SuburbanDolphin

Featured actor: My puppy- NomNom

My process:

My first idea for my video was going to be an interview style video between a horse talk show host and a dolphin guest. These would be people with masks on. I went to two costume shops and they didn’t have dolphin masks. One did a horse mask though. (which i did buy) But then I needed a new idea for my video. So Karolina found a dolphin fin at one of the stores and I came up with my idea then. I was going to put the dolphin fin on my puppy and he would be my dolphin actor. This worked out very well. My puppy didn’t mind the dolphin fin much. But he did not like being in a cage. My family doesn’t usually keep him in there so he was kinda upset. But when he was outside, he was happy, even though it was raining and he had a dolphin fin on him. Overall, my video did portray what I wanted, which was the difference between captured animals and free/wild animals.

For this digital project, Im not entirely sure what i want to do. i know i want to make a video. Since my paper is going to be about dolphins, i was thinking that i could make a video of dolphins talking about how they feel about how they are being treated. i would set up an interview style video with two dolphins talking to eachother and both would be wearing dolphin masks.

Im slightly worried about this paper. Actually really worried about this paper. i know im writng about sea world and how they get their dolphins and if they changed their ways from buying from the fisherman who acquired the dolphins in the worst way possible. but im not sure what my thesis statement is or how im going to convey that in my video.

Animal cruetly is something I am strongly against. The commercials with the dogs and cats that have been abused are incredibly hard to watch and I just change the channel when that song comes on and tries to ruin my commercial watching experience. I don’t understand how people could be so mean to an innocent animal. All they want is for someone to love them. How can someone willing be cruel to a face as cute as a puppy or kitten?

I try to always buy my cosmetics with the cruelty free stamp of approval. My favorite brands to buy are Tarte and Buxom cosmetics. These brands are proud to be cruetly free. They always add to the packaging that their products are cruelty free. I like having the feeling that I was a bunny’s honey and bought cruelty free products. Bunnies are usually the animal of choice when they test if a product is safe or not. Check for the bunny on the box to see if the product is cruelty free.

Oh my glob. I have not gotten over my anxiety of writing. I’m still afraid of writing. The thesis statement is still not coming to mind. But I now understand the role of deception in the book. A line from an all time low song that I connected to the book was “you’re not a hero. You’re a liar.” It’s from the song “Heroes” from all time low’s album Dirty work. Rebecca Skloot is not a hero. She used certain words in her story telling to make it seem like she was one. She also made it seem like she was the only one to care about Henrietta as a person and made it seem like the doctors only cared about her cells.
The page requirements for this paper has made me really afraid. I have never written any paper this long before. I have no idea how I’m going to keep writing for 5-7 pages. I’m also afraid because my last paper was not great. But that’s just how I write. I don’t know how to analyze. I feel like I’m analyzing but it just ends up being summary. And then I feel like my paper has no focus and I’m just all over the place. I’m just so concerned with writing. I never liked it. I was never good at it. I wish I had a way with words like some people do. Like when people write in such clever ways I’m just like, “why can’t I think like you.” Uugghh. My life.

Living in this city, my spending has gotten out of control. I live on 13th street Sunday through Thursday. This has me spending money everyday. I have to buy food and all that good stuff. I also have a shopping problem which doesn’t help me at all. I always feel like I need something to complete my collection of things. In reality I don’t need anything but my heart is telling me to go shopping.
My parents trusted me enough to give me a credit card. This was a huge mistake on their part. As I said, I have a shopping problem. This started when I worked at Abercrombie and being surrounded by clothes every day. I needed all of the new things that we got in the store. But that was okay because I used my own money to get it. But now that I quit my job at Abercrombie, I don’t have any money to use to buy all the things that I want. But the shopping problem is still here. So now I have this nifty plastic thing in my wallet that lets you just swipe it and you can get whatever you want! I don’t pay this bill so I have no idea what the cost of things are. But this card just makes it so easy to get anything your little heart desires.
This acquisition of a credit card has ruined my life. But not really. It’s basically ruining my parents wallets. I don’t buy expensive items with the card but I do buy a lot of inexpensive items. And these really are adding up fast.
I need a reality check with this card. I have seen the bill for this card but I don’t get it. You buy all this stuff with it and then when you get the bill, you only have to pay such a little amount back. How does even work out? The total costs from the card was hundreds of dollars but you only have to pay as little as 25 back. That made no sense to me. Credit cards really confuse me.

When writing my draft, I didn’t even know where to start. I changed my thesis statement about three times. When I finally decided on my thesis, I had no idea where to go with my thesis. I tried to pick a thesis that was somewhat relevant but I don’t think it had to do with bioethics. I tried to pick one that I could write about for three pages.
While I was writing my draft, I just wanted to get through it. I wanted to get to the page requirement. That’s all I wanted. Then when I finished and looked over what I wrote, I realized that my essay had nothing to do with my thesis. So I had to tweak my thesis to fit my essay. Then I realized that my essay was mostly summary, which was frowned upon. I didn’t want to fix it. I left it as it was and just let it stand on its own. I thought it was actually awful.
I need help focusing my thoughts. My essay seemed to wander and by the end it wasn’t what I was trying to prove and write about. This frustrated me. I had no idea how I got there. I find writing very difficult. I find ranting very easy.

This reading had my mind all over the place. I thought about “if a humans life is more important than an animals?” then I thought about animal cruelty. Then I thought about cruetly free products. Then I thought about vegans and vegetarians. Then I thought about vegan shoes. What makes them vegan? Why make vegan shoes? What are they made out of?

Vegans not only avoid meat but they also avoid animal by products(products made by or from animals). Vegan shoes are footwear made without using leather or animal by products, for example, glue. Some of my favorite shoe companies like Sauk and Toms make vegan shoes. They’re like regular sanuks or toms buy made vegan friendly. I’m not a vegan but if I was a hardcore vegan I would be buying these shoes.