One of Anything I want!!

This Topic is a little bit off the mark, so I'll talk breifly about it and get to something more relevant.

Recently, I've noticed that almost everybody in our school (and outside of it too) refers to our planet as "the Earth". That's like saying "the person" instead of "Bob". Since when was our planet a common noun? You don't hear people saying "the Jupiter" or "the Venus". This is totally a personal thing and I can learn to deal with it but if you hear yourself saying "the Earth" instead of just "Earth" think about it too. (that goes to anybody reading this blog!! <(**<) (worst computerized Kirby EVER!!)


Here's another off-topic thing but oh well...

one of my older friends sent me this link to a video on youtube. It's very, very anti-iraq war, but it's very funny. Enjoy if you feel like it, but please don't come whining to me, this wasn't my work.
Here's the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=o-KWYYIY4jQ


Anyway, this is my actual topic for this post.

WOLVES!!!!

As we are starting to talk about wolves in the classroom, I decided to write a post about the unit on wolves. Hooray.

I think that a lot of people fear the wolf for some unreasonable reasons. Firstly, people say that the wolf is a "natural competitor to humans for the top of the food chain". Let's get real here. That's just not true. Do Wolves have shotguns? Do wolves have airplanes that can be used to shoot down defensless humans? Last time I checked, they didn't. Sure, wolves have to eat to survive, but they really aren't going to completely extinguish the moose population overnight. Also, when you look at the numbers as far as attacking humans go (there were a lot of numbers that I found, but all of them revealed mainly the same thing), dogs are more dangerous that wolves are by huge amounts, yet we domesticate dogs and hunt down wolves literally to the brink of extinction. I can understand where some of these people are coming from, but really, let's think about it. A loss of wolves would totally screw up any economic systems near them, plus it's morally wrong.

( a totally emotionless post) :-)

Frozen Dead Guy Days: The Truth behind the iced smelly guy

I'm going to start off this blog with a confession. Honestly, I've never actually been in the town of Nederland when Frozen Dead Guy Days are going on. Needless to say, my opinion in the matter actually matters very little. However, I would like to not fail this class so I'll try and write about it anyway.

From what I've heard, the Frozen Dead Guy Days party that goes on is pretty sweet. Lots of kids from the school go out and have fun, people race in coffins, "celebrities" come to town, and all that good stuff. I think that it's a good thing for the town to do. Otherwise, I think that the town could get into an "another day gone" cycle and not really care about stuff. But, with this party, tourists come up here and are eager to spend $$ on stuff. Also, I think that the money that it brings in is a good thing for the community. As we discussed in class, it seems like all the money that is made in Nederland is spent down in the flatlands or the equivalent, so lots of cash is being lost from the community in that reguard. Frozen Dead Guy Days are very helpful in my opinion bringing back some of that which was lost.

Iron Jawed Angels Discussion thoughts

Overall, honetly I didn't like the format of that particular discussion. I think that the circle idea for formatting questions and the fact that only the next person in the circle has a chance to respond to the question (yes, I know you could take notes, but I think that discussions are meant to be discussed, not written down) can get a little bit strange. Sometimes, there was a question asked that someone had a really good answer to but they didn't get a chance to share it because the person asking the question was at the opposite end of the room. Sometimes, I think it's best to format discussions like that, but for that particular one I believe that there was a lot that should have been said that wasn't.

As for the actual material that we went over in the talk, I think that we did barely touch the surface, but what we got to was good. The film was pretty intense and I think that it got to a lot of kids that hadn't given any thought at all about the topic and I was happy to see those kids' eyes "get opened".