11/16/12

So I don't know if this is the week I'm supposed to post or next week but I don't really care at this point because I have been throwing up so hard all the time and it sucks I also have to type this n and IPad and if any of you have tried to do that you would understand why I freaking hate it. Sucks really bad because I'm trying to type yet at the same time I keep closing things and opening up different things so it is really frustrating me plus I just got gaming so I'm a little tired and that's what my mind is on especially since me and my friends made a kid rage quit which was freaking awesome it made me laugh so hard I threw up then it wasn't very awesome anymore but all well nothing I can really do about it now so I guessed the thing I learned was don't laugh when sick because chances are you will throw up all over the place then you will have to clean it all up which I can tell you is not fun whatsoever and yep that's about all I have left thanks for reading

10/28 weekly blog

Ok so as I reach far into the depths of my memory I try to recall 10/28 I faintly remember nothing much taking place because well its the truth plus nothing really happens in my life anyways because I live out in the middle of nowhere and no one in there right mind would want to drive out to the boonies I know I wouldn't want t especially with gas prices raising almost every other week it kind of gets sketchy the by I can do is tell you about my video game experiences which are limited because I am not really allowed to use the Internet connection which I think is dumb because we don't even have a computer yet my dad still pays for it all well I guess if he has the money just falling out of his back pocket then he can do whatever he wants anyways yeah i guess I'm just kind of telling you a little about me instead of telling you an experience I've had but as I have said before my life is a boring one so there isn't much to tell and that about wraps it up for this week

common theme essay

Greg Johnson

Mr. Gowans

English

10/24/12

 

we are equal

The Thesis I have chosen for the three stories is or point in society we are in the end only human. Why I chose this thesis is to show that the racism needs to end here. we are all equal no matter how you look at it we can all die the same way and we all breathe and live the same way so why do we treat each other so different is it because of territorial issue’s because if that is the case we shouldn’t even be freaking out about it because we weren't even the first people here we kicked out the Indians

Thesis: It doesn’t matter your race color or level in society because in
Thesis: It doesn't matter your race color or level in society because in the end we are all human

The statement above is something I agree with completely for a few reasons and im going to break those reasons up one at a time to show you what I mean
1st) we see it all around us everyday using racism to exclude others why we do this I don’t know but a study showed that people are doing it for a self defense territorial issues. My opinion on it is that it is just plain dumb. I thought maybe it had do to something with human nature and we do it to put others down to make ourselves feel better or more important. One way we really see racism today is after 9/11 people thought that Indian cultured people were all bad and let’s throw them out of the country when that is not how it should be those people mourned with us when it happened and we prosecuted them for it. We look at war times with Nagasaki and Hiroshima what did we do to the Japanese people when they bombed pearl harbor we put them in our own version of the concentration camps that we thought were so bad with the Nazi’s. we see it in our government and society daily and it needs to stop.

2nd) levels in society now that is something that just chaps my chassis because people thinking they are better people just because they have more money. Those are the kind of people that make me sick. They obviously don’t see or appreciate the human life and seeing how beautiful people are inside and it is kind of sad that they don’t see that when they cant understand the lower life people and how they feel sometimes I wish that rich people could have their lives switched with those they think are so bad and just because they are higher in society and rich doesn’t mean anything we are still equals and still human.

3rd) In the end we are all human. We all know this is true even though we don’t act like it we all act like we are the best but in the heart we all know we are just a human and can all die the same way as everyone else can. The only problem is. We don’t see that what we see is oh I’m much better that that guy and his family because I drive a better truck or I have the best TV. It’s funny because I look at some adults like this as little kids because when we were little all our parents taught us was it doesn’t matter who has the best this or that. They are a person just like you and just like Horton the elephant said “A persons a person no matter how small” (Doctor Seuss “Horton hears a who”) and if you think about it its very true. No matter how rich you become or how important you think you are you are still just a person like the others you are picking on and that just isn’t right

In the story “what you pawn I will redeem by Sherman Alexei” all the Indians in the story are homeless or poor. Everyone in the story looks down on them just because of their race and the funny thing above tit all is we are the ones who took their land and disrespected their beliefs. In another story by Marmon Silko titled “lullaby” a younger Mexican lady is taken advantage of because she can’t speak English the government comes and tell her to sign a document. She does and she doesn’t understand that they had her sign it so that they could take her children away and I think things like that are stupid because I know they happen in real life and no on takes the time to make sure it doesn’t happen. Anyways the young lady feels horrible about giving her children away she lets her husband chato know and chato is angry not at her because she didn’t understand but mad at the people for taking advantage of a non-English speaking lady. Again in “woman hollering creek by Sandra Cisneros” we see a man take advantage of his wife by beating her. Some of you may wonder why I bring this up. I bring this up because it isn’t right that he does this and takes control of her like that just because she Is a woman. In the story the way that the man acts says that he feels he is in a higher part of society being a man and therefore beats her.

9/40

well still nothing excititng other than i might be getting a mac book for my college stuff which should be pretty exciting but probably not because what i want to do is kind of expensive and takes a while to learn if you cant memorize things very well but that is the exact reason why i am going to be doing dub step music because it's what i love i also really want to be a DJ so even if i don't make it big in the music world i can just be a DJ for shows around the world. For who ever needs me i got and invitation to a track and Field things but i don't think i am going to go because i can concentrate my money on different things like my schooling and music stuff.

Response paper on clothes

So this story clothes is a story about a girl in an arranged marriage to a man in America she has waited all her life to do this just like her grandma she is a little scared at first but comes close to the man she loves when she gets there she realizes that the man she is going to marry and live with also lives with his parents. He finds out she is very uncomfortable with him touching her in any inappropriate ways..... anyways back to a different topic. Her husband she marries is also the owner of a 7/11 which she loves and think is just so neat for her to experience she sends so many letters to her family about her experience there and the things she is learn. she loves the man she is to be married to because buys her all kinds of things event hings that his parents don't approve of like the clothes the Americans wear which are very different from the ones she wears back home. later on in the story her husband is shot and killed and she is told to go back to her country but because of the kindness her husband showed her she decides she wants to follow in his footsteps and opens up a 7/11
The lesson here is to be nice to everyone whenever you can because you never quite know how you will effect them in life

9/14 post

well here is yet another weekly post and we all know what that means another random post about random things yay dont we all love it well this week was pretty exciting if you consider exciting sitting all day at a computer not really knowing what to do just staring into space. I would be making music instead but no the program i tried to load took 3 days to load on there and then when it was done said that my computer wasnt able to hold those files and then the stupid computer crashed and no longer works so know everything i post has to be at someone elses house and it kind of bugs me to use other peoples things or use peoples help i like to do things at my own pace which is usually no pace. yes i will admit im lazy but with that lazyness comes awesomeness but only sometimes when you do it right which sometimes doesnt work out like trying to put together a video about a unicorn but since they dont exist it is kind of hard to make considering that you just dressed up a horse with some stuff on it bad idea the horse didnt like it and kicked my camera so know its broken and i can't make my blog a vlog it is one of those sad days that never end all well

weekly blog post 10/7

well looks like another blog post coming right up like ordered i already tried to post one earlier but i don't think it showed up all well guess it is a no brainer to re post it which i did so i guess all is said and done with that post but anyways back to the topic at hand what did i do this week not much actually the only highlight was i learned how to drive an automatic and it wasn't all that hard to do i only killed it once and that was because i forgot to hit the clutch before i came to a complete stop but then again i wasn't told that so in my defense it never happened hahahha now that you have read this i will have to kill you because you are a witness Ive tricked you and it works your computer will now self destruct in 5,4,3,2,1,0 KABOOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK so maybe i lied but you really thought it would happened right.....right oh c'mon don't be like that jerk you don't have to stop reading my blog because of that unless you get the end it would be okay then which would be right about know...... hahhah got you again OK for real now its the end

weekly blog yay 9/30

well lets see what happened this week well to start things off i found a unicorn his name was pierre. He was a pretty cool unicorn as far as unicorns go and he had a friend and her name was peanut she was a troll he found all by her self and well we went on a adventure together it was pretty freaking sweet we killed 6 dragons (which are not as tough as people make them sound) and saved a princess still have no idea where she is from and i don't think we will find out because i don't think she can talk so we just brought her along for the ride so anyways back to pierre and peanut ..................Yeah I can't do this anymore what really happened is I got to go hang with my family and we had a great time. especially when i face planted in the mud it was awesome definatly the best moment of my life. also we got a new dog yeah he is pretty awesome we name him diesel. He already knows a while bunch of tricks like paw and sit. His favorite is the paw trick first we get him to sit down the when you lift your hand up he jumps and gives you a high five its freaking epic and that is about the highlight of my week

9/16 blog post

well I learned that all my teachers think i am doing great this year that i am actually pushing myself to do it yay i'm so excited that my teachers can tell my parents that and for once believe them so for once this year  may actually do good which is actually a good thing especially if i want to get into college in fact the college im looking at is actually looking at me too so it will be a win-win situation and there is definatly nothing wrong with that. Anyways back to what my teachers think from what my dad was told it goes like this. Mr. Roundy "well for greg never being very good with math or science before he is actually doing very well everything is coming to him great and he stays caught up with the class. Mr. Maughan "He is doing very good he gets it he just needs to remember his work and bring it to school." Mr. Brady "He is doing very good and i am proud.
and i dont remeber what the others says so yeah that is pretty much awesome right. can wait to graduate it's going to be aewesome.

response paper on woman hollering creek

so in class we read a story called woman hollering creek and i must say i had to read this story a good 5 times to understand it. The problem with this story is how weird it was written it's about a girl named Cleofilas and she lives a life of soap opera's which she watches because that is how she wants her life to be. my reaction to this statement is well go out and make it that way but unfortunately for her she has a douche bag husband that beats her why she stay with him i don't know but i can tell you that it is so not hard to leave and why she stays there i don't know because all it is is a piece of crap house where she gets beat takes care of lazy kids that cray all day and on top of all that just sits there and wants her life to be different but here is a little catch an here is where i kind of got lost so stay with me on this one. ok she starts seeing this ghost lady the one the creek was named after and she starts to realize that there lives aren't all that different from each other then some thing happens one day and the ghost starts screaming and water is pouring form her mouth. pretty weird huh then cleofilas starts thinking about all the same options she took but at the end of this story i cant tell if she actually does it or not in my conclusion she murdered the children but on the other hand i say that she realized life would be a whole lot worse and instead just dealt with what she was given and stayed with it all. Not a cool ending and that is why i tell myself she killed the children and his away from the world until she became a little lonely mountain lady and came back to society where everyone had forgot who she was and died peacefully by a river bed

the real g-dubs!!!!!!! 9/23

Well this week on blog gregstep we learn that Mr. Gownas a.k.a G-dubs!! Foes not mess around when he says he wants something you better in Sam hell get it done boy and thus is from a personal experience so trust me on this one ok anyways lighter news this may very well become a vlog soon so anyone.out there you have any videos out there feel free to out them on here wether or not I can actually do that but i will update you guys so you know of and while I am thinking about it I have been ge a lot of previews if you happen to stumble across this then post something a comment anything just so I know someone one is out there thanks from an awesome blogger

effects of adoption

There was a certain thing that happened in my life that defiantly changed everything for me. the thing I'm talking about is adoption. this definatley wasnt the best day in my life in fact it was probably one of the worst days of my life and one thing that hurts one of the most is the fact that when your brother and sister find out all of this crap they start calling you there half brother and dont respect you and it hurts because you feel like you failed and they no longer look up to you and it really in reality destroysd you from the inside now you see when i was a younger boy i found out kind of a hard way that the man i had been calling my father for so many years was actually not. I didn't really know how to react when I had found this out it defiantly was not what i wanted to hear and i don't really know how to explain it but it was as if all my insecurities and fears suddenly came to life and i was just kind of being pulled in the undertow of it all this was one of the turns in my life that had stricken me hard a very perfect example of a hard blow to a young mans life and when you are at such a young age it can change someone either for the better or for the worse and in my situation it was almost certain it was for the worse my grades started to drop my attitude with my family was different i felt as though i was being pushed away or maybe i was pushing myself away i couldn't tell at the time and i may have burned a few bridges and i may have taken things wrong but in all honesty when a man is trying to find out who he is and then he finds out the one person he looked up to and felt one with wasn't actually part of him it kind of sends a boys life into jeopardy now I'm just kind of lost and don't really know where to go or turn even to this day i havnt really found myself to who i really am and my true potential every morning when i wake up it's kind of like this feeling that says well what am i going to find out about myself today.sometimes it really bugs me when  my family treats me like i shouldn't be there or be part in our family activities just because of this and it hurts allot because it's not like i really had a choice but it doesnt matter i guess you can't really change peoples opinion but you can try and make them see the greater light in things and let them decide for themselves what they want and hope that they can agree with it which maybe this is what i need to do i need to just sit down with those i don't get along with in my family and find out what the difference is if i did something to push them away or if it is becuase of this adoption anyways i guess one of the things to learn from this is to respect people even when there veiws are different or even for the sake of respect when you dont see eye to eye show respect because when you don't show others respect that how can you ask for it or even expect it i had a old friend that would alwasy be rude and say mean things and then one day a few kids got together and shut him up and he was mad becuase it was younger kids and they wernt showing him the respect he thought he deserved but in reality they probably still gave him too much of it anyways if this sounds like a sad sob story oh poor picked on greg it's not or least that isnt what im aiming for i am just trying to show some of my feelings through this assignment becuase they it actually really pissess me off when family's do that of when children get treated different becuase they got adopted and in fact it's gotten to such a bad poiint that my parents are thinking about a trial seperation becuase me and my mom arent trusted in the family and no one ever wants to spend much time with either of us when we actually did try to talk to someone in the family they told us that it's just because they are way to busy but one thing i dont get is when they need something they expect us to just put our life on hold to go and help htem out this actually is probably one of tyhe things that makes me angry the most  when my mom isnt even shown respect
In conclusion I just want to say that i have made some mistakes and I know im not perfect but when it come to family don't single people out just becuase of something stupid like adoption inf act tryt o make the bond stronger don't let it fade and die just becuase they are not related to you by blood still welcome them in and don't judge. there is a old saying that says "Dont judge lest ye be judged yourself"