PEOPLE ARE DYING WAKE UP! Camille Tremblay

      DYING! DISASTER! HELP! POOR PEOPLE! WAKE UP! People need our help. People are dying, some people are living in a disaster, while some others are poor, some people are praying to God for our help. What do you need more to wake up and realize that on Earth people are struggling to stay alive? Do all this need to happend to you before you get up and try to change the world or to help people in need?

       We are suppose to be a united world and help each other. Why is this not happening? You guys don't want to help others because they don't have your last name or again you don't know them but hey you guys that just sit there and say the world needs to change or people are dying stop saying it and start doing what you say! Think of it people if you guys are in danger and you know that people know your in danger you would want them to help you so why aren't you doing it for them? The colours the religion the countries isn't a good excuse not to help them we all have hearts at the end. There's a 13 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan that was shot by the Taliban because she stood up for education for women. She influence a lot of people by standing up. There's a lot of singers that make songs about our world and how it should be. It's their way to say their opinion to the world. You need to find your way for helping people. If everyone would give food, cloths or would do a good move for other people that are struggling to stay alive maybe one day we would be a united world like we are suppose to be! Don't count on others to help others count on you and only you! 

      Are you waiting for all this to happen to you before doing something about our world? Think about it if in your country there would be people getting killed, injustice, poverity, unfairness, and haters! You would definately want people to stand up for you and to help you go through hard moments. You would think about all the people sitting on their sofa and watching TV and you would just pray and pray for one person to tell the world that on our planet there is people that need our help well I will make your dream come true right now! I hope after reading my blog you will close your TV and start thinking on how you can help the world. This is our future people so think about your decisions!

        I hope my blog changed your minds and I hope I made you realize how people need badly our help. We are all humans we NEED to help other humans, race, colours, religion, cultures, and languages, isn't a problem we all have so we should help the people in need. 

Does Homework Actually Help You Learn? By: Andy LeBrun

      Have you ever thought that maybe homework is not beneficial? New research suggests that a lot of homework is pointless. In a 2008 survey, 1/3 of parents rated that the quality of their children's homework as fair or poor. Kids get stressed because of the amount of homework they have. So why give homework?

      The amount of homework is a lot less important than its quality. Teachers should assign homework to the students that have difficulty understanding what they are learning. By giving homework, it gives the students more stress and anxiety. Teachers should meet the students one by one to see who actually understands and who doesn't.

      A lot of homework is said to be pointless busy work. Some of the homeworks can be only twenty minutes but some can take up to one hour. An hour of homework is a lot for kids and teenagers. That one hour of homework may not even make you understand more. Sometimes, students have big exams and have to study for it but don't have the time because we have other homework to do that is due the next day.

      

      Some parents think that homework is beneficial and of course it is but sometimes homework does not help us at all. Some students can not sleep at night because they are stressed of their homework. Students don't have the desire to do it. Homework should be a fun and educational advantage.

   





 In conclusion, new research says that homework is pointless busy work and that the quantity is students homework is a lot less important than its quality. Students should have homework when they don't understand or want to learn more.

What do you think? - By Catherine Picard

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 Is cheerleading a sport or is it just girls dancing around in skirts while encouraging a football team?Cheerleading is seen by two point of view. Some people say it is artistic, but others say it is a sport. 

 It is a sport. Cheerleading, just like other sports, requires strategy, physical training and, determination.

It requires a lot of practice, a lot of physical and psychological endurance, determination and, many more skills just like football, soccer, gymnastic, and other sports.

             
To conclude, cheerleading is not just any sport! According to the web site sportsarchivesblog.com  it is more dangerous than any other high school and college sport. It requires a lot of athletic skills and coordination. In fact, injuries are on the rise. If you are still not convince that cheerleading is a sport,  look at these pictures and try to reproduce them. 

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Not that easy right? 

Does Homework Help You Learn? By Tristan Sanschagrin

        Homework: a way to help people learn more of something they already learn that day at school. But does it really help? I think homework should not be given since when you arrive home from school your most likely tired and over flood with the things you've learned that day. The site factualfacts.com shows that we endure 7 hour of work at school including the time spend travelling and plus 3 hours at night, at that time your brain is tired of all the things you learn, It's boring and it may create stress.

      At night, when a lets say 12 years old kid arrives at his home he is tired and over flood with work, but then he finds out that he has Math and English homework and doesn't feel like doing it. Researchers shows that homework can bring lower grades because we a evaluated on our homework and kids tend not to do it when their tired. Further more, we are evaluated by teachers all day long in class and out of school we are told that we could do whatever we want when were out,but lets say we finish school at 3, we take the bus for 30-60 minutes we arrive home it's 4pm then we are told to do our homework that most likely will take our time until 7pm. Then we have to shower and help doing some task at home,then we need to go sleep to have a good day of work when we worked all night.

     I'll take an example on my personal life,presently I am in grade nine and in math we are working on algebraic notations. We have about 6 course of math on a cycle of 10. If we work for about 70 minutes at school on math then we are told to do 4 pages of work when we lets say completed 5 in 70 minutes the estimated time worked on math that day is about one hour and ten minutes. Now i'm not complaining about the time spend on math each course but when i arrive home to work another hour on math it gets boring since its almost as if I had two course of math per day. Let's be clear together, i'm pretty sure math isn't your favorite subject either.

      In most classes their are always students that understands more the work they have to do and some that doesn't get it as quickly. In most cases that student needs help, but when they get home either their parents are working or they don't understand it either. So it creates a lot of stress when they need to deal with a homework that will be check the day after when they don't understand. Plus, since those student aren't as fast they can't afford having a homework incomplete but what's the goal of having a homework if your not going to finish it.

In conclusion, homework is a very disturbing way of helping kids or young adults to learn more about their course since according to "factualfacts.com" we have about 3 hours of homework per night and those 3 hours might create stress or get boring and when we arrive home we are overflow with homework so the brain is tired of all the work that day. So what do you think, should we abolish homework.

Is Cheerleading A Sport? By: Jennifer S

           What do you think, is cheerleading a sport to you? When you think about it there is many reasons, positive or negative about cheerleading. I read that some people around us doesn't know if yes or no cheerleading is a sport. 

For me cheerleading is a mix of dance and gymnastics. It's also connect to trust and team work all together. With these 4 elements for me its a great cheerleading team.  With the team, we have fun, we laugh and help each other when needed. But not all is about team work there is also trust, a really important one. You have to trust the person that is lifting you. In cheerleading you do a choreography like dance, you do jumps etc... In other words cheerleading is a work out. 

In cheerleading you may do competitions and some can be around the world, Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom etc..Like in other sports like dance and figure skating they do competitions. 

There is movies about cheerleading, and of what I heard there is some boardcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN international and the world wide release of the 2000 film Bring It On.

So now do you think cheerleading is a sport?

  

Is a Ton of Homework an Aid or Just a Burden? By: Christian Thibault

Piles of homework night after night after night but we don't want to do it but we still do because we are told that it helps us learn and does all these miraculous things but does a pile of homework truly help you learn?  I believe that the large quantities of homework students across the world do is pointless and time should be put into making shorter, higher quality homework. First of all, it increases parent-teen bonding. Second of all, it reduces family stress and lastly it frees-up time for life-changing activites.

First of all, high levels of homework can damage parent-child relationships because the school demands begin to feel like parental demands. Parents care for their childs education and oversee that homework is done. Though with the extreme amount of homework that is given to us daily, most of us either don't have time or don't want to do it. So the average reaction of a parent would be to warn their child. But if this becomes a habit, parents will start to nag their children and this will create a bad bond between a parent and the child because no child and I can confirm that, likes to be nagged.

  “I used to bond with my child while taking a walk in the woods, but now she has too much homework and other school activities: there’s no time.” This is what a mother said at a parent workshop. In a day, there are 24 hours, on average, 8 of those hours are devoted to sleeping. So there are 16 hours left. Eating, drinking and school together then take off 10 hours. So we are left with 6 hours and in 6 hours, a student has no time to go on a 30-60 minute stroll. Dr. Ned Hallowell explains that a better and stronger connection with parents and siblings helps reduce stress and leads to a happy adult life.

            Lastly, homework stops us from doing activites that could change our lives. I being a very athletic person have a constant trouble with making time for my homework. When people come back from a physical activity or even an activity that has nothing to do with athletics per say glee club. No one and I mean no one is looking forward to do tons of homework let alone homework on its own. So if there is shorter and higher quality homework students might not look forward to it but its a guarantee that it won't mind them as much.

            Regardless of what people think, I still believe that the large quantities of homework students across the world do is pointless and time should be put into making shorter, higher quality homework. If we had more family time, better bonds with parents and more free time for activites, people would be way more satisfied with their teenage years. Think about it, the future is now, everything we do now effects our future. So do you want a good future or a bad future?

           

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Information found on: http://www.christineduvivier.com/2011/02/3-reasons-to-reduce-homework/

Save Us the Torture of Homework By: Francis Plamondon

  Homework doesn't help us learn, nowadays teachers use it as torture or punishment and not for learning. The students lose time doing homework that they could be using for playing outside or doing what they feel like doing. When you lie underneath piles of homework every night eventually you lose complete interest and get bored of homework.

  For example when we have what teachers calls a bad class which is usually a certain group of people fooling around and ruining it for everyone, they give us extra homework, to so that we can learn since most of the time it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic we are discussing, but as punishment. It is rare in today's society that a teacher gives homework for the benefit of the students.

  Teachers give us about 5-10 mins of homework that helps us but after we get about another 10-15 mins of homework that helps us in no way except to lose time. Time that students could be passing outside with friends taking fresh air after a hard days work or time to do what they feel like doing. Students always complain because they have no time to do what they want because first they get homework but there parents also give them chores and etc so they have no time to do what they want.

    With all the homework teachers give us in every course we have students lose interest in there home work but not only the homework some completely lose interest in school. By giving too much homework teachers make students lose interest in homework and school and if that happens students grades are likely to be considerably lowered, all this because of homework.

   In conclusion homework doesn't help us at all, a considerable amount of homework per course every day leads to lower grades by loss of interest in school, students have no time for themselves, and homework nowadays is used as a certain form of psychological torture.