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Growing up I always,always idolized my mom. I envied her amazing courage to actually go back to school when she was an adult with children and get her degree to become an RN. Now from my perspective being a parent and working full time must of been a really difficult thing to do. So for one reason being a nurse really inspired from her. The whole concept of helping sick or injured people in need really grabs my heart and attention. My whole group of aunts are nurses and they love every minute of their career. The impact you put on the people you care for is really special. Knowing that you could help a person in every way you can to make them in a better place is such a good feeling you must get. Now for me, when I am older I want to become an RN but for mainly the NICU. The NICU is a unit where pre-mature babies and sick babies are placed for advanced care and the hopes of them growing into regular healthy babies. Just like any medical profession it takes a lot of patience and big heart to become a nurse. Knowing in the back of your mind sometimes unfortunately the patients don't make it out as planned really saddens me but in that field you have to be prepared for loss and try to help the family that lost their child, loved one or even parent. I think it's such an amazing job but you really have to love it to continue it. For some people its really not their thing but for me I honestly really hope I enjoy it and get into it when I am getting off to go into college. I am so excited to see if I have what it takes to be a nurse and set off my career into a life time position.

TU Tuesday - Local

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/5-hurt-driver-arrested-in-Schenectady-crash-3585965.php

In my article I read about a severe accident that happened in Schenectady  that occurred last Friday. The driver was a woman by the name of Aisha Pounds and was pulled over just around 4 in the morning. Police stated "officers returned to their cruiser to check Pounds' motor vehicle information, she sped south on Hulett toward the Mont Pleasant neighborhood, police said. They added that she had lied to them about her identity because of an outstanding petit larceny warrant from Guilderland". Aisha pursued to speed off away from cops she had crashed right into a big telephone pole seriously injuring the passengers that were in the car with her. One victim and Aisha herself were taken to Albany Medical Center to get treated for their injuries."Three other passengers were taken to Ellis Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, a city police spokesman said. The sixth person in the car was not hurt." I think it's absolutely terrible that she put all the people in great danger including her self just because she decided to lie to the police. Aisha should be greatly punished for her actions and I wouldn't blame the people in the car to press charges on her. The final statement from police is "Pounds was charged with five counts of second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree criminal impersonation, third-degree unlawful fleeing a police officer, reckless driving and multiple traffic violations. She was to be arraigned in the hospital.". I'm really glad that she is getting charged with everything that she got, she deserves to go to jail for her poor decisions and I hope that every one that got hurt is going to turn out okay.

22. Why is our military so important?

In each and every country I believe it is very important to have a strong prepared military to protect and serve your country. Without our military I feel there would be a lot more conflict and our country would feel less safe to live in our country. Our military provides security for land and even water parts of our country to protect us as citizens. You have to have a lot of bravery and courage to join the military because it is not an easy job what so ever. I believe you have to give up a lot to be in the military even giving up spending time with your family.
Without the special training they use to protect us i feel like we would of lost a lot more battles our country wouldn't be who we are today. I am really thankful for having such a well prepped army and always ready to be armed for our country and people in our country should really respect them for everything they do for our country on a regular basis. The military gives us the real protection each and every country should feel they have.

Conversation Starters.

Ice Breakers

Where did you grow up? I grew up in Clifton park New York, I have moved from there to Colonie then to here in Guilderland

Do you have any pets? Yes I do, I have two dogs who are extremely annoying and obnoxious and I would much rather just settle with having a fish because they don't shed or make a bunch of noise.

Do you have any siblings? I have 1 real brother and his name is Tony, he is 27. Both my parents re married and I now have a step brother Steven who is 23, and a half sister Layla who is 8.

Do you know what your your name means? My name means "Heroine of God" or "Woman of God". It's really weird I never knew that about my name before.

What type of phone do you have? I have this Pan tech slide up phone which I absolutely despise. I want an Iphone so badly but of course AT&T has wicked long contracts.

What did you do this past weekend? This weekend I hung out with my friends on Friday and went to the Armory in Albany. On Saturday I went to my boyfriend's cousins baby shower and had a fire at my house. And finally on Sunday I jumped into my pool for the first time this year and it was the most frigid ice water I have ever experienced in my whole life and I will wait until the middle of June to ever jump in again.

What are your plans for this weekend? For this weekend I want to once again hang out with my friends again and I usually so that Friday and Saturday. Me and Mom will probably do some summer shopping because I am in desperate need of summer clothes and new sandles for the season.

What do you like to do in your spare time? In my spare time I really like spending time with my boyfriend Ricky. He's my best friend so I absolutely love every minute I get to see him because we get along so well.

What is the first thing you do when you wake up? Everyday when I wake up the first thing I most likely do is check my phone too see if I missed any messages when I was sleeping then I go on my laptop to wake up, very strange I know.

What is the last thing you do before you go to sleep? I talk on the phone with Ricky until I finally pass out then call it a night.

What is your middle name? Rose

What was the last thing you purchased? A

What is your favorite holiday? My birthday all the way. I love how the whole day is doing what you want and having all your friends over to get together. I always go out to dinner with everyone including my family on my birthday which I always love doing.

What is your favorite day of the week? Saturday! All the way because I know I get to sleep in and enjoy the rest and get a full nice charge so I am ready for the day to do whatever I do that day. The best part is knowing I am not in school makes it ten times better.

If you could meet anyone in history, who would it be? If I could meet anyone in history I would want to meet Rosa Parks because she made such an impact on the justice of different races and made the lead to having freedom for them.

What do you like to do to relax? I adore taking naps right after school, but when it's a really nice warm breezy day out I love taking a nice nap on my hammock its so relaxing.

Are you a saver or a spender? Definitely a saver, Whenever I get money I always try my best to put it away and save it for the longest time possible so if anything ever came up I would have some money and I can go and spend it on stuff that are actually reasonable and something I need.

Do you play any instruments? Oh no, I used to in middle school for the first year and dropped it right after because I hated missing class to go to those annoying lessons and I would always miss them and my teacher would freak out about not being responsible.

34. Should the alcoholic drinking age be increased or decreased

I believe that the drinking age should be decrease, now I'm not saying because I regularly practice drinking as my thing but I'm saying I think at the age of 18 it would be an appropriate drinking age for America.

• 18 would be an appropriate drinking age because 18 years old because at 18 many young adults are at the age of going off to collage to become adults. For some part you're on your own and you that's when you start making you're own decisions on what you want to do. You should have the mind set of knowing what it does to you and your body and the affects that it will cause.
• At 18 you can already buy cigarettes, weapons, go to war and buy other items that you don't need to be over the age of 21 over. So why not be able to buy alcohol at the age of 18? You should know all the facts of alcohol and what it does to your body as it can harm you. Cigarettes can harm your body just as much and people put the own risk to them selves.
• When you're 18 you want to be able to do the things you want to do and you get urges to rebel against parents and or cops. Many teens who are under ages drive home drunk because they are afraid to call their parents admitting that they are drunk to get a ride home and this may lead into a serious accident or getting pulled over and getting a DWI. So with lowering the age will increase peoples safety on the roads while driving home
• Lowering the drinking age would increase the restaurant and bar and grill economy because many people under the age of 21 want to enjoy the activity of drinking and should be able to get served at the age of 18. I say if the person gets hurt and or pulled over for drinking they should pay their own consequences by paying a fine or face legal consequences
• Also, many other surrounding countries have a drinking age under 21

TU Tuesday - Commencement Speech.

http://www.humanity.org/voices/commencements/bill-gates-harvard-university-speech-2007
http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/all/article/282394/Inequality/

Life expectations and taking opportunities as an optimistic chance to change your life is the main route Steve Jobs was speaking about in his commencement speech. According to Steve Jobs he implies a very strong message “I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities, on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.” Through out his whole speech he goes on with such powerful wisdom and thought that bring you to a peace of mind agreeing for me personally. I really like in the beginning how he addresses his own flaws not just jumping into how he is making a huge success out of his life. "I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class; I did the best of everyone who failed.". I liked how he brought up not only the graduates there but how he admitted that he knew nothing about the terrible impact of others in the outside world, starving children and other serious topics many Americans are uneducated about.


Steve Jobs brought up the fact we could make our work forces help and work for the unfortunate people by making more room and jobs for them too work actually. Which to me is a brilliant yet so simple idea that would put a lot of our even Americans out of debt. He said also "If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world." The key word I got out of this passage was "Inequality". Many citizens here feel there isn't a complete balance with society and feel they have no other choice in life but poverty. But, just like him he believes the common person thinks They say: “Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end-because people just don’t care.” which is on my part true. I disagree with him as well and many people in our society have as much care and generosity to share among our people. As Steve said "We need to find our solution".


People in our today's world feel everything has to be perfect. Their looks, body, their grades and salary. Simplistically saying "Perfection is merely your everyday goals, the little things that make you smile and make you who you have come to be. Reaching perfection means reaching a feeling of happiness from doing what you love to do and also feeling absolutely wonderful from doing it. Perfection is the key to your comfort zone, never follow what others feel or think is the best" I absolutely agree with the author of this passage because it's true if people don't reach their key goal they feel they haven't met perfection. Which brings me to take your time with what you do, don't worry about anothers opinion and reach your goal. "Although another’s words may become of motivation to you, molding your life to fir another’s lifestyle will not guarantee you perfection or success. The only thing it is certain of doing is making you regret your choices in the future."

Tried and True.

Man, Well rough year first of all who ever is going through this patch of time. Well lets first off say this, breaking up is not a simple or easy thing to go through as my personal opinion yet I feel at least you will go through one tough heart tearing one in your life time. Well, according to facebook which for me is perfectly inaccurate but, here it shows the limits are really pushed with spring break and 2 weeks before Christmas. So, here's my personal advice to you. For not even every holiday but for every day circumstances watch out for your loved ones feelings toward you! You should feel you can openly talk to one another with out automatically thinking "we have to break up now". I guess if your attractive boy/girlfriend is a crazy one and is going on a all out bananza on spring break and you question your trust for them it's called sitting down and speaking to them not just throwing in the towel! I could understand why some people would break up on this event particularly but, to keep the peace and to keep the relationship on track tell your loved one how you feel if you feel its slipping away. I now know some things happen for a reason but you have to let things fall in place. From my point of view you should never break up with someone on a near or upcoming important holiday it absolutely crushed the other partner and they will be mentally broken! If you are going to break up with them please do it on a weekday so they can cope with their friends on the weekend or have a heart and try to at least fix the issue and not do it on a holiday where they are perfectly miserable. That's my relationship advice!