Project Palisade

"I've gotta keep the calm before the storm I don't want less, I don't want more" I really love the 2019 single "Head Above Water" released by Avril Lavigne. One of the reasons I like it so much is because of the hidden story behind the story. Avril was diagnosed with Lyme disease which is a hard thing for a lot of people to understand. 3 years ago an ABC interview was conducted where Avril completely broke down talking about how she was bedridden, had to put her life and career on hold, seeing specialist after specialist and being given the run-around. I really can't imagine how it feels to be successful, the world at your back, ready to take your life any direction you want it, but even that's not enough when something out of your control happens and now everything changes. That's not an easy thing to deal with. These are the things you have to look at through the lens of a celebrity. Avril, despite being a raging punk rockstar...

Hello fellow Palisaders, Currently Mar. 19, and it's been a solid month since I've started this Blogger and I'm not disappointed since I have 4 members signed up already and 3 waiting to accept invites. We've posted a few blogs that have gotten attention from our in-group and that's about it. Learning to broadcast and let the world know about this page is the next priority after finally gaining writers like we have now. A second fundraiser is up on Facebook now for Lasting Hope ministry, the group we've worked with the most so far in Project Palisade's short existence. The fundraiser has raised $115 out of $1000 so far and will be ending on the 31st of March. Beyond that, Palisade's continued work on its promotion page to help underbudget or network seeking artists and organizations get a little more attention. It's also the Lenten season currently. While Palisade is not a Christian group, Lent is an excellent incentive for Palisade member...

This essay will be a bit shorter, even though this story has so many angles I can cover and much to be said, it’s simply not my story to tell. I never knew Christina Grimmie or her family, I never even discovered her until after it was announced she died in 2016. But as a content creator, I wanted to at least share my two cents about what went through my mind as I read her story. All of America’s eyes were on Florida during the nights of June 11th-12th, 2016. Grimmie was shot by a stalker after a concert in Orlando, and a gay latino nightclub, also in Orlando, was shot up by an Islamic extremist the very next night. There was plenty of reason for controversy to swallow the news world whole following these incidents. America had a growing epidemic with mass shootings, the Islamic terror group known as ISIS was making its presence known at the same time, gay rights were just being further explored the year before when gay marriage was legalized in all 50 states at once, and ...

Tame \ 'tam\. Domesticated: not dangerous or frightened by people. Made docile and submissive. It’s a word used to describe animals, reckless fellows, dangerous psychopaths, or legends who’s greatness cannot be contained. The legend I’m here to talk about is Piscine Patel, known as Pi, and the story “Life Of Pi”. The beginning of this story details Pi’s childhood growing up into a family of zookeepers in India. Pi was a brilliant student, and somebody who studied 3 different major religions by the time he was 16, I mean you could have stopped the book right there and I still would have been amazed by this beast, but on top of that, this kid survived an entire voyage across the Pacific ocean. He made the Titanic survivors look like scrubs. The first segment of the movie is the beginning of Pi’s life which sets the stage for understanding the groundworks of his mind and everyone he met. Family, potential lovers, and of course the animals, my favorite quote fro...

Greetings everyone, Content review is a lot of fun, I even have a new YouTube channel I'm experimenting with dealing with "underdog" content review. Needless to say, it's a great pastime. Between music, movie, book, or sports review, these are often highly opinionated and well researched. These are all about micro-examinations and revealing the statlines, hidden info, conspiracy theories, and reflective information that the common audience may have never noticed at first reveal, which is what makes content review so popular and dynamic. Please be mindful of other people's opinions however and do not downplay works to the extent you're speaking in explicit incoherent banter that nobody cares about. Be dumb but not stupid. Anywho, these reviews can be any length you want, I don't exactly moderate, I just look for whether or not content is in depth enough to really be considered a review so if I'll delete anything that doesn't fit the bill. Bu...

Greetings everyone, This is a template post for new bloggers interested in Palisade's political review section. For this section, since it is blog-style and not article/journalism format, it's fairly free game since for what you want to post if you're doing a news piece, an opinion piece, a reactionary essay, a satire/parody, or whatever else. However, considering the nature of anything political, it's super important that we keep these blogs as non-bias as possible and that both points of view are explained. I understand that it's near-impossible to not have bias at all, but at being able to demonstrate in a clear-cut way that you don't mean to undermine anyone else's political beliefs favors everybody. Political blogs you post do not have to be what's going on in your country but around the globe since Project Palisade is a project focused on all sorts of issues spanning the world's cultures. We're an intercultural project so why not ha...

Hey everyone, Its Feb. 19 currently and I've been wanting to create a more official blog/forum area for a long time so Blogger will just have to do for now as a temporary resource since I know there have been many complaints about the website. This is the first post I'll create here. Nevertheless, regarding the State of the Sade, Palisade will be updating its website for the next few days to experiment and find new ways to make it more accessible, user-friendly, and awesome for everybody. As always, these updates will be addressed to our email group that consists of interested members and leaders of registered organizations (more popularly known as our pacts), which as of currently Palisade stands at 7 total. We stand at $1,000+ for total donations as of 2019 which I find amazing considering our project consists mostly of broke teens and an unorganized band of committed members trying to make this project successful. Of that $1,000, 20 charities and non-profits have benef...