Emily’s Blog

OUTLINE:  SPEECH TO PERSUADE Name: Emily Stratton Due Date:  April 28, 2008 Topic: Organ Donation. Proposition Statement: Everyone should be willing to donate their organs.  Works Cited: 

Reid Arey Iv, William. “Become and Organ Donor Today.” 16 Apr. 2008 <http://www.unc.edu/~arey/organdonor2.html>.

Pennington, D. “Reasons to Become an Organ Donor.” Helium. 16 Apr. 2008 <http://www.helium.com/items/206472-handshow-driver-licensehow-years>.

“You Have the Power to Donate Life.” 16 Apr. 2008 <http://www.donatelifemobile.org/>.

Talbott-White, Frances. “Transplants Save Lives.” 16 Apr. 2008 <http://www.bryanskidneypage.org/bryan21.html>.

I. Introduction (write out in full)

II. Problem                                                                                        

            A. Not enough people are willing to donate their organs, so people are dying.                                                                           

            B. Over 7,000 people die each year waiting for an organ transplant                                                                  

            C. Statistics show that 54 children have died on the waiting list in Ontario while waiting for transplantation over the past five years. This is due to a critical   shortage of organs for transplantation                                                   

III. Causes                                                                

            A. People are afraid of donating their organs.                                                   

            B. People think that they may still have a chance of survival and are unwilling to             donate their organs.                                                     

IV. Solution            A. Everyone should check the organ donation box on their drivers license.            B. You could help to save several lives with the unselfish decision to donate your           organs.            C. It is the greatest gift you can give. V. Objections            A. How dead is dead? People think that the potential organ donor may still have            a chance of survival.

            B. Mutilation of the body. Many think that they will not be able to have open                 casket viewings or that the mutilation will interfere with religious beliefs.

VI. Conclusion (write out in full)

http://www.bryanskidneypage.org/bryan21.html

Has a ton of good statistics and facts about donation. Addresses concerns and common myths about the process. Adnswers questions that many people have about how the process works and what qualifys someone to become an organ donor.

http://www.donatelifemobile.org/

A ton of statistics about what donation can do. Tells about how one persons organs can save multiuple lives. Gives a lot of support for organ donation.

http://www.helium.com/items/206472-handshow-driver-licensehow-years

Facts and statistics. Addresses common misconceptions. Gives a really great analogy for donation organs. Compares it to a closet full of coats and hawaii.

http://www.unc.edu/~arey/organdonor2.html

Gives reasons to become an organ donor and links to find out more information on how to do so in your state. Gives several other links that relate to organ donation.

DONATE YOUR ORGANS!

Due to this unseasonably warm weather, I’ve decided to post a list of summery songs to give us a fix before the real thing can actually get here in 134 days (not that I’m counting)

One More Time – Mike Pinto

Bill’s Song – Mike Pinto

Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole

Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison

Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen

Don’t Speak – No Doubt

California Girls – The Beach Boys

Barbara Ann – The Beach Boys

Catch My Disease – Ben Lee

Come On Eileen (ska version =)) – Save Ferris

Run Around – Blues Traveler

Kiss Me Deadly – Reel Big Fish

Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams

Boys of Summer – Ataries

Dear Sergio – Catch 22

Keasby Nights – Catch 22

Kristina – Catch 22

Down on the Corner – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Have You Ever Seen the Rain? – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Follow You Down – Gin Blossoms

Iris – Goo Goo Dolls

Good Riddence – Green Day

Due to the fact that I’m a giant crank today, I am posting the playlist I listen to when I feel like crackin’ some skulls.

 Angry Music

Creature – Atreyu

Your Private War – Atreyu

Her Portrait in Black – Atreyu

Right Side of the Bed – Atreyu

Breakdown – Breaking Benjemin

Guarded – Disturbed

Stricken – Disturbed

10,000 Firsts – Disturbed

Bodies – Drowning Pool

Down With the Sickness – Disturbed

The Science of Stupidity – Limp Bizkit

Enter Sandman – Metallica

St. Anger – Metallica

State of the Union – Rise Against

BYOB – System of a Down

Son of a Plunder – Disturbed

**This playlist contains many many many bad words.

Today is a very auspicious day in my life. Today is the day I was accepted into my first choice of colleges. Everyone, please welcome Miss Emily into the NJIT class of 2012. I have had this little dark cloud of doom floating around behind me for awhile now. Since December 13th, (woa thats exactly one month ago) I have been waiting anxiously for my acceptance to college. A month may not seem like a long time, but when your future is on the line it feels like an eternity.  So, this morning when I recieved a call from my mom’s friend who is a close personal friend of the dean of honors at NJIT, telling me that I am accepted, I jumped up in excitment. I haven’t been this happy about something in quite a while. This is such a wonderful feeling. This is going to be a good day. I was accepted to college, it’s a good hair day, and I’m making a chocolate souflee and creme brule today. How much better can it get?

I just finished my poem post for Mrs. M’s blog. I like my poem. It rhymes. I am really not a huge fan of poetry. I find it incredibly difficult to understand. I hate hate hate when poets don’t say what they mean right off the bat. I hate having to search through it to find the meaning. I don’t want to have to word THAT hard to understand something.

 I also think symbolism is a big crock. How do you know that the author didn’t actually want the rock to just be a rock? Why does the rock have to symbolize something else? There is no way of knowing what EXACTLY was going through the writers head at that very moment. It just really bugs me. I hate that. I mean yes, there are some OBVIOUS symbols in books, but when you take every single little piece of it and break it down in the subdivisions among subdivisons it totally takes away the fun in reading. No one wants to sit there and disect each and every line of  a poem/book. I want to read a book for the sheer enjoyment of reading. I do not want to find hidden meanings in the left shoelace of the main character. I think its a tad obnoxious.

That’s my two cents. Ha.

It’s 5am and I Need to Sleep

Songs that help you drift to dreamland.

All at Sea – Jamie Cullum

At Last – Etta James

But For Now – Jamie Cullum

First Day of My Life – Bright Eyes

Dreamings – Schuman

Georgia on My Mind – Ray Charles

Hallelujah – Jeff Buckely

Hallelujah – Brandi Carlisle

Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles

High and Dry – Jamie Cullum

I’m Still in Love With You – Al Green

I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt

I Only Have Eyes For You – Jamie Cullum

If I Fell – The Beatles

In My Life – The Beatles

Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye

Layla – Eric Clapton (acoustic)

Nocturne #2 – Chopin

Photograph – Jamie Cullum

Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole

Speeding Cars – Imogen Heap

Swing Life Away – Rise Against

Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton

The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra

Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen

Turn Me On – Norah Jones

Walk In the Sun – McFly

Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

Wonderwall – Oasis

As you can probably see, I really love Jamie Cullum.

This is a good list. I fall asleep to this one every night. It’s also good if you just need to relax and chill out for a bit.

Enjoy.

I am beginning to believe the theory that men were put on this earth for one reason, and one reason only; to torture women. Currently, I am not a huge fan of the male species with a few exceptions here and there. I just don’t understand them. I thought I had a good grasp, but evidently I was terribly, terribly wrong. The differences between men and women have become surprisingly and annoyingly copious to me in the last month or so. I have learned that women are probably a little too emotional and that men are not nearly emotional enough. I find the male ability to recover from great emotional loss at such a quick rate absolutetly facinating and highly, highly obnoxious. I simply can not fathom how someone can go through a great loss and then perk right back up 3 weeks later. Also, I do not comprehend the male tendencies to lean towards females of dubious moral turpitude. Have they no self respect? I know not all males are bad, and that a good portion of them are good, it’s just the one that I’m talking about right now drives me to the looney bin. So I do not mean to offend any male readers in this post, I’m just venting.

 Boys are not even complicated. They really only think about a few things. But because they are so single minded and uncomplicated … it makes them SUPER complicated. They just don’t get it. Boys take a longer time to register feelings, I think.  They don’t realize how good they had it until they screwed it up. They don’t see that all it would take to have it all right back where it was is just to show up on a particular doorstep with a boquet of sunflowers, drop to their knees and beg for forgivness. A three step program. Really quite simple and yet the boy cant seem to even manage that. I would like to be Mel Gibson for just one day, except in reverse. I would like to know what men want. I would like to know what it is that makes them happy. I thought I was doing a great job, but apparently no. Not to sound conceited or arrogant or anything of the kind, but I think I’m a relatively good catch. I’m entertaining and nice. I bake, I actually like and understand football, I can crack a joke, I have blonde hair, I enjoy watching guy movies, even the ones about war and I’m not too annoying. See? I’m not so bad. So why doesn’t that one particular guy just not see that? Stupid Stupid Stupid. Truly, I apologize to my male readers, I really do. It’s just that one guy.

Today is my birthday! I love birthdays. I love presents. Yay. Well since today is Monday its Emily’s Playlist of the Week Day! Woooooooo. Today’s playlist will be birthday oriented.

 Glowing Candles and Birthday Cake

Sixteen Candles – The Crests

Happy Birthday – Pearl Jam

Unhappy Birthday – The Smiths

Birthday – The Sugar Cubes

Happy Birthday – Stevie Wonder

Birthday Boy – Pet Shop Boys

You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine – Ringo Starr

Harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan…..and World peace. Thank you Miss Congeniality. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

What do I want for Christmas? Hmmmm. Everyone has been asking me that lately and I honestly can not really think of anything that I really really want. I have an ipod a cell phone and most other teenagery ammentities. I don’t have a TV in my room, but I’m not dying for that. I’d really like a ’57 chevy bel aire but I know that’s simply not happening in this life time.

Now, at this risk of sounding sappy and obnoxious, which I normally am not, I guess what I really would like this year is for the next year to be better than this one was. I had a pretty tough year. My best friend of ten years and I parted ways over the summer and it was really rough. While we are cordial yet aloof now, it well never go back to the way it was. I would really like it to, but I know its just not going to happen. Another rough thing was that my boyfriend of a year and a half broke up with me about two weeks ago. That was very rough too. I still love him and I don’t really know what went wrong. I’d like him back, but I’m not holding my breath. Wow I sound like an emo kid. Sorry all. So for this year I really would just like an improvement on the last year. It was definetly not my favorite of years in my life.

I’d also like one of those little electronic sudoku thingies. I’m a sudoku maniac. =)