Pourquoi pas moi?

I'm Emily, a sort-of creative/sort-of intellectual person who can't get enough attention. I'm still growing as a writer, a student, a cook and just a person in general. :) You can follow me on twitter @emily_rames (tweet tweet!) or on deviantART at emilie-mhm :)


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Valentine’s Day Cut Scene #2 Will and Jem

cassandraclare:

Scene cut from Clockwork Prince - Will tells Jem about his secret

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cassandraclare: Will and Jem – deleted scene up next. wither thou goest, i will go;where thou diest, will i dieand there will i be buried:the angel do so to me, and more also,if aught but death part thee and me  WANT!!! -attacks computer- GIVE THEM TO ME, INTERNET! Please! 

cassandraclare:

Will and Jem – deleted scene up next.

wither thou goest, i will go;
where thou diest, will i die
and there will i be buried:
the angel do so to me, and more also,
if aught but death part thee and me 

WANT!!! -attacks computer- GIVE THEM TO ME, INTERNET! Please! 

(Source: jemyouh0rnybeast)



Second Purdue essay: Please tell me if you think this is good :)

Essay for PEFCU Citizenship Award 

 

Answer all of the following questions in a cohesive essay of 250 words or less.  We suggest that you create your essay with a word processor and then copy and paste it into the space below.

 

1) Define “good citizen” and outline your thoughts on the value and benefits of being a good citizen in your community.

 

2) Describe a specific service project/organization you’ve been involved with, and what you’ve learned from being involved with that project/organization.


My junior year, I was fortunate to be involved with a Habitat for Humanity build. We woke up at five, met at the school at seven and then drove two hours to the back of Birmingham. I had been involved in community projects prior to this build but this was the first one that involved power tools. The day was exhaustive and difficult but from it I gleaned several important lessons. Things won’t always be spectacularly organized; not all hands can be on the same hammer; one must be willing to do tasks that seem hard or uncomfortable; and one must be willing to communicate—that day, there was much asking for help and many opinions that were overlooked and many more that went unvoiced due to shyness or fear. However, I don’t think that this one thing makes me a good citizen. Citizenry is defined as “[being] a native or naturalized member of a state or a nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection” and is not something where in the quality can be improved or worsened. “Citizen” is more a status than the entity it describes. However, the idea of “good citizen” focuses, at least for me, on recognizing the reciprocity of the contract. The state/nation gives its protection in exchange for one’s efforts, one’s allegiance, one’s willingness to improve the nation and themselves.  


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“ You choose what to think about. And you may not feel that way every day, but the truth is, that you choose what you think about. It’s one of the few things that you can choose and it is—it’s kind of the definition, I think, of being a person. It’s that you have this weird gift of consciousness and you get to choose how you direct that gift. Like, how you direct your ability to think about things. So, if you choose to think about the relative health of the romantic relationships of The Situation, you’re making that choice. MTV is not making that choice for you, The Situation is not making that choice for you, you are making that choice. If you choose to think about astrophysics, you are making that choice. Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever. You are choosing how you spend your life, and it will be spent. And that’s a very serious thing that you have to try to take pretty seriously, even though, of course, much of our lives—because consciousness is kind of a burden—needs to be spent turning that off, which is, you know, why God made television. But we have this responsibility to ourselves, to each other, but also to the people who came before us and the people who will come after us, to think consciously about what we’re thinking about. And that was, in some ways the beginning of The Fault in Our Stars for me, was trying to think about, what I should be thinking about. Trying to think how I should be orienting my life, what should I value, what should I prioritize. And I grew up—and so did most of you—I think, in a world that values a very specific kind of heroism. The kind where you jump on a grenade to save your buddy, or you die heroically because your family says that you can’t marry the girl you want to marry, and you’re fourteen and somehow you think that’s a deal breaker?—which is the plot of Romeo and Juliet, I ruined it for some of you, sorry; I should have prefaced that with a spoiler alert, but if you haven’t read Romeo and Juliet, that’s your fault—or in another of our great epics of heroism, The Odyssey—which I’m also about to spoil for you, but it’s a good reading experience, regardless. There’s this dude, his name’s Odysseus, he does some good warring, top-notch warring, and it takes him a long time to get home, because a bunch of stuff happens, and then he finally gets home and his wife has a bunch of suitors, and the correct response to that situation is to be like, ‘Hey! I was gone for a long time, and there’s no text messaging, you didn’t know I was okay, like of course there’s a bunch of suitors living here, that’s cool, but suitors it’s time to head on out and, you know, find someone else’s house to occupy.’ And instead, what happens is that the palace floors course with blood, and that is your happily-ever-after ending. And Augustus Waters in this novel really buys into that idea of heroism, that idea that the best lives are lived on the biggest possible stage, and that the best lives are lived with an eye toward the grand heroic gesture, whether it be sacrificial or otherwise. That, like, the good life, by definition, is the big life. Well, I’m here to tell you that even the biggest lives are temporary, including the life of Odysseus, including the life of Romeo and Juliet, because, you know, we’re temporary. And if that’s the only way that we orient our lives, if that’s the only thing that we value, we’re doing ourselves, I think, a great disservice. So, I wanted to write The Fault in Our Stars because I wanted to write a story that was about the kind of small heroism that almost all of us are going to have to choose; very few of us will have the opportunity to jump on a grenade and save many, many people. The vast majority of us will have to find tiny ways to take care of ourselves and each other in the best ways that we can figure out how to do. And that’s really what The Fault in Our Stars is about, ultimately. It’s about these two kids and their parents trying to figure out how to take good care of each other and trying to figure out how to leave the best possible world for those who will come after, and also live a life that honors those who have come before. John Green, on The Fault in Our Stars at the Tour de Nerdfighting Event in Austin, Texas (21 January 2012)

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Reblogged from wailun-deardaydream
“ The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will. John Green (via avid)

(Source: wailun-deardaydream, via 10pointsfordumbledore)


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funniest10k: Follow this blog, get free ham. I can’t stop laughing long enough to type…must. avoid. looking. at. owl!

funniest10k:

Follow this blog, get free ham.

I can’t stop laughing long enough to type…must. avoid. looking. at. owl!

(Source: a-storm-warning, via bzimmer)


I need help deciding if this is good!!! O.O Please :3

Essay for Grace Freshman Scholar Award

 

Answer all of the following questions in a cohesive essay of 250 words or less.  We suggest that you create your essay with a word processor and then copy and paste it into the space below.

 

1) List your objectives and goals as they relate to your anticipation of a successful start at Purdue.  What have you accomplished in the past to help you reach your goals?  Why is USP a good choice for you?

 

2) Describe your non-academic goals for your time at Purdue.  How will you become a leader at Purdue?

A common vein that runs through every teenager is a need to discover what it means to be human. And part of that is asking question of and about humanity. All my life I have been chasing the “whys.” Why is this important? Why did this happen? And when I ascertained those answers it was like learning a whole new language. Little by little, life began to make sense and I began shaping myself around that understanding, making myself who I am. And who I am is fiercely independent, unbelievably determined, head strong, stubborn as a mule and irritatingly compassionate. I’ve always had to defend my values and beliefs. I have learned that there are people that simply do not care who you are or what you have to say and that you have to make them care, I’ve always struggled to reach out to people but once I find them, I want nothing more than to be a part of their lives. At Purdue, USP will nurture the part of me that doesn’t know; I will be free to explore my passions and ask questions regarding everything simply because I want to know everything. Once I’ve found where I belong, I will be able to put everything I have—and then some—into answering every question, every curiosity that I’ve ever held because I want to lead my own life with confidence before I do others. 



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I just know that Zuko is alive in LoK!

universalsong:

I mean, Dante Basco did come on as a “guest” voice actor.

Bryan and Mike did say that he came on the LoK as a completely different character, but… What if they’re lying?

Let’s face it! They lied about Katara being alive, what’s to say that they aren’t lying about this?! 

I BELIEVE.

My fandom! My fandom, I love you so!!!! -face tackle-

(via bzimmer)


English assignment :)

Le Moulin de la Galette

There was long standing tradition north of Paris in the small province of Montmartre; following a hanging—though more recently, a public trial—the town would gather in the central square for celebration. This developed from years of stagnation, entertainment wise. Often summers went by where in the wine turned to vinegar within their barrels and had to be dumped into the Seine for comfort’s sake. As with tradition, Guillotining took place at dawn (away from the prying, impressionable eyes of children) but trials were meant for the afternoons and those evenings, for frivolity. As the sun sank into the valley and the clouds blushed a soft orange, the population of the small town flooded the back square mile of the town.   

The accused was standing on the scaffold with a judge to his left and a jury to his right. The front row of spectators swelled and deflated with labored breaths of anticipation and they squinted as their eyes travelled the vertical five feet between themselves and the man who was no longer one of their own. Oh, beloved Montmartre, this is hardly the beginning.

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