Freedom Of Choice

Being responsible for your own decision-making means that for every decision you make, you are the one who is to blame or be praise for the outcome. Knowing that we as Americans live in a "free world" and that at the age of eighteen we are responsible for every decision, I think that this has a good and bad side to it. For example, a good side can be the decision of pursuing a higher education no matter the class you were born in. A bad side to being able to make your own decisions is that if you make a mistake like running over person at their fault, you have to take responsibility and accept the punishment. However, opportunities like pursuing a higher education and reaching you dream job are possible if you have the right mentality to accept some failure and take responsibility for whatever your path leads you to. Personally i like being able to make mine own decisions knowing that I will be responsible for all my actions.

No Child Left Untableted

This article, No Child Left Untableted, explains how the progress we have made over years in education is not matching the amount of money invested in it. A college teacher explains how she would "freak out" if she had to communicate to her students by tablets rather than face to face. Despite her fears, she does realize that technology is a tool that can be beneficial to the education system and the also the world that the students grow up in. Technology is being put metaphorically and literately in the palm of students and they need to be ready and know how this technology works to be successful in the future we are heading.

Vocabulary #5

1.Adroit - clever or skillful in using the hands or mind.
ex. Engineers need to be adroit in order to do a good job.
2.Amicable - (of relations between people) having a spirit of friendliness; without serious disagreement or rancor.
ex. Your true friends are the most amicable of all.
3.Averse - having a strong dislike of or opposition to something.
ex. When choosing a candidate, they might have some ideas that you averse.
4.Belligerent - hostile and aggressive.
ex. Wild animals are belligerent and are not to be tested.
5.Benevolent - well meaning and kindly.
ex. Teachers are benevolent and not cruel. 

Vocabulary #4

1. Accede - to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent
ex. Couples have a tradition to get accede from the brides parents in order to get married.
2. Brandish - wave or flourish (something, esp. a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement.
ex. Most robbers brandish their knife around to show that they're in control.
3. Comprise - consist of; be made up of.
ex. A band is comprise of many different types of musical artist.
4. Deft - neatly skillful and quick in one's movements.
ex. Athletes have to be deft in order to be competitive.

Vocabulary #3

1. Accomplice - a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing, often as a subordinate.
ex. Witnesses who don't cooperate with the police are accused as accomplices.
2. Annihilate - to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly.
ex. Hiroshima was annihilated because of the first atomic bomb.
3. Arbitrary - subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion.
ex. Blind dates are arbitrary because you don't know who you'll end up with. 
4. Brazen - shameless or impudent.