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I wonder if your dreams mean something. I mean I know it sounds really goofy but I keep having these super weird dreams about all kinds of different things and I wonder if my subconscious is trying to tell my conscious mind something. When I was little I used to have night terrors. If you don’t know what those are basically I would sit up screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night but I would still be asleep. My parents would always come running and it really freaked my little brother out big time. I don’t have them anymore I don’t think my parents stopped waking me up asking what was wrong around 7th grade. But I have always had super vivid dreams. There are those ones that feel so real that when you woke up you swear it actually happened. I have those all the time. But when I was in 7th grade I learned how to pull myself out of a dream. If I was having a bad one I realized that if I thought it was a dream and I didn’t like it I could literally pull myself out of it and wake up! The bad part is that you have to stay awake for a minute or two so that you don’t fall right back into the same dream. Call me crazy but next time you are in a nightmare and you want out try it. I believe it is the reason I don’t still have night terrors!

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So today was an awful day weather wise. So gross out and cold and rainy. I’ve started taking the bus though. And it’s crazy how much of a difference it makes when you don’t have to walk 20 min to get home! I know it’s lazy and I should definitely walk to get the exercise but after class and work all day it’s nice to get a ride home real quick. I have my commonplace revision meeting tomorrow and I am already stressing about running around printing things off. I hate when professors make the week before finals and have everything due so then it feels like you are just bombarded with so much stuff that you can’t even focus on studying. Everyone in my house is so so so burnt out and all we want to do is lay around and watch Christmas movies but we can’t because we should be studying our butts off. I’m sick of school and I know I need to get it together and definitely work on getting super good grades but all I seem to want to do is sleep. Getting out of bed in the morning is the hardest thing in the world lately it seems. But then over break I’ll probably get to just sleep forever I’m working but I told them that I want to close so hopefully they don’t wake me up before noon any day. That would be really nice and definitely an ideal way to spend break. Making money and sleeping in.

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Dear Author,

After reading your submission I would like you to Revise and Resubmit your article. Though your paper is both timely and relevant and the topic of bullying is always going to be timely and relevant in our society I did not feel that you met all three requirements because I did not find the article to be written in a compelling way. Though the topic is a good one and I believe that the readers of commonplace would benefit from your article greatly after some revision.

The intro was a very good start and made the article very timely. Listing all of those celebrities was effective in reaching a very broad audience. The only issue that I see is that you are assuming the audience feels a certain way on a topic. When you say, “Everybody knows who he or she is and want to meet him or her” it might bristle the audience a little because you are talking for them. Instead maybe say “Many people look up to these individuals and meeting them would be a major highlight in most sports, movie, and entertainment fans lives.” The other thing that makes this article un-compelling is that you also speak for the celebrities. “On the outside you would think all the aforementioned celebrities are attractive and happy, but on the inside they have some bad memories that haunt them each and every day” Do you know for a fact that it haunts them every day? I’m pretty sure that since they are rich and happy they don’t toss and turn at night over the loser who stole their lunch money. Maybe try something like “Though some have probably overcome the bad memories now that they have risen above these events have shaped their lives and bullying will forever have an effect on their person.” This is especially prominent in the last paragraph. Make sure you aren’t speaking for the celebrity.

Throughout the entire paper there are many awkwardly phrased sentences. It makes the paper hard to read and in a way makes you as the other sound confusing. By eliminating these awkward phrases it will help the flow and direction of the paper and even make your argument sound more sincere and clear. One such sentence is “The school building has become a danger zone for certain children because they are constantly looking behind their shoulder to loom out for that person waiting to take their lunch money or give them a daily beating.” Maybe this is just an instance of wrong word choice but when I read the statement it confused me.
Also in the second paragraph when relating bullying to global warming I think that it is a comparison of something that affects our whole world as opposed to one individual. Maybe stick to how murder and terrorism relate back to a person being bullied such as school shootings and other occurrences in recent years.

Minor spelling mistakes and grammatical errors throughout the paper.

Good argument and call to action at the end of the paper! Maybe a personal anecdote or hypothetical situation would be effective somewhere in the paper. Especially if you intro-ed with it and then listed the celebrities saying that this may have been a daily occurrence for these people throughout their teen years, just a suggestion to make it a little more relatable to people who haven’t been bullied.

I hope that you find these suggestions helpful! I really enjoyed reviewing your paper good luck with the revisions!!
Danielle Kurnick

I don't know that I did this right I tried to follow commonplace but is this what everyones looked like?

Blog 66

I’m exhausted and I am so mad that I put off all my homework till Sunday this week. I know I should’ve gotten it done but I don’t want to do it now either. This break went by way to fast I already can’t wait for finals to be over so that we can finally get a super long one. I had so much fun this weekend it is unreal. Definitely the best weekend of the year although I’m still sad we had to cut our break short. Today is my dad’s birthday and I could be home with him hanging out with family and friends but instead I am here trying to not think about the amount of home work I have to get done today. It’s unreal. Don’t these professors know that we need a break. I can’t wait to just get finals over with but we are going to have to buckle down and kick ass on those before I’ll be able to relax. 2 weeks and then home again for a little before working my life away over break. On a good note I love the holidays. Christmas music is finally allowed to be played and lights can go up I can’t wait until it snows and we can go sledding and drink lots of hot chocolate. Me and my roommate had the most amazing cup of hot chocolate at the Michigan game! It was so delicious and maybe it was just because we were freezing but who even cares I was obsessed.

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For my blog today I want to bring up an issue I have been having. The problem is that as much as I have moved on and have so many new friends and have escaped high school it seems to still follow me. Yesterday I was caught in the middle of something that was absolutely ridiculous and uncalled for. Basically high school drama. I supposedly said something that I didn’t say and my words were twisted around by people who I didn’t like in high school and came to a party I was at. I don’t understand how or why it happened probably alcohol induced amnesia . The main issue I have with this is that my supposed actual friends from high school didn’t defend me. They actually didn’t even ask me if I actually said those things. There are always 2 sides to every story and I find it ridiculous that they automatically assume me the bad person when they know that I am totally not like that. But apparently they believe that I have reverted to a 12 year old and am trying to ruin their lives. Absolutely ridiculous if you ask me, I am so sorry that I did not welcome these people with open arms to my friend’s house. They were awful to people in high school. Hell they are awful to people now. I guess high school is going to follow me no matter how far away from it I am it’s been 2 years. I guess I need to just get over it.

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During the summer heading into my sophomore year, I departed on a mission trip with Cornerstone Church to Tijuana, Mexico, One of the most impoverished towns in North America. My mom forced me on this expedition, I didn’t know the people around me, and felt like a deer in the ocean. Little did I know it would change my life forever. We worked in a very modest church, slept on dirt floors, and ate things I probably would’ve never eaten back home. That’s not what touched my heart however, the children of that church in Tijuana did. I developed relationships with a couple kids that I’ll never forget. These kids had nothing but the scraps of cloth; you could call clothes, on their back, and a mere dirt hut to settle their head at night. However each moment they arrived at the church, they each managed to have an enormous smile on their face that would illuminate my heart like fireworks on the 4th of July. These 4 year old kids that owned barely anything, made it apparent to me that what you own, or how celebrated you are, has no effect on your prosperity in life, or how content with yourself you can be. I needed to have that feeling of exhilaration from stepping foot onto the moon. All I wanted was the money and the fame. Most kids as they mature into adults have dreams like this. They believe achievement is all about banking the most money, or being beloved by all of mankind.

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Happy turkey day everyone! Gobble gobble! Hope everyone had a fantastic day and go to enjoy it with family and friends. Not exactly pumped about having to wake up from my turkey nap to write a goofy blog but hey you know I guess I am thankful for Ohio State therefore have to be somewhat thankful for this blasted English class which is becoming the bane of my existence. As much as I have loved being home I can’t wait to celebrate with my friends tomorrow all night long. I can’t wait! But then we get to freeze outside for the Michigan game woo hoo can’t wait. Kegs and eggs will be delicious on Saturday morning and although you wouldn’t think that alcohol and breakfast foods would go very well together they are actually quite delicious. I personally am thinking an omelet but I guess you could choose whatever variety of making eggs you so desire. Another 100 words to go… How about Black Friday tomorrow huh? Anyone going out tonight for it? My family has never been big into shopping so I have never experienced but we had some family friends over tonight who said it’s pretty crazy. I need a new camera but like hell if I’m going to wait in line for 5 hours to get one for 20 dollars off. I just think that’s a little excessive but hey to each their own I suppose. My dad just asked me what the hell I was doing and I just had to say I’m writing a blog. FAIL

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So today has been fantastic. I’ve literally got to hang out in my house in my sweat pants doing nothing all day. I went and got my hair cut this morning and I actually really like the bangs. I was super nervous and it was a lady who is different than my normally hairdresser but I ended up really liking her. And even though I am getting used to the bangs they look cute and are really long so they will grow into side bangs in about a month. I need more change in my life so it was a good one. Tonight I get to go out with all my old friends from high school and I am so excited to see everyone! It’s been quite a while and I am really bad at visiting other schools. I don’t know why anyone would ever want to leave OSU. So most of them have to come to me and I know that that isn’t fair. I love being home with my family and me and my little brother have been hanging out all day. And the dogs are having a blast they are both playing non stop and being crazy. I love having everyone together. Especially because last weekend with the roommates kind of sucked so it’s nice to be surrounded by all this love and home-ness. I’ve definitely missed it more then I thought I would when I left after summer.

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So today in class we watched Battlestar Gallactica. Overall it really wasn’t that terrible to sit through. When we first read that paper on it in class I thought it was just going to be another stupid random sci fye show. But it wasn’t to too bad. I mean minus the weird cyclone people. But the one thing I didn’t like was that there were parts of the show I would’ve liked a flashback on. Like this Starbuck chick and what happened with her and the brother of the Apollo guy. They seemed to have some serious sexual tension going on and I for one want it explained. Maybe there was an actual show and I just never saw it because trust me I don’t spend my time watching science fiction. But I hate watching or reading something without all the background information. The other thing I don’t really understand because we have been watching this movie is these memos. I have to write two, which I am super excited about. But I guess I should read the packet and find out what I need to do so that I can get them done before the holiday and the game on Saturday. Hope everyone has fun at the jump tonight I’m already home hanging out on the couch eating delicious food and not watching Battlestar Gallactica. It really was an interesting experience. Is that what Star Trek is like? I’ve never watched that one either. I definitely liked firefly wayyyy better.

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I think I’m going to get bangs. Not like little girl 5 year old bangs but some cute ones. As much as I hate change it is just hair and it will grow back. I have a hair cut at noon tomorrow and I am so nervous about this decision. It all started when me and my roommate were watching the American Music Awards and Taylor Swift had this super cute hair cut and now I want it. I will attach a picture at the end so all the girls can let me know what you think because heaven knows the boys don’t care about this post at all. I haven’t had bangs since I was a little kid and hell I guess it’s time to give something a shot. I don’t look anything like Taylor Swift but I feel like our hair is about the same length and thickness so I really really hope it looks cute. Otherwise I will be wearing a lot of bobby pins and hats for the next month. Luckily my hair grows like a weed and if I hate it it’ll be back to normal in no time. I miss being crazy with my hair like when I was a little kid I feel like I had it long then chopped it off a million times. Now a days if you told me you were going to cut more than a centimeter off I would probably start to cry. I really hope this goes well, wish me luck!!!

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So today is Sunday and I’m not going to lie I don’t think I was vertical very often. It was a beautiful day outside and I really hope it is the same for Tuesday night because if it goes back down to 10 degrees I will be super upset about it. Today me and all the people I know from Cincinnati went to skyline chili. It was a lot of fun and even though I’m not a skyline fanatic every once in a while it is good. I definitely need this little break though the fact is we only have a two day week and I’m so burnt out I don’t even want to go to class for these two days. And I am seriously contemplating making it home Tuesday night. I know that it sounds really lame to want to miss all the festivities but when it comes down to it I just really want to be home as soon as possible. It will be so relaxing and I can’t wait for the food and seeing my family. I kind of envy my roommate she is from Powell which is like fifteen minutes away and she can go home whenever and goes out to dinner with her mom all the time. Other then all that this weekend was fun I got to go out with my best friend since 7th grade and we had a great time, which isn’t surprising considering it’s us. I’m also excited to see all my friends from other schools Wednesday night!!!

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I know a short bit of information about pirates. First, I know that the famous pirate, known as Blackbeard, was born in England. His real name was Edward Teach and set up the majority of his pillaging on the southern east coast/west Atlantic Ocean. His “residence” was Beaufort Island, North Carolina, but his real home was his famous ship Queen Ann’s Revenge. He died in North Carolina and to this day is considered a local symbol. I know this because I was born and lived a large portion of my life in North Carolina, where the history of Blackbeard has been taught to schoolchildren since the first grade. Also, as a frequenter of the North Carolina coast, I have also visited the famous death place of Okracoke, NC. Along with knowing about Blackbeard, the trilogy of Pirates of the Caribbean has given me a perspective on the pirate life. First, pirates love gold and treasure, and like to attain all of the wealth that comes along with stealing. They have great pride in the ships that they sail and expect complete loyalty from the crew that sails with them. The biggest issue they face is the conflict with the colonies and settlements that they pillage. The navy is strict with the pirates and the act of piracy is punishable by death. Even though loyalty among the pirates is important, it is common for a crew to mutiny a leader or captain if things do not go as planned. When pirates are in danger, they gang together to fight those who threaten them. Even though not all of the pirates agree, they realize that working together can save their existence.

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Mirror lake jump is next Tuesday and I’m still debating whether or not to jump sober or drunk, or actually even at all. I know it’s lame at that I won’t “be a buckeye” if I don’t jump but I really want to go home and see my family. Especially because we only have a day and a half to see our families until we have to be back for the Michigan game. I told my mom my food requests for Thanksgiving the other day I wanted to make sure that we had twice baked potatoes and green bean casserole. I’m so excited for all the food I’m so sick of eating mac and cheese every day. I don’t know that my body will be able to digest real food after all this processed cheap stuff. I also can’t wait to sleep in my bed it’s gonna be so huge and comfortable and I’m sooooo excited. It’s so weird that I haven’t been home in 3 months. I don’t think I’ve ever stayed away this long. I haven’t seen my brother or dad in about a month. It’s weird growing up. But we have our own little family now with me and all the roommates. But my moms cooking sure beats any of my roomies. No chicken and potatoes in this neck of the woods. I just realized how our house is accumulating decorations. When I raided my grandparents house I brought back all kinds of weird old stuff and I don’t think I ever realized how strange they are.

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So today has been a good day I got to work at the animal shelter for most of the day and it was so much fun. I love all the puppies and since it is a no kill shelter when you go in and you haven't been there for a week and almost all the dogs are new ones it makes you feel really good because you know that all of them went to good homes. The other thing I did today was clean the house. Now I don't mind cleaning the house but I do mind when people don't appreciate it. I straightened the entire bottom floor including shop vacuming the floor and also cleaned the kitchen. Doing five peoples dishes..not fun. I just would appreciate a thank you every now and then and most of my roomates are good about not making me feel like there mom. There is always that one in every house though it seems. Well that was pretty much my day. I am really glad that we didn't all blow up yesterday and that Thompson.. which is my favorite library...didn't blow up. All the engineering buildings though, sorry guys, I don't really use or care about.

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Going against the grain is something that only certain people in history have been able to accomplish. Women in our history have managed to make it happen over the decades. Some of these trend setters were Madonna and Marilyn Monroe. Both embraced themselves and stood out from the crowd the message of Sex and the City is just that. Don't be ashamed of yourself, age, weight, blemishes, accept it all because your flaws are what sets you apart. If everyone had the perfect body, complexion, and features none of us would be anything special there would be nothing to make us unique or let us be an individual. Being a woman no matter what age is an amazing gift and we should all cherish it. That is the message portrayed in the opening credits of this show and I personally agree that it is a lesson we should all be taught throughout our years. Womens rights and the right to be open about sex and dating have come so far. Thanks to shows like Sex and the City which have opened many doors. A quote from Marilyn Monroe sums it all up. “I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.”

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We can’t just let kids be kids anymore. The simple fact is that not only should children be able to enjoy the wonders of the ocean but so should adults. So stop reading to your kids about the “dangers of the deep” let them know that there is such an animal as a shark and that if they see one they should leave the water. Then let them go play in the ocean you can worry about the terrifying triangle fin popping up behind you precious little baby from your beach blanket on the shore.
As someone who is personally terrified beyond belief of sharks and alligators, and pretty much anything that swims with huge teeth, this all makes me personally see things a little bit differently. I think that this information could show people that sharks aren’t the ones to fear. It would surely help my family to laugh in my face when we go on vacations to the beach! With the amount of people that enter the ocean every day there are bound to be shark attacks it is unfortunate but true. The good thing is that most of those attacks do not end up being fatal. So instead of worrying about being ripped to shreds in the next ridiculously close to shore feeding frenzy, splash as much as you want, JAWS most likely isn’t on the prowl.

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For the most part in our society today there is a general list of things that happen before you reach your thirties. People will for the most part get their driver’s license, be able to purchase alcohol, find a job, and even possibly get married. These are just a few of the many rites of passage we go through in the transition from childhood or adolescence into adulthood. As we mature we begin to formulate our own views and opinions on things and our opinions have more weight to the adults whom we model ourselves like as we become more educated and develop who and what we want to be. Other things change as well as our bodies grow and develop. It is for the most part common knowledge that throughout the teenage years many young people are jacked up on hormones and are finding themselves changing. Sex becomes a primary topic of interest. And across the nation adolescents are discussing a key topic, losing that V card. And parents are discussing how best to talk to their child about the birds and the bees. But some maybe even most may rely on the schools health classes to give them a little help with this awkward topic therefore health classes across America are promoting abstinence telling their students that the only way to be completely safe is to not have sex at all. But the age at which some kids are losing their virginity is alarming. Their sexual maturity is far outrunning their actual maturity and no one is hitting the brakes.

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Now that I have given you a lot of facts on the situation at hand I would like to give my own personal experience to prove that I practice what I preach. In reality Nati wouldn’t have been my first or second choice for a dog. She wasn’t the cutest puppy I had ever seen, in fact she was malnourished and covered in fleas. But she was a licking machine and a wiggle worm and condemned because of her breed. A boy had seen her around his neighborhood for about a week and eventually realizing she was a stray took her in for a day or two before taking her to the shelter. He found out there that once he dropped her off that she had a 48 hour window for someone to claim her or else she would be euthanized because she was a pitbull. I just so happened to be at the shelter at the time volunteering and he asked me if I would like a dog. I politely declined until I heard that she might die and, being a huge dog lover, decided I would take her and find another shelter that wouldn’t kill her. Well turns out she stole my heart and I have a dog I never thought I would. The vet and I have decided she isn’t complete pitbull, she has something else in her such as lab or retriever but because she has the face of a pit the shelter would have killed her and it amazes me that people can be scared of my dog. She wouldn’t hurt a fly unless she licked it to death. And people can say that she is a special case but I don’t believe it living in an urban area there are tons of pit bulls in my apartment complex and though we have met some that don’t like other dogs, for the most part all of them are friendly as can be.

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So today I was in Cleveland visiting my aunt and uncle who live here. We went to the Westside market which is like how they used to do it in the old days. Everyone has stands and you can bargain with people to get better prices. It was a lot of fun. I got a gyro from there with my uncle and it was the stand that was on the TV show Man vs Food! It was really really good but I still like Apollo’s chicken ones from campus they are cheaper and taste just as good as that one did. Then we went to my grandparent’s home and got to go through the stuff in the attic. I love looking at old photos and they had never let me in their attic because they thought it was dangerous but I got to finally go up there and go through all the old stuff. I definitely am going home tomorrow with a few new treasures and some definite necessities such as tons of toilet paper and paper towels. It was all in all a very successful trip to Cleveland! Tonight we are just hanging out eating some of the food we bought at the market and probably having a fire pit down on the grounds at my aunt and uncles new condo. It is right on lake Erie so it’s going to be beautiful just like the sunset we just watched on the water! I’m very excited. B

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So I’m in Cleveland with my mom and aunt and uncle at their new house on the water and it is so fantastic here. I’ve missed my family and although I miss campus and can’t wait to get back to my friends it has been wonderful seeing them all again. In the small time I’ve been here I realize how I can’t wait to grow up and have a home of my own. Even though I am definitely a long way from that. For now I am enjoying being young and seeing my grandparents, who just moved into assisted living has confirmed that when I get old if I am loosing my sense of self I want someone to stop me. As my mom always says “put me out of my misery”. Why would you want to deteriorate in front of all your loved ones? My grandmother has alzhiemers and soon she will not recognize us. If I am ever going to put my loved ones through that torture I would rather have someone end it while I still have my wits about me. Old age is a very sad thing all the people who live with my grandparents are failing fast and it is very depressing to be in such an environment for any amount of time let alone staying the night and eating with them. It breaks my heart because these people are lonely and bored and to brighten their day just a little makes them feel so much better. I’ve decided everyone should volunteer at a nursing home.

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So today is Veterans Day and for the most part I would like to thank my Uncle, Grandpa, and Cousin Jeff for serving our country and keeping us safe. I am in Cleveland right now and all of them are here and I think that this is the first time that I have ever actually been with my grandfather on veteran’s day. I could never serve our country and the fact that they can is amazing to me. It is the most brave and courageous thing a man can do and though I see their flaws I definitely look up to them for being able to do what they do. War is an awful thing, we all know that, my uncle had post traumatic stress after Vietnam and it took a toll on his marriage indefinitely. But the way that he made things right and the letters that I have read that he sent to my grandmother and father are unbelievable. That a person could go through that much trauma and still be a good husband and father afterwards is amazing. My cousin Jeff, my uncle’s son is also now in the marines. He is having a tough time because he didn’t go to college like the rest of us and being in California a million miles away from his best friends and family is really hard on him. He has sacrificed a lot and for that I commend him. It breaks my heart that there are many stories like his out there.

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From the time women gained their independence things have gone downhill in the chivalry department. We left the kitchen and got jobs and were scorned for doing such. We want equality and in many ways we have achieved just that. So then why is there this ridiculous double standard between a man and woman’s sex life? A man is a pimp while a woman is a slut, a man is a bachelor while a woman is an old maid. It doesn’t make sense that one gender should be degraded while the other gets away with promiscuity scot free. Some say that it is an evolutionary issue, men are given so much sperm because they are meant to spread their seed as much as possible where as women on the other hand are meant to conserve their eggs for that one special man. So is that all this is a woman is a slut because she made the man feel special by letting him sleep with her and then his ego is hurt when he finds out that she is capable of finding other men attractive. Is this an ego issue? If so then that is unbelievable, if a man doesn’t like a woman being loose then he should stop sleeping with loose women.

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As a little girl the Disney classics were my favorites. Ariel, Jasmine, Cinderella, and Belle were characters I could watch time and time again and never get bored. To this day I still cherish these movies and can easily sit down and sing the words, embarrassingly, to almost every song. These movies display beautiful girls whom handsome men, mostly princes, fall head over heels for almost immediately and then devote their lives to wining these women’s affections. As I grew older I came to realize that Disney had fed me a load of steaming hot bullshit. This is not the way things work in the real world these fairytale romances are a thing of fiction and to base any kind of value on them will only bring you more harm than good. Men aren’t dashing and charming running to open doors for you actually by the time you hit grade school you were taught that if a boy punched you he liked you of all things, a far cry from a glass slipper if I do say so myself. Chivalry is dead and more so for the most part so is monogamy. In today’s world Prince Charming would be cheating on Cinderella with Ariel and probably Jasmine to and all the countrymen would be cheering him on while doing the same. But if Cinderella got her cookies too those same countrymen would probably have her beheaded for treason. Funny? I think not.

I really liked my intro to my commonplace paper but the teacher didn't your guys suggestions are needed!!!

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From the time I was a little girl my parents always taught me to “not judge a book by its cover;” they instilled in me the value that everyone is equal and that we shouldn’t judge others because there are always two sides to every story. These are morals that we have all more than likely heard a million times. But what if the offended party, the one having judgment passed on them, could not speak for themselves? One could never hear the other side of the argument if they were say a dog. Just the name of the breed, pitbull, automatically brings up images of the snarling dog broad headed dog with a huge mouth and big teeth; this is probably not how most pits greet their owners. We have all heard the widespread theory that these dogs are dangerous, aggressive, and up until rather recently it might have even proven true for my own beliefs on the subject. But I have come to see that these dogs are not vicious by nature. They need advocates, they need people to stand up and speak for them because they are being abused, neglected, and in most cases killed, they can’t speak for themselves so we need to do it for them. Having one myself has proven to me that we should truly not judge them for what they have been through we all make mistakes and in this case it was us as humans that made them this way

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So this weekend was interesting a lot of people went home and it was weird how quiet campus was. Me and the roommates still managed to have a good time though. Actually we are still having a good time on a Sunday night. This is probably not the smartest idea but considering I only have a 3 day week this week I don’t really care. My roommate turned twenty one this past week and as said previously it sucks to not be twenty one when everyone else is. We went out for her birthday tonight and everyone else was ordering drinks and it was kind of lame that I couldn’t but I guess I just have to wait until April. In other news my grandparents are being moved into assisted living this week and we are going up to help. It’s really sad my grandmother has Alzheimer’s and is going down hill pretty quickly. It’s been tough because her and my grandfather are both in their late eighties early nineties and they are just starting to break down. I know that it is close to their time to go and that they have lived long full lives but it still makes me sad that they will not be with us any longer. I also worry for my parents when their parents die. I can’t imagine how it would be to have my own parents pass no matter what age I was. But then again their relationships are a little more strained then the relationship I have with my parents.

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As a little girl the Disney classics were my favorites. Ariel, Jasmine, Cinderella, and Belle were characters I could watch time and time again and never get bored. To this day I still cherish these movies and can easily sit down and sing the words, embarrassingly, to almost every song. These movies display beautiful girls whom handsome men, mostly princes, fall head over heels for almost immediately and then devote their lives to wining these women’s affections. As I grew older I came to realize that Disney had fed me a load of steaming hot bullshit. This is not the way things work in the real world these fairytale romances are a thing of fiction and to base any kind of value on them will only bring you more harm than good. Men aren’t dashing and charming running to open doors for you actually by the time you hit grade school you were taught that if a boy punched you he liked you of all things, a far cry from a glass slipper if I do say so myself. Chivalry is dead and more so for the most part so is monogamy. In today’s world Prince Charming would be cheating on Cinderella with Ariel and probably Jasmine to and all the countrymen would be cheering him on while doing the same. But if Cinderella got her cookies too those same countrymen would probably have her beheaded for treason. Funny? I think not.

This might be the intro to my commonplace paper. Yes, no, maybe?

Blog 43

So tonight my uncle is here on business and is taking me and a couple of his other friend’s children out to dinner at Hyde Park. Apparently this is a very high class restaurant and I’m nervous I’ll be under dressed. Especially because I have community service at the animal shelter tonight at 7:30 so I don’t want to look crazy dressed up for that either. What a dilemma!! Aside from that this week has sucked my roommate gave us all scabies. And that led me to find out that not all people who have scabies don’t shower. We all shower all the time and are very clean but Josh got it from skin to skin contact with another person with the mites. It sucks it itches so bad and looks awful. Of all my roommates I am the only one who got it on my face because he hugged me and in doing so bumped his face against mine. So I look like a diseased person but really it is just nasty little mite eggs under my skin. Really cute huh? It’s gonna be really attractive at this fancy restaurant tonight. I don’t know whether I should be telling people this or not but I am no longer contagious so no one can get it or else they probably wouldn’t let me in school. I kinda wanted the Doctor to give me a doctors note for today too because my eyes feel like lightning is hitting the skin around them every time I blink but hey I guess this shows how much of a dedicated student I am.

Blog 42

So this commonplace paper draft thing is due tomorrow and guess who doesn’t want to start writing it. I know it only has to be a couple of pages but it seems like a lot more before I start it. I like my paper and all. Topic and all but starting it is a different story. In other news school and work are wearing me out. I can’t wait for our day off next Thursday as it gets closer and closer I feel like it’ll never come. My roommate turned 21 today so that means that I am the only one in our house that isn’t legal to buy alcohol. Which is you know just wonderful and all especially because they are going out to the bars tonight without me. Oh and then my tire was flat today. Don’t know exactly how that happened but when I filled it up with air it filled back up so hopefully there isn’t a small leak somewhere that would suck. You don’t really ever think how expensive a thing like a tire is until you have to fix it and then it hits you how much it sucks. Same goes with medicine ever since we switched to this new insurance the co pay for us through the roof and just plain unbelievable. Damn Obama he ruined that one for us. But hey a lot of republicans got elected yesterday woooo. I guess those campaign commercials worked for them after all.

Blog 41

So today we didn’t have English and it was a great day. I got to sleep in and do nothing until 3:30 when I had to go to Math class and then we got our midterms back and….I GOT A B!! I was so excited I went home and hung it on the fridge. Which is kind of lame but my roommates let me slide because they were happy for me too. We are kind of like our own little family we have our challenges but for the most part and at the end of the day we love each other. Like I’ve said before though I miss my real family and I’m very excited because next weekend my mom and I are going to Cleveland to visit my grandma and grandpa! They just moved into assisted living which is really hard for them so we are going up to visit and make them some friends around the place. I also am going to see one of my best friends Nikki. She lives up in Cleveland and has Thursday off so we are going to spend the entire day together. She is out of college and has a real job so she is basically working her life away and I am so glad that we both get a day off to just run around and act like we don’t have all the responsibilities that we really do. It’s wonderful but also sucks sometimes growing up.

Blog 40

So right now I am home alone. I hate being home alone. I’ve always been the weird kid who always thinks that the scary movies are gonna happen to me. And the fact of the matter is they probably are. I’m so paranoid that some creepy crawly man is lurking around my house ready to jump out. THANK GOD FOR MY DOG. At least she will warn me if someone is in the house she’ll bark like a mad woman. When it comes down to it I know that she would do her best to protect me, now if she was trying to fend off a man with a gun I don’t think that would help to much but even when my dad is just tickling me at home she gets in the middle. She doesn’t growl or anything because she knows him but she barks and licks him until he has to quit. I feel if I was in real grave danger this would be much different. The other proof I have is that when we walk at night if someone starts walking towards us and I get nervous her hair goes up real quick and when she wants to be she’s really intimidating. I like this because I’ve never had a big dog until now and I like it. The downside is that I have also never had a dog that sheds. In the winter it isn’t as bad but in the summer it’s impressive that that dog has any hair left on her body