Advice to fellow students and my views on using the internet during the exams

It's come to a conclusion that if my class is up for exams in English, we are allowed to use internet on our exam. It’s like music to my ears! It has happened so often that I'm there on the exam day, and I don't know anything about the topic. If I then would be allowed to use internet it would be a much happier ending to my results. If you feel that you really can deliver a good results with facts on the table and much useful information, you are much more happy with your result compered to if you were to deliver a result full of insecurity and doubtful information. Where I will search for the information is another question. I would probably use Google to find a proper site, but it’s very easy to end up at Wikipedia. Thou Wikipedia have a lot of good articles, it’s a place where everybody can write and change the articles so you have to be very critical to things you read at Wikipedia. On a site called http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/12/most-popular-posts-of-year-19-search.html, there are a lot of good proposals to good sites you can use during your exams. For example a site called Sweet search. It’s a search engine were all the articles are approved and reviewed by librarians, teachers and research experts. That for example is a site I would really trust. You can find the site here http://www.sweetsearch.com/. Another good site is Kidrex, which is a new safe search for kids powered by Google. KidRex has a site removal form that secures the site for phrases, keywords and websites. Booth Sweet Search and KidRex are reliable search engines, and I would trust them both on my exams.

I believe that internet could help me on my exam because I would be more secure on the information I give to my reader. I would also me more comfortable to write facts on my topic. If I were to give some other students advises on were to search and what to trust I would recommend the search engines I  have mention before, and I would recommend them to compere different articles and match the information.  I would also recommend them to have a source list at the end, or have footnotes where they point to different sources. How much information you can use from different sites is up to yourself, I believe. It all depends on your topic, as long as you tell your readers where you found the information.

In to he wild

Today we watched “In to the wild”, a very great movie. It’s about a bout a boy named Christopher McCandless, who reject his parents’ lifestyle because he feels they are living their life on a lie. They were all about money and he believed that people could only be happy if they lived in easy conditions. He therefor left his home and went on an adventure to live in the wild. The decision to discard his identity and don’t look back was a really radical decision. But he felt he had to do it, so I guess that is what the right thing for him to do. Thou he hurt many people while doing it. 

I think McCandless gave up everything for this lifestyle because he didn’t like what the society had become. He needed to know that not everyone was like his mother and father. He also had to prove to himself that he was different, which he really did. He traveled around the world and ended up in the wild wood at an abandoned bus.

If I was in his position and had his impressions and thoughts, I would probably do the same, but I would have held contact with my family. To let them know I was ok. But I think I never could pull such a stunt as he did. I’m too attached to the people around me, my school and friends.

The film takes up themes like romanticism and Transcendentalism. According to Ifinger, romanticism is a movement created in the late 18^th century in the arts and literature. Transcendentalism is an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. When I saw the movie it made me think over life, and I realized that we have so much stuff we don’t need, and much money we could live without.

It’s such a great movie and makes a huge impression because it’s based on a real story