Should S.I.S Studentsbe Allowed to use Smartphones During School?

Our school is called Saipan International School and it has many strict rules. According to our headmaster, all the rules have a valid meaning to them, making these rules proper to enforce.  One of the most important rules that is disliked by the majority of the S.I.S students is that they are not allowed to use cell phones on the campus while school is in session.  This rule makes a lot of sense from the perspective of enforcing it, but there are also factors that display how the use of cell phones during school is a bad idea.  These issues over the rule are constantly debated by the students and the faculty members of S.I.S.

                The view of the teachers and specifically the headmaster is a much more realistic view and is thus easier to hold in place.  However the students view also has an importance in the decision and their view is that cell phones should be allowed during school hours.  Important points that the student body brings up include the fact that something important could come up and thus the student would have to answer his or her phone to reply.  This thing could be as important as a sick or deceased family member or close friend, or maybe there is a community alarm about a dangerous man on the loose and thus the parent would want their daughter of son home.  Students also bring up that their phones can be used in place of their computer, whether the computer is broken, lost, or the student forgot it.  Newer models of smartphones are becoming more advanced and almost all of them are capable of using the internet.  This gives students another reason to try and allow S.I.S to ban the no cell phone rule.  In many other schools on Saipan, students get the privilege to use cell phones during school hours and S.I.S students claim that this is unfair and that if S.I.S wanted to be a better school they should gives students the equality of other commonwealth students. 

                With many arguments from the student’s side, the teachers and specifically the headmaster are able to counter the students’ arguments.  First of all, if there was an emergency, the parent should call the school instead of the students’ cell phone.  The faculty could then tell the student about the emergency.  If the power was out or the schools land line was not working, then the parent could just drive to school and pick up the student.  Most of the student body does not drive and therefore makes it more realistic to pick them up.  The internet argument also is countered by the demanding of the students to come to class prepared.  If they don’t have their computer or it broke, they owe it to themselves to borrow a family member’s or buy a new one.  If they can’t afford a new computer, then they should not be attending S.I.S in the first place; with the high tuition of the school and such.  Finally, S.I.S reminds students that it is a private school, so the headmaster and the board can make decisions based on their ideas and not the ideas of the P.S.S system.  A private school makes its own minor rules and if the students don’t like the rules, then they should switch schools. 

                With many arguments over the issue of cell phone use during school hours in S.I.S, students complain and give reasons for their complaints thus wasting some of the faculty members’ time.  In my opinion, students should just drop the subject because in a school like S.I.S, I can’t see the use of cell phones during school hours being approved.  Although the school has allowed cell phones after or before school hours, they most likely won’t allow them during school hours.

Three Things that would make my Life Perfect

I have a very good life compared to other people in the world and I really appreciate it.  However, everyone’s life can be better in some way.  Three realistic things that would make my life perfect are an unlimited amount of money, the love of my life, and a cure to all diseases.  I say an unlimited amount of money because you can do whatever you want with an unlimited amount of money, and I would use some of it on myself, but give a majority of it to charity, keeping in mind the risk of inflation.  I know that the love of my life is somewhere out there in the world and I would want to find her so that I know she would love me for myself, and not for my wealth.  This girl would be perfect for me and we would have the perfect life together.  I mean how couldn’t you have a perfect life with an unlimited amount of money and the woman you love?  The third thing would be a cure for all diseases because diseases are a horrible thing and good people die due to them.  There are also some people in my long line of family that have horrible diseases like cancer and I would love for them to get better. 

The first thing that would make my life better would be an unlimited amount of money

because money is one of the most important things in people’s life.  I know that sounds greedy and scummy, but think about it.  How important is money to you, seriously.  Money can give you the life you always wanted, it can let you do whatever you want to, and it is great to have because you basically could have whatever you wanted.  An unlimited amount of money means that you would never become broke.  This unlimited thing could be possible, because there are those money games where you could win big, I mean it could happen that I win the lottery every time, I win all the prizes that give you an amount of money every day for the rest of your life, and I could invest my money in companies that would produce even more money.  Al this is very unlikely, but it is possible.  With all my money, I would buy myself the Hawaiian Islands and own a mansion on each island.  Yeah people would get mad at me, but forget the haters.  I would then invite all my family, friends and friends of my friends to live with me on the island.  We would be able to surf and have fun all the time.  I would pay for my companies utility bills and give them whatever they want.  However, I would also donate a lot of my money to charities. 

Secondly, I would have to have the love of my life or my life would not be complete.  This girl would be beautiful, funny, adventurous, understanding, and would love me for myself, and not all my money.  We would spend our life together on our islands and I would let her invite whoever she wants to our home.  You may say that I would eventually get tired of her because she would be living with me my whole life, but this girl is perfect and I know that I would love her forever.

The third thing that would make my life perfect is a cure for all diseases.  People would be very thankful to me and I would be so happy for giving many people a chance to live or keep on living.  Knowing that I can do this would make my life perfect, even without all the money.  There would be an increase in the world population rapidly, but I would hire professional scientists to solve this problem.  For all we know, we could live in glass bubbles on the moon or on Mars.  The future can hold amazing things that don’t even seem possible. 

These three things would make my life perfect, but even though I am not likely to own all of these things, I still appreciate my life the way it is.  I am happy with the money my family makes and I will try hard to make a lot as well.  I know that I will find a great girl that will make me very happy, and I guess we are destined to live with diseases until we eventually find a cure for them.

Were people in the Past Friendlier than People Today?

       I believe that people in the past were much more friendlier than people living today due to their smaller amount of judgment on the things that others do, wear, or believe in.   In the past, people were much more willing to accept a person based on the person himself or herself.  It all depended on your personality.  Nowadays, people only accept others on their social status, the fact on whether the person is rich, and on the person’s belief or dress style.  Many people in schools nowadays tend to isolate the students that are different, however in the past; students were accepted based on the way their personality was.  People in the past may have seemed a bit mean to some people, but compared to the modern day, the past was a really friendly time. 

Compared to the present, the past was a friendlier and safer place.  In the past people would acknowledge you and say good morning or how are you, instead of other people today just ignoring your presence or asking you to do something right away.  In the past, people would be friends with you even if you were not rich or popular.  In the past people actually cared for who you really are. 

I remember my parents telling me how easy I had it.  They talked about their parents beating them when they were bad and how many chores they had to do.  This is probably true but the way their parents treated they help them to grow up as strong people.  Today, children are becoming more and more spoiled.  They get everything they want and don’t appreciate it.  There is one show on the T.V. that talks about kids who have parents that spend hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars just for a birthday party.  The kids don’t even appreciate the great things that they receive.  Some even complain about the type of car they get as a present.  This spoiling that is happening to kid’s shapes them into mean demanding teenagers and greedy adults.  This comes to show one reason to why people in the past were friendlier than people today.  I bet that in the past, no one was spending over a million dollars for their child’s birthday party. 

People nowadays are also used to a new setting with fast paced electronics and a faster moving environment. People don’t have the time to be friendly.  In the past, people were much slower paced and we able to put in the time to make great friends and be one too.  Another thing is the fact that people nowadays tend to move more, due to many problems like a loss of job, divorce, or just for the new environment.  This causes a loss of old friends and a start of new ones.  Constantly moving is not good for a close friendly relationship.  In the past, people were more likely to stay in one place, thus keeping their friends close and being better people. 

I believe that people in the past were friendlier than people in the present due to many new changes in people’s life.  Nowadays there are more things that people like to judge on whether it is dressing differently, or liking the same sex.  In the past there were not as many things to judge on in a person that gives you a perspective on them.  People knew each other by greeting and getting to know the person before judging them.  People also tended to live a slower paced, life and not moving as often. This increases their chance of becoming a nicer person.  All in all, people in the past were friendlier than people living today.  

                               

My Favorite Superhero

        My favorite super hero is Ironman over all the other super heroes because Ironman is a

human who made his own powers.   I don’t believe in other worlds like the place where Thor or Superman came from or the world of the green lantern people because they probably don’t exist.  I also don’t believe that you could get super powers from being bitten by a spider.  Ironman however, has a really realistic super suit which gives him his power and this suit could possibly be made in the future.   Although many other super heroes make their own power, like Batman for example, Ironman is strong.  If he fought any other super hero that made their own powers, Ironman would win.  His weaknesses are big hit on his end, but he always has a plan to catch and protect his weakness.   Ironman is overall my favorite superhero because he makes his powers, is really powerful, and protects his weaknesses from harm.

The main reason I like Ironman over all the other super heroes is because he does not get his power from unrealistic ideas and thoughts, but instead uses his brain and his money to put time into making a suit that gives him really powerful qualities.  Ironman’s suit is a great invention and is realistic.  I could see such a suit being made in the future and being used or given to a specially ranked military officer.  I mean the future is becoming far more technologically advanced so rapidly that by one hundred years from now, I can believe that people will be flying through the sky just to go to work.  Maybe I may even live to see the day where such a suit is invented and used.  Ironman is probably the only super hero that gives idea to the future of technology. 
                Ironman is not only my favorite super hero because I like that he invented and created his powers, but I also like that his powers are so powerful for something he invented.  I could understand that heroes from other worlds would have amazingly

strong powers, but a man on Earth who has   powers that almost match that of any other extraterrestrial being, to me, that is amazing.  So many others say that super heroes that were created on Earth are just as amazing, but the way they got their powers is so unrealistic that it would never happen to a human.  Spiders don’t turn people into mutant spider humans just by biting them, and this makes kids do the same thing to see if it works but just end up hurting themselves.  And it is impossible for a human to turn large and green and buff.  The person’s skin would tear, and they can grow that much muscle mass in a few quick seconds.  The green part is just idiotic.  And even thought other super heroes create their own weapons and powers like Batman or the Hawk Eye, they are so weak that I believe Ironman could destroy them with his hands tied to his feet. 

Many super heroes have weaknesses and that makes them vulnerable.  Ironman’s weakness is that he has an artificial heart that powers his body with some source of energy.  However, Ironman does a great job in keeping a spare heart, incase his own dies out, and he also protects it really well in his suit of armor.

In all, Ironman is my favorite superhero because he is a human being who makes his own amazingly strong powers by himself and his ideas on a suit that he builds realistically.  I don’t think any other superhero can come close to Ironman’s achievement in the way he obtained his powers and I also believe that Ironman would last and probably beat most of the other super heroes in a fight.

7 deadly sins

                There are seven deadly sins in the world which include: greed, lust, pride, wrath, envy, gluttony, and sloth.  Greed is the excessive desire for wealth or possession of something, lust is an overwhelming desire or craving for something, pride is the sense of being extremely proud of yourself, wrath is a strong feeling of revenge or vengeance, gluttony is the excessive intake of food or beverages, envy is a feeling of wanting something that someone else has, and sloth is being extremely lazy.

               When it comes to the seven deadly sins, I am not very strict on following them, and so religiously speaking, I am a sinner.  Although I do most of the sins a little each, I would say that the sin that I am most guilty of would be pride.  It is a bad thing that I am too proud of myself and I do realize it, however, I always think well of myself and do things that are not necessary.  I could consider myself a bit of a show off and I know that not many people like a show off.  However, I am trying to keep things more humble now that I am older and realize that it is not a good thing to be too proud of myself.  When I am too proud of myself, I don’t over exaggerate like many proud sinners do, but instead I do the same thing many times and try to show everyone that I can do it.  Yah, I know, I am a selfish proud jerk.  However, now that I realize this; I am trying to get better at not showing off.  But still, I feel like I have to show off my accomplishments.  I haven’t thought why I feel like I have to show off, but now that I put some thought into it, it is probably because I want to be known as a cool guy.  This whole show off sin that I have does not help me become that, and instead shows my jerk side.  I do not like this and am trying to get better at controlling it. 

               When it comes to sins, I do not believe that if you commit a couple of sins that you are a bad person and you will be sent to rot in hell, however, a excess of one sin is a bad thing and instead of being punished for it religiously, you should be able to realize and change your bad quality.  This is a way of learning by realizing and wanting or desiring to change.  This desire is not a bad thing, but can push you to change around an aspect of your life in order to become a better person.

               Although it is bad to have excessive pride in you, it doesn’t hurt to have a little.  You should always trust yourself and believe in your ideas, if they are reasonable.   Don’t worry about what other people may say about you, but be yourself.  Be proud in what you accomplish, even if it can’t compare to other peoples accomplishments.  If you are proud of what you do or have done, embrace that pride and know that you are an amazing person.  However, don’t show off your pride.  This is not good because you look like a show off, and nobody likes a show off.  Keep the pride in you and know in your head, that you are great.

In elementary and middle school, I was a younger, ignorant boy and I didn’t realize that I was full of pride for myself and that may have hurt my personality in others minds.  I didn’t think closely enough about my flaws, but just focused on my great accomplishments.   People would have known me for my extreme pride in myself.  I don’t like that this may have been the case and now, since I have become more thoughtful about my personal image, I work on trying to change my excessive pride  Although my flaws usually stay with me and are hard to break off, I am willing to change myself for a better image. 

               

My Favorite Trip

        Out of all the places that I have ever been including Japan, Australia, Taipei, Peru, and all over the Untied States, my favorite would be the trip that I took in the summer of 2010 to the southern island of New Zealand.  I took this trip with my Mom and Dad and my Dad's friend.  This guy was fun because even though he is a business man and a very serious worker, he is like a kid when he is having fun of of work.   Our trip to New Zealand was the trip of a lifetime because we saw some of the most amazing views that I have ever seen.  We also got to see where famous movies had been filmed.  But best of all, we had fun adventures instead of boring lectures on the history of whatever or sight seeing in museums.  I mean c'mon, I was a kid, and I would have appreciated all that stuff more when I become older.
       On the first day we arrived in New Zealand, we rode a jeep up a steep mountain with high quality downhill mountain bikes.  when we got to the top, there was so much wind that if i had opened my jacket, i would have literally flew away.  We started down the intense mountain and, being younger and willing to take risks, I went fast.  I fell a couple of times, once over my handlebars, but the trails that we rode down were so fun that i forgot about the pain.  At the end of one of the greatest biking trails I have ever done, a coffee shop waited for us at the bottom.  We had refreshments then headed back to town to tour around and get dinner. 
       The next day, we woke up early and geared up for the long Roughtburn hike that awaited us.  This was one of the most memorable hikes that i have ever done, even though it rained a bit.  We headed up the trail and saw wildlife and amazing views.  There were a lot of rocky streams that I would enjoy running through.  As we got higher up, it became much colder.  When we reached the cabin that we were heading to, we were all shivering and freezing.  there was a fireplace at the cabin but no fire, so me and my Dad and his friend made one.  The fire was hard work to make, but helped me endure the hike back down to our car.  After a long day of hiking, we were all tired and worn out.  
       To help rest up, our next adventure started off slow.  We got on a small plane that only held about 10 people and headed to a town further south.  The plane flew low to the ground and right above snow capped mountains.  We landed on a narrow dirt runway, got in a bus, and headed to the town.  When we got there, we ate dinner and then went to sleep.  The next day was one of the most memorable.  We got into kayaks and headed down the Milford Sound, one of the most famous fiords in New Zealand.  It was very magical and unreal because we were basically kayaking between two vertical cliffs that had natural drinking water running off them, and later we were met by a group of dolphins.  I was so amazed that i didn't realize how far we had gone and after the day, my arms were really sore.  The kayak was so amazing that the day cruise we took the next day didn't even come close to it.  The cruise was mainly for nice views and relaxation.  After our encounter with this town, we headed back to the town that we had started in.  For the rest of the time, we toured around, ate luxuriously, and I even went para-sailing. 
      By the end of the our stay in New Zealand, i thought it was all over, but no, we got to visit Sydney and Singapore on our way home.  In Sydney, we went bowling, visited famous beaches along the coast, and rented a sail boat to go under the Sydney Harbor Bay Bridge and past the opera house.  In Singapore, we drank the famous Singapore sling, and experiences a fishing market where everyone tried to offer you food.  
      The time we spent in Sydney and Singapore was fun, but went by fast.  the next thing I knew, I was on a plane heading home.  I went through the trip in my head again and looked in my passport multiple times to admire my New Zealand, Sydney, and Singapore stamps.