i am doing my picture search essay on the highways.
highway picture

• how highways help the economy?
• what did it cost roughly to make the highway system?
  
• What kind of jobs does the highway create?
• how does it cost to maintain these highway systems?
  
• What it would cost to ride these highway systems?

• Which is the longest highway system?
• How has the highway system changed over the years?

Cell phones by jared nicodemisen Eng11m-r 2pm

Summary
-Our cell phones, ourselves-
Christine Rosen begins a 15 page essay about cell phones and the human behavior of people all over the world by saying” eventually all people find themselves participating in that most familiar of modern rituals”. She is talking about the unwillingly listen to someone else’s cell phone conversation. Today more people are sending messages over the internet on cell phones than ever. It goes on to project that “sometime between 2010 and 2020, everyone who wants and can afford a cell phone will have one” for the safety and convince.
Christine goes on to talk about how wireless phones encourage us to connect individually but disconnect socially. This is to ignore society but to be connected on another plane with a person in another place. The ability to be able to cut out a human mediator and the delays they might impose on you, to connecting directly to any person of choice. Cell phones offer people a unknown level of convenience and safety. More than ninety percent of cell phone users also report that owning a cell phone makes them feel safer. In 2001 alone, around 156,000 wireless emergency calls were made out numbering the landline calls.(Non-connected cell phones still can make 911 calls)
Christine say’s that “popular culture endorses this image of cell phones as a person’s life line”. With popular movie stars always on t.v. and in magazines showing off their cell phones, it is hard to not accept the cell phone as a fashion statement. Both males and females within the last ten years have been waving the phones around as status symbols instead of instant information and communication devices. Cingular announced that “men talk on the phone about 16% more than women” weather the use is for business or talking to females it helps disprove the common typical stereotype of women and the phone. People are so close to their cell phones that people are starting to name them as if they are family pets.
In today’s society parents are giving younger children wireless phones to maintain a level of communication. It is more of a safety issue for the kids, A instant connection to 911 or to their parents for any time in need. She goes on to talk about how parents get their kids phones for this reason but it doesn’t mean that their kids will pick up the phone with all the excuses that are so easily made up now in days. And goes on to talk about how the kids use the phones that they are given as social devices and trend centers so that they aren’t used for the intended use.

The new century has created has created a time for change, even though we can all remember the older times were wireless phones didn’t exist. Phones allow us to have the internet and unlimited amounts of information that can be accessed quickly and anywhere we need it. This is why new forms of social and political networking are being created. Many political figures communicate over these wireless networks to discuss their political views.
There are many positive uses for the cell phone, There are also many negative problems with having a networked device. The dangers of driving while talking, texting or going over information that is embedded in the phone is one of the main causes of teenage car accidents and is said that 54% of all drivers have a phone with them in the car when driving. Which create great distractions while driving any automobile.
Cell phones also play host to viruses, whether real or virtual an infection could be created from your mobile devise. In Israel the ASMC created a study of phone contamination within hospital system. Around 12%of the phones within the hospital were known to be contaminated with some form of bacteria. The first virus specifically targeting cell phones was discovered in June of 2003. With viruses being around for a little over six years the evolution of these viruses could be limitless infecting an unlimited number of systems with easier infection methods.
The addiction of cell phones has grown as a result of the growth in culture. A survey conducted by HSNV found that “3 out of 10 Korean high school students who have cell pones Claimed to be addicted.” The reports of feeling anxious without their phones and can display repetitive stress from lack of texting that comes from applicable neologisms have entered the lexicon. This can help display the level of dependents that the wireless users.
It is funny how we only care about what concerns us and disregard the needs of others. The Zagat restaurant guide reports that cell phone rudeness is now the number one complaint in dinning establishments. Whitmore suggests that we are in the midstoff a period of adjustment where cell phone technology itself has disrupted our ability to insist on the enforcement of social rules. It is common for people to be so involved with their phone call that they seem to ignore the people around them but to walk in to a person having a conversation can be unpleasant depending what the conversation is about. Failure to demonstrate the presence sends a clear message to others of one’s hostility or disrespect.

The Patriot fans

The Patriot fans (note- this is only a rough draft and i have another half page to figure out.. so any imput will be used. what parts of the essay do you like. what part do you need to be writen more clearly)



The New England football fans are one of my best fans in the league. I went to the Patriots game this past Sunday. We were playing Baltimore. I was up at seven o’clock in the morning. I was at my friend’s by eight. We gathered up what was needed and were on the road by 9:30 a.m.. Once we were on Interstate-495 you could see all the other fans. I remember a family in a new Toyota with all their faces painted. As we got within three exits of the stadium the traffic started to get backed up. My friend Tom pointed out a privately-owned storage facility on the left side so we pulled in.
Greg mentions that he has never parked there before. You see, my friend Greg is a diehard fan. He knows every stat about every player on every team. But this wasn’t about every team. This is over the New England Patriots. As Tom finds a parking spot, I observe large groups o0f blue and white jerseys. I open the door and the smell of all the different meats getting grilled up hits me. I grab the 12-pack of Bud Light that I had bought the day before. Tom and Greg grab one from the box. It is crazy to see all the people mashed together in the pre-game celebration. I hear an older man yell out, “Welker is playing today!”, and the crowd cheers. I guess this is because he’s been on the inactive list. About an hour before the game, we started to head over to the stadium. The streets are covered with blue and white, like a never-ending cloud covering the street.
Tom is the first to the main gate. A group of raven fans stand behind us in line. It could not have been ten minutes before a Patriot’s fan yells, “Flacco looks like Burt from Sesame Street”. People started to laugh. Gillette Stadium is great. The new stadium gleam in the high noon sun. Our seats are in section 312, row 13, seat 20. It is in the third tier.
The Patriots come out on the field. The crowd stands and roars like a lion from the Heavens. New England kicks off. On the return, the runner gets smashed and a fumble is on the field. The fans jump out of their seats and start to scream. Unfortunately, the Pats first drive ends in a field goal. The crowd takes the three points. A man yells, “Who made those play calls?”. Greg shakes his head agreeing with the man. Around Half Time, we decide to go hunting for better seats.
The stadium is packed. Shoulder to shoulder, people with either a beer or food in their hands. Some people are nicer than others. You can tell who is more aggressive because they walk around with big frowns on their faces.
We find some great seats in the second tier with a perfect view of the Pat’s end zone. This is nice because the past three sections we were in, the ticket holders returned to their seats. Politely we leave and kept looking for new seats. Until we come across these great seats. The people sittings near these seats tell us no one has claimed these.
The game is great. The stakes are high, too. Greg yells, “Defense, do your job! I got 200 bucks on this game!”. Tom and I just smile as he gets all pumped up. Greg says, “Look, Jared! Look!”. Moss runs to the outside toward the end zone. Tom Brady throws the perfect pass over his shoulder, right into Moss’ hands, and the crowd goes nuts! I can’t even hear myself think. In one second, all the Raven’s fans drop their heads. The final drive is stopped by Baltimore’s defense. The clock stops for the two minute warning. Baltimore now has the ball and we are only winning by a little more than a field goal. The more the clock winds down, the more the crowd yells. You can see that the Ravens are having a hard time hearing the audible.
The fans noise grows and grows. People are banging their seats. Anything that makes the loudest noise to screw the other team up. The Pats pull it together to stop the drive with only a few yards to spare. A giant wave starts from the people standing and jumping in excitement.
Leaving the stadium, I realize that this game is a part of the fans. It is a lifestyle, an obsession. The scene is addicting and I can see why they are how they are.

1 st draft
Jared nic
Have you ever felt like a super hero. That period of your life were you feel invincible. I wasn’t goin to write about it but a few people said that it is something that they would like to read about. To paint a picture for you I was just out of high school and parting was my major. Im from a long line of scallopers. All fisherman, hardworking men who made the big bucks. I was sitting home on a beautiful august morning when I got the call. My brother just got in from a week trip. Being his brother I went to pick him up. To my surprise they were going right back out and my bro was taking a trip off. I got my chance that day when the captain asked if Ive ever been out before. I lied and said “yes twice”. I was told that I had two hours to get my gear and clothes and to get back to the boat and to get back to the boat. On our steam out to sea I see a group of porpuses {small midatlantic dophines} follow off the starboard side of the boat{right side}. The ocean looked so nice from a distance. Land was shrinking by the moment, until it was nothing but a dot on the horizing. Then it was like getting hit in the head with a ton of bricks. I didn’t know what to expect because ive never been out before.
We set out the drag{what catches the scallops}. About a half hour later this ten ton piece of weilded bar and iron comes out of the water and comes onto the deck. I ran over and pulled the tailchain,and unhooked the tailchain from the drag. “ Put the tacker hook on the tailchain” a guy shouted. The drag gleamed in the sun and emptied out and a mound of scallops burst on deck as if an unstoppable force. After doing this to both sides. Two big piles of scallops layed on deck like two mountains. It was quick about ten minutes from start to finish. First watch all the guys were up so all six of us went out on deck and started picking. I was trying so hard and I had a hard time keeping up. Eveyone was picking three to my one bushel. This took about fifteen minutes to do. Then we carried all the bushels into the cutting box. They weighted about fifty pounds a piece. Forty bushels got carried in, it within itself was tiresome. Now we had an hour to cut as many bushels as possible. We did this to cut out the meats into a clean black bucket. This is all happening in the cutting boxes. I started to cut. Having no clue at what im doin the guys started to laugh. They told me that they knew that I was a greenhorn. One of the guys took sometime and taught me how to cut. You run the edge of your knife against the top shell. Getting it as clean as possible.Then you slide the knife under the membrane until its under the belly. Finally using your thumb as aguideyou open the top shell. I did it to my amaement. Every hour the drag arises from the depth and it started all over again. The day has came and gone and I begin to get really tired. After a twelve hour shift I get four hours to eat and get some sleep. See there are seven men. Two watches consisting of three guys a piece. And a captain to man the wheel house. So our watches overlap by six hours. Three hours in the beginning of watch and three hours at the end of watch. Those middle four hours seemed the longest and the piles seemed to get bigger. I hear the captain” Go to sleep kid you going to need your sleep’’. Five days go by and im improving but im feeling the pain. I couldn’t feel my back at all. The right shoulder was the worst and the cramps in my legs were almost unbearable. But if my brother can do it , so can i. So I shut my mouth and work. They don’t care if your hurting cause they are feeling the pain too. By the seventh day I was dead. The captain comes down and says” Bring them on and shake them out”. With a big smile I survived the trip. We cleaned the boat down real good so there is no smell. The shells and guts all got washed overboard. I had a great feeling , like I was UNBREAKABLE….

personal essay experence

For me personally it was easy to come up with ideas for my essay. I am almost in my mid twenties and ive done so much that it came natural to me. Some stories i will write about and some i cant. Either way i think this class is going to be really easy. But you never know she could throw a curve ball at me. I guess only time can tell. Its only english 11 so i highly doubt that.