1 year ago
Craziest fun story I’ve read all day. This will set the precedent for the week.
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1 year ago
![thedailywhat:
Science Experiment of the Day: Toppenish High School student Gaby Rodriguez spent nearly her entire senior year faking a pregnancy for a school project.
Only her mother, her boyfriend, a few friends, and the school’s principal were in on the ruse — her teachers, classmates, and six of her seven siblings were none-the-wiser. The point she was trying to make? “Teenagers tend to live in the shadows of [stereotypes, rumors and statistics],” Gaby told an all-school assembly at Wednesday’s grand reveal of her presentation, aptly titled “stereotypes, rumors and statistics.”
“Many things were said about me. Many things traveled all the way back to me,” she told the room, before asking students and teachers to read aloud statements made during the course of her experiment criticizing her and blaming the pregnancy. “Her attitude is changing, and it might be because of the baby or she was always this annoying and I never realized it,” read one such statement. “I’m fighting against those stereotypes and rumors because the reality is I’m not pregnant,” Gaby said before exposing a baby bump made of wire mesh and cotton quilt batting.
“She sacrificed her senior year to find out what it would be like to be a potential teen mom,” principal Trevor Greene told the Yakima Herald. “I admire her courage. I admire her preparation. I give her mother a lot of credit for backing her up on this.”
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This. I love.
When that movie Juno came out, I kind of disliked it. And I think Ellen Page is amazing! But it just wasn’t true to form. I suppose going to a school where a huge population of girls were pregnant all four years, I was hoping to hear their story through that movie. Of course, that doesn’t always happen and so it didn’t. This I can get behind though.
It wasn’t just the hoodrats and Cholas who were getting pregnant at my school. I had friends who were in the top of their class. Girls sitting in their AP Calculus course pregnant. It was sad, yes, not too out of the ordinary so I feel there might have been less judgment. But I’m sure it’s different for everyone so for this girl to do what she did, I find that very bold. She brought a different experience to it and made people think. I hope she goes on to do a lot of amazing things. She definitely has it in her.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk28auVIZ81qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
Science Experiment of the Day: Toppenish High School student Gaby Rodriguez spent nearly her entire senior year faking a pregnancy for a school project.
Only her mother, her boyfriend, a few friends, and the school’s principal were in on the ruse — her teachers, classmates, and six of her seven siblings were none-the-wiser. The point she was trying to make? “Teenagers tend to live in the shadows of [stereotypes, rumors and statistics],” Gaby told an all-school assembly at Wednesday’s grand reveal of her presentation, aptly titled “stereotypes, rumors and statistics.”
“Many things were said about me. Many things traveled all the way back to me,” she told the room, before asking students and teachers to read aloud statements made during the course of her experiment criticizing her and blaming the pregnancy. “Her attitude is changing, and it might be because of the baby or she was always this annoying and I never realized it,” read one such statement. “I’m fighting against those stereotypes and rumors because the reality is I’m not pregnant,” Gaby said before exposing a baby bump made of wire mesh and cotton quilt batting.
“She sacrificed her senior year to find out what it would be like to be a potential teen mom,” principal Trevor Greene told the Yakima Herald. “I admire her courage. I admire her preparation. I give her mother a lot of credit for backing her up on this.”
[herald / obscurestore.]
This. I love.
When that movie Juno came out, I kind of disliked it. And I think Ellen Page is amazing! But it just wasn’t true to form. I suppose going to a school where a huge population of girls were pregnant all four years, I was hoping to hear their story through that movie. Of course, that doesn’t always happen and so it didn’t. This I can get behind though.
It wasn’t just the hoodrats and Cholas who were getting pregnant at my school. I had friends who were in the top of their class. Girls sitting in their AP Calculus course pregnant. It was sad, yes, not too out of the ordinary so I feel there might have been less judgment. But I’m sure it’s different for everyone so for this girl to do what she did, I find that very bold. She brought a different experience to it and made people think. I hope she goes on to do a lot of amazing things. She definitely has it in her.
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1 year ago
You know what drives me crazy about the news right now? I’ll set aside the bias, pointless stories, and the finger-pointing. Right now I am annoyed at how whenever a disaster happens oversees, there has to be this focus on how the Americans over there are doing. Really? So you just can’t have compassion for an entire nation of people unless you hear a story about how our fellow Americans have to suffer too? Japan is all broken up and practically underwater but hey, here are some Americans who rode out the storm. Let’s hear their story. It just seems so selfish. I sometimes understand that maybe the news wants us to feel connected. By hearing personal stories of someone who could be your next door neighbor brings some sort of realization. But when you see the photos and the videos of the devastation, shouldn’t that be enough to feel connected to every person over there?
While Egypt was in the middle of a revolution, we had to also be mindful that some American woman watched it all from the window of her apartment and how it was affecting her. People died for democracy. Bussinesses shut down so people could protest in the streets. A whole nation stood for something. But when the news singles out how we’re doing over in any other place than “home”, it takes away from this idea of solidarity and community. Their pain cannot be our pain. Their distress cannot be ours either. Not unless we hear a story of just US.
I think people cannot really help others unless they truly feel sympathetic. It’s not enough to throw money at a situation and believe that’s how it can be fixed. It takes a little mourning on our part, it takes action, and it takes awareness. And true, not everyone can fly straight into the disaster with a load of supplies but it’s okay to leave that to the people who can. You’ll eventually find something you can do.
I remember, probably a week after Katrina, my mom took me to a center where they had refugees-mostly single mothers with babies or toddlers. And our job was just to feed or hold these babies while the mothers slept or figured things out. The center was cold. It used to be an Albertsons a long time ago so it had bright lights overhead and linoleum floors. Many of the mothers were mainly staring into space and they, of course, didn’t have much clothing. It looked like whatever they had on was either too big or too small. Either way, you just knew it wasn’t their own. For months nothing was their own. And I, who always feels awkward around babies, sat and held one while my mother, a nurse, chatted up some of the moms. The baby I held was calm and quiet. She had her bottle and she was just looking up at me with her big brown eyes. I forgot about my fear of babies (I’m always scared they’ll cry immediately when put in my arms or that I’ll drop them, I don’t know.) I forgot all that and I too felt a calm come over me.
There is something in comfort that allows worry to subside. I think instead of separating myself from the situation, to be in it gave me a better understanding. I’ll never fully understand that turmoil of leaving my home without anything but the clothes on my back. And I’ll never fully understand what all the people of Japan are going through. But my heart is in the right place because I truly tried to “get it”. I can’t think of how just the Americans are doing in times like this. I have to think of the whole to really be proactive. When things like this arise, it helps not to see the ME. It helps to see the WE.
1 year ago
I think this is the best way to sum up the situation right now. I know my mind jumped to conclusions but I’m just a person. But the media is something altogether different. I’m hoping they will be responsible with their opinions and speculations and just give us the facts about this terrible situation.
per surgeon at hospital where Gabrielle Giffords was taken:
‘Giffords is not deceased. he is very optimistic about recovery. she was shot in the head.’
‘she was shot 1 time. in head, through brain. we can’t tell what kind of recovery. but i am as optimistic as I can be in situation’
Good news to hear she’s alright but it’s really disheartening to hear that others were injured and killed including a 9 year old girl. There’s no statement yet from the shooter so all we can do is assume. But since Palin has come onto the scene, she’s incited quite a bit of violence in her campaigns. I’m surprised this hasn’t happened sooner to be honest. What an irresponsible thing to do.
Personally I’m not going to condemn an entire political party because of an act of a clearly disturbed person. But I would hope politicians on either side would really stop injecting fear into everything. We need to get to work, not destroy what we believe is an enemy.
My prayers are with Giffords and all the others. Such sad, sad news.
(Source: thesmithian)
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