Blogging sux!

Pros and cons of blogging, where should I start? Some pros are you it has helped me become a better writer. I have learned how express myself through writting better because of blogging. It has also helped me learn how to put my thoughts into words better than before. Another pro is that it let me write exactly what I thought about a topic and it let me share it with others. Now for the cons. A con of blogging is that it takes time that I would rather be using towards something else like motocross. And it counts for a real grade and if you dont do them then you wont get the points. And it sucked having to remember that I needed to blog out of class every week. In the end there were more pros than cons but if I had a choice I would choose not to do the blog at all.

Claim

1)Are you kidding me? Smoking is so bad for you and is sooooo adictiave its not even funny.

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3) Smoking cigarettes is so bad and so detrimental to your health that in China in the 1600s you would get your lips cut off if you were caught smoking. Smoking cigarettes kills 450,000 Americans a year. Thats a half of a million people dieing each year because of cigarettes. It effects almost every organ in the body. People say "it's not addictiave I could quite cold turkey" and I always say " then do it" but they never do. It couldn't be because nicotine is highly addictiave rite?

Berthoud Hare Scramble!!

This past Sunday there was a hare scramble at berthoud motocross track. A hare scramble is a 2hr race that doesnt just stay on the track it goes off the track and does some other stuff. You end up doing about a 8 mile lap so its pretty trying after each lap. I actually decided to do a relay with my buddy jared so we could share the 2 hours. My buddy started first and before i knew it he passed the finish line and it was my turn to lay down some quick lap times. We kept doing this and we would get to the pits after each lap and get water and refuel our bikes and mentally prepare for the next lap. This went on for 2 hours until it was over. We waited for about an hour after to see the results. Finally they were posted so we all went over to look at them. 5th!! I was pretty excited to get 5th because there were about 40 riders in all so 5th isnt bad at all. Then we got our trophy's and headed home to recover.

Music!!!

Music personally is a huge part of my life. Im always trying to listen it whether it be driving in my car or in my garage working on my dirt bike or at a party. It helps me concentrate and it helps me be calm. All my friends love music and love listening to it and we all love finding new stuff no one really has heard or finding abstract music. I can safely say that I listen to about everything. I listen to AC/DC, AFI, Afroman,Alien Ant farm, Atmosphere, The beach boys, Beastie Boys, Billy Idol, Billy Squire, The Black Crowes, The Black Halos, Bob Dylan, Bloodhoundgang, Bon Jovi, Bouncing Souls, Butthole Surfers, Cake, Cream Culture Club, CSNY, Dead Pez, Dean Martin, Dio, Dire Straits, Disturbed, Dr. Dre, E-A-ski, Elbow, Eminem, Flobots, Foo fighters, Frank Sinatra, Geroge Thurogood, Geto Boys, Giglo Aunts, Godmack, Gordon Lightfoot, Grandmaster Flash, Ice Cube Immortal Tech., Jay-Z, John fogerty, Johny Cash, Journey, Kanye West, KilswitchEngage, Kurtis Blow, Lordi, Lynyrd Skynyrd, MIA, Megadeath, Metallica, M.J, Notorious BIG, The off Spring, Outkast, Pantera, Peter Frampton, The Police, Phil Collins, Primus, Queen, R.E.M, Reo Speedwagon, RAGTM, Ramstien, R.H.C.P, Rick James, Rich Boy, Robert Palmer, Run DMC, Scareface, Scars on brodway, Slightly Stoopid, Smashing Pumkins, Snoop Doff, Stevi eRay Vaughn, Sting, Sublime, Sugarhill gang, System of a Down, T-rex, Ted Nugent, Three 6, Tom Petty, The trashmen, Type o Negative, UB40, Van Halen, Weezer, West side gang, White Zombie, The Who, Young Jeezy, ZZ Top, 38 Special, %0 Cent..and there is a bunch more. I think music shapes a part of a persons identity and it puts you in a group of certian ppl. I dont think there is anyone who doesnt like a type of music everyone likes the sound of music. I listen to a lot of different music and there still is a bunch I havent heard yet. The amount of music that is out there is incredible to me and the amount of different sounds is also incredible to me. So if someone says they cant find music they like you tell them "bullshit ur just not looking hard enough."

Doing Whats Natural

A summary of her belief is that she believes she is rite and beautiful whether her hair is straight, long, short, or nappy. And she believes she is rite about her being beautiful if her hair is natural. There really is only one major thing I noticed that shaped her belief and it is her desire to be free and that means loosing the shackles of others expectations. She balances the communicating and preaching well. She mostly communicates her belief to me instead of preaching it to me to try and make me believe it to. I would have to say her tone/voice seems to be calm and relaxed but blunt and to the point. Her tone/voice also seems to be very genuine and that this is what she really believes.

http://thisibelieve.com/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=41045&topessays=2&start=0

Formula Un (One) racing!!!

So I am a huge motocross person and believe everything that is ass. with it and I believe its the best sport on the planet and I am heavily involved in the sport. But my true love has to be auto racing mostly grand prix racing. And my favorite grand prix racing has to be F1 racing. The cars that race in it are probably the most incredible grand prix race cars and have so much technology in them it is amazing they could fit all of that into such a little space. These cars are worth millions of dollars and every year each team put millions of dollars into them for testing for the up coming year. I try and make sure I watch racing every weekend and keep up to date with the points and standings. After learning about these cars so extensively I thought, it is incredible to me that I barley know anything about these racing machines. I mean these cars are tiny they weigh about 1400lbs and the have a v8 stuffed into them turning 19000rpms and putting out close to 900hp. Now for a normal street car it red lines at about 5000-6000rpm which is just idling for a F1 car. These cars create so much down force that the could drive on a ceiling if they needed to. It is just amazing to me that someone could create something this advanced and this amazing.

Money. Can it buy happiness?

Money is a huge part of our lives and there really isnt anyone who can denie it. I believe money can buy happiness, but not in the sense of you go buy a car and you feel joy and happiness forever. I think a lot of your happiness has to come from inside yourself. I heard a study say that money can buy happiness in the sense of if you go buy something for someone or give a bum money or just give someone else money it can buy happiness and joy. As I look back I notice that when I give gifts I feel so good about myself and I feel happy. I almost like giving more than reviving things. When you give a present to someone you just feel joyful and happy because your saying "hey" I gave that person food or just straight up money and they got happy. But in the other sense that if you go buy a new car purse I really dont agree. Ya you get happy when you go buy something but I dont think it last that long. I think that money def. makes things easier which brings happiness and it also allows you to do the activities you love which also makes you happy. I would have to say that there isnt a human on the earth that doesnt get any joy from giving.

Moab!!

So this past thurs. Jared, Drew and I headed out to Moab UT, to do some trail riding with Jared's dad uncle and his dads friends. We got to Moab at 8pm and started to set up. We were the first ones to arrive. Shortly after Jared uncle arrive with my dirt bike and his camper. So we got all set up and started to drink because Jared, Drew and I werent going to be riding the next day because we were going to Provo UT, to get Drews new dirt bike. So the next morning Clay and
Paul headed out to ride and we went to Provo which is a 2 1/2hr drive. So we drove to Provo and got his bike and headed back. We got back at around 8 and Mike, Paul#2, and Tim had just arrived. And shortly after that Jareds dad and his friend Nick arrived with their bikes. For about 2hrs we sat around a huge fire talking and telling stories. So at about 11pm Jared and I passed out. I woke up the next morning excited and ready to go do some trail riding. So 11 of us all ate breakfast and got ready and got our bike ready and then we headed out to White wash to ride. So we would occasionally stop and eat a power bar and drink some water and talk. We finally got to the main trail we wanted which was called Mary's trail which is all Slick Rock which has a tone of traction and in some spots you are going almost going straight sown a rock wall. So we did that for awhile and then we started to head back to out camp and the trail we were doing i called single track and it is fast as heck. About 5 min from the camp I was tired as hell and was trying to keep up with Jared and as soon as I knew it I was on the ground dazed as hell. I had hit a rock at about 40mph and got tossed on my head and slid for about 30ft. I sat up looked at my bike which had one of the plastics torn off. A couple of the guys behind me stopped and asked if I was alright and picked up my bike for me and we headed off and got back to camp in one piece. The next day which was Sunday we packed up and headed back with Colorado a 6hr drive ahead of us. We finally got back at 6pm and I got my bike and headed home.

Snow?!

How I love the snow and the mood it brings every year. Dont get me wrong I love summer but winter is also awesome. The first time it snows enough to cover the streets is the starting of winter for me. When it snows enough to cover the ground it starts off the snow activities for me, like drifting in my car a 12pm for 2hrs with my buddy Jared or towing friends behind my car on sleds and snow boards or if there is enough snow making a sick snow cave in my yard or jumping off my roof into a snow bank and you cant leave out snow football. I love when it snows a lot because it makes everyone immobile and no one can really go anywhere so everyone is in the same boat. But the ultimate snow activity for me has to be SKIING every weekend. I usually go about 50-60 times a year which if you ski or snowboard is a lot. Ive been skiing since I was 6 so Ive been skiing a good portion of my life and it means a lot to me. But snow also means Christmas is coming which means presents and a month off from school which never hurts anyone. Snow is awesome and fun and it brings a totally different mood to Colorado.

Soccer!?

A place or more of an activity that has vanished for me throughout the course of my life is Soccer and it def. makes me sad it vanished from my life because it was such a big part of my life for such a long time. Since I was about 7 or 8 I played soccer until I was a sophomore in h.s. I loved playing it and I loved the competitiveness of it and how hard you had to work at it to be good. I also loved playing in the yard with my older sister because she was way better than me and she would give me pointers. Why did she play through college and not me? I don't know why it vanished from my life and why I never looked back when it did. Maybe because of motocross or maybe because of a gf or because I just lost interest and decided not to try out junior year. I had my good times with it and my bad times with it, but that goes for everything.

Motocross couldn't have been the reason because I played soccer and rode at the same time for about 6 or 7 years. A gf couldn't of been it because I never did want to spend all my time with her anyways and if it was a gf why did I not stop riding my dirt bike? Maybe it was I just lost interest in it and for some reason I never tried to get it back into my life. There are times though when I will think about it and I say to my self "that would be a blast to go play rite now" but I haven't made a move to join a team or gather up friends to play yet...Maybe one day I will.

The McMansion Next Door

I think the central point of this essay is to say how everything has design but something that is untouched are houses. It also talks about how houses are getting bigger and families are still staying about the same size and how whole nieghboorhoods are the same house over and over again. Some evidence used is it says that last years annual report for Pulte homes says that if you adjust for inflation, that houses of the same size and comparable features is the same price as it was in the 1970s. I would agree with the essay in that I agree that houses are seeing less design and just getting bigger and bigger and that people would pay more up front to say they got a mansion.

Motocross Racing at Miliken

So this past weekend I had a motocross race at Miliken which is located S. of Fort Collins. We got there the Saturday for practice and we camped out that night for the race the next morning. 6:00am rolled around and it was time to get up and go for a run and get warm and eat a light breakfast. After that I got my gear on and went out for practice and figured out the fast lines and started to mentally prepare. A couple hours went by until it was time for my class to race which is 250 C. So there I was sitting on the starting gate waiting for the gate to drop. The 1 min warning was shown to us and then the 1 min board was turned sideways indicating 30sec. 40 of us were off. We all came flying into the first corner banging bars and fighting for position. As soon as I realized it I was 5th and could see the leader only a couple bikes in front of me. I started sweating and breathing hard and freaking out be cause I was passing guys and battling with them. It was the last lap and I was third and second place fell down and I passed first on the hair-pin corner. I came flying through the last corner and realized I had won my class and I was full of excitement and happiness.

Desciption

As I look around and look at my surroundings I see a lot of bland and no excitement. I look at white walls and brown wood doors and a lot of human made light and a long hallway that seems to keep going. I see forest green trash cans and recycle bins and grey carpet with spots of light brown and maroon mixed in. I watch lots of people walking by either going to or coming from class. People carrying loads of books. People also carrying food and drinks. To the left of me is a long set of stairs that go to the second level. As I look at the ceiling I notice hundreds and thousands of little black dots in the ceiling tiles. I also notice it is cold and not very comfortable, but why should it be?

Piercings and Tattos

Being a person who has a tatto I think that if you are going to get one you have to think about it for awhile because things look different with time. I think it also needs to have a lot of meaning to you personally. I would have to say getting one for a fashion statement is idiodic and stupid its kinda being like well he has that shirt so Im going to one too. I would also say that getting any name except for yours is also a bad reason for a tatto. I think the only reason you should get one is because it has a lot of meaning to you in a speacial way. Or another good reason is if it is what your culture is about I thought about my tatto for a long time and made sure I would want it on my body for ever and I made sure it was of great importance to me. And Im definatley happy with it.

I dont have any Piercings, but I think they are different that tattos because you can remove them if you want to. I would say that piercings for fashion is a good reason or if it has some kind of meaning to you.

The Dunes

So this past weekend about 20 people including myself went to the sand dunes in Walden to ride our dirt bikes and do some trail riding. We got there around 6pm and it was pretty cold when we got there. So my friend Jared and I decided we were going to take out dirt bikes off the truck and ride around in the dark to look for a place to camp even though it was freezing. So we did this for about an hour until we found a place that looked good. So we set up all of our stuff a.k.a we got drunk. This drinking went on for a couple of hours including multiple games of "Beer Pong" and "Asshole." The next morning we woke up to the sound of 4-wheelers and dirt bikes so it was a wonderful morning in my eyes. We cooked some delicious breakfast and then got all of our gear on and headed out to do some riding. We spent a lot of our time looking for some other people that at the time we didn't know were up there yet. So we rode for about 6 hours and we finally found the people we were looking for because they basically found us. So the drinking and just being belligerent started all over again. We needed wood so 4 of us went to go get some fire wood which is really fun drunk. We ended up bringing brought back way to much but we planned on using it all. We ate a bunch of food and kept on drinking and in doing this we all thought it would be fun to go drive on the dunes which let me tell you was a blast. This went on for a long time until we all passed out because we couldn't see straight anymore. We all woke with a hell of a hangover and we all sat around waiting for someone to say "lets pack up and leave." That finally came and it was a relief to me because I wanted to get the hell out of there. So we packed up and made the 100 mile treck back to Fort Collins. It was a good trip.

Compose #1

I agree with Bordo in that we are constantly bombarded with images of the human body and how it should look and what beauty is. I would have to say that everyone encounters images of what beauty should be and what is should look like. Personally I encounter it on a daily basis. I encounter it on the way to school in the car and I encounter it at school. I also encounter it when watching t.v. or when reading magazines.
I think that it does distort or sense of self. I have noticed people are becoming more shallow and being interested in what their friends think is beauty or what magazines say is beauty. I think that everyone has their own set guidelines of what beauty is and what it looks like and I think that they should follow what they think or believe is beauty and I do think that it is being distorted by media in a negative way. I have seen first hand people not persue someone they like because of what criticism they may get from their friends. I also have been asked "do you think she is hot" and I honestly don't get why they need my approval of a girl.

I thought that John McCain's acceptance speech was boring and bland compared to Obama's speech. McCain did not really speak like Obama spoke. Obama seemed to get everyone including myself excited for him to become our President. McCain didn't seem like he meant what he was saying, it seemed like he wasn't being real. McCain basically said that he will bring change to Washington and that he will fight for the middle class working family. I think his main point was that he wants to make the country better and also that he cares very much for this country. After watching his speech i would have to say it was ineffective because it did not change my view or my opinion about him.

Obama's Speech

On August 28, 2008 history was made. Barack Obama is the first African-American to accept the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States of America. Obama's speech seemed to have several purposes one main point was warn all Americans that our nation is at a critical point. Every single citizen needs to make a choice on how our country should proceed. Obama said that we have had enough of the same old Bush McCain agenda. Other purposes of the speech were to paint a picture of Republicans as those who want to give more and more to the rich hoping that it will "trickle down" to the rest of us. By painting this picture of the Republicans, Obama was able to persuade Americans that we deserve better and we can get better. His big theme and push has been change. His intended effect was to urge Americans to finally discard all the problems in America and make life better for generations to come.

tExTS

Defining educational and non- educational text is a pretty hard thing to do because it has different meanings to every person. I define educational text as books, reading, writing, teachers and just school in general. Just being at school conveys the idea of learning to me. But if you really break it down I think all text is in some way educational, weather it be someones shirt or a cell-phone, or an advertisement or just anything that makes you convey an idea. If you see someones shirt and it makes you convey an idea and you learn something new then I think that is educational.