Why Young Authors' is a thing of the Past Conclusion/Spring Break blog // Blog 6 // 4/20/174/20/2017 As I promised, here is the ending of my Young Authors' Submission AND a Spring Break blog. The spring break blog may be broken into two parts, but it'll work out. As proven with adequate information, Young Authors’ is a thing of the past, and I believe that Young Authors’ should be an optional activity, in that if a student feels it will improve their writing ability for a future career or job, they would be able to participate if they chose, and if a student did not feel that participating in the Young Authors’ would better themselves for a future career or job, and that it would be a waste of time and energy for them, they could choose to not participate in the Young Authors’, and nothing would be counted against them. I believe this because of the decreasing need for writing a narrative piece in today’s workforce, with informational writers making more money than your average author, the waste of time that a student would have if participating in Young Authors’ would not better them, which could be fixed by having a research time instead of Young Authors’, and the STEM-based jobs and careers that students are looking into today, and their lack of requirement for knowing how to write a narrative piece. Thank you for your time. As I promised in the last blog, here is a little rundown of my Spring Break. Me and my neighbor played around a lot. I went to his place to play Xbox One and chill pretty much every day. I also sat around, watched YouTube, beat Farming Simulator 15 (again), listened to music, and ate these amazing Nature's Bakery Double Chocolate Brownie Bars. I went out and rode my bike, played basketball, and roamed my neighborhood. It was pretty boring, even with all the seemingly fun things to do. What I really wanted was to buy an Xbox One, but I'm going to wait for Microsoft's newest installment to the Xbox franchise. Codenamed "Project Scorpio." this Xbox is supposed to be the most powerful console of all time. A few big questions amongst all who are wanting to get one is the price, the exclusives, and the possibilities of the console. First of all, let's address the price of the behemoth console. I predict the price being around $400 to $500, due to the fact that Microsoft has learned their mistake of pricing the original Xbox One at that price and the console is going to set the trend. Me and you both know that Sony is wanting to jump on the 4K gaming bandwagon, but the Xbox Scorpio is likely going to out match the PS4 Pro in the 4K gaming sector, due to the behemoth, gaming PC comparable hardware in the Scorpio. These attributes are likely going to set the price right around my prediction. Second, let's address the exclusives. I have seen wars in comment sections over this, and it needs to stop. THERE WILL (likely) BE NO EXCLUSIVES FOR PROJECT SCORPIO. The Scorpio will run off of all Xbox One things, allowing you to play the Xbox One games you love. The way for developers to make the gaming 4K is a simple patch. The developers who made Forza Motorsport 6 converted the game into 4K in TWO DAYS. That is really good for other game developers because they now have a predicted time for a conversion patch for 4K. Finally, let's address the possibilities of the console. Because this console is so powerful, the possibilities are pretty much endless. This console could be more active amongst PC gaming, allow for big gaming competitions (MLG, for example) to run more smoothly, and allow for VR Gaming, which is very rare amongst consoles. Sorry I digressed from the whole spring break schedule, but I felt like i needed a little editorial on Project Scorpio to inform on why I wanted to wait around until school started again to buy a console. As always, Havaguday!
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Young Authors' Essay: Why Young Authors is a Thing of the Past (PT. 2) // Blog 5 // 4/12/174/12/2017 Hello everyone! This is part two of my Young Authors' submission. If you haven't read the last blog, go check it out. Otherwise, this wouldn't make sense. Secondly, it would be a waste of time for a student if the Young Authors’ was required and the student felt that participating would not better them for a future job or career. If a student wanted to pursue a field that includes STEM or STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), such as an engineer or a biologist, you wouldn’t need the skill of being able to write a fictional narrative to perform the job. However, you would need to know how to understand complex visuals, such as graphs or three dimensional figures, or how to solve complex math, such as trigonometry or calculus. If a student felt that they would not be improved if they did the Young Authors’, they could research and learn a new skill that could help them improve, that way the time while others are doing Young Authors’ is not wasted, but utilized. "The future of the economy is in STEM,” says James Brown, the executive director of the STEM Education Coalition in Washington, D.C. With the utilization of the spare Young Authors’ time, kids who are aspiring to become involved in STEM-related careers can advance towards the career they want by researching and learning in this spare time. A seemingly good use of time can be turned into a truly beneficial time, all by changing what the students are doing in the time. Although some may say that Young Authors’ would help give students some time to let loose on writing, this is a required writing piece that is due for a grade, and can be placed into competition with other pieces. Wouldn’t that be stressful to be pretty much forced to let loose on writing, instead of just turn in at a really far off date?
Finally, the areas of jobs that schools are promoting and students are looking into would not require or need the ability to write a narrative, while still providing a sufficient amount of money. Take a look at someone like Donald Trump. He likely doesn’t write narrative stories, like an adventure across a wild, magical land, but more informational and persuasive pieces, like this one. He’s a billionaire entrepreneur and President of the United States of America, and he doesn’t write narratives like the ones in Young Authors’, that is required to do throughout schools and deemed very important by some school districts. Another example would be Bill Gates, creator of Microsoft and deemed the “richest man alive” and “set to become a trillionaire.” Sure he may read a lot of books, but most of the time, he is likely writing business reports and informational pieces, not narratives. Even with this, he still is the “richest man alive.” Schools are promoting STEM with the new STEM challenges, and a new science test that could be added to standardized testing, leading students to going into STEM-based careers, which don’t always require narrative writing. If you wanted to become the “richest person alive” or have a STEM-based career, would you have to write narratives on the daily? Although some may say that you can make lots of money by being an author, which you can, it would be a slow process. You would have to write on the daily if you would want to accumulate some amount of money, not mentioning taxes and other basic human needs. Also, people would be wanting you to come to a school, or go to a meet-and-greet with fans, which can cost lots of money for travel, hotels, and other travel expenses. What it all boils down to is a lot of money going towards your career and not you, so you earn about as much as your average higher-paying job. The conclusion is next!! Come back next post to see the ending to this amazing essay! Havaguday! P.S. A spring break bloog is soon to come! Stay tuned! This will be a little breakaway from the What really grinds my Gears series. This is my Young Authors' submission for 2017. The entire submission is underneath ELA projects. Read away!! Way back when, Young Authors’ was a good idea; it encouraged children to become better writers and better at literacy. Today, however, that has changed. Kids are more accustomed to computers and electronics, and the need to know how to write a narrative story is lessening, as kids are discovering dreams that don’t require the need to write a narrative, but a guided essay, which includes information finding skills and has a set guideline. I believe that Young Authors’ should be an optional activity, in that if a student feels it will improve their writing ability for a future career or job, they would be able to participate if they chose. However, if a student did not feel that participating in the Young Authors’ would better themselves for a future career or job, and that it would be a waste of time and energy for them, they could choose to not participate in the Young Authors’, and nothing will be counted against them. I believe this because the decreasing need for narrative story writing for today’s jobs, the sheer waste of time for a student if they do not need to better themselves, and the area of jobs that today’s students are looking into. I believe that participating in Young Authors’ should be a choice made by the student, and not a requirement.
First and foremost, the need to be able to write a narrative story is decreasing in today’s workforce. Sure, some would like to become authors or writers, but most writing that people do today is not narrative writing, but more informational or persuasive writing. Most pieces you see that gain national popularity are news stories, not books or short stories like the pieces written in Young Authors’. If you wanted to earn as much money as professional news writers by writing narratives, you would have to crank out about a story or two a day. Keep in mind that the stories, if you want to keep your money the same as a newswriter, have to be original. However, newswriters always have something to go by to write the news story, whether it be experiencing the event and seeing it yourself or doing some research to make one big headline. This can increase the amount of headlines they produce in a day. According to sokanu.com, the median salary of a journalist in New York is $47,770. That’s not bad compared to a story author, which can depend on how many books you have written and how well your books sell. If you don’t want to become a writer in either field, but want to go to college, you must know how to write an essay, and a good one at that. Not much of a need for writing a story if you want to become a doctor or an astronaut! Come back next blog for the next half of the Young Authors'! I spent quite a bit of time working on this piece, and am happy to share is with everyone. Have a good day!! Note: Sorry if it may be hard to read. I tried to change the font, but couldn't. The easy to read version is under the ELA Projects. It's that time again! Time for what really grinds my gears! Speaking of time, short due dates are what really grinds my gears
What really grinds my gears this week is really short due dates. Say your teacher gives you a five page essay due in two days, and all the work has to be done in class. It would be near impossible!! It isn't just for school either. Even at jobs, some work that would require more than two weeks is due for your boss in a week. It just seems that some people don't take into consideration when they create a due date. Some people are nice, and give a good amount of time to complete something. Others give very little time and always expect that you have tons of time to complete the work, but you really don't. Time doesn't like the world, and the world doesn't like time. It's a vicious cycle. Some things can run in the way of work, such as sudden events, impromptu schedule changes, and even just getting food can affect the time for someone to complete work. Take an essay that is due the next day. That night, you have a baseball game, party at your house, and an expensive reserved dinner at Ruth Chris Steakhouse. There would be no chance that you would be able to get the essay done along with your plans. Sure, the plans may not be very realistic, but sometimes, your realistic plans may equal in time to the super unrealistic plans here. By the way, Ruth Chris Steakhouse is a super fancy, super expensive steakhouse where steaks cost a good thirty to forty dollars for a single steak, not including an appetizer or anything else. I can guarantee that I have never been there, and likely won't be there ever. Now, I may not be able to think of a may not for this subject, but I do have some common sense, and I'm going to display it. More people should take into consideration things that happen during daily life. This includes dinner, after-school activities, and even chores. Sure, we don't have a calculator to calculate due dates, but I do know that dinner can take about two hours, ball games can take about two hours, and chores can take about an hour. one day to complete homework would seem adequate, but two days is likely better. If you would like to contest my gear grinding, feel free to leave a comment! Any comment will do, but please don't get triggered if my post offends you. That is your problem. I am not one to deal with that. It's a case of "not my circus, not my monkeys," and I'm just here to have a good time and vent. Well, that was the third post on what really grinds my gears. Have a good day!! P.S. This is directed at nobody in particular. I'm serious. This blog is a broad generalization blog and is not directed at any singular person or group. It's Friday! And you know what time it is? It's What really grinds my gears! This week, sore losers really grind my gears. You see sore losers all around the internet and the world today, and it really disappoints me. I mean, people should know that (A), if you lose, you lose, and (B), that you shouldn't be mad about it. I was playing Battlefield 4 online, and this one seven year old had a mic. He just about destroyed my sound system from his screaming when he got killed. It was just unbelievable that he would absolutely scream bloody murder into his mic, and his parents wouldn't do anything about it. You might say "hey, it's a seven year old. Give him some leniency." But it's not hard to quieten down a little. Even when I was 7, I knew not to scream or yell. It's not hard! Also, people who lose at a game yell rematch at me, but I refuse. Then, they get all triggered when I refuse. It makes no sense! People need to learn that you can't always get what you want. So below is a little song appropriate for the occasion. Also, people are being raised that they always get their way. I see more and more kids always getting what they want and their way. Not trying to be Parenting 101, but I was raised knowing that you can't always get what you want. Sure, you may wish for things, like the newest video game or a new phone, and you may receive them. However, I didn't always get what I wanted; I had to work for it. Currently, I am working to get an Xbox One S by getting good grades, saving Christmas and birthday money, and (during the summer) mowing lawns. Instead of my parents just giving the Xbox to me, I am working towards it. One thing I know is that hard work pays off. Now, I may not have a working mic anymore, but I do have some common sense, and I'm going to display it. The world today shouldn't be so mad and shouldn't expect their way all the time. You also don't have to scream over something like this. It's just a game! Sure, some people would like to display their feelings, but if those feelings have something against someone else, you would be better off saying nothing at all, especially if you plan to scream them into your two dollar Wal-Mart mic and deafen everyone in the lobby. If you would like to contest my gear grinding, feel free to leave a comment! Any comment will do, but please don't get triggered if my post offends you. That is your problem. I am not one to deal with that. It's a case of "not my circus, not my monkeys," and I'm just here to have a good time and vent. Well, that was the second post on what really grinds my gears. Have a good day!! Video quotes:
FullOfMyRock. (Oct. 30, 2012). The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want [Official]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S94ohyErSw&feature=youtu.be This is a new blog idea that I thought of. Every Friday, I will post something that always gets on my nerves and talk about it. Yes, this is kind of based off a meme.
What really grinds my gears are people who are addicted to their phones. Seriously, there on their phones 24/7, keeping up with their Snapchat, InstaGram, etc. They're always obsessing over the latest trends, and HAVE to keep up with them. I really don't see the point of having to check your phone every minute of the day to see the latest funny cat video or newest trend. Why would you devote pretty much your entire life to your social media? There could be the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man about to destroy your entire neighborhood, but you have to post about it on every social media account you have? I find it quite disappointing to see city sidewalks nowadays. It's like everyone has their eyes on their phones, and not on the real world. C'mon people!! WAKE UP AND SEE THE WORLD FOR A DAY!!!!! THIS IS OUR WORLD, AND WE'RE NOT FOCUSING ON IT. WE'RE FOCUSING ON OUR TWITTER, FACEBOOK, KIK, SNAPCHAT, INSTAGRAM, ETC. I have also noticed that phones are getting bigger and more expensive. I can't believe that the iPhone 7 Plus, just another phone, is seven hundred sixty nine dollars, when an iPhone 5s, with pretty much the same capabilities and is a bit smaller, is a fraction of the price, at about one hundred dollars. Unbelievable! I don't see why people have to buy the newest phone when it comes out. I would see a reason if your service provider was running a deal where you trade in your old phone for either the new phone or money to buy the new phone, but if you decided you had to pay a good seven hundred dollars to get the newest phone, that is just unreasonable. Things that cost seven hundred dollars (other than a new phone): - A laptop - A new video game console and games - rent - A heck of a lot of food - 542 ($1.29) songs on iTunes - some really expensive Nike shoes - around seven hundred packs of gum - A flight to Alaska Now, I don't have a phone. I do have some common sense, and i'm going to display it. The world today shouldn't be addicted to phones and willing to pay top dollar for them. Sure, news, contacting people, and other things are important, but your social life shouldn't overtake your real life. If you would like to contest my gear grinding, feel free to leave a comment! Any comment will do, but please don't get triggered if my post offends you. That is your problem. I am not one to deal with that. It's a case of "not my circus, not my monkeys," and I'm just here to have a good time and vent. Well, that was the first post on what really grinds my gears. Have a good day!! Here is some cool facts from BBC: Your life on earth. Link: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141016-your-life-on-earth?ocid=fbert
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That's right everyone! TODAY IS FRIDAY!!!!! The start of the weekend is here!!!! Are you ready for a great weekend!!
Hellooo everyone!! This is my first post. I will usually include a meme with my posts, for future reference. Happy Thursday!!
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