week 11 ec

I agree when Bradburry says that people will stop reading on their own accord, because it’s obvious that as the years goes on, and more technology advances, reading won’t become the only way for people to learn things. The internet has been an easy way for people to receive information rather quickly, and same with television and cell phones. They’ve even come out with electronics that you can have multiple books on so you don’t have to carry around all of the books you own. Bradburrys prediction was just a way for us to expect all that technology was going to do to us in the future and he might have exaggerated it a little, but he was trying to get his point across that pretty soon, technology is going to be everything. People everywhere are always on their electronics texting or emailing. You rarely see people calling each other or talking in person anymore. There is rarely any communication in the world as it is now, just imagine what is going to happen in years from now. It’s almost a scary thought! Well I just thought I would do this blog because it's extra credit and with these next couple books we have to read and quizzes....I might need it! BYE.

post 9 chuckie f

I learned a lot about the presentations. They were very educational .Some of them were very sad like the child abuse ones. I learn that every 20 minutes a child is being beaten by an adult.I learn a lot about capital punishment, that Michigan does not have it. but i also learned that people charged with murder can also be pardon/ exonerated from the death penalty. I also found out that people can be killed with a firing squad. Which is when the C.Os kill the inmates. Then there is lethal injection. that is when there are three poison , and they eject one of the poisons into the inmates body one at a time. I am not for capital punishment because if you kill someone and they are charged with murder. They are being killed by the government. I think they should spend the rest of there life in prison.

Dependent on the Media; Week 10

For my week 10 post I am going to pick to write about the 3^rd option. Personally, I think that kids these days are way too dependent on the media. Over the past 10 years or so I think it’s gotten much worse than it has ever been before. With all of the new technologies and smart phones coming out it’s just making it easier and easier for people to be involved in the latest media going on. There are so many kids that are like in 2^nd grade and they already have cell phones. Like really? I didn’t get one until I was in 8^th grade and even then that used to be a big deal! It’s almost sad how times have changed. Because it’s not for the better. With all of the new technologies, there is so communication with people face to face anymore. Everything is all over texts or e-mails. In the novel, “Fahrenheit 451” Mildred has an obsession with her walls and her “family” on the television. She doesn’t even have a family of her own really because she is so focused on her little shows. She’s brainwashed! People are too materialistic and superficial and are so caught up in this future fantasy world they live in they don’t even know what reality is like. I worry that as time goes on our future will be like that. That is a scary thought! I hope it doesn’t get to that point. Ahh k bye!

post 5 chuckie ford

Innocence is when you don't do anything bad on purpose. The person that is innocent is Jane because she tries to do well on everything she does. Holden came in her life, didnt do his work, was making Jane fail her classes and she was not acting like herself. That I like her but I cant talk to her because I'm a failure ,I fail all my classes, and no one really likes me. I feel Holden is scared because he never talked to girls and he has low self confidence, people yell at him because he doesn't do good in school. He is also nervous because doesn't have any friends. He is also lazy and does not try in school.

Why I chose STiLL ALiCE -Ryan Makinen Week 7

My novel of choice is STiLL ALiCE. I selected this novel because the main character Alice gets diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She is a Harvard professor, and so this novel relates to Flowers for Algernon because after the surgery Charlie became a genius like Alice and then after some time, he regressed back to himself. Alice was a very intelligent Harvard professor who was very successful, and then her brain functioning slowly started to digress. This novel also relates to Of Mice and Men because Lennie had a very hard time remembering things, and he was dependent on George. After Alice was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she became very dependent on her husband John. The main connection that Alice has with John is that they are both professors at the University of Harvard. I actually already read this book, and I thought that it was really good. Alice had a lot of disagreements between her and her daughter, and in the end of the novel her daughter Lydia stayed by her side and helped her through things even though at that point Alice didn't know who she was. John also ended up staying with Alice which I am glad he did because I was building suspicion that he might leave her because he wanted to move on with his life.

my awful Prezi

So when jake and i went to present i was really scared to present because our prezi wasnt thought out at all and it was a very one sided topic. The thing that scared me is that we didn't do much research and it was mostly opinion based and we did a really bad job. I dont think the class liked it all however it was a very controversial topic. As far as the other presentations went i thought they were all very boring and yeah i fell asleep during almost every single one. I thought the project was really boring and i didnt like doing a project on the stupid books we read. I think everyone can agree with that because the books were incredibly stupid and boring. I dont like blogger dot com at all and i hope the new site works a little better but i also hate doing blogs period. So i am going to pretend that I am actually writing something worth reading to just get to the two hundred word minimum.

Presentations!

I was extremely nervous to do my presentation on Animal Assisted Therapy, but then when I was the last person in the class to go, it really wasn't that bad. I always get anxiety about presentations, because I don't like to publicly speak, but I have been with these classmates for so long, that it is starting to seem almost normal to present in front of them. I'm hoping that I get a good grade on it because I worked pretty hard on it, and invested quite a bit of time. From other people's projects, I learned about a lot of different things. Many of the presentations made me nervous and uncomfortable though, because they were about touchy subjects including child abuse, and cutting. The child abuse presentations made me the most uncomfortable, especially the one that including the video of the mom that was making her child eat hot sauce because of something he did at school. She then made him take a cold shower as another punishment for what he had done. The video made me so nervous and unhappy that there are parents that are really like that. It is so wrong for parents to treat their children, or anybody, like that!