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Oh the nostalgia...

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FTVE 100 Research Project I'm back in my childhood home sitting on the couch going over it again and again in my head. My hands start to get a little sweaty, my heart is beating fast. So I convince myself to just get it over and done with. I do it. I walk over to my dad in the kitchen and try to nonchalantly ask for permission to use my step mom's laptop for an hour. He says yes. I can't believe it. I try to hold in my excitement as I race over to the computer, but I can't. I'm in heaven. This was the reality for the children of my generation. Electronics, the Internet, and even TV were a luxury for us. But those days are gone. Now, every other third grader has a cellphone with access  to the vast world of the Internet right in their pocket.  Growing up, my favorite cites to have fun on were disneychannel.com and barbie.com. For a time, there was another Barbie related website called Myscene.com that I really loved but just like the short lived doll line th...
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Really Reality

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From The Real Housewives on Bravo to MTV’s Teen Mom it seems every time you change the channel these days there’s a new “reality” TV show popping up. Personally I can’y get enough of them but there are some cases where I believe the networks have gone a little too far. I think there needs to be some boundaries established because it seems like they’ll make a show about anything, and people will watch it! Another way reality TV can be bad is that it can give people a false impression of how life should be. Keeping Up With the Kardashians is the perfect example of this. Young girls see the Kardashian sisters in full hair and makeup everyday always dressed to the nine and they think that real women should also be this glamorous. Another thing about so called “reality” shows is that the majority of them are scripted when in real life you can’t yell cut or re-do. People can’t go around thinking that their lives should be perfect like the ones they see on TV because in fact what their see...
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