RyanL2014

In the stories, “The Rope” by Alfred Hitchcock, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, all of them contain death and terrible beliefs.

RyanL2014

In James Hurst's short story, "The Scarlet Ibis" the narrator's words and actions influenced Doodle the most because Doodle looked up to his older brother and was pushed to his brothers satisfaction, pushed so much that this led to his death.

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In Will Richardson's "Footprints of a Digital Age" the article goes into explaining how tachers should not be misanthropes toward children, but should help children understand what they are learning. Children should understand that everthing they put online can be looked at by anyone at anytime. Kids need to be smart when it comes to putting appropriate and inappropriate material on the web. The stuff kids post can most definitly effect their futures. This connects to me because I myself am a child and it is never to early to think about your future. This connects to education, because if a kid writes someting stupid or not appropriate, colleges or highschools can refuse to accept this kid. However if the kid writes something intelligent and thoughtful the colleges or highschools will probably accept the kid. This connects to the world, because plenty of students out there are posting stupid or innapropriate material online, and these kids are probably not going to have very high end jobs. In conclusion I think students should think wisely before posting there next pic, blog, or even email. Now, will use the internet to your advantage?

RyanL2014

In the story "Dang! I Just Missed It" by David Warlick, he goes into explaining that the planet Mars wasn't even as large or as close as people claimed it to be. Like the author I to was told by others that the planet Mars will be as big as the moon during the end of August. The Planet Mars looked more like a large orange star then a second moon. The author explains that people make mistakes and should admit to them rather then pretend that nothing happened.

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In the short story "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr goes on to explaining how google and the internet are changing our thinking habits. The author goes on explaining that  before computers we thought for ourselves. As technology increases so do our minds. What I am saying is the more technology, the more we want our brains to compute this information. This causes us to throw out our old thinking habits to try to obtain information faster. there is nothing we can do about this though because as we evolve so does technology.