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.

Students Shot at an Ohio School

     Early Monday morning, gunshots were heard at a school in Chardon, not far from Cleveland. Two people were said to have shot at the victims. Three boys and one girl were injured by the gunfire. Many parents were very conscerned and one mother told reporters that she was texting her daughter in the morning and her daughter told her that she heard gunfire. This was very shocking news for the parents because no history of such incidents had ever occured in this school.
     The article was found in the Los Angeles Times app on cell phones early in teh morning at 7:35 AM. The article was called "Shooting Reported at Ohio High School." It was very interesting to read about this in the morning because it was as if it were breaking news. Though it would have been better to recieve better information in the morning, considering I heard it on teh radio and on my phone meant it should have been signifcant. Further information will be given throughout the day.

The Party of the Century!

     If I was able to have 100,000 dollars, I would probably do a lot more than throw a party with all of it. However, if I were to spend it all on one party, I would go crazy! I would rent a beach house and throw the party there. I would make an invite on Facebook and invite only the people I would like to party with. I would go buy drinks (or make someone over 21 go buy them) and the best food ever, and we would all eat like crazy animals. For the dj, I would have to rent Tiesto or David Guetta so that the music will be really good throughoutthe night.
     We would all dance and party all night. When we would get tired we will sit on giant comfortable couches that I will buy because I know we will all be in food comas. While we are in the food comas, we would also be drunk so we would be laughing and sitting like lazy potato sacks and having the time of our lives. Afterwards we would all go to Disneyland, because everyone knows a party isn't a party without Disneyland! As the party is ending, we would all go swimming and burn off all we gained and then go to sleep on the waterbeds that I will buy.

What's Really Breaking the Lakers Apart?

     Everyone knows that this season in the NBA has proven to be a difficult one for the Lakers. People can blame things like the change in the coach, the change in the team chemistry, or the overall bad energy because of all the recent losses. However, according to an article named "Who Ultimately Will Win Between Kobe Bryant and Mitch Kupchak?", all-star Kobe Bryant blames the Lakers' manager, Mitch Kupchak for creating rumors of Pau Gasol's trade, which has caused negative energy in the team. Though this may be far-fetched, it is exactly the type of rumor that is eligible of disrupting a team's chemistry.
     Kobe needs to shut his mouth and do what he does best- win games. He is in charge of the aspect of the Lakers, and Kupchak is in charge of the management section. Kobe wanted out of the Lakers a few years back, and after Kupchak refused to do so, the Lakers won two championships. Kobe wanted Bynum to leave the Lakers for Jason Kidd, that did not happen, and Bynum proved to be a great attribute to the team. The point is that Kobe may be in control with what happens on the court, but Kupchak needs to control the business off the court. When they stop interfering with one another, the Lakers might start to win.

Jazz Music in the 1920s

Jazz music is known today as one of the most sophisticated forms of music that dates back to times of the prohibition. In the 1920s, it was predominantly becoming the way for African Americans to express themselves while being accepted into the society at the time. Jazz music became the platform of rythmic music but also had an impact on classical music. Great jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goon erred from this time period. However, it was not looked at with such optimism as people had hoped.
Many people of the time viewed jazz music as a terrible noise that was ruining the values that the older generations had set up for the people. People said that it was so annoying that it bothered their nerves. Some even claimed it had the power to scare the bears away! Despite these claims, people still listened to it willingly. Jazz music in the 1920s had an influence on Big-band style swing jazz.