Thursday, February 14, 2013

Academics

Through my many years of  education, I have discovered my academic struggles. Endorsed my academic accomplishments, and endeavor to fulfill my academic aspirations. the reasons I have chosen to recognize my struggles is because if I choose to acknowledge them then I can learn from them and not make that same mistake over again.

One of my major academic struggles is procrastination. Boy has it effected me, I could, matter of fact I should be doing things on time. I would be able to be so much more creative on my projects than I already am.So many people could save so much time and frustration if they would have just done the project when it was given to them.

My academic achievements are as follows. in 7th grade I received a high honor roll, for turning in all my assignments in on time and maintaining A's and B's. in 8th grade I received a merit roll.Then in 9th grade as some of you may have expected I was excepted in to the early collage program.

Last but not least my academic aspirations are! To become a writer. As a writer I want people to think when they read my writing. I want people to read it and just think deeply by just skim reading it, and find it's inter meanings.



Friday, February 8, 2013

Smart Cowards

 Why do people bully online? People bully online because their cowards. Well... smart cowards. No, their not smart just because they know how to work a computer no. They are smart because they are using their resources. 

Bullying is everywhere now. Sure bullying happened long before things like Internet, but it wasn't as severe as it is today! For example, before the Internet, a student could only be bullied at school, simple! Then the victim child would return home and confront his or her parents for comfort, and heal their wounds so to say. But now a student will return home go on the Internet to see that the same bullies, (and sometimes bullies he or she doesn't even know) have sent him or her hurtful Emails, messages, comments, private chat rooms, text messages, and any other ways of communication provided by the Internet.


A Rat
But why do bullies do it online. Its because they're safe, they're hiding from reality, hiding from forces of authority. People can get away with so much more now on the Internet than in real life. So people bully, its sick. Cyber bullies are rats. Rats that are afraid to to see the light of day, rats that are afraid to have any sense of decency, or any sense of kindness for humanity. Rats that hide behind their silver, flickering, screens. We see them everyday. On the outside people just see them as innocent little mice. But if we give them a computer, just look closer, and they've turned into rats. Then, it gets worse, they will try and deny it, saying " Well they just misunderstood me." then comes the part I really hate. It's where the bully is bullied back and then the cyber bully says to anyone listening "Boo hoo hoo, he hurt my feelings." and yet the cyber bullying rat still manages to bully others. Know what I hate more than a rat? It's a little pest called a hypocrite.     

Now comes the part that will bother some of us.
 Tell me. What would we do?



If we saw someone being bullied online? Would we stand up for that person? Or walk away?
What would we do?
   
What would we do if our friend was being, bullied. would we stand up, and shout out? or would we sit down and scoot away from our friend and deny knowing them?

What if we are the bullied? Would we be brave? Would we say something back? would we want to have enemies from saving ourselves and our friend?

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." 
Winston Churchill 

Or what if... What if we are the the bullies? What if we are trying to joke with someone, a friend, and inadvertently hurt them. Online we don't know if we hurt our friend. Although all we see is a flickering screen, behind it could be our dearest friend in tears from our accidentally hurtful comment that slipped out that we wound up typing out before thinking first about it. How bout we start thinking before we act before we do offend someone, especially a friend.  

So remember,  lets treat others how we want to be treated, nicely.



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Saturday, February 2, 2013

This Land Is My Land

In the Bible, the book of Exodus gives us commandments ten to be exact. But I would like to point out two of them that are important to the topic of this post. The commandments "Thou shalt not steal" and "Thou shalt not steal" Man has always had a disease called greed, greed makes man want, makes man want more and more until man feels he can fill his bottomless pit with useless things. Greed makes man covet, greed makes man steal. Some times man stops by listening to something called civility, civility can make man think, think twice about his actions. But if man chooses to ignore civility, then this thing that was at one time a lawful person paying his taxes, is not a cold hearted, greedy, criminal thirsty for more. If man can not control himself then he can not be safe. But is there a just? An actual good reason for a man to steal? Would man look down on the man that just stole a wallet to feed his family? yes man would, man would say "What he did was immoral." Meanwhile a man would look up to the lawyer for helping a man win a case where the accused were innocent and found guilty and had to pay a $2,000 fine to the accusing lawyer and man. Just tell me this, is it wrong for a man to need ? Or is it wrong for a man to want?