erie Canal?” Now I will take the time to present both sides of the topics. One side of the argumentation for debate purposes is side A, during this prosperous time period immigrants from diverse backgrounds, the Irish and German immigrants, came in waves to escape the struggles of in their lives. The waves of immigrants hit the shores of New York, where most immigrants had wanted to build a new way of life to obtain religious freedom, equality, and liberty and so as a result established the identity of New York. Side B presents a different outlook to define New York’s identity by 1850. Side B believes the identity of this stretch is the Erie Canal. In the 1800’s, the Erie Canal was built for easy access to other waterways and it was a vital element in New York’s economic growth and development.
Side A, states the importance in defining New York’s identity by 1850’s is the large amounts of immigrants that came into America. The growth and incoming of immigrants established an identity that helped shape America into its present society. Throughout the mid-nineteen century, unskilled Irish and German immigrants came to America in search of opportunity and a new life. It was the immigrant way of life and ideas that shaped the Identity of New York. For Example, as taxes got higher and social, political, and economic conditions got worse, Irish and German immigrants came to New York to change those ways and wanted never to repeat these situations. So in response immigrants took the jobs where the work was intense and the wages were poor. Immigrants are hard working, law abiding, and the fuel of New York’s economically society. The Irish and German immigrants played a major role in the building of the Erie Canal. Irish and German merchants, farmers, and tradesmen began to grow and they had established new roads, waterways, and canals. Immigrants contributed greatly to changes to transportation and industry. For had it not been for the immigrants working for cheap labor, the most wealthy attributes to New York’s history, the Erie Canal would not have been built. It was the immigrants that had worked hard to establish a rich wealthy life it was the drive of having to gain political freedom, employment, religious freedom, housing, new farmland, and genocide escapement. Immigration is the backbone of New York’s growth and a key component in the building of the Erie Canal. Immigrants had a tremendous influence in New York’s devolvement as they came in millions to benefit themselves as well as New York. Immigrants have built the longest canal in time for the least amount of money, and to the greatest public benefit. It was on the backs of the immigrants that the identity of New York was defined to be a state of immigrants in comparison to a “melting pot”. Irish and German immigrants led to the development of New York’s identity. The economic value of the canal is immeasurable, but one must not forget the hard working immigrants that came to the nation extending beyond its significance to New York.
On the other hand, Side B, argues the most important in defining New York’s identity by 1850 was the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal had a huge impact on the everyday life and the identity of New York. It served as a precedent upon which all other building was modeled after. The Erie Canal helped speed up the production and transportation of goods. The development of the identity of New York that exists today is because of the construction of the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal has not only economically influenced the identity of New York but as well as socially. The Erie Canal upheld nationalism and acknowledged its value to New York. The Erie Canal emerged into bringing business production, increasing trade, and raising agriculture. The Erie Canal helped New York develop indentify itself as a dominant commercial center. The canal brought products faster and provided fertile land market for its produce. The Erie Canal allowed for an opportunity to make more money. The use of the canal allowed shipping costs to be decreased. For example, from Albany were now ten dollars a ton as opposed to before the canal it was one hundred dollars a ton. The canal increased land value, allowed for building of towns, rich agriculture, and faster transportation of products. The canal also played a major role in establishing New York as the main port of economic prosperity. The canal exported natural resources and imported manufactured products up to seventy-five percent higher and allowed for an economic explosion. The canal not only accommodated the process of products and goods exported/imported but also allowed for more job opportunities by the Irish and German immigrants. It attracted workers, businessmen, and farmers. The New York’s population and New York’s economic status had quadrupled during the 1850’s.
Overall, to answer the topic question “Which was more important in defining New York’s identity by 1850 – Irish and German immigration, or the Erie Canal?” the only difference between the identity of the Irish and German immigrants and the Erie Canal is the canal’s economic and social impact in understanding the identity of New York by 1850 would be realized immediately while the identity of New York under the Irish and German immigrants the effect is quite time efficient and not so immediate. Although, as a consultant for a debate team, both the Irish and German immigrants and the Erie Canal had each in his own way played vital roles in identifying the identity of New York in 1850.

MIRACLE OF LIFE

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The miracle of life is a process of human reproduction. Four and half billion years ago the young plant earth was a mass of cosmic dust and particles. It was almost completely engulfed by the shallow primordial seas. Powerful winds gathered random molecules form the atmosphere. Some were deposited in the seas, tides and currents swept the molecules together, and somewhere in this ancient ocean the miracle of life began. The first organism of primitive life was the protozoa. Millions of protozoa populated the ancient seas. These early organisms were completely self-sufficient. They moved about their aquatic environment feeding on bacteria and other organisms. They are covered with a hundred little hairs called cilia. From these one cell organism evolved all life on earth and the foundation of life, the cell. The cell has endured unchanged since the first time the organisms swam in the cradle of life, the sea. Every living being is made up of cells, the basic units of life on earth. All cells reproduce themselves by dividing themselves into two identical cells. There now becomes two cells exactly like the parent. In the cell’s nucleus is a strong substance known as DNA. The DNA is contained in forty-six chromosomes in every cell of the human body. Each chromosome is in turn made up of thousands of genes, discrete segments of DNA which lie along the chromosome. Penetrating even deeper into the structure of the chromosome there are DNA molecules themselves. The DNA contains all the genetic information of the cell. DNA is the only living substance capable of reproducing itself exactly. Without DNA duplication and therefore life itself is not possible. All DNA and all living organisms are chemically identically but its arrangement in genes and chromosomes determine what the cell will become. For example tiny primitive organism, the protozoa to the massive complex mammal like the elephant, a palm tree swaying in the breeze, or even a human being. The actual conception and growth of a new human being is a wondrous and complex process. Each beginning lies deep inside the mother’s body called the ovaries. Each ovary contains a quarter of a million egg cells which reach full development even before the woman herself was born. The eggs each contain twenty-three chromosomes, the mother’s genetic contribution to her future offspring. During each menstrual cycle, the ovaries produce hormones which stimulate the growth of a single one of the eggs. At the midpoint of her cycle, the follicle which encloses the egg in its protective layers ruptures. This is ovulation, the egg travels through the fallopian tube which connects the ovary and the uterus or womb. In the tube the egg waits for sperm form the father to fertilize it. The fertilized egg now with genetic material from both the parents’ moves through the tube where it attaches itself to the nutrient rich lining. Here the ovary itself becomes mature and it becomes surrounded by its nutritive layers. When it is fully developed the follicle which encloses the egg will swell with liquid fluid. Inside the follicle the egg and its nutritive layers floats in the water of life which has the same salt content as the sea. The swollen follicle is then gently brushed by the swaying outer most fridges of the fallopian tube. These fringes are activated by the hormones just before ovulation. They sweep over the seas of the ovary looking for the newly released egg. As ovulation nears the fringes become filled with blood. The follicle bursts and the liquid fluid pours out of the follicle concealed somewhere within it is the egg. The fringes search for the newly released egg and it lies surrounded by a cloud of its own nutritive cells. It is only the size of a grain of sand. The egg is drawn into the fallopian tube; deep inside the egg is the nucleus of new life itself. The mouth of the fallopian tube and its imperceptible muscle contractions move the egg along towards the uterus. The egg then reaches the interior of the tube itself, these many fold of tissue are lined with tiny cilia which maintain a constant gentle motion that draws the egg along its length. The inside of the tube is actually only the thickness of a human hair. It takes the eggs three to four days just to travel five inches. The translucent egg lies deep in the muscle fold in the fallopian tube. The cilia lines the tube gently moving the egg along they are exactly just like cilia of the primitive protozoa. The egg and the sperm must join together within twenty-four hours of leaving the ovary for conception to take place. If no sperm are present the egg disintegrates and the same cycle continues the following month and the same cycle will continue throughout the woman’s child bearing years. This remarkable cycle is made possible by complex molecules; the sex hormones. Hormones control a women’s entire reproductive cycle. Hormones control a men’s reproductive ability as well. Only seven weeks after conception the fetal system is permanently synthesized to the male or female by the sex hormones. One fetus will develop ovaries and its brain will be programmed to release hormones in cycles, it is female. Another fetus will develop testicles and its brain will programmed to release constant levels of sex hormones. Seventy-seven million human beings have lived on this planet and every year one hundred and twenty-eight million are born. After having talked about the females reproductive and genetic contributions I will now talk about the man’s reproductive and genetic contribution. During a man’s life time the testicles produce billions of sperm. The prostate gland releases an alkaline fluid to protect the sperm. During ejaculation the sperm goes through a tube in the body cavity and as they approach the vesicles the prostate gland releases the fluid in combination with the sperm. The blended semen then continues out of the man’s body through the urethra in the penis. During sexual arousal the valve in the bladder stops urine form entering the urethra. Near the bladder the urethra passes through the prostate gland. The walls of the prostate squeeze out prostate fluid when sperm passes through the urethra, it is about a size of a gulf ball but acts as a sponge. Inside it is filled with a small cavity that produces the fluid. Unlike the ovaries in the female counterpart the testicles lie outside of the body cavity. The testicles are made up of tightly coiled tubules which have a total length of seven hundred feet. In the tubules, sperm is produced at an extraordinary rate of one million every twenty four hours. In the tissue between the tubules, the sex hormone testosterone is produced. The testicles are the essential male organs of reproduction. They function well only under very specific conditions. One of these specific conditions is temperature. Sperm is produced below normal body temperature. The scrotum keeps the testicles away from the body’s heat. At the center of the tubule lies the transport canal which carries mature sperm away for storage. Smaller compartments produce many new immature sperm every thirty-six hours. When they become more mature they move closer to the center of the canal. The average man produces over four hundred billion sperm in his life time. They are tightly packed within the tubule. Their hands and tails intertwine. Inside the developing sperm heads the normal body cells forty-sixty chromosomes have been reduced to twenty-three chromosomes but this reduction of chromosomes is so essential to the future of reproduction of species puts the sperm in more danger. The sperm are defended by the nurse cell. They form special protective barriers around the mature sperm cells. Each nurse cell cares for many sperm cells at a time. The nurse cells are connected to one hundred and fifty cells through the tendrils. The tendrils enable the nurse cells to feed and protect the maturing sperm cell and to move them closer to the transport canal. During its development it lays in passivity and protected by the nurse cell. When mature it is transported by the nurse cell to the transport canal. Millions of sperm are densely packed in these tubules which if stretched out are fifteen to twenty feet long. The mature sperm will pass out of the man’s body through ejaculation or they will eventually die and will be reabsorbed. These sperm carry the man’s genetic material and are fully mature but not yet they are not yet able to fertilize a woman’s egg. They do not attain that ability until they are up inside the woman’s body. The sperm during this time they develop the ability to swim. A sperm propels itself through means of a tail known as the flagella which lashes vigorously from side to side. This single activity has only one purpose and that is to deliver the genetic material from the sperms head quickly and preciously to the woman’s egg. On the tip of the sperm’s head are layers of enzymes, and enzyme inhibitors. The enzyme inhibitors will be saved for later as they are about to penetrate the woman’s egg. The propulsion of the sperm is actually made up of tiny thin strands of filaments. About twenty percent of the man’s sperm is deformed or imperfect. One reason man produces so many sperm is because so many things can go wrong with the sperm. Some have two or three tails, some are attacked by bacteria, and some have tails that are detached from the head. Most of the deformities can occur from a slight change in temperature of the testicles. Overcrowding, stress, smoking, chemical population of air and water, occupational hazards, radiation, and poor nutrition are all part of modern life. Even modern clothing may affect sperm production, for example, tight blue jeans may hold the testicles up closer to the body which can raise the temperature those few critical degrees which can affect sperm.
Despite these obstacles human beings have been successfully reproducing for many millions of years. Since the first organisms swam in the sea, the cycle of life has been continuous fueled by the need and the drive to reproduce. Among human beings that drive is intimately linked with attraction and desire. Affection and romantic love may initiate the dance of courtship which may lead to conception. Sexuality, affection, and tenderness are all the complex rituals of mating but desire and physical love posses a silent language on their own that signal partners’ readiness to each other. The eyes are part of that silent language; visual impressions stimulate and excite special nerve cells in the sexual areas throughout the body. The skin is also part of that silent language it is extremely sensitive and responsive to the touch. It contains millions of sensory receptors which when stimulated direct messages of sexual arousal to the brain. Many of these are concentrated in the bodies most responsive zones known as the erogenous areas. The man’s penis is densely packed with sensory receptors. They relay messages of sexual stimulation to the brain which triggers the sequence of complex events leading up to ejaculation. The length of the penis is made up of many small cavities known as erectile tissue. When a man is sexual aroused the signals from the brain cause these erectile tissues to be gorged with blood. The sudden flow of blood in the penis raises its temperature. The man’s blood pressure, heart beat, and respiration increase and the blood causes the man’s penis to be erect and fully elongated so sperm can be easily delivered to the woman’s egg. As sexual arousal reaches its peak the entire male system must function properly for ejaculation to take place. As semen enters the woman’s body it immediately slows down. The environment in the vagina is extremely acidic it protects the woman from bacteria and infections but it is extremely inhospitable. Nearly one quarter of the sperm will die immediately. The surviving sperm become extremely active and begin to rapidly swim upwards towards the downward current. The sperm’s activity has one goal and that is to find and fertilize the egg. The sperm release their digestive enzymes to be able to reach the egg but in the end only one will be able to fertilize the egg. As soon as one sperm fertilizes the egg, the egg then becomes impermeable and rejects all other sperm. The genetic material of the mother’s egg and the father’s sperm combine. When cell division is in the form of mitosis it is usually associated with cell growth, nourishment, and reproduction. The process of human reproduction involves the duplication of the DNA and the splitting of the nucleus. Mitosis is a type of cell division that produces two genetically identical cells from a single cell. Mitosis is basically a process that a cell goes through to form two new nuclei, with each nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes. Mitosis is used by many unicellular eukaryotic organisms for reproduction. Multicellular organisms use mitosis for growth, nourishment, and reproduction. It is when two cells have joined to form a new cell and within twenty-four hours the cell begins to divide. Once the cell begins to divide it is known as a zygote. As the zygote divides it moves towards the uterus. Within ten days of fertilization the zygote firmly implants itself in the lining of the uterus. The coming of the two parent cells give rise to a unicellular zygote, through cellular division and cell growth, this process is completed to perfection every time with every rarely a mistake or imperfection. Although embryonic development takes approximately nine months, the greatest amount of cellular growth takes place during the first several weeks of pregnancy. This period is known as embryogenesis. After two weeks the embryo is elongated. At the top is what will become the head and at the bottom is a tail that will nourish it. At four weeks the embryo has arm buds and is distinctly curved, it also has the beginning of eyes. At five weeks the nose takes shape and at six weeks the leg buds are apparent. At seven weeks the embryo has clearly defined hands and can move them. At week eight the organs begin to be visible and the eye lenses are formed. At ten weeks the embryo is considered a fetus and still has a tail. At thirteen weeks it develops an umbilical cord and is three inches long. By fourteen weeks it can bring its hands together. The umbilical cord is the source of nutrient and air supply. They always say the greatest miracle in life is life itself and this holds true as reproduction is the driving force of growth so it is after nine months a beautiful child is born and this is the miracle of life.
In conclusion, the cell has endured unchanged since the first time the organisms swam in the cradle of life, the sea. Every living being is made up of cells, the basic units of life on earth. All cells reproduce themselves by dividing themselves into two identical cells. There now becomes two cells exactly like the parent. In the cell’s nucleus is a strong substance known as DNA. The DNA is contained in forty-six chromosomes in every cell of the human body. Each chromosome is in turn made up of thousands of genes, discrete segments of DNA which lie along the chromosome. Penetrating even deeper into the structure of the chromosome there are DNA molecules themselves. The DNA contains all the genetic information of the cell. DNA is the only living substance capable of reproducing itself exactly. Without DNA duplication and therefore life itself is not possible. All DNA and all living organisms are chemically identically but its arrangement in genes and chromosomes determine what the cell will become and this is the miracle of life.

PROPOSAL

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My proposal is too find an alternate method to produce electricity. The alternate method will allow for electricity to be cost efficient and environmentally safe. In modern day society, electricity is generated when water is heated turned to steam and directed to turbines. The fuel that is used in today’s society is the radioactive element uranium-235. When it absorbs an extra neutron it splits into fissure and releases energy. When this process is repeated it then continuously produces steam. Unfortunately this fuel is a toxic material that is also the basis of nuclear weaponry.
The use of nuclear power leads to nuclear power and the construction of nuclear weapons has been widespread across the world. It has become very expensive for the government’s needed high safety standards. My alternate method to produce electricity is to use the remaining uranium materials instead of burning fossil fuels as the government does today. It then becomes cheaper because they are using used uranium materials to produce the same amount of electricity. The government views the electricity produced from nuclear energy cheaper but when one includes research, plant construction, and safety standards it becomes an expensive energy source. The use of nuclear energy to produce electricity is not only expensive but also dangerous due to the radioactive waste produced by the nuclear plants. There is no answer by the government in regards to the radioactive waste. It wouldn’t be a good idea to build more nuclear power plants instead it would be better if the government used renewable uranium materials and increased energy efficiency.
By using this alternate method to produce electricity it will no longer be necessary to use nuclear fusion for power. Using renewable uranium materials and increased energy efficiency is the answer to a safer, clean, and cheaper energy production. It won’t produce radioactive waste and won’t have problems for a long period of time. Unlike today’s government which must be maintained for a long period of time to produce electricity and still has negative effects like harmful radioactive wastes and nuclear safety concerns.

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PUBLIC SPEAKING

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Public Speaking is a required course designed to introduce students to the basic elements of public speaking, both in terms of intellectual theory and practical experience, but for me that was not the case. Quite often I loathed the idea of public speaking. I would get knots in my stomach and would wonder what everyone was thinking about as I would give a speech. However, after taking the public speaking course I have become much more confident and fully aware of the tactics that can enable me to be a better public speaker. I figured out the reason for my problem was I didn’t understand the public speaking system and I was too worried about the audiences’ opinion. As the course progressed, so did my confidence level. I was much more comfortable and very well adapted to my audience and class requirements.
I am now a more confident, positive, and relaxed when it comes to public speaking. I learned ways that can help make my speech more interesting. I developed great skills that make audiences pay better attention to me. My first speech was the informative speech; I was to inform my audience about the history, types, and behaviors of gangs so gang violence can be overcome. I was very nervous because it was my first time delivering a speech in front of an audience and I didn’t want to mess up my opportunity. As I moved through the speech I realized that using body language can help me overcome my nervousness and deliver a good speech. I also began to see that body language makes for an interesting speech. Eye-contact also played a large role in my presentation. The audience paid better attention to me if I looked at them while I spoke. I often used hand gestures I would move my hands sometimes, but not always to cause natural speaking. Using body language can help you overcome your nervousness and deliver a better speech.
My second speech was the persuasive speech; I wanted to persuade my audience that educational reform is needed. I decided to be very energetic and relate my speech towards personal experiences. I opened my speech with a dramatic beginning and ended with a strong impression on the audience. I told my audience “that we need less schools and better teachers” and the audience loved it and even found it funny. After my first speech I wasn’t nervous or scared to go up to the podium and speak but I was very nervous when I was required to give a ceremonious speech. It was a hard topic because not only did I have to give information but also be somewhat persuasive. It was also hard because I did a tribute speech to Gandhi it was well done and masterfully presented but it was hard for me to make the audience feel my way and understand why I respect Gandhi.
In conclusion, when I look back at my overall public speaking experience at first I hated the class but that was because I didn’t understand and feared public speaking. However, I came a long way because I realized what helped me most to give a better speech was a good outline. I understood the structure of my speech. In my outline I wrote the introduction, body, and conclusion; I was clear on what I had to mention first and lastly. I still have a little problem because when I talk I tend to use my hands but I am working on it and that is definitely an area of improvement. Making an outline, using appropriate body language and eye contact, creating a dramatic opening and ending with a memorable closing statement not only made my speeches stand out but also made me a better speaker.

THE CURVE OF BINDING ENERGY

2008-05-06T13:19:00.002-07:00

“The Curve of Binding Energy” is the idea of developing nuclear weapons. Theodore B. Taylor the most brilliant nuclear engineer becomes troubled with the idea of constructing a nuclear weapon that is capable of mass destruction. John McPhee applies the series of interviews with Theodore Taylor to construct “The Curve of Binding Energy”. In the book McPhee provides the reader with analytical insights into the life of Taylor and the creation of the atomic bomb. As McPhee follows Taylor in their exploration of various nuclear facilities in the early 1970’s they realize the magnitude of harm the weapon is able to exude if the information is improperly protected.
McPhee begins “The Curve of Binding Energy” by introducing vital aspects of Taylor’s early childhood that have molded and motivated his advanced nuclear developments. McPhee implements Taylor’s childhood stories to depict Taylor’s qualities and character. Taylor was born in Mexico City in 1925 and grew up during the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He notices the bombing were extremely destructive that he decided to perfect the bomb and build an even more powerful bomb that would only be used for security purposes to end wars. The grandson of missionaries had entered the navy in 1946 after gaining his bachelors degree at California Institute of Technology in 1945. After returning from the navy inspired and motivated Taylor decided to purse a PhD in physics at the University of California he failed to graduate but was offered a job to work on plutonium bombs in Los Alamos. He became enthralled with nuclear developments and decided to take massive nuclear weapons and make them minute without forgoing the explosive nuclear power. Every bomb Taylor created were pure fission bombs which were advanced at that time. He developed the smallest fission bombs such as the scorpion and the Davy Crockett which weighed less and similarly destructive. Taylor also played a role in the Orion Project, a childhood dream to build a spaceship to go to Mars. The spaceship was as powerful as thousands of nuclear bombs combined. The space ship they planned to design was as big as a sixteen story building. However, the Limited Nuclear Ban act of 1963 put an end to the project, and it never was able to go to into space. . Taylor hated the thought of destruction and the death of thousands of innocent people due to a nuclear bomb. McPhee constantly demonstrates Taylor’s concern for the availability of nuclear materials. In the book he is very careful in his explanation of the construction of the nuclear bomb with McPhee. Taylor became increasingly concerned that these destructive nuclear bombs could be easily built by anyone. He assumes with the right materials anyone is capable of developing the nuclear bomb. He is careful to only use the information available to the public in order to preserve its secrecy. Taylor mentions Uranium-235 and plutonium-239 can easily be accessed and used to construct a nuclear bomb. With the lack of protection of these isotopes anyone can construct numerous amounts of nuclear weapons.
Ultimately, McPhee does a notable job concluding the novel. He states it is impractical to prevent all future nuclear bomb being built it is bound to occur and cause problems. Conclusively, Taylor’s life is known for the creation of powerful nuclear weapons and his unsuccessful attempts to safeguard the nuclear materials. McPhee’s book allows the reader to be conscious of the effects the atomic bomb has on civilizations with the effortless accessibility of nuclear substances. By providing the reader with analytical insights into the life of Taylor and the creation of the atomic bomb, McPhee allows one to realize “The Curve of Binding Energy” symbolizes the curve of binding energy from Taylor’s initial motivation to ending the series of violence the creation of a powerful nuclear bomb provided to understanding nuclear bombing must occur in every civilization and his attempts to warn every civilization.

THE BET

2008-05-06T13:19:00.001-07:00

“The Bet”, by Aton Chekhov is a short story that has an ironic twist on the value of human life. Presented with two intertwined characters, the banker and the lawyer, display two different halves of the “bet”. The banker and the lawyer wager a bet that is constructed on life imprisonment and the death penalty. The “bet” displays the morality of the two men. The lawyer endures confinement for fifteen years but comes into contact with his morality because although he has gained so much knowledge he is incoherent to the world. The banker rejects his own morality as he places two million dollars for the confinement of the lawyer. Chekhov demonstrates certain stages of confinement the lawyer experiences and one can only wonder why Chekhov ends the short story in an ironic way.
For the next fifteen years the lawyer was confined to the banker’s backyard. He was restricted from the outside world and if the lawyer attempts an escape then he will automatically lose the “bet”. Fifteen years later, Chekhov paints an interesting scenario; the banker is close to bankruptcy and cannot pay the lawyer if he happens to win the “bet”. Ironically, a few hours before the lawyer wins the “bet”, he leaves a letter for the banker stating he plans to lose the “bet”. In the letter, the lawyer stats: “I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage.” During his confinement, the lawyer progresses from stages of loneliness, depression, and isolation. He comes across many works of literature that become his window to life. He has been able to connect to life through poetry, philosophical, theological, and historical books. All his books have changed his perceptions, improved his knowledge, and develop himself as a person. The lawyer runs away and terminates his chance to win the “bet”.
The “bet” posed a constant clash between life confinement and death. As the lawyer admitted, due to his fifteen years of suffering he loathed everything in life. Ultimately, the lawyer had lost the “bet” because of his violation of the rules. However, indirectly he had won the “bet” because he gained more knowledge during his confinement. The lawyer states he would have much rather died than to slowly suffer during fifteen years of his confined life.

DoZ BLooGgiNGG aFFeCt stuDentz!?

2008-05-06T13:10:00.000-07:00

The impact of technology is affecting students writing skills, the text messaging (“LOL”) and informal expressions of emotions (“:)”) has gradually affected students formal writing. The use of blogging for class purposes is personal helping me become a prolific writer. Most bloggers write outside of school for personal reasons like me which in return blogging becomes essential in my development as a writer. Before I the practice of blogging I would text message and communicate through the use of computers and cell phones and would spend more time writing to my friends then writing for school. I think the blogging in many ways cultivate a style of writing that combines informal and formal.
The writing students post on their blogs is actually better then their school writing. I think the blog writing is a better test of a student’s writing capabilities and intellectual comprehension. When a student writes for their own blog students are motivated to write because they enjoy writing for an audience through topics that are relevant to their interests. It gives them the same artistic creative freedom that writing to their friends gives them. Blogging is the use of an informal writing in a formal setting. Without blogging students tend to use informal and improper punctuation, grammar, and capitalization in their formal assignments. The blogging is a writing class free to the students. When posting a blog most students understand their writing is going to be read by a wide audience instead of a teacher and revise and edit any mistakes or certain pieces of their material. The students that maintain a blog improve the quality of their writing because they are constantly writing. The blog unnoticeably by the student does have a great impact on their writing.
Blogging blends the personal and the public, for example the blogger is the primary audience and the blogging the blogger does is for a public audience. The blogger is able to reflect his reasons, ideas, experiences, arguments, and collaborations to a public audience rather then having a personal journal. For some, the blogging is a continuation of their personal journals that make help to personally grow and develop as a writer. At the beginning of the class we were asked to maintain a blog by posting two blogs a week. At first I haven’t had the slightest idea as to why we need to maintain a blog. Towards the end of the class I have noticed that through blogging I have developed my writing. I actually enjoyed am writing regularly and constantly improving my writing and critical thinking skills.

ARISTOTLE

2008-05-06T13:08:00.000-07:00

Happiness according to Webster’s dictionary “an agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.” Aristotle felt happiness is an important element in achieving the good life and happiness is the ultimate end for humanity. My paper will answer at hand is happiness the ultimate end? Through Aristotle’s philosophical argumentation of happiness I will demonstrate by leading a completely virtuous life the ultimate end is happiness. To Aristotle happiness is not a state rather it is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. Furthermore an individual must continuously perform virtuous acts and develop a virtuous character in order to achieve complete happiness. In my paper I will attempt to explain Aristotle’s theory of happiness and over the course of my paper I will answer the topic at hand.
To understand my thesis one must first understand Aristotle’s guidelines for attaining the ultimate end, happiness. Having been regarded one of the greatest philosopher in history Aristotle begins his book, Nicomachean Ethics to say in order to understand happiness one must first understand the nature. Similarly like an archer aims at his target before launching his arrow. Happiness is an absolute and ultimate end. Aristotle held that the ultimate goal is for an individual to be happy; they must live a good and virtuous life. All of our actions are based on achieving happiness. In book I, chapter XIII of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle states “happiness is a certain activity of the soul in accord with complete virtue.” Happiness is a human good for it cannot be achieved by animals because they are incapable of rational and logical thought, (Book X, chapter VIII) “…none of the other animals possess happiness, because they are entirely incapable of contemplation.” By providing good actions the individual comes closer to the ultimate end. The practice of good virtues equates to happiness. It is the virtues that led to happiness. The action cannot be virtuous if it is not an actual good. For Aristotle true happiness can only be achieved in a perfectly virtuous person. Every good action attests to a happy and virtuous life. Even though happiness is the main goal of everyone it can symbolize various things to various people. Individuals become virtuous by performing good actions. An individual will try to achieve happiness and a virtuous life by developing a good virtue of character. According to Aristotle in book I, chapter VII “virtue is its own reward” through the development of virtues can true happiness be attained to complete the human life. Happiness is an ultimate, independent, and complete good. Happiness is desired for itself only and it satisfies all desires, wishes, and needs due to this happiness is the ultimate end.
The virtuous person can only achieve happiness through moral and intellectual elements. Good virtues are good habits of the soul. The virtue of the character is developed through good habituation. By abiding to these good habits and laws we perfect our self-control and become more disciplined. Good habits are reinforced through the good actions that we provide. By acting virtuous the person becomes virtuous and will take pleasure in being virtuous. Aristotle views that certain goods are necessary for happiness. Virtue is divided into two sorts (Book I, chapter 13): there are virtues of mind and intellect and then the ethical virtues of character. The virtues of mind and intellect pertain to the reasoning and logical thought of the soul. The ethical virtues of character are concerned with the part of the soul that is incapable of reasoning and logical thought of the soul. Everyone can achieve a virtuous life, through the development of their reasoning and logical thinking. Aristotle believes it is during childhood that the child must develop good habits and as they get older they will attain wisdom. Aristotle assumes the types of people that constantly do evil and bad in life are less rational but to prevent this destructive behavior it is important to have good habits. Aristotle knows happiness is achieved for those that reflect on life intelligently and rationally. Aristotle theorizes that virtue is obtaining happiness through the means of a particular purpose. Every mean has an ultimate end objective which through good habits and actions of the soul, the individual can achieve the ultimate end objective. It is the human soul that is able to rationalize and reason, this is what separates us from animals and makes us human. Through good habit an individual’s moral virtue will develop. Virtues are means of happiness. Every human possess a pursuit of pleasure which propels us in achieving our purpose. A balance of two vices each excessive and deficient in their means of good is learned through good habits. When one has achieved happiness, he is able to flourish towards human superiority. They are capable of gaining virtue through logic and rational thought. They are humans that change and lead people towards achieving happiness.
Ultimately, Aristotle formulates that happiness and virtue are unbreakable. Virtue is reliant upon happiness in order to flourish. To Aristotle happiness is the result of leading a virtuous life. The good life is absolute happiness and not provisional because it is a state in which an individual demonstrates complete virtue. Aristotle views the good life is societal. The perfect society will distribute virtuous people. It is a state of excellence therefore each individual must be equally virtuous so no individual has to do something in account for someone else. Aristotle holds a great value for friendship. The need for friendships parallels the need for justice therefore friendships are necessary. Good people are considered good friends. Good friends want what is good for themselves and good for others. Virtuous and good people will build loyal friendships with other virtuous and good people. Birds of the same feather stick together, so those that are good people will stay with other good people but those that are bad people will stay with other bad people. Most times friends of different class systems become friends for certain benefits and advantages. In politics, men form political friendships and groups for their own advantages. The friendship formed depends on the political system that surrounds them. Citizens form brotherly friendships and they have shared virtues and equalities. These friendships compliment each other because both parties contribute to the wellbeing of the community. These people of good virtue are connected through mutual respect and virtue. To Aristotle friendship was to love rather than to be loved. The key element to leading a good and happy life was the value of friendship. The pursuit of happiness was wanted by everyone. The fundamental to being happy begins when the state of excellence is created through reason, habituation, and nature. Excellence is created when a child is young. The parents must instill good habits and train the child to be virtuous in their reason so they can live a good life. Good virtues are important because it will enable the virtuous one to obtain their pleasures. Happiness can only be achieved by combining good habit and virtuous reasoning. Even though the good life is different for each individual according to one’s virtue, each individual must possess good habits and virtuous reasoning when striving for happiness. For Aristotle, The ultimate end is Happiness because it is the highest of all other goods associated with living a good life. All means of action are aimed towards an ultimate end. Virtue is the state of the individual that makes the individual good and present good actions. Since happiness is the ultimate good then the reasoning and actions of all individuals should be to achieve happiness.
Happiness is an absolute and ultimate end. “Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed” (Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Chapter VII). Aristotle held that the ultimate goal is for an individual to be happy; they must live a good and virtuous life. All of our actions are based on achieving happiness. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics provides descriptions of human happiness, nature of a good person, virtues of character, virtues of the intellect, the means and the ends. All people strive for some ultimate end. Aristotle proclaims that the highest end to all other ends is achieving happiness. Happiness comes in accord with virtue. A happy life is maintained through the right virtuous choices we make. Achieving happiness is an effort; it is important to associate with good people and with good people come good pleasures. In order to achieve happiness one must have a complete and virtuous life.
Aristotle distinguishes the difference between a man and a beast is the capability of rational thinking, there having a mind. In Book X of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle ultimately believes the highest good, the greatest happiness for man is his mind. For the individual awareness of his mind, “Anybody can enjoy bodily pleasures—a slave no less than the best of men—but nobody attributes a part in happiness to a slave...” (Nicomachean Ethics, Book X, Chapter VI). Since virtue is the part of the soul that controls our actions and behaviors to act virtuously. According to Aristotle the good life comes when the individual has achieved the perfect practice of virtue.
Clearly for Aristotle the life of complete virtue is a good life. The good life is a state in which the individual is completely happy. The perfect state is the leading a virtuous life. However the idea of the good life is different for every individual depending upon the life lead in accord with virtue and each individual possess different virtues. According to Aristotle achieving the perfect state through collective means the good life can be achieved. Furthermore, Aristotle demonstrates how through virtue, happiness can be achieved. Thoroughly I will break down Aristotle’s argument to ultimately proving my thesis. First Aristotle divides the good into three parts, goods of the body, goods of the soul and external goods (Book I, Chapter VI). He continues to mention through virtue one can attain external goods. In order to live the good life the individual must have goods of the body, goods of the soul and external goods. To elaborate happiness is often associated with those who possess wisdom, develop a good character, and have wealth. The life of virtue is an active life of the soul as means to reach an ultimate end, happiness. After much consideration then it can be determined one has all three aspects equally distributed. For example one cannot have more wisdom then goodness. Since the good life is collective then there is no action necessary just living virtuously and having virtuous goals one can ultimately achieves happiness. To achieve the ultimate end Aristotle mentions three things that can lead to happiness. Individuals should retain a good character, good habits, and reason which in return form a virtuous individual. To achieve these three is through good habits during birth and a good education. One must be trained to be virtuous and develop virtuous acts so it is the state’s responsibility for providing a good life for the individual.
Since happiness is a collective societal accomplishment each individual must be equally virtuous this way no individual is then responsible for the other individual not leading a virtuous lifestyle. Aristotle provides the relationship between happiness and virtue in Book I, Chapter VII happiness is the highest good when the activity of the soul is in accord with moral and intellectual virtues. Later on in Book X, Chapter VI, wisdom is used to achieve happiness with justice and moral virtues.

SARTRE

2008-05-06T13:04:00.001-07:00

Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre is very straightforward and is easily understood. Sartre implies we as human beings are all free to do whatever we want. According to Sartre there is no set of rules or guidelines to follow we are all “free, choose, that is invent.” One should decide for himself and is not responsible to decide for someone else. For example if an individual choose to invent a cure for aids and make a great contribution then it would be greatly different then if he was a plumber. His reasoning is humans should be capable of choosing for themselves but in choosing for himself he also chooses for the entire race of men “in creating the man we want to be, there is not a single one of our acts that does not at the same time create an image of man as we think he should be.” For Sartre “choice always remains choice in a situation” so if each individual makes a unique choice then his situation is also unique. Much of Sartre’s argument is rhetorical because there is no basis of right or wrong like in the previous philosopher’s read in class. In lieu of Sartre’s argument when making a personal choice one should judge with the others and compare to what they would do before they make their decision. I support Sartre’s views and arguments because it allows for freedom and there is very little restriction but there is an inconsistency in his argument and not enough information presented to justify his claims.

BLOGGING --- A BETTER DEMOCRACY

2008-05-06T13:02:00.000-07:00

The internet has been widespread in the world and I think it is an electronic democracy. The blogging individual’s part take in is a form of democratic participation. Democracy and the internet have been intertwined to elevate the voice of the people. Democracy is equality for every voice to be heard. By maintaining a blog one is able to have there voice heard through their blog posts. I agree to an extent with Gibson that the web can be a platform for democracy. I think the government will have more trouble containing the electronic democracy and rather then it’s own democracy. When it comes to the electronic democracy the government will be far behind its citizens.
For many citizens in this electronic democracy such as I use it to escape the stress the real government hands us. Blogging for some are windows in their lives through self-creative means. The blogging method enables one to be free to their own rule. Again I favor Gibson when he mentions the internet is “growing constantly and exponentially in an unplanned way -- is very scary for nation-states in the traditional sense” this is very much true because if there is no government interference or control there can be electronic terrorism. Blogging lets you move outside the classroom walls and express my poetic creativeness to the wide internet network rather then a single audience. However to some individuals such as terrorist groups use it to recruit members and/or plan attacks to harm society. My blog is a participant to the electronic society as I am to the American society.
I along with other participants can use my blog to benefit personal and have my voice heard through my blog posts. Gibson is certainly correct that the Internet is a new development and it will keep developing and we really do not know where it will take us in the future. In this informal setting my blog posts reflect me and I can see myself grow in another society by expanding my ideas. In this electronic democracy I can connect the societal environment with the internet environment. The internet is an electronic democracy that anyone can participate in and have their voice heard. Like Gibson does state it will point us in a new direction and I think it will be a negative and chaotic direction because then the government will be challenged when trying to control the two societies, the actual and the electronic.

FEMINISM?

2008-05-06T12:59:00.000-07:00

Feminism is based on economical, political, and social equality for women. Through various forms of feminism, civil rights movements, heterosexual relationships, increase in society’s awareness, cultural and religious importance women have increase the rights of women. Feminism significantly emerged in the twenty century and has the potential to influence Christian or Roman Catholic theology in the twenty-first century. Feminism is a movement that incorporates the equality of both men and women without discrimination against gender, age, and status. Feminists wish for the equality difference between men and women be diminished. The status and rights of women has developed from its original state to the twenty century however gender equality has been threatened within the last decade. Social perceptions of women continue to degrade the traditional idea of a women’s role. In educational and professional workplaces, sexism and discrimination still occurs but the evolution of women’s position has evolved in the twenty-first century theology.
Feminism concerns itself with discrimination and oppression against women inequality. Feminism can be expressed in many different forms and is classified into three waves. The idea of Feminism began from the enlightenment period to the early twenty century, was known as the first wave of Feminism. The age of reason began to question the role of women. As time advanced, during the French Revolution, the male leaders had outlawed women’s freedom in religion, politics, and economics. They believed a women’s place was in the home and in the bed. In a theological viewpoint, Protestant evangelism combined with the anti-slavery movement and had preached in churches. Black feminist such as Sojourner Truth exemplified freedom from whites as well as freedom from males. However, discrimination still persisted into the nineteenth century. As women were leaving the households to go work in the cities for low wages in dangerous working conditions. In 1828, the first all women strike was held, the group of women have called themselves feminists. The feminists struggled to change laws and resist the traditional oppression.
Throughout history the public outcry for equality was finally heard. After many hunger strikes and protests the United States women the right to vote in the early twenty century. The Second wave came to life from the 1960’s to the 1980’s as the struggles for sexual liberation and civil rights for females continued. They fought for issues such as abortion, education, and healthcare. Many consider the second wave of feminism a failure but as the third wave began in the late twenty century and is persisted into the present time period holds the same concepts of the second wave but often debated the different feminists that exist in present day society. Feminism is a diverse combination of social theories and political movements concerning the inequalities circling females. Females concern themselves with the limitation of gender inequalities by advancing the rights and issues of women in society. Themes of feminism are stereotyping, discrimination, and oppression Since there is no single form of feminism there are four main contemporary feministic forms that are held in high regards among the other various forms present in the modern world. The first type of feminism is Conservative feminism. Conservative feminism main argument is does the fight for equality result in damage to the household; husband and children. The next feminism is Liberal feminism which holds a neutral position on the topic stating all people as equal; men will have their share and women have their share of the responsibilities. Liberal feminism focused on the equality of men and women through political and legal reform. It lays emphasis on women’s ability to show their equality through their own actions and choices. The third feminism sees all oppression of women stem from male dominance, therefore regarded as radical feminism. This feminism believes the reason oppression occurs is males obtain an ego satisfaction and gain self-esteem. Radical feminists believe that women’s freedom is possible only if the oppressive and dominating system male-dominated capitalist system is done away with. Most of them rely totally on uprooting and reconstructing society to achieve their goals. These feminists refuse to follow scientific and historical theories because they are preoccupied with the male race ultimately advocating for a separation with the male race. The last type of feminism, Social feminism judges all oppression stems from class structure. The fact that man works gives them the right to control women is strongly opposed. According to socialist feminism, women are subjugated because of their unequal standing in both the workplace and the home. It advocates a broad change that affects the whole society, not just individuals. Feminism significantly emerged in the twenty century; women at the advent of the reform women have been able to attain higher salaries, social and corporeal power. They have been allowed relational freedom and not kept to the image of a homemaker. For example, Judaism believes women should be part of society as women and maintain their individuality as women. “It is disturbing when women's spiritual contributions to home, family, and others are unrecognized, not only by men, but, more painfully, by women themselves.” From the twenty century three types of females emerged the sexy and tough female, the beautiful and intelligent female, or the housewife female. Females have been able to attain careers in traditional male jobs such as politics, religion, finance, medicine, law, and science. This progress is amazing considering women were despised victims of violence and abuse. Feminist women are currently positions in church by working in part time positions attempting to recreate the lives of women. Quite recently, the first female rabbi was allowed to serve in a synagogue, during the reading of the Scriptures the importance of the reading was devalued because the story was written by men who did not accept females as their equals. Feminists have documented the devaluation of women in the gospels, church, and ancient Judaism. In Ex 20:17 and Deut 5:21 a woman supposed to be a virgin at the time of her message, if she wasn’t she would be stoned but a man was not held of such a penalty for his virginity. Many biblical passages like Pauline and Genesis exclude women from leading and intend to have women subordinate to men. Biblical foundations provide evidence for the women to be subordinate to men as Eve was created from the rib of Adam only to be of help to Adam. ”But for Adam, no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.”--. Genesis 2:18-24 God commands both Adam and Eve to rule the earth and over all creation. They were both called to rule, complementing each other, supporting each other, serving each other, sacrificing for the other, and deferring to each other. God declares that “a man will rule over his wife,” in Genesis 3:16. From Genesis and from Timothy, it is inferred that women are more capable of being deceived then men. For Adam was first to be made by God and Eve was the second, further more Adam was not the one deceived it was Eve the woman who had became a sinner. It is widely believed that Eve was solely responsible for the destruction of a perfect life therefore making her inferior. The famous Rabbi Eliezer, wrote: “Rather should the words of the Torah be burned than entrusted to a woman…Whoever teaches his daughter [the Torah] is like one who teaches her obscenity.” Over the course of time women have faced many hardships as can be seen in religious texts. “Any iniquity is small compared to a woman’s iniquity…. From a woman sin had its beginning, and because of her we all die” (Sirach 25:19, 24;). “Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good; it is woman who brings shame and disgrace” (Sirach 42:14). “The woman is inferior to the man in every way” (Josephus, Against Apion 2:201). “A hundred women are no better than two men” (Talmud, Ber. 45b) “A man is required to say the following three blessings every day: ‘Blessed are you who have not made me a heathen, who have not made me a woman, who has not made me illiterate” (bMen. 43b; Ber. 7.18).
In the twenty-first century there is a potential to influence Christian or Roman Catholic theology in the twenty-first century as the marks are made clear theologians today. Many Christians recognized Jesus welcomed both women and men to be his disciples. Women were at that time not considered worthy to learn anything of high value or importance relating to God. Husbands looked down upon women when women would testify in court because their testimony was considered false because their brains are incapable of such information. In today’s society much of the revised bibles vocabulary has been changed due to the fight by feminists for equality. For example when man is used it does not just mean man as a gender but men as people collectively speaking. As today’s twenty-first society indicates strong progress of feministic movements, it allows for women like Rebecca West, modernist and feminist writer, to show the emergence and influence of women in modern day society, “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute.”

911 IS A JOKE

2008-05-06T12:54:00.000-07:00

Anger inflated while the Federal Bureau Investigated
911 is a joke read my affidavit
Don’t hesitate to put you in a white line
Two white lines, no phone calls I got another line
Every line, no flat line of life, had its ups and downs, don’t regret it
No one could do it, been through it, hate it or recite it
In rules to it, so don’t break them again
Wake up at ten, start over again
Until then I will bury my opposition
That’s my position, incision, so listen
No female intuition, I’m as serious as cancer
Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust is the answer

Throw your ashes in the sea

NELSON MANDELA

2008-05-06T12:52:00.000-07:00

One of the most African American leaders in history, Nelson Mandela was fearless, dedicated, and a symbol of African American pride. He fought to free those who have oppressed people of color. Mandela has ended the racial division and oppression by uniting a divided country and building a strong and free democracy. His attributes exemplify moral integrity and he has to be considered a national figure. His drive for true peace was an epic struggle from his early childhood to becoming South Africa’s president. Before bringing renewed hope and ultimate victory to the nation of South Africa it is important to understand his childhood, which set the groundwork for his influential actions.
Born in Transkei, South Africa as Nelson Rolihlahla Mendela on July 18, 1918, Mandela was the son of Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Ironically, Rolihlahla, is interpreted prophetically as “troublemaker”. He embodied strong qualities and discipline, having graduated from the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand. After joining a law firm, Mandela was constantly exposed to the inhumanities of apartheid and this motivated him to change the world. Later on in his life, Mandela had joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was appointed in charge of ruling against the National Parties apartheid policies in 1948. However, he went on trial for treason and was acquitted in 1961. After banning the African National Congress, Mandela advocated for a military but Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years of imprisonment for hard labor. He was later brought to trial for plotting to overthrow the government. While in prison, Mandela’s reputation grew and he became accepted as the most significant African leader in South Africa. He constantly refused to compromise his political position in return for freedom becoming a worldwide symbol of resistance to racism as an anti-apartheid movement grew stronger. Mandela chose to use passive resistance nonviolence in his uphill battle for freedom. "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Mandela became a prison bound martyr, during his three decades of confinement and eight since his release he brought about the unification of South Africa ending the struggle of Apartheid, and ultimately becoming the nation’s president.
Nelson Mandela not only encompassed patience, wisdom, and virtue he exemplified it. He was a visionary, who long after his retirement from presidency continues to play an important role in history. Mandela was one of the most influential people in history, whose lifelong dedication was to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa. He is considered by some to be the greatest moral and political leader in his changing of the nation to a multiracial government and majority rule. An inspirational hero who was the vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Famously, Nelson Mandela was a man of conviction for freedom. A role model for today's troubled leaders. If everyone in the world was like him there would be no need for war.
Nelson Mandela is indisputably the most important inspirational leaders of the twenty century. Mandela struggled against the oppression, injustice and racism of South Africa's apartheid and refused to compromise with the evil he saw, even at the cost of his own personal freedom. With his remarkable ability to forgive his enemies he settled the animosity of future generations. Mandela remains a symbol of the fight against apartheid and a symbol for peace. I strongly admire Nelson Mandela for being a positive influence and becoming a symbol of freedom and independence. I respect him for his suffering to reach his ultimate while the movement was brutal and tough. I holder an even higher respect for Mandela because he had accomplished his goals without a militaristic activity. He encouraged me not to use violent methods but to strike only with civil disobedience. I support his cause to use passive resistance for freedom. I consider Mandela the greatest political hero of this century for letting his enemies’ dirt their hands in their own blood.
If there had been no Nelson Mandela in the course of history apartheid would not be gone. It wouldn’t be the strongest economy in Africa. Race antagonism would still exist and so would the widespread of acceptance by the world. In fact if there was no Mandela, whites would continue to dominate blacks, economically, socially, and politically. Africa wouldn’t be a nonracial democratic society instead it would be a ancient system where it would only preserve white rights and privileges. Africa would be divided and constant civil wars would occur. Instead there could have possibly been a reverse in time to slavery, to a time the land was owned by whites and only blacks would perform labor.

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I GOT ANOTHER STORY TO TELL

2008-05-02T12:14:00.000-07:00

Hey I got another story to tell
My first day in high school I wasn’t known
I stood alone in a zone but held my own
Unknown, a freshman jumped on the scenery
Meant something to me, so kids envy me
It became all about me, cut whack classes
Didn’t wear glasses grab the tightest asses
Then someone passes, caught my attention I was amazed
Dazed the hottest girl during my school days

Anyways let me explain it was early Monday’s plain
Same old same absent I chilled by the train
Went to lunchroom different day same thing
I heard the bell ring, ding, ding ,ding
She past the finest thing and I didn’t see a ring
So I rose behind closed doors
Talked with a couple of groupie whores
Cheerleaders she wasn’t there then we met at the talent shows
I froze, heart beats fast, I’m fresh she’s well dressed
In the best nothing less, curved like the letter “S”
I confess I’m nervous; she gave me her number and address
Meet after classes introduce her to my friends
Here’s Krista, Trisha, Lisa I guess it never ends
Yea they blend, Kris tells me not to mess with her, she’s shady
Has a six month baby, it does pay with this lady
Maybe kind of crazy, thanks for making me aware
Nothing’s fair in love and warfare
I know Kris cares, that’s rare, but at what was I mad at

A brat why did she do that

This dame used me for my name
How lame for playing this game
It wasn’t the same, our relationship just forget it
Not into it, a relationship, I’m not with it, just quit it
I’m not patient I’ve been watching you
You don’t even have a clue, nothing new
Of course her secret I knew, asked her how could you?
You were soft and sweet, head down to her feet
Jump in the passenger seat let’s get something to eat
Discreetly, I throw my heart into the deep sea

WITHOUT ME

2008-05-01T10:16:00.001-07:00

What is God without me
Like china with no rice
Like Antarctica with no ice
Like Christianity with no Christ
Like crack heads with no cane
Like a terrorist with no plane
Like the kids with no Mike
Like boxers with no fights
Like lesbians with no dykes
Like fish with no sea
God is empty with no me

GIVE ME LIFE

2008-04-26T09:14:00.000-07:00

Mice became men, I’m an idol
Greater then the whole, from the bible
Read the bible, born again to turn them into sinners
I’m a winner dash legend slash beginners
Like I’m on a mission, not Christian, I had to mention
I have appreciation for my creation
Save yourself like a pension because I am profound
Pound for pound not safe and sound, I’m worth every pound
Off the white mound, bloodhound, hundred percent
First attempt from death exempt
God sent, walk through the black rain
More to gain when I use my brain
I loosen then I’m gone
Still stay tranquil and calm
Answer in my palm, read the psalm,
Hostile takeover unique like a fossil
A walking gospel, the world is my apostle
So I can’t make a mistake, life take
Catch the snake, sniff the snowflake, for my sake
Roast the fake, won’t shed a tear, I have no fear
Last year, I don’t care how you disappear
When I appear, I clear the smoke to save the human kind
Clear my mind, and forget what remains in my mind
The answer remains in my heart and mind, not in a bottle
I grab the throttle, go full throttle, then smash the bottle
I have just been reborn in the storm, stop living in a bottle

RED STORM

2008-04-24T09:32:00.001-07:00

I am one of the chosen few
Knew the clue was to define my view
Love melts like a candle, War and Roses
Kick in the door that closes
Like Moses to be judged, look in God’s eyes
Blood percolates, heart cries, the coward dies
Here’s an aside, I am a genius I mean this and I lost my sanity
So prepare for the worst but no profanity
A sin born within a sin, a right angle at eighty five degrees
Bring the next of kin, contagious like the aids disease, so please
Split the peas into different entities, God is watching me
So don’t assume and make an ass out of you and me
There is an extremity, so bring it to a halt
Throw you in a vault and throw salt,
in the womb, brain in the tomb, filled with pain
No one cares for what remains, the veins stain
The elbow to the cartilage to the hand use it as a cane
Death is connected, and I cast the first stone
Stand alone, lost in the red storm, looking for my throne
Calm the scorned sea, born to come out the storm alone

CROWN ME

2008-04-24T07:02:00.000-07:00

Dumb people Tim’s not one of them
Murder his father right in front of him
Done with them, stop breath and drop
Pop out, hop in, it’s hot five hundred degrees in the spot
Either in or out, out so stay out, open the gates get out
Point them out, joint account, send the savages out
Packaging, take the cavities out so they pass out
I won’t work it out, negativity weights down like gravity
Disrespect me murder is definitely
Technically, people die hourly so power me
While your families die sourly so cower me
Don’t bother me, know I come with nothing
But leave with something I wouldn’t come for nothing
Life has changed from sadness and pain
Grab the chain from the drain let it down like rain

I demand it now, panic and tearing down
Hand over my crown, bow down to the prince now

XANAX BARS

2008-04-24T05:56:00.000-07:00

Hello or is it hell is low, let my prophesize
I don’t hypothesize, I know I will demise
Bigger then my size when I rise
Dot your eyes as I cross your face, don’t be dense
It’s common sense, my persistence kills their resistance
For instance they will become non-existent
Thrown into existence, to get the worm, survival of the fittest
In this wilderness to be the best, above the rest
Pass the test, distrust, I didn’t speak yet
No respect there’s no death threat and he’s set
Off with his head is the mind set, what do you expect
The sky is the limit, I’m in it to win it
Money makes the world go round and I turn it
From the beginning until I end it, it’s never ending
Stop pretending, telling the same fable
Either get tagged with a label or strangled with a cable
It’s the same old; the past is the present tense
Over the fence now I got confidence so stop the pretense

BASKET CASE

2008-04-23T18:38:00.000-07:00

I stay on top in order to get paid
Won’t fade, live life I got it made
No aid, I was born to be the star of the show
Ready to blow, don’t go slow, I am what I know
Cooler then snow, trying to show them how to live equal
Forget the prequel; I’ll give you the sequel
No one can scare me who yea me
Loud and clear no one comes near me
Feel free to test me or fear me
It’s a choice to fear free or get hit in your earpiece
In the fifth gear, I’m a pure beast, I eat peace
Never cease, just unleash, the sedated
I made it, so hate it, while you lose your related
Metal Plated, morning comes and here comes the pain
Like rain in a state of pain
Call me insane for bringing change
Fireman let God take me through the flames
It’s not the same I’m getting older
I play the game of life and my hand holds the controller
Then console her because I am better then the regular
Nobody better, life and I together, never regret her
Never under the weather, walk the thin line
Shine on my time, the world is mine
Grab it by the spine and throw it in the safe
Closed case

I GOT A STORY TO TELL

2008-04-21T07:00:00.000-07:00

Listen up I got a story to tell,
There was a man who worked hard for his money

He had a wife sweeter than honey, she was also funny
By many a dummy, but he loved her, spent his last dollar
Paid for her hair and nails at the beauty parlor
Gave him a daughter, he loved her, he needed her
Never would cheat her, loved her to much to beat her
Stay with her during a fever, he thought she was in love with him
Never befriended him, couldn’t get enough of him
All of the sudden things had changed
She was acting very strange, kind of deranged
He couldn’t comprehend, work ends at three she came home at ten
Became closed in, started fighting, since when?
Became independent and seeing other men
At the Motels and Inns, staying late
Two nights, six dates, something’s not straight
Kids don’t eat off a hot plate, she getting ready for a hot date
Husband drops the daughter off at school, concerned, he got to work late
Wife’s at home she hears a door bell ring
It’s the same guy from the other morning
It’s pouring so she lets him in
He got the money he wants at it again
She’s committing a sin, she's trying to see how far it would go
A silly ho, she might end up on death row
The guy is attached to her, just a lonely bachelor
He’s thinking it would be cheaper to keep her
Her husband’s speeding to get home
He panics can’t get his wife on the phone
Get’s a knife he’s about to slay, he hears a frequent moan
Afraid he opens the door, jumps on the guy with rage
Gave it his best shot, crushed his ribcage
Giving it all his got but the guy is half his age
Played for a fool, she broke his heart
Lost his cool, he was hurt and it tore him apart
She got caught, wish he seen it from the start
Now you’ll see them in court, this will tear his daughter apart

SEE ME IN THE CLUB

2008-04-21T06:02:00.000-07:00

I’m here and I don’t care, this is my year
So don’t go there, here, where, anywhere
Steady stare, what is it look like
I walk right, left foot, right
So stay out of sight, I’m not in the mood to fight
I can’t afford another strike
If living is wrong I don’t want to be right
I am unique I can part a sea
Dexterity, No fear in me, better then anyone I see
Can’t guard me I barge in, like a serpent in the garden
I am a sergeant and God is my warden, so I beg your pardon
I am looking for a little intervention
Not to mention divine, no daddy’s permission
Spark conversation, she sharp like a pencil
We clash like a cymbal and her mind’s a temple
Clash like a symbol, and splash like we jumped in a puddle
No rebuttal, just out of this world like a space shuttle
Quite subtle, we have to land because she doesn’t know where the wall is
She’s nauseous, I stay cautious, projectile makes me anxious
It is what it is, what I mean is I stay up all night, sleep no way
I live for the day until I lay six feet under and today’s not that day
Before I go under I got to go over, that’s my mentality
Fatality that’s not in my reality
It wouldn’t be wise to address me
Advise a school teacher not to test me
Last play don’t rest me, don’t slow my train of thought down
Get some things of my chest now, speed it up to get around
Never safe and sound, I’m just looking for something fine
If you don’t mind, looking for the top of the line
Don’t jump in line, the kind you never seen before
Not a whore, I need the type of girl you don’t see no more

To turn it out, without a doubt that’s what I'm about

ASCENSION

2008-04-19T08:55:00.000-07:00

I don’t care I will go anywhere
Been everywhere, name here or there
I won’t stay here, violets are blue, roses are red
Forget what I said the flowers are dead
Jump out of the death bed, I’m in over my head
Last meal I’m fed, just send me to heaven, God’s waiting for me
Don’t lie to be with me, it’s all about me
Stop being friendly, I fear God and where I’m heading
Pretty sure it will be at the top like a heading
Embedding, I tired of waiting behind life’s bars
Send me to Mars, let me mingle with the stars
Tired of living lavish, I know I’m way above average
For my age, so put a star next to me like an asterisk
Speaking strict, today is mine, I am the missing element
No coincident, accidents and incidents, God sent
As I ascend, meet my end, no sky is larger then me
Don’t complain to you so don’t complain to me
I am the light, the link to life, fire of hell I ignite
So stay out of sight, top of the mountain not in sight
It’s so bright, the world’s below me

As I jump into the white heavenly sea

BUSH

2008-04-18T18:49:00.001-07:00

The greatest president ever, he stuck to the manuscript
Gave an answer quick, seven years stuck in shit, but they won’t quit
It’s not legit, soldiers going in the ground, living under Iraqi soil
Blood boils, arms coil, families cry in turmoil
Where is the oil? As people die slow, instead of killing them softly
Awfully, men die while their forty, government says it be over shortly
But I must keep within the margins, we invaded to bring democracy in
No arguing we lost everything, guess we got a bargain
Barge in, the target was to kill troops in the middle of the streets
There’s nothing left to eat in American streets
To bad we can’t see the great feats of the dead bodies in this death trap
It’s a wrap no one cares or gives a crap
Time to get the kids strapped, scarred no one there to care about
So I lashed out, since there is no one left to help out
Can’t bring Bin Laden out, so they tell you what you want
Show you what you want you to see, never tell you what is what
Recognize or step aside, his mind is in a different continent
Heaven sent, democracy established all counterfeit
All types of shit, I need to blow some steam
The unseen is seen I want the president to come clean
Just a dream, made a mistake; you can’t bring a life back as they fly in the heavenly skies
The same color as the skies, he hit the bull’s eye through his lies
He will fry until the day he dies; I will stay on-point like an arrow
Long and narrow, bloodshot eye's on the sparrow

CURIOUS

2008-04-18T17:41:00.001-07:00

I’m curious or maybe a little deranged
Just filled with pain but never ashamed
Things changed, from clear to thunder
I wonder how I ever got to the pressure I’m under
When I met my first love, I was young but she was younger
It was the summer and she gave me her number
Her age meant nothing, I ended up loving her
Perfect for my mother, I could never find the same in another
Cool with her brother, but then reality changed
Things became strange, I was happy but then filled with pain
She got a new life and I was stuck in the rain
Here to tell about my troubles too
Thinking I didn’t love you, this is what love does to you
But I move on with ease, with authority
Seize the seniority get most of the majority
Skeptic like a girl on a contraceptive
Give me an anti-depressant, confused what do you expect
Curious my heads in the sky
I ask why and hope to fly
No I’m so fly, so when I touch the devil’s ceiling I say why
Was I put on this earth for something?
To do this thing and that thing or be something
In a ring of fire I need a fan or iced dead
That is what I said, frozen from my heart to my head
But I represent that red like I bleed to death
That’s how life is, live bad to die good
Positive even though I’m starving like there is no food
Cocaine makes you thin like a pencil
So I put it down because I realized my potential
Instrumental I stick to my mental and protect my temple
Don’t miss the principle, with my self-esteem
I will redeem, live out larger expectations then a dream
I am not what I seem so don't judge me as one of the many, but one of few
Anything I need I will do be good to me and I will be too you
I’ll stick a fork in you if you’re done, to me this is fun
Get them by the dozen, from the husband to the cousin
If I wasn’t synonymous with perfection
I would fuck the world with protection
Get the connection, I am the best
Above all the rest and there is no contest

DON'T BE THEM

2008-04-16T07:03:00.001-07:00

Don’t confuse me, better yet amuse me
Don’t pursue me like a Thursday pursues a Wednesday
Don’t try to be second because they’re not the winners and no one remembers third
Or a nerd, don’t try to be a red shirt
Don’t have a lot of nerve or your body will hurt
Don’t be the topic, head to the top like a rocket
Don’t sit sit tight in the pocket go out to the tropic
Don’t stay microscopic, thanks for the cooperation
Don’t be an operation because people kill for confirmation
No stipulation, don’t be a snake in the grass, rats or lizards
Get cut like scissors, blood running like rivers
Cold bilizzard, stand straight
Or get a ate off a plate
Don’t be a provider instead provide her
Get inside her, like her and wife her

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

2008-04-15T17:27:00.001-07:00

To my girlfriend how I adore you
Enjoy you while I control you
By my side I still miss and I won’t miss
Insist to stand next to me like a pianist
Perfect fit, when I’m calm your calm
My little firearm, deadlier then a bomb
Over Vietnam until were both gone
That’s a bond, urgently you work with me
Patiently never on empty, working perfectly
Scarier then terror, I don’t fear
I see through fear like a mirror
Run you into a tree is the seen
Leaving you to leak like kerosene
Asinine, I’m really not that mean
Who am I kidding, throw you in the river
Become shark dinner I’m still a sinner
The wind against my back, I attack
In fact that impact bounces right back
So take that, while I load her from the back
She’s an antonym meaning different from them
Corrected, respected, protected, and never neglected by them
My body snatcher love your stature
Screw a voucher, I don’t care if I’m attached to her
Never nervous, always kind and courteous,
Sharp like a thumbtack never curious
Comeback with a humpback more furious
So fall back she’s my fantasy
She fell in love with me at the top of a canopy

FLATLINE

2008-04-15T16:09:00.000-07:00

Forgive me but for what is there to live
I gave what I could give
Live by the honor code
Used to be a kid on the honor role
Slow I knew only me
It was everything I can be
Never hit a tree, fast lane, front seat
My heart my beats to a fast beat
Use another sheet for another weak
The sun shine I begin life in the frontline
From time to time, I plan to bring mine
Hope something comes my way
To live for a better day
God makes his way around the block
I here a knock:
“Before I sleep

I pray God my soul to keep

And if I shall die before I awake

I pray to God, my soul to take

For goodness sake”

GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD

2008-04-15T15:47:00.000-07:00

To girl number one, do you have a mind, respect like a stop sign?
Falls in line when you see me shine
In your prime all the time
Long walks by the beach and seas
Knowing you won’t leave, expensive car keys
House by the palm trees, don’t be shaken up
You’ll thank me when you’re waking up
After making love, no sweat
As life progress, the closer we get
No stress we proceed to get no rest
Any guy mess with you I’ll disconnect
Front his back to his neck
Put in check, he’ll stay correct
No more breath, he settled for less
You settle with the best, no mess
Your blessed, I confess as I provide a description
Her prescription is sexual healing, I’ll be the physician
True religion and her body sickening
Here’s to girl two, can you love me like you ought too
Can I see you at the alter, filled with laughter
Have my son or even a daughter
Bring light to my dark day, stay with me until the next day
I don’t know what to say, speechless while you lay
Anyway, are you hotter then the weather, fly like you got feathers?
Nobody better, your name’s whatever and you get no better
A hidden treasure, faster then my eyes can undress her
Looks exquisite in a sweater, because you are a beauty
A cute cutie, deserve to have her own movie
The cameras and the lights are on action
Satisfaction is your main attraction
Relaxing getting money is my habit
Is that okay, even though I am a money fanatic
Move past that, if today is my last will my future be brighter than my past
Make sure kids get my cash, not to sound rash
At last, I lost site but I see the light
Not hype, so I’m asking if I’m wrong are you right?
The last girl, number three, are you off the street
Or are you home sweet, hotter then the heat
I could feel from a hundred feet, take out to eat
Let’s meet, are you crazy and will sue?
Sweet but wish I never knew to get into you
So intricate into you, would you consider leaving me alone
Be gone after I buy you that expensive stone
I’m flown like a lost cattle stuck in a cage rattle
Together like a horse and saddle, validate a battle
Can you be a savior and live for the moment
Fulfill your destiny if you are god sent?

HYPNOTIZE

2008-04-15T13:29:00.000-07:00

Never running like I’m in a wheelchair forever
However, I’m wit whatever, be here forever
Better then everyone put together
I will not stop the destruction
Follow the instruction get together and get ready for seduction
Hotter then an oven, all of the sudden
Your disgusting sister, fronting I put it in her back like nothing
No discussion, I rather stack something then do nothing
So bring your cousin I break her spine too no struggling
Kick her out go buy yourself a new spine
Not before she put her hands on mine
I hold that strength like a muscle
She’s still fussing, struggling but I wasn’t
Make her wear a muzzle wake her up to get me a muffin
And a robitussin because I’m barely breathing just puffing
Coughing then I make her hip hurt and won’t go further
After I’m done, grab a burger she’s pissed who cares its bloody murder

I AM THAT I AM

2008-04-14T06:10:00.000-07:00

I am that I am besides the largest
Regardless I think I am the rawest
Flawless victory no one can hurt me
Physically, mentally, hypothetically, or realistically
Get down to the epitome, I warned you
I will put it on you only to have your parents mourn you
No remorse all of us die, some kill, or the breathing stop
Hazardous to your health hell’s your next stop
The world just stopped your fates under investigation
You’re waiting but I’m not underestimating
Walk over Satan, no more patiently waiting
I’m off the edge, no holding on to the ledge
Over the hedge, won’t go in the ground
But if I die my head will be held high by my brothers around

JEANATOPE

2008-04-13T18:39:00.000-07:00

A hundred percent that’s a perfect percentage
Inherit the change, spilt half, a gift from my parent’s luggage
Won’t budget, born again from light to dawn
From night to morning
Pass the light I’m the truth
Give the youth a class civil law suit
Get loot, not brainless
Eventually world famous
Violence, no an alliance of silence
Ring your door bell
Escort you to hell
Over the limit it’s overflowing
Holes in your colon, send you rolling
Switch cologne, come back with a different tone

KEEPING A KINGDOM

2008-04-13T18:11:00.000-07:00

I knew my dreams came true
Not really what it seems as I’m lost too
Without a clue, time is due, wait for long
Addressing what the issue is, stay right never wrong
I will become who I wish I is
Fulfill my legacy, matter fact you’ll all see
Of course no remorse, get the best of me
Individually clear the screen
Chokes and screams past the unseen
Holding the importance of your dream
Fulfill my lifeline to be told during my lifetime
I’m a star so I shine like I’m on primetime
It’s past nine, get aroused by the dimes in the house
Without a spouse, without a blouse
Independent but quite as a mouse, only time will tell
Screw hell I love freedom, carpe diem
Get cute girls and take them out to feed them

LAUGH NOW, CRY LATER

2008-04-13T17:40:00.000-07:00

Still humble and modest and demand respect
Class clown will get stabbed in the neck
Don’t forget i still get money
Take out bunnies that butter sweet honey
Listen up dummy I will silence the lamb
Silence your cause just because I don’t give a damn
Now you’re not the same change your name
Your woman I won’t hit her even though she’s a sinner
Hit and acquit her, crazy with a bottle of liquor
Heart in hand that’s the plan still fear none
The scheme is clear so it seems fun
Better then anyone under the sun
Never run, get a life preserver
Cleanse my aura, me and her together forever
I was the guy in back of our classes
She was the one in front with the glasses
She passes classes while I riot the halls
Detention pay the price, wire the walls
Don’t care I’m more scared of death but make you twice as afraid of life
Until death I won’t retire hotter then fire
Possess earth, wind, and fire hotter then a burning tire
Get higher, rise above the limit, fast life I live it
In it to win it, get it how I get it, only remember the minute
Resurrected spirit mimic to the heavenly rhythmic
No gimmick I reached my peak as I come through the gate get it

MAMA OF MINE

2008-04-13T16:05:00.000-07:00

I remember when I was younger I caused hell
Oh well, I never thought I would be hugging my mom from jail
She post bail, but I saw the look on her face
Closed case no woman can take her place
When I fell on my face you were there for me
Ever since the days of elementary you cared for me
Older now so I’ll pay the rent when it’s due
I love you and will buy you diamonds too
Even though I can never pay you back just forgive me
I appreciate how you made me the sweet things you did for me
All my childhood memories you gave me
My mommy I can’t measure what you would do for me
I promise you I will be the best I can be
No army can stop you, my best friend in the whole world
Birth me in December it was cold
Twenty two years old you are a light of mines
So you shine through the better times
God sent me an angel from heaven
Saw you cry when I was seven
Tear in your eye, fell on the kitchen floor and I cried twice more
I won’t hurt you no more, I’ll get the house we couldn’t afford
My box of sweet chocolate
Told me to go to college and get my doctorate
One day the world will be mine can I take you out
The driving force in my life
One day you’ll pick my wife
Always right there to comfort me
No one can be what you are to me

Your always be my number one
Always sorry for what I have done
Your proud son, you stood by me from the start
Never apart the queen of my heart my bright star
The best by far, in my heart of hearts a similar part
Never tried to be someone your not
Never lied and bailed me out on the spot
Your stomach was mine in a knot
Because I know you love me a lot

NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

2008-04-13T15:23:00.000-07:00

Ever since she was younger she wanted to be down
Put on but you weren’t allowed to come around
Wanted your own sitcom, a young cute phenomenon
The fact is, you are better then the rest
No less, anything you have you deserve it
Hung around the ones who yearn for the light
So they wait every day and night
Every night sore and maimed
Your pain is explained
Rape won’t come out your mouth
No doubt, I see in your eyes that’s what it was about
It’s about respect why did you go so low
She tells me she doesn’t know
It’s my business nothing personal those were the words to know
I need to find this adolescent for what he did to the innocent
Ever since we were childhood friends my brothers little angel from heaven
Nothing but love I was to protect her at any cost since birth
If crucifixion is my fate then I accept it for what it’s worth
My destiny it's meant to be we’re all guaranteed to leave earth
Let me sort either in peace or piece by piece
Jesus was also killed by the police
At least I’ll come with the thunder and lighting
Like I’m hyphened all right then
Inviting the night with the storm
Immortal with the world in my palm
Clam and collected, affected and the guilty I will harm

OUTSTANDING

2008-04-13T14:15:00.001-07:00

If I could walk on water, spit fire and fly
My heart won’t be content so I spark a fluorescent scent
Life’s condemned pound my fist on earth’s cement
Let me condense it, can I be forgiven?
For the sins that condemn man, children and women
Born again because I hold the reapers breath
Closer to death posing a real threat
Send them straight to hell, stay violent
For now stay silent as a shining spirit
No clowning I stay in a serious fit
Delirious quit it, I’m scandalous
Until I rest with the angels like an evangelist
I am the outstanding anonymous philanthropist

PREFECT GIRL

2008-04-13T11:48:00.001-07:00

It was back in the day I saw her face
Met in a rave I was struck and stuck in one place
It was her amazing grace that had me walking in space
Body laced like she belongs on stage
Said the things to make her smile
Talked for a while, gave me the numbers to dial
She’s Versace down, diamonds glaring
Donna Karen, while guys are staring
She knows she’s leaving with me
Kisses me so everyone see
How close we be together
Two birds of the same feather
Walk through life together forever
Hard to measure she was a buried treasure
Fulfilled pleasures, it was stupendous
Tremendous she told all her friends
Took her to masquerades and mardi gras
That’s the way she was

QUIET SOUNDS

2008-04-13T11:18:00.000-07:00

Amanda begins to boost dangerous chemicals
No family so she grabs the mental projectile on her centennial
Not sentimental as a girl with a gentle touch
Quite not saying much like a girl playing double dutch
Clutching to change like the Renaissance but no resemblance
Call an ambulance an old lady freezes and has a seizure
Amanda please help her, she’ll make it be a true believer
Her thoughts are a fortress and everything seems hopeless
She becomes ferocious she needs some closeness
The old lady praises her crazily
Amazingly Amanda escapes society’s slavery
Basically blood drips and the situation is fatal
But for now Amanda ’s labeled as an angel
Trying to forget her past, that tackles her back to her shackles
Thinking of the abusive marriage she crackles
A bond of havoc and song for fifteen years long
The massacre of her two girl babies she’s no longer strong
Dead wrong, the old lady thanks her but she’s not realizing
Analyzing the locked skeletons in her closet

She grabs the cop’s gun and cocks it...

RESTRICTED REFLECTIONS

2008-04-13T07:32:00.001-07:00

Constantly stressing count my blessings
Go back in time and change your essence
Back to the present then change your presence
Now they’re counting their blessings, stressing
Here's a lesson, don’t try to read between the line
Don’t cheat mine, I just want to shine
If its one against ten, count me in until the end of time
My men got my back, they pack, and attack when I call out
If I need they go all out, make him fall out
Enough love, life is a sport
A midget told me life is short
I live each day in the fast lane
Never reflect on a past mistake, never feel shame
It’s all the same, a game, soul in destitute
The sun arises and I interlude my mood

SOUR DIESEL

2008-04-12T13:42:00.000-07:00

A man of honor looking for a girl to match my persona
Comma, I have a long latter to climb but it won’t matter
Either it shatters or it stands on a stagger
Love my swagger simple and plain
I’ll explain the cure for pain in terms of laymen
Sit down and learn the adrenaline
I hate liars set them on fire
Thirst for blood like a vampire
Hotter then fire until I’m underground retired
Ready to face death because I leave them disgraced
Dressed in lace, did I have to catch a case
So I have to make them disappear
It’s crystal clear the worst is here
Whisper in your ear your eyes shed a tear
More offending then the worst so I reverse the curse
Reverse birth make them hurt more offending then the worst

T.I.M.

2008-04-12T13:07:00.000-07:00

On a quest to find a horny woman
Lonely, white, Puerto Rican or Cuban
After all I am human; TIM is me a well kept secret
Quiet as kept, so hard to resist but I take it
Don’t make it a problem you’ll be embarrassed
Especially if your average I am a savage
Catch your breath like an asthmatic
Stay charismatic so relax your mind while my chin’s on your spine
Pleasure no slime because I’m top of the line
Not dumb or blind so I brightly shine
Fight for mine having the time of my life
There comes a time when you need to take a life
Grab a knife or find a wife that’s like one of my brothers
Move to the suburbs and forget my other lovers
She’ll stay with me until I’m sandwiched in a hearse
Sent with a beautiful curse she gets me through the worst
Takes care of where it hurts hotter then five hundred degrees
Reserved and flyer then a breeze sweet like honeybee
Knows about the birds and the bees, belongs with the heavenly
Start a family buy a house in Miami so contact me

UNSEEN STRUGGLE

2008-04-12T11:04:00.000-07:00

I start extorting a portion of my plot
A lot of hard work until I have a yacht
Hate cops so I keep them blind
So I crime and give them no piece of mind
Time to shine until I find the girl catching feelings
Appeasing, word around town appealing
Coming back around when it quiets down
I need a girl to hold me down
If I could switch my memories I would lift the felonies
Either live life like a Kennedy or kill my enemies
I would fill the gauge make the front page because cash pays
But I’m a good kid until my last days
I will make it through the bible
Anyway will pay until I feel suicidal
As my like takes a toll I can’t control
God forgive my soul until I blow

My life flows by a higher force
Not the person on the cross he’s just a corpse
Fill my heart with hate straight to hell incarcerate my fate
Make no mistake lock the gate or throw him in the lake
His brains make a nice centerpiece, he’s fake so I raise the stake
No regrets leave him with stress
He’s resting until his body becomes less
Face the serpent of death, don’t trace the curtain
For certain he will be hurting trying for pain
Nothing is more satisfying then the enemies blood stain
Crazy and sick a little mental
Like Satan, I am an abomination of life taken

VIOLENT VICTORY

2008-04-12T11:02:00.000-07:00

Violent victory of a living abortion
Often felt the need to put people in a coffin
Sin, I don’t think so, on your soul I feed
You bleed while I breed hide your seed
At heed I will proceed until I throw you in an incinerator
At kneed, put two in an incubator then diminish her
Distinguish the question, advised discretion
Here’s a suggestion, make your last confession
Violence explicitly exist in my metabolism
Cannibalism at any expense aneurisms of baptism
Spasm swear I’ll change, rearrange you but I stay the same
TIM is my name the one you shouldn’t frame
Blame you for unleashing my demons
I changed with the seasons still scheming
Different reasons for putting me in a critical bind
Never mind what you intend to find
Slip me with my demons into heaven
Letting me sever into the beheading
End of your world like Armageddon
Look how he shook when no one was around
Look down that’s where I leave you now, stick him in the ground
Smile turned to a frown look in my eyes remember me
The enemy is the last thing you want to see
Fricassee your tissue, trust me no one will miss your face
Just in case I beat my case and death will be my new case
I am mentally stressed to hate, take action and replace
Try to wet me but I didn’t reflect yet
State of grace wrecked it now I’m coming so they sweat
No raise in my payday instead took my money away
So to them I say, pray for there is no better way
I won’t play I am back to make them pay.

WAR ON TERROR

2008-04-11T19:32:00.000-07:00

The death of innocent millions happened accidentally
Regrettably for democracy all I see is tragedy
Bloody mouthfuls the world is done
Tiny graves with little bones a daughter or son
Souls withered and kids turned to murders
Lead to death by liars it’s the glorifiers observing us
Scared of us so beware soldiers turn to dust
Dare to trust, as the knife thrust, left there to rust
No exception, kill at impression
Stressing victims into depression
The lesson, no longevity living off negativity
That is how America would be until infinity
War a twenty four hour rotation
Not to mention five years in a dead location
Listen to the information Bush can’t blind me I see the strategy of reality
To die for a free nation, bad mentality
Mentality fatality we need unity, forget the obscenity
It’s the maturity that keeps you six feet above obscurity
Be wise don’t die understand the lies
Forgive those that fall between the lines
No surprise, renegades shoot thru barricades
With grenades from nights to days sun gives off dark shade rays
Terrorists they spray, certain dues to pay, explains how they behave
Laws were made; moms give their sons to be put into graves

X-IT

2008-04-11T18:40:00.000-07:00

Hurting for certain but I took it in

Keep insisting I keep resisting shortly come up missing

Listen, I try and earn respect

What do you expect as far as I’m concerned?

I rather have loved and lost than live with regret

Told her how I felt, she let me get below her belt

I observed the way she was preserved, her wisdom was worth

Placed on earth with a curse much worse then giving birth

We converse, listened to what she was saying

Her pain was haven, she started blaming the misbehaving

Thought we were playing, she blew it

I knew it she was to stupid, why did we do it?

Strive to survive through my hardest age

Similar to Cupid struck with a poison arrow in a cage

Disengage, ever again pretend like her friend said

Told her to leave because my love’s dead

I progressed used to give her everything

Brought her a ring and fulfilled her dreams

I deem love isn’t what it seems

YOU

2008-04-11T17:41:00.000-07:00

Your smile shined brighter then the sunlight
The way your beautiful eyes filled the night

While most bring the worst out of me you bring the best of me
Don’t attempt to hurt one hair on my baby
She’s my heart and soul, she’s my rock to roll

Under control, never hit the bottom like a sole

You keep me from being gray on a rainy day

Your softest touch the things you say

I loved so much when you were appear

Nothing to fear I’ll always be near

A year felt like a day I remember everything

The love after the fight, the way you used to sing

First girl I told how I feel, brought a meal

High heels the dress zeal the truth will heal

A dream queen it was unseen

Never mean just funny just like Mr. Bean

No squares in the loop like a basketball hoop

Watched movies in the back of my coupe

Always in my sight the brightest light under sunlight

Tight might on my right the jewel in my light

Your precious face no one could replace

Insane like I’m stuck in a maze given a forgiven grace

Lost you and now I’m lost too always in my heart too

Wishing there was a part two

ZERO TOLERANCE

2008-04-11T16:55:00.000-07:00

A lot of people mad I’m not dead yet
Whatever was meant they’ll get a full set
Used to be on reserve but now I’m off the curve
They should know they will get what they deserve
It’s what I want I get they didn’t pay their dues
Couldn’t make it, try living a day in my shoes

I won’t lose, I won’t go back in again
Blame the wind because that’s what they’ll blow in

Set me up, your heart will pump slow make your blood burp
Put my knowledge into work there’s blood on my shirt
Pray for my enemies for making my dad’s heart hurt
The difference is they’ll burn like syphilis

For being inconspicuous making their cuts ridiculous
Trying to be the best I is, knife will insert, who cares what your life is worth
I won’t stop, because the pain won’t stop, I want the top spot
So I’ll take a shot give me a name or not
Should have stayed away, I’m toxic
I got a plan and the plots thick…

LETTER TO TIANA

2008-03-30T09:37:00.000-07:00

Hey Tiana your favorite cousin is in jail far far away
But everything is okay I think about you everyday
Sorry I couldn’t pick you up from school today
Hope we are still cool just hope for the best today
Just continue to pray and hope I get out one day
So we can play your favorite game
I know for the past time I haven’t been the same
I sit here with pain in my face hoping things will fall in place
I can seal the case eat off a clean plate
Just be brave and don’t be sad
Smile and think off the fun times we had
Just you wait I’ll get things straight
I guess this was my fate
I love you and will still write to you too
I still owe you a hug and I’ll make it up to you

MEMORIES

2008-03-30T09:14:00.000-07:00

The man up above didn't like my pace
I was coming up too fast and I caught that case
Woe was my fate for making a mistake
Whatever God hands me I take for only he can judge
I was framed guilty because of a grudge
God be kind when you judge them for condemning an innocent man
Their condensing plan had me in the palm of their hand
My heart pays them no regard; this is why life is hard
It leaves them mental and emotional scarred as my sister gives me an “I LOVE U” card
Try to frame a nice guy because there was something to hide
Cruel intentions I wasn’t by their side
What was there to gain just my life lost to pain
Hurting emotional death and hope they die
As my loved ones cry
The company is a crime monopoly
Probably that’s why they tried to get rid of me
I try to understand but now I am blind
The case is presented and I said my last speech
I worried as the jury stood I just hoped they were kind
In my mind I wasn’t worried as they say the innocent have nothing to fear
The judge came out and guilty was all I hear
The jury leaves but a brief verdict they reach
I sit in my chair and my heart beats fast
How much can I take? How long can I last? At last my fate has been sealed
Two paid witnesses proved me wrong I couldn’t get the case appealed
I was supposed to be free but I had no choice
Then I heard an angel’s voice it was that lady there
That picked me out and that man sitting in that chair

MONKEYS AND THE NATURE OF LOVE

2008-03-29T13:44:00.000-07:00

It was Harry Harlow that believed to understand how to raise humans we could learn much more by altering the upbringing of monkeys and analyzing their responses to certain conditions. Harlow supposed that every child has a need of love and affection. When reading “The Nature of Love” by Harry Harlow, Harlow did many experiments with monkeys using real and surrogate monkeys as mothers to prove that there is a strong psychological need for love and affection as well as food and shelter. The experiment consisted of taking baby monkeys away from their mothers at birth and placing them in an environment with a surrogate mother. One mother was made of wire and one mother was made of cloth. In “The Nature of Love”, Harlow, concluded that even though the mother made of wire had milk it was cold unlike the mother that was made of cloth was warm and the monkey needed a material that resembled the warm contact of a real mother monkey. A clear connection can be made to human parents. It is the love and affection that demonstrates to a human that there is security and love as well as food and shelter. If love and affection is removed their will be damaging psychological effects to the upbringing of the child but if these affections are present then the child will feel an intimate attachment so there will be no psychological effects. During the experimentation it was apparent that the baby monkeys chose the warm surrogate mother over the cold wire mother because regardless to the food the warm mother symbolizes security and safety whenever the baby monkey is scared. There were many experimentations done were the baby monkey would run to the surrogate mother clinch to her side and accustom themselves with the mother monkeys face and body. As demonstrated by the experimentations of Harlow the baby monkeys began to form a sense of security to the surrogate monkeys. These actions and behaviors would quickly change if the mother was not present in the room. As seen in Harlow’s experiment the baby monkeys would freeze, start crying, panicking, and frantically clutching every object that would resemble the mother. It was interesting to see that the actions were similar when placed in a cage with a wire mother. During Harlow’s studies he had observed the behaviour of the baby monkeys raised by their own mothers. The baby monkey spends many hours a day clinging to its real mother. If away from the mother when frightened, it rushes to her and in her presence shows comfort and composure even though this even held true with the warm surrogate mother demonstrates that baby monkeys as well as humans need to have a sense of togetherness by actions such as love and affection.

YOU ARE UNSKILLED AND UNAWARE OF IT

2008-03-29T13:38:00.001-07:00

The ingenious psychological study conducted by Justin Kruger and David Dunning of Cornell University was a study that did not go unnoticed. Justin Kruger and David Dunning two psychologists from Cornell University had performed four studies in how unskilled individuals lack the skills for an accurate self-assessment. This paper will address the nature of the problem being investigated; the type of methodology used to address the topic at hand; and will identify each study’s hypothesis; independent and dependent variables; and general findings. Each psychological study was to demonstrate that there are people who are very unskilled in a certain area and cannot even identify their own lack of skill. These types of people make wrong choices and their lack of skill doesn’t allow their ability to identify it. This study labeled these skills as metacognitive skills. This observation was thrown on a case study group which was tested in three different areas but before they were allowed to take the first test they had to assess how they would perform on the test. After the first test they had received the scores of the test and then took another test but before they would take the second test they again had to assess how they would perform on the second test. The nature of the problem was such; everyone had over assessed their performance on the first test that was given. However, there had been those that had done well on the first test that on the second test they had lower assessments for the second test. Even those that had performed poorly on the first test did not change their assessments for the second test. This study displays that most individuals are often overconfident in their assessments on how much they really know. The tests were based on a common wisdom. They were humor, grammar, and logical reasoning. For example, the first test was based on humor where the individuals had to rate how funny a joke was. This enabled Kruger and Dunning to measure the individuals’ metacognitive skills in humor.
These marvelous studies revealed that unskilled individuals, if they are unaware of what they are have to perform they will do poorly. However, if these individuals had once taken the test then were able to assess their earlier performance then if they would take the same test again the same individuals would improve their performance. More so, it is because they embraced what they have done wrong before and now know how to do it the right way because they have a different assessment then the previous time. It can be said for every individual that if they are unskilled in a certain area then they will lack the ability to identify that they are unskilled. The methodology used is as follows; if you take a group of average students and you put them through this procedure those that performed poorly were not very capable of properly assessing themselves and their abilities. This experiment concluded that unskilled people didn’t know they were unskilled and their levels of incompetence marred their metacognitive abilities to assess themselves properly. However, if to train the individuals on their metacognitive skills then as a result the individual can then better assess themselves and their capabilities.
Kruger and Dunning have established a hypothesis that all individuals in this study are of equal assessment abilities. Although, there is a division of percentiles as seen in the table charts presented in the study. There are a percentage of individuals that are in the bottom quartile and there is a percentage that is in the top quartile. Those that are in the percentage of individuals that are in the bottom quartile on the first test will stay in the bottom quartile for the second test. Those in the percentage of those in the top quartile during the first test will vary because they will be individuals that have assessed the second test. A constant problem arises throughout the studies when the individuals are asked to assess themselves in other subject areas and the individual rates himself to be much more skilled but rather that does not hold true. In fact, those that had assessed to be better than average are actually below average in these areas. They are truly unaware of how truly unskilled they are. Based on general findings, it was seen that the lack of skill assessment on these chain of tests were due to the individuals knowledge of humor, grammar, and logical reasoning.
Kruger and Dunning’s hypothesis held true that the more unskilled some is in a particular subject area the more unskilled he is to assess his own skills. When the individuals have failed to identify how poorly they have performed they are left with nothing else but to believe that they have done to the best of their ability. This inability to assess will force students to misjudge their skills. The test of humor, grammar, and logical reasoning demonstrated how one’s perception of their skills actually truly to the actuality of their skills.
Kruger and Dunning’s had formed the following hypothesis before the experiment. Unskilled individuals will significantly misjudge their abilities and skills in relation to the topic. Those that are unskilled will have a hard time understanding the skills of others so this will make it much more difficult for the unskilled individuals to draw an accurate picture of their own abilities and skills. Also those that are unskilled have already formed the metacognitive skills need to see that they have already did poorly. Finally, the unskilled individuals also form the inability to correctly assess so they experience incapability in their metacognitive skills which makes it much harder to see their lack of skill.
In conclusion, this paper has addressed the nature of the problem being investigated; the type of methodology used to address the topic at hand; and will identify each study’s hypothesis; independent and dependent variables; and general findings. Each psychological study was to demonstrate that there are people who are very unskilled in a certain area and cannot even identify their own lack of skill. These types of people make wrong choices and their lack of skill doesn’t allow their ability to identify it. This study displays that most individuals are often overconfident in their assessments on how much they really know. The tests were based on a common wisdom. They were humor, grammar, and logical reasoning. However, if these individuals had once taken the test then were able to assess their earlier performance then if they would take the same test again the same individuals would improve their performance. More so, it is because they embraced what they have done wrong before and now know how to do it the right way because they have a different assessment then the previous time. It can be said for every individual that if they are unskilled in a certain area then they will lack the ability to identify that they are unskilled. There are a percentage of individuals that are in the bottom quartile and there is a percentage that is in the top quartile. Those that are in the percentage of individuals that are in the bottom quartile on the first test will stay in the bottom quartile for the second test. Those in the percentage of those in the top quartile during the first test will vary because they will be individuals that have assessed the second test. A constant problem arises throughout the studies when the individuals are asked to assess themselves in other subject areas and the individual rates himself to be much more skilled but rather that does not hold true. In fact, those that had assessed to be better than average are actually below average in these areas. They are truly unaware of how truly unskilled they are.

THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH

2008-03-29T13:34:00.000-07:00

The Death of Ivan Ilych is a masterpiece constructed on the basis of constant human life struggles. In the novel, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy creates a character (Ivan Ilych) who resembles every common human individual. Ivan Ilych was a man who as a child had a poor upbringing but when he got older he led an ideal life He was wealthy, had a family and high positioned job in society. However, as the story progressed so did Ivan’s life. At the end of the story Ivan had those around him because they were all phony and pretended to care for him. Throughout Ivan’s Death it was clear no one cared about Ivan even though he did lead an ideal life.
The Death of Ivan Ilych begins where Ivan’s death is having already occurred. Ivan’s friends didn’t even care much for him because they felt it was a hassle to even offer their condolences. Tolstoy introduces Peter Ivanovich, this guy was Ivan’s longest friend. He had known Ivan ever since early childhood till late adulthood. Even Peter doesn’t want to go to the funeral he rather play Bridge with his friends. When he goes to visit Ivan, Peter begins to think about his death coming soon. He quickly enters a state of denial and confusion because he doesn’t want to think about death and when in the presence of Ivan’s body he starts to cross himself and bow because he thinks if he doesn’t his death will soon come. As the story progresses, Ivan begins to isolate himself from society and family. His work shortened his life and allowed Ivan not to think about death coming because he was so occupied. He was so into his work that he did not have time to relax and devote time to his family. As Ivan became more successful in work he had lost two children and didn’t care much for them because he was more concerned about money. He believed if he worked so much he would set his life for the latter part of his life.
In chapter four, Ivan is told that he has very little time to live. Ivan was told that he had a kidney disease (floating kidney) so he devotes every second of his life thinking about death. Ivan believes he can cure himself if he uses the method of mind over matter but he quickly learns he cannot because his symptoms are too much to handle and only make him think more about death. Due to his fatal situation his perception of life changed. For example he questions life, challenges god, and emits hate and disgust towards his wife. He also enters a state of denial and begins to evaluate his life. He is so disgusted and frustrated with life because he has not reached his expectations. Ivan Ilych constantly wishes for death and thinks about his past life. Once he realized he has a lost touch with life he confines himself to his sofa and asks questions that he cannot answer nor can anyone else help him answer them. Towards the end of the book he understands that death is unavoidable. Even though he knows everyone wants him to die except his son he displaces his hatred towards his friends, doctors, and family that he forgives his wife and dies peacefully. During the last minutes of his life he embraced what his life was missing and that, that had been missing was his life was straightforward and it was awful because it was common and not what Ivan wanted.
My reflection on this book is as follows: I very much liked the story it wasn’t interesting but it showed the common process of death. I realized that my perception of death has changed. Before I thought that if I died I would very much die like Ivan but after many revaluations of my life I have accepted my death if I was to die tomorrow because I have accomplished many things in my life. I am proud because I don’t fear death and instead accept this stage of passing. I didn’t like Ivan’s death because it demonstrated that he had no purpose in life and died without respect and pride. However, if I was put in his situation I won’t die without pride I would like to die “big” with respect and when I die I will die with pride because I know my head will be held high and I won’t go easy into the ground. I would also not be angry with the world and hate those that are close to me because Ivan thought everyone had lied and pretended they cared but Ivan knows they care and love him a lot.

RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY

2008-03-29T13:32:00.000-07:00

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is a therapy that directs itself on realizing the unreasonable and unhealthy behaviors humans develop and change them into positive logical and healthy emotions. Due to the fact that humans have accepted unreasonable and unhealthy behaviors they are held back from being happy and being successful. When this state of mind is changed from negative and unreasonable behaviors to positive behaviors it leads to a better state of psychological and physiological health. This therapy helps humans develop a better positive state of mind that will help them when they are encountered with emotional suffering and self-inflicting pain. Patients of the rational emotive behavior therapy face the ABC model. The ABC model was developed by Albert Ellis, it differentiates between the effects of having a reasonable behavior about a negative event, which produces positive and healthy emotions and the effects of having an unreasonable behavior about a negative event, which produces negative and unhealthy emotions. The A in the ABC model is the way you perceive an event, the B in the ABC model is your decision and the way you act upon this event, and the C in the ABC model is the resulting emotion from the event whether it be negative or positive. To further explain the ABC model: the A, is the actual event and the patients interpretation of the event. The B in this model is the evaluation of the event if it is reasonable or unreasonable. The final step of this model is the consequences, such as, emotions and behavior whether positive healthy or negative and unhealthy.
In addition to these three parts there are also three primary insights. The first of these primary insights is the perception of reality and the acceptance of this reality that causes the emotional effect. The second of these insights is there are conditions that do affect the person either in the past or present but they don’t affect the person. Instead it is the way a patient responds to the negative event and it is up to the individual whether they want to uphold these beliefs. The third and final of these insights is to attack the emotional problem and either remove it or turn it into a positive emotion.
In conclusion, rational emotive behavior therapy tries to acknowledge the problem of the patients, identifying the causes of the problems, and when the therapists understand the problem of the irrational emotion they try to understand why it is irrational and provide a different way of counteracting the perception to produce a positive and healthy emotion. When this state of mind is changed from negative and unreasonable behaviors to positive behaviors it leads to a better state of psychological and physiological health. This therapy helps humans develop a better positive state of mind that will help them when they are encountered with emotional suffering and self-inflicting pain.

LIVING THE LIFE

2008-03-29T13:31:00.001-07:00

Albert Einstein was theorized that “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” I believe life is too short to be shackled by stringent principles. For life is an everlasting struggle for existence until it eventually meets death. Every individual will always be surrounded problems so every individual must love themselves the most for it is this love for the inner self that acts as an inexhaustible potion to keep the spirit of fighting alive. All causes are driven by an inner manifested self-love. When you identify your weaknesses you are able to correct them and this will allow for complete domination over your mind, body, and soul. Every action is controlled by the mind and the heart because they are the two centers of power. One must stop thinking about others and embody the attitude that there is nothing in the entire world more important than you and your desires. For the greater half of our lives we spend in depression because it is the little certain things that force us to be unhappy. If we are a creation of God’s perfect image has he bestowed us as weak?

LIFE IN HELL

2008-03-29T13:29:00.000-07:00

“Life in hell” I wrote this while I was sitting in my cell
Stressed behind the bars of jail so I wrote the bars of hell
Couldn’t believe this is where I’ll be in my eighteenth year
Filled with misery in a long day of court and it stressed me out
Framed by my enemies and the judge won’t hear me out
Can’t believe the system I was under
A criminal structure constructed to puncture
The pain makes my veins cry thunder
I hold my tears trying to make the troubles disappear I don’t want to live here
Embraced by my blood brother peers so it’s now safe in here
The reds coming in to my pen doesn’t matter that the mob I’m in
It’s dark and hell is hot this is what is kept within
Hate orange and freedom is not getting closer so I wait for the day they release me
“Don’t want anything, go eat without me”
Used to make a hundred twenty five thousand a year but I was stripped to my last dime
Hell is blind and true love is defined as divine but I gave up all that was mine
Need to restore my name and get away from the evil that remain
Pride filled with blood stains, when will the rain stop so I could shine
This is what has become of me I need to get out and see my family
Who cares what they have done to me I have to move forward with my life
Get out and do what’s right, fight through the strive

WHO SAYS THERE'S NO GRAY AREA

2008-03-29T13:27:00.000-07:00

Dating back to the time of Genesis it was uncertain who was superior the men or the women but it is now proven that men do think differently then women. According to a new study the anatomy of the brain indicates the brain is constructed of two different types of tissue, white and gray matter. This new research reveals that men think more with their gray matter, and women think more with white. Findings show that in general, men have nearly 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence compared with women, whereas women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence compared to men. In human brains, gray matter represents information processing centers, whereas white matter works to network these processing centers. The results from this study may help explain why men and women excel at different types of tasks. Men tend to do better with tasks requiring more localized processing, such as mathematics, while women are better at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions of the brain, which aids language skills. Scientists find it very interesting that while men and women use two very different activity centers and neurological pathways, men and women perform equally well on broad measures of cognitive ability, such as intelligence tests.

TRU LIFE

2008-03-24T10:57:00.000-07:00

There are three things people need to know to live a happy positive and successful life. It is important to feel good about yourself and do the things that bring about happiness. The first things that people need are moral values so they can determine what is right and wrong. These moral values are instilled in us when we were children and it is an important thing because it is what we use to make the right decisions. The second things that people need are family and friends because they help you get through the hard times in life. Without family and friends you will face the hardships by yourself and having nobody beside you is very difficult. People need family and friends because they provide love. This emotion is needed because it is what drives us to do everything we do. People need this most so that they have something to help them get through life. It shows someone personally cares for you. The third and final thing people need is an education because it assists you in becoming successful and wealthy in life. Education is very important, street knowledge or book knowledge does not matter because it is the experiences with the education that help you understand life.

EAT THIS EATING DISORDER

2008-03-22T14:20:00.000-07:00

As a St. John’s student and a member in a society that is infatuated with weight and appearances I quite often come across people with eating disorders and obsessions to be “perfect”. Quite recently I have attended “eat this eating disorder”, a presentation held at St. John’s and I have learned about the hazardous and injurious behaviors that take place. At first I firmly believed women place an enormous amount of stress of the image their body presents. However, I came to know everyone goes to certain lengths to mold themselves into an ideal image. I disagreed and agreed with much of what was said and I have come to provide certain steps that will help you lose weight and be a better person. While achieving your health goals it is important to be a positive and strong individual. Surround yourself with all the positive things in life and eliminate the negative things in your life and begin to better you. The first step in your process is laughter, it makes you positive and you even lose weight when you laugh. Happiness stretches your mind and body as it rejuvenates what is inside of you. Listening to happy music, reading a good book, and watching funny movies can brighten your whole outlook and do wonders for your self esteem and introduce you to ideas and habits. Most individuals think this is comical but having more safe sex is actually good for you because it supports weight loss and able you to release stress and make you happy. For those that do not prefer to indulge in safe sexual activity could throw a party, take a vacation, and isolate yourself from electronic devices and work. Just relax and have a day for yourself one time and indulge yourself in something flavorsome.

TV MAKES YOU STUPID?

2008-03-22T13:40:00.000-07:00

The experiences shared with friends and family is the material one’s life is fabricated. In today’s era people prefer to watch reality television then experience reality. The majority of society average about 45 hours of television a week which consists of reality television, sitcoms, and other forms of entertainment. The entertainment replaces logic and takes away from their intellect. Growing up I spent most of my time at the school playground getting together to play sports. However, as I got older I got the responsibility to watch my little cousins and I was witnessing how stupid they were becoming. They would wake up really early on a Saturday morning to watch cartoons. It was there weekly festivity and they would wake me up early just so I could watch Tom and Jerry with them. They no longer wanted to draw, read, color, or play sports they just placed themselves on each couch and did not want to do anything. The television had kept their attention by providing laughter, excitement, and amusement so I had to ban television. Even though I received an unpleasant reaction the choice to get them out of the trance would only benefit them in the long run. According to Daphne Miller, a renowned doctor, she believes television is dangerous and damaging for those that are exposed to it. When we watch television we are not becoming smarter because the brain is a muscle when it is used to think it becomes stronger and you become smarter. “Television hands kids all the answers, promoting passive learning and short attention spans. As a result, kids have difficulty concentrating and working hard to solve a problem.” The consequences that television has on a developing mind are hazardous. Most children will have watched about 10,000 hours worth of television by the time they even start school. Then, the majority of kids will spend 10 hours in front of the TV for every hour spent tending to homework. Around the time students are graduating high school, they will have committed more time to television than they have to sitting in a classroom. Dr. Daphne Miller states that on average, children should spend less time watching television and use those hours saved to play sports, spending time with family and friends, to create, to build, and to contemplate.

GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT

2008-02-26T17:26:00.000-08:00

Modern day America’s prison systems have been an embarrassment and a disgrace against the ideas of the founding fathers and what the red, white, and blue symbolizes. Everyday large groups of individuals are stripped of their natural rights, thrown into jail, deprived of their possessions, humiliated in public, and exposed to violence. It was once said you are innocent until proven guilty but the times along with the laws have changed, every individual is now guilty until proven innocent. Police officers abuse their law enforcement status for self-beneficent. Police officers capture the innocent non-violent law abider and throw them in a violent environment. Humiliated behind bars as a zoo animal only forces humans to lose respect towards law enforcement and forced to rebel and make them hardened individuals. The current structure of the American penal system is failing to uphold its original reason. Our prison system is no longer effective the government has fell to extreme lows because they cannot arrest robbers, murders, and rapists they begin to seek below the surface and arrest people for race, creed, religion, and other miscellaneous factors. Every American pay extreme amounts of money for the prison system to fail. They are expensive and produce an environment that is devastating to its residents. Even after most residents are released they return to damage the communities and our hard earn tax dollars are wasted towards this “effective” system. The government should have restitution programs that offer a prison resident a chance to restore his name and undertake a positive change of character. Nothing can destroy a man more than living without a purpose in life. Removing nonviolent offenders from prison and putting them into a restitution program would eliminate overcrowding and violence that tax-payers work so hard for. The atrocities behind bars are well known to everybody but for prisoners those atrocities become natural to living. Prison residents lose values during their imprisonment because they are surrounded in a violent, dangerous, and self-defeating environment. When they leave prison they are worse then they were before placed in jail. As Americans we are guilty until proven innocent prison was intended to lock and restrict humans their natural rights.

EYES ARE THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL

2008-02-19T18:17:00.000-08:00

The eyes are the window to the soul. It is the eyes that see what the mind can comprehend. Men and women alike both use the eye contact test. As I mentioned in my previous blogs, men are very nervous to approach a woman due to many uncertainties. The eye contact test is simple, when a man likes a woman, he should lock his eyes with her eyes. Even if she’s not looking at you just stare at her, it may sound weird but it is human nature. Subconsciously, the woman will glance your way, just to see who is around her. Invariably, both of you will lock eyes and when you do just smile at her. Her reaction will determine your next move, if she smiles back just approach and start a casual conversation but if she pays no mind to you just move on and don’t let her reaction bring you down.
If you happen to start a casual conversation look into her eyes to see if she is attracted to you. If her pupils become wider it is an indication she is attracted to you and is becoming excited. The dilated pupils are good to look at because it is an unconscious sign of attraction. It is something you will notice and become familiar with experience because there are many problems with dilated pupils, there are many factors that can affect the results.
To familiarize everyone, both men and women use these body language tests to determine attraction to each other. These body language tests are the vertical and horizontal eye tests. When making eye contact it is important to look at the eyes. These eye signals are very quick to miss so stay focused. If his/her eyes look downwards at the person it is a good sign. It is assumed that the person likes what they saw when looking at your face so they scope the rest of your body. Most women do this much quicker than most men so it is often missed. The horizontal scan comes after the vertical scan. The horizontal scan occurs when both parties are attracted. When it’s time to kiss look into their eyes and you will see their eyes going back and forth as they try to read you.

F*CK THE COPS

2008-02-19T18:16:00.000-08:00

As Americans living in the post 9/11 era, we are stripped of our divine natural rights as citizens of the United States of America. We are now living in times of corruption and fear. With the low wages offered to police officers, there are very little honest, law-abiding, and respectable individuals upholding the law. Law enforcement is no longer a respectable staff but instead a gang, similar to the “bloods” and “crips”. They are a staff of low self-esteemed individuals that have constructed large amounts of repressed anger throughout their awkward adolescent years. The government even supplies these intellectual challenged individuals a firearm for “protection.” However, it is us, the unarmed civilians that are unprotected, have been restricted personal freedom, stripped of civil liberties, and are guilty until proven innocent. Instead of protecting the innocent and fighting crime, the police force is the present day laughing stock as they cannot catch murders and robbers but arrest people for marijuana, trespassing in their own house, and jaywalking just to make it look like they are actually needed. Everyday our individuality is attacked and confined to ensure “safety”. As a society, it is important to realize we are restricted to develop into our fullest potential and are subjects of corrupt political and social control. With restricted freedom and constant violation of human rights the development of our nation is paralyzed. Whether, it is politically, economically, socially, technologically, ethically, culturally, and morally. Growing up every teacher in elementary school told me the police are your friend but as I got older they are sly uniformed political criminals. For example, the brutality displayed by police forces towards innocent humans only fuels gang violence and police hate crimes. Police have stripped us of our natural human rights, we are no longer innocent until proven guilty, we are arrested, harassed, thrown in jail because we are presumed guilty and then have to prove our innocent to a corrupt political system. Accusers are no longer required to provide proof for their allegations. With the sad but well deserved decline in police salaries and with a great recruitment of gang members, every police force will soon be challenged.

LOOKING THRU HER EYES

2008-02-05T11:29:00.000-08:00

All women are innately born with a very special skill. This is not to say they are in anyway superior or inferior but women can tell if a man is a decent nice guy or complete jerk. Some women can even tell if a relationship will be successful based on his hair type. To distinguish this, a man with a “cow lick”/”flip” would normally have a bad temper but a man with his hair down is usually calm and laid back. When men and women interact there are certain little things women look at that men don’t realize they are doing. Throughout my blogs, I will attempt to guide the average man into becoming the ultimate man. There are many perceptions, misconceptions, and mistakes that are formed and they will all be dissected. The first mistake that most men come across is trying hard to impress a woman. Most men try to impress women by them with numerous compliments. Although women do love compliments, a compliment should not be thrown around. Women tend to stop believing the man if he keeps complimenting her. Instead make her feel special by asking her questions about herself and make her the centerpiece. Most women are interested in getting to know the man, what he does in his free time, what he does for fun, and what he does for a living so she can get an overall impression of him. When you are with a woman don’t be stuck on yourself. Try to find out what type of woman she is; is she the type of woman that likes the simple man and can have friendly fun with or the type of women who like a secure, confident, and dominant guy. When guys go out with a girl they need to know how to have manners, be smart, and funny. A woman hates guys that curse, boring, and love to show off. The key is to be a little mysterious, the less you say the better.
While what I say is based on experience and there are no ultimate right or wrongs. Women are more insecure then they say they are. Some women don’t want a guy with too much baggage because it is a display of how insecure they really are. A lot of women would rather have a man that doesn’t have much to offer because if they break up it makes them more secure because they know they didn’t really lose much. However, if an Adonis type of a man breaks up with a woman, that woman will feel more hurt and heartbroken. The handsome, intelligent, and successful male will be more intimidating to the female. Usually women pick a guy they feel they can control. There is a misconception in this because women don’t want to tell them what to do or coordinate their life. They would just want the person they care for to realize the importance in their life. Another misconception is women are very bad expressing what they really mean; they know what they want to say but cannot ultimately show it.
All men and women are nervous when they are trying to get to know each other, but by the end of the day the man has to show a little more of his personality, show her a sensitive side, and something that makes the woman be with you because you are a truly good individual. The number one thing that attracts a woman is a man that respects others as well as himself, knows himself, and goal oriented.

WOMEN AND THE ART OF WAR

2008-02-05T07:41:00.000-08:00

The Art of War, by Sun Tzu is the most brilliant piece of work in its time. Written by an ancient Chinese warrior, Sun Tzu analyzes strategies, politics, tactics, motivation, and deceit. In the today’s era it is read as a guide for structuring businesses, sports teams, and political campaigns. Due to the extreme complication that the ancient vernacular provides, I have often read the novel numerous times to fully understand the underlining message. For the sake of my topic, I have applied the basic principles of the Art of War to women.
It is very important to hide your weaknesses and to play your strengths. Know every possible detail of the woman but be unknowable to her. Always be unpredictable and subtle. Never do the expected. Make moves that are simple and efficient. Unresponsiveness is your highest source. Construct vulnerability in woman but stay aware and persistent. Love every woman, some more than others. When listening to advice ignore those that are unsuccessful. If in a group of woman the single male will not win. The man must divide them and only have two women left, the strong one and the weak one. Stick to your disciplined rules. Do not do or say anything stupid, it will weaken you. Divert attention away from her friends, be what she wants but cannot have, and always try to leave them thinking of you by giving them good reasons to think of you. Morally, it is better to have one woman but for those that are morally challenged do not have more than two women at one time. Be unpredictable and let the place you are in to strengthen her understanding of you.

CLUB SCENE

2008-02-01T18:22:00.000-08:00

After hitting the books the whole school week, it is now Friday night and most of us college students go out, relax, and have fun, right? The club scene is not meant for everyone. It is for those willing to let it all hang out and have fun. “Clubbing” is a term that is often thrown around but very rarely done correct. My personal favorites are Icon, DNA, Abyss, Mirage, Euro Lounge, Pacha, Webster Hall, and Avalon. Any time one goes to a club, it is a must to dress up nice, the main objective is to look better than everyone else, to show you’re confident, somebody important, and so you stand out. Like most of my fellow club goers like to show up “fashionably late” I think it is best if you show up early because then you can see who comes in and with who they came in with so you get an idea. By observing how people interact you will get a sense of who is here for a free drink and who is here for a good time. When you’re in the club its key to laugh and talk with your friends. Make it look like you’re having more fun than you’re really having. Confidence will start to exude from you and girls/guys will start noticing that there is a positive vibe from you. The mental mindset when one enters a club has to have a clear head and not a set agenda. Most guys in general will go to clubs to pick up “chicks”, they think if they dance they will look stupid and no one will be attracted to them. Ironically, that is the exact opposite because girls want the outgoing and spontaneous guy when they go clubbing. If you’re there just to hold up the wall what is the point of going?
Once you have established you are here to have a good time make your way around the club and find a person (male or female) that has caught your eye. Never approach a person dancing on the stage in a club because those are the “attention needing” people. When you’re dancing and have a smile on your face make sure to be aware of your surroundings and which people are noticing you. When you have caught eyes with the person that has caught your attention, smile and wave at them. If they respond in the same manner, immediately approach them say “hi” in a friendly manner and dance with them. Never be afraid to assert yourself, simply if the person is receptive they will tell you about themselves. The key is to have a good time and the rest will follow. In the meantime, just keep laughing with your friends and keep clap your hands to the music.

GOOD GUYS DO FINISH LAST

2008-02-01T15:46:00.000-08:00

For as long as I remember I was always known as “the nice guy.” I would be the guy that girls would talk to about their problems, boyfriends, looks, and school work. I was always the “big brother” that doesn’t want to see his “little sisters” hurt. I would never be considered for a date because when it came down to it the girls always liked the “jerk type” with the “bad boy” attitude. For some much unknown reason in the universe women are attracted to the “jerk type” that would ultimately end up damaging their emotional state of being. There is a drastic difference between a “jerk” and a “nice guy.” “Nice guys” would give women the world and everything in it, while a “jerk type” would lie, cheat, and use women to his own benefit. Being a “jerk type” works, but one raises the question, how can you continue being a jerk to the person you genuinely love and care for. Being very nasty, disinterested, and having a very sarcastic attitude towards women is for a very odd reason appealing to the female dynamic. However, I am not telling every “nice guy” to become a “jerk type” because it is demoralizing but the change has to come in attitude. The “nice guy” has to become self-assured and have confidence within himself. Although the “nice guy” is intelligent, respectful, funny, and knows what he wants in life, women like men, want someone that makes them feel special, excites them, and makes them laugh every day.

LISTEN TO HER HEART

2008-02-01T14:15:00.000-08:00

Every girl would like to love or be loved. Love is much deeper than a physical relationship. The meaning of love transcends through the words of the heart. For every guy it is very difficult to approach a beautiful girl and win her heart. Most guys think love is just a physical relationship but for a girl it is a foundation in which they hope to find a true gentleman. The first step for a guy to win a girls heart begins with a good impression. The key is to make a good impression so she notices you. You don’t have to say much, just have a clean polished look. If you dress sloppy it’s usually a sign for arrogance and carelessness. If you really want to win a girls heart is to be a man of good habits. A gentleman should watch his language because impolite and filthy language is a sign of immaturity and a lower class stature. The girl will eventually notice you and you just have to let her gradually fall in love. The most important part of love is being romantic. The objective of the man should be to approach her in a romantic manner and create a special bond and not a physical relationship. So if you happen to catch her looking at you just come up to her and introduce yourself in a respectful polite manner.
Understanding and taking care of the girl’s heart you want to win is very important. Every girl wants to be understood, she wants to be adored, loves to be loved, and wants to be wanted. Once you establish a friendship it will allow you to be closer to the girl will help you understand her hobbies, interests, and her own personal style. Love is built upon friendships, being a good friend that she can turn to is what a girl ultimately wants. Don’t be afraid to be helpful and a positive light in her life try to bring the best qualities out of her. Make her feel special, listen to her every word, because these are the words of her heart. It is also a nice gesture for every gentleman to compliment a lady because every lady appreciates a compliment.
Tell her how you always think of her even when you try not to think about her. Try not to come off obsessive or crazy but just let her know in a smooth way that she is the only thing on your mind throughout the day. It is important for the guys to remember that if he doesn’t authentically mean these words, do not throw them out there. You exhibit yourself as a disrespectful liar and a jerk. In your everyday conversations try to make her laugh some girls admire a guy with a comfortable humoristic side. Be creative and try to keep her interest. Call her when she would least expect it and just make her feel special through the meaningful words of your heart.
Let her be in control when it comes to physical contact, try to have self control and take it slow. After a date take her home, be very respectful and wish her a sweet night. Being a gentleman displays how much you respect her and love her. Patience is the key to a girl’s heart and if a man understands this he will become more charming and attractive. Remember try not to be a jerk and mean to her prove to her that you’ll always be there for her to make her feel happy and loved. Let her be independent to make her decision and have trust being restrictive loosens the love and trust between you and her. By not lying to her, being there to listen, and holding her hand will win her heart.