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__Wiki Utopia Reflection-__

I really enjoyed the Utopia project. It helped me with my group working skills, because my partner and I wanted different things but we found a way to combine them and make them work. It let me really use my imagination and be creative. I came up with things that I didn't think I could have before. It taught me how to work a wiki better! I had never really created a wiki and been a "owner" of it and gotten to make the changes like I got to on this wiki. It was really cool to see how we interpreted our Utopia into the wiki! I really liked getting to just go into the Mac lab and completely going at our own pace. It was very independent and I liked that a lot. I liked not being on a schedule that the rest of the class is on, and like I said before, doing what I wanted at my own pace. I really liked being able to let my mind go freely and wander. But my favorite part overall for this whole project was that for 50 minutes a day, I got to escape to a world that I had created myself.

AOW- Cell Phone Etiquette

I think that cell phone etiquette is very important, since it can reflect on you as a person. A rule that confused me however is: 9. Don't use Google Voice call screening with family and close friends. I don't know what Google Voice call screening is, so I won't be using it with family and close friends. I agree with many of the rules though, like don't talk and drive, put your phone on silent in a movie theatre, and don't light up a screen during a movie. I must say that I don't really see where Facebook ties in with this so much, since I don't have one. But I do know that they can come back and bit you in the bum. What really alarms me is the Cell Phone Radiation. I think it's scary that cell phones can harm you like that, but I also think that it is fascinating. I have an iPhone, and that is not on the Top 10 for Highest or Lowest, so that is okay. I thought this was a really interesting article, and I'm pretty happy I read it since now I know about cell phone radiation, and etiquette.

AOW- Sugar Overload I think that it is very important to know about what you are eating and what the effects are on what you eat. Some of these items my mouth literally dropped open when I saw how much sugar was in some of my favorite snacks! For example: 1. TCBY Old Fashioned Vanilla Frozen Yogurt. This SHOCKED me to see that frozen yogurt (6) had more than ice cream (3). This was very surprising. But then I kept going down the list and I got even more surprised... 2. Baskin Robins Oreo Outrageous Sundae. I love oreos and I love sundae's, so naturally, I love this! But it has 27 teaspoons! That is insane! But that's not all... 3. SoBe Green Tea. I thought that tea was supposed to be healthy! And here it is with 15 1/2 teaspoons! But I was also pleasantly surprised... 1. That vanilla ice cream had only 3. Whew. 2. Starbucks Caramel Macchiato Grande had only 4. I usually don't even get something this large, so that means that I usually get even less than this. I have learned a lot of important things from this article, and I'm very happy I read it. I'll make sure I'm careful next time!

AOW- Growing Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak

This leak really worries me. First of all, I do not like that it even happened. I also really don't like how it is killing everything and destroying natural habitats. I also heard that we can say goodbye to shrimp for about a YEAR?! That is nearly impossible. I love shrimp. Anyways, I just think it is sad that something like this happened and is destroying a lot of wildlife. Also, it is supposed to go all the way to Florida! That's where my beach house is, and I really don't want anything to be destroyed there. It's great to just dip your toes in the water and look and see the little minnows. I don't want things to die there! I don't want things to die anywhere. I also heard that it's supposed to hit the Texas beaches, which is sad because...well thats where I live! I really hope that they get this solves as soon as possible, and the oil won't do too much more damage. What I do like though is seeing our country come together and work and try and get this problem solved.

AOW- Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language is Deciphered

I think that it is so cool that we are able to find out what monkey can say! Well not say exactly, but what the meanings are of their "noises." I really liked how they can add the suffix "-oo". I thought that was really cool. I really just was fascinated by this article, and really wanted to learn more. I wanted to know what else the monkeys meant, and how similar they are to humans. My favorite saying was the "Timber!" one. That made me laugh. I think this would be a cool thing to do. I think it would be really fun to be able to spend time with monkeys and investigate them and just get to study them. I think monkeys are really cool animals and I would like to know more.

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__Utopia__

Utopia originally comes from the book "__Of the Best State fo a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia."__ In this book is a fictional island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where it's a seemingly perfect socio-poitico-legal system. This is where the idea of a "utopopia" sprouted. From this became the idea of a "dystopi