Monday, April 1, 2013

Reality Shows



"What do you think about reality shows."  I've asked this question in facebook. and I got different answers. So I can tell you , that most of teens dislike reality shows. They say , that reality shows are stupid, and can't learn anything from that. They consider that watching reality shows is just waste of time.  I collected other opinions, of course. Some teenagers think that reality shows are interesting and funny.  I think that reality shows are interesting if you know what reality show to watch. I like watching some reality shows, from which I can learn anything. Here you can see some pictures from my favorite reality shows.






 

Teens and Technology 2013

Smartphone adoption among American teens has increased substantially and mobile access to the internet is pervasive. One in four teens are “cell-mostly” internet users, who say they mostly go online using their phone and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer.
These are among the new findings from a nationally representative Pew Research Center survey that explored technology use among 802 youth ages 12-17 and their parents. Key findings include:
  • 78% of teens now have a cell phone, and almost half (47%) of them own smartphones. That translates into 37% of all teens who have smartphones, up from just 23% in 2011.
  • 23% of teens have a tablet computer, a level comparable to the general adult population.
  • 95% of teens use the internet.
  • 93% of teens have a computer or have access to one at home. Seven in ten (71%) teens with home computer access say the laptop or desktop they use most often is one they share with other family members.
“The nature of teens’ internet use has transformed dramatically — from stationary connections tied to shared desktops in the home to always-on connections that move with them throughout the day,” said Mary Madden, Senior Researcher for the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and co-author of the report. “In many ways, teens represent the leading edge of mobile connectivity, and the patterns of their technology use often signal future changes in the adult population.”


Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The Word to Watch Out for on Fast Food Menus? Fresh

  Just a few years ago, seeing the word "fresh" on a restaurant menu was a clue about the quality of ingredients. But now? Thanks to the fast-food industry, the word is mostly just a marketing term, and "fresh" doesn't mean much any more.
Related: The 5 Worst 'Healthy' Fast-Food Meals for Kids
"I think it's meaningless, almost, now," Mark Crumpacker, the chief marketing officer of Chipotle, told Slate. "I don't think there are any rules around 'fresh.' You can just say it with impunity. And I think lots of people do."
"Fresh is a magic word in restaurant marketing today," says Aaron Allen of Global Restaurant Consulting. "It conjures the most positive associations for consumers. Americans are not yet ready to eat 'healthy,' but they will eat foods that are perceived as 'healthful.' Foods that are fresh are implied to be more healthful."

But the appropriation of the word "fresh" isn't new -- it's a trend that restaurant insiders identified years ago.

The prediction was on target. A National Restaurant Association survey of 1,800 chefs found that on-site gardens, locally grown produce, and locally sourced meats and seafoods are three of the top 10 menu trends for 2013 and, for many diners, "local" is another way to say "fresh."
"Fresh" also crops up in descriptions of how food is prepared, where it's sourced, how long it's been sitting on a counter. It's become a kind of code for "superior," and that can refer to the menu item, the company that's selling it, or even the person who is buying it.
"In most ways, fresh has nothing to do with food at all," writes S.T. VanAirsdale at Slate. "It's become a convolution, tied up with manufactured images of authenticity, transparency, and even morality-the fleeting ecstasy of doing what consumers are persuaded to believe is the good, right thing." 
Here you can watch a video - http://shine.yahoo.com/video/fast-food-fight-over-being-213700432.html                                                               

                                                         Text by Margaret Bristow , Shine.com

Thursday, February 7, 2013

What Friends Are For . . .

   A FRIEND is someone who understand your past, believe in your future, and accepts you the way your are.
Real friends forgive each other and never stay angry.They quickly forget whatever was wrong.
Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life, said, "I'm here for you" and prove it.
It's not a big thing... it's a million little things. I think having a good friend is one of the highest delights in life, and being
 good friend is one of the noblest and the most difficult undertakings.
Friends must respect you, need you,  deserve and encourage you.He/She is someone you can trust with all your secrets. It's cute having a best friend who is like your other half.
I have my own best friends. I know them for 9 years, since first grade. We are really close friend, and best friends ever )) .. Here you can see some pictures of us.



     Here I'm with my bf Mary!  


 
                                                             Me and my bf Tatev!!



         
                                                 
                                                          That's me and my bf Ann!                                                   
                                      
                                        I forgot to say that my friend are for me... :D )) !!!

Friday, February 1, 2013

7 Wonders of The World

The Great Pyramids were built between 2650-2500. It is said that they were a tomb of Khufu. They are located in Giza, Egypt. The largest pyramid is 756 feet long on each side and 450 feet high. It is made up of 2,300,000 blocks, that each weigh two and a half tons. It took 20 years for 100,000 slaves to build it. It required 112 men to lift each separate block.
Men that were great thieves wanted to get the hidden treasure that was hidden in the tomb.They found a small square room called the Queen's Chamber. It is a passageway. The Grand Gallery is another passageway to the King's Chamber. It is 34 feet long, 17 feet wide, and 19 feet tall. After not finding the treasure, the men got angry and tried to destroy the tomb but stopped after taking out 30 feet of stone.
No one knows what happened to King Khufu and his treasure.
Some people think that it was just an observatory, but we can't be quite sure because when people stated that, it was already over 2,000 years old. An astronomer observed a descending passageway above the Grand Gallery that could have been used for mapping the sky. 


In some stories, people say that the Hanging Gardens went hundreds of feet into the air, but through archaeological explorations people now think were probably weren't that big. The ancient city of Babylon, which was under King Nebuchadnezzar II, must have been a wonder to a travelers. In 450 B.C., a historian named Herodotus wrote, "In addition to it's size, Babylon surpasses any city in the known world." Herodotus said the outer walls were 80 feet thick, 320 feet high, and 56 miles in length. He said that it was wide enough for a four-horse chariot to turn.Above the city was the famous tower of Babel, which was a temple to the God Marduk. It looked like it reached the heavens. Archaeological examination has found that some of Herodotus's claims (the outer walls seem to be only 10 miles long, and not nearly as high) might not be true. But his story does tell us how cool the features of the city appeared to those who visited it. 

The Olympic Games were made in honor of the God Zeus. They were held in the shrine to Zeus located near the west edge of Greece in a city called Peloponnesus. The Temple of Zeus was simple at first, but as the games became more popular everyone could tell that they would need a new, larger temple that was worthy to the king of the Gods. Between 470 B.C. and 460 B.C. a new temple was started. The maker was Libon of Elis and the masterpiece he created, The Temple of Zeus, was finished in 456 B.C. It was built on a raised rectangular platform. The sides were supported by 13 large columns and six on each end. 
So with everything that I have talked about, the magnificence of the temple was so great it became a landmark, therefore making it so magnificent that it became what it is known to us as one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.  

 It is sometimes called "Modern Colossus," but more often called the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is somewhat like Colossus. Both were built as a celebration of freedom.
Originally, Colossus stood over 2,000 years ago at the Islands of Rhodes. It is located off of the southwestern tip is Asia Minor, where the Agean Sea meets the Mediterranean Sea. The capitol city, Rhodes, was built in 408 B.C.
In 357 B.C the island which was conquered by Mausolus of Halicarnassus (one of the other seven wonders) fell to the Persians in 340 B.C. and was finally captured by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.
The Statue of Liberty, which is the same size as Colossus, weighs 225 tons! Colossus weighed a little more. Inside the statue were several stone columns, which acted as the main supports.



Alexander the Great had seventeen cities named after him. Most of them are no longer around except for Alexandria, Egypt. This city is where the Lighthouse of Alexandria stood. Alexander died in 323 B. C. The city was completed by Ptolemy Soter, the new ruler of Egypt. The city soon became rich. The city needed a symbol and a mechanism to guide the trade ships into its harbor. Ptolemy started building the lighthouse in 290 B.C. It was completed 20 years later and was the first lighthouse of the world. It was also the tallest building with the exception of the Great Pyramid.
A man named Sostrates of Knidos designed the lighthouse. He thought it needed to have his name carved in the foundation. But Ptollemy II, who ruled after his father, refused and wanted his own name carved in. Sostrates, being a clever man, had this inscription put on the lighthouse: SOSTRATES SON OF DEXIPHANES OF KNIDOS ON BEHALF OF ALL MARINERS TO THE SAVIOR GODS. Then he covered it with plaster. Then they put Ptolemy's name into the plaster. As years passed, the plaster chipped away, leaving Sostrates declaration.


The Temple of Artemis was one of Seven of the Wonders of the ancient world. It was so big that it took 120 years to make the temple. It's hard to believe but it was one of the largest temples built in the ancient times.
The temple was built in 550 B.C. It's foundation measured at 377 by 40 feet. It stood in the Greek city of Aphasias, on the west coast which we all know as Turkey. The whole temple was entirely marble except for its tile covered wooden roof. It was built as a dedication to the Greek Goddess Artemis.
 


In 377 B.C the city of Halicarnassus was the capitol of a small kingdom along the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor. It was that year that Hecatomnus of Mylasa, died and left control of his kingdom to his son Mausolus. Mausolus in his life extended the territory even further so that it finally included most of Asia Minor. Mausolus, with his queen Artimisia, ruled over Halicarnassus and the surrounding territory for 24 years. Mausolus, though he was descending from the local people, spoke Greek and admired the Greek government and their ways of life. He founded many cities of Greek design along the coast and encouraged Greek democratic traditions.
Then in 353 B.C, Mausolus died, leaving Artimisia brokenhearted. As a tribute to him, she decided to build him a splendid tomb. It became a structure so famous that Mausolus's name is now associated with all tombs throughout our modern world - "mausoleum." The building was so beautiful and unique it became one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the world!
 

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Communication in the past, present and future



Over time, the means of communication has changed according to the times, people’s living situations and advancements in technology. As the population grow people needed to send longer messages as well as sending them further in distance. People wrote letters to communicate with friends and family separated by distance because it was the only way to communicate long distance, at least until the invention of the telegraph in the 19th century. The telegraph was invented by a man named Samuel Morse, hence “Morse Code.”
  
 In the late 1700′s and early 1800′s the first telegraph was invented. The first telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe in 1794, this telegraph was not electric. Within a decade, more than 20 thousand miles of telegraph cables had crossed the country. The telegraph made it possible for other forms of rapid communication. The telegraph truly changed the world because before telegraphs, the country was very isolated from other regions of the world.
   It was not long after the telegraph became a success before the next progression in technology came along, the telephone. The telephone was used to transmit speech electronically. Like the telegraph, the telephone was a also wire-based electrical system. The telephone used the same cables that made the telegraph a success. Unfortunately, it failed because under-water cables did not have a strong enough signal.
 
Whether it is a smart phone or android phone people want it to operate at a faster pace, because communication in today’s society plays a major role in the public and private sphere. Nowadays communication globally is at the tip of your fingers, literally. There are a lot of different forms of technology that has made this possible from Ipads, to Kindles, to the blackberry playbooks and many more. Tablets, and wireless Internet has allowed many countries to communicate instantaneously with the use of emails, text messaging, instant messages, and video chat. Modern day technology keeps communication constant; it allows people to express themselves with a click of a button.

Future technology should be more compatible with people’s needs; tablets should be lite and slick, interactive, and portable. Users should be able to explore endless possibilities from writing word documents to creating and designing websites. Future tablets should be able to bend, fold, and roll while giving the user the experience of reading a book or a magazine.  Prospective tablets should allow users to browse the web, take pictures, upload, and watch videos. Upcoming tablets should not take away people interacting with each other but it should enhance people’s interaction globally. Upcoming tables should translate different languages making it easy for users to communicate internationally.


  

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Card art

Just imagine how many skills, how much patience and, above all, nerves you need in order to build this kind of "Babylons" out of ordinary playing cards. Anyone who has ever held a deck of cards in the hands, has perhaps tried to make a card house from them, and has got sure that it is not as easy as it seems at first glance. Especially if you have already almost completed the house, but suddenly a gust of wind blows away the hours of hard work. Only few people use normal vocabulary in such a situation. But just those few people who remain calm and cold-blooded are able to rebuild everything again.