Young Slickness aka CharlieK

16 and Pregnant: “Farrah’s Story”

I have seen this episode of 16 and pregnant where Farrah finds out that she is pregnant and constantly everywhere around her she is being judged.  I really liked how sam said that people make mistakes and that is very true somtimes people do stupid things that they will regret later.  When the consiquences for their actions are harsh its bad enough they have to deal with the consiquences that they dont need everyone else around telling them how bad they are for their mistakes. 

Sam said that she was being judged by her teammates, classmates, and family.  That can be so hard on someone to not be accepted by anyone around you and especially the people you love it can be hard.  I like the verse sam used and she said that its Gods job to judge people not ours.  Knowing that its Gods job not ours to judge i think when people are dealing with the consiquences of their actions instead of critisizing or judging we should sympothize and see what we can do to help which could be anything from befriending somone to helping them out emotionally or physically.  Its Gods job to judge not ours.

How I Met Your Mother – Last Cigarette Ever (2009)

Subject:

In this episode of How I Met Your Mother was about the whole group starting to smoke cigarettes.   Robin is the first to smoke.  From the begining its obvious she has a problem because it shows her smoking while eatin, brushing her teeth, and other things you would never expect someone to smoke while doing.  Marshall is under alot of stress at his new job and has trouble being noticed then he catches his boss smoking on the roof and to bond with his boss and become noticed he smokes with him.  When Marshall picks up smoking so does his wife Lillie and by the end she smokes so much it makes her voice sound like shes been smoking for years.  When the group is at there usual hangout bar Tedd and Barney are inside by themselves while the other three are outside smoking.  Tedd says that smoking is tearing their friendship apart so they both deside to go outside and start smoking.  They all become addicted chainsmokers and near the end they all deside to quit smoking but then they all start right back up.  The episode ends with all of them smoking and it says that was none of their last cigarettes but they all desided to leave it behind.  Like Lillie stopped when she started trying to get pregnant.  Marshall stopped the day his baby was born.  And Tedd stopped two weeks after he met his future wife.

Content:

People can relate to this episode because in our lives we are tempeted to smoke to fit in or meet new people or just to stay friends with friends that are doing what they should not be doing.  You can take from this episode more than just smokings bad and people temp you to smoke.  They just used smoking as an example of things that you would do just to fit in.  Marshall and Robin both picked up and kept smoking to cope with the stress in their lives.

Evaluation:

Christians can relate to his episode because if we think about it it tells us what to do by showing us what not to do.  Marshall and Robin chose something bad to help them cope with their stress when they had friends that could have helped them through the whole time.  Lillie, Tedd and Barney started smoking for bad reasons too.  They started to keep their friends or loved ones.  In the end it gives us a good message when Tedd says he stopped smoking for good when he met his future wife and he said he quit and never looked back.

Kyle did his blog on the  movie Paranormal Activity.  Kyle gave a good summary of the movie but in his content section i think he missed an important part of the way people think.  Things like this, paranormal activity, excites people it scares them.  I think people like these types of things because they do not really know that much about supernatural things.  It interests people because some belive things like this could really happen and its human nature to put yourself in a position you should not be in.  When you look at that idea through a Christian world veiw we see that things like this are dangerous to get involved with.  I have always been taught not to mess with the paranormal or demon related things.  I have been taught that way and i believe that things like this are real and can really happen.  I like Kyle’s idea of respect and how if Mika would have had respect for the paranormal things would have been different.  His friendship I would describe more as sacrifice because throughout the movie he trys to do everything possible to help his girlfriend, and in the end his life is given in the effort to save and protect her.

The Goods, Live Hard. Sell Hard.

Subject:

The Movie The Goods about a man named Don Ready, he is also known as Don “The Goods” Ready.  Don is a man who knows what people want.  Don Ready moves cars.  When a dealership is on the verge of going under they call Don Ready.  The man whos lot is on the verge of going under he says hes going to call in a mercinary.  Don is refered to as a mercinary, he can turn a business around in four days and he does so with Selleck Motors.  Don and his three associates are hired by Selleck Motors for the fourth of July weekend.   Throughout the movie we see that Don is a man who lives fast and is always on the road, but he is lonely and unhappy.  In this town Don sees what he has been missing all along is a family and people that truly love him.  In the end Don changes his ways, settles down and has a family.

Content:

Salesman Don Ready, and his crew have one weekend to move over 200 cars and use conning, conniving, and other bad behavior to sell the cars.  Throughout the movie Don and his crew go to stip clubs and bars regularly.  In the movie it mentions how Don’s longest relationships were lap dances.  Don and his crew are a group of sweet talkers and seem to always know what to say.  They are good at reading people and know exactly how to use peoples wants to get what they want.  Don gets with alot of women in the movie and in society we see him as a ladies man and most men want to be like that.  The movie is all about sex and its humor is funny but would be extremely offensive to alot of people.  People would like this movie because of all the sexual references and the humor that demenes others because it is funny.

Evaluation:

When you look at this movie with a Christian woldveiw we see many things that go against the Christian faith.  Like how Don says i’m a Christian man… or whatever religion is most popular in the area im selling cars in.  The movie is all about sex aswell.  There is alot of swearing in this movie and they use sterio types and make fun of people.  One thing I found good in this movie is that Don ended up seeing the error in his ways that he has to stop living for the moment and try living for someone besides himself.  This is why he desides to leave it all behind and settle down with his new found family.

I think Matt really saw what he Drake was talking about in his song “Fear”.  Drake is a new artist that is getting really big and some of his songs are just like every other rap artist takling about the things that the world desires, but like matt said i think that it is him producing what the record companies want, hits.  But he also has alot of songs that mean so much to him and you can tell when you hear them like this one.  In this song he talks about how everyone tries to change him but he is telling us to stay true to yourself.  Like matt says i think it is one of his fears becoming something that he is not.  I can relate because sometimes i feel like people try to change you but you need to stay true to yourself and i see how it can be a fear becoming something that you arent.  I love how matt said, ” the truth in this song is to always to stay close to your family and friends and never let things get in between those relationships”. its such a real statment to stay true to what really matters to you.

Subject:

Take me back to the days when I could not wait to wake up,
weird hair, didn’t care what to wear cause no matter what, I still felt loved.
Take me back to the days, when losing a game was the worst thing I knew.
Getting thrills off of little stuff that now, I just can’t do.

The singer is talking about how he remembers how happy he was when he was so care free when was young.  He is saying that things are changing in his life as he gets older.  Everything is changing and he misses his past and wants things to be the way they used to be but he can’t go back.

(Chorus)

I can’t stand growing up, I’m going too fast.
Well just a second I miss my past.
Yeah being old has its perks,
but I miss my old friends,
and the way the **** used to be
I wanna start again. (x2)

I miss, everything.
I wish that you could.

He is singing about how as he gets older everything around him is changing.  The world changes, his friends change, his entire life.  He misses his past and how everything used to be.  His world is changing so fast and he wishes he could go back.

Take me back to the days when school wasn’t a chore.
Now I have to play hookie to hide from the things that I used to not want to ignore.
Take me back to, the world that I knew before, the love was taken.
Another smile drop, listen while time stops now…. (Chorus x2)

Everything  harder now and he goes again he tells how he wishes he could go back to the way things used to be.

Take me back to the days when I hated to fall asleep.
If I could I know I would spend a day under my sheets.
Take me back to the life, when I can know myself again.
I wish I could, I wish I could,
but I can’t.  (Chorus x2)

He says that he hated to go to sleep because of how much fun and love he had before.  When he talks about staying in bed all day and taking a break he wishes he could just take a break from life and the stress, but he can’t.   He wishes things could be how they used to be but he knows that they won’t be and he can’t go back, he seems to be accepting it but misses it so much.

Content:

Everything is changing in his life, which is the world around him and the things he used to love like being care free and the love he had isn’t there anymore.  He gets more responsibility with age and his old life is gone.  He is realizing he must change as the world changes but he is trying to hold on to his past.  He wishes so much that everything was as it was but it will never be and he realizes it.

Its like he sees how the world is more corrupt and he sees that it used to not be that way or maybe its just that in his innocence he didn’t see it and it didn’t matter.  He sees it now and realizes that it will never be the same but he wants it to be so badly.  He wants to be a kid again when nothing mattered.  He says he wants to take a break from the world but he can’t even do that.

Evaluation:

He is telling us to hold on to what matters to us and never let it go.  Though everything changes around you stay true to yourself and what matters to you.  He let everything go and changed himself and now wants it all back.  I think he is telling us to not do what he did and keep true to yourself and what matters to you.

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