Pretenders or Contenders?

 What's good y'all. I feel like I've always looked at media in a weird light. As instead of taking the content or opinion I see at face value I more of see it as their main message or the reason why they are posting this. For example when people post themselves doing very dumb or reckless things for views, the first thing that came to my mind is that the person is only doing it for attention. However, people can make a living off of things around that nature. Another example is Gio Wise, he's a basketball player on Tik Tok and he does a lot of unnecessary dribbling. He doesn't go anywhere with the moves he's doing and he almost always misses the shot. Of course he's not doing anything reckless or bad, but he posts videos of himself doing extra dribble moves when they don't work. In basketball dribbling moves are mostly one or two combos used to create space for a shot or go to the basket. In Gio's case he does a lot of extra moves and goes nowhere. H

 What's good y'all. I'm listening to Steve Lacy right now and he got me thinking. I was listing to "Thats no fun" and I noticed that everyone you come across will have a different opinion and interpretation of you.  When you are thought about a different image will come up for every person. Yes there will be some commonalities but there are also going to be quite a lot of differences. As people tend to change their personality from who they are around or where they are at mentally. Subconsciously you act different depending on who you're around and most of the time you won't notice it. Even in the case that you act the same around everyone people are still going to have different opinions and thoughts of you when you come up. This is influenced by their perception of you and their interpretation of your words and actions. Value is in the eye of the beholder and this can be applied here. 

 What's good y'all. For this post I'm going to be talking about what a hashtag is. To me hashtags are an inclusion of a culture that is put in the hashtag. As it can help people find content similar to it. For example when I type #sneakers on Tiktok I'm going to get videos and posts about sneakers and their culture. A hashtag can also be used to show what community you're apart of or what people that might have similar hobbies or interests as you can see. Hashtags have been a big use on social media as even people in person can say hashtag then say whatever. People used to get upset about how others would use hashtag and put Anything in front of it, as it was first used as a one word thing that could be used as a a part of a community. Like my mom could put "#Tortillas are overrated". Tortillas are great they aren't overrated but you get the point. Hashtags are very helpful for people looking for others that have the same hobbies or love of something a

 What I got from the article "Ducey: Why Arizona needs more college grads." By AZcentral is that Ducey is putting more money towards education hoping to emphasize it and we can improve our education as a state. He hopes to have 60% of Arizona citizens to have some level of education after high school by 2030. While yes I think this is a good idea I also feel like there are some flaws. 42% of Arizona citizens have education after high school while 2 out of 3 jobs are looking to hire people with some sort of degree or certificate. It's understandable that a workplace would want someone with higher education as they don't need to be taught as much compared to someone without any education however a majority of Arizona citizens have high school as their highest form of education. I also feel as if a high school diploma isn't enough now, which it's not. In the 90s a high school diploma could get you a good paying job but compared to todays world a high school diplo

 What's good y'all, opinions are a very interesting topic I would like to talk about. Opinions are very valuable to society as that's how people learn different view points and compare and contrast them from their own. However in today's world people are very hard-headed and will shoot down any opinion that doesn't match their own. For example someone that is a Christian is unlikely to hear a muslim person out and it'd be hard to have a civil conversation about their religion. I know this from first hand experience as my brother is a very hard-headed Christian. People also tend to look down upon you or don't see you as equal if your opinion is different. Most people don't hear you out for what you have to say as they'll have a subconscious bias already doubting what you are saying. Hearing people out and trying to understand someone's opinion and why they feel that way is critical as it can prevent a lot of conflict. But it's difficult for a

 What's good y'all, on this post I wanna discuss understanding. When I mean understanding I mean it as in when two sides are arguing, and are able to comprehend and understand why the other side feels a specific way and put themselves in their place. In argumentative essays writers are supposed to do this, or at least in my experience my high school teachers wanted me to completely understand the oppositions side to refute it. Writing argumentative essays in high school can be seen as underrated because you have understand the other side and create a argument for it if you want a good grade. However nowadays we rarely encounter people who can understand your viewpoint and why you see a topic in that way. We as people are very hard headed and rarely try to reach out to the other side and see what is actually wrong, we'd rather just argue about why we are right or why a decision should be made. Reaching a understanding can help so much in today's world as there's so m