2 Single Story 2011

'Danger of a Single Story'

What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community?

To have only one idea about a place or race or just like a person that looks a certain way.

Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?

The single story I have herd about my community is that every body on the east side is dumb.But that's not true because I go to a school full of smart people from the east side.

Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community?

Well when I was little I spent allot of time with my grandma.She had a single story about North Austin (i.e Ceder Park, Leander,e.x),that they all were white rich snobby people that looked at people from East Austin like they were dirt. Then one time me and my mom went up there to do something and they didn't act like that the people up their were brown like me it wasn't at all what my grandma told me. I had a single story about them and i wasn't true at all.

How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?

Maybe if we made like options for people to go to the slums or to the high class of India and show different life styles so people don't get a single story.

1 Cyberbullying 2011

This is my first blog post of the 2011-2012 school year.


*What is a cyberbully?
-Someone that picks on people via text,Internet
*What are the different types of cyberbulling?
-Gossip,threatening,harassment and outing
*What should you do if you are being cyberbulled?
-Tell an adult do not respond to them forward the email and block user/ make as spam
*What are some reasons people cyberbully others?
-Insecure, to make you feel bad,jealousy,or that they wish they were you.

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Cyberbully is about a girl named Taylor , a teenage girl who falls victim to online bullying, and the cost it takes on her as well as her friends and family. Taylor is a seventeen-year-old student dealing with her parents' recent divorce and painfully aware of her lower social status in high school. When her mom gives her a computer for her birthday, Taylor is excited by the prospect of going online to meet new friends without her mom being all up in her private life. Taylor soon signs up on a website called Clickster.However, Taylor soon finds herself the victim of betrayal and bullying while getting on clickster. Obsessed with the damaging posts, she begins to withdraw from her family and friends, including her life-long best friend, Samantha Caldone.Tormented and afraid to face her peers at school, Taylor is pushed to an extreme breaking point, almost commiting suicide. It is only after this life-changing event that Taylor learns that she is not alone – meeting other teens, including a classmate, who have had similar experiences. Taylor's mom, Kris, reels from the incident and takes on the school system and state legislation to help prevent others from going through the same harrowing ordeal as her daughter went throught. I dident have te chance to watch the rest of the film but right now its a good flim I want to see the rest.