Just ME's blog

2.  Don't start hating the freshmen.  You were one of them just a year ago.  You're still young.

3.  At least at my school, this is the first year of weighted classes.  Take them, do well in them.  An A in a regular class is worth a 4.0 on your GPA, but you only have to get a B in a weighted class to get a 4.0.  This isn't to say you shouldn't try, no, by all means, a 5.0 averaged in really helps!  Read More »

This kind of like swimgirl's blogs, except I have different ideas here.  So . . . here goes!

There is much talk about the equality of men and women - and I'll say it right here, I don't think either men or women are lesser or more important, or deserving of rights, or anything.  In that way, we are equal.  So, moving on . . .

In Spanish class we were talking about this topic, and my Spanish teacher explained it this way:

Often times, men and women are viewed as equal this way:
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Ok, I'm a writer.  I don't consider myself published (yet) but I have gotten some of my work in the school literary magazine, and more recently I won the NCTE (National Council of Teachers fo English) Achievements in Writing contest . . . as one of 6 people in the whole state!  Ok, so I'm excited about that one . . .

I don't hate writing papers, although it isn't my favorite thing to do (who really says it is?)

I have a portfolio on writing.com ( http://www.writing.com/authors/carenrose ) which allows me to get a lot of feedback on my writing and talk to other writers about all kinds of stuff (it has an email free with it!)

I want to major in journalism in college . . . maybe photojournalism because I also really like photography and I won't have a chance to take a journalism class while I'm still in high school, but second semester I'm going to take photojournalism . . .

Well, I think that's about all I really have to say about that side of myself . . . what kinds of stuff do you like to do?  Any advice for a senior (yikes)?

~Just Me

Here's something I read about the Star Trek series, Enterprise.  I agree with the premise of the article, which is why I put it up here, but I don't totally agree with all the details or the way it is written.

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Enterprise is well on its way to being the best Trek ever!!, 8 October 2001

Author: Jaret Morlan from Iowa City

Enterprise is the most genuinely invigorating thing to happen to not only Trek, but television as well. But I don't really want to rehash everything that everybody else has said, want I want to do is express my disappointment in a majority of the fans.  Read More »

A solution.  Pretty simple.  I'm left wondering why more people don't do it.  It's 100% effective.

It's called abstinence.

Really, think about it.  (I know, I use that phrase a lot.  But when I use it, I really do mean it, I'm not just using it as one of those phrases you just use to use.)

Ok, let's start with STD's.  Sexually Transmitted Diseases.  If you don't have sex, you don't get them.  (Blood transfusions & the like are an exception to this, but I will get to that later.)  If you don't do the things that transfer them from one person to another, then it doesn't get transferred to you.

So you say, well what if I want to have sex with my husband/wife??

Here's the solution.  You don't have sex until you're married, and you marry someone who hasn't had sex before, either.  Neither of you have had the chance to get an STD, so you can't get it from the other one, and you can still have sex!

There's still more.  There's less risk of an unwanted pregnancy (most of the time that happens to single moms, not married ones, although it isn't all of the time.)

EVEN MORE!  A couple is more likely to stay together if they wait to have sex until after they are married.  There are statistics that back this up, but even more important, a friend of mine is now going through relationshio troubles because of this.  In short, she is living with this guy and has 2 year old twins with him, but now their relationship is getting strained and she's not sure if she should stay with him for the sake of the children or leave him for her sake.  It's a mess.

Well, there's my solution.  WAIT.

Ok, i like Star Trek.  I don't agree with all the philosophical beliefs, but I still like it.

I'm actually writing my own series (not for TV though, that's too hard.)  I have a friend who is doing that too, they're actually pretty interesting.

What do you think of it?  What's your favorite movie, series, character?  I'm just curious.  Read More »

Here's a short entry for you:

The Geneva Convention protects uniformed soldiers from mistreatment and all that other stuff . . .
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So, if you were in the military, but undercover at the time you were captured, are you protected?  No.

You're considered a spy.

Terrorists are not soldiers of any one country.  They do not have any uniform.  Read More »