SRP ANALYSIS

Well I am definitely glad to say that i have completed the senior research paper, the one that we have been dreading since freshman year.  To be honest it really was not as bad as I thought it would be and that is because of all the deadlines kept me from procrastinating.  Even though, at the time, I did not like turning in a introduction, then another 6 pages, then another 6 pages, ect, it really did help me at the end.  I did not have to spend my whole weekend working on my paper because it was pretty much already done.  Something that I could have improved on my paper is probably my transition and ending paragraph.  I know that I got a lot of facts, information, and analysis down but my writing has never been a good flow.  I have always had trouble with the flow of sentences in general, it is definitely something that I am going to have to look out for next year.  What I did well was that I stayed organized, and on track.  Also I think that I understood the novel very well by the end of the paper.  My book definitely does not fit in the easy sit down, read, and fully understand category, so I am impressed that I was able to dig deep and figure out Arundhati Roy's message.  If I were to redo something, it probably would have to be doing a better editing job.  I am not going to lie but towards the end I started to get a tad lazy, but not too bad!  I wish I would have paid better attention to what the articles said because they had some really good information that I decided to skip out on; I mean I didn't want to write another 8 pages!  For next year students, I suggest that they just keep up with the workload, all those extra points are really important to the third quarter grade and it helps prepare you for the final paper, leading to the whole fourth quarter grade.  It is not that bad, just have fun with it, enjoy your book and enjoy writing it because that is what is going to make your paper good.

Summer Job

This is me and my friend Jane last summer when we life guarded at the mariemont pool.  It is a pretty fun job for the most part besides having to vacuum the pool with a really old vacuum cleaner that takes an hour to assemble.  At the pool I would guard, teach swim lessons, and I was also a swim coach for the swim team.  I normally would work 6 days out of the week for about 6 hours.  The pay is pretty decent also.  It was really nice because the pool is right down the street from me so I could just walk there whenever I had to work.  The best part about working at the pool is when it rains and we can all sit around and just play cards and chill all day and still get paid.  I get really tan also whenever I work at the pool during the summer, unfortunately it is a really ugly one piece tan with a big dark circle on my back.  I am definitely going to miss working here next summer since I will be in Georgia during the summer but I think I am going to try to find a guarding job at UGA.  I also worked at the Quarter Bistro and I babysit a lot.  That is how I have been surviving during the school year.

Photopeach Sonnet 55

Sonnet 55 William Shakespeare on PhotoPeach

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concentration

In my ap studio art class, I will be taking the exam in May.  These exams are different than most of the ap class exams.  I will be turning in twenty-four pieces that I have made sometime within my high school career.  Twelve of them will be categorized in what is called bret pieces.   These have no connection to each other what so ever.  The other twelve indeed do have to follow a similar theme and relate to each other in some way.  My concentration is based off of flaws that we find in society and how I view these flaws.  Right now I have to come up with a new piece every week and it is very difficult to think of an idea and be able to execute it correctly, while making sure it is good enough to even turn in.  The first two pieces I have created for my concentration is a skeleton smoking a cigarette and a big building polluting the air with smoke.  I am hoping that as I go along my ideas will come to me and I will be able to make decent art work.

Xtreme Home Workout

Yes this is the one and only P90X.  I am trying this intense workout to get in tip top shape for spring break and the summer.  Now, I always thought that home workouts were stupid; all you need is the wonderful outdoors and maybe a mat to whip out some crunches on.  Not with this workout.  It's main focus is based on the idea of "muscle confusion."  Meaning, there is a specific order you must follow with the discs while working out.  Right before the body gets used to working out the same routine over and over, p90x switches it up with different discs containing new workouts that hit muscles that have not been used.  I am now on my fourth week out of the full thirteen weeks.  Results are almost noticeable the very first week.  Now I definitely have ways to go since there are still over nine weeks left for me, but I know this works.  Besides the work out, you must follow the nutrition guide.  p90x sets it up day by day, phase one two and three, recipes, and anything you need to know to assure yourself you are eating healthy.  At the beginning they have you eating mostly all proteins and hardly any carbs, but by the end of the process, it flips and carbs seems to be the major intake.  It can be hard to follow since I have sudden urges for certain sweets that are just too hard to resist.  Over all, I do think that it is a great workout and I am excited to stick with it and see and feel the ending results.

The New Generation of LUV

A skit from SNL that is poking fun at our generations new outlook on love and sex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o

As we all know back in the old days, women were not even allowed to choose their own husband, clearly this is unfair.  But we can not say the years of 2000 have been any better.  Love no longer seems to be an important factor in a relationship.  Of course we all search for our "soul mate," but family values and the moral importance of keeping a relationship together has seemed to fade among recent years, considering about 50% of marriages end up in a divorce.  Most men (not all of course) and some women only are looking for one thing in a relationship, and that is sex.  This digital short from SNL shows the humorous side of our generations construed thought of love.