The Secret

My final blog post will be about the most influential book I have ever read. The name of this book is The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. For anybody who has never heard of it, the book talks about the power of the law of attraction. The basic idea behind the law of attraction is three simple words: thoughts become things. By using the law of attraction, one can reach goals and achieve things that never seemed possible before. The book (later turned into a movie) is full of success stories and exercises in order to master the law of attraction. When I heard about it for the first time, I was extremely skeptical. I decided to give it a try, and I noticed immediate effects. This book is great for anybody who is in a dark corner of their life or even for anybody who is extremely ambitious and has set high goals for themselves in life. If i could recommend one book for the rest of the world to read, The Secret would be it.

Logan M. Spears

This blog most is much different than any other post I have had. This is not about education or rhetoric, but rather life and how much mine has changed in the past 36 hours. Around 8:30 PM on Monday night, I received the phone call everybody is terrified of. I was informed that one of my good friends of 14 years had committed suicide. I want to take this opportunity to tell everybody that if you are in a dark alley of life or if you ever consider hurting yourself, PLEASE go find medical help. By ending your own life, the only thing you are doing is multiplying your pain and distributing it to all those who love you. I ask you to pray for the family of Logan Spears and most of all, please do not let a cry for help go unnoticed. Suicide is the most preventable form of death.

God Bless

http://snappingnecks.blogspot.com/

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had the rare opportunity to spend time with my older brother Trevor. He plays football for Purdue University, so it is a rare occasion to have him around the house. While he was home, he introduced me to a blog written by one of his teammates, Kevin Ballinger. Kevin's blog consists of various posts, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and sometimes a mix. Since checking out his blog, I have spent multiple hours going through his blog and reading all that he has to say. The kid is extremely funny and has some interesting thoughts to share with the world. If you are ever in need of a good laugh, I recommend checking it out.

Charlie Chaplin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4

This video was introduced to me by my oldest brother Hunter over the Thanksgiving holiday. Immediately after hearing it, I knew I should make a blog post about it. The video is filled with a message that needs to be told to every country on earth. Charlie Chaplin talks to the people of his nation and tells them that we need to rid ourselves of greed and start working together to make the earth a great place to live. He tells the people to be human beings with love in their hearts rather than acting like cattle who follow every command from their superior. This is an argument that goes far beyond religion, race, or political party. This is a message that needs to be heard by all of human kind.

Worst Analogies Ever

One way my roommates and I pass times on down nights it using StumbleUpon. For those of you who have never been blessed with the greatness that is StumbleUpon, it is a website that you plug your interests into, and the website takes you to random websites relating to those interests. One of the hidden gems I found was this post on the worst high school essay analogies ever. I may be stretching it by saying that this article will enhance your rhetorical skills, however it will give you a good laugh. It is a compilation of analogies that either make no sense, ramble on way too long, or make no point in the paper. I highly recommend everyone to read this post if you are in need of some internet humor.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AYas21/www.etni.org.il/farside/analogies.htm

Warren Buffet

Through the past year or so of my life, I have become obsessed with following the lives of various successful people. Some of my idols are Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, Sam Walton, Rob Dyrdek, and Jack Canfield. These people are the best in the world at what they do. The thing I admire the most about these people is that since making it to the top of the world, they focus on helping others make it too. (see my previous post on Mark Cuban if you have time) As a young aspiring entrepreneur, I find it important to look into the lives of these people and mimic their habits. One thing I stumbled across was an article about a recent spending binge by Warren Buffet. In case any of you did not know, he is probably the most successful investor to ever live. He specialized in taking small businesses, dropping millions sometimes billions of dollars into them, and watching them turn into world wide corporations. Buffett has created jobs for millions across the world, which is why I respect him more than anybody except maybe my father. Anyways, Buffett spent $25 billion on US bank stock this past quarter. Think about it, the greatest investor to ever live just made one of his biggest investments ever in US bank stock. Point in case, INVEST IN US BANK STOCK IMMEDIATELY.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/07/markets/buffett_stocks/?iref=NS1

Presentation

My presentation was over the plastic recycling solution on the first day. I'm glad I decided to go first because it was nice to get it out of the way right off the bat. If I were to do it again, I would have touched more on talking about what I wanted to find out with the research paper. I feel like overall I did well with it, and it seemed to all go smoothly. I think the topic I picked was a good topic that I can dig into and get a lot of information and research out of. I thought everybody did a great job with the presentations.