My Reflection Over the Blogs

Starting on the blogs was very new to me and actually starting in this class was the first time I even heard about a blog in my whole life. At first it was difficult for me since we couldn’t write about ourselves and what was happening because that’s all I did in my notebook entries that we had to write at first. After a while I got the hang of what to rite, but then my brain would be stumped on what topics to write about. I mostly wrote about ANYHTHING that came to my mind at any time. My blog never ever really had a specific thing that it talked about like some other peoples blogs did. Some things in the beginning that you could find in the beginning were like world issues and thing that were happening in the economy that affected us as Americans and basically moved on to me in a personal way of things I liked, but I never put it in there that it was about me. Some things that you could see that I mostly wrote about were music and the artist that produced it, ghost things, traveling, piercings, and things like that. Blogs were sometimes difficult for me and some days they weren’t, but when I typed them I always took a lot of time on them I would say the time that I spent on them were about 45 minutes. The difficult thing would be finding the time to type them and access to a computer. I have a computer at home but we have slow internet because I live in the boonies so it took FOREVER to load up a page and also dealing with a job where you work all the time is hard. Then when you get time to blog I’m stumped on what to write about. Blogging isn’t a bad thing and for some people they love it, but for my technique I don’t think this was the best thing for me. I really didn’t like blogging and it always was a pain for me and I actually liked it better where in the beginning we wrote in our notebooks because it was there for me. In my blogs you can tell which ones I had the most fun with and the ones that you could tell I had no idea what to write after I typed the next word.

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is a movie that came out and basically told the story about “Pearl Harbor”
The people in this are Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck, and Kate Beckinsale. The movie starts out two pilots who are best friends are playing with each other as little boys and they get in trouble with one of the boy’s dad because they were playing in his airplane and they started it and they went and made it run. Then it flashes to the future to them in the navy. It starts in to the story of love nurses test out all the pilots when Ben Affleck sees Kate Beckinsale and falls in love with her instantly and basically makes a fool out of himself to get next to her. It ends up they are together and they all go to New York. It’s at New York where Ben Affleck tells her that he volunteered to go over to Europe for WW2. He leaves and then all the nurses and navy men go to Hawaii where they are stationed. It flashes over to Ben Affleck fighting in WW2 in a jet fighter where he is shot down. Back over in Hawaii Josh Hartnett “Danny” tells “Evelyn” Kate Beckinsale that “Rafe” Ben Affleck died. She of course is depressed, but then it shows Danny and Evelyn blooming in to a love as she lets go of Rafe after so long. It turns out after Rafe isn’t actually dead he comes home to find Danny and Evelyn in love and together which tears him a part. Then it goes in to a scene where Danny and Rafe get in to it at a little bar where all his friends are drinking well it gets in to a punching match and the cops show up so they hurry and scramble out of there together. The next day is when the bombing of Pearl Harbor begins which is sad. Danny and Rafe get in to a plane and shoot all the “japs” that they could down. After all this they were rewarded the silver star and promoted for captain for doing this. They then have to go on a top secret mission where they must train to go to Japan to bomb them back. While this happens Evelyn tells Rafe she is pregnant with Danny’s baby but Danny mustn’t know. They train for their mission and when it happens all the planes run out of gas where they land in “jap” territory. They are taken for hostage where they were going to kill Rafe until Danny went to be a hero and hit the Japenese and he was shot. Danny then as he is dieing learns he is going to be a father. They come back with Danny in a coffin where Evelyn is waiting. She then figures out he died. It goes to the ending where Rafe and she is together with a little boy, Danny’s boy. It was cute because the little boy is named Danny. This movie is so good and it shows a good story of love and what happened at Pearl Harbor.

Bent

If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk

If I need some other love
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again

Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Just hold me again

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

If I couldn't sleep could you sleep
Could you paint me better off
Could you sympathize with my needs
I know you think I need a lot

I started out clean but I'm jaded
Just phoning it in
Just breaking the skin

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Start bending me
It's never enough
I feel all your pieces

Start bending me
Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in

Shouldn't be so complicated
Just touch me and then
Just touch me again

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper was the name given to a serial killer who roamed the streets of London, England in 1888. He was famous for reeling in prostitutes and killing them by slitting their throats and removing their internal organs from their bodies. The killer was never identified which is why this is one of the most famous cases in history. These killings were known as “The Whitechapel Killings.”
Here are some of the known victims:
Mary Ann Nichols nicknamed Poly was discovered at 3:40 A.M. on the ground in front of a gated stable in Buck Row Street in a back alleyway. Her throat was slit twice and her abdomen was severed severely by stabbing wounds facing downward.
Annie Chapman nick named Dark Annie was found at 6 A.M. was found lying in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street. Again like Mary her throat was cut twice and her abdomen exposed open with the removal of her uterus.
Elizabeth Stride nick named Long Liz was discovered at 1 A.M. lying on the ground in Dutfield’s yard off Berner Street. She was cut on the throat and only suffered from severe blood loss as they think the attacker was disturbed during this time.
Catherine Eddows was found the next day previous Elizabeth. Her throat was cut twice and her abdomen was exposed with a missing kidney and a major part of her uterus was missing.
Mary Jane Kelly nick named Ginger was discovered at 10:45 A.M. on her bed I her apartment. Her body mutilated as her throat was cut all the way down to her spine. All her internal organs were missing including her heart.
Other alleged victims that COULD HAVE been by the ripper are Emma Elizabeth Smith who survived the attack but later at the hospital slipped in to a coma and died, Martha Tabram suffered from 39 stab wounds and died, Rose Mylett who was strangled by a cord, Alice Mckenzie who suffered a cordial to the right artery, but her body showed bruises and cuts as if struggling, The Pinchin Street Torso who was found with the head and legs cut off, but this could have been the doings of another serial killer at the time called “Torso Killer,” last but not least Frances Cole suffered from a head injury from being thrown before her throat was cut.
Many clues lead back to Jack the Ripper but there never was a suspect. Now there are many movies you can watch that hit Hollywood about this famous serial killer. One thing is for sure this guy was pretty sick.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe--- what are the things that pop in to your head when you think of this woman? I can tell you I think she was beautiful, young, rich, a hard worker, and definitely an intelligent young woman.
Marilyn Monroe was born June 1, 1926 and died August 5, 1962. Her real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson but she was baptized as Norma Jeane Baker. She grew up in Los Angeles, California and lived in a foster home with parents as her mother was unable to take care of her. Her father divorced her mother before Marilyn was even born and was never really around her father so instead of taking his last name Mortenson she changed it to her mother’s last name which was Baker. At 9 years old she was placed in a foster home and from then on was moved around a lot. She married at a very young age so she wouldn’t go back to living in foster homes. She divorced him in 1946 and continued to pursue her career.
She was living with her in laws as her husband was a merchant marine when they were looking for models. At this time Marilyn was a brunette so she dyed her hair blonde and they loved it. She was offered a six month contract starting out at $125 per week for fox century from being discovered for modeling. And thus she changed her name because she was reminded by the actress Marilyn Miller so she took her grandfather’s last name Monroe as her surname so it was Marilyn Monroe. She started out in small roles and was assigned to go to New York where she met her agent Johnny Hyde and stared in hit roles. Hyde bought her a 7 year contract with Fox Century just before dying in Dec. 1950.
Marilyn attended California University to study art and on the side doing small roles in films. She then started getting noticed a lot and from then on played in many movies and even posed for play boy.
In later years Marilyn suffered from a miscarriage. She was often late and showed extreme behavior after that especially in a film directed by Wilder. Even though the film was nominated for five academy awards and she won for best actress. She then later divorced her second husband in January 1961 and in Feb. she checked herself in to the psych ward for 3 weeks which this then put a slow down to her career. She did more movies and even got to sing happy birthday to JFK. Marilyn died on August 5 in her home in Brentwood, California of an overdose. But the cause of her death still lays in question.

The Power of Love

Is love an emotion or really something genetically programmed in our bodies to feel. One thing is for sure love can make you feel so powerful, but then again when were alone it’s something that is so hard to deal with. My question is why is this? Love is a very strong emotion, well just call it that. Let me put out a scenario for you.
When two lovers are dating and do everything together eventually stronger feelings start to overcome them. This is when I said love can make you feel powerful. When you have these feelings I believe it’s very essential to life. When the two lovers fall apart for anyone who has been there it is the hardest thing to overcome. You would think dying sounds so much better than going through a pain like that. I don’t understand why that is and I don’t care who says what, but I even believe scientist can’t even figure out why. Love is something I believe that is mysterious and works in so many ways that logic can’t even explain. Yes we can all say what part of the brain stimulates these emotions, but can we really get down to the core of this and explain why?
Love is something I believe the world cannot survive with out and I believe we can all say it’s an essential to life like water is to the body. We will all feel it sometime in one way or another and just like Gandhi or Mother Theresa has expressed that “We are put on this world to love and be loved in return.” If you really think about it why else are we living?
Every living thing on this earth has something they can all relate to and that’s the subject I’m talking about. Have you ever seen a dove with its mate? They say when one of two lovers die the other dove will die eventually from a heart break. Love is something so great, but at the same time it’s a quick poison. Everyone wants it and everyone will give it. It’s also scary in a sense that we can’t even control how it affects us. In life we can either resent it or we can embrace what it has in store for us. It makes the heart grow weaker but stronger at the same time. Love is a work of master piece.

Key West, Florida

If you have been to Key West I’m pretty sure you would agree with me that it is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It’s so tropical and so small and historical that you really catch the vibe of the place. There are so many things to do down there from Jet Skiing in the Caribbean and Atlantic, Parasailing, scuba diving and snorkeling, ghost tours, shopping and so much more. Key West is approximately 7 miles wide and is away from the Peninsula of Florida. Key West has everything from Ernest Hemingway’s house to a naval air station, to Robert the Doll.
Key West is a major tourist attraction and has tons of people who come from all over the world to visit its beauty. Many of its bars and grills are featured on the travel channel and have some of the top ten beaches. Key West is sadly has the second highest rate for suicides which leads this little town to be haunted. You can find these places from what I mentioned earlier Robert the Doll, the old theatre, the morgue house, the old court house, and etc. They have ghost tours and I would recommend on going on one.
They also have many fun things to do in the water from water skiing and jet skiing in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea to parasailing. You can also scuba dive and go snorkeling in the reefs. They have many tropical fish and tons of museums on the island. Key West even has a yacht club and its own little airport for planes of course.
Believe it or not the island of the peninsula of Florida isn’t the last of the keys; it has many little islands called the Key Islands and has little special names for them.
Key West is also one of the wealthiest towns in America and is a place for people who retire. The bad part of it is it gets hit by lots of hurricanes that do come that way but the town is well prepared for it though. There are a lot of famous people who came from Key West to basketball players to baseball. Believe it or not Jimmy Buffet is also known to live there.
Key West is definitely amazing little island and I would recommend going there before you die or for any fun vacation where you want to just get away in paradise.