Friday, October 26, 2012

The article, written by RICHARD PEREZ-PENA,''Studies Find More Students Cheating, With The High Achievers No Exception'', is based on cheating in schools all over the country.Most of the students are cheating off the internet.Their plagiarizsing and cheating off of other peoples work on the internet.Studies also show that a study by Jefferey A. Roberts and David Wasieleski at Duquesne University learned that the more tools online that the college students get to use to complete an assignment, the more frequently they were to copy off others.But in overall the people just don't blame the students they blame the parents and the schools too.They think that the parents and the schools aren't doing thier jobs in educating the students.In a way to all this I would rather get a bad grade and then get help with it, then to copy off my class mates.
I believe that maybe there shouldn't be any cheating because how are you suppose to learn if your cheating off of an class mate.Do your best and try hard.I believe this topic is understanging, I know from the begining what it was about and it incouraged me to read on because this is something that I can relate to and understand.The author made it clear what he was talking about and I understood completely.
I have friends who would rather cheat then to make mistakes and then ask for help so they can learn more and next time they would know what to do.But not me I am more cofident to do it myself than to copy off of someone else.I don't need to do some thing like that because so many people incourage me.And that's a big difference.
I believe this article is  helped me more deeply because know I know that some people in the world might need some help and I can help them, now that I know.I guess the world is in major help and all we have to do is work together and help.I realized that now I can stop using school as a game and use it as and opportunity to get to have a good future.
The article ''Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School'', by Alan Schwarz, is about doctors giving A.D.H.D pills to low income students in low income schools to help them become more focused in school. While some people believe that giving the pills to the students is wrong because the pills are addictive and students may could get sick or have an overdose.Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many unwealthy families, believe that they can give the student something that could help them more academically than changing their school and home environment for without being to expensive.He says, ''We've dicided asa a society that it's too expensive to change the kid's environment. So we have to change the kid.'' Dr. William Graf, a pediatrician and child neurologist who serves many poor parents, believe that giving the children the pills could affect their development. He says, '' These children are still in the developmental phase, and we still don't know how these drugs biologically affect the developing brain.''
I think this article is informing because people need to know before it gets out of hand and wind up hurting or poisoning chilgren.This article changed my perspective of the title because I thought that the title was about teachers druging students in class in secret so they wouldn't tell their parents.But instead it was about doctors giving pills to low income students in low income schools to help boost their focus in class.I believe there is a solution to the problem, maybe some people should help the people in need of help by having fun raisers and bake sales so that families who afford tutors can get one.
If I ever had a problem where I needed more help in school and a doctor came to my home and gave me a pill to help me academically, I would take it because it would give me more of a chance to pay attention in class.But, I wouldn't take it because I could get sick or have an overdose.Like in the article Dr. William Graf said that takink these pill could bioligically affect their developing brain and I agree.
This article help me think deeply about the topic because now I know what people have been doing in the world and try to help prevent it because people are dying and getting sick everyday and we should help prevent it.We could help the world be a better place.
I wonder if there's anyone already trying to help, is anyone informing people about this?Is there a person in the world who cares enough to help? Questions I am curious enough to answer.

Friday, October 19, 2012

CITY 'I' NEW PHONE BOOTHS

As i examined the article ''City 'I' New Phone Booths'', by Annie Karni, i found that the main idea is that she found that there are free touch screen technology so that you can find information abut nearby resturaunts, store sales, traffic updates, landmark information and safety alerts-in many different laguages. By pressing an on screen icon , it will take users to 311 online to make complaints or find out information about a city. According to City24x7, franchisee people who installs the smart screens, they will be more sanitary than ATM's. The screens will cost the city nothing and will bring revenue via advertising. I thought of this article because it caught my eye and it look interesting so I started reading. It's very important  because now people because now people found an easy way to ake a phone call and know what city your in without the hassle.For example people can get to see their tax refunds and will be able to see what type of free park events are happening or are going to happen. This article reminds me of a situation i was was once in, my school had just got new laptops for the 6th, 7th and 8th graders at the time and i was happy because no more we did we have to hassle to get our work done.We could print ,type, and go on online games to help us with our work.I was very happy and excited.I believe this article helped so many people because the government gave society a better way to check their email adresses and gave tourist a way to find out information about the city they're in and let them know where specific places are such as resturants, parks and hopspots.This article made me think if the government is going to improve things,i wonder. I guess i'm just going to have to wait and see.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

     The main idea from the article by: Katie Hafner called ''Texting May Take A Toll'', is that most teens in 2008 were sending over 80 texts messages a day.Which caused teens to not work hard in class and fail also, it caused a problem in adolescents development. According to the Nelson Company.
     Sherry Turkle, a psychologist at Massechusetts Institute of Technology, has studied that teens in the Boston area (which she studied at for three years) said that texting might be causing a problem in the way adolescents develop. She says, '' among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents, and to find the peace and quiet to  become the person you decide you want to be.'' She also says, '' texting hits directly at both those jobs.''
     A reporter named Greg Hardesty from Lake Forest, California, says that his 13-year-old daughter, Reina, sent up to 14,528 texts in one month. She would be able to keep her phone when she goes to bed and waits for a yext to come in. He wroye an article about her in the newspaper, The Orange Count Register and since then her volume increased to 24,000 text messages a month. Then her parents toke her phone and ever since her grades has improved and she got her phone back.
     My opinion is that maybe her parents should be more responsible (as well as the teen) and take their phone or give them a limit to texting.When I text on my phone I get my phone tooken by my mother at 8:oo because when I used to text alot, my mother took my phone because I was failing in class and my mother decided to do something about it, and ever since I've been doing good.