Teenagitis

Diagnosis: Teenagitis
symptoms: sleeping till noon ont he weekends, late nights without sleep, procrasination, "rebeliousness", growing interest in opposite sex, attitude, often associated with disease known as puberty
While the nation is in fear of the growing "deadly" swine flu people are missing out on the even more severe disease that is afflicting the growing youth of our great nation. Often symptoms begin to show at the ages of 10-13 and continue on for many years spreading quickly. Affecting millions of people a year teenagitis is a disease that many people miss out on due to other pandemics like aids, malaryia, and "swine flu." Often teens go years without being treated for this disease which can sometimes have permenant effects. Many kids grow out of this disease and create self cures while others are helped by parents and close friends. It's affecting more and more people each year and no known preventives are available since most have been banned by child protection agencies. Barak Obama should make this a national epidemic soon because this virus has only begun its assault on the youth of today and shows no signs of stopping.

Stalking to new heights

Keeping in touch with friends has never been so easy with cell phones, text messaging, and websites. Websites have made keeping up with how our friends are and what they do as easy as eating dinner, with new websites constantly becoming the "in" thing. From blog posts on Xanga, to commenting on your friends space on myspace, to now were you can status update on facebook and tweet on twitter. Being up to date on your friends is the way to show how cool you are. Not only now can your closest friends and acquaintances know what you are up to every minute of the day, so can the creeps, stalkers, pedophiles, sex offenders and weirdo's that you just add to have more friends without knowing anything about them. Facebook has entered a new stalkerish system updating you instantly when your friends becomes friends with people you don't know, as well as events they will be attending, when they will be attending them, and a conversation two of your friends are having because its not personal if its on facebook. The term it's only official when its on facebook has long passed its joking period and seems almost real now, despite the fact that it is just a website people (including me) have spent countless hours sitting on it doing basically nothing. Facebook has changed so much from its original form that it seems almost like a stalkers website now more so then a social gathering place to keep in touch with friends. But then again, maybe I'm just not part of the "in" crowd and knowing everything about people you talked to 3 years ago is the way to be cool...

Contextual Essay

I am going to do my essay on the trailer of the new movie 2012 coming out. I believe that "the end of the world" is such a touchy but well talked about subject and a movie about the omened december of the year 2012 is a great idea. Many different cultures and beliefs point to this date and make it a very feared but curiosity striking date. The movie also looks good with some good actors in it to make me want to see it even more. The trailer is very interesting about what it shows but it gives you a suspenseful area of the movie that looks like it may be the beginning or the climax, but doesn't show which. I believe this will be an excellent paper especially considering this date is approaching fast.