Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Saturday, October 29, 2011

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Heartless? Child hit by car.. twice, bystanders take no notice.

Now this has already been out for roughly a month now, but only recently did I have some time to research into this situation. First of all, it surprises me beyond belief that no one would help a injured child lying on the street. I can understand, MAYBE and that's a huge maybe that people generally don't want to cause trouble for themselves. However, I feel that there's a fine line between selfishness and selflessness. It's always hard to distinguish when you should go out of your way to help a stranger. For example, if you saw a homeless man asking for money, or an injured child lying on the street. Does the child necessarily deserve help more than the homeless person? Now, I'm not here to answer questions like that, instead, I would like to discuss this specific situation. In the situation below (I've included a video in this post) The child is hit by a truck/car twice, it doesn't take much to make a phone call or alert some other people of an injured child. Unfortunately, not one bystander even goes so far as stopping for a second look. If it's not part of our instinct to help others of our kind in pain, then the word "human nature" truly needs to be re-defined. In more shocking revelations, the driver of the car that first hit the child defended himself by saying it would be cheaper for him to pay the parents off after the child dies than having to pay for hospital bills. Now if you watch the video, you'll realize that the child is first hit, then the car stalls a bit, but then runs the child again with the hind wheel. If the driver even had a little bit of logical reasoning, he would've checked on the condition of the child and continue to make his decision based on the well being of the child. Instead he automatically assuming a fatality and drove on. May peace and justice eventually come to the child's parents, maybe next time they'll learn to take better care of toddlers. Perhaps not let them wander off into the middle of the street.

Monday, October 24, 2011

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Shwazye and Cisco - Island in the sun. Nice, chill, relax new album

Noteworthy to me this week, definitely this album I recently discovered from Shwayze and Cisco. It's an amazing album to listen to while relaxing or making that walk down to campus. It's a great mix between acoustic and rap, a great combination to put together while still not sounding too mainstream.


Shwayze & Cisco Adler - Island In The Sun

Monday, October 17, 2011

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Will this never end?

Protesters occupying Wall Street in New York City, Times Square
What started off as a simple protest has now progressed to what may be, the movement of the century. Beginning from Wall street in New York City, this fight against the 1% of corporate America has caused paradigm shifts in both Canada and around the world. The main message in the protest being that 99% percent of the common people (the masses) are being misrepresented by its respective government. The government is allowing the rich (corporate bankers) to continue making millions while the rest of the population is jobless due to recession and economic collapse (debt). The catalyst to all this fire started from the large investment banks in America - Lehman Brothers, Marilyn and Lynch (to name a few) and the insurance company AIG becoming bankrupt due to bad mortgage ratings and packaged deals going sour. This spawned a global recession resulting in financial "shit storm" in Europe and most likely irrecoverable debt in Japan. Now that we have the background information out of the way, I can get into my thoughts on this protest. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protesting against a just and noble cause, however, I don't believe in people just getting what they ask for. If life has taught me anything, it's that you never get anything for just talking. I remember a past mentor telling me that there are two types of people in the world, the "the thinkers" and the "doers", the doers are all rich while the thinkers just keep on thinking. That same analogy can be applied to this protest, the government will not just start heavily taxing the rich, nor are they going to spawn more jobs just so everyone can make ends meat. The solution to this problem does not lie within our government or the rich stealing our money, the solution lies in the common or the masses of people currently occupying both Wall Street and Bay street here in Toronto. If all the people complaining decided to commit to an area of study, I'm sure they will find a career suitable for themselves. This leads me to my second problem, the study of business. The majority of people out of jobs in the United States are the white collar workers with a business management degree or something along those lines. The trouble I see from having this kind of degree is that the skills or information you learn from this kind of education is intangible, how do you expect to manage a business without a professional skill? Or how will you succeed in business if all you ever learned was business and the art of management? In my opinion, if less people took the gamble to pursue business and went down another path; health care, medicine, engineering, or teaching (just a few other options) less people would be without jobs.

Here are some influential photos capturing the moments of the masses occupying Wall Street: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-spreads-worldwide/100171/

Sunday, October 16, 2011

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Nicki Minaj macks kids up?

Well not really, but seriously take a look at this amazingly awesome and cute video:
I'm sure by now everyone's must have seen this video now, whether it's on ray willam johnson or just from mad hype over the internet. But, before you go off saying "OMG look how cute those little girls are???" Keep in mind what exactly she's singing about. Now "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj is not exactly a child friendly song.... thus, the need to have a "clean" version, but obviously that doesn't take away from the message she's trying to send any less. Now the song goes on about what kind of guy she wants to get and blah blah blah, but aside from provocative lyrics such as profanity and references to selling drugs (cocaine) here's a part of the lyrics where I find most disturbing, especially when kids are singing it...

This one is for the boys in the polosEntrepreneur niggas in the mogulsHe could ball with the crew, he could soloBut I think I like him better when he doloAnd I think I like him better with the fitted cap onHe ain't even gotta try to put the mac onHe just gotta give me that look, when he give me that lookThen the panties comin' off, off, uhExcuse me, you're a hell of a guy you know I really got a thing for American guysI mean, sigh, sickenin' eyes I can tell that you're in touch with your feminine sideYes I did, yes I did, somebody please tell him who the F I isI am Nicki Minaj, I mack them dudes up, back coupes up, and chuck the deuce up 
 Hmmm... WHAT are the parents thinking?? I mean sure, they probably don't know what they're singing about, but that's the kind of influence I would not care for having near my, what looks like 6 year old girls.

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