Self Assesment

Making a blog helped me to deal with a lot of my problems, I've always been the type of person to let my feelings out on paper and never even thought of making a blog. I wrote a lot of entries while feeling alone, angry or disappointed in myself but never posted them because I wanted to be the one to view it alone. The only thing that I didn't like about making a blog were some of the assignments. I don't like to write and have to look up information, I like to just know what I'm writing about and give my point of view on it. Still, i enjoyed the process of the blog and plan on keeping it although the class is over. I am definitely proud of my blog, I like looking back at my entries and adding more to it on occasion. I think that my work in this class was fair, I did my best to complete MOSt of the blogs assigned to me even though some I really disliked. I think that it's fair to say that i can atleast earn a 75 in this class. 

Busted

Some people may think that posting videos of fights, pictures while intoxicated , or as bad asses is cool until it bites them in the ass. I read three articles in which it shows how young adults have been given no  sympathy due to their postings over the Internet.  

December 5th 2007, a couple of  teenagers from Brooklyn thought it'd  be cool if they started problems with a Caucasian guy and film it. They started harassing him, calling him names, throwing things at him, and getting in his face. One thing led to another and because of the  man answering back to them they ended up hitting him and posting the video on YouTube by Kadejra Holmes, a highschool student and aspiring Harlem filmmaker. The girls soon got asked about the video by the police and the denied being involved in anything. They deleted the video from YouTube but it was too late, the police had already seen it. 

In an article titled Web Networking Photos Come Back to Bite Defendants by Eric Tucker, it talks about many different stories involving teenagers/young adults who post up videos, pictures, or blogs associating them with drugs, liquor, or violence. In one specific part, it tells how a judge was thinking of possibly giving Lara Buys probation for a 2006 drunker driving crash that killed her passenger. But just before right before sentencing her, he decided to check her Myspace page. unfortunately for her, he saw pictures of her, after the accident but before the sentencing, holding a glass of wine and making jokes about drinking and driving. 

In another article, Teenagers Misbehaving for all Online to Watch, They talk about how kids make dumb videos of them beating each other up or post up pictures that were taken at a slumber party in panties and bras on the internet. They asked a couple of kids questions and got responses like "I wanna be known" or "hey it could get me on TV" they do all this for street cred, or 15 minutes of fame, but they don't know how much it'll affect them later on.

I AM Angela

I am Angela 

I am positive and demanding

I wonder if the last day on earth will ever get here

I hear my mom telling me that i need to graduate

I see a bright future ahead of me

I want to be the best I can be 

I am positive and demanding 

I pretend to not care about a lot of things 

I feel as if I'm being pushed to live my life to the max

I touch the stars with my fingertips at night 

I worry about my family

I cry when I feel helpless

I am positive and demanding

I understand that i can't have everything my way 

I say That it is not the length of time, but the depth of it 

I dream of the day that I become a mommy

I try to maintain myself around positive people

I hope to one day have my own healthy family

I am positive and demanding

Satire

Satire
is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like in exposing, or denouncing. "Advice to Youth" is satirical because Mark Twain was sarcastic about his advise to kids.

Basically Twains message in this article is to obey your parents. He doesn't go right out and say "kids you should all obey your parents", instead he uses reverse psychology on us because he knows we always want to do the total opposite of what we're told to do.

In "Advice to Youth"
Mark's ridiculing kids by giving them wrongful advice telling them that they should pay attention to their parents when "they're around", meaning when they're not around do as you please . Another example of how he's giving wrongful advice to us kids is by telling us to "practice lying" that way we'll be good at it and won't get caught. In my opinion, this piece is successful because it shows a perfect example of satire. Then again it might not be successful because some kids might take his bad advice into consideration and actually do all he suggests to do.