For all of you who are annoyed with Joe The Plumber.....
here's the news
joe the plumber is not a plumber.
he's a contractor and a right-wing radio guy who doesn't believe in paying taxes. AND ironically, his real income revealed, it was soon apparent that obama's tax plan would actually benefit him more.
well ok then.
(props to mnbc. i <3 them)
my copy and paste won't work. otherwise i would've posted the video.
Monday, October 20, 2008
This is why Sarah Palin Scares Me
Yeah, because if I got raped tomorrow, she would want me " to choose life"
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
I <3 Sarah Haskin!!!!
i just figured out how to embed videos, and it makes me happy!!!
and this is hilarious!
m
M shopping
So I just went to Stonestown and got lots of spiffy tops. And EVERYTHING was on sale, even in like American Eagle and Aeropostale.A top that was 15 dollars, I got for 3 0r 4.
Does this have to do with the economy?
Fall?
Randomness?
No idea, but I like it.
Does this have to do with the economy?
Fall?
Randomness?
No idea, but I like it.
Mia's rant ( or persuasive essay, whatever you prefer)
Long time no post.....
here you go
Read! Love Books! Um, not THOSE books…………….
Would you ban The Diary of Anne Frank? “Never,” would probably be the overwhelming reply from educators and school boards.
In my opinion, however, it’s a difficult decision to find where to draw the line between allowed and not allowed.
If you ban one book because of some “objectionable material”, don’t you have to ban any book with that sort of objectionable material?
Once you start censoring, how can you stop? I believe that censorship in schools ( especially after elementary school) is wrong.
Many books are banned or challenged in school libraries or no longer allowed in a teacher’s curriculum because parents or officials believe students should not be exposed to a certain type of material.
But many of the so-called obscene or troubling materials are things that all children will eventually encounter.
For example, Judy Blume’s Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret, is frequently challenged because of the references to puberty.
Believe it or not, middle school kids already deal with puberty, and most girls can identify with Margeret and her friends’ fixtation with getting their periods
. Even topics not quite as universal as growing up are still not unknown to teens.
For example, Annie on My Mind is frequently challenged and is banned in many school districts ( such as Olathe, Kansas) because it deals with homosexuality. It doesn’t help teenagers to take away these books, nor will it keep them from hearing about the existence of gay people.
Taking away either book will only deprive them of a good story, not protect them from “offensive” ideas.
Oftentimes censors get over-zealous. Once they start banning books, they don’t stop. For instance, Romeo and Juliet has recently been under fire for promoting suicide. Superfudge was removed from some elementary schools because it said there was no Santa. One elementary school in Hillsborough, Fl, banned the Harry Potter series because “it promotes witchcraft”. One elementary school that was promoting nutrition and anti-obesity programs objected to “The Big Hungry Caterpillar” because they thought it promoted overeating.Most people who challenge or ban books have more legitimate claims than these, but banning one book opens the door to banning more. Even classics like Shakespeare, the Great Gatsby, Gone With the Wind, the Grapes of Wrath, and the Brothers Grimm fairy tales are removed from school libraries.
Some books do have challenging material within them. But does that extinguish their literary value? For example, The Color Purple is an uplifting story with themes of redemption, hope, identity, and the worth of every person. It is an amazing book. However, that didn’t save it in 1984 when it was challenged as appropriate reading for an Oakland high school honors class. According to the critics, it was inappropriate due to its “sexual and social explicitness” and “troubling ideas about race relations, man’s relationship with god, African history, and human sexuality.” In 1992 it was banned from the Souderton, Pa school district even for high schoolers. According to district officials, it is “smut.” Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are often challenged and banned because of their use of the n word, even though the characters that use the word are “bad guys” and clearly portrayed as such within the novels. The same is true of To Save a Mockingbird- racial slurs are used, but it is clear that they are wrong and are only used by the antagonists.
Books with controversial material can be informative to teens, or used within curriculum as a starting point for discussion. This would be especially good for books with racial epithets, so teachers could discuss racism in America. Forever is a VERY often challenged and banned book . As recently as 2005, it was banned from the Pasadena school district, and an elementary school student in northern CA was charged with sexual harassment for lending a copy to a friend( the friend’s parents disapproved) It is a realistic story of teenage love that emphasizes responsibility and healthy relationships(which, sadly, in high school rarely last forever). However, it is often banned for explicit sexual content. I think books like these can be positive and helpful to teens. Far more explicit material is readily available on the internet, and it’s naïve to think that high school students know nothing about sex. Forever contains much more information on birth control than I got in science class last year.
I also think that one disapproving parent should not be able to control every child’s reading material, just their own. Banning a book in the school library is limiting access to literature for every student. If you don’t want your child to read something, you could talk to the librarian-or better yet your kid. I know that my parents are fine with me reading everything from 1984 to Tess of the D’urbervilles, and in fact would put up a stink if I couldn’t access good literature at my school just because it’s controversial. But my parents would not try to impose their own values onto a more conservative family- no forced reading of Judy Blume would occur. Banning a book from a SCHOOL library also has a negative impact on children who don’t have other access to books. Even if you personally want your child to wait until high school to read a certain book, why would you stop every kid from reading it?
You may think that censorship only happens to “dirty” or “bad” books, but making that distinction is hard.
The Diary of Anne Frank was challenged. The Alabama Textbook committee tried to ban it because “ it’s a real downer “.Wise County, Va., thought it contained “ sexually offensive” passages. Has censorship and fear of “offensive” material literally gotten to a place where it is suggested that the Holocaust was a downer-so why teach it? Or that because Anne Frank mentions her period, and once had a vague longing to touch an older girl’s chest, her story should be removed from classrooms? I think restricting books and censorship in schools is wrong. Schools should be a place of knowledge, where a student can learn without many restrictions. I think teenagers have a hard time gaining interest in books as it is-without taking away realistic, controversial, sad, gritty, or thought-provoking ones. I feel lucky that at Hoover, so far, I have seen no censorship whatsoever in the library, and I hope it remains that way.
Keep aware-you never know where censorship will strike next.
here you go
Read! Love Books! Um, not THOSE books…………….
Would you ban The Diary of Anne Frank? “Never,” would probably be the overwhelming reply from educators and school boards.
In my opinion, however, it’s a difficult decision to find where to draw the line between allowed and not allowed.
If you ban one book because of some “objectionable material”, don’t you have to ban any book with that sort of objectionable material?
Once you start censoring, how can you stop? I believe that censorship in schools ( especially after elementary school) is wrong.
Many books are banned or challenged in school libraries or no longer allowed in a teacher’s curriculum because parents or officials believe students should not be exposed to a certain type of material.
But many of the so-called obscene or troubling materials are things that all children will eventually encounter.
For example, Judy Blume’s Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret, is frequently challenged because of the references to puberty.
Believe it or not, middle school kids already deal with puberty, and most girls can identify with Margeret and her friends’ fixtation with getting their periods
. Even topics not quite as universal as growing up are still not unknown to teens.
For example, Annie on My Mind is frequently challenged and is banned in many school districts ( such as Olathe, Kansas) because it deals with homosexuality. It doesn’t help teenagers to take away these books, nor will it keep them from hearing about the existence of gay people.
Taking away either book will only deprive them of a good story, not protect them from “offensive” ideas.
Oftentimes censors get over-zealous. Once they start banning books, they don’t stop. For instance, Romeo and Juliet has recently been under fire for promoting suicide. Superfudge was removed from some elementary schools because it said there was no Santa. One elementary school in Hillsborough, Fl, banned the Harry Potter series because “it promotes witchcraft”. One elementary school that was promoting nutrition and anti-obesity programs objected to “The Big Hungry Caterpillar” because they thought it promoted overeating.Most people who challenge or ban books have more legitimate claims than these, but banning one book opens the door to banning more. Even classics like Shakespeare, the Great Gatsby, Gone With the Wind, the Grapes of Wrath, and the Brothers Grimm fairy tales are removed from school libraries.
Some books do have challenging material within them. But does that extinguish their literary value? For example, The Color Purple is an uplifting story with themes of redemption, hope, identity, and the worth of every person. It is an amazing book. However, that didn’t save it in 1984 when it was challenged as appropriate reading for an Oakland high school honors class. According to the critics, it was inappropriate due to its “sexual and social explicitness” and “troubling ideas about race relations, man’s relationship with god, African history, and human sexuality.” In 1992 it was banned from the Souderton, Pa school district even for high schoolers. According to district officials, it is “smut.” Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are often challenged and banned because of their use of the n word, even though the characters that use the word are “bad guys” and clearly portrayed as such within the novels. The same is true of To Save a Mockingbird- racial slurs are used, but it is clear that they are wrong and are only used by the antagonists.
Books with controversial material can be informative to teens, or used within curriculum as a starting point for discussion. This would be especially good for books with racial epithets, so teachers could discuss racism in America. Forever is a VERY often challenged and banned book . As recently as 2005, it was banned from the Pasadena school district, and an elementary school student in northern CA was charged with sexual harassment for lending a copy to a friend( the friend’s parents disapproved) It is a realistic story of teenage love that emphasizes responsibility and healthy relationships(which, sadly, in high school rarely last forever). However, it is often banned for explicit sexual content. I think books like these can be positive and helpful to teens. Far more explicit material is readily available on the internet, and it’s naïve to think that high school students know nothing about sex. Forever contains much more information on birth control than I got in science class last year.
I also think that one disapproving parent should not be able to control every child’s reading material, just their own. Banning a book in the school library is limiting access to literature for every student. If you don’t want your child to read something, you could talk to the librarian-or better yet your kid. I know that my parents are fine with me reading everything from 1984 to Tess of the D’urbervilles, and in fact would put up a stink if I couldn’t access good literature at my school just because it’s controversial. But my parents would not try to impose their own values onto a more conservative family- no forced reading of Judy Blume would occur. Banning a book from a SCHOOL library also has a negative impact on children who don’t have other access to books. Even if you personally want your child to wait until high school to read a certain book, why would you stop every kid from reading it?
You may think that censorship only happens to “dirty” or “bad” books, but making that distinction is hard.
The Diary of Anne Frank was challenged. The Alabama Textbook committee tried to ban it because “ it’s a real downer “.Wise County, Va., thought it contained “ sexually offensive” passages. Has censorship and fear of “offensive” material literally gotten to a place where it is suggested that the Holocaust was a downer-so why teach it? Or that because Anne Frank mentions her period, and once had a vague longing to touch an older girl’s chest, her story should be removed from classrooms? I think restricting books and censorship in schools is wrong. Schools should be a place of knowledge, where a student can learn without many restrictions. I think teenagers have a hard time gaining interest in books as it is-without taking away realistic, controversial, sad, gritty, or thought-provoking ones. I feel lucky that at Hoover, so far, I have seen no censorship whatsoever in the library, and I hope it remains that way.
Keep aware-you never know where censorship will strike next.
Friday, October 10, 2008
DID YOU KNOW?
did u know
if you google google
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,540,000,000 for google with Safesearch on. (0.09 seconds)
if you google google
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,540,000,000 for google with Safesearch on. (0.09 seconds)
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