high schools being pressure cookers

In towns like ours where there is only one high school, almost everyone knows everyone. it's not hard for things such a rumors and gossip to spread around quickly. tensions between clicks can rise pretty quickly, luckily we haven't experienced much of that. but schooles like ours are more generic and offer almost every type of course out there, where as in cities, there are art schools, private schools, and other schools that are more oriented to one field of study. we get a larger range of students, with different interests and talents. but i don't think that our school is so much a pressure cooker as this article says, we have a fairly mellow student body.

American Teen

I really enjoyed this film. it was a nice break from the fake highschool life that we see in many movies, but it still had all the right characters, the geek, the jock, the princess the heart throb and the rebel. i found it very relatable and i wanted it to be longer :S

i found most sympathy for Hannah because she didn't fit in in the town except for her own group of clase friends, but she made me annoyed when she left school for 17 days over her break up, i know that she loved then guy and that he was very mean to her but if he is like that, he's not even worth shedding tears over. poeple like that make me angry because they have no concideration for others. but back to Hannah, i wanted to tell her to pull it together and get her butt to school because it;s her future that she was laying on the line, realtionships will come and go, but when you let them take a toll on your school life like that, you will greatly regret it when you are older.

Growing up Online

I think that the technology on our school right now is fairly reliable and up to date enough for what we use it for. but even so, there are new technologies emerging all the time and it's hard, and expensive to keep up with whats out there. but it is the students that are more abnle to use the technology, more then the teachers in many cases. i feel that it is important for teachers to be as able as students in useung it. technology has certainly made school alot easier for students, they can just look something up on the internet instead of looking through books for it. most of the books that we have to read in class are out of date, and many kids don't care much for them so they just end up never even opening them, and just using spark notes or something similar. the education system should update the books to something more relatable for todays modern teen. i know that many teachers feels that the books that are being used now are great works of literature and that they should be passed on to the next generation, but very few students feel the same. i don't believe that if there were 27 hours in a day that an average student would spend them reading hamlet, although it would help. i think that the extra time would be spent catching up on sleep or hanging out with some friends, blowing off some steam. i don't think that it matters if a student reads shakespear on their own or not, they are going to study it in high school anyway. but no matter what, i think that everyone should study at least one shakespear tragedy and one comedy for knowledge and culture sake.

Angels and Demons

i liked the book, it was exciting and hard to put down, but incredibly cheesy and a little ridiclulous. Dan Brownwrites a good action book, giving the reader exactly what they want to read and when they want it to happen. just when all seems lost, Robert Langdon pulls a solution out of his behind and saves the day, all while in a daze over Vittoria. he also needs to come up with some more reasonable events to go into his books, like falling out of a helicopter, landing in a river and living because is a yard of fabric? come on, sounds like something Indiana Jones would do, certainly not a symboligist.

pirate shop learning center

i think that this is a brilliant idea, it would be an awesome place to go with friends for a laugh, and to get some extra help with school. to better improve their business, i thknk that they could expand their store to have more than just pirate supplies and have some more practicalthings for sale. A place like this wouldn't survive in Ingersoll simply because we aren't a big enough town, but also, i don't think the public would really know what to think of it, and by the time they get used to it, it may be too late and it will have to close down. though it would be a great asset for Ingersolls tourism industry, of which there isn't much of one. i would visit it if we had one, i know i could use all the help i can get when it comes to essays :S

teens are lazy

I think that iin todayts world, teenagers have become too accustomed to having access to everything they need in the plam of their hands. we no longer appreciate what hard work it was for people who went to school before us to go to a library and search through piles of books for information, or even travelling out of our homes to get it. we also have favourites. Wikipedia has become a beacon of shining light for most teens research as well as adults looking something up. since we have access to all this info 24/7, it causes alot of us to procastinate longer too becasue we know that we can get the info anytime, and dont' have to get it now because it will always be there.

Seeing is believing...or is it

when we see something happen right before our eyes, we usually believe it. seeing something is without a doubt very strong evidence that it is real, but this isn't the case with everything. sometimes we see thiongs not for what they truely are. take magic for example. magicians trick our eyes into thinking that they are actually pulling that dove out of thin air, when they really have it hidden somewhere, like in their sleeve. we know enough not to believe magic shows when we see them, but when it comes to real life, it's hard to tell sometimes. believing in something also has an effect on what we see. say you were looking at something that you have never seen before and you don't know what it is. if someone tells you that there is someting there so see, you will probably believe them and you will then see what they are talking about. suggestion is a very powerful thing.