I had the honor of meeting Amanda Jimenez. Amanda has lived in Oxnard her whole life with two wonderful parents, a little sister, and 2 very beautiful dogs. She went to an elementary school down the street from her house, which can be very exciting for young children. She later attended Fremont Middle School then promoted to Oxnard High School where she spent the next four years working very diligently to ensure a successful future. Now she attends Oxnard College with one goal in mind to make something of herself. She doesn't quite know what that is yet, but she does know that she wants to be someone people look up to and depend on.

Currently she is enrolled in 3 classes, Philosophy, English, and Math totaling 12 units. She is also employed at Ross working nights. Though this schedule seems hectic, she manages it very well. She has always looked up to her parents and hopes one day to have someone look up to her. Amanda sees herself as friendly, ambitious, and very easy going. Being so driven, she says "In five years I'm going to be an independent, fully functioning member of society giving back to my community in any way I can". Her motto in life has been and always will be "Work first, play later". Since attending Oxnard College she has become fond of our new library and all it has to offer. She just wishes our ordinary campus could be more colorful and lively. She has also been surprised by how much the teachers care about the students. Amanda is an amazing person who seems like she has something to teach us all. I'm glad I was given the opportunity to interview her.

When was the last time you actually talked to a single person without you or them texting or looking over the other ones head to see a monitor? In our society we are overloaded with all this technology, we can never get a break from it. Its everywhere we go and most of us don't even mind. Nowadays everyone of us has a phone and a lot of us do love to text, but that doesn't mean you should be texting every second of everyday day. Now I'm not saying to stop texting but just cut back because I see people who are completely dependent upon their phones waiting for replies instead of talking to the person right in front of them.
      I cant stand it when I'm talking to someone and they just pull out there phone and start texting. Its such an inconsiderate thing to do. When that happens, it just strengthens my feelings towards the idea that texting has no real use to this world, other than showing how easily people can be sucked into a 2 1/2in lcd screen.  If I'm in the middle of a conversation. I'm not going to be texting, but if you do I'm going to be dying for the chance to take your phone and throw it!

    I've heard of all those reality television shows before. How one girl said something about her other ones mama and all hell brakes loose. Or how the guy's only goal that night is to get laid behind his girlfriend's back. To be completely honest they are very pointless. They make no sense to me. They are one of the most fabricated things I have ever seen on TV. I truly cant fathom how people can waste even a second of their precious time watching that mindless dribble. To actually sit down and be inquisitive into the lives of these sick and crude people. Who seem to enjoy getting paid to make a complete idiot out of themselves. It confounds me.

     Reality television has turned America into an atrocious and corrupt place. A place where we applaud the superficial and award the cruelest of us . We live in a society where no one has any more common sense or etiquette. An entire country with no dignity. The most fallacious attributes of these horrible people are admired and glorified. We put them on a pedestal watching and waiting for them to disrespect them self. Then reward them for it. All we illustrate to the youth of this nation is that lying and cheating are admirable as long as your getting something out of it. 

     These shows are poisoning the minds of the this generation. Tangling their heads in a web of filth and deceit. Before all of these vulgar shows, television was more censored and family appropriate. Even though television was and still is the pseudo parents for most children, the media abuses that and spoon feeds their nonsense it into their mouth forcing them to turn into brain dead consumers. Living by what they see and hear on their favorite shows. Acting like their favorite drugged up drunk party girl or conceited little rich boy. They think that if they act this way something good could come out of it.They might even get their own show and become yet another cog in the machine that is slowly destroying this country.This industry doesn't care if they hurt these kids as long as their profits are up and their products are selling. But you know what I will not take part in it. I will not tune in every week to watch the helpless and weak get torn down and the stupid and reckless get praise. I will not let them cast their hooks into my mind. They will never get me.