As I explored the web this Saturday, I stumbled upon a very interesting website. Myminicity.com was a browser-based city simulator that tracks your progress as people visit your city. This is overall an interesting site and I decided to try it out. Visit my city!
What makes for a good belief statement? A good belief statement manages to encompass every possible opposing case. The belief, all cows are black and white, can be countered by a simple example. However, the belief, every person deserves a chance, would be hard to debate against. As well as holding a firm foundation, it must also be able to be expanded upon. A stale statement that never changes or cannot be improved upon would eventually become overbearing and unoriginal. An important and valuable statement should be able to accomplish both of these objectives. What can 10 words do that 10000 words cannot? 10 words can keep the simplicity that 10000 words cannot retain. 10 words can get across the main idea in a much shorter time than a 10000 words can. More people will read 10 words than if they found a 10000-word essay somewhere on the internet. As the colors flashed on my computer screen, I focused furiously on a game on the internet. At the time, I didn’t worry about anything except about the avatar that jumped around. The game that I was playing was also played quite a bit at school when no teachers were looking. I then realized that computers at school didn’t use Internet Explorer, but instead, Firefox. When I log onto a Mac, The first thing I subconsciously look for would be Firefox. On my Windows Vista at home, I immediately look for the Internet Explorer icon. I began to wonder why we have so many brands (Opera, IE, Firefox, Safari, etc.) for internet browsing. So here’s my personal opinion. Love it, flame it, or just don’t care about it, as long as you leave a comment. Internet Explorer, a common icon that is found on many PCs. For myself, I usually use IE. Internet Explorer seems easy and user-friendly (I know my way around a computer… usually…). However, comparing this to searching around the main website of Firefox, something stood out to me. The site seemed really technical and it didn’t feel very easy to understand. If I was Average Joe, and I went to the main site, I would be confused with some of the words. My thoughts would probably end up like this: What’s a web browser? What’s an add-on? Can this surf the web? I don’t understand this! What do I do after this step? I just wanted something that lets me view internet pages! I wouldn’t be able to get anywhere. My mother is probably just as incapable of downloading and installing FireFox as Average Joe. However, IE’s website seems so much easier to read and view. Just cruising around the site, I can understand what IE does. I’m not saying FireFox is worse than IE, I’m just saying that Firefox is more suitable for more web-experienced users. IE is for those new to the computer and to the internet. Those more unknown browsers like Opera (I use it for my Wii!), are less common than FireFox and IE. I personally don’t have any experience on newer, so I can’t offer any opinions on these. Maybe someone will disagree with me or agree, but these are just my personal reviews. I recently read a post on a blog called Students 2.0 where students construct their own belief structure. It talked about the boundary lines between adults and kids. Can we, as kids, communicate and discuss with adults? I think that we should treat adults as if there were no age gap, because kids can provide imagination to a discussion, but adults can provide wisdom and experience to the collaboration. Some ideas from kids can be full of flaws, but there should be some advantage to the idea that adults can fish out and expand on. Adults can provide fresh flawless ideas that kids can turn into a creative concept. A line between adults and kids would restrain the capabilities of all the ideas we have. Is competing at a spelling bee different than competing in a sport? Why or why not? Spelling bees are not different from sports because both require hard work and practice (except spelling stretches you intellectual ability rather than physical ability). Spelling bees are slightly different because they have more luck involved. Even though competitions can be in any subject and in any method, they are still the same. Dedication and pressure are a part of every competition. How will you find your happy place within a CSAP prompt? CSAP prompts are sometimes difficult to write or even think about. People who develop the prompt can’t create a prompt that would be enjoyable for everyone in the state of Colorado. To combat with that, whenever I encounter a CSAP prompt, I would either try to be creative and think of something original or lie. The people at CSAP don’t care whether your experience is true or not, but rather your ability to write. Don’t worry about what you have on the essay (unless what you wrote doesn’t match up with the prompt), but how you put it forth. The Darfur tragedy in Africa is now arguably the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. It is humanitarian because Darfur isn’t a natural disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, but rather a man-made crisis. It is considered the worst by the United Nations because not only is it occuring in places that are low in food and water, but it also involves the destruction of homes and livestock, threat of famine, rapes, forced displacement, systematic killing, and other cruelties. The rate of malnutrition in children is extremely high and many children are in need of therapeutic feeding. The ones mainly responsible for the conflict are the Janjaweed. Synonymous with bandit and meaning “a man with a gun on a horse”, the militiamen are primarily from the nomadic Arab tribes who had been long against the Darfur African farmers. The conflicts have used to been on the scarcity of water and food, but recently, the violence has escalated in 2003. Many non-government groups like CARE have been attempting to help the victims in Darfur. Not only do they continue to provide food, water, and shelter for the refugees, they also provide mobile health care and psychosocial support. The CARE program has run into issues such as the physical security for the refugees. Crowded camps, a lack of livelihood, and the threat of famine are other issues that CARE has had to face. If you allow enough time, everything will change. Our methods, life, environment, etc. will change. Since the time we began with tree bark, we improved to papers, pens, laptops, and then networks. Inevitably, I think that everything will have something to do with the internet, even learning, playing, and other activities. Learning will have wireless networks where students can access from home. There would be no need for school. All endeavors have a purpose and a goal. The real work of an endeavor is heavily based in discovering the method for accomplishing that goal. Endeavors will vary in importance and difficulty. Before I actually attempted programming, I had a lot of interest in logic and video games. The logic makes up the programming that eventually leads to the creation of the video game. I had many attempts at languages such as HTML, JavaScript, TI-BASIC, C, C++, Scratch, Z80, SmallTalk, Croquet, Squeak, etc. The only languages I had ended up learning were HTML, TI-BASIC, and Scratch. I am still attempting C++ and JavaScript. My daily schedule does not allow a lot of free time for this, so my learning has been very extended. Programming has been a very amazing experience. The feeling of creating something that operates on its own is great. Watching the program develop and become more complex improves my sense of what happens in a program. It becomes easier to read others’ programs and integrate part of their program into my own. At the end of an endeavor, it should feel good. The sense of accomplishment should encourage to go to the next level and beyond the endeavor that was just recently completed. Attempts are meant to fail the second you plan them, but there’s that chance it will succeed. That’s what pushes us to try. |
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