if you are feeding my fish until they're fat....(Celia)... please don't. PLZ + THX

No Free Laptops At BMS

Although having your own laptop would be cool, it is unnecessary. If each student was given a laptop, they could break them. Most would go on bad sites, causing viruses. Buying 300+ laptops would be really expensive too. Don't give students the laptops unless you want this to happen.

If we were to get a free laptop, it could be broken very easily. The kids don't always use the computers correctly. Most electronics (like ipods, phones, etc.) owned by teenagers, could be dropped and damaged. We could also not remember it when going other places, like going to a cafe, or park, and leave it to be ruined or to get stolen. With these examples it would be easy enough to agree to the fact that laptops are vulnerable to damage and loss.

A high majority of the students have a Facebook, Myspace, or go on some other site. Many of these may not be protected, causing viruses. As we all know viruses are bad. They can dump all your personal information, like essays you haven't turned in yet, special information, etc. Viruses also cause the Internet to go insanely slow. Viruses are bad and they will wreck the computer.

What are there, 300+ kids in this school!? That would be thousands of dollars to buy all of the laptops. It's so much money that the kids would have to pay a fee to rent the laptops, and not everybody can afford it. All of the school's money can't go toward just buying the laptops, we would need to fund raise a lot, and it's just too much. Laptops are just too expensive.

I'm sure you can agree now, many things could go wrong with buying these laptops. Laptops are very breakable. There's not protection for all the bad sites. Also, they're too expensive. Laptops at BMS are uneeded and unecessary, don't encourage this unwanted necessity.

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P.S. This could happen to your laptop!!!

Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber,

is a book about a teenage goth girl named Raven. She wears black everything, loves scary movies, and is obsessed with vampires. All her life Raven has lived in a town she calls Dulls-ville, for being so dull. Up the hill, at the very top, from her house, is an abandoned mansion with the story of it being haunted. Almost one-hundred years the house has been abandoned until one day a new family moves in. They turn out to be descendants of the old house's owner. They are rich, have a butler, only go outside at night, and have a goth son, the same age as Raven.

One of the main themes in this story is the ability to keep a secret, secrecy. Raven ends up snooping around the new house with its new residents. She ends up getting caught by the butler and bolts out the door. She then ends up meeting the teenager boy. His name turns out to be Alexander! She instantly falls into a trance with his deep dark eyes and his wearing of black combat boots. He asks her for her to come over for a nice dinner. He eats a raw, very bloody, steak. While she has more edible food. Then she figures it out... he, and the rest of his family are vampires.

I wouldn't recommend this book for any of you who have read the Twilight saga, and are used to the non fairytale characteristics of it. Unlike Twilight, in this book garlic is a poison to vampires, mirrors can't catch the reflection of one, and the sunlight is so painful they cannot come out during the day. Only if you're into that kind of stuff, goth, garlic, and goth love, then would I actually recommend this book to you. Realize that I am not saying it is a bad book but it's different than what I am used to. However it is a good book if you like old fashion vampires.