Worst morning in my college life

Today was one of the worst mornings ever. Yesterday night I took a long nap at 7pm of about

three hours. I woke up all lost at ten. I could not go to sleep so I watched the novela with my roommate. We went to sleep around one in the morning. I was really worry because next morning I was going to have my algebra test. I finally fell asleep around two. I woke up all scared at six in the morning after having a really bad dream.

It was a childish dream. It was about that walking doll named Chucky!!! I hated him since I was little, but still I watched his movies. In my dream I was lost. I was in a place I did not recognize. I was waiting for the bus to come back home,and I was being follow by two man. It was kind of ironic at the same time because Chucky instead of killing me he saved me!!! He followed the men and killed them. The bus finally came and I got on it, not waiting for Chucky to come back. I knew he was looking for me, but fortunately, I woke up.

I could not go to sleep after that so I got up and studied for my algebra test. I wrote down the things I did not know and I was ready. Unfortunately the test did not cover any of those things and I was in bad shape. I did my best but I think I fail. Oh well there is nothing more to do than wait for the results and hoe for the best.

The oil spill

The website VoteVets.com was created to campaign veterans to occupy positions in the government. They recently brought up an ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWffhbEn60 that talks about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They use this as a resource to attract peoples attention to this problem and at the same time encourage their main purpose, try to make people vote for veterans because "[we"ll] do whatever mission we're given and do it well". This is a very strong appeal to ethos well used for the cause. The first pictures we see are that of people pumping oil and of a crab covered in oil. This is an appeal to pathos that is used correctly for its purpose.

After all, is all this true? No, it is not. The veterans that created this ad did so based on the fact that we Americans are always miss informed. We believe everything that we hear as long as it sounds good. America is always going to be dependent in oil no matter what we do. How can we "cut our dependency in oil" if oil is always going to be needed one way or the other? We cannot. Of course we can start using "clean energy", but even that will not suffice our oil needs. They talk about pumping "our own oil". We cannot do that. All oil is pumped by an international company and ends all together with oil from all around the world. This creates a false appeal to logos that most people that watched this ad did not even see. All this is a well constructed ad that suficed its purpose, but it has false statements as well.

Liberty

1. Have you ever ask yourself what liberty is? Every head is a world of ideas or as they would say in Spanish, "Cada cabeza es un mundo" Consequently, we all have different opinions about liberty. Liberty in the South since the colonial times until the civil war meant freedom. Freedom to do and have the rights that only white men could enjoy. Freedom meant more than just being able to have the same rights; for the slaves, it was winning a war fought for hundreds of years. At the end, was it really worth it? Did what the slaves fought for was truly what they expected? I would say it was not. After the 13Th, 14Th, and 15Th amendments were given to the slaves, segregation still existed, and even worst. The KKK arose and the Jim Crow Laws were posted in most of the South. They used to lynch "Negroes" all aver the southerner states, specially in Mississippi. That is not liberty. As the founder fathers try to state in the Declaration of Independence, as human beings,we all have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Liberty is only a word to describe a desire. We are and would never be free to so or say what we think without being reprehended or judge. I just hope that one day the hate will stop and we can all be okay with the difference of opinions.

The Gay Straight Alliance

Well, my the community I belong to is called the Gay Straight Alliance or GSA for short. I belonged to this club only my senior year of high school, but I got really passionate about it. First, because the point that we discussed is equal rights for homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, lesbians, and transgender people. I think that all of us, as human beings, deserve to have the same rights. As the Declaration of Independence said, "All men are created equal and so should have equal rights". What we try to do is to get involved in the community as much as we can so our voices could be heard. We started with a very little group of people, but as the school year went more people that shared our same ideas and desires got involved.

The second reason I joined this club is because I have many gay, bisexual, and lesbian friends and I do not believe in the division of rights for heterosexual and homosexual people. I do believe that one day equality will come. A lot of people have tell me that I dream and hope too high. I don't think the same way. I know that society is a hard enemy to go against but I have never loose hopes that one day they will learn to see with other eyes. Thanks to societies homophobia many innocent lives have been lost and I hate that.

The problem in my community is that even though most of us share the same ideals, when someone disagrees we all get in a big fight. We have to learn to control our temper. We act without thinking and the results are things that we cannot go back and fix. I hate seen my people getting in a fight because they haven't learn to accept that not all of us think the same. In order to get to where we want we need to work together instead of picking a side and working separately. I really hope to get people to see my point of view and help them get over the problem that, even though seems like nothing, is destroying our community.

Life

Life is hard and unfair, I think all of us know that by now. It is full of obstacles and the unknown. I do not like the unknown and bet most of us don't, but we have to venture in order to start accumulating knowledge. We have to make mistakes so we can learn. We do not like to make mistakes and hate to be wrong. But even though we don't realize it, that is the cycle of life. We have to make a mistake and consequently we would learn. At least that is how it's supposed to be. If you don't learn from your wrongs then you are stuck in the process of evolving to a better human being.
I myself have made many mistakes throughout my short life. Fortunately, I have learn from my mistakes and I know I won't make them again. Learning from mistakes is a process many people have trouble with. Some times we don't even realize that what we're doing is wrong so we keep doing it over again. Most of the time persons in our surroundings have to tell us that we are wrong for us to comprehend our mistakes.
All of us should really do an effort to live life the best we can and make the most out of it. At the same time, we have to leave that fear of being wrong behind and just accept that we can't be right all the time or else life won't have any meaning. We have to realize, that hard, unfair, and wrong as it might be, life is a blessing and we should not take it for granted. Just live life to the fullest because you never know if the tomorrow will come.

Biography

I am Luzmaria Cuevas, daughter of Agustin Garcia and Maria Elena Serrato. I am an only child, and was always pampered when I was little. I was named after two very important persons in my life, Maria Serrato, my aunt and moms' sister, and Luz Cintora, my grandmother and dad's mom. My parents told me that I symbolize the light of their path, which is what Luz means. I was born in a very little town called Santiago Maravatio, Guanajuato, Mexico. It is a very beautifully peaceful town, but it does not have many attractions. Now, if we talk about Guanajuato itself, it is a very big city full of history. It is called the crib of Mexico's' independence because that is where all the battles for independence were fought. It has many touristic and historical places that will be a delight to visit and it even has a kind of white people village for those who go visit from the US.
I started preschool at the age of 3. I don't really remember much of that but I do remember some remarkable things. My first day for example. It was a fun day because it was the first day that my mom and my dad allowed me to use my bicycle, with the two support wheels in the back of course. All the other kids were crying because it was the first time they left their moms' side. I wasn't. I even asked my mom why were they crying. I guess I just was too excited. I remember this other day on my 3rd and last year of preschool that I got in a fight. I just hated a girl named Amparito. She was stuck up and always lying about having a bunch of money. She would always said that she had a swimming pool in her back yard and that she had a siren in it. I knew, at my short age, that it was not possible, but everyone else believed her. I just got tired of all her lies and I pulled her hair and scratched her back. She started crying and the teachers came. The good thing was that I was the teachers favorite, so I didn't get in trouble. That was my kinder garden experience. When I went to 1st grade, everything was so different. I had only 4 teachers throughout my elementary school. On 1st and 2ND grade I had this woman named Estella. My 3rd and 4Th grade teachers' name was Gregorio. the name of my 5Th and 6Th grade teachers were Abel and Luzmaria. They all were really strict but I managed to make good grades throughout my elementary education. My middle and part the part of my high school that attended in Mexico were the worst days of my life until then, but little did I know of what was yet to come.
In the last months of my 9Th grade, many things changed. That is, 4 years ago, when I had to come to the US seeking a better education. My parents had to give up on me and let me come with one of my aunts. They didn't want me to live a life as hard and needy as they had. My first year was the hardest one. I didn't know a bit of English but the very basic. I've learned that with perseverance and hard work you can achieve as high as you dream.