Slice of Life #18

     With the idea that it's people killing people rather than guns killing people, I'd like to bring up a name no one probably knows: Timothy McVeigh. In 1995, this 27 year-old man walked away from the Alfred P. Murrah Building and set off a 4000-pound bomb. He claimed to have done it in order to save the constitution. This man killed  168 innocent people and 19 of them were children under six. Why is it that we can still go out and buy materials used in bombs and yet we try to outlaw guns? 

 
   With the recent school shooting in Connecticut, gun control laws have been a huge topic of conversation. Personally, I think outlawing guns is unbelievably ignorant. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Cars aren't outlawed and yet 3,000 people die daily because of those. Tobacco isn't outlawed and it kills daily as well. Besides, I think that if someone was going to kill people, a gun control law wouldn't stop them.

Slice of Life #17

What Can Happen In A Second:

1. The difference between perfect toast and charcoal

2. A smile

3. Catching someone's eye

4. The changing of someone's mind

5. A lifetime of regret

6. Making a life altering decision

7. Falling over your own feet

8. Hiccuping

Slice of Life #15

     This last week has been probably the most eventful week I've had in a very long time. It started off on Thanksgiving when my cat, Roscoe, ran away from home when my brother was letting our dogs out to go to the bathroom. I didn't even know he was missing until I got home from Black Friday shopping at 4 the next morning. On top of that, Sunday I came down with the flu and still hadn't seen Roscoe. I got over the flu and life became normal once again, or at least as normal as it could get without my cat. That all changed though a couple hours ago when my family and I were at my brother's basketball game and we got a call from our neighbor saying that Roscoe has been living in her attic for the past few days. I could hardly contain my excitement when I found out and we rushed home as soon as we got the news. At the beginning of the week, I wasn't too thrilled in the slightest but now that it's lighting up, it's not too shabby.

Slice of Life #14

   No matter what you're talking about, time is essential. Whether it's what day and time you're going to this concert or when you plan on doing that homework assignment you were given 3 weeks to do. Time is always the big factor. It seems as if we always have too many things to do and not enough hours in the day to do them, and we're always counting down the days until something, whether that be Christmas or summer vacation. We're so worried about what's happening later on in life we don't stop and contemplate what's going on now.

Slice of Life #13

 Lately I feel as though recording studios will produce literally anything. Personally, I am no a fan of rap because I believe anyone who can speak quickly, such as auctioneers, can be a rap superstar. First of all, this genre doesn't include any instruments, rather computer generated sounds and quite a few "artists" use autotune. Secondly,  the lyrics lack quality and make no sense. Here's just a few examples: "Thirty -eight revolve like the sun round the Earth," (Jay-Z, "It's Hot"), "Never let me slip, cause if I slip, then I'm slippin," (Dr. Dre, "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang"), and of course "I'm hungry for cheese like Hungry, Hungry Hippo," (Project Pat, "Ballers"). I wish more songs could have deep, meaningful lyrics like, "To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die," (The Smiths, "There's a Light That Never Goes Out) or "On the day that you were born the angels got together, And decided to create a dream come true, So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair, Of golden starlight in your eyes of blue," (The Carpenters, "Close to You".) I didn't intentionally choose love songs for the last two examples, I just thought that they showed how today's music lacks sustenance. I hope that one day we can go back to the heartfelt lyrics created by The Smiths, Carpenters and smiliar artists.

Slice of Life #12

 "You know, it's funny what a young man recollects," Forrest Gump said that and it's undeniably true. Like Forrest, I don't remember being born, or recall what I got for my first Christmas nor do I remember when I went on my first outdoor picnic. I do remember the little things, like when my uncle Shawn pushed me face first into cow manure and I had to sit in the cows' drinking trough. I also remember these little Hello Panda cookies I would eat when I lived in Japan. It's the small things that don't really place a dramatic impact on your life that you can remember, like having a pretend cooking show with your best friend or trying to get the attention of the boys who lived across the street from her by singing and dancing obnoxiously outside. I wonder, thirty years from now, what I'll be remembering from my days as a high school student, or if I'll remember any of it at all.

Slice of Life #11

Amanda Todd = The New Kony 2012?

  
   Although this is out of date now, over break I decided that as soon as we got back to school this was going to be my first slice topic. Only 7 months ago, the invisiblechildreninc came out with a video encouraging people to stand up for the children in Africa being taken into an army led by Joseph Kony and forced to murder their parents. This video told the world that it was their job to get involved and make a difference, however, when the date came when everyone was expected to cover their town in flyers announcing that Mr. Kony would soon be found and put to an end, everyone had already forgotten about it. That was the first thing I thought of when I logged onto Facebook to see a picture of a 15 year old, Amanda Todd.
   I would like to state that, while yes it's a sad story, I don't pity her. Amanda was a girl with very low self esteem. She was willing to show a multitude of men on the Internet herself nude. She was bullied because she had no respect for herself whatsoever and then she was only beaten up because of her promiscuous behavior with another girl's boyfriend. She later went on to drink bleach and claim she was subjected to cyberbullying when other children on Facebook would tag her in pictures of bleach. I would love to know why she simply didn't delete her account if it was getting to be that bad. And where were her parents? Don't you think you'd be watching her like a hawk if she was your daughter and attempted suicide and was being bullied at school? Her parents did nothing but feed the problem by moving her to a new school rather than addressing the the situation and seeking out the authorities.
   Everyone is saying how anyone who was thinking with their brain rather than their heart is nothing more than a bully and I have seen multiple instances where people standing up for Amanda were in fact bullying those who simply stated that if she would've had a little more respect for herself and not have shown multiple men her body then none of this would have ever happened. I was one of those instances. But now, only one week later, you rarely see anything showing up on social networking sites about the young Canadian girl. She faded away, just like Kony 2012.