What is "Passion"? To feel passionate is to have an strong and unbearable emotion . Now the next question is ' What Am I Passionate About ? ' I honestly love to draw and take pictures. I love being able to use the world as my inspiration, and I love being able to look at everything from a different perspective. I had an interest in art ever since young. As a little girl doodling would calm me down and excite me- it would 'fill a whole' that I was missing and put me at a calm place. It relaxes me and I can never say that I would want to ever stop drawing. With photography, I never really was into pictures. I didn't like too many pictures of me [which is odd to hear because I literally take selfies every day) but it always starts off in a funny way. I do remember in the summer of 6th grade, I took a photography class just to try it out because it seemed fun, which it was, and it always remained in the back of my mind. Then 7th grade I received my first iPhone and that's when Instagram was new and so I could just take pictures of everything and I really enjoyed it. Now here I am , senior year and I'm looking into the Art Institute of Philadelphia, trying to turn my passion into a lifelong dream that became a reality. I would say that I'm really into drawing and taking photos, not only because my work is nice, but because I feel as if I can expresses my inner feelings and no one will judge what I draw or take pictures of, and that is why I love it so much. I am able to be free.

So I am aware that there was no blog due today, but the purpose of a blog is to express your feelings on a topic and that's what I'm deciding to do right now. Yesterday we had our very first Socratic seminar and I was apart of the first group who went and participated. Our discussion was about teenagers and their usage on technology. We came up with our own questions, went around the circle and read them aloud. We began with Marshay's question which was asking something about what would happen if there were no more books, and only technology was available, could we still be able to learn. I was the first to start the discussion and I blatantly said I feel like we just wouldn't learn. With my response to her question, everyone began to have very different opinions, which was a very good thing in the case that as a class we could be okay with having an organized and well respected discussion. Yes, even though I heard many responses saying that we can learn without books, I am holding my ground because of personal reasons on that question. But its okay to have a different opinion in a Socratic seminar, that's what it's all about anyways right?

Today in class, we were reading articles about the media and television. I honestly don't watch t.v, because of the fact that I feel its fake and just not good for our minds. The articles that we were reading weren't glorifying the media, they were explaining how "all that glitters ain't gold", which is true in this case because of the fact that they only get a $20 to $30 stipend every day, most reality shows aren't actually 'reality', they are staged, and not everything that was recorded was shot in the same day, which is what some shows fail to tell the truth about. Things like that really bother me because of the fact that the television is something that every household has and we rely on information from it, but not all of it is accurate. I feel like the media lies due to how gullible society views everyone. Whatever we see on TV we believe because its on TV which is a big problem we as the people have. Those are my thoughts on the articles and my opinion on the media.