I recently read an article that was on cyber-bulling and internet security, and how kids are becoming less protected online. Kids as young as 10 years old are chatting with complete strangers and can be talking to anybody with a computer. The article says, "many kids find it easier to chat with someone and bully them, rather than talk to them face to face." I think this means that kids have the guts to do things online they could never do in person. Over a computer screen, lies are a lot easier to be told.
Sharing pictures can that should be private is also a problem too, with kids leaving their facebooks open for friends to go on. Many people can also post things anonymously, and as it says in the article, "most people who cyberbully do it anonymously, and that can hurt the person being bullied even more. The fact you are being bullied is bad, but not knowing who it is can be even worse." I think in our age of technology it is so easy to chat people and even get personal information it is very easy for people to be bullied.
Cyber-bulling has spread to a wider age group too. Kids as young as nine and ten often say mean comments to each other online with worry they will get in trouble. As they grow up they will probably still continue to cyberbully because they did not get in trouble when they were younger. I think that kids so young cyberbully and act mean is really bad, and must be stopped.
My whole opinion on the article is that there should be more safety settings and more ways to keep your computer private. I know several websites such as Omegle, and ask.fm where people are allowed to chat and ask people questions without knowing at all who they are. You might be chatting with someone thinking they are a 13 year old girl when they are really a creepy old man halfway across the world. In real life that would be seen as creepy and not right, so why should it be okay online?
Monday, February 25, 2013
Reading response on other blogs Blog Post On Other Blog's
http://busyfizzyizzy.blogspot.com/2013/02/house-rules-by-jodi-picoult.html
I read Izzy's blog Post on House Rules by Jodi Picoult and I loved her blog post. It was very informative, and clearly showed the views of all the characters in the book. The book is about a family with a child with autism. Although many readers will want to focus on the child with autism, Izzy focused on all members of the family to show all the views of the book.
I found it most interesting how she describes Theo, who's brother has autism. Theo feels like he just wants to be normal, which is impossible for him because of his brother. Izzy did a good job describing how Theo feels, saying that he always wanted to have a older brother, and now he is the older brother. Living with someone that will be forever branded "the person with the weird brother" will affect Theo deeply and I think Izzy was very smart to have understand Theo's personality that well.
Izzy also described Emma, the mother of the two sons, very well. She showed her thought and also used some retell to fully understand the character. She comments on how it must be very hard for Emma to out in a brave face and go on living with a kid that has autism. If something as small as the car next to them is orange, she has to find another place to park. I think Izzy did a good job of describing her character as someone who feels alone and stressed but still manages to be brave. I also liked how Izzy added her own opinion to make her ideas more true. I also agree with Izzy that if I was in her situation I would not be able to face having to change my life for her son, Jacob.
Jacob, is one of the most interesting characters in the book is a complex person. Izzy describes him as smart, smarter than other people give him credit for. I agree with Izzy and that because people see him with autism, they think he cannot do anything himself. This makes me think of many common stereotypes and how people think of others.
In all, I think Izzy did a very good job on her blog post, it was organized very well and made a lot of sense. She had the perfect combination of thoughts, retell and evidence from the story to form her conclusion. I would like to try her strategy of describing all the main characters of the story and not focusing so much on the themes of the story.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Blog Post on The Book Thief
I just read The Book Thief, this is a story of a girl in Nazi Germany and crazy and scary things happen to her, including risking her life for others, and stealing books. One of the most unusual thing about this book is the fact that is narrated by death.
Death, in the book is a not really a person, not really anything. When people die he carries their soul's in his arms, and he says that is his only and one job. I think people because of scary movies and stories would associate a figure of death as scary and threatening, like a big figure with a black hood and a bloody sword or stick. But, as death tells us in his book, he is not scary and he means no harm, and throughout the book I felt that he felt like any normal character, but I still felt it was a little weird for the book to be narrated by someone who wasn't really in the story that much.
The main character is a girl named Lisel, whose brother dies on a train with her and her mother sends her to live with strangers, I think Lisel was represented by death because she too is lonely and sad in the world, and that is why death is drawn to her so much. Not that she is dying or coming close to dying that often, but she understands death in the way her peers don't.
The name of the book, The Book Thief, is talking about when Lisel stole many books from houses and even from a burning fire. I think the name is supposed to be mean that even in such a crazy time, before world war two and during, while one single girl suffered she stole books. Out of all the crazy things that were happening, out of all the people who were dying, the author chose to write about a girl who stole books, making the book special and more interesting.
Death, in the book is a not really a person, not really anything. When people die he carries their soul's in his arms, and he says that is his only and one job. I think people because of scary movies and stories would associate a figure of death as scary and threatening, like a big figure with a black hood and a bloody sword or stick. But, as death tells us in his book, he is not scary and he means no harm, and throughout the book I felt that he felt like any normal character, but I still felt it was a little weird for the book to be narrated by someone who wasn't really in the story that much.
The main character is a girl named Lisel, whose brother dies on a train with her and her mother sends her to live with strangers, I think Lisel was represented by death because she too is lonely and sad in the world, and that is why death is drawn to her so much. Not that she is dying or coming close to dying that often, but she understands death in the way her peers don't.
The name of the book, The Book Thief, is talking about when Lisel stole many books from houses and even from a burning fire. I think the name is supposed to be mean that even in such a crazy time, before world war two and during, while one single girl suffered she stole books. Out of all the crazy things that were happening, out of all the people who were dying, the author chose to write about a girl who stole books, making the book special and more interesting.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Blog Post on I Am the Messenger
I just finished I am the Messenger and it is a story about a man, Ed Kennedy who is a 20-year old man that lives with his dog and works as a cabdriver. His life is very boring until one day he stops a bank robbery and he starts receiving cards in the mail, that tell him addresses to go to.
Ed the main character makes me think about people in the real world, how one small event can affect people in the biggest ways. Ed has a very normal and boring life, but when he receives the cards in the mail he is a different person. He does risky things, which makes me wonder how I would react in those situations. Honestly, I don't think I am brave enough to do all the crazy things Ed does, and I think that sometimes the quietest people can be the best in a crisis. Anyone else faced in Ed's situation might've chickened out, or worse been overly violent. Instead, Ed accepted all the missions he had to complete despite the fact he had no real reason to do them. Like i was saying, I think I am more of a quiet person who likes to play by the rules, but in an example form the book the quietest people are the one's who are more important.
Ed meets so many people and they change his life in so many ways. Even hough Ed lived in a pretty small town, he met so many new people that he had never discovered before. This makes me think that there are so many secrets that can be hidden in people and towns, and the Ed discovered a world he had never known. Going through a experience like that will change a person forever and I am sure that is what happened to Ed.
Ed the main character makes me think about people in the real world, how one small event can affect people in the biggest ways. Ed has a very normal and boring life, but when he receives the cards in the mail he is a different person. He does risky things, which makes me wonder how I would react in those situations. Honestly, I don't think I am brave enough to do all the crazy things Ed does, and I think that sometimes the quietest people can be the best in a crisis. Anyone else faced in Ed's situation might've chickened out, or worse been overly violent. Instead, Ed accepted all the missions he had to complete despite the fact he had no real reason to do them. Like i was saying, I think I am more of a quiet person who likes to play by the rules, but in an example form the book the quietest people are the one's who are more important.
Ed meets so many people and they change his life in so many ways. Even hough Ed lived in a pretty small town, he met so many new people that he had never discovered before. This makes me think that there are so many secrets that can be hidden in people and towns, and the Ed discovered a world he had never known. Going through a experience like that will change a person forever and I am sure that is what happened to Ed.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Blog Post on Catcher in the Rye
I recently read Catcher In the Rye and one thing I want to talk about is Holden, the main character's personality. First off, Catcher In The Rye is about a boy Holden, who just got kicked out of boarding school, and when he travels to NYC and the crazy things that happen to him in the few days he is there.
I also wanted to say how this book was pretty unusual because it only took place for about three days, and was quite a long time. Almost every minute was described and you got to know Holden very well. Like I said before, Holden had a very odd personality. Unlike most books where the main character is a hero and is usually good-natured and honest, Holden is almost the opposite. Holden often described himself as a "yellow-bellied coward" and he did not seem like he cared that much about himself. The way he described everyone in the book made him see better than he actually is. He loved his sister and his late brother, and often spent a while describing people him that he barely knew. Other than that, he was quite rude, and he smoked a lot. He would just meet somebody and already judge the person and have a whole set opinion about them. He hated more people than he liked, and in my opinion he didn't seem to like the world in general. He called people "lousy" and "phonies" just because something that person had done once to upset him. I feel like Holden felt too trapped in the world and was mad at some people, but he took it out on everybody.
Holden has had a pretty crappy life, he talks about how he was kicked out of so many schools and how many jerks and horrible people he has met. I think that Holden has spent so much time in the ugly side of the world he thinks everybody is going to behave like that. He is too quick to judge, because he himself has been judged too many times. This book was written in 1946 when a lot of new things were happening in the world, and I think Holden just couldn't grasp it all.
I also wanted to say how this book was pretty unusual because it only took place for about three days, and was quite a long time. Almost every minute was described and you got to know Holden very well. Like I said before, Holden had a very odd personality. Unlike most books where the main character is a hero and is usually good-natured and honest, Holden is almost the opposite. Holden often described himself as a "yellow-bellied coward" and he did not seem like he cared that much about himself. The way he described everyone in the book made him see better than he actually is. He loved his sister and his late brother, and often spent a while describing people him that he barely knew. Other than that, he was quite rude, and he smoked a lot. He would just meet somebody and already judge the person and have a whole set opinion about them. He hated more people than he liked, and in my opinion he didn't seem to like the world in general. He called people "lousy" and "phonies" just because something that person had done once to upset him. I feel like Holden felt too trapped in the world and was mad at some people, but he took it out on everybody.
Holden has had a pretty crappy life, he talks about how he was kicked out of so many schools and how many jerks and horrible people he has met. I think that Holden has spent so much time in the ugly side of the world he thinks everybody is going to behave like that. He is too quick to judge, because he himself has been judged too many times. This book was written in 1946 when a lot of new things were happening in the world, and I think Holden just couldn't grasp it all.
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