"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." ~Albert Einstein

       To tell you the truth, this wasn't the fist time I watched 2 Million Minutes, and this wasn't the first time that I didn't like the movie.  I find this movie inaccurate in it's perception on students in America and India, the two places on where I have visited or lived.  I think that the students that were picked for this movie were the most extreme cases in each country.  In the movie, the American students are portrayed as spending only an hour on homework, which I find inaccurate.  While talking to my peers, I know that we spend way more than an hour on homework.  Also it showed the study group happening while watching Grey's Anatomy, which I and some of my fellow peers do not do.  Also Indian students DO NOT study all the time.  When I go to India, my friends spend majority of their time outside playing with friends.  They are outside from 6:30 until 10:30 every day!  How do they spend majority of their time studying when they are outside with friends for 4 hours every day?

       I think that this movie does bring up a major point though, that the United States education system is starting to lack.  I think that in comparison to other countries, our education system is trying to help us for the future and instead of basing it on studies and education, it is trying to help us learn leadership and other important aspects to society.

        The audience for this movie, in my opinion, was educators, such as teachers.  I think this because throughout the movie it talked about how the USA students weren't educated properly, and the way education is passed along can only be changed by the educators.  The film makers try to connect to the audience by adding in extra information such as in India the way the food was eaten, or in America the football game.  This helps connect the audience because the movie is becoming casual and easier to relate to.  This is an effective way to connect to the audience because it helps the audience become closer to the key points in the movie without them knowing it.  The movie maker's purpose of this movie was to educate the educators on how the USA is falling behind on education.  The film makers use when techniques, mainly logos and pathos, to help persuade the audience in their argument.

Modes of Friendship Answers! :)

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The Modes of Friendship

When I was 10, I met my best friend.  She was in my 3^rd grade class.  We did everything together from playing to telling stories.  I had my first sleepover at her house.  We would stay up until late at night talking about things.  She is the one who helped introduce me to Harry Potter.  We’ve had book clubs together and we’ve organized activities.  She knows when something is up with me and knows how to cheer me up.  She knows what to do when I am stressed and she knows how to calm me down.  She will be my friend for a very long time.

Two people were walking down the street in deep conversation.  You could see the glitter in their eyes in the autumn sky.  You could tell that one was teasing the other, because of the blush that was creeping up to her cheeks.  She shook it off and pushed her companion into a pile of leaves with a laughing smile.  They stared at each other and started to laugh picking the leaves off of each other in a laughing tone.  They looked down to see a couple of girls just like them playing with each other with their mothers looking down on them, and remembered how they used to play with each other.  They smiled and walked away together in a happy tone.

Friendship is when no one says a word and you both crack up in laughter.  Friendship is when someone is willing to be there for you no matter what, even though they know how crazy and weird you actually are.  Friendship is when you don’t have to say anything and you know what the other person is thinking.  Friendship is when you can talk for hours without running out of things to say.  Friendship is when you have millions of inside jokes that no one understands.  Friendship is when you disagree with someone and argue nonstop, but you still respect each other and joke around with each other.  Memories are the threads to the quilt of friendship.  Friendship is the basis to society and the basis to love.  If you have a true friend, they are there for life.

Friendship is like a patchwork quilt.  A quilt is held together by string and friendship is held together by memories.  Each patch on a quilt represents something, likewise a friendship is held together by different parts, whether it is good or bad.

The similarity and difference between enemy and friend is apparent.  They are similar in the way that you have a lot of feeling toward that person, whether it is good, friend, or bad, enemy.  The difference between them is the way you treat them.  A friend is someone who you treat with lots of respect and an enemy is someone who you treat with almost no respect.

To become one’s friend there are many steps.  You first introduce each other.  Then after that you become to talk and get to learn about each other.  Then you start to grow close after you have labeled your similarities and differences.  Finally when you grow closer and closer you will have realized that you can talk to that person no matter what, and that that person is your friend.

Friendship includes many dips and turns in life from surprises to laughter.  It involves not thinking, but feeling.  In friendship you use your heart to think, and not your brain.

When you think of friendship you think of the two friends who are most like each other.  You think of the two people who laugh in each other’s arms and enjoy each other’s company.  You think of those two people who are always fighting, but still see the good in each other.

Friendship is the result of mutual interests and common desires.  Friendship is the cause of getting to know other people and enjoying their company.  Because of friends everyone has someone to go to when feeling down.  Because of friends we can enjoy life even more.

Friends are good to have.  With friends you enjoy things even more.  You see the good in people and see life in a better way.  With friends you have mutual interests so you can talk about things to them.  Friends help you get through life when the path is bad.  Friends help you out for life.