Music

I have a few favorite musicians/musical groups. My favorite bands are Metallica, Anberlin, AC/DC, Nirvana, Guns and Roses, the Beatles, and Iron Maiden. I am really into all genres of music, because i play everything, but i mostly like to listen to Metal, rock, and punk/pop. I like these bands for many reasons, one of the biggest reasons, is that these are some of the most influential bands on music as we know it today. Iron Maiden is probably my favorite band, because it is metal with a singer that actually sounds good.

Reflection:
The last two weeks for me have pretty much sucked. Ive gotten in a lot of trouble, and all my grades went down a lot. I have also had a lot to deal with at my house, because my parents think they are doing whats "best for me" instead of whats best for the person they want me to be. All in all, the past few weeks were an utter disaster.

In school, we use computers to do work. I am typing this on a school computer. For entertainment, i have 4 Ipods, 2 computers, a xbox360, and a car. These are for fun. If i had to put an invention in the categorie of light, or fire, i would say my iphone, because it is probably the most important thing i have. These technologies have changed my life, because it is all i do.


In the last two weeks, i have not been doing very much. I texted a lot, about 30,000 in the past month. I have also been hanging out a lot with Joey and Taylor. We do a bunch of stupid stuff, because there is nothing better to do. I also watch a lot of tv, because i am bored. On weekends i played football. I also downloaded about 200 gigs of music on my computer.

cultural diversity

There is a lot of cultural diversity in my country, spanning from racial diversity, to ethnic and religious diversity. In the United States, there are people from many religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and many others. There are also people from many different countries. Throughout America, there are programs to help people learn about other ethnicity's view, because education can really help to prevent hate.
In Austin where i live, there is a program called interfaith council. every year, there is a meeting, where people from all different faiths come together and teach other people about there faith, in a hope to promote understanding of people that are different than we are. All in all, there is a lot of tolerance in our country.

My favorite place in the United States, is New York City. I like New York, basically because I was born there. I also like how there's always something going on, and at night you can always hear sirens and really loud obnoxious music. Another place I like, is the badlands in South Dakota. I wen't rock climbing there this summer, and there are a lot of really nice mountains.

terrorist activity

There have been multiple terroriset attacks on our country in the past few decades on our country. probably one of the most prominent, would be the attack on the twin towers in New York City, NY. This attack happened on September 11, 2001. The attacks involved two terrorists high jacking planes and flying them into the twin tours. These attacks killed thousands of people.

Right after these attacks, all the security in the country increased. at airports, people are now forced to move through more lines that test for explosive materials and any weapons. I think that this is an important process, but it can be overdone a little. One polkicy that is not enforced, is racial profiling. this could be an important part of our security system. Israel, which has one of the best security systems in the world, uses racial profiling, and they catch many terrorists every day.

My school

I attend Anderson High school in Austin Texas. Our School has roughly 2300 people. One of the interesting things about our school is that we have the international baccalaureate program. We do a lot of extra work and community service and we can start out college with 26 credits. We also have a lot of events that happen at our school. Our Homecomeing dance is tonight.
We also have a lot of good sports teams, like football, basketball and Volleyball.

illegal immigration

In America, there are many people that immigrate here illegally, but this is not necessarily a problem. one of the main arguments that most people have to illegal immigration is that they steal jobs from citizens. But most of the citizens of our country would not do the jobs that the illegal immigrants do, because they are willing to do more work for less money, the problem is not so much that they are stealing jobs, it is we want to be payed more than other people. Most of the illegal immigration in this country is from Mexico, to fix this "problem" many republican politicians propose building a wall. A wall would not work, because any physical obstruction can be breached if people really need to. Billions of dollars are being spent on said wall, with this money, we could be working to make Mexico a place where the people that are immigrating would want to live. Another place that illegal immigrants are coming from, is war zones in the middle east and Africa. I think that people should not have a problem with these people immigrating, because if they did not come then they would die. That means that all the people who are opposed to letting the refuges into our country are saying that they'd rather let them die then give them a little space in our country.