Age & Weapons Test

My class was assigned to take two tests; the Age Test, and one of our choice. I decided to take the Weapons Test because I wanted to see just how opposed I was to weapons, even though I already know. The Age Test was to see if I preferred either old or young people.

When I finished with the test, it told me my analysis gave no information about my automatic preference. I'm guessing my result wasn't informative enough; too neutral. Because, I really don't prefer young people over old people, or viceversa. Sure, I kinda feel uncomfortable among old or adult people, but that's just because of the difference of ages.

But I also feel shy with young people because I'm timid. So clearly, that states I prefer no ages. The only age I'm comfortable with is babies, and infants, because in some ways, they're so much easier to deal with. You don't have to worry about having the right topics of conversation with them, or about not looking too nerd, or too anti-social, or too boring, etc.

It was the same with the Weapons test. It wasn't informative enough. I don't understand why they related weapons to White or Black people.

I don't wanna say that they did it because of racism because that would be kind of immature, and maybe it would even start another discussion like the one I witnessed (thankfully, I was absolutely no part in it) in my class yesterday, and truly, I'm not in the mood for that. But, I just don't understand why they'd do that. And, I don't agree with what they told me, that my results weren't enough to give me an accurate result.

I think it was because they didn't ask too many questions about what we thought about the subject, they just went ahead and asked us to place pictures in their right category, asking us about our race, religion, and how we felt about old/young people and how we considered weapons were related to Black/White people. I didn't like how they kept asking these personal questions, like religion and ethnicity. I don't think that has anything to do.

I'm not sure why the teacher told us to do this, but she must have her reasons and I'll respect them. I just didn't really see a point on the tests.

Icon Project

What I learned about the Icon Project was more information about John Lennon, and how to relate myself better to other people. I also learned other things about my classmates, like who their idols were or are, and why. I learned new things about myself, things that are similar to other people.

My statement didn't evolve so much, because it was actually pretty good. the only changes I did were the title, and some sentence errors. I feel anything else about the statement was great, and I'm glad the people that looked it over liked it.

It felt really good to do this project because it was a person I could easily relate myself to. I really liked this project, I hope we do something similar to this in the future. By the way, sorry, the picture came out on the wrong side, just, tilt your head so you can read it. ^^;

War is Over, so Give Peace a Chance

I never really saw anything interesting or special about John Lennon. Well, when I was little, anyway. All I knew about him was that he was part of the Beatles, a band that ruled in my house, a band I grew up listening to. But as I grew older, I began to be more interested in John Lennon in particular, because my parents told me about his achievements and what he stood for.

Then I researched him by myself and realized on my own how big he became and how inspiring his beliefs were. I was very impressed as I learned everything I found out. Almost immediately after he left the Beatles in 1969, he started to sing songs of peace, songs that told the world about the hope there was for war to be over and how everyone should be treated as an equal. He wanted peace, equality between men and women, racial equality, economic equality, no borders, etc.

Sadly, he was killed in 1980 for stating this. Many people didn’t want him to change the world for the better, so they took him out of the way. John Lennon stood for many meaningful things, and the impact he had upon the world shook it all so much that up until this day, he and his ideals are still remembered. He was and is still so inspiring, he makes me wish I had been there; that I had been at every single one of his concerts in person, that I had gotten to sing “Give Peace a Chance” and "Happy Christmas/War is Over" with him and all those people.

He makes me wish he was still alive. But then again, it doesn’t affect me so much that he’s dead, because he’s still alive in our hearts and minds. Millions of people still feel so strong about his opinions. He is still supported even after all these years.

John Lennon was a great idol, and you can see very easily why; some people who disagreed with him wanted him gone because of the threat the impact he had on people with his positive, revolutionary ideas was, so they had him killed, but not even that worked. It’s as if by killing Lennon, they unleashed his strength and his influence a thousand times more. I really admire him because he wasn't afraid of expressing what he thought around the world at all, and I think the connection between him and me is that I also support his ideals, and I'd be willing to sing about them in front of millions too. Maybe even give up my life as well, as long as people see the meaning of what I stood for and support it as well, so that the hope never dies.

Amiga Soledad

'Tranquilo triste corazón,
no llores más por mí,
estaré bien

En la frontera en la que estoy
puedo morir o revivir,
huir de ti.

He vuelto a mí y no sé quien soy
por no tener, no tengo ni mi ser.

La gente es lo que no ves detrás de la verdad hay algo más.

Soledad, compañera de esperar soledad,
como podría cambiar
de mis sueños el final.

Todo amor es un dolor
nos llega sin pedir
ni un solo beso

La vida pasa frente a mí
mis amigos ya no están
hay que seguir

A quién hablar sola y frente a mí?
Sin un espejo a quien mentir

La gente es lo que no ves
detrás de la verdad hay algo más.

Soledad, compañera de esperar soledad,
como podría cambiar
de mis sueños el final.

Soledad, compañera de esperar soledad,
como podría cambiar
de mis sueños el final.

No me queda otro disfraz
ni alma que vestir
no soy yo y tú quien serás?'

The symbolisms used in here....Well, in the beginning, she's telling her heart not to cry for her anymore. I think her heart is actually someone she's telling not to worry about her anymore. In the second verse, the way I see it is that wherever she is, whatever happens to her, no one really cares, but she doesn't care either, as long as she can run away from this person, because...Because the other person's concern is something she doesn't deserve and she feels totally guilty for it. (Okay, I'm throwing my own ideas here...) In that place, she's all alone, she has nothing, not even herself, the people around her are all strangers, she seeks something else, answers to her troubled life. All she has is her friend loneliness.

I don't really see any metaphors in this. The meaning of this song...She feels trapped in herself. Trapped in whatever istakes she has committed that have led her to being alone, with no friends, no family, not even a mirror to look and and lie to even herself. She can't scream out loud her sorrow, her loneliness, her sadness, she has decided to leave her mistakes and the damage they have caused behind to leave to an unknown, painful place, in which she has no way of covering her grief, yet nobody cares to see it even when it's so obvious.