Scary Movies and Chinese Birth Control

I think that people watch scary movies just for the adrenaline rush. It is not like an everyday person sees ghosts monsters, or other thigns in thrillers all the time. It is somehtign different. I love scary movies personally! Your heart races and your scared to death and its really cool. I really do not know why else people would would watch horror movies...

Group 5 & 6

Celebrity Question:

I have to admit, I am very much in tune with celebrity gossip. I am not really proud of it though. WHo the hell cares what goes on in actors or actresses lives. We all need to focus on our own because I doubt any of these celebrities would give two craps what occurs in our daily lives. But if I were some famous person and saw my face on the cover of a magazine, depending on what the coverstory said, I would proabably read it. That would proabably be in the beginning of my fame and then after that, I'll get over it, as do all celebrities. But if I saw one about my spouse cheating, I am not sure what I would do. It would probably be somehtign I have known about already. Those things are hard to say though...We are not celebrities and thier lives are fantasies compared to the "normal" people. We have to live in thier shoes to answer these questions.

Judge Question

If I were the jugde, I would proabably charge the officers with manslaughter or somethign else severe. It is not right to shoot someone 31 times! After the victim was down at probabaly the first shot, what else was the officer planning to happen, only kill the man. He killed him with no sole purpose. It is ridiculous and should not ever happen again. The officers are scared and do not know the proper way to handle an occurence like this. More trainign should be done so police officers are more aware of what to do. In this case, the killer should go to jail. The other man who shot eleven times is the same to me. It only takes one shot, maybe two, to put a person down, 31 times is just wrong...

A Hitlist

I come from the second largest highschool in New Jersey,which is Clifton High School. You would think there would be alot of violence and threats everywhere. And maybe there were at times, but I do not recall any hitlist or threats from the students. But during my sophmore year there was a anthrax threat and we to be detianed in our classroom for about three hours or so. Lights were off and doors were locked. I think that is the only major thign that occurred while I was in highschool. But I do not think it had anythign to do with a student, I thik the threat was from soemone outside of the school. I also rememeber a bomb threat in middles school nad all the students had to evacuate to a nearby funeral home. Taht was pretty crazy. But as for a hitlist, I cannot really recall any. I am more than sure that there probabaly was some though. Those type of incidences occurs in unexpected places, it doesn't just have to be in a fairly large school.

American Idol

I think that bad singers stay on American Idol because it brings a sense of drama to the show. Personally, I think that for this season there are not many great singers at all. Someone like Sanjaya stays on becuase of his appeal to a younger audience and fact that he has outrageous hair. Simon Cowell even commented on it and said that maybe it was his hair that was keeping him in the competition. I also think it could be for sympathy. If the judges really bash the person and that person ends up in tears, viewers may feel bad for that person. I am sure the producers of the show could care less if they have found a great singer or not, they just want excellent ratings. Antonella is good example because the controversy that she had with racy pictures goes against the show's rules, yet she was still on till getting voted off. But in the end, I think the worst singers sooner or later get voted off and the best singer wins the competetion.

Spring Break!!!

I'm so sad to say that spring break is over. Went by way too fast. but I had a blast down in Florida. I went with a group of my friends and we stayed at my house in Orlando. So much fun!!! We layed out by the pool, worked out (lol), went shopping, and went to Daytona Beach. At night we all went to City Walk and hung out. We ate at the Hard Rock which was really good! We also went to Disney World which I can never get enough of. I also had a great time at Club Paris when we went on our last night there. Got into alittle trouble, but whatever, its my Spring Break and I guess thats a good excuse. lol And that is bascially it. I came back and a day later the blizzard from hell came. It was good though cuz I was able to miss work. But then the next day I wanted to go shopping again so I leave my house and as I back out of my garage the car gets stuck in ice. Half the freakin car is out in the driveway and wont move. I thought the driveway was shoveled enough, but apparently not. My brother and I shoveled around the car like crazy and a good two hours later everythign was good. Then I went shopping :)

Can't wait till summer! <3 Nabila

My Chosen Book

I have started reading the James Frey novel A Million Little Pieces from two weeks ago off and on. I always wanted to read it and my Writing class was recently talking about it, so I got it. Of course part of me reading it is the controversy that occured with Oprah and everthing. But regardless, everyone did say it was a fairly good book. I finished up the novel on the flight to and from my vacation to Florida that I went on this week. I have to say it is an extremely good book! It is the story of a man who wakes up on a airplane, takign him to an unknown place. His face is bruised and his teeth are crushed. He is confused and angry. He meets his parents when the plane lands and they tell him he is on his way to rehab in Minnestoa. At first, James looks like a person who may never beat his addiction to drugs and alcohol, but slowly comes around. He knows that if he wants to get better, he has to trust himslef and understand that he coould do it. His parents and brother are very handson and visit him frequesntly, providing him with love even when they finally persuade him to go to the Family Program, which is counseling. James understands that although everyone is making him think that there are logical reasons for his addiction, such as childhood issues and heredity, James knows he is the sole purpose for being an addict. Also, he finds love with one of the women at the center names Lilly. SHe is just as messed up as him and finds herself in trouble when she tries to escape and is caught using drugs. James tries to help her and disregards the drugs all together. The endign has him relaesed fro mthe center and him going to a bar. I was confused at that part becuase I htought he was all better and now he wanted to go drink again! Well, he asks for whiskey and then tells the bartender to get rid of it for him. This symbolizes the ending relationship between him and his deathly addiction.

Final Project Preview

I think I would like to do either a film, scrapbook or webpage for my final project. Maybe I could intertwine them somehow. I am undeclared now, but there is alot of career options I could focus on. I currently work at a preschool and have employed there for about two years, since my junior year of highschool. I never thought I would ever get into teaching, but it is a great possibility now. My other interests are business and communication. But maybe for this project, I lean more towards education. I would love to teach either elementary or middle school. I could interview many of the teachers there, as well as the director of the school. I will be researching the necessary classes that I need to take for an education major here at MSU. Also, salary issues and where I would like to teach. I also need to research how many years it will take me to get a certain degree, whether I want my masters and so forth. I couls also see nay minors that I could possibly do. The resources I would use is the Montclair Website and other places that I am unsure of yet.

Women and Children's Rights

Women's rights has never been fully accepted ni this world. That is why when we hear about it in other countries, its a difficult thing to be so completely shocked. I think we tend to shy away from these issues unfortunatley because it is so common. Even though it is not familiar in the United States, we hear about it alot in the Middle East and other places as well. But alot has been going no to change it. There are organizations, groups, active commitees and other programs that are helping to fight for women's rights. People are speakign up about it everyday and the more others are aware of it, the better. Specifically in other countries, we need to talk about it more and get poeple to notice that the way soem women ar ebeing treated is unacceptable. I also think children's rights need to be addressed the same way with women's rights. People need to understand that children may not be taken care of or being treated properly. The more other people can know about these issues the more voice and reason we can make out of it. There is really nothign mroe than can be done. If you tell your story, someone is bound to listen, and listen carefully.