Self Assessment

I had a good experience with my blog. I learned a lot. I learned how to make links and add pictures to my post. It was very interesting. I enjoy my blog and I had the chance to express my mind. Since this was a class assignment they were several post I had to do and I didn't like, What makes a good liar , and Why we lie were to post I had some trouble putting together put they came out alright. On the other hand they were several post that were very easy to do, and I also enjoyed doing them. Habits of mind and The quotes were two post I learned a lot from doing. Although The I AM A Mother poem was not an assignment I was very proud of that poem. I Am very proud of all my post because I did my best in all of them. I might still use my blog since I have a computer at home. I might use it everytime I have an important topic that I would like to give an opinion about. I m very proud and happy about my blog and I believe I deserve at least a 90 in my grade because did my best.

Busted

Myspace and Youtube are websites were people could post videos and comments.
These websites are suppose to be fun for teenagers. It gives them a chance to communicate with with friends and other peoples.Lately what Myspace and YouTube users have been doing is that they are doing a lot of illegal activities . Teenagers have been doing a lot of cruel things to others teens and they like to brag about it so they tape record and put it on Myspace. These kids feel famous and important when other teens see this bad cruel videos. I read this article Web networking photos come back to bite defendants . This article is about this young boy and young girl that got charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman. The defendant denied drinking but when the prosecutor was searching for evidence he found pictures of the guy in the Internet drinking and joking about alcohol. These pictures led to his sentencing of 2yrs in prison. There's this other article Teenagers Misbehaving, for All Online to Watch. This article talks about various Kids bullying other kids and knocking down fences and taping it just so other kids will see it and laugh. I don't think this is a good idea because this kids are giving the policies evidence for they arrest. Just last month, after viewing a video of the beating of a 13-year-old girl that was broadcast on Web sites including MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube, the authorities arrested three freshman girls from nearby North Babylon High School. While searching online for more articles about why we should be careful what we post online I found this article YouTube, Myspace only scapegoats in youth crimes By Laura Becherer. Is about Several Florida teens are being charge for the kidnapping and assault that placed 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay in the hospital. And again the evidence was found in myspace . Myspace is a website to interact with friends not to incriminate yourself or other people.

Satire

Satire is a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of humans.
Mark Twain wrote an article "Advice to Youth" in 1882. This article is very satirical because he gives bad advice to the youth. Instead of him giving us the youth of good examples or a good advice on being a better person he makes fun of us and he encourage us negatively. In his first advice he tells us that we should "always obey our parents, when they are present". I don't believe that this is a very good advice because we should always obey are parents even if they are or aren't around. What Mark Twain is doing is that he's being very satirical. He knows that he has no control over the youth. HE is telling us the wrong thing maybe if we are smart enough will know right from wrong. If kids are raised correctly with a good example parents won't need to tell them what to do. The youth now an days don't like to be told what to do. Most likely if you tell them to do the wrong thing they might just do the right thing. It's part of human nature. Mark Twain made fun of the youth but in a very decent way that wasn't cruel. In my opinion this article is not a good article for the youth to read it because they might get wrong idea. Most kids my use his advice and then use him as an excuse. But this article is a very good example of satire.
I learned today that if I am looking for the best example of satire I should watch Saturday Night Live.

In the website The Onion they have an article named Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet. In this article Americans are using satire to make fun of Al Gore's speech.

In this article Gore is being mocked by the same people he has tried to save how ironic. In this article they are using satire by comparing Al Gore to Supermans Father and his son to Superman. He's putting his son in a rocket to save him from planet earth. In the original speech Gore said that we are in danger if we don't do something about it we going to be in danger. Satire is explaning this speech to us in a very ridiculous way which makes it seem really funny.