Music: Lil Wayne video critique The video Lil Wayne made for the song that has been out for a while, "Mrs. Officer" is one of the hottest video. While Lil Wayne is looking sexy with his new look, Bobby Valentino ain't to far away. Lil wayne is just unstoppable. His music always have meaning. His rap basically flows. That is the reason why he can free style.
-Mack "Plays the song too much. Like the transition in the video as well as, the cars and the women in the video"
-LaKeisha "Like the video. Reminds me of my dream and the beat is nice"
Personly I LOVE "Gossip Girl". I believe its an excellet show, but for people of a certain age group like 15 and up. Gossip Girl is for a muture age group because of the sex scandels, drugs, drinking , and its over all meaning "gossip". The show not bad it tells you how to prevent problems or avoid them.
Is Gossip Girl good or bad? Jamar Taylor: Its bad becaus of the title itself. Nichelle Howard: Good because its intertaning and its a great show to watch when you don't have anything to do. Mack Curtis:it's bad and i don't like it because it stereo type young Americans. Jerlesha Findlay: i think its good because its funny, and it catch my attension. The things they pretrade is not really suppose be done.
I believe the show is not as good as people make it seem. It's a bit boring. There are some parts I like but it don't always get my attention. Gossip Girl is more entertaining than 90210. The people don't even look their age.
I believe that food is an important topic during the holidays. When it comes to food it's the most interseting topic. With all the different food and ethnic groups, the world id filled with chooses. My favorite is ham during Christmas and cranberry sauce. I can't even began to talk about desert. So eat and enjoy the break. Seasons Greeting Jerlesha
Do you feel discrimated against based on your sexuality? For many years gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals have been discrimated about their sexuality. Society has labeled them as trouble makers and nasty people. However, I did research about why gay people can’t be together.
One reason is gay people can't be married. The reason same sex marriages isn't allowed is because it's not supported by religion. According to the people of the country, legalizing gay marriages will open the doors to a lot of crazy behaviors. An example of crazy behavior is encouraging other people to become gay. (http://grave.ufl.edu/~ggsa/gaymarriage.htm)
As a young student, I believe that people can be with whoever they want to be with. People can't control other people's feelings and change their sexuality. Some heterosexuals beat them and make fun of them. I feel like that isn't right.
From my experience with my friends that are boys, they don't like gay boys. Everytime I say something about a gay boy or they see me with a gay boy, my friends say they can't stand them; they nasty and they go kick his butt. My friends shouldn't act that way because even though that person is gay, they still are human.
School is a big part of both children, and parent lives. There has been thoughts of a new proposal that school should be all year without a summer break. I believe that year round schools would enhance students learning abilities, keep students off the street, and it would give parents a break when summer arrives. Student knowledge is important, and with all year round school, it would enhance students learning abilities. The students attending year round schools knowledge will grow, because students are in school longer, therefore learning more than they generally would in a school with a summer break.This also helops because during standarized test, they would also potientally see better scores, and will be better prepared. It would also keep students off the streets. During the summertime, most crime related problems come from teenagers. If teens are in school during the summe time it would generally decrease alot of problems, and make our community a lot safer. Summertime
By Erica Cain What do you think?Should homework be banned?Yes,homework should be banned because homework puts students off learning.Homework takes up alot of time.Parents do the homework.Homework causes family arguments.Homework causes stress. Homework take a lot of time up.Being young is not just diong school work.It should be about physically active exploring the environment through play ,doing creative things like music and art,and playing part in the community. Parents do the homework.Pushy parents especially.Pushy parents dont like to see their kids grades below a certain grade.Pushy parents love bragging on there kids grades. Homework brings stress.I say homework brings stress because studies have shown that many children find doing homework very stressful,boring,and tiring .I know because I do homework everyday even though i be bored it's still a grade. So i went back to do research on the question why is homework important?(scott J Cech)said because it extends study beyond school hours.Allowing a wider and deeper education.Homework linked to recent lessons helps students strengthen their understanding.Homework also prepares students to work more independently as we have to do at college.
The internet!!! It is the best thing since the T.V. The internet is very poppular globale. Every use it . It is almost like a drug. When you had a hit of it, you would need more of it. When i asked Charmaine Lewis how do she feel about the internet, she said that it was very resourceful to her. When i asked La'Keisha Price the same question she said that it was useful to her and it kept her in touch with her friends. i agree with the two young ladies that the internet is indeed extemly resouceful and it dose keep me in topuch with alot of my frinds. I found that the internet
The internet!!! It is the best thing since the T.V. The internet is very poppular globale. Every use it . It is almost like a drug. When you had a hit of it, you would need more of it. When i asked Charmaine Lewis how do she feel about the internet, she said that it was very resourceful to her. When i asked La'Keisha Price the same question she said that it was useful to her and it kept her in touch with her friends. i agree with the two young ladies that the internet is indeed extemly resouceful and it dose keep me in topuch with alot of my frinds. I found that the internet
Do you think that k-12 school should ban junk food sales? I think that k-12 school should ban junk food sales. American kids are fat and getting fatter.''Thereason why are no surprise.Children are simply a mirror of the country at large:127 million american adults are over weight Almost half of them officially deemed obese. These americans typically eat poorly and exercise infrequently,if they exercise at all.It's pretty much the same with over weight children,whose diets tend to be dominated by fatty fast food and sugar snacks;junk food can make your energetic but then lazy.At one point you can be energetic right after you eat junk food.Then after a while it wears off and then you get lazy .It comes from the sugar. Junk food should be ban from students who is in k-12 grade school,because american kids are fat and getting fatter.They find that it is the actual availability of junk food,rather than aduertising or pouring right.That is assaiated with weight gain.In general,''a 10 percentage point increase in the propation of schools with junk food is correlated with about a 1 percent highter BMI for the average student.''according to the federal centers for desease control.The percentage now is more then thirteen percent,even higher amony teens and in certain demongraphic groups''.
At one point in time you were segeragated, disciminated, or hated on by another person rather it be by sex, religion, or race. I know your probably thinking " what does this have to do with the topic." What has happend to you in the past, is happing to them right now. A lot of people dont see eye to eye with a gay or lesbian person. Because they are different from you, being different is good otherwise everybody would be the same and that would be boring. Being your own perso nmakes you who you truly are. And if that means being gay or lesbian than so be it. Just because you hang around, talk to, or have any contact with a gay person doesnt not mean that you are going to become gay or lesbian as well.So you cna have gay friends and if you chose to become gay than that is your option to. Everybody wants to go through life enjoyable and preety much happy right? SO if being gay or lesbain makes somebody else happy , then why do people care so much? I know that people religions and beliefs and in God's eyes dont belive in homosexuality. God made people so they could reproduce and you cant do that if you have the same parts as your partner does. But there is other ways to handle that situation if they did want children to raise. They could adopt, pleanty of new mothers give their babies to an adoption adgency because of many reasons. They want their baby to have a good life and for someone to love them. If a same sex person decides to adopt they could if they want to start a family. I read something on the internet that i didnt agree on at: www.ufl.edu 12 reasons. says "If you have gay parents your child will be gay to. Gay parents will raise gay children and striaght parents will only raise striaght children." I think that resaerch is faulty, because I have a friend that is gay and both his parents and other siblings are striaght. It was his choice to become gay it had nothing to do with his family or even parents. And my other friend she is a lesbian and her mother isnt lesbian nor his her sisters. So that has nothing to do with the parents being gay or striaght. How do these people know that information is true? Did they go to everybody's house who was gay or lesbian?
Alter Ego: Unconfortable, Selfconscience or both? By:LaKeisha Price Most people are unconfortable and self-conscience about themselves, some might even be both. An alter ego is another side of oneself; second self; an intimate friend or a constant companion. how you every notice yourself having an alter ego? i notice that i have one and so does Beyonce.
I'm very much confortablewith myself, but the reason why I have an alter ego, because I'm self-conscience. the only time i'm self-conscience is when its time for me to go on stage and to proform. everyone is watching you as well as judging you. i get very nerves my heart beats very fast and my stomch is upside down. but before i go on i always wisper to myself, "i am Carmen, i am Carmen", and i become Carmen. i don't even know where that name came from i just feel like a Carmen. After i say that i become her and when im done im myself again. in fact one of my good friends Jamar Taylor told me, " You din't even look like your self when you dance it look like you become someone else."
To defind the term, i found "self- consciousness is not something that comes about the moment of reflectively introspects one's expenences, or in the instant of self-recongnition, or in the construcction of a self-narrative. Rather these different kinds of self-consciousness are to be distinguished from the pre-reflective self-consciousness which is present in living through or undergoing an experience."(Andrew Cohan, www.enligtennext.org)
Beyonce' is both self-conscience and unconfortable with herself. As a profomer Beyonce' knew she had to get over this lself-conscience phase. A person who don't like beyonce stated, "That the weird alter ego thingshe pull is plan creepy. She dance and grihnds all over stage, then she prentend like she don't remember. That's crazy." (www.eonline.com) "Ego is something like the "self-organiizing principle," taht all important command center in the pysche that coordinates the different aspect of the self. The ego as self-coordinaltes the different aspect of the self. The ego as self orgganizing principle is niether postive nor negative; it's function is mechanistic, and in that, it has no self nature." (Andrew Cohen, www.enlightennext.com)
Maybge Beyonce' really dont remember what she does on stage. Maybe her alter ego is so strong thst she realy does become someone else: Sasha. So when she done dancing and becomes herself again, she realy might do not remember.
I believe the reason why Beyonce' have an alter ego because she feels unconfortable about how she identifies herself to the public. Perhaps she feels so uncomfortable by the image she protray. Thus, she has created an alter ego to alter her image or better express her creativity through an another outlet and personsality.
An alter ego can be useful to some and wried to other. But having an alter shouldn't judge you for who you are or what you do. As long you know who you are that all that counts and that with an alter ego or not.
Many people go through problems throughout their life. Abortion is a topic that leads into problems. Even though it's a topic some don't like talking about, it's still an important topic. Abortion has been around for centiries which was very common to do back then. Even though its been around for centuries, it wasn't until 1962 that people tried to organize legalization of abortion stated on www.allaboutpopualissues.org. The first evidence of abortion can be seen back in 1550 B.C. from the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus. It is not a surprise that this topic has expanded. Throughout the years many people have questioned the legalization of abortion. Many times when abortion comes up many people become silent. While many feel abortion shoul be illegal, there are many others who disagree. Some believe abortion is a form of murder. Also, it takes away legal rights for the unborn child. It states on www.balancedpolitics.org, that many abortion threatens the doctors Hippocratic Oath, which says they should do no harm. There are those who feel abortion should be legal. Some feel the government can't control a womans body or personal decisions. Also, some have situations were abortion is needed. Some pregnancies are results from rape or assault. Some may feel the child will remind them of the difficult situations. As stated on www.family.krank.org, a woman needed an abortion because her life was threatened from the pregnancy. She was diabetic and developed a condition were she becomes malnourish and dehydrated. She was also suffering hear conditions. Many feel abortion shouldn't be illegal because it may increase illegal abortion. This will put young woman at risk for death or even health problems. Some people question the governments decision on abortion. Many don't believe they have a right to choose what they do with their bodies. Abortion became a big situation in the Supreme Court. The case of Roe vs. Wade is well known to have caused disagreement. Roe was challenging the law of abortion in Texas, which said a person couldn't have an abortion unless it was for medical reasons. The court felt it was not justiciable. The ruling took a while and Roe had already given birth to her child. This showed that the government was ready to change their mind. They said that women are allowed to choose the right of abortion during the first trimester stated on www.priestsforlife.org/government. Many don't believe it was a right decision, because of many trials that did not ghave the same outcome. The topic of abortion has grown and is still growning. We are all open th decisions of our own. Your opinion might be different from many others but that doesn't mean you or them are wrong/ Abortion will always be around no matter when we think it is solved.
Year Around Schooling Shannon Voss December 12,2008
School is a big part of both children, and parents lives. There has been thoughts of a new proposal that school should be all year, without a summer break. I believe that year round school would enhance students learning abilities, keep students off the street, and it would give parents a break when summer arrives. Year round schools are helpful to everyone in the community, in one way or another. Student knowledge is important, and with year round schools, it would enhance students learning abilities. The students attending year round schools knowledge will grow, because students will be in school longer, therefore learning more than they would generally learn in a school with a summer break. This helps in other ways as well, because when it comes time for students to take standardized test like the ACT, or the SAT, it is more likely that students will be more prepared and ready. It would keep students off the street. During the summer time, the most crime related problems come from teens. If teenagers are in school during the summer time, it will decrease crime rates, give people less problems, and make our community more safe. Summertime schooling is a passive distraction for some, or a safety zone for others. Also, it would give parents some free time to do other things that they would not generally have time for, since dealing with children or teenagers during the summer. Parents would be extremely happy knowing that some of their children are away from them, but still is in a great place where they can try to improve themselves in the best possible way. All in all, year round school is a great idea. I think it signifies change in the best possible way. It revolutionizes the education system, assuring that improvements will be made in attendance, test scores, and academic report cards. This idea is a winner, and should be used all around, making sure that all students are in school all year around.
The internet!!! It is the best thing since the T.V. The internet is very poppular globale. Every use it . It is almost like a drug. When you had a hit of it, you would need more of it. When i asked Charmaine Lewis how do she feel about the internet, she said that it was very resourceful to her. When i asked La'Keisha Price the same question she said that it was useful to her and it kept her in touch with her friends. i agree with the two young ladies that the internet is indeed extemly resouceful and it dose keep me in topuch with alot of my frinds. I found that the internet helps give people a voice. At www.makeeverybodyhappy.org people post comments almost their persanle lives and people would give thier input on the situation. This would help alot of people because they would receave alot of good advice to listen to. i like the thought of going to a place where i would get a lot of persanel help from. The internet helps people inn many other ways as well. At www.freechess,org they help people learn how to play chess. this showed me that the internet helps make people happy also. people not only use the internet to keep intouch with thier family and friends, but to help people learn new things. The internet is benifical and help people stay intouch with friends. In away it gets people happy from teaching them something new. I like the internet because it do my work and on research papers like this one. The internet haas help revolutionize our society. What would we do with out it.
I actually feel that television is good for children.How is television bad for children when the channel they are watching is educational? Sometimes television teaches family values that we need to survive and to get to know the importance of a family. Also,television can expand children thoughts about everything they may be curious about like how things work and what special place does it have on this earth. Furthermore, children will remeber what they learned and be able to discuss it with anyone who wants to know. And to discover if it's actually a good thing for watching so much telelvision. To
(Tietha Cash)Television is a bad Influence on Children
I actually feel that television is good for children.How is television bad for children when the channel they are watching is educational? Sometimes television teaches family values that we need to survive and to get to know the importance of a family. Also,television can expand children thoughts about everything they may be curious about like how things work and what special place does it have on this earth. Furthermore, children will remeber what they learned and be able to discuss it with anyone who wants to know. And to discover if it's actually a good thing for watching so much telelvision. To
There are many ways why I think it is a good thing to have cell phones in school. First, In case of emeregency. Second, cell phones can be helpful. Third, cell phones dont have to be a disruption in class.
To begin with, cell phones can be use in case of emeregency. Parents can reach there children. Parents could know where there children are at all times.Parents could know if there children are safe. The children could call ther parents and ask them can they stay after school. Next, cell phones can be very helpful.If someone brings a weapon to school.In case some has falling out. In case some one sees somebody getting beay up
There are many ways why I think it is a good thing to have cell phones in school. First, In case of emeregency. Second, cell phones can be helpful. Third, cell phones dont have to be a disruption in class.
To begin with, cell phones can be use in case of emeregency. Parents can reach there children. Parents could know where there children are at all times.Parents could know if there children are safe. The children could call ther parents and ask them can they stay after school.
Next, cell phones can be very helpful. If someone brings a weapon to school a student with a cell phone can call for help. In case a student has an asthma attack they call 911. In case some one sees somebody getting beatup they can call. Some students can call for backup in case they get into a fight. Students can use there calculator on there phones. Also, Cell phones does not have to be a disruption in class. Students can put there cell phones on vibrate. Students do not have to text on there phones. Students don't have to listen to music from there phone. Inconclusion, There are many reasons why I think it is a good thing to have cell phones in school.First, cell phones could be used in case of emergency. Second, cell phones can be very helpful to many people. Third cells phones dont have to be a disruption in class. In a way cell phones are a big problem in schools. But these problems can be worked out. We need to allow for cell phones in schools.
Creationism, the belief of a higher power known as “God” creating all that surrounds us up till this day, including emotions, good and evil, as well as continents, oceans, even the solar system itself. Evolution on the other hand focuses on the belief that humans were evolved from pre-historic mammals known as monkeys. There are several reasons why people might believe in evolution or religion more than the other. First, religion has been around longer than the thought of evolution. Second, evolution has been proven to exist so far. Third, the theory of “theistic evolution” and how a person believes in both.
Religion has been around for centuries to count and has had a great impact on people’s lives. It gives a person the will to fight as well as a pleasure that is ineffable. However, some believe in higher powers while the most common name is God. Some take this very serious in which they pray, chant, even dance. It causes them to believe someone is actually looking over them.
Evolution, something I can really relate to has already been proven so far through scientist, television and internet which I received most of my facts from. Wikipedia, stated the findings of pre-historic animals such as dinosaurs has proven evolution is a fact. The way that apes are is also a sign that we derived from a specific type of species to get where we are now. Up until now data is still being processed to prove even more findings on the basic information of evolution. Theistic evolution, the belief of both religious teaches of God and the fact that it may be linked to evolution somehow. Many people I know believe that this is true because of the simple fact of them attending church and using knowledge from scientist as well.
People who believe in theistic evolution are no different from those who believe in just one thing. They just have wider views on life and try to focus on both. I find it hard to believe in something that’s not proven to me. I’m not the type of person to worship a stranger let alone any other religion. Do you think there is a God? If so how can you prove it to be?
The environment is the whole complex of functions that influence the form and the ability to survive, of a plant, animal or ecological community. The environment is our home, it’s where we live and inhabit. We have naturally become accustomed to its settings but if we treat it wrong it can have drastic side effects. There are several reasons why I have a relationship with the environment. One is being aware of the problem, two is the need to protect and three is protecting the environment.
The environment is our home but over the years the environment has been deteriorating. Chief Seattle stated “There is no quiet place in the white man’s cities”. This may be true because technology is going so far and overcrowding cities populate most of the United States let alone other countries. Pollution seems to increase as time goes on as well. Being aware of this problem is very important do to all the lives at risk, animals as well. Alice Walker stated “Blue was lonely, Blue was terribly lonely in bored”. This shows animals have feelings to and that they wish to live their life in a clean environment just as any human would. The next breed of generation would be at targeted to. Pollution from cars, trees getting chopped down, and oil spilling in oceans and lakes are all examples of environmental endangerments that need to be noticed.
The need to protect our environment is very vital in today’s society. We need to know about the things that affect it. Is it us the people who inhabit, terrorize, and take it for granted? We need to know about the things that could help change our environment in ways that would make it better.
Protecting the environment is something everyone can do. There are many signs about going green and helping clean the airs of dangerous toxins. What we could start off by doing is recycling aluminum, paper, or plastic products for reuse. People could use less water, spray and smoke less. The biggest toxin to get around would be gas because it’s everywhere and sometimes it’s dumped in our water systems and spread throughout the air we breathe. Protecting the environment could benefit all species in ways that could help the earth live longer to see new generations.
Those were several of the reasons for why I have a relationship with the environment. I thought that we should be aware, know what’s going on and knowing how to go about solving the pollution problem. I wanted to show that everyone could become a part of protecting the environment. They could now take on the responsibilities on caring for and helping their natural environment.
Brother Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “Education and learning are tools for shaping the future and not devices of privilege for an exclusive few”.
This quote has very many meanings. For one, it explains how education is a necessity to power the future, our future, from Dr. King’s perspective. The second part of the quote expresses how privileges are not given to an exclusive few. This clearly means that the tools are not to be taken lightly or squandered. Neither are they meant to be hoarded by a specific group or race of people. This quote has a very significant meaning to me though. Education and learning are the two things often denied to lower class people who have no high paying jobs. It clearly states things given to the public are meant for the public, not some person who owns half the city they live in. I feel as though this has already happened and will continue to happen as long as people let it.
That “exclusive few” mentioned in the quote will always have a head start unless others take advantage of the future ahead. Education and learning are not privileges, they are a right. People struggling with poverty didn’t get the training like a higher class person did. I feel that most people living today could have been wealthier than they actually thought. They just didn’t have the “status” that another person would have with a better job. They didn’t take advantage of the “tools to a better future" to strengthen their achievements and earn greater economic opportunities.
Basically, those who take advantage of the future will be able to achieve advanced, high paying jobs and careers. Going back to the quote, I believe some people start off with a decent amount of money, go to higher class or private schools, and may even come from a better financial family. These are the set of higher class people who monopolize all the higher paying job opportunities. This is one reason why the majority of people don’t receive the jobs they want. What I’m getting at is that people have to show more enthusiasm, strive harder because those others, the “exclusive few” will try to take that away from you. Dr. King is a highly praised African American who showed us that change could be made. This quote shows how people are being left in the dust because others feel they have to take everything. African Americans as well as all other races that don’t have that advantage are very well capable of achieving higher learning and they will have to take advantage of the future if they don’t want to be replaced by those who want nothing but wealth and power.
Why are there more African American women attending college than African American men? This question has been raised many times when speaking on the issues of both African American men and women. The women for some reason seem to keep a steady job and stay on task while many African American men are some what “irresponsible”. Why do the men of my race choose not to attend college? Is it because they felt they will not succeed or does getting up everyday to go to class make them feel that college isn’t right for them?
I personally think that anyone not just the men of my race but every race have the ability to attend college. They just chose not to because they felt it was okay to sit around and do nothing. Many young black men have inconsistent behavior and may end up in jail while others stay with their parents for the rest of their entire lives. Statistics on one article “Less Young African American Male Attend College, by Steve Pickett” showed that only 4 in 10 black male men aged 18 to 24 would attend college while 60% of black women enroll. It doesn’t start there because only 50 to 60% of black men graduate from high school.
I’m not saying that all men that don’t go to college will end up in a slump because there are some people who live very long, happy lives and didn’t attend not one college. I just want to know why so many would pass up the opportunity to be someone and have a good career at hand. Personally, I want to become everything I can because I feel I must in order to succeed in today’s challenging environment. I do what I’m supposed to do, ignore the nonsense and attend every class in school. I’m the the type of person who doesn’t follow others because it’s a “trend”. I want to be me and graduate to a life.
Most seniors I attend school with will probably not even graduate and I hate to say that but it’s the truth. They will be viewed as “the other black males who didn’t make it”. They will be dropped from the system because they dropped themselves out of high school from the start not knowing what hidden potential they had in them. How does that make us look as a race, as a whole? This makes me wonder so much about how this problem could be fixed. Maybe if we got more African American male to perform better in school we would have more black lawyers, engineers, architects and doctors instead of football, baseball and basketball players. If black men want to succeed in life we have to start helping one another because most black men in today’s society need it. They need to step up to the plate and do what needs to be done.
Should seniors have four classes a day rather than eight?
By Trent Lawrence
I personally think they should not becuase the seniors in today's society need more than four classes. I feel if they have less they are setting themselves up for failure and that they will not be succeful in life at all. They had this type of program at my school three years ago that was called "ice". The seniors that graduated that year went off to college, well most of them did. I guess there a diffrent type of generation of students that could do these things but I fell as though this should not be a part of the school system.
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Music: Lil Wayne video critique
The video Lil Wayne made for the song that has been out for a while, "Mrs. Officer" is one of the hottest video. While Lil Wayne is looking sexy with his new look, Bobby Valentino ain't to far away. Lil wayne is just unstoppable. His music always have meaning. His rap basically flows. That is the reason why he can free style.
-Mack "Plays the song too much. Like the transition in the video as well as, the cars and the women in the video"
-LaKeisha "Like the video. Reminds me of my dream and the beat is nice"
Gossip Girl: What you think?
By:LaKeisha M. Price
Personly I LOVE "Gossip Girl". I believe its an excellet show, but for people of a certain age group like 15 and up. Gossip Girl is for a muture age group because of the sex scandels, drugs, drinking , and its over all meaning "gossip". The show not bad it tells you how to prevent problems or avoid them.
Is Gossip Girl good or bad?
Jamar Taylor: Its bad becaus of the title itself.
Nichelle Howard: Good because its intertaning and its a great show to watch when you don't have anything to do.
Mack Curtis:it's bad and i don't like it because it stereo type young Americans.
Jerlesha Findlay: i think its good because its funny, and it catch my attension. The things they pretrade is not really suppose be done.
T.V./ Movies: 90210 "Good or Bad"
I believe the show is not as good as people make it seem. It's a bit boring. There are some parts I like but it don't always get my attention. Gossip Girl is more entertaining than 90210. The people don't even look their age.
Food: Favorite food to eat this holiday.
I believe that food is an important topic during the holidays. When it comes to food it's the most interseting topic. With all the different food and ethnic groups, the world id filled with chooses. My favorite is ham during Christmas and cranberry sauce. I can't even began to talk about desert. So eat and enjoy the break.
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Do you feel discrimated against based on your sexuality? For many years gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals have been discrimated about their sexuality. Society has labeled them as trouble makers and nasty people. However, I did research about why gay people can’t be together.
One reason is gay people can't be married. The reason same sex marriages isn't allowed is because it's not supported by religion. According to the people of the country, legalizing gay marriages will open the doors to a lot of crazy behaviors. An example of crazy behavior is encouraging other people to become gay. (http://grave.ufl.edu/~ggsa/gaymarriage.htm)
As a young student, I believe that people can be with whoever they want to be with. People can't control other people's feelings and change their sexuality. Some heterosexuals beat them and make fun of them. I feel like that isn't right.
From my experience with my friends that are boys, they don't like gay boys. Everytime I say something about a gay boy or they see me with a gay boy, my friends say they can't stand them; they nasty and they go kick his butt. My friends shouldn't act that way because even though that person is gay, they still are human.
School is a big part of both children, and parent lives. There has been thoughts of a new proposal that school should be all year without a summer break. I believe that year round schools would enhance students learning abilities, keep students off the street, and it would give parents a break when summer arrives.
Student knowledge is important, and with all year round school, it would enhance students learning abilities. The students attending year round schools knowledge will grow, because students are in school longer, therefore learning more than they generally would in a school with a summer break.This also helops because during standarized test, they would also potientally see better scores, and will be better prepared. It would also keep students off the streets. During the summertime, most crime related problems come from teenagers. If teens are in school during the summe time it would generally decrease alot of problems, and make our community a lot safer. Summertime
By Erica Cain
What do you think?Should homework be banned?Yes,homework should be banned because homework puts students off learning.Homework takes up alot of time.Parents do the homework.Homework causes family arguments.Homework causes stress.
Homework take a lot of time up.Being young is not just diong school work.It should be about physically active exploring the environment through play ,doing creative things like music and art,and playing part in the community.
Parents do the homework.Pushy parents especially.Pushy parents dont like to see their kids grades below a certain grade.Pushy parents love bragging on there kids grades.
Homework brings stress.I say homework brings stress because studies have shown that many children find doing homework very stressful,boring,and tiring .I know because I do homework everyday even though i be bored it's still a grade.
So i went back to do research on the question why is homework important?(scott J Cech)said because it extends study beyond school hours.Allowing a wider and deeper education.Homework linked to recent lessons helps students strengthen their understanding.Homework also prepares students to work more independently as we have to do at college.
The internet!!! It is the best thing since the T.V. The internet is very poppular globale. Every use it . It is almost like a drug. When you had a hit of it, you would need more of it. When i asked Charmaine Lewis how do she feel about the internet, she said that it was very resourceful to her. When i asked La'Keisha Price the same question she said that it was useful to her and it kept her in touch with her friends. i agree with the two young ladies that the internet is indeed extemly resouceful and it dose keep me in topuch with alot of my frinds.
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The internet!!! It is the best thing since the T.V. The internet is very poppular globale. Every use it . It is almost like a drug. When you had a hit of it, you would need more of it. When i asked Charmaine Lewis how do she feel about the internet, she said that it was very resourceful to her. When i asked La'Keisha Price the same question she said that it was useful to her and it kept her in touch with her friends. i agree with the two young ladies that the internet is indeed extemly resouceful and it dose keep me in topuch with alot of my frinds.
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Do you think that k-12 school should ban junk food sales? I think that k-12 school should ban junk food sales. American kids are fat and getting fatter.''Thereason why are no surprise.Children are simply a mirror of the country at large:127 million american adults are over weight Almost half of them officially deemed obese. These americans typically eat poorly and exercise infrequently,if they exercise at all.It's pretty much the same with over weight children,whose diets tend to be dominated by fatty fast food and sugar snacks;junk food can make your energetic but then lazy.At one point you can be energetic right after you eat junk food.Then after a while it wears off and then you get lazy .It comes from the sugar. Junk food should be ban from students who is in k-12 grade school,because american kids are fat and getting fatter.They find that it is the actual availability of junk food,rather than aduertising or pouring right.That is assaiated with weight gain.In general,''a 10 percentage point increase in the propation of schools with junk food is correlated with about a 1 percent highter BMI for the average student.''according to the federal centers for desease control.The percentage now is more then thirteen percent,even higher amony teens and in certain demongraphic groups''.
*should Gay/Lebian Marriage be allowed?*
At one point in time you were segeragated, disciminated, or hated on by another person rather it be by sex, religion, or race. I know your probably thinking " what does this have to do with the topic." What has happend to you in the past, is happing to them right now. A lot of people dont see eye to eye with a gay or lesbian person. Because they are different from you, being different is good otherwise everybody would be the same and that would be boring. Being your own perso nmakes you who you truly are. And if that means being gay or lesbian than so be it. Just because you hang around, talk to, or have any contact with a gay person doesnt not mean that you are going to become gay or lesbian as well.So you cna have gay friends and if you chose to become gay than that is your option to.
Everybody wants to go through life enjoyable and preety much happy right? SO if being gay or lesbain makes somebody else happy , then why do people care so much? I know that people religions and beliefs and in God's eyes dont belive in homosexuality. God made people so they could reproduce and you cant do that if you have the same parts as your partner does. But there is other ways to handle that situation if they did want children to raise. They could adopt, pleanty of new mothers give their babies to an adoption adgency because of many reasons. They want their baby to have a good life and for someone to love them. If a same sex person decides to adopt they could if they want to start a family. I read something on the internet that i didnt agree on at: www.ufl.edu 12 reasons. says "If you have gay parents your child will be gay to. Gay parents will raise gay children and striaght parents will only raise striaght children." I think that resaerch is faulty, because I have a friend that is gay and both his parents and other siblings are striaght. It was his choice to become gay it had nothing to do with his family or even parents. And my other friend she is a lesbian and her mother isnt lesbian nor his her sisters. So that has nothing to do with the parents being gay or striaght. How do these people know that information is true? Did they go to everybody's house who was gay or lesbian?
Alter Ego: Unconfortable,
Selfconscience or both?
By:LaKeisha Price
Most people are unconfortable and self-conscience about themselves, some might even be both. An alter ego is another side of oneself; second self; an intimate friend or a constant companion. how you every notice yourself having an alter ego? i notice that i have one and so does Beyonce.
I'm very much confortablewith myself, but the reason why I have an alter ego, because I'm self-conscience. the only time i'm self-conscience is when its time for me to go on stage and to proform. everyone is watching you as well as judging you. i get very nerves my heart beats very fast and my stomch is upside down. but before i go on i always wisper to myself, "i am Carmen, i am Carmen", and i become Carmen. i don't even know where that name came from i just feel like a Carmen. After i say that i become her and when im done im myself again. in fact one of my good friends Jamar Taylor told me, " You din't even look like your self when you dance it look like you become someone else."
To defind the term, i found "self- consciousness is not something that comes about the moment of reflectively introspects one's expenences, or in the instant of self-recongnition, or in the construcction of a self-narrative. Rather these different kinds of self-consciousness are to be distinguished from the pre-reflective self-consciousness which is present in living through or undergoing an experience."(Andrew Cohan, www.enligtennext.org)
Beyonce' is both self-conscience and unconfortable with herself. As a profomer Beyonce' knew she had to get over this lself-conscience phase. A person who don't like beyonce stated, "That the weird alter ego thingshe pull is plan creepy. She dance and grihnds all over stage, then she prentend like she don't remember. That's crazy." (www.eonline.com)
"Ego is something like the "self-organiizing principle," taht all important command center in the pysche that coordinates the different aspect of the self. The ego as self-coordinaltes the different aspect of the self. The ego as self orgganizing principle is niether postive nor negative; it's function is mechanistic, and in that, it has no self nature." (Andrew Cohen, www.enlightennext.com)
Maybge Beyonce' really dont remember what she does on stage. Maybe her alter ego is so strong thst she realy does become someone else: Sasha. So when she done dancing and becomes herself again, she realy might do not remember.
I believe the reason why Beyonce' have an alter ego because she feels unconfortable about how she identifies herself to the public. Perhaps she feels so uncomfortable by the image she protray. Thus, she has created an alter ego to alter her image or better express her creativity through an another outlet and personsality.
An alter ego can be useful to some and wried to other. But having an alter shouldn't judge you for who you are or what you do. As long you know who you are that all that counts and that with an alter ego or not.
Abortion
Many people go through problems throughout their life. Abortion is a topic that leads into problems. Even though it's a topic some don't like talking about, it's still an important topic.
Abortion has been around for centiries which was very common to do back then. Even though its been around for centuries, it wasn't until 1962 that people tried to organize legalization of abortion stated on www.allaboutpopualissues.org. The first evidence of abortion can be seen back in 1550 B.C. from the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus. It is not a surprise that this topic has expanded. Throughout the years many people have questioned the legalization of abortion.
Many times when abortion comes up many people become silent. While many feel abortion shoul be illegal, there are many others who disagree. Some believe abortion is a form of murder. Also, it takes away legal rights for the unborn child. It states on www.balancedpolitics.org, that many abortion threatens the doctors Hippocratic Oath, which says they should do no harm.
There are those who feel abortion should be legal. Some feel the government can't control a womans body or personal decisions. Also, some have situations were abortion is needed. Some pregnancies are results from rape or assault. Some may feel the child will remind them of the difficult situations. As stated on www.family.krank.org, a woman needed an abortion because her life was threatened from the pregnancy. She was diabetic and developed a condition were she becomes malnourish and dehydrated. She was also suffering hear conditions. Many feel abortion shouldn't be illegal because it may increase illegal abortion. This will put young woman at risk for death or even health problems.
Some people question the governments decision on abortion. Many don't believe they have a right to choose what they do with their bodies. Abortion became a big situation in the Supreme Court. The case of Roe vs. Wade is well known to have caused disagreement. Roe was challenging the law of abortion in Texas, which said a person couldn't have an abortion unless it was for medical reasons. The court felt it was not justiciable. The ruling took a while and Roe had already given birth to her child. This showed that the government was ready to change their mind. They said that women are allowed to choose the right of abortion during the first trimester stated on www.priestsforlife.org/government. Many don't believe it was a right decision, because of many trials that did not ghave the same outcome.
The topic of abortion has grown and is still growning. We are all open th decisions of our own. Your opinion might be different from many others but that doesn't mean you or them are wrong/ Abortion will always be around no matter when we think it is solved.
Year Around Schooling Shannon Voss
December 12,2008
School is a big part of both children, and parents lives. There has been thoughts of a new proposal that school should be all year, without a summer break. I believe that year round school would enhance students learning abilities, keep students off the street, and it would give parents a break when summer arrives. Year round schools are helpful to everyone in the community, in one way or another.
Student knowledge is important, and with year round schools, it would enhance students learning abilities. The students attending year round schools knowledge will grow, because students will be in school longer, therefore learning more than they would generally learn in a school with a summer break. This helps in other ways as well, because when it comes time for students to take standardized test like the ACT, or the SAT, it is more likely that students will be more prepared and ready.
It would keep students off the street. During the summer time, the most crime related problems come from teens. If teenagers are in school during the summer time, it will decrease crime rates, give people less problems, and make our community more safe. Summertime schooling is a passive distraction for some, or a safety zone for others.
Also, it would give parents some free time to do other things that they would not generally have time for, since dealing with children or teenagers during the summer. Parents would be extremely happy knowing that some of their children are away from them, but still is in a great place where they can try to improve themselves in the best possible way.
All in all, year round school is a great idea. I think it signifies change in the best possible way. It revolutionizes the education system, assuring that improvements will be made in attendance, test scores, and academic report cards. This idea is a winner, and should be used all around, making sure that all students are in school all year around.
The internet!!! It is the best thing since the T.V. The internet is very poppular globale. Every use it . It is almost like a drug. When you had a hit of it, you would need more of it. When i asked Charmaine Lewis how do she feel about the internet, she said that it was very resourceful to her. When i asked La'Keisha Price the same question she said that it was useful to her and it kept her in touch with her friends. i agree with the two young ladies that the internet is indeed extemly resouceful and it dose keep me in topuch with alot of my frinds.
I found that the internet helps give people a voice. At www.makeeverybodyhappy.org people post comments almost their persanle lives and people would give thier input on the situation. This would help alot of people because they would receave alot of good advice to listen to. i like the thought of going to a place where i would get a lot of persanel help from. The internet helps people inn many other ways as well.
At www.freechess,org they help people learn how to play chess. this showed me that the internet helps make people happy also. people not only use the internet to keep intouch with thier family and friends, but to help people learn new things.
The internet is benifical and help people stay intouch with friends. In away it gets people happy from teaching them something new. I like the internet because it do my work and on research papers like this one. The internet haas help revolutionize our society. What would we do with out it.
Television is a bad Influence on Children
I actually feel that television is good for children.How is television bad for children when the channel they are watching is educational? Sometimes television teaches family values that we need to survive and to get to know the importance of a family. Also,television can expand children thoughts about everything they may be curious about like how things work and what special place does it have on this earth. Furthermore, children will remeber what they learned and be able to discuss it with anyone who wants to know. And to discover if it's actually a good thing for watching so much telelvision.
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(Tietha Cash)Television is a bad Influence on Children
I actually feel that television is good for children.How is television bad for children when the channel they are watching is educational? Sometimes television teaches family values that we need to survive and to get to know the importance of a family. Also,television can expand children thoughts about everything they may be curious about like how things work and what special place does it have on this earth. Furthermore, children will remeber what they learned and be able to discuss it with anyone who wants to know. And to discover if it's actually a good thing for watching so much telelvision.
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Should cell phones be allowed in schools:
There are many ways why I think it is a good thing to have cell phones in school. First, In case of emeregency. Second, cell phones can be helpful. Third, cell phones dont have to be a disruption in class.
To begin with, cell phones can be use in case of emeregency. Parents can reach there children. Parents could know where there children are at all times.Parents could know if there children are safe. The children could call ther parents and ask them can they stay after school.
Next, cell phones can be very helpful.If someone brings a weapon to school.In case some has falling out. In case some one sees somebody getting beay up
Should cell phones be allowed in schools:
There are many ways why I think it is a good thing to have cell phones in school. First, In case of emeregency. Second, cell phones can be helpful. Third, cell phones dont have to be a disruption in class.
To begin with, cell phones can be use in case of emeregency. Parents can reach there children. Parents could know where there children are at all times.Parents could know if there children are safe. The children could call ther parents and ask them can they stay after school.
Next, cell phones can be very helpful. If someone brings a weapon to school a student with a cell phone can call for help. In case a student has an asthma attack they call 911. In case some one sees somebody getting beatup they can call. Some students can call for backup in case they get into a fight. Students can use there calculator on there phones.
Also, Cell phones does not have to be a disruption in class. Students can put there cell phones on vibrate. Students do not have to text on there phones. Students don't have to listen to music from there phone.
Inconclusion, There are many reasons why I think it is a good thing to have cell phones in school.First, cell phones could be used in case of emergency. Second, cell phones can be very helpful to many people. Third cells phones dont have to be a disruption in class. In a way cell phones are a big problem in schools. But these problems can be worked out. We need to allow for cell phones in schools.
EVOLUTION VS. RELIGION
by Trent Lawrence
Creationism, the belief of a higher power known as “God” creating all that surrounds us up till this day, including emotions, good and evil, as well as continents, oceans, even the solar system itself. Evolution on the other hand focuses on the belief that humans were evolved from pre-historic mammals known as monkeys. There are several reasons why people might believe in evolution or religion more than the other. First, religion has been around longer than the thought of evolution. Second, evolution has been proven to exist so far. Third, the theory of “theistic evolution” and how a person believes
in both.
Religion has been around for centuries to count and has had a great impact on people’s lives. It gives a person the will to fight as well as a pleasure that is ineffable. However, some believe in higher powers while the most common name is God. Some take this very serious in which they pray, chant, even dance. It causes them to believe someone is actually looking over them.
Evolution, something I can really relate to has already been proven so far through scientist, television and internet which I received most of my facts from. Wikipedia, stated the findings of pre-historic animals such as dinosaurs has proven evolution is a fact. The way that apes are is also a sign that we derived from a specific type of species to get where we are now. Up until now data is still being processed to prove even more findings on the basic information of evolution.
Theistic evolution, the belief of both religious teaches of God and the fact that it may be linked to evolution somehow. Many people I know believe that this is true because of the simple fact of them attending church and using knowledge from scientist as well.
People who believe in theistic evolution are no different from those who believe in just one thing. They just have wider views on life and try to focus on both.
I find it hard to believe in something that’s not proven to me. I’m not the type of person to worship a stranger let alone any other religion. Do you think there is a God? If so how can you prove it to be?
THE ENVIORNMENT & ME
By Trent Lawrence
The environment is the whole complex of functions that influence the form and the ability to survive, of a plant, animal or ecological community. The environment is our home, it’s where we live and inhabit. We have naturally become accustomed to its settings but if we treat it wrong it can have drastic side effects. There are several reasons why I have a relationship with the environment. One is being aware of the problem, two is the need to protect and three is protecting the environment.
The environment is our home but over the years the environment has been deteriorating. Chief Seattle stated “There is no quiet place in the white man’s cities”. This may be true because technology is going so far and overcrowding cities populate most of the United States let alone other countries. Pollution seems to increase as time goes on as well. Being aware of this problem is very important do to all the lives at risk, animals as well. Alice Walker stated “Blue was lonely, Blue was terribly lonely in bored”. This shows animals have feelings to and that they wish to live their life in a clean environment just as any human would. The next breed of generation would be at targeted to. Pollution from cars, trees getting chopped down, and oil spilling in oceans and lakes are all examples of environmental endangerments that need to be noticed.
The need to protect our environment is very vital in today’s society. We need to know about the things that affect it. Is it us the people who inhabit, terrorize, and take it for granted? We need to know about the things that could help change our environment in ways that would make it better.
Protecting the environment is something everyone can do. There are many signs about going green and helping clean the airs of dangerous toxins. What we could start off by doing is recycling aluminum, paper, or plastic products for reuse. People could use less water, spray and smoke less. The biggest toxin to get around would be gas because it’s everywhere and sometimes it’s dumped in our water systems and spread throughout the air we breathe. Protecting the environment could benefit all species in ways that could help the earth live longer to see new generations.
Those were several of the reasons for why I have a relationship with the environment. I thought that we should be aware, know what’s going on and knowing how to go about solving the pollution problem. I wanted to show that everyone could become a part of protecting the environment. They could now take on the responsibilities on caring for and helping their natural environment.
Dr. King's Dream
By Trent Lawrence
Brother Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “Education and learning are tools for shaping the future and not devices of privilege for an exclusive few”.
This quote has very many meanings. For one, it explains how education is a necessity to power the future, our future, from Dr. King’s perspective. The second part of the quote expresses how privileges are not given to an exclusive few. This clearly means that the tools are not to be taken lightly or squandered. Neither are they meant to be hoarded by a specific group or race of people.
This quote has a very significant meaning to me though. Education and learning are the two things often denied to lower class people who have no high paying jobs. It clearly states things given to the public are meant for the public, not some person who owns half the city they live in. I feel as though this has already happened and will continue to happen as long as people let it.
That “exclusive few” mentioned in the quote will always have a head start unless others take advantage of the future ahead. Education and learning are not privileges, they are a right. People struggling with poverty didn’t get the training like a higher class person did. I feel that most people living today could have been wealthier than they actually thought. They just didn’t have the “status” that another person would have with a better job. They didn’t take advantage of the “tools to a better future" to strengthen their achievements and earn greater economic opportunities.
Basically, those who take advantage of the future will be able to achieve advanced, high paying jobs and careers. Going back to the quote, I believe some people start off with a decent amount of money, go to higher class or private schools, and may even come from a better financial family. These are the set of higher class people who monopolize all the higher paying job opportunities. This is one reason why the majority of people don’t receive the jobs they want. What I’m getting at is that people have to show more enthusiasm, strive harder because those others, the “exclusive few” will try to take that away from you.
Dr. King is a highly praised African American who showed us that change could be made. This quote shows how people are being left in the dust because others feel they have to take everything. African Americans as well as all other races that don’t have that advantage are very well capable of achieving higher learning and they will have to take advantage of the future if they don’t want to be replaced by those who want nothing but wealth and power.
WHY NOT GO TO COLLEGE?
By Trent Lawrence
Why are there more African American women attending college than African American men?
This question has been raised many times when speaking on the issues of both African American men and women. The women for some reason seem to keep a steady job and stay on task while many African American men are some what “irresponsible”. Why do the men of my race choose not to attend college? Is it because they felt they will not succeed or does getting up everyday to go to class make them feel that college isn’t right for them?
I personally think that anyone not just the men of my race but every race have the ability to attend college. They just chose not to because they felt it was okay to sit around and do nothing. Many young black men have inconsistent behavior and may end up in jail while others stay with their parents for the rest of their entire lives. Statistics on one article “Less Young African American Male Attend College, by Steve Pickett” showed that only 4 in 10 black male men aged 18 to 24 would attend college while 60% of black women enroll. It doesn’t start there because only 50 to 60% of black men graduate from high school.
I’m not saying that all men that don’t go to college will end up in a slump because there are some people who live very long, happy lives and didn’t attend not one college. I just want to know why so many would pass up the opportunity to be someone and have a good career at hand. Personally, I want to become everything I can because I feel I must in order to succeed in today’s challenging environment. I do what I’m supposed to do, ignore the nonsense and attend every class in school. I’m the the type of person who doesn’t follow others because it’s a “trend”. I want to be me and graduate to a life.
Most seniors I attend school with will probably not even graduate and I hate to say that but it’s the truth. They will be viewed as “the other black males who didn’t make it”. They will be dropped from the system because they dropped themselves out of high school from the start not knowing what hidden potential they had in them. How does that make us look as a race, as a whole? This makes me wonder so much about how this problem could be fixed.
Maybe if we got more African American male to perform better in school we would have more black lawyers, engineers, architects and doctors instead of football, baseball and basketball players. If black men want to succeed in life we have to start helping one another because most black men in today’s society need it. They need to step up to the plate and do what needs to be done.
Should seniors have four classes a day rather than eight?
By Trent Lawrence
I personally think they should not becuase the seniors in today's society need more than four classes. I feel if they have less they are setting themselves up for failure and that they will not be succeful in life at all. They had this type of program at my school three years ago that was called "ice". The seniors that graduated that year went off to college, well most of them did. I guess there a diffrent type of generation of students that could do these things but I fell as though this should not be a part of the school system.
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