Middle School Act III…Hope?

I remember just three years ago I was headed towards a final year in Elementary school. The very concept of fifth grade was rarely looked upon as a enticing year to endure. At this point teachers were not the problem on most kinds minds. Ironically as my twin brother and I were reaching the top of the tree our older brother fell short. So you have two fifth graders and a freshman in high school, what to do? I try to not even think of fifth grade as a part of Elementary school, but more of a gateway between Elementary and middle. As a man grows so must the environments surrounding. Now eighth grade, months ago I refused to utter such an idea, given the situation…months ago.

Social networking, when approaching the age of 13 to 15, the idea of having friends on a screen and being able to oversee your own little world, may sound pretty cool. It is. Whether you like social networking or not, the battle is lost. Over 500 million people have been introduced to some sort of online “connection.” To be very frank, you are the one who controls the experience online. Showing revealing photos, arguing, tearing up friendships. Or, seeing the very first pictures of your new nephew. Between dateline segments on the dangers of online communication to stories that tell of a 9-11 call placed on a twitter account saving a woman’s life. The back and fourth between good and bad continues on and on. Don’t try to get caught up in it. Many reasons point this way, while many point the other, this is one argument to fight another day.

Many people believe that a second chance is a gift only given to those worthy of a new opportunity. I have been given a second chance, an opportunity that will be faced with pride, power and effort. To be on the very bank of a brand new person is a wonderful feeling. Two years have passed, two years of pain that the strongest men couldn’t endure. As a new school year is days away so is a new chance. While leaving Stanley BPS will be hard, the light at the end of the tunnel looks bright. Eighth grade, Morey Middle School, time to give it all I got, I will do this, I will…

Mixed-Up McInnis

This is not just my inner Democrat looking for just another Republican to screw something up. Granted I love that when it happens, but either way, Scott McInnis, ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!? A well educated rich Colorado native, a good candidate for the open Governor seat in Colorado, Scott McInnis had things going for him. Serving in the US house of Representatives for just over a decade. For the most part Mr. McInnis was looming in the shadows, he lost for re-election in 2005 to John Salazar, the older brother of the current Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar. For the past few years, McInnis has successfully stayed under the radar. Just a few months ago, the Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced that he would not be running for re-election in 2010. This opened a window of opportunities for McInnis.

Just as Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper was announcing his place “to serve” Colorado McInnis was right behind him, getting ready for an interesting race. Then just as McInnis was rolling in his campaign money, he screwed up. “Twenty percent of registered Republican voters who supported McInnis before this week's plagiarism revelations said they will now back another candidate.” This was just one of many different articles surrounding the Denver Posts website. Along with that continuing to evolve, Fellow Republicans are calling for McInnis to pull out.

More and more of McInnis’ followers are starting to slip away. Mr. McInnis has yet to pull out of the race, let alone even apologize. To be completely honest, I believe that Scott needs to swallow up his pride, be a man and do what is right. Again, this has nothing to do with me being more left than right, this has to do with common HUMAN precautions, this is now a question of right and wrong, not left and right. 

DQ: What should Scott McInnis Do?

Justin Bieber an Insult to the Music World

Many say that it was destiny for music star Usher to find Justin Bieber on Youtube. I will say that it may have been destiny for young Bieber to completely destroy the good that was left in the current music world. Trust me I am not another Bieber hater just because he has money, girls and fame. Granted that may be a part of it, but I honestly would rather have rusty nails shoved  into my eyeballs before I make an attempt to listen to him music. Not only has Mr... Bieber reached the top of my “most terrible artist of all time” list right on top of Richard Nixon. I know what your going to say, “Richard Nixon isn’t a music star!” But his musical talent is equal to Mr... Bieber’s. They are also equally bad people. I decided to get to know my enemy a little more to see if he is decent in any walks of life. I visited his website with a pretty low expectation. I was ASTONISHED that even with an expectation that he would make me throw up, he`is musical talent or rather lack of talent put me in the hospital.

Probably a multi-million dollar website was filled to the top with, shallow, inconsiderate, disgusting and STUPID pictures, videos and of course music. The only word I could use to describe him without being breaking anyone's morals would be “POSER!” Mr... Bieber’s music could tear the skin off of most grown adults. His lyrics are completely unoriginal, just repetitive and stupid. This is one of the few times that I will say, youtube and the internet let me down by making Mr... Bieber a star. Take a look at Justin, a 15 year old only child from Canada! What are the chances that Justin already had a very privileged life, just use common sense. If some kid was a family of 12, living in the projects of New York, I may have been more impressed.

People say that he is a natural talent, playing the piano, drums, guitar and trumpet. Lets take another look at how much sense it makes that he learned that by himself. Not to attack his parents but I feel that it would be very likely that he was provided with the best teachers in Canada. Think about that for a moment. All of his songs sound the exact SAME!! OPEN YOU EARS AMERICA, he is nothing but a kid that obviously had connections in the music world. Do you expect me to believe he got rappers like Ludacris just by his music? I refuse to believe that he did that without a pretty some of cash. 

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Backward Alley Investigative Team

In the world of major media, people are “addicted” to news and current events. People spend countless hours writing, producing and creating articles or segments for the public to enjoy at their own pace. The same happens for journalism. Journalists literally devote their life to getting the word out in anyway that is possible. Whether it is a blog, magazine or newspaper, the public has some sort of connection with news. So that leaves an unanswered question: what type of journalism is best for the public? Right now I can say with confidence that it will take you a very long time to answer that question. I am very interested in all types of journalism.  I have tried many different areas of this topic.

For some reason I have been extremely interested in a certain type of reporting. This specific kind of reporting requires patience, great writing, and a lot of research. Investigative journalism is a very challenging area of news and media. Some of our family friends have been reporters for 20 years and just within the last 3 years they were experienced enough to take on the role of investigator. Obviously I am not ready for the NYT investigative team, but starting up a new team didn’t seem too bad an idea. Ever since my magazine stopped being published there has been an empty space in my mind thinking how could I put another sort of “team” together again. Then it hit me! What if I started an independent investigative team? What was the harm? Who could stop us? And most importantly WHAT WOULD BE THE NAME???!!!??

Thus Backward Alley was born! A collection of smart, kind, clever and willing writers makes up the first collection of team members. You may recognize a lot of them from Outcast Party. New faces along with older partners, all very excited to do this. Many may say, “oh its just another one of Noah’s ideas that will be neat at first and then fall apart.” The chances of that happening actually are very high. But for now I’m keeping an open mind, and taking everything into consideration. Please, if you would like to join our cause don’t hesitate to comment below or contact me at my email address noah@noahreynolds.net 

Get ready world: Backward Alley is coming your way!

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The Death of Hip Hop

Back in the day their use to be something called hip hop. Hip hop was one of the main sources of music in the 90’s and early 2000’s. But the idea and concept of hip hop has been replaced by rap music. Don’t get me wrong, I love rap, but the way that artists are singing these days is an abomination. All that singers and rappers care about these days is music and fame. It use to be music always came first then the money and the fame. Not to mention the STUPID lyrics coming out of these guys mouths. Very few people still have smart lyrics and good beats. Even one of my favorite rappers in the last few years has let money get to him. Lil Wayne use to be a clever well put together artist until is number one single “Lollipop” he has had good stuff after that but not much.

In his recent mix tape that leaked out, I was amazed and pretty astounded by how well he did. But still with his passed performances I am yet to stay loyal to him. More than half of the time rappers don’t even have lyrics, only three words repeated 20 or so times with a cool beat. I recently went to a concert for one of the classic hip hop/rap artists of all time. Jay-Z is an amazing talent, great lyrics, good beat and a all around classy guy. But guys such as Drake frankly are offensive to what use to be great music.

Another great artist is Mos Def, while he is relatively new he still keeps a consistent career and great songs with his partner in crime Talib Kweli and they make Black Star. But you can’t forget the other classics, Nas, Common, Dr. Dre, Outkast, Wyclef Jean, Biz Markie and T.I. (recently released from jail)  My point in all of this is to get the word out. Take a moment to listen to what you are playing on your iPod, and start caring about the music and not about how “cool” or “hip” an artist is. Keep those rappers above in mind if your in the mood for great music.

DQ: Favorite Hip Hop Artist?

The State of our Hospitals

Years back, I was admitted to a “school” at Denver’s Children's Hospital. This “school” was a school for kids with psychotic problems. Anger management, depression, suicide watch ect. Thos two weeks…the most disorganized, poorly put together and worst place that I could have been. Two years later, I am in the same situation, mean people and terrible service. Before you even say it I know that it sounds like I am describing a bad hotel, but considering the problems that these kids were facing, we should have had freaking room service for the way they treated us.

The teachers were mean, not to mention the rude therapists. Half of the kids are were because they wanted to kill themselves. And the way that we were so mean, rude and unkind being there didn’t help me at all. The only reason I got out of there was because acted like everything was fine and that being there was enough motivation to NEVER go back. For some reason I forgot how bad it really was. I am now back, and regret every minute of my life to get me where I am.

An article was published on medicalnewstoday.com that released the average number of deaths in hospitals each year. The result was astonishing. 195,000 people die of treatable problems in hospitals each year, give or take. To think that this number of people died under the care of professional doctors is a bit frightening, to say the least. For those people that may very well be reading this from the hospital I will not take back anything I say. This should be a turning point for you to maybe make the kids feel comfortable and safe, as apposed to the opposite.

We are there for a reason, if we have an idea of how to fix our “problems” as you call it, LISTEN! This goes for everyone in the medical business from clinics to residential. Your not getting paid to be mean to us! Think about that.

DQ: Have you ever had a bad experience at the hospital? 

Join the Revolution

A revolution is on our hands. A revolution of the damned, the left out and the cursed. A revolution of redemption, of curiosity and for those who care. noahreynolds.net is a new revolution, a revolution of the outcasts, the strange and the weird. For those who need respect and admiration. The ones that need to be taken seriously. Taken by force and taken for a cause. If none come to us, we will come to them. They will scream in terror as they find the ones that where on the bottom soon to be on the top. Through the deepest trenches of dread up to the sky of remorse we will overcome. We build a society under the laws of common sense and basic principles.

The shouts of celebration and merriment. To the fears of bullies and those who don’t care. Maturity is a key thing to life, those who posses this key quality are welcome, and those who don’t will struggle. Friendships will be formed and stay together. Enemies will become acquaintances, and to service those who will rise. This revolution is a new revolution, breaking the boundaries of internet journalism, and journalism all together. The strong will become weak and the weak strong. Nobody will dare question the authority of the revolution.

noahreynolds.net is now a revolution, and many are to follow. To break out of the normality of everyday life and everyday people is a requirement. Now is your choice, will you join up with the strong or stay with the weak? Will you join the REVOLUTION?

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The Future of Print

By Noah Reynolds

 

Many Different blogs, videos and articles that are circulating the internet have a very interesting idea about the future of print journalism. From the Sony Kindle that supposedly is the replacement of printed books, all the way to the new Apple iPad, both seem to be putting the “old school” way of getting the word out down in the dumps. By old school I mean printed. Newspapers and magazines are either turning to the electronic way of spreading the news or even blogs to do the work. On Boston Universities Independent Newspaper “The Daily Free Press” an article states that all of the revenue for newspapers and magazines seem to be suffering tremendously and are having to cut back on the essentials. Lay offs and less issues are all too familiar for most of the Countries best magazines.

My favorite publication “Psychology Today” is one of those magazines that really is feeling the pain. The once monthly magazine has turned to every two months and doubled its subscription price. One thing that seems quite strange to me is that even with the decreasing number of printed publications and the rising number of blogs, people STILL seem to criticize all of the blogs and bloggers. A while back on CBS’ show “Face the Nation” a Washington Post writer compared bloggers and blogging as “Potential Terrorism”

Lets back up one moment, the woman who works for the Washington Post is saying that blogging is Terrorism. The Washington Post that has one of the biggest blogs out of any publication around the US. Things are starting to get strange, on the website publishing2.com an article about this very issue is started off like this “Print is dead and all content wants to be free”

Wow! That is all I can say about the issue, Bloggers are saying that print is dead, printers are saying that print is dead and frankly most of the consumers and readers believe that most of print Journalism is gone. Please people of the internet don’t make print dead, read magazines and newspapers, and read the blogs, like this one.

 

DQ: Do you think print is dead?

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13 and Biking

Silver and blue, broken brakes and no support. Small slow and scrawny. A 2004 trek “mountain bike” is my main source of transportation. While my bike may not be the most luxurious or well maintained piece of equipment it is my life. Almost anywhere within 10 miles of my centrally located house in the middle of Denver is where I ride. From the Cherry Creek Mall all the way down to REI by the Platte River. I was recently turned onto the sport of cycling by myself. I am pretty out of shape for being my age, and I wanted to do something that always satisfied me (in the way of exercise) Biking is the first thing I learned how to do once I could walk. I was really into it about five years I got my first black and grey Schwinn bike. No shifting just pull back the pedals and you stop. Those were the days. I stopped riding my bike until I got my first shifting bike with gears! I was so excited as you can imagine. I would ride my bike every day and night. Then I became a teenager. Just focusing on looking good and my rising writing career. But for some reason I just wanted to try biking for one more time and give it one more shot.


My centrally located house is just a shot ride to Cherry Creek, Downtown and most everywhere in the Denver Metro area. For one reason or another the bustling biker populated area that I ride around isn’t fond of a kid riding around. As I ride I get smirks aimed towards me, laughs and nasty looks. As I ride by I try to be as polite as possible. The favor is not returned. So ignoring those unkind and rude bikers is an obligatory task that I must continue to have a high tolerance level with.

And yet, day in and day out I maintain a five to six mile regular route. Ignoring the bad-mannered cyclist. No matter what, I will continue my biking, my writing and my looking good while doing it.

The Other Side of the Blog

Recently I was looking over my blog posts and realized that I am the only person giving only one opinion. Not saying that's bad but it just makes me feel awkward that I have an opinion and nobody else is able to pitch in. So keeping that in mind I decided I needed to interview some other students at my school. So I turned to my most reliable source that I can always count on. Eliza Samuelson.

I interviewed Ms. Samuelson knowing that she had a very similar view on school but doesn’t always look at the bad things. I just asked Eliza to explain what she thinks about school and I came up with a shocking result. Eliza: “ Academics are much harder than sixth grade and expectations are higher, but teachers help a lot when you need it. One of the worst part is the so called Drama. Not like last year the Drama is much more intense and severe than before. I feel that relationships are overrated in middle school as swell as dating. Being in a public school before BPS I much rather be in public because their is much less room the breath and word travels fast. Underneath a microscope.”

This interview intrigued me, so I went to do some more research. Asking teachers and students alike. I took a pull of all the major clicks in BPS and found out that 14 people found that BPS was a great environment for them and only 11 people thought that BPS was a very bad place. I got answers from, “I love this school” to “this school sucks.” Obviously very different opinions on things.

Now to keep in mind these are people that weren’t told by teachers to give a certain answer it was all on what the students really thought. So while Ms. Samuelson and I might have a very similar opinion on this school more than enough people disagree with us. But also keep in mind some people like small environments and others like bigger environments. So in the end the other side of what I write is very different and I just wanted to clear that up that I am not the only person thinking this stuff but that also many people disagree with me.

DQ: Have you ever thought of one thing and you think that everybody agrees with you but it turns out that nobody does?

Middle School Mexican Stand off

In our time and age it does seem that the most challenging age group is the teenage group. Not to leave out the pre adult collage grads trying to get by life off of nothing. Or the wife and husband needing to support a family. Okay I retract my last statement, middle school students don’t have the most difficult life, but it does seem that way. You see it is very hard to comprehend, how can a age group being sheltered, not having to pay taxes and being fed be so miserable. I can’t even answer this question, go to a physiatrist. But yet the truth is still there, we are miserable. Facing the common issues of, “how does my hair look,” to “I hate my life.”  A bipolar type attitude towards life.

Recently I have witnessed the most terrible of all the terrible things that could happen during a middle school career. The separation of great friends. For the sake of privacy again I will not be mentioning names or specific events. Even if I’m not great friends with the people in the fight. Their is an unforgettable difference as they come over to you without that other person, or as they travel in groups not having their partner. As it may be hard to imagine it is a very sad thing that takes place. While I may not be able to do anything about it directly, I will try my very best.

To set aside a grudge or a obvious remark that someone has made agents you, might be harder than the stupid math test that you know you will fail. But whatever the coast, same with the math test, you must succeed or nothing good will come out of it. Even something such as a mean word needs to be foul play and ignored. Another thing such as reoccurring dishonest or mean actions need to stop. As hard as that may seem both friends need to do it.

In the end, I may not like I said succeed in accomplishing peace in the playground, but I will not stop at anything to make the thought that everyone loves each other a true reality. So to my friend put aside your mean words, your foolish actions and Irish type grudges and be friends again, its not a Mexican stand off, it a friendship.

DQ: Fight with a friend?

1454 Days

Well, it is that time of year again, or should I say four years. No sporting event gets me more hyped up than the Olympic games. Whether it is the high speed sport of alpine skiing or the more relaxed sport of curling, for some reason just the thought of it makes me very excited. I can remember the 2006 Olympics vividly. I would wake up every morning and watch the Today Show to get all of the information on the past winter events. And nothing is to say that I will won’t be doing the exact same thing over the next month.

I can name many different reasons why the winter Olympics capture my attention much more than any other large sporting event. But the main reason behind this strange mystery is that it is winter. Winter is the best season for sports, weather, atmosphere ect. Also for some strange reason the feeling that school falls around the same time as apposed to the summer Olympics or World Cup. I just feel like it is a good feeling to rush home after school and watch the games.

Their is NO doubt that I will be following every waking moment of these upcoming games. I have all of my winter gear planted out, I am ready to go snowboarding and even to watch the games. I can feel that the next month will be full of fun filled competitive spirit up in the north. Have fun up their Vancouver and happy four years of waiting!

DQ: Favorite winter sport

Extra, Extra!

So recently I have been looking all around the internet to see what is a good news blog/website to get some news from. I tried Huffington post, New Yorker and even the local newspaper, but nothing was good enough. So then it hit me, why don’t I just ask the people that I spend every day and every hour of that day with, the teachers. So I have conducted a very organized survey of my teachers favorite news sources. And as you shall see I got what I thought were some strange results.

I started with my mom and dad, dad said that his favorite was cnn.com, and my mother prefers the local NBC news station. For privacy reasons I can’t reveal my teachers names at this time. But what I can tell you is that 3 out of the ten teachers I interviewed preferred National Public Radio over any other news source. At least to me that is quite a strange outcome. In a survey taken one quarter of the people surveyed preferred a big organization such as cnn or NYT over any other blog or news source. While I got plenty of those outcomes in my survey I was surprised to see a non profit donation type source to win the crown.

DQ: Favorite news source?

Happy Birthday Olivia

Have you ever been graced by a all around nice person who cares for others. I have and I have the enormous privilege of being able to have such person as one of my very good friends. Olivia Thomas is a caring funny and kind person. In all my years I have never met someone with all of these great qualities. And in my years at BPS I have never met anyone with such grace and triumph in her past and future. She has never let me down as a friend or a person. She gives me tips while helping others. I love seeing her smiling face even when my jokes aren’t funny.

To criticize or be mean to Olivia is being mean to the face of kindness and inclusion. I also have never seen someone do as many nice things as Olivia has ever done. I would trust Olivia with my life, and I do. I am only a minor step step stone in the mosaic of her friends. But that is not to say I am not proud to be her friend. Nothing gives me more pleasure to walk in everyday and see Olivia’s shinning face greeting me in the classroom.

Today is Olivia’s birthday, she is thirteen. That is just one more year she has successfully captured the minds of every person she has ever met to love her. And today using the power of the internet I am giving Olivia a proper birthday writing. Nobody will ever stop loving you Olivia, thanks for everything and Happy 13!!!!!

DQ: Have you ever had that one person that you can trust everything with?

Bloggers Union Part II

Well, here we are again, in the midst of a emotional crisis and economic collapse and I have the bright idea to add yet another item to my agenda. Juggling my on going directing career being a fundraiser administrator and school work can definitely put somewhat of a damper on someone's life. But hey, that's who I am, I like taking on all of these challenges with an open mind. But one idea that seemed to be untouched until now is the bloggers union idea. Now I don’t have to think up of an idea that may not work, because my idea that has been going on for a while is now an official school assignment.

Yes you heard me, I will be able to continue my blog while doing homework. But writing a note to a leader is another matter. You see because the chances of my teachers reading my blog is very high and because if I am saying things that I shouldn’t that will be trouble for me. So to help stop this problem I will be a school correspondent updating everybody about my project for the next few days or week. This doesn’t mean that I won’t be able to write stiff that I usually write, this just means that I will be writing more.

DQ: So now it is up to my loyal readers, if you could help me find someone to write to that might help me with my bloggers union idea please leave comments below, thanks!

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss. The colt classic movie stared Julia Andrew, Mary Tyler Moore and many other now famous actors. But today I am not talking about the one million dollar movie, more along the lines of a school musical. But if you saw what I saw today you would think that it was a million dollar movie. Today I got a once in a lifetime chance to sit in on the rehearsal of the show and get a background look at what is going on. Three sections were split up into, dance and sing, acting and stage fighting. The director of the production Lee lee Newcomb is very famous for her theater camps. But enough of the foolish details lets dive right in.

I first got a chance to sit in on the sing and dance group, made mostly up of eighth graders. The song Give me, give me was the one. It had a familiar rhythm and tone but I couldn’t figure out what it was. Then it hit me, gimi gimi my favorite song five years in the past. I was so excited that I found out what the songs name was my skin was crawling.

My next stop was the fight scene that was made up of three seventh grade men and one eighth grade woman. The fighting taking place was oddly like the fighting that occurs at my household but without fake yelling and hitting. Seeing my fellow peers beat each other up was a exciting experience for me. One friend hitting the other as if I was to stop it, no doubt I was going to continue watching.

Unfortunately the third and final group had to leave to a seventh grade girls basketball game, but I am very happy to announce that the won! Their first win! Today was a good day, I got to feel as if I was an important reporter. But everyone thinks that already right….

DQ: Favorite play/movie/musical, answer with creative responses below!

Bloggers Union?

Over the past few weeks I have been researching certain unions for a personal project that I have been conducting. I have found many different types of unions, ones that you would think don’t even exist. But to my amazement, after collecting the right amount of data for my “project” I was mortified to find out that bloggers don’t have a union. Unions are a great way to get something done your way. And for bloggers many things aren’t done the way that we would like. Most of the blogger population doesn’t even blog for money. We are given the lowest amount of respect among the whole internet community. I am not trying to sat that we need to get paid but just that we need to have more journalism benefits.

Along with my many hours searching the web I also turn to one of my most reliable sources, youtube.com. My keyword search was of course “bloggers union” and what I found was absolutely devastating from a bloggers standpoint. Fox news has always been a right wing conservative news network, and I don’t think that is a problem, until they start completely making up ridicules stories. Again on youtube I was browsing the videos but one video in particular caught my eye. The title was “Fox attacks bloggers” from that title I knew that this was going to be a bad idea.

The video was pretty much just a montage of news reports that are accusing blogs for being, “unconstitutional” and that they “stretch the freedom of press.” This video accuses bloggers of blackmailing presidential candidates. Also they are accused of taking over the internet. In my mind I believe that Fox news should get lost! Reason number one, they have the two most proudest and rude bloggers on the web, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Reason number two, if Fox News can express there obvious opinion about the Democratic party than why can’t the left wing liberals discus there feelings towards the other party.

After conducting some more research I have come to a final decision that either the bloggers go on strike or we get our own union. This can go out two ways, lose your news, gossip, sports ect. or help be apart of the revolution of blogging and bloggers. I do have a fundraiser to work on but I will keep doing my extensive research to help this growing problem of Blogger discrimination! 

DQ: What is your opinion on the blogger discrimination problem. Leave comments to answer this question.

Haiti, The 2010 Katrina

To be honest nobody gives a care about anyplace until a natural disaster or some national crisis hits this place. In Haiti’s case, nobody even knew that Haiti was already going through worse times than the U.S. I knew about Haiti, but that is just because I like to learn about other nations. If I didn’t have that quality I would know nothing about Haiti. Of course the reaction time of Haiti is far different from Katrina. I do believe that the support that the world community is giving Haiti is very good. But in other aspects Haiti and Katrina are very alike.

I knew less about New Orleans than I do about Haiti. For that matter I didn’t even know that New Orleans even was a common place for hurricanes to hit. Not only do people not care about places such as Haiti but even with American connections between these places is completely ignored. The only thing that draws attention to Haiti is the decrepit sight of rotting buildings falling over the streets. But what people don’t know is that the only thing that is different about the scenery of Haiti is the buildings might be fallen over. Otherwise the sight of homeless people, disorder and brutality is just the same. It might be at a more sever level but not much different.

But here I am complaining about the lack of direct attention to Haiti in the past but what really needs to be noticed is the Haiti desperately needs help. There are many ways that Haiti could be helped but I am going to use one of my favorite ways to help people and have fun at the same time. I will be holding a story contest for my blog. It is a five dollar entry fee. The topic is funny stories. You must write a minimum of a page, and no maximum just within reason. All of the money will go to support for Haiti. More detail will be coming out soon.

DQ: Do you know of any good orginazations that I might be able to donate the money from the fundraiser to? Leave answers and comments below.

We’re Only 13!

In the educational world, nothing stops a student from being assigned homework. Yes it sucks and yes it is stressful, but in the end it is a universal key aspect of a students school career. And once you think about it, work done at home, even if not intended to be “homework” comes along throughout life. At my school we are required to have a accordion binder/folder. My folder is sky blue, with a matching string to hold in the papers. A clear sealing so I can admire all of the wonderful work that I am assigned. But lately my beautiful folder has been falling apart. The tape proclaiming that the folder was my property has fallen off. The very helpful and quite fancy string has ripped from its post and the clear walls to my folder are falling apart. The one and only felon to do such a crime on this very important folder happens to be the inhabitant of its very sleek inner section. In other words, the mass amount of homework that comes day in and day out is the cause of the vandalism.

I am the standing image of what a child looks like after a huge amount of homework. Bags under my eyes, extremely dry skin, paper cuts all over and pencil markings on the left and right hands. I will tell you that the past month (not including vacation) all weekends I have been slaving over pieces of colorful paper as if the paper was trying to make homework more fun. But I can say with confidents that the colorful paper doesn’t help. I am trying to get to a point and I am caught up in other things, sorry.

Anyway, by now I think that you will be able to see the main grievance of this particular post is. I am angry with the current amount of homework that me, fellow students and even teachers have to go through. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to have a complaining fest just to post it on the internet. I am honestly stating a problem that many other kids feel should be focused on by the education boards all around the states. If any teachers are reading this please take this as a real problem, and try to make it better.

Special thanks to: Harry Forbes for my new blog logo located at the top of my page.

 

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