8# Stranded

     If I was stranded on a deserted island with only a couple items, I very much know exactly what I would bring. I would bring stuff that I knew I needed, that would help keep me alive, find food, build a shelter, keep warm and even signal for rescue if needed. Now if I could only bring three items, I would have to think kinda hard and decide on what I think is the most important three for my survival. For me, the three most important objects would be potato seeds, a large pocket knife with a flint attachment, and a salt water purifier.

    I would bring these important basic items for a very good purpose, to keep me alive. The water purifier would bring me clean water always from the ocean, that way I can never dehydrate or die of water deprivation. Also, it gives me clean water to work with for cleaning myself, cooking, cleaning items, and various other purposes.

After I made sure I had a water filter present, I would then acquire a constant food source. It would have to be a relatively self sustaining source, that can be harvested and kept in storage all year round, and it most definitely would have to be packed with protein to keep me energized, up working, and alive. My best option I feel then would be to bring potato seeds to grow potatoes, the super food. Also, to ensure I could construct shelter and other important necessities, make a fire to keep me warm, and a object that could help bring me rescue I would gather and bring a pocket knife with a flint magnesium rock attachment to start those fires. With a kit like that Id be sure not to fail, in fact I might even be able to, if necessary, live out my whole life on that island perfectly fine.

9# My Top Five's

 The following is a list of my top five favorite modern video games for the xbox system

   
5. Borderlands (2009) this thrilling space-western videogame is filled with violence, gore, freakish aliens, and opening lots and lots of boxs. with in the game play you must hunt down a bunch of pieces to open a Vault which contains the ending level of the game. the game also includes lots of quests, side stories, amd achievments to keep the player busy while defeating the alien and terrestrial troops.

4. Mass Effect (2007) In this space adventure about a commander named shepard and a evil robotic race bent on universal destruction named the Reapers, you must stop the end of the of everything in exsitance while still hunting down detrayers and hidden ancient alien artifacts that describe the Reapers and theyre ways to be defeated.

3. L.A. Noire (2011) In a chilling version of our real history, you play as a Cole Phelps, a detective in the los angeles police department in the 1940s-1950s. you must stalk a serial killer who is referenced to be the zodiac killer. when you find him your charater dies and you become his partner, from then on the game play just gos down.

2. Halo (2001) the all time second best video game ever, halo, was originally released in 2001 and had you cast as a character named master chief pitted as humanities last hope to defeat a alien empire called the covinant struggling to activate a ring planet super weapon in order to kill off a zombie-like race of aliens called the flood. the gameplay has you runing thruogh multiple battlefields, alienships, and human colonies searching for the key to the super weapon planet before covinent find it.

1. Grand Theft Auto III (2001) Grand Theft Auto was the best violent-entertainment based video game ever. all you have to do is complete a seemingly never ending story mode, and then you just roam around and do what ever you want with the exception of staying out of the laws watchful eye. 

7# Role Models

   A role model to me is someone who i believe has traits i feel i would like to aspire to or already believe i have acquired, holds down positions in office and occupations i would like to occupy, or simply people who far surpass me at many sports and activities i participate in. i have many role models that i have looked up to even to this day, which are simply just older friends who are always better at skateboarding, or wrestling, or who just simply have been smart fashionable popular witty men. Throughout my life i have had many different role models and almost always they changed yearly and with location changes as well.

  Many role models i have had have come and passed, including Mark Foo, Chad Muska, and all the members of the Kulture Vultures biking crew. Throughout my childhood and young adult/ teenage life i have cycled through hobbies and sports many times, often and almost always changing role models as well. Right now my current role models are Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Michio Kaku. all of these men are amazing scientists that far surpassed they're time. they all revolutionized the way science was conducted and made huge leaps forward in all they're fields of study. Michio Kaku is a famous theoretical physicist getting a lot of attention from the media and fellow scientists for his theories of space and time, and how are universe became what we see today.

Michio Kaku

Albert Einstein

Mark Foo

Chad Muska

Role Models

6# charitable donations

 


    Advocates for Youth is a non profit charitable orginization deticated to helping youth make informed and responsible decisions about theyre reproductive and sexual health. The Advocates for Youth was founded in 1980 and since has helped educate the youth of every generation afterwards. Advocates believes it can best serve the feild by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to adolesent sexual health. above all other organizations based in this field, The Advocates most accurately solves the problems facing it and educates the youth the best. Also, the Advocates for Youth I feel are the least known of the youth based charities and could use some donation attention.

   The Advocates for Youth attract my attention becase they are one of the most imortant charity orginizations for youth in the untied states. With more than a thousand facilities counrty wide plus bases set up in forign nations, the Advocates for youth truely spread sexual knowledge and important facts to the globe. Not only does the Orginization help educate, but they also get involed, hosting community programs and educational seminars they are fully able to reach every child in a community. Because the  Advocates are non profit and yet strive to have the best educational equipment and programs around, they are in constent need of funding. So to conclude Mr. Cuban, I believe with the research i have applied, Advocates for Youth is the best charity to receive the donation of one million dollars.


Advocates for Youth Home Page

5# politics

 I myself am not heavily invovled in politics, but I know the basics of most elections, both sides, and I usually have my own opinion too. I am not heavily involved in politics simply because at this age there is no real to that I can see in following a heavily exaggerated and time consuming process that does not involve me.

  If I was involved in politics and had a stronger opinion about things I would most likely be a democrat, even though my father is a rebulican and my mother a libral. When I turn eighteen how ever, and am able to vote I will and quiet often to make sure my opinion has a say in our countries matters. I feel every political issue is important and should be thought over and handeled with care, I am just not able to do so at this age. If I, at this moment, were able to choose the next us president alone I would choose Barack Obama because I believe he has the most together stategy for keeping america on track, granded he did not do much in his last term, but there wasnt much he could do, and what he did do I believe he did extremely well.

4# dream school

   If i had the choice to go to any college in the country i would go to Massachusett's institute of technologies and major in physics. the reason i would choose MiT is because that institution has the leading theoretical physics department in the country, has multiple science departments, and a 12% acceptance rate. also, not only is MiT one of the hardest schools to get into in the country, but also it has the greatest science and mathematics departments in the world. The base of my obsession with theoretical physics is rooted in my deep love for the universe and the underlying laws and causes for all processes that occur in the universe.

Although, of course, if i got into the school it would not necessarily be guaranteed a diploma from MiT, meaning that if i did indeed get accepted, i would still have to work vigorously and often to even stay on course with the other students. the work load i would receive would be ten times the amount i have ever achieved in any school, to put it flatly and plan, i would have a very difficult time excelling or even achieving what i had came there to do. but, never the less, you should never let your dreams or aspirations die.

http://web.mit.edu/

3# fixed gear bicycles

       One thing im good at and love to do is ride my bike.  it has a special frame design that makes it extremely areo-dynamic and has a fixed cog so the back wheel moves in the same direction as you pedal always. if you stop pedaling and lockup your legs the bike stops moving. this is called a skid stop,

 These bikes are extremely fun to ride and a great exercise because you never stop pedaling, but they can be dangerous. lots of fixed gear cyclists die each year due to being hit by a car or landing fatally from an accident. also many fixed gear riders do not wear helmets or use brakes,which adds to the numbers of incidents.

 The bike itself originated as a track bike, or a racing bike. they where then taken to the streets by bike messengers looking for the fastest way to transport theyre mail. they would ride the bikes on theyre off hours home and soon theyre friends would notice and pick it up.

 Today people use fixed gear bikes for a wide variety of reasons, such as exercise, transportation,a job occupation, racing and delivering packages in crowded cities. you can buy of find the parts to build a fixed gear bike at virtually any bike store in america. also in addition to seeing them in stores, you can probably see a group of local teenagers riding them down your streets as well. fixed gear bikes have and will continue to grow as a whole for many years to come i feel.


http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/

2# Leonardo

    Sketches are a rapidly executed free hand drawing that is usually not a finished piece of work. a sketch may serve many purposes. it might record something that an artist sees, i might be or create an idea that can be used later, or it might be used as a quick way of graphically demonstrating an image, idea or principle.

But when I think of sketching, only one name comes to mind, Leonardo Da Vinci. his awe inspiring works such as virtuvian man, and the young woman of  accademia, are still extremely famous to this day. although leonardo may have more famous paintings, and architectual designs than sketches, i feel that his sketches convey more bout the time, what he was studying and give a more advanced feel to his works.

Leonardo was a true visionary of is time as well as being ahead of his time.his works of art will be remembered until the collapse of society, he was truely a wonderful man and inspired my works today.



http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/

1# summer vacation

   

       this summer i basically just hung out with my friends around the county, and explored. i also spent a lot of time with my local friends at they're apartment complex's over night. we would go swimming, played games like tag inside the complex's and skateboarded. aside from hanging out with my friends i also spent a lot of time with my girl friend. all in all it was a pretty great summer.


With my friends in anaheim, we found a sick super intricate maze of circular pitch-black tunnels going through out the hills of anaheim. we also descovered little chambers along the tunnel that popped up around my friends houses. in addition to exploring with my anaheim friends, i also skated/ explored the la mirada bike trail and river with my stanton friends, we would spend all day and all night skating its long trenches and slanted walls.  my friend eric who lives up there showed me his entire area and i feel pretty confident about that part of orange county.


this summer was a amazing experience for me that i will never forget. it defined a lot of who i am and changed me as a person for the better. i hope i will remember every detail of it til the day i die.