Wreck-It Ralph Review

I saw Wreck-It Ralph recently...twice. The first time I saw it, the only thing I could really say about it after it was over was, "Oh my Nintendo, this movie was the best thing." The plot was so good. The characters were so good. Even the short at the beginning was so good. I laughed, I almost cried, the ending made me happy. I loved the way that everything was tied together. Disney did a really good job with making sure there were no awkward plot holes or anything.

The second time I saw it, I got to see all of the amazing details I missed the first time. I noticed a lot of characters from other video games in this movie. I still laughed at the same funny bits, I still almost cried at that part when... well... that thing happened. I really don't want to spoil it for anyone.

My recommendation would be to just go see it. It is the type of movie that you can really watch with anyone. I saw it with my dad once and with my friend the other time. It was a fabulous movie.

Is Texting Ruining English?

A lot of people text. A good bit of people have more conversations over messaging than face-to-face, or even over the phone. I personally prefer talking face to face or over the phone than texting. Mostly because texting is really hard. It takes so much longer for me to type out a sentence on my phone than to just say it, and I refuse to abbreviate. I feel like I am the only one who takes forever to figure out how to properly shorten words, and to figure out what it means when other people do it.

But, because acronyms like "OMG", "LOL, and "TMI" being used so often, they are actually being added the dictionary. Texting is actually changing the English language!

Some people are saying that the change isn't bad. Language changes all the time.
Others are saying that texting isn't just changing English, but ruining it. Research has shown that teens have had decreasing scores on grammar tests because of texting.

I want to hear what you think. Is texting ruining the English language? Do you text? And if you do, do you use abbreviations?Leave a comment.

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Not News. Just Some Thoughts About Thoughts.

A couple of weeks ago I was on Tumblr and I saw a post about how annoying it is that people seem to care more about Michelle Obama's dress than the speech she gave. The author of the post wanted people to care about things that mattered. She ended the post with:

I like to think I care about things that matter, but that brings up the question, “what actually matters?” So, tell me, what does matter?

I thought about that question for a very long time. I came up with this: there really is no one universal thing of importance. Some people really do care about celebrity hair cuts and political fashion statements. Some people really care about the election and the future leader of our country. Some people may not care about either of those things, but still lead lives full of importance.

I don't think it's about what matters in general because then we would get nothing done. I think it is about what matters to you. People need to stop focusing so much on what is important to others.I'm not saying that we shouldn't care about what other people think, or say, or do, but we need to find a nice spot in between being super self-centered, and living off of other people's words. You need to focus more on what matters to you, and what you can do with that to make yourself better, and to make the world better.

United Arlines Loses A Ten-Year-Old

     United Airlines lost a ten-year-old girl and hardly seemed to care. Phoebe Klebahn had plans to go to a camp in Michigan on June 30. Annie and Perry Klebahn, Phoebe’s parents, say they waited anxiously for a phone call from Phoebe saying that she arrived safely, but instead they got a call from the camp saying that she never got there. The parents wrote a complaint letter to United Airlines.

      “According to the letter, Annie Klebahn called a customer line which connected her with United’s service centre in India. After a 20-minute wait, the person on the line told the Klebahns that their daughter had arrived in Traverse City. When Annie Klebahn got upset, she was put on hold again – for 10 minutes – and was then told Phoebe was indeed in Chicago and had missed her connection.” - CBC News. 

     The Unaccompanied Child Service in Chicago that was supposed to help Phoebe get on her flight “forgot to show up.” That service costs an extra $99. When Phoebe asked an airport attendant for help, she was told to wait. She then asked three times to contact her parents, and she was told to wait. 

     “The Klebahns said in their complaint letter they had never been told “that United outsourced the unaccompanied minor services to a third party vendor.” 

     When he [Perry Klebahn] begged the person to locate his daughter, she said she was going off shift and could not help. He pleaded with her, asking if she was a mother. When she said yes, he asked what would she do if she couldn’t locate her child for 45 minutes. In 15 minutes, the employee found Phoebe.” –CBC News

     Phoebe eventually was able to get on another flight to Michigan, but it took three days for her bags to arrive. United Airlines said, “What the Klebahns describe is not the service we aim to deliver to our customers. We are redepositing the miles used to purchase the ticket back into Mr. Klebahn’s account in addition to refunding the unaccompanied minor charge.”

     My thoughts on this are: They lost a child. Then when she asked for help and to contact her parents, they told her to wait. The parents were scared anyway because their daughter was going to another state by herself. Then they get a call from the camp saying that she never showed up. That is a parent’s worst nightmare. At that point they had no idea where their daughter was.

     They called United Airlines and they were put on hold for twenty minutes. Nobody helped until Perry Klebahn used his empathy parent powers. I honestly think that this is extremely ridiculous. I can’t even imagine what Phoebe’s parents were going through.

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CBC News

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