blog 70

For all of you about to take this class, the big piece of advice I could give you would be to get your comments and blogs done as early as you can. It’s a real pain to have to write the blogs every single night and same with the comments. So if you are able to get them all done before the end of the quarter, it will make life a lot easier. At first the blogs are kind of hard to write but after awhile you are able to write them in like less than 10 minutes. At the beginning of the quarter when I heard that the theme was going to be science fiction, I wasn’t too happy. I'm not a big science fiction fan and the thought of having to write papers about it, didn’t sound too appealing. But we did get to pick from a list of shows as to what one we wanted to watch. I decided to watch Dollhouse, it ended up not being too bad of a show. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I’d watch it in my free time, but at least I wasn’t dreading it when I had to watch an episode. Another thing I would suggest is going to the writing center. Not only is it helpful, but it is also extra credit. So make sure you go there as many times as you can to get extra points.

blog 69

One culture that fascinates me is North Korea. I am interested by this society because of how cut off from the world they are. They have such a strict leader that the citizens there can’t really do anything. I don’t even know if you can visit the country if you aren’t from there. I'm not sure why you would want to anyway. But I remember watching a show on MTV called The Vice Guide To Everything. In this show, the host visited North Korea. He said it took over a year to finally convince the North Korean government to let them come. The show showed how crazy it was there. He was never able to leave the guy that guided the tour the whole time he was there, which was a few days. Apparently North Korea has all these places devoted to tourism even though no one really goes there. The host talked about how he was probably the first person to go there on a tour for a long time. I wonder what the people of the country think. Do they like where they live or do they hate it? I wonder what I would be like to not be as free as we are here in America. We have so much more stuff here than they have there that I don’t think I could able to last long there. I think that North Korea thinks they are better and stronger than everyone else and they just need to take a step back and calm down.

blog 68

One thing that I am scared of is spiders. If I see a spider I don’t freak out or anything, I'm just not a big fan of them. I definably won’t be going to try and pick it up and move it outside. I will be stomping it with my shoe. I don’t know what it is about them that I hate so much. The thought of them crawling all over me gives me chills. Usually in the spring through fall, at my house we have one of the bug services come and spray in the inside and outside of our house to keep the bugs and spiders out. We live right in front of a few acres of woods so when we don’t do that, they become a big problem. Well one time, my parents weren’t home yet and I had to let the guy in walk him around the house as he was spraying. We got to the basement and there was one of the biggest spiders I have ever seen on the floor. The funny thing is, the bug guy actually yelled a little and asked if I wanted to go kill it. Of course I refused and upon talking to him I found out he doesn’t like spiders either. Kind of ironic since he works for a bug and spider service. Luckily though, after some convincing he went and killed it. Hopefully I won’t ever have to see another one of those really big spiders in my house again.

blog 67

There are a lot of things going on in the world that are concerning me. One of the major things is illegal immigration. America is full of immigrants and I'm not against that. What I am against are all the people that are sneaking into this country. All legal citizens work hard and have to pay taxes to help maintain the roads, for public schools, and to the government. But illegal aliens don’t do any of this. They get to work without having to give any of the money they make back to the government. We in turn end up having to pay when they go to the hospital without any insurance or when they get arrested. A lot of crime is done by illegal immigrants. I think that something drastic needs to be done to solve this problem. Our borders need to be tightened and there needs to be more of a punishment if illegal alien’s are caught crossing the border. Right now we just send them right back to Mexico and that’s it. They have no reason not to keep trying to come back in. If there was more of a punishment, then this would deter them from continually trying to come to America illegally. If they are able to go through the proper procedures to be in this country, then I am all for them being here. But until then, I think they should stay in the country they were born in.

blog 66

I'm not really sure how to blog about myself in a creative way. When it comes to being creative, I am horrible at it. While I am sitting here trying to figure this out, I asked my roommate what I should do and he said to write about how blogging about yourself is self centered and selfish. So since I don’t have any other ideas I guess I’ll write that way
Writing about yourself is very self-centered. I doubt anyone out there really cares what I have to say in this. Talking about me and what I am doing is probably the last thing you need to hear about. So by making you read through this, I am being self centered. I thought we already blogged about ourselves in one of the first blogs so why are we doing it again? This makes it even more selfish and self-centered. You all now get to hear about me twice. I could talk about where I grew up and what I did in high school but all that really doesn’t matter. My life isn’t that interesting that people are just dying to hear about it. I think this is one reason why I don’t get why people have twitter accounts. Do people really think that they lives are that important and that people want to know every detail about them? I can understand a celebrity having one but a normal person, I just don’t get it.

blog 65

If I could pick any time period to be born in I think it would be pretty easy to say that I wish I was born in the future. I think living in the future would be great. It’s hard to image what all new things there will be in the future. The world has come a long way in advancements over the years and it’s interesting to think how much further they will go in the next 50 years or 500 years. Maybe we will all be flying around in space ships instead of cars by then or jet packs. Either of those would beat a car or bus any day. I also wonder how advanced we will be in medicine by then. It’s likely that dieses like cancer will be able to be cured by then. Who knows, maybe in 500 years, people won’t even get sick any more. We will have a cure for everything. We will also probably live a lot longer. The age we die at has only gone up over the years so if it continues to do that, maybe will live to be close to 200 years old someday. That is a long time to live. You would be able to do so much since you would have so much time to do it all. If we lived to 200 would that mean that people would still retire around 50-60 or would they retire instead when they are like 100 or even older? I guess we’ll never know..

blog 64: mistakes

As I sit here trying to think about what the biggest mistake I have made is, nothing really comes to mind. I know I have made mistakes before but so far, I haven’t made any really big ones. I’ve had quite a few close calls but since they all turned out ok or I got away, I wouldn’t really consider them mistakes. I haven’t done anything that I really regret or wish that I could change. I don’t even regret all the stupid decisions I have made. From all those things, you learn stuff. I might not do them again but I am glad that I did at least once. I think that all the things that I have done so far have made me who I am today and I wouldn’t want to change any of that. Now looking back on all the things that happened in the past, it makes me smile. Remembering how much fun we all had and everything blocks out any regret. I might have regretted it at the time or a few days afterwards but now that I know everything turned out fine, I don’t regret anything it at all. But as I keep thinking, I guess I regret not talking to my grandparents as much as I should. They live out of town so we only go to see them about 2-3 times a year. Those 2-3 times are the only times that I talk to them. I should probably talk to them more because you never know how long they are going to be around for.

blog 63; friends

I don’t think I can pick one friend to talk about for this whole blog. I don’t really have one best friend. I have a lot of friends that I would consider my best friends. They are all considered my best friends for different reasons. One of my friends that I have probably known for the longest is John. Me and him have always liked to do the same things, listen to the same music and have the same group of friends. Right now he is in college in Montana and he is thinking about living there year round now so he will be able to apply for in state tuition later. Because of this, it will probably be a while before I see him again which sucks. Another one of my good friends is Collin. Collin is always down to do anything. If it sounds fun or we can figure out a way to make it fun, he’s all for it. Through him I was able to meet Jacob. Jacob has a really nice house so it’s no surprise that everyone is always over at his house. People just come over randomly and don’t really even ask. He always says that he doesn’t care who comes over and most people just walk right in without ringing the door bell or telling him. It took me a while to get used to doing this. Hopefully over spring break ill be able to see them all again.

blog 62: favorite place

For this blog, we have to write about what our favorite place is. This place is a lot different than what it would have been if I was asked this question a year or so ago. Now that I have been away from home for so long, I am starting to miss it. I miss having a room all to myself, my own shower and bathroom, and home cooked food. Don’t get me wrong, I love college and everything about it but I guess when you are away from something that you spent 18 years of your life with, you start to miss it. So because of that, I would have to say that right now, that is my favorite place. There is no other place like it and no other place that can compare to it. Even though this feels like my home now here at Ohio State, it will never feel as much as my home as my actual home does. Another one of my favorite places is going out on the lake with some of my friends. There is nothing like a warm summer day out on the water without a worry in the world. That is one reason why I can’t wait for it to be summer and warm out again. We would go out to the lake almost every weekend and just hang out. I could spend the whole day on a boat out on the lake.

blog 61: stories

1. When I was really young and in pre-school, like every other kid, I loved recess. Every day all the kids would sprint outside to get a ball or bike or whatever else they wanted. There were a lot of kids and not enough things for everyone so it was a mad dash to get out there and get them. Well one day, I decided that I was going to be in the front of the line that way I would be sure that I would be able to get outside fastest and get what I wanted. When they teacher opened the door, I sprinted outside and almost got a bike when suddenly I felt a push. Someone had pushed me from behind and I fell to the ground. When I was little I had to wear glasses and somehow when I fell, the glasses got shoved up and the right side got shoved into my skin right where my eye brow is. I had a huge gash and ended up having to get stitches.
2. Two summers ago when I turned 18, a few friends of mine were bored during the day and decided to go get lottery tickets. We ended up all pitching in and buying 5 of them. On the first four we didn’t win anything more than a few dollars but on the 5th one, we scratched it off and ended up winning $5,000. We couldn’t believe what happened. We went back in, cashed it and split it up between all of us. We were all pretty happy.
3. One time my family and I went on a cruise in the Caribbean. One place that the cruise went to was Costa Rica. I ended up getting to go zip lining in the rain forest there. It was really cool to be able to do that.

blog 60: word

I have no idea which word to write about or how I am going to write about it for 250 words.  There are so many words in the English language that it is hard to pick out one.  As I sit here trying to think of one, none really stand out to me.  But I guess since were in college, I'll talk about the word college.  This word can bring about many different emotions based on the age group that says them.  With younger kids, this word can cause fear or anxiety in them when they think about leaving their parents and going out on their own.  They might get worried when they realize that
they won’t be able to rely on their parents anymore and they will have to make their own decision.  It would also cause emotions of excitement in some kids.  For some, they can’t wait to be on their own and away from their parents.  Then for people around our age, it can causes
emotions of stress because of how much work college is.  Even though it is stressful and lots of work, it is still real fun to be here.  I think that for older people, the word college makes them reminisce and think back on all the fun and things they did in college.  I always hear my dad saying he wishes he was back in college and I'm sure a lot of other older people are just like him.

blog 59 major

My major is mechanical engineering.  Since both my dad and grandpa were engineers, I grew up hearing them talk about it all the time.  After hearing them for years, I started to get interested in it.  I always knew I wanted to be an engineer so it wasn’t hard to me to decide once I came to college what I wanted to major in.  So far I have only taken one class that has to deal with my major. The rest were math classes, chemistry classes and some GEC’s.  Good thing my major only requires me to take two chemistry classes because I am horrible at chemistry.  I am so lost in that class right now but I only have one more quiz and a midterm and then I’ll be done with chemistry
forever.  My major also requires me to take a lot of math classes.  Slowly the math classes are getting harder and harder.  Somehow I need to get pretty good grades though because apparently it is
pretty hard to get into my major.  The advisor said they are very selective.  This kind of worries me.  If I don’t get in, I'm not sure what I will do.  I don’t know if it would be better to try and re-apply later or to switch majors.  If I tried to apply multiple times and I didn’t get in, I don’t even know what major I would switch to.  The only other one I can think of would be business.  Hopefully it won’t come to that though. 

blog 57 dream

I have always wanted to become rich enough to where I didn’t need to worry about money. I don’t want this just so that I can buy million dollar cars and yachts; I want to be a multimillionaire because that way I would be able to live comfortably.  Sure it would be nice to have a huge house, nice cars and all that but I think it would be even better to just to be able to do anything you want.  I would be able to have any job that interested me.  I am a big fan of cars and love being around them, but unless you are really good at what you do, there is not much money to be made in that field.  But if I was a multimillionaire, I would be able to pursue this job since the amount of money I would be making wouldn’t matter.  I would be doing what I love.  Also, I think it would help to enjoy life more.  You wouldn’t be constantly worried about when your next pay check is coming in or if the stock market is going to go up or not.  You could focus on the more important things in life like family and friends and not worry about the rest.  Unfortunately I don’t see this dream of mine ever coming true.  Maybe someday I’ll get real lucky in the lottery but otherwise I think I’ll be just like everyone else.  

blog 55 nature

There are a lot of things about nature that fascinate me.  I like nature and the outdoors a lot and like being out side as much as possible.  One of the things that probably fascinates me the most is how quickly weather can change.  Especially in Ohio, the weather is constantly changing.  It could be warm one day and snowing the next.  Yesterday it was around 50 degrees and people were out wearing shorts and short sleeves.  But then today it was 30 some degrees and people were bundled up and wearing gloves.  It amazes me how it can be that dramatic of a difference in temperature in only one day.  I remember last week when it was kind of warm out and I went to get food with some people from my dorm.  On the way there it was raining out and by the time we came out, it was snowing.  The weather had a major change in less than 30 minutes.  I also think tornados are pretty cool, besides all the damage they do and how people can sometimes die in them.  I have always wanted to see a tornado, but of course be far enough away that it wouldn’t affect me.  I think it’s hard to image a big tunnel like thing of wind that is able to destroy anything and everything in its path.  It can pick up cars and tear down sturdy things like houses.  I think that is pretty amazing.    

blog 53 pet peeve

I actually have a lot of pet peeves.  Probably one of my biggest pet peeves is people who brag a lot.  I can’t stand people who constantly like to tell other people about all the stuff they have.  I remember back in high school, there was a guy that was pretty rich.  He always had nice clothes, had a nice car and liked to talk about these things all the time.  He would make sure everyone knew when he got something new.  He would brag about all the stuff he had and all the stuff his parents had.  After a while, that got pretty annoying.  Another pet peeve I have is when people chew gum really loud.  I can’t stand it when you are with someone and they are smacking their lips and being real loud while chewing it.  It makes it even worse in class when you are trying to listen or during a test.  When it’s all quiet like that, it makes the person who is chewing gum, seem even louder.  It seems like all you can focus on is that person and the sound they are making.  That happened to me one time during a test and it drove me crazy.  It also annoys me when shake their leg while sitting down and it causes the whole table to shake.  Other than that, I'm not really annoyed by much. 

blog 52 vacation

I have gone on some vacations that I have really liked.  The one that I probably enjoyed most was when we went to Hawaii over the summer.  I had always wanted to go there and when my parents told me that we were actually going I got really excited.  We went for close to two weeks and visited some of the different islands over that time period.  It was weird how even though we were still in the United States, it seemed so different.  The lifestyle there is so much more laid back.  Everyone is easy going and are always having a good time.  We went and visited some volcanos and went to a place where there was an active lava flow that flowed out into the ocean.  But they had it roped off far away from where it actually was so you couldn’t really see anything besides the steam coming off from the water.  I also liked going to the really nice beaches and just being out in the warm weather all day.  Another vacation that I really liked is when my family went on a cruise in the Caribbean.   I liked how you’d go to one country, go to sleep and wake up the next day at a different one.  We got to do some pretty cool things while we were at the different places.  Hopefully I’ll be able to go on another cruise or go back to Hawaii someday.     

blog 52 someone famous

I remember back in grade school, whenever we did writing exercises, this was usually always a question that was asked.  I'm not really sure what famous person I would want to meet.  There are lots of sports figures that I guess would be pretty cool to be able to say that you met them.  Brett Favre is one of the best quarterbacks, so that would be cool to be able to meet him.  I also like Michael Vick a lot so I’d like to meet him too.  He’s not like any other quarterback out there right now.  You never know what he is going to do each play.  But I think the coolest person to meet with would be Jesus.  If you did this, then you wouldn’t have to wonder if all the stuff that is said in the bible is true.  You would be able to ask him yourself.  Obviously no one around today has ever talked to him, so if I were able to do that, it’d be pretty cool.   I think it would be cool just to be able to meet anyone famous period.  Not many people can say that they have met someone famous, so for you to be able to say that would be special.  I think the closest I came to meeting someone famous was when I was here and went to Eddie George’s restaurant on high street.  Eddie George happened to be there and everyone was trying to get his autograph.  But other than that I've never met anyone famous.    

blog 50 best present

I'm not sure if I can really pick the best present I've ever gotten.  There have been lots of presents that I've liked for different reasons.  Some where things that I've always wanted to get and others have a sentimental value to them.  I guess the biggest gift I ever got was when I turned 16 and my parents gave me their old car so I’d be able to drive.  Because of that, I was able to be more independent and not have to rely on them for rides.  I was able to go where I wanted whenever I wanted.  Another gift I really liked was a long time ago when I was starting to get into golf.  I enjoyed playing golf but since I didn’t have clubs of my own, I had to use my friends.  My grandpa heard about this and ended up getting me a nice set of clubs for Christmas.  I was really excited to finally be able to go out to the golf course and not have to borrow someone else’s clubs.  I think that gifts meant more when I was younger than they do now.  I remember when it got close to my birthday or Christmas, I would be making lists of all the stuff I wanted.  But now, it’s not as big of a deal.  I still love to get them but I'm not as worried about getting them as I was when I was little.   

blog 49

Back when I was in high school during freshmen year, I was trying to find a place to work.  I applied at a bunch of place but none of them called me back.  I was already working on a farm as a farm hand but that was only every once in a while and I needed a job that paid more often.  My friend heard me talking about how I couldn’t find one and he told me how there was an opening at his job.  I ended up taking the job and I'm very glad I did, I even still work there.  This place is called Kings Miniature Golf.  It is the most laid back job you can get.  There are only a total of 3 people that work there, including me.  We split up working 5 hour shifts throughout the week.  The reason why I like this job so much is much is because of how laid back everything is.  This putt putt course looks pretty bad, the greens are all torn up, the structures are falling and it just all around doesn’t look that great.  But this doesn’t stop the parking lot from being full on Friday and Saturday nights in summer.  I get paid 9$ an hour in cash, no taxes.  Since my boss doesn’t really care about anything, I always have friends up there hanging out with me while I'm “working.”  We have a tv in the shack along with a fridge and a sound system.  So while I'm working I'm usually watching tv or listening to music.  Hopefully I’ll be working there again this summer.

blog 48 family member

I have one older sister named Susan who is 22 years old.  When she was little she was really big into tennis.  She would always go out and play with my dad on the weekends.  But for whatever reason, as she got older she stopped playing and started up something different.  I don’t remember how old she was but when she was probably in 4^th or 5^th grade, she went to a summer camp where they did horseback riding.  From then on she started to love it.  When she came back she immediately started trying to find places near us where she could continue to ride horse and learn more about the sport.  She ended up finding a place and did different types equestrian and started learning how to jump on them.  She ended up getting really good at it.  She did this up until the end of high school.  After that she went to Miami University and decided to try out for their equestrian team.  She made it and was on the team for all 4 years while she was in college.  She participated in lots of events and usually placed in the top 3.  She now lives in Philadelphia where she works for the FDIC.  She works for them as a bank examiner and is usually traveling to different states every other weekend.  She really enjoys what she is doing.     

blog 47

I just finished typing up and editing my common place paper.  I think I did a pretty good job on it so I should get a decent grade.  I'm not sure if we have any other papers to write besides the final copies of the research paper and this one.  Hopefully not because then I will be able to focus on these and go to the writing center and see if they can help.  There is still a few more weeks till the end of the quarter so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was another paper that we still have to do.  As long as it’s not a real long one, I won’t really mind.  I think what I need most of all is my papers to be proof read.  But I heard the writing center doesn’t do that so I'm not sure what to do.  I still need to add more to my research paper.  I haven't done anything with that since we turned it in a while ago.  It’s starting to get real close to spring break so I'm getting pretty excited about that.  This quarter seemed to go by pretty fast.  I like quarters a lot and I'm not looking forward to switching to semesters later on.  I like how quarters end on the breaks and 10 weeks isn’t that long.  But at least there’s still another year or so to go before they switch. 

blog 46

So today my roommates parents came and they decided to take us and a few other people from our dorm out to dinner tonight, which is where we just got back from.  It was nice to be able to eat something other than the normal food that I always get here on campus.  I am starting to get really tired of the food here.  Home cooked food sounds so good right now.  I didn’t think that I would miss it as much as I do.  I live on south campus so when we go somewhere to eat, we usually just go to the closest place.  This most of the time ends up being either market place to mirror lake.  The union is also close but I don’t really like they food they have there.  I've heard the Blackwell is really good but it costs so many swipes to eat there.  I think I’m going to run out of swipes before the end of the quarter so it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to go there and use up like 10. 

Unfortunately I think all the really warm weather is gone for a while.  Tonight, it was pretty cold out and I think it’s supposed to stay in the 40’s for the rest of the coming week.  Someone said it’s supposed to rain a lot to which isn’t good.  I have a chemistry and sociology midterm Tuesday that I’ll be studying for tomorrow, so I’m not looking forward to that.   

blog 45

I forgot I had to do a blog so I’m going to try to write this as fast as I can right now.  I don’t like how we have to write blogs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.  I wouldn’t mind blogs if we just had to do them Monday-Thursday.  But I always forget till late to do them on Friday and Saturday.  Probably because I’m not used to having things due on those nights.  Although the blogs have gotten easier to write over the past few weeks, I still wouldn’t say it is easy to get it to two hundred and fifty words.  Just like now, I can never think of what to write about.  I’d much rather have a prompt that tells us what to write about than being able to write about anything we want.  Like yesterday, today’s weather was awesome.  The sun was out and it was the perfect temperature.  There were lots of people out in the oval throwing football, freebies, baseballs, soccer balls, and just laying out and having a good time.  As the day went on it did get pretty windy out which made it a little colder but it was still a nice day over all.  One the way to class this afternoon a big fight broke out outside of Thompson.  There were crowds of people all around watching.  I wish I could have stayed and seen what all happened but I was already late for class.  

blog 44

So for this blog we can write about anything we want to but since I don’t know what to write about ill just ramble on about random things.  Today was a really nice day.  I loved the weather today.  I wish it would stay this temperature for a while but knowing Ohio and its random weather, it will probably be back in the 20’s and 30’ by next week.  Spring is my favorite season and I can’t wait for it to be here.  I like it because after a long winter and freezing temperatures, you can’t wait for it to get warm out.  Tomorrow is Friday, which is great.  I’m not really sure what to talk about so I guess I’ll talk about my day?  Like I said before it was a nice day out.  I had three classes to go today and 2 of them had quizzes which sucked.  One of those classes was chemistry and luckily this is the last class of chemistry that I have to take for my major.  Im not a big fan of chemistry.  I hate the labs and the lectures are so long and boring. But instead of taking lots of chemistry class, I’ll be doing lots of math which is almost as bad.  So we’ll see how that goes.  My major is mechanical engineering.  I choose this major because my dad and my grandfather were both engineers and I liked the kind of stuff they talked about doing. 

Blog 43: End steroid controversy, let the other 10% do it

End steroid controversy, let the other 10% do it

Want an easy way to gain over 60 lbs. of muscle and improve your game?  Just ask Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa or Roger Clemens, they know the secret.  The game today and the athletes are different than ever before; the players are faster and stronger, and the hits are harder.  It’s no longer good enough to just be good at a sport.  A receiver with “good hands” isn’t enough.  That receiver needs to be able to not only out run defenders but be able to shed tackles.  Athletes strive to be at the very top of their game, to potentially be the best that ever played.  Now this isn’t such a bad thing.  All the extra time that these athletes would have to put in to improve their game and the determination they have makes watching them play all the more enjoyable.  But this strong drive and determination can sometimes cloud their vision and they can take it too far.  They are willing to do anything to get that edge over their opponents and for some this means taking steroids.  Why spend hours and hours in the gym and get mediocre results when you can use some steroids, go to the gym half the amount of time and see way better results.  Unfortunately it seems that more and more athletes are taking this approach.  So many athletes are either being accused of using steroids or have come forth about using them.  We are in a tainted era in sports and something needs to be done to stop this from continuing.   

blog 42

I think that my argument is relevant because of the large role sports play in all our lives.  We have all at least once been to a sporting event, watched one on TV, or played a sport.  Sports are all around us.  Companies pay millions of dollars just to put their commercials on during the super bowl because they know so many people watch them.  We are introduced to sports at early ages in gym class where we learned how to play them.  From those early years on past college there are opportunities to get involved in sports.  Although some of us may not like them as much as others, we all know about sports.  This is why I think it is such a relevant topic.  No one wants to see a world were sports become more about how big and strong you can get instead of how good you are at actually playing the game.  But with the trend in steroids now a days, this might not be too far away. By making my argument relevant, people will want to read my article more.  They will be able to relate to what I am saying and hopefully agree with it.  This might take some persuasion to make them see how it is relevant to them.  I don’t think it should be too hard to make people see why my argument is relevant though.   

blog 41

Common place says that in order for an article to be compelling you have to have a clear purpose and use persuasion to carry that purpose throughout the paper.  They said that the most important thing to have is evidence.  Luckily for me, there is plenty of evidence surrounding steroid use in sports.  I could talk about the numerous baseball players that have been accused or have come forth concerning their steroids use.  In 2008, there were 52 pro bowlers who were being tied to steroid usage.  So there are plenty of places I can go to get evidence that steroid use is out of control.  This goes along with logos.  I will also have to use pathos which is emotion to try and make believe what I am saying and make it compelling.  I feel strongly that steroids should not be used in any sport and that there are much better and legal ways of improving at a certain sport.  Because of this I don’t think that it should be very had to incorporate emotion into my paper.  I'm not sure how I will use ethos, which is making yourself seem credible and like someone that everyone should listen to.  I don’t even know why everyone should listen and believe what I say so I’m not sure how I will incorporate that into my paper.  Hopefully by using logos and pathos, I will be able to make my paper compelling enough.   

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For this blog we are supposed to talk about what makes our argument timely.  My argument is that sport officials need to be cracking down more on steroid use.  I feel that steroid use is pretty wide spread.  Lots of different athletes in different sports seem to be using them.  Sports are such a big part of American culture and society today.  There are numerous stations devoted to just sports 24 hours a day seven days a week.  In the past few years, steroids have become a major topic in the sport world.  With numerous athletes coming forward and confessing to using them and speculation over many others, this is a timely issue.  With all the advances in medical technology, steroids are getting harder and harder to detect.  This is not good news for the sports world.  It’s easy to see why athletes turn to steroids to help.  Take the NFL combine for example, which tests an athlete’s strength, agility and their skill, being a good quarterback or receiver isn’t enough.  The players are expected to be strong, fast and agile too.  All of these factors play into when a player gets drafted and by which team.  Steroids could help to improve all of these factors.  Steroids will continue to be a major issue in sports until something more is done to prevent their use.  Until then athletes will continue to get bigger and the integrity of the game will continue to go down.       

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So after thinking about what to change my common place paper to, I came up with the idea to write about steroid use in sports.  This connects to my original paper because in that one I talk about the shortcut November uses to deal with her grief by having the memory erased.  Steroids in sports are also a short cut.  For this blog we are supposed to write about a personal anecdote, and since I haven't used steroids I guess I can write about what I have seen. 

I remember watching the St. Louis Cardinals games back when I was younger.  Both my parents were from there so they were pretty big Cardinal fans.  So of course I began to like them too.  One of my favorite players was Mark McGwire.  Over the years it was easy to see the dramatic change in not only his appearance but also in his game.  When Mark McGwire first entered the league, he was about an average player with an average build.  Slowly over the years he began to get bigger and bigger.  Along with this, he got even better at baseball.  It’s clear now how he was able to get so big and improve his game so much; he cheated and used steroids.  There are numerous other players out there who put in the time and effort to be at the top of their game but not Mark McGwire.  He saw steroids as an easy way to get to the top quickly.  Players back in the day were able to break records without using a shortcut, and I think today players need to do the same.    

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For this blog we are supposed to write about anything we like.  But I have no idea what to write about.  This will probably end up being a blog filled with a bunch of random ideas and whatever else comes to my head.  I'm pretty happy that tomorrow is Friday.  I love the weekend and of course like everyone else, I look forward to it every week.  After a long week of classes with quizzes and midterms, I can’t wait for this weekend.  I have one more midterm tomorrow but after that; I don’t have any more for a while.  I cannot wait till it starts to get warm out again.  I am tired of the cold and all this snow.  I wish it was 75 degrees and sunny out.  After a few months of winter I can’t wait for it to be hot again.  I want to move to a place that is always 75 degrees.  That would be a perfect place for me.  But unfortunately I don’t think there’s any place in the world that is close to that temperature year round.  I heard it’s supposed to warm up next week so I’m excited about it.  I just went on weather.com and it says that it is supposed to be 51 degrees this coming Thursday.  I still need 30 more words so I have to keep rambling on for a little longer.  If there are any Cleveland Cavalier fans out there, you guys are really good this year……. Setting NBA records game after game.  What is it at now? Like a 26 game losing streak..? 

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For my paper, the best example I came up with in class that relates to my paper is lowering the drinking age in America.  I'm not sure if ill end up using this for my topic but since it’s the only idea I have now, I’ll write about it.   

When we turn 18, we are considered adults.  We can join the military, buy cigarettes, sign up for credit cards and for most people it’s when they finally are on their own and go to college.  But even though at this age you are an adult, you still cannot drink.  America is one of the few countries that still have such a high drinking age.  Numerous other countries have the age set at a much more reasonable 18, such as Canada.  All these countries have the same or less alcohol related problems as those countries whose age to drink is 21.  A lot can be gained from lowering the drinking age to 18.  One example of this is how the government will get extra money through sales taxes due to the greater number of people now allowed to buy alcohol.  Also binge drinking wouldn’t occur as often since it will be more available for people to get and they will be able to drink it more freely.  The drinking age in America used to be 18 and I think it’s time we go back to that. 

blog 35 Diversity or Discrimination?

The paper I read this time was called, “Diversity or Discrimination?”.  This paper was about all the different organizations, groups and services for minorities in colleges but how there are none for majority groups like Caucasians.  The author saw this as discrimination against the white population.  He brings up the Ohio State University and how they have an Office of Minority Affairs.  At this office, their goal is to help the minority groups succeed.  They give them lots of aid and help to make sure they graduate on time.  However there is no Office for Majority Affairs.  If schools are trying to be diverse by having all these programs and help for minorities, then why aren't there any for majority students.  Don’t the majority deserve the same opportunities and help that the minority students get?  I think the author brings up a lot of good points.  It does seem like minority students get a lot more than the Caucasian majority students do.  There are numerous ethnic groups on campus but according to the author, there aren’t any for Caucasians.  Don’t Caucasians deserve their own group as much as the other ethnic groups?  I agree with the author’s point that at colleges, there is less equality among the races.  I think this is timely article because you hear about equality and diversity all the time.  It’s all over the news and it’s an important subject.     

Blog 34 "Its Our Illegal Right"

The article I read was called, “It’s Our Illegal Right” by Pembe Beingi.  The article was about illegally downloading music from the internet without paying for it.  The author’s argument was that there are so many other ways people get music for free that there is no need for these laws in the first place.  There are multiple programs that you can download for free that allow you to search through other peoples music libraries.  You are then able to pick out songs you want and download them.  It’s also just as easy to take music from a friend’s computer, put it on a flash drive and then copy that music back to your computer.  I’m sure there are other methods that I don’t even know about.  He talked about how the actual artist makes so little money off these songs that it doesn’t really even affect them.  Most of their wealth comes from endorsements and concerts.  I agree with the points this author is making.  He also made a point that I liked when he talked about how society might be moving faster than the record companies.  We’ve figured out how to get all these songs for free and they haven't figured out how to stop it.  Maybe they should spend more time trying to figure out how to stop this if they are that concerned.  I think that this article was timely and relevant because I’m sure almost everyone has illegally gotten music without paying for it. 

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Finally the paper is done with. It feels good to finally have it finished so I don’t have to worry about it anymore.  I feel I did a pretty good job of writing it and should receive a good grade on it.  I will have to go back and add a lot more to it though before I turn in the final draft.  I need to go to the writing center for help a lot that way I can get some extra credit points.  Since the final draft isn’t due for a long time I think I’ll have a hard time bringing myself to work on it anytime soon.  I'm also not sure how many other papers we have due between now and when the final draft of this one is due so I might have to spend most of my time working on those instead of this one.  I hope that this is the longest paper that we’ll have to write.  I don’t really like it when there are page requirements for a paper.  I think that you should be able to write as many pages as you want as long as you include everything that you need to.  Like for this paper I was easily able to write 5 pages but I'm still not sure how I’m going to lengthen it to 7.  I need to figure out what else I can add to get it to that page requirement.        

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This morning I was finally able to finish my paper.  I still need to edit it but at least all the writing is done.  I think I did a pretty good job on it.  When I read through it the first time it all flowed together pretty well.  I'm still not sure though how much detail I need to have about the background of Dollhouse and how it works.  I have a few sentences but I think I might need to add a few more.  I will eventually have to add a lot more to each paragraph since its only 5 pages.  It would also be helpful if I can find additional examples of how my topic relates to the real world.  That will probably be easier to make my paper longer that way than just trying to add more sentences to the paragraphs I already have.  I don’t know what else I would connect it to though or even what more I could add to the paragraphs I already have.  I could go to the writing center and see if they have any ideas.  I should go there next weekend and see.  The extra credit I would be getting by going would be helpful too.  I also need to figure out if the citation that EbscoHost has is correct.  If it is that would be really helpful since all I have to do is copy and paste it.     

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I have slowly been making more progress on my paper.  I only have one to two more paragraphs to go.  So far it hasn’t been too hard to write since a lot of the previous blogs had to do with the paper and I am able to copy stuff straight from there.  Right now it’s only around 4-5 pages so I’m not sure how I’m going to stretch that to 7 pages.  I’ll probably have to go back and add a lot more to the paragraphs I already have.  Since the draft doesn’t have a page requirement I will probably wait till later to add more.  I should go to the writing center and get some help from them.  I’m not a big fan of writing though so that explains why it has taken me so long to write this paper.  I keep putting it off just like I do with my blogs.  I am even having trouble thinking of what to write for this blog.  I think that instead of having to write blogs this week, we should just focus on writing our paper.  But that’s just what I think.  One thing I'm not sure of regarding our paper is if there are a certain number of sources we need.  So far I've only used 2 scholarly sources.  I'm not sure if that’s fine or if I need to get more.  I'm not sure what else I could look up to add support in my paper though.  So hopefully there aren’t a certain number of sources that we have to have.    

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Today I meant to get at least half way done way with my paper but of course, that didn’t happen. I managed to write one more paragraph.  This brings me to the total of 3 paragraphs. I still have a lot more to go.  I plan on waking up early tomorrow morning and at least getting more than half way done.  Knowing me though, ill set my alarm for early in the morning and will keep hitting snooze till the middle of the afternoon.  I am not very good at waking up when my alarm goes off.  The snooze button is my best friend in the morning.  I keep hitting it till I realize that I have class in the next five minutes.  Then I realize that I should probably get up.  Since class is canceled all this week I have no motivation to get up early.  Even though I should spend this time writing the paper, it’s hard to bring myself to do so.  I hope that tomorrow I will be able to get up when my alarm first goes off and start to write my paper.  I doubt this will happen though.  I only have a few more paragraphs to go , yet I am still nowhere near 7 pages.  Tomorrow I am going to write about the connection between my thesis and the episode and the conclusion.  I also need to add more to the paragraphs I already have. 

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So far I only have about two paragraphs for my paper done.  I started the intro and episode analysis.  I've been busy doing a lot of other stuff for other classes so I haven’t really gotten around to writing much of it.  I wanted to get more of it done today but I was busy studying for a chemistry midterm that got rescheduled for Thursday.  Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to knock out a big portion of it and go to the writing center for extra credit.  The outline I made really helped me because as I am write, I don’t really have to think about what I want to say next or where I want to go with the certain paragraph since it’s already written out for me.  I am having some trouble on the episode analysis.  I’m not sure how in-depth I have to go about the background information about Dollhouse.  I still think it’s going to be pretty hard to make this into a seven page paper.  I’ll probably have to add a lot more to the paragraphs in order to get it to that length.  The one thing I do like about the paper though is my topic.  I think that it should be easy to write about and easy to find information on.  I like the topic I have now better than the one I used to have.  The one on one meetings we had last week seemed to really help. 

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In an earlier blog, I talked about how people use alcohol to help with their grief.  They use this to try and make themselves feel better and forgot about what is bothering them.  But alcohol isn’t the only thing that people use when trying to mask their pain.  Another thing people do is turn to drugs.  According to the president for the Institute for Behavior and Health, prescription drugs are the most widely abused drugs out there.  “In 2008, over six million persons, or 2.5% of the U.S. population aged 12 and older, reported past 30-day use of prescription- type psychotherapeutic drugs for nonmedical purposes” (DuPont, 2).  Of course not all these people are using these drugs for dealing with their grief but the number is still staggering.  By taking these drugs, just like with the alcohol, the person is able to put the pain and grief behind them.  For a short period of time they are able to forget about it all.  But this is not an effective way to deal with grief.  Once it’s all over, they will have all the pain and grief back.  There are also lots of hazardous long term effects of prescription drug abuse.  Not to mention that it can be deadly.  There are lots of other, better ways of dealing with grief.  Talking to friends, talking to family or even seeing a therapist are all much better alternatives.         

DuPont, Robert L. "Prescription Drug Abuse: An Epidemic Dilemma." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 42.2 (2010): 127-32. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 2 Feb. 2011.

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Even after changing my topic last week, I am still having trouble figuring out what to research.  I feel like I keep writing about the same stuff, but maybe that’s fine?  This time I read another article about dealing with grief after the loss of a loved one.  Everyone has their own ways of dealing with this.  Some like to be alone with their thoughts and reflect back on what happened.  While others like to be surrounded by family and friends for help through this tough time.  But one thing is the same, the memory of the deceased is important.  Author Taylor Vale talks about how, “Recalling stories from the past and sharing those memories with special people seemed to help people to find connections and meaning in the present..” (Vale, Taylor).  By remember these stories, people are able to remember the happier times.  They can remember all the fun things they did with that person and all the stuff they got to do together.  By talking about this, instead of dwelling on the fact that the person is no longer alive, it helps to bring peoples spirits up.  Later on in life, when you think about the person, you think about the times you spent together.  Continuing to keep these memories alive is important.  Completing forgetting the person like November did, is not the right thing to do.     

Vale-Taylor, P. "We will remember them": a mixed-method study to explore which post-funeral remembrance activities are most significant and important to bereaved people living with loss, and why those particular activities are chosen." Palliative Medicine 23.6 (2009): 537-544. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Feb. 2011.

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Grief is a natural part of life.  At some point or another, everyone will experience it.  The process of grieving is an important.  By doing this people are able to get their feelings out and eventually get over what they were grieving about.  Though the person might not ever forget what happened , they will instead come to terms with it and move on.  These memories of them are important to keep.  Victoria Junior talks about how important these memories are when she said that, “..talking about the loved one, acting on the values and concerns of the deceased and celebrating rituals are examples of keeping memories of the deceased alive.  Rituals can be an important part of human existence regardless of life’s experiences” (Junior, 3).  By keeping the memories alive, people are able to focus on the positives of the deceased life instead of dwelling on the fact that they are no longer with us.  In Dollhouse, it’s learned that November is there because she wanted the memory of the death of her child erased.  It’s hard for me to understand why someone would want that memory erased.  If the memory of the death is erased, then any memory of her child would also have to be erased.  I don’t feel that a death is a good reason for completely forgetting about someone.  Like Victoria Junior said, their life needs to be celebrated.  There are better ways of dealing with death that forgetting about the person all together. 

Junior, Victoria Young. "Helping Female Inmates Cope With Grief and Loss." Corrections Today 65.3 (2003): 76. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 Jan. 2011.

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We all experience highs and lows in our life. Most of us are able to deal with these issues and move on.  We may dwell on them for some time, but after a while we are able to move past it.  But for some people, these lows that they experience consume their lives.  They cannot get it out of their heads and end up being controlled by this memory of what happened.  These people look for relief in any way they can get it.  Unfortunately, this usually means turning to drugs or alcohol in order to cope.  By doing this, it may less the pain they feel, help them sleep, reduce their stress or just help block out the memory completely, but in the long run it’s not a good idea.  Raymond Anton from the Medical University of South Carolina states that “These initial reactions are just a sirens-song since, upon continued use, the substances are likely to increase stress and to cause the exact symptoms that they are initially meant to reduce” (Anton, 5).  Drugs and alcohol are only a short term fix.  Instead of the memory controlling your life, instead drugs and alcohol now control it since you rely on them to make you feel better.  The only way you can truly move on is to deal with the issue yourself.  Using drugs and alcohol is like running away from the problem and will only make it worse. 

Anton, Raymond. "Substance Abuse Is a Disease of the Human Brain: Focus on Alcohol." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 38.4 (2010): 735-744. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 30 Jan. 2011.

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Memories define who we are as people. We all have a collection of memories that have been built up in our minds over numerous years. Within these collections of memories, there are both good ones and unfortunately some bad memories. Though at times we might want to try and forget these less desirable memories, they are still important to us. Renee Mirkes, who is a director of the ethics division for the Pope Paul VI Institute sums up this idea when he said, “To some extent, these unchosen memories constrain us; though we may regret the shadows they cast over our pursuit of happiness, we cannot simply escape them while remaining who we really are” (Mirkes, 6). These bad memories are needed so they can be learned from. We take what is learned and try and make sure it doesn’t happen again, or at least know what we need to avoid. They make us who we are today.  This idea connects to patients with post traumatic stress disorder, whose bad memories are controlling their lives. There numerous ways of dealing with this disorder to try and lessen the effect of the memory, such as therapy. But a newer, controversial way is to take a certain drug that tries to block out the memory. This drug has many ethical issues surrounding it. These bad memories are still important to the person.  By going through therapy instead, the patient still has the memory but they are able to deal with it and move on.  By doing this, they are maintaining who they really are.     

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The article I read this time was about human memory.  It talked about how memories work and what these memories do for us.  We have two types of memory, there is the long term memory which helps us to remember things from the past and we have short term memory.  Usually what is on our mind at any given moment is due to what is in our short term memory.  Information is transferred back and forth between these two types of memories.  When a memory is transferred from short term to long term, that’s when you learn something.  That idea or fact will be stored in your long term memory for you to be able to call upon whenever you need it.  A memory can also go the other way, from long term to short term, which is associated with recalling facts, such as remembering a person’s name.  Of course we cannot remember everything though.  Throughout our life time we will encounter and experience so many things that it’s impossible for us to remember every detail.  Even the stuff we do remember isn’t always accurate.  Our minds usually try to find patterns and group things together.  This is what causes people to have breakthroughs in science and technology.  Their brain looks for a connection in their memory and they come up with an idea. 

This article does relate to my paper so I will probably use it.  The article gives a lot of good background information about memory and how it works.  This will be good to include so that the reader has more insight into how memories work. 

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?hid=14&sid=e2588c54-377c-46fb-be13-dc2a0d02cace%40sessionmgr12&vid=2

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The article I read this time was about learning from the past.  The main focus of it was how we need to remember the experiences from the past such as wars and other related things and to use the memories of these to make sure they don’t happen again.  As a society, we need to remember the mistakes that have been made and take the appropriate steps to correct them.  I think that this article kind of relates to my topic of how our memories define who we are.  In this case, the memories didn’t necessarily define the individual; instead they changed how that individual might act.  The change in the way they act could in the form of a new law.  After the Civil Rights movement, there were a lot of law changes.  Politicians and people saw the way that other Americans were being treated and decided that something needed to be done.  They remembered what happened and used this memory to make a change.  Learning from the past could also be as simple as remembering to study more for a test.  If you didn’t study much for a past test and ended up failing it, then when the next test comes, you’ll have this memory and remember that you need to study more.  I’m not sure if I’ll use this article in my paper but it was useful to see another way our memories affect us. 

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I article I decided to read this time once again had to deal with memories and how they affect the personality of the person.  One line that I really liked is where it said how memories are like a person’s “story of my life,” and how someone will repeat it to themselves “to warn him or  comfort him, to keep him concentrated on his goals, to prepare him, by means of past experiences, and to meet future with an already tested style of action.” The author goes on to talk about how memories anchor down our identity.  Not only do memories define our personality but they also help us to figure out our goals and want we want to achieve.  We cherish these memories and rely on them which helps to explain why we are still able to remember a certain memory clearly even after many years.  This article is a lot like the others ones I’ve read.  So far they’ve all said the same thing about how memories define our personality.  This is good because it supports my argument but I think I need to start finding articles that relate to my argument in a different way.  All the information I’ve gathered so far is pretty much the same.  I know I need to try searching for something different but I’m not sure what it would be.

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?hid=13&sid=2816653c-84d2-430f-b097-aa7b74957c5c%40sessionmgr13&vid=2

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This time I choose to read an article about post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  In this article, the author talks PTSD and how it affects the individuals.  PTSD is a condition that can happen after witnessing a disturbing or frightening event.  This is seen most commonly in people in the military, police officers, or firefighters.  This disorder completely changes the person’s life.  They become so traumatized by what they saw that they can’t forget it or move past it.  This is usually treated by giving the individual doses of Propranolol.  Propranolol works by blocking adrenaline which is pumped throughout your body when people get frightened.  Researchers believe that when it is blocked, it changes the way your brain stores that certain memory.  But there are a lot of ethical issues surrounding this drug.  The author talks about how he feels that every memory we have is important.  Even the bad memories, like the ones that cause people to have PTSD, are important.  One line in the article that I like is when he compared our personalities to a rug.  He said that a rug is woven one knot at a time, with each knot woven into the others and this is just like our personalities.  All these different memories we have, shape our personalities.  If you take out one memory or change the way we remember it that will cause everything else to also change.  This relates to my topic because this is the same argument I’m trying to make. All of the memories we have make us who we are today.   

Mirkes, Renée. "DOES PHARMACOLOGICALLY-ALTERED MEMORY CHANGE PERSONAL IDENTITY?." Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics 26.3 (2010): 175-187. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 23 Jan. 2011.

blog 18 research

Today I did a little more research and found a few articles that I liked better than the ones I found yesterday.  One of the new ones I found is about patients with dementia and how their memory loss has affected the type of personality they have.  Dementias main effect is on the brain and its memory functions.  People with dementia have a hard time remembering simple things such as the day of the week or how to get back from the store.  It could also get as severe as the person not remembering a family member or friend.  This article talks about how they went about trying to see if there was a connection between dementia and personality.  The main thing they did was they had caretakers of patients with dementia take a questionnaire about how the patients personality was before they had dementia and then another about how their personality was after they got dementia.  The results showed that there was a difference in personality traits for the patients.  The main changes in personality traits where in their reliance on others, liking company, irritability, unhappiness, energy, enthusiasm, contact with reality and kindness.  They also performed another control test on people’s personalities before and after retirement.  The results of this showed that there wasn’t much change the subject’s personality at all.  This relates to my topic because this is what I’m trying to argue.  It seems clear from this study at least that memory does affect your personality.   

M. Trabucchi, et al. "Personality changes in Alzheimer's disease." Aging & Mental Health 11.5 (2007): 526-531. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.

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My topic is about how our memories affect our personalities and make us who we are today.  In order to do this, I need to find if there are any studies that were done along these lines.  I hope to find connections between the types of things people remember and how that affects them.  So far I’ve found a few articles that talk about traumatic experiences and how those experiences affected the person for the rest of their lives.  An example of this would be post traumatic stress disorder.  This is seen a lot in soldiers coming back from war.  They have memories of the horrible things they saw and had to do and these memories stayed with him.  These memories changed the way they behave and acted once they came back.  I also hope to find information about any new technology or drugs that are related to memory.   When I was trying to figure out what my topic should be, I did some research online and came across a few places that talked about drugs that could help you lose certain memories.  This would relate to what the Dollhouse is doing to the dolls and how they erase memories.  I don’t think I’ll be able to find lots of sources though since it’s a very narrow topic.  But hopefully I’ll be able to find enough to be able to write the paper. 

Klucharev, Vasily, Ale Smidts, and Guillén Fernández. "Brain Mechanisms of Persuasion: How ‘expert

Power’ Modulates Memory and Attitudes." Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience 3.4 (2008):

353-66. EBSCOhost. Web. 21 Jan. 2011.

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Mirkes, Renée. "DOES PHARMACOLOGICALLY-ALTERED MEMORY CHANGE PERSONAL IDENTITY?" Ethics

& Medicine 26.3 (2010): 175-87. EBSCOhost. Web. 21 Jan. 2010. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?hid=9&sid=a5f79664-65df-4b38-9ce9-f50ab6d13ec3%40sessionmgr14&vid=1&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=55737885>.

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