Money and Where does it go?

When your mind starts to go wandering the sights end up being pretty scary. As I about to turn 16 I am starting to look for a job (but not sure where just thinking about it). I become scared to find one when the economy is as good as it is now I am afraid that the jobs will be hard to find while everyone is losing jobs. I start to think how scary it would be for everything to go under. Everyone relies on one and another. It's like the butterfly effect every little outcome creates another outcome that keeps effecting...

Once I started thinking about it I started to wounder why we (meaning people far in the pasted) stopped trading and started using money. Of course their are still those who trade but to me that seems few and far. I think the trading is more in poorer countries or places but it seemed like a great method. Something seems wrong when "it takes money to make money". I understand that it has to some how but I think that has been some of the problems of our economy. We pay too much money to those who can slack off and by the time we realize how bad the economy is they are the first to go. Or how about the people who abuse their a time/overtime. Once one part seems to become to over balanced it seems to spill and everything falls apart in some way. It seems very scary how fast the times can turn. Because if you drive around you can see empty building after empty building after empty house (trying to be sold) after empty house.

This all seems to go back to each other. The circle of poverty seems to seem pretty true and hard to break. Just like the economy and the parties that are in control of Congress it goes in spurts where one time it will be up and another it will go down (sometimes a lot) and for congress one time Democrats will be in control and another Republicans will be. It is just a sick on going circle. My questions are: How do we become so bad? Where does the money go? Why does it take so long to realize that we should jump over board? Are we just to arrogant like the Titanic that we think we are the best and we can't go under?

OBAMATION

It makes me happy to have Obama as the first black president. People may say Obamation and I get confused if they mean abomination because I don't feel disgraced or even outraged. The past is the past, people need to put their racism behind them if they don't like him. I understand if they do not like his policies that is a good reason. But not a good enough reason to hate him it is a reason to dislike him. I did not get that mad when Bush was elected the first time or the second. I was more sad but after a while you just have to let the past be the past.

After this election I gained huge respect for McCain. With his speech it made me happy to hear what he said. The gist of his speech was let bygones be bygones. When some of his supporters started to boo what he was saying good about Obama he basically said now stop doing this he is not only my president but also yours lets unite together and help out one and another. It made me think a lot the president goes through so much and they are constantly fixing mistakes from the previous president (these next four years will need a lot of help).

I am looking forward to see what Obama is going to do. He has made history as is which makes me scare because it is hard to be the first at anything and he will be constantly watched for every little move he makes. It is definitely hard to work under pressure and he not only has the pressure of being the First African-American president but also the huge pressure of our crumbling economy. I look forward to see what tricks he holds up his sleeves. And I hope this will bring our era further down the road and unite us. After we are the United States lets stand strong next to one and another and defend each other.

Halloween Origin

As time progresses we tend to over look things. We just sweep the meaining under the door and accept the results. We need to go back generations to find how these things started to discover the truth. However we tend not to...Halloween is no exception. I have always seen it as the most meaning less Holiday(not that there is anything wrong with it). I just never questioned it. I just saw it as a Holiday where people dressed up and gave away candy or where people try and scare others.

Recently I have learn the pass to it. It is just like any other thing were over time it has changes to make "better". It turns out that Halloween started out as a Celtic Holiday. They celebrated the end of the year(Nov 1) . Which if you think about it; it makes perfect sense. After the Great Harvest and then come the cold and ice what more perfect time. Now in this time period they would associate this with human death. And the Celts believed that the two worlds came together on the day before (Oct 31). So they would celebrate Samhein. During their celebration the Celts would wear costumes of dead animal heads and skin and danced around a fire.

Then Romans started to conquer Celtic territories. And there cultures started to merge. Two of the Romans festivals combined with Samhein. They were Feralia and Pomona. Feralia was a day of celebrating the dead. Pomona was a day for celebrating the Goddess of fruit and trees. Might be why apples are popular during the time of Halloween. Such as Carmel Apples, Cider, and the game where you bob for apples. Then Christianity started to have a huge influence over in this area. As they did they started to try and show how their religions are pretty close to try and convert them. They used some other techniques too...would rather not believe. They showed that they had a way of celebrating death. That is probably why All Saints' Day (Nov 1) and (Nov 2) is All Souls' Day. The word HALLOWEEN means All Hallows' Even.

It then progressed to the Halloween I know today through various means. The truth is sometimes people or groups try to be liked by too many people that they are either hated or they get over looked. I believe Halloween has out shadow the Christian Holiday's that follow the next fue days (All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day). It has turned to a day where people like free candy and scare people. It reminds me of another holiday Colubus Day. He was the one who discovered America(?). People will over look that other people were here first and just accept how things are. Not that is a popular holiday it is just wrong to give credit to people that have just added to an underlining idea.

source:http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=713&display_order=1&mini_id=1076