What is email?

Email is like digitally writing a letter to someone, accept it's free so you don't have to pay for postage and envelopes. I use my email when I need to send myself a document from a computer at school which I need for homework. I use it to sometimes communicate with family. I also you it so I know when stuff goes on sale at sporting goods stores. People in life use it to communicate with their co-workers or bosses, or friends and family. I don't think I know a whole lot about "email etiquette".

Wildlife Extinction

1.) Thesis Statement: Wildlife Extinction is a major issue in our world right now, animal breeds population numbers are dropping a lot, and once all of the animals of a species are gone they are gone forever. We don't want a species to die because they all have a purpose in our world if its spiders keeping bugs out of our houses, or lions that are keeping the population of other animals from getting too high.

2.) 3 research questions/arguments: Why is Wildlife Extinction important? What are the causes of wildlife extinction? How can we help stop the extinction?

3.) Yes, my questions all have articles in ever note.

4.) I would encourage everyone to take any possible action they can/want to take to help with this topic. You should have a negative reaction toward this topic because it is a terrible thing that is happening right now in the world.

bubbl.us Wild Life Extinction Link

https://bubbl.us/?h=2d32e3/5ac5b4/29KSp2FnQOk7s&r=497804873

10 years from now I will be...

10 years from now I see myself as a Mechanical Engineer. I will probably be living in either St. Louis or Ft. Myers, Florida because those are two places that I want to live in my future. I will probably be living in a single story house, and I will have a dog.

Add on:
I will see myself living a happy life. I may be married or getting married. Once I do get married, I will have either 1 or 2 kids at most. I will live in a nice neighborhood. I will live close to my family so if they need my help I can help them.

Global Issue: Wild Animal Extinction

The topic I found yesterday that interested me the most was Wild Animal Extinction. This hasn't really affected me life very much, but this is a very important thing because all animals have a purpose in life from spiders who eat other insects to lions that keep populations of other wild animals from getting too large. I believe this will be the final topic that I choose.

Different perspectives on the issue: There is a positive and negative perspective on this issue. The positive side is some animals populations are not getting over populated to where there aren't enough resources to take care of them. The negative side is some species (Amur Leopard, Black Rhino, Cross River Gorilla, Hawksbill Turtle, etc.) have populations that are getting critically low. World Wild Life shows there are 17 species that have a CRITICALLY low number. And many many more that are getting close to that, which are considered as Endangered at this moment.

Are there people for and against issue: I believe there are people that are for and against this issue. There are a lot of animal lovers and experts in the world that do not want animals to go extinct because they will be gone forever. There are people who live off these animals staying alive because they hunt them and sell their meat and fur for money so they can survive, and people who do safari tours that they have to be able to find the animals and show them to people. There are also people who are against saving all these species from going extinct. They may have been attacked or had family/friends attacked by an animal and they don't want it around anymore. There are also people who really just don't care.

Do people disagree on this issue: Yes, the people who hate specific species of animals would disagree in helping them save the animals and letting the species re-populate to have sufficient numbers to not be classified as endangered. 

Is there a topic that can cause controversy: I can't currently think of a topic that would cause controversy with this. 

Global Issues

1.) Wild Animal Extinction- there are a lot of animals going extinct (Polar Bears, Pandas), I would like to learn more about this topic because it is very serious that animals are going extinct and we don't want that to happen.

2.) Global Warming- all the pollution in the world is melting the ice caps and eventually that could totally wipe out Florida and it would be under water. I would like to learn more about this because I would love to move to Florida and eventually I will and I don't want Florida to be under water.

3.) International Terrorism- (ISIS, Osama Bin Laden) Those are two of the biggest terrorists in the world, they do terrible things to people and destroy a lot of peoples lives. I want to learn more about this topic because terrorism can destroy people lives.

4.) Nuclear Weapons- a nuke can take out a lot of our country. Russia has the most powerful and the most in terms of numbers, if we get on their bad side, they can launch them to us and take out our whole country. I would like to learn more about Nuclear Weapons because more and more countries are getting their hands on them and we can all be dead in an instant with them.

5.) Overpopulation- there are countries that are getting too many people in them and they don't have sufficient resources to take care of all of the people (food, water, fuel). I do not want to learn more about this topic because there isn't a whole lot I can do about that as a 14 year old, also that isn't really impacting our country at this moment in time.

Current Event, Social Bookmarking

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kv_fXe-BUhSlKCvUEY_QcIauvzdYA9M5bDfZtMV5BxI/edit?usp=sharing

I think I may understand the importance of Social Bookmarking more, and it is a great thing to have that can help you in any class or in your personal life. This is a very helpful and beneficial thing. I didn't learn any Social Bookmarking sites that I would like to use.

PSA Reflection

By watching these PSA's, I learned about some terrible things that happen in the world. People don't think about these things in their everyday lives. Some of the topics that had the biggest impact on me would be Child Invisibility, Racial Sensitivity, and Poaching. These, to me, are the most important. I chose these three because of the topic, they are very serious topics and they need to be ended.

Drunk Driving PSA

Brainstorm Doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qD8vxgZf6AF7rHP2VkuxqU_PVFiWpbUS8ig1r2d5Bug/edit?usp=sharing

Drunk Driving PSA:

3 Day Weekend

On Saturday I didn't do much. I went to LifeTime for a couple of hours with my parents, I watched TV, and played on my phone. Sunday was the best day over the weekend. I went to church in the morning and when I got back I set up for my Fantasy Football draft at 12:30. My team is pretty good, I believe I will do well this season. My brother and his room mate came over for dinner and we had smoked ribs and chicken wings.  Monday I didn't do much, I slept in and when I got up went back to LifeTime for a couple of hours. Then played on my phone/watched TV. After dinner my parents and I watched the movie Taken 3, then I went to bed.

PSA Brainstorm Template link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qD8vxgZf6AF7rHP2VkuxqU_PVFiWpbUS8ig1r2d5Bug/edit?usp=sharing

Kids These Days

Kids these days are too loud. They spend too much time on their phones, and other electronics. They watch too much TV. They are SUPER annoying. I get ding-dong ditched all the time and I feel like shooting them with a paintball gun. Kids use too many abbreviations. Kids should be like we were when we were kids, we respected our elders and just played around outside all day. They complain about how hot it is outside and when I was a kid we didn't care. I could pee on their little electronics and not care one bit.

How to Make a Good PSA

You need a good message to distribute. Use a radio station, TV station for commercial, or YouTube. Keep audience in mind, make it eligible for them to understand. 15, 30, or 60 seconds. Need good director for a video. Then submit it to everyone on your media list so they can share it with the people they know, and so on.