Go tigers

Well that’s it for perfection but it’s just a wakeup call that we can loose and that we are good but need to get better. UT fans where so happy for the win over the Tigers on Saturday but not for too long they had a tough opponent Vanderbilt next where they were favor to loose and guess what happened the number one back to its place the tigers should move up to being number one again thanks to the lost but not the Tigers need to concentrate on not loosing anymore games so they can finish an amazing season 33-1. The tigers this year have a great chance of winning it all they just need to play their game every game instead of half doing it. But now that we don’t have that burden of when is the first time that we are going to lose we have lost but now it’s winning all the way. Even the ESPN analysts are saying that that lost is the last one of the season. Hopefully we will be seen them in the championship game in April.

paradigm

The word paradigm is a very weird at least to me. When I looked the definition in the dictionary it was very confusing I read it about five times and still was confused. I called my mom to see if she could interpret it better. The definition that the dictionary said where two the first is, a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme the second is, a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'. To me this was very confusing and is still is to be quite honest. After some long time of explaining what I think it means is when you have a word and you just put an apostrophe on it, it changes its meaning depending on where the apostrophe is placed on. But I’m not really sure about it I’m trying to find more information and examples on it.

So I was just minding my own business, actually I was very sad and depressed because of some situations happening at home. I was really starting to think this was the worst beginning to a year I have ever had. But suddenly my mom gives me a call because she got this email about the opportunity of going to the Dominican Republic to help out in a mission trip. When she said that I tough it was the best opportunity to get out and just get my mind off of things. Then I thought wait I have heard stories of mission trips where the people had to stay in a basement of a church and it just wasn’t the best thing if you’re depressed to sleep in a basement. But at the same time the person who send the email is a very good friend and he was going. My mom told him to call me to give me more information of what we were doing down there. After he told me that we were going to be translators for the University of Memphis nurses that where going to help the needed in D.R. After he told me that and I read a quote he put at the end of the email by the famous Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente "when ever you have the opportunity to help the world and you don’t you are waiting your time in earth". To me that alone is a great inspiration to go and help other no matter where I’m going to stay. I agreed so I will be heading there on Monday for the spring break. At the same time I will be seeing healthcare in a different perspective that could help my paper later.

Play

On Friday night I went to go see the play at the University The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. It was a good play different from some that I have participated in; it was a play inside a play. Also the audience was very involved with the characters and the decisions of the play. Very different than a regular play because of its nature of being a play in one. It was based on a mystery of a murder around a triangle of love around Rosa. Very interesting the characters well played with some very good singing talent. If you miss this play you should go see the next one. All the plays I have been to in there are well done and you have fun in them. Most of the plays have a mixture of elements that make it funny interesting but they don’t get old. When the actor gets the chance to milk a situation sometimes it can turn bad because it can get old after some time but the actors have done a good job from staying away from that for the most part. But other than that it was a good play and I enjoyed it and suggest that you go and see on the p the plays at the theater

Part one

In my first paper it was hard to get in a grove and write. It was also hard to get the amount of pages required. After the first couple of times of erasing my first sentence I decided just to write and not force things to work just let them flow. That’s when my paper started to get some shape. From there it was easier to develop yet it was hard because the topic is so broad. It covers all the way from obesity to foot fungus. This topic can lead to at least to of the other topics. Hopefully I can incorporate then in the following paper.

ER

Healthcare is my topic of choice I tough it would be interesting to find information on it. I saw the movie Sicko and tough it was very interesting and had c=some good stories on it. Then I started to think I just had some experiences in the healthcare system myself. I have never been in the hospital for anything other than some stitches years ago. But suddenly when I get out of school one day I have this pain in my stomach but I did not think much of it. Well my mom convinces me to go to the doctor to get check out. When I got there it took them about three seconds to determine what I had was appendicitis and I had to go to the hospital immediately. When I got to the hospital I was feeling ok but then they told me that they had to operate that same night. I spent two days in the hospital recovering from surgery and then I went home feeling like crap but what can you do. I was feeling well until my mom said you are not going to believe how much money the medical bill is. Well I was expecting it to be around a thousand or two at the most but I was completely wrong. The bill was for fifth teen thousand dollars for 2 days in the hospital with out the surgery. Even tough I was lucky and the plan covered it that is a lot of money for the amount of time that I stayed there. This is just one example of many others that are out there of the amount of money in this business.

greek life

When I got here to the University of Memphis I wanted to go Greek but because of volleyball I couldn’t I was sad yet I thought maybe I can just hang out with some of my friends that were Greek. I did and I was surprise it was not what you see in movies or anything like that. Several weeks later I got a bid from them and I decided to join I was happy because it involve me more with the university and I thought it was going to be a good experience for me plus the networking would be really good. Another good incentive was my girlfriend at the time she had also gone Greek so I joined her. So far my experience has been great met a lot of people. Many have a different view of going Greek because of movies and just television in general. There is a place for everyone in the Greek system they even have a business fraternity, an architecture fraternity if you want to go Greek and you don’t know just come out and see where you fit the best it’s a great opportunity to do something different in college.

news

I don’t sit down and watch the news that much but when I do is like the repeat of last week. For example the Brittany thing they just let it go I’ll bet there are millions of stories out there that are more interesting than that. Ask yourself why is the media wasting its time on Brittany well is pretty simple as a society we like to hear what is going on in celebrities life. That’s why the tabloid magazines are still up in the shelves and not bankrupt. Because we are a society that is noisy not all of us but the majority. The news channel only really care about their rating and what brings them more ratings is what they are going to air. Don’t you think they should be focusing on other issues about actual problems that are happening? That is just my opinion that we put too much emphasis in trivial things instead of important information.

The slogan “get out and vote” is big because it’s similar to the one we had a couple or year ago by Sean Puffy Combs vote or die. They both just try to get people out to vote so they can express their opinion on who is going to run this country. The importance of voting has increase during the years. When I first started reading it reminded me of myself because I don’t think that if I vote is going to make a difference that my vote really wont matter at the end or just that I don’t know enough about the candidates to make a decision. To me the voice behind the slogan is the voice of a non voter or a person who votes but also gives importance to the non voters and their rights. Maybe is just me but I can’t tell if she has a political affiliation because I don’t like politics that much and I haven’t been around in the US enough to know the difference between parties. I do believe that the person speaking is a woman even tough is not but it might be some of the wording that might have let me to believe that it was a female instead of a male.

The audience for this slogan is everybody the voters and the non voters. It tells the voter who complain that people don’t vote that maybe they had a good reason not to vote. Like it said in the example of the essay about the school elections when that guy that did not know anything about the candidates didn’t vote because he wanted the people with actual knowledge about the candidates vote instead of just putting down a name just to say that you voted. All media has different ways to make you vote or try to get you out and voting. The music industry does it also like I mention before Diddy had a strong campaign for voting last election and it seem to work since there was an increase in the voting poles. Then other artist had “Rock Your Vote” another way to pursue the young people to vote. For the rest of the ages I think is mostly television all the candidates speaking in debates, going from state to state trying to get their message out to the people so they can vote for them.

A new way of getting people not to vote for you has been the attack messages that the other candidates put on television trying to change people’s opinion in voting by bringing up bad things about their opponent. For these primaries I haven’t seen commercial of that sort but when the sparks is down to the last two candidates, will start flying. It gets more intense when is down to the wire and is not there yet and we are having some fire within the same political party.

The argument at the end is that the real importance in voting is not the just going to a booth and placing an X in the paper just because he had to vote. But instead if you want to vote you should learn about the two candidates study them and see what each ones brings to the table. If you do all the research then you can make a decision in which candidate you think is better. I agree with what the author said I you don’t know anything then you are just wasting your vote in a sense just falling into what they wanted in the first place to get people to vote for them because they are the most publicize not because of what they offer as candidates. The way I see it is if you decide not to vote then you can’t complain about how your country is been run you can argue why the other candidate would have been better because you decided not to vote. If you know enough about the candidates make a decision and then you can argue all you want about the way the president is running things. I’m the perfect example for that I didn’t vote so I can’t argue and to be honest I don’t think that I will vote. You may ask why? I really don’t know I might change my mind but for now that what I’m doing.

To my surprise I notice that the paper was written so long ago in 1955. Yet we still have the same issues going on today trying t get people to vote. But I think the only difference between then and now is that you don’t see the people caring about how much the people really know about the candidates they just want people to get out and vote. This might mean that back then it was more important that the people that had an actual knowledge voted instead of having many to show up to vote but have no knowledge about the candidates.

Voting is really important because is the only time where you can choose who is going to be making decisions for you. Who is going be representing your country around the world. Go vote but with a sense that you know what you’re doing.

Thanks for smoking

This movie was funny in some parts and very sarcastic. To me it was impressive how he could turn around everyone’s words in to his favor. The mentally that he has during the entire film. What wasn’t really surprising is that the tobacco companies don’t care how many people die because of the product they make but how much money they make each year. It’s a business and they do what business they provide a product that people want. I like this movie because it was sarcastic and funny but it had a message behind it all. Obviously I won’t tell you just in case you haven’t seen this movie go ahead and watch it. It might get you mad at the beginning because of the situation they shoot you in yet is funny if you have a good sense of humor and understand that what he does for a living is talk. Talk to people and change their way of thinking. Yet he never says you need to smoke or anything like that, he actually just says try it for yourself which is not right either but is just the way he addresses people to turn their words around.

Sicko

I watch Sicko and it was surprising what he found out. Even though it was one of the most controversial films he has done and of course farenhight 9/11. He goes to different countries hospitals to see how a normal day at the hospital looks like and to see how their heal care system works. Even tough CNN and other media crushed his movie I think that if he has the facts to back it up then why not just accept the fact that we need to improved our healthcare system. Also that we are not number one and that other countries can be number one. To me it seems that as Americans we see the country as number one in everything because we live in it but is not true. We are not number one in this issue and unless we begin to change drastically we won’t be. I was in the hospital for a couple of hours because of kidney stones and let’s just say the bill was in the thousands. Are little things like that that can take you out of your budget and you can go into bankruptcy. This is just one of the examples that a bill like that can take on the average family in the US.

tornado

Speaking of crazy weather last night was crazy. I was in practice when they send a text message to everyone that the school was going to close at two thirty. Practice got cancelled so I went to my dorm but left my car in the garage just in case another tree falls down on top of my car. It looked ok like it was going to miss us but it started to get really dark and then the rain started. I was just chilling playing some Call of Duty 4 when my friend came in the room. Not even a minute went buy when the RA bang on the door and told everybody to go down to the basement. The sirens where going off and all the RA where telling everyone to go to the basement. To be onset I was a little scared. It was really happening see they said that they were planning just in case we had to go down there and we did. We were down there for a good while. Then the sirens went off and we returned to our dorms. But it was a really scary after I saw the damages that it had done really close to where my dad works.

Healthcare is a very complicated subject and a very broad topic. When I did the first part of the paper is when I notice how big my search was. They are so many different topics that are related to healthcare. I was frustrated I didn’t know what to write about in the first part. To me is hard to write but when is a broad topic is even harder. I had all this material but nothing in the page. Well I finally decided to start writing about thing like Tenncare which basically gave me my first paper. See I was looking at the stuff this programs offers and is pretty good stuff. But I’m still wondering is this what the government wants us to see but are the people actually getting the help from this program. Hopefully I will find out and incorporate it in my next paper.

What HAppend

I really didn’t think that I was going to be saying this but the Giants won. I have to give it to them I knew it came down to who really came out and play and the giants did. I tough Eli was going to choke because he is young but he came through for the Giants big time. When everyone though it was over he kept it cool and threw a touchdown pass. He also broke a sure sack but out of nowhere he came through and got a first down. He was determined to win the game everybody in the giants team was playing well they were making Brady play out of his game he didn’t have time to pass so he could convert. All I know is that a lot of people lost a lot of money in this game because almost everybody thought that the Patriots were going to win like every other game that they played this season. Well that it for that they made history anyways by making it the biggest upset in NLF history. But congrats to the Giants they played a very good game.

indecision part 2

Well maybe you read my first part but just in case you did not this is a quick summary. In the first part I was talking about how people always have indecisions when they are going to buy something with your money instead of the money of your parents. Well this is the second part the other one I left off that I finally bought the Xbox 360 but I needed a television to watch it on so the search began I was very tired of looking for prices because I was going to have to pay for it. So I window shopped in every single electronic store there is. Then I started to shop online and found this real cool TV at Wall Mart is the biggest but the cheapest of all the TV if have seen. It was getting to close to Christmas so I told my mom about it but she just said really that cool, are you going to buy it? So here was my chance to say it was going to be my Christmas present but then I stop because I remembered them saying that they were going o buy me a TV for my dorm. So when I brought that up it was shut DOWN IMEDEATELY so I had to stick to plan A. But that plan was also brought down because we were going to be in Puerto Rico for Christmas. So I had to do something but I didn’t I went to Puerto Rico and Christmas day arrive with two hats and some cash but with a letter that said that I had a Visio twenty six inch waiting for me when I got back here. To me that was a big relief no more shopping or trying to figure out what TV is best for me I finally got it took a while but I got it.

indecision part 2

The CRazy WEATher

This week has not bee the best week weather wise. It was rainy, cold, windy, and it was definitely not cool to walk to class in. You see I washed my car on Sunday because there was very little chance of rain...well think again. Obviously it rained Monday like every other day that I was my car. Is like a sensor the sky just looks and says hey look guys Gabe is washing his car is time to rain but lets wait till tomorrow when his out already so it doesn’t matter that he washed his car. Sometimes that’s how I feel is just way to coincidental. But how about that crazy weather in Memphis very consistent that’s for sure if cold you better is bet that the next day will NOT be absolutely cold. But we do have some variation in the weather is strange but it happens but not suddenly because that would be completely illogical and irrational. I mean just look at the weather for this week and the next, they are completely different this week we star a day at twenty degrees and the next at sixty. Sometimes I wonder how is possible to stay so consistent so I don’t have to worry about having to have two different jackets on for the morning and another one for the afternoon. But don’t worry people next week we might have some slight changes so be ready not that you are but just be careful.