Reaction to Silent Beats Video

I think that when most of us saw that first part of the video, we already made a stereotype about the african american teenage boy. Both the elderly woman and the Chinese man both suspected that he was going to do something bad when really, he did probably the opposite of most of us though. The young man was just a victim of stereotyping. The old woman, looking so innocent and what not, was really the one who did the wrong thing. I think the video proved a point about false thinking.

What do you think was going through the african american boys head while in the store?

End of the Grading Period

This semester I don't think I did the best of my ability. I didn't try my hardest, focus enough, and I think I was just a little lazy. I procrastinate...a lot. That was one of the major problems. I try my best not too though. Another thing was that I just wasn't even really interested in most of my classes. I need to learn how to be more sociable. The only classes that I'd actually look forward to or were interested in are computer applications and honors world history. I like computer applications because I actually know what's going on and what we're talking about. That and I get to listen to music. I like honors world history because I like all of the people in the class (it's just that I don't really talk to them because I don't know what to say) and I just like that class period. In geometry I'm struggling. The stuff that I don't know I'm afraid to ask about it. It makes me look stupid....and I'm not. I hate it when people call me stupid. I just have a different way of learning. And most of the kids in that class are smarter than me and might think that. I really need to step up and start being more focused though. So this next grading period, I'm going to try harder than to keep A's and B's.

These songs has been stuck in my head for the past week now.

SWOT Analysis

I have a lot of ways that use to study. I tend to study the best when I'm on the computer and listening to music though.

S- Music helps me concentrate and get less distracted (most of the time at least). I usually have a playlist set up for school and homework so I don't have to keep clicking on which songs I want to listen to.

W- Since I'm on the computer, I can get distracted a little more easily. Sometimes while I'm studying I'll occasionally check Facebook, Twitter, etc.. After that, I just keep that tab open of the site I'm on and go back to studying while checking them occasionally.

O- I always have the opportunity to not use the computer and not listen to music. But it's kind of a habit now so if I don't at least do one of the two things, I have trouble focusing on work. I could just not do both of them and sit and do my homework in my dining room, but it's too loud anywhere else than the computer room. I also have the opportunity to just not even do any of my homework and just get on Facebook or something along those lines, but I don't and finish my homework.

T- Some threats of mine are my sisters, social networking, and my phone. My sisters always bother me or something and I can never focus with them around yelling at each other and what not. Then social networking is usually the thing that always gets me off task. I try my best to not to until I'm done with my work though. My phone is also one of the main things that distracts me. With texting and more that distracts me a lot. So I usually just put my phone on silent until my work is done.

 

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Discussions Question

Poll:



If South Side were to cut all music programs, what would you do about it?

A.) Nothing

B.) Be angry but do nothing

C.) Start a petition and try to get the music program back.

D.) Talk to your school about how much the students needs arts and music programs in their lives.

Discussion:

What extra curricular activites would you like to see South Side have that we don't already have?

20 Question Game

If I could sit down and play the 20 question game with anyone, I'd have to choose John Mayer. Some of my questions to him might include:

1. Why did you write/play music?
2. When did you start to play guitar?
3. When did you know you wanted to pursue a career in music and why?
4. Who are you inspirations for music?
5. Who are you inspirations for anything?
6. What college would you want to attend?
7. What is your best memory of performing live?
8. What would you say is your best album so far? Song?
9. What's your favorite album you've done? Song?
10. How do you know Rob Dyrdek?
11. What concerts would you want to go to?
12. Are you a sports fan?
13. If so, what sports and what team?
14. So what went on between you and Taylor Swift?
15. What was high school like for you?
16. Best memory from high school and worst?
17. Best and worst memory ever?
18. If you couldn't be a musician, what would you be? Why?
19. So where's your favorite place to eat?
20. Best place you've ever performed?



My Sites

Youtube:

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2. I like how I can listen to music and watch peoples videos for free.

3. I use this site for mostly listening to music, just watching comedy videos, watching t.v. episodes, or watching movies.

4. Some positives are that Youtube is free and it has most of the stuff you could search for on there.

5. Some negatives are that anyone could post a video of ALMOST anything and people could post hate videos too.

6. Youtube's competitor is Hulu or tv-links.eu  Youtube vs Hulu, Youtube vs tv-links.eu

7. If i could make one change to youtube it would be that not everyone could post videos of almost anything. On youtube there is a lot of hate videos towards a variety of people.

Facebook:

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2. I like how I can socialize with my friends who I don't get to see as much anymore. I also get to see everyones status updates and what not.

3. I mostly use this site for socializing and playing games.

4. Some positives about the site is that you can connect with old friends and new friends. You can also post pictures, videos, status', and much more too.

5. Some negatives about facebook are that they keep changing facebook's layout and more about everyother week. Just when people are getting the hang of their last update, they update it again. Another negative is that there is a lot of cyber-bullying happening on facebook and the hate needs to stop.

6. Facebook's competitor is Myspace. Facebook vs Myspace

7. If I could make changes to facebook I'd stop updating the site like everyother week. I'd probably update it maybe once every six months.

Google:

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2. What I like most about google is that it's one of the greatest research engines in the world.

3. I usually use this site for looking up pictures, shopping, and research.

4. Some positives about google is that it gives you some of the best information when you type it in at the top and you can even filter your searches to more exact searches.

5. Some negatives about google is that sometimes it can give you the things you don't want.

6. Google's main competitor is probably Yahoo or Ask.com. Google vs Yahoo, Google vs Ask.com

7. If I could make a couple changes to google I'd make google a little more fun looking and add widgets to the google home page.

Gmail:

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2. I like how I can check my email and also talk to my friends and see their buzz status' too when they don't want to put it on facebook.

3. I usually use this site for checking my email and emailing other people.

4. Some positives about gmail is that it's simple and doesn't update its site and try to over-do everything like yahoo-mail does. You can also use your gmail to log into a lot of other websites too.

5. Some negatives about gmail would have to be the storage and trash problems. My trash bin for gmail gets way too full way too quickley.

6. Gmail's competitor would have to be yahoo mail, AOL, or hotmail. Gmail vs Yahoo-mail, Gmail vs AOL, Gmail vs hotmail.

7. If I could make changes to g-mail I'd make gmail a bigger site with more storage.

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2. What I like most about this site is that I can check church updates and see when our next youth outing is.

3. I use this site to see church updates and check when we have choir practice and other church activities for the youth.

4. A positive about this site is that it's formatted well.

5. A negative about the site is that they only update it every 1-2 months.

6. Trinity's site doesnt really have a competitor.

7. If I could make some changes to this site I'd make it a little more lively.

ABOUT Maggie Keisler

10/3/11

Hello fellow bloggers! My names Maggie Keisler and im currently 14 almost 15! I was born on October 7th, 1996 in Tra Vinh, Vietnam. And yes, I am adopted along with 3 other of my sisters. I have 6 sisters (my dad got married, had 3 children then got divorced and married my mom and she adopted my sisters and I) and then I also will have a brother in law soon. I am a freshman at South Side High School (GO ARCHERS!) and I'm doing pretty well in school so far. I like to be active in my community through church. This upcoming summer (Summer 2012) I'll be going on a mission trip to Canada for a week with the youth from my church (Trinity English Lutheran Church). For summer 2011, our church took a mission trip to Oklahoma (even though I couldn't go, I heard it was great). Then I will also be going to New York for my church choir trip this year. We go on a trip every other year. For our last trip we went to California (sadly I did not get to go though). Music plays a major role in my life. I do choir, i play a couple instruments, and I just love listening to music (some would say excessively though). I have too many favorite bands/singers to name. Some influential people to me include John Mayer, Libi Keisler, The Beatles, and Fleetwood Mac. I do enjoy sports though. Some sports I like to do are bowling, lacrosse, track, basketball, baseball, flag football, golf, and ultimate-ball (ultimate-ball is where you play rugby, soccer, and football all in one game at the same time and you have 2 nets at oppsite ends of the field and you can probably guess what you do from there). For future jobs, I'd like to join the National Guard right out of high schol then after that, me a music technician or a record producer. One of the two. So that's about it in the way of me. Hope you know more about me now!

Trinity English Lutheran Church