Valentine, valentine, valentine! Of course most of you already know what is that. But do you know the history behind this name, what it is? Or why do we celebrate it? Well I’m guessing at least we do know that every February has a long been a month of romance St. valentine day, And we also across the country candy, flowers, gifts are being exchange between loves one All that occurs in the name of saint valentine. So who is he?

·        Valentine was a priest who serves during the third century in Rome when emperor Claudius II decided that single man made better soldiers that those with wives and families. He outlaw marriage for young men-his crop of potential soldiers.

·        Valentine, realized the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

·        According to one legend, Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured. It is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor’s daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed ‘From your Valentine,’ an expression that is still in use today.

·        Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It’s no surprise that by the middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.

·        In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

·        In Great Britain, Valentine’s Day began to be popularly celebrated around the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it was common for friends and lovers in all-social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes. By the end of the century, printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology.

·        Americans began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began to sell the first mass-produced valentines in America.

Posted: February 8th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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      “the older I get, the more I see the power of that strong woman which I call my mother”

      “The love between a mother and her daughter is special. A mother takes her daughter under her wing and teaches her how to be a woman”. In order to do this, you have to ask yourself what it means to be a woman of today. How do you balance care for others with your own quest for meaning and joy in life and how do you pass on these lessons to your daughter? Most relationship is not perfect all the time, just like the one my mother and I shared. I actually live with her in the same house. But we have our differences and we don’t seem to communicate like mother and daughter. I grew up knowing that she is my birth mother. Her specific relationship to me is that I am her first and older daughter she brought me to this earth when she was seventeen years old. Since that moment her whole life turns upside down. She dropped out of high school to be a mother and raised me. What makes our relationship unique is the fact of her teaching me all the basic knowledge, culture and the basic skills such as cooking and how to become a strong woman and achieve goals and dreams that she had never achieved in her life.

so, for you people outhere, take time to apperciate your mother wheither and think about what is so special about her and act…. and remember be glad that you have or once had a superwoman which you call “MOMMY”-”MOM”-”MOTHER” or what so ever you like to call her.

Posted: January 30th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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          President Barrack Hussein Obama took historic spot as a first black president on January 20^th 2009. His inauguration speech attracted so many people including me. He used the techniques such as communication a common vision by effectively addressing the nation with vision, which had a very potent effect. “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America” says president Barack Obama.

          Obama also used rhetorical techniques through his speeches such as the use of images, reputation, and act.  He had spoken with passion, and positive language. He had given life to a vision by painting it through his speech by using the most powerful method of expressing his vision to the nation. Obama’s address speeches were motivated, powerful, understandable, and interesting “catchy” to most Americans including me.

          In conclusions, I believe president Obama the inauguration speech had a powerful communication vision, common purpose that can appeal to many different people with different ages and different background ethnicity. He gave life to a Vision that was easily for many to see. The things that stand out for me was, His positive and powerful language and charisma which explained the magic effect he had on his fellow American citizens.

Posted: January 22nd, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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“Let’s go Revisers! Lets go” That was I cheering for our women soccer team. In my way to the game, I trusted my feelings and knowing we the Revisers are the champions and we were going to prove it on the field. I arrived with confidence and smile in my face Cheering to our soccer player especially Lindsey, Moo and Kat and the rest of them.

The game was interesting to watch. It was interesting how the opponent team were aggressive on our team. But the fun part was when the opponent team (Dakota county) tries to be more aggressive and the Revisers Just kept on scoring coals on them-lol. And I loved every moment of it. Another fun part was, when one of player from Dakota County received a yellow card for pushing and being more aggressive than usual.

At the end, I left the field with a smile and pride on how well our women soccer them finished with a score of 6 to 0.ironically that’s my favorite number and that used to be my jersey number when I used to play soccer. I felt like that was a gift from our women’s soccer to me just for being there to support them for the first time ever. It was great game and I am sure I will be there to support them throughout this season till we make it to the national because we are the champions.

Posted: October 27th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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you often get questions such as “tell me about yourself”, “what school do you go to” or somethin like “what do you do” and we often answer “oh-I am a college student” it sounds good huh?-lol-. well being a college student is not an easy pakage to carry, and i’m not talking about books or bagback. i’m certianly talking about the stress, presure and other obstocles that comes along away especially when all you trying is work hard and balance this life germs.  sometimes this with beautiful word “College Student” it doesn’t seem beautiful when you feeling like everything is going wrong such as grades, studing and all the other personal issues that we seemed to be facing almost everyday in life. it makes you your blurry to the point that you almost forget about your hopes and goals of which you are trying to achieved. and it makes it so hard to clim that ledder when your eyes can not see the clear view of what you  are trying to reach.

on the other hand, it seemes like everytime you you want to get yourself back to where you startrd  is so hard and dchallenging. so for you college students out there especially IWCC students, you are not the only one who goes through this period of time by yourself, i am going through the same thing especially this fall semester. i guess all we can do is stay focus and think about all the learning that we are getting here and the fun moments and memories that we create and share as Reviers. 

Posted: October 27th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Waking up every day in the morning, looking at my calendar, the first thing that catches my attention is the important day that is coming up and can’t wait for that to happen. But coming near the calendar and taking a close look and knowing that I have my finals coming up it makes me feel sick because my math final is the first that I’m going to start with..ewww..i think I’m not good at math. And I’m having trouble studying that subject and all am thinking about is to get over it and hoping at least to get out with a B+ in that class. However you never know it might be A+. So whatever the fear that I have I think it has to go away very soon, last but not least am going to fake that I’m not scared from the coming test until the fear breakdown.lol

Posted: May 7th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Getting a good grade in college is what everything a college a student should think or rethink about. because being a successful in college has never been just about attending class; there are three major steps that involved in how to get a good grade in college are being organize, managing time and be successful in class.

First being organized involve many steps such as using a note book or planner, saving all complete file on disk, get a phone number from a classmate, maintenance a neat and organize study space and take a good notes.

Second, as a college student managing time could be one of the hardest things a college student goes through; however, managing time could be like planning a head, making efficient use of time and studying smarter. For example finding a good place for study, know your learning style and getting started.

Third, being successful have many steps such as attending every class, learning how to adopt to different instructor, be prepared for each class, sit in front if it possible and communicate with instructors.

In conclusion, getting a good grade in college might have many steps or has many important points but is depends on each individual or student and how they think. These steps are attending every class, be organize, managing time, be successful, take good notes, knowing how to read college text too, studying smart and using text taking strategies. Now you know the steps, as a college student the options are yours; think and decide what is best for you because the life is yours. but i encourge you to do so!–is finals week..lol  

Posted: May 7th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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         Having a person who I can call a best friend, a special human being who had always been there for me when I needed, through the bad and good times a brilliant kind which is easy to friend but hard to keep; and I am pleased that I have one which I can called a best friend.

          However every minutes and seconds things changes till I realized now we were all been separated into two different worlds. One filled with love; the other filled with struggle. Living far away from each other but still tried so hard to keep in touch.

          Main while, by knowing that lots of things had changed since I’ve been away and it seems like I left her alone in a dry desert. Things had changed because time goes by fast; really fast to a point that makes me have not notice that my best friend is about to be 21 years old.

          However, thinking backwards about the time her and I were still in high school, acting such as wangsters but, now everything seems different. Each of us has been caring themselves as young adults, living a life filled with struggles and pain as a result of working hard toward future success.

          for me, to look at her situations it tear me a part seeing her doing the best she can to survive plus having nobody beside her to help or support her; no place for her own which she can call it a home, working too hard to help her family back at home and having dreams that seems impossible to achieve without having a special person to land her a hand and supports.

         The fact knowing that I am the human who she calls best friend, a person which she trusted with her deepest secrets and I cannot do something to help her makes me think that I am a loser and It’s just heartbreaking to me, which leads my thoughts to say “I wish if I can help”. Well, it does not sound even encouraging enough than a pain in a heart.

          However that’s life it has its ups and downs, so all I can think about now is to wish and pray for things to get better, and that’s why it’s heartbreaking to me, why? Because I think it’s my time for me to give her a hand just like she did when I need her; I mean financially and mentally… and isn’t that what a best friend suppose to do? But it sucks that I know I can’t because I am having a kind of similar situation which I needed to take care of it. I’m sorry I wish if I can help.

THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO SASHA…”I WISH IF I CAN HELP” 

Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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         Freedom is a word that excites almost everyone, but it can mean different things to different people. Personally, I used to think of freedom as when I turned the age of eighteen years old, so I can live my own life by my own rules instead of my parents. Because I realize that, life seems to be hard when there are so many rules to follow, which leads my mind to thinking that I’m not free. However, I already passed that age and I still don’t see any changes because the rules are the same as long as I live with them. In this case, freedom is dreadful to me and all I wanted were nothing than to escape from it, which was often a negative concepts it is a reaction against something.

            For now, freedom means to choose one’s own course of action. Freedom is something that exists in each person’s minds, the freedom to think something different from what considered freedom to express myself without fear and be different. Meanwhile, I agree that freedom is wonderful, and that we are already free by nature even though our minds tell us that we are not free sometimes. Also we leave a strong desire to be free which comes with responsibilities and determination.

            In conclusions I believe that freedom can be anything; it can mean a good life, it can be for or against, it can be just an illusion not a fact, it can be a free will or determination, and it can play a role as consciousness. But in the end I strongly agree with the quote from the popular songs which says, “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.” so tell me do u agree with this quote or you disagree? if you disagree what do you think the word freedom means to you?

Posted: April 4th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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          If I had that much money for sure and I know it’s totally hundreds percent free, I will get a two way ticket to fly to a beautiful places somewhere in Europe, maybe Rome or London but about the city or state it doesn’t matter why? Because Europe is the place I’ve always dreamed and wanted to visit and because of it’s interesting facts or histories that I heard or studies about which it really catches my attention especially the ancient histories and places that really makes me think about how and what happened during that time and how will it BE if I had to go back to that time and just experience how life was back than.

          And if I had extra cash money left I will spend it on shopping, relaxing, taking personal tours, sleeping in a fancy hotel and of course invite a friend to come along with me. But most of all I will make sure I will save some money to give it to my family to enjoy spending it with me. Last but not least, make sure that I will use some of them for a serious smile makeover so I can feel free to smile and enjoy my life with a bright smile that will give me confident in myself and feel strong about my future goals and dreams of being a future president, news host, professional soccer player or a role model to young people. SO TELL ME WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Posted: April 1st, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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