"Adults go pick on someone your own size," Eng 200

The article I read this week is an old one. About a Mom posing as a teenage boy, talking to a 13-year-old girl..then saying been and hurt full things to her to then which led her to commit suicide.

Apparently Megan was already a upset child. Having depression and lost self esteem.
Then this made up boy named Josh started talking to her.
Megan's mother was very in touch with her daughter, and knew about what was going on.

When suddenly out of no where, josh messaged Meagn, and stated that, he didnt want to talk to her anymore. and that she was not a good person, and that the world would be better off without her.

That evening Megan, hung herself, in her bathroom. And passed away the next day.

Six weeks later, the Mom from down the street confessed that she had been josh.

She was not charged with anything.

I LITERALLY cannot believe that!!


It upsets me to think that this grown women, had to go so low as to mess with a 13-year-old girl.

Someone that couldn't have even been a threat to her.

"The woman who created the fake profile has not been charged with a crime. She allegedly told the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department she created Josh's profile because she wanted to gain Megan's confidence to know what Megan was saying about her own child online."

That sounds like pure bologna too me, how can she live with herself?

I know she knows how good she has it with her own daughter...she actually shouldn't even been allowed to be influencing these other poor children's minds.

"And the gold medal goes too...." Eng 200-snow day

I though it would only be fitting to have a blog about the winter Olympics when writing to fulfill my assignment for the snow day.

My yahoo page is just FULL of Olympic stories, and after you read some you feel like you have just read them all.

But this one caught my eye.

"Canadian curler is five months pregnant"

Now my extent of knowing what curling is, is that is like an intense/extreme form of shuffleboard. I'm sure if any curlers saw this blog, i'd get shot..or hit by one of there "rocks"

Apparently, she is just an alternate for the Canadian team, but never the less this job is just as important.
In case someone gets hurt she is there..and by the way the games have been going...they may need her.

I feel like being a women and in the olympics is a feet all in its self, and I am proud to say that I am a women and respect her.

I hope she does get the chance to play in one of the games....dont want someone to get hurt...but having a medal would be so nice.


Weather she plays or not, if her team wins she will still get a medal...but knowing that you helped..would make it so much more rewarding for her and her unborn child.

She was baked alive!-Eng 200 Entry

To be beautiful these days you must be put together, hair just right, make-up all set into place, tall, a "good figure", and mostly TAN.

From the article I read, Scary! The Beauty habit that can give you caner, new research shows that using tanning beds is more dangerous than anyone thought.

Let me just re-cap the first couple of sentences for you.

"A 23-year-old...been hitting a tanning bed four or five times a month for seven years. And she has no plans to give it up, despite hearing about a 2009 report confirming that using the beds before the age of 30 may increase your risk of melanoma by 75 percent. "The health warnings don't scare me," she said," I don't overdo it. For me, its just like going to the gym, using make-up or buying a new outfit- it makes me feel and look good."

How sad it is that we have to object ourselves to dangerous and live shorting UV rays to be able to "feel and look good" in our own eyes.

I am far from a tall, "good figured", tan women. I'm average height, curvy, and pale. Sure in the summer time I'll wear tank tops to get some sun on my arms. Or while at the beach I'll lay out. But sunscreen is on my skin as well.

In the article a false statement was made my a salon owner, stating that tanning beds were safer than being in the actual sun, because they had "safe" UVA rays.

"In fact, your risk for burning may be higher at a salon than outdoors, The rays are the same, but UV beds emit more intense radiation than sunlight. That's why tanning beds sessions are short--because they can damage your skin faster than being in natural light."

With this statement right here, why would I ever want to be in a tanning bed!!!

I honestly do not understand some peoples obsession with tanning. I will admit that I once went to a tanning bed for a "base tan" before a trip. But now reading the article, that did nothing for me, but heighten my risk for cancer.

I know someone who has had at least two spots removed for the chance they may have been cancerous. And yet she still goes to the tanning bed to this day. I saw the stitches on her stomach...she went to the tanning bed with the stitches still.

Or another girl, who's Grandmother has had 3 different spots removed, and the Grandmother tells her the risks, and how she shouldn't and how this is what she has to go thought. The girl still continues to go.

Sure, I understand that tanning may feel good, during the winter, and yeah, coffee colored skin would probably look great against some of my clothes. But its just not worth it.

One of the most common statements from girls and women about why they still go to the bed, after all the danger.

"It Can't Happen to Me"

I don't think I could say it any better than the way this article ended with,

"If you're still using tanning beds, you have to ask yourself: Is it worth the risk?"