Category Archives: Honors

For honors, we were supposed to read an article on the effects of grades on students and society as a whole.  The article was basically insulting the grading system and calling it useless and counter-productive and teaching the wrong things … Continue reading →

Our topic for honors is affection, human touch, and in general, love.  One article was about the nature of affection and talked about an experiment done on monkeys to emphasize the importance of affection.  Another article was about human touch … Continue reading →

For honors we had to watch an episode from Glee.  This particular episode dealt with homophobia and bullying.  Other topics that were touched on was the pressure to be THE MAN. To be honest, I never watched an episode of … Continue reading →

For honors,we had to read two articles and watch 2 videos.  The first artciel was about if time travel was possible written by PBS.  The second article was discovery.com about the same topic.  The videos were both from Stephen Hawking.  … Continue reading →

For honors, we had to watch a video and read an article about KONY 2012, an organization trying to bring down Joesph Kony, the world’s worst war criminal.  The video explained what the organization is trying to do and to … Continue reading →

For honors, we had to read an article about biofuels, basically summarizing up the effort of the past few years. It also describes many different ways to obtain ethanol and the research and process involved. When the war in Iraq … Continue reading →

For honors, we had to read an article about divorce.  It gave some history and facts about divorce in general while touching base on some questions and ideas. Personally, I believe divorce is pointless.  It can all be circumvented by … Continue reading →

When I read the short story, I was appalled.  I have went through these kinds of situations myself and so, this is not the first time I have heard about this let alone dealt with it.  The drug dude should … Continue reading →

For honors, we had to read three articles about superfoods.  The first ones gives out a bunch of examples of superfoods, like blueberries.  The second article was asking if superfoods actually exist.  Basically, it was wondering if it’s a sham … Continue reading →

For honors, we had to read an article about summer vacation for children.  It talked about how it could be effective and how it could be not.  Mainly, not.  It said that summer vacation is actually more harmful for children … Continue reading →