truth this, truth that

if it weren't for truth in society i would not have classes on tuesdays and thursdays & i would probably work those days. if it werent for truth in society i wouldnt have many friends yet at STU because we have become a close nit family. if it weren't for truth in society my best friend wouldn't have figured out what it is he really wants to do with his life, its not university. if it werent for truth in society i wouldnt have learned exactly how to use the UNB library website, my own STU webiste or how a library really works - it is perfectly calculated. if it werent for truth in society i would have never had to stand behind my beliefs, and stand behind who i am, truely am, as a person.
truth in society has taught me alot about who i am, where i am going and what i really wouldnt have known. that war and genocided has one difference - justified killing. that pirates are not barbaric but quite civil. i love this class because its not a lecture, it is not boring classroom where you sit and never think again on what youve learned until you are tested but this class leaves you questioning, thinking and everything :) i learned that people have limits you can find if you push but then those limits bend.

this past week in truth i learned how to use the library, about pirates a little deepers and exactly how to research.

Pirates.. no.. stereotypical pirates

dearest pirate sir,
when i first learned a couple of weeks ago that we would be learning piracy a million and one things came into my mind - are we stealing dvds, or finding the culprites? are we going to sail the seas and steal gold with black flags flying above are ships... BINGO this is the one that we are hitting. so i am writing to you for a number of reasons but basically because of this, before i read bootylicious, before i started being interested in what Peter T Leeson had to say, before i read an aritcle on the inner child of hook it was me - you - and a whole lot of mixed up visions. i thought you were mean, and barbarik and stole from helpess ports off the ocean and most importantly i thought you didnt exist still - i thought hook was a fictional character like the toothfairy and i thought that my profs couldnt be serious.. once again mr pirate i am sorry for i was proven wrong.
Peter T Leeson and Bootylicious showed me that you did exist, and still do and that you are not barrbarik horrible people but have hearts when you want to, actually peter t leeson said that most of you, almost all, were as civialized as me and the person beside me... oh wait thats you.
but, i read this interesting article, because something about your kind caught my eye. when i was a child i used to read books, watch movies and hear stories of HOOK and it was not until i got the chance to look deeper into who you are that i realized i wanted to know more about pirates; do they look like hook, is hook based on real people, what existed before hook. then i read this article by patricia pace that is not seated nicely in my binder, that was no help except solidifying that image of hook but it also made me think of you as a coward, womanly almost and that maybe Peter T Leeson was right...
i guess i will find out...
something, mr pirate man, that you should know is that you got it lucky never having to study book learning - it gets stressful but just by smiling its washed away.

Arrrrgh, pirates!

FIRST off, I think that everyone who thinks that we should not being doing pirates should turn thier facebook language to ENGLISH(pirate) and it will all be worth it! :]

This week we have learned quite a lot about pirates - we found out, for Tuesday, a little detail into a question - mine Peter T. Leeson - but I am glad that we ended up reasearching all of the authors and getting a closer look into how to use Academic Search Premeier. Then, from there how to make my F drive! That was so helpful & I am glad I have this tool now.

The thing that I loved most was that we had the chance to research and decide what it is that we want to study. I had some good ideas but am learning really quick that to pose an idea it is probably the best to have meat, people and an argument before saying why you think we should. A lot of people are focusing on gender, sexuality and hardships of pirates but I am really intersted now in what Peter T. Leeson wrote about; economics of pirates.

Basically, Pirates is something that I would have never thought of looking into but I am glad we are because this class is full of topics that I really enjoy but would have never looked into - touche TRUTH

Til next time, Brittany <3

i learned out of class -

this past week at school I missed almost a whole day of Aquinas - the first valuable pirate day! I must admitt it was something that I really didn't want to do - I feel sick to my stomach missing school. But, I couldnt concentrate this day too much had loaded on my mind; university stress. I am not just talking about the millions of assignemts one must juggle but everything else - working 20+ hours a week, your boyfriend leaving for basic, living on your own with no family around, getting into an argument with your roomate/best friend when you hate confrontation. This week i learned outside the classroom. In the first couple weeks of university I lost that glimmering smile that I was world renound for but by taking that one day off - coping the way I cope it's back and better before.
I think its also important to note that I had forgotten that when I think that I am at my worst there is always someone else worse off. I have not had alot of downs in my life, the darkest parts of my life only taught me how to be more positive. It was Mark Henik that taught me that when you think that your having a bad day just smile and it might make someone else's day who is worse off then you. His lecture that I saw on Wednesday was moving and kept me so much more lifted up knowing that there is someone who has seen the darkest parts of life but can see so much beautiful things now because of it.
I know now that I want to the happy person, yes I wear my heart on my sleeve but it beats with love for every other single person in the world.


I have to say though.. this whole idea of PIRATES has got me pretty excited. I mean Paige and I have turned facebook pages into Pirate Language! i love life!!

A little story to learn from -

I learnt alot through out all of the classes this week but the one that has struck me somewhere in between amazing and heart stopping was journalism. Hearing everyones stories was incredible - some funny, some scary, some heart breaking. As the last few stories came to an end I thought of lyrics to a certain song, everybody's got a story that could break your heart - this is unbelievably true for our class. I learned things about the students I have sat with everyday since September that I would have never known and I think that might have moved our class even closer together than it was before. I loved learning of people lives, what they thought was important - its was incredible.
I am not going to write much because this was exactly the only thing I had to write about and I said what I wanted to say :)