Thank you, Ma'm by Langston Hughes

This sotry was very interesting. The fact that the elderly lady was able to defend herself was great. Not alot of elderly people can do that. On the other hand in the story instead of running away or calling the cops like most people would do, she drag's him to her house, wash his face and gave him food. Knowing that she did some bad things in her past as well. She asked him why he tried to rob her and after he gave her the reason. After she heard what he said she gave him the 10 dollars so he can buy his sueade shoes. I wonder what would have happened if she called the cops. What would have Roger life been like? what was Roger life like after he got the sueade shoes?

Indenspencible friendship

Friends are easy to come by. Finding a true friendship is like finding a shooting star in the sky. I have many friends but I only have a few true friends. Having too many true friends would cause you trouble. One day you and one of you’re so called true friends will get into an argument with you and those things that you thought was just between you and that person would be used against you. I’ve seen so called best friends argue and when that happens a lot off each other business gets put out there in the open for everyone to hear. I f these best friends are suppose to be your true friends then why is your business getting put out there. Me and my friend Kasiem never got into an argument because we think somewhat alike. Yea sure we have different point of views on topics, were from two different cultures, we have different hobbies but one thing we have in common is that always are ourselves. A lot of my other friends are themselves too but they just can’t be trusted too much. If you trust to many people to much then you’re more vulnerable to letting a lot of people hurt you, physically and emotionally. You can only be a true friend if you’re true to yourself.

Basketball and Football

Basketball and football are somewhat the same. In basketball you have a team that runs up and down trying to make the ball in the goal. Football is the same thing. In basketball there are rules that players have to follow just like in football. A foul is when a player on the defensive team hits a player on the offensive team. Same in foot ball but it’s called pass interference which is when the defensive player hits or happens to do something that can cause him not to catch the ball. Things like hitting his hand, pushing him in the air.
Basketball is played on a hardwood floor with a round bouncing ball. Their goal is to get it into a basket, hence the name basketball. Football is played on a 100 yard field with a team of at least 12 people from each team on the field. While in basketball there’s only 5 people from each team. In football a ball is thrown several yards to a receiver whose job is to run and get it into the in-zone and score a touchdown which is worth six points. Then after they can kick the aerodynamic ball between goals to get an extra point or you can run a play for a two point conversion. You wear football cleats to play on football but you have to wear sneaker when you playing basketball. In football you get to tackle the ball carrier and you have to wear protective equipment so you dont get hurt.

The Wetter The Better

One day about two summers ago my friends and I were playing touch football in the middle of the street. It's a one way street where not a lot of cars pass through. We trashed talked, laughed and had fun all at once. My mother was looking out the window because there was a lot of yelling going on. People on the sidewalk stopped walking to watch us play. I guess we were playing pretty good. Out of nowhere it’s gets cloudy and starts to rain. This wasn’t your ordinary rain this rain came down with force and it didn’t come alone. It came with its friend wind. The football game didn’t stop, instead it kept going. The rain made the game more enjoyable, we were sliding everywhere, we had to run extra hard. Some of us couldn’t catch the ball and the ones who did end up falling and hitting the ground. We laughed at how we fell, laughed at how we caught the football in some of the weirdest ways. Our clothes were all soaked from the rain. Our parents would call out the window telling us to come upstairs but we didn’t listen we were to busy having fun in the rain. The rain and the wind made the game more difficult, which made it more fun.

Two beautiful laughing sisters

Before reading this story I knew that it was going to be about sisters from Kurdish, who came to America. Reading that they were from there I allready knew the bad things that occurr's over in that area. What I wanted to know is what kind of jobs did the sister get after comming to Americ? Did they evey get a degree? and would they go back to their country and try to help those that are trying to get out of poverty and abbuse. What I learned was that the cops over there aren't really there for protection of the citizens. They just there to abuse their power. I also learned that females had to wear thick clothing and scars when walking outside in that extruciating heat. PLus they couldn't wear any lipstick or make-up. I think that what they had to go threw is horribel and that no one should be treated reason for any reason. Why would you treat females like they are inferior when they are the ones that have to carry you for 9 months. If anything females shuold be respected and treated as equal. I feel sorry for them having to walk outside with scarfs and extra clothing on when the weahter is 96 degrees everyday. I want to know whats the purpose of them treating females this way?

Are Game Good for Your Health?

I like to play games and always heard that playing video games for too long isn't good for you. I've also read that video games are one of the reason for obesity and aggresion. However reading this article (link below) I learned that video games are actually healthy and good for you. They said that action games could sharpen vision and may even cure amblyopia. Amblyopia is also know has "Lazy eye". To cure this, doctors would suggest to wear an eye patch over your good eye, but researchers at Nottingham University found out that one hour of playing video games can achieve what eye pathces do in 400 hours. Another good thing about video games is that tetris can increase your brain efficiencey if played 30 minutes a day over a theree month period. Playing tetris develop a thicker cortex. Playing the Wii also help people with parkinson and some Wii games have prvoen to help surgeons make less mistake and give them a warm up before going into surgerory. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/27/gaming.health.senses/index.html

Myspace vs Facebook

Before reading this article I was a member of both myspace and facebook. I knew that these two websites were just a way of communicating with coligues from back in the day. I chose this article because the title was Does your social class determine your online social network. After reading this I found out that it actaully does because of a study done. It said that most middle class people use myspace while the educated and upper class use facebook. Which is very interesting because I know alot of middle class people who are on facebook. Do you think that there's a larger number of upper class people on facebook then middle class?


http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/13/social.networking.class/index.html#cnnSTCText

Scientists discover massive ring around Saturn

Before reading this article I only knew about earth and the moon.I also knew that there was seven planets in this universe. After reading this I learned that Saturn had a huge ring thats nearly invisible that scientist are just now recently discovering. They said that it can fit 1 billin Earth's."If you were to stand in the ring, you wouldn't even know it," Verbiscer said in a statement, I think thats crazy for someone to stand on the ring and not even no it. That would probably feel like your justy floating in the air.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/10/07/space.saturn.ring/index.html

Body Piercing and Tattoing: Risk to Health

I allready knew that some tattos take hours to get done, some piercing hurt and take weeks to heal or to get used to. I knew that once you get a tatto you cant give blood for a year allready. Also i allready knew that tatto and body piercing is a art work, that shows expressioin and can be somthing symbolic. After reading this I found out something shocking, that in history people used to pierce their bodies, I never knew that piercing went back this far. To show manhood Roman soldier used to pierce thier nipples. The risk of getting a tatto from an un-sterolized needle is a STD, hepetatis A and or B. For piercing you can get swelling, redness, and puse. If any of these things happen you ghould get help.

The Real World:Bilingual Children

Before reading the article The Real World:Bilingual Children Iknew that it was going to be about young kids learning two languages. This article is about biligual education and how the research on that is messy. After reading this i found out that teaching a small child two languages at a very young age the child would leanr both languages if spoken to him/her from two diffrent peopl without mixing the languages together, like spanglish. I personally believe that being able to speak multiple languages ig a great thing in this country of diversity. I speak both English and Spanish which has helped me alot with communicating and making some people confortablt like the spanish owner in the deli or something. =)

Calling all spies: Has cell phone spy tech got your number?

Before I read this article I had read something related to the tilttle on http://www.sprword.com/ about cell phones being spied on.Like the goverment listening to "our" conversations, reading "our" text messages and etc. The title alone caught my attention becasue I own a cell phone and wouldnt want anybody spying on me, and because that's illegal and its invasion of privacy. After reading this article, I learned thath its only smart phones that can get hacked and spied on beacause of the fact that they can run programs and software. Your smart phone can easily be hacked by someone sending you a text message, and once you open it they are able to turn your phone off, on, use your service and even use the internet on your phone without you noticing. A lot of your cell hpone providers are making new security software's for smart phone so things like this don't happen. Reading this article thought me that a regualr phone wont be able to get hacked, so if you want the smart phones then you would have to worry if someone is hacking into your phone.

article- http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/20/cellphone.spy.software/index.html

College advise

I thought that the college advise passage I read was real helpfull and some advise i would be able to pass down to friends and future kids or up comming college freshman. They missed a few things like

• Go to class on time,pay attention do your work and you'll obviesly get a good grade
• Make sure you eat before class or else it would be hard to pay attention with your stomach growling every 3 mins
• Exchange numbers with someone in your class, you never know when your going to miss a day of class or when you need help
• Apply for work study, that way you have something to do on your free time
• Buy a netbook or labtop and download your "textbooks" online, its free and can save you a bundel in the fuuture.

Texting? never knew it was so dangerous

I know that texting is the new age of communication. People all over the world text and nearly everyone knows how to text. Texing has become the new inovnovated way to leave a messege on someone else phone that can be replied to in just secounds. I text on the regular, so when i first read the article titile it caught my eye because it relates to me. Telling me not to text while walking, wich I do nearly everyday.
What I wanted to know is how is texting dangerous? can texting kill you are cause artritus?. Well come to find out people who text and do something else at the same time have reported injuries. It goes from walking into lamp post and walls to tripping over curbs. Unfortantly there has been two death caused from texting in California. The first was from a woman who walked right into a passing pickup truck while texting. The same happen to a male, only diffrence is that it wasnt a pickup truck. Even some doctors have texted while driving. The advise doctors gave was" When you're texting loook around". Guess walking and texting is dangerous, but im still going to do it so far havent bumped into anything and im smart enough to stop at the corner before going across the street.

All about Nando

My major is electrical engineering, I like to play sports(Basketball, football, soccer), read urban books, buying clothes and having fun. I enjoy laughing and hanging out with my friends. I also like poetry, I personally cant write them but enjoy reading and listening to them. Another thing I like is learning something new, and I like to try new stuff.

Really like hip-hop,r&b, and rap.

"IF YOU KNEW BETTER YOU DO BETTER" YA DIGG..lol