Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Im still recovering (just kidding)

I believe I was discriminated against when I was younger for being fat. I am not sure this is a relevant thing or that it really even happen like I remember but oh well. When I was in fourth grade I believe that my teacher didn’t like me because I was fat. She was always sending me out of class and stuff for what it seemed like no reason. It was pretty crazy but so was my entire time at Franklin School in Prescott Valley. Lots of things happened that year and I think that most of them were because my teacher didn’t like fat kids and I knew it because it wasn’t just me. She would comment on other students after she sent them out of the room and stuff. The craziest thing is that near the end of the year I was transferred to the other fourth grade and that teacher was kind of chubby too and my grades went from Cs Ds and Fs to Bs and Cs. I also stopped getting in trouble and sent out of the class every single day. So there was a real change in the environment and almost all of the factors of my schooling changed, I guess that that was a very important time in my education and I was able to use that I had survived that experience to be able to deal with almost anything that other bad teachers dealt out. So even if a teacher is a bad teacher and she doesn’t like you due to something in your life like race, body shape, or a whole list of other lame things the best thing to do (besides making them stop) is to try to role with the punches (and it doesn’t hurt to have a great mother that sees that you are being abused and transfers you to the other fourth grade class.)

Saturday, July 11, 2009

reading response

In 1987 William Manchester, a World War II veteran, wrote an essay/story about his time on Okinawa during World War II and his view that there should not be ceremonies with Japanese and Americans together. Manchester begins his essay writing about the American and Japanese veterans having only death in common. He tells of Okinawa being the bloodiest battle in the pacific theater with 200,000 people dieing just to take over an island. His argument seems to be for several things including patriotism, clear thinking, and that enemy soldiers shouldn’t have ceremonies together. This is an informative essay as well conveying to the reader some of the grotesque horrors untold by others about the truth of the wars. The author tells of the progression of battles telling about how soldiers originally used swords and lances and such to kill the enemy and how technology has made it easier and easier to kill and the atomic bomb made the fighting man a nothing. His argument progresses in the form of story telling and informing of events. He begins with facts: where Okinawa is, the fact of an upcoming memorial ceremony, and the statistics of the men who died there. Next his argument moves to the story telling. He tells of the point of the invasion and how he was involved in the beginnings of that battle and how he was involved in the capture of a strategic point called sugar loaf hill. He moves on to tell of how he was raised in such a way to eventually join the military, and his family and town’s proud parades and such. Next his argument/story moves to the time in which he is writing and tells of the Americans no longer caring about the soldier because of the power of the nuclear bomb. The next pert of his argument is about the progression of the weapons available to soldiers in a war, and how it has become easier to kill so more die in wars. In the next paragraph he moves back to his story of Okinawa and tells of how his luck had run out and how he was injured by the shrapnel from a mortar. Next he talks of the fake movies of the time that he didn’t like and how people should honor the fallen soldiers of battle. “It does not seem too much to ask that they be remembered on one day each year. After all, they sacrificed their futures that you might have yours” (Manchester). He sums up his story and argument in telling that some wounds never heal.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

blog 3

Hello there if you are reading this you are probably a part of the human race. As part of the human race you may have an opinion on the subject of abortion. I know I do and I am going to tell you about it and try to get you to believe like I believe. Abortion is the intentional termination of a fetus, embryo, or baby while it is growing in the woman’s uterus. An accidental abortion due to accident or health issues is called a miscarriage. While there are several valid reasons to have an abortion including fallopian tube pregnancies or the life of the mother is gravely at risk. Abortions in the United States can be perfumed on demand. This is, I believe, a severe breach in the protection of human rights.

Should it be legal for a woman to terminate her pregnancy and in turn a potential human life simply for personal choice?

Ethical Female End person Individual option
Lawful mother destroy baby Personal decision


It should not be and never should have been legal for a woman to be able to choose to destroy a potential human life by personal choice.

I. human rights
a. reproductive rights
b. what makes humans special
c. antithesis: when human personhood starts
II. personhood
a. fetuses
b. children
c. life
d. antithesis: when life starts
III. women health
a. Ectopic pregnancies
b. diseases
c. antithesis: psychological health
IV. ethics
a. image of god
b. we hold these truths inalienable rights creator
c. antithesis: no god, evolution
V. emotional appeal
a. human nature baby joy euphoria
b. cold blooded murder of the innocent
c. antithesis: the child is violating the woman’s rights to her bod
VI. logic
a. population
b. potential
c. advancements
VII. examples
a. star trek geordy visor
b. tuberculosis woman lived because of pregnancy
c. dr. suess a person is a person no matter how small
d. regret stories on abortion no.org

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

E.C.

On Wednesday a few of the people in our class took advantage of the extra credit opportunity and went to see the screening of the move called “Paper or Plastic.” We watched a short film before the main movie called “Zombie Prom” it was about half an hour or so and it was pretty funny. I found it extremely disturbing that one of the women in the movie was a man. There is a quaint little school next to a nuclear power plant in which every one acts the same and goodie-two-shoe-ish and then a boy comes along that mixes everything up because he is different. The schools principal I think “I missed part of the movie” is named Ms. Strict and she doesn’t like Jonny. He spells his name “Jonny” without the traditional “h” so everybody thinks he is a trouble maker. He and the nice girl in the school fall in love and her parents and Mrs. Strict stop them because they think he is a bad boy. The girl tells Jonny that they have to break up and he gets mad and jumps into the cooling tower for the nuclear power plant and dies. This is the part I missed because I wasn’t sure I was watching the right movie and I went out to make sure. When I came back Jonny had comeback to life as a nasty zombie and he still loves he and tries to get her to come to the prom. He goes and then she goes and they all live happily ever after. Any-who then the Paper or plastic thing showed and it was about a bunch of grocery baggers that go to a competition in Las Vegas and hey can win I think 2000 dollars it was actually pretty cool. It was an excellence in grocery bagging documentary and I actually liked it.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

reading response 4

The article I chose is “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. The author of this piece is Martin Luther King Jr., and he was a Christian reverend in the 1960’s. There are several aspects of the writer’s life that affect the writing in this letter. First the writer is a Christian reverend and he writes to and about the church of the time. Next the author is black and at the time segregation was a major problem and that is the whole reason that he is writing this letter. Another aspect that affects the writer’s writing is the time that he was writing in, black people had been freed but the white people of the time still practiced segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. is addressing a lot of people in this letter though he is primarily writing to the clergymen that have written a letter against his non-violent protests. He is also is writing to “white moderates” who he says are worse than the people that are outright against non-segregation. This has a major effect on the writing because he is writing. The author is trying to convey many things to the reader. He is writing to inform of the conditions that the black community of the time were living in. He is arguing that now is the time to act for racial equality. He is also writing to persuade people that would be fine leaving the situation alone to act for the greater good of the society. King uses several strategies to reach his intended audience. For the white moderates he uses gilt and comparison to greater evil. For the church goers and clergymen he uses a spiritual and moral appeal and to complacent blacks he uses a life can be better appeal. The time and place of the writing of this masterpiece is the major reason for the writing, the voice, the arguments, and everything else in this letter from a man in jail for doing the right thing.