When is the last time you did something kind for a stranger? Doing nice
things for strangers isn’t something that just came about, but in recent
years, “paying it forward” has become a trend. What do you think
compels people to, say, pay for a coffee ordered by a person who will
never see them and thus be unable to thank them?
The last time that I last helped a stranger was by holding the door for them. That may not be a big leap to helping, but it is a polite and nice thing to do. People who help out others are compelled to do that probably to do it out of the kindness of their heart. Another could be that they just want to help.
With our generation slowly losing that way of kindness and helping strangers, people will do anything and not care. One example was that a fight broke out in a McDonald's where there was a group of teens beating up another teenager. All people did was just stand around watching, taking pictures and taking video. The only people who helped was that some of the employes call the cops. I feel like our society is slowly loosing this touch of helping others, when people should be helping others. People should be standing up for a person they don't know. Our society need to go back to where people would help each other and not just stand around.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Older people learning from this generation
What can older people learn from your generation? What lessons do you
think your parents could learn from you? In general, what skills,
attitudes and habits do you think people in your generation have that
older people might benefit from? Why?
One thing that older people could learn from our generation is how to use the internet. If an older person needs to find something out or look something up they could just go to the internet and search for it. With the way the internet is, it is simple to keep up with current events. An older person who like to keep up with current events could search for a news website and read what they want to know about.
Our generation could teach how to use technology to the older generation, but our generation could use some teaching as well. We could learn not to be so down in technology so much and talk to people face to face. Also how the way society has grown over the years. Back then people cared about other people and look out for each other. Now if something happens all our generation does is just stand around and take video or pictures. The older generation might be able to learn from us, but we also need to learn from them.
One thing that older people could learn from our generation is how to use the internet. If an older person needs to find something out or look something up they could just go to the internet and search for it. With the way the internet is, it is simple to keep up with current events. An older person who like to keep up with current events could search for a news website and read what they want to know about.
Our generation could teach how to use technology to the older generation, but our generation could use some teaching as well. We could learn not to be so down in technology so much and talk to people face to face. Also how the way society has grown over the years. Back then people cared about other people and look out for each other. Now if something happens all our generation does is just stand around and take video or pictures. The older generation might be able to learn from us, but we also need to learn from them.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Fairness
1. Think of a time when you've taken unfair advantage of a person or a
situation, or when someone has taken unfair advantage of you. Describe
it. What was unfair about it? How did it make you feel? What did you
learn from the experience?
2. How is fairness related to having respect for others? How is it related to honesty? To being reliable? To being a good citizen?
When I was little and still went to a sitter, I was used as a footstool. Two older girls, in their teens or young adults, came to the sitter's house. They came to visit, and then they went to the living room to watch TV with me and the other kids. I sat in front of the couch on the floor. Then the two girls put their feet on my shoulder. I tried to move away but they pushed their legs down. I asked them to stop but they wouldn't. When my parent go to the sitter's house I was free from being a foot stool. I learned that people in this world could use people like they are superior.
Fairness is good to have. Fairness shows that you are on the same level of the other person and that you do not act like someone higher up. Honesty allows people to trust you and not have second guesses about what you say. Showing fairness to everyone is a good thing to do. In showing fairness to others in society, you are kind and help others. You treat everyone equally and help others. When people treat people fair and equal in life, there might be less violence and the world might be a better place.
2. How is fairness related to having respect for others? How is it related to honesty? To being reliable? To being a good citizen?
When I was little and still went to a sitter, I was used as a footstool. Two older girls, in their teens or young adults, came to the sitter's house. They came to visit, and then they went to the living room to watch TV with me and the other kids. I sat in front of the couch on the floor. Then the two girls put their feet on my shoulder. I tried to move away but they pushed their legs down. I asked them to stop but they wouldn't. When my parent go to the sitter's house I was free from being a foot stool. I learned that people in this world could use people like they are superior.
Fairness is good to have. Fairness shows that you are on the same level of the other person and that you do not act like someone higher up. Honesty allows people to trust you and not have second guesses about what you say. Showing fairness to everyone is a good thing to do. In showing fairness to others in society, you are kind and help others. You treat everyone equally and help others. When people treat people fair and equal in life, there might be less violence and the world might be a better place.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Best Things from 2014
What are the best things you've read, watched, heard or played over the last year? Explain.
There were many things that was fun in 2014. All the things that are listed are my favorite things from 2014.
Movies:
There were many things that was fun in 2014. All the things that are listed are my favorite things from 2014.
Movies:
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- X-Men days of future past
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Hunger Games: Mocking Jay part 1
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Interstellar
- The Hobbit: The battle of the five armies
- The Amazing Spiderman 2
- Godzilla
- Destiny
- Call of duty Advanced Warfare
- Dragon Age Inquisition
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Dark Souls 2
- Assassin's Creed Unity
- Assassin's Creed Rouge
- Far Cry 4
- Wolfenstein: The new order
- Titanfall
- Watch dogs
- The Evil Within
- Infamous Second Son
- Alien Isolation
- Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare
- Theif
- Tomb Raider
- Diablo 3 Reaper of souls edition
Friday, February 20, 2015
Has Facebook lost its edge? What do you think? What evidence do you see
that the site is still going strong - or that its popularity is fading?
Where do you spend most of your social media time?
To some people Facebook has lost its edge because they are probably drained out of Facebook and others are still using Facebook everyday. I think that Facebook is still growing at the same rate as it started to become popular. People are still posting and making more accounts. Also with more countries getting better internet, people are making accounts in other countries and making friends in other countries over Facebook. People are showing what fun they are having or people comfort others over online. I spend an hour or two on Facebook and many other hours on YouTube. I look at what people are posting and share some of those posts on Facebook. On YouTube I look at funny videos and gaming videos which take up a lot of my time.
To some people Facebook has lost its edge because they are probably drained out of Facebook and others are still using Facebook everyday. I think that Facebook is still growing at the same rate as it started to become popular. People are still posting and making more accounts. Also with more countries getting better internet, people are making accounts in other countries and making friends in other countries over Facebook. People are showing what fun they are having or people comfort others over online. I spend an hour or two on Facebook and many other hours on YouTube. I look at what people are posting and share some of those posts on Facebook. On YouTube I look at funny videos and gaming videos which take up a lot of my time.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Technology scocializing
Technology is supposed to make us more connected. We can stay in touch
with our friends all the time on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, and, of
course, by texting. But are our smartphones actually getting in the way
of real socializing? Could technology be making us more alone?
With the technology we have, you are able to talk to someone from another country and stay in your bedroom. Technology can help us keep in contact with each other, but it is also causing people to focus on their phones rather than someone. If someone text to people so much on their phones or on social media they can loose some social skills that are required in life. So yes technology can make us more alone by talking over the internet rather than talking to a person face to face. If you get consumed with talking over the phone rather than face to face, you loose that experience you can get from talking face to face.
Go to here to learn what it means to not talk
With the technology we have, you are able to talk to someone from another country and stay in your bedroom. Technology can help us keep in contact with each other, but it is also causing people to focus on their phones rather than someone. If someone text to people so much on their phones or on social media they can loose some social skills that are required in life. So yes technology can make us more alone by talking over the internet rather than talking to a person face to face. If you get consumed with talking over the phone rather than face to face, you loose that experience you can get from talking face to face.
Go to here to learn what it means to not talk
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Parents
How are you and your parents alike and different? There is an old adage:
“The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.” It suggests that
children are alot like their parents or that they eventually end up with
values and goals similar to their parents. Do you agree? Why or why
not?
I agree with that adage. I am very much like my parents. I took some traits from my mom and dad. At an early age, children are very adaptable to whats around them. I believe that every child will be like their parents because they are adaptable. You grow up with your parents, so you might adopted some of their personality, kindness, habits, or even emotional stability. With being alike to your parents, children are different also. Children will also take in what environment they live in. They will take traits from the environment, other people, what they watch, friends, or what they see. The environment can make a person nice if it is a nice and calm environment, but if a child grows up in a harsh and dangerous environment, they can become violent or be scared to go anywhere. So if you hear that adage again, it most likely is true that you do not fall too far from the tree.
I agree with that adage. I am very much like my parents. I took some traits from my mom and dad. At an early age, children are very adaptable to whats around them. I believe that every child will be like their parents because they are adaptable. You grow up with your parents, so you might adopted some of their personality, kindness, habits, or even emotional stability. With being alike to your parents, children are different also. Children will also take in what environment they live in. They will take traits from the environment, other people, what they watch, friends, or what they see. The environment can make a person nice if it is a nice and calm environment, but if a child grows up in a harsh and dangerous environment, they can become violent or be scared to go anywhere. So if you hear that adage again, it most likely is true that you do not fall too far from the tree.
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