Laura's Website

I visited a website called Twenty-Five Days To Make a Difference for my Webpage Design Project. It was created by a girl named Laura (ten years old) who wanted to help people who were less fortunate than her during the holidays. For example, she wrote a letter to her school lunch monitors and lunch lady showing her appreciation for all of their work. She also made many dinners for people in her community who couldn't have a festive meal during the holidays. She has shown many different ways to make an impact in people's lives. One way I have helped the community is by giving away two night's worth of Channukah gifts away to charity. I think what she is doing is a great idea.

Evan Trembly Hoax

A 15 year old boy named Evan Trembly went missing two weeks ago in Canada. His mother wrote a very touching e-mail and sent it out to everybody to help locate her son, or so I thought.

When I first read the e-mail about a missing boy named Evan Trembly, I was totally shocked. I had heard about stories like this, but nothing in my lifetime at an age when I could understand it. However, after further investigations, I found out that the entire thing was a hoax and that the boy sent out the e-mail as a joke. The reason I searched it was because the e-mail seemed fishy because it was missing a lot of specific details that could help find a child. I can't believe how many parents must have went into shock thinking that this could have happened to their own child. I think this is a sick thing to do, and I am apalled. Below is a good link to follow to find more details. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/evantrembley.htm

Did You Know?

1. At 38 years old, people will have had 10 to 14 jobs in their lifetime.
2. 1 out of 8 couples married met over the internet.

Reaction To Blogging Videos

My reaction to the videos is that I knew that what you right on the internet, you cannot take back, but I didn't realize how often cyberbullying occurs. I didn't know that 100,000 children a year drop out of school because of cyberbulling. Now, I am going to be more cautious of what I put on the internet, because of these safe-blogging videos.

Safe Blogging Videos

The three videos I watched were the first two and the last one. The first one was about how once you post something online, you cannot take it back, no matter what. Anyone can see the picture or read the sentence whenever they feel like it, so you should be careful about what you post. The second video was about a girl who gives a speech, but instead of saying something nice, she makes fun of another girl, and the message that the video tries to get across is that if you won't say it to some one's face, it is not OK to say it online. The last video was about a bunch of kids showing where, how, and how many times bullying occurs. That was a very serious video, and nobody spoke during the entire video. I believe that it is important to raise awareness about how severe the punishments of making a mistake online can be.

Globalization

In the tennis US Open, men's and women's, the top 9 players came from 6 different countries. This statistic, and many others, show the rapid expanison of sports once only played by Americans. This expansion is caused by the faster communication and faster travel. Before there were planes, if you wanted to travel from Spain to America, you would have to go on a crowded boat for a few days. Now, it takes a matter of hours. Also, to accept an invitation to a tournament, a player in a different country would have to write a letter to the other country, wait for it to get there, and wait for it to get back. Now, e-mail allows people from around the world to communicate with eachother in a matter of seconds. For sure, the world is getting smaller.