Wednesday, October 29

What do you know about photography and/or photo editing? Do you take photos? How do you take photos? Do you edit photos before posting them on social media? How do you edit them? Explain any background or knowledge you have about photography and photo editing. Do you like it? Do you have any interest?

I do take photos on my phone and edit them before posting them on social media. I take photos with my friends and random things sometimes, too, but I usually only post pictures of my friends and I on social media.  When posting on instagram, I either just use the filters on the actual instagram app with squaready, but if I really want to edit a picture, I will also use aviary and facetune.  Squaready is just an app that puts a white border around the picture which I really like, and facetune and aviary are just apps with filters and brightness, contrast, sharpness, saturation, etc. changes.

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Monday, October 20

Tell me about your weekend. Share pics!

This weekend I went to the Blue Valley game, and we beat Gardner 70-20.  The theme this week was pink out, and also the little girls clinic for the cheerleaders. This

means that BV Cheer has a clinic on a Saturday for kids in kindergarten to eighth grade where they learn cheers, and then cheer for the first quarter of the next game. It is super fun and also we raise lots of money. 

Tuesday, October 14

Below is a letter written to the editor who wrote the article 'Enforcement of dress code creates negative effect' that your blogged about last week. Most of you wrote on your blog that you agreed with the writer. What are your thoughts after reading the letter below and seeing a different perspective. Are they the same? Are the different? Do you agree? Disagree? Explain yourself.

The perspective is different, and I don't disagree, but I don't agree either.  I agree with certain points that were made in this letter, and I agree with certain points in the article because I see where both views are coming from.  I agree with the point this letter made about any teacher, whether they know the student or not, can tell you to follow the Blue Valley High School rules, but the rules were taken a little too far; for example, the 'thumb rule' is not necessary.  Everyone's arms are different lengths, so I think that as long as you can't see anything hanging out of the bottom of the shorts, they are fine to wear to school.  I disagree with the whole "there's a time and place for certain attire" comment because I think that if a student feels most comfortable wearing spaghetti straps then why can't they?  Shoulders don't distract boys from learning because everyone has shoulders, and everyone's shoulders look the same.  I understand where you are coming from when you say that we shouldn't wear short shorts to school, but teachers tell the students to change when the shorts cover everything. I think the dress code is a good thing so students don't get out of hand, but it should be a little less strict. 

Monday, October 13

The perfect curriculum would be going to school four days a week, year round with a few breaks.  We should go to school for a month, and then get a month off.  The perfect set of classes to prepare everyone for the life they want to live would be allowing every student to choose every class they take with no requirements.  These classes would have homework only one night a week that would take an hour maximum to complete, and a test at the end of each week for a review of what you learned. For example, if they don't want to have a job that involves science, they shouldn't be required to take it. The titles of the courses would be the same, but every student can take whatever classes they want depending on their interests, and future jobs.  I would take more math and business classes because I want to go into accounting and tax law.  I wouldn't take any science or social studies classes because that information would be irrelevant to what I will do in the future.  I would spend my class time doing whatever I need to do to prepare for my future jobs and study what I need to be successful later in life. These classes would be more complex and would provide more education with what you need to know to be successful later in life.

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Tuesday, October 7

The following article was in the September issue of The Tiger Print. Read the article (even if you already have) and respond to it below. What do you think? Do you agree? Disagree? Consider all perspectives of the article while you respond.

                                                                                                                                   
I strongly agree to this article because, it's true, we are told we would be treated as young adults, but are told what we have to wear? It doesn't make sense to me.  First off, I think the "thumb rule" is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary because everyone's arms are different lengths. For example, I have really long legs and arms, and when I measure the "thumb rule" my thumbs go all the way to like almost my mid thigh. Nike running shorts aren't even that long, so what do they want me to wear? Bermudas? Sorry but that's not happening.  I also don't understand how showing your shoulders can be a distraction to learning.  What's wrong with spaghetti straps? They're no different from a normal tank top besides the amount of shoulder is showing. If our outfit was really that inappropriate, our parents probably wouldn't let us leave the house wearing it.  I think that the dress code should be a little less strict and ridiculous than it is now.  As long as our clothes don't show any part of our body that shouldn't be shown to the public, I don't see why we can't wear it.
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Monday, October 6

Tell me about your weekend! If you don't have anything fun to share, tell me about the city you live in. What do you love about Kansas City? Do you have a favorite place in the city? Favorite team? :) Favorite event?Explain

Over the weekend I went to the fright night at Worlds of Fun with a group of my friends.  Every year there is a group of eight of us that go to the fright night, but this year Sydney Rogers couldn't go because she has a fracture in her leg and didn't want to walk on it a lot. Another group of my friends went as well so we met up with them just for a little bit.  It was absolutely freezing even though we all had coats, so that ruined lots of the fun. Also, it was super busy this time so the lines were crazy long.  It was fun this year, but way more fun last year.

I also went bowling with my dance friends over the weekend.  It was set up by a mom to have a bunch of girls on company go, but I was one of the only four out of sixteen seniors that showed up.  It was super fun, but I didn't win.