what does thanksgiving mean to me

Thanksgiving to me doesnt mean alot because i am a jehovas witness and we dont celebrate holidays in our religion. but in my personal opinion to me thanksgiving is when a whole family gets together and gets to visit with eachother over a long time of being absent from eachother and get to just be with eachother. i dont think that thanksgiving is necisarily about the turkey and stuff, to me it is more about the people that you are with instead of the food you are eating. i think it is great when familys just go out to wherever they want for their thanksgiving meal and just hangout and be with eachoter instead of worrying about the food. i think that thanksgiving can go two of ways though. i think it can either be amazing and and a great family experience for everyone or it could go teribly south and create a gigantic fight or rise a bunch of drama. i have heard storys of both sittuations. one was with my friend justin and he said that his family from all over came down to his house and he just ordered pizza and other things that he knew that they liked to eat and they just spent the next couple days together and hung out with eachother doing anything that they could think of that would be fun and would just do it. no question or hesitations. he sats that he looks foresrd to thanksgiving every year because he knows that that is the kind of experience that he will have. But the flip side of that is the example that I heard from my girlfriend Cassie. she says that she dreads thanksgiving and family functions because they always end up fighting and bringing up dirt one eachother and throwing it in eachothers face's.

writing center experience

when i went to the writing center about my compare and contrast paper the tutor that i went to see is Renato. i do best with Renato because he is extremely patiant with me and goes over my material with me very slowly and efficiently. My experience with the writing center is always a good one but i will elaborate on it more. This time the paper was over a compare and contrast of myspace and facebook. i was doing a comparison instead of a contrast. some of the main topics that i touched on was how facebook and myspace both are great social networking cites that will help you stay in touch with family and friends that live far away from you. you are able to use facebook and myspace as a dateing service aswell. Facebook and Myspace both have many many applications that you can play with, but facebook is well known for the better applications that you have to chose from and the better graphics and all around set up of the games. another thing that myspace and facebook have in common that i talked about in my paper was how they both are used for multiple things besides talking with your friends. such as on facebook and myspace if you wanted to have a online meeting with your employees you are able to have an online meetings over these social networking sites. some of the diffenences that i talked about between facebook and myspace is how facebook is takeing away all of myspaces clients and is fortold to go bankrupt in the next couple of years. and the main reson that i believe this is is because of all the new and bette applications that facebook posesses.

Summarize articles on FaceBook and MySpace

Some of the articles that we had to go over in class today were "FaceBook and Divorce: Airing your Dirty Laundry", "How safe is MySpace?", and "MySpace vs Facebook competing addictions." These three articles are talking about a similar subject just wording it in different ways. the first article "Facebook and Divorce: Airing your Dirty Laundry" is about any kind of drama that would come from haveing a facebook or things that happen outside of your social networking site that can influence drama on your page. For instance an example that I personaly see happen all of the time is when a couple is going through a bad time and haveing difficultys in their relationship then when they have a fight outside of their social networking site then they would break up with their loved one over Facebook or their MySpace and then it will just make things worse for the couple. Their are times that people will put songs or posts on their Facebook or MySpace and their ex-girfriend/boyfriend will see or hear the song or post and get angry at them because they think that the thing is directed twords them and take offense to it. That is another thing that can happen in a social networking site that would cause alot of drama and problems. another of the things that one of the articles was talking about is how Facebook and Myspace are both so addicting and are competing for the most addictive things on the sites. For example Facebook in my opinion is the most addicting because of the supperior applications that are on it. More and more people are starting to switch over to Facebook because they think that it is generally a better site. and the stock numbers between facebook and myspace are their to back up that assumption. i have both a facebook and a myspace account and i can tell you that i go on Facebook and dont even touch my myspace account because i like facebook much much better.

summarize you tube video: Dana Boyd

Dana Boyd is a women who is doing a presentation on the effect that myspace, facebook, and other social networking sites have on the people of the world in this time. Dana talks about the differnt kinds of people that have the internet or do not and how much access that these people have. she talks about all of the good things about haveing access to the internt and the bad things about it. she says that people in the world today are talking more and more on the social networking sites and if you dont have one or are not able to get on at the time then you are "out of the loop" as people say. She talks about how much time the people are spending on the social networking sites and how people are being connected by it all around the world and how it also brings drama to people. The good things that Dana talks about the social networking sites is that they let you keep in contact with people that you normally can not talk to in your life because of distance issues or whatever the issue is. it helps you keep in touch with family and close friends too. The down side to being on the social networking sites for an abundant abount of time is it will take away form the school or other work that you have to get done and can dramatically bring your school grades down. it can take face time away from the people that you do actually get to see and make those relationships weaker. an iteresting fact that i heard about bein gon the social networking sites is that studys show that being on the social networking sites can actually improve you intelegence because you are interacting with people and in doing so your social skills go up and your overall intellegence increses because of the good contact you are haveing with people.

exploring myspace and facebook

Myspace and Facebook are both social networking sites that can incorporate every person in the world if they all had a myspace or facebook profile. Both these social networking sites are very similar but at the same time different. One way that myspace is different from facebook is that on myspace you can change the backround of your home page and if you want add music to your home page to personalize it. On facebook you can not change the wallpaper of the page and can not put music to the page so their is not too much personalization you can do with the facebook. myspace is supposed to go bankruped within the next couple of years and facebook has now toppled myspace as the number one social networking site in the world, even though mypace was created befor facebook, myspace is trying to copy facebook because facebook is coming up with new ideas that myspace didnt think of first and is makeing lots of money off of it. Myspace and Facebook are too very similar web sites but in my opinion the thing that truely sets them appart is the difference in the applications they both have. even though myspace was made before facebook, facebook made up the concept of applications and has made so much money off of it that myspace has tried to coppy it but hasnt done a great job of it. myspace's attempt on mimicing facebooks applications in my opinion are very very poorly done compared to facebooks. the graphics are much worse, their are less people on line, and they dont entertain you as much as the facebook aplications. the next big thing that is differnt between the facebook and myspace is the personal settings that you can apply to myspace you can not do to facebook, but in my opinion the personalzation that you can do to myspace and not facebook isnt too important.

summarization of obesity articles

The two articles that we went over today in class were "Brazilian Obesity: The Big Girl from Impanema" and "Health and Fitness: Snip, Suction, Stetch and Truss". These two articles are both talking about different serveys that go on in therir country. The first survey that I read about was the one on Brazilian Obesity. This article talks about how in Brazil obesity has increased steadily but the obesity rate from what you read is still very very low over in Brazil. The percentage of obese people in brazil is somwhere between 13 and 14 percent which compared to the rest of the world is extremely low. The kinds of food that people eat in Brazil are foods that are not too fatening or have too many callories. Brazilian people exercise alot and it is always very hot so the combination of the kind of food they eat along with the exercise and heat helps them to stay in shape and have a low rate of obesity. The percentages of obesity that the article gives you is it says that 13 percent of brazilian adults are obese. Out of the 13 percent 12.4 percent of the obese people are male and 13.6 percent are female. The government and writers in Brazil are saying that if Brazil doesnt change its ways then it is going to be in for a unhealthy and expansive future. The next article that we went over in class was Health and Fitness: Snip, Suction, Stretch and Truss. This article is all about the physical abuse that people are putting themselves through to look younger, and how much they are paying for it. People now of days can have all kinds of surgerys done to themselves to make themselves apear younger than they really are. People are haveing their face cut to reduce lines on their face, getting their stomaches cut and stapled to make themselves look skinnyer, and many other procedures are out for people to have to change their appearance and make themselves look younger and skinnyer.

summarization of facebook and myspace articles

The four articles that we went over today in class are "Colleges scan facebook during admissions", "Jury out on Facebook's Impact on Grades", Facebook Sparks Suspicion", "Does Facebook Replace Face Time or Enhance it." The over all message of all these articles is that being on Facebook is going to make your grades decline steadily or quickly, but it is not good to be on it for a great deal of time. All of these articles are jam packed with different statistics and quotes. Some of the statistics from the article "Jury out on Facebook's impact on grades" are "Higher-education officials and social networking experts said long term research--a study that lasts several years--would be needed before academics could determine more definitively whether using Facebook and other sites has an effect on student grades." In my personal life I see alot of students who use facebook and myspace alot in their days, almost any time they have a free minute or class they are on their myspace or facebook. I see this in my college life and would see it even more when I was in highschool. My fellow class mates would be on Myspace or Facebook for hours on end useing up their time they shoud have and could have been spending doing finishing their three day late hw. On the flip side of all this bashing on how social networking systems takes up too much time in the normal persons life; these different social networking sites play a very important role in keeping in touch with family members, close friends, and other loved ones that do not live in your area. In my opinion these social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace do play big roles in spending time on them instead of spending time on things you should be doing. But all of these articles are spending all of their time bashing on these sites when in reality it isnt just these sites that are the problem, it is any activity that a person can spend an anordite amount of time on. This could be any sport, video game, or hobby that a person can have. So these networking sites are not the main problem of peoples inordinate time wasting, it is in fact the people not knowing how to use their time properly that is the problem.