Review

Intense , dramatic and eye openingly honest the move "Taken" directed by Pierre Morel is one of the best films made to date about sex trafficking in modern day Europe and a fathers plan of attack to save his daughter. The movie is completely thrilling the whole way through not to mention casted perfectly. Liam Neeson wastes no time in saving his daughter from the underground sex trade. The film has no useless dialogue or slow moments just pure full forced action the whole way through. The brutal honesty really catches any viewers eye about how real sex trafficking is and how it still very much exists in today's society.So not only is it a great action drama hit it is educational as well.The strength and emotion the film carries out to its viewers reaches out to all of its audience and is sure to leave you thinking and wanting more.

Self Awarness Leads to Meaningful Change

There is steps to healing. Whether its a personal trait or an addiction you want to correct being aware that there is a problem is a big first step to making a meaningful change. You may not be aware that you harming others around you let alone yourself but the only way to get better is to change.

Realization is a hard concept to intake but once you do change is in the near future. Personally this topic applies to my life. Growing up without siblings I was always getting everything my way and never had to share or put others into consideration. When I got to the age to go to school this mind set did not go over so well. I struggled my elementary years and was always in trouble with teachers for not sharing and leaving classmates out or talking over others. I got away with it for most of my younger school years and than middle school was just around the corner. It was my second day of sixth grade and it was all new kids from different schools. My friends from elementary dealt with the way I was due to the fact that they had been around it for five years but kids from the other schools to them I was that obnoxious snob. We were having a class discussion about what we were excited for in the next three years at our new school. This girl was explaining her enthusiasm for sports and me being me budged right in there and over powered her with what I had to say about sports. Before I new it I was an annoyance to my whole class. It was about half way through sixth grade that I had to learn the concept of letting everyone state their opinion and that everyone perceives situations differently. My teachers noticed a change in me and so did I. Before I new it me and that girl from the second day had become the best of friends and still are to this day. She still talks about how we met and we look back and laugh. I mean I haven't changed too much I still have my little fits when I don't get my way and when I cant voice my opinion but no one is perfect.

Therefor through realization of my self centered antics I made a best friend that I plan to have by my side throughout my life beyond schooling and I'm much more personable and easy to be around.

Rant Blog

Why is it that highschool is supposed to be this big preparation before the 'real world' and the second we graduate majority of kids have no clue what to do or do not have the life skills to become what they aspire to be? In highschool we are still nagged at to get homework in on time and to do assignment a certain way or read and copy from a textbook. My question being how is that in any way going to help you in the real world? Learning the square root of two hundred and forty-five or the life cycle of a plant isnt going to get you a job or make you enjoyable to have a conversation with. Being in my final year myself I still feel very young.Every teacher still tells me when my homework is due and sends anyone to a lunch homework club if its not completed on time. At my school we have a no zero policy so for four years of our education we never have the option of getting absolutley no marks. But what about the students that go of to university right away? In university if you dont hand something in you simply do not get a mark and move on to the next assignment. If all of us are so used to a routine of being nagged and having no worry of not being able to get a mark the shock of university could be overwhelming. In my senior year ive reflected over the past four years and try to remember things that ive learned. I dont remember any test I have ever wrote or any notes I have taken but what I do remember are the class discussions and debates about politics , humanity issues , laws and what is going on in our world today. Those things I feel like give a better grasp on the world than reading a text book and writing a test. Im not saying that you dont need to do that everyone needs to know basics. Alot of the time in classes though I find myself asking "when will I ever use this?". Ideally I would like to see the education system progress into more humanities course and more public world issues being discussed. Even from leadership I have learned life qualities and it has opened my heart to helping the world rather than spending all my time studying for six years studying and writing high level exams I wanna go out and explore the world and meet people learn new concepts. That is what the world is about not equations and historics. You can come out of university and have trouble finding a job because you have no social aspect about you. Many students flunk out first year because they cant handle the self responsibility of post secondary education. Who is to blame for all of this? Highschool! I am just hoping when my generation is having children and they are starting their path of highschool that the system has realized that reading a text book isnt everything to life and that everyone needs to be aware of what is happening in society today and have a good background knowledge. I want my children to have a passion for school unlike I did and I think that is very possible with a few simple tweeks and some fine tuning.