March 2010
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My Essay on Obesity – Just for the hell of it
I’ve grown so tired of writing essays about fat people, it’s about time I just slapped one on my blog. Here goes: Note: I do not mean to offend obese individuals. My phys ed teacher grills them more than I do. America is a nation that runs on cars, planes, and, of course, fast food. Our pathetic eating and commute habits have reduced (or inflated, shall I say) us to a nation with...
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Trends! In Terrorism, That is
Thanks to friend Brandon Pham and this terrific link that he gave me for this post.
Terrorism in the last few years has been…terrifying. The sad phenomenon of domestic terrorism in America began years ago, on the sad day of September 11th, 2001 with hijacked planes. Then it was the ‘shoe bomber’ Richard Reid just a few months later on December 22nd, 2001. Fast forward to...
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Weekly Recap: The stuff I'm talking about on...
Me on Wednesday:
Thoughts for today: If you don’t do well in school, you’ll end up in McDonald’s. If you are a FOB and you don’t do well in school, you will land up in Tea Station.~~~Insanely warm temperatures and coincidal amount of 4’s on earthquake is a bad omen for the big earthquake. Prepare yourselves now, it might happen today…
Tea Station is a...
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Formspring.me, Internet Anonymity, and Flaming
Oh, the controversy.
The website exploded in early 2010 and is used among most teenagers, which allows users to ask other people questions anonymously. I haven’t even gotten 25 words into this post, and you probably already know what I’m going to talk about: the power of anonymity and how it is abused.
Many know this statement from the Spiderman series: “With great power...
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Asian Americans! Stereotypes and 'Model Minority...
Are awesome people.
Awesomeness aside, I have noticed how stereotypes shift with an ethnicity when put in an environment filled with people of the same type. This only seems to happen with minorities. Of course, I have noticed this towards the ASIAN race. Asian Asian-American stereotypes typically involve academic ability, vehicular ability, and facial feature specificity. Some are good, most...
