[CE.] Occupy Movement Goes Global

Protesters worldwide have joined the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in a cry of rage against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global economies and condemning millions to poverty and hardship through greed.
Dozens of cities across the world - from Tokyo to Alaska via London, Frankfurt and Washington - are holding demonstrations on Saturday, in a show of solidarity with the rallies that began last month in downtown New York.

It's surprising to see how much of an impact one movement in New York has made. It began as a small gathering of people all tired and angry of the same thing. That group of people continued to grow and grow until it became big. Not just across the nation big, but WORLDWIDE big. It's amazing how people can unite under one idea. This whole movement can also be seen as something that raises awareness, and that it does. As the movement began to grow, other countries were noticing the problems that we were protesting and saw those very problems in their own homes.

Now, more and more countries are beginning to realize that that problem is a big one and something has to be done about it. So they're gathering up and organizing their own 'Occupy' protests. Not necessarily occupying anything, but just getting rid of the idea of corporate greed and inequality. They want to fix how flawed the relationship between government and economics is. It's a good thing to protest for and every government should behave and serve the people as they should.

[RE.] Reading Minds.

If I could pick any power, I could pick mind reading. I wish I could read minds, but I would also like to be able to block out ones I don’t care about. If I could read minds I could so much like find out who my real friends are, how people really feel about me, who my friend's are and who my haters are. - Violette

Wishing for the power to read minds is a dangerous one. Sure you can read someone's mind and know what to do or what to say, but with the positive side of having this power you have to keep in mind that there's negatives to it as well. There's things that people just don't want you to know. If you read someone's mind and they were thinking about something that would offend you, you'd get mad and they wouldn't know why the hell you are. And if they knew that you could read their mind they'd get mad at YOU for reading their mind. Either way, one of you ends up getting mad.

I'm just saying that if you could read minds that you'd get offended left and right. You'd know things that people don't want you to know. It wouldn't take that long for you to eventually have a grudge on everyone you know because you read their mind and it was something mean about you. Think about it this way, how would you feel if your mind was able to be read at any time? People are entitled to have their privacy and our minds are the only place we have to ourselves.

People can't help but be brutal and mean. It's one of the things that makes us human. Naturally we are selfish. If you were to see everyone in pure raw emotion, it'd be brutal. It's better off to leave people as a mystery. It's more fun that way and it's how things are supposed to be.

[FREE.] GRAMM[E]R.

I'm not sure exactly how to type out my thoughts because my ideas are very basic, but I can narrow my thoughts down to one sentence. It's surprising how grammatically impaired some people are, given their age and level of education. By high school, you'd expect people to have in mind the most basic level of grammar. It seems like you're and your are the most common mistake, as well as the most annoying. People can say things like "your mad" it just makes me want to retaliate like "WHAT ABOUT MY MAD!?"

I guess all of this just applies on the internet and texting, but that's not a good enough reason to ignore something you should've learned in elementary school. Some people may argue that it's just the internet, not school. WRONG. On the internet, you are still projecting an image of yourself. So if you type like this: 0mg bby gurl u r s0 kyo0t! I'm pretty sure people are going to think more negative things about you than positive.

Another thing I don't get, people who try and correct other people's grammar are also looked down upon.. They get called a 'Grammar Nazi' and made fun of. I don't get whats so wrong about trying to better someone's grammar. I say that the people who get corrected say thank you and keep in mind what their mistake was so they don't do it again in the future.

My point is, there's no excuse to ignore basic grammatical rules. Unless you're immature or in middle school, in which case.. you'll grow up eventually.

[CE.] Steve Jobs?

Passionate, prickly, and deemed irreplaceable by many Apple fans and investors, Steve Jobs made a life defying conventions and expectations. And despite years of poor health, his death on Wednesday at the age of 56 prompted a global gasp as many people remembered how much he had done to transform the worlds of computing, music and mobile phones, changing the way people communicate and access information and entertainment.

I agree with the response that Steve Jobs' death is getting, but only to an extent. What has this man brought us? He's brought us the gadget that we most likely carry around in our pockets every day. He's given us the idea of how we should keep trying new things and that eventually we'll find something that works. To lose a person like Steve Jobs, what is it like?


Bringing it to a personal level, I wasn't really that into Apple. The only thing I ever owned from Apple was the iPod Touch, so I guess I owe Steve that. Oh and, the fact that he founded the animation company, Pixar, that created a plethora of greatly successful films. I do owe him for some things.


With every great innovator, he still has to owe the person that gave him the tools to become great in the first place. To that, I think he owes Dennis Ritchie. Who is Dennis Ritchie? Well, let's just say that without him, a bunch of the modern technology you see today won't even exist. He was a computer scientist who developed the most common and versatile programming language, C. C would eventually evolve into C++ but the fact that he laid out the groundwork for greater things is something that we all owe him. 


Dennis Ritchie died on October 12th, 2011. His death didn't gain any, or very little news coverage. I think it's sad that we overshadow the actual people behind the scenes and only mourn for the people who managed to gain more publicity and popularity. Maybe that's how Dennis Ritchie wanted it, but I think we still owe it all to him.