Gossip

Gossip: The Great Gatsby

The dictionary online states that the definition of gossip is idle talk or rumor about the personal or private affairs of others. This definition certainly pertains to the actions of the characters in the novel "The Great Gatsby". Gossip is like a desease; it can not be easily stopped. The act of gossiping infers to me that people gossip about the actions and lives of others because they are left with no other conversation material. This occurs at Gatsby's party while the guests are at his very own house gossiping about his previous affairs in the war. They are reverberating an opinon of someone else and turing it into a "truth" that may very well be untrue.

There are many dangers that come from gossip. The affects of gossip on people can be extreme and can ruin their very own reputation. Because of the babbling nonsense about Gatsby, he is known as a very wierd, mysterious and a scathing man. These people need to transcend the words from other people's mouths and get real and true information from the source. Gossip can also ruin relationships between people weather it be marriage or a friendship. Some people become too gullable therefore they have a chance of believing information that is untrue and not even double checking that information. The bottem line is that gossip can ruin lives if it gets bad enough. Even though we as humans have a propensity to sin, we must have control over our tounge.

November 2nd, 2009.

Everyone is different as everyone knows therefore everyone responds to tragedies differently. Some people become silent and depressed, some people cry, and some people take it to an extreme or they might just not care for too long. There are thousands of people this week who are dealing with the Maxwell Family tragedy differently but one thing in common with all these people is that we are all in grief and mourning. How couldn’t we be? The Maxwell Family was a beautiful, loving and Christian family who obviously had deep internal conflicts that were hidden from the outside view. Billy, Kathy, Connor and Cameron were all wonderful people and should be remembered by the Christian, role model-like people that they were. This entire situation is incredibly confusing, awful and tragic but who are we to figure this out? Who are we to know every single detail and to try and figure out why Billy did this and why it was this particular family? We are just people who need to be uplifting and look to Him, the Lord Almighty during hard times such as this one. He is the only one who knows the answers to the why questions. He understands our anger and doubt therefore He wants us to ask questions. The last thing he wants us to do is to be silent; to give up. We must keep fighting and keep living our lives to the best Christians we can be to honor the Maxwell Family.

Anger: One of the hardest emotions to control

Recently in my life I have encountered several feelings. Feelings ranging from utter happiness to complete sadness and depression. One of those feelings, anger, is an emotion that everyone feels and also an emotion that is sometimes the hardest to control. When someone or something makes you angry or aggravated enough it will exceed your tolerated point of annoyance and that is when people start saying and doing things that they really do not mean to do.

Today in Sunday school, we watched a video on a man talking about anger and how to watch when you have exceeded the point where you can not control it. Afterwards, our teacher asked us what is one thing that just “ticks” you off or just makes you so angry or aggravated that you almost can not stand it. She also explained that instead of acting on our anger, we can think outside the box; to allow anger to help you decide your future. For example, one thing that angers my mother is when people are not treated right in hospitals or rest homes. Therefore, instead of acting on her anger, she became a nurse to make a difference.

My answer to our Sunday school teacher’s question was when unfair things happen to good people. For example, my best friend/ boyfriend is sixteen years old and has lung cancer and has never smoked a cigarette in his life, yet a seventy-five year old woman or man has been smoking since they were seventeen and they do not get lung cancer. Even though my friend’s cancer is not the same kind of cancer you get from smoking, it is still just not fair seeing that he is just sixteen years old. It is times like these where I question why God does certain things but He does them for a reason and I trust in Him for the best to come out of a terrible situation.


-Alice Cox

Britney Spears!

People say that Britney Spears is a "wack job" or a "freak", honestly I completely disagree. Britney did go through a rough time but hey, who doesn't? Everyone, at some point in their lives, goes through a rough time in their life. The difference between our rough times and Britney Spears' is that she is famous which means, cameras and reporters following her around everywhere she goes which makes her tough time in her life even worse.



The Britney Spears concert that my friends and I went to recently in Greensboro, North Carolina, I think was Britney's way of letting everyone know that she is okay; that she is even stronger than she was before all of that mess in her life happened. The concert was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! The dancing and graphics of the concert was the best part of it and of course the dancing and singing along to "Hit Me Baby One More Time". My friends and I grew up listening to her songs so it was loads of fun being able to reminisce on the good ol' days.



Even though Britney Spears is not the best singer to listen to, she is a marvalous entertainer. Also her music is just a time where girls can let their hair down and sing as loudly as they possibly can to relieve stress or just to sing with the girlfriends in the car.



So the next time people are gossiping about Brtiney Spears and her life, that she is allowed to go through bad times in her life just like we do. Also remember that she is a human being just like you and me.

-Alice.

Stress, Stress, Stress!

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Stress is all students like me think about, especially during school, sports and personal issues. Between all of the things we teenagers have to think about and deal with, life can be really overwhelming. I know right now my life is very overwhelming. The thing that I don't understand is the teachers the load us up on homework and tests to study for when we have eight other classes and person things to worry about! I just really wish teachers would act like they have hearts sometimes and give us a break. It is hard to believe that these kinds of teachers were ever teenagers because you’d think they would understand how we felt. I guess the only solution to this is we as Christian students will have to look to God to help calm us and to give Him our worries and stresses. God doesn’t want us to stress or worry about things. He wants us to give them all to Him and live our lives with faith in Him that it will all work out. The main point of this blog is let people like me know that they are not alone; God is there. He will never abandon you and He is so ready for you to curl up in his strong majestic arms so He can tell you that everything will be okay.

-Alice.