Student-Varner

Hi, My name is Ashley B. Varner and I am a junior here at Benjamin E. Mays High School. I recently attended Mt. Zion High School. I am from Atlanta,GA and I really enjoy going to school. I plan on graduating with a successful finish.

September 15,2008

September eleventh was a very horrible and chaotic day for the United States of America. So much happened on that day and a lot of people lost their lives. Not only did people loose their lives, they lost loved ones, homes, and everything else they had. We even lost fire fighters who were trying to help the people of our country. Until this day this incident is still remembered. It was so tragic and I know that no one would have ever thought that anything like this would happen to us. Now it has happened and you never know what else will.

The impact that this day left on me and my family is just to pay attention to our surroundings and be careful. At first I was a little scared to do anything. My parents even came and got me out of school early the day of it. Now since everything has died down a little, we are not as scared to do things. I just hope nothing like this happens again because it is bad enough that we are at war. New York is not even the same anymore without the twin towers. It is like they lost a big part of their state.

Web 2.0

http://en.wkikpedia.org/wiki/web_2.0 http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/content/home http://www.tmcnet.com/ussubmit/2008/09/16

Web 2.0 is a term describing the changes in the use of world wide web technology and web design. It is also the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform. The technology that we use today is Web 2.0. Some examples are myspace, yahoo,facebook, and more. The number of text messages sent over the whole world is more than the population of the entire world. Now that there are televisions, people spend more time watching them. Majority of the people around the world watch television. In the video they were talking about how in 8 seconds 34 babies will be born. Great Britain was the strongest and wealthiest country. I also learned that in ten years it is predicted that China would be the number one English speaking country. Twenty one year olds watch televisions for 200,000 hours. These statistics are so amazing, and some of them are hard to believe.

Web 2.0 encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content. All of the internet programs that are updated is considered web 2.0. It is just unbelieveable how technology is growing. I think that in the future we will use web 2.0. I think that most students will start to do classwork and homework on computers because there will be no more paper. So basically, Web 2.0 is the main focus of technology.

The impact that web 2.0 had on me is positive. I don't know what I would do without it. Some of the features of web 2.0 have really helped me and I just hope to see it expand. There were more statistics from the video that I also thought was interesting. Seventy percent of four year olds have used computers. One out eight couples got married from the internet. That is really unbeliveable because that is not something you would just sit there and think about. Another statistic was that more than 2.7 billion searches have been made on google. Just imagine how the future is going to be with the way web 2.0 is now. It is just going to get more advanced.

Mays Plan


 * Mays can use computers more in the classrooms.For example, the students can do classwork and homework on the computers. I think that would be easier to do.


 * They should have navigational map screens to show people how to get around the school instead of having a paper map.


 * They should have computer screen attendance and announcements.

September 25, 2008
 * __Presidential Nominees:__**(Boston Tea Party/Personal Choice Party)Charles Jay[Florida], (Constitution Party)Charles O."Chuck" Baldwin[Florida]
 * __Vice Presidential Nominees:__**(Boston Tea Party/Personal Choice Party)Tom Knapp[Missouri], (Constitution Party)Darrell L. Castle[Tennessee]

Charles Jay and Tom Knapp are the candidates for the Boston Tea Party/Personal Choice Party. They believe that it's your life,liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It is also about securing your own rights and others. They also believe that "cause" is your choice. This party states that they must allow others the same rights to self determination that we work to secure for ourselves. Everyone has the right to live their own lives, enjoy their own liberty and pursue their own happiness. They also stated that we deny ourselves the same rights when we deny others, and if everyone is not free then no one is.

Charles O."Chuck"Baldwin and Darrell L. Castle are the candidates for the Constitution Party. They believe that they have to work to restore our government to its constitutional limits and our law to its biblical foundations. The Seven Principles of the Constitution Party are: (Life)which is for all human beings from conception to natural death;(liberty)which is Freedom of Conscience and actions for self-governed individual;(Family)which is one husband and one wife with their children as divinely instituted;(Property)which is each individuals' right to own and steward personal property without government burden;(Constitution)which is bill of rights interpreted according to the actual intent of the founding fathers;(States Rights)which is everything not specifically delegated by the constitution to the federal government is reserved for the state and local jurisdictions;(American Sovereignty)which is to the protection of the borders, trade, and common defense of Americans, and not entangled in foreign alliances.

October 14, 2008

My Political Profile I am liberal to the left. The reason I say that is because I believe in the rights of each individual person. I also believe that all people are the same and equal no matter what race they are or what religion they follow. I think that the president should respect and understand what religion everyone believe in. He believes in his own personal religion, so why can't he believe in the people's. I think that no race should have more power then another race. No matter what color you are everyone should be treated the same.

11/3/08 I would like to vote Barrack Obama for the next president of the United States. I am not just saying that because he is African American. I am saying that because I truly believe that he has a plan that is going to help our country.Democratic candidate Obama has a plan that is going to benefit 95% of the people due to economy crisis that we are going through. Republican candidate Mccain has a plan that is only going to benefit 5% of the people. When I say that, I mean basically make the rich richer and leave the middle class where they are. Now the media party is trying to put out personal information about Obama to try to hurt him in the election, but that is the only thing that they can do. They cannot say that his plan is not going to help the country. The reublican party is doing this because they know that their plan is not as strong as Obama's, so they are trying to bring Obama down by releasing personal information about him. If I had to choose between Mccain and Obama on who I would vote for, I would vote for Obama.