Being Thankful for School, Family and my Community

School is a very important thing to us as children. It gives all of us the knowledge that we will need for life. These life skills are taught to us over many years of schooling, even though I am not to sure that it needed to be 12 years of schooling, but I digress. Every student should be thankful of school because it gives us all of these life lessons that we will need to survive. I am very thankful of school because for my career choice, I choose to be an Architectural Engineer, which involves a lot of math. Luckily, my school allows students to take more than one math class a year. From me moving around a lot these past couple years, I have fallen behind on my math, but since I transferred here Ive been able to sort of catch up with my math. School is a very important part of your life and I would have to say that it is a necessity for every kid. Everyone who tries, will be rewarded in life.

Family is the best part of life, they will always be there when you need them the most. Family helps you learn from your biggest and smallest mistakes, they will help you with whatever you need. Family will always get you the necessities in life and also some of the wants. Everyone should be thankful for family, even if they do lead a rough life. I am very thankful for my family because they have always been there for me when I have needed them, even though my mom does not have much faith in me and my career choice, I know she means well and will take care of me. My family has always supplied me with the things that I've wanted and needed, especially when it comes to help in school. My family has always been there and I know they always will be.

Community is the biggest part of life, a child's community will often build who they are and who they will become. The community also ties in with home life. If the child lives in a rough community, then their home life will not be much different. Most children should be thankful for their good communities because of how it builds their character. Every kid wishes they had a good community to be thankful for so the fortunate ones are usually thankful. I, myself, am pretty thankful of my community (ies) because they have taught me how to handle the worst and best situations of life. Ive lived in good places, but I have also lived in some pretty rough places. These experiences have just made me a stronger person, which is why I am thankful.

School, Family and Community are probably the most important things in life because it helps us develop, some in good ways, some in bad. Every kid is thankful for what they have been shaped up to become because those three factors have made them the way they are now.

Thoughts on Technology

Technology is an increasing object in todays society, in quantity and quality. Our technology keeps advancing daily and keeps growing more and more. I once read an article saying that "at the rate that our technology is advancing, by the year 2020, most of society will be ran by computer like technology." It is amazing that our society can keep advancing technology that much and be that dependent on it.

30 years ago, technology had just started to peak. New forms of music, new recording equipment, the first couple computers and video game consoles had been released. The only problem with the technology back then, was the development of space. Back in the 1980's, a couple gigabytes of space went for a ton of money. But now a days, you can go get a 2 Terabyte Hard Drive for $150-$200. So one way to look at the development of technology, is that the more it develops the cheaper it becomes.

Technology has also became a huge part of our schooling. In most countries (especially North America and Asia), schooling has became very dependent on technology. In most classrooms across america, schools will spend thousands of dollars on equipment just to make sure that the class can function properly. Some technical centers for schools also spend thousands of dollars because they will have specialty classes, for example, at my school (Elkins High School) we have a technical center (Randolph Technical Center) and we have a number of computer courses, but the one class that I am in down here uses Mac Computers which are a couple thousand dollars in itself plus the software that we learn to use which is another couple hundred dollars, so in just this one class, we spend more than an average family probably would in a year.

Technology has advanced so much that our society today has became so dependent on in that it is almost used everywhere. I for one love technology, but I do think that it is a bit pathetic that we have became this ignorant to everything else. Technology is one of the best parts of times today.

Business Research

Out of all the research that my team/company has done this week, we all have learned a lot. We have all had to search nearby places that sell the same product as us, and we only found a few. We have also found that we would be making quite a bit of money off of our product by just delivering and selling out of the store. Delivery is key to selling our product because the places we would sell to are near by but are not very convenient for all customers, but the store in town would be convenient to everyone who is in town.  We have also found out how to estimate our sales and how much everything would cost (business wise).