3-23-12

The ipad seems like a pretty cool thing that has started coming out. I would like to have one but i don't see myself paying that much money for something when i have a computer at home that works just as well and i can carry it around as well. I do like that they have made the ipads smaller so they are smaller than a regular computer but i think that it would be to big to carry around all the time.

3-23-12

I have never really watched anything to do with Kermit the Frog. So i really don't have any idea about what is going on there. I guess that he was a character off a show and he was in love with someone but other than that i have no clue about him. He looks like a good child character but i dont know what he was all about.

3-23-12

I think that they should make it where other people can't get your password unless you give them your password. They should keep this more safely. They shouldn't let people hack into stuff and be able to get the passwords. They shouldn't be able to find pograms where they can get into your information if you are keeping them private.

3-21-12

This is a terrible situation if i were the parent in the situation you wouldn't want to know what i would have done to this guy. I don't think that this guy had any reason to go off and kill this young boy when he wasn't doing anything wrong but walking down the road and then got shot. I think that this guy should defiantly lose his job and he should also get in alot of trouble for doing this.

3-20-12

I don't think that this is very possible there is no way that you could be able to prove it. I mean there is a way of proving it but it's not a way that would be even compromisable. You couldn't make the man do this in any way shape or form. The man wouldn't have to do this either. There is no possible way that this could happen.

3-19-12

I think that yes video games have some art in them. They seem to have art because they have characters in them that are different. They have stuff in them that has to be made which is to be considered as art work. I don't think that there is enough art to be considered enough to play the games just because of the art work.

3-15-12

I don't think this is really going to make us want to go out and work outside. I think that this game makes people probably want to stay inside and play the game. Hopefully, it does do what it is suppose to but I don't think it's going to help with the people that don't work because usually when they don't work they just don't want to it's not that they can't it's that they don't want to work. I don't see how you could depnd on everyone for everything.

3-14-12

I don't think that you would be able to tell if people are going to vote by what they are saying on the interenet. They may be able to tell who they are going to vote for but you never know they may put on there that they aren't going to vote and then they actually do vote. I think if you talked to someone in person about it you would be able to tell better if they actually were going to vote or if they weren't going to vote.

3-13-12

I don't think tobacco is a good thing at all. I can't stand when people are chewing it drives me crazy. I think that it is nasty and it smells awful. The people that do it know what it is going to cause so i just don't understand why they would want to do something if they knew that it was going to kill us. I just don't think i could do something if i knew that it was going to kill me or should i say it is probably going to kill you.

3-12-12

I think this would probably be a good idea for people who are in to politics but for people who really don't care about it i think this would be stupid. The games may be fun if you got use to them but they wouldn't be as fun as some of the games that we play on icivics. I saw alot of students having fun with some of those games.

3-9-12

Using the same password would just make everything easier for you. If you use different passwords then you tend to lose or forget the passwords. They should create a program so that people can't use the same passwords. They should be able to tell if the password has been used before and then they could pick another one. That's how i feel about the password thing.

2-28-12 Notes On Issues

Ezik Norris- I think that Ezik is exactly right people have strayed away from morals and now you have all this immorality.

Lee Carpenter- I agree that if someone does do something like killing someone i agree that yes they should be killed. But i disagree that it should be up to the human whether or not that the human should be killed. It should be up to the jury whether or not this should human.

3-8-12

I agree that some of the computers are to slow but you are never going to get them to be as fast as you really want them. I think they have changed them so much that they are a lot faster already. Hopefully they keep getting a little faster every couple years so they can keep them updated. Im sure there is probably something that they will come out with that will make them even faster. I have already saw some programs where they download stuff and it already makes them faster.

video presentations 3-6-12

Ezik Norris and Justin Phillips- Teen Pregnancy
1) Teen Pregnancies cost US tax payers 9 billion dollars year
2) 1 and 3 women will be pregnant by the age 19.
3) More than 750,000 teens will become pregnant this year.

Bobby Kelly and Justin Thorne- Racism
1)African American age 12 and up have more of a chance to have a criminal record.
2) Blacks are 3 times likely to be poorer than  whites.
3) There are more black men in jail than in college.

Antonio Dalton-Poverty
1) Most Americans in poverty work but still don't make enough to make ends meet.
2) 21% of children are living in poverty.
3) Every 3.6 seconds a person dies from Hunger.

Daniel Martin and Kyle Duckworth- Underaged drinking and Tobacco Use
1) Teenage Binge drinkers are more likely to become alcholics.
2) 1 out of every 6 teenages are smokers.
3) 20% of males are addicted to smoking and 25% of women are addicted to smoking.

Amanda Metheney- Child Abuse
1)A report of child abuse is reported every 10 seconds.
2) 30% of abused children with abuse there own children.
3) 36% of all women in jail were abused as children.

Benny Haddix and Travis Kisner- Bullying
1) 56% of students have been bullied.
2) 1 out of 5 students admit to being a bully.
3)100,00 students carry a gun to school.

Lee Carpenter and Tylin Carpenter- Terrorism
1)2,189 Killed in 9/11
2) 6 people were killed in the explosion.
3)Terrorism has been going on since the 14th Century

Raven Haddix and Chelsea Swiger- Poverty
1) 30,000 children die each day due to poverty.
2) 1.7 Billion people lack the access to water.
3) WV is ranked 4th in Poverty

3-7-12 Smartphones

I think this is a given that a lot of people have smartphones. I mean soon its going to be where the only phones they have are smartphones. It is a little stupid to pay that much money for internet on your phone. I have a smartphone and I don't use alot of the stuff on it. I don't know how to work alot of it. Sometimes you have to get that people think they are better than other people because they can afford these types of thing's. The bad part is that people that can't even work to pay for there own stuff are given a smartphone. I think just a regular cell phone would defiantly be enough.

3-6-12

I don't think that they should be able to sell this kind of stuff. This is your business and i do get that they aren't selling your messages and stuff that you have deleted but i don't think this is right. I think if they are going to do something like that they need to be able to ask the people if it's okay that they are selling their postings. But on the other hand they are posting this on the internet so anyone can see this so i guess either way.

3-2-12

What was the land of the Lorax like before the Once-ler arrived? Did it seem like someplace you'd like to live? What parts of your own environment would you be sad to see go?
- The land was veyr beautiful.It seems to me a place like in the middle of the woods or you could say the middle of no where. I would be sad to see all the trees that they are cutting down to go.

What kind of person is the Once-ler? Why won't he listen to the Lorax? The Lorax says to the Once-ler, "You are crazy with greed." Why does the Lorax say that? Do you agree or disagree?
-Once-Ler is a person who thinks that only what he does it right. Because the Lorax has an idea and he is being put down and noone likes what he is doing. I agree because he is just trying to make a life like everyone else.

Why does the Lorax speak for the trees? Why is it important to speak up for others? Have you ever spoken up for someone else? Has someone else ever spoken up for you?
- He is speaking for the trees because that is something that interests him. It is important to speak up for others because some people don't know how to speak up for themselves and they need help. Yes, I speak up for people all the time because I can't stand when people pick on other people.Yes, someone has spoken up for me before and I was glad that they do.

How does the Once-ler's Thneed business hurt the land of the Lorax? What happens to the Swomee-swans, the Brown Bar-ba-loots, and the Humming-fish? How could things have been different if the Once-ler listened to the Lorax?
- Because all the animals would have more land to live on and the Once-Ler's plan would hurt the Lorax because he wouldn't make BIGGER BIGGER money that he was already making.

What do you think the boy hearing the story will do with the Truffula seed that the Once-ler tosses to him? What would you do if you were the boy?
-I would plant the seeds so that you could grow more trees for the ones that are being cut down.

Do you think the Lorax and his friends will come back if new Truffula Trees grow? Where do you think they have been?
- Yes, they will probably come back because the entire time they have been coming back and then they had to make them leave.

The Once-ler says, "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." What does the Once-ler mean? Can one person make a difference? Can you? What are some things you can do to better your own environment?
-He is meaning that everyone plays a part if one person doesn't care it's going to hurt the enviroment. Yes every person makes a huge difference.You can better your own enviroment by doing thing's such as cleaning up and stuff.

How does the Once-ler feel about what his Thneed business did to the Lorax and friends?
-He feels bad about what he has done because he knows that it was very wrong.

Dr. Seuss used bright colors on some pages of the book and dull colors on others. Did you notice this? Why do you think he did that?

-Yes, I noticed it and I think that he did it because he was relating it to the book at that certain time or it also may have been his feelings while he was writing the book at that time.

Why is The Lorax called a cautionary tale?

- It's warning us because it's telling us what will happen if we don't listen to special interest groups.

3-2-12

This seems very cool. I believe that they should make a way for everyone to be able to text and this would let the people who use to not be able to text to text. It seems like it would be very easy to text on too. And not only the people that read brialle can do it anyone can use it. I believe this was a very good idea to invent.

3-1-12

I think this is okay i guess if he wants to take that much time out of each day to tweet something, that is totally up to him. Hopefully the thing's that his tweets are actually good and interesting. I really don't think that this is to big of a deal it may be for those people but not me.