Our President!!

"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness."


The quote says something strong to me, we have been through so much struggle in America and no we are also in a time of crisis, but Obama said we are still a young nation, and that called out to me because our nation has been here long, but what i think he was trying to say was that we are still learning and there are still many more struggles to come. When people are young it is said that they make a lot of mistake s because they don't know about everything that is out there. Our nation's leaders still make mistakes but we are learning from them and every year something new is coming into our world. Like he said, "it is time to set childish things aside", our generation, our nation has to take things seriously, learn from other mistakes and not let them repeat themselves.

This relates to everyday life because it is something new that has come to us, something different, that many did not want, and a lot of people feared. but nonethe less it has come, things are changing hopefully for the better. Our nation has gown so much from times of segregation to now being able to come together as one and have the unfamiliar take place. Hopefully our nations leaders will learn from previous mistakes, and help make the world we are living in better not worse. They have to think critically and pay attention to everything happening around them, it is like any other situation that has to be analyzed before you jump into it. That is how people make good decisions. This does show equality because he is our first black president,even though he is not full black he is still part black, and those characteristics have taken over his appearance and I am sure that if we were still in the times of slavery, or segregation, others wouldn't care that he is only half black they would just look at the color of his skin and thrust hatred upon him without hesitation. Those things have changed thank god, and now we are in a time were people are all equal.

second try.

Coretta Scott king was always right next to her husband fighting for equality. The lyrics from where is the love shows a metaphorical connection to the picture of Coretta Scott king,for all of the struggles she had going through and still keeping faith that fighting for equality, social justice,and also carrying on with Martin Luther King Jr's work

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P1.
A lot of people faced discrimination, Coretta Scott King witnessed this ever since she was a child, she got to experience the segregation in her society.

*segregated society

*Discrimination

*NAACP

Through joining the NAACP Mrs. King she wanted to help people all over she wanted there to be social justice.

P2.
Social Justice was something big that the world really needed at the time,Mrs. King wanted to help it be that way. One she was married to Martin Luther king Jr. and the civil rights movements began she had a very big role in it as well as her husband. Her husband was a great leader in the civil rights movement, but she was also there.

*Planning marches

*Freedom Concerts

*Speeches

She did a lot of work along side of her husband, and sometimes gave speeches,when standing in for her husband. She helped Martin Luther King Jr. with a lot of things before he died, and carried on with his work after he had died.

P3.

Mrs. King went through a lot of grief when her husband was assassinated, but even through a ll of that she went on with his work. She dedicated her life to helping people.

*The King Center

*peace and justice rallies

*Coalition of Conscience

Her family is something that was very important to her, she turned over leadership of the Center to her son, so that he could keep the center going after she was gone.

Conclusion
The lyrics from where is the love shows a lot now that you know a little more about Mrs.King's life you can see that the quote is metaphorical for the faith that she had through out the whole time that there was struggle she used the non-violence method that her husband had.

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Thesis

Coretta Scott king was always right next to her husband fighting for equality. The lyrics from where is the love shows a metaphorical connection to the picture of Coretta Scott king,for all of the struggles she had going through and still keeping faith that fighting for equality, social justice,and also carrying on with MLK's work

Body.

P1.
A lot of people faced discrimination, Coretta Scott King witnessed this ever since she was a child....

*segregated society

*Discrimination

*NAACP

Through joining the NAACP Mrs. King she wanted to help people all over she wanted there to be social justice.

P2.
Social Justice was something big that the world really needed at the time,Mrs. King wanted to help it be that way. One she was married to Martin Luther king Jr. and the civil rights movements began she had a very big role in it as well as her husband....

*PLanning marches

*Freedom Concerts

*Speeches

She did a lot of work along side of her husband, and sometimes gave speeches,when standing in for her husband. She helped MLK with a lot of things before he died, and carried on with his work after he had died.

P3.

Mrs. King went through a lot of grief when her husband was assassinated, but even through a ll of that she went on with his work. She dedicated her life to helping people.

*The King Center

*peace and justice rallies

*Coalition of Conscience

Her family is something that was very important to her, she turned over leadership of the Center to her son, so that he could keep the center going after she was gone.

Conclusion
The lyrics from where is the love shows a lot now that you know a little more about Mrs.King's life you can see that the quote is metaphorical for the faith that she had through out the whole time that there was struggle she used the non-violence method that her husband had......(more to come)

What is he for??

When comparing both articles, "Bush to Protect Three Areas In Pacific" and "Bush's Seven Deadly Environmental Sins" there is a mix of ideas. In the very first article they are talking about how Bush is helping keep a big amount of ocean safe that is bigger than California. He is making three new marine national monuments, these monuments are suppost to help preserve the marine life and the ecosystems. Bush wanting to build these monuments contradicts his previous environmental record. This article also talks about how bush is doing something now that is new because he resisted the mandatory curbs of the greenhouse gasses, that cause climate change that we are having. by the end of his term he will have protected more ocean than any person in history. The first article says, "by the end of his term he will have protected more ocean than any person in history" I think it is funny that he did not want to help the people with he climate change as well as our environment, but now all of a sudden when he is about to be out of office he making a big sanctuary for marine life, that's kinda odd.

The second article "Bush's Seven Deadly Environmental Sins" talks about Bush's environmental record, most of the things on there are negative aspects of what Bush has done while in office and how they are going to stay with us even after he is not in office anymore. It talks about seven instances where bush did something wrong, it also talks about how President elect Barrack Obama is going to have to be the one to fix the problems that Bush mad while in office, after everyone of the "sins" Obama's plan was mention, one of his plans was to.. "Uphold his campaign promise to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050."


Both of these articles had evidence and quotes which is really good. They both have their own separate ideas although some of them maybe negative That is what the writer was thinking and you can see that in the writing. It is like one of them is showing something positive that he did which contradicts his environmental record, and the other show the negative that he did in his environmental record. So If you didn't know what it was the sevens sins article shows you something that makes the two articles connect in some way.

internship man!!

1. What do you hope to learn or discover about the "adult" world of work while you are at your internship?

i expect to learn a lot about the adult world,like how hings can get hard. I think that when there is a challenge it can be good because it is something new to overcome,and then once you have overcome that challenge you can be proud of your work ,and all of the things you had to go through to get there. A challenge is always good for anyone,there are always obstacles in life that you have to face, now the thing is whether you are going to take the challenge, or give up at the first sign of hardship. I will like to learn how to be more independent because it is like having a job, but you don't get paid. It is a big responsibility and we have to show that we can do it. i hope to get a very good experience from it, and learn all that i can from the field that I will be interning at.

2. What do you hope to learn or discover about yourself and your identity while you are at your internship this semester?

I hope to learn how I can handle things in life because internship is like another class and I have to manage that class as well as all of the other classes that I am going to have this semester. I want to learn how I will work under pressure, if I am ever under pressure. Will I handle it wisely? or just give up? I feel that going through this I hope to learn whether I want to be in the working field of whatever I did on my internship, I will be able to either eliminate that choice or put it on my list of things that I want to do. I hope to learn whether I want to do something like that or if I want to change course. that will be very valuable to me when it comes to going to college I will know what I want to study. That is always something good to know.


3. What goals do you have for yourself for your internship experience?

Some goals that i have would have to be that
*I want to learn as much as I can from everything that I do.
*get something out f the experience
*Something else would have to be that I have a good project for my internship

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On of the projects that I am most proud of would have to be my American Icon project. I am proud of this project because I made it my own, by taking a picture of myself, and also being a little creative and adding in other portraits that were made by my Icon, Frida Kahlo. I also am proud of my writing I had a little biography on Frida, and then I had a story about me ,after that I added why she was my icon and why I chose to use her in my project. I fit so much information onto one page so I think that was a good thing. I really liked that project, I was able to take something that I like and make a piece of art.

The way that I did all of this was by first doing a lot of research on my icon. I looked her up on the web, I got a book about her in the library, and I also got a movie on her. After I did all of that I started writing my paper, I had to do a lot of drafts for this project, and I also had to get them critiqued by people to help my writing get better. For my art piece the first thing I had to do was take a photo of myself working on art that I had made, after that I had to brainstorm on what I was going to do to that photo to make it creative.I took photos of artwork that Frida Kahlo and i meshed them together on photo shop and took that picture I took of myself and put it on top of the other pictures so it was a mix of her art and we doing my art.

Another project that I worked on and I am very, very proud of would have to be the water quality project. I mad a video in this project, it was very hard and I spent a lot of time on it. I am proud that I was patient and I was able to do all of the work I had to do on this project in order to finish it ans have a great product in the end. Plus by making this video I am sharing with people what I learned through going out and doing tests and a lot of research. I ended up making an informative video, and I am most definitely proud of that.

I had to do a lot of work to get to my final product, when I first started I did a lot of research of things I can use for my project. I had to make a lot of drafts for my video storyboard. It was good that I did this, I had to get my work critiqued by many people in my class not only by my peers but also my teacher Randy. The critiquing process is very good for anything that has to do with writing,because then you can do many drafts of your work, helping your product be the best it can be. After this whole process I had interviewed people like a doctor, and a surf shop owner, to get their input into my video. I also took a lot of pictures at the beach clean up as well as some footage of the beach cleanup. I made my video on Final cut pro it was very difficult to work on a program I was not familiar with but, i learned and I was patient so that was good. I had to stay after school hours to make this video great I even came to school on the weekends, I was very dedicated to this project an how my final product would come out.

Link to the project page, and my video
http://www.mediasavesthebeach.org/

Racial language...

The use of language of racial identity has a big impact on in the thoughts and actions of people in our society now and will have a big impact in the future as well if the language doesn't change. Racial identity is something that is always going to be there, I think that people are used to doing it I know that I do it. It's like judging a book by its cover, which makes people think they are a certain thing when they can be something else. I know that if I were to see someone on the street with white skin I would automatically think they are white, without questioning whether they can be any other race. That is what happens all the time and I don't think it will change. This can lead to a few things, racism, something like the holocaust, and stereotypes of all races.

Racism is something that will always be there and racial language will be one of the main factors to it. Back in the times of slavery anyone with dark skin was looked at as black and they were worthless, they were just slaves. There was no question on whether they had a different race in them who knows, many of those slave could have white descendants therefore making them part white, all that was seen about them was their skin. If the present time was a time where there were slaves it would be the same situation. racism now is not at bad as it used to be but it is there and the people can be racist to any race not just blacks, if someone doesn't like blacks and they see someone who they think is just black it can lead to many things, racial comments, violence, harassment. These things can happen to all races and it is because of the separation or races, or the language of racial identity. The classification of certain people to be of a certain racial group like the holocaust.

The people who suffered in the holocaust where subject the language of racial identity. Hitler wanted only perfect Germans but it's not like he knew the bloodlines of all the people he thought to be perfect, also the bloodlines of the Jews they could have had many other races in their blood but that was not acknowledged, they were classified as Jews and they were NOT German so they were not looked as anything else. Some of the ways that people were known as Jews was by the way that they look, people said they knew them by their big noses. That is the language of Racial identity the Germans looked at them and that is how they caught some of them by the way that they looked. Just how people classify people now by the way they look their skin, or facial features. The way that people look lead to stereotypes that are made by others.

Stereotypes are things that people are looked on upon as according to what others in their race have done. Many people stereotype and that is by the way that people look or act. They are seen as something but they may not be that. Minorities are seen as, gang members, killers,thieves, and many other things. Not everyone is something just because a lot of the people that are their race is that. Anyone can be a murderer or any of all of those bad things, that minorities are "known" for. Nobody ever knows what anyone truly is just by the way that they look they might think they do but they don't. Language of racial identity will always be in our society.

I don't think that can really be changed people look different that's why there are all of these different races. It won't go away because there are differences to everyone and we can't all be looked at as the same, we can't just put behind the way people look at the different races or how people are classified.