Face-off

The face of money as we know it will soon be changing in the next decade or so. according to an article published on today on April 25, 2016 written by Sarah Pruitt US. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has announced a makeover of U.S currency.

Previously in May of 2015, the advocacy of women on 20's conducted a poll asking which notable woman should replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill by 2020, 100 years after the amendment passed which gave women the right to vote. Out of 600,000 People who were involved in the poll 118,328 chose Harriet Tubman which was 7,000 votes leading over Eleanor Roosevelt

Plans changed, last July he announced plans to redesign the $10 dollar bill, featuring a prominent woman from history yet to be named. In the new bill Alexander Hamilton will remain on the bill alongside the woman who is chosen to be on the bill. The advocacy group from woman on 20's were disappointed and argued that the chosen woman should have her own place of honor on the bill.

As of this week the treasury secretary announced a whole different game plan which included making over the $20 $10 and $5 dollar bill. Harriet Tubman will replace Jackson on the twenty dollar bill becoming the first ever woman in a century and also the first African American to ever be on the front of U.S currency. Jackson will not be all the way removed from the bill, on the flip side he will be shown in a much smaller image along side the White House.

The new plans for the redesigned $10 bill, Hamilton will hold his place on the currency but on the back, which the current image will be replaced with a photo of a 1913 suffrage march that ended in front of the U.S treasury building along with portraits of activist Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Susan B Anthony.

The back of the five dollar bill as we know it will change from the image of the Lincoln Memorial to a backdrop of the same monument with a depiction of the 1939 performance by the African-American singer Marian Anderson, a woman who was barred from performing at the segregated Constitution Hall. First Lady Roosevelt had arranged for her to play at the Lincoln Memorial. Roosevelt will appear on the back of the bill along side Dr. Marin Luther King Jr, who also delivered his "I have A Dream" speech in front of the same monument in 1963.

The last time U.S currency went under such a drastic redesign was in 1929, when paper money was reduced in size and design to cut cost. The final designs will be released in 2020 which is the centennial of women's suffrage in the United States.

I think that the new change to the faces of U.S currency will be beneficial will all the counterfeit that goes on, and it will be nice for women to know have the ability to be on U.S currency, Which is something that we all work so hard for day in and day out.

Change

Change is always something that should occur, weather it is something that has to happen or it happens gradually as you grow as a person. Change is not always good it, it is not always bad. Sometimes it is just something little or something life changing. Adapting to change is not always easy but nothing in life is easy. Its all about growing as a person.

Change happens all around us, the seasons change, the weather changes, and people change.
but sometimes we are not always ready for the changes that life throws at us.

Change can happen is your heart, change can happen in your mind, change can happen in your looks and change can happen in your friends.

Why do things change,,,,

But if things did not change, how boring would this life be if things were constantly the same.

We were all made to be different whether it be by our looks, are personality, our views, our hearts but its the all the differences in the world that connect people together. We all fit together like a puzzle peace one way or another.

Personally a lot of things are about to change, am I mentally ready for the change not really but preparing myself as much as I possibly can cause once they change its about to take off and there is no turning back.

Were on this one way journey and there is no where to go but forward, turning back will only mean we are going the wrong way. There is nothing wrong with making pit stops along the way but the light is always at the end of the tunnel and that is forward

Change, change is not always good, and not always bad but sometimes its just what we need to get out of the funk we are in. Comfort is where we will always find ourselves but comfort wont get you no where unless your are willing to change.

Hard work pays off eventually....

Going into the last few week of his semester its finally starting to hit me that graduation is near and all the hard work is going to pay off. When you first get accepted into a program it seems as if the time goes by so slow and the end is so far. Let me tell you this semester has flown by and we have been so busy. It seems as if time is going faster than we can keep up with.

During spring break I go to do one of my final steps of the semester and take part in my internship at a hospital of my choice. I chose to do my internship at the near by children s hospital and I could not have been more eager and excited. When you are participating in your internship you are there on your own without your clinical instructors and other classmates as we are use to having when we have our regular clinical rotations. You are assigned to a unit of your choice, I choice to be in the NICU (Neonatal intensive care unit) because when I graduate that is where I hope to be. Once I arrived I was assigned to be with a fellow therapist who was scheduled in the unit for that day and basically take there workload and do all the daily requirements and work units while they supervised me. It was an awesome experience to get a little taste of what a respiratory therapist does throughout a whole shift. I ended up doing my shift during the graveyard shift. Never have I stayed up an entire night and there is no excuses tired or not if you want to sleep or night. My 12 hour shift ending up turning into 15 hour shift including the drive to and from. My first night I was frightened that I was not going to be able to hang the whole night, but once your actually in the hospital setting the staying awake part wasn't that hard for me after all I did three graveyard shifts back to back and even on the last day I had to be back to my regular job that early afternoon after I had just finished my 12 hour shift. After my days and all that I got to experience I decided that I enjoyed the night shift after all and would like to choose that shift once I get hired. Little strange most people would not choose that shift but he atmosphere is so much different compared to days. You still encounter the same situations because we all know that he world doesn't sleep. But I suppose its personal preference and not everyone is made out to do night shift.


These last few weeks we have just been preparing to take our board exam to earn our credentials. Right now we are almost to the finish line. Never did I think I would be where I am today with all the struggles and obstacles that have come my way. But never have I stopped believing that I was capable of doing what I have my mind set on, nor ever lost my faith even when it seemed like everything was falling apart. I recently just received my first job offer and couldn't be more blessed that its at the first choice hospital on my list of where I would love to work. Now its all up to these last few weeks to overcome, graduate and pass our board exam to get where I want to be for now. This ride has definitely  been an adventure. I've established some amazing friendship while going on this RT journey and couldn't be more grateful. I cant way to begin my new journey once the end of this chapter closes.

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Old VS New

Facebook and MySpace are two social Medias that were or are very popular on the internet. MySpace was much more popular about 10 years ago. I began using MySpace when I was a freshman in high school. I can recall all my friends having a MySpace with their favorite music and changing profile layouts what seemed like every week.  I feel like a MySpace profile allowed you to express your personality more with the ability to personal it.  Other users were able to grasp more about the individual, because you were able to choose a background layout, show your interests, choose your top friends, and post statuses about what you were feeling. 

MySpace however began to lose interest when people stopped using it as frequently, due to the fact that other social media outlets began to generate popularity, such as Facebook. So I, like the rest of the crowd abandoned MySpace and created myself a Facebook.  Facebook is a much more evolved form of MySpace.

On Facebook you are still able to personalize your page with a cover phot or profile picture. However you are unable to customize the layout of your Facebook wall. Facebook generates people you may you know based on mutual friends so you can come in contact which whom you have not contacted in several years. Facebook has recently become more of a sharing of memes, videos, and quotes rather than personal post or status updates.  It is also a way of during business, such as I purchased a set of couches on a page of users that are interested in selling items.  It has also become a way of first hand news throughout your city before it is aired on the television.  Here a photo posted by another user can be liked and commented on by another user.  I think that is a great asset of Facebook, however, it is also a downfall because this is where a lot of cyber bullying takes place by some peoples comments that are made especially publicly made photos that are continuously shared and made fun of.

Facebook	Comparisons	MySpace
Profile contains a feed wall, where status, images, and videos can be posted.	Layout	The profile is a customized page by the user. It may include, music, customized background, and images.
Friends are part of profile page, however, are displayed by clicking on the friend link, which are displayed randomly.	Friends	You can choose your top friends and have them shown on your on your profile.
You can post images, videos, and statuses.	Feed	You can only post statuses on you using characters.
Friends can like, comment and/or share another users posted photo.	Photos	A friend is only able to comment about another user’s photo.

Facebook I have to admit is addicting I always catch myself eager to check my Facebook to see what is going on. It has become a time consuming app that has many people intrigued. Constantly we can catch people walking down isles of stores, in class, and at work scrolling their fingers across the screen of their phone checking out the news feed. My Facebook book habits have changed as well as I’m sure others have, its I know so much post many statuses besides photos and share different meme’s and videos rather than actually typing out a text status.