When I was a little girl I was very bright, and
curious. Most of the kid’s parents at my pre-school and elementary school didn’t
want their kids to hang out with me because they believed that I was a bad seed,
and was going to make their kids as bad as I was. But that wasn’t the case. In
my last year at PDRNSMS. I had this one teacher she was Irish and very strike
she felt that I wasn’t ready for middle school. However my mom and I felt different
towards that opinion. So I graduated with my 5th grade class. Once I
made it to middle school all the teachers loved me, however the kids was very
jealous of me because I was the teacher’s pet. I was bullied although my middle
school. But I always stayed strong, I never showed weakness. I didn’t let
anyone tare me down or my spirits. My mom always told me “sticks and stones may
break my bones but words will never hurt me” I never forgot that quote. In high
school I made a lot of friends and lost a lot of friends but friends come and go.
But I always stayed strong no matter what. All the haters that entered my life
was wrong about me, they told me I wasn’t smart enough to make it out of middle
school! I proved them wrong, for all of the children saying I’m annoying and
ugly! I proved them wrong, and know I’m a better me making amazing grade above
credits and doing well in school and college material. If it wasn’t for those negative
people on my life I wouldn’t be the person I am today. So I appreciate them for
entering my life and allowing me to prove them wrong so thank you. To my Irish elementary
school teacher, thank you to all those childish little girls talking about me
behind my back, and lastly thank you God for blessing me with an amazing mother
for always telling me that the B are the best in anything we do. So I’m very thankful
for all my struggles in life and I hopefully
my new struggles will be even better than my old ones, I look at my struggles
not saying I hate them or I regret things I did I look at my struggle and learn
an important lesson from them. That’s what made me a better and improved person
in so many ways.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
Virtual Selves
In this module, you will read four articles that I believe that are the best choices. First article is “What you say online could Haunt You”By: Kornblum, Janet and Marklein, Mary on page 163 Test 7. Second article “Whom am we” By: Turkie Sherry page 197 Text 6. Third article “Time’s Person of the Year: You” By: You “By: Grossman, Lev page 125 Text 4.
A college student Michael Guinn thought the photos he posted of himself dressed as a drag would be seen only by friends. But Guinn made a mistake when someone showed the photos on Facebook to administrators at john Brown University, a Christian college in Siloam Springs, “ the last straw for them,” says Guinn, 22, who is gay.
In January, Guinn was kicked out of school. As more student turn to websites such as Facebook. Instagram, Twitter and Myspace to chronicle their lives and socialize with friends, they are also leaning that their words and pictures are reaching way beyond peers for whom they were intended. And some, like Guinn, are paying a price.
In the past few months, college, high schools and even middle schools students across the USA have been suspended or expelled, thrown off athletic teams, passed over for jobs, and even arrested based on their online postings.
Students post pictures of themselves holding cans of beers and bottles of liquor even when they’re underage. They pose suggestively wearing little sometimes no clothing. Some appear to be smoking marijuana in bongs or joints, even holding firearms. They openly write nasty comments about each other or their teachers and coaches online.
To teens and young adults, social websites are private spaces where they can interact in the open, multimedia style of the online world in which they grew up. But to adults, these sites are places where kids are naively putting their reputations and futures on the line not to mention personal safety at risk.
As recently 10 + 15 years ago, it was almost unthinkable to speak of the computer’s involvement with ideas about unstable meanings and unknowable truths. The computer was known as the calculating machine. In an introductory programming course at Harvard University in 1978. One professor introduced the computer to the class by calling it a giant calculator.” The professor re assured the students, was a cut and dried technical activity whose rules were crystal clear.
From today’s perspective, the fundamental lessons of computing are wrong. Programming is no longer cut and dried. The lessons of computing today have to do not with calculation and rules, but with simulation and interaction. The very image of the computers as a giant calculator has become quaint and dated.
Today we use off the shelf products to manipulate simulated desktops, draw with simulated paints and brushes, and fly in simulated airplane cockpits.
Children are comfortable with the idea that inanimate objects can both think and have a personality. But children don’t worry if the machine is alive. They know it’s not. The issue of aliveness has moved into the background as through it is settled. But the notion of the machine has expanded to include its having a psychology. In talking about computers in a psychological way, children allow computational machines to retain an animistic trace. Children brains are growing every day and us as teen young adults and adults shouldn’t let our future go to waste with technology.
The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish Philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A war dragged on in Sudan. But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story. One that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.
We’re ready to blame our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Boston and Beijing. We made Facebook profiles and second life avatars and reviewed book at amazon and recorded podcasts.
But 200c gave us some ideas. As an opportunity to build a new kind of international opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding.” Not politician to politician, great man to man, but citizen to citizen, person to person.” It’s a chance for people to lock at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who’s out there.
All of the articles I provided had an amazing concept. The first article talked about how social media can catch up to you, if you want to go college or even for jobs. The moral of this lesson is to be careful of what you write or show on social media. Second article told you about who decided to make a computer, but when time went on we realized we can do much more than using a calculator. Third article represents the foundation a risk you have and in using a computer. Then talks about how people using the computer for a second life. That’s what the virtual life can do to you.
Work cited:
Text 7 page 163 “What you say on line can haunt you.”
Text 6 page 147 “Who am we.”33
Text 4 page 125 “Time person of the year.”
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
California
State University
I agree with Margaret Mead. Because Americans do believe
to succeed in life you have to have amazing grades which is true don’t get me
wrong, but it’s more than grades that is going to get you somewhere. You must
have people skills, must be street smart and book smart at the same time.
Margaret Mead was
arguably the most renowned anthropologist of all time, contributing to the
development of the discipline, as well as, introducing its insights to
thousands of people outside the academy. Her work continues to contribute to
the understanding of people around the world today.
Margaret Mead, was a strong proponent of women's
rights, who shone a light of understanding on human nature, and a clear and
forceful entity who provided much knowledge to the field of anthropology and
psychology.
The California State University
(Cal State or CSU) is a public
university system in California. Composed of 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers
enrolling 437,000 students with 44,000 faculty members and staff,[4] CSU is the largest four-year public university system in
the United States.[2] It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, with the other two being the University of
California system and the California
Community College system. The
CSU System is incorporated.
CSU is high-quality,
accessible, student-focused higher education. It is the, the most diverse, and
one of the most affordable university systems in the country.
Mead argument is really strong in my opinion. I feel like
she uses great details. Describing how Americans celebrate and admire the one
who gets the highest grades, voted most attractive or most likely to succeed.
But while we often rejoice in the success of people far removed from ourselves,
people who work in another profession and live in another community.
I feel like if Mead was a high school student that she
wouldn’t hang out with a lot of kids, she would be upset with everyone because
she doesn’t really have a lot of people to express her feelings to others and
she would not be social.
That’s why I agree with Margaret Mead and at the same
time I disagree with her.
My name is A. I’m 16 years old in the 11th grade an I attend High
School. I was born December 10, 1997 at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hill,
CA, I live with my parents they both graduated from college and graduated
school, my Dad owns his own landscaping business, and my Mom works for the
great State of California, Department of Social Services as a Social Worker. I
have 2 brothers one older and one younger. We have one (1) male dog name Zak.
Our family had 2 dogs. Our beloved family dog Pebbles was killed in a
hit-and-run accident this summer and the driver did not stop to help or look
back. The loss of Pebbles really hurt my family and me. Pebbles was so special
to us. Apart of our family is gone forever; we had a funeral for Pebbles. I’m a dog lover and really miss my dog Pebbles.
I attended K Anthony’s private
preschool at the age of 2 and K Anthony’s private elementary school from
Kindergarten until 3rd grade. I was involved in every activity on
campus and was in every school play. I got good grades and love the owner of
the private school. It felt like home everyone cared about each other and there
was a lot of love and respect for one another. We were one big happy family.
In the 4th
grade I went to St. Eugene Catholic School for one year and I had a great
teacher and I was very activity there too and I participated in all the school
activities and school plays. I was on the honor roll the entire time I was
there and received many certificates and awards.
When I went to the 5th
grade I asked my parents if I can please go to a public school without
uniforms. They agreed and completed the CHOICES application; I got accepted to
Paseo Del Rey Magnet Elementary School. It was my first year in a real public school;
things were so different from my private and Catholic schools. The public school
was huge compared to my old schools. I was a little nervous about going that
first day. I was that new kid, I didn’t know anyone there, I was wondering how
I would fit in been the new kid, the class room had over 30 kids in class, my
old school only had about 15 kids in its class. The kids at my old school were
very respectful, obeyed the school rules and had good morals. Some of the kids
at my new school did not respect the teachers are the school. I met a lot of
new friends there, a few kids from my old private school was there too. Then
the school year came to an end, we all graduated from elementary school, some
kids went to the same public middle school and other kids went to different
schools. I went to a new charter school for the 6th grade, here we
go again, and I was the new kid again. I met a lot of new friends again that
first years was great. I made the honor roll, that second year our charter
school had a lot of financial problems, they close the school down for a few
days the second week of school, they had to let some of the best teachers go,
and they had to make all these changes, a lot of the parents was really upset
with the changes, they wasn’t sure if the school would stay open or close. The
charter school was in financial trouble and it was on the local news regarding
mishandling of school funds. My parents checked my younger brother and me out
after the second week of the first semester.
We both left the
charter school and attended John Burroughs Middle School (JBMS) we really like
our new school, and we’ve both met a lot of new friends. I culminated from JBMS
with honors; it was so hard to say good-bye. I miss my teachers and old friends
that did not come to Fairfax High School. I met new friends and many of my old
friends from JBMS also came to Fairfax. High school was so exciting and different.
My 9th grade year I hung out with the wrong crowd, my friends didn’t
care about school or their education and a lot of them got kicked out because
of bad grades and for not going to class, they did not return back our 10th
grade year, my grades also dropped. My parents stayed on me and I got my act together
my grades improved and I was able to continue on. I went to the prom my
sophomore year and had a great time. This year is my junior year and I’m
working really hard to do well in all my classes because I want to go to
college and make something out of myself.
I’ve always been a
leader. I’m very friendly, caring, helpful, outgoing, funny, happy, loving,
joyful, dependable, punctual, respectful, and a dedicated person, that love
life and the people in my life.
My goals in life are to stay focus, get good
grades in school, so that I can go to college. My extracurricular activities
consist of: Being a member of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Delta GEMS, I’m on the
swim and track team. I was in ROTC and a member of the Black Student Union club
my 9th grade year until they took it away due to budget cuts. I have
been a member of Girl Scout for almost 13 years and I was also on our school
Tennis team for 2 years.
I attend church every
Sunday with my family and I sing in the youth choir. This summer I apply for a
cashier position at Church’s Fried Chicken in Inglewood, CA about a mile from
my home and I got the job all on my own. My parents were very proud of me. I
work every weekend and get paid every Friday once a week 52 times a year. I
opened up a bank account in my name and I have a direct deposit account. I save
most of money and I also spend some of my money on things I like and I help my
little brother out and buy him stuff he wants too.
My hobbies are: Shopping, designing and making
clothes, styling hair, swimming, listen to music on my iPod and cell phone,
talking on the cell phone, texting, reading, surfing the internet/web, watching
reality television, playing board games, video games, riding my bike,
exercising, shopping, skating, dinner and going to the movies. I believe in God
almighty! I enjoy life and spending quality time with my family and friends.
My future goals in life
are to stay focus, get good grades in high school, so that I can go to college.
I would like to attend an Ivy League or HBCU college or university and I want
to go to college out of State. My plan is to go to college and graduated school
and become a Clinical Psychologist. I also want to enjoy life and travel the
world. I want to get married around the age of 25 years of age and have
children by the age of 35 years old.
The
Giver: Published 1993
By:
Lois Lowry (Author)
The
Giver is one of my favorite books ever written, it is a book about a boy name
Jonas, The Giver, his family and the community he lives in. Jonas lives in a
community where everything is the same. Everything is controlled to be perfect,
and the people in the community depend on The Giver “Receiver of Memory”. (1) The
community must obey these rules and patterns if they wish to continue living in
their community. At the age of twelve all twelve years old children must attend
the Ceremony of Twelve so that they
can find out what their new job assignment will be in their community until
they are adults. The Chief Elder has decided not to assign Jonas a job within
the community. Jonas has been selected for training as a Receiver of Memory. It
is the most important role in the entire community. Jonas didn’t know what his
job was or what he had to do.
Jonas was told that he had to report to an Annex attached
to the House of the Old for his training. Every day Jonas would go to this
house and each day he would receive a new memory from The Giver, the first day
Jonas learn about snow sledding,
and hills. At first, Jonas could only feel coldness, over time he learned more.
On the second day he received the memory of dream and he could lie because he
could not tell anyone about his dreams. Then he learned about colors something
other people in his community are not allowed to see. Jonas didn’t think it was
fair that people couldn’t see color; he felt that everyone should be able to
see color (20). As the time went on Jonas received his first memory of pain
from sunburn.
Jonas finds out that the community is designed to have everything the same
there are many rules and patterns, some rules include all families to have only
one son and one daughter. Also, you’re not allowed to steal or have extra food.
Lastly all nine year olds have bikes patterns including families share feelings
and dreams and elders and newborns and identical twins can be release. That
means they will be killed if they are too weak for the community. (24)
During Jonas training he ask The Giver to tell him about
release, Jonas ask The Giver if he wanted to be release and he told Jonas he
had to training him first. Jonas still didn’t know what release meant. He told
Jonas about Rosemary who was the release of memory before him but asked to be
release after working for 5 weeks because she couldn’t take the pain. The Giver
takes Jonas to a windowless room to watch a video. Jonas get very upset with
his father the Nurturer after seeing his father injected a fatal poison to a
new child’s head. Jonas now learns what being release mean. (30) Jonas goes to
The Giver and tells him he can’t go back home after he seeing the video. The
Giver has his attendant call Jonas family to tell them he was with The Giver
and he will not come home tonight.
The Giver tells Jonas his father was only doing his job
and what he was told to do. It is their community rule. The Giver tells Jonas
that that’s what happens when people are released. He also tells Jonas his
friend Fiona has already been trained to perform release with no feelings to
the elderly. The Giver tells Jonas what happen to the last Receive of Memory
and how much pain and confusion it caused the community and if Jonas leaves,
the community will pick a new Receiver of Memory to replace him, but the
Receive they will pick is only 6 years old and her name is Katharine and she is
too young to be a receiver of Memory in their community.
The Giver tells Jonas that he stayed in the community
when the last Receiver of Memory was killed to help the people cope. The Giver
tells Jonas he is too old and no longer sees colors. The Giver promise to give
Jonas music before he leaves. Jonas tells The Giver things need to change there
might be away to change things. But in a community a Receiver of Memory must
keep things to himself. If Jonas leaves the memories he has learned they will
go back to the people.
And in the end Jonas goes to his father house, steal his bike and kidnap
the new child Gabriel because he did not want Gabriel to be release by his
father. And he wanted to save his community so that they could all experience
memories without the protection of the Receiver of Memory. Jonas try’s to go to
Elsewhere, but they ran into a snowstorm, they got really cold, ran out of
food, and then they beginning to starve because they had no more food to eat.
Jonas thought he heard music but it was only an echo. (52) It is not clear in
the end if they reach safety but they have sure left immediate danger.
This was a wonderfully written book that really makes you think. It takes
place in a city where people are blind to more than color and it bares a
striking resemblance to our day. People just move along and go through the
motions. We live in a fine society most of the time but there are those moments
when people and their problems are overlooked. Jonas really takes the time to
help Gabriel. He reaches out where others wouldn’t. We can learn from his
example and do the same in our lives and the lives of those we know.
Work citied:
Lowry, Louis. “The Giver”, 1993
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Ryan White: My Own Story
One of my favorite books I have ever read was the Ryan White Story. I
really enjoyed this book it touch my heart and it helped me understand
HIV/AIDS and what Ryan had to deal with at such a young age. Ryan White was a typical 13-year-old boy
when it was discovered that he had contracted AIDS through tainted blood
products he had been given for his hemophilia. Ryan was denied the right to
return to school, so he went to court, with newspaper headlines following the
many legal battles. With great courage he began to speak out against the
misconceptions about the disease, making friends with celebrities like Elton
John and Michael Jackson along the way.
Ryan White was born
on December 6, 1971 in Kokomo, Indiana. When he was three days old, doctors
informed his parents that he had hemophilia, an inherited disease in which
the blood does not clot. People who have this disease are vulnerable, since
an injury as simple as a paper cut can lead to dangerous bleeding.
Fortunately for White and his parents, a new treatment, called Factor VII,
recently had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This
treatment is made from blood and contains the clotting agent that allows
healthy people to heal quickly from wounds.
Even with the
treatment, White had to be very careful. He bled easily and the most
dangerous and painful bleeds occurred when a blood vessel bled in a joint.
"A bleed occurs from a broken blood vessel or vein,"(6) White
explained in his testimony before the President's Commission on AIDS.
"The blood then had nowhere to go so it would swell up in a joint. You
could compare it to trying to pour a quart of milk into a pint-sized
container of milk."(11) He was in and out of the hospital for the first
six years of his life but despite this managed to live a fairly normal
childhood.
In December 1984,
when he was 13, White contracted pneumonia and had surgery to remove part of
his left lung. After two hours of surgery, his doctors told his parents that
he had contracted the incurable disease of Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome, or AIDS, through his Factor VII blood transfusions. Someone with
the disease had donated blood, and the virus had been in the blood that White
received. (Since that time, better screening procedures have been put in
place to make blood transfusions safer). "I spent Christmas and the next
thirty days in the hospital,"(17) White told the President's Commission
on AIDS. "A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my
life. I came face to face with death at 13 years old." (20)
White's doctors told
him that he had six months to live, but White decided that he would continue
to live a normal life, attend school, and spend time with his friends.
"I hate the idea of anything that makes me seem sick forever. Maybe I
have an incurable disease, but I don't have to be a permanent invalid,"
he said in his book Ryan White: My Own Story. Page 1
Ryan White had not
counted on the ignorance, fear, and hatred he would encounter in his small
home town of Kokomo, Indiana. At first, people there claimed that there were
no health guidelines for a person with AIDS to attend a normal school. Even
after the Indiana State Board of Health set guidelines saying it would be
safe for the other children if Ryan attended school, the school board, his
teachers, and the principal tried to keep him out of school. They feared he
would spread the disease, even though it was known by that time that AIDS
cannot be spread by casual contact. Ryan and his mother took the case to
court. Eventually they agreed to meet some of their neighbors' concerns by
having Ryan use a separate restroom, not take gym class, drink out of a
separate water fountain, and use disposable eating utensils and trays at
lunch. Even so, 20 students were pulled out of school by their parents, who
started their own school to keep their children from having any contact with
Ryan White. The ignorance people would treat Ryan badly because they thought
that they could get the disease by breathing the same air and by a simple
touch so they kicked Ryan out of school. This was so sad to me. I can’t
understand how people could be so cruel to a teenager. What if it was their
child how would they feel if someone treated them that way?
Ryan later told the
Commission that his townspeople's ignorance and fear regarding AIDS led him
to become the target of jokes and some spread lies about him biting people,
spitting on vegetables and cookies (and thus supposedly spreading the
disease), restaurants throwing away dishes he had eaten from and students
vandalizing his locker and writing obscenities and anti-gay slurs (because at
that time, AIDS was believed to be a disease primarily of gay men) on his
books and folders. An even more frightening incident occurred when someone
fired a bullet into White's home.
Ryan told the
Commission, "I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother and I
was not welcome anywhere. People would get up and leave so they would not
have to sit anywhere near me. Even at church, people would not shake my
hand." This lack of acceptance, even in church, was a blow to the
Whites, who were committed Christians. As White's mother told Phil Geoffrey
Bond in Poz, a magazine for people with HIV and AIDS, "I worked
with a Pentecostal [person] who told me, 'You know, Ryan wouldn't have AIDS
if he went to my church."'(56)
Ryan wrote in his
book, "I had plenty of time back then to think about why people were
being very mean. Of course it was because they were scared. Maybe it was
because I wasn't that different from everybody else. I wasn't gay; I wasn't
into drugs; I was just another kid from Kokomo. … I didn't even look sick.
Maybe that made me more of a goblin to some people."(56)
Ryan White's ordeal
was soon publicized and he began receiving enormous amounts of media
attention. He received thousands of letters supporting his right to go to
school, and met politicians, movie stars, and top athletes, all of whom
supported him. He appeared on numerous television programs, including CBS Morning News, the Today Show, Sally
Jessy Raphael, Phil Donohue, Hour Magazine, the Home Show, Peter Jennings'
"Person of the Week," Nightline,
West 57th Street, P.M. Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, and Prime Time Live. White was also
featured on the cover of the Saturday
Evening Post, Picture Week, and People
magazines.
Meanwhile, The
White's family was struggling with his medical expenses. As Ryan White became
more ill, his mother had to miss more days from her work at General Motors
and the family couldn't pay their bills. His sister Andrea, a championship
roller skater, dropped her lessons and travel to competitions because the
family simply did not have the money for them, or for anything else. Ryan
White's health was steadily declining and he was being tutored at home. He
dreamed of his family moving into a larger house and being accepted in a
community. This dream became a reality when an ABC movie, The Ryan White
Story, was made about his life. Ryan acted in the movie, playing his best
friend, Chad. "I wanted to make that movie because I was hoping that
what we went through will never happen to anyone else," White wrote in
his book.
In 1987, using the
money from the movie, White's family moved to Cicero, Indiana, where they
found acceptance. "For the first time in three years," Ryan told
the Commission, "we feel we have a home, a supportive school, and lots
of friends. … I am a normal, happy teenager again. I have a learner's permit.
I attend sports functions and dances. My studies are important to me. I made
the honor roll just recently, with two As and two Bs … I believe in myself as
I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."(25)
Ryan White died on
April 8, 1990 in Cicero, Indiana. During his short 18-year life he
accomplished more than many people who live long, healthy lives. His activism
and legacy of concern for others with AIDS remains. "I've seen how
people with HIV/AIDS are treated and I don't want others to be treated like I
was,"(26) he said. Shortly after his death, White's mother went to
Congress to speak to politicians on behalf of people with AIDS. She spoke to
23 representatives, although Jesse Helms of North Carolina refused to speak
to her even when she was alone with him in an elevator. Most representatives,
however, were sympathetic to her story.
White's activism,
and that of his mother Jeanne, helped AIDS patients all over the United
States receive care that they otherwise could not have afforded. The public
was also educated about the nature of the disease. In 1990, just a few months
after White's death, Congress passed P.L. 101-381, the Ryan White
Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Care (CARE) Act. The Act is
administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration and aims to
improve the quality of care for low-income or uninsured individuals and
families with HIV and AIDS who do not have access to care. The Act supports
locally developed care systems and is founded on partnership between the U.S.
federal government, states, and local communities. It emphasizes outpatient,
primary, and preventive care in order to prevent overuse of expensive
emergency room and inpatient facilities.
Between the Act's
authorization in 1991, and May of 1996, nearly $2.8 billion in federal funds
were appropriated to provide care to more than 500,000 low-income Americans
living with HIV or AIDS. From 1993 to 1996, funding for the program increased
from $348 million to $738.5 million. The Act was reauthorized in May 1996 and
continues to provide care to Americans living with HIV and AIDS.
As of today there is
no cure for HIV/AIDs, but there is medicine that can help control the
disease.
This was an
excellent book. Ryan White was an amazing teenager. I highly recommend this
book. Everyone should read this book, now that there is a movie about Ryan White
if you don’t have time to read the book. Please check out the movie. I know I
will share the Ryan White story with my children one day.
Work cited:
White, Ryan, Marie, Ann. “Ryan White .My Own Story, August 01, 1992 and February 26, 1999
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