Compassionate Science

  A compassionate scientist will always have to think of everyone's needs.  What could help some may harm others.  Scientists should be able to know who they are helping and also who could potentially be impacted negatively.  The main thing they need is heart.  They want to help others and that is very selfless.  Putting others before you takes heart and a compassionate scientist must have it.  I want to be an astronautical engineer.  I don't think this career will impact individuals with disabilities like Ebeling was able to do.  We are so driven on technology and it's great that now we are able to help people with a numerous amount of things.  Science is both good and bad, depending on how we, humanity, use it.

The Future

 The future!  Some think it'll be a paradise with technology so advanced you won't have to do anything anymore.  That the world will be a better place and technology takes over.  I don't believe that we will get a chance to see technology advance too much.  I feel that the future will be horrid, as I believe that most of the world will be a wasteland.  There is so much violence in this world and there is too much tension.  I feel it will eventually be a nuclear war between two powerhouse countries.  We were on the verge of one not too long ago.  I go back to the Cuban Missile Crisis.  The United States and Russia were on the verge of going to nuclear war.  What is to say this kind of situation won't happen again.  There is so much tension between countries and I feel we will ultimately feel the effects of it.  If war could be avoided forever, then the Earth will eventually turn into a Utopia, but this isn't going to happen. If there was to be another world war, there is much fear that it isn't going to be long.  With more nukes now than ever, the war will be even more deadlier.  Once a major war starts, I fear the Earth will completely fall apart.  People will lose hope and the world as we know it would be lost forever.  This I feel can happen at any moment.  Whether it's in a hundred years, in ten years, or even if it's tomorrow, it will come eventually and this life will be forever lost.

One Time I Laughed Really, Really Hard

  The one time that I nearly died of laughter was last year in my sixth period class.  It wasn't just one thing that happened that day, but it was two.  First, my friend and I were working together on a worksheet.  We were having difficulty agreeing on the answers and due to that we were getting a little frustrated.  Well, my friend finally got up and smashed his hands on his desk as he was going to tell me something on the answer, playing around.  His desk only had three legs and he, as well as the table, went down.  He was ok, which is what made this so hilarious.  Once we checked he was ok we couldn't stop laughing.  I remember we both turned red and it was really a very funny time.  We couldn't stop for a full five minutes.  That same day, a little while later he told me the funniest joke.  I was telling him about how my mom had grounded me and that I had not listened to her.  He then said that I should ground her.  Then he elaborated and made the motion of me picking up my mom, and throwing her on the ground.  He meant it literally, that I should "ground" her.  He made the motion in which I pick her up and pile drive her to the ground screaming "You're grounded!"

Modern Times Review

  Modern Times was a very entertaining film.  Charlie Chaplin had everything to do with that.  The film was funny and it was very connectable to many people at the time.  It was during the Great Depression, or around that time, and he would really relate to it.  He did mention how there wasn't much work and people had to steal to be able to eat.  People steal food mainly for they are hungry and they just don't have the money.  The main reason I really liked this film, though, was because of the comedy.  It was a very funny film from machines that feed people to him singing in nonsense French.  Overall the film had joy and sadness, and was entertaining with both.  The audience can relate to it in so many different ways.  This was really a great all around film, which is why it is very much worth watching more than once.