Sitting down to write.

When I sit down to write, it is not what you'd expect. I don't like everything a certain way or care as much about my surroundings as do the nit-picky English Majors. Cough, Cough. Haha :) For me to have a successful writing experience I must have inspiration, which comes from a variety of places. One such place that inspiration comes from is stress. When I am stressed I sit down and work, not allowing my self-diagnosed ADD to take over. I work hard until the stress in this case or in all cases the inspiration is gone. Once the inspiration is gone i then just leave the work mid-sentence and come back to it later. All I care about is having fun while I do it and achieving the task at hand. For me to write I often have to be happy and laughing otherwise I come off as quite persnickety and uppity. To achieve this I usually watch some of my favorite YouTube videos.
So if you are looking for a chuckle, Look at these....

Auto Insurance- Legendary 5 out of 5 stars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtEp5yc-g3A&ob=av3e


Family Guy, dairy Cow. Really quite inappropriate but I can't help but Laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2H-ZNfhxbs

And finally, Charlie Bit my finger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

These will brighten up your day. Please watch.

Stress... Yeah its everywhere

MoPro
Rhetoric

Business Plan

Music Recording

ACT

College

Are You good enough?

Why is this so hard?

The thoughts of these are enough to send a dose of adrenaline coursing throughout my body and coming to the end of the quarter they all seem to pile up at once. I have one exciting week in front of me.... But this got me thinking what causes stress and how does it affect your brain?

Stress is how your body responds to a feeling of being upset or threats. When you sense danger your body initiates a fight or flight reaction, otherwise known as a stress response. Stress is to protect you, in the wild it helps you to be more alert, focused and observant allowing you to escape danger.

Stress is also helpful as it is what convinces you to focus on the game winning hit, or study for an exam when you would rather be doing other things.

However, stress can block memory sensors such as cortisol because it blocks the neurotransmitters involved in some forms of memory recall.

How does stress affect the brain?

This can be described better by pictures....

NORMAL                                              Stressed

As this next week comes to a close, I can not wait to head back to the nice blue of normal.

Classical Music Still Rocks

When people look and think of classical music, they think of the nerdy, awkward children, that play in band and orchestra. However, the negative connotations of classical music are often unfounded as many of the people who are the first to rip on classical music often, when asked, "have you ever actually listened to classical music and if so, could you name a song from this genre that you listened to?" answer stupidly, "well no, but it still sucks." And so for all the people who need their horizons expanded, here is some Classical music that is undeniably good.

My Top 3 --- in no particular order.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0cpKzDoOdA

This is Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
Gorgeous, well known, Perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/user/oliarnalds#p/u/5/UHVh_L_kv1Q

This is a song that is modern and includes a balance of many different instruments, however all of them are in fact, Classical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uql9IV5M_j8

The Barber Concerto, this is the 2nd movement. Listen to the rest if you wish. they are all liked below.
1st movement--   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ifFuF3FoQ&feature=relmfu
2nd movement--  already posted
3rd movement-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_cbnyWG4Fo&feature=relmfu

So once you listen to all of these, then we can talk about why classical music "sucks".

Yes sir, Mr. President.

Tone: The president seems right off the bat to try to make this conversation seem frank and sincere. This is exemplified by the fact that right away he says, “Please sit down,” like a teacher. He also draws on personal experiences such as his time in an ethics class or his personal differences from others.

Intonation: He uses intonation to help him create rhetorical questions and help to get his message of responsibility and traits that will help us not only personally succeed, but to help our country succeed.

Posture: Upright and tall, but with a approachable demeanor that keeps the conversation light and happy.

Diction: He uses simple diction, however, due to the way he speaks he keeps it seeming conversational, instead of coming across as demeaning and arrogant. For example as he compliments teachers, he helps students understand why they do it, this helps the students and me for that matter, understand and feel close to their teachers.

Repetition: This is not as prevalent as in Dr. King’s speech. However, there are several specific examples. One such example is after every main idea he states, “this needs to happen, Right Now.” This phrase was also prevalent in his “American Jobs Act, Speech”. One other repetition that President Obama uses was in one of the opening paragraphs, and that was “it doesn’t mean, It doesn’t mean,” This helps us to understand what he wants us to do exactly, by providing the counterexample.