Water Prices?

 I always see at vending machines at my school with water in them. But something that gets to me is the price. It ranges from $1.00-1.25. I don't understand it. For a natural resource you pay that much. Might as well go to your sink and fill up an aluminum water bottle than to pay for that. It's horrible.
 Yes, I know you have to make some money from the manufacturing of the bottle itself, but how much does plastic cost considering most of it is being redeemed for money to (hopefully) be used again.
  But when you think about it, water is a natural resource. There is springs and oceans filled with gallons upon gallons of water. I know that there aren't as many "springs" as oceans and oceans are made from salt water so it isn't useable. But springs are everywhere. They aren't that rare to be worth $1.25. If you look at the side of a Poland Springs water bottle, it lists all of the springs where the water came from. There is about 15-20 of them at least.
  But yet again, something feels strange about this water coming from different "springs" shouldn't the company find one or two and just stick with it? And when it comes to mind all water is the same and could be coming from the same springs and there is different pricing. The marketing of water must be hard because you cannot really describe how your companies water is better than yours. All water is pure (at least we hope). So the only way they can make profit is to sell it for cheap. Your better off buying water in packs.

Gender Equality

  Women never get the attention they deserve. Apparently baseball over softball and men's soccer over theirs. I never actually knew there was a women's march madness because it is hidden on their website as if they felt ashamed of them.
  Apparently all smarts only apply to men. Men always have good ideas. Women apparently do not. What does not make sense is that men are allowed to play softball but women cannot play baseball. It's unfair.
 Not only that Women get made fun- weakness of thunder, how long they take to get ready and all the rest of the population think that ALL women do that. Not really.
 But even education is that way. Schools require women to have higher grades than men. For men a grade on the SAT might have to range from a 600-800. Women scores would require 800 or above. What's the difference? It discourages women to do what they want to do and to go to another college for something they might not have wanted to research because of it.
 All I am trying to say is it took so long to get women's right to vote, but there is still gender discrimination on campuses all around. It's not really fair now is it? The U.S is violating women's constitutional rights. It's gotten better compared to the past, but barely.

It's Okay to Have Your Own Opinion!

 Have you ever had times where your friends agree upon who's the hottest member of One Direction and although you would have said one of the others, you just agree with them? Well don't! You don't always have to follow the crowd when it comes to things..
Examples:
 Liking a particular team. Usually it's because either everyone likes it, it's the state team or the team is just really good. Take it as example the yankees. People in New York would like the team and the team is really good. But then there's me who chooses the underdog and the team who's nearly 1,000 miles away (or it seems) the Orioles. Yes, you get made fun of, but you dared to be different so..
 A favorite thing. Shoes, trading cards, whatever you collect. In the case of shoes, people spend $400.00 just to get their friends Micheal Jordan shoes so they could match and be "bros".
 Their favorite place to shop. Say someone shops at Forever 21. Say their friend says they shop at American Eagle. They'll lie and say they love American Eagle even though they never set foot in the place in their life.

So, if you ask me teens this day and age are also pressured by their opinions. Everyone of this generation thinks you all have to be in the same utopia wearing the same shirts, shoes, pants and own the same cases and shop and the same stores. But dare to go outside the box of the utopia!

How to Be Popular

 Nowadays, many teenagers are caring more about following "the crowd" than just being themselves. So in schools like mine there are quite a few crowds of them. So you want to know what you need/have to do in order to be popular?

1. An I-phone- everybody has it! Make sure to have cool cases and to wear it in your back pocket
2. Break the I-phone's screen or back. Everyone else's is broken too! And be sure to color in the back with markers
3. Buy all the expensive clothes from Coach, Juicy Couture and Ann Taylor-and not Forever 21 because that's too babyish
4. Make sure your backpack and lunchbox is from Vera Bradley and have a carry-on bag for all your other things-makeup, brushes etc.
5. Beats headphones wear them in the morning when you walk in from the bus. Everyone will think you're so cool. Then accidentally break the earphones to drive your parents crazy.
6. Don't complete the homework. Claim that your cat got lost or died would do the trick. If they tell you to do the homework then scribble down random answers or copy. But if you get caught... Sorry!
7. Write with pen. Pencils are for losers away!
8. Think you're too cool for class and avoid listening and instead talk with your other popular friends.
9. A job... it pays off for all the debt you caused your family..

This is a parody. Understand that if you fit into a lot of these categories then you might want to consider if you are who you want yourself to be. Understand that you don't need to fit in just by buying something and it doesn't make a difference or huge impact on who you are. Why should you judge someone on what they have? It's better that those people have economic-stability compared to some's struggling welfare just because they want the stability of being at the top of the chain.

Advertising This Day and Age

Do you remember when advertisements were ONLY on televisions? Well, not any more. Now we cannot even log on websites and watch videos because of an ad.
 In some cases people use youtube for school because we all know on teachertube it's a bunch of useless videos that kids made. So when you want to watch a video as soon as possible, you don't want to be interrupted by an ad.
 Take this by example- today I wanted to go on mlb.com and I couldn't or well at least within the 5 seconds the ad was loading. On there, you cannot exited out of the ad until the ad closes it up itself within 5 seconds. Crazy, huh? Talk about ads showing in schools- once in Language Arts class we were trying to watch a 60 minutes segment and a Viagra ad popped up. Talk about awkward.
  It's crazy. Some of these ads should be separate videos. Some could range from 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Usually you can skip the ad, but in some cases you cannot.
 So what do these ads teach us? To buy things? Or just to show how stupid companies really are?

So next time an ad pops up, just click "skip ad"

Fans Taking It To Too Extremes?

Have you ever had (as a sports fan) times where your favorite team looses and you see other teams celebrating in the near distance? Well, you're not alone. No matter where you go you'll see them. Even at your favorite team's home stadium.
 But, for some reason I question occurrences like this. Say last year your favorite team, the Ravens lost against the Patriots (which actually happened) now I would imagine that Patriots fans celebrated as their team was going on to the Super Bowl. The Patriots didn't care about the Ravens fans and were practically shoving this in their face. Now in 2013, the Ravens defeated the Patriots and went on to the Super Bowl and winning it. It is sort of like the Patriots fans got a taste of their own medicine.
 So the point I'm trying to get at here is that fans shouldn't be bragging about their team when one day they may be in the exact same position as the loosing-team's fans- karma does good.
 So yes, you can be happy about your team winning but don't take it to extreme levels of bragging and violence because karma will come back and haunt you.

Corrupt Magazine Companies

 Hello. I am actually typing this on the kindle fire my family shares.

Some days, I go to the library and pick up some magazines. Usually, I get some Better Homes and Gardens books. My Mom, however gets those tabloid magazines like People and Us Weekly. Some days after finishing my reading, I read those.
 In those magazines I read, there is many false reporting all about celebrities. Now I don't know much about them but sometimes I see it in the news and in other magazines.  It's mainly in Us Weekly. They lie about celebrities love life, family and untold secrets.
  Now take it as example, Kate Middleton. When her and William split up, Us Weekly spoke of secrets why- the Queen hated her, she was a partyer and much more. Well luckily Kate never knew because she lives in England. Well, look at them now. Married with one kid of their own. I swear there hasn't been one magazine cover where she isn't on it. Give the girl a little privacy!


Corrupt magazine publishers = STALKERS

Sorry this is condensed- my finger hurts!