So I first thought this was a research paper for some reason, then I on Friday I noticed that it was a persuasive. So after having written a little about my topic on PRACS, I realized that it really wouldn't work out as a persuasive essay. So I had to come up with a new topic with the help of my brother. He said something about being smoke free, MSUM already is, but NDSU is not. So I decided to do a paper on having a tobacco free campus at NDSU.

Going against my thesis about PRAC research I would say that it could be a very dangerous situation. First thing is that you have to spend a lot of time there for screening appointments, the study, additional studies, and check-ups, which can be every morning for awhile. The facilities have hundreds of people there everyday and easy for something to go around and get people sick. And most of the time you go through many blood draws, and with all of the needles going in and out something could really go wrong.

The main point is that is the medication your taking going to hurt you in the long run? I know someone who got headaches and other small problems during and a short time after a PRAC Study, but will he have any long term, and what if you get something that you are alergic to and don't know it. It sounds like a lot of money in a short time, but there are to many risks of doing it.

I recently signed up for a PRAC study and that got me thinking. People are always so worried about PRACS and I was wondering is it really worth the money?

In my essay about PRAC study research, I would like to find out the risks of doing PRACS, what they test and how the get results. Who funds the program and is it worth the cash for the risk.

Thesis: Some may argue that a PRAC study is dangerous and risky event that can damage your body and have lasting side effects, but it is a way for people to help out research on beneficial medicine and in a very short period of time earn some cash.

I think that a lot people think it's like donation your body to science, but I think it is more of a way to help out in finicial situations and a way to help medicine research.

I don't know if we are able to pick from any topic we like, or something that obtains to our surrounding area. If it is totally free I would like to do something on the moon landing or 9/11. If we can't and have to do something around our neighborhood to persuade something I would have to think a little first.

Adding a walk way to campus. The ones like UND and Concordia that shelter people through harsh weather. MSUM doesn't have that big of a problem because of its size, but maybe for NDSU.

Why the wellness center being built at MSUM is well worth the money.

Reason why the tobbaco plan is working...

I still really don't get how the blurb is supposed to work, but I'll try my best to do it from what I got out of the lecture.

The very basics of life can change throughout time. Mark Gerving, like many people grew up in a big family. When growing up, some people had to share a bedroom with a brother or sister, but for Mark he had five others to share with. Through a life of hard work being a machinist, Mark has come to own his own 2,500 sq. foot house with a three stall garage for his Corvette. Every style of life has changed throughout the years, but its the ones that have to work for them that really tell the story.

I have compiled a list of questions, but I don't know who I should interview now. Mr. Fair would be a good choice, but it would be hard to get an actaul invterview out of him.
I'm going home for a family reunion tomorrow so I guess I can ask an aunt or uncle there. That should work.
I tried to get my questions to focus around the person's life, from beginning to the end and more.

So far these are the ones I have.


Describe you childhood, where you were born, your home?
What was your family like?
What did you do for activities?
Did you have to do chores or work for money?
Describe your school years, did you play any sports?
Did you have any child hood hobbies?
Did you go anywhere for vacations? What was your favorite spot?
Besides vacations what other family events did you do?
What was your favorite band as a child?
What did you want to be when you were older?
Who did you look up to as a young adult?
What did you do after school? Then after that?
What have been some of your jobs, favorites, and worst?
What kind of person would you describe your self as?
How have basic living changed in your lifetime?
Have you had any life changing events?
What has been your life’s greatest accomplishment?
What is your favorite memory of your past?
What do you still want to get out of life?
What are some past events that you would change in your life?

It was tough deciding who I wanted to interview, being from a small town you don't really meet a lot of people that have actually done something in their lives that is worth interviewing. Yeah there are some people that do some cool things, but I don't know if there is enough to get 5-7 pages worth. I went through some people I knew that would be the best and it came down to either a friend or a brother. Then one day when some friends from my hometown were talking one of our teachers were brought up into conversation. I never even thought about my history teacher until then. Mr. Fair, my history/geography/economics/law and justice teacher all throughout high school taught me and told hundreds of stories. This guy had done everything in life, been to all the states except Hawaii and Alaska, drove bike with Jay Leno and plenty of crazy things that most people don't do in a lifetime. Besides being an adventurous person, Doug Fair was very smart and talented. In high school he played football, basketball, baseball and track. He went to state in almost all of those and even holds records for some events. Being our history teacher, he knows plenty of things about the World. He can name every country and its capital, and knows a variety of languages, but not to their full extent. I know enough information about Mr. Fair to write a book on him.

I'm going home on Friday of this week, so that is when I'll do my interview. Either talk to him at a football game or a volleyball game. He is always in the same spot and will gladly do a quick interview. For some of the questions I want to ask him about is child life. I know some things like his parents died when he was young and his older sister took care of him. But there are so many things that he has done in his life that I would like to know how he got into it all.

I'd have to ask if all of his stuff is true, though a lot of it seems sketchy, but he always sticks to his word and sometimes has proof of the stuff he has done, like a newspaper article of him in the newspaper with the governor of North Dakota at a high school basketball team, while they were both playing.

So I haven't really decided on a topic, nothing seems to able to be 4 page worthy. It's easier if you could have a bigger subject that's not so similar. With people it would be a lot easier, they have their stories and actually have a thinking mind. Unlike something that is so closely related that its hard to tell the difference. I don't know what would really work, but I think I'm going to go with the example that was on the sheet that had the assignment on it. Halo 1 compared to Halo 2, having played the games a good amount of time, I know a lot about their basic game play and some of the deeper ways the game has changed.

Halo 1 was a milestone in gaming history. Being only to carry two weapons in the game gave it its lifelike feel, but having the futuristic effects it made the game fun. Halo 1 didn't have Xbox Live, so you couldn't go online and play other people, so you had to invite all your friends over and play on a LAN network. We would have 8 or even 16 of us almost every day at our house, bunched up in our separate rooms, screaming at the top of our longs telling our teammates what to do. Halo 1 was a lot of fun, we spend hours finding out all the little glitches that resulted in unfair behavior while playing serious matches.

Halo 2 was a lot like halo 1 in game play, but had a whole new layout with Xbox Live. Instead of having people at your house, we would connect to the internet and play over Live. Then games got more serious, with greater competition. Soon we were again LANning at each others houses, this time though to play online as a team. The nights would end up being sixteen hours long and our days were nights. The Halo addiction kicked in and we were never the same.

Now it's Halo 3, but we don't want to get into that.

My topic from last essay would have worked better this time then the last, then I wouldn't have had to change so much about it...So topics...

Things in my room that I see...Clothes, shoes, books, tv...Difference between types of TVs. That could work because even though 720i and 1080p may look a lot a like in quality, a progressive scan has double the picture as an interlaced, which is the i in 720i.

I really don't want to do something with electronics though so I don't know about the TV idea. Coke and Pepsi, they look the exact same, without the can though, but I guess there are some differences that people can tell in them.

I like the idea of Coke and Pepsi, but I don't know if there is enough to write about with them.

My essay does kinda become a compare and contrast, but if this was about juices their would be an orange and an apple and no others so it gets really hard not to compare my orange to the apple without having it seem like its a compare and contrast. Maybe there is some foreign drink that I don't know about, but from personal experience I have never tasted any other juice.

Going home for the weekend I basically had to think about what I was going to write for, because my computer was left here and my mom doesn't have hers yet, so I couldn't really blog. I got back late so I was busy doing other stuff, writing my paper. I finished what was left of it earlier today when I remember that I had to blog. I decided to go with PCs and why they are better than any other computers with my thesis being...Microsoft’s PC is far superior to any other computer in the world.

My essay does kinda become a compare and contrast, but if this was about juices their would be an orange and an apple and no others so it gets really hard not to compare my orange to the apple without having it seem like its a compare and contrast. Maybe there is some foreign drink that I don't know about, but from personal experience I have never tasted any other juice.

I only saw the comment about the paper not supposed to being a compare and contrast after I had wrote most of mine, but I will try and switch things up in the next draft.

I am not totally sure on what I'm going to write about, its either pcs are superior to macs or halo is an unskilled game. I'm going to think about it over the weekend since I'm going home. I have a long drive home so I plan on deciding then. But for either one there is so much stuff to go against each other and it ends up in an endless argument that always tends to happen with electronics and stuff involving computers/consoles. I'll explain more about what ever topic I'm going to write about in my next blog. So as of now I'm undecided between the two.

Hey Low

The things I know a lot about in life are video games and computers. There are many topics you can do with a video game, which game is better, what console is better... and so on. But with computers there is one that stands out way above the rest, PC vs MAC. Everyone knows about the feud of the companies and all of the ads on TV. I have used a PC my whole life and just started to use Macs here at campus. I find Macs to be a pain, they are supposed to be good for editing programs and stuff but I find not having a right click utterly "pointless." It makes you always having your finger on you keyboard when your other is trying to get a soda and you have to drop it because your mac doesn't let you right click. Besides editing there are two other things to do on a computer, finding information for documents using the world wide web or playing games. The PC outshines the Mac by a whopper load on the games and in my opinion using the internet. But with all of this stuff on PC and Macs I think I would still rather do my Essay on a video game for the xbox 360. That is Halo. Halo is by far one of the funnest game series of all time, no doubt. But with its newest release Halo 3 the game has become a noob colony. It takes five days to get good at the game, you just have to go around looking for a rocket launcher or hope to god you get host or else your screwed. Auto aim, though better than halo 2, is still shalpskie. You just have to let your controller do the work for you and you win. When you get to higher levels though competion gets harder and thats where it gets fun, but all that fun gets replaced with anger when a seven year old tbags you after dying. Which in turn cause yelling and high pitch ringing. Finally when it comes down to actual gameplay, you can never rely on the game, you could snipe a guy dead on in the face and it will count as a miss, then you watch the film of how you die in theatre mode and you see the scrub shooting a bullet off three walls and doesn't even hit you and you still die. Even though I love halo the little things about it piss me off so bad, thats why I stick to Call of Duty 4 nowdays.

a Sign Mint

For this assignment I am supposed to reflect on my essay on learn from it. I kinda did my essay different. I didn't have a real life story line so it was not an actual experience that I personal had, but one I had in my mind while playing a game. I had moments of my actual self playing the game, and doing some other things. I liked the outcome of mine, it was just a non shalont(?), can't even find a word that makes it work, but it was kinda just a moment in life that I wrote about, nothing really excited, but its what I like to do in life. I also wrote it 5 pages long without realizing it was a 2 to 3 page paper. I had to size it down a lot...a lot. It lost a lot of important details about the game story, but it wasn't even about the game, more about the experience. Thats all for now, see you next time on...my blog.

Essay in ten sentences.

I wake up from the soft voice of a women. She tells me that I'm a test subject, but I don't know what for, or for where and why. I come about a device that creates portals, the ones you walk through and go to another place, those ones. Finding my way through various, increasingly harder puzzles. My every move is being watched, I can shoot the cameras with my portal device, but then she tells me that it will disrupt my training exercises. For hours I've been "playing" but no nothing of what I'm doing. She tells me at the end there is cake, I love cake. In areas with no cameras I've been finding wall writings, past subjects, telling of the experience in here. They tell me I will not live, then I break free, she says there is cake. I find her in here lair, shes a machine, run by people whom I will never know. I defeat the monster and escape the prison. With a long stretch I push away from my desk, there was no knock on the door, no interruptions, it was me enjoying time with a video game.

I don't really know any events in my life worth writing a paper about but I guess I should blog and figure something out. I've been to Montana a few times for hiking trips with friends that had some funny moments. There is basketball stories, football, youth rallies... Injuries might be good to do.

Hmm... well I really don't know where to begin... When, why, and how I write? I guess I write when I have to, for school mostly. I guess I post a lot on the internet but its not exactly writing. Why? If I don't I won't pass the class now would I, just like I'm doing now. And how? I write randomly but creatively, being an artist I like to write with an abstractness but also with a meaning that sometimes only I can define what it truly means.

Other then basic short stories and essays for school, I spend the other 95% of my writing and reading on the computer. I spend a lot of my free time on forums, mostly about gaming or digital design, so there really isn't a lot of actual writing going on, but it still counts.

I don't like blogging.....

Moving on.

For inspiration I usually think of something that I know a lot about. When I write papers for class I'd rather use personal knowledge then looking stuff up on a subject I have no clue about. I hate(dislike) writers who try to hard to sound like they know what their doing, having no creative control and just following the basics of a good paper, hoping to get an A. I also don't like things that drag on, stuff like math. Time to go.