Parenting, Privacy and Control

It might be a good solution, but kids are going to find a way around it. They only way parents are going to be able to control the internet problem is by taking away their computer. I mean, you would have to block facebook.com and other visited sites. The only way you could contact your friends is by phone. Now there are people who want to contact with their friends online, but don't want other strangers to look at there profile. Unfortunately, on facebook it is hard to do that. There is always a way for people to access your pictures and profile. Kidnapping is getting more and more serious online. People are looking for normally girls to stalk. Someone needs to invent a program that can block stalkers and prevetn kids from being online all day long.

Social Networking -- Keeping in Touch

I think keeping in touch with your friends for teenagers is extremely important. If a teenager would not keep in touch with his/her friends they would be left out. It is the way that kids do this networking that is getting out of hand. Every and all afternoon kids are on chat or facebook contacting their friends. This is making them not be able to do the exercise the kids need. That's why kids are getting fatter. Although, kids don't care about their chores. The only thing they care about is talking with their friends, which is by cell phone and computer. It's just the way it is these days.

Spark Notes. Good or bad?

I like the old school style. You should read every book you can. You become a better writer if you read and understand books. Cheat reading is not good for your future. It is even worse if you cheat in school. Spark Notes will only be helpful if you are gathering ideas for a summary from many websites. I think the boy in the video should feel guilty, because he is using Spark Notes to get his work easier. He should also feel guilty because he turned in a fake assignment. Cheat programs like that should be prohibited in schools. If he feels guilty than he should stop doing it.

Computer at Home

I have my own computer, which is a laptop. The computer in my house are used for communicating. I use the computer for homework, surf forecast, sports news, and fun. My parents use the computer for news and email. I really don't use the computer a lot. I am very active and like to do stuff outside. My both parents use the computer as well as I do. My dad is probably the one who uses it the most. It is different from from radios and TVs, because it has all of those things online. It is like all devices but in one.

Christmas Vacation

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I was so ready for a vacation. I could not bare school work anymore. The first couple of days I was a couch potato. A few days later I sent my XBOX 360 to get repaired. I was thinking that it would take a couple of weeks to get repaired, but I was wrong about the service. Microsoft sent me back a whole new console in under a week. I was so amazed about that.
After I got my XBOX 360 back, I played video games for two days straight. I got bored quickly because I had already passed all of the games that I had. My sister was coming down Jan. 1, 2010! So I asked her to bring two games down for me. I asked her for Forza 3 and Call of Duty 4.
During that time wating for the games I surfed. I went surfing 8 days in a row. There was this one swell that was amazing. I caught some of the best waves in my life. The waves were about 8-10 ft high (little scary). There is this one guy that is really cool. He is called Steve. He goes every morning to surf on my beach. I try to go with him, but he just get there too early. He arrives at the beach at 7:30 am. My grandparents arrived from GDL on a Monday. The next day I went with them to look for a condo in Bucerias and Nuevo Vallarta. They are looking to spend one year here. I took my grandpa golfing one day. We played 9 holes, since he can only putt. It is really cool to be around him. I learn so much from him. Finally my sister (Rachel) came with her fiance (Nate). Nate is a cool guy. He likes to snowboard and skate. I got to play my games that day and WOW were they sweet. I played until 2 am that day. I took Nate surfing the next day to La Lancha. He was just learning how to surf, so he tried out the long board. It was really too bad because there wasn't any waves and it was crouded as hell. This was a vacation well spent.

12th graders experiments

Today during class we went down to the patio and watched the 12th graders did their roller coasters. Many of them were not very consistent. Although one kids project was very consistent. Every time he did his run it was perfect. Each roller coaster had its theme. One project was in New York City, which was done by Alicia (I think). Another one was about Candy Land or something like that by Marifer. Another project was about a jungle, because it had animals and stuff like that by Carlos. A really cool project was the FIFA roller coaster done by Rafael A. At the end of the tunnel, the marble went into a goal. It was pretty consistent aswell. Then there was Rudy's roller coaster, which didn't work very well. It had very sloppy tubes and was not desinged well. The last one is Rich's roller coaster, which aperently was the first one completed. So they had an excuse, because their barrels were saggy. I think this project was called the Chinese roller coaster. There was one more project, but it wasn't ready yet. It's group members never got organized I guess. Well, I think that they did a great job onthese roller coasters concidering that they only had one week to do it. Most of them I heard did it two days before the excibition. It would be very fun to do one like the ones I saw today.

Francisco´s speach

Today a man named Francisco gave a speach about the war. He talked about his experiences in the war and the most tramatauzing events that he saw. As the class, we asked him questions about how he felt about enterinig the army. He also talked about how to view life and stuff like that. His thoughts were very helpful to me. I thought that yhe didn't not tell the truth on some subjects. Either, he is not telling us the truth or he doesn't know ythe truth himself. The war in Iraq occurred, bacause the USA wanted the oil from Iraq so that poeple in the USA could have enough gas to still drive their SUV's. I did not want to bring it up, because I might have upset him. Basically the US Army lied to the soldiers. Plus, I think he is sort of a patriot himself, so I didn't want to get him going. I don't understand how a man so easy going as he is, not know the real truth about the Iraq war. Saying that, it would interesting to hear some of his other stories that he has.