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W h a t i s a g o o d a n d m e a n i n g f u l l i f e?<2> People have interpreted the answers to this question using corporate culture.<2> Folk culture has been lost thought out the years and the worst part is people don’t seem to realize how much their life is controlled by the media and the corporate industries.<2>
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MLK

I don’t think that we are fed mislead information I just think the government is being the government. They only highlight the good and never show us the bad. Its like they are afraid of us having an opinion so they only show us one side. The one that makes them look good. With MLK, we celebrate a day in his honor to give the American people hope and give them a reminder that we have accomplished things in the past. When u have a success story why present the negatives. I do think that we should be informed about both the good and the bad but lets be realistic, our government will never give us the satisfaction of knowing they are failures.

Valentines day

Valentines Day is the day to be spent with your significant other. When I was younger it was about making your crush a little paper heart and putting it secretly on their desk. As we get older and have our girlfriends/boyfriends, its about buying them something nice and taking them out to eat. This holiday reminds you to make time to treat the one you love. Corporately it has been turned into a day for the markets. Jewelry stores open their doors wide to the lover trying to impress. In our culture love is shown through materials. I prefer Valentines Day when I was younger because it was innocently cute. The whole arts and craft of making the paper heart with glittery finishing touches. Love should be shown trough creative gifts not easily bought materials.

Election Reflection

This year’s presidential election was one of the most inspiring elections in history. The first black (well half black) president was elected to run our country. This is truly significant to the growth of our nation. A few years back when segregation was a law, blacks didn’t have any rights at all. Slowly as time went by they gained rights to make them “equal”. Although according to the law they were treated “equally” there were still strong racism and stereotypes within the American people limiting their power? In one a recent jay-z song he mentioned “Rosa Parks sat so MLK can talk, MLK had a dream so Obama can run.” This led me to thinking; Obama is another stepping stone to more successes for blacks in this country. Everything takes time but anything is possible.
I strongly believe that Obama is going to be a good president. He is a well spoken man and knows how to present himself. He was really smart in his campaigning decisions. He seems to have a good plan for our country. If he doesn’t then man are we fucked. We are truly in the worst conditions with just about everything. Our envioriment,

Thanksgiving Post

My thanksgiving family dinner was pretty fun. We spent the whole night eating and telling childhood stories. Even though they are retold at every family gathering they never seem to get old. Everyone still laughs at them, everyone still gets embarrassed by them and most importantly everyone loves them. No one brought up what really happened in history on thanksgiving. To be honest I don’t think my family even cares. They aren’t from American. They just know thanksgiving as a holiday to get family together and eat a huge meal. Everyone home makes something to bring to the table. The tradition I see there from history is the gathering of various food from different parts of the family to share. Thanksgiving and this time of the year is really meaningful to my family. We have been use to living all together but as my aunts and uncles grew up, everyone got their own home and family. Family is an important value to mine so we seek any opportunity to bring everyone together.

Black Friday/ BND

On black Friday I did not go out to shop. I did want to save money but the main reason why I stood home was because I didn’t want to deal with crowded and messy stores. I was tempted by the saves but I was too hung over from thanksgiving to get up early. The main controversy about black Friday is that they advertise for you to go out and shop to save money but at the end of the day twice the amount of money is spend then on a regular shopping day. People become so blind sided because they hear the words SAVE and they are tricked to spent more money. People have this idea that having a meaningful life is to have any and every material, from the latest fashionable clothing to the newest electronics. Plus if you pay less money then the actual prize it makes the object even more significant.
In this American culture people rely on materials to make their life’s happy and meaningful. I personal have been a victim to the American way of life. I came from a family of 13 people living under one roof. It was really difficult for all of our individual needs to be satisfied yet alone to have extras. When I was going to school my cloths wasn’t exactly up to date with fashion and my toys were hand me downs. All I want was to have the same cloths as everyone else so I won’t feel left out. Many times I was embarrassed to go to school because I was wearing the same thing I had worn a few days before. Now looking back I realized how foolish I was. I still made friends in school because of my personality not my cloths and I still had a family that loved me. We often become concern with what we don’t have that we don’t come to realize we already have enough. Not everything in life that is meaningful has to have a money value.

Trampled Wal-Mart Worker

The killing of a Wal-Mart employee on black Friday is a great example of how America has become materialistic. A mob of people were lined up and camping outside the store hours before the store even opened. When the doors were finally unlocked everyone bum rushed to get in, knocking over a 34year old male employee. After being stomped over repeatedly he died because of a heart attack. Even after the ambulance came to take away the body, the mod of people continued to rush in stepping over the workers. “They killed a man just to save 20 bucks on a flat screen TV” If I were someone from out of the states reading this article I would think that Americas are heartless money hungry jerks. But in the defense of this case I must say that Wal-Mart had set themselves up for these kayos. They spent money in advertisement their sales for black Friday weeks before the event. Feeding the American minds to a mode of “must get there first to save.”