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Do you know why you get up in the morning?

Reasons to jump out of bed every morning!!!

Do you know why you get up in the morning?

Most of us hated waking up early on school days, we just wanted to stay in bed. We needed someone to wake us up, and nearly force us off of bed. What about those days that we didn’t have school?

Many children wake up early on those days. Parents are always wondering why kids are so backwards.

Well, there is an answer to that, kids aren’t backwards, they just have goals, and it is not going to school. Kids with goals in mind will jump off bed at any time. 

Do you jump out of bed every morning?

Do you have a goal?

A professor once told me, “I have two sons, complete opposite from one another. They both had their different group of friends. When Saturday came around, one would take his mom’s car and the other would take my car. The youngest was long gone by 9PM. And the other, well the other sat in the garage with his friends asking each other, ‘what do you wanna do’, the other would answer, ‘I don’t know, what do you wanna do’. It was like that every weekend. They never left the garage, because they never knew where they were going.”

DON’T BE THAT BROTHER!

Having goals and going after them brings joy into our lives.

IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING, YOU WILL BE STUCK AT THE SAME PLACE OR SITUATION UNTIL YOU FIND OUT.

Starting with BIG goals is important, even if they seem unreachable.

 

Once you have your biggest goals in mind, think of what it will take for you to reach them. That’s where the smaller goals come in. Go as small as you can. All the way down to, “I need to get up at 6 am tomorrow”.

Having goals makes everyday a breeze. 

You wake up with a vision, knowing that the simple task of jumping out of bed everyday, will take you where you want to go.

 

The Disney Renaissance

Walter Elias “Walt” Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. Walter along with his brother Roy, co-founded Walt Disney Productions, in 1923, which became one of the best-known motion-picture production companies in the world.

After decades of success, Disney Productions lost popularity. Walter and Roy’s death, 1966, left Donn Tatum, Card Walker, and Ron Miller in charge of production. When Don Bluth, a long-time animator, branched off taking 11 Disney animators along with him, production delayed. For the next 20 years Disney did not have a box office hit. The animation department was pushed to a side.

In 1988, Steven Spielberg, a long-time animator joined the Disney animation team. “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, a live action/animation was created. This film was a success. It won three Academy Awards, bringing interest on animation back to Disney.

The Disney Renaissance was a successful era in which cartoon movies took a turn for the best.

The Little Mermaid was approached differently, it wasn’t a regular cartoon, nor a regular musical. It was written, composed, and produced as a Broadway Musical. Its development started in the 1930s. Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken both with Broadway background took over the project and turned it into what is known today. Ashman and Menken were involved in all Disney Renaissance Productions.

 

November 14, 1989, The Little Mermaid was released breaking the record of highest-grossing animated film.

 

 

It marked the start of the Disney Renaissance, following with all-time favorite animated movies, The Lion King, Mulan, The Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin, and The Rescuers Down Under.

 

Film vs Theatre

We use the word theatre along with drama to describe activity in our daily life. Acting is part of our everyday lives: we describe our behaviors in our professional and personal scopes as if we were performers on the stage of life.

Theatricality is all around in many of the popular art forms that engage us. The relationship between film and theatre is very deceptive, nevertheless, all part of our popular entertainment.

The most significant difference between both art forms is the distance between performers and audience.

In film, the interaction with performers is presented or blocked by a screen. The more natural the acting the better. In contrast to theatre, actors don’t need to exaggerate their movements. The camera angels, and background music will capture the mood and tone of the scene.

Regardless of challenges from movies, radio, and television, theater has continued to thrive in the twenty first century. Perhaps this is so because of the “live” nature of theater, for theater is an event in which the performers are in the presence of the audience. This creates a circular flow of energy, as performer affects audience and audience affects performer. The play may be scripted exactly the same every single time, yet, every performance will be different. The group experience is essential to theater, as the group reinforces the emotions experienced by the individual and creates a “collective mind.” When a group of individuals respond more or less in agreement to what is occurring onstage, their relationship to one another is reaffirmed and strengthened.

On the other hand, film is the director’s territory. The director calls all the shots, unless the actor is a huge box office draw, everything he says is unnecessary. They move from moment to moment in no particular order, most of the time, with little to no rehearsal time. Editing and good sound music can turn a lousy performance into a star on the screen.

Oddly, film actors can work very quickly to put a scene together in a film that then exists forever while theatre actors may work for months to achieve a performance that only lasts as long as the run of the show.

Film and theatre are two similar, yet extremely different forms of art.

How to be the right person, for the right person?

What do we all want and need? 

Everybody at least once a day, thinks about what they want in a partner. Haven’t we all heard from our family, friends, neighbors, etc.? I want a man like this… I want a woman like that…… It’s all about what we want and need. Some of us even have a list of the qualities we would like our partners to have. Others have already given up, because they can’t find that right person.

 

I would like to share with you something once someone told me, and I will never forget. She said something within this lines, “You want a person that is charming, and has and does everything on your list, a “perfect man”. However, do you know what this man wants? Are you the person that this “perfect man” is looking for? Would you fit all the qualities that this man wants in a woman?” 

 

 

 

Do we ever think about that your right person, and want they would like, what their needs and wants are? Do we live up to the standards of that special someone we are looking for. I don’t know about you, but I sure know I wasn’t. I would never find a charming person to fulfill all the qualities on my list, lol, if I didn’t first fulfill his.  

The final question is,  

I am the right person for the person I am looking for? Would he/she look at me and say, “I have found you!!” 

 

Don’t forget we all look for the same thing.

 

Mexicans in Mexico don’t celebrate “Cinco de Mayo”

If Mexico’s Independence Day is September 16, what is Cinco de Mayo?

In the early 1860s, Mexico was in large debt with European countries, one of them being France. France’s Emperor Napoleon III decided to invade Mexico and force repayment. The French outnumbered the Mexicans in a 2-1 ratio. Although the invasion violated the Unites States’ Monroe Doctrine, they couldn’t help. The Unites States was too busy taking care of its own Civil War.

As France succeeded and moved toward Mexico City, Mexico’s capital, on May 5th, 1862, they found defeat. At the city of Puebla, the unexpected happened. It was nearly impossible for Mexicans to win, but they won a battle in Puebla. Even though the French did reach Mexico City and took over the country, as expected, Mexicans see this battle as a massive victory.

When the Civil War was over in the U.S.A., the French were mandated to leave Mexico and obligated to return home.

Today, Mexico’s Independence Day is the only day celebrated in Mexico. Mexican-Americans and Americans are the ones that have turned Cinco de Mayo into a “Mexican holiday”. In Mexico only City of Puebla celebrated Cinco de Mayo.

Why is it so big of a deal in America?

 

Before the U.S reached its current size, much of its land was Mexican, where Cinco de Mayo was celebrated more than 100 years ago. And so, the tradition was carried along thru the years and the country. Today we celebrate Cinco de Mayo and embrace Mexican Heritage, all around the world.

Do we need Happy Endings?

No happy endings!

 

I remember growing up with all this stories of princesses, and princes that rescued them. How nice would it be if they were real?

 

Well, they are stories, they are tales that were created to bring some hope into children’s lives. One day you’ll meet your prince charming. What many people don’t know is that many of the happy ending stories had horrifying original ending. Most of these tales were written during the 19th century. All of them with perturbing endings

 

In this version, the little girl from Red Riding Hood, is a well-bred young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks the way to her grandmother’s. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no woodsman – no grandmother – just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood. The moral to this story is to not take advice from strangers

 

For Little Mermaid, the mermaid sees the Prince marry a princess and she despairs. She is offered a knife with which to stab the prince to death, but rather than do that she jumps into the sea and dies by turning to foam.

In the original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which are to be served for dinner that night! Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is manhandled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his castle – not from a magical kiss. What the prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your imagination. Oh – in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!

 

In Hansel and Gretel instead of a witch we have a devil. Now the wicked old devil is tricked by the children (in much the same way as Hansel and Gretel), but he works it out and puts together a sawhorse to put one of the children on to bleed (that isn’t an error – he really does). The children pretend not to know how to get on the sawhorse so the devil’s wife demonstrates. While she is lying down the kids slash her throat and escape.

 

There are so many more!!!

Thank Disney for the happy endings. I hope I didn’t destroy anyone’s childhood. With all those horrible tales, were they trying to teach us something? Have the happy endings changed to way us, as individuals, work. Have we become fearless? A little bit of fear doesn’t hurt, it gives you courage.

Are we not brave anymore?

 

Why Patreon.com is the best crowd funding source!

 

As the cyber era elevates, it is harder and harder for musicians, entertainers, and creators to make a profit off of their work, many things can be illegally found on the internet today.  How can one start a project with no funding?  Loans are good ideas! What if I am too young and don’t have the credit score needed. You could also ask for someone to fund you, what do you need? $20,000? No problem. The chances of that happening are extremely slim. That’s why technology created crowd funding. It’s a new way to virtually ask people for money, anywhere from 1 dollar to 100, 200, or 1000 dollars. You are not begging someone for money, you will just should them your ideas, and they will then choose whether they want to fund you or not. Also, in return for their collaboration, you will provide them some sort of product or service.

After researching about the different websites that promote crowd funding, I have found the best one is Patreon.com. Compared to any other crowdfunding, with Patreon you will always “get the money” promised. For most crowdfunding you need to state a goal, for example, “I need $1,000 in a week”. If you have not reached the goal you stated, YOU WILL NOT GET ANY MONEY. With Patreon, the funding is different. People will pledge to pay you monthly, $5, $10, $100, any amount they like. This will be paid to you monthly. You may also set a goal, however, the goal does not need to be reached on order to obtain the money. Also, as I mentioned before, some sort of service or product needs to be given to the funders. All varies with the amount of money pledged.

What I like most about this site is that you are not limited to just getting paid one a month. If you are an artist and create products two or three times a month, you can change the funding times. Instead of getting paid every month, you can say that you will get paid every time you create something. Just don’t forget that every time you get paid you need to give as well.

For anyone with ideas for new creations, Patreon will be your best friend while trying to generate funding for your ideas.

Mdia – An improvement to messaging!

As the digital world grows larger, social media has become a crucial part of everyday life. The first thing most social media lovers do as soon as they wake up, is to look at their social media pages. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and many others have grabbed everyone’s attention. People are eager to answer, and send messages and pictures. It’s so tremendous the need that some users do not care for time and place. It doesn’t matter the situation; some media lovers distract themselves at all times. Society’s concern is the distraction caused while driving. Many accidents take place because people were reading or typing messages on their smartphones. Mdia has taken in account driver’s needs and wants. It has created a new way of staying in touch with social media while driving. Mdia, a talking messenger allows you to receive and send text messages by verbal interaction with your phone via Bluetooth.

Thanks to the use of Bluetooth in vehicles, Mdia can easily access social media pages through wireless connection between a car and a smartphone. This new cellphone App will change the way drivers interact through social media. Most modern cars already come with a call button. In order to connect with the texting App, instead of the phone log, the button on the steering wheel used to answer and make calls must be pressed twice. Instead of going directly to the phone log, the user will ask it if there are any new messages. Depending on the Mdia’s answer, the interaction will take place. If you wish to start a chat, just simply say, Mdia send message to….. Mdia, will do the work for you. (Refer to Script)

Making a list of “Priorities” is Mdia’s most useful tool. In this list, the user can add all the people whose messages would be read first. These messages have priority. When a message arrives, an automatic background soft tone will play, and if you wish to review it, ask “Mdia Do I have any messages?” From then on, the direct interaction with the app begins, (refer to Script model).  At any time during the interaction, the end call button on the steering wheel will end interaction. This app will be available in 4 languages to start off with, English, Spanish, French, and Italian.  Since people, regardless of language, have different dialects, at the beginning of the App’s subscription, Mdia will record and classify the user’s dialects; everything clearly said around a 3 feet radius. This way, it will be specially made and adapted to your personal voice.

The app will not be limited to in car usage. Regularly, the app will be available at a touch of the Icon. The Icon is pressed and the interaction begins.

The market that Mdia wants to target are the X and Y generations. Both generations combined make up the population of 17 to 45 years old.   Anyone with a smart phone will be able to download the app. It is targeted towards the social media users that drive, however, Mdia will not be limited to a certain public. Even though the app is not free, it is fairly inexpensive.  A onetime charge of $4.99 will be the cost to acquire it. Once purchased, it can be transferred to other devices under the same name.

Mdia’s development took place with the idea of preventing car accidents. The app will not stop cellphone use, but it will limit the interaction between cellphone and user while driving. Some people are so connected to social media that almost nothing can disconnect them. Mdia’s intention is not to detach users from social media, but to make a better use of it while driving.

 

 

 

“A Pledge to Never Give Up”

 

I took an hour ride from home to what would be the start of a new life. I counted the minutes every time the driver opened the doors, thinking, “Is this my stop?” People came in, people went out, and everyone was worried only about themselves. As the rain filled the streets with water, I wondered, “Will I make it on time?” Finally, the clock yielded that it was time to be in class. I couldn’t do anything but wait; wait for the bus and rain to stop. I thought, “What if I am the only one late.” As the doors opened, I jumped off the bus and walked as fast as I could, rushing through the puddles. It only took two minutes for me to be soaked from head to toe. I thought about what I would tell my new professor whom I hadn’t even met yet. What will he think? It was only my first day of college.

 

As miserable as it might sound, that day, May 6th, 2013, was one of the happiest days of my life.

 

On May 6th 2013, I had officially started a new phase in life.

Just like that day of horrible weather, I was able to make it to class, I compromise to never give up and fight for what I want. Fight for what I believe is righteous and fair! Courage and persistence will open all my future doors, just like the bus’ doors did that day. I look forward to surpassing the challenges crossed on my road, which I know will be many.