Why Time Travel Should not be used in Movies

          Time travel is a concept that is nearly impossible if not entirely impossible to accurately depict in movies, and will most likely be impossible to achieve in real life. Movie time travel is depicted in a way where it looks interesting and it causes people to think, but it is filled with several plot holes, which can ruin a movie if you think to much about them. Similarly, future real life time travel will have similar problems to that of movie time travel theoretically, but we have no way of knowing for sure whether or not it will work in the future.
          In movies, time travel is usually portrayed poorly, which causes most time travel movies to be filled with plot holes. This does not mean that movies that portray time travel well have no plot holes, they just have less or try to explain the plot holes in the movie somehow. In time travel movies people go back in time to alter the future, and this is the start of the problem. First, the future can change drastically with one slight modification because one disturbance will grow exponentially worse as time passes. Secondly, changing the future makes no sense because if you go back in time to change something, nothing will happen. Nothing will happen because what you going back in time to modify has already happened, because its in the past and everything done in the past has led to the moment of you going back in time and alter the future, even you in the past trying to adjust the future. Lastly, time travel will never work because people will have needed to make the time machine without going back in time in the first place. Therefore, going back in time with a time machine and telling your past self how to make a time machine is impossible because of the same reason why changing the future in general is impossible. If you tell your past self how to build a time machine, it means it will have already happened, but this is impossible because the very first time machine you made came without the help of a future self, so it could not have already happened.
          There are a few theories that could explain time travel, but I only believe one of them to be true because it is somewhat logical and easy to explain and understand. One, if we do invent a time machine and go back in time, we will not be changing our own future, because it has already happened, we are actually creating a new timeline. This new time line is much like a fork in the road, the road is a single road for a long period of time, but at some point it splits and creates two roads which  grow increasingly distant from one another, never connecting again. The reason why simplicity plays a part in these theories is because if someone comes up with a unique theory with several complex components, that makes several more components that could potentially be false. On the other hand, the one I told you is simple and has few components with potential problems.
          Time travel in both movies and real life is a complicated topic with several problems. The problems of time travel are based on two possible theories. First, what you go back in the past to change has already happened. Second, if someone manages to adjust the past the outcome will cause the future to change exponentially and cause for a future so different that the person who altered the future would not recognize where he was once he went back to his time. There is only one theory for explaining time travel that is reasonable and that is, every time someone changes the past they create a new timeline. However, no one understands time travel fully and even the best theories have there problems. The only way to understand the impacts of time travel is to do it ourselves and learn through experience, and who knows, maybe someone born today will someday invent a time machine and explain to the world how time travel actually works.
   

Why Using Your Cell Phone is Like Calling Death

          Cell phones have evolved from blocks the size of bricks with limited capabilities, to flat screened mini computers that can do almost anything we want, from play games to make calls to even watching funny cat videos. As the cell phone's capabilities grew, so did its popularity and the danger. Cell phones have slowly become more and more dangerous to everyone, especially in two particular ways.
         
           Cell phones are distracting. They distract us while we walk and while we drive, and both of which are very important to pay attention to. According to the article "Cell Hell: 7 Ways Your Phone Can Hurt you" talking on a cell phone while driving diverts about 37 percent of a person's brain activity away from the road, which makes it much more likely to crash. However, despite this, 80 percent of drivers admit to talking on their cell phones while driving and 40 percent of drivers claim to have been hit or almost hit by people talking on their cell phones. Granted , not all of these resulted in serious injuries or death, but it was still a dangerous situation that could have easily resulted in something more severe if the circumstances were worse. Phones are also distracting when you cross the street, especially for children. In the same article as used for the last example, 77 children ages 10 to 11 were studied in a virtual reality setting on the effects of cell phone use and danger in crossing the street. According to the study, when asked to talk on their cell phones while crossing the virtual street, the children looked left and right 20 percent less, and the odds of getting hit or almost getting hit by a car increased by 43 percent.

          Cell phones are filthy, disgusting, and covered in all sorts of bacteria. According to the article "Why Your Cell Phone Has More Bacteria Than a Toilet Seat" phones have 10 times more bacteria than a toilet. This amount of bacteria is most dangerous when you do not think about it, which causes you to touch food, your drinks, and your face without even taking into consideration the amount of bacteria. This lack of knowledge because the causes of many illnesses, some of which may be fatal, or at the very least an annoyance. However, this danger can be relatively easily fixed. It is filled with bacteria because it is never cleaned, yet we do everything with it, much like a remote. Also, when you share your phone with other people it spreads new kinds of germs your body may not be accustomed to, which  further increases risk of becoming sick.

          With the amount people who use cell phones, it is relatively easy to say the large majority of people are put in danger by cell phones. They are disgusting when looked at at the microscopic level, and are an enormous a distraction. However,if cell phones are used at the appropriate times, are cleaned regularly, and are shared less, the amount of danger is significantly reduced. Remember, Death is always available to pick up his phone, but if you don't call him you will be fine.

Human beings are a Virus to the Earth

Human beings are a virus to the Earth. We humans share many different qualities with the virus and because of this we are slowly killing the Earth. This theory of humans being a virus, a disease, or a cancer to the planet originated mostly from the film The Matrix, which is by no means a factual or scientific source, but even so, makes a very interesting point on human society.

            The quote from The Matrix that makes this point is, “I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern: a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.” This is said by Agent Smith, a super-computer in a human shape.   

           

            This quote states three things about humans that are similar to that of a virus, we move around, we consume all of the natural resources of a particular place, and human’s population grows exponentially. This is similar to a virus because a virus moves from host to host, is slowly drains its host of its nutrients, and it grows exponentially.

           

            We pollute the planet, we take its resources, we kill other organisms on this planet more than any other organism, and we do it to every location we chose to inhabit. This never used to be a problem when our population wasn't large, nor when we didn't pollute the environment as much as we did. As our population increases the more pollution we produce and the more resources we consume.

           

            We are a virus to the Earth. We take as much as we want and never give back, we grow exponentially without any thought on how it will affect the environment, and we move from place to place slowly destroying the environment in all of these places. The only things that we can do to stop this is by conserving resources, polluting less, finding new and cleaner ways of producing energy.  Lastly, humans need to know that if we cause the earth to die, we will die with it, and there is no way around that. Our main difference with viruses is that humans have the abilities of choice and reason, which means we can chose to stop spreading and acting like a virus, whereas a viruses only purpose is to expand a consume.

Students have too much Homework in Schools

Students Today have too much Homework

Students today are being overwhelmed by homework. Homework used to be an activity for review with the occasional project, but now it has just become busy work that drills information into a student's mind. This may help kids remember certain formulas in math or rules in literature, but it doesn't help them fully understand it. It is subtracting time from a student's day and adding stress to a student's life.

According to an article by Tim Herloff in a "Time For Kids Magazine", students ranging from eleven to thirteen years old got about two hours of homework a week in 1981. By 1997 that time almost doubled to three hours and forty minutes per week, and in 1999 its about five hours of weekly homework. However, according to a poll of public teachers in the article, "About 3.5 hours of homework a day for high schoolers? That's to much" by Karin Klein, high school students get about seventeen hours of homework each week and three and a half hours of homework each day.

These statistics show two things, one students now get to much homework, and two, the rate at which this homework level increased was exponential. Students get a lot more homework than their parents did, even if I am comparing middle school homework to middle school homework levels, the difference is still enormous.  Also, keep in mind that this was only about 33 years ago. This means if students get about three and a half hours of homework a day, that is more than their parents got in a week on average. Also, if you include the homework, students in high school work about one and a half hours longer, on average, than an adult working as a full time employee.

However, is important, and a study from the article by Tim Herloff states that students who do just fifteen minutes of homework score 65% better than kids who don't do any homework. On the contrary, many parents interviewed in Tim Herloff's article state that their children often seem stressed about their levels of homework, sometimes to the point of being sick. 

Homework is important, and will never go away, but there should be less of it. When students are becoming ill due to the stress caused by large amounts of homework, the homework levels need to drop. Part of being a kid is being social and having fun, but when all of their time is spent doing homework, students can't enjoy their childhood as much.

Biases in the workplace

          In the article "NYTimes: Exposing Hidden Biases at Google to Improve Diversity"  the topic is about how biased a workplace, like Google, is. However, Google has realized this fact and is beginning to work towards a solution. It is shown by statistics in the article that most technologically based workplaces are 60%, or more, male, and only 40%, or less, female. This problem will take years to solve, as explained in the article, but can have fantastic results. For example, it is scientifically proven that a more diverse office or workplace will be more creative than a office dominated by a single race or sex. This links with racial bias because sexism and racism are based on similar beliefs, discrimination and prejudice, but are about two different things, race and sex.
       
          Racial and sexual discrimination have been a problem for thousands of years, from the first civilizations to now. However, now we are trying to change our ways and become as equal as possible, even if the change may be slow. It is clear that Google as well as other companies and workplaces are trying to develop a more equal environment for both men and women of all races, but their adjustment will take time. However, there is no need to be disappointing in how slow things are moving forward, because even if it is slow, it shows in everyday life. For example, today about 40% of the employees at Google are women, but about 100 to 200 years ago the number only about 10% of women or less worked for large companies like Google. Not to mention the fact that women probably had very few high ranked jobs, but now it is not uncommon for a woman to be a manager, a boss, or another high ranking employee.
       
          Again, the key to success when it comes to almost anything is time. Most illnesses are cured with time, many of the greatest ideas took time to develop, as well as the best books of all time. The point is, equal rights for all people are just as great if not better than the things listed above, so even if these rights take 10 years, 100 years, or even 1000 years to take full effect, the results will be revolutionary. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither are perfectly equal rights that are accepted by the majority, if not all, of people.