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Family…. friends… people that have been part of my life and that will remain part of my life forever. Whether I am inches apart from them, or miles away, I keep them in my heart, for they are the ones that brought me here; they are the ones that have brought me this far. I never miss a beat without them.

My family…. I cannot say enough about them. They never once doubted me, even when I doubted myself. They never once let go, even when I inadvertently did. They never gave up hope, even when I relinquished it. They never gave up, even when I felt like doing so. That is why I stand here today, because of them.

My friends…. so many of them that I am blessed to have. They never saw the weaknesses in me, but the strengths. They never saw the errors I made, but the successes. They never questioned my potential, even when I did. They always were there for me, just as I would want to be for them. And today, while I stand here, thinking about my friends, I not only feel fortunate to have them, but they bring so much light into my life. I cannot thank them enough.

Family…. friends, they are people that cross your path every so often. They are the ones that keep you up when you are down, help you, care about you. And if I just continue to be myself, I will continue to do the same for them… being there. I take this moment to thank all of them for all they have done for me and I hope our relationships persevere through all the challenges life brings us.

Well this is it my final blog. I hope you have enjoyed my point of view or at least you understood what I was trying to say. I realize this has basically been my opinion on various topics but never the less I have enjoyed writing every one of these blogs. Thank you.

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The humanist group that I have joined continues to intrigue me. The most recent topics of disscussion include socio-political views on advertising and commercialism, our current economic situation, and the roots of racial allignment. One of the most recent posts mentioned a mentally arousing scientific event. The ability to transfer RNA into DNA. This accomplishment reflects advances in the field of in vitro “evolution”. This development is anything but obscure. Possibilities burst from the idea of evolution, so what of the actual physical capability to evolve specific cells. Supposedly, before the world as we know it existed, there sat a “pre-rna” world of molecules and atoms that had not fallen into organization as of yet. Through time, connections were formed and structure developed. This structure was the “rna” world which eventually progressed into the DNA world of today. With the new in vitro processes, we can simulate this “pre-rna” world and mutate the cell into a different possible “rna” world which can respectively continue into the DNA world, although the end results could be drastically different. I believe that through constant testing we me acheive a completely different, relative, reality.

My friend Natasha is suffering from her tooth ache. We all thought the pain was going to go away after we applied some medication on it. But its been three days and the swelling and pain is still there. Tday she went to the doctors and she found out she has an infection in her gums and they have to pull her growing wisdom tooth out before any more damage is done. Her surgery is next Wednesday. Poor baby. I wish you the best and everything is going to be fine. For everyone reading this watch what you eat.

Although I would love to believe that I’m completely optimistic about the future, I have to admit that I can’t help but think the human race will eventually destroy itself. How can one have a completely optimistic view when the world around us tries to decide if it’s alright for a girl who was raped by her father to kill the resulting baby? There is plenty of evil in the world, and it seems to have slowly been getting worse. However, that belief could easily be attributed to the growing ability of the news to report every single rape or murder in America. The ease with which we seem to accept death is troubling, but what other reaction can we expect. With such evils becoming undeniably mainstream, we are desensitized as with any other constant stimulus. I think that is the major weakness of the human race. Our ability to instantly accept whatever is mainstream. It is a horrible cycle; the people creating the mainstream are also influenced by it, leading to a society that is spoon fed the evils that good human nature is supposed to suppress. We are constantly at odds with ourselves. I believe in God and I do not believe in fate. Choice must exist; otherwise there is no basis for determining final destination. This is why I am pro-choice but antiabortion. I do not agree with the action but I also do not believe that I am in a position to tell people what to do. In other words, I believe that my life does not have to be connected with the evil in the world because of the existence of choice. So I guess I would have to say, without implying that I am in someway above the rest of the human race because there are plenty of good people in the world too, that I am optimistic about my own future, but am pessimistic about the direction of humanity many, many years down the road.

My friends and family are the most important thing i have in life other than God. I can always count on them for anything. I know for a fact they will never turn their backs on me. They have been the shoulder I cried on. No matter in what situation i find myself in they will always offer that extra help.I love them, especially my parents. I thank God everyday for giving me such loving and understanding parents. They have worked hard for me and supported me all my life. They tried their best in giving me everything i needed and wanted. They chose to stay in the U.S. for me to have a better living and education. I thank them for the discpline they gave me because look at me now i turned out to be a good student and a great daughter. I also have wonderful friends who stay up till midnight listening to my issues and giving me advice. Friends who are more than willing in giving that extra hand and picking you up in the middle of the day when your car brakes down or has a flat tire.When a sudden emergency comes up and your friends are willing to wake up at 4 a.m. and drop you off at the airport, even though they have to be at work at 6 a.m. And the list goes on and on….I love my family and friends. They are like a precious stone to me; i would never give them up or trade them for anything in this world.

Life wouldn’t be the same withouth people to count on, and the only people you can count on these days are your family and your friends. My family is reaaly important to me and if it wasn’t for them i probably wouldn’t be where i’m at right now. My mother and father has done everything they can to provide a better life for their kids, and to me they couldn’t have done a better job. I’m close to some of my other siblings but for the other part i just know that they are family because my parent told me. And i feel that family should always be together because they are part of your blood. And it makes me feel bad to see families torn apart by the little things in life. I know people who don’t really care about their family because of some misunderstandings, and it’s sad to see them not trust their own family.
But when your family isn’t here, the only people you can run to are your friends. Now that i am alone with no members of my family with me on campus, i only have my friends to hang out with. And they’re the ones that keep me happy and help me let go of my problems. I am a big time joker, so my friends like it a lot when i’m around to laugh and go out with them; but what they don’t know is that sometimes they are the ones helping me out and making my time with them fun. They only thing about friends is that you have to know who your real ones are. Because some of them can be very sneaky and will get jealous when you start making progress in life. But you have real friends they will stick with you till the end.
Family and friends are what keeps us from doing bad things in life and at the same time they are our helpers in makin the decisions. I am glad to have both in my life right now because they really mean a lot to me.

I spent nearly half of my spring break week at the beach.

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The origin of the earth is a highly debated subject. Mostly the two most popular opinions are the “big bang” theory of evolution and the theory of Creation. Each side of the debate claims to have “evidence” that proves how the earth begin.

I believe strongly that when it says in Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” that the Bible is speaking literally. I have faith that the earth was created in 7 days. I am aware the many view this as a very naïve, close-minded outlook.

There has never been “enough” evidence to prove the earth’s origin for one side of the argument or for the other. Many scientists believe that everything started from nothing. They say the earth was a giant molten rock with pools or chemicals that happened to mix the right way to form life. Creationist often ask well were did the rock come from. Upon an answer such as “certain atoms and molecules came together” creationists can ask the same question again. Where did those come from? Eventually there is know answer. Evolutionist can also ask, “Where did God come from?” Christians have to make there decisions based on faith that God was always here and that the human mind is simply unable to comprehend it.

Charles Darwin expressed the amount of faith that it took to believe the theory of evolution in his writings. Many believe that it is easier to believe in a “supreme begin creator” such as God that too believe in evolution.

I heard one time that if the earth was really as old as evolutionists believe it is that it wouldn’t have the possibility of existing. Basically the earth is moving away form the sun at a constant speed. If we rewound time as far back as evolutionist say than the earth would be actually touching the sun.

I’m sure that there are many arguments against this fact and I will admit that I probably don’t know as much about the subject as I should considering I am a Christian. The origin of the earth is confusing and interesting and will be argued over until the end of the earth (in my opinion).

Today has not been a great day at all. It all started this mornig at 3:oo AM when me and my boyfriend got into a huge argument and just hung up on each other. I was so upset that I started throwing up and crying hysterically. I felt like i was drowning myself in my tears and sooner or later i was going to run out of air. I’m a type of person who can not go to sleep upset, knowing that tomorrow i will be in the same situation. He has to much pride and ego; it has gotten to the point where its hurting our relationship. God can only give me so much patience and strength. Around 4:30 he called and apologized and said,
” Tomorrow we will talk. Love you Wendy.” It calmed me down but i still had it on my mind. To top it off i missed my doctors appointment. I also received a ticket for parking to long in the meter. I accidently scratched someones’ car and the most disturbing of all one of my favorite sandals broke. Thank God i had an extra pair of shoes in my trunk. Now i’m trying to do all 24 of my blogs just because i chose to leave it for the last minute.

The future is something i sometimes avoid thinking about. I am mostly optimistic about the future because i always believe positive things keep happeneing in my life. And even when something looks negative, i try to learn from it and make it into a positive moment in my life. I usually think about the present and not always about the future. Like i sometimes say ” i live for today, not for yesterday and not for tommorow.” But what i usually end up finding out is that what you did yesterday helps you for today, and prepares you for tommorow.
My major right now is biology and i believe that it will remain the same because i don’t plan on changing it. I don’t know yet if i want to be a surgeon or something else. But i know that in the future i will be a doctor and will enjoy what i do. I know that the Lord will help me persue my dream because he has already helped me through the bad times. I think if one believes negatively, then negative things will happen to you.
In the future i want to be part of a growing and very helping hospital.
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This science article on BBC News is based on a new study showing Antarctica’s ice sheet is shrinking. Researchers used satellites to plot changes in the Earth’s gravity in the Antarctic during the period 2002-2005. Scientists have concluded that the continent has lost 152 cubic km of ice each year, most of it occurs in the west. In recent years scientists have found other evidence that West Antarctic ice is melting, which could contribute to sea level rise, which can cause climate change. Because of this they have gathered data from both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets; to compare and contrast and see what might be causing this. However, the results were’t has successful as they expected, with some indicating a loss of ice and others that sheets are thickening. Furthermore, a new study, conducted by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder, uses a technique which has not been tried before: measuring gravity over Antarctica.The data comes from a pair of satellites together known as Grace which orbit the Earth in tandem, measuring changes in its gravitational field.
“Their orbits have a very large inclination, of 89 degrees in fact, so you get very good coverage over the Antarctic,” said Isabella Velicogna, one of the Colorado team.
“We see the entire ice sheet and measure the mass change of the entire ice sheet; then we look at the east and west separately,” she told the BBC News website.
In conclusion, the Colorado team did in fact find a decrease in ice sheet mass of 152 cubic km. the loss is caused by the annual rise in the global average sea level of 0.4mm and the
thermal expansion of seawater.
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I am somewhat lost in this course and what I should actually be doing. Am I on track? Am I not on track? I have no idea? I have no feedback thus far as to how I am doing in the class. Anyone else feeling the same way? If so attach comments.

A conversation has been going on in the web community that I have joined about Theological Education. I have decided to use this topic to let everyone know that some of the things that are happening in this community happen daily. Someone had asked for help with the following when trying to set up a program for distance learning “What things should we be considering? How do we go about setting this up? What technology is out there available to us? Any insights and toughts would be most appreciated” Some people have been very helpful with their feedback and more and more comes in everyday. Gee, if only all of the conversations and questions could extend as far as this one has.

Ok, I have seemed to try everything and nothing seems to be working. I don’t think that I should change my topic, however I have nowhere else to go with it. Unless someone can give me SIMPLE directions on how to load picture to this site, then I give up. I’m not a quitter, but this is getting a little ridiculous.

In my learning community there has been an ongoing discussion about using . I don’t know about you, but this sounds intersting. However, I don’t think that it would be such a beneficial thing for elementary and/or highschool students. It is hard enough to get students to leave phones in their lockers’ during class time. Imagine if they were allowed to carry them around at all times. I don’t think that very much “learning” would get done at all.