Yara Ibrahim - Grade 12 English

 Rules        " The Giver" is a a book and a movie. The story is based on a community that has many rules; some relevant and some aren't. In the story The Elders are the ones responsible for changing or cancelling the rules. The rule goes through the committee and it becomes studied by The Elders who should then eventually change it. For example, in the book they say that the rule where children can't drive bikes before the age of 9, wanted to be cancelled. The rule was passed in the committee, and even though it takes so much time that the people forget about it, it does get cancelled or changed eventually. in real life, though, the government of each country is responsible for changing the rules. In many countries the citizens are the ones who have the most impact on changing the rules, yet in the fewer countries, the citizens have a very low voice on making the rules. For example, in Saudi Arabia abayas have been a very big past of the Saudi culture, yet...

    "STUDENTS ARE GROWING UP ON A DIGITAL PLAYGROUND AND NO ONE IS ON RECESS DUTY."   What does this quote mean to you? For me this quote means that every student is starting to revolve around social media. At school every student is starting to play on their phones or laptops, some of them are actually starting to download video games on their laptops to play with them. "No one is on recess duty" shows that teachers are having easier times being at recess duty, since all students stopped playing in playgrounds but instead on their phones. At the earlier times teachers hated being on recess duty because they had to control the students and help them to not get hurt. I think educators need to try and help out students and tell them the real benefits of being a live and having time to spend on playgrounds. As a student, I think I have to stop using my phone as many times as I do now and start having fun outdoors. 

                                                                         Sameness        Sameness has a meaning of lack of variety, the quality of being the same; having the same uniform. Having sameness in one's school is to have people dressing up the same son they can impress each other and act like they are all the same. An example of a haircut that really identifies sameness in haircuts is the  High Fade plus Loose Pompadour hairstyle. I think people are afraid to be different than each other and show who they really are, maybe its because they think people are going to judge them or something.  For girls, they're all starting to cut their hair short and make it wavy so they can all look the same.