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Please help me with this. I never ask for charity, but this is important!

https://www.gofundme.com/46zofnc This is a GoFundMe me page to help me reunite with my fiancé for only 3-4 days. The plane tickets are cheap, but I’m so broke and am hardly making ends meat. Please share and help me with this. I know it’s not as serious and important as other GoFundMe campaigns, but this means so much to me and it would mean so much! Please help me!

I only need $550! I’m working hard to save so I might not need all of it from this. But any little bit helps! Please please please!

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Here's a rant for ya

Meltdown madness time here. I need to vent to deal. I can't tell my parents cause they would give me that disappointed look (which I hate) and I can't tell any of my siblings cause they would be jerks about it. So here it goes. 

For some reason my GPA has fallen to a 2.0... And the college I'm planning on going to after my mission for my church (yup I'm going on a LDS mission) won't accept applicants with a GPA lower to a 2.5, and me being cocky and not know what's what with life thought that there was no way I could ever get lower than that. Boy was I wrong. So now I am having a crisis. I am panicking because my life is not going to plan. I always have a plan. If the plan goes awry somehow and I panic. I desperately want to go to this school... And I don't want to be in college for ever. So I don't know what to do anymore...

Sorry for this long post and my ranting. I needed to work this out. So if you made it this far thanks for listening.  

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When you’re watching a new episode of your favorite show and someone tries to get you to do something:

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Stressing

Sorry I've been away for a while. It's just that I've been so stressed with school. And I've discovered that I might be depressed. Because when I have so much going on in each different subject. I'm sort of shut down and feel like the world is piling little by little stuff up on me until I just want to explode from the pressure. But unlike my siblings I'm not perfect. And so I can't show how stressed I truly am and so I just sit in my room and cry. LOL sorry this wasn't supposed to be a depressing post just thought I should let you know why I've been gone. Anyways love you bunches and I'll talk to you later!

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Jennifer Lawrence Is NOT A Porn Star. Don’t Make Her One.

In anticipation for writing this article, we searched “Jennifer Lawrence” on Twitter. Unfortunately, J-Law doesn’t have an account on the Twitterverse that we’re sure would provide many laughs and insights.

However, that’s not what’s sad about this story. 

When you type in “Jennifer Lawrence” into the search bar on Twitter, three suggestions pop up:

Jennifer Lawrence  Jennifer Lawrence leaked photos Jennifer Lawrence leaked you’re welcome

Wow.

Now, in case you’re a little bit late on this big news scandal, the internet is currently in the middle of a big issue that has come to be known as “CelebGate”. A few days ago, hackers released nude photos of over 100 different actresses and musicians after infiltrating their iCloud accounts and stealing photos from the celebrities’ personal devices. The pictures had never been sent to anyone but were personal photos that were hacked and taken straight from their phones and computers. Even worse, a lot of these photos were ones that had been deleted for years but that the hackers dug up through the iCloud storage server. 

Not cool.

(Note that we don’t use the word “leaked photos” in this post. That’s because the term “leaked” is a soft, misleading word that implies that these photos somehow found their way onto the internet by the celebrity or someone close to them. Not the truth. These photos were illegally hacked and stolen, unknowingly to those violated). Like we said: not cool. 

So now, instead of popular keyword searches like Jennifer Lawrence Hunger Games or Jennifer Lawrence red carpet fall being suggested on search engines, the internet has recently reduced the talent and beauty of actresses and musicians like Jennifer Lawrence to a collection of illegally hacked photos. 

This huge issue has generated mixed opinions from the public. Some people, like us, are sympathizing with the violated stars and are advocating not to promote any of these photos.

Others are judgmental and saying that if the women hadn’t taken these photos in the first place, that they wouldn’t be in this position.

And others are searching the images, looking at them, talking about them, and contributing to their popularity and spread on the internet.

This blog post is for the latter two groups. 

First, who are we to say people can’t take pictures of themselves and keep them on their own phone? (We are betting there is probably one or two embarrassing selfies currently on your phone that you wouldn’t want people to see). Should anyone have to worry that their own personal photos are going to be hacked and stolen and then posted on the web for all to see? No! Of course not.

Second, what’s the difference between a person on a computer looking at hacked celebrity photos and a creeper sitting in their car, watching a woman get undressed through her window? In both cases, the woman doesn’t want anybody looking and is doing something that was meant to be private. The only difference is the convenience of seeing it. In this case, somebody has made this violation easier by stealing the pictures and putting them on the internet. However, the result is the same: whoever looks is a creeper that’s violating these women.

We are living in a society of porn culture, where the popular media sexualizes almost everything and the objectification of the human body is a common occurrence. Well, these photos are the most prime example of this that we have seen in a long time. Not only do people spend their time and energy hacking for nude photos of celebrities, but when they come to the surface, society is thrown into a frenzy and the material is greedily consumed.

Terry Crews, (the big, bald, muscle guy from all the Old Spice commercials) tweeted the same thing just a couple days ago. Crews, who follows Fight the New Drug on Instagram and Twitter, has been outspoken about pornography and its harmful effects during his career. Check out what he had to say:

The images of all the celebrities affected in this problem are now being used as pornographic material all over the world and those violated can do nothing about it. 

Just as porn fuels the demand for prostitution, sex trafficking, rape, and child exploitation, clicking on the stolen photos of these celebrities violates their rights and freedoms as human beings.

So be strong. Be cool. Be informed. You wouldn’t want someone staring into your windows at night or stealing your phone and posting all your pictures online. So don’t support it when it happens to other people. 

People are people. Not parts. Take some action and show your support of NOT supporting this violation by sharing this article/image and using the hashtag #HateCelebGate!

Click to Tweet This : Jennifer Lawrence is NOT a porn star. Don’t treat her like one. Hacked photos aren’t cool. #HateCelebGate #CelebGate 

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Homework is the Thing I dream about....

Homework... The one word that can make a child scream in terror, stress over and wonder 'why me?' Homework is the devils mistress. Yet it is disguised as something to help us carry us along in life. It puts unwanted stress and fear in millions of teenagers. I happen to be one of them. But if I get to stressed I just stop, my brain fries and I quit. Put it to the back of my mind and let it simmer there until the night before, and go into a panic where all of my answers are wrong. Or don't even finish. Then become one of the greatest liars and tell my teacher how an emergency came up and wasn't able to finish it. But she can see past my very well thought out lie and still gives me a 0 or half credit for the mess of a paper or assignment. I am suffering with problem after problem... There are questions I don't understand...

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School, homework, and blogging

So having school and homework. And trying to start a blog... Not easy, but you know what in working on it!!! I have homework that apparently 4th graders are suppose to know... But I don't know... So I'm stressing. But it's all good! I'll figure it out... Also I have two jobs so spare me!!

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Hey, It's Mikaela! Follow me on Tumblr, Twitter, Youtube, and Younow!! I am always under...

Like it up!!! :D

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Sleeping, School, and youtube

Well I am hoping that I will have a million subscribers by tomorrow! *fingers crossed* however very unlikely. I hope that all of you will help me get there! I know it's hard to love a no body, but I am a somebody. At least to my mother I am ;) So anyways, please subscribe and follow me! Love all of you!!! See you tomorrow!

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Sorry for the crap quality. Promise when I have money I will get a better one! Or I might find one around my house! I am so excited to talk to everyone!! Twi...

I really am sorry for the crappy quality, I did figure out how to use my camera. I may sound nervous. And that is because I am 

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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Kevyn Aucoin

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Inspiration comes in many forms... especially poems

I don't know why but today I want to share poems... well at least for the last few hours of the day. I know I only have 2 followers! But hopefully these will inspire you guys and if you wish to reblog... Please please do!!! :D 

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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud

Maya Angelou

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Audrey Hepburn 

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Froyo with the bae!!!

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Gaming, Mormons, and boyfriends.

So you'd think it would be easy to find a boyfriend who likes to game, but the thing is that they are all in there rooms not being social. Plus I need to find a lds guy. Which is even harder because in a semi small town where lds single guys my age are scare. Plus when ever I do find one they are spur skinny athletic guys who don't even look twice at a gaming console or television. So it's hard. I'm not looking to get married right away but it would be nice to at least go on a date with someone who has the same standards and interests! Frustration to the max!!