I never stand alone

It may not seem like it but Xbox is a great place to establish a community just for you. There are ,many Xbox live users and each of them have different attributs. xbox  offeres everything i would want in my community.

Playing Xbox 360 with everyonr is something I love to do, to simply put it. I will easily make a decision to pass up a current event to play Xbox. I have passed up parties and gatherings to play Xbox with my friends. I have told my friends in person that I would be busy on the weekend just so I could play with my virtual community. 

Xbox 360, as well as other online video games, offer me a sense of comfort ability and lets me play with other people that have the same desire as me. I start playing a game and automatically I am in an environment where people have the same objective. When a gamer plays a video game, they log on to play, and then they instantly are put with people that are willingly choosing to play along with them in a video game. This is like a community with the same objective.

Feedback for the Soul

In the first module at Year Up, I learned that I am pretty set and ready for a job at an intern or partnered company. I thought I was much worse and unprepared then what I actually am. I probably thought this because I was looking at organizations I had visited or toured when I was younger. I interned, visited, applied to corporations like Google, HSBC, and Credit Suisse. I was surprised however to find a few of my new challenges I need to work on in order to be successful. I was disappointed in these flaws and feel like these may limit by chances in the future unless I change them. I did do things that were positive and encouraged me to keep trying in the program. I also have the chance to grow even more by acknowledging my positives and negatives which are:   

Plus (Accomplishments)	Delta (Growth area)
Organization	Side talking
Completed all my assignments	Temper
Stayed after school to complete assignments	I get distracted
I adapted to a new and unique environment	I have poor study habits
I went to sleep at appropriate times	I live to procrastinate

Not a product but an opposite

My neighborhood is the exact opposite of gentrification: ghettofication. I used to live in a neighborhood where kids from down the street played at each other’s homes, played basketball, traded baseball cards, had “spend-a-nights” and parents bought other kids ice cream. Currently I live in a place where all I wish to do is stay in my house and only come outside only for things really important or to leave to another city. My neighborhood is a complete difference from five to ten years ago. My mother bought our home to be able to move out of lower income environments and to get away from ignorance and obnoxious people, yet we are back engaged. Violence is a factor that is played out and is a concern on a daily basis. America alone is a violent place; after all we do have a higher murder by gun rate than any other country. Countries such as Canada are so safe that families usually don’t even feel the need to lock their doors during the day and occasionally at night. In my neighborhood, there’s only one public high school for everyone in the city. I don’t think I have ever been more scared of gun threats or feared being jumped ever in my life. This is especially significant because I have also lived in places where at least one or two people die a week. I feel that I am who I am despite the neighborhood I live in because of my mother and grandmother. My mother has always tried her absolute best to keep me from gang violence and has over-sheltered me. I do not know too many single parents that would drive their child a 50 minutes to another county every single day just for them to go to school. I mind you that she worked in the opposite direction about 30 minutes. She also drove to pick me up and take me home safely for three years every single day.

Pure Profit

How fair are businesses treating its customers? This is a topic that can easily bring about conversation. To be more specific, is it fair for businesses to charge the lower income higher rates for more money? Or is it fair to charge them this even if the seller knows they may not be able to keep up the payments on time or may stop paying eventually. A colleague of mine talked about how she went to a tech and electronics store to buy a laptop with cash and the company ran a background check on her. Some people wished they got this treatment before they made a financial decision that put them into a bind, over stressed or in debt. Unfortunately, most companies may not factor in the opportunity divide when it comes to profit. The simple fact is that people seem to not have proper financial decision making skills or taught business negotiations and deals by their parents before they went to make an important decision. It seems as if most people in debt or people slowly slipping underneath the poverty line want corporations to be their parents. The people still want them to be honest and be told what to buy, what’s a good deal, and should I turn down this offer? Being able to turn down an offer is a great skill that the average person does not have when it is a necessary. People can’t always blame businesses for their lack of not reading fine print or negotiating. When you do figure this out, you have reached another question, why are they charging me so much or so little. Generally poor people are not reliable. Businesses may come to this conclusion by viewing credit, background, and other resources. If someone is not reliable, then a big risk must be taken, which means the businesses may try to penny pinch every dime the customer may have. People must understand that financing is not an ephemeral type thing. It can stick with you forever.

A piece here and a Slice there

I am a dedicated person whenever I am needed or effort is appropriate. I absolutely love video games, hanging around with friends and team building exercises. I have a desire for sports as well. Even though I limited my participation to only football, track, and baseball, I enjoy watching and learning new topics about most sports. I am an only child from a single parent mother. I tend to make jokes around my Great Grandmother, Grandmother, and my mother because I am literally the only male in their lives. Naturally people say that I am raised y northern California because I was born in San Francisco, moved to Richmond, moved to Pittsburg but went to high school in Fairfield. Throughout my child hood through my high school graduation, I have been to six different schools in a series of different counties. Despite that it helped me with my future success. Evolving to that many different environments may not be easy for some, so I made it a skill. i can use this skill in any scenario and surrounding in a few different ways. I can adapt to new situations, perform immediately when necessary, and become networked into a whole new atmosphere.

The Wait is over!!

Epic games have released one of the most Xbox 360 most anticipated franchise games on September 19th 2011. This is the third installment of its franchise. a review from someone at epic stated, " This is our last game with the members of Delta Squad and Epic knows it." According to Yahoo, This game had over 800 Midnight opening across the country. The main release party was in NYC. This game was not just anticipated by the public, but also by the producers as well. One company that was well prepared for the intensity and release of this game was BestBuy. “September 12, 2011 - Best Buy announced today it will kick-off the release of Gears of War 3, one of the most anticipated games of 2011, by hosting the official midnight launch event at the Best Buy Theaters in New York City on Monday, September 19" Stores and companies everywhere saw it as a huge way to promote their businesses due to Gears of War well established reputation. The party in NYC, American Chopper gave away a gears decorated motorcycle in a raffle, a concert was thrown outside, and BestBuy hosted what is opinionated as one of the best video game release parties in history. Unlike Gears of War 1 and 2, a bunch of new game types and features are available. A few main unique game types brought to Gears are, horde 2.0, Beast mode, and a great story line. Gears 3 offers Epics longest storyline game ever created. Microsoft Studios, the developers are also another great process and establisher for Gears. Gamers will also experience a whole new series of characters in the game where as in the past not many new characters at all.

A few follow up links are:

http://www.g4tv.com/games/xbox-360/63515/gears-of-war-3/review/
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gears-War-3-Invades-Best-Buy-thomsonreuters-3319704214.html?x=0&.v=1

The Vikings

Even though I did not live in the district, I went to school in Fairfield CA. I had a negative opinion about my high school the day my mother was taking me to sign up because I had heard rumors that the school was predominantly Caucasian.  From the day I stepped into the office until I graduated, the time there will always be one of the best long term experiences I ever had.

I was scared to do sports but that school shook the fear out of me. I was having to always watch out for myself but that school helped me feel comfortable with letting my guard down. Vanden high school is an all-around great school.  We were known as Travis Air Force base kids from the Solano County. At first I thought it was a military school but soon found out that the kids and young adults there were actually very fun and it was not a military school in the least. The schools academics were great, kids are social, success is often encouraged and pushed upon students from the teachers, and it has a high graduation rate and students are prepared for their college courses after high school.