Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Joyas Voladoras

I believe this essay is negative but good advice. For example, it makes your heart drop when they talk about how precious heart are. The author wrote a whole paragraph about how the heart gets broken for humans and how the hummingbirds die to let us know how easily it can be broken. In addition, what I took from the essay is that the hummingbird lives their lives fast and the tortoise lives their lives slow. I believe that different animals live their life slow or fast based on how fast their heart beats. The hummingbird beats their heart ten times a second but a tortoise has a very slow living heart. One my favorite lines is "We all churn inside." After all our differences between every animal and living thing we all have one thing we can relate to,  some sort of liquid inside our body.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Favorite Quotes by Justin and Ross

Ross's Favorite funny quote"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."         
-By Douglas Adams       
                                                                                                                                                  Is this a truly a duck?









Justin's Favorite Quote 
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” 
― Dr. Seuss
                                                                                                


Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen

 Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
This is good advice from the Every body's Free To Wear Sunscreen song. The writer is saying that to remember the good things that happen and forget when people make fun of you but everybody remembers the bad things and not the good things. The society today holds on to the negatives and not the positive.
Another good advice from this is....
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
I like this advice because it tells you to avoid things that make you feel bad about yourself. You could also take this a set further and interpret it as him saying that you should stay away from that drama and all those celebrities drama. 
My advice to add to this list is to take advantage of you skills and to learn all you can in school and from people who give you good advice. Also be the best person you can be and good citizen. It will pay off in the end.

Monday, May 6, 2013

What's Worth Knowing?

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This quote by Neil Gaiman is totally true. School only teaches you facts and nothing to do with society and social interaction with other people. People wonder why our society is so harsh and part of the blame has to go to  the schools. The schools do not help with how to deal with people. After people leave college and learned what they need to know they don't know how to interact with people because they were never taught. Schools need to teach kids how to interact with people nicely and appropriately. If kids learn how to behave and know how to interact when they are young, when they get older they will more likely act more mature instead of not knowing  how to deal with different type of people.This is why the service academies have to teach all their cadets to know how to stand strong around different people and know how to respond politely. In addition, the blame also goes too the parents because the parents need to teach their kids how to react and help their kids with social problems or questions. Most parents these days do not have a strong relationship with their kids and therefore, do not care at what they do. These parents need to love their children so they do not grow up and be like them. It is true that the kids learn actions from their parents and then grow up to act like them.
All statements said by Neil Gaiman need to be addressed by parents or schools to their kids or students. Although schools are now teaching children about different careers they still need to address other problems. Things that are worth knowing are knowing how to defend yourself, knowing how to talk politely, and knowing how to act maturely around adults.All these need to be address along with many others. Less and less people can act as polite and mature citizens. This problem needs to be fixed by parents and schools. In conclusion, all schools do is teach facts to learn and schools and parents need to teach children more about social interaction with other people.