Final pt1

            As human beings we are all incomplete and imperfect. Some of us are arrogant, ignorant or just cruel. As a child I had naïve thoughts that you could be a perfect human as long as you tried. The truth is if you are a certain character there will always be drawbacks. As I child I witness a horrible event that scarred my life and effected who I am today.

            I grew up in a terrible neighborhood in Atlanta Georgia. Most people I knew ended up in prison or dead. The schools were dirty and filled with future convicts and it was unlawful. I was hazed for being the only Korean every single day. I was compassionate and kind but also weak and ignorant to the real world. I was tried to help people and ended up getting hurt in the end but I kept trying. I thought the world would change if I tried my best to make the change. Yet, after  two years of trying I gave up and I changed. Nothing will ever change from kind words and compassion. To make things change you need power and money.

            The First case of this happened was when my father was beating my mother. I woke up to glass breaking and screaming. I walked down the stairs and saw my father harshly beating my mother. I was stupid and incompetent; I charged at my father and ended up unconscious with broken ribs. My point of the view of this harsh world turned cold and so did my character. After I was discharged from the hospital , I was angry at this cold sadistic world and I completely  changed into a different person. I stopped helping people and picking fights and was angry at different people for no reason. I was completely arrogant and sadistic. At that point I didn’t even know who I was anymore.

            I lost all my friends and my sister was scared of me and I was completely alone. Then I finally fell in love with someone. She brought out the best of me and she reminded of me who I truly was. I wasn’t cruel or arrogant. I was kind and compassionate but I also wasn’t weak or incompetent

Portfolio Essay

What is my favorite piece of work in the portfolio for my English class? My essay about my winter break was titled “Torture” was a essay about my hellish break. It was an hilarious piece of art that was fun to make and a lot of people found it amusing. I made my suffering and pain into an ironic essay that was funny. A fellow student commented “It was descriptive and emotion and I liked how I felt the anger flowing out of your essay” It also says that I am just like my Zodiac Gemini because my writing style can be very flexible like me. I can be very cold and retinol or be full of emotion and my writing reflects that.

What have you learned about yourself this year? I learned that I am a very flexible person and my writing shows that. For instance if I can’t shut down the opposite party with evidence and logic I will just do an extremely emotional appeal and win the sympathy of the audience. I also noticed that if I hate the topic it will be just based off facts but if I enjoy writing about the topic it will be very amusing or cold depending on the topic. I also competitive on topics if I am taunted and I can egotistic in my writing. I also can make my writing complex and I don’t like leaving half-finished essays. I tend to complete my pieces of art fast and just edit it multiple times.

At what have you improved in general? Is there any work that demonstrates this? I think my writing has improved a lot in general and my writing flows better because my grammar and vocabulary has increased a grade level. I can also use both of my writing styles effectively without making a complete mess. I also think my spelling has improved so I can modify my writing without wasting time on petty spelling mistakes like putting i after e. My vocab and grammar help make my sentences complex and intriguing. This allows my point of view and argument be descriptive while thus for directly reach my audience’s understanding.

What areas would you like to improve in? I honestly want a larger vocabulary so I can pull more words from. Having a large vocabulary makes the author seem more intelligent and makes your writing seem less repetitive. Also some words fit better in some situations improving your writing pieces flow. This is extremely nice because facts, empathy from the audience and looking smart is really hard to fight against.

            What do I want to with my writing? Honestly, I am very strong in English and it is one of my strongest subjects. But I want to be a cyber-defense specialist. Still writing will be an important skill because I need to make sure my college accepts me and convince them to give me a decent scholarship. Same for my job, even if I am extremely strong in my field of work, I still need to sway huge companies to hire me and believe that I am worth their money. I also need to make my clients to trust me and hire me. I also need them to spread the word that I am worth their money and they should hire me. I will always need writing in my life and so will you.

Found poem

In 1947 life in America was segregation.

It was two worlds that were afraid of each other.

Life was unkind to black people who tried to bring those worlds together.

But Jackie Robinson, God bless him, was bigger than all that

He had to be bigger than the Brooklyn teammates who got up a petition to keep him off the ball club, bigger than the pitches who threw their deadly balls aimed at him, or the base runners who dug their spikes into his shin, bigger than the bench jockeys who hollered at him to carry their bags and shine their shoes, bigger than the so called fans who wrote him death threats

He was a fighter, the proudest and most competitive person I’ve ever seen.

To sacrifice his pride for his peoples

It was an incredible act of selflessness

That brought the races closer together

Than ever before and shaped the dreams of an entire generation

Distirct assessment

Should digital privacy be an expectation in the 21^st century? “Privacy is an inherited human right”. This is completely correct but sadly in the digital world there is no such thing as absolute secrecy. Your data will be out there in the data stream and someone will see your random post or message. Yet knowing this why wouldn't you let law enforcement access your data? To those paranoid people who adamantly refuse to give your data which could save lives. You may think it’s impossible for your electronic device to collect some one else’s random data, you are so incorrect. You device could accidentally pick up some mega bits of data on a terrorist plot. So why would you refuse to give law enforcement the ability to save multiple lives for your own paranoid selfishness. Law enforcement can already get access to your data but why waste there precious time? Sadly in this world, every one life saved there is one that is not. If a person dies because you refused to help the police with giving access to your data, you have blood on your hands. Privacy may be a human right but on the web there are no secrets.

“When we lose our privacy we lose our liberty” The Eternal Value of Privacy stated this. The government already has access to our phone calls and our messages. The U.S Data Collection fact Sheet states “U.S officials acknowledge collecting domestic telephone records.” This means they know who, when, where, and how you are calling. ”James clapper the Director of National Intelligence has indirectly confirmed PRISM”. “PRISM” is a program that collects “audio and video chats” for large ISC’s (Internet Service Companies) like Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, and Google.

            Why would the government need this data? Clapper himself stated “that the telephone records allow analysts to observe patterns over time and “make connections to related terrorist activates”. “It is used to protect our nation from a wide variety of threats” this data saves lives and those people who keeps data to protect their “Sacred Privacy” will end up getting people hurt or killed. “The harder truth to accept is that we are moving into a digital reality where the assumption of observant” New times will result in changes. Technology is advancing and getting more dangerous. If exchanging privacy with Safety was a necessity for survival. Most likely people would pick the latter. It is better to be alive and safe while being embarrassed then dead.

            “Privacy protects us from abuses by that in power” If those in power would abuse you with this then justice will find them. Senator Dianne Feinstein is uncorrupt and stated that “The records can’t be accessed unless the government can show reasonable suspicion that they are relevant to terrorist activity” So you are safe from abuse with this information.

            Privacy should honestly not be expected at all. You may get a certain degree of  privacy but honestly you can’t keep secrets online. So do not post anything you will regret and you will be fine. Abuses of power is almost impossible. Even though you could have an embarrassing picture or post, who cares because eventually that shame will go away. The innocent blood on your hands if you withhold information that could save lives will never go away. So make the smart choice and don’t be a arrogant hoarder of data. Pass on anything that could save a life to law enforcement. It’s the 20^th century you things are changing and law enforcement itself can’t protect us we need to make the smart choice and help them save us.

Torture

Torture

                                                                                                                                                  

            What is absolute Torture? Being confined in an airplane that is four thousand feet in the air is. Then also being crammed into a small row with three people. Also I was seated by people who are simply annoying. The person next to me was gigantic and took up most of the room. That is not what annoyed me! It is what he was doing. He was blasting up his music so loudly that the people back in L.A could probably hear it. When I asked him to lower the volume all he did in reply was sneer and raised the music even louder. The Arrogance! I was insanely mad and also the other person next to me needed to learn about a nice thing called deodorant. I already abhor planes but being confined by these two intolerable people did not help my situation at all. Minute by Minute almost an entire day my sanity crumbled.

            When I got out of that torture chamber I was already irritated to the point of a nuclear bomb about to go off. I was sleep deprived and had to wait an hour just to get my luggage. As soon as I got to the hotel I had to dress in a suit and tie and go to a rather special wedding. I was cranky and having to sit through a two hour sermon. I had to take care of the little gremlins with this poor girl who looked like she wanted to end her life. I emphasized with this poor girl after ten minutes of dealing with them. We had succulent lobster and delicious food. The steak was perfectly rare and delicious as the drinks were perfectly fine. After being stuffed with amazing food I took a delightful one hour map but …

            Guess what? The torture didn’t end there. We had to travel a thousand miles to go to another….. wedding. Another wedding! Oh how life is so unfair. I was car sick and absolutely tired. A three hour sermon while having to deal with sleep deprivation is absolute hell. All I hear is a loud booming voice while hearing the wave’s crash loudly on to the beach. All I wanted to sleep and then I heard the loudest whoop and they forced me onto the stage half awake. I was so confused and see everybody staring at me on the stage.

            I swear fiercely as I remember that I was the guest of honor and had to play the ending song. I am still exhaust as I’m on the stage and still able to play ‘Ode To Joy” by muscle memory. I was sweating so much that I might as well be jumping onto the sea. I sigh in relief, that I did not ruin a wedding. I get thanked by the wife and groom and get hit the back and congratulate. I bit back my rage as I hate bodily contact but I survived. Barely.  

            I went to the hotel and was sleeping for seventeen hours. We went swimming, watched movie, ate amazing food, and slept for hours. I also bought a PX jacket for sixty Euros. I also got 600 Euros from the adults from the wedding. I fell asleep on the plane to be awakened by my sister’s pig like snoring. I think back and was wondering if I should see a therapist now because after this experience I hate little children with thoughts of murder. I hate London and this wasn’t vacation it was hell.