Assigned Entry # 6 The final blog

Over the course of the semester, blogging became a thing of normalcy. I have never blogged before so it was very new to me. I really took a liking to our blogging assignments and I have very much looked forward to each new assignment. I now really enjoy blogging and I might continue this trend in the future. Blogging has been a good way to share my views of different questions that have been asked over the course of the semester. I took this blogging experienced seriously and I enjoyed doing so, but I have also put my spin on this and made it my own so while it is serious, it is still fun. I took this serious because it is a good and fun thing to do and a good way to share thoughts and opinions among different people. By blogging this semester I learned how to share my thoughts and opinions with others. I believe that this project is a very good assignment and is very useful. This gives students an opportunity to blog about a specific topic, then give them some freedom to share their own thoughts on their own topic. It is a fun assignment and much better than a reading assignment. I really enjoyed this project and I am so to see it end. I hope to continue this and i hope others do to. Farewell  my fellow bloggers. -Alexandria

Unassigned Entry # 5 The anchor of my heart

It is never easy to get adjusted to one life to then have it crumbled and having to be rebuilt a new way. With having had my fiance by my side for four years its has been difficult adjusting to have him not be home. We will have been together five years in July and for almost this whole year he has been gone. October 24, the day I will never forget, is the day he left and besides him being home two weeks for Christmas he has been on a base in another state. Even though we do not live together yet, it was hard adjusting to having the one person by your side to not having them there. It has been hard, but knowing he will be home soon is a sigh of relief, it is still tough, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
It has been a tough journey, but I have survived and of next year July I will be Mrs. Flores. If he gets stationed somewhere I will be able to go with him and knowing he may go many places while in the military it does not matter how far he goes we will always be together, a family of our own, unbreakable.

Entry # 5 Media and I

Since talking about media in class, I have been noticing different types of media and different things going on in the media today. Recently I have been looking more closely at ad's. Big ones and little ones, but I find the same commonality in each, those ad companies are sneaky and good at it. We recently watched to coca-cola commercial and that's what got me thinking, "if there are using coke to do this selective advertising, what else could they be using". More and more companies are taking the facts and twisting them to get consumers to buy their products and what not. Although for them it is a good strategies, it is unfair to the population to not really know the true facts.
Media is a huge impact on almost everyone lives. Media and social networking are everywhere and not finding either of them is rare. It is like a virus you can't get rid of so if you can't beat them join them. I find my self using my phone to use Facebook  Google  the internet and everything under the sun. There is just no getting away from this stuff. Social media is not only used for advertising, but to displaying feelings of all sorts. Now a days you can put just about anything in a post from your feelings, to where you are or even what your doing. Its amazing to think how many people just put it all out there, but hey if they want life as an open book for people to read that's their choice. I constantly see media and look at it differently now and I try to find the hidden message in their that the companies don't want the population to see.

Unassigned Entry #4 Cars: Transportation not Toys

Lately, on average, I have been doing more driving than I normally do. I know I have only been driving almost two years, but I feel as though I am a good driver. I am very cautious and I know all of the rules of the road, but I can not speak for others. In the past week I have seen four car crash after maths, I witnessed and additional two car crashes, and I have almost gotten into three car accidents due to distracted drivers and reckless drivers. I never used to be scared of driving, but lately it is a fear I am having. Because of people, like the one pictured above, more people are getting into car accidents and it is a serious problem. Having come so close to getting in car accidents myself, because of people talking on their phones or just not paying  attention, it is a very scary situation. Most deaths in the United States are caused by car accidents. I am guilty of checking my phone at a red light, but I do not dare text while driving because I know the consequences of what could happen if I do. Sending that one text can wait compared to losing your life over it. Just recently a former classmate of mine from high school passed away due to a car accident. I am not fully aware of how the accident was cause, but the two highest causes of car accidents are distracted and or reckless driving. If every person could just wait to check that text until they are safely parked or just paid that ounce more of attention there would be fewer accidents and fewer lives would be taken away at such an early age.

#4 Capitalism: destruction made easy

The film we watched in class was nothing like I have ever seen before. I knew little about this subject and I feel as though I know everything there is to know. This movie was very informative and uses a great deal of the rhetorical triangle. Not only did the movie use logic, but this movie used a vast amount of emotion to be able to connect to the common people who have suffered through times like this. For him to be able to use such a great deal of emotion, it gave him an advantage to suck people in and to get people to see his point of view and be able to persuade them. My first reaction to this movie was that it was just another boring movie I had to watch in one of my classes, but I was amazed at how intrigued and interested in this movie I was. I have never been into politics and items of this such nature but something about this movie caught my eye and was different from the rest. This movie provoked human emotion to real problems going on in the United States and that is why I feel that this movie caught my eye. Capitalism is a very serious issue and Moore did a very good job of getting to the bottom of some of these big issue that go along with capitalism. I never would have thought of him to be a film maker, but he surprised me with this movie that really captured my attention and brought out my emotions.

Unassigned Entry #3 Wedding planning for dummies

For this entry I thought I wold stray away from the "norm" of my Navy blogs and talk about a spin off from one of my past blogs, Wedding planning. Being 19 and in college you don't expect to be planning a wedding, but I have never been like other people and I am planning a wedding. Next to school planning a wedding takes up all of my time. The list of things to do and plan for a wedding is longer than a extreme couponers receipt. I have only started my planning and yet I am overwhelmed. My parents are paying for the wedding, but with worrying about college tuition, that budged is slim. That takes one stress off me, but with my fiance having a big family makes for trying to have a small wedding impossible

.The seating chart, the venue, the food, the guest list, and the dress and rings are just few of the many things I must do to prepare and not knowing the exact date does not help. We have picked a month and day, but the year is still undecided. I have always loved the color pink, but for my wedding there is just not a place for the color pink. The color blue is not only both of our eye colors, but we always ending matching and blue just happens to be the color we match in. Planning a wedding is so much work, but it is so worth it in the end. I can't wait to marry the love of my life and even though we are so young love brought us together and for us now is the right time.

Entry # 3 Class Cut

Being a college student is a lot of effort and is very time consuming. When picking colleges, I choose Glendale Community College for two reasons. One because the tuition at four year universities is ridiculously expensive and two because the class sizes are much smaller. With Arizona State University implementing their new shortened classes, with plenty of them to go around, it is causing a lot of controversy on both spectrum of opinions. The 15 week classes will now be shortened to only 7 1/2 week classes. This means the new abundance of these shortened classes will be fast passed and will be all the information of the 15 week classes. With this comes more change. The tuition will be cut for these classes and will now be more affordable and the calendar schedule will change drastically. While this idea of shorter classes and more of them is a good idea not only to save money, but also be able to finish your degree faster, they are setting the students up for disaster. Cramming these 15 week classes into 7 1/2 is bad enough, but having them be online is just the icing on the cake. Most students need the face to face hands on contact to be able to learn. I know certainly do, and with these new changes the students are going to be struggling more in these classes than regular ones.
When reading this article I felt that it was lacking some rhetoric. Their defiantly needed to be more information on how students and teachers opinions and I really did not see any of the ethos or pathos, but I did see logos. There was some logic,but I felt they could have done a better job writing this article. The comments I saw really did not have much to do about the topic and it was people just arguing over random topics, which on an article like this is no place to do that.

Unassigned Entry #2 Navy: The other side of the story

For this semester I plan on keeping a theme with my unassigned blog entry's. I plan on telling my side of the story of being with a Navy man. I hope everyone enjoys it and continues to read my blog. :)

Like I have said before "it is never easy having someone you love be in the military whether it be boyfriend, girlfriend, son, daughter, brother, mother, sister, father, ex..," but the one thing that stays the same is that no matter how far the distance is you will always love them. In my case that is very true. My boyfriend who is in the Navy is of now stationed in Great Lakes, IL. He is finishing up his ATT schooling and then he will soon be transferred to California to finish his job training, better known as A School.

While all of this is going on I am stuck at home to go to school and well I would be working except for the fact that Pizza Hut is corrupt so I quit my job and now they are out one person, but hey not my fault they treated me like crap. Anyways, I live my day to day life,but it is never the same not having the one person you love by your side. I have been very involved in many support groups online and they do help, but either way you slice it, it will never be the same. We both are miserable, but hey when the Navy has your man there is really nothing you can do, but work around them. At least I still have most of my freedom. Knowing how lonely we both were, my boyfriend planned a trip for me to come up there to see him the weekend before Valentine's day so we could see each other and celebrate. Little did I know I would be in for the surprise of my life.

Upon arriving into Chicago on the 8th of February, I was freezing, but so glad to be off the plane due to my terrible fear of flying. Not only was it a four hour flight, I then had to drive two hours just to get to the base (for those of you who have never been there, traffic in Chicago on a Friday night is well......you get the gist.). Any who, seeing him after the first month and a half of him being gone was like seeing him for the first time. It was amazing and the best feeling to know I could have my best friend and better half back even if it was only for three days, but It was so worth it. After finally making it to the base and back to our place for the night, I had met all his family and we had been left alone for the evening until the morning when we would venture out into Chicago to see Sears Tower.


Since we would not be together for Valentine's day he decided we should celebrate that night. After exchanging what I though was all our gifts, he surprised me with one more. He told me he loved me and to close my eyes. After just a few moments of suspense I opened my eyes to see my boyfriend on one knee holding a small black box with the most beautiful ring I had ever seen. I then heard the words "will you marry me" and I had to hold back the tears of extreme joy so I could get out the word "yes". I was so surprised, but so happy. I had no idea that he had planned this or that he had already called my parents right before we picked him up to ask them if he could marry me. I was so happy to think that I will be able to spend the rest of my life with this man and no matter where he goes I will be able to go with him and be a family wherever the Navy may take him.

Being with someone in the Navy is never easy, but when you go from girlfriend to fiancee it makes it that much easier to know one day we will always be together.

I hoped this story is not to sappy and I will continue the semester with more stories from the other side of the  Navy: Being the Fiancee.
  -Alexandria

Entry #2 Slanted Reporting

1) http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/03/09/hospital-dismisses-pregnant-womans-labor-pains-kidney-stones/

If you read this story, the link above, you would learn that a 19 year old was about 8 months pregnant and complaining of lower back pain so she went to the hospital to get treated. No one would help her and then 18 hours later she gave birth. This story is slanted because it has the feel of that they are taking the side of the hospital. All they talk about is how the hospital was busy with other patients and how they said it was just kidney stones. What they fail to tell you is just how bad this story really is.

2)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1364175/Pregnant-student-nurse-told-labour-pains-kidney-stones--spots-babys-head.html?ITO=1490

If you then read this link, you will find the whole story,truth. The hospital failed to do their job. If they clearly had taken as much time as they said they did on checking out this patient and claiming it to be "kidney stones", then why did 18 hours later she was in the wide open hospital giving birth to a pre mature baby with the chord wrapped around its neck. The first story has clearly favored the hospital because they leave out all the horrible details of just how sever of pain this young girl was in and how the only person to check on her was another patient in another room.

Slanted reporting can sometimes save people from embaresment or from being hurt, but in this story it just made it seem like mistreating a patient is fine, but it is not. The hospital should be lucky that this girl is not suing them for lack of mistreatment and for her baby being born with no pre care before birth.

Unassigned Entry #1 Navy: The other side of the story

As of 10/25/12 I became the girlfriend of a United States Navy Sailor. My boyfriend of almost five years joined the Navy to defend our country and fight for our freedom. On the outside I was so proud of him for doing this, but on the inside I was a disaster zone. Soon enough my outside would join my inside and I became and emotional wreck. I was scared beyond belief. This is a huge commitment and not only was i afraid of losing him as my boyfriend, but I was scared of losing him in combat.
                                                                                                                              The day he left for boot camp was a day I will never forget. I took him to his meeting place said my goodbye and drove off with tears streaming from my face. This was such a huge change for me. For the next two months I would have no contact with the person I had just spent the last four and a half years of my life with. Those two months killed me, but I knew that if I could do this I could handle anything. After two months of waiting the day came where we would finally be reunited. I loved him so much that I would wake up at four a.m., wait in the freezing snow for half and hour and sit on an icy bench just to see him again. At nine o clock finally seated the procession started and each division came in. 031,032 I waited and waited and when they called 038 I screamed my head off I knew he was in there and soon enough he would be mine again. The ceremony was phenomenal but the woman who was in charged was testing my patience. After repeating the same information what seemed like a million times she said those two words I was waiting for..."Liberty Calls". Once those words were said all bets were off. I flew down the stairs not caring of who I took down in the process I searched and search and then he came rushing out of the crowd. I have never been so happy in my life to see him. I was over joyed and filled with tears. I knew he was mine and a keeper at that. I was speechless all I could do was cry and smile. He was able to come home with me for two weeks before he had to go back to A-school and those two weeks were incredible. I am so lucky to have him in my life. The day he went back I knew the worst was over, but it is never saying goodbye to the one you love the most. This whole experience has taught me that somethings in life no matter hard it is is worth the fight. I was so new to this Navy girlfriend business and was so lost. I had no one to talk to let alone anyone who knew what I was going through until I snooped around on Facebook. My Sailor Stole My Heart (  https://www.facebook.com/MySailorStoleMyHeart?fref=ts) is the best website I could have found. There are people there my age who know what I am going through and that makes it so much easier to deal with. My boyfriend is serving our country to keep us free and I am fighting the battle of keeping us together and supporting him fight for our freedom.

My blog is showing support for all the girlfriends, wife  and fiances of Navy Sailors who are fighting their own battle and holding the fort down at home. I hope this blog can help some else know that they are not alone in this fight. -Alexandria