Friday, December 3, 2010

SettIng As The World

At the first place i lived in, it was a small apartment. In this apartment many events took place, but the kitchen is where I learned how to do something that I will never forget how to do ever in my life. I was home alone one day and i got hungry., My parents wouldn't be home until the next day, and my brother was somewhere that i didn't know. I went into the refrigerator and looked for something that i didn't involve me cooking, because i have never cooked a day in my life. Nothing was there, checking 2 and 3 times in the same box, I couldn't find a thing. I was force to try and cook something. I looked in the cabinets above the sink and found pancake mix. I went and found pans that i needed and everything from drawers next to the sink. I read the back of the pancake box carefully, following the directions. I made the pancakes all by myself and i felt very accomplished. I had to pour the pancake mix into a bowl, add water, and stir it until it was smooth. Already preheating the skillet on the gas stove, I poured the pancake batter into the skillet. It immediately began to cook. I read on the box that I flip the pancake when i see bubbles at the top of it. After waiting on the bubbles, i flipped the pancake gracefully. I then let it cook until it wasn't gooey any more. After it was done i took the pancake out of the skillet, put it on a plate, put butter on it, cut it into little squares, poured syrup on it, and ate it. I was very proud of myself. I will always know how to cook myself pancakes.

More and more farmers and food manufacters are genetically modifying their crops to reduce susceptibility to disease, improve flavor, and reduce costs. Do you think genetically modifying food is a good idea? Why or why not?

When you genetically modifying food, you are changing the form of the food. You can make it look a certain way(make it look perfect so people will be attracted to it). Let's say you have a tomatoe for example. Most organic tomatoes do not look like the ideal, "perfect," tomatoe. It may have a little bruse in it or something. Color may not be right on, or everything will be fine with it, but it just is not a right size. When a farmer or food manufactor genetically modifies the tomatoe, he or she can change anything about the tomatoe to make it look like the "ideal tomatoe." The ideal tomatoe is a nice round bright red good sized tomatoe. When you put the chemicals and modify this tomatoe, you do not know if any person is allergic to these things, so you are taking a big risk with their life. When the farmer or manufactor modifies this tomatoe, they are taking some of the nutrition value out of the tomatoe. So the consumer that eats it may only get barely any, if any at all, nutrition from the genetically modified tomatoe, opposed from the organic tomatoe where you are getting all the nutritients from it. I think food should not have any genetic modifying to it at all.
People need to eat their fruits and vegetables everyday because it is good for their body. The nutrients from the fruits and vegetables that every man, woman, and child is suppose to get, helps them all keep their body healthy and in tip top shape. If they do not get those nutrients then their body will not be in the good health that it should be in, and the imune system will go down causing one to get sick, and be vunerable to deadly diseases. When farmers and food manufactors are genetically modifying food, the food itself loses a lot of the nutrients. The nutritional value of the food goes down, less people eat vegetables, and more people get sick. Some foods can lose all of their nutrients and be basically nothing.
Genetically modifying food is bad. I know it may lower the cost of the food, improve the flavor, and reduce susceptibility to disease, but it takes away from the nutrients that come with that food. To stop the disease, the consumer should wash the food off before eating, and the farmer should take percautions when producing the food. If you want to have a healthy body, and want your children to grow up with healthy bodies and good imune systems, genetically modified foods will be no more. And these foods with good nutrients will be eaten by all. Just stop all of it and the world we know today will be better.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Persuade principle to alllow students to keep field trips. 7th Semester Essay

A child is the future of the world that we all live in today. The children of today are our leaders of tomorrow. They need the most that they can get while they are young and before they have to pay for everything they do, or want to do in life. Why would you want to deprive innocent children in the need of education, for an experience that can probably change their life? Why take something away from them that they will never get to experience in their life again? Take something away from yourself, do not take anything from the children.
If a child goes on field trips to different places, it exposes them to different things. At home they may not see the different options that the world has. Not all then children at our school are financially stable. If they ever wanted to go to some of the places now, without being with the school, they more than likely will not be able to go. Even though we have to pay for grad night, the price for it is still cheaper than a Disneyland ticket. If we do not go with the school, most of us will never go to Disneyland in our life. I know I have never been to Disneyland before, and I probably would not plan on ever going. I would like to go and get the experience of the magical place on earth. If you take away that, I will never be able to go. There are field trips where we get to go to college campuses. To a high school student, if you see a college campus and like it so much, you may be inspired to go to college. You may want to have that experience that will make
your future much more bright than what is in store for young and older minorities. There are some students that do not think about going to college and just want to work after high school. If they get to go to colleges and look at them and get the feel for it, it may inspire them to go.
If you just need to save money, why look into taking stuff from the kids? Why can’t you take away stuff form yourself? Maybe you can get a small pay cut, and take away a little from every teacher so that the children do not have to suffer. Take away some of the free breaks that the students get so the school can get money for when children come to school. Students should not even have to sacrifice that though. The teachers should come up with a way where money can be saved or more can be produce so that nothing is taken away from our future leaders.
We the students should not have our field trips taken away form us, the remainder of the school year. It does not allow us to experience new things that will make a huge difference, and impact our lives greatly. If money needs to be saved the teachers and the principle should take something away from themselves. School is all about the children and getting them ready and helping them for the future, isn’t it?

You are asked to write an article about a person newly arrived from another country. Discuss the kinds of information you would include

When someone comes here from another country, it’s most likely going to be a bit difficult to adjust to. So to make it easier, there are things that other people from other countries who would like to come here should know. Say you’re coming in from Canada; things that change and you need to consider are things like money or currency exchange. Canadian money is different from us money so they need to make sure that they make the switch and understand it. Another example could be if you were coming in from let’s say China, the language difference is huge. To do pretty much anything in another country, you need to be able to communicate. So learning the language is very crucial. If you can’t learn the language nor just don’t want to, that’s fine, just make sure you are with people you can trust and who do speak the dominant language and can relay it to you as well. Another thing you would need to know is probably basic things like, laws you have to abide by, road rules you need to learn, stuff like that. Once you’ve got all that down packed your pretty much all good to go and you’ll fit in just fine.

Describe a master plan that would make your community a better place to live

Everyone these days are stressing how important it is to make your community a better place to live. I believe that there efforts to stress it are very important because who wouldn’t love to be a part of a better community or better anything? So, here’s my master plan to help those who want to help make their communities a better place to live. First off, the key ingredients to making this plan work is your time, effort, and desire to improve the community you live in. If you have those few things, the rest should be a walk in the park. So after you’ve achieved those three key things, first, you’ll need to take action. Be aggressive in your efforts, step up and look for things on your own that can use your help. Second, volunteer you, your time, and money. Make yourself completely available as much as possible and in any way possible. Third, be involved in things small and big like planting flowers to neighborhood watch. Find things to get involved in. And lastly, just be patient, all change doesn’t happen overnight so just keep working and watch your work gradually make a difference in your communities.

Describe a vegetable that you truly don’t like

A lot of people don’t like vegetables at all, but me, I like most veggies but only if they are served or cooked right. It makes all the difference and makes it much tastier to eat and enjoy. One vegetable I truly dislike though, just so happens to be the nasty little round reddish things called radishes. They are extremely gross and they make me want to through up if I am ever forced to eat them. They are a mix between a bit of spicy, bitter, and just plain nasty. It has a distinct taste but definitely not in a good way. To me, they have such a gross taste to them and when you bite them, it’s like biting into an apple but much less satisfying and enjoyable. The one thing that’s pretty cool about them is that they don’t really smell like anything, but don’t let that fool you because they taste like absolute crap (not really, just a figure of speech, but I’m just trying to emphasize how disgusting they are!!!). Anyways, radishes are usually pretty small and cute looking but there taste and looks are far from similar. I don’t understand how anyone could possibly like to eat radishes, I mean they are jut repulsive and the thought of someone wanting to eat them is just crazy. No matter how you cook cut or try and enhance them, I just can’t eat them. I think I’ll just stick with all the other veggies.

Explain the causes and effects of prejudice

A problem in the world that has been going on for a very long time is prejudice. It's a growing and dangerous problem that is almost impossible to fix. The problem I'm talking about is prejudice. Prejudice could be caused by a lot of things for example fear of the unknown or things that are different, pride from thinking they are superior, more important or better than someone/something else, and even plain ignorance to the world around them and the people/things around them. There are different kinds of prejudice that people take part in. Different kinds are against people of another race, of a different religion, of a different sexuality, and many other types. All these prejudices are dangerous whether they are acted upon or not because they are stemmed from bad opinions and thoughts people make about someone or something. A lot of prejudices are influenced opinions, thoughts, or feelings from another person onto someone else and they run with it. You may not have experienced why you shouldn't like this race or that sexuality but maybe someone in your family or one of your friends have so you feel the need to share the same opinions, thoughts, and feelings as well. Some effects of these prejudices are everlasting and scarring for the people who are targeted. There have been many times throughout history when the people on the other end of prejudices have been greatly affected and it lead to many horrible acts that could have been prevented.

Explain the causes and effects of impulsive buying

Going shopping and spending some money here and there once in a while is normally fun and harmless. After all, if you work hard for your money you should be able to spend some on yourself sometimes right? Well yes, you should. But, there becomes a time when some people shop and spend uncontrollably. It's called impulsive buying and it's quite a dangerous thing. There are people out there who deal with this issue and it could be ruining them. People who buy and shop impulsively could have started for many reasons. They could have started because they love to shop and just can't get enough of it, or they feel happy doing it so they feel it's necessary to do it, or they need to make sure they have the latest and best stuff so they just buy up everything, or even, they could have the money and just don't know what else to do with it so they decide to buy buy buy. All these things could affect someone’s life greatly and negatively because you could be spending your life away and end up with no money and a lot of stuff. It's an addiction an when you run out of money to support it, you do drastic things to support your addiction which can lead you to doing illegal and harmful things that not only affect you, but the people around you as well.

Explain pollution to a visitor from another planet

Visitor from another planet:
First off I'd like to say welcome to planet earth. I am pleased to introduce myself as your host and welcome to my beloved planet. You can also think of me as your informant. I will tell you all you need to know about my planet including one if the most terrible things that happens here on earth called pollution. Before I continue, I feel like I should go in depth and explain to you this thing called pollution. Well to give you a bit of a definition of pollution which is it is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment such as air or water. Things that pollute air and water are relatively pretty harmless like when people throw their trash into the ocean or rivers, or when people spray perfume or cologne while trying to freshen themselves up a bit. While those things are somewhat harmless to us humans, there are things that aren't. Some things like cigarette smoke. Cigarettes are little sticks of a drug called tobacco and people smoke them. They are terrible for our lungs but people do it anyways and not only do they hurt themselves but they hurt people who are around them. The smoke that comes from the cigarette pollutes the air and people close enough can breathe it in. It's a deadly toxin and can even kill people with a disease called lung cancer. 

You must pass a college admissions test. Explain what you have to do to achieve this goal

If you want to get into college, one of the things you absolutely have to do is pass the college admissions test. It is very important for your future and it is crucial for you to do well on it. The college admission test is pretty much just like any other test you have to take in high school except it's probably a little bit more important than the usual ones. Just like any other important tests, there are ways to ensure that you do well on this one as well. For example, there is not a test that you cannot study for; college admission tests are no different. Study until you know as much as possible. There are books available for you to read and even websites to study from as well. Make sure that you study ahead of time and not wait until the very last minute to do so because that's always a bad idea. Also just like any other important test, you want to make sure that you have a good night’s rest. You don't want to go to bed late, wake up early, and take the test tired because you won't be able to focus and chances are you won't do very well. So go to sleep at a reasonable time. Also make sure when you wake up, be sure to eat breakfast. You don't want your stomach distracting you. Most importantly, don’t out stress about it. Relax and focus and you’ll do just fine.

Describe your favorite game. Explain why it is your favorite game

My most favorite game to play has to be basketball. I really enjoy the game because it’s challenging and fun. It can be difficult to play and understand for some people, but for me, it's easy to get the hang of because I’ve played for so long. It never gets old because there are a lot of different things you can keep improving on. There are so many new things to do in the game of basketball because of the many aspects of it. There are simple fundamental things like shooting, dribbling, and passing. Those in itself can be difficult for people who don't have very good hand eye coordination but are extremely easy once you've developed a way that works for you. Next you have more complex things like offense, defense, and plays. Offense usually involves most of the fundamental things but at a faster pace and precise execution to get the ball in the basket. Defense involves a lot of movement without the ball. You guard the people on offense and make it as difficult as possible for them to score and even try to take the ball away before they even get a chance. Over years, people have changed the game of basketball and made it more exciting and physically challenging to play. Everyone plays it different and there's not necessarily a right and wrong to it so you can play it how you want just as long as you follow the general rules of the game.

With the hope of preserving family history, describe the kinds of questions to ask an older relative

Family history is such an important thing for people of all ages. It’s important to know your family background and history because it’s a part of what has shaped you into the kind of person you are today. A great way to try and preserve your family history is by simply talking and listening to an older relative. They are the best candidates to tell you all about your history because they have lived some of it and have maybe been told by one of their older relatives when they were younger. All you have to do is talk to them, listen to what they have to say. Most of the older family members or people in general love to talk about their past and childhood or young adulthood anyways so just ask them. You can ask them questions that take them back to "a time when…" and have them tell you all about it. You can even ask questions like "why do we call this that?" or "why is this like that?", all really good trigger questions. More really great ways to find out about your family history is by having your older relatives just sit and tell lots of stories dealing with anything and everything they have experienced. Have them go deep in their memories and have them share them with you, everything they remember. Have them talk about times when they sat and talked with their parents or grandparents about family history. You’ll learn a lot.

You want to buy a new state of the art computer. Detail the steps you would have to take to ensure that you will make an appropriate decision regarding this major investment

When buying anything you want to make sure that it is something you really want to invest in, use frequently, and pay money for. You want to make sure it’s worth buying. Well, buying a new state of the art is absolutely no different. When buying a new computer, there are a lot of different things you have to check out and look at. You don’t want to waste your money on some old piece of crap that doesn’t even work right? So here’s what you might want to look at when trying to buy a new state of the art computer. First off, find a computer and brand that suits you the best. You might want to do your research and see what kind will fit you and work with you the best. Then, find out all the information on it you can. Go in depth and find out information on stuff like: its speed which will tell you how good it runs, its ergonomics which is basically telling you how it physically works like how easy the keyboard or touch pad is to use and even case design, its display which could be its screen quality (clarity, contrast, viewing angle), its multimedia and features within that, its speakers like how loud they go or how responsive they are, and if you’re buying a laptop, you can check battery life and its longevity along with the weight of the computer and durability. And finally enjoy your perfectly picked computer.

Brothers and sisters do not always get along. Describe the kinds of problems this discord creates in families and the best way to handle a situation like this

Having siblings definitely has its ups and downs. There are lots of good things about having a brother or sister, like, having someone to talk to, someone to hang out with, or when you’re younger, even someone to play with. But, it’s not always fine and dandy or all smiles. Brothers and sisters are almost always compelled to fight, argue, and disagree with each other. It’s pretty much inevitable and there’s nothing really you can do about it. It starts from early ages like when kids are young and fight over simple stuff like toys or more complex things like attention. But as they get older, it gets worse. Around the teenage years is when most siblings clash because they’re coming into their own person and they all have their own views, opinions, and thoughts so they don’t always agree. They all want to be right and they all want to be in control so of course that’s going to create problems. What you can do to help minimize these sibling rivalries is by helping them see each other’s point of views and taking them in to consideration. Help them to be a little more selfless and always keep an open mind. They need to understand that it’s ok to disagree with each other but no disagreement should go too far and be too serious. Also, teach them to remember that they are family and they need to stick together and no fight or disagreement is more important than that.

Explain how to choose the right college

When you’re in high school, choosing the right college can be really hard and stressful. You have all these options of great schools in great places with great courses but you can only choose one and there is so much pressure to make sure your decision is the right one. After all, your future does kind of sort of depend on it right? So, how do you do it? How do you know you’re making the right choice? Well, first off, when you’re applying to colleges, make sure you look at colleges that have what you need and everything about it. Make sure they have exactly what you need to succeed and get closer to your lifetime career and make sure its somewhere you would like to spend a lot of your time being. Arrange a campus tour and talk with people from there like administers or counselors to get a feel of the campus and campus life. After you’ve found some colleges that you’re interested in, rank them. Choose the one you most want to go to and make that your number one. Go from there with your second, third, and so on choices. Next, apply to all of them. You never know if you’re going to get accepted to your first choice so you always have backups and options. Lastly, see what colleges you have gotten into and pick the one that was ranked your highest out of the choices you are given and you’re on your way.

Explain what you should do if you want to end a relationship

There are a lot of tough things about being in relationships. All the hard work put into them just to make sure they last but, when you have done all you can for the relationship and it just is not working anymore, you have to end it. Ending a relationship is never easy and is probably one of the most difficult things to do. Some people want to end relationships but don’t for such reasons as, they don’t know how because they never have before, can’t take the guilt of hurting someone, or even because they plain just don’t want to do it. There are people out there that don’t end relationships but start new ones. That is definitely not the safest way to go with this sort of thing and it is much easier to just end the one relationship than to be stuck in the middle of two. So, to end a relationship is first make certain it’s what you want to do. It’s difficult trying to deal with knowing you made a mistake and the chance of winning them back is usually slim to none, so make sure. Second, never end a relationship in the worst possible way by disrespecting the other person in any way, remember this might affect them deeply so try and make it as easy as possible. Always do it with respect. Lastly, be honest. Tell them exactly why you are ending it no matter how hard it may be, tell the truth.

Discuss reasons for appreciating your parents

As a child, you see your parents as people who just "do", the people who take care of you and meet your every need simply because they don’t have a choice. Well, actually, yes they do. I think most parents are probably heavily taken advantage of and not appreciated enough for all they do for their kids. I know there are a good amount of parents who neglect their parental responsibilities, but, most parents actually do a lot for us and we don’t even recognize and appreciate them for it. For instance, most parents make sure we have a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, food in our stomachs, shoes on our feet, electricity in our house, warm water for our showers, and even (dare I say) an education. They even make sure you have all the extra stuff like cell phones, Ipods, computers, etc. Parents have been "doing" for us kids since day one. They’ve changed diapers, fed us, cleaned us, watched over and protected us, things we couldn’t do for ourselves. They even went beyond all the concrete things of raising us to the intangible things such as love and teaching us values and necessities like right from wrong, good and bad, and the most important, reading, writing, and talking. I think it’s safe to say that if it wasn’t for your parents, you couldn’t even text! Crazy right? Anyways, parents deserve a round of applause and maybe even more special days dedicated just for them.

Describe your favorite season and explain why it is your favorite

My most favorite season of the year is definitely Winter. I really enjoy winter because the kind of weather that comes in around that time of year is amazing. It’s nice and cold and sometimes rains, cloudy, or even gloomy. I’m the type of person who would much rather be cold than hot so winter is perfect for me. In this season, you can stay in and make a hot beverage like some hot chocolate with marshmallows, tea with honey, or lattes with whipped cream on top, and sit by the fire with your blankets on and watch some television, or make family time with board games or cards. You could even go out and still feel great with because all you have to do is put on your winter coat and some warm shoes and you’re good to go. Winter has all these great aspects like the weather and the special holiday of Christmas! Who doesn’t like Christmas? It’s one of those special times of year when everything seems to be pretty good. At night you can see all the decorations and lights people put on their lawns and houses, stores have specials and certain sales, Starbucks has their special seasonal drinks and treats out, you suddenly have a craving for eggnog and cookies, and all that good stuff that comes with winter. It’s the perfect time of the year.

Tell how you can make a new friend

How to make a new friend:
Making friends is one thing that is almost essential in these early ages of your life, simply because everyone wants and or needs friends right? So here is how you make a new friend:
1. First, one of the best ways of making a new friend is by easily talking to someone you don't know. Start a conversation with the girl or boy sitting next to you in your English class, or someone getting the same fruit as you in a grocery store, or even someone you see every day but never really talk to. They could possibly be your best friend and you wouldn't even know it.
2. Next, exchange contact info. Make sure you have a way to keep in touch with them. Ask about facebook, myspace, twitter, formspring. They're great conversation starters and a great way to get to know them and stay connected. 
3. Then, talk about things you enjoy and find things you have in common with them and run with it. This person might really like something you had no idea anyone else would but you, and instantly, you both have all sorts of things to talk about or hangout and do.
And the rest is history…

A day in the life

A day in the life of Jamie Harper is a day in the life of the cool. On a school day it is just a routine that I basically go through monday through thrusday. I wake up go to school, go to my classes, go home and sleep, go to practice, workout, go home and shower and do homework, eat, and sleep. When it comes to friday and the weekend, my life is much different. I get up in the moring and workout. Then with my friend I will either workout again or just play basketball. Then I go chill for a little bit the some friends, at home, or with a female friend. At night I am out. I am either at someone's house with other people, or one other person. If not that then I am at a party. I usually go to the parties that are 18 and up because my friend gets me in for free and they are the most popular parties in LA that have the cutest girls. If I don't go to those I will go with my brother to a UCLA party or go to UC Riverisde for a party. If I do not do that, I will go on a date with a female and go do something then go to dinner and  see what happens after that. I like my life right now and it can only get better as time goes forward because I will continue to work as hard as I possibly can.

Cats and Dogs

Cats are chill animals. They do their own thing and do not mess with anyone. All they like to do it eat, sleep, poop/pee, go outside, and play occasionally. If you are the typr of person that doesnt like to do much, but still want a animal/pet that you have to take care of and play with, then a cat is a good pet. Cats do not show any affection though. They basically use their owner just to get food and a warm place to stay. If you were in trouble, a cat is not going to try and help you. They will save themselves not caring about you. A dog requires a lot of attention. They like to play with you, run around, and have a good time. It takes a lot of work with having a dog. Dogs will love you though. They stand by your side at all cost. They will want to play with you, they will lick you and make you smile if your day is not going so well. A dog is almost always happy. If you were ever in any trouble a dog would try and help you. Personally I like dogs better than cats because they have more personality than a cat, and they just do not use you for food and a nice warm place to stay in. they are a lot more fun to be around.

Dressing Formal,and Informal

Dressing for a formal occasion you have to look nice. You most of the time should have on a pair of slacks and a button up shirt. You should have a clean pair of dress shoes on and not have any stains on your shoes or clothes. You should basically dress to inpress when you are dressing up to go to a formal occasion. When you are going to an informal occasion, you can dress how you want to. You should still look nice though. A pair of jeans, some shoes, and a nice collard shirt or t-shirt. You do not want to be over dressed up, or under dressed up because you do not want to stand out in a bad way meaning people are staring at you and talking about you saying, "Why is he/she wearing that? He/She looks ridiculous. They will not get invited again." You do not want that. Dress up according to the occasion you are going to. You should always have a friend and ask what he or she is wearing so you can get an idea of what to wear, and if you dress similar you will not be the only person looking weird.

Raw foods and cooked foods

Not all food has to be eaten cooked. Some food can be eaten raw. Sometimes it tastes better. Raw vegetables are better for your body and health than cooked vegetables because all of the nutrients are still in it. When the vegetable is cooked and anyway, some or most of the nutrients come out so you get a different taste, and you do not get everything that your body needs to stay healthy. Not all foods can be eaten raw too though. Some foods you have too cook or it will hurt your body. If you cook the food it will not do any harm to your body and it will accept the food and will not make you sick. Eating certain food raw, you can get a stomach ach, diaria, and other bad illnesses. You can sometimes be hospitalized because of this. If your food isn't cooked all the way, like meat, it will not do you any good and you will get very sick. Not all food should be cooked, and not all food should not be cooked. You must know which ones shouldn't and which ones should.

spicy foods and sweet foods

When you eat something spicy your mouth gets hot, very hot. You look for something to drink so you can calm your mouth down and you start breathing heavier to try hand have the air cool your mouth down. Spicy foods do taste good though. Acertain food would not taste the same if it was not spicy. Making it spicy gives it a boost of flavor that is much needed when eating it so it will taste great. Sweet foods are not spicy. they make you mouth feel the same temperature wise, but they give you a taste that is liked very much. It makes your taste buds jump up and down and makes you want more. A lot of people like sweet foods because they like the feeling and taste in their mouth, and it makes them feel good. Personally I like spicy food a little more than I like sweet foods. Some sweet foods should be sweet, or some are a little too sweet and it does not taste right to me. All peoples' taste buds are different, that is why everyone likes different things different ways.

Weather affect your mood

Weather effects my mood a lot. When it is very hot I am irritated. I don't want to be messed with because I do not want to get all sweaty. I want to chill out, i get a headache, and I just want to sleep in a nice cool room. When it is warm outside I am in a good mood. Like when you can wear a sweat shirt and not be hot, but at the same time you can not wear any type of jacket and not be cold. That is perfect weather. I am willing to play around, laugh, have fun, and juist have a good time. When it is cloudy and foggy outside and cold, I like that weather a lot. It is actually my favorite type of weather. It just puts me in a very chill mood. when  the weather is like that, I like to just put my headphones on and listen to calm music. Some songs I will listen to are "Fightters" by Lupe Fiasco, Shut It Down by Drake, The Show Goes On by Lupe fiasco, New Soul by Wale, I Choose You by Wiz Khalifa,  I Choose You (International Players Anthem) by Outkast, and other chill songs. When it is raining I am in a chill mood unless somebody messes with my. Then I get mad and angry. I do not like the rain. Especailly when I am at school because then I have to get all wet, When I am at home the rain is okay because I like the sound of the rain as it hits my house and the ground. It is very soothing to me.

Public Schooling and Homeschooling

Public schooling is a whole lot different than be and home and having school. When you are at home you do not get to interact with other people. It is just you and whoever is teaching you. You do get to learn the material better because there are no other distractions. It is just you, the teacher, and the work. No other people making noise, talking to you, talking to the teacher, or starting trouble in the class. You do not get the skills on how to interact with other people though because you are not around other kids. You are just all alone. Being at a public school you get to be with your friends learning and helping each other. You get to socialize with other people at nutrition and lunch. At public school there are some teachers that cannot teach very well. You may not understand the material and others may. And because there are so many people in the class, you have to move on and learn something new that you probably will not understand either. Sometimes there are good teachers that you will like and that will teach you well. They may teach it better than how it is taught to you at home. You may have some kid in your class that wants to be disrupted and stop you from learning. There may be kids in the class that need a lot of help, which takes time away from the teacher teaching, or helping you because you don't understand a concept, theorm, analogy, problem, or question. There are both upsides and downsides to going to a public school, and to having school at home just by yourself. It is for you to pick.

Understanding and Knowledge

Knowledge is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject; (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information; or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as "justified true belief." There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories. Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject with the ability to use it for a specific purpose if appropriate.
Understanding (also called intellection) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object.

Describe a person who is really interesting

A person that is very interesting is Dwayne Carter Jr. His artist name is Lil Wayne, Weezy, Weez F. Baby, or you can say Wayne. Watching documentries and interviews of him, his name is interesting. He will never respond or want to be called Dwayne. He does not like the "D" becaus that would make him a Jr. And since his father was never around in his life at all he does not want any connection or ties with him, because being a "Jr." means that he is like a younger version of his father, and he isn't and does not want to be that. He is also interesting because of the way people look at him and think he is, is totally different from how he really is. Yes he likes to smoke weed and sip on cough syrup, but he is a very intelligent person. He goes to school online because when he tried to go to actuall class people would be distracted and the class wouldnt be able to function. He likes to go bowling a lot. He is a father of 2 children that he loves very much. When asked are you a good role model to your children he answered that he isn't a role model. No one should be but God. If a man or women to show and tell you how to live then you should look at yourself as a person. Something is wrong with you. To me, that takes a lot of though, and to not think about it, but just say it when you are asked the question is very interesting to me. He says that he is misunderstood, and he made a song called "Misunderstood" which is on his tripple platinum album "The Carter III." I believe that he is misunderstood by not just a few people, but by the whole world. He is a very interesting person in the world that I live in.

Most effective teacher i have ever had

The most effective teacher that I have ever had in my life time teaches math at Inglewood High School. His name is Mr. Payne. By far he is the best math teacher. I wish I could go back to Inglewood High School during 5th period just to take his AP Calculus class. I took his Pre Calculus class last year as an 11th grader at Inglewood High School. I had just transfered from University High School in Los Angeles/Westwood area, really close to UCLA. I did not know what to expect about the teachers at Inglewood. I just thought all the classes would be very easy since it was not a very good academic school. Well I was right. Coming from Uni, where the classes were much harder, my classes at Inglewood High School were much easier, even my AP class. When it came to math I did not think I was going to learn anything, even though i was interested in learning it because math is my favorite subject. As the class went on he started teaching. I found out that his class was very easy too. But it was not easy because of the school's low standards. It was easy because of the way he teached. He made everything so simple. Like with sine and cosine, the way he tought it, it was very easy to understand and do homework problems, and get good scores on the tests. When he taught the class the unit circle, we had to remember it. I did not think i would be able to memorize it. They way we taught us and showing us the patters and gave us practice, it has almost been a year from me and having his class and I still remember every single part of it. He is the best and most effective teacher  that I have ever had in elementry school, middle school, and in my 4 years of high school at 2 different schools. I would take his class any day.

Explain how not getting sleep affects your day

Sleeping energizes your body. Your body is just like a cell phone. You have to charge it or it will not work. If you do not get a full charge, you will be ablt to use it, but for not as long, and you will not be able to use certain features because they require more battery power. When you sleep, you are charging up your body for the next day. If you do not get a full charge on your body you will be sluggish. You will not be able to concentrate and will not be able to do things very effectively. If you get a full charge to your body you will be awake and ready for action. You will be able to get jobs and tasks done, and done effectivly. You will be able to do all of these things while still having energey to do more. Let's say it is sunday night and you have have a big basketball game on monday. If you do not get a good 8-10 hours of sleep, this is how you will play in that game. You will be sluggish. You will not run as fast, you will not be able to remember all of the plays, your timing will be off, and you will not want to play because of the fact that you are really tired. Being all of this that I just listed will get you one place on monday. That place is the bench. You will come right out of the game and you will be mad because you will not get back in. And if your su sub does a lot better than you, he will keep your spot and you will be even more mad because you will have to stay on the bench and only get in if and when he is tired. You will be in the game only until the starter is ready to get back in. How can all of this have been avoided. Stop staying up so late can get some sleep. A conversation is never that serious unless it is a life changing moment, you should stop and go to bed. It will help you out a lot in your day and you will be happy that you got a good amount of sleep when you wake up.

Prompt #50 Describe my favorite movie

My favorite movie is "Talladega Knights, the ballad of Ricky Bobby." This movie is about racecar driving. Ricky Bobby as a kid always wants to go fast. He was born in a car that was going fast. When he was young he took his mom's car while she was in the store and drove it down the highway, and was going really fast. It then shows a scene when he was in either elementry or middle school how he got his best friend Cal. People were picking on him and Cal had his back. It was career day and your parent had to come in. Ricky's father came last minuet and was talking to the class saying inapropriete things. Getting thrown out of the school he told Ricky, "If you ain't first, you're last." Next in the movie Ricky is part of the pit crew in NASCAR. The driver in the car quites and Ricky takes over. He ends up coming in 3rd place. Ricky continues to drive for NASCAR and wins a lot of races. He gets a racer wife and has kids and a big house. His kids are bad. While in a bar, Ricky encounters a new French driver and Ricky ends up getting his arm broken by him. Taking the cast off himself, Ricky races the French Guy, which is gay, and loses. He gets into a big crash and is traumatized. He thinks he is paralyzed and goes to a hospital. Finding out it is just in his brain he goes home. Cal is best friend ends up with Ricky's wife, and Ricky and his kids get kicked out and must live with Ricky's mother. Ricky getting made fun of from many people, get help from his father on how to go fast again. After being able to race again, Ricky enters Taladega Nights. At the same time Ricky's mother turns his kids into god children. Ricky races the French guy again and another crash happens. He gets out the car and races on foot. He beats the French guy. Getting disqualified for getting out the car, Cal wins the race, but morally to the French Guy and Ricky, Ricky won. The French Guy goes back to Paris and Ricky goes with his family and his new girlfriend. He also becomes friends again with Cal. There is no "shake and bake" with them though. It is "Magic Man"(Cal), and "El Diablo"(Ricky), which he thinks stands for "The Figfhting Chicken. At the end of the movie Ricky and his family and girlfriend go and get thrown out of Applebee's

prompt # 49.

I  have to spend a whole year in a different country. In the country they speak a whole different language than I do, which is english. Not geveryone in the country speaks english like I do, so I am kinda of forced to learn the new language or else my time in the new country will be very difficult and I will not enjoy it. Learning a new language is going to be very difficult because I have to pick it up pretty fast or else I will be looking very dumb speaking english to a person that cannot understand a single word that I am saying. They will just look at me like I am completely stupid. I plan on learning this new language as quickly as possible. In order to do this, I will first get a dictionary that I can translate words. I will write down the words I use on a regular the most, and the most common phrases, and I will translate them to the language that I will need to know. I will also go on the interent and get information and look at the country and see what places I need to go there and how they are said and spelled. I will get directions on how to get to those places. If i get lost I will ask for directions and see if they match mine that I have already taken down. The person that I with, I will ask them to teach me and help me learn the native language of the country that I am in. Doing all these things I know forsure that I will be able to make it in the country that I will be living in. It will be an expericence that I will never ever forget in my life, and if i can learn the language before hand, it will be an even better experience.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Colgate University Supplement (replacing prompt #48)

We honor the many different forms of diversity in our community. Your perspective is valuable because it comes from your life experiences, family background, culture, and traditions. Please tell us about a tradition that is important to you that comes from your family, community, or culture.
 
I am an African American, and during holiday season, fall and winter, family is a big deal. During these two seasons I see all parts of my family that I never see on a daily basis. The only time I ever get to see them is during this time. Even through I have two different sides, my mother's side is the only side that contains tradition. On thanksgiving I see my mother's side of the family. This tradition started not too long ago. 3years ago I never saw or talked to my grandfather before. my mother thought I should meet him, so on Thanksgiving we too a total five hour plane journy to North Carolina to see him. Having such a good time, we decided to do it every year. Every year it gets better and better and it makes me want to go back next Thanksgiving. All of my cousins on my mother's side of the family flies out there with us. It makes it that much better because I get to expericence a different place with new people and also the people I see more often. My grandfather looks forward to seeing me every year. He brags to all of his friends about my because I play basketball. It makes me feel good inside. I can't wait until i graduate high schol because he is going to come out to Los Angeles, Ca, and I get to take him around and show him where I live.

Pepperdine University Supplement (replacing prompt #47)

Pepperdine University is a Christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership. How are you prepared to contribute to Pepperdine's mission and community of faith, learning, and service?
I have been raised as a Christian, so I have Christian values. I try to live everyday of my life not perfect because I know that no man is perfect, but I try to do the right thing and make all the right decisions. I am prepared to contribute to Pepperdine's mission and community of faith, learning, and service. I am the captain of my varsity basketball team. It requires me to be very vocal and to lead also by example so everyone else will follow and do the right thing. I take my learning very seriously. Playing on the basketball team and still attending school while having a weighted GPA of 3.54 has helped me learn to balence out my life and stay on schedule. If I do end up playing a sport in college I will know how to handle the two. If I do not, I will still be able to handle my studies because I will have one less thing to focus on. Either way learning and school is my priority. When they say student-athelete, the "student" comes first because that is the most important thing. My faith will never die because I know that eveything happens for a reason and God has a plan for every single person in this world. All you have to do is do what he says and follow his rules. I can contribute my faith to Pepperdine because no one person in the world know's everything about something. Everyones' imput has value and means something. Putting my faith in will help not only myself, but the people around me and may inspire someone to do something amazing; only God knows. I don't think, I know that i will be able to contribute to Pepperdine Univeristy anyway that is needed, in a very positive way.

Common App Personal Statement (replacing prompt #46)

The world I come from is a world that demands the very best of me at all times if I want to break the prediction of an African American in the future. That prediction is getting in trouble with the law and ending up in prison.The world I come from is a world where working as hard as you possibly can is demanded at all times. It isn’t easy to just say I will work hard either. I have people constantly trying to throw me off track with drugs, alcohol, or trying to do something that can get me in trouble with the law. Fighting peer pressure is hard because everyone wants to fit in but I know that if I don’t fight it, 20 years later I will probably be doing the same thing unless I separate myself from the crowd. My parents always have wanted the best for me and have told me the best way to make it out the struggles that our family has and to make it out of the community, is to be a successful person. A person once told me "Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard." Hearing this and being able to see it happen, has changed my life. I have friends that have natural talent, just let it go to waste. They think that because it come easy to them, they don't have to do anything to make it any better. Those people with natural talents that don't take advantage of them usually end up doing drugs and hurting themselves. The people I see doing that, I make sure they aren't in my life. I know as an African American male, I can't afford to get off track and have those bad influences in my life. My family’s support and the person in my life that told me that quote has helped me shape my dreams and aspirations. I know that anything I want, I can have. I just have to work to get it. The more value that goal or object contains, that harder I have to work to get it. I may not be the smartest, fastest, strongest, quickest, or the wealthiest, but I know if I put my mind to something and put enough hard work out, only good results can come back to me. Even if the main thing I want doesn’t come to me, I have learned that when one door closes, another one opens right up. That mystery door may lead to something greater than the door you originally wanted.

UC personal Statement #2 (replacing prompt #45)

My drive to push and never give up is a quality about myself that I am very proud of. I have been rejected, told I can’t do some or I can’t make it, been told I wasn’t good enough, and have been told to quite. The person that I am, I use those negative comments to my advantage. I want those people to be in shock that a accomplished all the things that they said I could not do. I play basketball and at a time in my life I came to a point where I wanted to quit because I felt that things weren’t going my way at all and that I wouldn’t get a college scholarship. As bad as I wanted to because I couldn’t. I just worked harder to try and get one. Even if I end up not getting a college basketball scholarship, I’m still going to go to college and continue to work out. Once I get to college I will still tryout for the basketball team. Giving up in life gets you nowhere. Definitely not the place that you want to go. This quality of mine reflects who I am because I mold my life and the way I live around it. The people that I hang around, if they are quitters and don’t work hard then I’m going to stop hanging around them. If they are negative influences on my life then I will cancel them out of my life. Everything you do as a person reflects who you are, so if you work hard and never give up then you are that type of person. You will be seen by society as that too. People say they don’t care what people think about them, but if you aren’t seen well then people with more power than you won’t let you get to where you want to be. And we all want to be on top.

UC Personal Statement #1 (replacing prompt #44)

The world I come from is a world where working as hard as you possibly can is demanded at all times. The world I come from isn’t easy to just say I will work hard either. I have people constantly trying to throw me off track with drugs, alcohol, or trying to do something that can get me in trouble with the law. Fighting peer pressure is hard because everyone wants to fit in but I know that if I don’t fight it, 20 years later I will probably be doing the same thing unless I separate myself from the crowd. My parents always have wanted the best for me and have told me the best way to make it out the struggles that our family has and to make it out of the community, is to be a successful person. A person once told me "Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard." My family’s support and the person in my life that told me that quote has helped me shape my dreams and aspirations. I know that anything I want, I can have, I just have to work to get it. The more of value whatever that goal or object is, that harder I have to work to get it. I may not be the smartest, fastest, strongest, quickest, or the wealthiest, but I know if I put my mind to something and put enough hard work out, only good results can come back to me. Even if the main thing I want doesn’t come to me, I have learned that when one door closes, another one opens right up that may lead to something greater than the door you originally wanted.

Oregon Personal Statement (take place of prompt #43)

In the last 2 years I haven’t done anything like make a foundation, win a science award, or anything that you would get recognition for my a group of professionals. In the Last 2 years what I have done is bettered myself and began to think about and prepare for my future. I have always had good grades, nothing below a GPA of a 3.0, but in the last 2 years I began to work on important things like study habits and ways to take notes. I began to realize that if I want to be anything successful I have to go above and beyond in the things that I do. I applied this last school year, and maintained a GPA of a 4.0 both semesters. I had the highest GPA on my varsity basketball team. Having done it last year, I plan on improving it and getting above a 4.0 for my senior year. Many people have told me 10 years from now it won’t matter what you did in high school, but how you used your time in high school. I don’t care if I stand out by not doing what everyone is doing. If missing the popular party means that I will get an A on my test, get into the college I want, and later becoming successful after I graduate, then I am going to miss it and study. The things that my elders have been telling me are kicking in and I am seeing the bigger picture of things. This makes me feel good about myself because I know I’m just wasting my time going through the motions. I am making a difference in my future. I know that all the hard work I put in won’t just go to waste. It is going to help me and I know I will get something out of it.

tasks needed to complete in order to attend college outside of state.

In order to atten college out of your home state(the state in which you live in currently and have residency in), you much complete certain tasks. First you, have to get good grades in high school. That is one of the most important things. When applications are open to fill out. Fill it out completely. After that you must get your letters of recommendation done completely. You need 1 from a teacher and one from someone else that knows you well in a professional area. After that you must apply for financial aid. Once you know you are going to be going to the school(you got accepted) you must find housing. Some schools require freshmen to live in the dorms, and some do not. Either way you need to find housing. After that you must find a way out there. If the state that you are going to is close, you can drive there and not have to buy a plane ticket and you can bring more stuff. If the state is far, let's say across the country like North Carolina and you live in California, then you will need to fly. You can bring as much stuff, just mostly clothes and your valuables that you want to bring. That can be pictures or whatever. Once you get out there you can shop for little small things you may need for your living space. College is the best time of your life and experiencing it in a new place I believe is a good way to start off your new independent life.

Friday, November 26, 2010

best friend's birthday. Plan to make this celebration something to remember

On my best friend's 18 birthday I plan on making it something that he will never forget. I plan on getting a hotel room at a very nice 4 or 5 star hotel. I will get a suite because I will need a big space. I will invite a lot of our friends over and tell them to invite only sexy girls. I will make it where there are more girls than guys, and where the girls won't be stuck up. Getting them all there then I will have the drink and the doomage. I know he will like all this. I will also get a good D.J so he can have everyone live with the music that he plays. After the little function has been going on for a while I will bring him up and announce that it is his birthday. I know he will like this party a lot and I know me throwing it for him that he will never ever forget it. I know I won't forget it either.

live in any decade and why

I currently live in the 10's and I like it. I'm almost out of high school in a couple more months and I will begin a new life in college. I will be more independent, and I will have to be more responsible. If I were to pick any other decade the I would have to live in, it would be the 90s. I choose this decade to live in because it was when I was born, which was 1993. During this time life for me was very simple, eat, sleep, and play. If that doesn't sound satisfying and sounds like a good life, then I don't know what is. During the 90's I didn't have to worry about a single thing. Money problems, college, or my future after college. Now I have to worry about when money is really tight, how can I help until we get through it, and things like that. When I was really young I didn't worry about money. I could go outside and just play and play, and not car about anything else. I basically lived in the moment. Yes I know I couldn't go to parties and all the fun things that I can do now, but at that time I didn't worry about going to parties. I would rather live worry free and not go to a party, than to be tight on money and sometimes not go to the party because I can't get in free unless it is thrown by my friends. I didn't have to worry about filling out college applications and getting them in so I can have a great future. I didn't have to worry about doing well in school because thinking about it, school didn't really even matter at all. It was a worry free life that if I could choose to live in it again, I would in a quick heartbeat. I don't know about you, but I sure would.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Personal Essay

In my lifetime I have confronted dissapointment many of times. One time that I will never forget, is when I was 6 years old. I did not expect to get anything, but I was told that I was going to go to Disneyland. Even though i did not expect on going, I was still excited. I older cousin, 23 years old at the time, was telling me every other day that he was going to take me. he was doing this for two weeks straight. As a young child if i keep hearing something like that, of course I am going to get somewhat excited. So as time went on, and the days to Disneyland narrowed down, he was still talking about it. The night before he tol me that he was going to come to my house in the moring and pick me and my brother up, and we were going to go with him and his girlfriend. That I night went to bed very excited. The next morning came; I was up early waiting. Thining about it now, my mom knew that my cousin was gasing me up, and was going to flake on me. At the time, I did not know that. So the moring hours passed by: 9...10...11. I thought maybe he will come by 12. When 12 o'clock hit, I was sad. I knew he was not taking me to Disneyland. That ruined my whole weekend. I sat in my room mad, and very dissapointed. I handled it by not talking to him for a good month or so until i got over it. But till this very day, I don't trust him when he says he is going to do something.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Memoir

I have been misjudged plenty of times. Many people think I am cocky and conceited. I do not know why or how people come to this. I don't do anything for people to get the idea that I am just full of myself. I do not talk in the 3rd person, saying my name instead of saying I or me. I do not say I am the best in anything or that I am better than anyone at anything. I see myself as a very humble person. Some people in the world see me the way I see myself, I just do not get why others do not. When I was first called cocky I didn't get mad, but I thought to myself, "Why did this person just call me cocky?" I think about this a lot. I really want to know what I do to been seen as cocky. I do not like when people judge me at all. When I am called cocky now, I do not get angry, but I really wonder why they call me this.
            I do not misjudge people because I know how it feels when you are being misjudged. It is something I do not want people to go through, let alone put them through that pain and agony. I have learned that judging the book by its cover is a prime example why you do not get to experience a lot of good people in this world. You lose the opportunity to make a good friend, or a good/ great companion. You may find that special someone.

Some people go right to college after high school; others take a year or more off to work or travel. Which do you think is the better choice?

            Going to college right after high school is a lot better, and I prefer doing that than to take some time of to enjoy myself like traveling, or for work. In college you can study abroad and you can travel that way, while still getting an education. You can work while you go to college and make money while get an education. It is smarter to go to college right after high college. If you take time off you are risking a lot. You are risking not getting in to the college that you really want to go to. You also risk not getting into college at all and having to go to a junior college. To me junior college is a waste of time. If you go to college you will have the experience of a lifetime. If you do not go right away and take time off to work because you need to save money to pay for college, you are making a big mistake also. With all the free money that is out here in the world, you can go to college for free. You can get financial aid, scholarships, Cal Grants, student loans, and any other money that you can get your hands on. It just makes the most sense to go to college right after high school, than to take time off.
            People say that once you take a break from school, you never go back. This is true. I have seen quite a few people that have taken a break after high school saying, “I tired of school, I am going to take this semester off and start back in the spring semester.” Once they did this, they said they were going to go back in the fall semester, and they kept putting it off. They never did end up going back to school. One of them works at McDonalds now, another at Wing Stop, and the other people work at other jobs that are never going to get them anywhere in their future. They will be trapped in poverty for the rest of their life. If they go to college now they wont have to be in poverty. They will be able to have a good life, and live the “American Dream.”
            It is said that in your life, you will never again experience anything like the “college life.” They are the best years of your life. Why would you want to wait to have those great moments? That makes gay sense at all. Go to college right away, do not take time off to work or travel.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Some people think that school cafeterias should be required to provide low-fat and/or vegetarian lunch options to accommodate the eating habits of all the students.

All across America, schools are making changes to better the lives of their students. One thing in particular being the food they serve to them on a daily basis. During lunch or break, certain foods are being sold to students from bags of chips to cookies, hamburger and fries to burritos, and even Gatorade to soda. Kids love these things and probably eat this stuff regularly. It’s what they want and what they will pay money to eat, everyone’s happy right? Wrong. Yes, most kids love the junk food and the greasy pizza from Pizza Hut being served in their cafeterias, but there are kids who do not even eat those things or just simply can’t afford to. When I say afford to, I do not necessarily mean money wise, but health wise. For example, you may have kids at the school who have health issues and can only eat low fat meals or snacks. Well, they go to school five days a week for about eight hours and of course, they have to eat. The select kids could very well bring their own self-made low fat or vegetarian lunches and snacks every day, but what if they forgot their lunch at home, or on the bus, or were too much in hurry to pack it. Should these students have to go eight hours without eating any food because their school does not provide them with a healthier alternative than hamburgers and fries or original flavored Doritos? Every students' needs should be accounted for and considered when it comes anything, especially what goes into their bodies. It’s not fair for the school to overlook certain kids needs because the mass majority would prefer junk food in their vending machines. There are many tasty and healthy alternatives schools can try and circulate into their cafeterias that would satisfy all students’ break and lunch time cravings. For instance, instead of ice cream, how about yogurt parfaits with granola or low fat frozen yogurt, instead of M&M’s maybe some fruit snacks, baked chips substituted for the regular kind. You can even go as far as selling turkey or vegetarian burgers instead of the 100% beef burgers. Having fresh salads or fruit would not be such a bad idea either. You can still have some of the junk food for those kids who just can't possibly go without it and need it, or just have a taste for it once in awhile, but it’s nice to have an option and alternative for the kids whose needs call for those healthier choices or just simply want a change or variety in the kind of food they eat at school. Imputing low fat or vegetarian meals and snacks into schools cafeterias will not hurt anyone. Imputting them could only make things better for everyone. Given the obesity and overweight issues throughout America, what possible harm could any healthier and better changes do to schools that make the switch?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Discuss how conveniences change people's lives

Cars, food, phones, internet, all convenient things almost everyone has available to them at any given time and ready for any given moment when needed. All these conveniences have changed peoples’ lives because over time, those things have become instant and highly depended upon. Because these things are much depended upon, people start getting lazier and less self sufficient and dependent. Who wants to take time out there day to actually go visit someone and just sit down, talk, and enjoy each other’s company when you can shoot them a quick instant text message that takes but only a few seconds out of your day if your quick or give them a five minute call without even seeing their face? Or why would someone want to walk to the store which is only a few streets over when you can drive. If it’s not convenient, people would much rather go without it, no matter what the effect might be.

Discuss the importance of pride in ones work

Taking pride in one’s work tells a lot about a person’s character. It shows that one has the drive to complete a task and do it to the best of their ability. However, many people in today’s society do not realize how important having pride in one’s work is.  Being able to say that you completed something with all your effort tells others that you are dedicated and have respect for yourself. Many naturally talented people get work done just to get praise and acknowledgment from others, but when a person finishes a task for them-even though they may not be as talented as the other, it shows that they have integrity, because it may not be acknowledged.  Yet, all of that would not matter if you don’t get praise because you did it for you. In the real world, people may survive by only doing minimal work, but they will not get far. It is important to take pride in one’s work because it will force your mental self to take the extra step and have initiative in whatever life “throws” your way.

Explain how different modern life would be without computers.

During these times, computers are used for just about anything and everything. You can use a computer for so many different things, from non simple to completely simple. Way back when, computers use to be used for some office work or maybe slight entertainment such as a short game of solitaire or mine sweeper. Now people use computers for entertainment, social networking, communication with other people, work, business, building facilities, homes, offices, cars, and nowadays, even education. You don’t have to leave the house for anything. You can work at home, talk to your friends at home, and go to school at home. EVERYTHING! The day all computers shut down or malfunction is the day the world ends for most people. No one would know exactly what to do because computers do everything for them.

 Describe a major environmental problem and what you believe should be done about it

One major environmental problem that we should be really careful about is water scarcity. As much as people would like to think that it is just impossible to run out of water, they are very wrong. Water scarcity has become such a big issue that goes global and affects everyone everywhere. The problem is that we use more water than what is actually returned to the freshwater systems. The USA is one of the large water consuming areas, and given that we live in the US, we are a part of the problem. To help lessen and solve this problem, there are plenty of things people can do on a daily basis. Simple things such as taking five minute showers as opposed to a twenty minute showers, or while washing in the shower, turn the water off until you’re ready to rinse, or when washing dishes, run some water on one side of the sink with soap and use that to wash the dishes, then rinse them all at once so you don’t have to keep the water running and waste it, and even just making sure when you turn off the water, it’s completely turned off and there are no drops running from your nozzle. All those little droplets of water definitely add up. If you have trouble with things like the dripping water or shortening your showers, you can try methods like tightening the nozzle and having a timer to tell you when five minutes is up. Easy right?

Discuss the causes of and problems of teenage smoking

Teen smoking is becoming more and more popular all over the place. It’s also become a huge problem because of the kind of effects it has on young life forms these days and the effects that will catch up to them in the future. It seems like everywhere you go like malls, movies, and grocery stores, you see a group of kids outside smoking without a care in the world who might see them and as if they have been doing this for forever. Why would a 15 year old want to smoke in the first place? Well, if you really get deep into it, you’ll probably find out that most of these teenage smokers come from a home in which they grew up with parents who smoke on a regular basis right in front of them, they think it will make them look older and cooler than what they really are, and maybe they even believe that smoking can calm them down, relieve stress, help them to concentrate, have a good time or any of the dozens of reasons that smokers can come up with to hide the facts. Teens are shortening their lives by choosing to pick up the nasty habit of smoking because of the life threatening effects and problems they open themselves to at an early age. They make themselves victims of heart diseases and complications as they continue to grow up. All smoking is really doing for these teen are giving them problems with their body in the future, and not allowing them to pass drugs tests when they apply for a job.

Discuss how a person achieves fame and fortune and how it changes their life

To be famous these days seems like thee thing to do. If you’re not famous, you’re not important. Constantly you hear someone talking about how they’re going to do this or do that to be famous and successful. Things you get famous for now are usually the simple things such as being superb at throwing, shooting, or hitting a ball and going pro, being able to rap or sing a few words or lyrics a little better than the average person, making it as an elite actor or actress and starring in the next big movie, being on a so-called reality TV show, or even something as simple as just being in the public eye because of who you know and making it seem like your interesting enough to be followed. The fame achieved by people today changes their lives forever because once you’re in the public eye; everything you do is being watched and criticized. A lot of people probably thought or think that they will never change, but the lifestyle they want to lead ultimately changes them as people, their relationships with other people, and their world around them. They’d have to succumb to what the people watching them want them to be and how they think they should act. The fame and fortune also takes its toll on their personal life because you have no privacy. People waiting outside of restaurants, stores, even your house just to get the latest story and picture of you. Isn’t fame and fortune just great?

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

figures of Speech Poems

Beauty crawls beneath the ledge
Covering its pale face
Leaving behind her self-esteem

Sarcasm popping out the blue
Blinding out every naked eye
Leaving two lines of laughs and cries

Hunger cries out to the birds
Through the creepy swamps
Yelling out "I need more!"

Pain shouts to the heavens
Covered in mud and trash
He begs for a way out

Dehydration reaches out in the desert
Under the blazing sun
The tree whines to fulfill its thirst

Weakness begs for mercy in the ring
Clothes in cheap ripped attire
He begs for the beating to stop

meaning of diversity

Diversity is having more than one culture around in an area. That area can be as small as a school, or as big as a country being diverse. In california schools are very diverse. Even though with the exception of certain school where it is mostly white, or asian, or black and hispanic, most schools in the state of California are very diverse. They have blacks, whites, hispanics, asians, middle eastern people, pacific islanders, italians, and more. In the schools that are really diverse, all the students get along. The United States of America is a very diverse country. People from all around the world come to the United States of America to live and start new lives here. If they don't start a new life, they just come to visit. Even though this country is among the most diverse in the world, it still has a lot of racism. Being more diverse brings a lot of more discriminating and prejudice in the country. People try to say they don't do it and that they do not think that way, but in reality they do. Diversity is a good thing though. It brings more culture. It opens new doors and gives more opportunity for people to try new things. That can include trying new foods, meeting new people that may change your life, and just trying a new experience that you may have never ever thought about before. You might meet someone that will take you to a new place that you never knew existed, that you end up loving. With all the good, there is bad. Being so diverse, causes problems too. Some people think other cultures are bad, and that only theirs is good. It causes violence that is not needed at all, arguments, and riots. If people just accepted each other and were open, diversity would be even better than what it is now.

explain what cooperation means to you and why it is important

Cooperation is being able to work with another person without getting into some kind of argument every so often. Being cooperative is also being able to follow directions and rules that are in place. In a job setting, being able to cooperate is being able to listen to your boss and following directions that are given to you. You cannot rebel against what your boss is trying to tell you to do something. Being able to cooperate with one another is a very good skill that would help out in the future. It is very important. In the world, you have to work with other people all the time. If you cannot do this then you have a really big problem. A lot of jobs require you to be very cooperative. You if you cannot do this, 9 times out of 10 you will not be hired. You will be unemployed during times of a terrible economy. If you can't cooperate during school you won't get the grades that you want. It is a must be able to not only work with other students, but follow all rules in order to have a smooth school experience. If you don't you will find yourself kicked out of school, or not graduating and making your parents and relatives very proud when you walk the stage at your high school graduation.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

commuunication in the last 20 years

In the last 20 years or so, the way one person communicates with another person is a lot different than how it used to be. 20 years ago to communicate with another person in the world, people would just talk to that person "in person." that was how most communication was done. The telephone was popular to. Being able to talk to someone while not having to be with them. So people would talk on the phone a lot. Even though not a lot of people had them, cell phones allowed people to talk to someone anywhere at any moment of the day. Just type their number in and call them. Everyone thought this was just the coolest thing ever. Communication in today's world is a lot different than it use to be. Some people still do it, but talking on the phone is rare. Especially talking on the house phone. Most people now-a-days don't even have a land-line in their home. The most popular way of communicating today is through text message. Although teens do it the most, grown ups text message a lot too. The average teen sends over 1000 text messages per month. It is so bad that people as a whole don't have good social skills because they don't actually talk to people anymore. Another way people communicate with one another is through email. Email deals with a lot of business related communication that doesn't happen over the phone, or in person. Instant messaging and social websites like facebook are other ways that people communicate to one another in today's world. In the last 20 years, the way people communicate with other people in the world is a lot different than the way it was 20 years ago. It is all due to great advances in technology. All you can do it praise them because we all participate with the ways of communication now. I believe in the next 20 years there will be a whole new way people talk to each other than from how people talk to each other now.

7. Why do people eat what they do?

People in the world today choose to eat particular foods for many different different reasons. One reason they probably choose certain foods because when they were in the wound, the foods that their mother ate are going to be most types of foods that they like. Another reason people may choose particular foods hey eat is because they may have had an experience with another type of food. Being a vegetarian for example. The person may have seen how bad and cruel animals are treated and it made them not want to eat it. They may just see an animal and get the thought "How could I eat something that is alive like myself that is flesh. Animals are not the cleanest of being either." Many different people have many different reasons why they choose to eat the certain foods that they do. The last reason that they choose certain foods and nothing others is the simple fact that they eat what tastes good to them. To some people vegetables taste very good. And to others vegetables are one of the nastiest foods in the world. Everyone has different taste buds. If a person likes how a food tastes then they are automatically going to eat and like it.

Monday, November 1, 2010

how could teachers do their job more effectively

For teachers to do their job more effectively, I think they should first ask the students in their class, "what is the best way you learn in a school environment?" Not all students learn things the same way. Some people are visual learners, hands on learners, listeners, people that have to do activities, or people that just take notes on a subject to learn the material. If the teacher does this, they will be able to actually teach all of the students the material and not just some of the students. If the teacher is able to teach every student, and the students and the students get good grades out of the class, the teacher won't get fired. They will stay around longer and make more money. Another way teachers can do their job more effectively is by making the class very fun and interesting. When students don't have a fun classroom environment, the class becomes automatically boring to them. When something becomes boring to a teen, they are not going to want to do it. So the student will not want to do his or her work, and they will stop coming to the class. If the teacher takes the time to make the class fun then the students will look forward to attending that class. A teacher should really look at this and take it into consideration because this could be the difference between keep keeping their job, or losing it and being unemployed. Everyone knows how hard it is to get a job today.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Concrete & Specific Details

1. Clothes-Men-Ralph Lauren-Polo-Blue-Short sleeve shirt

On a hot summer a nice blue short polo shirt makes you feel like million bucks. Soft and smooth on the skin, it feels like a cloud is covering your upper body. It smells very rich, just the way it looks. When you see it, you vet a taste of rich dark and milk chocolate in your mouth.

2. Machine-Automobile-Sports car-2 door coupe-Black-Lamborghini

The Lamborghini smells of fresh leather. The interior is black and smooth like a chocolate baby. The black paint job with the tinted lights gives yu a picture of the "Bat Mobile." Just looking at the car makes you want to drink a monster and drive. A taste that gives you a rush of energy. The engine roars when you go from 0-60 in 4 seconds.

3. Shoes-Nike-Jordans-Red&Black-OG Retro 1s

The smell of a new pair of OG retro Jordan 1s is like the smell of a new car. They feel like clouds on your feet while you are wearing them. They remind me of Jordans best basketball games when he was young in the league,when I look at them. They don't give a sense of taste but they sound like the squeak of a basketball shoe on the gym floor during crunch time.

6. Purpose of the Internet

The purpose of the Internet is to obtain information from different sources. From those sources, your can obtain different types of information. Obtaining information that is put on the Internet is able to give you a lot more knowledge that is very helpful. The more knowledge you have stored in your brain, the more power that you can and will have. Another purpose of the Internet is for communication with others. In the past, the only to communicate with another person was by talking to them in person, or by sending them a letter if you were not able to see them. Now-a-days you can just send an email to that person if you can't talk to them in person. Sending an email, a person can respond to it very fast. Sending a letter, it takes a long time before you hear from that person again. It could be weeks, or even months. Another purpose for the Internet is to shop. In stores they may not have certain items. But at that same store you go to their website, and they will have the same plus better stuff on the Internet. The Internet has somewhat better prices too, than in the store. The Internet is one of the most powerful tools in the world. Everyone uses it everyday. It is a very powerful tool. I don't know what the world would be like without it.

Friday, October 29, 2010

8. Math is a required subject. Explain why it is so important.

Even though it is a required subject, I don't feel that math is an important subject unless you want to do something in the future that involves you doing math. If you like numbers, money, or anything in that area. Then math is very important. If you want to own a business, then math is very important too. Math is very important because you need to know how to count. Yes I know there are a lot of formulas that you don't need in everyday life, but the formulas in math are simular to some formulas in life. For example, x + 10=20. X would then equal 10. In real life if you need to have $100 and you have $20, how much more do you need? Your equation would be x + $20=$100. It is the same type of problem. Math isn't important if you don't want to to it when you grow up. It still has somewhat importance though. You need to know how to count your money. But the hard math courses are not needed. You just need to know a little more than the very basics. But math is very important in life.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Should schoolsStandards be raised?

   Schools today offer a lot of classes. From regular to AP, and from autoshop to photography. There is a wide range of classes your child can be interested in. Most children don't take advantage of all the classes that schools have to offer. It is not that the students are not learning enough from the school, because the school has a wide range of classes to offer. The students are just not taking advantage of it. They are limiting themselves to not get the highest of knowledge possible. Schools should not have higher standards because it is not their fault.
   Not all students, but the average student at a public high school doesn't want to take the more difficult classes. They want to take the easier classes and the classes that will get them out of high school and into college easy. If they can do enough just to get by, then that is what they are going to do. Not all students are like this though. Some want to better their learning because they want it to pay off in the future. Another reason may be just so they can get a new experience in their life. Not all students are the same.If everyone wanted thought the same and felt they had to do something, then where would the world be today. Most of the greatest things were invented by people that weren't like everyone else. Bill Gates did not finish his education, and he is one of the richest men in the world.
   With more and more people wanting to go to college, schools don't even have to raise their standards because the students are starting to take the more difficult classes becasue they see that it looks better when a college sees that. It looks better being at the top of your class with the highest grade point average in the school. Some students are raising the bar by themselves because of all the competition to get into the best colleges and universities in the United States. The students are learning as much as they want to while they are in high school. Whether they take full advantage of it or just do enough to get by, is totally up to the individual student.
   The standards that schools have not, should not be raised. Schools offer rigorous courses, and a wide variety of them. It is up to the students to take those courses and not just get by. Actually do the best they can, and learn as much as possible while in that class everytime they are in it. Not everyone wants to take these higher classes and do all that work. Some students cannot handle all of that and are learing a lot now. Why force more on them? Why set standards even higher, and some students can barely handel it now? That would do no justice to the student. It would not do any justice to the school either because students would start failing more, giving the school a bad name. Don't raise the standards, just give schools more money to make their programs and classes even better than they are so more people will want to take the classes.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

5. Situation where change becomes necessary

A situation where change can become very necessary is when you and the people you are with, or if you are by yourself, feel what you are about to do is not a very good idea. For example, there are two parties that are going on, on the same night. Most of the cooler people are going to party A and less people are going to party B. You and the people you are with decide to go to party A because it is supposed to be better, which makes a lot of sense to go to the better party. When you guys arrive, you can see the something bad is about to go down before you even park or get out of the car. Instead of parking and attending party A, making a change of plans and going to party B is necessary. You can still go party A, but you just better be careful. Especially if you can see that something very bad is going to happen before you get inside. The smarter choice is changing the plans and going to party B. In some situations, a change in plans is very necessary for most people.

4. Vision of my ideal vacation

My ideal vacation would be at South Beach Miami, Florida. I would go alone bringing no clothes but socks, underwear, and the clothes that I wear there. In Florida I would splurge. Having a lot of money I would buy clothes out there. I would go to the beach to see the sights and to meet some ladies. When I see the badies, I would hit them with the flex and bag them all, as if I were to go grocery or Louie shopping. If I were to go on vacation with my wife, my ideal vacation would be at an island like the island of Maui, in the state of Hawaii. I would rent out a private home on the beach for just the two of us. We would have a lot of fun. Do stuff like canoe riding, swimming in the beach, and other adventurous daytime activities. If not, then just chill. At night we would have romantic dinners followed by action that would take place in all places of the beach house. That part gets very wild and crazy. But it is the best part of the whole vacation. I would like to take both of those vacations someday in my lifetime. I believe I will though, because I have "Guap," and I don't save because I splurge.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Essay-Children Getting Allowence

Many kids in the world today are very spoiled an believe that they are entitled to money that is not theirs, eventhough they do not do anything to help earn that money made by their parents. The parents of these children give this money to their kids as an allowence for not doing anything. Other parents only give their chilldren an allowence if they do chors around their living space, or just help their parents out with stuff that would be easier to do with another set of hands. Allowence is given to children to have them practice money management. If they learn at a young age it will help them greatly in their future, on how to manage their money. In the real world you arent just given money though. It will never just be handed to you easy. You have to work for everything you get when you are not living with your parents anymore. If the money is just being handed to the children it is not teaching them anything. Parent should give their children an allowence only if their child does chores/work around the house, or for good behavior if their child behaves really bad.
If the child just gets the money without having to put any work into it, he or she will never be able to make it in the real world when they grow up. In the real world, after college for some and high school for others, things are not just handed to you. You have to put in some type of hard work to get the money that everyone desires. If you don't then some else that was taught to work hard will get the money that you would like. If the child gets the money after he or she has done chors or work around their living space, they will grow up to know that whatever they want in life requires hard work to be put in. If nothing is put in, you will never get anything out. That is a law of nature. Unless you are just drop dead rich and you are to recieve the money when your mother or father dies, then that is different. But that isn't the case in most families today in America. I have a friend who is very rich, and lives in a really big house in brentwood. He doesnt have to do anything because the wealth will be passed down to him in his future. His parents still make him work for the things that he gets, and even money becasue they want him to apprecieate everything and not take it for granted. They know that at any point in life something can go wrong, and they lose all their wealth. This can happen to anyone and it does. People lose everything they have sometimes and are forced o live a life they wish they didn't have to.
Parents should only give their children money or an allowence if they help out by doing chors or little jobs. If parents do this they will only be helping out their children in the future so that they will know if they want anything, they will have to work for it. Nothing is given to anyone. If parents just give their child money without any work then that child will not have a good future because they won't know how to get something that they really want.

Obesity

Obesity is a huge problem in America today. It effects not only the person who obese, but the people around them. The whole country is affected from the problem of obesity. The person that is obese is looked upon not in a good way by society. They are seen as if they don't care about themselves. They don't care if they die from diabetes, or if they can't get up out the bed because they weigh so much their legs can't hold their weight. Obesity isn't coming from only adults either. It is starting at a young age. Many children in today's society are weighing a lot more than they should. By the time they get to middle and high school they are already huge, then have low self esteem. Then they get picked on by the people that are not fat or as them. Parents need to start feeding their children more healthy and have them excercising constantly everyday. The child should be active outside of school at least and hour and a half to two hours everyday of the week. People in not only American, even though we have the biggest weight problem, should watch their weight. Workout everyday to help burn off fat from your body and to stay in shape. Dieting doesnt do very good. Just dont over eat and eat the right foods. Have junk food sometimes, but not on a regular. Make it a treat for doing something good.

Monday, October 18, 2010

2. Two different people could become alies

It is very possible that two people of different interests and backgrounds could become allies. Those two people may not see eye to eye on anything. Them being so different can make them so alike at the same time. Them both not liking anything each other is already one thing that they have in common. They also can help one another by showing them things that the other person has never expericenced before and that person may like it. It is very possible that the two become very good allies and very good friends. They may not wanting anyone to mess with that other person about their interest but them. I have seen that before. The two friends or allies can mess with each other about something, but if an outsider tries to get in, they imediately have each others' back against that person. Another event i have seen this is when basketball teams have team fights. Although not every person on the team may get along with open another, or like one another, if they get into "it" with another team, imediately the team puts all their differences aside and helps each other out against the other team. This isn't a rare thing to see at all in life. Our country is like that. USA and  Britian have different beliefs, but when it comes down to war, they always are allies. This won't for every two opposite pair in the world, but for some it will. You just have to see if it ever happens to you.

1. Outdoor living to a person with an apartment in the city

A person with an apartment in the city would consider outdoor living as living on the streets. This would also mean that the person is homeless. Outdoor living is living with no roof over your head that you can count on to have on a regular basis. In the city outdoor living is dangerous because it wouldn't just be you out there by yourself. There are other people that are out there trying to survive. You have to watch your back regularly and hope you can find a safe place to sleep at night. You might have to sleep during the day so that the probability of something bad happening is not as great. most apartments in the main city aren't occupied by the rich, more the people that are close to out door living if something bad happened. To those people outdoor living isn't very far for them. It is not a good thing, and living outdoors may be in the back of their mind at times.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

same sex schools

Single-Sex Schools

                All girl schools believe that girls can learn better because boys are not there to distract them. They also believe that they have to compete with the boys and that they get less attention in the classroom. In a school with both girls and boys, the girls are a lot of the time distracting the boys. Having attended high school that contained both boys and girls, where I had classes where girls outnumbered the girls. The girls would talk most of the class period, distracting the rest of the class. The other classes I had there were no distractions. Everyone wanted to learn. The boys would help the girls, and the girls would help the boys. No one received any more attention than the other did. Single sex schools are not a good idea.

                In the real world, you are not split up by boys and girls. When you get a job, you don’t just work with all women. You won’t just only talk to all women in your life. So why would you split girls from boys, if school is suppose to prepare you for when you are out on your own living in the real world? That is a big mistake. Girls don’t end up knowing how to work with boys. For example, if at an all girls’ school they had to do a project where they had to start a business and make the most money possible. In the nearby future those girls will have to work with the opposite sex too. They will not know how to interact with them in a business setting. This will be a problem in their life, and may cost them their job. When applying for a job and the interviewer is a male, the girl won’t be prepared to talk to the opposite sex.

                In the school setting boys are not the problem for the girls. The girls, if anything, distract themselves by trying to entertain and show off for the boys. In the classroom boys and girls also think different on things and have different point of views on topics. Getting and seeing another point of view, along with seeing how someone else thinks, can help a person not have tunnel vision, be more open, and see the world different. Separating the two sexes won’t help them in the future either. It will hurt them greatly. They won’t know how to interact with the opposite sex; they will miss out on opportunities that may come your way just by knowing someone that you may meet at that school that you could be at. Going to school with one another can also help the girls find their true love. Mostly every girl wants to find that special someone that they have been looking for. Most of the time, that person is found in college or after you are done with school, you see that person, years later. If you go to school with all of the same sex, the girl or boy will never meet that person. Keep the schools mixed with both boys and girls.