Jareed Larez

What are you seeking the most in a career--salary, satisfaction? What means the most to you and why? What kind of career do you hope to have? How does the job that you wrote about today help you to get closer to that career? What kind of skills do you expect you will need to succeed in your chosen career? Do you feel like you've developed these skills at SJSU? If not, how do you expect to acquire these job skills? My dream job is to become a creative director and owner of my own advertising agency focusing on multimedia and film. I have always looked into the satisfaction of the job then the salary, although a good balance both would ideal. I have worked jobs in the past where I have gotten paid paid more that past jobs I've enjoyed and found it more energy consuming, depressing, and overall did not feel worth the time working there costing at my mental health. The career I hope to have would involve a great deal of creative thinking if outside of creative dire...

After the showing of the documentary film "Then They Came for Us", an older woman with a warm and welcoming demeanor stood up and introduced herself.  Her name is Joy Sakai and opened up to share a great deal of her experience from her youth of growing up in and out of the Japanese internment camps. Though the film stated the harsh reality of the living conditions of the many Japanese who were confined during the prohibition such as "frequent dust storms", and "families being assigned to horse stables", Sakai shared a different take from her experience.  "I was born on VJ day of August 14, 1945 in Poston, Arizona, for those who don't know VJ day, it was when Japan surrendered in World War II".  This day held the utmost significance to the events of internment camps in the US. Sakai said "I guess I was one of the lucky ones", and then stated how shortly after being born in the internment camps with her brothers and father passi...

Identify the trend in each story? The first trend feature was about digital mobile tickets and how that has transitioned from physical paper tickets.  The second trend feature was about emotional support through animals, also going more in depth about dogs. Which story appealed to you more and why? I enjoyed the story about the digital tickets.  It really shows how far we have gone as a society in technological advancements.  I use technology almost everyday and this was somewhat of a wake up call and how more years down the line more advancements will come about. What is your favorite quote from each story? 1st story:  “When your tickets are on your mobile device, you always have them with you,” Thompson continued. “You don’t have to worry about forgetting the tickets in the car, at work, having them fall out of your pocket or bringing one for the wrong game.” 2nd story: "  “Animals give us a very different connection than other humans do,” Hernand...

Jareed Larez, a multi-millionaire lotto jackpot winner, died last week in his sensory deprivation tank in his California beach front home at 111. The entrepreneur kept a fairly healthy lifestyle who prioritized his balanced diet and and weekly exercise regiments, and decided to die in peace in the comfort of his home in a state of deep meditation. A digital illustrator at a young age, Larez perused his education at San Jose State University and has spent most of his younger year traveling and freelancing for many different clients in the field of advertising. After winning the Super Lotto jackpot, he has donated a good some to multiple charities and has invested a part of his earnings into starting his owning advertising agency, while working as it's CEO and creative director.   With his career of designing, he also held a deep passion for researching into deep and taboo subjects as well. Outside of designing, he held astrology as a close passion and has assisted those in...

This documentary "Then They Came for Us" had on-hand accounts of  around 120,000 Japanese Americans who had been sent to internment camps in the 40s. The film goes in depth about how horrible this event was and how these people were incarcerated because they "looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor". But those who ordered the internments never found any viable evidence that they were actually spies or conpirators, but were actually a mix of "Buddhis monks, Japanese school teachers, and community leaders", rather simple non-threatening folk.  The film then tied this issue of people being forced out of their homes and their lives into the recent Muslim travel ban and how they are seeing a lot of the similar paralels again, also the same kind of racism and discrimination. It then followed by talking about how important it is to know history so that it isn't deemed to repeat itself again. The film also showcased a number of photos from pho...

Stoically standing under a sunny spring evening is 22-foot statues of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, both Olympic medalists of the 200-meter dash of the 1978 Olympics in Mexico. Tommie Smith was an Alumni at San Jose State University and has gained major attention and praise from this bold statement. Both are raising their fists in a black power salute with their heads bowed down in melancholy. The two athletes are also sculpted with removed Puma shoes to symbolize the struggle and oppression of black poverty. The statues of these tall athletes stand on grey cement podiums, with each stand marking first, second, and third place standing with the Olympic logo placed above Tommie Smiths' first place platform made from a mixture of colorful tiles. The athletes rolled up sleeves also gives detail to their forearms making their veins visible to the eyes of viewers. Both athletes are paved with shiny blue ceramic tiles places on their tracksuits. ...

Right outside the Clark building of the SJSU campus, pro-life activists were in protest of SB-320, a California legislation that allows RU-486 abortion pills to be allowed on campus clinics. Many sign were waved stating "SB-320 deserve Admins Oppositions!" and "#NoCampusAbortions". Some of the other students and individuals the listened in on the event expressed their opposing opinion on the topic and were more pro-choice, stating it was their constitutional right for their freedom of choice to decide whether they want this pill. The pro-life activists explained more on what the RU-486 pill does instating that, "the RU-486 is two pills, the first pill starving the fetus, and the 2nd pill expelling the fetus from the body in a bloody way.  I would define that as violent." One of the pro-life activists stated, "instead the state could use that money towards helping women and students mothers" instead of "ending" a life. Before l...

Looming under the cloudy afternoon sky lies a bronze statue setting a similar tone in its engraved illustrations. Etched throughout the piece are countless individuals, guarded and watched by numerous soldiers with rifles at hand. Many are seen jaded and worn out, assisting each other in forced laborious tasks across the sculpture. There is a strong juxtaposition of this art piece where in this country known for it's for freedom, had people subjugated based on their ethnic background during the Japanese internment of World War II. The artist of this piece Ruth Asawa, has immortalized this event engraved in bronze in downtown San Jose illustrating the turmoil of the Japanese internment. The piece is spread on two sides, but with both topped with large barbwire emphasizing the Japanese' confinement. On one side you see a countless number of Japanese being dropped off at an internment camp from the Western Pacific railway with soldiers lined up almost as far as the tra...

1. Trusting police officers and public safety Sources: Student - Kamran Refai, Police Officer - Naeem Elvy 2. The influx of immigration in the Bay Area Sources: Student - Yujiro Kitagawa, Business owner - Kumar Joshi 3. Legalize vaping and public areas Sources: Vape Company Employee - Jayson Sagesei, Technician - Jacky Vong