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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
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12-12-2013 09:25 AM
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I remember the show where they showed us the special effects on Star Trek TNG. I don't really remember that version of the intro, though. I remember Reading Between The Lions too; that was a Hell of a show as well.
12-13-2013 01:36 PM
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I don't know whether I liked "Reading Between The Lions". I know I watched it then and now when I was younger, but by then I was a fan of the Discovery channel and Military channel
I think that episode had something to do with the enterprise becoming sentient in someway. I don't recall. I'll probably remember when I watch it again.
RE: Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
(12-09-2013 02:26 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote: I'm guessing I wouldn't find a copy of Das Kapital(in English of course) in your school library?
I'm gonna add in.
HELL NO. Now I'm gonna tell you a short story.
Ok, in AR I've lost my book and it is an AR book not in the library. So, I decided to read up on Communist theory by reading Marx's Communist Manifesto until I could find/replace my book. Not in the AR list. Anyway, I was reading it one day when my teacher asked me "Is that in the AR list?" I replied no, I'm reading this only until I can find or replace my AR book. Then I was yelled at and told I couldn't read it.
BTW, my teacher is a strong capitalist conservative, and I'm a radical half-communist liberal.
"Thou shalt not be an asshole"
-The one commandment of atheism.
SubCulture said "If you call xcriteria a shithead, he will write a ten page essay on why he is not a shithead, link you to a tedtalk on bullying and the tvtropes page on insults. After reading and watching all that you would evaluate your life and decide to never call anyone a shithead ever again."
RE: Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
(12-15-2013 08:55 AM)TheLiberal Wrote:
(12-09-2013 02:26 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote: I'm guessing I wouldn't find a copy of Das Kapital(in English of course) in your school library?
I'm gonna add in.
HELL NO. Now I'm gonna tell you a short story.
Ok, in AR I've lost my book and it is an AR book not in the library. So, I decided to read up on Communist theory by reading Marx's Communist Manifesto until I could find/replace my book. Not in the AR list. Anyway, I was reading it one day when my teacher asked me "Is that in the AR list?" I replied no, I'm reading this only until I can find or replace my AR book. Then I was yelled at and told I couldn't read it.
BTW, my teacher is a strong capitalist conservative, and I'm a radical half-communist liberal.
If a teacher told me I couldn't read a book because it wasn't on some list, I'd have flipped out, told them to fuck themselves and their backwards thinking, then just left the class and thus left the school.
If they don't plan on teaching me, then they can fuck themselves Ja?
RE: Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
PBS is great. Its like NPR but on TV(though I think NPR is still better). Course I always hated that one show that was meant to teach adults English. Made me want to shoot myself whenever my mom watched it.
RE: Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
(12-15-2013 10:13 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote:
(12-15-2013 08:55 AM)TheLiberal Wrote:
(12-09-2013 02:26 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote: I'm guessing I wouldn't find a copy of Das Kapital(in English of course) in your school library?
I'm gonna add in.
HELL NO. Now I'm gonna tell you a short story.
Ok, in AR I've lost my book and it is an AR book not in the library. So, I decided to read up on Communist theory by reading Marx's Communist Manifesto until I could find/replace my book. Not in the AR list. Anyway, I was reading it one day when my teacher asked me "Is that in the AR list?" I replied no, I'm reading this only until I can find or replace my AR book. Then I was yelled at and told I couldn't read it.
BTW, my teacher is a strong capitalist conservative, and I'm a radical half-communist liberal.
If a teacher told me I couldn't read a book because it wasn't on some list, I'd have flipped out, told them to fuck themselves and their backwards thinking, then just left the class and thus left the school.
If they don't plan on teaching me, then they can fuck themselves Ja?
I would have too, but I can keep my temper very well, lucky for them. If they weren't teachers (my dad flips out if I disrespect authority, even if he agrees with me) I would have fucking FLIPPED OUT.
BTW just about the student rights paper, people kept asking to see it so I let them (not disrupting class, keep in mind). Called up to the principal
for trying to "run the school", which running a student union, as I stated the day before to the vice principal (she is the one conveying this to the principal) this WASN'T doing. I was hardly given a chance to express my opinion, and at the end of the day my dad got me in some trouble (he told me not to write it but I did anyway) but he totally was on my side. More on that later.
"Thou shalt not be an asshole"
-The one commandment of atheism.
SubCulture said "If you call xcriteria a shithead, he will write a ten page essay on why he is not a shithead, link you to a tedtalk on bullying and the tvtropes page on insults. After reading and watching all that you would evaluate your life and decide to never call anyone a shithead ever again."
RE: Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
(12-09-2013 01:20 PM)xcriteria Wrote: That's weird. So basically, it blocks you from reading a bunch of books, based on a test score?
What about books you find in a bookstore, a public library, online, and all that?
... not to mention other texts (articles, walls of texts, online conversation...)
No way to get credit for any of that, I take it?
Nope, no way to get credit for those. It's sad too, they're often really interesting. Maybe they could make ARs for certain websites? And you can take tests on books not at the school library- as long as someone wrote an AR test.
What I feel like AR is doing for some kids is making reading seem like a chore instead of an entertainment option. The AR doesn't bother me, I enjoy reading, however.
(This post was last modified: 12-17-2013 09:00 AM by Zapkido.)
RE: Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
In elementary school we had something like this.
We had to record page numbers of how much we read and what books we read. We also had to take NOTES on things we chose to read.It made reading boring and I hated it. Now I enjoy reading more since it isn't forced down my throat like it was in that and a giant summer reading project from freshman year. (Lol my wall of text earlier was a bit overkill, edited down to a few sentences and basically says same thing xD)
(This post was last modified: 12-19-2013 02:43 PM by chained to desk.)
12-19-2013 12:19 PM
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We're used to walls of text, like those of xcrit.
But some form of structuring would keep my eyeballs from melting into a puddle in my sockets, then oozing down my cheeks in all it's white and bloody gooiness before slowly dripping audibly onto the table with a squelch.
RE: Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
(12-19-2013 02:17 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote: We're used to walls of text, like those of xcrit.
But some form of structuring would keep my eyeballs from melting into a puddle in my sockets, then oozing down my cheeks in all it's white and bloody gooiness before slowly dripping audibly onto the table with a squelch.
Yeah lol I realized I could say the same ideas about forced reading in a few sentences xD
Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
Same thing here. AR in my opinion is counterproductive. It makes reading a chore rather than a leisure, and I hate it when school makes fun things like a chore.
Accelerated Reader (A.K.A "Pushing Yourself to read faster")
My school would have a "monthly reader" award, rewarded to the student in each grade with the highest AR score(from those tests and getting points and what not).
It was funny because nobody from 10th grade and above ever did it, thus the monthly paper thing with name/score they'd post up on the board would always be absent of names for those grades.
I'd probably have one the "Greatest Reader in the History and Future of this School" Award, but they didn't have it.