Thursday, September 27, 2007

What kind of idiot would steal a car, with out lights and a siren, and be in a hot pursuit? At least have a car that has lights so it doesn't look suspicious. How dumb can people be? Clement Bourgeois was charged with kidnapping, aggravated robbery, and burglary charges. This scares me because what if someone stole your car. Or broke into your house. Or what if you were just sitting in Burger King eating your cheese burgers and a guy walks in with a gun and maybe shoots you or just steals food. How scary would that be? Or are you just suppose to be like"Hey dude I'm eating, keep it down." Or what if you were driving a long on the high way and a hot pursuit is in action. You don't know what could happen. They could be drunk, high, or just crazy. One of my biggest fears is to be in a car accident. If someone is in the car with you and dies, how bad would you feel? Even if the accident wasn't your fault, I would still feel like I could've done something to prevent it. Some crimes people commit are out of complete stupidity. People don't think of consequences. They just live in the moment, and don't look at the future. Is some food or a car really worth wasting some of your life behind bars? Are you kidding me who wants to live on a specific schedule and sleep on uncomfortable beds? The answer is no one.
Are you kidding me? We have teachers living in this world, at our school, that don't know how to use computers! How can you live in this world and not know how to use computers? Unbelievable! We use computers everyday, sometimes more than once a day. While I was reading, "Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?" Mr. Fisch brought up some interesting topics. He questioned our future (students), he questioned if teachers should keep their job, and if teachers should learn the new technology. If we don't learn the new technology we will be limited to fewer opportunities for jobs. Pretty soon, new technology is going to come in and if we don't know the basics, how are we going to understand this revolutionary, new technology? That is like me trying to run before I know how to walk. You can't do it! Technology is a process just like the process of walking to running. If teachers are technologically illiterate how can they teach us these new frontiers. To teach teens education today, you need to know how to use the computer. If you don't you should either learn or find a new carreer. That is like if my basketball coach doesn't know the new, improved drills that will benefit us the most. I want the best coach I can get. I don't want some coach that only knows the old drills. Just like I want the best teacher, that will help me be successful in life. Or another example is if I get a driver's education teacher that only knows half the rules. That won't help me! Just like not learning about technology will hurt me when I get out of school. We are living in the present not the past!

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

When I read this article a scary thought sparked in my mind. What if we have a civil war: blacks vs. whites? This article, "Jena 6" told us how racial Jena, Louisiana is. In the article it talked about how the whites wouldn't let the blacks be in a particular part of the cafeteria. One day the blacks walked in the "white area" and this was "against the rules." Just think how stupid it would be if we couldn't eat at Chipotle because white people weren't a loud. Later on that day, a white peson hung nooses on a tree. Some people say this is what caused the six black males to jump the white male. The school only suspened the white people for a half day, and some of the black males are in jail. I think this is so un fair. How can you be so lop-sided for their punishments just because they are different colors. I don't understand how people can think a white person is better than a black, or a black person is better than a white. Everyone should be treated equal when it comes to punishments. A little crime is a little crime. A felony is a felony, no matter what race you are!

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The article I read was "Did you Know" by Karl Fisch. This article was about how technology has changed through out the years, comparison of different countries, where the world is going, and peoples daily uses. Some examples of these are computers to lap tops, comparing graduating classes, China is going to be prodominately English speaking, and text messages.
This applies to my daily life because I am using these different appliances every day and I need to know about whats going on in the World. In school we use computers almost every day. Just think how different school would be if we didn't have computers. We don't just use computers in school, after school we will go home and check our Myspaces or E-Mails. Ask yourself this question, if you lived fifty years back how would you life be different?
The title of the article i read was "OJ Simpson arrested and charged with felonies." I got this article in the New York Times, and it was wrote by Steve Friess. This article is about how bad OJ Simpson messed up. OJ was caught stealing sports memorabilia by Alfred Beardsley and Bruce L. Fromong. OJ Simpson and four companions stole photographs and books singned by OJ, lithographs of Joe Montana, and Beardsley's cell phone. OJ Simpson could spend up to seventy years in jail, and minimun amount in the bars is six years!
I just can't believe how some of these multi milianaires can be so stupid. They have everything in the world they could imagine, and then they make one stupid decision and it ruins most of their life. What would drive you to steal something, when you could just buy it? In OJ Simpson's past he is convicted of murdering his wife and her friend. Don't you think he would learn from that?