The Chronicle of Trevor Nguyen

       For those who didn't know my actual name is Trieu and not Trevor. I'm pretty sure my grandpa picked out that name for me and my parents agreed with it. When I was a kid I didn't really like it cause it was different and didn't necessarily fit in. When I moved to Troy in kindergarten I was a pretty shy kid, and did not have the easiest time fitting in. Having a "weird" name didn't really help my case, so I begged my parents to call me Trevor and to my surprise they agreed. Over the years, however, the name Trieu kinda grew on me. It's slick, clean, one syllable and quite distinguishable. Makes me wish I never changed it in the first place.  Having one actual name and a name I go by proved to be rather confusing and have costed me a bit of money. For example, when I signed up for the ACT (I ended up never taking it) I signed up under the name: Trevor Nguyen. I quickly realized after the whole registration process that Trevor Nguyen technically doe

 I watched this Netflix documentary called "Seaspiracy". It began on the topic of how us killing whales and dolphins have an extreme negative externality. You would think that if people knew about the significant impact that these animals have on literally the ocean it would cause air tight restrictions on killing these creatures. Sike, countries like Japan are dolphin and whale hunting illegally, regardless of the worldwide ban. In the documentary, the videographers went to this region of Japan where fishermen lured in dolphins just to kill them. The fishermen are literally shown backing the dolphins up against the shore and proceeding to wrestle them like barbarians. You would think that the authorities would find out about this black market type stunt and put an end to it relatively quickly. However, the authorities are the ones covering this up. Then the documentary moved on to talk about how the labels that say "dolphin safe" on tuna cans or any seafood product