Wednesday, March 31, 2010

2b speech on school uniforms

Have you ever had your rights taken from you? Not a previledge, not a gift, not a prize, but a right taken from you? Well prepare yourself for the day you get robbed, because schools are talking about uniforms! Uniforms have been implied to schools with discipline problems all through Arkansas, and you know what those schools still have the same problems they had before. Unforms, when applied to paper might seem real good and well but an ideal solution is not a solution at all. Think about how you would feel if you were forced to wear the same clothing as every other Tom, Dick, and Jane at school, never being able to wear your favorite shirt, not sticking out, and never having your time to shine; in the end its wrong and you would not be a happy free flowing student. Kids at all levels need individuality, lower costing cloths, and just are not effective.. Arguements go round and round on uniforms and I feel that the uniforms should stay where they are; in the heads of big manufacturers.

To start off, uniforms kill individuality and harshen the creative process. A uniform breeds uniformity. Schools need free thinking to become the thinkers of tomorrow, not drones who will continue making the mistakes of pervious generations. When we argue against s chool uniforms we argue against an education system that seeks to produce workers and for an education system that seeks to produce enlightened fully rounded human beings(http://education.newarchaeology.com/against_school_uniforms.php). Your intrapersonal communication can be expressed through your clothing when you get to pick out your own cloths. People get to see what you see in yourself, students clothing gives off noise that goes into to the eyes of others and jumpstarts the communication process. Uniforms stifle the creative process and schools should be supporting their students and allow them to go to a free thinking environment.


Providing another flaw, uniforms are not cheap. Because children are constantly growing, there is a captive market for new school clothes and manufacturers take advantage
(
http://education.newarchaeology.com/against_school_uniforms.php). Parents will have to wash the uniforms and keep them well seamed and stitched. Money that could be used on other more important things is wasted. Nothing but negative feedback will come from hard working parents having to spend extra money to keep their children's cloths decent.


No matter what you dress students in, they will always find a way to pass judgment upon their peers. The clothes are not the root cause of bullying and therefore the bullying will continue, regardless of dress policy. No matter what clothing rules apply, students will always find ways to pass judgment upon each other(http://education.newarchaeology.com/againstschooluniforms.php). Bullies are people that take out their angers and frustrations on other people. No change in cloths is going to change that. Girls with bolder features are going to be targeted no matter what they were, whether it be a polo and a pair of Dickies or a Hollister and Gucci. The same goes for boys and their features.

To conclude, uniforms are a waist of time, Schools should drop the idea. Uniforms are an ieal solution to problems in the system. Students are not going to correct themselves because they are forced to wear new cloths that dampen their personal style. Bullies, money, and individuality are problems that school uniforms do not treat. Instead of trying to put a bandaid on the scab, school officials should hit the source. I believe school uniforms are an extremely bad idea and should never be applied to my school.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Out-of-class read book review

The novel Sacrifice by Kathleen Benner Duble is about the witch scare in the Salem region. People accussing one another of witch craft, no one can be trusted, so who would you sacrifice to be free?

The novel tells a story of a girl and her family living near Salem. Her father suffers from sudden stress induced spouts of insanity. The whole keeps this family under a micrscope, observing every move they make. The thought of witches being among the town forces the people to accuse members of this family.

When the two sisters get thrown in a Salem jail with their aunt, they are forced to choose " sacrifice someone else or rot in jail?"

Olympic-size commitment...to what would you commit?

The members of the Olympic team make many commitments. They commit to practice, conditoning, training, and even time, in order to be the best. People make great commitments for the sublects they love. I love dance and spotlight!! I committed to making my goal of fame come true. I long to be a star.



Practice. Long hours infront of the mirror, listening to music, and learning new moves and techniques. I want a television show of my own one day, so I sit in the mirror for hours practicing my facial expressions and my speech. Each day I learn something new about myself and the way I react to things i hear. The music helps me with my singing and dancing. I wish to be well rounded. New dances come out each day and keeping is a must.



I give up time with friends and sometimes a great weekend with family. There are occassions were a friend or two come with me to practice. Mostly my friends serve me with motivation. They push me to keep going and moiving forward. There are times that I want to give up and go be a normal teen, but I believe that the hard work put in today will benefit me tommorrow.

Thousand Splendid Suns

The novel Thousand Splendid Suns is about life in the middle East. There are two girls going through life together and apart. They learn about love and hard choices.

Mariam is the first girl introduced in the novel. She is not the prettiest Harami in the country but she works hard with what she has. Her father and her mother have two differing versions of her early life, and all through her childhood she learns that the father she thought she had is a fake. After her mother commits suicide and she is forced to live with her phony father, Mariam is caste off on an older man and beg ins her journey out on her own.


Laila is the second girl introduced. Born when Mariam had just moved in with her new husband, Laila is a young girl. She is beautiful and carefrree with the help of her bestfriend Tariq. Through her life her life she plays and deals with the fact that her mother will never love her the same as her two brothers that are away at war. Strangers to her, her brothers die and their death forces their mother into extreme depression. With the war killing her family Laila is Bearing a great secret Laila makes many choices.

The novel teaches you that your life is what you make of it. Bad things happen all the time and you have to keep going. Hold on to the love that was with you and remember the good times, they are what get you through the bad. The choices you make today stay with you tommorow think wisely and move with integrity.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Duel

The Begining is taking a while to get into.... The radio is playing and an orange car is driving up a long country side road.... The orange car and the truck are going back and forth on the road while the radio is still playing. At the gas station the tanker driver is basically a ghost and the service station pumps the gas and checks under the hood for you. Needs to get his repaired. The service man is not the safest when it comes to gas. Orange car driver makes a phone call and the operator picks up to connect the call. He apoligizes to his wife, for not speaking to his friend about hitting on his wife. He has to make it home on time for dinner with his mother. A lady is loading laundry. The movie is very loud... The tanker is speeding with the orange car on a curvy road. The tanker is driving slow and letting off a lot of exhaust. The tanker= old rust, the man in the orange car= David. David almost hit an on coming vehicle while playing cat and mouse with old rust. David is going crazy and drove off the road. After passing the truck he jumps for joy. Old rust is speeding to catch up to David. Now David and old rust are both speeding. Old rust has almost caught up. David still has the lead. Old rust is on David's tail. Scary music has just come on. David is Frantic and pulls into a diner. An older man comes to assist David. David has whiplash. He gets out of his car stumbling around. He goes to the bathroom to cool down. David enters a series of thoughts to himself. The people inside the diner laugh at him for wrecking, he looks out the window and old rust is outside waiting. David sits in the diner worried. Looking around for the driver of Old Rust. He orders his food and aspirin. David starts thinking to himself again. One by one the men at the bar turn and glare at David. The man David assumed was the driver hopes into another truck. The only man with snake skin boots on left in the bar is assumed to be the driver now. David gets up and tells the man to cut it out accussing the man of being Old Rust's driver. David slaps the man's sandwich out of his hands. Fist fight breaks out. The diner owner breaks it up. The man in the fight gets into the wrong truck. Everyone in the bar stares David down. Old Rust drives away before David can she the driver. He chases after the grimy tanker. David gets in his car and drives away.` David tries to give a school bus filled with kids a push and gets the front end of his car stuck under the bus. Bus driver curses infront of the kids. Old Rust shows up at the end of a tunnel not far from David's stuck car. Old Rust is just waiting in the tunnel with his lights on. David tries to get the kids to get on the bus before old rust gets there. Old Rust gives the bus a push. David speeds off before Old Rust is done. Old Rust quietly sneaks up on David and tries to push him into a moving train. David pulls out and off the side of the road safely and lets the tanker pass. He gets back on the road... Old Rust is waiting on David. David gets on the telephone to call the police while a lady is pumping gas and checking his car. Old Rust is rumaging through the SNAKESTAND, then starts to chase David up the road. David stops and thinks to himself. David gets on the road and runs into the tanker again. He pulls over and ask an older couple to call the police amd the tanker scares them off. He gets in his car bolts in front of the tanker. The two are racing. David's car starts overheating, and the car is rapidly slowing down. The tanker is catching up. David panics. He needs oil. The car is still slowing down. David makes it to the summit and is coasting down the mountain. The car gains speed and the tempature falls while the car is in neutral.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Bannin Ipods 2b

Who: Students and Ipods
What: Ipods are getting banned from school campuses because students are using them to cheat. Students are putting answers, formulas, and other methods of cheating in class in the lyrics and codes of their Ipods.
When: During class and tests.
Where: In classrooms all over the United States.
Why it matters: The education process is being compromised and people are cheating. Cheating is being made easier and teachers are being fooled. Simple music players are becoming escape devices for students that are not reaching their full potential. First the baseball caps were banned because people were writing answers on the brim of the hats, then cell phones were taken out because teachers learned that text messages allowed answers to circulate with ease, and now Ipods are being taken away from students. Not all students use them to cheat. Some students use them to wind down after games, tests, or other events.

I think that people should stop cheating! Not everyone uses their Ipods to cheat and now everyone is being victimized. I understand why the ban is in affect, because cheating is not acceptable and does create bums for the future. I agree with the ban!http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268903,00.html

Monday, March 1, 2010

Natural Disaster 2b

In the world, there are many natural disasters that are changing our history. Earthquakes, Global Warming, and Euro Storms.

Earthquarkes cause much damage, and changes the lives of those caught in the rubble. In Chile, the quake stole around 700 lives, but there is sign of much life still there. The people there are living in chaos and the millitary and government have been issued to the country to deal with looters and curfew violators. Hospitals and doctors are in need of water and supplies. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_chile_earthquake;_ylt=Asvgs.kkTmBm2Gg.uvDxPX.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNqYmlkcW5yBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzAxL2x0X2NoaWxlX2VhcnRocXVha2UEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMyBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNjaGlsZXRyb29wc3A--


Global Warming is hard to prove when you are going through a harsh winter like this, but scientist argue that the planet's heating is the cause of harshness. People do not believe that the planet's tempature is going up when this winter has brought so much snow and blizzard. Scientist continue to try to prove their case.http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100228/ts_csm/283713


France and neighboring countries were hit by a storm that has changed the look of the land. Air traffic and other transportion have been delayed, houses are in high water, people are dead, missing, and injured. The French President toured the affected areas, and is saying that 4 million dollars will be used in aid. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100301/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_deadly_storm

similarities
These Natural Disasters are affecting the lives of everyone in the world. People are getting negative feedback from nature. Money is being spent. The future is going to be changed. Lives are being altered.


The Most important disaster is:
Global Warming. This is the fate of our planet. Ice caps melting, polar bears dying, and summers burning the skin. Global Warming needs to be taken care.