Every day, every hour, and every minute someone in the cyber world is typing blogs. Gracefully composing the events of the local town, the nation, and the world and dim-wittedly and cleverly posting beliefs, counterarguments, and experiences are just two of the techniques of blogging. Along with the rest of the world, Batesville High School students having been blogging for the past year in order to complete English assignments. I chose three blogs that portray the opinions of each student on a wide scale of topics. The three blogs are eye opening to the ignorance and intelligence in today’s society.
The Dump Truck is one of the blog cites written by Megan H, a student of BHS. The knowledge and the lack of are apparent in the writings of the blogger. A post entitled “Brittney Spears: The Educator of Tomorrow?” makes the realization that the methods of teaching literature may need a makeover, giving a face lift to the literature that students are forced to find rhetoric and literary techniques in. Some suggestions for new modern works of art are music and speeches recited in television programs. Before exploring “Dirty Laundry” I only thought of working women in business suits and little black pumps working honest jobs trying to make a life for herself, but now I know of some greedy women climbing the financial ladder trying to reach the top, and when they reach the top, they fall over the end searching for more. Unfortunately straying from all the good revelations mentioned above, the author sold herself short on the topic of politics. In both “Cry Baby” and “Achieving that “Man Smell”” the argument of the former female presidential candidate being competent for the most powerful job in the world is falsely attempted. What the blogger did not see is the real candidate who shows her weakness by breaking down in front of millions, even if the motives where just to get sympathy, not because of lack of strength.
The second blog that caught my interest is iThink, a rational display of the world’s issue that has been silently overlooked written by John Michael P. In both posts, “Berkley’s Black Eye” and “Get Out of my Face”, events of people overstepping their lawful bounds to correct others on judgement-based lifestyles are eye-opening. Hearing cursive language today is not as offensive as in the past. Reading “War Over Words: F-bombs with no Explosion” brought back the realization that the horrible F-word is just that, horrible, and I need to speak up next time. Learning that Americans should not just vote on the two bases of abortion and gay marriage, but on experience, leadership, and other beliefs is what I obtained in “Clockwork Christians and Presidential Politics” and “McCain is Able; Barack is not”.
The final blog, Peeling the Layers, has the air of intellect on matters of moral beliefs. The author, Amberly G, clearly informs readers of the controversy of organ donors and presents the idea of the good of what organ donating can do in “A Dead Man’s Trash is a Dying Man’s Treasure”. In reading “Church Claims: “Heath in Hell”” a tale of one extreme church bullying celebrities because a disagreement on the actions of one dead actor, Heath Ledger, reassures that churches should try to bring members in, not scare them away. Young innocent girls idolize Hollywood’s famous young woman daily. The article “An Eye on the Idols” educated me and will others on the matter of children hoping for fakeness and of the need for real life mentors to young children. Learning, from reading “Exempt”, that other students feel the same on matters of semester tests and learning a new method of sparing hardworking students from more stress is the push all students need to fight the system on the issue of semester tests. “Wake Up” was a real hit to my heart. The thought of teens only living for the next party and quickly forgetting a friend’s death from partying is frightening. This post exhibits the ignored truth of what can and will continue to happen if nothing is done.
The three BHS students have performed great in expressing their opinions. Most of the opinions are new views of old topics that will be of good use to me in the future as I debate with others. Even though I disagree with some of the opinions, I am glad to have to opportunity to read the opinions. The bloggers and their posts really opened my eyes to the views of today’s culture and gave awareness that all citizens need new verbal ammo to act against the worldly forces of the evil.
G, Amberly. “An Eye on the Idols.” Peeling the Layers. 16 Jan. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
G, Amberly. “Church Claims: “Heath in Hell”.” Peeling the Layers. 30 Jan. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
G, Amberly. “Exempt Me!” Peeling the Layers. 13 Feb. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
G, Amberly. “Wake Up!” Peeling the Layers. 20 Feb. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
H, Megan. “Achieving the “Man Smell”" The Dumping Ground. 20 Feb. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
H, Megan. “Brittney Spears: the Educator of Tomorrow?” The Dumping Ground. 16 Jan. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
H, Megan. “Cry Baby.” The Dumping Ground. 30 Jan. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
H, Megan. “Dirty Laundry.” The Dumping Ground. 12 Feb. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
P, John Michael. “Berkley’s Black Eye.” IThink. 11 Feb. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
P, John Michael. “Clockwork Christians and Presidential Politics.” IThink. 5 Feb. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
P, John Michael. “Get Out of My Face.” IThink. 15 Jan. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
P, John Michael. “McCain is Able; Barack is Not.” IThink. 19 Feb. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
P, John Michael. “War Over Words: F-Bombs with No Explosion.” IThink. 29 Jan. 2008. 1 June 2008 .
