TV is good for you

The article stated that the TV was good for women in rural India because it changed their thoughts about women's role in society and made them think about things other than what the tradition is.

I believe that TV is good for people as long as they do not watch it all the time. We live in urban cities, where it is not uncommon to have television sets, but in villages it is very rare and people barely get a chance to watch TV. We take all the knowledge learned from different shows for granted because we consider it common knowledge, but people who never watch TV don’t learn things that we learn everyday from it. In the villages, where education is also almost nothing, people have to learn just what their parents and fellow villagers teach them. They themselves have not learned anything new, then how will they teach their kids? This is why TV is good for the people in the villages. It gives them an outside perspective in life, which is something that is really needed in Indian villages, where tradition and culture form the way of life. People do not know what is new in the world, or how to change to live a better life, they just have to accept the little knowledge they get from their parents and fellow villagers.

Even in cities, where TV’s are everywhere, and it is uncommon not to have a TV, it can be good to watch TV. People think that TV only has ‘junk’. I believe that that is not true. These days TV can teach us so many things and now there are channels teaching people everything from English to history to science. There is nothing that is not there on TV. We just have to know what to watch and what not to. Even movies and TV shows are not bad, but we have to watch them in moderation, like everything else in life. Kids can learn so much from TV. 5 or 6 year old kids learn from all kids shows that make learning fun, and teach them the stuff that they learn in school, but in a fun and more exciting way. This way the kids learn more. TV also tells us what it going on in the world around us. News channels are in abundance these days. If we did not have them, then the whole world would be living in its own bubbly. Nowadays we can know what is happening halfway around the world within seconds of the situation actually occurring, this is mainly because of TV, and it power to appeal to the masses and share messages so quickly and accurately.

TV has revolutionized the world we live in and everyone has a good reason to watch and learn from it. No one in this world know everything, but TV is something that can tell us about almost anything and make us learn about stuff we would never have thought of and widen our gaze.

KONY 2012

Song in the Top 50 of all time

Rolling in the deep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw&ob=av3e

1st January Post

Write an imaginary dialogue between you and a roommate late at night when the lights are out and neither of you can sleep.

Me: Yo roommate!

Roommate: What

Me: I cant sleep

Roommate: Me neither

Me: So how are you?

Roommate: What??

Me: how are you? is that such a hard question?

Roommate: Its 3 am on a school night and i cant go to sleep. i am real jolly.

Me: good

Roommate: Shut Up!

Me: So do you know what is there for breakfast tomorrow?

Roommate: No, why?

Me: If there are chocos or honey loops then we will have to get up early.

Roommate: Holy Crap you are right!

Me: Are you sure you dont know?

Roommate: Of course I know if I dont know.

Me: You wanna open the computer and check?

Roommate: Lets check, we dont wanna miss good breakfast.

Me: get up and do it

Roommate: do what?

Me: check of course.

Roommate: you do it i am cozy in bed

Me: i am also cozy in bed.

Roommate: fine then dont

Me: at least well have eggs to eat

Roommate: We always have eggs

Me: that is what i said

Roommate: no u didnt

Me: is roommate 2 still awake?

Roommate: i can hear him snoring

Roommate 2: I am awake a**h****

Roommate: oh.. so how are you?

Roommate 2: what?

Roommate: ntn

Me: do u know what is there for breakfast?

Roommate 2: if i did then i would have told u long ago, am sick of hearing crap about breakfast

Me: wow that hurts man

Me: Yo roommate!
Roommate: What
Me: I cant sleep
Roommate: Me neither
Me: So how are you?
Roommate: What??
Me: how are you? is that such a hard question?
Roommate: Its 3 am on a school night and i cant go to sleep. i am real jolly.
Me: good
Roommate: Shut Up!
Me: So do you know what is there for breakfast tomorrow?
Roommate: No, why?
Me: If there are chocos or honey loops then we will have to get up early.
Roommate: Holy Crap you are right!
Me: Are you sure you dont know?
Roommate: Of course I know if I dont know.
Me: You wanna open the computer and check?
Roommate: Lets check, we dont wanna miss good breakfast.
Me: get up and do it
Roommate: do what?
Me: check of course.
Roommate: you do it i am cozy in bed
Me: i am also cozy in bed.
Roommate: fine then dont
Me: at least well have eggs to eat
Roommate: We always have eggs
Me: that is what i said
Roommate: no u didnt
Me: is roommate 2 still awake?
Roommate: i can hear him snoring
Roommate 2: I am awake a**h****
Roommate: oh.. so how are you?
Roommate 2: what?
Roommate: ntn
Me: do u know what is there for breakfast?
Roommate 2: if i did then i would have told u long ago, am sick of hearing crap about breakfast!

Me: wow that hurts man

Roommate: i know... damn man.. be cool...

Roommate 2: wat have i done?

Me: the think you are calling 'crap', is something we eat man, its food

Roommate 2: just shut up!

Me: okay i gotta get some sleep

Roommate: yea me too, good night

Me: good night

Roommate 2: aahh... good night....

Is it better to give or receive gifts?

Is it better to give or receive gifts?

      I find the tradition of gifting very interesting. You give something to someone else hoping they would like it. That is why I personally like receiving gifts more than giving them. Some reasons are obvious, like economic benefit. That however is very small reason. Receiving gifts is fun. I like the excitement you get while opening a gift box. I always wonder whether there is a GI Joe inside, from a relative who think I am 10, or a little money because the person did know what to get me. Either way I appreciate both, one more than the otherb. It is also an indication that someone cares about you, maybe not likes, but at least pretends to like you. It is comforting for me and probably everyone in the world. Giving gifts just shows that you care about someone, not the other way around. The other person can be faking, about care, but when you get a gift you know that someone is out there looking out for you. 

Holiday Challenge :1

If animals could talk, what would your pet say about you?

I dont know really. Maybe that is because I dont have a pet. My family members dont like to keep pets. The only pets I ever had existed about 7 years ago, they were 2 gold fishes. They were in my sister's and my room. They loved me. That was because I always fed them and was always very hyper about them. I had always wanted a pet and took very good care of them. I used to drive my mother crazy when the fish tank started to look green, because I thought that the fish were going to die. I am pretty sure that the fish would say that I was the best owner they could have hoped for. They always had food as I would always put extra in it to be sure. Now that I think back to those days I realize that I used to pamper them. Lucky for me that they were just fish. Any pampered kid loves his or her parents because they get all they want. The fish would say stuff like ‘caring’, ‘loving’, and maybe even ‘obsessive.’ But of course, we can never know. Pets can be person’s best friend, and I treated mine better than you treat a best friend. On the contrary, the fish might also say that I used them for my entertainment, because I used to hang out with humans more. That depends on what type of mentality they had. They might have been angry because I don’t remember giving them names. Everyone likes a name and I didn’t give them one. So who knows what they might have said, and they should not have judged me, because I was only nine back then, they couldn’t have expected me to be the brightest master anyway. I cared about my fishes and as long as they saw that I am fine.

Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo arrives in The Hague 


Summary:
     Ivory Coasts former President Laurent Gbagbo arrived in the Hague, south Holland, to face the International Criminal Court. He has been charged with four counts of crimes against humanity, which include murder, persecution, rape, and other forms of "inhumane crimes". These crimes were allegedly committed between 16 December 2010 and 12 April 2011. The ICC has been investigating this case since last month. The four months of unrest occurred because Mr. Gbagbo refused to give his presidential power after losing the election in November last year. ICC's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, went to Ivory Coast himself to lead the investigation, which he said will be impartial. Gbagbo is the first of five people to be tried for these crimes. Gbagbo was the president of Ivory Coast for 10 years in which the country was basically in civil war the whole time. After he refused to give up power violence erupted throughout the country, killing over 3000 people. 


Response:

     I find it disturbing to see a man who has done so much wrong and wont admit it. If I was the prosecutor and found him guilty I would kill him. Dont these people have any sense of morality, or conscience? If you look at the guy he looks so innocent and incapable of committing a crime, but you know what they say, never judge a book by its cover. Inside he must reap with evil. He looks scared which tells me he is guilty. He should be found guilty because because of him violence occurred earlier in the year too. If he can be the cause of the death of 3000 people, then why cant we kill him? There should be religion involved in the decision, because it will make it weaker and involve a ethical sense, which this man does not have.


Vocabulary:


1. prosecutor- a person, esp. a public official, who institutes legal proceedings against someone;
the prosecutor won the case and the defendant was declared guilty.


2. criminal- a person who has committed a crime; from late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen, crimin;
the criminal ran away from the crime scene.


3. erupted- break out or burst forth suddenly and dramatically; rom Latin erupt- ‘broken out,’ from the verb erumpere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + rumpere ‘burst out, break.’;
violence erupted in Europe after the czar of Poland was killed.