My Favorite TV Show

Law & Order:Special Victims Unit

This show is my favorite show because it involves all of the medical and criminal aspects that I find very interesting. The show is a constant mystery that keeps my eyes glued to the screen until the mystery is solved. I hope to eventually become a nurse in the future and watching a show that has a lot to do with the medical field as well as the aspect of helping people. I also think that watching this show teaches a lot of valuable lessons and also a lot about different medical terms and illnesses.

30 (Funny) Things to do When You're Bored

1) Walk up to a child that resembles you and tell them that you are from the future.
2) Run up to someone random on the street and slap them with a loaf of bread.
3) Go to pets smart and buy bird seed and ask the cashier how long it will take for a bird to grow.
4) Go to McDonalds and ask for a happy meal with extra happy.
5) Go to a library and ask for a book on how to read.
6) Follow strangers around a store and spray everything they touch with disinfectant.
7) Come late to school and when the teacher asks why say your pet rock had a seizure.
8) Take a stuffed animal to the vet.
9) Buy an ice cream and ask someone if they believe in unicorns then squish the cone to your forehead.
10) Make a cardboard car and wait in the carwash line.
11) Fill your mouth with whipped cream and run down the streets yelling "I have rabies".
12) Go to a horror movie and when everyone's quiet scream.
13) Put a picture of a dog up on dating site.
14) Mail a doughnut to a police station.
15) Name your hair George and go to a salon and be upset that they killed George.
16) Hide in clothes racks at a store and when someone is looking say "pick me".
17) Walk into Sea World with a fishing pole.
18) Make a scarecrow and put it in your yard and yell at it to get off your property.
19) Tie a balloon to yourself and say that it's following you.
20) Dress up as a grandma and break dance in Wal-Mart.
21) Attempt to glue yourself to the ceiling, if you succeed , spit on people as the walk past.
22) Get out of the car at every red light with music turned up and start dancing.
23) Go to weight watchers with a bag of cookies.
24) Go to a restaurant and ask for a glass of ice because water makes you sick.
25) Call a telephone company and ask them if they want to buy a phone.
26) Ring a random doorbell and when they answer just stare at them.
27) Run down the street saying "they're after meh lucky charms."
28) Walk up to a drive-thru window and order one french fry.
29) Vacuum the lawn.
30) Get a job at Target as a greeter and say welcome to Wal-Mart.

*Not that I would actually do any of these things just trying to make you laugh :-)

Explication of "Daddy" By Sylvia Plath

Themes: Feminism, mortality, freedom and confinement.
The narrators Daddy in this poem is first compared to a german and several references are made to this throughout the poem. This poem was written in 1962, a time when women were fighting for their rights. The narrator is unable to connect with her father throughout her life due to their differences. Back to the german reference, Germans were seen as awful people due to World War II so the comparison to her father hints that she did not like her father like normal children. The narrator wants to have a connection with her father but has a hard time doing so. The narrator also appears to be obsessed with mortality. Not only that of herself, but also her father. When her father dies, she contemplates killing herself in order to be reunited with him. Also the ideas of freedom and confinement relate to feminism during the 1960's when women were fighting for their rights.

Explication of "Morning Song" By Sylvia Plath

The metaphor of Sylvia Plath's poem "Morning Song" is that of a newborn baby. In the very first line of the poem, a newborn baby is compared to "a fat gold watch." But it is unclear in this first line whose love is being talked about so this opening sentence is a bit confusing. The speaker in this poem is addressing the reader. Lines two and three are the point in the poem where the newborn baby is taking its first breath and seeing the world for the first time. In the second stanza, the hospital that the baby is born in is compared to a museum. There is an echo and there is an object (the baby) that is grabbing every one's attention much like artwork in a museum. Throughout the rest of the poem, the narrator seems to be trying to distance herself from the responsibility of taking care of this baby. In lines ten and eleven, synesthesia mixes up the sense of sight and hearing; "All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses." In stanza five, the narrator is describing herself as "cow-heavy" which hints that most women after pregnancy aren't in the best shape they have been in. The poem ends with the narrator looking out a window and the newborn is left to try "your handful of notes." The title of this poem is "Morning Song" leading me to believe that this poem is a song that the mother of the baby is singing to her baby and at the end of the poem she is setting her baby free to let he/she try things on her own symbolizing a mother letting her child grow up.

"I Can't Change The World" Brad Paisley

"I Can't Change The World"

A bomb goes off in a far off city
A siren wails right here at home
Well, sometimes life ain't all that pretty
When you're watching it all alone

You build a wall around your feelings
Just another heart afraid to break
And you don't wanna let me in
'Cause, really, what difference can I make?

I can't change the world
Baby, that's for sure
But if you let me, girl
I can change yours
I bet I can change yours

So let Jesus look down on this madness
And let the powers that be just fuss and fight
'Cause everyone needs to pick their battles
And me–I realized

I can't change the world
Baby, that's for sure
But if you let me, girl
I can change yours
I bet I can change yours

And every time you light a flame
You just get burned and you feel like it's all in vain
You feel like
You need to learn that no one's gonna save you
No, no one's gonna save you

But I'm standing here
My heart's on my sleeve
Never gonna let you down
Never ever gonna leave you,
Baby, that's for sure

Whoa, I can't change the world
But I can change yours
I bet I can change yours

This song by Brad Paisley illustrates the fact that one person alone cannot change the madness of the world that we live in. There is too much violence around the world and even around us everyday that one person cannot make a difference in the grand scheme of things. This song, though it may seem kind of depressing, is not really. One person alone can't change the world, but one person can change another single person's life, and then that person can change another person's life. So in return, people's lives are changing due to other people, but the world will not change just from one person. Making a difference in just one person's life everyday can be a small contribution to eventually changing how we live as humans. 

What I Learned Today

This jewelry belonged to a woman that was well-loved by everyone. She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother as well as a respectable teacher. Linda fell victim of cancer and lost her battle in early August of 2013. Linda's passing was hard on everyone in her community, especially her loved one's of course. I wasn't close to Linda but I am very close with her family including her son, husband, and grandson. Watching my loved one's go through the loss of someone very dear to them was very hard and to this day, they are all very touchy around the subject, which is expected. Today, I was given the opportunity to look through some of Linda's jewelry and was told by her husband to take anything I wanted. He allowed me to see that I am loved by them as much as I love them and that I am sort of part of their family. These were Linda's personal items and very hard to part with so I felt accepted. Seeing what these people have gone through, losing someone so loved, has taught me to cherish everything, including the little things.

Explication of "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath

The obvious metaphor in Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" is that of pregnancy. The poem starts off by saying that it is a riddle and must be deciphered. The author then presents metaphor after metaphor; an elephant, a house, a melon, a red fruit, a loaf that is rising, money in a fat purse, a cow in a calf, and a bag of green apples. The poem itself is a riddle of nine syllables. The poem is nine lines long and each line consists of nine syllables. Pregnancy also lasts for nine months the the number nine is significant in this poem. When the reader imagines the metaphors in this poem , they can begin to put the pieces together. An elephant is very large, ponderous is another word for large,  a melon is round in plump much like a pregnant woman's belly, and when i red fruit is mentioned, one thinks of an apple or maybe a tomato that can also be compared to a pregnant woman's belly. The loaf of bread that is rising metaphor compares to a pregnant women's belly rising as the baby inside grows. The money in a fat purse compares the the expenses of having a child. The cow and a calf metaphor relates to how a women may be seen as a "cow" as she gets larger and larger as a pregnancy progresses. The bag of green apples metaphor also relates to the size of a woman's belly as pregnancy progresses. Last but not least, the last line is; "Boarded the train there's no getting off." This implies that the author knows that there is no escaping pregnancy; her life is forever changed and will never go back to the way it was before.

Explication of "First Snow" by Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver's poem starts out by setting up the scene of a snow storm beginning. As the poem progresses, the author asks; "why, how, whence such beauty and what the meaning" of the snow. The author here is questioning the meaning of snow and when and how winter actually begins. The author also uses the word "rhetoric" in the first couple of lines which takes this snowy winter scene from something of nature to a kind of dream or something that is not in reality. As the poem continues, a scene is set up which allows the reader to question why snow comes to us and what it means. The author uses the word "oracular" which is a prophecy, to add to the "rhetorical" scenario. The connection between snow and a rhetorical situation suggests that maybe snow is a magical thing and that we as humans are lucky to experience the phenomena of snow.

About half way through the poem, the snow has "finally ended" and everything is silent. This silence is described as "immense" and the author describes everything as still, peaceful, and beautiful. Even the trees are compared to castles of ribbon; "trees glitter like castles of ribbons." Towards the end of the poem, the questions from the beginning of the poem come back up and it is revealed that none of these questions will ever be answered.  The author ends the poem by bringing the silence and beauty of snow together as one.