THIS JUST IN!

Thank you Izzy for this awesome reference :)

Also make sure to check out Emma Seppala's Website  AND IF YOU ARE A QUOTE FANATIC LIKE I AM YOU WILL LOVE HER INSPIRATION PAGE!  (I think I'm in love)
Associate Director
Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research & Education

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Last semester my project focused on compassion as a whole, but this time around I plan to go in depth... My masterpiece is related to compassion and is centered on how it is an act that is biased and only favors some human beings. My goal is to draw people in and to make them look at compassion in a different way. I want them to find a new perspective on compassion.

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

LIFE IS A HIGHWAY

With College admission notifications coming out and scholarships to fill out...I AM STRESSED, FRUSTRATED, HAPPY, AND CONFUSED (class of 2014 you know what I mean)...as much as I feel like giving up sometimes I remind myself that I have to keep moving. Albert Einstein said " Life is like riding a bicycle in order to keep your balance you must keep moving." and to express that in music Rascal Flatts said "Life is a highway." 

Whooo umm yeah...
Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today

[Chorus:]
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights

Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood
I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors

[Chorus]

Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah

[Chorus]

There was a distance between you and I (between you and I)
A misunderstanding once
But now we look it in the eye

Ooooo...Yeah!

There ain't no load that I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors

[Chorus: (x3)]
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah

IS THERE AN EXPERT IN THE HOUSE?

COMPASSION...

I believe it is everywhere
In some places more than others
and in some people more than others...

Some are well known for it

I believe that an expert does not have to be well known and that is why I am in search of an expert in my community or close by. I have someone in mind but I will not post her name until I get her permission. (hint: She works at school)

THIS IS ONLY A TEST

The word test freaks me out.

 It has been instilled in my brain as something to fear since I first began school. I strongly dislike the word and I believe that it does not define what I know or do not know to a full extent.

The test that will allow me to know if I passed and succeeded with my masterpiece will be the reaction of my peers.

As they watch my video I want to see expressions of doubt, questioning, yet softness, and understanding. I want my video to change a persons perspective on how they view compassion and how it is distributed unevenly. My masterpiece will consist of a video based on compassion, what it is?, where it may be?, who has it?,and  why and how it is biased.