Jade's Declassified School Survival Guide
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Pain
In
some way or another, we’ve all been in pain, whether it be physical or
emotional, pain is pain. Yet for some reason, people still debate over which is
worse. I agree that there is a difference between physical and emotional pain.
But that doesn’t at all mean that one is more severe than the other. Honestly
it just depends on the circumstance and the circumstance can vary greatly.
Physical
pain is easier to see and there for, easier to understand. For example if
someone broke their leg, you would have sympathy for them because you’ve
probably broken a bone before, and even if you haven’t, you can still
comprehend the amount of pain they must be in. over time this pain goes away,
sometimes it takes a while but it does go away and you go back to feeling like
brand new. You can go right back to your sport or job with little to no
hesitation at all, and that’s good! Everything goes back to the way it was, and
you get to go right back to what you love to do. It’s simple.
Emotional
pain is very different from physical pain, a heart break is nothing compared to
a broken bone, but sometimes that heart break can last longer than a cast on
your arm or leg; sometimes that heart break turns into depression. But that
topic is for a later date. Emotional pain is always in the same places, your
heart, and for some people it doesn’t take a lot to make their heart break. Not
everyone can understand the emotional pain you’re in because everybody can
handle different amounts of pain, to you it may look like a little scratch but
to them it could be a broken bone you know? You just can’t tell how much it
actually hurts that person, and even if you could tell what would you say to
them? It’s so hard to fell sympathetic towards people who are feeling this
emotional pain inside because you can’t see it.
I feel there are some similarities between the two though. Like you can still go
to school and work with physical and emotional pain, it might be difficult but
it can be done. Another similarity is death, although it’s unlikely for you to
die from emotional pain, you can end up dying. I know that’s a scary thought,
but it’s the unfortunate truth. Believe what you will about physical and
emotional pain and believe what you will about death.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Self-Esteem
As
a teenage girl, I’m pretty self-conscious about my appearance, especially when
I’m around other teenage girls who I feel, look better than I do. I know I’m
not the only girl in America who feels this way either. According to Oprah.com, 76.2% of teen-agers
are self-conscious or dissatisfied with their appearance. Over 70% of 15 to 17
year old girls avoid going to school or other public places when they are
worried about their looks. And according to dosomething.org an astounding 75%
of these girls have engaged in negative activities such as self-harm, bullying,
disordered eating, or abuse alcohol and drugs.
Young
women feel they have to be perfect because that’s what society says; you have
to wear a certain brand of clothing and wear your hair and make-up a certain
way and you have to be so tall and you have to have the right amount of skin
showing off and you have to have a certain facial structure, the list is never
ending. Some girls believe that they have to be what society tells them to be.
Through
all of this crap society tells us to be we get lost in what we should be and
not in what we want to be; we lose our own self-worth and aren’t even catering
to our own needs anymore, society has made us mind-less, soul-less clones. We
forget that we are part of society and that we do in fact have a voice. We get
so lost in society’s standard of beauty that we forget who we are, you’ve
forgotten who you are. That’s a
really scary thought, to know that you have no idea who you even are anymore.
It’s
so sad that we don’t even realize what we’re doing to ourselves, or what we’re
doing to our families, or our society. By obeying the standards of beauty
society has set for us we’re just feeding the fire. It’s even sadder to think
that we’re afraid to be who we are, but in all honesty we are afraid, I’m
afraid.
Self-confidence
isn’t about going with the flow, it’s about stepping out and being your own
person, even if you’re scared. It’s about loving who you are, not what society wants you to be. Yeah, it’s hard, you
don’t want to be judged and ridiculed, but isn’t it worth it if you know who
you are? If you’re just going with the flow and not catering your own personal
needs you’re just judging and ridiculing yourself. Now think, really think, who
are you? Be who you want to be and
not who you’re told to be.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Getting Pumped
Pump up. This happens in many different forms. Listening to music before the big game in the locker room. On the field in front of your whole team. It can happen alone or with everyone. Everyone has their own way of pumping themselves up. Me for example I love music. I listen to so much music before my game. Every second I am thinking of what could happen. I get that feeling inside my stomach. If you are an athlete you will understand what I am talking about. That “Natural High.” It is a feeling like none other. This is a mix of emotions. From fear to excitement, nervousness to confidence, anger to happiness, these are the emotions you fell all at one time. At times these emotions can be overwhelming. It is important not to let these things take advantage of you and have effect on your performance. The best players are the ones who learn how to control these emotions. They understand how to keep them hidden even on the first play of the game. Revealing these emotions to early can lead to disaster, and revealing them to late could lead to a helpless loss. The greatest players know exactly the right time to call upon these emotions. Not too early and not too late. Sometimes the pump up does not happen before the game or competition but rather in the middle, when it is needed most. Sure it helps to be pumped before the game, but great things can happen to a team that comes out of the locker room at half time pumped up and ready to go compared to a team with no motivation to do any worse or any better than they already have for the first half. It is upon this that great teams separate themselves from the weak ones. Showing a sign of togetherness rather than a sign of separation and distraction. There is an unlimited amount of ways to get pumped up. Everyone has their own way. No one can decide yours for you, but rather you have to go searching for it and find it. It could be something very obvious that you enjoy, or it could be something you never expected. That is all the fun in getting pumped up. You have to find your way. You cannot let someone tell you how to get pumped. The decision is yours for the taking.
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Friday, April 15, 2016
success
The Challenge is something we Americans are faced with every day.
Everyone faces it multiple times a day, from the minute we get up, till the
minute we lay back down to go to sleep at night. This challenge though cannot
be defined by one definition. Everyone’s definition of this challenge is different.
This is due to the fact everyone faces a different challenge. The specific
challenge could be as simple as getting out of bed in the morning, which to
some people if almost physically impossible, to climbing to the top of Mt.
Everest. They vary in their size and difficulty, even though someone’s
challenge may seem easier to others. We cannot base it off of how we feel,
because we do not feel what that person does. Believe it or not there will
NEVER be a challenge we can’t complete. It is not whether we win or lose our
challenge that matters, its weather or not we finished. A wise man once said it
is not about how you start, it is about how you finish. God gives his toughest
battles to his toughest competitors. Every morning that we wake up we like to
try and delay the challenges of the day. But in retrospect there is no way to
hold them back. We would be better off by listing them off in our heads and
then embracing them one by one. No one should ever dodge them. There is a time
that we need to step up to the plate and battle for ourselves. I think of it as
a road that comes to a two way stop. You can take the way of most people. Lying
and avoiding the challenges. This getting almost everybody almost nowhere in
life but behind a stove with a spatula for the rest of your life. Then there is
the road less traveled that everyone seems to hide from. The road where you
look your fears and your challenges straight in the eyes and tear them down one
by one. You climb your way all the way to the top because in the end, with hard
work comes reward. The only way to become successful is to travel to your
deepest darkest fears and rip them apart. You have to visit the lowest point in
your life and understand what it feels like to be there, in order to be
successful at the top.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Olympics Comparsion
The Olympics, an event now famous for extravagance, feats of
athletic prowess, and glory for one's nation, has not always been so. 2,800
years in the past the Olympics differed immensely in the political, economic,
and social aspects of the games.
The start of the games is partly due to the formation of city
states. Because these city states were often locked in combat with each other,
times of peace were rare. Therefore during the games no fighting shall occur so
that Greek citizens may attend the games without fearing death or injury at the
hands of rival cities. This rule was broken by Sparta, the warmongering city
state who led siege to a fort during the games. Which led to Sparta being
banned from the games. A modern comparison to this would be the first and
second world wars. Where the central and axis powers were not invited to join
the summer games.
The Olympics have come a long way from its start in 776 B.C.
ancient Greece, to being hosted in modern day cities and has changed with the
times. Where ordinary citizens, not professionals mind you, competed in various
events for honor and glory. Originally hosted at mount Olympus, a site once
used to worship the god Zeus. The famous lighting of the torch to symbolize the
start of the game has changed immensely since its conception. In the early
years a sacrifice of a hundred oxen were burned in order to keep flies away
from the meat offerings. While now the lighting of the torch is to show a
cooperation of nations. It is first lit in Greece, where the Olympics
originated and several rituals are performed. Then the torch is sent to the
host nation where an athletic celebrity from that country will carry it to its
final destination, a giant pit that will burn during the length of the
games. The costs of modern day Olympic
Games continues to rise because of nations trying to outdo the previous games
and break new records. Bigger and bigger stadiums are being erected to show
power and wealth. The problem is that those facilities will more than likely to
become abandoned after the games because they have little to no use for
anything but the Olympic Games. However the money invested in the infrastructure
doesn’t return a profit, usually only half of the original investment is earned
during the games which makes hosting the game a case of hot potato. Because
previous hosts know the negative aspects all too well, is why only two nations
volunteered to hold the games in 2024.
The Olympics now boasts over three hundred events, stemming from
twenty-six to twenty-eight sports (not including the winter games). In the
first thirteen years of the Olympics there was only one event, the 196m dash.
Which was known as the stadium race (because it was the length of the stadium).
The next two events were just modified versions of that. After the next few
decades boxing, wrestling, the pentathlon, a race while wearing armor, an
'all-power' race (where one could with by any means necessary, even attacking),
and the always famous chariot race which was shown to the modern world via Ben
Hur.
In modern days the games last sixteen days. Two of the first
days are ceremonies where doves are released, the president gives a speech, and
an athlete from each country swears an oath to uphold the sanctity of the
Games. Each event has its own medal ceremony. So with three-hundred events,
there will be nine-hundred medals being received. These medals are the source
of national pride and rivalry. Nations with the most medals receive pride for
home and country, also bragging rights over rival nations who didn’t do as
well.
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Monday, April 11, 2016
Pets
There are many pets out there that people
can get. There are dogs. There are cats. There are fish. There are turtles.
There are reptiles. There are many types of reptiles. Some reptiles are
lizards. Another reptile is a snake. Snakes can be very big or very small. Many
pets belong in a cage. Those are mainly small pets. Some of those pets are
hamsters. Another example is a gerbil. Reptiles are also like that. Such as
turtles. And snakes. And lizards. Fish especially need to be in a cage of some
sort. They need to be in a cage with glass walls, like a bowl. It then needs to
be filled with water. The pets need to be fed. Do not forget to feed fish. They
will die if you forget to feed them. Another thing that will die if you forget
to feed it is your motivation. If you do not feed your motivation it will start
to die. Such as my motivation to write this blog. I am going to now fill in a
lot of random words and sentences more or less. However, this is still
entertainment because you are still reading this, and therefore, on some level,
probably an unconscious level, this is entertaining to you. So you are welcome
kind stranger. Or kind friend. Or kind person. That is, if I know you. Also, if
I know you, then hello. How are you doing? I am currently not doing the best,
but I have been worse so I can not complain. Wow. Only one hundred or so words
to go. Yay.
Back to pets. Dogs are the best pets. At
least they are in my opinion. That is because dogs are obviously better than
cats. Cats just sit around and are like feed me. I see you are home. I am going
to sit on your laptop and disturb you. I am going to sit on your face as you
sleep. See? Really annoying buggers. That’s cats for you. Now dogs are so much
better. That is because they are like woof woof woof which means hi you’re home
now I missed you I love you I am so excited to see you. Thus, entertain
yourself with pets.
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Thursday, April 7, 2016
Netflix
This past year, and as of the last few
years, Netflix has really gained some popularity. It has been becoming very
famous and popular, if you will, especially with the phrase that has lately
been used very much of ”Netflix and chill”. That has been used a lot as of
late, which has helped Netflix gain in popularity. Almost anybody you would ask
would know what Netflix is, practically everybody knows of Netflix, practically
everybody. There are other streaming site other than Netflix, however, that are
out there. One example of one such site is Hulu and Hulu Plus. Both Hulu or
Hulu Plus to be exact I think as well as Netflix stream things live to watch.
By live I mean you just need wifi, and you can watch something. By something I
mean tv shows or movies and such. Netflix and Hulu are both known for that. But
which is better? Hulu arguably has better television shows. Hulu’s selection of
television shows is greater than Netflix’s, and it has those television shows
available as soon as they premiere on the actual television I believe. Netflix
however does not and Netflix only has a limited selection of television shows.
However, whatever you watch on Netflix has no ads what so ever. No ads to
interrupt your viewing of television or film or whatever you are watching.
None. No ads. Which is very nice. It is very nice being able to sit down and
watch something with nothing to interrupt it. However, Hulu has ads. Hulu has a
lot more ads than Netflix because Netflix has no ads while Hulu does have ads.
But Hulu has more selection for tv shows and more recent additions than that of
Netflix, arguably. However, Netflix does have a few good selections. Some good
selections from Netflix are Family Guy, Friends, The Walking Dead, American
Horror Story, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Flash, Futurama, That 70s
Show, House, Half Baked, Once Upon a Time, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, The
League, Grandma’s Boy, Silver Linings Playbook, 30
Rock, Pulp Fiction, Malcom in the Middle, Silence of the Lambs, Good Will
Hunting, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Zoolander, Gladiator, White Chicks,
Christmas with the Kranks, Rain Man, and a lot, lot, lot more. Those are just
some of the more popular and well known titles that Netflix has to offer. A few
of those films mentioned actually won best picture Oscar, so those are some
pretty good movies. Hulu also has a pretty nice selection, but Hulu specialized
in television shows more so than in movies. Both Hulu and Netflix are great
ways to stream tv shows and movies as well as to chill.
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