Life Safari Presentation

During the semester, there were many important presentations. Out of all of them, the one that was most touching to me, was the presentation by John Strelecky. Strelecky is the author of Life Safari and many other books. In the presentation, he talked to us about our "big 5 for life" and bascially going after what will make you happy and successful. I feel like this was effective towards me because at the time, I didn't really know what I wanted to accomplish in life and now I have a better idea and know that I want to make a different somewhere. Strelecky showed the audience a couple of videos and one was especially touching to me. It was a speech by Nick Vijuici.
This man has no arms or legs, yet he still manages to get back up without any help. The message of this was basically not to give up and this fit in with your big 5 for life. I am a huge softy and this video definitely got to me and showed me that you may think you have it bad, but theres other who have it worse and are still really happy. It really opens your eyes to what people go through. John Strelecky was very interesting to listen to and maintained the audiences interest by interacting with us. Another particular activity that I will always remember is when we had to find someone and we placed our "Big 5 for Life" in the palm of their hands. While they held a clenched fist, we had to try to open up and get our 5 things back. I really enjoyed this presentation more than I thought I would and it is something that I will probably remember forever because of the meaning behind it.

1981

It's the year 1941, and I'm getting ready to attend my first day as a college student. I wake up bright and early to get ready for school. As I get ready for the school day, I put on the newest music out, which included music from Michael Jackson. I look through my closet and find myself pulling out my "rad" outfit which included an off the shoulder sweater with leggings. Of course, I rock the side pony tail because that is just what is in right now. I get on the bus, and head off to school. There is no technology right now, so my teacher is teaching on a blackboard with chalk and I start to take notes by hand, while other people may have a typewriter. When school the school day is over, I head back home, do my daily chores and work on the homework that I received that day. Then repeat for the next 4 days.

Food Ads

When I look to buy a product, I mainly focus on how the company portrays the product. I am usually the type of person that will buy name brand items over the generic brand just because I feel like they might be better, and most of the time better tasting. For food items, I always buy name brand. If the advertisement has a jingle, it is not certain that I will buy the item because of that, but I do remember the advertisement better since it usually gets stuck in my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y84nBeCmkWQ

The new ad for Arby's includes a catchy song for the new Angus Three cheese and bacon sandwich. It also includes a catch phrase, "good mood food" at the end of the song, portraying that Arby's food will "put you in a good mood."The song is basically saying that everybody likes this sandwich and how it is made with "oven roasted, fresh sliced" meat which may or may not be the whole truth.

Ecological Footprint

I would take up 4.6 earths and 20.3 global acres. The ecological footprint is something that tells you how much resources you actually to do the things you need to do. Most of the resources we use will eventually run out so trying to cut back now will help in the long run with preserving the Earth. The one place that I could reduce my footprint would be with recycling. I have never recycled in my life and I fell like it is something easy that someone could do for the environment. Ever since I came to FGCU, I have been trying harder to do this simple task.

A little about me (:

Well, to start off with my name is Jessica Clark, which means “Gift from God.” I’m eighteen years old and my birthday is in January, which would make me an Aquarius. I’m from New Port Richey. However most people call it “New Port Nowhere” because there isn’t that much too do around there. I have an older brother who is pretty much one of my best friends. My parents and I are also really close. I have no idea what I would want to be when I grow up so as of right now I’m undecided with my major. I’ve been back and forth from wanting to be a dental hygienist, to a psychology major, to a nurse. During my sophomore year of high school a new school was being built, and where I lived was the cut off for zoning for the other school. So I transferred over to the new school called Anclote High. It took a lot of getting used to considering none of my friends really came with me so I was alone, kind of like my situation of coming to this college. The one cool thing about switching schools was that I ended up being in the first graduating class of the high school. I haven’t really been a huge sports fan however during middle school I ran track and played volleyball. In high school, my friend convinced me to join the golf team which I ended up actually really taking a liking too. Zumba was one of my obsessions back home. I usually went twice a week at a local gym I went to.  I love music, mostly rap/hip-hop or country. I also love going to country clubs and learning all the line dances that there is. I really love it here at FGCU so far and I’m really looking forward to a good 4 years here and meeting new people.