Introduction:
     My name is Natalie Bennion and I am from Salt Lake City, Utah. I have 3 brothers, 4 sisters, and I am the youngest.  I come from an incredibly competitive family; almost everything we do we do as a competition. For example, when driving to California we guess what time we will arrive at the beach, how long until the next curve, and once at the beach we have "Family Olympics." This "fun" family competition has  helped us have fun doing chores, homework, yard work, etc.  Furthermore, this competitive blood has helped me earn a spot, alongside my sister, on BYU's Swim and Dive team this year.  I enjoy playing the flute and piano, watching (and quoting) almost any musical you can think of, and going backpacking and sleeping under the stars.


Opinion Editorial Proposal:
     Everything nowadays is online.  Everywhere one may look there are Macs', pc's, iPhones', etc.  In some  classes, online textbooks and subscriptions to online school sites are now required. These "online tools" are taking over treasured hard copies where one could once take personalized notes, feel the pages whip through their fingers, and not be worried about having it freeze or crash on them.
     Therefore, my certain topic for the Opinion Editorial is that classes and mainly textbooks should not be online, that students should have hard copies of the textbook or other significant class data.  This topic is relevant because this is the age of technology.  Anyone and everyone is affected by some type of technology. It is all around us, one rarely finds a person without a phone, or to see one who doesn't have the use of a computer within a couple feet away.
     Some of my claims would include that by having classes, textbooks, and any other significant data online could decrease students productivity since having computers in class the students may not always be paying attention to what the professors are saying and instead checking facebook or gmail.  Computers are quite liable to freeze or crash or become very slow if there are a lot of computers on the network (which is not all uncommon at an university) during research or an important paper.  Having hard copies of textbooks would save the student from endless head aches of trying to fix the computer when the textbook is right there to find the correct, liable information. Some also may say that technology is helping the planet go green, but what about all the papers one has to print out and the fumes the computers/ technology are giving off and what about the production of making those devices? The production of them pollutes the environment; it takes energy which will pollute the air, the left over batteries pollute the environment, and to go deeper the source, the materials that they get from the smaller countries are killing off animals and forest areas. As for the printers students, who already had to pay for college and computers and housing, now have to also pay for the printers, paper, and ink that goes along with that complex technology.  Moreover, having more and more technology people can loose their penmen ship which when one writes and written letters it becomes more personal to the reader. With technology and Word, however, people can lose their innate skills.  It is true that computers, for the most part, are faster and easier to update than that of textbooks and not all computers are slow or will crash, or are expensive.  But they are subject to many unexpected whims of unfortunate chance, where hard-copies are not.