sunday sunday.
Feb 4th, 2007 by Ali
so, i did not celebrate super bowl sunday. instead, i did some shopping, and saw “children of men” with billy. lovely time. even squeezed in hw during the morning. i liked this sunday a lot. now go make babies before everyone is infertile and cameras die and i start wearing my “over the rainbow” sweater for $3 every day.
also, have to do this for kyle. do it, too! NOW!
1. I’ll respond with something random about you
2. I’ll challenge you to try something
3. I’ll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I’ll tell you something I like about you
5. I’ll tell you my clearest memory of you
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you
8. I’ll tell you whom I would cast as you in the movie of your life
9. I’ll murder the person you hate the most
10. I’ll tell you what flavor of ice cream I think your blood probably tastes most like
11. I’ll performing a musical strip-o-gram for your birthday
12. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours
For Kyle, I put…
1. Leprechaun
2. Eat a four leaf clover
3. Green
4. That you are Irish
5. Sometime when you were giggling
6. Turtle
7. Why are you so tall?
8. Adam Brody
9. That mean teacher who picks on you
10. Raspberry
11. Dude- for some reason, I chose “I’ve Got Friends in Small Places”
12. Done.
sweeet, adam brody is perfect.
and i’m really not all that tall, just compared to you i guess i am.
Because I could not send this to myself, I post it here.
Paper One
The question is, “Do the benefits of revolutions outweigh their costs?”
Some might say yes, some might say no. I would like to direct this question to the subject of the Philippine “People-Power” revolution. The Goldstone text covers this topic in the minutest way, briefly mentioned and explained, dwarfed by essays on other countries with their bigger and more substantial revolutions. In comparison to the multiple essays on, for example, the Russian revolution, only the bare facts are presented here explaining the People Power movement.
Is this even a revolution worth mentioning in this context? Even without immense knowledge on the subject, I know that the Philippine revolution was peculiar in its ways. Goldstone even mentions that the revolution was “unusual in several respects” (page 245). It was a revolution that did not fit perfectly with the common definition of a revolution. I feel that for a revolution to even be valid there must be… violence, long periods of suffering, and forceful overthrow of evil powers. But what do we make of a revolution that remained somewhat peaceful? That is not the point here, however. I want to give the Philippine revolution a little time a little time in the sun, a chance to be known. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the country’s pursuit of change? But even more importantly, what caused the need for a change at all?
The Philippines gained their Independence from the United States in 1946. This new found freedom came after centuries of rule by other international powers. On their own, the Philippines came into conflict with issues such as how to deal with their own government, on their own terms, for the first time.