[FREE] Being Vegan to Being Confused

Through out all my life I have lived being truly humble. I try to see every ones point of view and every species too. Even if it is hard I try to look at the world trough there eyes. This fact has made me love all eukaryote and prokaryotes. Evey living thing should have there shot there life as we want our selves to have that shot. Sometimes we even what a second chance at it. This made me become vegan. I did not want to deny any living things its chance in life. Who am I to judge that? I am not god. I am another eukaryote in this world of ignorance. I wanted to be a fair caring person that stop the cycle. I even read, The Jungle's first half. I was disgusted in the way humas treat treat other animals. We have no heart nor do we have respect.
However, after reading the first fourth of The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith, thanks to Mr. Sutherland, I am very perplexed. However, as I always heard from my Pr-Calculus teacher last year, Mrs.Macy, "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge." That is so true. We as humans know nothing, we even try to ignore the facts. We want to see this world as a perfect place. This book contradicts everything of which changed me to become vegan. It tells me that we vegans/vegetarians kill more species than a normal carnivorous person. We encourage agriculture work. Agriculture kills more species than animal farms. People have to go and find more fertile land to create more wheat, corn and such. The extinction of the forest and such kills/puts those species out in exile with no where to go. The kill animals that later become food for decomposers. Those species killed together with animals in food mills too. Oh the irony! The complication of trying to be a truly fair judge is now a more complicating this. This is no white and black picture. "It's all the shade in-between"-Mr.Gross, history teacher.

[CE]Bullfighting

Spain's most eldest tradition of bullfighting is seen as something typical. When one thinks of Spain first thing that pops up in mind are toreros and toros meaning the bullfighters and the bulls. It is a hobby of many in Spain. I do not see why people have recently grown care for the bulls to try to stop it. Since when did this start? It has no only been a tradition for the Spanish to do a 'sport' against animals. Why does this have to be so big of a deal?
I see the poeples position as to try to save the millions of bull killed each year because of this They are big animals and we should protect not deny life to it. However, most of these bulls have been forcefully produced by companies owning a bull farm or just plain bullfights. They basically raise them to be killed in the mire future. They are not taken out of the wild where they are 'wild bulls' to defend there life against trained humans. They are raised to be murdered by there men.I have read many thing like this that are mind trippy. The book is called The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre keith. 
Why try to make change if we our self do not know what we are trying to change. We might think we know and our believes blind us from the truth. We need to take a deeper look into the fact about life. Changing this tradition to try to save the bulls. Hey, they are bulls they should know how to defend themselves. It is not like it has nothing to defend its self with. We might be saving one species life but we have to be fair and save all species or kill all species, our selfs too. That is being truly fair judge. Think about it. 

[RE]Jazmine Bravo: Taken for Granted

Reading her post reminded me off many things. She is right.We take everything in our life for grated, to an extent. The only things we do not take for granted are the things we worked our butts of to get. Those are the things we will never lose sight of. They are like our trophies stating our succession for accomplishing something as what we saw truly impossible. However, with people that is a different story. The people we do not take for granted, who are they? Think hard now. At the top of my head I an not think of anyone. I always blow my mom off. My dad has never been there. My grandparents, I love them to death but I do tend to take them for grated. Think about it. Do we always call our family from afar for a quick check up and let them know that we care? I do not. Do we always end up in content moods with our parents. I know there is no possible way. We are all human. We tend to always debate with anyone who opposes our view.
For example, the situation with my grandparents. I love them so much. I never call to check up. I do not see them everyday but I do get to see them for at least once a week. However, when I do see them sometimes I try to avoid conversations with them. My mom once brought something to my attention. That they are hard working old people whose bodies are seriously tired. They do not get much sleep because of all the work they have, day and night. I never think of there financial needs when they give me money, I ask to go out somewhere nice, or even worse gift for birthday which they think of as big dollar bills. I take there loving for granted, I take there existence for granted. Now thinking harder, I want to do something special for them something that does not have to be me being older but something possible now.
Never take anything for granted. Everything comes at a price even if we ignore it. Life comes at a price, do not damage your life because you think of it as something positive in a way. Respect your life and life will respect you. 

Look up at the stars

When you look up at the stars

Do you take the time to think?

Do you wonder?

Do you blank out?

Or do you just relax?

Tell me what is is about the night sky
That is just so magnetic in life

It pulls us in and does not let go

When you feel like something is too much

You are stressing out

Or you just cant find yourself

Take my advice
And take the time to look up at the stars

Let that troubled kid inside
Be abducted by the aliens in the night sky

Let the fears slide

Take it easy and imagine yourself sitting on your favorite star
Escape the nightmares that haunt you
Live the life that you want to
With the start of a glance outside your starry window

Whipe those tears
Erase those thoughts
Smile a little, laugh a little
Take your time
While you sit on that star ...

[ESSAY] Summer 2010

It was the beginning of summer 2010. I wanted to do something productive. I decided to volunteer somewhere ,not knowing where. While I was walking around Oakland, I visited my old elementary school, Acorn Woodland Elementary School. I stopped to say hi to the principle, Ms.Kimmy. Right there and then I though to myself then asked her if they had a summer school starting soon to volunteer my time into. She told me they did not but the other school in the same campus was, to go ask if I could, and tell Ms.Nguen, principle of Encompass Academy, that she had sent me. I went over and left with a date to start.

The first day they had a mandatory staff meeting the day before it was the starting date for the students. That day I met all the staff and many at a personal level due to activities the principle assigned. The staff was great; All multicultural which brought different point of views to the table, all very nice people, young and old. As I sat there observing and I saw that they all actually cared for the student's academic achievements. They all shared ideas from little things of how the special education buses would arrive from to how to approach kids with who did not get a subject after several times. I was just there to see how the program will go about, introduce myself, and to know my schedule.  However, I left the room with a new point of view of school staff. My outlook on schools and respect for teacher went to all time high.

The first official day of school started and I was excited, for a change. I had to wait for the students that got dropped off early and play games with them. After that I went to the first grade classroom for half hour to help the kids and mostly the teacher. The next hour in my schedule was dedicated to the third grade class. The one class I spent the longest time with was with the second graders. I spent an hour and a half. At lunch I help in the cafeteria. After that I had my lunch time, some times help in the special ed. classes, and other times I just spent my time with the security. The rest of my time was set on helping the fifth grade class and anything else the principle wanted me to help with. 

At the beginning there was not much to do. Once the real work started to cave in I learn a lot from the kids and staff. From the kids, I saw that they do not take school as a must ,as most people do, they take it as a nature, something fun and stimulative. They do struggle at first but it is all mostly due to lack of concentration because all they want to do is play. They do not sit there and complain about their work. They do it while playing around. They helped me see to always look on the bright side. To take any challenge as a good one and if you lose there will always be next time. Life is full of second chances but we have to learn from our mistakes to move on. You should never worry about what other people say about you because you are the one that has to live with the thought of your self. To never criticizes others because it can really affect them. Kids are kids and we all still have that little kiddish self of us inside we will never lose but should never forget because they see the world in a better way.Even though people say kids know nothing they can actually teach us a lot with out them even knowing they are doing so.  

[FREE]Ancient Aliens

Lately I have been really into some documentary movies about aliens in the past, Ancient Aliens. They talk about how they are a big part of our history. Not just in ideas but show through actual facts given. However, we do not want to see as truth. They show solid facts but they can be proven wrong. They say that they are what we see as gods. They brought new machinery into our lives and that is how our ancestors were able to produce all of which they did such as the exact measures of the Egyptian pyramids.
However, in other documentaries they talk about how plagues of disease were brought by our so called gods, aliens encounters.   They showed that after the "appearance of Virgin Mary" in Spain there was a deadly plague going around that killed thousands of people and so did in many other places throughout history. It just like when the European people first came to America with their dogs. The Native Americans first saw a dog and meaning that they were not immune to the diseases that the dogs carry. There for many people died.
I like watching these documentaries. They are mind blowing ideas set out with cold facts. I see that we are missing a peace of our history's puzzle. Is a top secret society hiding all this from us?Do they think we could not handle knowing that we are not alone out in the universe? Because hey, out of all the galaxies in space I am so sure we could not be the only planet with life. 

[CE]France bans public prayer

I can see France's direction  towards taking this actions. All they want is too make us all equal. They want to start by making all wear the same clothes, doing the same things and worshiping the same god in all the same ways. Doing this there would be no difference to go discriminate upon. There would be nothing to say because everyone does the same things in the same ways.. The only way to stand out is by your personality and slightly in clothes. 

Being that there are many religions out in the world. It will be hard to say  stop, to some of them. You cannot just tell one person to stop worshiping their god in the way the do it. I t goes against their beliefs and what they have been shown as they have grown up. Telling them to stop is disrespectful in all ways. Not respecting each others cultures is what America was and sort of is all about. That is how we got to where we are today. America disrespects all cultures from the start of it's own time. All because they think that their culture is far superior from all others. America even disrespects people n the sence of skin colors and language barriers. This all 

Who is to say we cannot believe in what we want? Worship the way we want? Live the way we want to live? Most people would say there parents but still. Our own beliefs will still be inside us because that is who we are. Who are we judge each other when we are also being judge by others? Respect for each others way of life needs to come first to later determine what truly needs to be addressed as wrong.