Book Reports

We were given books to read, make a report on, and give a presentation in class about them. My group got the the book Against the Machine by Lee Siegel. It was a book that did a good job of explaining the good and bad of what the Internet has done to our culture. The presentation before the class went well also and it seemed that we kept most of the students attention during the report we gave on the book. Too bad Dr. Parks had to be running things at an Honors conference and couldn't be with us lowly students

Puzzles

In the puzzles,
The tricky puzzles,
The words can not be found

Ohhh in the puzzles,
The simple puzzles,
The message can be hidden.

We learned about how messages and important information has been hidden in word puzzles and combinations over time and how they have changed as the messages have become longer and more detailed. Today computers are used to break codes that people never could... at least most people

Danger of Facebook

Go go go Facebook,
Its your creep time,
Gonna sign on and get in some creep time
Gonna look through some pics try to find a big crime
And you know we don't care if you ever creepin'!

So through debates we have discovered that Facebook is a company that uses deceit and low morality in the business ventures.They make people think one thing about them and do the other. I might have to go on and delete my Facebook.... cause it's bad

Creepin

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife
The internet is findin' everybody!


So it's a little bit creepy that using simple search engines, my partner was able to find out my class schedule, sports, address and other personal information. Perhaps we should just go back to the stone age so teenage girls don't spend their entire existence creeping on other people or scrolling through photos all day... just a thought