Monday, April 30, 2012
Tennis
Tennis is probably the sport that Ive enjoyed the most in my highschool careeer as a student. I started playing my sophomore year when a bunch of my friends convinced me to switch from track to tennis. Being involved with the school tennis team taught me how a sort can be both individual and team based at the same time. By far, the best part about being on the tennis was the bus ride to any away macth. We stopped at a McDonalds or a Wendy's almost every time we went to an away match. Another good thing about the bus rides were that they were good times to talk to the friends that you never really got to see very often. Overall, joining the tennis team was one of the best decisions I made in highschool.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Facebook, and other social cyber networks, can be both good and bad. Facebook is good for staying in touch with your Friends when you leave high school and/or college, or move to a different location. It is relatively easy to communicate with your Friends, and it can be as private or as public as you want it to be. Although facebook can be good, it is also used for malicious intents, such as cyber bullying. Some people might argue that if a person is being bullied over facebook or other sources of Internet communication, that they should simply turn off their computer and the person that is being bullied won't be bullied anymore, and I would agree with them. There is so much publicity about how cyber bullying is occurring over facebook, and some argue that it leads to suicide. If a person is truly being bullied over a cyber network, the easiest solution is to simply not use the cyber network anymore. It kind of makes me wonder why people still get on the cyber networks that they are being bullied on.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Hunger Games
In the book The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, a girl named Katniss struggles to feed her family,
younger sister and mother, in what is left of human society in north America. When illegal hunting doesn't supply enough food, she signs up for tesserae . Katniss lives in the poorest district of their country, called Panem. In Panem a type of gladiatorial contest is held annually in which children between the ages of 12 and 18 are forced to fight to the death until there is only one child left. Each year, children's names are entered into a district-wide drawing to see which girl and which boy will be entered into the national contest, and if a person signs up for tesserae, their name is added in more than the people who don't sign up for tesserae. This is Katniss' sister's first year being eligible for the drawing, and somehow Her name is drawn. Katniss decides to volunteer to take her sister's place in order to save her from the gladiatorial games.
The author does a good job of incorporating literary elements into this book. One literary element that the author incorporates into to the story is flashback. Suzanne uses flashback to give the reader information about Katniss at various points in the story. One instance is when the reader learns about how desperate Katniss and her family are for food after her father dies in a mining accident. According to the book, Katniss was so hungry that she was going up and down the streets looking for things to eat in people's garbage. She eventually makes it to the bakery's garbage and gets yelled at by the baker's wife. She then sits down next to a tree and starts to cry because she has lost all hope in finding something to eat. Another case of when the author uses flashback is when Katniss is describing what her and her father were doing when she was young, and what her father was like before he died. At one point in the story, Kitaniss is describing how her dad taught her how to hunt and how they walked in the forest together outside of District 12. The author does do a good job at incorporating literary elements into the story, but that's pretty much the only good thing about this book, in a personal opinion.
I must say I wasn't a very big fan of this book. I felt like this book was definitely geared towards girls, and, being a guy, I don't really like it. The first reason that I don't like it is because it has a love plot to it. Being a guy, love stories don't interest me at all. The second reason that I don't like this story is because the author tried to incorporate a guy-themed aspect to it by making children kill other children. You can't really have a book that has a love story theme and then fill it with gore; it doesn't work. The third, and probably most important, reason is the fact the children are killing other children!! Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture?? What kind people would be attracted to a book where children are killing other children?? In an honest opinion, this book seems like it was written for people that are creepy because no one in their right mind would want to see children killing other children, especially some one's own child/children.
younger sister and mother, in what is left of human society in north America. When illegal hunting doesn't supply enough food, she signs up for tesserae . Katniss lives in the poorest district of their country, called Panem. In Panem a type of gladiatorial contest is held annually in which children between the ages of 12 and 18 are forced to fight to the death until there is only one child left. Each year, children's names are entered into a district-wide drawing to see which girl and which boy will be entered into the national contest, and if a person signs up for tesserae, their name is added in more than the people who don't sign up for tesserae. This is Katniss' sister's first year being eligible for the drawing, and somehow Her name is drawn. Katniss decides to volunteer to take her sister's place in order to save her from the gladiatorial games.
The author does a good job of incorporating literary elements into this book. One literary element that the author incorporates into to the story is flashback. Suzanne uses flashback to give the reader information about Katniss at various points in the story. One instance is when the reader learns about how desperate Katniss and her family are for food after her father dies in a mining accident. According to the book, Katniss was so hungry that she was going up and down the streets looking for things to eat in people's garbage. She eventually makes it to the bakery's garbage and gets yelled at by the baker's wife. She then sits down next to a tree and starts to cry because she has lost all hope in finding something to eat. Another case of when the author uses flashback is when Katniss is describing what her and her father were doing when she was young, and what her father was like before he died. At one point in the story, Kitaniss is describing how her dad taught her how to hunt and how they walked in the forest together outside of District 12. The author does do a good job at incorporating literary elements into the story, but that's pretty much the only good thing about this book, in a personal opinion.
I must say I wasn't a very big fan of this book. I felt like this book was definitely geared towards girls, and, being a guy, I don't really like it. The first reason that I don't like it is because it has a love plot to it. Being a guy, love stories don't interest me at all. The second reason that I don't like this story is because the author tried to incorporate a guy-themed aspect to it by making children kill other children. You can't really have a book that has a love story theme and then fill it with gore; it doesn't work. The third, and probably most important, reason is the fact the children are killing other children!! Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture?? What kind people would be attracted to a book where children are killing other children?? In an honest opinion, this book seems like it was written for people that are creepy because no one in their right mind would want to see children killing other children, especially some one's own child/children.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Armageddon!!!
Has anyone ever wondered if the world will actually end on december 22nd, 2012???
I, for one, do not believe that it will. My understanding of where this specific date came from is that it came from the Mayan calender, as the last date on the calender. Some people think that because it was the last day on the Mayan calender that world is going to end or something... I find this very stupid. I'm pretty sure that the Mayans just got tired of making the calender, so they simply just stopped. The Mayans were wiped out anyway so the date december 22nd, 2012 might have been the very last day that they added to their calender before being wiped out...
I, for one, do not believe that it will. My understanding of where this specific date came from is that it came from the Mayan calender, as the last date on the calender. Some people think that because it was the last day on the Mayan calender that world is going to end or something... I find this very stupid. I'm pretty sure that the Mayans just got tired of making the calender, so they simply just stopped. The Mayans were wiped out anyway so the date december 22nd, 2012 might have been the very last day that they added to their calender before being wiped out...
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