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I'm passionate about

Food...

People don't know that I'm good at

Cooking and plot development, I'm good at writing dramatic plots for stories my friends are writing.

My TED Story

I visit TED during my "Gifted" class.

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• A reply on Conversation: Can good win?

  May 9 2011: i believe she is stating a learned reaction. since as far back as i can remember good always triumphed over evil. whether its a Disney movie, video game or just stories of world war one, stories taught to children always seem to end the same: good beats evil.
  
  its only until we age that we learn that that's not every side of the story. while good can't always win, we always believe it will.

• A reply on Conversation: What do deaf people hear when they read?

  May 9 2011: I agree Michael. That is why I wish someone who is deaf would answer my question. Get the eggs straight from the chicken you know?

• A reply on Conversation: What do deaf people hear when they read?

  May 5 2011: i understand what you mean by that normal thing, i felt horrible saying that myself, but i don't know what else to say.
  
  any ideas?

• A reply on Conversation: What do deaf people hear when they read?

  May 5 2011: i can understand that if becoming deaf after speech developed (i assume) they would read word they know like a normal person.
  
  what about born deaf? that's the better question
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  A reply on Conversation: "I don't try to be right, I choose to be happy" ... wait, what?

  May 4 2011: Why do you say that? I never said intelligence isn't bliss, but ignorance is just the easier of the two. when faced with the choice of finding the truth or going with what your told, lazy people will choose to sit and accept it and those who want the truth will take the initiative and find it.

• A reply on Conversation: Best video game ever made?

  May 2 2011: i have super Mario 64 too, and i love it but its a platformer, i like mindless jumping but i prefer a plot, goal and other characters

• A comment on Conversation: Why dont we enjoy the movie as much as the book ?

  Apr 27 2011: because books can be more realistic then movies, if i read a book about a dragon who rules a small village with fear i can imagine it much better then you could make it.
  
  It is also on part by the directors taking too many creative changes to the story i.e: in Lord of the Flies (spoilers) piggy dies by getting hit by a tumbling rock and landing onto a rock slab in the ocean, but in the movie he gets hit by a rock and just drops, as if he was knocked unconscious, that killed the best part of the book (IMO).
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  A comment on Conversation: "I don't try to be right, I choose to be happy" ... wait, what?

  Apr 26 2011: Ignorance is bliss, while i do believe in this sometimes, some examples (like you mentioned) do escape that grasp. but knowing everything would be horrible as well, the goal of life, as i see it, is to learn and understand our world around us.
  
  If i say a hot dog is made of rainbows and happiness i would be wrong, but i would be much happier then knowing the truth. Being right is just as selective as being happy. choices and choices, some smart and depressing and some wrong and enjoyable.

• A comment on Conversation: Why do we engage in superstition?

  Apr 26 2011: Superstition is something that is learned, good luck and bad luck just come from babies hearing that a black cat is bad luck or a four-leaf clover is good luck. i suppose that the reason people believe these things in the first place was coincidence, ages ago someone found a four-leaf clover and good things happened to him, not by luck though given that this man is the first to have the four-leaf clover in his area, no one thinks that it is lucky until word spreads that good things happened to him after finding that clover.
  
  As Debra said superstition is learned, not gained. Do something and good things happen so why not always do it? that's why superstition is so prominent, because the human brain isn't all knowing and therefore we have to guess what will happen, and if by chance something good happens we will keep doing it, and if something bad happens then we will stop.
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  A comment on Conversation: Best video game ever made?

  Apr 20 2011: My youngest memory is of me playing my old N64 (which i still have next to my TV) so video games are important to me.
  
  My favorite game has to be "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" because the game is built out of pure character development, the dungeons don't seem forced; they actually seem important to the characters that live around it. In OoT the characters were faceless text in my eyes.