My eBay Obsession

I am going to write about eBay. I am obsessed with eBay. Well at least I used to be. I have an eBay account and have had it for a little over a year. Since then, I have been selling and buying several things on eBay. I think the total number of items that I have sold and bought on eBay is about twenty. That is nothing compared to some of the other eBay members. Some of them have made hundreds of thousands of transactions. I might get like that someday, (maybe in about fifty years)! EBay can easily get you addicted to it. You can find so many cheap items on it. I have found shoes on eBay for much cheaper than the retail price of them are. I have also found several other items on eBay that are a lot cheaper than they would be in a store (even Wal-Mart). Many people think that you can only get used items off of eBay. This is very untrue. A good percentage of the things on eBay (probably about half) are new. EBay has almost anything you can think of buying on it. Even things that can not be shipped are sold on eBay. An example of this is a tractor. I am pretty sure that I have seen tractors of some sort being sold on eBay, (not that I was looking for one). I am a big saver. I am probably the cheapest person that I have ever seen. I think I get it from my father. My dad is very cheap. However, I am pretty sure that I am much cheaper than he is. I remember back in grade school when my parents used to give me lunch money, I would save it. I would go without eating lunch just to have more money. I also used to “hustle” a lot. During the early years of me being in grade school, my mom would pack me a lunch a lot of the time. I would sell my lunch to other children. Now, I have a job at Old Navy, cut hair, and (most of the time) go without eating, until I get home, to save money. I have gotten a little looser with my money now days. A big chunk of my “looseness” can be credited to eBay. After growing up a little more and having to pay for more and more things in my life, I have gotten looser with my money and eBay has only made it worse. My looseness (I am sure) is nothing compared to most other people’s definition of being loose with money. My looseness with my money is probably still tighter than most people are with their money. Once you find a good deal on eBay, you (well I do) think of something else that you might need or want and think that you can get a good deal on eBay. Then, you end up buying another item, and the cycle keeps on going on and on. That is how the trap is. I have sold some items (two) on eBay and made a profit, but it does not outweigh the amount of money that I have spent on eBay. I still do need to sell a lot more of my stuff on eBay, mainly video games and video game systems. Now, I have gotten a lot better with saving money and not spending as much on eBay.

R. L. Burnside and His Music

The musician that I selected to write about from You See Me Laughin’ is R. L. Burnside. I chose him because it seems as though he was probably the main character of this movie. It also seems as though this movie talked more about him and focused more on his music. I chose him because I thought that he would be the easiest to write about as well. I really did not like any of the music that any of the musicians played in this movie. I think that the best music that was played was when Burnside joined with a few other musicians to form that band. Even though their music together was the best, I do not even think that their music was good. The best part about their music would probably have to be the drum player playing the drums. Maybe I feel this way because I play the drums myself and like it better than all of the other instruments that their band played. In my opinion, Burnside can not sing. He is horrible. I do not know why anyone would pay to watch him perform, especially if he is performing by himself (not in the band). I got an example of one of his songs from YouTube. Here is a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8RtayjqqIw. The song that he is performing is called “Poor Black Mattie.” I really could not even tell you what this song was about. That is how horrible it was. His guitar playing is all right, but his singing is very bad. His guitar playing is boring. There is no excitement in it. I also think that there should be some type of beat or drums in this performance of his, especially if he is going to be so boring. I do not like this kind of music at all. I like hearing bass and a beat (most of the time) when I am listening to music. If there is not any bass or beat at all in a song that I am listening to, then the singer or singers that are singing the song have too be singing it very well. This guy is not even close to singing very well. I do not know why anyone would like this guy. Maybe they may like him because he is bringing some of the old music back and trying to make it popular. (I guess I would consider this old because I do not listen to it and it does not seem to be very popular). I listen to another one of his songs called “Just Like a Woman” on YouTube also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRTU_7M97Q. This song was all right. His guitar playing in this song was better than it was in the previous song that I listened to. His singing was still bad. He did have a little beat in this song. I think he was making it with his foot. That made a big difference in this song. I watched another one of his songs called “Poor Boy Long Ways from Home,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGf4AkgM4Q&feature=related. This song was just as bad as the first one, in my opinion. Overall, I think that this type of music in general (including R. L. Burnside’s music) sounds bad, is too sound sounding, and is boring.

You See Me Laughin'

I think that the movie You See Me Laughin’ is okay. I really do not like it that much. I definitely would not watch this movie on my own. Out of all of the movies that we could have watched you chose this one? I could think of so many more things that we could have watched. I do not have a clue why you chose this movie for us to watch. For one thing, I do not like the kind of music that the guys in this movie play. The guy that played the guitar with a butter knife sounded horrible in my opinion. I do not see why people would actually pay to hear him play the guitar let alone actually listen to him playing the guitar for free. I do not like the way any of these guys sound playing their type of music (which was the Blues I think). In my opinion, the best sounding music that was in this video came from when that old, fat black guy joined the group with that skinny white guy and a few other people. There music was much better than the rest of the music that was played in this video. I still do not like the music that even they played; I just think that it sounded the best. In my opinion, their music sounded closer to rock than any of the other music that was played in this video. I will listen to a very little bit of rock. That is probably why I like their music the best. I do think that some parts of this movie were funny. Overall, this movie was pretty boring. It was very hard for me to watch it. I also do not like how this movie made black people look. I am not offended at all by this movie, I just do not like the way it portrayed African Americans. I do have a few family members (that live in Florida) that live similar to how the blacks in this movie live. It kind of got on my nerve the way in which most of the black people were looking in this movie. I think that there may have been only one clean looking black person in this movie. That is the young looking boy. He looked to be in his late teen years or in his early twenties. All of the people in this movie acted and talked very country. I can not remember where this movie took place at. I am sure that has something to do with why the people acted country. It really gets on my nerves to see black people act and look the way they do in this movie. The guy that plays the guitar towards the end of the movie was one of the people that got on my nerve the most. From the way his teeth were to the way he dressed, I did not like that. I also did not like the way his hair, the way he talks, and his attitude towards life. I did not like the way he really did not care about his health and the way he did not think that he needed to go to the doctor. Maybe this aspect of him got on my nerves because I do have family members that have this mentality. I really do not have that much of a problem with this movie, I just needed find something to write about to fulfill the five hundred words that we have to write.

Back to the Future: From Nick's Blog

If I had to choose from the movies that were mentioned in other people’s blogs, I would have to choose from Nick’s movie. There were not many movies to choose from. It looks as though most people did not write their blog yet or they mentioned movies that I have not seen yet. However, Nick’s pick was pretty good. I did like the movie Back to the Future. I think that either this one or the second were my favorite ones out of the three Back to the Future movies that were made. I do agree with Nick that this movie was cool. I think the first time I saw it was maybe this year or last year. Even though I saw it kind of late I still think that it was great. I like movies about the future. I also like the concept of someone building a time machine and actually being able to travel forwards and backwards in time. I hope sometime in the near future, someone will build a time machine that works. This would nice. I highly doubt that this would happen any time soon though. I like the hover board that the boy in the movie was riding on. I would love to ride on one of those. I used to skateboard when I was younger, so this would be kind of like that, but I am sure that it would be much better. I also liked how that doctor in the movie had other kind of futuristic items that he built where he lived. I thought that it was pretty neat how he made that contraption that automatically made him breakfast when his alarm clock went off. I wish I had something like that. I also liked how they almost did not power up the time machine at the end of the movie. I believe that lightning stroke something that was connected to the time machine, which gave it the power to operate properly. This part of the movie was very suspenseful. I also agree with Nick when he basically said that trilogies are good. I believe that this is true most of the time. The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy was great. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was also great. I remember when I would never watch a movie like Lord of the Rings. However, now that I am a bit older and can understands things better than I could in the past, I like movies like that now. I used to wonder why my dad liked movies like that. I thought that they were boring. Now, I like them. I also like the Back to the Future movie in which the doctor dies, or it appears that he is dead. I really can not remember exactly what happened in this movie, but I know that the concept of the doctor being dead and the teenage boy later on finding him was pretty neat. All in all, all three of the Back to the Future movies were good. Here is a link to Nick’s blog: http://nickrodesney.blogspot.com/.

A Great Movie

One of my favorite movies that I have ever seen is Hide and Seek. I love this movie. I have seen this movie several times, but the last time I saw it was probably about eight to twelve months ago. Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning are the two main actors in this movie. They played good roles in this movie. Dakota Fanning is one of my favorite actors. She acts very well to be so young. She does well in scary movies. I think I have only seen her in one movie that was not scary, Man on Fire. Robert De Niro is a good actor as well. This movie is basically about a man and his daughter (Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning). They live in a house, but then they move into a new house in a new town to get a fresh start. They want to get a fresh start because the man’s wife, the girl’s mother, just died. So, the little girl is going through tough times and starts acting kind of badly. The father (acts as though he) does not know why she acts the way she has started acting. The little girl plays hide and seek with her imaginary friend named Charlie. She does this pretty often and really enjoys doing it. Then, weird events start happening and weird things start showing up in their house. For example, one night, the father goes into the bathroom and finds a dead cat in there tub filled with bloody water. There is also a message written with the blood on the bathroom wall. I can not remember what it was. These events happen many nights. When they happen, the father wakes the daughter up and asks her if she did it. She tells him that she did not do it. She tells him that Charlie did it. He (acts as though he) does not believe her. Then one day, the father finds a new woman and has her over for dinner with him and the little girl. Later on that day, the woman dies (maybe because she jumped out the window or someone pushed her out). The father then comes up stairs and finds out that the woman died. He thinks that the little girl did it because she did not like the woman in the first place. The viewers of this movie later figure out that the father killed the woman. The father also killed his wife. We (the viewers) also find out that the father is Charlie, and he is the one that his daughter is playing hide and seek with. He is the one that killed that cat and did all of that stuff that happened in their house and in their bathroom. When they played hide and seek, that is when all of the evil stuff took place. Towards the end of the movie, the father makes the girl play hide and seek one last time, but this time, she is the hider and she is the seeker. When the father finds the girl he will kill her. Luckily, the next-door neighbor, who suspected that something was weird about the father, interrupted this last hide and seek game of theirs and shot and killed the father before he could kill the girl. This movie was amazing. I never would have thought that the father was also Charlie and that he is the one that did all of those evil deeds. This movie was a suspense/horror movie. I love horror movie. I also like suspenseful movies. This movie has an amazing twist at the end. I think that everyone should see it. That is why I like the movie Hide and Seek. A trailer to this movie is on http://www.moviefone.com/movie/hide-and-seek/18522/trailers.

Working at Old Navy

I am going to write about where I work. I work at Old Navy. It is an all right place to work. Most of the time the bumping music encourages you to keep on working. However, at times, the music is horrible. When there is horrible music, I have to listen to it over and over because they play the same CD/playlist for about a month. I guess if there is good music, then hearing it for a month my not be too bad. However, about half of the music on the CD/playlist is terrible. Sometimes a song that I really do not like will sound better than some of the songs that are played there. Unfortunately, rap music really is not played at Old Navy. The only rap song that I can remember being played there was two Kanye West’s songs, “Champion” and “Stronger.” At Old Navy, the one thing that the managers and supervisors care about the most is getting customers to get Old Navy cards. I really do not like this aspect of my job. I do not like asking people if they want to get and Old Navy card and most likely get into debt. I know that lots of customers are annoyed when I ask the employees ask them if they would like to “save ten percent by getting an Old Navy card.” I do not think that employee performance should solely be based on how many Old Navy cards you can get people to sign up for. I do not think that this is right because the people that are on the register have an advantage when it comes to getting people to get Old Navy cards. Many people really do not think about saving ten percent until they get up to the register and see how much money they are about to spend. Most of the time, I am not on the register. I am usually folding clothes and putting them back to where they belong from in the fitting room and up front at the registers. Another aspect that is not so favorable about my job is my head manager. She has a lot of mood sings. She also talks to people any kind of way that she feels like it. Sometimes, it is not what she says, but how she says it. However, sometimes she can be all right. I do not know why she has these mood sings, but she should not take her personal issues out on her employees. Despite this, my relationship with her is better with many of the other employees’ relationships with her, so her and I get along pretty well. This may also be because I do not let issues get under my skin like many of the other employees do. I get paid pretty good for this to be my first real job. The only problem with this is that the employees get raises once a year. That is not that often at all compared to some other jobs. Overall, working at Old Navy is not too bad.

W. the Movie

The main events here are basically about George W. Bush’s life. This movie basically concerns George W. Bush. This movie looks like it shows or at least attempts to show our current president’s actions and views toward certain issues throughout his life. This movie looks to betray him as a person that has had problems with drinking too much alcohol. This is something that I thought was true about him. I believe that it is true about his wild daughters also. However, I did not know that he had drinking problems when he was growing up during what appears to be his teenage years. It looks like the long line of Bushes that he comes from is somewhat prestigious and has a lot of pride embedded in it. This movie looks as though it shows George W. Bush being very rebellious. It also looks like it shows him to be not as “great” as the other Bushes were made out to look in this movie. (I really do not know much about Bushes ancestors). In my opinion, it does seem as though Bush could have been rebellious, especially if his family had a problem with him drinking. It looks like Georg W. Bush used to get into a lot of trouble when he was growing up as a young adult. Just from looking at this trailer, I find it hard to conceive how he became a president. Maybe it was simply because his father was president, and that made it much easier for him to become president as well. I think that this is the main reason why. I believe in this trailer, someone says something like “This is my war.” I do see why he would want to claim that. I guess if everything turns out good and we actually when the war, then I guess I could see him being somewhat proud to claim this. (I am guessing that he is talking about the war in Iraq). However, if we do not win the war, I could not see him being proud of this at all. Years from now, George W. Bush is probably going to be known for two main things. Those things will probably the War in Iraq and the financial crisis. He is already looking bad with the financial crisis going on, but if we lose the War in Iraq also, then he will probably go down as one of the worse presidents in history (in my opinion). It also looks like George W. Bush may have gone to jail. If this is true, then I did not know this at all. Overall, this movie looks like it could be somewhat good. It looks as though it could be a funny movie and people would probably be interested in it because it is about our president. I am curious to see how much money this movie is going to make this weekend. It seems as though it would do good. Despite this, I do not think that I would spend money to see it.

"Getting My Act Together"

I am going to write about my need to get serious about school again (particularly my chemistry class). I really need to get more focused in my chemistry class. I do not know what is going on with me this semester. I am doing pretty well in my other classes with A’s and B’s. I really do not know what is wrong with me. Well actually I do. I have been too focused on girls and playing basketball. I need too dedicate that devotion to chemistry. Two semesters ago, in the first part to this chemistry course that I am currently taking, I received a B in that class. I am struggling right now in this second part of the class. I do not know if it is because this second part to this class is more difficult than the first part of this class. It could also be because I have a different and possibly a stricter professor. I think that my struggle is a combination of them both. In the first part of this chemistry class, I got by (making a B) by studying the night before or an hour or two before the exam or quiz. I have taken this same approach with the second part of this chemistry class that I am currently in and it is obviously not working up to this point. Right now, I think that I have a low C in this chemistry class. If the lab grade for this class (which is twenty-five percent) is put into the class grade, then I will probably have an overall grade of a B in this class. However, I do not want to rely on the possibility of my lab grade in this class bringing up my overall grade in this class to a B. I need to have a B without putting in the lab grade so that I can make an A in this chemistry class. I am trying to make all A’s this semester, but I have not been giving my classes that one hundred percent effort that I should be giving to them. I need to start studying each day for my chemistry class (and other classes) and not wait until the day before or the day of the class to study for the classes test or quiz. Sometimes, I have even been going without studying for a quiz. Sometimes I get lucky and make an A or B. Other times, I do not get so lucky, and I make a C or lower on the quiz (or test). I have to make a plan for my classes and abide by that plan so that I can get my grades up in all of my classes. I need to stop paying so much attention to girls and basketball and start paying more attention to my classes and studying. I know that it is going to be hard for me to start studying, but I have to do it. The hardest part of studying (for me) is actually getting started to study. Once I get started studying, I can continue on for about forty-five minutes to an hour (when I am not forced to study the day before the test). This may not seem like much time, but it is a lot better than me not studying, and I am sure that it will make a big difference when it comes to my performance on quizzes and test. That is what I need to do to “get my act together” in school this semester.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

I really have no clue why this is the number one movie in America. In my opinion, it should not be. I know that I should not be judging it in this way because I have not seen it yet. To tell you the truth, I really do not want to see. At first, when I saw displays up in the movie theaters advertising this movie a while ago (when I went to go see The Dark Knight), I thought to myself and told other people that that movie look dumb. I had not even seen any previews of it at the time. Now that I saw the preview that was hyperlinked in the blog topic that was on YouTube, it kind of made me want to see it more than I wanted to see it before. I still do not want to see it that much. I definitely would not go and pay money to see Beverly Hills Chihuahua. In my opinion, that would be a big waste of money. The only way that I might view this movie is when it comes out on a regular television station for free and if I have nothing else to do that day and there is nothing else worth watching on television. Since I hardly ever have nothing to do, I will most likely never see this movie. One reason why this movie may be the number one movie in America is because there may not be any (other) good movies out to watch right now at the movies. I really do not know what is playing at the movie theaters right now because I have not really had time to go to the movies. If no other movies at the movie theater are better or more worthwhile to watch than Beverly Hills Chihuahua and people just have to go to the movie theater to watch a movie, then they may be forced to watch this movie. An additional reason why this movie may be the number one movie in America is because it is a children’s movie. Sometimes, parents will not view a particular movie at a movie theater because they may not believe that that movie is suitable for their children to watch. This movie allows parents the opportunity to go to the movies with their children and view the same movie as their children do. In addition to this movie mainly being made for children, adults could also view this movie. From what I understand from this movie and its trailer is that this movie is not fully animated. Real people and life will be in it. The dogs may be real also. They may just use some types of computer tools to cause their mouths to move and to cause them to perform certain actions. Maybe this movie being number one in America is some sort of indication that families are growing closer together than they were in the past. Whatever the reason may be, I would not ever think that this would be the number one movie in America. It seems as though it has not had that much advertisements on television and as much hype, as other “number one” movies would have.

Open-Mindedness

I am going to write about having an open mind and not being closed minded. I can think of several instances in my life in which I had a closed mind and now I am open minded in those aspects of my life. An example of this is with the food I eat. I have loved eating cereal from when I was a young child up to now. I still love eating cereal. Two cereals that I did not like as a child were Cookie Crisp and Lucky Charms. I did not like either one of these cereals. I am pretty sure that I did not like them because they were not outstandingly good the first time I tried them. Therefore, I just gave up on liking them after a spoonful or two of eating them. However, now I love these two cereals. This is most likely because now when I try something new that I have not tasted before, it usually has to be absolutely disgusting for me not to continue eating it. This could possibly be because my taste buds have changed now that I am older, but I do not think that they have. I just think that I am more open-minded now and will eat almost anything. Another example of me being closed minded in the past is with music. In the past, I used to only listen to gospel, R & B, and rap. However, now I also listen to a little bit of country. I will listen to a little bit of the Jonas Brothers, a little bit of Linkin Park, a little bit of Flobots, a little bit of Maroon 5, and a few rock songs that I find “catchy.” I think that one of the main reasons why I will accepts a little bit of rock music is because of my cousin, my sister, and me working at Old Navy. Almost every summer, my little cousin (who is a ten months younger than me) comes to my house to visit for about a month. He listens to rock music as well as the other three genres of music that I mentioned earlier. However, he listens to rock music a lot more than I do. He would be listening to rock music at my computer sometimes, and I would walk in on him listening to the music. My first instinct was to reject the music and not really want to listen to it. However, after a while of having to listen to it, some of the rock music that he played sounded kind of all right to me. This is the same with my sister. With me working at Old Navy, I had to learn to love some of the music that they play there because I have to hear it over and over again. They play the same CD for about a month. Some songs that are played at Old Navy I can not possibly learn to love, but a lot of them I learn to love (or I will end up going crazy if I do not)! I think that people should be open minded about a lot of things, like music for example. You really do not know what you are missing out on until you open your mind up to new things. In the past (about two or three years ago), I never thought that I would be listening to rock at all. (If I do listen to any kind of rock, it is mainly soft rock; I think).

Discussion of Some Possible Sources for 2nd Essay

Of course, as I mentioned in one of my other blogs, my second essay will be about racial profiling and how it has influenced my life and the lives of others. My essay will probably be focused on the racial profiling against black people that takes place in America. Today, I was looking for websites and sources for this second essay. I found one website that showed the results from I believe it was the 2002 and 2003 census. One of the important bits of information that I found from this website (http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p60-222.pdf) was that among the reported number of black people in 2002, 23.9 to 24.1 percent of them were in poverty, according to the race definition. I am sure that this would probably shock a lot of people. It would because many people believe that most black people are poor. However, this information from this website is proof that most black people are not poor. Even though other information from this website shows that black people have the highest percent of poor people than any other nationality of people that was reported in this census. Someone being poor is determined by looking at the size of his or her family and the number of children in that family that is under eighteen years old. With these factors being taken into consideration, that family is given a threshold. If that household/family makes less than that threshold amount of money for their family, then that family is considered poor or in poverty. I am not sure why black people have the highest percentage of poor people out of all the races than any other races. I guess this could go along with one of the other stereotypes of African Americans. The stereotype that goes along with this is the one that has to do with all black people being poor. Even though this stereotype may not be true, many black people are poor, and that is probably why so many of them are poor. However, many other people are poor as well, not just black people. Many of my relatives are lazy and many of them do not work. However, I do have some relatives that are hard working and doing well financially. My family (as in my immediate family) is one of the riches in my family. My dad makes six figures and is one of the many exceptions to the idea of black people being poor. I, as well as my children, will be an exception to this stereotype. A website that I found (http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d05/tables/dt05_126.asp) shows that African Americans have the lowest test scores out of all the racial groups that took the SAT in some of the years of the 2000s. This information kind of supports the stereotypes that black people do not do well in school and on standardized tests. However, even though this information that I found from these websites does support both of these stereotypes that I stated, this does not mean that that holding these biases is all right. This is not all right because not all black people are poor and not all black people do bad on standardized test and in school. I am an exception to the last stereotype that I listed also.

I'm Acrobatic

I am going to write about me being acrobatic. For most of my life, if not all of my life, I have been acrobatic. I also like doing dangerous things. I did my first back flip in third grade. This happened when I used to run wildly on the playground at recess. I also, back when I was in eighth grade, I used to go very high on the swings (at recess) and jump off. I did this very often. My friends and I used to have contests to see who could jump the farthest and the highest off of the swings. I also used to do a back flip off of the swings. I think I was the only one of my friends that did this. I would swing very high and then jump off when I got to the top. However, when I did this, I would not just jump off, I would jump off and do a back flip in the air and land on my feet. I would also hang upside down on the handlebars with just my legs. I would also do something called a penny drop off of the handlebars. This is when you hang upside down on the handlebars with just your legs touching the handlebars. Then you swing upside down, without putting your hands on the handlebars. Then while doing this, you let go of the handlebars with your legs and swing around, doing a back flip in the process. Later on, when I used to live in Florida, I got a trampoline. I was about eleven years old when I got it. I was so happy, and I bought it with my own money (well my little sister chipped in by paying about twenty or thirty dollars). I used to do crazy stuff on this trampoline. I used to do like ten or more back flips in a row, without a bounce in between. I also used to do like ten or more front flips in a row, without a bounce in between. I also used to do double back flips and double front flips. I also used to do twists. I did a nine hundred and a ten eighty. I also used to do twist back flips and twist front flips. I did seven twenty back flips and five forty front flips. I also used to do other acrobatic flips and tricks on the trampoline. All this trampoline fun was over when my trampoline broke when I was about fourteen or fifteen, after I moved to Georgia. I was so disappointed when this happened. I wanted to still use it, but my parents thought it would be safe if I got rid of it. So, we through it in the garbage. After this, I then learned how to do a standing back flip (one without running and without doing a round off into it). Then, after this, I learned how to do a three sixty back flip. I also learned how to do a wall flip about a year or two ago. Recently I have been having back problems that will kind of limit how often I flip. I really do not flip much now that I am a little bit older, but I do flip every once in a while. I will soon learn how to do a standing three sixty back flip and a seven twenty back flip.

The Worst Thing I've Done

To tell you the honest truth, I really have not done anything really bad before, at least that I can remember. I have done some minor things before. I am far from perfect. I guess I could name one of those things. You might laugh at this because it is not really all that bad, but I guess I will tell you about it. One time, maybe this year, I was pulling into the parking lot at my job. I work at Old Navy. So, I was pulling into a parking space, and once I got into it, I was not very straight. There was a car in the parking space that was right in front of mine. So, I started to straighten myself out. The bad part about this is that I was supposed to be backing up to straighten myself out. However, I forgot to put my car in reverse. While I was going forward, I was pushing the gas pedal pretty hard because I think that I was running late for work. Next thing you know, I was going forward rather fast, and before I could catch myself to stop accelerating, I hit the back of the car that was in the front of mind with the front of my car. Thank God that my car did not get harmed. However, it appeared that the person’s car in front of mind got a little slit in its back bumper. I am saying that it appeared this way because I am not sure if that slit was already there or not. It does look like there was a good chance that my car did make that slit in that car because of the way that my bumper is made and where my bumper most likely hit the bumper of that other car. It was the area that was right below the license plate, and there was a little line of the bumper in that area. When I hit the car, it made a pretty loud sound. It also moved the car that I hit. I am surprised that no one else heard it. I was glad that no one else was around because then I would have had to respond to it. As you can probably guess, I did not tell the owner of the car, who was not in the car at the time, that I had hit his or her car. I did not even leave a note on the person’s car letting them know that I had hit it. So, to make it seem as though I had nothing to do with the slit that was in that car’s bumper, I pulled out of the space that I was in and pulled into the space that was next to the space that I was in when I hit that car. Then, I simply got out of my car and went to work like nothing happened. I felt very bad about doing this, and I thought about it many times. I should have let the owners of that car know that I hit their car. Now, I am more cautious about (attempting) to back out of parking spaces. This is probably the worst thing that I have ever done that I can remember.

The First Presidential Debate

Overall, I think that the debate was pretty good. Several people said that they thought that this first presidential debate was boring, but I think that it was pretty interesting. I do think it was boring. How exciting can a presidential debate be? I could have thought that this debate was good because it is really the only presidential that I have ever seen. I have just started getting into politics since this presidential election came about. I think that there being a black man and a woman running for president made me more interested in this election. Also, I am older now and can understand politics a lot more than I could in the past. This election is also more appealing (I think) because of all the problems going on in the world today. With the financial crisis going on, the war in Iraq, and gas problems, this election is a very important one. I used to think that politics was boring, but now I think that it is pretty interesting. I think that both of the candidates were right when they both agreed that the bailout plan would put a lot of pressure on the president and cause him to have to cut government spending. With that amount of money being spent, they would have to put a limit on government spending. Many people say that the government could make money from this whole bailout plan in the long run, but as of right now, they would have to cut government spending. I disagree with McCain wanting to basically leave the soldiers in the Middle East in the war as long as it takes for us to win the war. I do not think that it should be this way. I think that we should end this war as soon as possible, no matter whether we win or lose. In my opinion (and in the opinion of several other Americans), too many people are dying in this war. Also, entirely too much money is being spent for this war. That money could be spent else where, such as on education and other domestic things. With the economy being as bad as it is now, we really do not need to be spending extra money on a war that we really do not have to fight. I do not think that we should have gone to war in the first place. There are other ways of solving issues other than fighting. I agree with Obama saying that McCain was wrong for invading Iraq. I think that it was funny how Obama kept trying to interrupt McCain when he was talking and Obama disagreed with what he was saying. I think that neither one of the candidates won the debate. I think this because both of them did really good when they answered the questions. Neither one of them really neither stumbled over their answers nor showed that they had a hard time answering any of the questions. I think that it was pretty rude of McCain not to look at Obama during the debate. Those are my thought about the first presidential debate.

My Second Essay Possible Topic

I am not sure exactly what I am going to write my essay about, but I am pretty sure what I am going to write it on. I think that I am going to write it on racial profiling. In particular, I am going to write about how it has affected my life. Of course, I am black (African American). Throughout my life, I have been pretty good at school. Throughout grade school, I only made one B in my whole life and the rest were A’s. The B that I got was back in third grade. It was in science. I will never forget that B that blemished my nearly perfect grade school record. I was pretty upset about it when I first got it. I used to be a super perfectionist. My perfectionism extended from me keeping my room clean, to making good grades at school, to being the best at every sport I played (mainly basketball). Now, I am not as much as a perfectionist as was, but I am still a perfectionist to an extent. In college, I have been accepting B’s in some of my classes. I really need to get back to the all A’s mentality that I had back in grade school. Anyway, to go along with all of these good grades, I skipped a grade back in middle school. I skipped seventh grade. Also, I was valedictorian of my eighth grade class, and this is right after I had skipped a grade. (I went from sixth to eighth grade). In high school, I graduated fifth in my class with a 4.0 grade point average. I have never gotten in any real trouble at school. I have never gotten detention, nor have I ever gotten suspended. Now that I am finished bragging about myself, let me tell you about what the real problem is. At the beginning of a semester, I can tell by how the teachers treat me and how they look at me that they think that I will not do good in there class. However, once I talk to the teachers and start making good grades in there classes, they start treating me and looking at me in a different way. Not all teachers do this, but a good chunk of them do. I do not know if it has to do with the way I talk or the way I dress. I know that it has a lot to do with me being black. I guess I could see why they would think this way. I a lot (and maybe even most) of black people do badly in school and act a certain way. However, not all black people are like this. I think that it is wrong to prejudge a person before you even get to know them. I think that it is all right to think a certain way towards a particular ethnicity and expect them to act a certain way. This may be okay, but when you start treating them a certain way (particularly immorally) because of your assumptions, then that becomes a problem. I think that thinking negatively is a problem, but it is not nearly as bad as treating someone negatively. That is a little bit of what I think that my essay will be about.