Experience

When my teachers in high school would tell our class that we had to write a paper about a previous book we had written that 99% of the time was a book none of us would pick out or about dress codes, drinking age, etc. I know a lot of us dreaded writing these papers especially research papers. I really think this is why I dread writing papers, and not only that sometimes even going to english class. 

Then I realized my junior year in high school I really do enjoy writing papers.  Mr. Shay my teacher let us write about whatever topic we wanted. All my years of writing none of my teachers have ever let us have the freedom of picking whatever we wanted. I was so excited. I knew right away I was going to write about my hobby of showing horses. I finally had the opportunity to show my strong feelings on paper  of showing horses, and how it has changed my life in many ways. I realized when you love what your writing about the paper just flows. I am so glad I had that opportunity because it made me realize writing is not all that bad. 

Technology

Generation Y has become very independent on technology. Some people say it creates laziness. Generation Y has gotten people so comfortable with technology which has led to many young adults so into computer games, face book, myspace, etc. to where they miss what's going on around them. Some kids don't realize the simple risk a photo of themselves can be transferred to thousands of people within seconds. Of course the person they are sending the pic to has promised they will never share it but how often is that promise broken? This is how bad things start especially if you don't know the person.  I think that all the technology we have in our generation is hurting us in a way. There are people out there that don't use it properly. People use it to hurt others, to humiliate people over the internet. Technology is also taking over many jobs. Everyday another company is getting some sort of technological machine to do the work so many people are losing their jobs. Along with that a lot of young people of every generation become less self reliant and less able to cope with life. Pampered and spoiled. This is my opinion on the generation Y technology. Feel free to comment. (:

writing!

                                                          Growing up as a writer

    Last year when our principal came to talk to our whole junior class, and asked who wanted to attend the local community college ICC for their senior year. I thought to myself there is no way I could ever go there my skills are much to low. I knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime though.  What could be better getting two years done in one…especially because I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

 I knew I could get my gen. ed l classes I needed done at ICC then go straight to where I wanted, but there was still that one thing holding me back my skills. I knew I didn’t know much in English only because we could never keep a teacher their. We always hired the young ones and our students would run them off. My mom talked it over with me, and I decided to take the chance. I signed up for my classes not knowing what I was getting myself into.

I am so glad I took the opportunity because I have learned so much in my English class, so much more then I would have learned at my high school. I feel so much more prepared. I am able to feel confident when I write my papers. You have taught me all the different ways or writing, how to set up your papers, and many more things. I can’t wait to learn more things in class, so I am well prepared for English 110.

 

Drinking age

Should the drinking age be lowered like other countries have it such as in Germany, Canada, Mexico, etc? In other countries, drinking is not viewed as an activity as much as in the US. It is ingested as a compliment to a meal. A lot of American teenagers drink because it's like the forbidden fruit to them. If it was legal, there wouldn't be as much of an intrigue to just go out and get as drunk as possible or drunk at all. I'm 17 and I think alcohol behind the wheel takes too many lives away from teenagers. Most teenagers don't have the mental capacity to handle it. Not only that a lot of kids are too immature, and we would have a lot of dead teenagers before they even go to college.
Schools tell people not to drink at all. In reality, most kids drink at some point (not necessarily getting drunk) before they're twenty one, so they're wasting time because most people usually ignore them. Instead of saying, don't do it at all, school health programs should preach minority and limitation. Maybe then people would actually listen and the school would get what they want. These are my opinions on the drinking age. If you have an opinion please share them! (:

Drinking age

Should the drinking age be lowered like other countries have it such as in Germany, Canada, Mexico, etc? In other countries, drinking is not viewed as an activity as much as in the US. It is ingested as a compliment to a meal. A lot of American teenagers drink because it's like the forbidden fruit to them. If it was legal, there wouldn't be as much of an intrigue to just go out and get as drunk as possible or drunk at all. I'm 17 and I think alcohol behind the wheel takes too many lives away from teenagers. Most teenagers don't have the mental capacity to handle it. Not only that a lot of kids are too immature, and we would have a lot of dead teenagers before they even go to college.
Schools tell people not to drink at all. In reality, most kids drink at some point (not necessarily getting drunk) before they're twenty one, so they're wasting time because most people usually ignore them. Instead of saying, don't do it at all, school health programs should preach minority and limitation. Maybe then people would actually listen and the school would get what they want. These are my opinions on the drinking age. If you have an opinion please share them! (:

WIKI!

This past few weeks we have started a thing called “Wiki”. I am not going to lie when I heard this I was like ugg...really this is going to be so boring. Then when you told us we could pick out our own word’s I thought to myself I could make this fun. That’s when I decided to pick out the word that everyone should know about.
That’s when I decided to pick out the word blonde a word that is discriminated a lot in our society. As I said in my wiki Blondes have a reputation for being dumb, clumsy, forgetful, etc. I was even in a dictionary, and that point came up. That’s when I thought enough was enough. I am normally a person who does not express my thoughts nor feelings very well. Well In my wiki I have learned to express my feeling much better. I found it is much easier to do this when I find something I am very strong about. So now that we are getting more into the wiki I am very glad that we have done this project. I think it will help me as a writer in the end. Not only that the wiki is something I look forward to when coming into class.

ABORTION??

I’ve seen over the weeks a lot of people have been doing their opinions on abortion. So I figured I would put my opinion on here as well. I am strongly totally against abortion for these reasons specifically.

First of all most it is murder, unborn or not it is still a child. Refers to the term “Thou shall not kill”. Then if you took the responsibility to get pregnant, take the responsibility to carry the child, raise the baby yourself or place the child up for adoption. Also the procedure for having an abortion is very risky for some women, which may cause severe damage, making it impossible of having another child again, or even dying. Abortion doesn't make you not pregnant; it makes you a mother to a dead baby.

Now there are only two certain circumstances I think abortion is okay in my book. One case would be if the pregnancy is going to put the mother’s life in danger, or if the baby is going to die no matter what is done. Then the other would be if the women was raped or etc. No one should have to go through that horrible, traumatizing thing. No one should be forced to have a living reminder of their rape, and no child deserves to be the product of rape. These are my thoughts and views about it you can leave comments on what you think also.