1 Week Photo Challenge- Day 3: COLORS :)

The requirement for the picture we had to take for today (Wednesday) was colors which I have been looking forward to most; here''s the picture:

This is one of my most prized possessions, my pink Eiffel Tower! I begged my mom to buy it for me because I love how the color looks. I put it at my window in the morning light and it looked like this.

1 Week Photo Challenge- Day 2: UNDERNEATH

Today's (Tuesday's) photo requirement was a picture of something underneath. I took this picture:

I took this picture at my friends house. I liked the lighting and it also showed something "Underneath."

1 Week Photo Challenge- Day 1: COLD

In my ROGATE class, we have started our brief unit on photography. Each day for a week, each person takes a picture of something different in the criteria of the requirement that day. Today's requirement is something cold, here's my picture:

I was eating my breakfast on Sunday and my breakfast got cold very quickly, so I took a picture.

Important Picture to Me: Photo Essays

In ROGATE my assignment was to find a photo essay on: http://www.edmodo.com/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.com%2Fbigpicture%2F
for what we were learning in our unit of photography. Some of the pictures were disturbing but i eventually found a group of pictures that didn't completely scare me away. My memory doesn't exactly forget those images easily. I found the photos titled "Dance around the world, part II" and instantly found my comfort. Instead of just finding a typical picture of dance and explaining to you how i was a dancer, instead I found a much more important one. When I went to Disney World, I saw the performance of Cirqe de Soleil: La Nouba and they where doing the same exact type of thing in the spectacular show. Me, my mom, and even my brother enjoyed watching this type of act. It brought back memories that I will cherish forever. Here is the link to the picture: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/dance_around_the_world_part_ii.html#photo20
The rest of the photo essay showed many pictures of dance from around the world. Some that I could relate to as a dancer, some that I had just learned about. This photo essay was interesting to look at and share with my friends. The link to the photo essay is: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/dance_around_the_world_part_ii.html

Life in a Day: My Reaction to the Film

The film Life in a Day was based off of user submissions on youtube. They submitted their life in a day from 12:00AM on July 24th 2010 to 12:00AM July 25th 2010. They got 81,000 submissions from 192 countries and 4,500 hours of film. It was directed by Kevin Macdonald. The most memorable scene to me was when the woman showed her scars from her surgerys. I don't know why but I just couldn't forget about that painful image. I liked when they showed that little boy who cleaned shoes. He said he loved his father because he made him food and cared for him, I liked that. I didn't like when they showed that lady pulling out flags from her purse because I thought that was kind of a waste of time. I saw different patterns of humanity in almost all walks of life such as traditions, work, and even waking up in the morning. Juxtapositions are two scenes or images right next to another that show a vast difference or similarity, they would be just about opposites or duplicates. I liked how they started with everyone waking up, and ended with sleeping. I didn't like that weren't that many amount of cultures represented and they didn't show what country the people where in, but I liked how the showed how we were so similar yet so different. I would recommend this movie to a mature friend because I don't think any of my other friends would be able to handle it.

The 2011 Time 100

In reading the Time Top 100, I found these individuals to be the most interesting:

1. Amy Poehler: Amy Poehler is one of the people on the list that I do recognize. She is so funny; because she is a comedian of course; but the is also brilliant and creative. I remember watching her on Saturday Night Live, along with Seth Meyers, giving the weekend update every week. After leaving to have her child, she guest starred a few times then played a role in the series Parks and Recreation.

2. Peter Vesterbacka: I did not recognize this name until I finally read about him. He is a game developer, which seems fairly normal. He took it to a whole different level when he created the popular game Angry Birds. It became THE most popular game of 2011 and just about everyone was playing it. I know I was!

3.Gabrielle Giffords: I recognized Gabrielle Giffords but not immediately. She was is a congresswoman, a smart, fair and driven one. She was made famous by the catastrophic incident that almost took her life but it claimed many others. She was shot in the head and is now in treatment and has progressed greatly. She inspires many, including me.

SCOTUS Cases

The SCOTUS case that means the most to me out of all the cases that my class researched was the Grutter v. Bollinger. The case came before the court in 1997. It's about how a women was deprived of her admission to Michigan Law School because she was white. The court ruled that schools had the right to base some of their decision on race/ ethnicity. The court also ruled that they had probably based a heavy part of her decision in qualification, work ethic, and academics. The school even admitted that they did that but it was okay. In my opinion, I really don't think that school should do that as much as they do unless it is a historically white school or historically black school. The impact that this case had on America is that many other schools embraced this idea more. It had had a different impact on me though.


The case made me realize that my choice in universities might not treat me the same as another student or a different race. I am a smart person, so I'm looking to go to an Ivy League school. I've researched many of the schools, and most of the population of the school is white. The smallest percentage is usually Black/ African American, or Hispanic. I got a little worried because I was thinking about those percentages. The law meant that they had a chance to pick a white person over me even if we had the same exact grades. They have the power to keep the white race a majority and all of the others minorities, even the other way around, as this case went. When I think about it, it makes me a little upset that I have to work twice as hard as the next person to stand out from the crowd and get into a college that people like me don't usually get into, let alone apply to. This case makes me realize that life isn't fair and sometimes you have to hard for what you want.