The end is near!!!

In this blog I would like to talk about the END OF THE SEMESTER. I need to let off some stress about how I am dealing with the semester and I couldn't think of a better way then my blog! I am so excited for summer, the sun, the time to myself, the not having to worry about homework and test, the tans, the food, family, fun, swimming, sleep and the friends. The list goes on and on and it is very hard to conceal my excitement. It is so hard that I find myself not going to class and now I am truly stressed with finals right around the corner. I can't believe that I am going to be done with my first year of college. It is so important to me to be apart of the college lifestyle. My family has always been my support system and there is nothing more that I want then to make them proud. I need to buckle down and push through this last week just like the rest of you. This is not only a rant but it is an encouragement for all for my college readers no matter where you are. You are almost done, and you have worked so hard to stop right now. Keep reading, and writing, get smarter and do better, not only for yourself but for all those who believe in you. Remember to always believe in yourself. This semester is almost over and than we can party. So don't stress my friend, we are almost there and we can do. If no one else believes in us at least we believe in ourselves. I know that I am working as hard as I possibly can to provide for myself and to be able to say that I accomplished something. That I worked hard to better myself and the person that I am. I am doing all this hard work and stressing to become the best person that I want to be! You can too. Peace love and happiness and good luck to us as we continue to work towards our dreams 

Entry #5 Media Snythesize: Media and how I perceive it.

Considering that i never really thought of  media as such a powerful thing until we began talking about it in my English class, I now notice so many things in the media that I have never noticed before. Media is so powerful that it make make you hungry when you just ate. It can make you want to buy a product just to be able to sleep better when you already sleep perfectly, or as a female it can make you laugh at how some companies portray how well tampons will hold when you are doing crazy things like flips and stuff. Not only do I find that media is annoying but also funny I find that we pay so much attention to it that we don't even notice. We do not realize that the tevelvison shows that we watch are apart of the media. We don't see that our fashion comes from the types of shows that we watch. We are so close to media that we fail to see it as something that can potentially be threatening to us. In my life all I see are the tv commercials, that either make me really hungry or really happy, or even truly sad. I find myself getting sucked into tricks on the screen that make me so hungry I don't even understand how they can possibly do that from a screen. I notived that in my family the media makes people try to be perfect. My little cousin has to always look amazing, she has to look like the girls on the screen, just as skinny as them and have the same style as them. I want so much for her to be her own person but she doesn't understand that her life revolves around being as perfect as the media wants her to be. The media has also worked some good in my family. Though the shows such as diners, dive-ins and dives and man vs. food is suppose to get people to go to these places, it has made my family really think about how we eat and how much we eat, and how food shouldn't be the driving factor in our life to go out of state. We began eating healthy and taking meat out of our diet and we are learning that food isn't as important as we or the media make it to be.  The media shouldn't be as powerful as we make it. We should be making the media what it is. We should have what is going to be good for us and our kids and the community in the media. We need to create a world were we are less interested in the media and what they have to say and more concerned with our life and families and living a better life. Peace, love and happiness bloggers. :)

A personal love.

THE LOVE THAT YOUNG KIDS LIKE MYSELF GO THROUGH IS SOMETIMES TRIVIAL AND THEY BREAK UP AND GET BACK TOGETHER AND IT LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. IN THIS POST I WANT TO TALK ABOUT MY LOVE. I HAVE THE BEST GUY EVER. WE WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER BUT WE WEREN'T FRIENDS. WE NEVER TALKED AND WE DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME GROUP OF FRIENDS. OVER THIS PAST SUMMER WE HAD A MUTUAL FRIEND AND WE JUST GREW CLOSE. WE ARE NOW IN OUR SIXTH MONTH AND ITS SO GREAT. I KNOW THIS MIGHT BE A LITTLE TO PERSONAL FOR BLOGS BUT I AM SO HAPPY AND ITS A HARD THINK T NOT TALK ABOUT ON A THINK LIKE THIS. THE HAPPINESS THAT I GET FROM HIM IS ONE THAT I HAVEN'T HAD SINCE I WAS A KID. I HAD THE TYPE OF LIFE THAT WAS ONE WHERE I GREW UP VERY QUICKLY. MY MOM HAD STAGE 3 COLON CANCER AND MY DAD HAD HEART DISEASE SO I ALWAYS HAD TO BE A BIGGER GIRL THAN I WAS. WHEN I MET ANDREW HE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I COULD BE HAPPY AGAIN KNOWING THAT I HAVE EVERYONE THAT I LOVE, LOVING ME. I AM HAPPY AND I KNOW THAT HE IS AND WE HAVE EACH OTHER. SO THAT IS MY LOVE RANT. HE IS VERY SPECIAL TO ME AND I CAN'T GO A DAY WITHOUT SEEING HIM. 

Entry #4 Capitalism Rhetoric: A Love Story??

Michael Moore's movie, Capitalism: A love story was far from a love story. Now to normal people a love story is happy, they fall in love they fall out of love but in the end the guy gets the girl. But in this love story it is about our country. We have such an utter love for our country that we tend to look over the big problems that we have until the important elections. This film truly made me think that maybe I should pay more attention to who I vote for. This is truly not how I view that day of class would be. This film made me angry because it terrible that we live in a world where it is okay to treat people the way some of these corporations do. Why is that we have people who have no money and can't pay for a house and others that have to much money that they could never spend in ten lifetimes. This film is one that I think more people should watch because the audience in this film is truly everyone. Everyone should know what our government does and what large corporations do to us, US as a whole country. I feel so connected to this movie because my family had to move out of our house to another and because of the bank. It was so sad, that was were I grew up my whole life, and all my memories were there. It was hard but I now know that it is what we basically had to do! We had no choice, we now live in a house that is perfect for us and now I don't see it as a bad thing but I think I was so mad and this movie just hit home so hard. It made me so mad that humans can treat each other so horribly that they can just out a whole family out on the street, only to make more money! The film as a strong impact on me and I hope that it was on others as well. It was funny when it needed to be and serious when it had to be, I truly enjoyed it. 

Family, Ohana, Familia

Hi all, today I want to write about how joyous I am about my family coming into town! My family from Hawaii is coming into town today and I couldn't be more excited. I haven't seen them in about 5 years and so much has changed in that amount of time that it is gonna be so crazy to see them. Now, these aren't my closest family members that I have in Hawaii but still they are family and seeing anyone from there gives me the taste of home that I always crave. Speaking of a taste of home, I wanna say that this past weekend was the annual Aloha Festival at Tempe Town Lake there was food, dancing, culture and more Hawaiian's then you ever expect to see in one place. It is a thing that I have gone to for most of my life and it was a great way to start of the excitement to see my coming family. Family is something that I do not take for granted like I feel a lot of teenagers do. I was blessed with a loving strong family who has lived through many trials and I think that without my family I would have turned out to be a completely different person then I am today! I know this isn't as exciting to you as it is to me but, I think you know the feeling that I am experiencing, you know that feeling you get when you are a young kid and you have to try to go to sleep before the first day of school, or even CHRISTMAS, yeah that is the feeling I have. I come from the type of family that is almost to loving we accept everyone for the way they are and if one of us messes up we don't care, your family and we love you. I know that is how a lot of families are but every family is different. My family has a crazy undeniable love that fills your heart as you enter the room and I promise if you came to meet my family I am sure you will tell me that they are crazy but awesome as well. Well, I have to clean the house and cook for this wonderful few days that I am about to have. Happy Spring Break all my GCC readers hope you all come back to school with lovely tan lines and some well needed sleeping hours. Peace, Love, and Happiness. 

Entry #3: How fast can we learn

Hello there, today I am writing about the new faster courses that ASU is offering to its students. I have read about it on this article from the Arizona Republic. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/02/22/20110222arizona-state-university-shorter-classes.html?nclick_check=1 Now, personally I am the type of girl who like school the traditional way. I like to be able to do my work in a timely fashion and I like to understand what I am learning before I just move on to the new topic. I am the type of learner that need visual aid and extra help if I need it. I do understand though, that other people learn in all kinds of ways. Everyone is diverse and we all take things in different context, so I can see as to why people would like to have class this way. I would not take these classes personally, but I do think it is very creative for ASU to think for this. Although, I do think that they have to consider which classes they are offering in these protocols, because as I was reading the comments people are becoming frustrated with the fact that engineering classes are offered like this. I would have to agree with that because engineering is a difficult major, and to condense even more is probably very challenging for the students. ASU has to take into account how well these students are really doing in these situations. If they are doing poorly, then what is the point of offering these classes compared to the traditional type if no one is doing well in them. ASU to me is a very good school, but to others is has a lot to be desired, so that plus the fact that students would get less time to learn can cause employers to take a deep look in to hiring a ASU grad. I think if you can learn in this environment then you should take these classes if you think they fit your needs, if not then don't. We are all students, adults, people of the real world we can make our own decisions. ASU is not telling us we have to take these classes, they are giving us the option and it is our own choice if we take it. They are considering the students life outside of school when they thought of this. Many people have full time jobs, families, kids to raise and bills to pay. These classes give us the chance to spend less time in the class room and more time taking care of the things that we need to handle. I am an ASU girl so I am glad that they are thinking of new and inventive to get students to the school. So that's all, Peace, Love, and Happiness. 

Love, is love, is love!

Hello my fellow bloggers, going on the topic of my last past I want to continue on my opinion on being gay, and if they should be married and given the same rights that we are? I say why not? When did love become a political issue? I personally think that if you love someone, no matter what sex they are, or what race they are, you should be able to marry them. We do not live in a world where these things aren’t common, and maybe this is my opinion because I am from the younger generation and it has become a part of my lifestyle to just become used to these types of things in society. Now, I don’t remember if I have claimed a religion to all of you yet here on my blog but if I haven’t, let me be the first to tell you that I am Catholic. I believe in all the harsh topics like, pro-life and giving up things for lent, and in confession and all that jazz, but if there is one thing that I want to speak out about its gay rights! I am the type of girly girl that believes in LOVE, and I feel like those who are in love should be able to share in that love whichever way they choose. If a gay couple wants to get married they should get married, if they aren’t bothering you why do you feel that you should bother them. The only reason they are a problem in your life, is because you are letting them be a problem. Just think, if we allowed gay couples to be together, and get married and adopt children, could you imagine how many kids will be adopted into a loving family instead of being passed from home to home. These couples could provide then with not only love but hope, trust, respect and a family to call their own. I am not trying to impose my views on anyone but I felt if I was gonna write about gay marriage I might as well state my whole opinion. I am open to hearing any response to any one of my beliefs, because I am not here to judge and I like to speak freely about why I believe in the things that I do. So that is all in the mind of a GMC. Peace, Love, and happiness bloggers. 

Entry #2 Slanted for all to see

Hi all,  I am here today to talk about one particular slanted report that I found more then interesting! Here is the link for it if you want to watch it before I jump right into this! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/shep-smith-obama-21st-century-gay-marriage_n_1503849.html To start, I want to say that I really don't like the way that this man is speaking, I feel as though he is being very condescending which makes me not what to watch any other report that this man does. When it comes to gay marriage, I am all for it but if you are a new reporter like this man I am pretty sure that you are not suppose to let people know how you feel about he issue. He is not only trying to break the news to the people that Obama is now for gay marriage but he is also trying to let the public know exactly what is view on this is as well. He also gives away his political party by attacking the Republican's, which is probably gonna cause him to lose viewers. His audience might feel that he has no right to attack this political party, which I completely agree. He should be more conscience because he is not representing himself when he is on TV he is representing a whole  company, and by his actions he could cost them a lot of viewers which in the end costs then a lot of money.
     As I looked up more information on this Shep Smith, I found that he has done many thing that make me question if I would ever really want to watch a news report by him. For one, he has clearly stated his opinion here and two he has aired a SUICIDE on television. If suicide isn't already hard enough to talk about he had to go so much further as to air it on TV. He has made Fox news into his own little opinion show and if the producers at this station can't see that yet, they won't be able to until, he has lost all of his viewers and all the respect that the company has gained. When watching the video is clear that he has strong opinions about gay marriage, but I feel as though, when you take the job as head anchorman you know that there is a time and a place for you to voice you thoughts and that is not on national television.

Super Bowl Happiness

Hola all, I just want to express my utter happiness in the outcome of the Super Bowl. Right when I found out that the Ravens were going to be in the game I knew I was going to cheer for them, no matter who they played. I do not really have one team that I follow, but I do follow players such as Clay Matthew's, Troy Palamalou and Ray Lewis, so I was very pleased when one of my guys had made it to this grand event. I know that this post by a girl may not seem "normal", but let me tell you I am anything but normal. I love football, baseball, hockey, and just sports in general. I came to the conclusion that I am the type of girl that can cook in the kitchen with your mom and sit and watch football with your dad. This Super Bowl was so exciting, the game kept me interested and had my heart racing ( that is after the power outage when the 49ers decided to show up). At my house Super Bowl Sunday might as well be a holiday because we basically treat it as one. We invite all the people who are near and dear to our hearts over, we make our best foods and we enjoy others company and some good ol' competition. Let me set the scene for you in my house yesterday, it was my dad, Andrew (my boyfriend), and I going for the Ravens and everyone else which happened to be 13 other people for the 49ers. We have two TV's in the house and one was faster then the other so we had to wait to react to the good parts to not give away what had happened to those in the other room. When the game was all said and done it was very quite in the house but the three of us who were happy with the outcome had nothing but smiles and laughs for those who were not. Needless to say, I am sucker for family Sundays that include football, because I feel like it brings us closer together no matter which team you are cheering for and to me thats all that matters. Hope your Super Bowl was as exciting as mine. Peace, Love and Happiness readers.

Entry #1 Blogs, my in-between view point.

Aloha all, first off I would like to say that I never thought I would find myself blogging, I mean yes I find it interesting but I just didn't think it was for me. I think blogs that are personal are in a way pointless, unless you are close the the person writing the blog who really cares what you're doing for the day. I think if you want people to know about your life you could email them, or write a nice long card for the holidays. I think that business blogs are good for the people who work there and for those who want to work there or know more about the business. People don't want to read something unless they are interested. Other blogs such as travel, food and entertainment I can understand, because people want to know how things are made, where is the best place to travel, and how well a movie rated. For me, I love food, if you can teach me how to make something that I never heard of and can help me make it well, then thank you! You just made me admiration for food that much greater.
 When reader some blogs I came across a few that I really enjoyed, one being the whole foods blog (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/) and the next was the  Google blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com). I truly enjoyed the Google blog because it let me know that the things that I have searched are things that many others have searched as well, like things in accordance with the Super Bowl. It brought to my attention things that I rarely hear about like, the carnival in Brazil. The colors in this blog make it very inviting, and its easy and simple just like the Google website. This blog also lets the world know what Google is doing in a business perspective, which is nice because we can hear it from the company without any bias from others .  I personally use Google more then I use Bing which is probably why I decided to read it in the first place but, I think that if you want to see Google in a more creative way their blog is the way to do that. They make it fun and entertaining but also very informative.
Out of all the blogs that I looked at there was one in particular that I did not like or understand. That was The Defend our Freedoms Foundation (http://www.orlytaitzesq.com). I do not understand the point of this blog, I get that she does not like Obama but she gives no reasons or explanation as to why she doesn't him. Her blog is very hard to follow, and maybe that is because I am a teen and am still trying to learn all the government lingo, but I don't think that she makes her site very user friendly. If I was a regular follower of her blog I would not want to help he pay for her travel expenses! Its not my job to get her from place to place, especially when she is trying to attack our command and chief. I understand not everyone likes Obama but for the next four years he is our President and if people don't like him then there is nothing that Obama can do right in their eyes so it makes it harder on the President. Blogs to me are fun, creative and entertaining or boring, subjective and bias. Peace, Love and Happiness readers.

Hi all, my name is Mahealani Rowe, but I just go by Mahea (Ma-HEY-a) for short. My name is Hawaiian and it means Golden Moon Child. I am 19 years old and I have a loving, fun, crazy family that I adore. Now, I hope you don't take me for the boring, naive girl who is all about her family cause yes that is true, but I am also very outgoing, I love to make a fool out of myself because I enjoy making people laugh and I know how to have a good time. I grew up in Glendale, Arizona and I have one older brother.I have a boyfriend and his name is Andrew, I think we are great together!
  I have gone to private Catholic schools my whole life and I am pretty sure I wouldn't know how to act if I were to go to a public school when I was younger. I went to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Glendale) and I graduated from Saint Mary's Catholic High School (SM) in 2012. My years at SM have helped mold me into the person I am today. It is a very small school so you get to know who everyone is and make lasting friendships, it was a total shock when I cam e to GCC because it was so big. It was hard for me to not know everyone who went to my school. I am attending GCC because I was awarded the Presidential scholarship, which pays for all of my classes. I never thought I would be here on an academic scholarship, I thought I would be here because of athletics but, now I know that this is were I am suppose to be in life. I want to get my doctorate in Psychology and become a therapist for teens. I love helping people with their problems, I find it very therapeutic for myself and the person I am trying to help. I know GCC will help prepare me for a University and that is where I am going to complete my schooling. I love to cook, bake, listen to music and hangout with friends and family. My family and I are very close because all of the struggles that we have overcome and I can't imagine life without them. Well, that's me, for now. Peace, Love, and Happiness readers.