October 29, 2014

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 love looking at photos, but I have never been any good at taking them. When I want to take photos I usually just take them on my iPhone. I usually just use the filters that are set up on instagram before posting them to social media. I did some photo editing in my 7th and 8th grade computer class, but none really since. I would love to be able to learn more about photography so I can learn how to edit and create beautiful pictures. I like photography because it is a form of art that anyone can be good at, especially since I am awful at drawing pictures. 

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October 20, 2014

Tell me about your weekend. Share pics!

This weekend I went to the pink out game on Friday. We killed Gardner ,but it was so much fun! On Saturday my family and I went to the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate my birthday. It's my favorite restaurant and of course I got cheesecake. My mom and I also went shopping to try and find some winter dresses for basketball season. I found a couple cute ones. On Sunday I had a basketball game with the schools fall team. We played Miege and we won; it was so exciting because I hate Miege so it is fun to beat them. Although I am going to have some great bruises now. Overall it was a pretty relaxing weekend and I am so happy it is only a four day week. 

 

October 14, 2014

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 Above 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

As I previously stated in an earlier blog I only agree with some aspects of the article. I agree that there is a right time and right place for everything. I also respect the administration and their rules. However, what bothers me the most is that some teachers enforce the rules and others do not. It needs to be all or nothing because it gives students the wrong idea when one teacher tells them it is fine and the other is asking them to put a sweater on. It is the students choice whether they want to follow the dress code or not and if they do not want to they can go to another school. Sometimes I feel that the dress codes are too strict though, I mean most stores don;t even sell shorts that would follow the thumb rule.

October 13, 2014

I would have more real world class topics, such as learning how to pay bills, how to work well with others. I think there are too many tests in today's school system. Once you are out of school you never need to know the skills on how to take a test correctly. I would also allow he students to choose what classes they want to take based on their own interests. I don't like how students are forced into taking arts classes even though they don't plan on pursuing a career anywhere near that subject. High school should be about finding out what you want to pursue later in life by taking classes that interest you, but how can students do that when they are being forced to take certain classes to be able to graduate.

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October 7, 2014

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.

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 I have read this article many times because most of my friends have been talking about it. The new dress code law is the topic of many of my friends and I's discussions. Although I don't completely agree with this article, I do agree with the aspect that girls are always being the ones to change what they have to wear. If you look in our school dress codes more than half of the rules apply to only girls. As a girl it is annoying that we have to constantly cover up ourselves so we don't seem "slutty". Girls should get to decide if they want to be seen like as that. If a girl wants to dress slutty so people think she is that's her choice. As stated in the article it's unfair to girls with longer limbs, aka me, because they have to get extremely awkward and long shorts just to reach the thumb requirements, when shorter girls just continue to wear the shorter shorts. However annoying it is for me, as a girl, to deal with this dress code I can see why the administrators are enforcing this rule. Although, shouldn't it be up to the girls parents what she can and cannot wear to school. The worst parts is administrators are paying so much attention to the thumb rule that they now don't care if girls wear tube-tops or spaghetti straps. They need to enforce all or nothing. Some girls get asked to cover up by a teacher for wearing to short of shirts when the next girl is wearing a tube-top and doesn't get in any trouble at all. 

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October 6, 2014

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.

This weekend because there was no football game on Friday night, a bunch of my friends and I got together to watch the royals game. Before watching the game we went to Winsteads and ate. My friend Georgia and I even shared a Skyscraper milkshake. The royals even won!! It was awesome, but the next morning I had to get up at 6 to go to work. I'm a field marshall at the soccer complex and let me tell you it was freezing on Saturday morning! Then on Sunday I went to the AT&T store to find about my new phone I'm going to get for my birthday. Overall, it was a great weekend! The royals and Kansas State both won their games!