Daniela C Blog

Music helps people reduce the negative feelings we have, or at times it even makes us sad. Music has an impact on our lives, and we all enjoy listening to it no matter what. The songs I put mean a lot to me for a variety of different reasons.

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This song is me happy song in Spanish. It makes me feel at the happy every time I listen to it. This song also makes me remember one of my best friends, because every time we see each other we always play this song. (Mi ultimo deseo-banda los recoditos)

“Modernity has failed us”

This part of a song by the 1975 is a line i love, because now a days we see a lot of bad stuff going on in the world. As the years go by we are supposed to do better or to improved and be more modern than the past, but the song is saying how modernity has failed us. I feel like we see it with all the issues going on in the world. Also the song is good to listen. (The 1975-love it if we made it)

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This song is by the legendary Bon Jovi, and it makes me feel really happy and it puts me in a good mood. The first time I listened to it was when I was in the car with one of my family members. Ever since then I started listening to Bon Jovi and this song is my go to all the time. (Bon Jovi-living on a prayer)

“Don’t you stop right now
You can’t stop right now”(Russ-beggin you)

This line from a song is big to me, because it makes me want to keep pushing myself to do better. There is times when that I get too stressed to the point I want to give up in school. But when I listen  to this song it makes me remember I have to keep going and reach my goal.

“She just wanna feel alive”(Joji-test drive)

This song is so relaxing to me. When I’m stressed or feel like I need to breathe, I always put this song on. It makes me feel more calm.

People evolve over time

I evolve over time

Growing is my goal

Learning is necessary for me

There’s beauty inside knowledge

There’s also beauty in having fun

I like to explore and have fun

Enjoying life is my goal

I never thought my life was going to change in the span of two days  but it did. I woke up and saw a lot of messages in the family group chat, and decided to ignore them for a while. When I opened the messages all I saw was a poster that had my cousin’s picture on it, and with big red words on top saying “missing person”. I was confused and called my mom wondering why was it there, and she said “your cousin is missing” while her  voice was breaking. My mom also told me to have faith that shes going to be fine, and I did but only for a while.

After three hours of me knowing about my cousin going missing, I decided I needed to clear my head and go shower. While I was in the shower I heard a knock on the door and heard my mom’s voice telling me to hurry up. I got out the shower shortly after and got ready. As I was going down the stairs ready to leave the house I had an unpleasant feeling in my stomach. I saw one of my uncles there looking at the floor and my mom having these look on her face like she was numb to the whole world around her. I went up to my mom and said “you told me to have faith so please have some too” and she just looked at me and hugged me and told me she loved me. After a few minutes of my mom and I crying the three of us got in the car and left to go to my uncle’s house where the rest of the family was at.

When we got the my uncle’s house my whole family was trying to be strong for one another, but all of us wanted to cry. My mom was making calls to Mexico and asking my family if they have any updates, and every time was a “no”. As all of this was going on, I was seating on the couch quiet, wordless thinking about my cousin and all of the fun time we had together. I was loosing faith as more calls went on and all we kept getting was that no one knew anything, until we got told that our final option was going to a morgue to see if shes there. So, my aunt in Mexico went to a morgue and told us over the phone “we have to be ready it’s going to hurt if shes there but we have to be ready”. I wasn’t ready. After a few minutes of waiting she called us and said she wasn’t there, but as soon as she was leaving someone that worked there told her that they just brought a body with the descriptions of my cousin so she was going to go see. This time the feeling of waiting felt like a million hours, and the more time went by the more I was fading out of reality and just thinking about her. Finally, my aunt called us and told us “shes gone”. Her voice was breaking while she said it.

As soon as I heard those words, I fell to the ground and cried and as much as I tried to stop I couldn’t. It felt so real, and it was such a painful feeling. All the memories of us talking,laughing, and spending time together were racing through my mind. We were all devastated, and I  couldn’t process the fact that she was gone. I hated that feeling. The next day, we were all quiet fro a couple of hours. I went up to my mom and told her how I texted her phone telling her I miss her. I also said  sorry for the times I would be “too busy” for her, because now I wish i can go back and do things differently. For a whole week straight I would go in Mexico’s news and would see her name in articles and I would see how people would say stuff about her death when they didn’t know how it happened. Seeing all of those comments hurt, and i would constantly think “they don’t know so why do they feel the need to say something”. They were adding on to my pain and the rest of the family’s pain because of their comments. It was so much for me that eventually I  shut down completely  it felt like I didn’t know how to function anymore. I was so broken and devastated. A couple months passed and I started to learn how to deal with her death better, and to this day I send her messages telling her i miss her. Through all of this I learned to not take people for granted especially family, because life is unpredictable and we never know what it has for us.

When people go to war they tend to change, because all they know when they’re there is just war. Mary Anne went into the war being a good looking and sweet teenage girl, but left a completely different girl. There is many things that shaped Mary Anne into a different person, and one of them is that she started to get interested in the war and everything surrounding it. She started to ask about it, that some guys would find not “normal” because that was a mostly a guy thing to them. Due to her learning and actually liking everything that war brings made her turn into the cold person she ended up being.

In the book it did matter to the characters like O’Brien that Mary Anne was a woman. All the guys saw her at first as a really good looking girl, and they didn’t think that the war was going to change her. In the chapter we see a lot of foreshadowing from O’Brien that she was going to change. I mentioned earlier about her asking about war, but what really showed us that she changed was when O’Brien talked about how she look different. The beautiful bright eyes she once had were gone, and how she would just not care about her appearance. The biggest thing was when she started to wear a green bandanna.  By her making all this changes both physical and internally really showed us that she changed. O’Brien even went to the extend of saying how she was lost inside herself. After all the changes that happened to her, the guys started to not find her so attractive anymore because to them a woman was supposed to be feminine and she wasn’t anymore. A woman to them was supposed to be feminine like i said and obviously not cut people’s tongue off, but when she change they all saw her differently.

People go through a lot of changes when we get in a new environment or especially when we grow up. For some people transformation is a big thing that we tend to rush it at times, but for other transformation isn’t a big deal and they just let it happen. One example I can think of is teenagers. A lot of teenagers feel the pressure to change because, we feel the need to fit in. Some because they want to be accepted or others, because we want to find ourselves. When it comes to me transforming, was when i started to know who i was because when my freshman year started i was lost on who i was. Overtime passed I started to figure out everything because, of transforming myself. I would try new things and see what i liked and what i didn’t like. After some time i figured it out, and i’m aware i still have growing up to do but for right now i know who i am. Overall, just like Mary Anne in a way i also found who i am and turned into a different person from who i was when some people first met me.

 

This collage shows the beauty that we miss while looking at poverty. Even though most of the time we see it as bad, some of when see it or hear about me we start to appreciate everything we have. Pictures like this bring out the appreciation part of us, that at times we miss in our ordinary daily lives.

Everyone has a hero in their lives, some have a fictional  or a real life person but we all have one. Elroy does a lot for O’Brien that he even proceeds to call him his “hero of his life”. He took O’Brien in when he wanted to leave so he won’t go to war. Another big thing he did for O’Brien was that he was quiet and didn’t judge O’Brien for his decision.

Elroy is a hero to O’Brien for many reason but one of them is, because he gave him shelter,food, and work while he stayed there with him. “He might’ve sheltered a stray”(O’Brien 47), this is important to know because O’Brien considered himself a “stray” until Elroy took him for at least six days. In a way we can see the empathy Elroy felt for O’Brien, because he offered him money when he was leaving but O’Brien didn’t accept it but he still left him the money.Elroy probably thought that he will need the money at some point and gave him it. In this part you can see the type of person Elroy is. The type of person he is can be described as caring. In the part where he comes in we can see the caring side about him.

Another big thing Elroy does for O’Brien that’s the biggest thing is, he stayed quiet and didn’t judge him for his decision he took. Even though Elroy knows exactly what O’Brien is doing, he he keeps quiet and doesn’t say anything to him. BY Elroy doing so he is showing that he can be a trust worthy person. If it was any other person there is a chance that they could’ve said something, or just judge him. We can also see another characteristic of him, that he can be trusted with stuff. In the book it states “Without questions,without any words at all”(O’Brien 46). This statement is telling us the readers, that he didn’t question him or just say anything. It is mentioned at times that Elroy just stayed silent. O’Brien appreciated the fact that he was silent, because he already felt guilty.  If Elroy asked him questions or brought it up then he was going to feel worse than he already was feeling. If someone is doing something they already feel guilty for, and a person comes and asks them or brings it up then it is going to make any person feel worse about it. That wasn’t the case necessarily for O’Brien thanks to Elroy.

O’Brien’s hero is Elroy, he is a big part in his life and if it wasn’t for him O’Brien would’ve had a different story to carry. Everyone has a hero in their lives, it all differs in what way the hero is but everyone has one. A hero can mean and do a lot of different things. There is some people that they say they don’t have one, and their hero is themselves but everyone should be a hero either to themselves or to another person. I feel like we all at times also need an Elroy in our lives.

I’m a junior at Naperville North High School, I’m in the debate team. I joined the debate team because I like talking/debating on political topics. Also reading about politics is a thing i enjoy doing on my free time. Ever since i was a freshman, i have enjoy learning about politics.

My interests are: reading poetry, writing poetry, playing tennis, and also like i mentioned learning about political things in the world. In my freshman year, when i transferred to North one of my teachers got me into poetry, and ever since then i started enjoying it and i have collection of poetry books. My favorite author is R.H Sin. I started liking tennis back in middle school, but i don’t really want to join the team for the school.

I’m a very family oriented person. I like being with my family a lot, because being around them brings me a really peaceful and genuine happiness. I’m the only child, so as most people think yeah i am spoiled. Some of my family lives in Mexico, and some here in the United States. I do talk to my family in Mexico, and i see them when i can but it sucks at times that I can’t go to their house or see them as often as i wished i did. The person in my family that i’m closest to is my grandma, because ever since i was younger she has always help me with anything if she can. Even one time she made me a dress, and to this day i still have it because that dress is special because my grandma made it for me.

Since i’m Mexican, i do prefer eating Mexican food. One of my favorite meals i like to eat is something called “mole”, it is chicken with this sweet but spicy sauce. Some people make the sauce spicy or sweet, but i prefer it when it is both. I think the person that makes the best mole, is my stepdad. He makes it exactly  how i like it, not too sweet but not too spicy. In my opinion mole is the best food in Mexican culture. Other than mole i like to eat sushi, if i can eat it everyday i would.

Growing up i used to want to be a physical therapist, because i saw how much they make and i thought that was a lot of money and just jumped to it. As time went on and i started growing up, i started to realized that i’m a big believer in justice for people and lawyers help bring justice. When i started watch lawyers in action, it got me so happy because i want to help people get justice. I want to go to Bradley University in Peoria, ever since i started looking into colleges Bradley drew my attention because of how much people talk about it and say it’s a good college. Overall, i want to go to Bradley and i hope i do get in but i have to see what the future has in store for me.

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