What if Jessica “JCurry” Curry was spoiled? I smile at the thought of that question. I truly believe that I wouldn’t be the person that I am today if I were to be spoiled. Everything that I have I got it for myself. The only person that would ever call me spoiled was my late fiancée. The only way I was to be spoiled was because I know that if I ever wanted or needed something he would give it to me or try his best to make it happen. Money wasn’t the thing. Being spoiled is more than just material things. I was raised with two siblings and I am the middle child. People say that the middle child is least likely to be spoiled, but I disagree because I have a best friend that is spoiled. I learned how to provide for myself and know that I can’t always get what I want. I don’t think that there is nothing with being spoil, just don’t think that it fits who I am. Also I know that things are not always going to go my way and I will just have to just suck it up and move on, because its apart of life. I believe that if I was spoiled my mom wouldn’t call me her backbone. I am probably the least selfish person in my family besides my mom. Everybody knows that if I can do it I will no ifs, ands, or buts about it. I like helping people. A lot of people think that I am too nice. I’m just an outgoing person that knows how to make people smile. How can anyone not like me? I really can’t picture myself being spoiled by anybody. I spoil myself.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Money Growing On Trees
What if money grew on trees? If money grew on trees my mom wouldn’t have fussed at me all the time when we went out somewhere and I wanted her to buy something. My mom’s favorite line to say was “Money don’t grow on trees Jessica.” I got so tired of hearing her say that stupid phrase that I could mouth the words before she even said it. I thought that it was funny to be able to know what she would say before she said it. As I got older I understood what that phrase meant, and came to realize that my mom was so true and wasn’t just being mean. If money grew on trees people wouldn’t be in debt and the poverty rate wouldn’t be high. I don’t even think there will be poverty. It makes me think like if money did grow on trees then it would change the world a lot. Would people be educated? The reason why a lot of people go to college is to get a degree and get a job so that they can provide for themselves and or their families. Money plays a big deal in the world. It is something that segregates the world among other things. It makes me think because, I wonder if money did grow on trees wouldn’t the value of dollar go down. Also it would be different for people that lived in the places that didn’t have any trees around because of the dry weather. I wonder how it would work. Would just a certain kind of tree produce money and if so like certain kinds of bills? I think that would be kind of cool. I guess money would have a harvesting season ha-ha. I find it funny to think of money in that kind of way.
Lived Forever
What if people lived forever? For some reason I always wanted to know that and how it would be like. Would people like living forever? I think living forever would be fun to a certain extent, but then it would become boring. Living forever would be fun because the fear of death and dying would be gone, but it's like you will be experiencing the same things and people all the time and not actually moving forward. I don't think I could do that since I am the type of person who likes to meet new people. I remember watching the movie Tuck Everlasting and this family had drunk from a secret youth fountain. They lived forever, but they were not truly happy because they had to live their lives in constant secret. The ending wasn't good since the boy who lived forever fell in love with this young girl. She discovered the fountain too, and at first wanted to live forever with him but he wanted her to live a normal life. All in all, she had a choice to live forever or not, and she chose not to. She died and he came back for her, but it was too late. So is living forever worth it? I know certain people, mainly kids, would love to live forever. But I think that they say that because they are little and don't know any better. If people lived forever then the natural balance of the life would be off. The process of life and death would be corrupted and eventually the earth would become too crowed. Supplies and resources will run out, animals will become extinct, and standards of living would fall. Fortunately, people are not granted the never ending life and that is how it should be.
Fairy Tale!
What if life was a fairy tale? If life was a fairy tale the love game would be so different than what it is. People could actually live happily ever after. I remember when I was a kid it was a show that use to come on called Happily Ever After. I used to love the shows because no matter what happen or the trails that the characters went through I knew that it would end on a good note. If life was a fairy tale people would get what they wanted. Love for some people would go exactly the way that they wanted it to go. The people would have a chance to love and love for real. Nothing about it would be fake; there wouldn’t be any hurt or pain. If life was a fairy a person would go through a trail to know that it is worth it. They would stay through thick and thin knowing that it will all get better in the end. They would know that in the end they would get what would make them happy and it would feel so good. Sadly to say life is not a fairy tale. Everybody will experience a broken heart and pain. Everybody will be hurt and even cry a couple of time. Not even just with love, just life period. Life is not a joke and shouldn’t be taken lightly. It is a token that should be cherished. Happiness is just an emotion, but something that will last forever is joy. I think that if you keep joy in your heart then that would be the closet you will get to living life like it is a fairy tale. Joy is always with a person even if they are not happy or sad.
People Being Equal
What if everybody in the world were equal? A lot of the things in the past that made history would not have happened. For example slavery and the holocaust would have changed the world. Slavery came about because a lot of the white men back in the day thought that they were so much better than a darker skinned person. They believed that for so long and many still believe in that today. Although those dramatic things caused a lot of death in the world, it really didn’t affect the population growth. People being unequal or being looked at unevenly makes the world the way it is today. I think that if none of that ever happened the poverty rate in the world wouldn’t be so high. It would be easier for some races to find a job and wouldn’t be looked over because of the color of their skin or their religion. The world is segregated in so many different ways that it is crazy. I sometimes wonder how all of it came about. Like the holocaust with the Jews, I know how that happened. That makes me think and want to go do research about things like that. Ask questions. Mainly ask the question “Why?” People that are that ignorant and could cause so much pain to a race. They would have to be a pretty cold hearted person. Then again the world is still segregated in many different ways that people don’t even think of. Gangs are getting bad all over and spreading throughout the world. Also racism is still a big thing in the south. Some people just can’t let things go. I know everybody believes in forgiveness no matter religion they have. The more that I think about how unequal the world was and still is it make me a little upset and grinds my gears.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Leading Causes Of Infant Deaths
The leading causes of infant death haven’t changed in the last several years despite the advanced technology and increased focus on prenatal care. The infant mortality rate has actually been stable since 2000. The overall rate of infant mortality in the U.S is 6.86 deaths per 1,000 deaths. The five most leading causes of infant mortality are: congenital defects, preterm birth and low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome, maternal complications of pregnancy, and complications of the umbilical cord and membranes.
I thought that this website would be a very big help in writing the background information on infant mortality. The website is not very detailed but has links on the site that could give more detailed information about one of the causes. The website is not bias at all. All it does is give information on the top five leading causes. They also give a infant birth rate of a certain year.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Hot Zone Reflection
I honestly thought that “The Hot Zone” was a good book. It was actually pretty simple. The whole theme of the book was talking about viruses and other diseases that could be deadly to the world. When I started off reading the book, I had an idea of how I wanted to read it. I wanted to take my time and get the fundamental background of the book. If I don’t get that then I will be lost throughout the whole book, until something happens that is just so interesting to me. What I thought was good about it was that every time a new character was introduced in the book, they gave some kind of background on the person so that you could get the feeling of who they was and how they would react to certain things. Also what stood out to me was that, normally when I read a book and they introduce a person they say their whole name one time. Then if they are brought up again in the book they either call them by their first name or their last name, but in the book they repeatedly said their full name.
The Hot Zone was very in-depth. They described a lot of the thoughts that the characters were thinking about they actually went day by day and sometimes even hour by hour to tell the story that was going on. I noticed how the book had a lot of repetition in it. The stories were all the same but with a different disease or virus. They would find out about the virus. The person that would be running test almost gets infected by it or does get infected. They do a bunch of studying on it, and then the outbreak occurs. Some people die from the virus/disease and some don’t. Some people get infected by it and some don’t.
The book actually made me wonder if it was really like that. Like if that is how things really take place in those kinds of labs. Like the part when they was transporting the monkeys that was infected with the Ebola virus; I thought that they would have more security with things like that, and not just put them in the trunk of an old car. The book made me think about a movie called Dooms Day. It was about a virus that broke out and they ended up ceiling off a piece of the continent with a wall and had ships in the ocean to keep everybody on the land. They had people that were immune to the virus and I even remember it being a hot zone in the place. Anyways the whole thought of that and quarantines scare me. I always get the thought of “What if?” or “Suppose this or that?” happens.
