speak number 3

In the last part of the book speak by Laurie Halse Anderson ,melinda really has a hard time. well lets just say that the ending of this book was not what i expected or what my group expected. i must say overall this was a good book.

Melinda began to speak more once heather her old Friend had came to ask for help. Melinda said no to heather though. i was rather surprised to hear or find out that Melinda said no to heather. i think the old Melinda would have said yes to heather because she had no other Friend besides heather. the old Melinda really needed a friend but no because heather is not like her real friend any more Melinda could care less.

after reading the book somewhere towards the end Melinda Finlay tells Rachel her old friend that she was raped. it was kind of Melinda trying to speak up  for her self. what really had me shocked was when Melinda told Rachel her old friend that Andy Evans raped her. no Andy evens is Rachel's boy friend so she just called Melinda a liar. i just don't understand why Melinda would lie about that. Rachel just did not want to hear something like that because he was her boy friend.

i was happy that Melinda spoke up for her self when Andy Evans try to her her for telling Rachel what happen. Melinda screamed and that's when her telling her past Begin. wow what a shocker huh. yeah i think so to.
this book was great i am glad i read speak.

speak part two

after reading part two of speak by an author named Laurie Halse Anderson i really enjoyed it. this book just keeps making me want to turn the page but i don't want to over read because then there wont be a surprise to both what i am reading and the last group discussion.

now the second group discussion was not the same as the first group discussion. this group discussion was not the same as the first one. it felt as if this group discussion was dead. that was until Mr.Sutherland came over to the table. Mr. Sutherland asked the question does the author portray high school as it really is.that really seemed to spark the conversation.

Now i was not sure how to answer this question because i don't go to a regular high school i go to A.S.T.I not some huge big high school. threes a way that Melinda makes the people at her high school into groups and also Melinda has theses nick names for the people she mostly sees at school. the nick names she gives people kind of in a way represents how she sees that person or how she thinks that person acts.

another topic that was brought up at the group discussion was how Melinda parents did not really care about her. well at least that's what it seemed like because when they where at home it was like they would try not to even see each other let alone talk to one another. that was very surprising to me.

over all this has been one of the best books i have read all year long. i can not wait to finish the book.

speak paer # 1

In the first marking period or first part of "speak" by Laurie halse Andersone , i read about a girl named Melinda Sordino. she is a freshman who is treated really bad by her old Friends. they will not even say a word to melinda. this is because they say something she has done but i still have yet to find out what it was. in the book it also talks about Melinda"s teachers her family life at home and her one peer she does talk to. i guess you can say her only friend.

in my group we talked about what does the tree mean. by the way the tree is an art project. at first the tree Melinda drew was a simple tree almost looked like a 3rd grader drew it. it was very simple. later Melinda makes another tree yes makes this time it is not a drawing. the tree Melinda makes is made out of knives, forks , a barbie head , a melted Lego piece and turkey bones.this project was first a drawing that looked like a 3rd grader drew it and it is no0 turned into a complex art piece that makes you go wow when you see it. some body in my group said it is kind of like Melinda grows and so does the branches on the tree.

also during the group discussion we felt that Mr. Freeman the art teacher does not really take a good look at Melinda.

i think that me and all my group members all kind of came up with similar ideas at the group discussion.we talked about which girls at school treat Melinda as a bitch. which teachers and which family members treat Melinda like a bitch. we said that Melindas old best friend because she never asked Melinda what really happened ans she still treats Melinda bad. also her art treacher mr. freeman because he just over lookes melinda. also her family because they dont spend time or talk with melinda.

overall i am really liking this book it keeps my eyes open so thats good and i cant wait to read more. so thats what i am going to do so bye.

While looking through Google Reader I fell on this quote from Shiyun,

Does our image really matter that much in our lives?

yes i think it does more importaly food is a huge image on our lives.As I stare at the clock in fourth period I can hear the grail of my stomach telling the clock to hurry up. Once fourth period is over I head over to the cafeteria. French fries are my choice for lunch today. We pick a spot to eat our lunch. Once I sit down I look at my French fries and smile. The golden color fries sit there in the white box with a little ketchup on the side. I pick up the first French fry. I can feel the heat and the oil on my fingertips. The first bite has a light crunch and it’s like I can taste the salt grains. Plus the quick dip of ketchup to add an extra flavor.

Once school is over and i am home it is almost time to eat dinner. Dinner is at the same time every night, six o clock. Every one eats dinner together in my family. There is a full table hen six o clock comes around. I never ask hat ill be for dinner because I would rather be surprised. Tonight happens to be one of my all time favorite dishes. Tacos! On the table there was different bowls and plates filled with sides toping drinks and much more. It looked like a city of food. There was ice berg lettuce, juicy red tomatoes, green onions, sour cream that looks like glue. There was ground beef that had a little spicy kick to it. There was even my favorite drink, Strawberry lemonade. My first taco was filled with all of these yummy toppings. The fist bite was hard to make because of my watery mouth. As I took the first bite I could taste the spicy ground beef , the  ice berg lettuce , the juicy red tomatoes , the green onions that glue like sour cream that reminds me of pre-school.

This is a typical day for my eating. Although my eating style is not the healthiest I still much enjoy eating every bite. I try to eat healthy but for me it just does not work as simple I would picture it.  Although these foods are so delicious they are not healthy for my body.  The fats and oils from fried food place a huge part in that.

Even though it seems like I eat unhealthy I regularly eat healthy and stay active. I do not eat a lot of junk foods or drink a lot of sugary drinks.  When ever I am at home I do not have the choice to eat all of this junk food because my grandmother does not buy those types of snacks. Now sometimes she might buy chips but I would normally eat an apple or orange instead. There is soda in my house but I choose not to drink it. Instead I drink ice water. No my eating habits are not perfect I do some times eat fast foods and drink sugary drinks but I really try me best to limit my self with all that unhealthy stuff.  I will admit is a lot cheaper for me to eat fast food for lunch instead to make a sandwich and bring my lunch from home. I also dislike caring my lunch I rather just carry money. Plus no of days anything to save a few dollars it’s worth it. Even if it is unhealthy for me. Also with just a couple of dollars you can get a lot to eat.  In Shannon Brownlees article “its portion makes America fat” she says “the deal with all the enhanced portions is that the customer gets a lot more food for a relatively small increase in price”(par.14). Being able to have a little bit of money and get a lot of food only makes you want to keep eating that food. One because it taste good and two its very cheap. So why wouldn’t any one want to eat unhealthy foods. 

The United States is one of the top if not the top countries that is the heaviest. There are so many reasons I think the United States struggle with obesity, the most noticeable reason is the American diet. Just how the average American eats I would not be suspired. So the only question that I have is who we blame for providing the people with the foods that they eat which causes them to have bad diets.

garcia girls response

in the first section of of the garcia girls i really had trouble  understanding the story and i was not sure as to if i would like reading this book. after the first se4ction i read the second and the same thing was i still was not liking this book. now by the third section nothing changed. lucky for me i still have to write a thousand word essay on a book i very much did not enjoy but i guess that's a part of a high school life. reading and doing things even if you don't agree with it or don't want to do it. so yeah i really don't recommend this book to people who like a fast more style type book or a book some one could relate to. but thats juist my view of this book.

So now to the essay. In the book " ho the Garcia girls lost their accents" by julia Alvarez i feel like it contains a mix of control and change.

The authors purpose i think in writing this book is to show how the stages of a girls life can change depending on where See comes from. i think where the Garcia girls live has a huge impact on the things they do.  now this story goes in backwards cronilocal order. now it starts off in the girls adulthood. then it goes to the girls teenage years which by then they are living in the united states. and lastly it ends when they are little girls and they live in the Dominican republic.

 first i will start off by taking about when the girls are fully grown and now called women. when the Garcia girls are living the American life style as adults they really seem to have more rights as women in the united states. now i feel like if the Garcia girls have been living in the Dominican republic they would have very little rights or even no real rights at all.

When the Garcia girls are teenagers they really seem to explore that life of an American teenage girl.i feel like they where at that age where they feel like they need to try everything. Also the Garcia girls explore the college life in America. the college life for these girls also includes sex and drugs, which i think they just wanted to explore this young teenage American way.America really seems to change the girls in there way of thinking and living.

The childhood of the Garcia girls i think would have been a lot different if they where livi9ng in the united states. now because the Garcia girls was raised in the Dominican republic it shows them how lucky they truly are once they get to the united states. i think they see how much they had and have when they move.

Garcia girls final post

In the final section of "how the Garcia girls lost their accents" the story brings us way back to where it all started. The family is back in the Dominican Republic and the book tells of when the Garcia girls were forced to move to the united states in the first chapter. The sim or other known as the Dominican republic secret police came looking for doctor Garcia which is the Garcia girls father. after all the things that went down the Garcia girls were told to pack up every thing that belongs to them. they were not really sure as to they were going at the moment but they did have an idea that it was not a good situation.

Throughout the entire book if we were to take a really good look at the book as a whole then we would see that the parts of the book really do fit together. I think if all three sections of the book were separated into three mini books then they would not even make much sense. but i think if you piece the book together then you begin to understand the overall theme of this story.

thought the entire reading of this book i was not really fully understanding it as best as i could have but that may be for a lot of reasons. but overall i think this was a rather interesting book if you get the concept of whats going on.

free write

This week was one to remember. fist i would like to say what i did this week starting with Monday. so Monday it seemed normal just like an every day Monday. i go to all my classes and at the end of the day something happens. A friends asks me if i am going to try out for the basketball team. i say no but then he says just do it. so i call my mom to bring me my basketball shoes and we walk to try outs. next thing i no is i see a lot of people and then the coach pulls up in a siver car. every one he yells if your hear for try outs come here. so we all run to him. now i want to make my self clear this is basketball try outs. who is here for basketball try out if you are give me a mile. so every one takes off running and boy was i tired. after it all was over i still had to go home and finish my homework. the only problem was i was very sore.good thing the next day was a Field trip.

now this has been the first time ever i went on a Field trip with asti. it was not a really big field trip but one never the less. so after second period was over i went to Mrs. corbally room and we where going to take a small Field trip to the farmers market. no at first it did not seem like a whole lot of fun but it would get me out of class so that was good enough for me.

when we had got to the farmers market every thing changed. once i saw all the stands filled with veggies and fruit i was truly amazed. i had only been to the farmers market once before and that was in middle school. this time it was a little different because i had to ask the farmers questions. now i did not really want to do so but i did and i heard about some fruits that never came up in my mind. i saw veggies that i never see at the super market. its a lot better tasting food at the farmers market and i would like to go back. i am just glad we got to go on a Field trip there. it was really cool.

response post- video games

after searching for someone to responded to i found a topic by   Eric Willson in which I could agree and some what can relate to.

  I think video games are alright. I play a decent amount of video games when I can. I have an Xbox and sometimes I play P.C. games. I used to play video games too much last year and it got in the way of my schoolwork and affected my grades. Now, I try to finish my homework before I play video games. On my Xbox I mostly listen to music and watch movies

I for the most part really agree with what Eric says about video games. yes i do agree with the fact that video games are fun to play. i also have a x-box 360. once i got my x-box360 a few years back i feel in love with it. i would allays stay up on weekends just to play it. it was worth it at the time. i would mostly play sports games like madden and 2k. The basketball games was always my favorite. i guess that might be because i was not really good at madden which by the way is a football video game. 

The reason i do not fully agree with what Eric says is because i know that for me at least when i got my x-box 360 i couldn't stop playing it. i had got it for my birthday which happens to be during winter break. so the whole winter break i would play video games witch i thought couldn't be that bad for me.

The true is at least for me is video games was not as good as i thought it was. The reason i say that is because i know that once winter break was over it really became hard for me to get back to the ways i was use to when school came back around. i struggled in school because i would spend so much time on video games and not homework.

so one day i get a not so good report card and my mom tells me until i bring my grades up i cant play my video games. i loved my video games to i was very forced on getting it back and the way i did that was by just doing my homework and studding. now my grades did go back up and i did get my video game back but by then i had noticed that video games controlled me and so i stop playing it as much.

The Garcia Girls response part 2

In the second part of "how the garcia girls lost theeir accents" it was discussing about the ways the entire family was being changed by the united states. They were beginning to get more americanized due to the factors that they had came to face within the united states.

in the second section the family begens to show how most of there innocence was being lost. when the girls where in their teenage years at the beginning of the second part i could tell how they were changing and already changed. i think if the girls had grown up in the dominican Republic instead of the united states they might have been differnt. i am almost for sure the girls would be differnt. For instance the girls had possession of marijuana aka "weed". this to me shows how america has a negitive effect on the girls.After what had happen to the girls in america they were all sent back to the domincan republic just like every summer. when there mother went to see them she had confronted the girls even the younger sisiter Sofia.

Another incident that ocurred in the book was Carla  was walking home from school. The family thought that they were living in a fairly safe neighborhood, but they were wrong. When Carla was walking home, she was being stalked by a man in his car. As the car rolled up on her, she had freaked out or  got nervous. the man   wanted her to come to the window. Carla didn’t want to go to his window  because she didn’t want to speak to him because she was not a good english speaking person. so what happened was that the man was a pervert who had showed Carla his penis and scared Carla  home to tell her mother what happened and the mother called the police.

free write- food poem.

  I This was a poem i wrote for my writing class. my classmates liked it. i think it was a little funny. i just want to show how much i love fried chicken. Now i love fried chicken but i really need to have other things to go with it. some of the things i like with my fried chicken is mash potato  and gravy corn on the cob with a little butter on it and of course a cup of ice cold kool aid. i love kool aid its like the best drink ever.                  

                      

Fried chicken

I am tall and hungry

I wonder if I will get something to eat

I hear the sizzle

I see a deep fryer

I want chicken in that deep fryer

I am tall and hungry

I pretend that there is chicken in the deep fryer

When it’s done I put it on a plate

I feel the grease hot fried chicken in my greased hands

I touch the steam from the chicken with my watery Tounge

I worry that the single piece of chicken will get lonely

I cry because I do not have corn on the cob for my lonely piece of chicken

I am tall and hungry

I understand I can’t always do well for those lonely fried chicken pieces out there

So I say let there be more sides

I dream of a happy world fill with all types of sides

 To go along with those lonely fried chicken pieces

I try to make my dream a reality

I hope it will be very soon

I am tall and hungry.

Now people can write a poem of there favorite foods that would be cool. I am very interested when it comes to foods. so yeah i think it would be cool if people write poems on there favorite foods.

Response to body image

 I found this quote on  Shiyun blog

Does our image really matter that much in our lives? I think that we are too focused in our appearances rather than our who we really are. I started to realize that most of us care about being liked by others around us or wants to be praised for their looks. In Mrs. Corbally's class, I  have learned a lot about the feeling that people have for their image. I was really surprised when I watched the videos about being too fat or people that are suffering through anorexia thought so much about their weight. It gave me a whole different perspective of this matter that I have never thought about.

well if some one was to ask me the question does my image really matter much in my life. my first answer at first would be yes. the reason i say that is because to me my looks are a huge part of my life as well as most people. i guess i am focused on my appearance a lot. i dis agree when people say appearance is  more important than who we really are. i really agree with the fact that some one can look good and just because they look good does not mean i don't care about who i really am. i know who i really am and the way i look will not change who i truly am.

yes after watching the videos in corbally class i was surprised on how people would say they are fat or they where suffering from anorexia. these movie's mostly talked about weight but not so much on what types of food we should eat. now i don't know why that was but to me it was kind of boring. the videos that we watched gave me  a whole different perspective of this. i never really thought about this before.

in class there was a question asked and it said do i think about my weight. well i don't really think about my weight. i just see my weight as it is and leave it at that. i feel if people think about there weight they must not be happy with them self's.

 A question i have is why do most people not all but most people see fat as bad and skinny as good. just a question i wonder. i think they see it that way just because most people see it that way. but i don't understand why most people see it that way. that's not a fair way to apply to someone because of there weight i think.
Overall this week has been a true eye opener to me with all this stuff about weight and how to eat. i just think if someone is happy the way they are then why pressure them into changing. cause i think people making the videos is a form of pressure as well as all the pictures of the skinny girls and boys. it really bugs me. i just think people should be able to eat what ever they want and look ho ever they want with out feeling pressured into something they are not.

Ho the Garcia Girls lost there accents. Part -1

This is the essay thing. In the first part of " how the Garcia girls lost their accents" it talks briefly about the stories that explain how the girls got to where they are now.  There is four girls named Yolanda , Carla , Sofia and Sandra. In the first of three parts its just basically telling how the girls are and how they are living.

In the very first chapter Yolanda was the person introduced. Yolanda goes back to her home town the Dominican Republic where she visits her family. When Yolanda gets there her family quickly points out how Americanized she is. She does not like that.

In the second short story i read about one of the other sitters which is Sofia. Well to me i think that Sofia is that girl that really stands out from others. it like she sticks out like a sore thumb. so it goes on to talk about this German guy named Otto. She writes him letters and in those letters they would talk about their "sexual feeling". One day Sofia father finds the letters she writes to Otto and he is very mad. He is so mad that he kicks her out the house. so Sofia goes to Europe to find Otto.

So far the book is OK not great but just good. I would think that me being confused has something to do with that. The most confusing parts to me is how the book is organized. Its like in this backward chronolocial order. that makes it hard to understand for me.  I hope as i read on it gets more clear to me. I think i just might re read the book so that way i can understand it better and get a better grasp on the story.

reflective essay

1. Choose one post. (My favorite? My least favorite? The one that surprises me the most when I reread it?) Analyze it in detail. Explain the "behind-the-scenes" of how it was written, what it truly means, where its inspiration came from, etc.

well the question has been asked what is my favorite post if i have on at all. if not what is my least favorite post.  So ever since i like been writing the post i notice some changes. no i  think that these are good changes. one of the changes that i notice once i began writing weekly blogs is that my ability to write a full page in a fewminutes has improved a whole lot. that is for sure a plus because i really use to struggle with just writing what ever. that may also be because i never really got to pick what ever i want to write about but instead what ever the teacher tells me to rite about. when you give some one the choice to write what ever they want they do it the best they can because that's what they really want to write about. but if you just tell a student write about this topic. it really becomes a little difficult.so over all blogs has improved me as a rite in a very huge positive way.

now the question you been waiting for. what is my favorite blog if i even have one and if not what is my least favorite blog. well i am not sure if i have a favorite blog. that is because i really take pride in all my writing pieces even if they are not good to other people. when i write a blog it is normally what is on my mind that day or even at that time. so i feel like my blogs are random and just each weeek has a whole ne topic than from the one in the week in the past.

there are a few blogs that are not my best work. well i think that every blog that i posted can be a lot better. the reason they are not that good as i would like them to be is because i just seem to write about what ever at that time. so yeah they seem to be a little random.as the year goes on i really hope to improve my blog writing so that both me and the person that is reading my blogs can really one hundred percent understand what i am writing about and why i am writing about that topic. i feel that every thing i write about has a reason as well as a purpose for some one else. almost as if my writing will change anothers persons thoughts on that topic. that would be really cool.

when i re read my blogs which is not a lot the one thing that surprises me is my grammar and ho i talk. i feel like i dont use big words that make me sound smart and when i type i have a lot of error. that type of stuff really makes me look bad as a person. that is like the main reason why i dont like to share my writing with others. i think that al the people or readers will do is make fun of my work so i really just rush because i get nervous. also i dont know sometimes if i should write about topics because people might call me names or make fun of me. no one likes to be made fun of. so i choose not to write about the greatest topics instead i ill just write something totally random like say sports and ho a hockey team did tonight in the game. when i know i really want to write about why i like or dis like about ASTI. topics about school seem really good to write about i am just not sure if i should write about that stuff on blogger.

so when i blog what it truly means to me is freedom that can not be expressed. what i mean by that is i have the right to say or write something about him or her that place this place ect. then again if i write about him or her that place what would the out come be. will that person look at me different will i be welcomed at that place again. so to me its really a tricky question.

when i write blogs there has to be some insertion other wise i don't think i would right blogs. now just because there is does not mean i know it. and i don't really truly know what my inperstion is. i guess you can say its me getting a good grade in English class or making my mom proud. or even earning the respect from some one say a teacher. it really seems to vary.

now over all if i could be asked the question do you like blogging every eek i would say yes. the reason i would say yes would be because i just like to write. the thing that really makes it great and makes me wont to juist write these weekly blogs is the freedom that comes with it. we are able to write about what ever and not have to worry about this not fitting what the rubric says or stuff like that. last year was hard for me in English class because of ho it was runed. we would read the really boring books that had nothing to do with us and we would then be asked to write an essay on how this book connects to us. and really there is no true connection with me and tha book. now we are reading books that i feel have at least some connection with my daily life. also me beening able to write what i want is the greastest thing ever.

Night Essay

Throughout life individuals build their morale and their faith in humanity, and many people assume that all human beings have good intentions. In the book Night by Elie Weisel he explains his physical, mental, and spiritual journey as he spends three years of his young life in a concentration camp. He realizes the atrocities that humans have the potential to commit. As Elie spends time in the concentration camp his faith in humanity deteriorates and leaves him a state of depression and loneliness. Although Elie escaped death within the concentration camps he has still become deceased.

       
   The horror that Elie has seen in the concentration camps greatly changes his out look on life , the fate of his family and his on self fate. in the first part of the book it says “ i don't want to wait here. i am going to run into the electric wire. that would be better than slow agony in the flames.”(31) this is a perfect example of Elie deciding to end his own life  it was so bad that Elie thought him dieing would be better than to live another day.

In the Begin of the book it said that Elie was a religious man and trusted in God. Once this concentration camp started he began to question why this is happening to him. After Elie saw the crematory he losses his faith in God when he sees the burning of children within society. He thought God would save him from his misfortunes , but when he saw the burning of children he lost his faith completely. On page 73 is shows a strong example of how Elie begens to question his faith. It says “it is the end. god is no longer with us”(73). This shows that Elie is no becoming deceased. Once you lose your believe in something what is the point in living anyway.

    Once someone loses there mother and sister and is sure that they will lose their father what do they think? Well it seemed like Elie was not sure if he would be better to die or to live another day. There was a sense like that the concentration camps where pulling fathers and sons a part. Like in the book there was this action that had a boy kill his own father just for food. To me i think this would not tear a father and son apart but instead bring then closer. in the text is says “ don't talk like that father i don't want you to say that. keep the spoon and the knife. we shall see each other again.(71). To me this shows how close a father and son can be even if an item is so valuable it may decide life or death.

   
 Thought the whole book “Night” i never was sure up in tell the end if Elie was going to make it. Al the pain he went through. Every thing he saw threw his watered eyes. Him even questioning god the one he believed in. After All of that i would still think that this boy would change and try his best to erase it from is mind.just because Elie escaped physical death does not mean he will escaped mental death.

night essay

Throughout life individuals build their morale and their faith in humanity, and many people assume that all human beings have good intentions. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel he explains his physical, mental, and spiritual journey as he spends three years of his young life in a concentration camp. He realizes the atrocities that humans have the potential to commit. As Elie spends time in the concentration camp his faith in humanity deteriorates and leaves him a state of depression and loneliness. Although Elie escaped death within the concentration camps he has still become deceased.

          The horror that Elie has seen in the concentration camps greatly changes his out look on life , the fate of his family and his on self fate. in the first part of the book it says “ i don't want to wait here. i am going to run into the electric wire. that would be better than slow agony in the flames.”(31) this is a perfect example of Elie deciding to end his own life  it was so bad that Elie thought him dieing would be better than to live another day.

In the Begin of the book it said that Elie was a religious man and trusted in God. Once this concentration camp started he began to question why this is happening to him. After Elie saw the crematory he losses his faith in God when he sees the burning of children within society. He thought God would save him from his misfortunes , but when he saw the burning of children he lost his faith completely. On page 73 is shows a strong example of how Elie begins to question his faith. It says “it is the end. god is no longer with us”(73). This shows that Elie is no becoming deceased. Once you lose your believe in something what is the point in living anyway.

    Once someone loses there mother and sister and is sure that they will lose their father what do they think? Well it seemed like Elie was not sure if he would be better to die or to live another day. There was a sense like that the concentration camps where pulling fathers and sons a part. Like in the book there was this action that had a boy kill his own father just for food. To me i think this would not tear a father and son apart but instead bring then closer. in the text is says “ don't talk like that father i don't want you to say that. keep the spoon and the knife. we shall see each other again.(71). To me this shows how close a father and son can be even if an item is so valuable it may decide life or death. the

    Thought the whole book “Night” i never was sure up in tell the end if Elie was going to make it. Al the pain he went through. Every thing he saw threw his watered eyes. Him even questioning god the one he believed in. After All of that i would still think that this boy would change and try his best to erase it from is mind.just because Elie escaped physical death does not mean he will escaped mental death.

my free way to learn

Though some people may think all humans learn the same, the abilities to learn are endless. Some of the more major ways of learning are interpersonal, spatial, body kinesthetic, logical/ mathematical, music/rhythmic and verbal/linguistic intelligence. All of theses different types of learning styles are not for every person but there are a few that seem to fit my learning skills. An analysis of the learning styles exposes different abilities that people use to acquire intelligence.

          

    The first learning style that I seem to work well with is Interpersonal intelligence. Interpersonal intelligence is when people need to talk with one another and listen to each other in order to be successful in every thing they do. They have to interact with other people.  Doctor Thomas Armstrong once stated “We are also social animals who thrive and grow when involved with others” (wwwthomasarmstrong.com). This shows that without people physically seeing and interacting with one another, they are not able to grow. The way people can’t grow is by not talking to one another or not making a conversation among each other or just being unsocial.  Interpersonal learners such as myself need to be able to socialize in the real world in order to be successful. Doctor Thomas Armstrong said “Interpersonal intelligence is seen in how we notice distinction among others; in particular contrast in their moods, temperaments and intentions” (wwwthomasarmstrong.com).. This shows that interpersonal intelligence can be seen lots of ways. This is because peoples moods, temperaments and intentions are a big part of there life. Being an interpersonal learner helps me because I can feel safer talking with others in order to learn.

The second style that I and acquire use Spatial intelligence. Spatial intelligence is a learning ability that is most commonly seen in how people comprehend pictures and figures. Doctor Thomas Armstrong said once “to tap our spatial intelligence is commonly seen in how we comprehend shapes and images in three dimensions.” (wwwthomasarmstrong.com). This shows that the spatial intelligence is a good use for remembering things. For me, if I see an image it seems to stick in my memory even if that was not the intention. This is because our body interprets different ways of intelligence. When the eye sees an image or images in three dimensions it seems to stay in ones memory. Doctor Armstrong also stated “advances in neuroscience have now provided researchers with clear-cut proof of the role of Spatial Intelligence in the right hemisphere of the brain” (wwwthomasarmstrong.com). This shows that now there is evidence to back up the statement that people who see images can re see them in there mind. This is because the scientists have researched enough to find proof of spatial intelligence. Being a Spatial intelligence learner helps me because I can take a picture of an image in my mind and be able to play that image back in my mind later.

In conclusion, the learning styles that I acquire expose different abilities that all help me in a way that I can be a successful learner. The importance or self awareness is very crucial because if I don’t know my learning habits then how am I going to be successful in the learning habits that fit. Well the learning styles that most people acquire are a lot different from one another. I have some goals for my three learning styles and that is simply to succeed in all of the learning styles I feel like I acquire.

response to middle school.

i miss middle school just as much as Bany Juaregui. In one of her blog posts she states:

   I remembered the times I had with friends at middle school. I remember always hanging out, not really doing work. I never studied for test and I did my homework about five minutes before class, I never really needed to do anything because middle school was so easy.

First i would like to say that i went to Chipman middle school in Alameda. I went to that school for all three years. it was not a bad school but it was not the greatest middle school ever. i guess when i first got there i thought it would be very difficult. It later turned out to be a super fun experience.

The statement that bany makes is one that i can kind of agree with. well i first agree with having a blast in middle school and hanging out with great Friends also. There was a nice feeling i would have as i walked don the halls. it was a lot different than fifth grade. The only part that was the same was the way my classmates acted. Other than that it was like another world. We had lockers instead of desk Cobbie's. we had p.e every day and not only one day out of the week. e even had a class for every subject. it was great.

I really can not agree when Bany says there was not a lot of work or he never had to study for test. All that i really seem to disagree with. when i was in middle school it was not that easy. if we didn't do our homework we would not get good grades on the test because that was a form of studying. it was very important for us to make sure we did our homework and understand what we were doing. Middle school for me was no piece of cake. it was very hard for me to make that adjustment. but after that first year of middle school things started to get brighter. everything was coming to me. i was not having such a hard time like i did in the first year. i really feel that my second year was a huge leap.

Bany says he misses middle school because he did not have to do any work. well i really do miss middle school but it was not because i had no work to do. part of his problem was because he must still be use to those middle school ways. so i think it is very important for him to make the transition from not doing work to doing homework every night for the rest of high school and collage also. there will not be a no studying test and passing happing in high school is the real deal. there is no fooling around as a teacher would say.

so i really hope that Bany makes the change of not doing homework at the last minutes because that will make life hard and also studying for your test and not take it lightly. High school should not be taken as a joke so get serious and make a good name for your self.

Quick write-video games

The effect that video games have on people who play them can be both viewed in a positive way and a negative way.An example of this would be a ten year old boy who plays sport games such as NBA2k10 and Madden NFL.That ten year old boy is not likely to do something bad because that's not what the video game is doing. He is more likely to go to the park and shoot hoops or play catch with a football. No if you take that same ten year old boy and let him play a game like "grand theft auto" he is more likely to want to kill , hurt and steal things from people. that's what he saw in the game and it was OK then so why would it not be OK for him to do in the real world.

The way video games might have a effect on society also matters on ho you look at that video game. If people are playing sports games or cartoon games i can not really see harm in that. If people are playing video games like shot em up type then i see the word  harm written all over the cover. i feel that if you play such a harmful game for a over period of time it does something to your brain. It is almost like you are living in that harmful game. then that's when the video game stops being a video game and becomes your daily life.

The effect video games might have on someones culture is also depends on ho you look at it.there are some video games that really seem to have a big impact on ones culture. For example there are games that are made to kill Indians. the people that kill the Indians are cowboys. that to me seems highly offencive. But Indians has nothing to do with culture. yes but the Indian culture in these video games are being mocked and turned into a joke and its not OK.

so overall i do feel like video games has an effect on this world. but it truly all depends on ho you look at that game , who is playing that  game and why was that game made for. The most important part about playing video games is to play them not let them play you.

response to andy

I found this quote in Andy's blog.

Maybe I should just deactivate my account? Or just delete it totally? But, I would feel so left out in updates about my friends. In addition, I would also feel left out when my friends talk about Facebook and I did not see the post or comment. I do not know what to do. I wonder how long Facebook will be part of my life. 5 years? 10 years? 50 years? We'll have to see...  

Well i would first like to say that i love facbook. My freshman year at ASTI every one was telling me john get a facebook so e can talk. So i did and every since then i have been using facbook to talk with my friends and do other stuff to like play games and practice my computer farming skills. That's ill farmvill of course.

Next i would like to ask Andy why do you think you are going to miss out on something that your friends may post or comment. If they really had something to tell you that was important i think they would call you or tell you at school. So don't feel like your being left out because truly you are not.

You also said you are not sure what you should do. Well i think you should just limit your self to using facebook. There is no reason why you should deactivate your account because you must enjoy it. so hy erase something in your life that you seem to enjoy so much. What i mean by limit is limit your time you spent on facebook. Maybe you can do your homework first and then spent maybe an hour on facebook. That way you make sure your homework is complete. Also if you only spent an hour on facebook that lives other time for reading , hanging out ith friends, or even going to sleep.

You say you don't know how long facebook will be a part of your life. My answer to that would be as long as you want it to be. Facebook may end up being ith you for the rest of your life and that's OK. As long as you limit your self using facebook there is nothing wrong. so i hope i was helpful and wish you the best ith your facebook  problem.

Calvino Resonse essay

In both The Aquatic uncle , and The Dinosaurs , Q is torn between to worlds.

In the story The Dinosaur , Q is the last one of his kind on the planet. So over time he stayed in the mountains. One day Q had decided to come down but he as secret about it. One day when Q is getting something to drink he sees a "new one". So he sneaks up behind her. So as one might do hen they have not seen a creature like that before they would ask questions. In the text it said "if i anted to save myself, i should tear her from limb from limb at once."(98) What this quote shows is Q's natural Dinosaur insect but he anted to fit in with the new world so he had decided he should not tear her from limb to limb.

It seems like  feels like the "new ones" are on to him. As if they think he really is a Dinosaur. In the book "The Dinosaur Q says Not that i never became completely use to the idea: i alays felt like a dinosaur in the midst of enemies, and every evening , hen they stared telling stories of the dinosaur , i hung back in the shadows , my nerves on edge. What this quote shows is Q is not sure if they found out if he as a dinosaur. I f they were to find out about Q would they accept him for who he is. What should Q do? Should he try to fit in with the "new ones" or go back to being a dinosaur.

Even thought Q is the last dinosaur left on Earth i think he is not to up set ith that. Q really wants to fit in but i think him becoming more like the "new ones" will not solve his problem of wanting to fit in. In the text Q says "they all have something i know , that made then some ho superior to me , sublime , something that made me , compared to them , mediocre. and yet i would not trades places ith any of them".(82) What this quote shows is yes Q ants to fit in but no matter what he would always feel like they were better then him.

Response to Swag.

This is from keilands blog .

Swag is something that many people are not born with. You have to (as the definition said) "Swag up" . By doing this you are having your own unique style , or you are confident in the style you already have. Confidence is a HUGE piece of having swag.

Well i will first like to ask where do you get these definitions from? Do you just make them up? Is there even a true definition of "swag"? Would you say that you have "swag"?

You say that swag is having your own unique style. Last i checked most people including you don't make up your style you just copy it from someone else. So because you don't have your own unique style that must mean that you don't have swag either. Yes you did also say that confidence is a huge piece of having swag. I do for the most part agree this  statement. The reason i think swag can be important is only because it has to do with someones confidence. If you do not even have self confidence in your self then way bother. This is a big problem in my mind because hat happens if someone says you don't have swag  will that affect some ones confidence.

Another question i have is if every one is not born with Swag does that also mean that they don't have confidence in them self? I feel like the way you make swag seem is not a real positive thing but instead a negative thing. So when you say you have swag can that even be looked upon as a good thing? So my last question is if you have swag Keiland is it such a wonderful thing as you try to make it seem.

NFL week #3

All ready in the third week on the NFL regular season and its a good one. With a huge shock to the Dallas 0-2 start and the Minnesota Vikings also with a 0-2 start it just adds excitement to Sunday. There are some big surprises in the first two weeks such as the Kansas City 2-0 start and even the Tampa Bay Bucks with a 2-0 start. This is looking like its going to shape up into the weirdest NFL season in a long time.

Some of the games that will be played on Sunday in week three are Atlanta @ New Orleans, Buffalo @ New England, Cincinnati @ Carolina , Dallas @ Houston , Detroit @Minnesota , Pittsburgh @ Tampa Bay , San Francisco @ Kansas City , Tennessee @ NY Giants , Indianapolis @ Denver , Oakland @ Arizona , Philadelphia @ Jacksonville , San Diego @ Seattle , Washington @ St. Louis , NY Jets @ Miami  and on Monday Night Green Bay @ Chicago.

All of these games are going to be great games. I think that New Orleans will take care of Atlanta and keep going on there 2-0 record. Another really big game is going to be Dallas and the Houston game because if the Dallas Cowboys lose another game there hopes of going to the Super bowl is very little. One of the Bay area teams also have a huge game against Kansas City. The 49ers have lose both of there games and if they lose another i don't know if the will even make the playoffs.

My favorite team in the NFL is the Oakland Raiders. So i am really hoping that they play a strong game and come out with there second game against the Arizona Cardinals. That would be a huge win for the Raiders to have the chance to go 2-1.

So tell me your predictions of week #3 and whats your favorite football team.

Vocab List

1.Acquisition
2.Mechanism
3.Criteria
4.Variable
5.Crucial
6.Dynamic
7.Tension
8.Subsidiary

My little brother

I have a younger brother who plays pop wanner football. His name is Richard David Hamilton but every one calls him David. He is elven years old and is in the fifth grade at Ruby Bridges school. He has been playing football for two years now and is getting really good at it. The position he played his first year was running back and Conner back. Now in his second year he is playing Conner back. He loves the position of Conner back because he says he want to be the person to pick the ball off and run it back for the winning touchdown.

Davids first year playing football he was rally nervous and was not sure if he would be that good. The team he played for was the Alameda pirates. A very strong team that had one goal and that was to win the championship game. David is a very small kid who only weighted 70 pounds when he first played. He was fast as can be and that really seemed to play in his favor. The first game David played i was very excited to see how  would he do. The whole game he didn't make a single mistake. As would be true for the most part in the season. At the end of his first football season he recorded two picks and a touchdown off of one.

David is now in his second season of football and now plays for the golden Jr. bears. Witch is a very good team. David did get a little more weight on him which can help when playing a sport like football. He also got some experience under his belt so now he has a better clue how the game works. So far in the three games he has played he has a interception than he ran for 20 yards.

I am extremely proud of my little brother in every thing he is doing and i just wish him the best in football and hope he gets that touchdown he is looking for this season. Go golden Jr. bears!

Respond to Swagga-style

This quote was written by Aleah.I think fashion is an expression of who you are, I;m not saying every white person who wants to, try and dress black I'm not saying that. But I think styles have to fit you inside and out. Just because you may feel like your black doesn't mean you are. I'm not being racist but still.

First off I would like to say that Aleah makes a very bold statement.This might be a very bold statement does not mean that it is true. i really seem to disagree with some of the things she brings up but Aleah does make some strong points in her blog.

What i don't seem to under stand from Aleah's blog is how do you dress black or white. What does she mean by black or white because if she means race that's not what that race is called. Race is not a color. Also people have the right to dress how ever they please so you have no right to say people who are white should not dress like black people because it does not look right. Style is not chose by race but is chose by society.

I do agree with some of the things she puts out on her blog such as when she says "fashion comes from who you are" That statement really is true because fashion is all about getting some one to look at you or draw other peoples attention for the better because the way you dress. Also there is the possibility that a guy or girl saw a famous person wearing a cool outfit so for them to be cool like that famous person they have to wear what that famous person wears. So there is always going to be the people who dress how they want because they like it and there are going to be people who dress like him/her in order to feel accept by their peers.

So what i basically am trying to say is drees the way you want to drees it does not matter if that race dress like that more just do what makes you as a person happy. If that means dressing like that famous actor then drees like him in order to feel accepted.

ASTI constitution

 i like this quote because it shows a lot of creativity. i found this quote on Vanessa

A lot of people think that the reason behind bullying others is because of insecurity and the want to make them feel better about themselves by making others feel so low. The truth behind it all is that it is just the way that girls act. It can also happen with boys, but with girls it is more common because drama comes naturally to us. Not all girls have insecurity issues.

 This quote relates to the ASTI constitution because it states that bullies have a reason for doing certain things to other people.That reason is to make them sevles feel better than others. The number one rule listed on the ASTI consisution is that we should always think before we say something. Normally a bully wont think about what he is about to say or that bully wont care about the other people's feeling and say it anyways.Another big rule on the ASTI constitution is to accept people for who they really are. That means not to juge someone because they are differnt than you. Normally a bully will pick on that person who seems to be a lot differnt than every one else.Thats because they are differnt and just because that may be true doesnt give that bully the right to talk about someone or to make fun of that person. The reason i think bullys are the way they are is because they dont feel good about them selves. When they dont feel good about them selves to make them selves feel better they just pick on others and make those other people feel low which makes the bully feel high. Even sometimes a bully might not no he or she is bulying others all the time but its up to that bully to change their self and not bully other people.

just kidding and ganging up

A time when I was apart of an alliance that made some one else feel bad was when I was in middle school. Some of the things we would do was make fun of how people dressed or if the weren’t good at a sport like football or basketball or even if they would get a good grade on a test. All of those reasons were seen as bad. This really made me feel bad and to this day I wish I never did the things I did in middle school. The reason I would do all of those mean hurtful things to people was because the system was either your with us (meaning the big bad group) or your on your own. If you were one of those people out there on your own that wasn’t good because that could mean you are the next person most likely to be made fun of. I did have the option of not joining bad people groups but I wanted to feel “safe” and not be the kid that gets picked on but instead be the one help picking on the other kid. I wish I could go back and make the choice of not joining that group of kids that picked on others because even if I might be one of those kids that might get picked on I would know that I was one less person contributing to the bully/bullies. The reason I thing people bully one another is because they are not safe with them selves. The other reason I think some people bully is because if you’re a bully you are the toughest person at your school so you don’t have to worry about someone else bullying you because you are the bully. What makes a bully want to hurt there peers I think is that have so much anger in them and it just builds up inside then so they have to take it out on some one ands its not likely to be a teacher so they take there anger out on there peers instead.