Kony Creator Running Naked on the Streets

     In this week's Los Angeles Times , an article named "'Kony' Creator Jason Russell Exhausted, Dehydrated Wife Says" is attracting much attention. "Kony" was a movie created by Russell that depicted the massacres going on in Uganda. During the first week that the video was posted through the social media sites, over a million views were seen. In this way, the video has been very viral and has been spread even through a lot of Europe. Now that there are critisisms surrounding the video doubting its legitimacy, some people like Russell are taking it to heart.
     Since Russell spent most of his adult life concerned with such human rights issues and working with "Invisible Children" which he created, he takes the video quite personally. Therefore, when he heard these critisisms, he must have become unstable mentally and physically, because it caused him to take off his underwear and run around his neighborhood naked. Witnesses say that he was pumping his fists in the air, screaming. He was later hospitalised, and his wife told reporters that he was.dehydrated, exhausted, and malnutrished. All these factors with the main vause, the cririsms on the video, caused a man to go running naked on the street. Surprising how aomeone can spend most of their life working on a serious project, finally get everyone's attention and respect, then blow off their entire reputation by not being able to handle a few critisisms.

The Great Gatsby: SOAPST Ch. 1-4

     The Great Gatsby is a book written in the modernism period where meanings were implied and readers had to read between the lines a lot. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book, but unlike many stores that we have read this year, the speaker of the story is not the author, rather it is a character speaking from first-person point of view. This character is Nick Carraway, who is the next door neighbor of Jay Gatsby, a significant character in the book. The story takes place is 1922, during the time of the Prohibition and jazz music's emergenc. The main location the story is in New York, specifically Manhattan and Long Island in teh West and East Eggs where the rich people lived.
     The audience is not anyone in particular, so it is for the reader. The overall tone of the story is informative, descriptive, and calm. Throught the first chapter of the book, the reader is introduced to the narrator. This may build the basis for the relationship between the reader and the narrator, creating the trust that is needed for the reader to believe all that is said in the book. However, in the beginning of the story, the reader can sense some irony and contradictions in what the narrator says about himself and his actual actions. Therefore, what is said for the rest of the story can be percieved as from the view of a person who is biasing according to their opinions. Apparently though, all first-person narratives seem to be this way due to the opinions that the narrator puts into the story.

Words are for WIMPS!

     I am an Armenian. When I was younger I used to go to a lot of day camps during the summer because my parents had work and would not trust me at home alone. I was very shy, especially among those that I was not familiar with, so I did not talk much. However, when I did talk, they all looked at me and said, "Wow, you have an accent," I believe everyone has an accent but they, as well as the people around them have become so accustomed to it that they stop noticing it. This also applies to the way people talk. I usually do not realize, but I say the word, "bro" a lot. I also may cuss a lot without realizing, and say "yallah" or "haydeh" a lot, too. The people around me and in my environment may be very used to it, but I know that if I were to talk the way I do to my friends with a random stranger they would think I'm crazy.
     We are all the same when it comes to judging others based on the way they speak, unfortuantely. By hearing someone talk, we can assume that they are a "redneck", or a "rabiz armenian", or a "stupid valley girl". What we really need to focus on is the content of what people are saying, not the way in which they say it. Sometimes, I may have a lot to say, but I cannot gather all my thoughts in complete sentences to express what I feel, and what comes out is a bunch of words that don't match or are three different languages plus sound affects ombined. My point is that people have different ways of communicating with one another. We should not be so quick to judge, and try to better understand the person before making any assumptions about who they are, and not base it on how they speak. The language of communication does not necesarily entail the words we speak with, rather, it focuses more on the ideas we tranfer.