Dandelion Seeds

I think we should have longer vacations during holiday breaks. The holiday breaks I speak of are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Spring break. You have to look at my view of why we need longer breaks though. With families growing farther and farther apart, our families can’t take much more. Longer breaks would bring your and my families back together. If families are together more, everyone would be likely to be happy. When families are together more they have better chances to be active causing a healthier generation of people. Families that are together more are usually more successful, likewise a better generation. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever been called a name? Was it because of your religion, skin color or just because you are different?  That is called discrimination, my friend.  It is a bad and hurtful thing to do to someone. It makes kids and adults feel horrible, because they may not discriminate other people. It may makes, people cry. When my cousin went to the first day of school, other kids made fun of him because his legs where crooked. He was born like that, now the’ re fixed. He cried and said, “I will never go to school again.” That does not only hurt them but their family too. A lot of people get bullied after just one person made fun of them. Read the rest of this entry »

Is it necessary for teachers to overload students with work?  A number of teachers and parents believe teachers should assign daily work and homework to review what students have learned in class.  On the other hand, some teachers and parents believe too much daily work and homework does not necessarily help students learn more.  As far as I am concerned, I believe that daily work is necessary, however, some daily work and homework seems to merely-busy work.   Read the rest of this entry »

Homework is always given to students.  Homework is a major part of students’ grades.  I realize that homework is schoolwork and is very important, but some teachers give too much homework. Read the rest of this entry »

SIBLINGS!!!!!

Do you have any siblings?  If you do, then you should know how I feel!  If you don’t have any siblings, well then tough luck, and try to understand me on this.  I have two siblings and that is almost too much for me, but man!  I feel sorry for the kids who have to put up with ten or eleven!  There are also the good things in having siblings, though. Read the rest of this entry »

More Homework?

When I come home from an exhausting day of school, all I want to do is relax and have fun. Instead, I have numerous amounts of homework projects to do. So wouldn’t you want to have the rest of the afternoon and night to have fun and just relax? Or do endless amounts of homework? Read the rest of this entry »

   Do you feel that lunch is too short and you never have enough time to eat, talk to your friends, and ask a teacher for help on something? I feel the same way about lunch too! The two main things that I like about lunch, besides eating, are having the time to socialize and having free time. Read the rest of this entry »

Going Green!

     Have you ever considered ‘Going Green’?  It is a great thing to do.  It helps the environment in many ways, its super easy, and it can be lots of fun!

     Did you know that every time you drive your car it releases poisonous gasses and affects Global Warming?  There are other methods of transportation.  The cars we drive can pollute.  In other countries, such as Germany and Russia, they have electric cars.  When the car is not running, you plug it in and it charges.  There are other ways to get to places.  You can take a bus or subway to get there.  The bus and subway tickets are only a few dollars extra and you can talk on your cell phone as much as you want with out disobeying the law!  Another method is to ride your bike.  It has lots of bonuses.  You gain a few dollars by not having to refill the gas tank or buy bus and subway tickets, and you get lots of exercise.  Finally, you can carpool with friends to save money and the environment!

     A second way to ‘Go Green’ is to recycle.  Recycling has many plusses too.  First of all, its easy!  It is just like throwing things in the trash but more helpful to the rest of the world.  Recycling will cut down on trash, and whoever is on garbage duty won’t have to take the trash out as often.  Last, it will reduce the size of landfills.  If we do this, we can have more swimming pools, playgrounds, and amusement parks.

     As you can see, ‘Going Green’ is great!  It can be very fun.  Also,  it can help the environment.  Now, it is up to you,  will you Go Green? 

Electronics in society have both a negative and positive effects. These technologies give use many things. From providing people with there favorite music to disconnecting people from society. Ipods are just one of these gadgets that have both a positive and negative effect.

Now on to the bad things about technology. First of all the internet it separates us from reality. It takes away your sense of the real world. We can be anything and do any thing as long as we have that little Safari icon, and that is what draws us to it in the first place. When we log on to our email it is so easy to send things we don’t mean or wouldn’t say in real life. That’s why we are so far away from the real world when it’s on a few steps away.

Since we have texting and email; our generation has not learned how to communicate in person as well as people of other generations. If you see a few friends at the mall you’ll more then likely see one of them texting, and in extreme cases you’ll see friends emailing or texting each other when they are no more then two feet away. 

Not to mention all the disruptions they cause. For example, your in the movies and it’s just getting to the good part, then all of a sudden you hear an annoying buzzing sound that rings out all though the room. Your so  intent on finding out who has there phone on that you miss the end of the movie. Oh, and the person who’s phone rang is talking on it still. That happens so much that the movie theaters had to make commercials to remind people to turn off their phones. That’s a disruption nobody needs.

Just because there are so many bad things technology causes doesn’t mean that there aren’t any good things, which I will talk now. First of all and most important they allow to make advances in modern medicine. I watch a lot of show that have to do with medicine and a lot of the treatments they have are due to technology. Like an optical eye. 

Second of all they allow us to communicate with people around the world in the blink of an eye. Like Ovoo, if you’ve ever seen the commercial the application allows you to talk face to face with another person even if they’re half way around the world. This means better communication and faster service. These gadgets also allows us to multitask. Which gets more done. 

So technology has a good side and a dark side. So I think that because there are so many good things about technology I might just go over to the dark side, maybe.4