OpEd

In mu opinion, I think that being able to express one's opinion is a good thing to be able to do.  I really liked being able to write a paper that allowed me to build an argument to help persuade somebody of something that I felt strongly about.  People need the skills to be able to build a persuasive argument and then back it up.  This paper really gave me a chance to better fine tune that while I got to write about something that I really like.

Now for a little humor aside, here is a video of something that I think most of you will find amusing.  I would venture to say that you are only going to see at BYU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1W_KXcYsgA
Enjoy! :)

Peer Review Skinny

How do I feel about our peer review?  Well I think that it had its strengths but it also had its weaknesses.  Overall I like the idea of peer review.  Having someone look over my paper gave me many new ideas and showed me some of my faults.  I had someone with a view that more disagreed with mine.  I think that did help to build my arguments and see how I can build those stronger, but I think having a second person who had a more agreeing view point would be good to help build the other parts of the paper.  I think that the more people who read you paper, the more advise you get and then you have even more choices in how I can improve my paper.  Overall, I like how the peer review went, but I feel like it needed to continue with more people reviewing the paper.  So a good start, but not finished.

What Ever I Want

When you are given an assignment to write about anything you want, just as long as it is something, the possibilities are seriously endless.  There is no end to the choices we have for writing.  As seeing that I have to write about something, I better start writing about something and not just nothing, but that might just be exactly what I write about.  Is there really such a thing as nothing?  Is there ever a time when nothing is going on?  Because, in essence there is all ways something and we are always doing something.

Now our instructor told us we could write on anything but it had to be something.  Well I would argue that as long as we wrote something, it would be about something and not nothing.  All words are something and not nothing.  So I argue that it is impossible to not write about something.  You can't write about nothing.  Except that I just did write about nothing, while in reality I did write about something.  It is just an endless cycle that will keep repeating itself.  If you write about nothing, which I just did, you are still writing about something.  It is a paradox.  Just a little something for everybody to think about and I would argue that I did complete this blog assignment and even though, against Chris's instructions, I wrote about nothing but still wrote about something. :) There is always Something in Nothing.

The Beginning of a Beautiful Paper

Well, the issue I want to talk about is kind of based on the degradation of society today.  I want to talk about how the art of dance can help bring a bit of class back into the world and how all BYU students should be required to take at least one dance class in their college career.  Over the last few years, society has taken a drop in the way people interact with each other and most people seem to have no class.  I believe that learning to do a formal style of dance can help bring us up a bit.

I realize that maybe a lot of people don't like to dance and don't think they can dance, but I still think that just the process of learning to dance, no matter how good you become, can bring a more classy style to how we act.  Some people might think that it is an infringement on their rights, but when you think of the benefits, such as all the girls being impressed with the guys and the guys finding the girls more attractive, who would believe that that was an infringement.  Also, BYU has the biggest and one of the best ballroom dance programs in the world.

 BYU Ballroom Dance

So really there is no reason not to take a dance class anyway but still, i think it should be a requirement.

My Brain Monsoon

Well, on thing that I feel very strongly about is that every person should learn how to dance and i don't mean the freak out stuff most teenagers do.  There is something about the art of a true dance that forges a bond between the two dancers.  It has a very elegant but yet still intimate feeling.  Now tell me, who likes to dance with someone who just stands in one place and just shuffles their feet and rocks back in forth?  Well I sure don't.  What girl wouldn't want to be asked to dance by a guy who can just take her sailing across the floor? Also, what guy wouldn't want to ask a girl who could just follow him with the smoothest of responses and movement.  There is nothing quite like these feelings.  I believe that a social or ballroom dance class should be required here at BYU.

Another thing that I care about is golf.  I love the sport of golf.  Most people think it is an old person sport, but i disagree whole heartedly.  I have never felt anything quite as satisfactory when you hit the straightest drive and the ball goes exactly where you want it.  Also, the sound is almost to die for.  That solid crack as the club face makes contact with the ball and sends it soaring straight through the are.

Well these are two ideas that come to mind.  I hope you can give me some feed back on what you think.

-AEB

What I want to do.

There is only one thing that I can see myself doing and that is teaching.  I would like to teach Music History at a university one day.  I will be getting a BA in Music with an emphasis on music history and then go to grad school to become a musicologist.  After that I am going to try to find a job teaching music history as I work ona doctorate in something.  It is a very limited career choice, but I love music and history and I want to teach so that is why I want to teach music history.