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I think people around the world view others as different and also probably weird. I come to this conclusion from viewing people with a different perspective. I also think back to the times I went to the land down under and saw how the general public had certain reactions to people from different parts of the world. Since Australia is a separate land mass that serves as a place of mass trading there were tons of different people. I think this type of judgment comes from the subconscious thought of “I am from this place and we have done things this way and any other way is foreign”. A prime example of this is how some Canadians view the American “holiday” of Thanksgiving is weird or different since they do not celebrate do to it being an America exclusive holiday.

I think the film industry down plays addictions as a whole and covers it up by stating that it makes the movie more realistic and genuine. Unfortunately this also comes with negative consequences like people watching their favorite actors be portrayed as drug or alcohol addicts and could give a false justification for taking up an addiction since the films do not try in the slightest of ways to say that drinking or drug use is bad. In some cases, films will showcase a certain drink or drug since they are a major sponsor. A good example of this was the third transformers movie where almost every scene in the house or in the city had a Budweiser in it. On top of that, the main character would down it like water and make comments on how great it is.

But like any good drug, so many come back as repeat offenders. ______________________________ 140 words of your time… ~psd

Poor Myrle ran a poor organization. It didn't even have a website. Without a dime of funding in over three months, his hopes of helping people find themselves by way of evening drawing classes held in the basement of a church to which he didn't belong were now all but lost. Long ago he had been somebody, then nobody, then somebody again and now he was back to being a nobody. If, he thought, if he could bottle and sell the curves of life, the highs and lows, then he'd be rich enough to keep his organization going, in order to save more people from riding the proverbial roller coaster. But poor Myrle's experience in the universe's carnival had taught him one thing: the stuffed animals we win are mostly filling. So he sunk back into being nobody, for now.

[Short essays based on my conference paper, “Deterritorializing the World Web.”]

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