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November 18

Cell Phone Radiation Project

During my research for my project on cell phone radiation I learned things that I could never imagine. These little devices could throw off enough radiation to make us humans sterile and also cause us complications with our health and body. It was a good learning experience because now that I see what these things actually have to offer to us instead of just being used as a communication device I will be more aware. I didn't believe I could do this project because I thought it was so long, boring and useless. I thought there was no point in this research because no matter what people are going to continue to do these things because it is natural and they are used to it. Things I did was I searched on Google things like

Cell phone radiation

Is cell phone radiation a hoax?

Is cell phone radiation harmful?

Does cell phone radiation cause you to be sterile?

I constructed my essay in the way I found my research and then I just organized it by putting things that where similar together so that my work wouldn't be all over the place. This project made me more aware of the things I use on a daily basis because in some way it can hurt and harm your body. Ever since I have done this project I see my self on my cell phone less, I'm not holding my phone close to or around my lower abdomen or head, and I turn off my phone when I got to sleep in the night. I feel that other people should also limit their uses and start making changes like I am doing so that they will be safer.

September 16

What is the President asking of you?

In President Obama's speech I feel that he really explained himself clear and showed the students that they aren't the only ones who go through stress in life. I liked many parts of Obama's speech but my favorite parts where when he would reflect back to when he was a teen, For example "I still remember a conversation I had with my mother in high school. I was kind of a goof-off. And I was about the age of some of the folks here. And my grades were slipping. I hadn’t started my college applications. I was acting, as my mother put it, sort of casual about my future. I was doing good enough. I was smart enough that I could kind of get by. But I wasn’t really applying myself.", I liked these parts because it really shows that anybody even the President of the United States Barack Obama goes through problems in his life and look at where he made it. This has happened to me in the past and that's why I can relate to it, It has happened to me with more then one person besides my mother.

I liked the quote/saying he used "Nobody gets to write your destiny but you. Your future is in your hands. Your life is what you make of it. And nothing -- absolutely nothing -- is beyond your reach, so long as you’re willing to dream big, so long as you’re willing to work hard."He made the kids in that room and who have watched this video realize that they can become someone but they have to be strong, think of themselves as someone and also apply themselves, because you wont get no where if you don't move foward.

I saw this video as a push to help me be someone because for someone like him to go through the some kind of the same problems I went through in school and still make it big enough to become the president of the United States means that he applied himself and listened to the advice given to him and now I should be doing the same. Before I used to listen to advice and lectures and it would go in one ear and out the other I wouldn't care about that info, But now that I see who I can become and what I can do with my life if I make an effort and stop joking around in life I think its time for a change. The first thing I would like to do and accomplish is making it out of high school, I'm missing very few things to graduate but I do not apply myself or make effort so I will start off with baby steps and try to make it to school on time EVERYDAY, I will participate in all my classes, I will make a huge change in my attitude, I will complete homework every night. Nothing is tough but I make it tough because I wait till the last minute to do everything and then it just is a whole big mess. I am going to put my life together and make something of myself I'm not going to take life as a joke no more and I will listen to the advice given to me by anyone because it shows that they care and want me to make it somewhere in life.