http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
Baby names are essential to everyone out there, naming their kid or naming their dog even, but what names should you AVOID? I'd say that the names to avoid are the most popular ones, because everyone is nameing their childrent that, obviously, I mean the name is popular! So, Personally I wouldn't name my child jacob or Isabell because those names were at the top of the list of popular names in 2009.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
The Video Game age- Kids and their video games
http://steve-olson.com/are-video-games-bad-for-kids-a-personal-story/
The child of the parent writing the artical obsessed over many things that were GOOD, but when he got a video game, he obsessed over that, and thats something thats not good to obsess over.
Today it seems like every kid will throw a fit if they don't get the new "halo" game or whatever else. And their parents give it to them, just get it for them, almost no resistence at all. But if a parent were to get the game for them the kid will spend more time playing the game then doing homework, they won't even pay attention to doing the homework well, they'll do the homework as fast as they can, make many mistakes just so they can play their game. so their grades will go down, plus they won't do chores or go to bed when they're supposed to because they're caught up in the game. so what do you do? get them a game, but limit the time they're alloweed to use it. thats MY stance!!!
The child of the parent writing the artical obsessed over many things that were GOOD, but when he got a video game, he obsessed over that, and thats something thats not good to obsess over.
Today it seems like every kid will throw a fit if they don't get the new "halo" game or whatever else. And their parents give it to them, just get it for them, almost no resistence at all. But if a parent were to get the game for them the kid will spend more time playing the game then doing homework, they won't even pay attention to doing the homework well, they'll do the homework as fast as they can, make many mistakes just so they can play their game. so their grades will go down, plus they won't do chores or go to bed when they're supposed to because they're caught up in the game. so what do you do? get them a game, but limit the time they're alloweed to use it. thats MY stance!!!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Technology generation: Cell Phones
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5421745_pros-teens-having-cell-phones.html
I believe that Cell Phones are a neccesary part in almost anybody's life. as the site above puts it, Cell phones are good, especially when a teen begins driving, for the teen to be able to call home in case they need help or just need to check in and let the adult know that they're ok. but this site also mentions that teens could use they're time texting or talking instead of doing homework, chores or something more worth their time. Because teens love to text or talk when bored or don't want to do something the cell phone will be very tempting instead of homework. Also this site mentions the cost of a cell phone. Teens don't tend to care how much they text or talk because they aren't the ones paying for it, so they might send 1000 texts over what they're supposed to and talk for three hours longer then they should and they won't care, they aren't paying for it, so why should they? I believe that Cell Phones are good and usefull but should be used less and used with more responsibility.
I believe that Cell Phones are a neccesary part in almost anybody's life. as the site above puts it, Cell phones are good, especially when a teen begins driving, for the teen to be able to call home in case they need help or just need to check in and let the adult know that they're ok. but this site also mentions that teens could use they're time texting or talking instead of doing homework, chores or something more worth their time. Because teens love to text or talk when bored or don't want to do something the cell phone will be very tempting instead of homework. Also this site mentions the cost of a cell phone. Teens don't tend to care how much they text or talk because they aren't the ones paying for it, so they might send 1000 texts over what they're supposed to and talk for three hours longer then they should and they won't care, they aren't paying for it, so why should they? I believe that Cell Phones are good and usefull but should be used less and used with more responsibility.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Falling fast for fast food.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/31/health/main326858.shtml
Amarican's spend Millions on fast food, but why? the food they eat has no nutritinal value, everything is processed so much that theres nothing good about it for anyone. Chicken nuggets have more fat in them then a burger, since when has that been Good?! almost everything is fried in oil and served. The only fast food place trying to become more healthy would be Subway says cbsnews.com yet the most popular fast food chain is Mc Donalds. Why are american's so obsessed with fast food? because it tastes good? well, the tastiness is a large price to pay for the fat. because it's fast and cheap? Sure it's fast and cheap, but think about it, spending 15 dollars a day for a meal and a milkshake a day at mc donalds before work every day or 1 nice meal a week with your family for 40 dollars. After a week (5 days) of going to mc donalds once a day before work you will have spent 75 dollars while you could have only spent 40 dollars on your wife and kids at a semi nice restraunt once a week, or spent around the same amount going out twice with your family instead of just spending the money on just yourself. I believe that amarica is falling to fast for fast food and needs to back off a bit.
Amarican's spend Millions on fast food, but why? the food they eat has no nutritinal value, everything is processed so much that theres nothing good about it for anyone. Chicken nuggets have more fat in them then a burger, since when has that been Good?! almost everything is fried in oil and served. The only fast food place trying to become more healthy would be Subway says cbsnews.com yet the most popular fast food chain is Mc Donalds. Why are american's so obsessed with fast food? because it tastes good? well, the tastiness is a large price to pay for the fat. because it's fast and cheap? Sure it's fast and cheap, but think about it, spending 15 dollars a day for a meal and a milkshake a day at mc donalds before work every day or 1 nice meal a week with your family for 40 dollars. After a week (5 days) of going to mc donalds once a day before work you will have spent 75 dollars while you could have only spent 40 dollars on your wife and kids at a semi nice restraunt once a week, or spent around the same amount going out twice with your family instead of just spending the money on just yourself. I believe that amarica is falling to fast for fast food and needs to back off a bit.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
hardest thing that I've had to decide to do.
The hardest thing I have ever done is decide weather or not to spend my money that took me 3 years to save. It doesn't seem hard, but I couldn't just go and buy anything. When my ipod died I couldn't live without music so I decided to buy a new ipod, which cost me over 350 dollars. then I had to go school shopping and didn't have enough so I spend another 100 dollars. now I'm buying my sisters computer off of her which she's charging 150 dollars for it. Now I have to pay back all of that 600 dollars. thats gonna take me about... 150 months or more (at 40 a month!)!!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Why schools shouldn't drop sports
http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-03-10/news/17415281_1_school-sports-west-contra-costa-school-board
many schools have cut back sports programs or charged more from each player for them to play but this school desided to completly cut off sports programs. but not only that they took out music programs, librariers and they are sharing principals between 20 elementary schools. I think that that is wrong, students should be exposed to sports and music to know if they want to be a musician or sports. Also without sports kids will have to exercise on their own or create they're own teams. But usually they are to lazy to do that so instead kids will become obese and not be able to control it because they don't have any sports program to force them to be fit. I think that schools should find some way, any way to keep school sports and at least cut back, not pull the plug and take out all sports programs in schools.
many schools have cut back sports programs or charged more from each player for them to play but this school desided to completly cut off sports programs. but not only that they took out music programs, librariers and they are sharing principals between 20 elementary schools. I think that that is wrong, students should be exposed to sports and music to know if they want to be a musician or sports. Also without sports kids will have to exercise on their own or create they're own teams. But usually they are to lazy to do that so instead kids will become obese and not be able to control it because they don't have any sports program to force them to be fit. I think that schools should find some way, any way to keep school sports and at least cut back, not pull the plug and take out all sports programs in schools.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Scarsdale Low-Card Diet
http://www.weight-loss-institute.com/weight_loss_programs.htm
The Scarsdale Low-carb diet focuses on Vitamins, minerals, and lots of protien but no snacks and meals consist of limited amounts of fruits and vegetables. With this diet the goal is to lose 30 pounds in 30 days, which I believe is very unhealthy. I also believe that a diet should consist of some Vitamins and minerals but more on healthy eating, such as maybe a bowl of vegetable soup, some whole grain bread that has crunch peanut butter on it. But Lots of vitamins and minerals, no snacks, and few vegetables and fruits leads towards an unhealthy unbalanced diet. If someone was to try this diet I believe that they should at least take the porportions they eat and cut it down slowely. Maybe from eating 2 meals and 4 snacks a day to eating 2 meals and 3 snacks then 3 means and 2 snacks and so on.
Pros: Provides many nutrients and vitamins and minerals and such. Does help one lose weight fast if they want to.
Cons: Too many minerals and to little vegetables, an unbalanced diet. Dropping to much weight to fast. No snacks during the day.
The Scarsdale Low-carb diet focuses on Vitamins, minerals, and lots of protien but no snacks and meals consist of limited amounts of fruits and vegetables. With this diet the goal is to lose 30 pounds in 30 days, which I believe is very unhealthy. I also believe that a diet should consist of some Vitamins and minerals but more on healthy eating, such as maybe a bowl of vegetable soup, some whole grain bread that has crunch peanut butter on it. But Lots of vitamins and minerals, no snacks, and few vegetables and fruits leads towards an unhealthy unbalanced diet. If someone was to try this diet I believe that they should at least take the porportions they eat and cut it down slowely. Maybe from eating 2 meals and 4 snacks a day to eating 2 meals and 3 snacks then 3 means and 2 snacks and so on.
Pros: Provides many nutrients and vitamins and minerals and such. Does help one lose weight fast if they want to.
Cons: Too many minerals and to little vegetables, an unbalanced diet. Dropping to much weight to fast. No snacks during the day.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Celebrities
http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/Do_celebrities_deserve_as_much_money_as_they_make_per_movie_or_episode_or_song
On this site it asks if a celebrity deserves what they get, which could be 5 million for a movie that took 4 months of acting and learning scripts. Or if a singer deserves 1 million for only a 12 track CD. Meanwhile an average citezen spends 18 years going through school and thats just through highschool, to get any reasonably paying job one must graduate from highschool then go on to college. Some people study in college for 4 or more years. Some stars don't even finish highschool, let alone college. Once done with college one finds a job which is lucky to pay them 500k. How is that fair?
I could agree that actors work hard on each movie, they have to learn scripts and dedicate much of theyre life to this one movie. But 5 million is a lot of money.
Personally though I don't think that they do deserve it, that a normal citizen with a regular job should earn more then they do since they work harder for what they're getting.
Though at the moment, Stars earn millions, while an average citizen spends most of they're life at a low paying job and struggling for a living.
I chose the site I did above because it states how it seems unfair that stars earn millions in months while a regular person only earns hundreds of thousands in a year. And I believe that it's unfair, celebrity's shouldn't bea ble to do one movie or CD and be able to live the rest of they're life without working ever again, they can have anything they want while my family would have to save for months. On that site some people point out how it is fair, and others point out how it isn't. In ways it is slightly fair, they do work, they don't just sit there and earn money, but they work at something that comes naturaly to them, they didn't have to go to school till they were in their 20s or 30s, while most people do. All they had to do was go to acting school, and since acting is something they love and is natural for them they didn't even probably have to work hard. so I admit, in some ways them making millions is fair, but in many ways is just doesn't seem fair at all.
On this site it asks if a celebrity deserves what they get, which could be 5 million for a movie that took 4 months of acting and learning scripts. Or if a singer deserves 1 million for only a 12 track CD. Meanwhile an average citezen spends 18 years going through school and thats just through highschool, to get any reasonably paying job one must graduate from highschool then go on to college. Some people study in college for 4 or more years. Some stars don't even finish highschool, let alone college. Once done with college one finds a job which is lucky to pay them 500k. How is that fair?
I could agree that actors work hard on each movie, they have to learn scripts and dedicate much of theyre life to this one movie. But 5 million is a lot of money.
Personally though I don't think that they do deserve it, that a normal citizen with a regular job should earn more then they do since they work harder for what they're getting.
Though at the moment, Stars earn millions, while an average citizen spends most of they're life at a low paying job and struggling for a living.
I chose the site I did above because it states how it seems unfair that stars earn millions in months while a regular person only earns hundreds of thousands in a year. And I believe that it's unfair, celebrity's shouldn't bea ble to do one movie or CD and be able to live the rest of they're life without working ever again, they can have anything they want while my family would have to save for months. On that site some people point out how it is fair, and others point out how it isn't. In ways it is slightly fair, they do work, they don't just sit there and earn money, but they work at something that comes naturaly to them, they didn't have to go to school till they were in their 20s or 30s, while most people do. All they had to do was go to acting school, and since acting is something they love and is natural for them they didn't even probably have to work hard. so I admit, in some ways them making millions is fair, but in many ways is just doesn't seem fair at all.
My first day of highschool
On my first day before I left for the school bus at around 7:35 I was a little worried..
What if none of the high schoolers rode the bus?
What if no other freshman rode the bus?
The time came, 7:35, I had 7 minutes to walk through the rain to my little bus stop, which shared a sidewalk with the Roslyn café and the Roslyn museum, a few tables, benches and two potted trees. I walked down to the edge of the sidewalk and watched the other stops… no one at busy buddies. But in the distance I could see Audrey at her stop. I was still a little nervous but all my worries about the bus and where to go before class were gone. I looked up to the busy buddies stop and watched the bus round the corner, since it was raining I went to stand in the little nook that was the Roslyn cafés entrance and waited for the bus. In a few minutes I walked out and watched the bus go the last block, waited for the door to open and climbed on. The bus then drove down to Audrey’s stop and she got on and we chatted the rest of the way to the school.
Once we got off the bus we went through the doors of the school and rounded the corner into the commons and found our little group now including Heather, Cameron, Van, Tasha, lyric, Raechelle, Christen, and Jacqueline. We all chatted about our first classes and then someone pointed out that it was getting close to 8:15 and most of us had to go down to the middle school for band.
We sat through band while Mr.Ray went on about Class and concert expectations. He explained the concert and event calendar, telling us that some events were subject for change. And as fast as we had walked in it seemed the bell was ringing.
We headed back to the high school and I found someone heading to the same class as me.. Mr.Hamel’s Survey art class. We got there and I found a place next to Jacqueline. Then Sara joined then Tyler came. We sat there while Mr.Hamel explained his class to us and again, the bell rang all of a sudden.
We all filed into the gym and we sat through our first assembly of the year.
Finally it was time for Algebra 1B, Joy right? We got our books, Mrs. Dell explained her class to us and finally after such a short morning it was time for lunch! Finding Heather, my sophomore friend, wasn’t hard, since I kind of just walked down the hallway and there she was... Anyways I followed her and joined her group but eventually started wandering, finding groups I fit in with. Lunch seemed to go the fastest of any class and the bell rang and me and Sam headed to class, Sam left me at her “mental health class” while I continued to Personal choices.
Besides thinking that the class was boring, and I admit it kind of was... but I didn’t get to bored sitting there until she had us organize our self’s by height then birthdates(without talking on the birthdates one) Then we went through the syllabus by filling out a sheet and she gave the first 8 who got the most right prizes the next day (I got dots!! Yay Ms. Bender is now my favorite teacher) The bell rang and me and Sam went to English 9A.
English 9A was the least boring class altogether, the teacher, Mr.Anderson, can be talking about one thing then suddenly focus on something else. I can relate to that. But unfortunately his class seemed to go to fast and the bell rang and we headed to “digital communication tools”.
This class was mostly about talking the first day and by then all of the nervousness was gone. I wasn’t thrilled about being here in school again, but I wasn’t annoyed or worried about it either. The best part about digital communication tools is that we got to try and figure out which language each welcome belonged to… I got 2 right while Jacqueline got all 8 right! Good thing that wasn’t worth a grade, right?
I wondered what I was supposed to do once the bell rang again, just kinda… walk to my bus from here at the highschool. As I worried my last worry of the day, besides trying to explain to my dad how today was, the bell finally did ring. I Packed up my stuff and walked out of the classroom finding heather I walked with her to my bus then said “bye” while she continued on to her.
One of the things I hate most about school is the bus.
1. It stinks.
2. It’s loud!
3. I don’t really have many friends that ride it
So it came as a shock watching Lyric, one of my best Junior friends, step up the steps and walk down the aisle. I called her name and asked her to sit by me. She said sure and sat down as Audrey, one of my good Freshman friends walked on and down the aisle. She took a seat behind me. I laughed, no room for both of them! I talked to lyric and audrey both on the way back and when lyric got off, the first stop, Audrey came and sat by me. We talked and I got off my bus, thinking Audrey was getting off too. Nope, she stayed on, so while I looked stupid, the bus drove off. I sighed and began to walk home, fearing I might run into Ian, one of my friends, I didn’t really want to run into him since I wanted to get home as soon as possible. I saw him beginning to come around the corner and bolted for it.. I hope he didn’t see me! Once I was out of site I walked the rest of the way.
At home I first ate my snack then did a wash, after that I went up stairs and went through my homework.. more like stuff me and my dad have to sign.. anyways after my “homework” was done I headed down stairs and put my wash in the dryer then made dinner and took a shower, all getting ready for my second day of highschool. After dinner I went to dry my hair and around when I’m at least supposed to be upstairs I realized my dad still had “homework” of his own.
So I helped my dad fill out the papers that needed to be signed and by around midnight we were ready to sleep.
Can’t wait till next summer!... and then next year… right? How about you?
What if none of the high schoolers rode the bus?
What if no other freshman rode the bus?
The time came, 7:35, I had 7 minutes to walk through the rain to my little bus stop, which shared a sidewalk with the Roslyn café and the Roslyn museum, a few tables, benches and two potted trees. I walked down to the edge of the sidewalk and watched the other stops… no one at busy buddies. But in the distance I could see Audrey at her stop. I was still a little nervous but all my worries about the bus and where to go before class were gone. I looked up to the busy buddies stop and watched the bus round the corner, since it was raining I went to stand in the little nook that was the Roslyn cafés entrance and waited for the bus. In a few minutes I walked out and watched the bus go the last block, waited for the door to open and climbed on. The bus then drove down to Audrey’s stop and she got on and we chatted the rest of the way to the school.
Once we got off the bus we went through the doors of the school and rounded the corner into the commons and found our little group now including Heather, Cameron, Van, Tasha, lyric, Raechelle, Christen, and Jacqueline. We all chatted about our first classes and then someone pointed out that it was getting close to 8:15 and most of us had to go down to the middle school for band.
We sat through band while Mr.Ray went on about Class and concert expectations. He explained the concert and event calendar, telling us that some events were subject for change. And as fast as we had walked in it seemed the bell was ringing.
We headed back to the high school and I found someone heading to the same class as me.. Mr.Hamel’s Survey art class. We got there and I found a place next to Jacqueline. Then Sara joined then Tyler came. We sat there while Mr.Hamel explained his class to us and again, the bell rang all of a sudden.
We all filed into the gym and we sat through our first assembly of the year.
Finally it was time for Algebra 1B, Joy right? We got our books, Mrs. Dell explained her class to us and finally after such a short morning it was time for lunch! Finding Heather, my sophomore friend, wasn’t hard, since I kind of just walked down the hallway and there she was... Anyways I followed her and joined her group but eventually started wandering, finding groups I fit in with. Lunch seemed to go the fastest of any class and the bell rang and me and Sam headed to class, Sam left me at her “mental health class” while I continued to Personal choices.
Besides thinking that the class was boring, and I admit it kind of was... but I didn’t get to bored sitting there until she had us organize our self’s by height then birthdates(without talking on the birthdates one) Then we went through the syllabus by filling out a sheet and she gave the first 8 who got the most right prizes the next day (I got dots!! Yay Ms. Bender is now my favorite teacher) The bell rang and me and Sam went to English 9A.
English 9A was the least boring class altogether, the teacher, Mr.Anderson, can be talking about one thing then suddenly focus on something else. I can relate to that. But unfortunately his class seemed to go to fast and the bell rang and we headed to “digital communication tools”.
This class was mostly about talking the first day and by then all of the nervousness was gone. I wasn’t thrilled about being here in school again, but I wasn’t annoyed or worried about it either. The best part about digital communication tools is that we got to try and figure out which language each welcome belonged to… I got 2 right while Jacqueline got all 8 right! Good thing that wasn’t worth a grade, right?
I wondered what I was supposed to do once the bell rang again, just kinda… walk to my bus from here at the highschool. As I worried my last worry of the day, besides trying to explain to my dad how today was, the bell finally did ring. I Packed up my stuff and walked out of the classroom finding heather I walked with her to my bus then said “bye” while she continued on to her.
One of the things I hate most about school is the bus.
1. It stinks.
2. It’s loud!
3. I don’t really have many friends that ride it
So it came as a shock watching Lyric, one of my best Junior friends, step up the steps and walk down the aisle. I called her name and asked her to sit by me. She said sure and sat down as Audrey, one of my good Freshman friends walked on and down the aisle. She took a seat behind me. I laughed, no room for both of them! I talked to lyric and audrey both on the way back and when lyric got off, the first stop, Audrey came and sat by me. We talked and I got off my bus, thinking Audrey was getting off too. Nope, she stayed on, so while I looked stupid, the bus drove off. I sighed and began to walk home, fearing I might run into Ian, one of my friends, I didn’t really want to run into him since I wanted to get home as soon as possible. I saw him beginning to come around the corner and bolted for it.. I hope he didn’t see me! Once I was out of site I walked the rest of the way.
At home I first ate my snack then did a wash, after that I went up stairs and went through my homework.. more like stuff me and my dad have to sign.. anyways after my “homework” was done I headed down stairs and put my wash in the dryer then made dinner and took a shower, all getting ready for my second day of highschool. After dinner I went to dry my hair and around when I’m at least supposed to be upstairs I realized my dad still had “homework” of his own.
So I helped my dad fill out the papers that needed to be signed and by around midnight we were ready to sleep.
Can’t wait till next summer!... and then next year… right? How about you?
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