Self Assessment ***

I think that I did great with most of my blogs. I like to describe my self and put my opinions out their. I love to have people read my opinions, and read my ideas on certain topics. I would say that ''Habits of minds" difinitely had something to do with each of my blog because in each of my blog, the topics are dealing with humans and they way of life. The Habit of mind that I had identified with the most was "I've been thinking about our thinking", I'm always talking to myself in my head, asking myself questions and just thinking about life. The past few weeks, I did enjoy writing blogs because in some way it was interesting and we were typing not hand writing so it wasn't that difficult.

I think that the Habits of mind was the piece I was most proud of because I really felt connected to that piece. The blog that I wasn't really proud of was the "Advice to Youth", which was a recent piece. I didn't really enjoy writing this piece because I had a hard time writing it. I misunderstood what the author was saying because he was saying it in such a satirical way, and I had a hard time with that because I hardly knew was satire meant. This writing piece was just very difficult for me.

Thinking about all of the blogs that I have done in the past, I think that I deserve a grade of a 85 or higher because I really worked hard on all the blogs especially when it came down to expressing my opinions and ideas on a subject.

Busted***

I read Teens Posting Fight Video on Web, What's Behind the Trend?, Web networking photos come back to bite defendants and Teenagers Misbehaving, for All Online to Watch. What all of these articles have in common is that they all are about teens fighting and video taping their fights and outrageous behavior.

In the case of the article "Web networking photos come back to bite defendants Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, a 20-year-old college junior at the time attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."

Some how these pictures showed up on the well known site called "Face book" these pictures was used as remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case. `

Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison. Lipton was sentence to 2years in prison.

"Social networking sites are just another way that people say things or do things that come back and haunt them," said Phil Malone, director of the cyberlaw clinic at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "The things that people say online or leave online are pretty permanent." That's why people should be careful what they say because it can always come back to you when you're on a web site like face book or myspace.

The pictures, when shown at sentencing, not only embarrass defendants but also can make it harder for them to convince a judge that they're remorseful or that their drunken behavior was an aberration. (Of course, the sites are also valuable for defense lawyers looking to dig up dirt to undercut the credibility of a star prosecution witness.)

Teens are caught everyday video taping them selves fighting and just doing stupid stuff. What they don't know is yes , things like that catches lots and lots of teens attention but it also could catch a cop or an adult attention and some one could report it and that could get someone in trouble. Last month, after viewing a video of the beating of a 13-year-old girl that was broadcast on Web sites including In the case of Teenagers misbehaving for all online to watch kids decides to taped their selves MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube, the authorities arrested three freshman girls from nearby North Babylon High School.

What comes to someone's mind, Is this a trend or does people really want to hurt other people.
I think that it is right that the people who are on these videos and the ones who are putting these videos on all the websites should be punished. Doing harm to another human being is wrong and taping is worst, people really should be punished for doing things like this. It's not funny that things like this happens to people and it's not a joke. In my opinion I think that is is a trend because allot of teen only wants to do stuff like this when they see someone else doing it and I think that is kind of sad.

Satire

Why people shouldn't lie. I think that Mark Twain's ''Advice to Youth" has a unique way of getting his point across about the reasons why people shouldn't lie. He is saying to be careful about lying cause you will eventually get caught. Mark Twain is hilarious as he goes on to saying that the young should not lie unless their have practice and experience. He uses Satire because in the article he will say be respectful of someone that is superior to you and he says "If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick".I think it is funny because he is using satire.

This cartoon shows the two women in the back just showing their eyes, The satire part of this cartoon is that the man is Not showing his eyes. You want to know why?He is not showing his eyes because he is a terrorist.

Al Gore:
EARTH—Former vice president Al Gore—who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save—launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope that his only child would reach the safety of another world.

"I tried to warn them, but the Elders of this planet would not listen," said Gore, who in 2000 was nearly banished to a featureless realm of nonexistence for promoting his unpopular message. I think Al Gore is saying that he wanted to inform everyone about the information that he knew before things became worst. "They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold. Fools! Why didn't they heed me before it was too late?"

This article makes fun of Al Gore's behavior about the economy and how he's been trying to warn people about the earth for years. Personally I think that it is not a joke and that people really should start doing something about it, and start listening to Al Gore because he is like one in a million. Meaning here is some one that is really trying to help our nation and in form everyone on what is going on. He has been telling us what we should do and informing us that our nation is in trouble and we should start doing things to help it. Al Gore is Someone who I think really wants to help us and he wants to change the world. This why I think he is one in a million. The meaning of satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

What makes a good liar?

What makes a good liar? , what makes a good liar is someone who could remember their lies. I think that what makes liar a good liar is not forgetting the lies you made up because than you would be caught in your lie.I think the most excessive liars are kids, but adults lie too. people can lie for many reasons. Reasons like, in security, if their a child than they may think that they are going to get in trouble, The person might lie to make themselves feel good, their are many reasons why people lie.

Both authors get their points across about lying but in different ways. The essay written by Montaigne's says that '' If, like the truth, falsehood had only one face, we should know better where we are, for we should then take the opposite of what a liar said to be the truth. But the opposite of a truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field.'' I like this statement because I feel like it is true. When you tel;l a lie, you can shape it how ever I like. I can tell what at first was the truth then add some others lies on their so the story could be worth hearing.

The quote by Mark Twain uses satire ,which is a word describing people making fun of human vice or weakness. He poem says to me that lying is a everyday thing. People lie all of the time but I lie all of the time, How I'm I going to keep my lies up. How would I remember what I lied about? I think that is so true, people tell lies to people and can't remember what they said or what they lied about. The key thing to remember is "If you tell the truth, You don't have to remember anything''. I say that because if you never lie, than you will never have to remember what you lied about. For Example: If some one asked me how old am I?, and I response by saying I am 21 years old, than that is what their going to believe. Say the person forgets and they ask me again how old am I, I say 18. They are going to know I lied about my age, but if I had simply told them I was 18 in the first place, I would not have to remember the age that I told them.