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The thing that struck me most about this video is?

This lady is def and she doesn’t let that stop her from being great. Even though she is def, she acts like she is perfectly normal and doesn’t have that disability. When I heard her playing the instrument, I never would have thought that she was def, because the music was so magnificent. And when we heard she was def, I thought, “Wow I can’t believe someone that is def could be his great at music because she couldn’t hear what she was playing.

What did I notice most?”

What I noticed most about this video was, that in a way this lady is not def, because she can feel and hear through her heart and the vibrations in her arms. I also noticed that she really got into the music and is very passionate about what she does.

What did I enjoy?

The main thing I enjoyed about this video is that the music was so beautiful and soothing. I really enjoyed being able to listen to her playing and watch her play like she could actually hear the sound coming from those intruments

Community Garden

When i went to the community garden, I was able to interview someone who works at the farmers market.

What's your name?
Fransisco.

How long have you worked here?
6 years.
What is different about the food here rather than food from the store?
Its fresh and strait out of the source, we never pick when the food is not ripe, we let it ripen the pick. There is nothing that we used to speed up the ripening process, it is all ripened by the sun.

Do you encourage people to start there own garden?
If they can go ahead and try, it is always good to start something new and when they do, they know more about what they eat.

What is different from working here, rather than working at a regular store?
There is a different feeling and there is nothing better than being right here where it all happens.

After I interviewed him, I thought about these questions.

1. What struck you about the location you visited? Was it what you expected, or very different?
It was nothing like i expected, I thought there wouldn't be a lot of people there buying things but i was wrong. It was cool being able to see and taste the difference from food here and food at a regular store.

2. Which items were cheaper than you expected? Which were more expensive?
There wasn't one specific item that was cheaper or more expensive, over all it was more expensive.

3. Do you think you will start going to a farmers market more often? Or using a community garden? Or supporting a CSA?
If it was my choice to go to one of these places of a store, i would rather go to a farmers market or community garden because the food there is so fresh and good tasting.

4. How do these locations fit into our essential questions of “Why Don’t People Live More Sustainably?” and “How Can I Convince them to do So?”
The reason it is hard to live more sustainable is because it is much more expensive and they aren't like other regular store, open all day everyday. The way we can get people to try and live more sustainable is by trying to encourage them to change there ways of eating and make a new diet plan.

!School Garden!

When I went to the school garden, I was thinking about some of the questions below.

How well do you think the garden was maintained?
I thought for the most part the garden was maintained okay, but there were plants and fruits that should have been harvested already that were dying. It seemed like the garden was well thought out because it wasn't like a little start up garden, it was a garden that over the years could grow and be successful.

What struck you? Why?
What struck me was that, things were actually growing, that sowed that the seniors really did care to put this dead area to life. When I heard of seniors that started a garden, i thought of a little garden that was on its dying path but it was the total opposite.

Was the garden what you expected?
The garden to me was nothing like I expected, it was full of life and was beautiful.

Do you think the seniors care about the garden?
There are always going to be some that care and some that would let it die if it was there choice. For the most part it seemed like the seniors did care to put this dead piece of land to life, because they were all helping out and having fun with it.

When I got to the garden, I met up with one of the seniors and asked her these questions.

What’s your name? Ashley.

Why do you do this? To learn about the environment around you, the many different types of plants and how to take care of them.

How long have you been doing this? I have been doing this since January.

How do you feel about people starting there own gardens? It makes them aware about there surrounding and it really gets them to think about what they are eating and where it comes from.

Why did you choose this place to put the garden? It was dead and we decided to bring it to life. There was nothing there so we put it to work.

Living a Sustainable Life

What struck me about this show was, one, how much corn is in everything we buy. Two, that people aren’t eating healthy because they cant afford it. I can’t believe that healthy food is growing more and more expensive because there is not much left of it.
I think that people should be encouraged to start a garden and buy from local farmers. It’s hard to live a sustainable lifestyle if we can’t find food that will support us and help us on that path.

We can be the people to change and, maybe start a little garden of our own, or buying from local famers. Whenever you buy food from places like, farmers market we are supporting them and not the big slaughterhouses or the infected food that is being put into stores.

When I was talking to my mom, she said, “I think it is healthier to eat from your own area and that by doing so you are supporting that farmer.” She also said, “It is a good skill for people to be self reliant, so they could start there own little garden and then throughout the years, it will grow and grow so that people don’t have to depend on others as much.” My mom also said, “I think it is exciting to watch things grow and I like to see the rewards of my hard work and efforts.” I agree with what my mom said because I was able to help her build our own garden right outside our house, and it feels good to go outside and pick a fresh fruit or vegetable and now that it has not been contaminated at all.

My Ishmeal

Quote:
"If you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said all day,' Ms. Smith is going to hate you. If you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said all week,' Ms. Smith is going to hate you five times as much. And if you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said all year,'
Ms. Smith is going to pull out a gun and shoot you."

Response:
I think this quote is exactly right and that nothing explains it better. People are taught in schools and at home, to not question authority, but if you don’t ask questions, you can never grow as a person. Here is a quote I found to back this up. “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” This shows, that we need to ask questions. No question is a stupid question.

Divorce

“Come here boy!” Edna yells to her dog as he comes screaming past her trying to stop, his hair flowing elegantly in the air.

“Good boy, you want a treat? Good boy!” Edna said as she runs inside tripping over the little rocks in her way to grab a dog bone, she comes back outside throws the treat to her dog, and goes back to her gardening. After an hour of sweating and hard work she takes off her pink gloves that look as if they were 100 years old, her finger tips popping out of the tops, little cuts all around them and they smelt like she had just pulled them right out of a garbage can. She walks to her porch, sits down and takes a drink of her ice-cold lemonade, when she hears someone crying. “Hello? Anybody there? Hello?” Edna walks inside and hears a girl crying. She turns around and sees her daughter. “Kelly? Why are you crying?” Edna says in a soft calm tone.

“Rob wants to divorce me,” Kelly said.

“Why would he want to do that? Look at you; you’re beautiful, nice, and sweet. And you’re only 25,” Edna said looking at Kelly’s sparkling green eyes.

“He said, ‘you get in the way of my gang life and I can’t keep taking care of you when you get sick’ that’s why he wants to get divorced,” she said in such a dark tone as if she wanted to go over and drive a knife through his heart.

“Why did you marry this guy again? Don’t answer that. So what are you going to do?” Edna asked. Kelly walks over to the bed and lies down. Her face was pale and starting to turn green, she starts coughing and spitting up blood. You could tell she was sick. “Your sick right?”

“Yeah I am really sick, that’s why he kicked me out today because he was sick of taking care of me, uhuh uhuh!” she said still coughing.

“We are going to call him right now,” Edna said fiercely as she pounded over to the phone. Ring ring ring, “Who the heck do you think you are?” she screamed into the phone! Her hair flying up in the air, like devil horns.

“Who are you? And why are you yelling at me?” Rob said calmly.

“This is your wife’s mother that’s who, who do you think you are trying to divorce Kelly just because she is sick?” Edna yells so loud her voice cracks and she lets out a cough that made Kelly jump. Edna’s eyes now blood shot.

“She isn’t worth wasting my life, I could be out having fun, but no, I have to take care of this sick woman. And I don’t get anything from it!” Rob said now screaming through the phone like Edna.

“Oh my gosh, you really think that going out, partying and being in a gang is better then having a beautiful wife that loves and cares for you? What goes on in that head of yours? She will be better soon and one day you will ask yourself, ‘why did I do that’ and she will be living peacefully with someone that loves her,” Edna explained.

“That’s all good for you but don’t you ever come crying to me one day saying, ‘please take her back I cant handle it anymore’ because I know that will happen one day. My brain functions fine but Kelly’s doesn’t!” Rob said in a very disgusting tone.

“Yes it is good for me, my daughter will be living with me what better can it get?” Edna said in a very stern tone.

“Stop giving me this stupid lecture and if you ever call me back I will do something that will make you regret you were ever living!” Rob said in a really dark and hateful tone. Click, the phone hung up.

“What a jerk! I don’t think we will be calling him for awhile!” Edna said now shaking in fear, her hair now settling down back over her beautiful green eyes.

Looking like she was going to pass out, Kelly starts to cough. “Uhuh uhuh uhuh!” her face now as green as Edna’s eyes. Kelly says half asleep, “What am I going to do?”

“Right now you are going to rest and try to get better!” Edna says as she walks over to Kelly and gives her some blankets. “Its getting late I am going to go to bed now, are you going to be okay?”

“Yeah I will be fine.”

“Alright good night,” Edna says walking up to her bed.

At 1:30 in the morning Edna wakes up to coughing and weird sounds, she runs down stairs to Kelly throwing up, half of her body hanging over the side of the bed. Blood was everywhere.

“I need a doctor,” Kelly tried to squeeze out of her mouth before she let out another load of fluids. Edna runs over to the phone falling over everything in her way.

“Hello, hello, I need a doctor now. HURRY!” Edna said to the medical help on the phone panicking.

“I will be right over!” said the doctor. Edna goes back to the bed and sees that Kelly doesn’t have a lot of time.

“What can I do for you?” Edna asks Kelly running around trying to do things for her. “She is going to die, she is going to die. It’s all my fault,” Edna thought to her self now panting from all the running.

The doctor gets to the house and knocks on the door. Edna runs over to the door and opens it, but by the time they get to the bed they saw Kelly had gone to a better place. Edna falls to the ground crying, rolling in all the blood. She didn’t care, her
daughter just died. The doctor covers Kelly with a blanket; they walk into the other room to talk about what to do.

The whole next day Edna works out where Kelly will be buried. It was Kelly’s wish to be buried on Edna’s land so Edna finds a way to make that happen.

That night Edna goes to sleep crying her eyes out thinking what to do next. She finally falls asleep, but at 3:00 she wakes up to footsteps on the roof. “What could this be?” Edna said as she walks to the window and sees this big van parked outside. She grabs a shotgun and walks down stairs.

“There are five of them and one of me,” Edna whispered to herself while she snuck around the wall and hit one of them across the head with the butt of the gun. As she rolled from room to room she realized that one of them was Rob her daughter’s husband. She yells out to him, “You better get out of my house right now Rob or you are going to regret ever living. Does that sound familiar? Yes it does because you were the dingbat that said it to my daughter! And guess what she is dead so you got your way!” Edna said very ferociously, like she was about to prance on them.

“You better go back to bed before someone gets hurt,” Rob yelled as she jumped from room to room.

“You are the one that’s steeling all my things after your wife just passed away. How about you put everything down and leave me to my peaceful home,” Edna suggested to Rob, still trying to get from room to room. She took one of the men out with one
shot.

“OWWWW you freaking devil. You better not take another shot,” The man that just got shot said when he saw a leg sticking out behind the wall. He picks up his M16 and unloads on her leg.

“ AHHHH is this what real men do now a days? Come into a house of a woman whose daughter just died the day before and taking all her things? You guys are pathetic.”

“Lets get out of here,” Said Rob. They start walking out when there was one last gunshot. Rob hits the ground.

“I told you that you should have left before something happened,” Edna said while she uses all the strength she has to get to the phone and dials 911.

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Nissan Leaf

This is the nissan leaf, it is an electric car that runs fully off battery. It can reach a speed of 90 mph and can hold charge for 100 miles. The nissan leaf takes 8 hours to fully charge, but there are going to be stations that will charge the car in 20 minutes, the problem with that is it will only charge 80%. This falls under the technology field.

The Leaf is a cool efficient car that will make it so we don't pollute the earth, but is it really going to make things easier for people? I don't think so because people aren't going to want to wait 20 minutes to get there car charged. There has been a tone of studying and working through kinks with the batteries and they found a way that will make it as fast to charge, that will hold charge and go the speed needed.

This is going to be talked about a little bit but I don't think it will be a huge subject this year. They are going to have to face with all the battery problems and how to get them all to preform right.

Video Games

The topic I picked was videogames. Video games are all over the world they are on computers, phones, PDA’s, and many more but it would be a very long list. Video games are in the world to influence and for entertainment. Video games can influence for good and for bad. They mostly influence for the bad because the most addiction and fun ones are the ones were you go around and shoot people. These influence people to think that it is okay to do the same outside of the virtual world and that is why there are more school shooting now then back in the day.
This subject falls under the entertainment category as I said above.

The reason I think this is a big deal is because people now are playing more video games and less active things. The people of 2010 are wasting there time looking at a screen and moving there thumbs when they could be outside doing things that make them healthy. The development of video games are getting bigger and bigger each day and that means that they are going to be more fun and interesting. Soon we might have video games where it is just like real life. That will make it so people reproduce that in the real world and that will make our lives not as safe. Video games imprint things into peoples minds, so if the video game says its okay to go around and kill other people, we are going to think that is okay in our everyday life.

This is going to become a very big topic this year and in years to come. People are going to keep playing video games and that is going to make companies keep making games that can be inappropriate, violent, and all those thing people call fun.

I think the main obstacle in video gaming is probably the parent of the kids who play games. They want there kids to be balanced and not just play video games but have a variety of things they can do.

Mysics Goals

Goal: I want to try to show my work better when I do math problems.

First Step: Write the problem out and get everything on to paper, instead of trying to do everything in my head.

Goal: To be more organized in all my work/time management.

First Step: When I get an assignment either do it then or set a time out just for that one assignment.

Goal: Not worry about my grade as much and just work on understanding what I am being taught.

First Step: If I don’t understand, talk to a friend

Humanities Goals

Goal 1: I want to become a better writer by putting more sensory detail, and focus more into my paper. I want to become a writer that everybody want to read my papers.

Goal 2: I want to become a better reader and make it so that I feel comfortable to read in public.

Goal 3: Become some that people can talk to and ask questions.

Time Travelers

Project Description: This was an essay the I did that explained what my civilizations government which was Kush was like and how it functioned.

Process: I went through many different drafts to get to my final product. I started by getting random information and talking to my group and trying to find as much more information and compare what we all got. Then we wrote a rough draft that was reviewed by my group then I got my paper back and I wrote a first draft. that was then looked over and corrected by my mom and dad. I took it to Charlotte and she went over it and realized that my formate was all wrong so I took it back and pretty much wrote the whole paper again. After that draft I was able to right the final draft and got that graded from Charlotte which became my final grade.

Reflection: From my paper I learned that one there was a civilization named KUSH. Then I learned how much time has to be put into just siting your information. The biggest challenge I came across was formating my paper to the right standards. I think I needed more evidence in my paper so that people could go to my paper and know it is true facts. All my life I will need to show evidence and not go off of just one site or one source.

Here is my paper:
Jadon Cutler
Humanities
9/12/09
Kush Civilization
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. This quote shows that there are a lot of aspects to civilization there are going to be ups and downs. But being civil means that not one person just has to be civil, everyone has to join together and respect one another. In the civilization Kush they were pretty well of and but there government was a monarchy which was not very productive. The government would do pretty much what ever they wanted, and didn’t help the cause of respecting others. There would be contention between the people and the ruler. Although a monarchy can be an effective form of government, for the Kush it proved over and over to be unsuccessful.

The Kush were a trade civilization located near the Nile River. They spoke the language Meroitic and Nubian. The main religion was an ancient Egyptian religion that was based on polytheism or, worshiping of many Gods. The Kush copied a lot that the Egyptians did like their religion, government, and their form of farming, this made it very easy because they didn’t have to figure out what worked or not because it was already used and shown. The Kush developed their own arts and kept good records through pictures and drawing. The civilization flourished from 1070s to 350 BC. In 780 BC the capital was moved to Napata but soon after was moved to Meroe were it stayed for the remainder of their existence. Kush was right next to the Nile River so there were a lot of advantages, one being that it was easy to trade. The way they would trade was by riding in little boats full of crops, weapons and more. Another advantage was that the land was really fertile so their crops would be easy to grow, harvest and plant. It also made it so the Kush wouldn’t have to always be watering and taking care of them because the crops already had a natural mother (Nile River) that would give it water and nutrients. Although that is one example of success the most important one that I found was having a representative looking over Egypt.

The Kush has many strengths, but one was that the ruler picked a person to be a representative and to communicate with Egypt because of how big of a role Egypt played in Kush. This was important and a good idea because they could share ideas and make sure that there is no hate between the two. Kush would make a lot of things out of iron so the government made it possible to make sculptures and weapons so that the Kush could sell them and have good strong weapons for war. Kush was smart to be friends with Egypt because they could easily take over Kush. The Kush started to have the idea of having a different government because of how there were starting to have representatives and not just have one main person in charge. There was a ruler named Piye, who in 727 BC, thought it would be a good idea to attack Egypt in a time that Egypt was trying to find the right ruler so Piye got his Norman ally to help him and together defeated Egypt and expanded Kush. Although they’re some strengths, there has to be weaknesses.

There will never be a civilization that doesn’t have any weaknesses, so lets see what Kush’s were. It seemed like they were headed in the right path by the ruler appointing a representative but that just wasn’t enough. They needed to have a set up government like we have today that would help the civilization run smoother and make it so laws and restrictions were put through the people so they could all agree on the matter. Later on in Kush’s history Kush’s ruling system was not running well like when they attacked Egypt, so Egypt thought it would be a good idea to get revenge so they went to war and defeated Kush. Kush definitely needed to improve their government yet they didn’t have enough materials to know how it should be put together. The Incans had a very close life style and were like the Kush in the government form.

The form of government that the Incas had was a monarchy. This form wasn’t very effective because it brought war between the people and the king/queen. Everybody wanted to be king so the people would go and kill the ruler and there family so that they could be king. But in few instances the government made it possible to expand by conquering different civilizations. There were ups and downs in this civilization. The government helped the poor fed the hungry and clothed the naked. The government helped the society grow and made a very helpful and peaceful society. Now in the long run was this form of government successful or not?

Any government is going to help and hinder the society but in this case I think that Kush was well set up and at time the rulers would make good decisions and make bad decisions. The ruler could always do what he wanted and you are never going to have the same ruler over the years. There are always going to be different rulers that do different things, they can abuse their power of use there power to help. So I don’t think there is one answer to this but over all I think they had some good rulers that helped the civilization. The government is always a big part of a civilization so I don’t think that this civilization was led to success through the many different rulers. I thought that having a representative made it so the ruler would not only see the side he wanted but he saw a little about what others wanted.

Over time, I don’t think that the Kush’s government was helpful and successful. But Kush had a good idea by appointing a representative to stay in touch with Egypt. Then they went and attacked Egypt, which expanded Kush for a while before it backfired and later Kush was over throne by Egypt. Monarchy is never a stable way to go. Because more than half of the time it never ends good, by the ruler doing whatever he/she wants or just by not having a government that worked well with people. “A monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom, whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water.”





Bibliography

Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. 2 September 2009. 19 November 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twenty-fifth_dynasty_of_Egypt&action=history

Ancient African Civilization Series: Nubia The Black Kingdom Of Kush. 18 July
2009. 19 November 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFJ85YkTQ50

Martell, Nazel. The ancient World. New York: Scholastic Inc, September 1998.

O’Neil, Nmandon. Ancient Times. New Jersey: Cresent Books, 1992.

Pamela F. Service. The ancient African Kingdom of Kush. New York: Benchmark Books, c1998.

Time Travelers Pillar

Project Description: This is a painted project we did that represented our civilization. It had to be our civilization and the pillar we picked and for me it was government.

Process: I first researched some pictures of Kush Government then picked one and made it my own. I did a first draft and then had to do one more draft because mine wasn't the right concept. I got it signed off by Mele and then painted it.

Reflection: I learned that painting is much harder then just drawing it on paper. I had a hard time with the right size of brush that I used. I first had a very big brush and ended up doing my whole pillar again. I would have changed the color and I would spend more time on it because it will be on that pillar for awhile. I don't that this will help me later in life because I don't plan to be a artist, but it will teach me to spend more time on things like this.

Car show

I went to the car show on January 1st and it was amazing. The pics aren't that great because the lighting was horrible.