1/29/2015

Finish this sentence "10 years from now I will be...." (explain) 

Far away from Kansas and living somewhere warm. I will be graduated from college and have a job in what I am interested in, I will also not have to be around any of the kids that I went to high school with because they all are annoying. I hope to live in South Carolina and be married to someone. I don't know yet about kids. In ten years from now I really hope that I can be successful in whatever I chose to do with my life. 

1/27/2015

Yesterday I had you choose a global issue and you wrote about it on your blog. Today on your blog I want you to tell me about two different perspectives of your global issue. Are there people for an against your issue? Do people disagree on your issue? Is it a topic that can cause controversy? Look at the issue for two different perspectives. Tell me about those perspectives. 

My global issue is obesity. One side to the story and concern around obesity would be that we as a nation are promoting bad eating habits. Mcdonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, and many other fast food chains have very unhealthy food and don't really promote eating right and a balanced diet. These fast food chains make it easy access to Americans and could be making our nation fat. The advertisements for these foods are everywhere and encourage us almost to not eat right. They also offer many sizes of things that we can get. Almost all of these places offer options that can super size things and there are constantly deals on things that if you get one you can get another for free. And now Michelle Obama is getting involved and wanting meals to be healthier which is seeing some back lash.  

 

Other people would argue that it is our own right to eat and do whatever we want and the government should stay out of it and allow us to consume what we want on a daily basis. That would also argue that maybe the place itself should offer more healthy food and we should not have to worry about consuming something that is so many calories from having a simple meal. There are some Americans that don't see the issue as a huge problem and if someone wants to eat a hamburger that is 1000 calories than they have every right to.  

This topic can cause a lot of controversy simply because for most people weight is a sensitive issue and there are many factors that could play into weight gain. But from statistics we can definitely determine that weight has become a serious problem in the United States. 

Obesity

Without doing any research, what background do you currently have on this issue?
What do you want to know about this issue?
Why did you choose this issue? Had it effected your life? Is it something you are passionate about? Explain

The issue I chose was obesity and the background information that I have is simply from seeing super size me twice at school in different classes and being an athlete I have heard several things regarding weight and working out and where I should be with my fitness. I want to know more about this issue and more of the facts. I have heard that it is becoming a major problem in the United States and while I have a good idea on why that is I would like to know more of the facts and what if we even are doing to try and fix this and prevent it. I chose this issue simply because it seems to be a huge issue now a days. It doesn't affect me personally my whole family is in really good shape and watch what they eat and do. But I am passionate about playing sports and staying active I love tennis and staying fit would be a huge thing to go along with tennis today, so mainly I chose this topic to see the variety of things in today's world and economy that is contributing to us being over weight and what we can do about the to fix it. The more and more that technology grows and we have access to more and more things that the generation didn't know or have before, the more stationary we become. The new technology is largely to blame because more and more kids play games inside rather than going outside and playing. But I want to find out more about this growing concern in the United States. 

1/26/2015

Last week I asked your to "think differently" and push yourself to be uncommon with your PSA project using Google Slides. Why do you think I asked you to do that? What is the point? Why not just use bullets and headers? Explain. 

Well for one you probably don't want to see the same thing over and over again, plus by just putting information in bullets we aren't really learning it and more just copying down the information by putting things on each slide with out adding much thought to it. Secondly by working more creativity with the information we are learning it better. We are having to think about the facts that we are trying to convey in our PSA because it needs to be presented differently. By working and thinking differently we are able to see the information in a new way and present in a way that took time to understand and to write down because we had to be unique and couldn't just follow a the set standard that most presentations that we do have.  

1/23/2015

Kids these days are always on their phones, they hardly ever go outside and enjoy the weather or just to get some fresh air. It really is a shame when I was younger we didn't have smart phones and all these video games and gadgets that kids now a days have. We had fun by going outside and playing various games such as tag, we as kids explored more and were actually friends with the neighborhood kids. Kick the can and capture the flag are a waste of this generation. let alone the fact that you can never get their attention. Ever meal they eat is instagramed, every activity they do is tweeted abut and every picture they take is added to facebook. Let alone the fact that you have to watch out for the snap chats. If you are not paying attention they will snap a photo of you and caption it within seconds. Everything that the younger generation does has to be documented and photographed. Leaving the question that if you didn't take a picture were you even actually there?

Public Service Announcement

1/22/2015

What is a public service announcement (PSA)? What do PSA's do? What makes a good PSA? How can you get someone to take action after watching a PSA? What is you PSA idea? Explain in detail. 

A pubic service announcement is something that brings awareness to a topic or subject that is of concern to the public. They shine a light on issues that need to be addressed or at least made known for public safety or knowledge. A good public service announcement is something that moves and motivates a person. It is something that makes people think and maybe even change their actions. It's something that gets people talking and discussing a matter that needs to be talked about more than it is. A PSA should be motivating enough to get a person to take action after watching it or to even consider what was said in it. Something that has a lot of facts and can prove why something might be disruptive to the public good can motivate someone to take action after seeing it. My PSA is to never text and drive. Texting and driving is incredible dangerous and takes your attention away from the road to the device that you are holding. It only takes one text or a couple of seconds to change your life and someone else's. 

1/20/2015

Tell me all about your 3 day weekend. Share photos! 

Over the weekend I played tennis everyday and attended practice on Friday and Saturday. I also hung out with some friends and went to Jose Peppers. I also went shopping with another set of friends and I bought some new Kendra Scott earrings. It was also a crazy nice weekend so I took my dog for a long walk at Heritage Park, other than that I spent time with my family and got some chores and things done around my house that I had put off for a while  

1/16/2015

Tell me a little bit about yourself and your life here at BVHS. What activities or clubs are you involved in? What year are you in school? What is your favorite class and/or teacher so far this year? What are you looking forward to this school year? Include some original photos from your phone if you can. 

I am a senior here and I played varsity tennis all four years for the school. I won state junior year in tennis with junior Alexa Tiefel. My favorite class this year is of course this one because Scheuerman is awesome but other than that I liked sociology with Mrs. Cowan because it was a fun class and I enjoyed the topics that we talked about. What I am looking forward to is graduating and getting out of here. I want to go to college and plan to never come back to Kansas. 

 

This is from the tennis banquet this year!

Who Am I Presentation

1/15/2015

Always be nice to people
Beware of obstacles
Carefully plan your future
Don't doubt yourself
Everything happens for a reason
Find your passion
Get good grades
Help others out
Include people
Just don't stress out
Kindness is contagious
Love everybody
Make a lot of money
Never give up
Open your mind to new things
Positive people go farther
Quickly find things you like to do
Realize your potential
Say what you want
Take time to yourself
Under no circumstance think you're worthless
Verify what you want and get it
Wear what you want
X Rays....make sure and get them
Yell whenever you want
Zios is a good place...eat there

1/13/2015

What are your thoughts on this class so far? Easy? Hard? Informative? Frustrating? What have you learned so far? What do you want to learn? Explain yourself. 

I like this class and I like the idea of having a blog. I find the class challenging though just because it is things that I have never worked with before or done. It is however, easy to catch onto the things if I am paying attention and listening to the directions well. I was frustrated with figuring out how to put a picture on my blog because I missed the day we went over that but I after playing around with some of the options I figured out how to do it and now I am back on track with it. So far I have learned how to set up a blog and how to make posts, I originally didn't know anything regarding blogs and how they even work from behind the scenes. I hope to learn more just regarding computers and how they operate. I want to be able to navigate blogger and all the options knowing exactly how to use it and how it's ran. 

1/12/2015

Tell me about your weekend. What did you do? Upload a photo to your Google Drive and then insert the photo (or photos!) to your blog post to show me what all you did.

This weekend the main thing that I did was play tennis but I also got the chance to hang out with some of my friends and we went shopping. For the tennis part I played a tournament and ended up getting 6th place, it was a challenging tournament but overall I was happy with the way that it turned out even though I was suppose to finish one spot better. For shopping we went to forever 21 and a couple other stores that are a little scattered but if you look long enough you can find a really good buy.

1/9/2015

Watching Netflix: A
Playing Tennis: A
Shopping: A
Drinking Lemonade: A
Painting nails: A

1/8/2015

Read this small newspaper clipping and then write a blog post about it. What are your thoughts? How does it make you feel? Do you agree? Disagree? Explain yourself.

I agree with this article. Teenagers are always complaining while still living off their parents money. Teens should go home they should learn responsibilities so that they can become successful when they are adults and when they can no longer spend their parents money. It's the mentality that if you want something you have to go out and work for it and it wont come easy you're going to need to put effort in to achieve anything worth doing. Teenagers are soon becoming adults and they should actually start behaving like one. This article motivates me to want to accomplish goals and make something of myself.