Are fire drills really helpful?

Every school is trained for an emergency. Each room in a school has a laminated paper hanging on the wall directing the teachers down a certain staircase and across a certain street to make everyone safe. Being that there has been many terrorist attacks who wouldn't think that these drills wouldn't be helpful. Behind close doors many students feel differently. Students have began to feel as though fire drills are a way to get out of class and everyone takes their time down the stairs. How are we suppose to know when it is serious and when we are just practicing?
I believe that schools should start taking a more active role in fire drills. Teens like to take their time get separated from their class and wonder around outside. Drills teach you many things such as a way to keep yourself safe as well as others. They introduce safety and conduct in to the teens life in case of emergencies. Drills are very helpful and should be used with caution.

The Boy in the stripped Pajamas

I recently saw the movie The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas and it was by far a movie that all must see. It was about a boy whose father was a Nazi and they moved near a concentration camp. The boy being an explorer that he was decided to search the grounds and soon found the camp. Not knowing what it was he would play with a boy behind the barbed wire and give him food and no one ever found out. They soon became very close and boy ended up digging a hole under the wire. I will not spoil the ending but it is a movie that moved many people. It helps keep the memory alive about what happened those horrific years. Some choose to forget and others just call it the past, what is done is done.
The holocaust is a time in history that needs to be remembered for the mistake that was made, for no one speaking out against it and for the millions that died. People still live with it day by day having first hand experience. History is told to repeat itself. Not keeping the memory alive is as if we are letting it happen again and no one wants that.

Body Image

Being healthy is an important part of a persons life. Different things are expected from different people based on their life styles. Looking through magazines such as Vogue or Seventeen all you see are the "perfect" figured women. How do we determine what is perfect and what is not?
The media corrupts people. It makes you believe that you should look a certain way and weigh a specific weight but the truth is that everyone is different. Men and women have different bodies. Different women have different bodies, no two people are going to be exactly alike in weight and height have the same eating habits and want the same things. Now a days you occasionally see a plus size person in a magazine. What is to say that is not beautiful?
Teenagers are at high risk when it comes to body image. They want to fit in , they want to be like there role model in a television show or magazine. Teenagers will go to all lengths to get to what they believe is "perfect" or what they have been taught is "perfect". Both boys and girls are suffering because they are being diagnosed with different diseases that effect them both physically and mentally. This effects the youth majorly and needs to be stopped. People die from not eating because they think they are to fat. This is a subject that needs to be dealt with so why isn't anything happening?.

A different experiance

For our final project I went to MOMA or otherwise known as the museum of modern art. This was truly a great experience. I don't believe i would of gone if i didn't have to for this class. I recommend everyone to go to MOMA even for just an hour and look at some of the art. This was an experience I will never forget.
What is truly considered art? Is folded paper art? According to MOMA it is. I have heard many different theories as to what is art such as anything can be art, it is the feeling you get when making the master piece. It is believed to be emotions and the ideas that are behind it and the feelings the observer gets.
Art can be interpreted in many different ways. Each person has their own ideas and thoughts as to what the art means or as to whether it is art or not. Is this what the artists want? Is an artists goal to make an observer think or do they actually want to get their point across? If I made a sculpture or a painting I think I would want my own thought and idea to come across to the people that saw it and for them not to form their own theory. This is a very difficult subject. I suppose it depends on the artist and what they want and how they want their art to be viewed by others.

An important decision

Being that we are all juniors and very soon becoming seniors a huge decision for us is picking a college that is right for us. We are influenced by many things such as our family and our friends but the most important thing to remember is that it is our future. Some of us are afraid to go away to college and others just don't want to but you have all these teachers and adults saying that it was their best experience ever going away to college. Then we have been with some of our friends since we were babies how do we let go of that. All these aspects play an important role.Going to college is the most important part of our lives. We have gone to school and prepared for it for many years now. We are entering the adult life and starting our lives by ourselves, being independent. You have to remember to pick what is right for you, what interests you and what you want. Everyone else is their to help and you can take their helping hand but in the end its all about us and our decisions.

Traveling around the World

Traveling can become a huge part of who a person is. Traveling and seeing different things can influence you in your life and help you realize different aspects of the world. Seeing new things brings new meanings whether they are good or bad. The whole world isn't perfect. You have third world countries that have sick children and poor families barely able to live and then you have a place like America where everyone wants to live the "American Dream". The truth is that people don't realize what happens around the world, they only see what is actually in front of them. To me this is a huge problem, we want everyone to live a fair and healthy life but every individual needs to help in order to do this. Seeing starving children helps you get involved, makes you want to do something for them and for other children. Seeing the way people live is not the only way seeing the world changes you but also seeing art. How many people can say they have been 2 feet from the actual Mona Lisa? Or went to the top of the Eiffel Tower? I can, and it has made a difference to me. You see all these beautiful things the world has to offer and you learn to appreciate them. Being exposed to different cultures or religions also goes along with this subject. These things can change a person because you learn. You learn different things about people and about the world.

Swine Flu

The Swine Flu or now also known as H1N1 has had a great impact on countries world wide. Between the amount of outbreaks, the amount who died from it and the amount of panic it has caused the Swine Flu is known as to of "just begun".
I believe that the Swine Flu has caused major panic throughout the people. People have begun staying home, wearing masks and even not eating pig. To some extent people have blown this out of proportion. We have had outbreaks of different things before and it is an expected thing for the people to panic. People have a way of believing in the worst rather then in the best.
There are many known symptoms of the Swine Flu. Doctors say that as long as you detect it early it is treatable. Many people who have died from this H1N1 outbreak was because they didn't have the right care or they did not have strong amune systems. I am not saying that this isn't serious and we shouldn't take precautions but people have a way of making it bigger then what it truly is.