Do schools kill creativity?

I agree with Robinson’s suggestion that schools and education systems kill creativity because some young students at school want to follow their dreams and their own creativity. If someone wants to be an artist, then he should be specializing most his time in arts. I believe that education systems and schools should definitely give more courses and classes of arts if a student really wants to be a professional at it or even music classes. If a student really loves art or music, why not start building his career while he is in school. I think creativity is very important in our lives because we will end up working in a job that we really love in our future such as art and music. As adults, we should encourage our children to pick their creativity from the day they start school. Schools should have meetings with their students and ask them what they want to do when they grow up, and we should help them reach their goal by listening to them. Though, students should still learn maths in school because it is a very important subject that will them through their careers. It is okay to make mistakes. Everybody make mistakes in their lifetime, but people learn from these mistakes and this is something that we have to be proud of because that means that you are learning in life. Creativity is very important to me because I always wanted to succeed and reach my goals in life such as become a famous deejay one day, and I am still till this day doing my best to be in that spot. I say to everyone in this world, never give up your dreams, work hard for it and you will reach that dream you always wanted.  

House Music

House music has been one of my favourite genres of music. I listen to it when I am studying, deejaying, sleeping, and while I am cruising in my car. I have been downloading house music since I was thirteen years old. 

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that started in Chicago in the late 80’s. House music is found everywhere in the world these days, in clubs, raves, concerts, radio stations, events, and much more. The best house music deejay I respect the most is Carl Cox. He has been my inspiration since I first started listening to house music. He started mixing, remixing and producing house music since the 80’s. He was one of the top ten deejays in the world in the 90’s, but still in the top thirties this year. 

House music has been voted to be one of the best electro dance music in clubs since the year of 2000. House is an up-tempo music for dancing, generally ranging between a 120 and 135 beats per minute. The most common beat in house music is the kick drum. It is also filled with hit-hat, snare drums, bass, and clap sounds. I recommend everybody to start listening to house music because it will be a big part of your life nowadays. It will change the way you party.  

Schooling liars

                                                   

Cheating or plagiarism is a common problem in a lot of schools, universities, institutions, companies, and even at work.  Cheating is acting untruthfully or unfairly in order to gain an advantage. Plagiarism is taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. We see these problems all the time, even at Mount Saint Vincent University. I believe that the problem of academic cheating or plagiarism is in the academic setting because every university has its own policy and they are very strict about these rules. MSVU’s policy about cheating or plagiarism is getting an academic offence, getting a zero on the assignment, and even being kicked out of MSVU. Some people never got caught, but they are responsible for their own future. 

How are you going to be successful in your future goals if you do not learn, and cheat all the time? Some individuals do not understand this now, but once they get to the point of getting a job and asking you to do a marketing plan, and you do not know how to do it then you will be replaced by someone else. This will make you regret every single time you have cheated or plagiarized at university or elsewhere too. I think plagiarizing and cheating should be stricter because people will not learn from their mistakes unless you give them something that will teach them not to cheat any more  As an example, they should have a course to students who are caught cheating through courses, and of course give those academic offences and other penalties.

People take risks all the time, so I do not see anything wrong for students taking risk to cheat. Life is about taking risks. But this is not my point. I do not encourage it because if you get caught then you will understand why you do not have to take this risk. Students who cheat to improve their grades is unfair for other students around because other students are working very hard to get a good grade, while the cheaters are not doing anything and still receiving good grades. In my opinion, cheaters should stop what they are doing and follow the rules and policies of cheating and plagiarizing because if they do not they will get in big trouble and they will not be successful in their future terms.   

On-line Compliments

Complimenting someone in life will make him feel better if he or she is having a bad day. It is a polite expression to say something lovely to somebody. This project created by the four students of Queen’s University is a wonderful idea because it sets a smile on different student faces that are having a bad day. Reading a compliment from a strange person is kind of disturbing, but if you think about it, they are saying something sweet to you which will make you feel special. Some people have a hard time complimenting a person face-to-face. This is why I think it is a very good impression for students to post on-line compliments to other people because they feel more comfortable doing so. 

Sometimes, I have a tough time complimenting people personally, but when I write it on her or his Facebook page, I can look over it again and make sure that I am saying the exact compliment that I need to say. 

This article explains how students feel much better and more confident receiving compliments from other students who are harassed in universities by having difficulties making friends. Even though you do not receive a compliment from someone, it is okay because you are who you are and you are different from others. 

This on-line compliment project is definitely another example of this generation’s preference to communicate electronically because they feel more self-assured to think about what they are going to say before they post it on-line. I think it is very important nowadays to post compliments on-line to somebody because it gathers more individuals together to chat and to get to know them better.