The pictures that represent me

these are the picture of my items. The second one is my laptop and I used my web cam to take the pictures so that's why its like that.

My quote

I chose my quote because I feel that it gives everyone hope to become a hero. And in reality, they can. If you say that a hero has to be special then people will lose hope and forget the thought of doing something heroic. I think that my quote shows that all you need is the determination to achieve the goal you set for yourself. I personally think that everyone can be a hero even if they are bad. They can just maybe mend their ways and that itself takes a lot of courage. A hero needs lots of skills but I think that determination is the most important one of all because when you are doing a heroic deed then all odds are against you and you would feel like giving up. Thats when you need determination to drive you on.

I chose the picture above because it shows that he is hanging on for some reason (I dont know why) and this what a hero does.

Matt Harding blogpost

Matt Harding. An inspirational person to us all. weather your Christian or Muslim. weather your from U.S.A or from Afghanistan. You cannot fail to get the message that the world can be one. Like one country instead off all the separate countries we have today. In this Matt Harding's video is like hope. A ray of light in a room of darkness. He has given the world hope. he has shown the world that we CAN be one, we CAN live together in peace. He has promoted it from an idea into a fact. If he can make other random people around the world dance with him without force

then imagine what we all can do if we work together.

This Matt Harding. He was a video game designer until he quit his job. He makes videos of himself dancing badly in different countries. I chose the picture because it shows you clearly who Matt Harding is.

Like Matt, I have traveled the world and have seen how people live in different parts of the world. I know how hard it is to unite all of the world together. But its amazing how a normal guy like me and you can unite the world like this. He makes us realise that its not impossible, its not even hard, if we work together, anything can be done.

Credits:

Photo from

http://thisibelieve.org/media/essayists/tib-hardingm-62368-200.jpg

The Compliment Guys

The compliment guys are a lot of fun while they are an inspirational idol to everyone. When I read the article I thought that "why cant I do that" what I meant was not to such an extent such as Cameron Brown or Brett Westcott/ the compliment guys, but if I am walking next to a random person how hard is it just to say "hey, nice shoes" or something like that. It may not seem much to you but it makes the other person feel good. Like maybe if they had a bad day, your compliment could have mad that person feel a lot better and brighten their day. This is exactly what the compliment guys have been doing for a long time. They are nice to people and people are nice to them.

These are the compliment guys. Brett Westcott is standing on the left and Cameron Brown is on the right (your left and right). I chose this picture because it clearly shows who the compliment guys are and their sign which they use every time.

Brett is a junior civil engineering student and Cameron is junior business management student. Both go to the Purdue University in west Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A. I think that in their own way, both of them are heroes because the are doing what is right by making people feel better and they are trying very hard to do keep on doing this becuase they are giving up the time to study. These people making other people smile is a great idea and we should all do it to each other

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Photo from:

http://www.google.com.my/imglanding?q=compliment%20guys&imgurl=http://blog.al.com/living-news/2009/07/large_compliment%2520guys.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.al.com/living-news/2009/07/has_anyone_told_you_how.html&usg=__ZEVpCv8t1_QCRLKC4oYZXdhC7Cs=&h=356&w=453&sz=41&hl=en&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=QHWm1ccAdVRV9M:&tbnh=100&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcompliment%2Bguys%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&sa=N&tbs=isch:1&start=0

Giver blog post 1 (redo)

I would not like my future to be decided by another person because then I cannot choose what I want to be when I grow up. Like if I wanted to be a soccer player (not really) then I have a very slim chance of actually getting that job because there are millions of jobs and the job that I want is one of those. I will probably not get the job I want because it is decided by someone else. I also have to be very good at soccer to get their attention and let me play. If I am not good and I could improve my skills after I am a twelve but there is no time for me to practice before that time and I am very bad then there is no way I could be a soccer player. There are so many things that I could I could improve on and if I get chosen to do a job that I have to do my entire life then there is no way that I could improve on anything and if I do there is no point to it because I would have a job already and even if I hate it a lot there is no way I can quit. If I don't do a good job on my job then I will probably get released.

I also wouldn't want my future to be decided by others because then there is no point in what you do. Like if you wanted to be a scientist then you would study science and try to get your dream job. But in the utopia you just keep on working on whatever you do and hope you get a good job. If I was one of the Elders I would try to change the rules much like they are know but with more jobs so that people without jobs can get them and not rob and murder people for money.

However there is an up side to your future being decided for you. You can never fail at life. you will always get a job no matter if you weren't smart. It might not be the best job but at all jobs you dont get any money and you live the same life as everyone else unless their job is very important. So when you have a job you have a house and a family you wouldn't want to commit crimes so people deciding you future reduces crime too.

Giver blog post 2

Out of the three options available, I chose #1

I think that Jonas says that it is unfair that nothing has color because he ans the Giver are the only people who can see color. They are the only ones who can experience the happy or sadness that color has to offer. If the colors are depressing like brown it would still be better because living in black and white is worse. color is amazing. But it is not that amazing if you are the only one who can experience it. If you tell people that there are such thing as colors and how awesome they look then people will think you are crazy. In a perfect society, people cant be crazy. I'm not sure what would happen to Jonas because he is the receiver in training and he is the most honored one in the community but chances are that he will still be released.

Another reason that Jonas said this was out of anger. Angry at the elders for shunning something so great. I would get very mad too. He would probably think that the elders are stupid and unfair in his outburst of anger. When you get the something good without working for it, you should take care and make the most of it. Instead the Elders thought that it wasn't the same and people could be faced with choices about which colors they wanted and that there could have been fight about which colors were better.

If I was Jonas I would probably feel the same way as him about colors because its not fair that the elders always get to decide whats good for us without hearing our side of the story. Its also unfair that I and the Giver are the only people who could see color. Once I become the receiver then I will try to persuade the Elders to try and use color in the world.

Giver blog post 1

Answer to question 1.

I would not like my future to be decided by another person because then I cannot choose what I want to be when I grow up. Like if I wanted to be a soccer player (not really) then I have a very slim chance of actually getting that job because there are millions of jobs and the job that I want is one of those. I will probably not get the job I want because it is decided by someone else. I also have to be very good at soccer to get their attention and let me play. If I am not good and I could improve my skills after I am a twelve but there is no time for me to practice before that time and I am very bad then there is no way I could be a soccer player. There are so many things that I could I could improve on and if I get chosen to do a job that I have to do my entire life then there is no way that I could improve on anything and if I do there is no point to it because I would have a job already and even if I hate it a lot there is no way I can quit. If I don't do a good job on my job then I will probably get released.