Author Archives: Reid

Grades

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

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Internet brings out worse in us or not?

What do you think of the argument that the internet unleashes our worst impulses? Well,  I am not going to say it doesn’t.  Yet it does.  It goes both ways.  Internet gives us the tools to be cruel and mean … Continue reading

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Affection

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

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Palmer Research Symposium

I went to the 10:00 – 11:00AM Poster session.  The feeling in that room was one of knowledge, the Yockey room.  There were many topics and presentations in that room.  There was one about a radio antenna picking up solar … Continue reading

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Glee

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

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Time Travel

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

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Paper 3 Idea and Reading

For my paper, I am thinking about doing it on bullying.  The topic is not set in stone.  I am still trying to figure out what I want to do for my paper.  In fact, I have not thought much … Continue reading

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KONY 2012

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

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Review of Popular Game: COD MW3

I have, obviously, decided to review COD MW3.  I read the article that Game Informer did on it.  They gave it a score of 9. Personally, I think the score should be higher.  Sure, it is still almost the exact … Continue reading

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Game Beginning

I decided to play Mass Effect 3 again.  I beat it the first time around on easy just to watch the story.  One of the  best ever.  The gameplay is great once again.  It is actually the best so far.  … Continue reading

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