Partick Swayze was born August 18th 1952 in Houston, Texas. He is best known for his roles in more romatic movies, such as Dirty Dancing and Ghost. Also, his role as the eldest greaser brother in The Outsiders.
As well as being an extrememly talented and attractive actor, he was an excellent and trained ballet dancer. His mother Patsy Swayze was the owner of a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was a student. While attending dance lessons at his mothers school, he, at the age of 19, met his wife Lisa Niemi; who, at the time was 15. Later in his life, he then left to New York City where he attended Harkness Ballet School and Joffery Ballet School. He first danced professionally as "Prince Charming" in "Disney on Parade".
He got his start in acting on the New York stage, and after his success in the production of Grease his career in Hollywood took off. Then, after his role in The Outsiders, Patrick Swayze proved his talent as a leading actor. He recieved a Golden Globe nomination for his role as "Johnny Castle" in the romantic movie Dirty Dancing (1987); and recived a second nomination for is role as the ghost "Sam Wheat" in the movie Ghost.
January of 2008, Patrick, a recovering alcoholic, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He fought cancer for over a year and continued to work as well, but alas he couldn't fight hard enough and died September 14th, 2009.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Parent vs. Children
Parents vs. children. A battle that's been going on for as long as we as a people can remember. Every child has their own individual problem with their parents. Just as every parents has some sort of problem with their child.
Granted parents feel like that they are only doing what is the best thing for their children, whereas us kids just want our parents out of our hair. As a teenager, I know personally that parents that try to be as involved in their kids lives as possible are quite annoying and come off as very controlling. My parents are the worst when it comes to this. There is a point where parents pass concerned and go straight to demanding and controlling.
Kids, especially teenagers, are a lot more likely to rebel and do exactly what their parents don't want them to do when they have strict limitations on their lives. We feel that our lives are our own. We don't know every little detail about our parents lives; why do they need to know every little detail about ours? We are likely to go along with reasonable rules that are set. Like, no phones in church, no hanging with friends on Sunday, or no texting at the dinner table or during big family get together. But when it comes to having to let you (parents) read every text that you write or making sure that you can read everything they talk about, even if they delete it because it's not something you need to know, just by going online and looking up their texts.
Also, I see my parents point of view when it comes to dating, and I agree with it; but I will not agree with the rules they set before dating. Obviously we are going to have friends that are different genders than we are. Who doesn't? But if we don't want to date them, or we actually want to follow our parents dating rules, then I feel that to show that they can actually trust us, they shouldn't freak out every time we try to hang out with one of them when it isn't a big group of friends. It's okay to be a girl and have a close guy friend, and visa verse. If I want to hang out with one of my friends, who just happens to be a guy, I don't want to have to look for five other people to hang out with too. He was the person I wanted to talk to, not them. I am more likely to lie to my parents about it and go hang out with him anyway, just because I want to and I know they would never allow it.
Teenagers and kids aren't just these hugely over dramatic people that find every reason possible to fight. That's just some lame stereotype we were given. My friends, and myself are actually very reasonable when it comes to rules we are given, but that doesn't mean that you have to place huge rules on us to keep us from ever doing anything. We are going to get hurt, we are going to make mistakes, and sometimes we aren't going to make the best choices. But those were our choices to make. This is our life too. I know that parents are responsible for us as long as we live in their houses, but how can we ever become responsible on our own if we aren't given the chance.
I would love to know that I have free will to do what I want. I would love to not have to worry about everything I tell my friends, just because I don't want my parents to know because it's too personal. I would love to be able to hang with just one of my guy friends and know that my parents trust me not to do anything, because I don't want to and I know the rules. If we are given rights and opportunities to become responsible and make decisions that we can learn from, we learn how life works. In my opinion, trusting in your kids is one of the best ways to prepare them for the life they will lead after they leave your home. It will also strengthen your relationship between you and your child. They will become responsible, they learn what it means to be trustworthy and how to earn a persons trust, they will learn what a healthy relationship is for a parents and their children, so that they too can have a good relationship with their kids. If parents could just learn this and apply it, you'd be amazed what the results would be.
Granted parents feel like that they are only doing what is the best thing for their children, whereas us kids just want our parents out of our hair. As a teenager, I know personally that parents that try to be as involved in their kids lives as possible are quite annoying and come off as very controlling. My parents are the worst when it comes to this. There is a point where parents pass concerned and go straight to demanding and controlling.
Kids, especially teenagers, are a lot more likely to rebel and do exactly what their parents don't want them to do when they have strict limitations on their lives. We feel that our lives are our own. We don't know every little detail about our parents lives; why do they need to know every little detail about ours? We are likely to go along with reasonable rules that are set. Like, no phones in church, no hanging with friends on Sunday, or no texting at the dinner table or during big family get together. But when it comes to having to let you (parents) read every text that you write or making sure that you can read everything they talk about, even if they delete it because it's not something you need to know, just by going online and looking up their texts.
Also, I see my parents point of view when it comes to dating, and I agree with it; but I will not agree with the rules they set before dating. Obviously we are going to have friends that are different genders than we are. Who doesn't? But if we don't want to date them, or we actually want to follow our parents dating rules, then I feel that to show that they can actually trust us, they shouldn't freak out every time we try to hang out with one of them when it isn't a big group of friends. It's okay to be a girl and have a close guy friend, and visa verse. If I want to hang out with one of my friends, who just happens to be a guy, I don't want to have to look for five other people to hang out with too. He was the person I wanted to talk to, not them. I am more likely to lie to my parents about it and go hang out with him anyway, just because I want to and I know they would never allow it.
Teenagers and kids aren't just these hugely over dramatic people that find every reason possible to fight. That's just some lame stereotype we were given. My friends, and myself are actually very reasonable when it comes to rules we are given, but that doesn't mean that you have to place huge rules on us to keep us from ever doing anything. We are going to get hurt, we are going to make mistakes, and sometimes we aren't going to make the best choices. But those were our choices to make. This is our life too. I know that parents are responsible for us as long as we live in their houses, but how can we ever become responsible on our own if we aren't given the chance.
I would love to know that I have free will to do what I want. I would love to not have to worry about everything I tell my friends, just because I don't want my parents to know because it's too personal. I would love to be able to hang with just one of my guy friends and know that my parents trust me not to do anything, because I don't want to and I know the rules. If we are given rights and opportunities to become responsible and make decisions that we can learn from, we learn how life works. In my opinion, trusting in your kids is one of the best ways to prepare them for the life they will lead after they leave your home. It will also strengthen your relationship between you and your child. They will become responsible, they learn what it means to be trustworthy and how to earn a persons trust, they will learn what a healthy relationship is for a parents and their children, so that they too can have a good relationship with their kids. If parents could just learn this and apply it, you'd be amazed what the results would be.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Bloggging vs. Journalism
Is blogging journalism? It's a question that many poeple have asked, what with the world changing and becoming more and more revolved around technology. In my opinion I would have to say that blogging is journalism. As sad as that fact is, it's true. Journalism is reporting news and facts. There are blogs out there that do just that. I would love to be able to tell you that no, our world of newspapers and facts that have to be read on paper are still going strong, but they're not. Newspapers have started putting their information onto a computer, and now you can look up facts simply by going to a search engine.
There are those that say that blogging isn't journalism, but what is journalism really? It's facts, stories, and most of the time, truth. I can easily go out into the world, find a fact, find a story, and find some truth and put it onto my blog. That post is an easy example of journalism. I would rather have journalism only be the way it was, like in the good old days, but it's not. The world is changing and so is the world of journalism. So yes, blogging is in fact journalism. Deal with it. Life must go on, even if the old ways don't.
There are those that say that blogging isn't journalism, but what is journalism really? It's facts, stories, and most of the time, truth. I can easily go out into the world, find a fact, find a story, and find some truth and put it onto my blog. That post is an easy example of journalism. I would rather have journalism only be the way it was, like in the good old days, but it's not. The world is changing and so is the world of journalism. So yes, blogging is in fact journalism. Deal with it. Life must go on, even if the old ways don't.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The rights of animals is seen as insufficent when compared to those of humans. I will never understand how people feel the need to harm such a beautiful and helpless creature. Animals can be brave and strong and powerful, but when placed at the hands of a cruel people they become weak and needy.
It breaks my heart to see somethings as pure as an animal be destroyed by something as evil as a man. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated... I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
--Mahatma Gandhi
As Gandhi has said, animals require protection from man, by man. It is people like him that see the true way that man treat animals. It's a harsh and cruel torture placed on them. Their lives are subjected to death, if lucky the death they see will be natural and peaceful. People turn their faces and minds away from the food they eat. They place it in their mouth and chew; never thinking about where their meat came from. They like to think that the animal died peacefully and of natural causes, but that is not the case. If that ever happens it is very rare indeed.
Animals are forced into slaughter houses and raised there in most cases. Never to see a normal, peaceful life. Chicks will be hatched and debeaked, often they are debeaked incorrectly and it causes serious injury to the chick; but as long as it grows up to be cooked for someones meal they take no care to treat the chick. If it's lucky it will make it. When they grow up they are forced to either boxes to be shipped to a place that will kill them for their meat, or they go into a cage to lay more eggs. Cages are cramped and hard and often the hens will become violent. The boxes the others are shipped in are large, but for how many they stick in there, there is never enough room. Often chickens will be pressed up against eachother and will sometimes sufficate before they reach their destination.
Cows, in my opinion, are by far the most cruely tortured of the food chain. Milking cows never leave their stalls, and are forced to give milk all day, every day. Cows have an average lifespan of about 20 years, but milking cows have an average lifespan of about 4 years old. The cows that end up in the actual slaughter house are most commonly bled. A slit to the throat is the "humane" way that they are killed. The people don't make sure their dead either, they let them bleed it out and most often they are left alive, bleeding to death, as they continue down the conveyer, until finally they reached the end and die. If they are to be kosher meat, the people can't touch them at all. The cut them, then lay them on a floor and wait for as long as it takes for the cow to slowly and painfully wait for its release.
People around us often overlook what goes on in the world around us. They ignore the suffering some see day to day. And others enjoy the pain they inflict onto the poor creatures. I will never understand why, but they do. House pets can also be cruely tortured or killed. But people overlook the cruelty of this world. Granted not all people are like this. Some help to fight and stop this. Some commit themselves to a life meat free and dedicated to helping the poor creatures some never will. I am on the road to a meat free life and a life dedicated to helping any creature in need. This world, those animals need people like that. And if you can't beat them, join them. But join what you know is right. And animal cruelty is not just; it is not right.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
--Leonardo Da Vinci
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that's the essence of inhumanity.
--George Bernard Shaw
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
"Earth can provide enough to satisfy everyone's need, but not everyone's greed."
- Mahatma Ghandi
As these great men have stated, the Earth was made for all of us. We are all Earthlings. Creatures of the Earth. And we all deserve to be here. Animals too, not just man. (If you are interested about this information, you can hear more from this awesome documentary called "Earthlings")
It breaks my heart to see somethings as pure as an animal be destroyed by something as evil as a man. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated... I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
--Mahatma Gandhi
As Gandhi has said, animals require protection from man, by man. It is people like him that see the true way that man treat animals. It's a harsh and cruel torture placed on them. Their lives are subjected to death, if lucky the death they see will be natural and peaceful. People turn their faces and minds away from the food they eat. They place it in their mouth and chew; never thinking about where their meat came from. They like to think that the animal died peacefully and of natural causes, but that is not the case. If that ever happens it is very rare indeed.
Animals are forced into slaughter houses and raised there in most cases. Never to see a normal, peaceful life. Chicks will be hatched and debeaked, often they are debeaked incorrectly and it causes serious injury to the chick; but as long as it grows up to be cooked for someones meal they take no care to treat the chick. If it's lucky it will make it. When they grow up they are forced to either boxes to be shipped to a place that will kill them for their meat, or they go into a cage to lay more eggs. Cages are cramped and hard and often the hens will become violent. The boxes the others are shipped in are large, but for how many they stick in there, there is never enough room. Often chickens will be pressed up against eachother and will sometimes sufficate before they reach their destination.
Cows, in my opinion, are by far the most cruely tortured of the food chain. Milking cows never leave their stalls, and are forced to give milk all day, every day. Cows have an average lifespan of about 20 years, but milking cows have an average lifespan of about 4 years old. The cows that end up in the actual slaughter house are most commonly bled. A slit to the throat is the "humane" way that they are killed. The people don't make sure their dead either, they let them bleed it out and most often they are left alive, bleeding to death, as they continue down the conveyer, until finally they reached the end and die. If they are to be kosher meat, the people can't touch them at all. The cut them, then lay them on a floor and wait for as long as it takes for the cow to slowly and painfully wait for its release.
People around us often overlook what goes on in the world around us. They ignore the suffering some see day to day. And others enjoy the pain they inflict onto the poor creatures. I will never understand why, but they do. House pets can also be cruely tortured or killed. But people overlook the cruelty of this world. Granted not all people are like this. Some help to fight and stop this. Some commit themselves to a life meat free and dedicated to helping the poor creatures some never will. I am on the road to a meat free life and a life dedicated to helping any creature in need. This world, those animals need people like that. And if you can't beat them, join them. But join what you know is right. And animal cruelty is not just; it is not right.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
--Leonardo Da Vinci
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that's the essence of inhumanity.
--George Bernard Shaw
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
"Earth can provide enough to satisfy everyone's need, but not everyone's greed."
- Mahatma Ghandi
As these great men have stated, the Earth was made for all of us. We are all Earthlings. Creatures of the Earth. And we all deserve to be here. Animals too, not just man. (If you are interested about this information, you can hear more from this awesome documentary called "Earthlings")
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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