Riptide

How many people try to live up to people's expectations. How many model themselves after someone just to "fit in"? The song Riptide by SickPuppies has a great message which is live for yourself. Don't try to live up to others expectations, just your own. That you don't have to justify the way you live your life 'cause your different. You don't have to listen to everything they say you should do. The reason being that it will "help you."


 I love the message because so many people in today's society try to fit in and change themselves just to make others happy, and the others that don't try to fit in are criticized, called freaks, and are made fun of.
If you want an example of that just look at any high shcool in america. If your not part of the "in" crowd your a nobody.I really hate that the world is like that. It really is pathetic. I just don't understand the concept that idea. What's the point of fitting in with others if you loose what makes you you in the process?


So anyone out there reading this remember, live for yourself and no one else just so you can fit in. Don't loose yourself in the crazy world of todays society.

Should Video Games be Art?

    Should video games be considered art? I think video games should definitely be considered art. If movies or music can be considered art, then why not video games? Video games have character designers designing characters for games which is just like an artist sitting down and drawing a character on paper. Another thing is the scenery. Most games have amazing sceneries, especially in the background. There will be a waterfall that looks real or a field of flowers blowing in the wind that looks like you are actually in the field. Another thing that’s a reason for video games to be art is the cinematics. For example, in the game Final Fantasy XIII the cinematics look like actual people. And many other games have amazing graphics.
    There are people who say video games is more like sports than art because you have a certain amount control over the game, unlike art. While you do have some control, you don’t have control over some aspects of the games. Like the way the background looks, or the buildings surrounding your character, or the way your characters look. Even if you do have control over how the character looks, you are pretty much creating art if you design the character.
    I understand the peoples point of view who say video games are not art. Am I gonna make a big deal about it? No. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. But I say video games should be considered as an art form.

make a stand

I wonder why so many people like watching someone else getting hurt. I can’t understand the mentality of a person who sees some human being in pain, and smiles about it. Like what happens in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. A boy and girl from each of the 12 distracts are sent to the Capitol to partake in the Hunger Games which is a fight to the death to remind everyone that the Capitol is stronger than they are. So while people as young as 12 go to the games and are brutally murdered on live T.V., people in the Capitol sit and watch them die while they talk about it like it’s no big deal. Sure people are dying, but they don’t care as long as they have entertainment.

People can be so cruel sometimes. Like the countless bullies across the U.S. making fun of and beating up kids who are weaker than them just for the fun of it, and to show there dominance over the weak like in The Hunger Games. I can’t fathom why someone would want  to harm someone for the fun of it. It’s just barbaric. I  will admit that I do like the UFC and other MMA organizations, but they are trained professionals who what they are doing ad when to stop. They don’t just find someone weaker than them  and beat them to a bloody pulp.

I don’t know how I would react to being sent to the Hunger Games or watching  it on T.V.  but I know for certain I wouldn’t be the least impressed or amused by people be forced to slaughter one another because our government is on some huge ego trip.I hope the people who are reading this understands what I’m saying. Don’t bully people, help the weak and needy whenever possible, and don’t let people walk all over you because they think they have the right to ‘cause they’re bigger.

Betrayel

    Have you ever had a brother or sister betray you? A father, mother, or even a friend. That’s what happened to Tessa in Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Angel. She moved to London because her brother Nate had sent her a ticket to come to London since there aunt died. She is picked up by two people and taken to there house where she is kept captive and forced to “Change”. She only does this because they say they have her brother. Later on she rescues her brother just for him to try and turn her into the person who “kidnapped” him. I would kill him if I were her. Spend all that time worrying about him and making sure everyone helped look for him just for him to betray me and turn me into someone who wants to do whatever it is that’s in his head to me. I would never do that to my brothers. Well maybe my little brother. Just joking. After the brother tried to turn her in, he stole the Pyxis so he can fill all the automatons with demonic energy and use them to destroy all the Shadowhunters in London. Even if that plan worked I sincerely doubt that they would be able to destroy all of the Shadowhunters around the world who would no doubt attack them.
    I think betraying someone is one of the worst things you could do to a brother/sister or friend. Like one time I wanted to jump off the roof of my house onto my trampoline. My little brother said I wouldn’t so I did it. After I did he went and told on me. I felt like strangling him but I somehow kept myself from doing it. Something else that happened when I was about 8 is that my mom told not to watch this scary movie my dad had just got. So of course I had to see it. One night I put it in when everyone was asleep. My brother walked into the living room in the middle of it and told on me the next day after he said he wouldn't. I did get into fight with him. Luckily we’ve been equally matched when it came to fighting so I didn’t get beat up to bad.

Life on Mars

    I wonder how life on Mars would be? The way that David Gill portrayed it in Black Hole Sun is very interesting. Earth is unlivable, of course, and they were forced to move to Mars. Scientists have created a green house effect on Mars to speed up the process of making an atmosphere on Mars. Making it so everyone could live on Mars. Surprisingly there are tundras on Mars. Tundras are basically flat lands covered in ice and snow. This tundras don’t cover the entire planet but it does cover about one-fourth.

I don’t think I could live on a tundra. I like cold weather and snow and all that, but I couldn’t live in that weather. Having to wear 5 sweat shirts, and a big jacket just to go outside would be unbearable. I would go insane. Luckily for the characters in this book they get symbiarmor. Symbiarmor helps protect them and allows them to fall from great hights or take devastating hits and still be okay. An example is when Durango jumps down an elevator chute and crashes through a roof unharmed. I want one of those things. That would be awesome.

After Durango lands a group of shock-troopers enter the room to see what was going on. He turns himself in so they would take them to their leader. When he gets there he sees what he was looking for. The kidnapped girl he was supposed to rescue. Good right? Wrong. Unfortunatly for him she is chained up above a pool of sludge and the chain has an explosive on it that is hooked to a pressure trigger, and the leader already has the button pressed. A pressure trigger is a device that once you press the button as soon as you let the button go, it triggers what it is connected to.

I really like this book. I recommend this to anyone who likes to read.

Mistrust

Have you ever been blamed for something you didn’t do, but no matter how much you say you didn’t do it they still don’t believe you? Well that’s what happened to Jace in Cssanrda Clare’s City of Ashes. First he gets kicked out of his home, then he is put in jail because the Inquisitor thinks he is working for Valentine,(Jace’s dad.) I’ve been accused of things I didn’t do and that made me angry, but to be thrown in a jail that you can’t even see your own hand in front of your face would just make me furious and crazy. Plus he has to deal with the internal struggle of joining his father or not,love his sister has brother sister or something else. I don’t think I could deal with that and still think straight enough to get out of the situation I was in.

While he was in jail, Valentine attacked the Silent City and stole the mortal instrument. Of course the Inquisitor accused Jace for the crime. I really don’t like her. She reminds me of a teacher I had in third grade. While the Inquisitor is acting like a tyrant to Jace, he discovers that she is preparing to trade Jace to Valentine for the mortal instrument. Jace tries to tell her it won’t work but what does she do, she doesn't believe him. I don’t understand why grownups are so unwilling to trust the younger generation even though they don’t know them at all. And if you have any sort of dark secret in your past or are affiliated with anyone who does, good luck getting people to trust you. Oh well in the end he escapes, Clary destroys the ship and the world is saved. YIPPEEE. Every one's happy. This book was very good.