Average Joes as Good as Pricey Clothes By: Christian Thibault

     Raph Lauren, Hollister and Polo, all brand names that are highly priced though, is the brand worth the price. I believe that brand names such as Nike, Abercrombie and Fitch and other pricey brand names are not worth their market price. Brand names aren't worth the price because: you can get the same shirt without the brand, you become a walking advertisement and lastly, people appreciate average clothes just as much as brand names.

First of all, mostly, the difference between brand name clothing and normal clothing is the actual brand on the shirt. The biggest arguement made by people who are for brand names is that the quality is better but Faze.ca disagrees when they state that "most shirts, brand or not are made from 100% cotton and 100% cotton is 100% cotton". Another arguement is the comfortability of the shirt. People find as if brand name clothing are more comfortable. Although true, I still don't think that it's worth the price.

Second of all, when you buy you become a walking advertissement and I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to be that person. The biggest way brand names spread their merchandise is through other people. Clothing companies spread their merchandise through models wearing the clothes and looking good and so if you wear those clothes don't you become a walking bilboard? Losing my dignity and becoming a human bilboard is not worth the price.

Lastly, people appreciate you just as much without brand name clothing as they would if you had some. Brand name clothing is slowly starting to be a way to somewhat buy your dignity or a way to buy your way into a higher class of people. If society becomes this shallow over brand name clothing, it's not worth the price. And think of this, if someone only approches you or you only becomes friends with you only because of your clothing, do you really want them in your life?

In conclusion, there are many reasons why brand names aren't worth it in my opinion. The price, the quality and the after effects but that stays as my opinion. At the end of the day, the important thing is your opinion!

Will we let ourselves be ruled by computers? By: Francis P

  We have grown to be too dependent of computers. Technology is evolving, we keep making devices smarter. Everywhere you go you can see computers. How many times have you seen a etcher argument with a student claiming "my computer didn't work". The question remains, are we too dependent on computers? In 2012, 7,017,846,922 people owned personal computers or electronic devices. To top that we use computers everyday and we expect them to work as good as new 24/7 and nowadays you can barely go somewhere computer free besides a forest.

  Let's face it computers are part of our everyday lives, wether it is from Facebook to our cellphones to consoles we can't spend too long without them. In 2009, the average teenager spends 7.5 hours on their computer averaging to 31 hours per week, not that bad right? By 2015 we expect teenagers to average 15.5 hours a day or in other words 108.5 hours per week on their computers! Up to how much will be too much? This is one of the reasons I believe we are too dependant on computers.

 Secondly, we expect computers to work 24/7 and have learnt that if you are having problems with them it is an excuse not to do our homework. Honestly how many times have you heard someone tell the teacher "I did it but my computer wasn't working" If you just said never you must be lying because it is now in the top ten excuses for incomplete homework. We do not take the time to see what we did wrong we automatically blame system malfunction. This proves we rely too much on computers.

  

  Last of all, computers are very useful in everyday life but they create certain distractions like Facebook notifications. Nowadays computers are essential and are everywhere around us, you can't run away from them everywhere you go there is a cellphone, computer, or even a console. We have become so dependant. If we have a question for homework we don't ask peers or parents we call for the help of google or Wikipedia. We don't even try to understand the question. This proves we are very dependent even too dependent on electronics.

  In conclusion, society has become too dependent on computers, we rely on them, we use them constantly and they are everywhere we go. It is time we become less dependent on computers lets not raise a generation where future AI's will be smarter than the human ppopulation.

Voting is for Adults Only -Jacob Simard

      Voting is not only a right it is a privilege and we should not lower the age limit to 16 years old because they are not mature enough to vote. Politicians could be elected because they would vote without knowing what they are talking about. Most of 16 years old teens would not go vote because they don't care, most of them are very lazy and finally they are not mature enough to vote properly.

     First of all, most 18 years old adults do not go vote. So why would teenagers go vote? Most teens are very lazy, they have difficulty getting out of their beds. Logically if you are too lazy to get out of your own bed you will be too lazy to go vote outside of your own home. People do not realise that most teenagers do not care about who is elected or who is there own prime-minister. This is why they wont even go vote.

     Secondly, a lot of adults do not care about politics and even more teenagers do not care about politics. This is hard to beleive but it is true. Once I saw a survey on television about the 2014 Quebec elections and many people did not know who were the candidates for the elections. This means that these people would not even go vote or they would go vote but they would not go vote for someone they like but for someone they dont even know.

     Lastly, teenagers in the first place are not very mature. This will cause teens to make uneducated voting decisions during elections. This will happen since they wont even bother to follow the news and see who the candidates are and what are there point of views on what they are going to do if they are elected. This is one of the most important reason why we should not lower the legal age to vote to 16 years old.

     In conclusion, teenagers would not even go vote, they dont care about politics and finally they are not mature enough to vote. Voting is not only a right it is a privelege and teens are not mature enough to handle it.2

How Has Traveling Affected You?By Gabriel Pearson

How has traveling affect you? Well I think in many ways traveling can affect you by the way you are,your trips will shape you the way you are thats what we will discus in the next paragraphs.

In this paragraph we will talk about how does traveling affect you for example will you change or will you become a better person?Well for me yes it change me I didn't realize what I had finally after coming back I wished I could go back to this trip again and again because this is what learns you all of the thing that you don't know. 

A trip is meeting new people new culture it changes you of how you saw and see the world now this is why we are all different we all come from a different place and go to different places and this is what shapes us our feelings our view of all the world and people from everywhere we are all different.

In conclusion people are all different ans trips are the way we are shaped and how we see the world or people.

Does Homework Really Help You Learn? By Tristan Bedard

Homework: Finishing work outside of class to help you learn during the process. The definition of homework is a lie. Homework isn't about finishing up classwork anymore, it's now a task. We spend approximately 6 hours in school sitting in chairs listening to teachers and when we finally arrive home, we can't relax anymore, we have 2 hours of homework to do plus our out of school activities. Homework isn't a learning enhancing method anymore, it's a burden.

When most students arrive home, they don't have the energy to complete unfinished work. Most students don't even bother completing their homework since so little teachers even check the answers to grade it, they just skim over it to check if all the answers have been answered, students catch up on the teachers habits, they will just answer whatever they feel like because they know they will get the right answers since the the corrections will be on the board.

In today's generation, school grades aren't as good as they were before. You can blame it on all you want on media, social networks etc... The only reason for this, lack of participation amongst the teachers. Before, teachers used to collect the work that was assigned and grade it, now they just check if the student answered all the questions and that is an issue.

Homework was once a tool to retain the information you learned during the day, but now it's just a task, basically a waste of time. Most highs school students have more than one after school activity, like sports, a job etc, and we don't have anytime to relax. The next day, the teachers complain that our homework isn't done. Which adds up even more pressure.

Studies suggests that high school students, in this current generation, are 25% more stressed than others. With added homework and long-lasting projects in multiple classes it is just hard to get a hold of schoolwork.

I have nothing against education and learning, but today's schools and classes aren't as useful as they used to be. In my opinion homework isn't worth it anymore because of accumulated homework and projects, high levels of stress and simply a lack of combined time with out of school activities. There is only one simple solution to avoid this problem, teachers must grade homework.

Does Homework Help You Learn? By Josh Jacques- Alain

Should teachers give homework? The answer you should think of is yes because  if your student does not pass his year they will take a look at your homework and will maybe make you pass. Homework helps students to learn because by doing it many times it becomes more clear. Students learn a lot of thing in homework and they understand more when the teacher give homework not too difficult. Students develops their skills by doing more homework.

First of all, students learn a lot in homework because if they need to learn something new for the next class. They would try it by their own and if they have trouble they could already go see the teacher to ask. 

Secondly, student develop their skill by doing homework because if they did different thing but a like they will find the trick to make it. When the student have enough develop, his skill the teacher makes the homework harder so they could have more skills.

In fact, homework help to learn more and easier because when you do homework you develop skilland you learn new subjects. Its through that teacher give student a lot of homework but does it worth it?

Should we get homework? by Michael Cantin

Have you ever gone to bed at 11:00 pm because you have to hand in your homework the next day. If yes, I know how you feel. Students shouldn't have homework. On average teenagers have 1:30-2 hour per night of homework. So if a teenager gets back home at maybe 4:30 they do there homework till 6-6:30, then they eat for about 30 min at this point it's already 7 pm then they can relax. But if they have hockey that night that changes everything. They get home do their homework till 6:30 then have hockey that 7 so they eat while doing there homework, then finally get home at maybe 8:30-9pm, then they have to shower them so they maybe have 45 minutes to relax. But if they didn't have homework to do they would have 2 hours and 45 minutes to relax. In this blog I will talk about 3 reasons not to have homework. They might have after school activates. 2, They might be tired. 3, It doesn't help.

              (They might have after school activates.) I don't know about you but I like playing baseball or hockey after school, and when I play, it's to play for a long time, maybe between 1-2 hours. But after I've gotten to high school, I've noticed that I don't have as much time to go to the park to play hockey because of homework. For example, if I have to do a project I'll start after dinner and then I'll look at the time and its already 8:30 which is too late to play hockey or baseball. Now I know what your going to say "do it when you get home." I like to take a break from school and watch TV, go on Facebook. Also people who play in a real hockey or soccer or baseball team and can't and don't want to let there team down.

             

              (People are tired.) I don't know about you, but after a long day of school I'm tired. When you get back from school, all you want to do is relax and get into bed before 10 pm, but if you get lots of homework during that day you might not have time to get into bed before 10.  Now I know what your saying do it when you get home. Well you might start when you get home, but if you have lots of homework or maybe a project you might have to wait for your partner so you can do it with him or her on Skype. Then do it, then get into bed without having the time to relax and have fun with you downtime. This just says you might not always have the energy to finish your homework.

                (Its not helpful.) You know when your mom asks you to make your bed and you really don't want to so you do it, but not well. Well, here's something about homework. If you don't want to do it and you do it really fast, just so your done, do you really get something out of that homework? That's what I thought. So what's the point of giving it. Now, you might say the teacher will ask them to do it well and it might help with some but it won't help with everyone. So we shouldn't have homework.

              To conclude people might have after school activities or are really tired and it just doesn't help. Should we have homework or not?