Blog #8

Super Size Me

In this movie the main character ate nothing but McDonnal's for 30 days to see what the affect on a person's body. He ate there for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every single day. After a while he started to get sick and was gaining a lot of weight. At the start of his unhealthy diet he actually started to loose weight but that was only because he was loosing his muscle weight, then he started to gain the weight back in the form of fat. He started to get the "McShakes" where in the mornings he would be shaking because of the food he was eating.

Blog #7

The Cove

In the movie The Cove animial activists travle to Japan because in a secluded cove therer are hundreds of dolphins being murdered because the "eat too much fish" when in actuallity humans are eating more than they are. Dolphins always seem to be smiling, but are they actually happy? In the wild they are free to swim where ever they want but when they are in captivity they are stuck in a very small tank with a lot of people screaming and yelling looking at them when they have very sensitive hearing...so are they really smiling all the time?

Blog #6

Gaming Can Make a Better World

In this video Jane is making the argument that people should actually spend more hours on online games like World of World craft. She says that when we are playing online we become the best forms of ourselves since we are no longer scared to help other or even die for someone else since you will not die. On these online games people will work togehter with complete strangers and become friends. I know that is true because when I am playing Halo and other online games I talk with people I have and will never meet but we work as a team to beat the level...or kill the zombies. She also says that we should play games that could solve real world problem so that we will have the same mentality that we wont die and we will reach out and help those in need.

Blog #5

Google and Other Search Engines Making Us Stupid?

In this article the author believes that the Internet is slowly taking away our critical thinking skills and making us dumber. I learned that when people Google things they are less likely to remember it later than if they looked up the information the old fashion way by taking out a book and really searching for it. I agree with the opinion presented in this reading because if people want to know anything they can instantly look answers up on their phones and say the first result whether it is right or wrong. Some people today will believe anything they see on the Internet, which is indeed stupid since anyone in the world can make a website, or edit Wikipedia.



Blog #9

Field Day

 

 My earliest memory of playing was when I was five, I was in kindergarten and it was my very first field day. We spent the entire school day outside playing different games, there were water balloon tosses, silly string fights, softball tosses, races, long jumps, tug of war, and my favorite was the rainbow parachute. All of the kids would grab a handle, lift it up and quickly bring it down all at once so it would be a huge bubble that we could all sit under. I can remember playing that game so vividly, as if it was just yesterday. My grade school has changed so much since I graduated. The field that we played the games in is now covered with a parking lot, a new school building, and a retention pond. Now the children play in the field behind the school building, and in the soccer field. Some of their classes have been canceled like art and music but they are working very hard to get them back.

Image from: jennifersuarez.com

Blog #4

Free writing-Project Room!

 

 

About two weeks before school started back up I decided that my room just had to change! I have had the same furniture, carpet, and wall color since I was young. Since I am starting all over and going to a new school, I thought my room could start all over also. So my mom and I drove up to Wal-Mart to pick out some paint, a light pink for the walls and a darker hot pink for the baseboards, the door, and the closet doors. I started painting the walls first, then I went back to paint the baseboards. When I got to my closet doors, I thought I would try to be artistic and paint the flat parts the same color as the baseboards and the grooves the lighter pink. It took so much more time than I thought it would; I had to tape certain parts, paint, and then do it again. Did I mention tape freaks me out for some weird reason? So when I finally finished the closet I still had to do the main door so I just painted it all the darker pink because I was so done with painting! The next step was to find a new bed, and we got very lucky and found the bed at the first store; it has a lot of storage and does not take up a lot of space.



Blog #3

"Mother Tongue"

The tone of "Mother Tongue" was informative about the lives and hard ships of an immigrant that can speak the language but not perfectly. I think the theme is to show that if you work hard you can do anything, and to respect others. I think that the purpose is to show that just because someone cannot speak a language fluently and perfectly doesn't mean that the person in unable to understand. Her mother was not treated very well when she went to the hospital or when she was trying to sell her stocks; her daughter had to get on the phone with them before they would take her seriously. The message that I got from this reading was to show that her mother is a person just like everyone else. When she said that she writes so that her mother can read, she was not putting her mother down; I think that she wants everyone to be able to understand her books. Last year I read her book "The Joy Luck Club" and it was a very well written book and easy to read.