Life on other planets.

During many, many years, people have wondered if there is life on other planets. There have been great speculations in how the aliens would look like and if they would be nice or not. Some people are believers and some people are not. People have even made faked evidence, such as video tapes on "UFOs". Some peolpe claim to have been obducted and others say that these people are insane. The topic of aliens have always been discussable and people have always had different opinions and believes. I do not have to believe, I know that aliens exist. It is egocentric to think that aliens don´t exist.

Firstly, because the univers is so extremely huge and it contains millions of millions of planets. It would be unrealistic to think that only Tellus can capture life. The univers is so big and there are so many stars and planets out there. Other planets must have the same conditions as we have.
Even if not one single planet in the whole univers have the same conditions as Tellus, other forms and conditions for life must have been formed somewhere.

Secondly, millions of people claim that they have seen aliens or UFOs or other things like it. I am well aware that a big percent of these people are lying or imagining things. However, since the number of people saying that they have seen aliens or UFOs are so big, some of them must be telling the truth.

Finally, we humans can´t be so fascinated by our selves that we think that we are the only intelligent creature living in the entire univers. We can´t believe that we are so extra-ordinary and unique that we are alone in the univers.

However, many people say that if there were life on other planets, we would have known it by now. Again I say that the univers is big, we don´t have the tools or technology to look through the entire univers. But what if we know, maybe we have proof. Many people say that NASA know that there is life on other planets but they are hiding it from the population.

As a conclusion, I know that there is life on other planets because the univers is huge, it would be excentric of us to believe that we are the only intelligent life in univers. Also extremely many people have seen aliens and UFOs. They are out there somewhere.

Violation

Nine-eleven 2001 was a day when almost the whole world stood still. Planes flying into buildings, people screaming and dying. I think that we who experienced that day, never will forget it. Now, our lives and personal rights are influenced by that day. The fear of terrorists are so extrem that authorities now have the rights to read our e-mails, listen to our phone calls etc. They can do this in order to look for terrorists. It is wrong that authorities can have so much control and knowledge about us.

First, because our personal integrity is being violated. It almost says in the law that what we say, writes and thinks are not personal , it is for the authirities to look through. Then they can give their opinion, if we are dangerous or not. If we can´t write and we can´t speak without being afraid that someone is listening, then we have no personal rights. We have no personal integrity.

Second, this fear of terrorists which makes the authorities violate our integrity, is not going to stop the terrorists. The terrorists are not disappearing because of this. The authorities can keep reading e-mails, listening to phone calls and take pictures by satellites, but they will not stop the terrorists. If I were a terrorist, I wouldn´t be so stupid that I wrote about it on the Internet or talked about it on the phone.

Some people say that it doesn´t matter if the authorities can read our mail or listen to phone calls. If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear. I am not afraid, I have my opinion because of a principle. Personal integrity should be personal integrity. It shouldn´t be some Mao-inspired; Everyone have to think exactly like us, or else...

So, I think it is wrong that authorities can have so much control and knowledge about us. Since they are violating our personal integrity and since the terrorists are not going to disappear because of this law. We live in a democracy country, a democracy country where the democracy is failing more and more. Maybe even a country where democracy will cease to exist.

Grades for young pupils.

Grades in general has always been a topic where people disagree and have different oppinions. Should we use grades or no grades? Should we start with grading in the early years or a lot later. Some people say that our entire school system is a big grading system. Every teacher, pupil and parent have their own oppinion in these kinds of questions. I am going to discuss my opinion. To grade pupils any earlier than we already do, would be a mistake.

First of all, a childs self esteem is the most important part of learning. Without self esteem the childrens learning are going a lot slower and some pupils don´t even dare to try to learn, in fear of failing. They also easely get stuck in that way of thinking, that they never are good enough. I believe that grading children a couple of years earlier than we do now would increase the number of pupils with low self esteem.

Second, in the world today, to many children are stressed. Stress leads to headache, it gets hard to focus and concentrate, it leads to hairloss and later in life it could lead to several dangerous diseases. These stressed out children are also going to increase if grading begins earlier. For some children it would be a great thing to strive for a good grade, but it can easely get out of hand and be to stressfull. Always wanting to be best, always wanting the highest grade. Grading can be to much to handle for some pupils.

Third, if we want our pupils to learn as much as possible, the years they go to school, it is important that school is fun. If the school is fun and keep being fun, the pupils will go to school with a positive attitude. They will remember the lessons and therefor learn as much as possible. As long as school is considered as fun most of the time, we will not have a problem. Mostly school is considered as fun when the children are young and stops being fun as they grow older. Grading is one way of taking away most of the fun in school for the children, as they see it.

On the contrary, pupils learn quickly if they belong to the smart or not so clever part of the class so they can get low self esteem with or without grades. In short, grades should not matter on this particular point. That is not true, even if the pupils learn fast if they are smart or not, I believe that it is a lot heavier to have it written down on paper. Harder to be graded and maybe even fail. That is much worse for their self esteem.

Grades can lower our childrens self esteem. Grades can make more children stressed out. Grades can take away a lot of the fun in school sooner and therefor also a big part of learning. Do we want to bring grades to younger pupils? Let our children be able to be and live as children for as long as possible.