Technology

In the United States and around the world, many kids in their pre-teen and teenage years have become strongly addicted and dependent on technology. Whether it might be going on the computer, using their cellphone, or watching TV. All of these kinds of media makes everyone just more addicted and makes it harder to try to not use it as much. I am not afraid or ashamed to say that I am one of those people who are addicted to media such as my cellphone and my computer. Not just that, but I do watch a lot of TV as well, so that makes me even more addicted. But, I mean I could live without using my cellphone and computer, but its just a TV in which I can't. I really do consume a lot of media daily, about 4 or more hours, but I don't just stay inside all day texting on my phone or on the Internet.

I usually do the same routine almost everyday once I get home from school on weekdays: get home, do my homework, eat, watch TV, go on the computer, sometimes go outside, sometimes read for like half an hour or more, then watch TV again, and go to sleep. Ever since I've been using so much media everyday, whether its listening to music on my iPod or something like that, I've realized I've become lazy. I also became a little lazy when one of my cousins or siblings asks me to go play something outside like throwing a football or playing Frisbee. In a lot of articles that I found on the Internet, many of them said that technology makes kids become inactive when they use it. I totally agree with this because it has also made me inactive, but not completely inactive. So, there are some positive things to using technology, but there are more negative effects on you.

Here is a link about the effects of technology:

http://www.helium.com/items/1519458-negative-effects-of-technology-on-kids-children

Justin Bieber

Yes, it is time to talk about the new pop kid, Justin Bieber. This 16 year-old boy is known around the world, especially by girls everywhere. Everywhere he goes, there is always young girls from the ages of just 5-16 always screaming and yelling for him. Of course he's cute, but that's all he is. His music is good as well, but he's not hot or anything like that to me. Now, he's not making anymore songs because he's probably busy making a new album or something, but I think that once he does come out with another song, there will be girls with "Bieber Fever", as they say.

Anyways, Justin Bieber was born in Canada on March 1, 1994. Once he was about ten or eleven, Usher, who knew Justin before he became famous, signed him. Since about a year or a couple of months ago, he has become a pop sensation to all girls all over the world. No matter where he goes, whether its a concert, to a meeting, an award show, the airport, or anything like that, there is always a bunch of screaming fans calling for him. Ever since his first song, "One Time", came out on the radio, a lot of screaming fans started to become more and more interested in him and his music. Just like that, his song became number one very fast on radio stations and music websites. But there was a lot of girls that were especially interested in him, and not so much his music.

His first album that came out was called, My World, and it instantly became a hit. It reached number 1 on the top ten albums and on other music websites. Many of his other songs like One Less Lonely Girl, Love Me, and of course, One Time, still became and remained popular on a lot of radio stations like Z100. Recently this year, he came out with his second album, My World 2.0, (a continuation of his first album.) I really do like the music on that album more than his first album. The songs that I like on My World 2.0 is Somebody to Love, Eenie Meenie, Up, That Should Be Me, and Baby. The song, Baby, also became a hit just like his song One Time. Even though I'm not one of those girls who goes crazy over Justin Bieber, his music is good, but I don't like him that much as much as I like his music.

Here is the link to some of his songs on Playlist.com:
http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks#justin%20bieber/all/1

Beat Street Movie Review

Here is a picture from Beat Street:



Recently, I have watched a movie from 1980's that was called Beat Street. It was basically a movie about how hip-hop originated back then when New York's crime rate was really high. This was also a time when graffiti became very popular and hip hop culture began. But, it is really about a young DJ named Kenny who lives with his younger brother Lee (who is in a break dancing group) and his mother in the slums of Bronx where it was really dangerous to live because of the crime rates there. Kenny's dream is to become a famous hip-hop DJ and to play in nightclubs that are in Manhattan and to really become famous. Anyways, it also tells how his friend, Ramon, also wants his graffiti art work to be on every subway car in their area and Kenny developing a relationship with a girl named Tracy, who lives in a completely different world than Kenny.

This movie, Beat Street, which was really made in 1984, was a bad movie in my opinion. Not only that, but from the parts that I saw, I even thought some of the acting was bad as well. I mean, it really wasn't interesting for me to watch at all and I seriously wanted to sleep while I was watching it too because it was so boring and dumb. When I was watching Beat Street, all I could think of was "When is this movie gonna be over?" But, the movie wasn't completely bad. I thought that the dancing and singing was pretty good, but that's all. The rest of the movie was just terrible and I do not like it at all.