Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ask The Little Ones !

Homework is a burden to every elementry school student. It's not just a burden, it's slavery ! Since the country makes kids and teenagers go to school and learn. They also give us homework, to continue the suffering at home. If we don't do the homework, they make us do more at school, or call our parents, and make us suffer more at home.

As a student in the 10th grade I feel the burden of many kids and teenagers out there because it's really boring to do homework. It's hard, why can't we just do somethine else like play on the computer or just have more time to hang out with friends. But no, homework is allways in the way.

Recent reserchs show that homework has no impact on a student's achivments in school as said by Kohn 2006; Trautwein and Koller 2003 :
The link between homework and student achievement is far from clear. There is no conclusive evidence that homework increases the student's achievements. Some studies show positive effects of homework under certain conditions and for certain students, some show no effects, and some suggest negative effects.

In conclusion, it's best to say that homework is history (and lets keep it only at that subject) we need something more interesting less time consuming with better affects. However, having no homework at all would be better.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Known or The Unknown

The Unknown Problems of The Universe or The Known Problems of The World ?

Space Exploration is a very interesting thing to some people, and an absolute waste of time for others. Some think space exploration is the future of man kind. Some think that there is enough problems in the present. While there are T.V Satelites worth millions of dollars in the sky, there are people begging for a few cents to survive another day.

Space exploration is important because it's the future of man kind. Living in space is not only the scientists' dream, it's a dream everyone of us had. Having space research and exploration is the only way to get to it. Also, one day this may help our economy, since plenty of natural resources on our planet(sp.) are allmost done, maybe we can find a sollution to that in space.

However, it costs "astronomic" amounts of money, millions, even billions of dollars are wasted on space exploration. This money could be used in better ways, like helping the poor, building more quality places, like parks and theaters, and evolving the economy. Also, traveling in space is extremly dangerous, we all know what happened to Illan Ramon, this can happen to any person flying to space.

In conclusion, space research) is importent, however its expensive and dangerous. I think it's better to use the money to explore the space, I find it important becuase the human curiosety has no limits.