Sunday, January 1, 2012

11. Charities

If I were given $30,000 dollars to give to 3 charities, these are the charities that I would pick.

Make A Wish Foundation

The make a wish foundation is an organization dedicated to granting the "wishes" of children with life threatening medical problems. I've always thought the make a wish foundation was a good charity, not because of the wish, but of the repercussions of the wish being granted. When a child is granted a wish, they are given a thing to remember, in what may or may not be their last days. If it even gets to that point, it is still a chance for that child to experience something they would normally not get the chance to, and that is not fair. But when people see how happy the children are when they see a charity really going to work in their own neighborhood, just the sound of it just makes you want to contribute to a worthy cause. Doesn't it?

Against Malaria Foundation

The against malaria foundation is a charity organization that deals with the purchasing of nets and antibiotics to treat and prevent malaria in less fortunate countries. Malaria causes symptoms such as, fever and headache, and in sever cases progressing into coma or even death. Malaria is hard to prevent, if one does not have the appropriate tools to deal with it. Mosquito's are more common in humid areas of the globe like rainforests, and can catch people by surprise as well all know. Yet 200,000,000 cases of malaria happen worldwide each year, and this charity is a great charity with a good track record dedicated to the purchase of nets, insecticide treated nets, and long lasting insecticide treated nets to prevent malaria in less fortunate countries, with the cost of nets being fairly cheap.

The British Columbia Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

More commonly known as the BC SPCA, these people can be lifesavers to animals everywhere and are one of the leading contributers to the rescue of abused animals. On one side, the people at SPCA rescue animals from their prosecuters and put them into shelters where they are treated well and then sold for fairly low prices to families who will adopt, love and care for them. As much as we need to repair people, we need to care for animals, and remember that we are not the only species on this planet, and nobody should treat animals as if we are.





When I was going over the structure of this I wanted to divide the charity money evenly between different causes, so the money is used in different ways. We need to remember that some less fortunate people are right next to us, so I chose the "Make A Wish" foundation, because when we have all the necessities of life in front of us, we need something to keep us moving forward. Although when we are even less fortunate and when we have to struggle to get the essentials of life, it takes 1 disease for you to be put out of work. Why I chose the "Against Malaria Foundation" to help those 200,000,000 people move forward and not have to worry about 1 more thing. And finally, animals are important as much as we are and I think are attitude as a species towards animals needs to take a change for the better, so I would donate this to the good people who saved my friends dog and my cat.

15. My Proudest Works.

I found that my proudest moments, are those brief, and happy moments, when you create something good, and others think it's beautiful. I found this feeling reflecting off my poetic works this year and last. I got a lot of positive feedback from peers and family member (not just my parents!). But it feels good when people appreciate something that you have put a lot of effort into, and that feeling of self satisfaction is just an overwhelmingly happy feeling. Especially when it is coming from your parents, because they will be proud of who you are becoming (or they could be faking it). Anyways This is one of the poems I wrote in English last year, that I though was mediocre, because it was my practice on using poetic devices, but when Carnrite handed it back to me in the hallway, she looked surprised and said it was really good. And your immediate reaction is always, "really!?".

7. Educational Youtube Moments (if that's possible)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7r7YY_EO0A

I decided to go off book for a little bit here and talk about why I chose this video, but not in a good way but infact a negative way. As some may take a first glance at this video and think, well hey those are good points, they are not wrong, its just I don't think they're go very in depth into this kind of topic. If motivational speakers are just out there to tell you to you're better than everyone else and to try and be someone your not just for success, then do you really have an identity? This is the "Identity Blog" and I really think it is helping me get in touch with who I want to be and what I want to do. Like I have said throughout this project, I would prefer not to live up to the "American Dream" format of living, but I would like to take the setting goals and working towards them portion out of it. Because if being wealthy and powerful dehumanizes me then what is the point? If I cant make my own choices, then is life worth living? Don't get the wrong idea when I say that but I think we rely on ourselves to be want we want to be.

14. Living Hero


For my living hero, I chose Stephen Hawking because of his amazing battle with life. As it says on his official website, In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. Since 1979 he has held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Science. Stephen Hawking is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein. 


Today he is said to be the smartest man alive, it really puts to work what you were saying about being blind doesn't it Knittle? ;). Most would say they couldn't go on living only being able to move a handful of muscles. Yet against all odds he survived and decided not to (pardon me) a vegetable and use his life for a greater purpose. He went through college and became successful with the only muscle he needed, his brain. He kept positive, and used that brain to make groundbreaking achievements, and still is said to be the greatest mind since Albert Einstein.

13. Poetry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-8NuZZPD9E


4. My Memorable moment


For my memory, I am going to pick the time when My Grandparents took me and my brother along with my parents to West Edmonton Mall. Now, to clarify, I didn’t pick this memory for the venue, I picked it for the time. Me and my brother were just kids fairly little, he may remember it less than me, but the memory was so potent. I would love to remember when everything was good. It was sunny, my grandparents were still married, and my grandmother was still alive. I remember the flashing lights from amusement park attractions as me and my brother ran for every attraction we saw as my parents smiled and my grandparents laughed. I picked this one fairly importantly for my grandmother, she was a great person, awesome, always thinking of others even when times were hard for her she looked up. And we would sometimes look down when she made wrong choices, and I regret it dearly. But I should’ve been more appreciative of the moment, even though I was too small to comprehend how important the moment really was. It felt like everything was just in perfect harmony we were all smiling, nobody was hurting, and that’s a feeling that I could feel forever. 


10. One Thing Id Like To Do


If you were to ask me if I could go or do anything in anyplace for any length of time, I'm not exactly the kind of person who would go sky diving or deep sea diving, or Paris or Italy, Africa or Japan. I feel like those things are all one time only see it and go thrills that can die down after a while and only turn into vivid memories. I would go somewhere that would expand my knowledge, someplace to help me get in touch with myself. Or even my surroundings, it’s just something I would love to do to really get an understanding of our confusing world, to learn something amazing. I want to get out of the routine machine lifestyle that so many suffer from. I need to be out an about expressing myself. I could never work a desk job because I need to feel like I’m getting something out of what I do. And if taking a little time with some guru up in the Himalayas learning how to be peaceful, and more understanding, is what it takes, then by all means ill go buy a one way plane ticket.