In 2010 "Tonight Show" Conan O'Brien was in a big conflict matter with the former talk show host Jay Leno over who is run the show. Leno was the previous host until the show decided to try something new and move on to Conan in 1993. Many people were surprised and shocked that they have replaced Leno with Conan. But it was a great decision on NBC's part. The audience loved him, he was always a good way to end a day with Conan.

Conan as a little boy has always dreamed as being the host on the tonight show. It was a huge accomplishment on his part and he couldn't be happier. Until NBC decided to put Conan on the back burner and to put old host Jay Leno back in the spot light. Conan was not happy about this at all, and took him time to recover from it. Conan after what all went on from the tonight's show went on and gave a commencement address at the Darth Mouth College for the class of 2011. At the ceremony he explains his past and how not to be afraid of failure. That failure comes and goes throughout your life.

Just like Mark Edmondson's passage "Glorious Failure" they both are comparing bad and confused failure situations they have both encounter in their past. Conan uses a phrase Dreams always rising and falling basically Conan is explaining that there will always be ups and downs in life and it is your task to achieve them and not worry about the what ifs. And for Edmondson's article he says "I'm proud of the failures because without them I couldn't see the success I could obtain". It is important to not have stress in your life.

David Brooks and his passage "It's Not About You" as well as Barbara Graham's article "Confessions of a quit Addict". Both explain the main points of being successful in life. They both tell the audience that it is important to know yourself well and know if college is for you or not. If it is then its main key is to know your abilities and always do your best the first time. Barbara likes to go back to the past where "Martin Luther King Jr. and explains him on how he was gunned down". And David went to explain "Yet upon graduation they will enter a world that unprecedentedly wide open and unstructured". They are also not similar when it comes to getting to the point. Barbara likes to have a story on how she contributes to the same reaction and shows what she thinks. And David just gets to the point and explain strong details that might be confusing to the audience. Another thing that the two authors do not share in their articles are that chasing after dreams. Brooks tells that you should not chase after them. Achieve them. When Barbara explains her past on how she wanted to be free and with family she couldn't achieve her goals. But does wish she could go back if she could. Thats a important piece of information. Both are great authors and achieve great information for readers to take in, but it is always a important to dream and dream big.

Banned Book Week

Banned Book Week is a annual awareness campaign that celebrates the freedom to read, draws attention to banned and challenged books, also it highlights perspective individuals. Banned Book Week is hosted by the American Library Association. The people hope to achieve people engaging in the books that can be challenged or are challenged. "Looking For Alaska" by John Green is a story about a teenagers life that is thrown in as casually and skillfully. This book was challenged in 2006 for being explicit and talking about sexual content going on in the story. Another book that was challenged was the book "Fifty shades Of Grey". This book is about a romantic novel by E.L James. It is written in first persons view and about a college student. What I like about these two novels is that they are both best seller books even though they were banned from most school because of related arguments that parents did not like. They are both about struggles in life that people have to face and how they accomplish them.

In Frank Bruni's article when he says "Learning should be Dangerous"  what Bruni is trying to explain is if teenagers just stay true to your self and work through the obstacles you will achieve many things in life. Bruni is not wanting you to just do the minimal and just do what is told. Bruni is saying that over achievers are always the one who end up being successful. "Learning is full of life lessons". Bruni likes this term that is explained in this article The Truth when it is going from not achieving and just doing what's told to going past the horizon and look at things in a more outgoing positive way. College plays with weaknesses and teenagers need to catch them before it has a effect on your life or when you cant go back. Opportunities pass and go, its your turn to figure out what could be impacted on and achieve goals as a individual. Be successful in life, that is your goal.

David Brooks Blog #3

Brooks challenges the notation between finding your self and loosing yourself. Finding your self is when you are just going through your work and not understanding what you are either missing in life or what doesn't occur 100% of the time. Like Brooks comment on "Most successful young people don't look inside and then just plan a life". As in having a family or just starting a career after learning little information. He is basically saying that there is always a problem or a solution to everything. It might take time but it will occur to you and the best part is to go back and discover a problem and make the solution better than it was before you saw the problem. When brooks is talking about loosing yourself he is explaining not that you are lost but cheating yourself. In order to find yourself you have to lose yourself in the process. Not using your power to the full satisfaction but taking short cuts. This is important not to do, you want to strive to your best and achieve goals in a successful way. This is a special way to find success in life. One problem will lead to another if you are not careful.

Brooks explain the saying "Ill served by the elders" this is Brooks way of saying other people are not being told the right way about goals. They are being told just to go for them and get there was quick as possible. This is not the correct way. What is missing is that you will just go through everything and get things done. Rushing is not the smart way on anything. You would be more happier if you fix all your problems and things that can hold you back from being successful and achieve goals that you might not be thinking about. Brooks does not only talk about achieving but also about doing it the correct way. I would strongly agree with brooks on this topic. Brooks does come on as a "Strong" or aggressive way of explain things but it will give you a lot of thoughts you might not of thought about.

Happy Gilmore - Movie Review

Dennis Dugan Happy Gilmore (1996) This film is a Comedy about a mans passion for hockey (Adam Sandler) but he soon realizes that he was destined to play professional golf to earn money to buy his grandmothers house bad to her from a recently foreclosure. I have discovered this film about 5 years ago. It is a important film to me because when I was growing up every Thursday for about three years me and my brother would spend time together and watch a movie and Happy Gilmore was our all time favorite film. They don't make films like these anymore. this film is just a great film that also shows the audience to never give up and strive for your goal. Chubs (Carl Weathers) shows the audience the ways he coached Happy (Adam Sandler) to never give up on your goals. the way the whole movie was brought up blew me away. Just a great film.

I would like to agree with the article on Rotten Tomatoes that they felt the audience really enjoyed the film at a 89% rating. But i will disagree with Alex Orners thought on the movie with that too much profanity was in the movie and ruined it. I would slightly agree with the bad profanity but not with the ruined the movie. Most audiences in the 21st century actually enjoy profanity because it spices up the movie with some funny comments that might be slightly negative.  And lastly the other comment from Darren Binguell saying the movie amazes people and audiences seem to enjoy it enough to watch it yearly. I would agree its a great film and a all-time classic. This is the reason why I watch this movie many times.