Civil Rights

To me the term civil rights mean human rights or just basic rights, rights that all citizens of a society are supposed to have. The civil rights movement in America was about reform movements which took place to stop racial discrimination against African-Americans. Also it’s a nonviolent protest none as civil rights movement, for me this is the main meaning to the civil rights movement but there are many different opinions. In the United States most Americans think of their civil rights as those rights given to them as written in their Constitution, for example freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to due process of law, and the right to equal protection under the law. When talking about the Civil Rights Movement, most Americans will discuss the movement that was started during the 1950's and lasted through the early 1970's, but The American Civil Rights Movement actually began as far back in American history as 1783; the year when Massachusetts legally outlawed slavery within its borders. One of the main people involved in the civil rights movement is Martin Luther King Jr. he supported his fellow African-Americans and kept going till the end. In 1955, Rosa Parks entered a crowded Montgomery, Alabama city bus and took a seat near the front. When she was asked to move to the back, she refused. The police were called and Rosa found herself in jail. Rosa's actions inspired the black community to support the Civil Rights Movement by arranging boycotts. The film The Hurricane relates to this because Rubin Carter was racially profiled and sent to jail for a long time for being African-American.

Comparing Justice to Injustice

I am going to do what the name of this blog is compare Injustice to justice first of all the word injustice means violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment. And the word justice means the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to up hold the justice of a cause. I am going to give some examples of justice and injustice: An example of injustice would be someone being accused of murder and being sentenced to prison for 20 years, then finally being let out because they finally found proper evidence that he didn’t murder any one and that he was falsely accused, which really sucks and half of the person’s life was token away for some one else’s crime. And an example of justice is a poor wife and daughter being abused by an alcoholic husband who threatens to hurt them if they try to leave, and wining a battle in court for her daughter’s happiness. The main difference between these two examples would be that with injustice it’s unfair and usually an innocent person is accused of a crime they didn’t do and justice is someone innocent putting away someone who hurts people and themselves. In my life I have never really had any injustice happen to me the worst thing would be reputation or something like that.

Reflection on school year so far

In my opinion from what I know of, not much things have changed since my September blog about the difference between junior high and senior high. In my classes I think I am sort of close to my class expectations but a little shaky on the edges, but I always try to get my work done as well as I can. I am basically meeting my goals this year so far and my way to achieve this goal is to hand in all of my work and study and just try my best. But the only goals I am not achieving would be to participate more and be more of a help to others, like in group work. For this semester my schedule was English, Dance, It, lunch, Gym, Social, and Art, nine very long periods of pure brain. Our first semester is two junior high semesters so for my main courses we have two periods. And for my next semester I have Math, Calm, Science, Home ec, Gym also a very busy schedule. I think next semester might be a bit harder because math and science are my worst subjects and also there is a lot more writing and stuff done in these classes.

The hobbit project

For my important project on the book The Hobbit I chose to make a poster my plan is to type up information and get a whole bunch of awesome photos and organize it in a more sort of collage way but with information on top of the photos in a layered formation. The question I chose to do this amazing project on is do you think that there is someone/something else that controls our actions? With me I’m not really sure that I believe in god or something like that but I do believe in destiny and things happening for a reason. I think from the book The Hobbit that out of everyone Gandalf would be the one controlling destiny but I only think he gives destiny a push because its Bilbo’s destiny to go on this journey searching for the treasure and to find the ring, without the ring things might have happened differently. Like when they get split up in Misty Mountain Bilbo probably wouldn’t have been able to get past the guards. And with the spiders they probably would have done the same thing to Bilbo that they did to the dwarves. And all of this leads to a bigger destiny then just finding treasure, and that is the main outline of my Hobbit project.

War

In our current world I don't know much about war other than just watching news about troops being in Afghanistan for long time and are away from their families who are probably hoping for the best to come and for war to stop. I haven’t really learnt about war much but in the past our two most eventful wars are World War 1 and World War 2. The World War 1 conflict lasted from 1914 to 1919 no other wars had involved so many soldiers and was also one of the bloodiest wars to happen. And the Second World War lasted from 1939 to 1945 it was six long bloody years. If Canada was involved in war my life would change for the fact that my family member would have a chance of being sent into war and anything could happen. The closest I’ve met someone involved in war would be my mom’s friend who son was sent into the Afghanistan war over seas. And he was to stay there for a long time but I don’t remember how long but months over months of war and peacekeeping. War is very romanticized in our daily lives we don’t even know what’s going on in this world unless we watch news which most teenagers and down don’t really care for news. Everyday there are troops fighting to keep peace and tranquility yet we don’t acknowledge the fact that they are fighting for world peace and when they come back home they should come home to a proud community yet we don’t pay attention to what’s going on in this world so we are very romanticized in our country.

Are Sports Overrated?

In my opinion sports can be overrated but not all the time. Also sports are healthy and give you lots of exercise and keep you very energized. For some people they have to take sports seriously because it might be their career or they are competing in a competition like the Olympics. But with sports some people are really competitive and always get angry over like someone accidentally hitting them or something like that or when they think the referee made a false call, or some people are just cheap and think they are the best. In sports there are lots of mixed emotions toward others and they always end up fighting. They get angry from their schedules getting changed and by this I mean move games to different days due to something coming up or something like that. Personally I do think sports are overrated depending on who’s playing and how they play or act during and before and after sports. But probably a high amount of people in our country love watching sports so I believe it can be overrated. I think the Olympics can be overrated on its own but it’s a good opportunity for people to compete. And that’s my opinion on sports being overrated.

3 biggest fears

To me fear means being frightened or having anxiety over something for example Courtney’s afraid of the dark. So for me I have so many fears that I can’t name them all, so it’s really hard to spot out my biggest fears but I think the possibilities could be drowning, losing loved ones and my last biggest fear is heights. I think I am afraid of drowning because when I was younger I almost drowned which made me very afraid of deep water so when it came to swimming lessons I would always chicken out. And I am afraid of losing loved ones because I don’t know what I would do without them like I can’t even imagine losing one of my brothers, dad or mom. Also I would be worried about what happens after I lose someone do I just forget about them or what so that’s another reason for my fear. And I am afraid of heights because whenever I am somewhere high up I get the feeling that I am going to fall and die. Which is a very terrible feeling but I am mainly sketched out about heights because I am probably one of the clumsiest people you will meet.

Unsuspecting hero october

The unexpected hero I am writing about is from the film One Small Hero, this film is about a young boy named Joey Cooper. Joey Cooper is a young boy who wants more than anything to be a member of the "Wilderness Club." But every time he tried to pass the test he failed enabling him to join because he failed over and over again. But when Joey gets home after his latest attempt that he managed to fail, he finds his mother has bought him all new camping equipment for his trip he didn’t want to make his mother feel bad so he didn’t tell her that he wasn’t in the club and wasn’t going camping, so he takes all his gear and goes for the trip anyway. So Joey went on the bus anyway and he was hiding so that no one saw him. Then all of the sudden all the kids were kidnapped by a couple kidnappers then it was all up to Joey to save them. Of course you know what happened next Joey saved all of the kids which made him have friends and become more popular and it also allowed him to finally join the Wilderness club. Also he becomes a hero for saving them he was congratulated by his moms and many of the town’s people. I chose this because this simple kid gained the power and hope to save the bus full of kids.

its a fork its a spoon its a weapon

Six year old Zachary Christie was suspended and now faces 45 days in the district’s reform school. This is because he took a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently joining the Cub Scouts that he wanted to use it at lunch. School officials concluded that he had violated their zero-tolerance policy on weapons. “It just seems unfair,” Zachary said, pausing as he practiced writing lower-case letters with his mother, who is home-schooling him while the family tries to overturn his punishment. But, based on the code of conduct for the Christina School District, where Zachary is a first grader, school officials had no choice. They had to suspend him because, “regardless of possessor’s intent,” knives are banned. Still some school administrators argue that it is difficult to distinguish innocent pranks and mistakes from more serious threats, and that the policies must be strict to protect students. Critics contend that zero-tolerance policies like those in the Christina district have led to sharp increases in suspensions and expulsions, often putting children on the streets or in other places where their behavior only worsens, and that the policies undermine the ability of school officials to use common sense in handling minor infractions. In Milwaukee, where school officials reported that 40 percent of ninth graders had been suspended at least once in the 2006-7 school year, the superintendent has encouraged teachers not to overreact to student misconduct. Educational experts say the decline is less a result of zero-tolerance policies than of other programs like peer mediation, student support groups and adult mentorships, as well as an overall decrease in all forms of crime. For Zachary, it is not school violence that has left him reluctant to return to classes. “I just think the other kids may tease me for being in trouble,” he said, pausing before adding, “but I think the rules are what is wrong, not me.” And In my opinion they shouldn’t have made such a big deal about a kid brining a fork, spoon and knife utensil to school to us at lunch. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/education/12discipline.html

The hobbit wordle

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1246588/The_hobbit

3 favorite films and why you choose them?

My first film that I chose was Trick R Treat it is a very confusing story about the traditions and beliefs or Halloween. It has more than one story going on at the same time. The first story about a pumpkin kid who kills anyone who doesn’t celebrate the traditions of Halloween for example dressing up in costumes keeping the pumpkin lit until the end of the night and giving out candy. The next story is about a school principle who murders people. But on that night he chose the wrong target he stalked a girl who happened to be a wolverine which got him brutally killed. And then the next story is about a bus driver who got paid to kill a bus for of disturbed students, but on Halloween they took their revenge and killed him. This movie is long confusing but shows that is always good to believe in traditions. This is a good movie because It has a good point about traditions and beliefs.


The next film I chose is I am Legend this is about a researcher and general who find the cure to cancer a thousands of people get diagnosed with it but the cure went wrong people started getting infected with a unknown disease which turns humans into monsters that can’t go into the light and feed on human flesh. So he is basically the only person left alive in the city and he is trying to find the cure to this unknown disease. At the end he kills himself to save the lives of two people and he also realizes that his blood is the cure. I chose this because this could happen in real life one day because we are searching for the cure to cancer too.

Then the last film I chose was What a Girl Wants, the story is about a girl whose parents split up before she was born, so on her eighteenth birthday she sets off to find her father in England but he happens to be a rich Britain politician. Her life style is different and she has to act good in front of the press because she kept getting in trouble. But she soon realizes she doesn’t belong there and goes home but her father loves her so he goes to America to give her the father daughter dance she has been waiting for and wishing for her whole life. Then she goes to college and has her long lasting wish granted to have a father.

News article: Willard s. Boyle

http://news.aol.ca/article/canadian-born-scientist-wins-nobel-physics-prize/716695/
A scientist born in New Amherst, N.S, is sharing the noble prize in Physics for his work in developing the sensor that is widely used in digital cameras. Willard S. Boyle will share the award with George E. Smith and Charles Kao for their “ground breaking achievements” in physics, the Royal Swedish Academy announced. Boyle and Smith, 79, they invented the first charge-coupled device, which is a semiconductor circuit that transforms light into electric signals that produce a large number of image points, or pixels, in a short time, the technology is also commonly used in medical imaging. Digital photography has become an irreplaceable tool in many fields of research, the digital camera is important to research. And also these days everyone has a digital camera you can’t go wrong with it. The CCD has provided new possibilities to visualize the previously unseen. It has given us crystal clear images of distant places in our universe as well as the depths of the oceans. This is really good so researchers can explore the universe better that before. The device was also used in the Mars Rover on the moon to capture images Boyle is most proud of telescopic applications. He was also born in Amherst in 1924 so this article is about the invention on the sensor most commonly used in digital cameras.

Where do you think you'll find yourself in the future, Why?

In the future I could see myself in many different places because I love to travel and experience different places. So I guess I could write about a couple different places, My first choice is Sherwood park because it's not too big but its near Edmonton so I would have fun shopping and exploring the city. My job would probably be a job as like a baker or something like that but my opinion changes a lots so that could happen but who knows where I will be in like five to ten years or so. Plus I actually have no clue where I will end up because I haven't even really thought about my future career yet but I think I would prefer to stay in a smaller safer community not like the city. If I were to move to the city I would most likely become sort of paranoid. But would probably try to live in the city sometimes but who knows i might just travel around a lot. But it depends if I'm going to go to college or university I could even go to a cooking school or beauty school for all i know so im very un sure about my future who knows I could even move to like the states or something.

Getaway

If I had a drivers license I would be driving a silver Mercedes Benz, the steering wheel would have a green flame circling each and every side of the steering wheel. My glove department would have a golden lock along with a golden key and in it would be all of my important things like my registration and IDs maybe even money. But my car would be pimped out it would have a built in mini fridge with cold drinks and lots of fancy little snack , also sandwiches, yum . And it would have a loud sound system with lots of base and it would be a built in mp3 player so I can play all of my favorite music. And I would have my friends in the car like Courtney and Hannah we would probably go for a long road trip to where ever we please. I was thinking of going some going somewhere like Las Vegas we would rent a hotel, go shopping, and probably gamble if we were old enough. We would go to clubs and all that jazz, I would probaly keep travelling for a bit after Las Vegas and we would probably be in our twenties and sooner or later we would start running low on money and would have to get our parents or someone to send us gas money so we could make it home and they would make us pay back every last penny we borrowed from them.

What is the difference between Junior High and Senior High?

What is the difference between junior high and Senior high? In my opinion there are many differences between Junior and Senior high school. First of all after junior high, Senior high school is more important and difficult; you have to get all of your credits by the end of high school. But to graduate you need at least a hundred credits to graduate, and you also have to do high school diplomas and all that jazz, and provincial achievement test are very important too. Also in high school you become more individual with your studies, and you also learn how to work in groups together as a team. Also in high school most people get more school spirit no all but many do, plus we become smarter. In Senior high we start doing bigger and harder projects for example we start getting assigned amounts of words for essays, blogs, and other assignments. And assignments start having higher marks then in Junior high school. Also Junior high school was your time to goof off but in senior high school you become way more serious and reliable to get homework and assignments done. And the teachers start to trust you more in the way that you can get all of your work done with no problems. And we start to grow up in Senior high we start to lose the rude parts of our attitudes and start to become more understanding. And speaking of understanding teachers are very understanding and help us learn and make process with our learning more, I guess.