Criticizing of the Commercial

Is this ad interesting? Why?

No, it is not interesting because all the ad was saying is that kids like it and their dada is spoiling them.

Is this ad believable? Why?

No, the only believable thing about the ad is the car being perfectly suitable for families. It also said something like 600 Hwy miles on a tank of gas. Then, the balloon in the beginning floated up into the air, which will probably kill a whale or bird. I’m getting mixed messages.

Is this ad logical? Why?

Yes, a father would definitely treat their children once and a while, especially before a road trip.

What does this ad want you to believe?

The ad wants people to believe that their car is an organized, family suitable and fuel efficient car that children love.

What do you think of this ad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EalwId-oA8&feature=player_embedded

Mending Math Classes

Mending math classes

According to Dan Meyer, math needs to be taught differently. Today the textbooks give way too much information in the word problems, so you don’t have to be good at math to solve them, you just need to understand a textbook. What Dan suggests for school’s teaching techniques is to give less extra information to the problems and let the children think them through. He concludes that reasoning and patient problem solving are how we should teach children math in school.

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Dan Meyer said in his prolonged TEDtm talk that, “the math serves the conversation, the conversation doesn’t serve the math.” He said this because he found most teachers give too many details into the questions and don’t allow the children to take time to talk about the question and think it through.

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Dan Meyer suggests that math textbooks and teachers should teach patient problem solving. When now, at school where we learn, the textbooks and teachers give all the tiny details that don’t get thrown at you in real life.

Summary of R oger Sipher's "So that Nobody Has To Go School If They Don't Want To"

Roger Sipher believes that we should abolish compulsory attendance laws in school. These schools are full of children who have no desire to be there anyways and so are antagonistic towards school. Teachers could stop nagging rebellious students and only have to teach the committed students. Students would soon find out they had better learn something or risk flunking out. Roger Sipher points out that education was meant to serve all children, but in doing that, they have failed to provide a good education. Taking away compulsory attendance laws would make education superior.

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Roger Sipher concludes that we should abolish mandatory attendance laws in school. It would be easier for teachers to teach and children would not be distracted by antagonistic children who do not want to be there.

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According to Roger Sipher, a solution to the perceived crisis in education is to, "abolish- compulsory attendance laws and only allow those who are committed to getting an education to attend."

Albert the Triumphantly Brilliant

Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on the 14^thBrownian Effect the General Theory of Relativity. The Brownian effect is the random movement of suspended small particles in a stationary liquid. And the general theory of relativity which is basically: of March. He found school boring and in later years, dropped out of high school. He eventually moved to Switzerland where he went to university and earned his bachelors Degree in Physics. He worked on his theories for years and yet nothing happened. Finally, a giant breakthrough occurred. Two papers were published: the the geometric theory of gravitation.

Later he moved to Princeton, U.S.A., mostly in fear of Adolf Hitler. Einstein published his last papers on the theory of special relativity (E=MC2), a key which opens a door that leads to many other

influential discoveries. Soon after, he became a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey. on April 18, 1955 Einstein, this intellectual giant, died of an aortic aneurysm.

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

New about the 33 Miners

The 33 miners in Chile are coming out through the shaft after 68 days! The Chilean miners are happily coming out of the burning hot caved-in mine. The families are ecstatically hugging their loved ones. They were covered in a layer of soot, but now they are covered in thick layer of pride. Their pride comes from their bravery and courage for surviving such an underground ordeal.

Another Way to Die by Disturbed

Another Way to Die is a highly listenable piece of music, but not very catchy. I wish I felt more energy while listening to it. Disturbed could have made the song a bit faster, more like their song, "Prayer". Nevertheless the lyrics of Another Way to Die are environmental warning to us, so the song has a good reason to be slow.

I was horrified to discover that I was slowly shrinking into the mouse hole!!!!!!!!! There was a spool for a table and thimbles for chairs and there was my crystal radio set but shrunken to fit this room. Then I saw a huge sumo wrestling mouse come through the doorway. Then he said, “Konichiwa’’, bowed and fell over. Suddenly a piece of popcorn fell into the hole. As soon as the smell of the buttered popcorn got to the end of the room, the sumo wrestler jumped up and lunged at the popcorn and screamed, “FOOD!!!’’
He hit the wall and the vibrations on the wall made the popcorn go out of the hole. I jumped out and ate the popcorn, because I was starving. Suddenly I grew back to my normal size. Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!