Tanning Mom

     There was a new Jersey women arrested for trying to tan her 5-year-old daughter at the tanning salon. this was fond out when the daughter was asked about her sun burn by her teacher. The daughter's replay was that she had gon tanning with mommy. Doctors say that she has a problem called tanerexia. the story had a picture of the tanning mom from her mug shot taken on monday, and they had an interview with her and she was a deeper bronze color. Tanning mom pleaded non-guilty. She claimed that her daughter had gotten the sunburn from the sun while gardening. Even Jersey Shore's, Snooki Says that she was wrong for taking the child in to the salon.
     I think if the daughter did get the burn from the tanning booth, then the mother is wrong! The main problem is that if she does this to her daughter at this young age she can grow up to have the same condition. This obsession of tanning can led to cancer and many other health problem.
     Comment, and let me know how you feel about this situation.

Remembering After Death

     When a person dies is it right to remember them by the good or the bad things they did in their life? To me I believe that when a person dies you should try your best to remember what they did positive in life. i think that if you think of all the negative things then you are only adding more negativity to your own life.
    As we all know the singer/actor star, Whitney Houston, died on feb 11, 2012. Due to this the president, Barack Obama, made a speach to express his condolences. In his speach he basicly said that Whitney was one of the best singers he had ever heard. I think that people were just giving him a hard time, but some did not like that he said this about her, knowing her past addiction to drugs. My question is, what does having a drug addiction have to do with your talent of singing? But I think Obama said the right thing, because your not soppose to say anything negative while giving your condolances about a person that has just died.
     I also think that in order to avoid this situation Obama could nat have given his personal opinion. He could have said some thing like "I am sorry to the family of Whitney Houston, and you will be in prayers." I think this could have caused less of a problem for some of the people, but since he is the president I think some people would have still had a problem with whatever he says. In the end, I do not have a problem with what he said. Now, I want to know what you think. How would you feel about a person that had "dirt" on their past, and died? And do you feel about What obama said about Whiney Houston?

Smash or Pass

     I saw in the news, maybe a few months back, there was a page on Facebook titled Smash or Pass. Smash is a new slang word that has come up in the past year, and it means to have sexual relations with someone, where as pass, means not to. What people do on this page is post pictures of themselves one it and random strangers will comment on weather they would smash or pass.
     This to me is a problem because it is things like this that can damage a persons self-esteem. If a person was passed on this page I am sure that their self confidence is lowered. Another problem that was stated on the news was that people were no longer just putting pictures of themselves, but others as well. This made me think that if I were to be going through Facebook and saw that a picture of me was posted with our my permission would anger me. If the people posted bad things about me it is possible that it could hurt how I feel about myself.
     Now, my question to you is how do you feel about the Smash or Pass page, and how would you feel if you saw a picture of yourself posted on it?
 

My Introduction to Tumblr

     At the begining of the school year I was introduced to a new website by a good friend named Grainne. The name of this website is called Tumblr. To me it is a very enjoying website. Tumblr is a lot like this website but to me it is more entertaining, because of the millions of pictures or texts we could reblog. Based on the things that people reblog, you can see their personality or the way they are feeling at the moment. If you like the thinkgs that this person post or reblogs then you can follow them.
     On my blog, you will find pictures or text that I found interestin or funny. Other pictures you will find includes my favorite bands or people from my favorite bands. The band you will see most on my Tumblr is Escape the Fate. Escape the Fate is my favorite band, and I get a lot of insperation from them when I think of music that I want to write.
     On Tumblr, you can post pictures as well. You can make humorous comic strips, or take a picture with a camera and post in on, what is known as your profile. When this is on Tumblr the people can reblog or like your picture. When they reblog the picture others will be able to see it on what is known as their dashboard. this is how the picture is circulated. If you look at the notes of the post you can see what people have done with your picture, which is either reblogged or liked the post.
     Overall, Tumblr is a great and fun website to use. I hope to continue using it for a long time, and in the end become "Tumblr famous!"

Random: To Isolate Yourself

     There are billions of people in the world. We all have billions of ways of communicating with each other. Some people are very popular with others, and have up to hundreds of people to personally talk to. Others may have a small number of people, maybe around twenty or less people. When people are placed in a isolated area they may find themselves in a state of sadness. Some people, however, believe that they could sever all ties in human contact. Really, in this twenty-first century world contact is completely necessary in order to get the things that you want. My question from this is do you think you can cut yourself off from the billions of people on this planet, what kinda of problems would you run into, in your personal life doing so?

     I thought i would answer my own question, just in case the question was not clear. If I had to isolate myself from the world, I think it would be a hard thing to do. I, knowing myself, require at least one living thing, such as a person or pet. If I don't have someone I feel comfortable to talk to, all the emotional trials us as human have to go through will pile up, and possibly send us to a state of depression. Since I am a student in school, if I have a question I have to speak and get the answer from a teacher. So, in my life it is impossible to isolate myself completely. 

Slavery Worksheets

Throughout the history of Georgia there have been various racial problems. January eleventh of 2012 there was a worksheet given out to a class of third graders. On the worksheets there were very inappropriate math questions. An example of one of the math problems was "each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves picked them equally, then how much would each slave pick?" This made some of the students parents very uncomfortable and upset Some parents told their children not to even do the assignment. When I heard about this occurrence i was made a little uncomfortable because it was very insensitive to the subject of matter. It was told that the teacher was trying to use the process of cross-curriculum, or incorporating two subjects in one. In my opinion the teacher that created this worksheet could have did better with his examples, because the crossing between history and math, the history portion was not very beneficial. Instead it was very violent and grotesque. In the end I believe the teacher was forced to resign, which i believe was necessary. 

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