One Tree Hill Review

A popular TV series directed at youth called One Tree Hill, has been on air since 2003. I've watched the series ever since it began. I've noticed that since the fifth season hit, the dramatic, yet comical television show that erupted from the creative minds of the CW, has gone downhill. The first season is filled with love triangles, car accidents, a psychotic father, and two half brothers who can't bare to be around each other who wind up on the same basketball team. The following three seasons were stupendous and brimming with breathtaking and emotional events. During the first four seasons, the actors played a part in highschool, which all of us viewers related to. We related to their problems, their feelings, basically every thing teenagers fight through throughout highschool. The fourth season was the last season they played the part of highschool students. As the fifth season began, it was four years later. The series was still satisfactory, but it didn't compare to the previous well-known hit. It's currently on the eighth season, and to me, it feels like the writers are continuously attempting to produce an interesting story-line, but they're just not succeeding. Once in a while, there will be captivating and intriguing episodes. However, in the first four seasons, there would be entertaining episodes that kept the audience on their toes every week. The seasons keep coming, and hopefully the producers will start to realize that the show that they keep going, doesn't have the spark that it used to.

The Road Less Traveled

1) Yes, I think it's important to be passionate about the career you choose to an extent. Going to a job you don't enjoy or you despise every day would be dreadful. You must be passionate about what you choose, but also be realistic. Most family member's of mine and friend's of my parents that I know have a career that they like. Some of them are very social, and have jobs where they have to interact with people every day, and they enjoy that. Others, are more confident behind closed doors and have very independent jobs. Either way, most of them are happy that I know of. I couldn't go to a job every day for most of the day, not enjoying my time. The job I choose probably won't be glamorous, and obviously it won't be easy and fun all of the time, but I won't pick a job that I will dread going to.
2) After graduation, I'm taking a business course at Okanagan College. I'm not sure if I'm taking the 2 year or 4 year program yet, just because I want to see if I like it first. After getting either a diploma or bachelor's degree, I could see myself working in an Events Center, or even being some sort of financial worker at the bank. I'm not sure yet what I want to be, but by taking a business course, I have varied selection which seems like a good choice to me. If I don't like it, at least I'll have some sort of an idea of what I might be interested in, and I can pursue that by taking more classes. I can see myself living in Vancouver once all my schooling is done, and hopefully having a career that I like, and that I have at least some passion for.

Novel Research

The novel "Candy" written by Kevin Brooks, revolves around drugs, prostitution and love. So far, a big theme in my book is prostitution. They live in London so I'm going to talk about prostitution in London, since it's somewhat a big thing there. In London, it's illegal to pay for sex from someone younger then 18 years old. I wonder how old Candy is, because she seems young, so she could be doing it illegally. Although prostitution is legal in London, pimping, soliciting and running a brothel is illegal. Another act which is illegal is called kerb crawling. A kerb crawler is one who drives around areas known for prostitution, looking for sex. It's called kerb crawling because usually these people drive slowly by the curbs looking for the prostitutes. It is estimated that 80,000 people are involved in prostitution in the UK, including around 5,000 children.

http://www.avaproject.org.uk/our-resources/statistics/prostitution.aspx

"Insidious" Movie Review

"Insidious" is one of the movies that's currently in theatres right now. It has been very popular compared to other horror movies. This movie goes to another extent of scary. The storyline is unlike other typical scary movies, as it's not about someone getting possessed, it has more depth and meaning behind it. A family moves into a new home, and shortly after their youngest son slips into a coma and strange events begin to occur. It seems as if their house is haunted, but throughout the movie the truth comes out. "Insidious" is one of the scariest movies yet, from start to finish viewers shake with fear. It leaves one guessing throughout the whole film. Not only do you tremble and scream many times during the movie, the ending is shocking beyond belief.

Writing A Review

Perils of Indifference

• 1. The Power of Not Caring


• 2. In the story "The Lottery", there are parts that remind me of highschool and growing up. There are large displays of peer pressure, which is demonstrated in highschool a lot. I see it all the time, but although I'm not usually a part of it, I understand that it's common in our society. Another connection I have with the story is from movies. In various movies there's a story line where a child grows up in an abusive family, and when they're older they may think it's right to be violent and hurt others. They don't know much better because they were raised that way and have no understanding of a good home life. This is similar to the story because most people in that village are okay with stoning and they're used to it. They were born in that society, so that's how they go about their lives.


• 3. Elie Wiesel's speech"Perils of Indifference" relates to the story "The lottery" in the way in which not caring about others can be dangerous. Being raised in a certain way can allow your feelings and emotions to vanish, making not caring about other's possible. When you don't care you can easily hurt people, and if many people don't care the world can become hectic and many deaths could take place. All the references made in the speech, such as the holocaust, were started by someone not caring, and having a great amount of power.

Polar Bear Swim

In my opinion, I find the perception of boys and girls completely different. Each gender worries about different things, or doesn't worry at all. I feel that the girls that are participating in the polar bear swim are worried about not being tanned, being too fat, etc. Girls always worry about how they look, especially when a lot of your grad class is watching. They feel like everyone is judging them and staring at every move. One of the least worries for the girls that ARE taking place in this event, are the cold temperature of the lake. Girls feel this way and worry so much because society has made it that way. The causes vary from TV to magazines. We all watch TV and most of us compare ourselves to edited video or pictures of models in magazines. Although we've seen commercials displaying the edits being done, none of us really pay attention to that and still want to look like these fake people. Boys on the other hand aren't worried about being pale and not having a prefect body. From what I've heard they're not even worried about the cold water, they're ready to go. Many of the girls are too nervous to even put their toes in the lake, so I don't think many are doing it. Even some of the boys are too scared to do it, so it's not even really a grad event. A lot of my fellow grads that I talk to are poor sports. They don't feel like this is one of our last events as a grad class together before we graduate. We're supposed to unite and have fun, it may be cold but it would be a day to remember as a part of our grad year. I don't understand why everyone has to act like they're "too cool" for the annual grad polar bear swim. Personally, I know if I didn't participate in grad events I would regret it during the following years. I'm prepared for this cold event to take place!