I was talking to a student the other day and we had an interesting conversation. The topic of discipline in schools came up. Another teacher mentioned how in China they were very strict about discipline and still believed in capital punishment in some schools. I recall my uncle telling me when he worked in Dubai …
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Another Look: Transformers
Recently I just finished the Transformers mini series that followed the war between the Autobots and Decepticons (War for Cybertron Trilogy). This is another cartoon series that I have grown up with and I’m glad to say is finally starting to make some sense. Don’t get me wrong. Most of the Transformer series are good. …
Another Look: He-Man
He-Man and The Masters of the Universe Recently He-Man has returned in a Netflix short series brought to us by Kevin Smith (Clerks). I have been recently thinking back on the 30+ years He-man has been in the media. I have watched every iteration and the live action movie. I will not be talking about …
Cliff notes of the MCU pt. 2
Let’s continue this series Three weeks later the earth is reeling from the loss of random family, friends and heroes. Tony is stranded in space with Nebula. As soon as he was about to give in to death They are saved by Captain Marvel. She quickly rallies the troops to go and get the stones …
Cliff notes to the MCU
These notes will cover the last 22 movies to get you caught up. In preparation of the coming What If… Series? A new slew of episodes coming to Disney+, I thought it would be nice to see how we got here. How the multiverse came to fruition and what it means for Marvel and the …
Failure
Yamcha epicly failing. Dragon Ball Z We fail everyday. To me, life is literally a bunch of failures we have strung together and just made the best of the situation. We made cars and after about 100 years of industry we finally admit they are killing the earth. We made factories to make the cars …
The Ant and the Grasshopper
One day there was an ant 🐜 collecting food. He and his family worked hard collecting food every year before winter. “Hey Ben, what you up to today”. Ben looked back at him, “Really, you know what I’m doing, collecting food, you comedian. Are you that bored, I know what you can do?”. Anthony looked …
Journey of the Mind: The Blame Game
I recently got my psych evaluation. I will not divulge the full eval but I can tell you I have situational Anxiety to the point of Mania and Depression. When I heard this report I was like, “Yea, that makes sense”. So who did this to me? Who helped me to be like this? How …
Journey of the Mind: Long road to recovery
Pic of character owned by marvel About a year ago I wrote a piece about suicide, inspired by a father who came and talked to the students at the school I work at. Since then my life has not been a fairy tale. It has been a roller coaster with twist turns loops and I …
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The Scorpion and The Frog
Frogs, SMH!
