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I define myself as being a very strong, caring, concerned, emotional, and quiet person. My strength isn't just physical strength. Apart from being able to do pull-ups, I am strong willed. When I set my mind to something, it will get done one way or another. I don't give up easily on projects that I am interested in. If I am well and able to work on the project, I will work on it. My belief in the Christian doctrine is also strong. It would take a miracle to make me change my faith. I'm not the best Christian and some of the 'commands' I disagree with, but I will always believe that Jesus is the Savior who died for my sins.

I am a caring individual. If I see someone struggling, I do my best to help them out. I care for the people around me and for people in organizations across the globe. Donating money and food to organizations such as West Minister, Invisible Children, Kenya-Help-Us, and Save Darfur. I want to help them.

I am concerned for the world and concerned for me. With so much of the world in a terrible state, I worry about what the future will bring. Will there be a WWIII? Will global warming get worse? I am almost always worried about getting my homework done, on time, and to the best of my ability. I am concerned for my safety and the others in the car when I drive on a narrow street with oncoming traffic. The whoosh of their cars scares me a bit.

I cry or feel like crying in most books and movies. The unfair treatment of a character, a death related to a main character, or seeing how they live. It is sad and cruel to see some of the things the director put into the movie. I am more emotional towards books when I can relate or know someone who can relate to the characters. I usually show more sad emotion then I do happy emotion.

I don't talk that much. I'm not as bad as Melinda, but it's the same concept. I got made fun of for something that I said when I was younger and now I don't talk as much. It used to be that I didn't see how my opinion would make any difference.

Melinda doesn't talk because she feels like crap. She was sexually abused and lost her friends because she called the cops. Very few people could relate to that. She holds in her secret for most of the novel. She also seems shy, but opens up as the novel goes on.

People act the way that they do based on what has happened to them and their relationships with others.

In class discussion 2/1/10

Our discussion this morning and reading "Little Brother" has made me go out and look up other technology information. I've gone out and bookmarked almost every major technology incident in the book for future use. I wanted to see if I could duplicate some of the technology that is in the book. I've looked up more sites relating to this book then I did in all of my classes combined last year. Since reading the book I set up TOR, looked up encryption, research linux, and have looked up botnets. I've learned so much about the type of technology that's available and love it.

Reading about google and what is happening in China made me so upset. After reading that and then hearing that the US government can see each monitor made me mad. The government has no right to spy on what you do or to censor sites. Spying on us violates our personal privacy. It is stalking set to the maximum creepiness. If the government has not right to control what you see and don't see, that job is for your parents. If they want to ban you from a website, they should be able to. The Declaration of Independence states that we have the unalienable right of liberty. Liberty: the state of being free within a society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. After reading and discussing this, I want to go out and research the history behind the censoring of websites in China. I also want to know more about the China vs. google event.

The 3 strikes rule pissed me off. For starters, they don't always tell you when you get a strike and why you got it. Sometimes it isn't your fault that you go to specific website that causes you to get a strike. On the 3rd strike you have no Internet privileges for the rest of your life. I wouldn't have my Internet privileges any more.

Everything that has related to technology from the discussions and readings I have done research on to find out more about it. Most of it I have loved.

The dumbest generation

I really liked this article. The facts that it brings up are sad, but I find them to be very realistic. We, as Americans, are so blind to the things happening around us. In general we could care less about what is going on. Out of the questions in the first two paragraph, I only got 1 out of the 6 right. It is interesting because the older generations is astonished that we don't know the answers to the questions, when it could be because they didn't teach it to us well. Or since we are multitasking more, we truly can't pay attention to one thing while doing something else, while getting the maximum amount of information out of both. I was surprised when the adults thought that a kid would give up all digital technology for years. I don't think that anyone could do that. I would never be able to do that, and I don't have a cellphone or watch TV that much.

I agree with the article, writing off any generation before it's 30 is dumb. All people slowly change their habits over time. When people are young they may not have an interest in the things around them. They may not care who the vice president is, what the biggest lake is, who was the US's ally, or who was the Supreme Court Justice. As I keep getting older, I learn more about past important figures in society and geography, and slowly got an interest in it. By the time you're 30, you should be interested in the things around you because they affect you. Who gets voted president affects you. You realize that what happens in other countries has an effect on you and those around you. The newer generations also learn a different kind of knowledge.