Passion Project

My passion project is to start a YouTube channel. So far progress is good, as I have fixed my previously malfunctioning Astros Headset, I have recorded some great gameplay, and I am going to try and get a Game Battles team for publicity. Once I get the team together, I will begin regular live streaming on twitch, and have a lot of fun.
One of the obstacles was the fact that my headset was not working properly, however, I was sent a new cable and now everything works fine. I am having fun so far and am looking forward to presenting!

127 Hours

We Recently finished the movie 127 Hours in my GT class. The movie is about Aron Ralston getting stuck in a cave for 127 hours, and how he almost died. The most interesting part of the movie was when I got to see Aron cut off his. That's right. To get out of the cave, he had to cut off his arm with a cheap knife. This movie shows us what some of us would do to survive. Th e most amazing part was the way he got stuck. While descending into a thin cavern, a rock loosened and fell on his arm, wedging it between the wall. He was stuck! after 127 hours, he finally made his decision. He cut off his arm and walked the many miles back towards his car and was evacuated by helicopter.
The most interesting part of the movie was the state of his mind. He started to have visions, and strange dreams. In a dream, he got free and went to his ex-girlfriends house. In fact the thing that inspired him to cut off his arm was a vision. In that vision he saw himself with a young boy, laughing and playing. He believed this to be his future son. In fact the weirdest thing about the whole thing was that his real son turned out to look just like the one he saw in that cave. This leads us to wonder the power of the human mind. I wonder if the mind is able to do things we cannot even fathom. Since we only use ten percent of our brain, according to man sources including Wikipedia, it is very possible something unique happened here. maybe he saw into the future. perhaps he remembers seeing the boy in a fabricated memory created by the brain to relive stress. Finally, he might have created the image using the knowledge of what type of woman he likes, and combined the looks. This event has more mental significance than the physical significance. After all, its all 'mental!'

Dasani

Recently our class read a 5 part NY Times article about a homeless girl in NYC named Dasani. It was a story about how there are not just homeless men and women, but homeless families. This story shows how the families are in trouble of loosing everything. They live in shelters and have terrible living conditions. Even though they live in a shelter, it doesn't mean that they have even decent living conditions. She lives with her parents, who are both drug addicts, and her 7 siblings, on of which is an infant. After reading the story I don't know what to think. Its like a city version of Beasts of the Southern Wild. Both families live in poverty, but at least In the BotSW, there is a reason they live in poor conditions. They can thrive in those conditions. Dasani cannot. It seems hard to except that there are children who have to live this way. It makes me feel petty when I don't like what Gatorade flavor comes out of the machine.
I feel like if I could tell Dasani something, it would to be determined. You have fought all this way to get out of poverty. Do not throw it all away because you feel like fighting someone. It will not be worth it.
While there are similarities in the drive Dasani has to succeed, there are multiple differences. For example, I go to a wonderful school without medal detectors and I always have a good meal. However, I feel that our drive would unite us.
I also feel sort of disappointed with the ending. I would like to know what happened to her. I want to know if she is succeeding. I also want to know where they live. It seems the story left me with a lot of questions!