Blog/RJ Week 7

    At a gathering a couple of years ago, there was a heated debate going in between a couple of friends and myself about tattoos. I have always believed that tattoos are pointless, even when a person has the name of their mom, dad, or loved one tattooed onto their skin. I feel that if you really love someone, show them how much you love them with actions rather than showing off this ink on your skin. This is just my personal belief. Obviously everyone has different thoughts and opinions on the subject and in this case all my friends were upset by this discussion. There was this one girl that was especially angered by what I had said, she called me all types of names and in trying to calm the situation down I had no other choice but to agree with her. Even though my beliefs were otherwise, at the moment it just seem like the right thing to do, rather than to keep an argument going that wasn't going anywhere.
  In a moment of utter and complete despair, I took a long deep breath and decided to calm down. Eventually I gathered all my thoughts and decided that I should see her point of view and the point of view of everyone else in the room, because at this point everyone was against me and I felt thrown a against a wall and no where to go, actually I felt like I had been trapped in a corner. In seeking some answers, some more open points of view, I received some logical, very thorough and sentimental responses. I found that people usually have very well thought out ideas of why they want a tattoo. Their reasons could be a death of a loved one and they want to to keep them in their memory as well as also marked onto their skin. Some of the stories I heard of why these people had actually gotten tattoos were touching. Even though I wouldn't get a tattoo, I now understand the logic of why some people get tattoos. Some are extraordinarily significant in the life of these people. In a sense this situation opened up my mind to others points of view.

Blog/ RJ week 6

     There are some expressions that are attentively payed attention to, like whether a person is paying attention while speaking to him or her. I am one of those people, I like to pay close attention to and in return I like the same attention. Even though I pay attention, I have the habit of fidgeting with my feet while sitting or when I stand i'll cross one leg over the other, in a slouching position or leaning more towards one side than the other.  I like to give out a positive vibe while speaking to others, I tend to have a positive, outgoing mindset. I've been told by close friends, that it's one of the characteristics they like most about me. I like making people laugh, but I also give out that trustworthy vibe. Many people trust me and I am not capable of ever betraying them.
   My facial expressions play a big role on my personality, I'm very expressive when speaking to people. I show my most inner expressions, so even if I try to hide my anger or sadness, it's nearly impossible because people can tell when I'm mad or sad or even happy.  In a non-conceited way, I am liked wherever I go, and I feel sad when people don't like me. I tend to walk in a happily manner, with my head up high, I give off an easy going attitude with that walk. I would like to say that my style is kind of laid back on some days and other days I like to go a little high end fashion because it's just what makes me happy. Everyday my dress style changes, it depends on my mood when I wake up in the morning.
    My mental attitude has always been outgoing, as long as I have my five senses, hands and feet I am able to do it. As long as I have health I am able to do it. Make the impossible possible, it might sound cliche but it's true. I feel like it's the only way I have gotten through life with succeeding in the things I put my mind to. Having this mindset has helped me help others when they feel helpless, when they feel like all hope is gone.

Blog/RJ Week 5

 The attempt to globalize English is rapidly growing, in many countries English is being adopted into their language. Unfortunately because of this happening throughout the world, many people and countries will eventually become "Americanized" and they will begin to lose they culture and language. Americans want everyone else to learn english, but do they take the time to learn other languages. This will only make people more ignorant towards other languages. Their language, literature, and ethnic personality would be in danger of being lost.  We can already see it happening in all types of cultures. Lets take China for example, they come to this country and the first thing they have to do is learn the English language to communicate with others, same with middle eastern's even though it seems as if they learn some English back in their country. English being the semi-universal language will affect many countries that only know their language and no more than that. It's important that they learn the English language but it's also vital that, us as Americans open ourselves to other languages, other cultures and not only expect for these people to learn our language but us not learn theirs.
 English is the dominant language throughout the internet. Globalization is influencing the evolution of English because it's reaching places, that were never thought of, it's going from natives to japanese people to Indians. India has a billion people of population and a little over ten percent of the population are english speakers. That should say a lot about the country, it's second place after the United States. The evolution of English is changing many places. Not only in the language but to make business it has become quite important to know English because America makes business with all these non-english speaking countries. The evolution is grand and it is making some vast differences throughout the world.

Blog/RJ Week 4

 Time magazine covered an article on the brilliant and very talented Natalie Portman. After her wonderful performance of  the 'black swan'. Time magazine really gave her a name for all the great works she has done. She has done all types of movies, she's so talented, she is capable of performing a role to the best of her ability. Richard Corliss the writer of the article in Time Magazine wrote about her successful career over the seventeen years she's been acting. It also gave some background information on how she was a "dutiful child." While filming with top directors in Hollywood she was also acing all her classes in high school. After high school she attended the very prestigious university, Harvard. Some college students would either intern or flip burger patties at a local burger joint to pay off their college career, instead she played the part of Padmé Amidala in all four Star Wars movie. This was enough to pay for her college career.

On the article cover about her by la weekly that was written by J. Hoberman. He covered her wonderful performance in the 'Black Swan'. The rigorous dance bootcamp and diet she had to go through while making the movie. They say she began to look very skinny, and the Darren Aronofsky told her she needed to start eating again. One article was mostly based on her long successful career and her education and the other one was mostly based on performance in her most recent movie "Black Swan'.
Both journalists gave a positive note about her and the language was easily flowing throughout the articles. It was highly academic and it gave her more prestige in the entertainment world. She's known to be a talented actress, what she does she does well.