How the apple grew

Quickly changing from country, “Romeo save me, their tryna tell me how to feel, this love is difficult, but its real.” To pop, “We could’ve had it all, rolling in the deep, you had my heart inside of your hand and you played it to the beat.” The IPod is multiple genre. My IPod is my best friend: During class, while studying, while running, while walking, when I’m bored, when I’m playing C.O.D, basically anywhere it can fit in my schedule, it will go. Before I leave my room I never forget to slip it in my pocket, its as important as my cell phone.
The IPod is evolving, changes from its first generation to the current sixth generation, is just amazing when you think about it. Starting off as 1,000 songs in your pocket and the size of a deck of cards in 2001. Turned into a touch screen with a camcorder and the ability to Face Time chat with music still its major priority in 2010. What will the IPod become in 2013?
The anticipation of what it will be like the year I graduate is overwhelming. Will I continue to touch? Or will it be voice command? I wonder, really, what will be in store for me. The possibilities are endless.
To me, music is more than just music. It’s the remedy for when I’m feeling melancholy. It’s a way to make me calm down when I just want to punch the wall. I can always find a song that relates to how I’m feeling and I just hit the repeat button and starting singing along loudly, as if nothings wrong. When I listen to it, I feel as though I’m in another world, I just zone out.
IPod I apologize for using you so much, but you don’t understand how much I yearn for you. You are more to me then some electronically device. You’ve become my life.
I’m Sorry, Jocey

Facebook.Twitter

What ever happened to myspace? Now everyone’s talking about facebook or twitter. facebook has games to play to entertain yourself when you get bored. A question that all facebookers are asked, “what’s on your mind?” basically people just write about there day. There’s also games that are made like: inbox me a number and ill write that on my status with a comment on you or my color is _____ and then they answer questions about that color. People are really addicted to facebook. I think I don’t have enough time to be addicted. my cousin is ADDICTED to facebook. Whenever I’m around her I try and keep her away from a computer, because once she gets on, she wont get of for hours, it’s ANNOYING! How can such a thing entertain you for so long? Twitter a.k.a stalker site that’s my least favorite site. All you do is read about what celebrities are doing. People honestly care about that. My cousin is one of those peoples whos addicted and addiction is so much easier when you get a text saying “new tweet.” Right when she reads that text she has to go on the computer! She’ll even kick her brother off just to go on. Personally I think the computer addiction is STUPID! Get off the computer and go jump rope. Going on isn’t a bad thing, it becomes a bad thing when almost ever second of your life you must be on or you start going crazy. That’s when it becomes bad.
I’m Sorry, Jocey

Talk about Cell Phone Overload

The new craze is cell phones. Every teen MUST own one, and not just anyone, but a high tech phone. Tapping away at keys, trying to become faster then all of your friends. In the Guinness World Record book the fastest record time for typing “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human” is 35.54 seconds. Isn’t that crazy? Texting has become some sort of sport. I text a lot and I’m ALWAYS getting in trouble. I’ve learned to not text so much in front of adults because getting yelled at isn’t the funniest thing ever. Cell phones aren’t all that bad, there helpful when you're stuck somewhere and need to call someone.Cell phones have become a necessity to my life! Cell phones have become a necessity to others life as well. It’s a pain when I get my phone taken away. Bad grades=no cell phone. Grounded= no cell phone. Back talk= no cell phone. No cell phone= MAJOR PROBLEMS! I need my cell phone to survive. My parents don’t seem to understand that. I’m unable to go on through the day without my cell phone in my hand. Cell phones are also clocks, calculators, games, facebook, music players, etc. everything a child could dream of in one device. Cell phones are becoming more and more advanced as the years continue on. As they continue to advance the need of them increase. Cell phones were made for major other reasons, but the main thing used is texting. When did texting my mom become acceptable? Acceptable or not that doesn’t change the fact that I do it. Upward Bound has taught me to not use my phone as much because we're not allowed to use them unless in dorms. my best friends mom wont let her use ANY electronics on tuesdays. Small things like that help teens slowly move forward to not being so tempted to always whipping out their cell phones. I apology for over using you android.


I'm Sorry, Jocey

Funny Pun

Calculators: Friend or Foe?

It was my sophomore year in high school and I was so excited. No more being called a freshmn! Finally I was considered an upper classman. The class I was looking most forward to was my math class. Third period room 422 Algebra 2-Honors. Ever since I can remember math has always been my strong point. Numbers just clicked for me, but I couldn’t say the same about the rest of my family. I was considered the odd ball because I never struggled on math as they did. Constantly helping them out when ever they were confused, I never truly understood how someone could struggle at math because it was so simple for me. When I entered my math class the first thing handed out was a calculator. “These will become your best friends; this world is advancing so swiftly that you don’t need a paper or pencil anymore because your calculators do all the work for you. It's amazing.”My teacher said. During class he’d always tell everyone to ask for a TI-89 calculator for Christmas rather than that video game you’ve been dying for because the calculator would be more useful. I wasn’t complaining.. Simple math became even simpler with a calculator. Problem: 8x=64 *go in my bag and grab my calculator, type in 64/8=8* Using the calculator so much never really hit me until I was home one night doing work. I went to ask my uncle for a calculator and here’s how our conversation went:
Him: “What are you working on?”
Me: “Matrices.”
Him: “You can do that by hand.”
Me: “My teacher never taught me by hand.”
Him: “What do you mean he never taught you by hand?!!?”
Me: “He teaches everything by calculator”
He was appalled by the idea of using calculators for everything. He went on to explain how when he was a kid he didn’t need a calculator. Then he asked me one question that had me perplexed for the rest of the night. “What are you supposed to do when you're not allowed to use this scientific calculator on test and they only let you use a simple one?” I never really thought of that. When the school year ended I went to Upward Bound. There I got myself to not use a calculator. I found that I needed to use my fingers for math. It was as though I'd forgotten how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. I had replaced my brain with a calculator.
I’m Sorry, Jocey

Introduction

Are teenagers addicted to technology? Is our generation abusing the use of technology and hindering us from moving forward without it? Everything is just a click away. For example, when ever I get asked a question that I have no clue what the answer is I reply, “just Google it.”Teens seem to think Google knows everything(I’m one of them). Some teens have gotten so lazy that technology does the work for them. Wiki Answering questions to the science homework or Googling sentences from that vocabulary obtained in English class second block. Do we over rely on technology? Always spending time on cell phones or locking ourselves in the room to facebook friends from the new laptop we just got last week. Spending more time on electronics than outside getting some fresh air. Parents having to yell at their children just to get them to hang out with their friends. Is this what’s happening to our society? The overdose of technology can become a harmful thing that not everyone notices. Calculators needed to answer simple multiplication is not good. There’s no longer a use for graphing paper, all you need is a calculator; tap a couple buttons and BAM you’ve acquired your answer. Teachers are starting to believe the only way math should be done is on a calculator. The technology abuse is over whelming, as you learn about my life you’ll find out how technology’s really taken over us teenagers. This is a Real teenagers apology to technology.
I’m Sorry, Jocey