Bebop

Right now, you may be wondering what on earth is 'bebop'. Bebop is a genre of music if you will. This was some research I did quite a while ago for my music class. Hope you enjoy it




For the music lesson, we were asked to make a presentation about bebop. And this is some research that I have turned into a script, so at first glance it may have not made sense to you. But I hope it does now.

Knowledge

Last year, I created a little document about Knowledge. This was during Year 7, and was the longest piece of writing I have done in Year 7. Although it seems very short, at the time I was very proud of this accomplishment:

“Knowledge is the psychological result of perception, learning and reasoning. In other words, knowing facts and information and the ability to do something is what a common definition of what knowledge is. Intellectually, knowledge is the awareness and understanding of facts, truths or information gained in the form of experience or learning, or through introspection. Knowledge is an appreciation of the possession of interconnected details, which, in isolation, are of lesser value. Knowledge is organized or contextualized information, which can be used to produce new meanings and generate new data. It is the act or condition of knowing something with a familiarity gained through experience or association.”

Good knowledge is hard to find. You can acquire knowledge by experimenting with things or by looking at things around you, or by reading information, watching T.V. etc. You can explore things, and gather new knowledge along the way. You can also gather knowledge by having conversations with knowledgeable people. In other words, knowledge can be taught through different types of media or acquired through experiences. As such, knowledge can be transmitted the same way.

I think that acquiring good knowledge is difficult. Things around us can all become good knowledge. Things that help us understand are true knowledge. What others tell you are not necessarily good knowledge, until you consider it and try it for yourselves, then it becomes true knowledge. You gather knowledge everyday, although you may not know, you gain knowledge bit by bit, and you acquire more of it, as you get older. You can also acquire knowledge in almost any activity that is if you are eager to learn. Knowledge is simple, look around and you can find it.

 A person, to begin with does not understand anything, but with gathering of knowledge, he will start to know more about this world. With more and more knowledge, a person will be more accurate and smarter, on every decision he makes. It is however wise to share one’s knowledge with others. Through this sharing of knowledge, human race would move forward. One can say that the person, who acquires knowledge, is also the owner of this knowledge. As all knowledge, are embedded in his mind.

Knowledge is a very important thing in life, in fact it maybe one of the most important. Without accurate knowledge, you would make wrong decisions, and the outcome could be disastrous. The more accurate knowledge you know, the better.

Knowledge is power.

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

Socrates

“All men by nature desire knowledge”

Aristotle

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it-this is knowledge.”

Confucius

Drama Classwork - Othello Lesson 6

Our Drama lesson objective for this lesson was to: highlight the theme of Redemption, but in our own modern day context from Othello.



I do understand that this text can be seemingly similar to a chunk of boring text. But I would like to share with you my work. As this is the longest piece of writing I have ever written so far, and it analyzes how I have created my drama performance.

I am also very proud of this, and I have spent quite a lot of time on this.

Please enjoy.

Why are people addicted to social networking sites like Facebook? (Project)

Problem: That kids are spending more time on social communicating websites
Reason: Our reason being choosing this is because we think Facebook affects the way people behave. It also is bad for hygiene as you sit indoors all day, and stare at a screen/iPhone (etc.). As that is just one of our concerns.

As Facebook keeps track of everything you post, every chat you have with others, birthdays, events, etc. It can be dangerous?         

Benefits:
- Chat with friends around the world
- Being more social with friends
- Can play games that you can’t find anywhere else


Costs:
- Spend more time indoors
- Facebook can keep your personal information
- Giving away information to companies
- The student gets lower grades
- Damages real life socialization
- Get addicted not only to games but also the web. And it will possibly destroy how you live.



Social networking is the easiest way to communicate, and you basically lose everything that school teaches you. When on Facebook, you become uncontrollable, and you start trolling on people’s profiles posting rude things.


Statistics:

At the moment, there are 500 million people who actively use Facebook. Averagely, people spend 700 million minutes in a month on Facebook. People have an average number of friends at 130.

Yes, it can be fun. There are many things you can do on Facebook playing applications and games. There are 900 million people who interact with event, applications, games, community pages. etc)

But Facebook is becoming more of a problem because when someone creates a post, or comments on your posts, people sometimes get really offended, and take it hard. So in real life, there could be severe consequences. That is also a type of bullying (cyberbullying). E.g. There was a high school student who had an account on Facebook who was constantly getting hated on, bullied, being teased etc. She eventually killed herself because she couldn’t take it anymore. The people who kept teasing her ended up getting arrested.



Also when you create a Facebook account, there is a piece of text which you are “supposed” to read and agree to, but let me ask you; How many people read that statement to agree on. I bet you in our school at the moment, no one has read that statement. And that statement provides information which could be pretty crucial if you ask me. Facebook could possibly sell your information to companies without telling you. In fact, the account and privacy settings are pretty much useless.

Did you know? People are so attached to Facebook that when someone just comes up to you and says; your Facebook page is so boring, it has 0 comments, 0 photos etc. People will get offended. And that could affect your social life with them. A college student was relaxing over the weekend, and was excited to see his friend come from Seattle to visit. But he got offended straight after she said; your Facebook is so boring. He then replied straight away with: “So is your face”. A typical phrase teenagers use.

Addiction

After you have used Facebook for 2-6 months, you will start to realize there isn’t much left to do neglecting that fact, people still go on Facebook everyday during class, instead of studying, being in the library, while watching a movie at home you will have your laptop on your lap. This person says: He has many friends who should be studying for an upcoming test constantly press F5 (PC) (For Mac it is Command R) to refresh their Facebook Wall just to see if there is anyone who has posted anything. The most common thing people do after spending 6 months playing lame games etc. Posting photos, updating their status every 10 minutes, commenting on other’s walls, post inappropriate things, stalking , etc. And when you post inappropriate comments, there are so many people who will spread it around, to their friends, to your mutual friends, to everyone. Your friend tells your friend, that tells their friend, that tells their friends. And eventually it would be possible that you would be famous in their community for being an ignorant/ wet blanket.



This is a picture of where Facebook is mostly used in the world;




Also a problem with Facebook users are that once a friend request appears and you don’t know them, people usually accept. (But I myself go to their profiles and see if I recognize them, if not I would decline the request). But for the average Facebook user, they simply check for mutual friends and press accept. Just because they want to brag about they want to pretend that they have more friends. I have seen many people who are on my friends list that I know add people that they don’t know who are on my friends list. E.g. Someone on my friend list only had 60 mutual friends between me and him that he actually knew. But he just basically stalked my profile and looked at my friends list and pressed add everyone (which he doesn’t know). And now we have 179 “mutual friends” between us. And that is a risk-factor because you are adding people whom you do not know.

If you were at school, and there was only 1 hour left until you could get home. I can assure you 90% of the people who have Facebook will go on to check their wall posts. Instead you could just wait 1 hour till you get home.



Technology

Now in the modern world, children are so spoilt. Everyone you see most of the time will at least have these following: A PS3/ Xbox360, NDS/PSP, iPod Nano/3Gs, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPad. Most of the people will have at least those items. Don’t you think we are spoilt these days? And on the iPhone’s it is so handy that you just need to slip in your pocket to bring it everywhere. So then you could go on Facebook 24/7 and you will constantly see people on the streets plugged in with earphones and tapping around on their iPhone screen. The technology is pretty overused in the modern day that we are in today.



Bibliography:
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
I used this source because the statistics come from Facebook.
http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/bullying-and-the-unintended-consequences-of-facebook/3638/ I used this link’s example in one of my PPT slides, because it is from CBSNews
http://media.barometer.orst.edu/media/storage/paper854/news/2009/03/05/Forum/Facebook.Use.With.Caution.Or.Suffer.Consequences-3660603.shtml I used this link because I was searching for another example of social networking consequences, but came up with this. And I have to say, that my opinions are the same as his, and I believe that his information is true, by observation of people in my Facebook friend’s list  

5 Top Tips When Searching

5 tips that will make searching much easier is;

1. Keeping your search Simple! Keeping words simple eg. Pristine landsmarks, type in untouched landsmarks.

2. Use less words to describe. Yes, using as much detail to describe something is important in you English exam, where your teacher will say: Remember! Put as much detail as possible! But when searching, simple is best, and keeping short is easier for the search engine. E.g. Whether in Chicago Illinois, instead just put Illinois weather.

3. Advanced Search: Not always is it good to always keep it simple, sometimes, you need more detail, to describe!

4. Location: Sometimes, if you can't find the exact things you need, use where you found it. E.g. A red fish. Red fish, Mediterranean sea, stripy, spiky.

Aboriginal Art Ideas

I chose to post this because, I think that many people do not know what is Aboriginal Art, and i thought I would like to post this to share with everyone. This was just a thinking/ brainstorm for what I thought Aboriginal Art is.

Please comment if you have different opinions and ideas!