Computer Science Innovations

• robotic surgery
• artificial intelligence
• DNA testing and sequencing
• health informatics
• nanotechnology
• magnetic resonance imaging
• fiber optics
• GPS systems
• online shopping
• social networking via the internet
• graphic user interface
• digital photography
• ATM's
• bar codes and scanners
• genetically modified plants

Social Networking

A. Social networking is an online service, platform, or site that mainly focuses on the building of social networks or social relations among people who might either be family members or different people across the world who share the same interests. 

B. This innovation will impact millions of people from any part of the world. The variety of the people that use social media are teens, but that is a stereotype because you would be amazed by how many adults and elders are on social media.

C. The problem that this innovation will solve is making it much easier for relatives and friends to communicate via the internet.

D. This is my absolute favorite computer science innovation because it has helped me so much through out the years. I have found people on the internet who think like me, like the same things I do, and made me feel less alone. I think social networking is the best way for anyone to feel connected to someone else.

E. 

How Stuff Works

Reflection
1. Things that I liked about this class was obviously my favorite teacher Mr. Haymore, sitting next to Emely Romero every other day, and the stuff that we worked on.

2. Things that I did not like about the class was when we had the spinning wheel and I was always nervous it would land on me because I hate talking in front of people.

3. Recommendations for improving class is a daily ctr card check. 

4. The highlights for me about this class were reading my life planning book, writing on my journal, and Emely making me laugh super hard.

5. Explain: I think I did my absolute best in this class because I really took my time thinking what to write and reflecting on my posts.

6. Of Course I read my life planning goals for five minutes daily every day and I am constantly ruling out victories and writing more goals each day.

7. I am so committed to being a CTR person because I am working on bettering my habits every minute and second of the day in my life. I'm trying to stay away from those ctw boys.

8. I learned how to code in order to create a website.

9. I will always remember Mr. Haymore forever.

                            Memorial Day
The date for memorial day this year is May 30, 2016. This is an American holiday to honor the men and women that died while serving the U.S. military. Some ways to celebrate memorial day is by attending parades, decorating with flags, buying a poppy, participate in the national moment of remembering, and lastly to thank a veteran.

     The 12 principles of highly successful leaders
1. Be true to character
This means to basically stay true to yourself. It is important to have a good character because you feel great. You have positive traits and that makes other people change their attitude towards you.



2. Use your imagination
Imaginative people are the best kind of people. I feel that when you have a very wide imagination, you have the potential to create big things. I think I have plenty imagination when I hear a song and I already know what the music video should look like so I have all these ideas in my head, the setting, the scene, but sadly when the actual music video comes out it is completely different. That's why I want to be a music video director so I can finally put my ideas into action.

4. Never Give up
This statement keeps me going and may be the only one. And I mean this in the long run because goals that I have and am going to accomplish are for when I get older. But currently sometimes I just want to give up on everything and mostly everyone around me. These things though aren't at all as important as the things I am willing to not give up on in the future. These tasks and these irrelevant people will not matter to me in 10 years so I don't put my focus on them at the moment.


Find Peace and Balance
Finding peace and balance is mainly about being at your happiest point. I think that to find your peace and balance you need to get away from the things that make you feel not at ease because then you don't have any kind of peace so if anyone wants to find peace and balance at all they should do the things that bring them joy.
 

Live the Golden Rule
The golden rule is to treat others the way you want to be treated. And that's important to me because I've been bullied almost my entire life. It has always been hard for me to understand why people are so cruel for no reason. I'd understand if I had given them a reason to be cruel to me but for them to treat me the way they did just because of my appearance and because I was different from the rest. They probably still don't even know all the pain that they caused me and how many times I cried because I didn't understand why they didn't like me. Now that I'm older I don't care what anyone thinks because if anything I will think worse of them. I don't have to feel bad for not being perfect and I don't take crap from anyone. I've learned to stand up for myself since deciding I wouldn't let anyone bring me down again. It is also the reason why I treat others the way I want to be treated because I know how much it hurts to be the victim. 


Build and maintain trust
To build and maintain trust means to become trustworthy and relied on to maintain secrets. It's very hard to trust people lately. There's only one person I could actually trust aside from everyone else. There's a girl that I decided to trust about cherrio and this dumb girl told cherrio that we call her cherrio. I thought that we could trust each other but apparently I was wrong about her. Well whatever she's ugly and she don't have friends. And that taught me a lesson to be really careful about who I trust. 


Quick to listen slow to wrath
No I don't think I am slow to wrath because anything can get me annoyed easily. I should totally work on that though because that might be one reason why some people don't like me and I get it but they should at least try to not get on my last nerve and stop being so annoying because I will speak out I don't care who it is. 



Lead with Vision
I think leading with vision means to be determined to follow up on your dreams and to always have that vision in your head of becoming what you want and do what you have always imagined yourself doing in the future. I decided what I wanted to be doing with my life when I was 12 and I still continue to keep the same vision in my head and I hope that's exactly how it stays in the next 5 years and maybe by then of my dreams will already have come true I will keep working hard to pursue my goals. 


Manage with a plan
To manage with a plan means to have an idea of what you as an individual want to do, whether it's a long term plan or a short term plan. I think I always manage with a plan like Dj Khaled always has a plan. He says to never let them tell you that you can't win. ALL I DO IS WIN WIN WIN NO MATTER WHAT GOT MONEY ON MY MIND AND I NEVER GIVING UP. 


Do what Matter the Most 
Always. There's very few things that matter to me so of course I make the most of them when I can. Some examples are: Eating food, showering, looking good, keeping up to date with my idols on social media and educating myself on what's gonna benefit me in the future. A lot of the things that I'm expected to do are not even close to being beneficial to me later on like math. I hate math so much and I don't think I will need to know how to do Algebra 2 or Geometry so I try to focus on more important things than that. I used to also focus on stupid boys but with all my bad experiences that I've had I have learned that it is better to stay away from immature little boys and that there are much more important things to do than to pay them even a little bit of attention I'll just wait until an actual man comes into my life.


Be accountable
I can be accountable when I need to be. Whether it's for a group project, or a friend thing, I can definitely be expected to be responsible, to explain, and to answer anything that is supposed to be. An example could be when I am relied on to be a witness of an event that person can count on me and I will for sure be there to talk to anyone who may need an explanation.

               10 Tips for being more Truthful

1. Make a commitment to tell the truth
2. Tell someone about your commitment.

I would have to make a commitment to myself to tell the truth at all times but I would fail because I'm even dishonest to myself how can I be truthful with others. I would tell my closest friends about my commitment but they know I would cave too.

3. Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.

I agree that people should really think about what they say before they give an answer. Especially sarcasm, because for example I could never tell when someone is being serious or if they're just being stupid and sarcastic. 

4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.
 
This is important because exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony can be taken the wrong way or offensively, which is why it is better to be truthful than to try and be funny sometimes. For example the other day at the fair we were at this restaurant and my friend Johnny's brother went to go say hi to my friend Sarai and she was like "I don't know you" in a very angry tone. He looked hurt and honestly I believed she was being serious but then she laughed and said she was just kidding so I never know when she's joking or not.

5. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.

Well as much as I think this should completely be taken into consideration sometimes leaving out the truth is better for me. For example I don't like the feeling of having to tell a friend something that might hurt her I would rather her find out on her own or by someone else besides me. Or me on the other hand, sometimes I prefer lies than to hear the truth because it could leave me heartbroken.

7. Watch out for silent lies
I'm not sure I know what silent lies are. I think it's also kind of like how someone may be telling you something and they're leaving out the silent lies I feel like that's what it may be. 

8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.
 I wouldn't do a very good job at this tip because If i catch myself lying it's most likely I can't correct myself. For example if someone hurts my feelings and someone else asks if I'm okay I would lie and say I'm fine and that I don't care but in reality I'm just trying to hide my emotions because I don't want anyone to know that I care what people think or say about me and that deep down I feel hurt and I'm trying my hardest not to let the tears fall. That's why it is better for me to pretend like it doesn't bother me if someone puts me down which I've had to do pretty much my whole life so I've gotten used to it and much better at hiding it.

Treat yourself when you tell the truth
I'm always treating myself no matter what even when I am just telling the truth. I think rewarding yourself afterward is important so that in encourages you to tell the truth more often.

Reflection
My final thoughts on the ten tips for being more truthful is that these are all very useful tips to get better at telling the truth. They can benefit us all in many different ways to just mainly improve our honesty skills. A tip that I will be applying now is to think before I can give an honest answer and it is making a difference in my life because now I don't have to worry about whether what I said was right or wrong because I actually thought about it. I will totally incorporate the other tips into my life planning goals and plans with my personal life.

                     How the Internet Works
                          
A few things that I remember learning from the videos that stood out to me were how many megabytes there are in a single song. There are also millions of IP addresses and there's a whole process to how IP addresses are made, and that people can steal them and hack into the websites with the URL's. I also saw how the data we receive is delivered from our phones to computers and other devices. I saw how people keep their websites secure, so how to prevent viruses because hackers can take over millions of computers worldwide. 
 
Vint Cerf, creator of the Internet