"We are starting Shakespeare..." Oh great. Why? I love english except for the Shakespeare and grammer studdies. Everything else I can handle. I was thinking those words all through out the english classes leading up to last week. When Mr. McGuchan said that we had to act out a Shakespearean play, I died just thinking about how we have to dress up, speak with accents while saying words that we don't even know the meaning to! But I have to say, that the M.A.A.N. play is starting to look a little nicer than other plays that I have had to do.
I felt that the movie was an okay movie. It was better than some plays that we have watched. But, I still don't know what the hey nonny nonny part was about, or even what it ment. It was a little weird how in the beginning they all decided to bathe together. I also found that the characters were a little confusing to remember, but after I finally learned most of the people's names. It was also a little okward when Don John tricked everyone into thinking that Hero had cheated by making Margret look like Hero when she was saying "hello" to her lover. I enjoyed the ending of the play when the two couples got married and lived happily ever after.
I loved where the setting was. Italy is so beautiful that it added more amazement to the play. When the movie was at a standsitll, you just looked in the background and you could see how beautiful the landscape was and why the director and Shakespeare decided to place the play there.
I was also excited when I heard that we were going to watch a Shakespearian play that wasn't a ragedy! The plays that I have seen from Shakespeare was Romeo and Juliette and Julian Cesear and I was starting to think that Shakespeare was a depressed man while he was alive and writing all of his plays.
So, to conclude my feelings of the play Much Ado About Nothing, I feel that it is a romantic, funny play and I can't wait to actually be able to understand most of the words that they said as we dig deeper into the meaning of the play.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
# 18- Growing Up Online
For parents, the internet is...
a scary, dark, unknown place where anything can happen, or it's a revolution and a new way of life.
The parents in the film, Growing Up Online seemed to think that the internet is horrible and ruining their children's lives. Some parents went a little too far, like that one mom who found the pictures from the concert and told all the parents. (sorry that I can't think of the mom's name) She ruined the relationship between her son and her forever. But the one thing that I thought was good about that mom was that she monitored her chldren on the computer. By having the computer in the kitchen where everyone could see it, the kids were a little more careful on the computer.
But parents have to trust their kids. Let us just have one chance and if we blow it by failing a class, or becoming obsessed with the internet,then take it away from us for a bit. There is software on the computers that allows you to set a time limit on the computer usage. Also, if you just look at the computer history, you can see exactly where your children were looking on the internet, how long,what time ect... so you can be sure we are not on inappropriate websites or stuff like that. Some parents are just way too over protective of their children. I can understand if you want us to be your little babies who don't even know how to turn the computer on, but times are changing! When we are in the workforce, we will be relying on the devices to stay intouch with work and just to be able TO work. We are not in the 1900's where we are writing stuff down. If we need to do something, we take out our Blackberries, Iphones or whatever and type it in there. Also, look in our schools! There is at least 2 Smartboards that I know of at our school and most of our assingnments are done on the computers at home and school. This is just the way our society is moving into the future and we can't stop it.
Some parents think that the internet is the most amazing thing since sliced bread. Some parents spend more time on the divices, computers and internet more than their own kids. I can see that in some ways that is good, such as the parents can keep up with what the children are doing and keep up with the technology. But, when the PARENTS start ignoring the family and start acting like teenagers, there may be a problem. What I mean by that is when the kids start saying to their moms and dads, "Okay, it's time to get off the computer." or "Seriouly? Put the Blackberry away!!!" then that's a little too far.
So, this is just how I look at how the parents of our generation are looking at the internet. The scary thing is that if you asked the question, what do parents think of the internet? in 25 years, we will be saying how amazing it is and how we cannot live with out it. But by then, there would be a new technology like personal robots that can do anything. And then after everyone has a robot, the robots will take over the world. Well, that's technology for you. It's always changing the way people think.
a scary, dark, unknown place where anything can happen, or it's a revolution and a new way of life.
The parents in the film, Growing Up Online seemed to think that the internet is horrible and ruining their children's lives. Some parents went a little too far, like that one mom who found the pictures from the concert and told all the parents. (sorry that I can't think of the mom's name) She ruined the relationship between her son and her forever. But the one thing that I thought was good about that mom was that she monitored her chldren on the computer. By having the computer in the kitchen where everyone could see it, the kids were a little more careful on the computer.
But parents have to trust their kids. Let us just have one chance and if we blow it by failing a class, or becoming obsessed with the internet,then take it away from us for a bit. There is software on the computers that allows you to set a time limit on the computer usage. Also, if you just look at the computer history, you can see exactly where your children were looking on the internet, how long,what time ect... so you can be sure we are not on inappropriate websites or stuff like that. Some parents are just way too over protective of their children. I can understand if you want us to be your little babies who don't even know how to turn the computer on, but times are changing! When we are in the workforce, we will be relying on the devices to stay intouch with work and just to be able TO work. We are not in the 1900's where we are writing stuff down. If we need to do something, we take out our Blackberries, Iphones or whatever and type it in there. Also, look in our schools! There is at least 2 Smartboards that I know of at our school and most of our assingnments are done on the computers at home and school. This is just the way our society is moving into the future and we can't stop it.
Some parents think that the internet is the most amazing thing since sliced bread. Some parents spend more time on the divices, computers and internet more than their own kids. I can see that in some ways that is good, such as the parents can keep up with what the children are doing and keep up with the technology. But, when the PARENTS start ignoring the family and start acting like teenagers, there may be a problem. What I mean by that is when the kids start saying to their moms and dads, "Okay, it's time to get off the computer." or "Seriouly? Put the Blackberry away!!!" then that's a little too far.
So, this is just how I look at how the parents of our generation are looking at the internet. The scary thing is that if you asked the question, what do parents think of the internet? in 25 years, we will be saying how amazing it is and how we cannot live with out it. But by then, there would be a new technology like personal robots that can do anything. And then after everyone has a robot, the robots will take over the world. Well, that's technology for you. It's always changing the way people think.
#17-Growing Up Online
For Teenagers, the internet is...
a place where you don't have to be yourself and you can express your feelings and your "true identity" With the new social websites like Facebook and Twitter, any teenager can go onto the social networks and create a new personality for themselves. With blogs, like blogger, teens can express their feelings on a certain topic. (just like what I am doing right now) As a teenager, after watching the documentary, Growing Up Online, I have finally been able to see the disadvantages of the internet for our age group. Whatever we put out onto the internet, anyone can retrieve the information, even if it was deleted. So, if we are applying for a job or university, the adults can go onto the internet, google our names (or whatever they do) and find everything that we have done. Before we saw this documentary, I wasn't even thinking about what I was posting on facebook. Sure I didn't swear or anything like that, but it still made me think about what I had online. I tried to see where I could clean up my profile page to make it look less okward to me. And just a few days ago when I saw some different posts on Facebook, it made me think about the film. I thought about how that one, little post could stop that person from following their dreams.
So, when I try to finish the sentence, for teenagers, the internet is... I find myself after thinking about how the internet has changed our generation for ever.
a place where you don't have to be yourself and you can express your feelings and your "true identity" With the new social websites like Facebook and Twitter, any teenager can go onto the social networks and create a new personality for themselves. With blogs, like blogger, teens can express their feelings on a certain topic. (just like what I am doing right now) As a teenager, after watching the documentary, Growing Up Online, I have finally been able to see the disadvantages of the internet for our age group. Whatever we put out onto the internet, anyone can retrieve the information, even if it was deleted. So, if we are applying for a job or university, the adults can go onto the internet, google our names (or whatever they do) and find everything that we have done. Before we saw this documentary, I wasn't even thinking about what I was posting on facebook. Sure I didn't swear or anything like that, but it still made me think about what I had online. I tried to see where I could clean up my profile page to make it look less okward to me. And just a few days ago when I saw some different posts on Facebook, it made me think about the film. I thought about how that one, little post could stop that person from following their dreams.
So, when I try to finish the sentence, for teenagers, the internet is... I find myself after thinking about how the internet has changed our generation for ever.
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