Monday, September 24, 2007

Tragic accident.

At about 7 p.m on Saturday five people driving a Toyota 4-runner swerved to avoid 2 other vehicles rolled of a dirt road to there death near Colorado 14 at milespot 97. It was confirmed that that one person has died, the driver had minor injuries and so did the other passengers...
wow when i was reading that i got chills up my spine. It makes me have many questions and thoughts about driving. What future do i hold as a driver?
will i have a fate that leads to death driving?
huh?
that makes me scared to drive and sympathetic to the ones who have died from something like that...
i know one thing, i am going to be the most careful driver i can be and most responsible.

Speaking from the soal.

This article that just read is very important to me because i agree with him 100%. Me as the person i am today, find it elaborating to express the way I feel through writing. I can only express the way i feel through writing in that manor but most of all writing is a beautifull thing. You can never reach a limit with writing. You get to go out of your boundaries and explore your mind with endless possibilities. Now that's just one opinion but i think writing is great for school and allows a great discussion in class and leaves us all with something to think about. At least its not boring?

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The Fischbowl

Well i just read an article from The Fischbowl talking about how important and great blogging is. Its inspiring really, but i agree 100%, this work that we present and put our total thoughts into it and really think it through allows us to expand in our knowledge about the outside of us and also gain responsibility, considering the youth is the worlds highest percentile in all the worlds population. if learn all this stuff about the outside it can never be to late to make a difference and with all the information in mind it may change the outlook on the way us humans do things. Change our lifestyles. Wow way to get out of my head, but i think this method is a great thing and allows us to do more. I don't know if this is the right paragraph for me to use my critical thinking on but I cant speak for others, as for me i want to know more and better yet i want to grow as a classroom in school and be able to sit down and have a serious talk about it. With this in mind i can come to class prepared with alot to say and actually learn something.


Languages Die, but Not Their Last Words

In this article named "Languages die but not their last words" brought a very important thought in my mind. To actually think of it the only well known spoken languages are English. Spanish, French. those are the most popular i guess you could say, but im only in what 9th grade? Thats all i have been tought and many others as well. We don't know about the other unspoken languages. And if the youth of the world doesn't know and if the elderly die off, who will know in the end? Well back to the article, this explain how world languages are dieing, but there are those few people that still have it fresh in there mind. It says "estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and likely to disappear in this century. In fact, one falls out of use about every two weeks." wow thats crazy, and i would have never know to be that many. Its sad really to think that something so important to communication is forgotten or i should say pushed aside for a more popular language. Another thing that i picked up on this text is: "in bilingual cultures, as indigenous tongues are overwhelmed by the dominant language at school, in the marketplace and on television." That sentence just shows what crap has been put in the world. I mean, i understand that completely how the dominant language spoken near you, your going to want to speak as well. Its all about communication. Back to the summery, In this article Is describes how many languages existed...ill give an example: Amurdaga, language in the Northern Territory from this day has been declared extinct. To me the way i see it is if we as a world gave it time to learn about these cultures and learn others cultures languages basically expand what we know, who knows? endless possibilities. To end this summery, one thing that shocked me most and something to leave you here thinking is,
Another measure of the threat to many relatively unknown languages, Dr. Harrison said, is that 83 languages with “global” influence are spoken and written by 80 percent of the world population. Most of the others face extinction at a rate, the researchers said, that exceeds that of birds, mammals, fish and plants.
what shall we do?