Most of the time, you can turn on the news and find a new report of some celebrity giving their opinion on some political views. They are either for the war, against the war, for same sex marriages or against, want to bring our troops home, or just hate President Bush. But is it [...]
May 29, 2007
Categories: American Culture, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: Leave a Comment
This entire experience of blogging for me has been a difficult one. I am not an argumentative person. I hate to debate and argue with people. I’m just not into it. So to be made to express my opinion about the world has been torture for me. I have my own opinions, but I [...]
May 29, 2007
Categories: To Our Group, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: Leave a Comment
Scripture encourages us to be in the world, but not of the world. But because we have so much homework assigned we can’t even be in the world. We never get a chance. We are trapped in our rooms doing homework.
May 29, 2007
Categories: Living, To Our Group, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: Leave a Comment
As I have been working on my Bible paper that deals with different religions I have been realizing how I do not witness to people as often as I should. In my Bible paper I was assigned the section on two keys to witnessing to my specific religion, Buddhism. Going through the ways to witness [...]
May 29, 2007
Categories: Christianity in America, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: Leave a Comment
This article is an anecdote of a person whose show was ruined by a group of Christians. These Christians went into the performance and poured water all over his original show outline. This act is a disgrace to Christianity everywhere. This group of Christians might have thought they were doing something good because they didn’t [...]
April 23, 2007
Categories: Christianity in America, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: 2 Comments
The price of college has sky-rocketed to outrageous amounts in the last few years. The prices “average more than $22,000 for private schools and almost $6,000 for state schools.”(Fox News) This has caused many people to speculate if the students should get a “free ride through college” or if they should pay for some of [...]
April 23, 2007
Categories: American Culture, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: Leave a Comment
When someone thinks of cafeteria food, they usually will think of mystery meat or disgusting food. But many schools are changing their menus to include healthy, nutritious meals. But some parents feel that they are being “undermined” of their authority to choose what their child eats because of vending machines offering junk food and [...]
April 23, 2007
Categories: American Culture, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: 1 Comment
Most people in our generation have some type of blog, live journal, or myspace page, but are they safe. In a report from foxnew.com, it talks about people posing as celebrities on myspace. We all know that we should not talk to strangers and be careful of predators on the internet, but what if we [...]
April 23, 2007
Categories: Living, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: 4 Comments
I am pretty sure that I am not the only person who is feeling this now, but I’m completely burnt out. I am just drained by all the responsibilities that are given to me from school, home, and work. Over the last few days my schedules has consisted of going to school, then straight to [...]
April 17, 2007
Categories: Living, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: 1 Comment
We are a group who are striving to make our voices heard through a generation that focuses on “whatever.” We want it to be known that we will no longer be silent. We will make our voices heard. We hate being associated with “generation whatever” and wish to separate ourselves from it, only in [...]
March 20, 2007
Categories: About Us, oliviacaroline . . Author: shut-up-lenya . Comments: 1 Comment