Thursday, December 2, 2010

Conclusion for 14 day experiment

After over looking the blog of my 14 day experiment i realized that its kinda sad the how much repetition there is once a person is in school because i realized that depending of the schedule a person has for school indicates the way there day will be. Mostly for students having morning class and getting of class before 3 go home and go to sleep because i had no evidence in my blog but from a person like the way Salvador is you wouldn't imagine him going home and taking a nap. But its different for everyone depending if you have a job or not because having a job takes up a lot more of your time than some one realizes it seems that all your doing is school and work and not really socializing and going out with friends because once you have free time you usually spend those hours either resting or "procrastinating"or doing homework which is sad, no wonder students like summer vacation because it brings out the real side of them more of socializing and hanging out with friends, but before i get off topic i will go back to "procrastination" and what my experiment really is about. So first thing i noticed was that procasinating didn't always have to do with people being "lazy" and not wanting to do the things that had to be done but it was more about not being able to have energy or motivation to do certain things, also having things like games or tv shows will drain your energy and focus more towards that because it seemed more pleasurable at the moment. People need to realize that hard work is necessary to be able to succeed in life and that being lazy and skipping or leaving homework til later will not work out, as soon as they realize that they will figure out how much stress relieved you will be an how much more time you will have to yourself because in most cases people usually spend more time procrastinating on the assignment than actually doing the work which kills a lot of use full time. So in my 14 day project i was interviewing a friend of mine and finding out different kinds of reasons why people procrastinate besides being lazy, i didn't many different ways why people procrastinate other than being things leading to being lazy about them but some that i found where that forgetting was part of procrastination people need to have an agenda and reminders about certain things because some things people just put aside and forget about. I was hoping to find out about different peoples experience with procrastination but it would have been easily over the word limit if i added more interviewees to my 14 day project so i just stuck with one. Even though it was cool to find out that i'm  not alone and everyone procrastinates once in there lifetime or they even procrastinate everyday. All in all scientist need to find out ways to keep people focus and not procrastinate in everyday life issues they need to invent a drug that can eliminate procrastination it would be great because then people wont be complaining about how they have a 1000 word essay to do in a day or about anything else dealing with doing it last minute. Some questions that raised for me is what might be other reason procrastinate i was taking myself in consideration and reason why i procrastinate where somewhat similar than my interviewee and i would have loved to go more in depth with the experiment but there isn't enough time to research and find more reasons.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

superhero-MRLOVIN:D




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In 2012 a guy by the named Chad Lovin was going to work like any other usual Amerian, he worked in a farm, picking Fruits in the fields of California. He didn't have a great love life because he was really fat and unattractive, so he was afraid of women all his life an has never talked to women besides his mother and sister. After a long day at work he couldnt resist but to eat an apple that was in the ground that he saw, at first he saw it and realize that the apple seemed to be shaped very different than the other apples, he didn't care and took a bite of the apple anyways. After digesting the apple he realized that he started to loose his vision and before he noticed and realized he fell to the ground and became unconscious. He went missing for 2 weeks and no one knew where he was, after the 3rd week he awaken, he felt very different, he stood up, instantly realized that it took him no less than 2 seconds to get up he felt surprised, he look at himself and realized that he was not the same person. He then realized he had the power to fly. Once he got home he changed into new clothing, he went grocery shopping and realized that all the women will have the mouths down staring at him, he made eye contact and made the women instantly get in love with him, he would have women after him like if he was Micheal Jackson, he soon realized that his eyes were very powerful in making women fall in love with him, so the superhero MRLOVIN, was born into the world. From being afraid of women and being fat and un attractive he changed into a very attractive men that was in good shape and had all the women dying for him. THE END.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Valley Fair

My experience of doing the Valley Fair assignment was actually pretty good, it was something different that i would have never done without taking this class. I had never seen the mall the way i did that day, it was something of out of the box thinking that led me too see what the actual reality was there. Some of the possibilities that valley fair mall has to offer to consumers of San Jose is top brand clothing that include top stores, for example Macy's, Nordstrom. juicy, and many other stores, to many to mention. But the point is that this mall if filled with many expensive stores where mostly rich and wealthy people can go and shop on. Some of the problematic problems that valley fair has are one thought that i had was the parking lot in the back of the mall where the stores of Nordstrom and juicy and many top brand store are cornered in one are where the rich people can go and park in the back of the Nordstrom and they can go in and out from the side of the mall which means that its a plus for the more Rich and wealthy people because they wouldn't have to face or interact with the less fortune people because they might not seem like they could connect or want something to do with them.  So they stick with the people that know who they are and will not judge them. The way they could solve this problem and probably every problem a mall has is to just have all the stores built in a alphabetical order and once a store is bankrupt let anyone fill in there slot that way there wont be any complaining or judging of the mall where it could lead to worse things. Besides the food court where it can be place in a specific area of a mall either but the middle would be the best place to place an area where food is located because it would be easy to locate and it wouldn't be of any concern or problem to anyone. Other problems that I think Valley Fair has is that some of the stores have workers that are not as diverse as how it should be because i noticed that when i was walking around most stores had "white: Caucasian people in more stores. The easy way to fix this problem is just to hire a large variety of races that wouldn't make the workers at th see mall seem like its run by one raise. Another problem that Valley Fair has is that in some specific stores like American Eagle and Victoria Secret they are pointed towards a more thinner body type of girl because they only offer up to a certain size, what does it leave the rest of the big bone women at? they probably have to go and buy at plus size stores or other stores that arent really top brand named stores. The way they can fix this problem is obviously by offering bigger sizes where plus size women can buy clothes as well like every other women that buys at those stores.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Fashion

I cant think of many things that i have wore that have been a fashion crime because i didn't really care what i wore and how people really thought of how i looked or dressed, but ill explain some fashion crimes that i look back on and really think and say, "why did i wear that" phrase. When i was in middle school i had a blue sweater that i would always wear and it seemed like that's the only clothes i had was that sweater because anywhere i went i always had the sweater, i remember that on x-mas we always take a family picture with Santa clause and i had the blue sweater on, then on April we took a family picture with the Easter bunny, and yes you guessed it i had the blue sweater on, its kinda embarrassing looking back at the pictures because blue kinda stands out and you can right away tell that it was the same sweater, seemed that i was a little bit obsessed with the sweater. But if you where in my spot you would know why i only had that sweater, it was because i was job less and my parents really didn't have money for them to buy me clothes either and since it was middle school all i was able tow wear was my uniform so i only had 3 pairs of pants and shirts for the whole year which was not a lot, but now in the present im glad i have a job and money so that i can buy my own things, but still that i have a job i dont have many clothes because now that im an adult i have many bills and gas to pay for.
Another Fashion crime that i remember committing was elementary school  when i would wear the farmers overalls, good thing i had to wear uniform to school because that would have been really embarrassing to look back on.  I would have probably represented a typical Mexican kid that looks very ghetto without any nice clothes to wear.
Another Fashion Crime or mistake that i have committed was in the summer of 7th grade when i went to Mexico for vacation and while being over there i had a mushroom head haircut which was badly enough but on top of that in Mexico i got a little pony tail that they but on me over there, i thought it was really cool, i don't know why but i thought that and when i look back at it I'm so confused in why i ever thought that having a mushroom head and a pony tail was really cool, must of been in the peak of my fashion crisis .

Monday, October 25, 2010

leslie hall

Leslie hall was the blogger that brought my attention the most. She made me proud of who i am and the size of my body she didn’t care how big she was she expressed herself how a pretty women with a bottle shaped body would of have in a music video. She goes out of the social dorms that the united states have set in or revolve around, for example the artist Eminem was made a big deal because he is a "white" male rapper, and now Leslie hall is showing that she doesn't about the social norms that the world puts on people and she does the complete opposite of what a white female will do. Not only rap but also make herself look older and wear clothes that a young 20 year old would not wear ever. It seems like Leslie hall wants to make everyone seem normal land motivate those that think they don’t fit in society to not give a f*ck about what people have to say about them.
Something else that brought my attention was also the way she would take a shirt and bedazzle it and make it a trend that she will use and hope to bring back the old school trends into what is now the present trends. I think that Leslie hall is just doing her and living life the way she wants to live and doesn’t care about what the trends are and what the norms are, she is what you call today an independent girl with a creative mind that thinks to herself and doesn’t give a crap about what people think is weird or not.
Another thing that she has brought back to the present is the hairstyle she has, she has a mullet cut which is a hairstyle that died off and that is very rare to see now a days. She is what you call a person stuck in the past but then again she didn’t live in that era of life were having a mullet as hairstyle was seen as awesome.
Another area which she has broke norms is the videos she has of her rapping the quality and the way that it choreographed is not very professional like and at the end any cd label would think that her video is a fail and should not be shown to the world cause of humiliation that the artist would face, but its obvious that she doesn’t care and just does the video and seems very energetic and happy in what she is doing.

At the end people come to like someone that’s different and is not afraid to express themselves however they want.  Even though some may say that she’s dumb and she doesn’t know what shes doing I totally  like what she’s doing cause it just comes to show that there are haters out there that wish could be as open as she is and be themselves and not live life the way that we are told to live it. And overall I think that’s she is pointing out the norms that young adult women face in the fashion industry and the way they do there hair and the way that celebrity’s have put and impact in the way they dress and follow. 

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

blue pill or red pill?


             If I was given the option in taking either a red or blue pill, meaning if I take the red pill I would stay in wonderland and see how deep the rabbit hole goes , and if I take the blue pill the story ends, I wake up in my bed and believe whatever I want to believe. I think that any creative person will never let this opportunity pass by, I mean it’s the only chance that you will get to find out the truth.  Any person that takes the blue must be very un curious person that doesn’t care about themselves and living there lives because if so they would have chose the red pill to find out what the world is really about and to find all the answers that “god” was going provide them with.  Taking the red pill provides you with a fun filled adventure that’s going to be out of the ordinary and un boring unlike the way he, “neo” was living, seemed like he could care less about himself. Taking the blue pill will leave you hanging from what the truth really is and knowing that you had that decision whether or not you to know it.  Therefore implying my creative thinking class into this assignment I may assume that if  you choose the blue pill then you have not learn anything from this class and that taking risks and not being afraid to be wrong is the correct way to choose in order to become more creative not only by the actions you do but also how you perceive them and conclude with them. Therefore this was test whether or not we were as brave as neo was to take a risk and seek for the truth and be “creative” and not just go along with life like if nothing has happen.  Therefore I have chosen the red pill and seek out creativity and have found that creativity doesn’t just come to you but you have to be in search of it. 

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Examined life

The philosopher I'm choosing to write about is Peter Singer, he seemed like a philosopher that made more sense than the other ones introduced in the movie, examined life. I got more out of him and was less work to understand. Some of the ideas that the philosopher talked about was that us people in the world care more about top brands and that a person has to double think about taking off expensive shoes before jumping into a pond with a drowning kid in it, as the analogy that the philosopher gave. I think that he is correct because people now a days are more materialistic and care more about there things than they do about themselves. But i guess his point of view of this is that shoes that cost 300 dollars are worth more to be taken off because with that money you can save more people than you would by jumping into the water with them and ruining the shoes. I guess that can be true but it sounds so wrong to be doing such a thing to a child though i mean if you can save a life at that precise moment i don't think it would matter how much the shoes are as long as you save a life, a son of god is worth more than anything out there in the world. The philosopher also states that applied ethics challenges norms, so from this i'm guessing it means that something that is ethical in the world challenges the norms around us because norms are different all over the world so you never know where some ethical ways are accepted and not, making it be a challenge to norms. Peter Singer also states that we have a moral obligation to help and not hurt. This is true because in society today the last thing that someone wants to be known as is the bad guy and someone that is no help to society, we want to be known as the good, warm hearted person that everyone does and for that, we have moral obligation to help and not hurt. He also talks about why we as humans have the entitlement to be able to kill weaker animals like cows and pigs. What makes us be more powerful then them? We are all the same here in the world trying to survive while we are the people that are the ones not letting these animals live there lives that they were suppose to live, all because we humans like the taste of the flesh of certain animals. I mean don't get me wrong i love meat, and its not my fault i was put into the category of a carnivore that likes eating animals. If i was raised different and thought to love animals and not eat them i would probably turn out to be a non meat eater.