Tuesday, November 6, 2012
TodayIGottaSay Red
TodayIGottaSay that today is sponsored by the color red. I also have a new poll. Obama or Romney.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
TodayIGottaSay I'm new to blogging
So I'm very new to this and as I look at other blogs for things I do like, and things I don't like, I realize that 9 out of 10 blogs are about religion or photography. Where am I going with this? Nowhere.
I also notice that I look at the blogs with pictures more than the ones without... If that's how everyone is, then I need to add some photos to my blog!
Seniors just graduated today... and I realized something. Next year I'll probably make a speech at graduation because I'll hopefully be one of the valedictorians.
It's not that I don't like speaking, it's just what should I actually say in a year? Should I give the typical Cliche "We've come so far" speech? or an inspirational speech? or just be funny and get some laughs out of the crowd. Because let's be honest, no one has heard a graduation speech and flipped their lives around.... "Ooh wait, I can do anything with my life???"
It just doesn't happen.
OR I could give basically a church talk and go all religious on them but that would be weird and a lot of people wouldn't like it. But it would hit them hard probably.
Do you ever quit something, and you miss it, even though you didn't like it. For example, I'm quitting band because I don't have time for it next year. I don't like the teacher very much at all and I don't have any close friends in there, but I'm still sad.
I think it's because we store memories and over time our brain makes those memories better (or worse) than they actually were. So you remember fun things about something you know you don't like, but you don't remember why you don't like it until your doing it again.
One more thing. I think people naturally don't like change. Even if it's better, we naturally don't like it. because no matter what you change, and how great it is, people still complain.
Well please comment as I'm probably wrong about most of this.
Isaaclefries
I also notice that I look at the blogs with pictures more than the ones without... If that's how everyone is, then I need to add some photos to my blog!
Seniors just graduated today... and I realized something. Next year I'll probably make a speech at graduation because I'll hopefully be one of the valedictorians.
It's not that I don't like speaking, it's just what should I actually say in a year? Should I give the typical Cliche "We've come so far" speech? or an inspirational speech? or just be funny and get some laughs out of the crowd. Because let's be honest, no one has heard a graduation speech and flipped their lives around.... "Ooh wait, I can do anything with my life???"
It just doesn't happen.
OR I could give basically a church talk and go all religious on them but that would be weird and a lot of people wouldn't like it. But it would hit them hard probably.
Do you ever quit something, and you miss it, even though you didn't like it. For example, I'm quitting band because I don't have time for it next year. I don't like the teacher very much at all and I don't have any close friends in there, but I'm still sad.
I think it's because we store memories and over time our brain makes those memories better (or worse) than they actually were. So you remember fun things about something you know you don't like, but you don't remember why you don't like it until your doing it again.
One more thing. I think people naturally don't like change. Even if it's better, we naturally don't like it. because no matter what you change, and how great it is, people still complain.
Well please comment as I'm probably wrong about most of this.
Isaaclefries
Thursday, May 31, 2012
TodayIGottaAsk why are books treated differently?
My post on Enders Game is a good segue into this topic.
Why are books treated different from other forms of entertainment?
A debate that is constantly going on amongst english teachers and politicians is banning books from being taught in school.
I love reading and I think everyone should read but why are books allowed to do and say whatever they want without any ratings?
Lets compare books and music. Both are for entertainment. One is rated for it's words, and one is not.
Why?
People always complain about the youth listening to "bad" rap music because of its foul language. Well we just read "The Things They Carried", which was a great book, but it had just as many F bombs as Lil Wayne does in one of his songs. Or as many as an R rated movie. Or an M rated video game. Why are we taught that this book is good, and that R movies and bad music lyrics are bad?
That isn't my only example from school.
We also read "A Lesson Before Dying" this year (which I only read half of it) and it had a sex scene in it. I read the first sentence of the scene and then skipped over the rest because even the first sentence put an X rated image in my mind. Why is that book okay in school? Why is it known as a classic like every other book we read?
People may argue that it has great literature in it and thats why it's a classic. I'm sure there are very "artistic and well made" pornographic movies out there too but we don't watch those in media literacy. (sarcasm)
What makes books so special and different?
I don't think they are. Maybe they don't have actual images in them (a picture is worth a thousand words) but I think they can be just as bad because the words leave your mind imagining anything it wants with the words planted. Books certainly aren't any better than music because music is also just words. Actually books are worse because music is usually interpretive and poetic, while books are usually strait forward and easy to understand. So why do you have to be 17 to buy some CDs but not certain books? Why do people think books are an exception?
I think it is because of the history of books. Books have been around for thousands of years. I made this post because I don't think most people even think about books being rated for being inappropriate. They don't because books are a part of human culture and most of society is numbed to some of the bad things in books. And they try and excuse the bad by saying it's a classic, or literary masterpiece.
Well that doesn't make it appropriate.
I guess I'm just getting tired of immoral teachers thinking students should read whatever teachers want them to read, even if there is a graphic sex scene in it.
Really books aren't different than other media besides being around longer, and they should be treated like other media.
I would like to see what you all have to say on this subject now that the thought is in your mind. and maybe I'm missing something as to why books should get off the hook unlike other entertainment.
Isaaclefries
Why are books treated different from other forms of entertainment?
A debate that is constantly going on amongst english teachers and politicians is banning books from being taught in school.
I love reading and I think everyone should read but why are books allowed to do and say whatever they want without any ratings?
Lets compare books and music. Both are for entertainment. One is rated for it's words, and one is not.
Why?
People always complain about the youth listening to "bad" rap music because of its foul language. Well we just read "The Things They Carried", which was a great book, but it had just as many F bombs as Lil Wayne does in one of his songs. Or as many as an R rated movie. Or an M rated video game. Why are we taught that this book is good, and that R movies and bad music lyrics are bad?
That isn't my only example from school.
We also read "A Lesson Before Dying" this year (which I only read half of it) and it had a sex scene in it. I read the first sentence of the scene and then skipped over the rest because even the first sentence put an X rated image in my mind. Why is that book okay in school? Why is it known as a classic like every other book we read?
People may argue that it has great literature in it and thats why it's a classic. I'm sure there are very "artistic and well made" pornographic movies out there too but we don't watch those in media literacy. (sarcasm)
What makes books so special and different?
I don't think they are. Maybe they don't have actual images in them (a picture is worth a thousand words) but I think they can be just as bad because the words leave your mind imagining anything it wants with the words planted. Books certainly aren't any better than music because music is also just words. Actually books are worse because music is usually interpretive and poetic, while books are usually strait forward and easy to understand. So why do you have to be 17 to buy some CDs but not certain books? Why do people think books are an exception?
I think it is because of the history of books. Books have been around for thousands of years. I made this post because I don't think most people even think about books being rated for being inappropriate. They don't because books are a part of human culture and most of society is numbed to some of the bad things in books. And they try and excuse the bad by saying it's a classic, or literary masterpiece.
Well that doesn't make it appropriate.
I guess I'm just getting tired of immoral teachers thinking students should read whatever teachers want them to read, even if there is a graphic sex scene in it.
Really books aren't different than other media besides being around longer, and they should be treated like other media.
I would like to see what you all have to say on this subject now that the thought is in your mind. and maybe I'm missing something as to why books should get off the hook unlike other entertainment.
Isaaclefries
TodayIGottaSay Enders Game = Yes
This quarter in School I read all the Artemis Fowl books, and they were good, but they felt a little childish at times for me. I do realize that they are written for kids, but I know I didn't get that feeling during Hunger Games, and especially Harry Potter.
But the book I just finished was Enders Game.
Enders Game was an amazing book.
One of the best science fiction books I've ever read.
The plot was an interesting idea and it kept me in it. One thing I didn't like about Artemis Fowl, is that I could easily put the book down. I fell asleep reading it a few times. Enders Game kept me awake late at night. Even the sections that described details, like how a person looks, kept me interested, when I usually find myself bored when authors go off talking about how something looks.
Lastly, the ending was great and I found myself freaking out in my room a couple times because something took an unexpected twist.
But thats not all.
At the end of the book I was satisfied. I didn't want to keep on reading a sequel or keep thinking about it for days. It was just the end and it felt great.
Isaaclefries
But the book I just finished was Enders Game.
Enders Game was an amazing book.
One of the best science fiction books I've ever read.
The plot was an interesting idea and it kept me in it. One thing I didn't like about Artemis Fowl, is that I could easily put the book down. I fell asleep reading it a few times. Enders Game kept me awake late at night. Even the sections that described details, like how a person looks, kept me interested, when I usually find myself bored when authors go off talking about how something looks.
Lastly, the ending was great and I found myself freaking out in my room a couple times because something took an unexpected twist.
But thats not all.
At the end of the book I was satisfied. I didn't want to keep on reading a sequel or keep thinking about it for days. It was just the end and it felt great.
Isaaclefries
TodayIGottaSay hello?
This is my first post.
The point of this post is wondering whether human nature tells us not to say hello to each other, or if human nature is to say hello. And if it is a human nature to "say hi", then why don't most people?
I have ideas often, but putting them into words is difficult at times.
For example: At times I don't say hi to people in the halls. I am usually very friendly towards most people and say hi to many people of all ages and groups at our school. They always reply with a smile and "hey Isaac" and we keep going our own way.
Sometimes I'm not feeling cheerful to talk to say hi to everyone so I walk through the halls and see who says hi first to me, and I find myself surprised.
Most people don't say hi to me unless I say hi first.
I ask myself why this is. Is it because people don't actually like me, or because people just don't like talking to others.
I don't think people just don't like me, I did win student body president recently, and I believe it's because I have friends in all the classes and all groups. So do people really just not want to say hi to each other?
A few kids are like me; they say hi to everyone. But most teenagers don't. I wonder if it is just because they are shy or because most people are usually in the unsocial, unhappy mood that I get in at times.
Some people are just shy but I know that many of my friends aren't, so why don't they say hello?
To figure this out, I look at why I say hi to people. I enjoy talking to people and i feel like i should touch base with people I know. I think deep in me I'm saying "hey, I think your cool and I want you to keep touch with you and know that you're in touch with me."
I guess I just don't understand why people don't want to have that same communication back with me, or other people. Maybe it's just the fact that they're focused on getting to class? Or maybe everyone is shy, or maybe they are all not happy with their lives. their mind is too focused on themselves or other issues that they don't recognize to say hello in the halls.
The point of this post is wondering whether human nature tells us not to say hello to each other, or if human nature is to say hello. And if it is a human nature to "say hi", then why don't most people?
Isaaclefries
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