lifeness

So I was thinking today and I decided, I'm not happy where I am in life. I mean...there are certain aspects of my life that I could not live without such as my friends. But I dont want to be here...meaning I don't want to be in Pa anymore yet at the same time there are people I can't imagine leaving and the fact that I can't move somewhere where I don't know anyone...I hate being alone for many reasons. I hate being dependant on other people (and yes for those who know I am workin on getting my license). I being in the same place day in and day out is driving me in sane. I go no where except this house and this small town.

I think critical thinking/analysis is like my dream job, yet at the same time where would I work? I mean I would like teaching, but at the high school or college age, but at the same time would I be the kind of teacher that gets locked in the closest (yes that has happened at Bentworth)...

I think it all boils down to that same questions that haunts my thoughts....where do I belong, what's my worth to employers...and I honestly don't know the answer.....marketing myself better...hmm how to do that when I have virtually no skills and pretty much scared to death of being around masses of people. I can read and write...there are my skills. WHOOPY-WEE

Where I belong

In response to a blog posted on myspace, Jeremy asked "where do you belong" and since then I have been thinking about it. And honestly I have no freaking clue of to where I belong. I don't seem to fit in anywhere or in anything. And surprising, I'm somewhat ok with that. In a sense it gives me more of the feeling that God is in control of my life not me. Not knowing where my next step in life will be, gives me a chance to really think and appreciate some of the things I do have in my life. I've found peace knowing God will take care of everything from a job to the romantic aspect of my life. The problem is one moment I feel I know where I am going and then something happens that makes me doubt whether or not I'm on the right path.

So where do I belong....I belong on a path with God. Though I may not know where it leads, I'm ready to walk it.

Banned Books

Every year the American Library Association bans a number of books for various reasons. Many of the books on this year's list, the reason is because of sexual content. Now it doesn't matter if books that have sex in them are banned from being taught in schools, kids will see/hear about sex in movies and television. Are we going to start banning those too? I mean I know there are ratings on movies and the such, but kids still manage to find a way to watch them.

The book on the top of the list: "It's Perfectly Normal” was banned for a number of reasons, some of them being "abortion", "religious viewpoint" among homosexuality, nudity and sexual education. I was somewhat surprised to see that abortion and religious viewpoint was among the reasons, because the ALA shouldn't ban books that have a certain viewpoint or discuss a certain topic.

"The Catcher in the Rye”: one of the best classic novels is on this list because of sexual content, offensive language and being unsuited to age group. How can we ban a classic such as "The Catcher in the Rye." I think by the time people read this novel, they are in their junior or senior years of high school, meaning they've seen/heard the offensive language and sexual content. Another classic that has been on the list and for once wasn't on it this year is "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" because of offensive language. Most of the language that is being objected to was appropriate for the time period it was written and the location it was set it in.


“It's So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families” by
Robie H. Harris for sex education and sexual content. This is a book I would think people would use to help educate their children, and I'm guessing that is what the intent was.

I can't believe that we cannot pick and choose what books get read (or taught) and what book don't, we need to have someone tell us what's appropriate or not.. If write a novel, I don't want to constantly wonder if I'll have a theme or references in it that will cause my book to be banned. I don't think any author wants their book banned, to me that's a slap in the face as if the ALA is saying "good you're published, but we're gonna ban it from schools and the such."

If there was a permission slip parents could sign saying it was alright if their kids read certain books that would solve some of the problems ALA may think these books are causing.

Internet Rant

So I was just thinking about the internet and the fact that it has dumbed some people down or society as a whole. I mean the simple fact that people don't care about how the type/"write" is enough to say that we're loosing some smarts. Some people I talk to don't understand how it can get on my nerves to have someone type "ppl" "grp" "GURL" and the such and yet these same people know that I was an English major...it's like HELLO!!! More times then not i've found myself correcting people on their usages of "there" "they're" and "their". Does the society need to go back and have a grammer lesson? Can people tell the difference between the different usages anymore?

But anyway, I have seen students turn in papers with the usage of "w/o" and "b/c" in them. Are we too lazy to write an intellectual paper without haveing to abbreviate words that aren't even that long to begin with? Come on people!


Not to mention the fact that people can just go online and download term papers and the such and actually use them in class without realizing that professors can easily type in a phrase and find out if the paper or part of the paper was plagerized....and yes this has happened at RMU.

Has the internet made it easier for people to be lazy and not fully type out words ( i mean common how hard is it to press a few extra keys?) or make it easy for use to not an intellectual thought in us? I mean granted sometimes I do type w/o, b/c and the such, but that's cause I'm in a hurry and on a deadline with my own work (I'm attempting to write a couple essays in hopes of getting them published and become a literary critic how awesome would that be?) but anyway I am rambleing and probably not making any sense. So off I go....


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