Should there be an age limit on social media?

Yes, there should be an age limit on social media because especially in this generation younger kids are an easier target to sex offenders, pedophiles and rapists. These people can pose as a threat to anyone but it's the youth, that's more of a target than adults. They can create fake profiles and you'd think they were teenagers  just like you. How would you feel if you were on social media thinking you were talking to someone named Sara Claire for example, when you're really talking to a 58 year old man behind the screen? Nasty right? Well it could happen to some of the younger kids because I know a few people who go to my sisters school who have an Instagram, a Twitter account, who are on Facebook and they're only just beginning middle school. They have no business with being associated with any social media network. The age limit is 18. Not 14, 12, or 10. Children who are not 18 and over shouldn't have anything to do with social media what's so ever because when they take pictures and post things there are hackers out there who can find your exact location. They're able to find out all your information as to where you live, when and where you post pictures, they can find you and hurt you. Maybe even worse. I think parents should pay more attention to their child's activities and step up to do a better job at monitoring what their child is doing. Young children get on social media networks and they don't have a clue as to what could possibly happen. For people who have Twitter accounts anybody can follow you and look through your pictures. You could meet this "cool" person who ever  they appear to be and they may not be who they say they are and that's somethjng we all need to be careful and aware of. That's all the more reason as to why we should be more strict on the age limits on social media.

Lunch lines are just simply too long

I don't know about you guys but when that bell goes ' Ding! Ding! Ding!' Signaling its lunch time and I'm just coming from second period, I'm ready to eat! My stomach constantly growls as I take in the aroma of food and wait in the eternal life long line that's so long it could wrap around the school at least once. An hour long for lunch sounds good right? I mean it gives your smoking brain that's about to malfunction a break, am I right? Sure. Yeah why not? It's an whole hour of lunch! Why wouldn't it be okay! But it's no fun when you have to stand on your two feet for 30 minutes or more just to get food.

We need to have at least four to five lunch lines open with the number of kids that attend my school. I don't know if the staff needs to set up a concession stand and sell food or what. They just need to do something because not a lot of students get to eat at all. I don't even get to eat lunch sometimes and the effect it has on me isn't good. I get headaches and I sometimes fell weak with the emptiness of my stomach. And that effects how I perform in my classes. Me not being able to focus
 and constantly massaging my temples to relieve somewhat of the pain.

We shouldn't have to suffer. The principal should have some of the staff members fill up five or six carts of food to help with the lunch lines. This may not get everybody but it'll knock some of the people out of the way so that the lines can along faster. Two weeks ago, I was in line for lunch and that day I didn't get to eat at all. Third period I have band. I uncased my instrument, got my music out and started walking to my chair. While doing so, I felt weak all of a sudden and I felt myself falling. Luckily someone was there to catch me and help me balance myself. Long story short, I almost passed out due to not eating.

As teenagers we're still growing and eating is an important ingredient for us. If the staff members don't make some adjustments to how they can make the lines go swifter a lot of us could get sick. This'll look bad on the school because they have multiply opportunities to change things up and they choose not to.

Too many people on the bus. I need to breathe!

The bus that takes me home is more like a pack of sardines. Everything's just too close. The people I mean. Three to a seat is one thing but four to a seat? FOUR?!?! Oh no! We need another bus. My school needs to come up with a better solution than what they already have because it's too many people. Can I get some breathing room? Please?! I mean good Lord! They see how congested the bus is everyday and because of that that's why they should get two buses to make sure everyone has a ride   home.

It's so many people on that bus that some students have to sit on the floor. On the nasty, putrid, dusty and sickening floor. Who knows what someone has stepped in and now you have to sit in it. That's not right. That's not right at all. The bus driver himself  should at least have the decorum to say " hey, these students are always squished against each other and having to sit on the floor. Why don't I go talk to someone about getting another bus to take these kids home". They should have the decency to say something along the lines of that, considering they see what we go through. But they don't, because they don't know what's it's like to be too close to someone.

They don't know what's it's like to be pressed up against someone you don't know. Someone who smells so bad it burns your nose hairs off. Someone who's so sweaty that you could probably fill two buckets worth of sweat. Nobody wants that on them. Lord forbid someone being sick and coughing up a world of germs. For you to have to be scrunched three or four to a seat with them wouldn't be so thrilling. I'm getting appalled just thinking about it. I don't even get to take my instrument home to practice like I'd want , because my bus is so populous. It would just make it worse if I decided to to bring it because I'd have to hold my back pack in my lap. I have too much stuff in my back pack to just take a seat with it still attached on my back. It's simply too much. I'm lucky if I get to take my clothes home to wash that I practiced in on mornings before school.

I literally have to sprint to the band hall after fourth period, get my instrument, sprint again out the doors and to the bus. By the time I do all of this, the bus is already filled with students. I have to run down hallways while nearly falling on my face just so I can have a seat on a bus. This is comparatively nerve-racking. Students shouldn't have to suffer because the adult can't speak up. We requisite another bus, and we need one now.

My reading life

See You at Harry's


My reading life has improved by a lot. Last year I didn't read at all because my class didn't have us read independently. The only time I read was when we read as a class. This year I've read two books and I'm now working on number three. The first book I read was "See You at Harry's". The second book I read was "If  I stay " and the book I'm currently reading now is "willow".

I've always been slow at reading so I kinda knew I wasn't going to be able to finish a book if I set a goal for myself for when I'd finish it. This year I proved myself wrong because I set a goal for myself to finish "If I stay" in three weeks and I was able to do that. I was also able to finish "see you at Harry's" in three weeks , which is the shortest time I've ever finished a book. I learned that I have the potential to read as many books as I want and I hope to continue this momentum of reaching my goal for reading because I want to grow as a reader. I want to able to read at a faster pace and not like someone's grandma:) . The most difficult book I've read would probably have to be a  another book I'm currently reading for class. "The Glass Castle".

Its a really good book but the difficult thing about it is the vocabulary. The use of vocabulary is a higher level than most books that I read because this book takes me the longest to read. Even if it's one page. To comprehend what the author is saying I use an online dictionary to look things up. This is one of my strategies of reading because it helps me to have a better understanding of what the authors talking about. When I finishes homework I read for half an hour. Sometimes when I get up early in the mornings for band rehearsal I read with the extra minutes of spare time I have while I wait for my dad to get dressed to drive me to school. I take this time to read so I give myself extra pages to put behind me. 

I need to improve how much I read because reading isn't my strong suit. I like writing more than I do reading. I need to keep that practice going because it can improve how fast I read. I need to push myself to read more and not just for school but outside of school too. My goals for the rest of this year is just to keep at reading. Read more and practice reading so that I can get better at it.

Friends and family. Awesome!

I'm going to be legit with you. I'm not always a happy person. Sometimes I'm filled with such despair. Sometimes I'm left feeling abandoned, small, empty inside. Sometimes I just want to be solus.

Having the friends that I have is a joy because they take my mind off of things that make me gloomy. They beget me to smile, laugh and feel very ecstatic. I love being around them because they help me overcome aversive moments. They elicit the best in me, and that's what I like about my sweet loving and caring friends. They're like family to me. Just a simple "hello Chloe how are you?" is enough to send me into a world of beautiful blooming flowers, impervious to anything than can break down my walls of glee. I'm so anxious and full of verve that when I wake up in the mornings for school, I literally get butterflies in the pit of my stomach. I'm so excited to see my friends, even if it's for two minutes (My bus is always getting to school at 8:11).

My warm hearted family is always there to remedy me. They're a giant hand awaiting to catch me for when I fall. I have two little sisters who are like bumble bees because they're all over he place. They get into my nail polish,go in my room without asking and as much as I want to strangle them , I love them. I love them to death. They're my inspiration for living. Some of us say that " My family never gives me enough space " or " I can't wait til I get a car because I'll be gone". Well lemme tell you this: You only have one mom, one dad and your siblings are irreplaceable. Once they're gone, they're gone. Forever. You won't have that mom who's so "vexatious" or that dad who wouldn't let you watch TV because he was too captivated by the football game that was currently going on. You wouldn't have your siblings who you just wanted to hasp in a closet.

You'll be left with nothing. Nothing but thoughts of what you should have done. Sorrow will take upon you and become your best friend. Regret will take you down a road of  misery and unforgettable  memories, that no matter how hard you try to wash away the guilt you feel inside; it will stick. It will stick like cement and become your biggest enemy. So exploit of the time you have , stop complaining and be with them. My family is my incentive for going out there and making my dreams come true. If I do this, I show and prove to my sisters that they can have and be whatever they desire in life. I don't know about you but having friends that make you jubilant and family who you love unconditionally; that's pretty darn awesome. If that's not then I don't know what is.

#Writemycommunity

A Community is significant because it allows us to connect with people. It allows us to meet new and unique people who might play an important role in our lives. A community isn't just about people living in the same area and having assorted things, but it's about how we can come together to help each other out. We are each other's helping hand. We all lean on each other for remedy. For example, we rely on firemen to rescue us from our burning homes. Without a community there wouldn't be order and that's exactly what makes a community necessary. We need order so people won't be wild and inadvertently out of control.

A community helps to bring us together, to unite us. For example city processions, mini carnivals, or charity events. Us coming together will beget everyone in the community to want to do more things like this. Pretty soon we all will be comfortable with everyone pursuing to get involved. We can improve our cities through a community too. For example construction workers working to fix the jarring roads that rattles your car or the nasty potholes that could breach your tires. A community is of great significance because without one where would we be now? If policemen didn't stop crime, if firemen weren't our conservators or if construction workers didn't help out to fix roads, where would our community pose?

My thinking process

For the go world video I thought of things I could do. I first thought of doing a video about me  moving here to Texas and talking about how I felt , but then I thought it would just be easier for me to do something that occurred recently so that I would have more of a connection. I wanted my story to have more of a punch and more emotion so that the observers could feel something when watching my video. Thinking about how I wanted to write it was difficult because I knew what I wanted to say, I just didn't know how I was going to set it up. At first I was going to start from the very beginning from when I first got my guinea pig but I didn't want my story to be too long so I just wrote mine in a that was then and this is now way. In a cause and effect way. I wrote a total of five drafts.

I changed a few words around to make it sound better. I asked a couple of people to read mine and the feedback I got mostly was that I needed to improve my vocabulary. I needed to have more words that would create an emotional punch. Creating my video I went to Animoto and got pictures off of my iPad after I linked my phone's pictures to it. Then I put my pictures in order of how I wanted them to show up in the video and then I choose the type of music I wanted. Putting the words on there was kind of a challenge because they all wouldn't fit on the slide. Because of that I had to chop it up a bit. Doing this project made me a little sad, talking about my guinea pig because I had her for a long time. Since I was in the sixth grade. She meant a lot to me and I got a little tearing and almost didn't do the project on it but I thought what else could I create a video about. When my video was revealed I was alittle sad. Memories came to me as I watched slide after slide of my guinea pig. It made me realize that she lived a good life. It made me sad but at the same time happy because I thought back to the little things she would do like when I would hold her in my lap she would move around to get comfortable and that lit a small candle inside me.

http://animoto.com/play/7De0o0XGKQg3pPwzGJnbEw

We Whine Like little Babies

I agree with Walsh's argument because we pick the little things in life to whine and fuss over.

We do this because we're too sensitive. We're like whinny little babies. We always have to make a big deal about every single thing. 

If someone were to walk up to a black person and say "hey where's your family from?" Some might find it offense and go to the extreme with how they respond to this. They'd think the person was trying to offend them when really they were just being curious. You really only have two choices in how you take in what someone says. 1. You could take it as " hey he means not harm or hey she means no harm."  and move on. Or 2. "Hey this person is being mean to me on purpose. We have a problem." Depending on how you take it what someone says, determines if you'll be offended or not. 

For example I went to my room after coming in the house from band rehearsal and my door's open. My mom yells " how was school today?!" from the kitchen and I yell back " it was okay!"  She didn't hear me so I yelled louder but I chopped my words up and she got mad at me because she thought I was yelling at her, when only I was speaking louder for her to hear me. If there's a point in time in which we feel offended, we as the individuals don't know how to address the problem, fix it, and walk away. We always feel the need to drag everyone else in and then it becomes this worldwide controversy thing.

On Friday my band director told us that we can no longer sing the Lord's Prayer, because there were people in our district who were of different religions complaining that they were offended.  Singing the Lord's Prayer before football games and competitions is tradition. We've always done it. If you don't wanna sing or if you're not religious or whatever the case may be, you don't have to sing. There are people in our band program who don't sing when we sing the Lord's Prayer and they're not look at in a  certain way. It's not like we're gonna look at you and say "ooo you're not singing." I don't know if they feel offended because they can't participate in the singing portion or what. We've always had conflicts between differences in religions. Always. Why choose to point it out now?  All I know is that stuff like this doesn't make any sense. It shows how immature we can be.

Should people with bad road rage be allowed to drive?

People with bad road rage should not be permitted to drive on the roads because it can be very hazardous for other drivers. According to (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/articles%20and%20topics/attitude%20and%20aggression/artcl--road-rage--a-deadly-threat.htm) says that these are some of the reasons why people take action in road rage: "He cut me off." "He/she was driving too slowly." "She wouldn't let me pass." These are the types of things that encourage road rage and if you make an aggressive driver upset the situation might end badly.

You have aggressive drivers who would want to hurt someone because they had their bright lights on and because it shined in their eyes from their rear view mirror. Or because they wouldn't let them in. This reaction is uncalled for because other drivers don't have to do anything. They don't have to let you in. It's an act of generosity. You cant get mad at them and want to hurt them if they decide that they're not going to let you in. Just because someone cut you off, gave you the finger, called you a bad name, or honked their horn at you does not give you the right to follow them home, injure them or beat them to a pulp.

The article I was reading talked about how many accidents that happened due to road rage and it was approximately 6,800,000 and that's just in the United States. The article (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/articles%20and%20topics/attitude%20and%20aggression/artcl--road-rage--a-deadly-threat.htm) states that road rage is " An incident in which an angry or impatient motorist or passenger intentionally injuries or kills another motorists, passenger or pedestrian or attempts to injure or kill...In response to a traffics despite, altercation, or grievance" If aggressive drivers respond negatively to the behaviors of other drivers, that's where it becomes a issue and that's why people with road rage need to exclude themselves from the roads due to public safety.











http://www.driveandstayalive.com/articles%20and%20topics/attitude%20and%20aggression/artcl--road-rage--a-deadly-threat.htm

Should you ever surrender when things are hard?

A lot of us tend to abandon things we find complicated. Yeah, there are moments in our lives in which we feel like giving up because somethings are "too hard" for us or we feel like we can't keep up. Is it okay to give up? Is it ever okay to throw away everything we've worked for and to demolish where we are now?

Absolutely not. Life isn't easy because if it was, everyone would be where they desired. Success isn't just going to be handed to you on a silver platter. You have to work for it. There will be challenging obstacles that will advance towards us but giving up is not an option. If you fall and scrape your knee, stand up because mistakes happen. We're human. We're going to mess up, but the best thing about that is that you know there's a second chance. You know that there's a way to make it better. It's only the thought that counts.

If you say something's hard, you're already setting yourself up for failure because you're making it impossible for you to fulfill your goal. What you need to do is to have that mind-set that says "it's challenging" instead of  "it's hard". Challenging means that it's not easy and whatever it is that you're trying to do can be accomplished. You just have to want it. You have to have flexibility. You have to push yourself to the next level. Where as hard just means plain old impossible. Like it's not going to happen and if you have that mind-set of saying "it's hard" while trying to achieve your goal, the outcome won't be great.

Don't give up on anything because you never know what type of opportunities you'll be missing out on. That one time you decide you're going to throw in the towel for good, might be the that day that could be a game changer for you.
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140211144105-46951391-6-reasons-not-to-give-up-on-your-dreams?_mSplash=1

Should your personal like or dislike of someone's non-violent or harmful actions give you the right to steal, kill, or destroy them?

Yesterday while surfing the web I read across an article written under the Jewish journal .com and I realized then what a dangerous world we live in. This article talked about people all around the world calling out to the U.S. to help support gays and lesbians because they're getting treated badly over there. You have people getting slaughtered over in Nigeria, Iran and Yemen just because they like the same sex. At the bottom you'll see a picture of a boy named Jadin bell. He was 15 when he committed suicide due to bullying because he was gay. He wasn't doing anything to anyone and look where he's at now. My whole thing about this is that it shouldn't even be an issue to began with. If John wants to date Luke let john date Luke. If Lucy wants to date Kate, let her date Kate. Stop trying to control people's lives. Your personal like or dislike of someone's non-violent or harmful actions does not give you the right to steal, kill or destroy them. As Christians the bible says he without sin cast the first stone, meaning god and god alone has the right to judge someone else's sins. As a people we need to learn to agree to disagree because there are more important things that we need to be focused on right now like world hunger and diseases all around the world. This is what's wrong with society now because we're out here worrying about what everyone and their mom is doing instead of worrying about what we need to do in order to better ourselves as a nation.


http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/anti_gay_persecution_abroad_demands_u.s._action