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I've lived in North Carolina since I was five, and I consider it my home. I have the ability to do anything well, as long as I put a decent amount of effort into it. I could do anything I want, but I feel that moral obligations have directed my interests toward politics and public service. Living by a code is something that means a lot to me. I have little respect for people who do not have a sense of doing the right thing, like respecting others, using fair judgment, and helping those who need it. We would all be much happier if we were just a little friendlier to each other. Admittedly, the lack of friendliness that people have shown me can make my life depressing, so I do what I can to show people what I'm not shown too often. It makes me happier to do it because I know that they are also happier for it. Making other people happy seems a lot more worthwhile for me than focusing on my own happiness.

So that is why I want to go into politics, so I can initiate any changes as they are needed that will improve the lives of my fellow citizens. I do not wish for this life for fame, wealth, glory, or any kind of reward. I just know that there are people less fortunate and more unhappy than me, and that just does not seem right to me.

Now I do believe in God and hope I go to Heaven when I die, and I am sure that I could live a much easier life and still have enough integrity at the end of my life prove myself worthy, but that just seems like a waste of the greater person I could become. I know I am no saint. I have a lot of personal and even interpersonal problems as many of us do, but my life isn't going to be about all the things I missed out on.



"Why would I learn a romance language if I will never be in love?"

"The candle in my life has gone out." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Dominance is as dominance does. Dominance is really not a strategic policy or a political philosophy at all. Rather, it as a seductive illusion that tempts the powerful to satiate their hunger for more power by striking a bargain with their consciences. As always happens sooner or later to those who shake hands with the devil, they find out too late that what they have given up in the bargain is their soul." - Al Gore


"Pacifists would do well to study the Siegfried and Maginot Lines, remembering that these defenses were forced; that Troy fell; that the walls of Hadrian succumbed; that the Great Wall of China was futile; and that, by the same token, the mighty seas which are alleged to defend us can also be circumvented by a resolute and ingenious opponent. In war, the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it." - General George S. Patton

"Meī affectūs personalēs praetermittendī sunt, si sum futūrus nōtus in historiā. Non amer, sed neglegens illīus volō morī *bleep* gloriā."

"If nothing, I hope what I went through helps someone at some point. If it does, then everything I went through was worth it, and I would do it again if it can help one person." - Angyles Cerddoriaeth


I have taken a liking to reading lately, so here is a list of books I have read:

"A Wrinkle In Time", by Madeleine L'Engle

"The Island of Blue Dolphins", by Scott O'Dell

"The Witch of Blackbird Pond", by Elizabeth Speare

"The Lord of the Rings", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Hiroshima", by John Hersey

"The Old Man and the Sea", by Ernest Hemingway

"Having Our Say", by The Delany Sisters

"My Forbidden Face", by Latifa

"The Iliad", by Homer

"Silent Spring", by Rachel Carson

"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", by Ken Kessey

The first four Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling

"Saint", by Ted Dekker

"Good Omens", by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

"The Blood of Abraham", by Jimmy Carter

"Our Endangered Values", by Jimmy Carter

"Song of Kali", by Dan Simmons

"The Time Traveler's Wife", by Audrey Niffenegger

"Stupid White Men", by Michael Moore

"The Assault On Reason", by Al Gore

"Joined at the Heart", by Al and Tipper Gore

"The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership", by John C. Maxwell.

"War As I Knew It", by George S. Patton

"Night", by Elie Wiesel

"Meet the Next President", by Bill Sammon

"Les Misérables", by Victor Hugo

"A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton", by Carl Bernstein

"Hardball", by Chris Matthews

"Bush At War", by Bob Woodward

"Reconciliation", by Benazir Bhutto

"I Am America (And So Can You!)", by Stephen Colbert

"The Silmarillion", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Against All Enemies", by Richard Clarke

"Reason: Why Liberals Will Win The Battle For America", by Robert Reich

"The Work of Nations", by Robert Reich

"Supercapitalism", by Robert Reich

"Fallen Angels", by Walter Dean Meyes

"Sunrise over Fallujah", by Walter Dean Meyers

"My Life", by Bill Clinton

"The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Fight Club", by Chuck Palahniuk

"Wuthering Heights", by Emily Brontë

"A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity", by Bill O'Reily

"Catastrophe", by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

"Beowulf"

"The Audacity of Hope", by Barack Obama