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The United States is now notorious for our consumption of ludicrous amounts of energy. The majority of European nations was at one point standing in our shoes. Over the last decade, they have been turning to both nuclear energy and using more renewable energy sources in their efforts to go green.

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El libro es muy diferente de la pelicula que vi cuando era niña. Lewis Caroll tiene una mente muy rara y ve todo diferente de la persona normal. Cuando estoy leyendo este libro siento que estoy adentro de un sueño que tuve cuando era niña chica. Es muy divertido para mi leer este libro, y imaginar todo lo que estubo pasando en la mente de Lewis Caroll cuando escribio este libro.

reflexion 1. el libro que yo estoy leyendo es muy interesante. Se llama Alicia en el pais de las maravillas. Es un libro de fantasia, y es muy rara. Lo que me gusta de este libro es que yo solo supe la historia de cuento de niños, y de la pelicula. Lo que esta pasando aurita es que alice estubo leyendo y vio a un conejito blanco y lo seguio hasta llegar a un ollo y se cayo adentro. adentro cosas raras le pasan a Alicia y crece, y se hace pequeña y aparece como un sueño!! yo misma no habia leido lo que escribe Lewis Caroll quien en realidad esta un poco loco. Me esta gustando mucho este libro porque esta loco, y en español! Si, lo recomendaria.

• el título de la novela, el / la autor(a) 
  
• el género 
  
• el trama (hasta ahora) 
  
• predicciones que tienes sobre el trama
• los personajes (hasta ahora)
  
• ¿Te gusta hasta ahora? ¿Por qué? 
  
• ¿El libro se relaciona con algun aspecto de tu vida? ¿Cómo?
• ¿Recomindas el libro? ¿Para quién? ¿Por qué? 

So far my project is going really great. I am still in the Pre-Story phase, but the main story is about to start on Thursday. Some problems that I have been running into is remembering to post frequently. A great amount of post and updates are a major part of who my character is and how I want to build her story but I often forget to post.  I do find myself though posting things I'm really thinking for her. I think it's good because it gives it a real life feel. I am really worried about starting the real story because I want to execute it right so that my story makes sense. Other than that everything is going well.

Since Sunday afternoon, I have been posting on Twitter through my phone. I am just beginning my story so I am very excited about keeping up and attempting to tell my story through Twitter posts. I'm not very interested in Twitter, nor have i ever really used it, so this should be really interesting, aha. My time line and details are done and have started the process that is necessary​ to complete this project so I can only hope that it will turn out well. I am also following Mr.Chase so I hope he follows me back. Feel free to follow me(:

Search my email: iammelissaaxo@aim.com

So, I have finally made my tumblr account and I am pretty excited about it. I'm still contemplating on how I should do the videos and how I should word the post. I want to make sure I don't use every single piece of my story in every post. My plan is to have enough diversity of thoughts and the true story combined in the many post. Other things like music and photos my character enjoys will be on the tumblr account. Im quite excited for the outcome of the finishing product. 

I'm running behind on my timeline purely because I'm picky. I don't want to start this twitter page for this 6 year old an have her first post be at an unreasonable time. But over the past few days I haven't been available to make her first post at a reasonable time. I'm interested in the way that this profile will play out because I can't see people following this girl on twitter, but maybe that's me. It's probably gonna play out well regardless. I'm excited about using the twit pic app of twitter, and the trending topics to apply to my character's personality. This should be fun. 

I'm a little behind of my timeline because I don't have a charger for my laptop to complete my tweets but did get a chance to create a Twitter account today. I tweeted my first tweet and I have a feeling that my story will be told through my character successfully through twitter. This week I plan on being more engage in finding pictures to support my story. Overall I'm doing alright in the benchmark process.

Alright, I just made my characters twitter account. This looks like it might actually be fun. Though, I have a feeling it can get real old, real quick. I set up a few tweets for tonight and tomorrow morning. I want to come up with some more... at least for all of tomorrow. That way, tomorrow, I can set up some stuff for all of Thursday and maybe Friday. By Friday I want to have all of the tweets set up through the next week. I figure if I'm a week ahead I won't miss any posts and it won't require attention from me daily. 

I sort of don't know what to tweet about though, as his daily life. I'm sure questions he would have are different than the ones I think of for him. I have a decent idea of what I want to say for monday when he goes back to school, but I'll have him stay home until then. Today is only tuesday.What adventures can i send him on for the next few days? Hopefully something that will reveal how he got amnesia in the first place and something about his dad. Maybe I will have him visit the cemetery... hmm... something...

Since my character is away on vacation she has limited internet access. But she can get online at the town library, which she rarely likes to go to. I did make a tumblr account for her though, and throughout the story she will make a few post on it. But because of her limited web access she keeps a journal. I will keep record of that journal on word. Next, I will be deciding what type of friends she has on tumblr and what things she will post in her brief postings. 

I have the blue prints and time line done for my story now all I need to do is start tweeting. My first tweet will be on Thursday. 

Over the last week, I have created a Facebook account for my character.  I have uploaded pictures that detail her life, added interests and personality information and created an academic profile.  Currently, she has 13 friends, but I hope to increase that number by publicizing through my own Facebook.  There is ongoing conversations on her page, and she is becoming a living, breathing entity.  

My next step is to create a Twitter account for her, which will allow me to schedule my tweets for the actual action of the story.  Since it happens within the course of a few hours, this all needs to be set ahead of time, using socialoomph.com (hopefully). I originally planned for the climax to occur on April 11th, but may choose to move that up, so it fits into the third quarter.  

The process is in its beginning stages. I have created a tumblr account chuckandcrew.tumblr.com for my character. I am in the process of creating a couple other tumblrs that intertwine with my character to show its realistic view. I am going to use this as my only tool since twitter is now not needed in the works of what I am doing. I believe I can accomplish alot with tumblr since it has alot more items and tools to work toward.​

​Mongolia vs. Israel website

Mongolia is a fairly undeveloped country, where 25% of the population live as nomadic herders.  It suffers from a variety of environmental problems, given their desert climate, such as drought, desertification, soil erosion and forest fires.  The country also has very low clean water resources.  Israel is also a desert climate that suffers from water scarcity and pollution, although both issues are being thoroughly addressed with desalinization plants and environmental policy.  

Mongolia is a fairly neutral country that attempts to maintain friendly ties with most developed countries in Asia, Europe as well as the United States. The only hostility is within the country between Mongolians and Chinese workers.  Israel, on the other hand, has hostilities surrounding it. It has no trade partners in the Middle East, but compensates for this by trading with the U.S. and EU.  It's strongest enemies are Palestine, Iran and Syria. 

This five-point framework was very straight forward.  The topics were clear and easy to research and provided a thorough overview of each country.  I began this project with reading each country's profile on the CIA Factbook.  This provided a general understanding of the issues that plague each country.  I then searched for news articles and scholarly publications about specific topics.  I chose to present my information in the form of a website.  I figured this would allow me to include visual components as well as create lengthy pieces of writing, which I am most comfortable doing. I am very pleased with the final product.

If I could change one thing about my website, I would include a more visual representation of the 5-point framework.  I used colors, but it would have been great to include a sliding scale image.

As I researched the issues that my countries faced, I realized how closely related my countries were.  Although they are located in completely different parts of the world, they both face a water crisis and desertification.  The world is truly one society that faces many common problems.  It is our responsibility to work together through globalization to protect it. 

Woke up, stumbled out of bed, and got dressed in black pants, boots and the sweater he bought me. I brushed my teeth and hair and did my makeup half halfheartedly because it would be running down my face later anyway. We all left to go to my grandmom's, while there I drained a can of Pepsi because I'd need the caffeine today. I sat in the room full of people draped in black until the limo came. Then I jumped in the truck with my stepdad and little brother and made my way to the funeral home, he was exactly how we had left him last night; face stuffed with cotton, makeup everywhere, cold and hard. They made it look like he was smiling, but it wasn't his smile. The room seemed to grow smaller in the hour we all sat there, maybe 20 of us all together. We took turns going up in groups, holding his cold hands and each other's warm ones. Tears broke through everyone's blank masks, sobs ripped up the throats of the more emotional people. Everyone there held each other close while the priest spoke words of kindness before leaving to prepare for the mass we were holding at ten for anyone that happened to show up.
We all watched as they closed the casket; cue more tears and sobs, long hugs and gripped hands keeping us all connected to one another even when we were farther apart. My cousin, Patrick, and I grabbed a ton of tissues before we followed the casket out to the front where our marked cars sat, we climbed in and made our way to the church. Inside we were surrounded by statues of saints and mock-up scenery of a desert that Jesus walked through for forty days before being crucified. His casket stood in the middle of the aisle before the alter, a white sheet laid over it with golden crosses embroidered in it and a crucifix lying where his head was against the white pillow inside. I walked by to the altar to read from "The Prophet Isaiah" and again to go back to my seat to watch and listen to the rest of the mass. When the mass had ended I followed the casket back out of the church and watched as the funeral home director placed a flag over him.
We then went to the cemetery; the memorial for veterans, he fought in Korea. We sat there waiting for what seemed like hours and then followed a National Guard soldier to a small place with a white sheet overhead. We barely felt the cold wind bite at our faces as rifles rang out, every bullet piercing the heart of every one gathered there. We listened with hot tears making tracks down our faces as a soldier played Taps and a flag was presented to my grandmother. And then we left, leaving a little piece of ourselves there within a casket, within him.

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Never Made a List Before But Here We Go. 

1. Dress colors
2. Budgets 
3. Dress style  
4. Prom tickets 
5. Budgets
6. Dress. 
7. Shoes. 
8. Hair. 
9. Make- up.
10. Budgets
11. Accessories. 
12. Jewelry
13. After prom 
14. Hotels
15. Beach house  
16. Budgets 
17. Friends 

With my benchmark I am doing pretty good. I have decided to do my benchmark using Twitter as my tool.  I have posted my first post for my two characters.  I hope to make a least one post a day for the characters.  Until around Friday post from the story will not be seen.  Only post where the character talks about her day, or says a positive note.

She threatens to leave all the time. 
I never really react. 
I honestly expect it. 
Wish for it. 
Then maybe there would be peace
For once. 
She threatened to leave last night. 
Packed a bag. 
And left. 
I didn't really react. 
I expected it. 
Wished for it the moment before. 
Hoping for peace
For once. 
Unsurprisingly she came back. 
I knew she would. 
She's too predictable. 
But one day
She'll actually go away
And I doubt I'll react 
Unexpect it
Unwish it 
But there probably won't be any peace 
For a while

This week will be kind of crazy for me when it comes to school because I'm so behind on work plus benchmarks. That PSU trip kind of pushed me back some. Its time to get to work.

I don't know who to blame or direct my annoyed tone at. My Student Aid Report for Penn State was utterly disrespectful. The Office of Financial Aid didn't feel that I was eligible for a work study. I didn't qualify for any scholarships, and though I was offered most of the federal pell grant, I was only offered a few grand in federal loans. My financial aid package would cover less than 1/3 of my freshman tuition. Now, it's not entirely FAFSA's fault. However they decipher information is their own process. But it's still confusing. I live in a house with four brothers and 2 sisters. Two unemployed parents. There are some underlying factors of income, but even still. Where in the equation does it seem that I can afford to pay for two thirds of my education? 

I don't think I'm gonna party much in college. Maybe it's a fun place to be when you're drunk, but a 110 degree room with stereos blasting the same songs twice just isn't my scene. Once they get a.c and start playing songs I know, I'll be there most definitely. 

I'm tired of the laziness. It takes but 5 minutes to log in and write a few sentences. I'm changing this around today.