CC#2: Boy Held in Bunker

   An article on CNN "Boy Held in Bunker", written by Lateef Mungin, and George Howell, talks about how a man took a boy in an underground bunker, and has had him in there for several days.

"A kindergartner, snatched from the safety of his school bus by a gunman and stashed in an underground bunker;" This story reminds me of the book The lovely bones, but how could a man take a child, one with special needs, and keep him in an underground bunker. 

   "The gunman stormed into the school bus Tuesday afternoon and demanded that the driver hand him a child." The man did not just take the boy, he also shot the bus driver multiple times at a close distance with children on board.

   "Davis, who works a night shift, said Dykes worked on his bunker in the middle of the night -- every other night, between 2 and 3 a.m., for a year and a half." If a man was out in the middle of the night working on something no one knows about, why didn't someone investigate it? I know i would have.

   This story reminds me of the book The Lovely Bones. The book was amazing, but it makes me wonder if this man got the idea from that book. People are crazy.

American Dream Essay

   What is an "American Dream?" To live in America means to be free, to be able to pursue whay you want. It is written in the constitution,"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." In a few years from now, I see myself graduating high school, going to college at ASU, and eventuallly going to medical school to become a doctor.
   Being a junior in high school, my ultimate goal right now is to graduate,and go to college. I do not want just to graduate, I want to be a honor graduate and make my family proud. My dad never graduated from college, and my mom waited until she was older. She had four kids, two twin babie, and and older son and daughter. I have seen the struggles she had to go through, and it was tough. I want to be able to go to college, and focus on school, and have the college experience. I will hopefully become a freshman during the 2014 fall semester at Arkansas State University. Not too far from home, but just far enough. While I attend college, I want to meet new friends, but more important than that, I want to keep my best friend and the friends I have made throughout high school. This is where I want to be in the next five years.
   In the next ten to fifteen years, I see myself going to medical school, and graduating from medical school. I want to become a doctor. During medical school, I hope to find a man I can start a family with, and grow old together with. After medical school, I hope to have a great job at Childern's Hospital. I have had numerous experiences with that hospital, and the place is phenominal. After I find a job, I want to build a house, and start a family. I want to be able to take care of my family, not just my children, but my parents and grandparents. There is still a lof of deatails to be worked out for the next ten to fifteen years, but this is a good start.
   Everyone's "American Dream" is different, and each and everyone of them include obstacles we have to face. No one knows what the furtre holds for us, but with hard work, dedication, and perseverence, I think I have a pretty good idea.

CC#1: Proof of Heaven

   In an article entitled, "The Science of Heaven", a nuerosurgeon named Dr. Eben Alexander debunks other doctor's reasonings of how people have "visited" heaven when they were in near death experiences.
   When Dr. Alexander spoke out on his experience, like others have done before him, doctor's said that the unbelieveable trip "was a brain-based delusion cobbled together by my synapses only after they had somehow recovered from the blistering weeklong attack." This pretty much says that the doctor's say that the brain was still functioning while in the coma, and that's what caused the dream.
   But, Dr. Alexanders coma was different from others, the part of his brain that controls his neurological function, the cerebal cortex, was completely shut down. Alexander said, "Yet in spite of the complete absence of neural activity in all but the deepest, most primitive portions of my brain, my identity—my sense of self—did not go dark. Instead, I underwent the most staggering experience of my life, my consciousness traveling to another level, or dimension, or world." Coming from a doctor, that believed that these experiences came from synapses, is reamarkable, and the part of his brain that controls these actions was completely shut down, I would love to see the critics explain this one.
   Proving the point even further, Dr. Alexander says, "My synapses—the spaces between the neurons of the brain that support the electrochemical activity that makes the brain function—were not simply compromised during my experience. They were stopped."  When the activity in your brain is completely stopped, there is no way of having these experiences, but Dr. Alexander did.
   This story goes to prove that our God does unimagineable things. He proves to us everyday that he is always there, and this happening to a doctor who believes in science, is even more remarkable.