SAILOR SENSHI DOLL DIVINE UPDATE BETA TEST

FINALLY!
It has been quite a long time, but the Sailor Senshi Dress Up Game on Doll Divine is finally getting its update thanks to the Sailor Moon fans and Doll Divine Supporters.
I joined the Doll Divine Beta Testers so I could play this game early and so far its FANTASTIC!
I can't wait until they add the male dolls to the game!
So excited~
If you are a Doll Divine Beta Member and haven't played this game yet then you NEED TO
If not, you can play the original Senshi Dress Up for free ((Both links labeled below))
PLAY THEM
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that is all.
continue with your day.
thank you.
-Alexis~<3


SENSHI FREE TO PLAY NOW

SENSHI UPDATE BETA TEST

Should I continue with this Blog?

At 165 page views with what I have been posting, I wasn't expecting that many in such a short period of time. Since the class that I initially made this blog for is over, would you as the reader like me to continue it? It would be full of fun stuff, videos, more stuff about me and probably mostly stuff about Sailor Moon. So please like and / or comment to acknowledge that you wish for me to continue with this blog. 
                                 Thanks for being amazingly awesome people,
                                                                      ~<3Alexis

Grading A Presentation

                   Ken Robertson presented about how education kills creativity.  I enjoyed his presentation very much because he kept the audience engaged with humorous stories that related to the topic he was talking about. His strength throughout the presentation was keeping the audience engaged. Usually during long presentations like this one I tend to fall asleep, but his jokes and the audience's laughter kept me awake and engaged. He could improve on his transitions and organization though. The way he would transition from the topic to an engaging joke and back to the topic from time to time was a little confusing and hard to follow. According to the rubric that I was handed in class, I gave him an overall grade of 90. I gave him this grade because he did keep the audience engaged, but lacked in organization, talked a little too fast and was kind of hard to follow at times.
                   I do agree with what he was saying about how education kills creativity. In his presentation he states that "We are born with creativity, but education takes it away as we move up." And its true, just like if you don't practice a sport, instrument, math or writing- you'll lose that skill later on in life. Education is just as important as a child's creativity.

Do You Need A Virtual Break?

          Mark Bittman wrote "I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really" where he talks about his addiction to technology and how he needs a break from all of it. He also points out the downside of unplugging from technology, because there are so many people that depend on him, he is worried that there would be an emergency before the 24 hour unplug ends. 
            I think that others should take the initiative to unplug for 24 hours. There's more to life than hiding behind a screen. There may be people out there who don't think they can do it, but then just think if you were forced to unplug. If every device in the world just stopped working, the people who don't use their devices often will be fine, but others who depend on those same devices would be freaking out. This is the reason that everyone should unplug for 24 hours once a week, or even once a month. 
         

What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up In Cyberspace

            Thanks to e-mail, online chat rooms and instant messages- which permit private, real-time conversations- adolescents  have at last succeeded in shielding their social lives from adult security. Now instead of that good old fashion phone call worrying about an adult answering the phone, walking to the person's house and having to talk to the person's parent who opens the door, the adolescent can by-pass all of that and talk to whoever it is they want to talk to though the World Wide Web. But in doing so, they are isolating themselves from real-world interactions. They can shop online, browse the web, play games over the internet, chat and so on- so why go out with our friends to do those things? Its not necessary anymore.

         
           "Mr. Lewis illustrated a point with Marcus Arnold, who, as a 15-year-old, adopted a pseudonym and posed as a 25-year-old legal expert for an Internet information service. Marcus did not feel guilty, and wasn't deterred, but when real-world lawyers discovered his secret and accused him of being a fraud, he simply responded that he found all of the books boring, leaving us to conclude he had learned all he knows from the internet and watching his family's bis screen TV."
                                                                                            -Brent Staples                 "What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace"

            I do agree with Staples that if we allow adolescents to grow up on the internet that they will not develop the social skills that they need to be successful when they reach adulthood but, I also believe that the use of social media to communicate with distant friends and relatives is needed.  

Summary of a Newspaper Article

             More than half a century ago, 80 Korean laborers died of abuse and malnutrition as they built an airfield for the Japanese military in World War II. Koichi Mizuguchi helped to find the graves and also helped to build a six-foot memorial at the site to honor those Koreans who were buried there.  It has never been easy for Japan to come to terms with their militarist past, and tried to set aside the issues raised by war as it rebuilt itself into the peaceful nation it is today. Pressure to erase the darker  episodes of its wartime history has intensified recently with the rise of a small, aggressive online movement known as the Net Right. The Net Right are organized cyber activists who were once dismissed as radicals on the far margins of the Japanese political landscape, but they have gained outside influence with officials who share their goal of ending negative portrayals of Japanese history.

          A shift in Japanese political culture which has emboldened the ultra-naturalists to target the acts of historical contrition that Japanese society previously embraced has been one result of the events that have taken place according to Sakaguchi and other experts.



Fackler, Martin "Pressure in Japan to Forget Sins of War" New York Times 29 October 2014: A4, A9. Print.

A Summary

          Today in class, we read Cancel Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy by Robert Applebaum published in The Norton MIX 2013. 
          This piece was all about eliminating student debt completely so that the money can go elsewhere and help stimulate the economy. Applebaum goes on to talk about the trillions and trillions of dollars that go into student loans, and the trillions that don't get paid back on time each year. This money also goes into "funding banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, and other industries of greed that are responsible for the current economic crisis", as stated by Applebaum. There's really not much else to say about this piece because that's all it was about. It was interesting to read, and it included a lot of statistics to prove his point. I thought it was funny at one part where he stated "outstanding student loan debt totaling approximately $550 billion (that's billion with a "b", not a "t")". 
          I suppose this is it for this entry, until next time.