Musical Preferences

All my life my musical interests have varied as they do today. My musical interests range widely from classic rock to Hip-Hop. I have also studied classical music, however I do not necessarily enjoy listening to the music. I like different kinds of music for different reasons. All music puts me in a certain mood or makes me feel a certain way. I like classic rock and rock because they are usually loud songs that make me feel energized or give me new life. Hip Hop does the opposite for me. Rap and Hip-Hop is the kind of music that usually relaxes me and puts my mind at ease. Songs like whoever you like by Lil Wayne and ride by Ace Hood have lyrics like "You can have the weather you like", these kind of lyrics let me dream a little bit. I do not only have interests in these two music genres these are just the major ones. I will occasionally catch the techno or metal song I like but it is rare. Listening to all different genres of music has helped me explore new cultures and new ways of living. Listening to these different kinds of music has caused me to look into other ways of life and learn about new people . Below is a link to a music video of one of the songs i like called I'm So Paid by Akon





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L-C0GTKK24

World War Two POW

When people go through extreme or traumatizing things they often are silent about it and afraid, or embarrassed about whats happened to them. In Anthony Acevedo's case the army told him to be silent about his experience in a prison camp. Anthony Acevedo saw adheard things that most of us wull never have to face, at least hopefully not. Anthony saw people killed and saw grown men who were so starved they weighed only 70 pounds. anthony Acevedo faced the unspeakeble and stared adversityin the eye. He is a hero and should be honored along with his fellow comrades who were put inot prison camps.

Genocide in Darfur

Since 2003 the Sudanes Goverment and their allied militia, the Janjaweed have been killing and raping millions of their own people. The troops have been going around to villages murdering the men and rping the women. They have also been bombing innocent villages and towns with high powered military aircraft. Most of the attacks have been against people of the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masaalit ethnic groups. Over 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million people have been driven from their homes. since 2005 the violence has settled sown but people are still afraid to return to their homes because they are in fear they will be attacked again. The people in Darfur have to think about unspeakable things like rape and murder everyday it is extremely sad that anybody in the world would ever commit things as horrible as the carnage in Darfur.

Purpose of Art 2

After reading the comic MAUS and discussing the purpose of art with fellow thinkers my perspective about art has changed slightly. I now believe that everything is art, and everything can be art. Not just physical things like a picture on the wall or a sculpture. Art is the perfect form of a hockey player as he takes a shot or the grace a basketball player has when he takes a jump shot. Art is a perfectly designed city with no traffic flaws or a mother singing to her kid to sleep at night. I don't believe art has any purpose or definition. For something to be art it must simply be something that captivates someone's mind or catches someone's eye. Art is inside us, everything around us is just what we make of it.

Purpose of Art Response

Jansen is a painter and artist who invented "animari". Animari are mechanical machines that could be resembled to animals. They are very interesting things because they have unique reflexives that a lot of machines don't have. they also function on a unique source of power. Jansen is a former physic major who created a work of art. True beauties of the art world.

Art is there so people can dream and imagine what could be. Art opens the mind and lets us step beyond boundaries we never thought we could acheive. The animari brings this to life in creating a form of artificial life.Jansen is a great artist and is very inspiring. I want to create an animari in my own way and open up peoples minds.

The elections

I am very happy about the results of this years election. In my state of Michigan a democratic senator was re-elected and a new democratic president was also elected. Our new president elect Baraque O'Bama is the first ever African American President and I am excited to see where he is going to take our country. I believe that the last eight years have been some of the worst and toughest this country has seen. With a new democratic administration in the White House we are going to see changes that will people here in our own country instead of going to war with everyone we feel like. I hope our new president focuses on making the economy better and I believe he will do so. I also hope our new president takes us out of Iraq and Afghanistan and quits wasting our money overseas. God Bless America!

Poem Final Draft

A place of peace and quiet. A place of cats and dogs, sisters and brothers,mothers and fathers.

The school bell rings in the morning and the children laugh while they play.

The winter is cold but the houses are warm, the grass is green and dinners are tasty.

The American dream.


A nice quiet town with a nice quaint downtown.