Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a fantastic year full of success and happiness! Enjoy life, take in as much as possible, smile, laugh and live! You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough! Au Revoir 2013 and hello 2014!!! Make this year memorable!

The documentary touched on the idea of failure and depression…  Just kidding :) But seriously though? Generation jobless!?! I mean talk about crushing our hopes and telling us we’ll live a life of dept and disappointment. I mean I get the point and I understand we’re going through a bit of a rough time, but I don’t think all hope is lost;) What I took out of the film is that we need to start researching and looking up necessary  jobs that lack workers. We also need to realize we’re living in an over educated country with ample people going through to University/college and it’s hard to get into the field you want to be in. As a generation we need to be willing and prepared to take a different route and possibly consider plan B (but still push for plan A).  

        In the movie "The Blind Side" Michael Oher clearly demonstrates the High Five Principles. As a more dominant character in a film about ones journey for success, it is easy to place his life into charts and file it as a good example for an English class. In everyone's life there is a starting point, a place where the journey begins. This is the moment when a person realizes their purpose and where they're supposed to go in life. Not everyone can do it alone, fortunately in most cases there are other people who are able to help. Michael was able to follow his heart, even though he had to experience a lot of change and he got the bonus of learning along the way. His journey opened up opportunities as well as adventures and he finally had multiple people to access when he needed help. 

High Five Principles-  Michael Oher

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    If you have never used a Google Chromebook, you are missing out. I personally find the chromebooks are favoured by almost every member in my FFP class. In fact if you asked which computer they'd prefer to work on I think everyone would agree on the Chromebooks. When I don't come to class early enough, I don't get a chromebook, I get a netbook. Two members of our class actually took the manner to trial when they felt as though they both deserved the last Google Chromebook. They were both entitled to a lawyer but in the end there was a vote and one of them had to settle for a netbook. Here are a few reasons for why I feel the Google Chromebooks are so desirable:

     Thousands of people killed...well that's unfortunate and obviously something to be afraid of. Automatically one might think, but what will happen to my loved ones, what will happen to me? Already the fear is spreading, covering the citizens like a thick, black smog. What they need is a solution, one that the government can so conveniently offer. So with blind eyes they run unknowingly into the scheming arms of the government. Masking the fear and questions, but at what cost? When the fear was masked, so was the truth. 

In V for Vendetta the film explores the idea of personal freedom vs. Government control. From the beginning of the movie you can sense the fear the citizens have of the government. It starts off by displaying the fact that the government actually controls the times you are allowed out of the house. Violent watchmen called "Fingermen" are hired to guard the streets in hopes of catching a any rule breakers whom decide to go out for a stroll. The fear of being beaten, black bagged, or never seen again comes everytime they try and have a voice. Yes, fear is a powerful weapon, but the question is not if fear itself is a weapon, the question is, just how far will the government go to create this dark dagger of distress. 

    Power. It's a strong word, five letters, two vowels, three consonants. But what does it mean? Well it means having the ability to do something a specific way. So let's say someone has power, that makes them able to do things their way. Obviously having power would be a desirable thing. Someone would probably go through a lot of trouble to gain this power. That would explain why in the film V For Vendetta the government knowingly took the lives of thousands of citizens. No wait, there is no explanation for killing people. The government obviously had a craving for things to be done their way... Greed. Another strong word, also five letters, two vowels and three consonants. Greed and power are a package deal. Strange to think that the word structure is not the only connection they share. 

~Simmone 


    

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Recently my class and I went on an interesting field trip, which I decided would be fun to blog about... 
So anyways we took a school bus to this old tannery full of multiple business'. Actually to be more specific we went to the Communitech hub. We saw an interactive art wall, a wall that displayed art and we saw some normal walls but that's not very exciting. After that we got to talking about business. We disscussed renting all inclusive work spaces, and when I say all inclusive, I mean coffee. Later on we went into VeloCity and saw a bunch of people working, I don't know if we were bothering them or not but they seemed pretty happy. They even had a photographer taking pictures, it was like the paparazzi. Then we went and discovered what Canadian Tire was doing there, which is good because I had been wondering that ever since we walked in. Shortly after we entered a room with an amazing scenery and were able to enter a three dimensional virtual world. I even got to experience jumping off a bridge, I could have lived my whole life in that room with those crazy alien antenna glasses.This spectacular invention was called "The Hive" and was by Christie Digital. 

Then after I had that awesome experience, I went along with my classmates to the Google office and I think mind blown wouldn't even begin to describe my reaction. We got a tour of the place and I now officially want to live there. It had all the essential things needed to survive, a bed, food around every corner, and a slide, I mean what else does anyone need ;) Surprisingly that's not all, they have the best taste in furniture ever and they have yoga on Monday's. "Become a Google employee" is now officially on my bucket list. After our tour we handed in our name tags and I would have gotten a drink from the café  but the bus came on time. So we headed back to the school with the hope that one day we would be able to go down the red "Googler Only" slide. 

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Hey Everyone!!! My name's Simmone and apparently I need to create a blog for my English class, I have never made one before so wish me luck ;) Hopefully you will find this blog educational or interesting....