Luminous thoughts

Hi, my name is Michael, I'm about to be 20 years old. I'm currently attending college. I would have to say that traveling is one of my favorite things to do. I currently have been to the country of Turkey and Mexico, if everything goes well I will be traveling to Canada in the summer. My favorite sport of all time would have to be boxing. I would like to discus about certain topics that I feel are important. I will try to go into detail stating what I think about the topic and why this is important.

it's finally that time  I can’t believe this is my last blog assignment. Throughout the whole time I’ve been blogging I never would have imagined having so much fun doing it. Each assignment was exciting because each topic was different , each had a valuable lesson. The best thing was that each assignment was tied into our classroom discussions making it valuable because in the blog assignments you would get additional information about the same subject, for instance when we were talking about technology and its impact on people. For that week our assigned blog was to look at a clip from the movie entitled, “Wall-E” which showed a society where technology plays a heavy role in people’s life. You had to critically think and analyze the clip and write about it. This made me think about life and how it's being altered by technology. All of the blog assignments made me think about certain subjects that I really wouldn't think of. I would instantly be informed about ...

As I was watching the movie entitled, "The Truman Show" on Netflix, I couldn’t help but think about what my sister told me about this particular movie. She told me she watched it for her philosophy class and she gave me the readings that pertained to that movie. I read it and saw how the premise of it is transferred to the movie. The reading was about Plato’s Cave allegory and in short terms it makes you question the beliefs we have and if those truth, whether it is religion or politics or other aspects of our life that are not clear . It Take the 3 biggest religions in the world Christianity, Islam and Hinduism, while they might be our individual idea of the true religion, maybe only one is the absolute truth. Could it be that there is so such things as GOD or deities, if that's the case then everyone that believes in these religions are all living in a lie. After having these thoughts, it made me question if we will ever actually know the truth? Is what we bel...

Pink Slime used to make burger meat? The video entitled McDonald’s Pink Slime was quite interesting because I could relate to what the reporters. When I went to the country of Turkey I ate a McDonald’s burger and it tasted so much better compared to the ones sold in the United states. You could tell that the meat was better quality. I don’t understand why we don’t have this sort of standards in the United States. This got me think as to why is it that food like this is so much cheaper than organic food. Thanks to this incident the price of ground beef has gone up. This leaves consumers with two choices; to pay a higher price or pick the cheaper beef. It so much cheaper for consumers to buy these products. 

     I consider boxing to be one of the greatest sports ever because it has a little bit of everything in it; drama, excitement, and disappointment. Some people don’t have the financial backings to go to school or even afford certain things that we might take for granted, and this magnificent sport gives them the opportunity to take a name for themselves and become someone in life. This has been the case for many great boxers. In this sport, anything can happen because it only takes one punch to change everything. People might think that the prize fighter is going to win but the underdog does the unthinkable and knocks the other person out.  This sport is very exciting because we get to see two fighter going head to head, trading blows until one is considered the winner. Each fighter trains for months preparing for that moment when they face each other in the ring. Each day pushing themselves to the limit. It's so interesting when fighters promoting ...

Have you ever seen the documentary entitled Fresh? This documentary is trying to serve two purposes; to inform people about the food industry, and advocating for a better alternative.  This film informs people about several methods that industrial farms practice in to produce more food, for instance, farmers were feeding cow meat to the other cows. This would cause cows to grow much faster than feeding them the traditional food they eat. It also informed people about all of the drugs that are given to the animals and the mass production of these animals. Intensive animal farming causes problems because it creates a living environment where diseases and infections flourish. The farm lands where the crops are being farmed are sprayed with so many things to kill several insects, and it being way to new bugs and new problems. The solution that was proposed instead of industrial farming is organic farming. Organic farming uses the ecosystem to function and produced fresh foods tha...

   Yesterday boxing fan was able to witness another spectacular performance from the Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez. Alvarez faced undefeated British fighter Liam Smith for the WBO lightweight championship of the world. Canelo didn’t let the people down, dropping Liam in the 9 th round via a monstrous body shot. Liam was knocked out and couldn’t continue. My respect goes to Liam because he came to fight and he did. He gave Canelo a fight trading blows with him. If Liam had more power in his hands there might have been a different winner. Canelo showcased his superior boxing skills, but is he ready for Golovkin? What if it was Golovkin hitting Canelo? After the fight, he was asked about the fight with Golovkin and Canelo said, “I fear no man. I was born for this and even though many people may not like it, I'm the best fighter now...we're ready for him. About a month ago, we offered GGG three or four times as much to make the fight. I'm 26 years old and I'm t...