Friday, May 28, 2010

Future Question

The media has changed so much over the years and I’m sure it will keep on growing. 30 years ago the paparazzi barley existed. Movies were in black and white. Cameras were big and bulky and colour printers didn’t exist. No the media is on celebrities back all the time. They do the slightest thing wrong and its everywhere.

Movies have also changed so much. Now a days movies are animated, edited and majorly changed all by computers. Just think of what movies where like back when our parents were our age. Hard to imagine isn’t it.

All the things that have changed have made our world evolve, but is it growing too quickly. I a few years what is our world going to be like? Are we going to have robots take care of our family? Will we not have to do jobs anymore because computers will do them for us? THE QUESTIONS NEVER END!!!!!!!


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Friends. What would we do without them? I know I have a friend when I feel joy when I am around the person and when I can see that they have joy when they see me too. Friendship is a special gift of connection that is woven together by a mixture of love, trust, common likes and sometimes even common dislikes. I think it’s better when friends connect through the things they like rather then the things they dislike, because connecting through dislikes usually leads to gossip, while connecting through the things we

like to do leads to a lot of fun.


Friends are people who are there whenever you need them. If your crying they’ll be there to cheer you up. If you just need someone to talk too they are listening to what you have to say. And they really care, and they really listen. Friends just care about you. You are special to them and they are special to you. It’s about a special kind of love. A love that’s free of all the weirdness that other forms of love can have. Good friendship is a pure thing. It’s white in a grey world.


A good friend is hard to find, but a friendship that will last a lifetime is even harder to find. Some people seem to make friends more easily than others. Some people seem to have hundreds of friends. They brag about having literally hundreds of Facebook friends. I am not sure how you can be really good friends with more than a few people. I care more about having a few good friends that I can really know and love than having hundreds of people I barely know. I also like to spend time with my friends face to face and I am getting kind of tired of virtual Facebook friends. I want to be able to actually experience my friends in real life – to play soccer together, to run and fall down together, to eat lots of popcorn and watch lots of movies and to laugh together at the stupid stuff that just seems to be part of our life.


Not only do your friends have to act like a friend, so do you. If you’re not very nice or helpful to your friends your friendship won’t last very long. Friendship is kind of like a garden. You have to plant it and water it and sometimes you even have to weed it a little. With the application of a fertilizer of love, honesty, faithfulness and joy, friendships can grow to last a lifetime.


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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A Blog About Blogging

This week’s blog is about blogging as a part of our weekly LA class assignment. I want to ask the question, as a part of this weeks blog - Is the blogging we are doing is really what blogging is meant to be? Wasn’t blogging started as a way to personally express yourself without judgment? Isn’t the blogosphere supposed to be a place of complete freedom where our own distinct personalities are allowed to run wild in creative writing? Isn’t there something a little off when we get graded on our blogs when they are expressions of our personal thoughts? What makes my thoughts better (or worse) then your thoughts? I guess the question is – is there a difference between a blog, which is an expression of our unique personal thoughts, and an essay, which is usually an assignment, which we get graded for?

On a basic level there are differences between blogs and essays in their structure and purpose. Blogs can be any length, but are usually short (like a paragraph or maybe a few paragraphs), while an essay has to have at least five paragraphs (1 introduction, 3 body and 1 conclusion paragraphs) and has a specific structure. Blogging it supposed to be a short and creative expression of our personal opinions or an update about what’s going on in our or other people’s lives (I guess if it’s about other peoples lives that would be gossip). An essay can be about any topic and is supposed to express an idea or thought which may have nothing to do with what we really think or care about. Essay topics are usually assigned and we do them because we need the grade. An essay is more like work, while a blog should be more like love. At least that’s what I think.

So, if we are really doing a personal blog should we be graded on it? I am not sure. I think that doing the blog is a great idea and doing it is helping me (I hope) become more experienced with writing and expressing myself. But I don’t personally like getting graded on my blog, as this seems to devalue my personal thoughts about whatever I decided to write about. How can my ideas be of less or more value than yours? Isn’t the real value of the blogosphere the freedom that exists in the uncontrolled and unjudged character of blogging?


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Monday, May 17, 2010

MY NAME!!!!


My name is Emilie Marie Pollard. It’s who I’ve always been and who I will always be. Emilie comes from a French origin and means eager, ambitious and industrious. Marie is the French form of Mary and means wished for child, star of the sea, or bitter sea. Pollard is an English name that means either a knight with a broad sword, a tree that is trimmed to have a flat top, or a type of hair cut that students at oxford had during the middle ages. In French, Pollard (or Poularde) may also mean a fat chicken.

In my family it is a tradition that kids are named after their grandparents. Emilie (or Emily) came from both of my grandmothers and Marie came from my mom and my great Aunt. I think it’s really cool to be named after people from my families history and to be able to carry on the good things that these people lived for. On the other hand, this tradition may be related to a total lack of creativity in my family, which makes it completely impossible for them to think of new names.

Some may say my name suits me others may disagree. I personally think it does in some ways, but it also doesn’t. The question I have for you is this: do you think my name suits me? Is there a better name that might suit me? Can you come up with three new possibilities? If I translate my name from the language and culture of origin, it would be – Eager wished for child fat chicken.


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