I cannot believe my first year of college is already over! I felt like I just graduated high school. Now, here I am, celebrating my close friend’s graduation- class of 2019. So, what advice would I pass on? After a year of change from living on campus and being involved to getting a job, there… Read More Advice for Incoming Freshman
There are so many popular culture trends right now! It’s interesting seeing the documentation and trends by the end of the year. These quickly disperse and are a vague memory in a couple months. It’s easy to catch up with news and mash-ups with Alyson Stoner’s annual YouTube videos. Here are some current trends: Marvel… Read More 2019 Current Trends
Hello! Wow, I cannot believe how much time has passed since my last blog post! It’s unbelievable. Well, many things have changed. Hello, 2019! New year, new me vibes were ever-present! Check out this post I wrote about resolutions. Avengers End Game, a new Taylor Swift single, and country rap? Read more about 2019 pop… Read More Life Update: Happy New Year and Happy Return
The journal is a reflection piece on 13th a Netflix original documentary on the broken prison system. This stars Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay. Both social and cultural issues are represented. Any level of expression truly impacts people for a call to action and change. This is the purpose and desire for the movie. The documentary starts… Read More 13th (Netflix documentary)
In class, the theme and concept of racially passing as another race and equality were discussed. Passing is the act of claiming or identifying as another race and being able to ‘pass’ as another race. I believe a person’s desire to pass tells us that in society, no one is happy or comfortable with the… Read More Passing
In Popologetics, Turnau focused on Christians respond to popular culture in an apologetic way. This takes a deliberate change of focus. There are five questions that can be used to interrogate any piece of popular culture: (1) what the story is, (2) what is the imaginative origin, (3) what grace-filled elements can be found, (4) what is perverse that can be found, and (5) how … Read More “Poplogetic” Chapter Review
Named after a Dutch farm area Haarlem, the city transformed into a suburban area with middle and upper class. A well-known street, Seventh Avenue, is mentioned several times. Harlem became a safe haven, city of dreams, and freedom giving city of New York where white supremacists and the KKK were not awaiting. Not surprisingly, the… Read More Harlem: City of Dreams
There’s so much to be thankful for.… Read More Thanksgiving
“So how is it that with all this caring, there are still so many hurting, anguished people? The answer is that a lot of the caring we see today is directed toward ideologies, not people.” Sensing the Rhythm by Mandy Harvey As this post waiting in my drafts, I had James 2 written under it. The… Read More Words without Actions
From Melbourne, our grand family vacation and end of high school trip for the summer of June and July continued to New South Wales. From Melbourne to Sydney, we took Quantas Airlines. Below are photos I took and the itinerary for Sydney. We stayed at the Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel at Circular Quay. This is a… Read More Summer 2018 phase 3b: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
