Is America Dishonest??? C from fielder

America. When people hear that word, what has happened, to make the United States what it is right now. They think of Freedom, rights to individual, and a right to practice your own religion. But one word that isn’t mention, that should be mention, is dishonesty. America is dishonest about their history, by glossing it over or by rewriting it.

Some Americans, and people around the world, only know the dishonest part about America, or the “glossy” part. Take for example Christopher Columbus. He was a great sailor, he found the United States of America, and was known as a good person. The thing that some people don’t know is that he was a killer. He killed natives Indians. Also, another example is the United States believed that “The Sons of Liberty” was a great group, especially what they did for their country. But did they know, AKA “a gloss over,” that they were a terrorist group. It is a shame for those people to believe in that myth

There are parts when the United States glossed up, and where people believed in it. Also another good gloss up is when they took the American Japanese citizen and put them in camps because they believed that they were spies, when they were really scared. Also when the United States went into the war in Iraq, we went in because we thought that Iraq had nuclear weapons, but they didn’t. Then the government stated that we would stay there anyway just to stabilize it. Well… look at the United States now, it is in a war with Iraq.

Although America did had some honesty in the past, and also they do say that they will learn from their past and try not do it again. But let me ask you this...Does it make up for all the lies the United States made??? Does it make the United States one hundred percent honest??? Does it show America, and Americans that they are better than the rest of the world or does it show they are like other countries that they do make mistakes, and lie sometimes???

Big Fish!!!! B+ from Fielder

Edward uses his big fish stories to teach Will lessons.

The first evidence to show how Edward used his stories to teach Will lessons is that his stories had a common message. One of these lessons that Edward taught Will through his stories was the value of hard work. When Edward saw his wife, he had to get a job at the circus for three years to find out who she was. Another example of how Edward’s stories showed the value of hard work was when Edward was catching the big fish. A fish ate his wedding ring and he spent many days out fishing for that one specific fish just so he could get her ring back. After Will heard these stories for all his life and also learns from them, he begins to tell some of these stories.

The second evidence that demonstrated Edward using stories to teach Will lessons is how he transmitted the value of storytelling to Will. You couldn’t see the
transition but you can tell when it happens. The timing was when Edward was about to die, he asked Will to tell him a story about how he dies, “You mean what you saw in the Eye? I dunno that story, dad, you never told it to me.” And Will told his father an amazing story saying that he turned into the big fish at the end and then Edward died. Another example of how Edward story telling transfers to Will is after he died. After Edwards’s death and funeral, the movie shows Will’s son talking about his grandfather’s death story. “A man tells so many stories, that he becomes the stories. They will live on after him, and in a way he becomes immortal.”

Is Odysseus a Hero?? B- from fielder

Poseidon must have loved Odysseus; cursing him to never return home is a great way to show it. He is a hero in his eyes for sure. In the movie “Hercules” from Walt Disney, Zeus said to Hercules that he isn’t a true hero unless he gives up something he holds dear to his life. So what did Odysseus do to make Odysseus a hero? Sleeping with other women beside his wife. Killing his men. Or saying to the Poseidon that he won the Trojan War when really the gods did. It sounds like he does a lot of heroic things in his life…NOT. If you think he is a hero, you better pay close attention he isn't.

Odysseus sounds like a hero when hedoes courageous things; but what he does is mostly stupid. When Odysseus was at the Cyclops Island, he could have got the things he needed and leave. He didn’t. He stayed and lost half his men to the Cyclops. Stupid. Plain stupid. “Ah, how sound it was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – not pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends.” Also even though it was courageous that he stayed there and beat the Cyclops by poking him in the eye, but it could have cost him his life. Odysseus should have kept on traveling trying to find a way home.

Also when Odysseus was traveling the earth to find a way home, he helped people which made him seem heroic. Circle changed all of his men into animals; he had to sleep with her. It was right thing to do- even though he didn’t want to do it. But no hero would have betrayed his wife. Another example of Odysseus helping people is when he tried to control his son temper. If he didn’t his son would have died. At the end they both killed the guest out of anger because they all wanted to marry Penelope, Odysseus wife. Hercules wouldn’t have done that. A hero wouldn’t have either.

Ughh...... News

I agree with President Obama that the Oil spill in the Gulf is a ‘Ridiculous Spectacle’.

The company BP, and also the Federal regulators, should have done more research on what to do if the Oil spill happened not including that it does exists, but also should have known that it is tp be too dangerous to go so close to the shoreline. In other parts of the world, including sections in the United States makes rules so it wouldn’t be so realistic. Also they didn’t know what to do when it happened. President Obama said this about their companies “End a cozy relationship that has existed between federal regulators and companies drilling offshore for oil and gas”. Another thing they should have in mind was how close they put it. BP and the Federal regulators should have thought what it would done for their business, other people business, and animals that effect their lives and hard efforts of people and animals would be effected in that region.

Soccer

Soccer is such a fun sport. Most people don’t like it because of all the running and the kicking, and other reasons why. BUT I LOVE IT!!!! If I had a choice between make chocolate chip cookies or to play soccer, it would defiantly be soccer. Soccer is my life.

There are many parts that you can play when you do soccer. There is goalie, midfielder, defense, offense (forward), stopper, and sweeper. I play defense. I find this the most challenging part of the sport besides midfield because you have to get the ball away from the other play which is running straight at you and also when your team loses the ball it is mostly up to the defense to recover it. But the other parts of the sports are important too.

Forward is in charge to control the ball and to get a goal. The goalie is mostly simple; they have to try not to let any goals into the goal, and also to command the team around. Stopper and sweeper are the last two defenders on the field before the goalie. Midfielders are when you run back and forth on the field and support all of the other players.

Even though I Love the sport, there is some negatives. You have to stay fit 247 so you can be faster than the other team, you are up against girls sometimes twice your size, you might get hit with the ball in the face (that happens always to my friend Mags on the team), and also you can’t quit once the game is started, you have to give it all you got. But even with all these negatives, I love the rush of the game, and also being brilliant during the game when the giants lose the ball.

Soccer is a sport that will stick with me throughout my life. All my family members does this sport (besides my mom, she drives us around). Also when I go to Germany to see my relatives, one of the first things we do is to play soccer. My family team is called Team USA; my relative’s team is called Team Germany. Also my family once verses a group of college soccer players with a few Chinese kids, we won. I f you don’t play this sport, try it out, you’ll maybe like it. If you don’t like it, too bad, you have to play it.

What a time!

SIMUN… what a fun activate. I remember my older sister talking to me about, but the experience was more fun than what she said to me!!!!! She told me that it is hard work but it pays off inside this game, she said that SIMUN is like a very entertaining and also funny. But I think it did so much more than that. I think that I want to play this game for two weeks! I am so PUMP about it. I like how you can met other globies, and also how we learn more on what is going on in the world and make a fake recommendation to solve it. Even if it doesn’t or won’t even happens. I also like the debate. It is like a war sometimes between two, or three countries, and other times it is just boring.

I think that I did okay during SIMUN. The first day I did try to get involved, and I did gave a few speak once or twice on the speaker list, and ask a few questions. The second say I was on fire!!!! Just ask Kelly, Melisa, or John. FIRE!!! China took one of my people and I was asking her questions why her country did that, even though China didn’t have the right to do that. Then I discovered she was torturing that person. She was in big trouble. On the third day I should have been better, I only ask questions (about 5). France (my country) was not in any of the situations. But all in all… I think I did great!!! (And so did the other delegates.).

If the new freshmen globies wants tips, or my other classmates, I would say look more research than you were assign. Seeing who’s your number one trading company/country, just in case if a problem came up if two of your allies are in a fight. That is one of the top reasons why I thought that I was so active in SIMUN. And also that I ask my friends and also delegate party to see what it was about, or to get deeper inside this situation.

If I had more time to prepare…. I would spend more time finding information on the situation. I did not spend as much time trying to finding the information and also I didn’t get what the situation is about. And also to find out information about the other countries so then you can destroy them(or beat them up till you feel strongly that you made them feel bad and that they need to do more research). Also I would write small speeches or statements so I could get involved more often. I am planning to do this for next year.

France question mark

I am the delegate of France. In my situation… I have been ask to take a side, or in other words, to join a side. My chooses are to join the united states and invade Pakistan to protect the nuclear weapons from the Taliban or to stand on the side –lines to see what is going to happen in the game.

France would agree to help the United States to protect the nuclear device in Pakistan. It is a wise decision for many reasons. And also it is the right thing to do for France. For example….

A: they are one of our top Allie

B: since they are our Allie, we would help them

C: if the Taliban get to the nuclear devices (which they maybe will since the government of Pakistan isn’t stable) France, Germany, the United States would defiantly be one of the targets to shoot theses big bombs.

D: if France stays aside… the Taliban would hurt more just us (France), they are a really nasty group that doesn’t care who gets in their way, they will just nuc them.

E: If France doesn’t help the United States we (France) could lose a trading and more important our Allie with them

France has pretty much always agrees with the United States. Just besides the Iraq war, which lead the Americans into a war with them and that there reason wasn’t proved; we agreed (France and the United States).

France would also encourage other countries to tag along with France and help the United States to protect the nuclear bombs. It would be the smart/right thing to do and it is also okay to think about this for a while, just do think for too long. Or it could be too late to change what could happen.

Waiting. . .

Waiting is a romantic book. And if you even don’t like a romantic book, I would say read it because this book is just more than that. I think it is a great book good for people wants true love. Also that anything can happen over time. Anything. I am almost finish with the book. This is what the book is about so far. A girl named Manna, a Chinese comrade, falls in love with a married comrade named Lin. Lin also falls in love with her, but he doesn’t want to leave his wife (which he doesn’t love) and his daughter Hua. It took him twenty years to divorce his wife.


An aspect of this book, which I think this is the only reason why it is a book, is that Manna waiting for Lin. Most women would walk away or do more for her to get her dream guy. But Manna doesn’t. She believes in Lin so much she stayed in the hospital (this is the setting for most of the book) for twenty years. She could ran off and meet some other guy and get married to him, but no, she chose Lin.


Besides of her waiting twenty years, other people wait in the book, but you don’t see it at first. Hua waited till her father get to his senses and stop the pretend love with Manna, but she doesn’t see that he loves her. Also Lin friend, Ra Su, promise to keep it a secret of Manna and Lin relationship, even though that A, he wants her for himself so he is waiting until he rapes her, and B, he doesn’t want his friend Lin tom leave the camp. Also Lin waits for his ex-wife brother to pay back all the money he owes them, especially because he has a really good business.

Ginger

Ginger. What a perfect dog: never does anything wrong. She sleeps all day on a family navy blue couch or by the windows sunlight. She jumps around when we say the word walk or stroll; but sometimes she tills her head until it looks like it would fall off. She is full with laughter and sweetness. Ginger birthday just past-march twenty. She is now four years old.

Memories; Wonderful memories. I remember the day I first saw her, the first day she caught a bird flying, and the first time she fell asleep in my lap. I remember when I enter the house she stayed in the bathroom, and she did left it- until a month later. I remember how small she was and now she is full grown. I remember her first walk; we had to put her is a wagon; we only made it four houses until she ran out. I remember her life.

Ginger is a genius. When she was one year old she could jump over a three foot gate that kept her in the kitchen and how she also opened the back door and ran away- she was on the other side of the street when we got home. She also knows a lot of tricks; most of them I taught her. But the only tricks we can’t teacher her is to play died or army crawl.

Ginger is a scary-cat. When it there is a sound of clashes, pops, pitter patter, or even kaboom, she runs downstairs and then I come down to confront her that there is nothing to be afraid. She stays down there anyway for a good half hour. And Ginger is a scary-cat when we past a house with three Great Danes. If they are out she hides be hidden me or starts barking at them; sometimes she get the courage to go up to a five foot fence and start to bark at them.

Ginger makes me laugh and tries to comfort me when I was upset. When I was upset or mad at school or at my family, Ginger lays right next to me and I tell her all my problems; she is a great listener. When I cry ginger sits right next to me and gives me a big hug. Adorable. During Christmas morning ginger was going crazy, just because she is lock up in one side of the house( so is my sisters and me; long story), it was so funny. Also last night when I feed her dinner, and I left it downstairs on accident, she went bananas. She ran downstairs and went crazy.

my new schedule

Last Semester was a great one, I had a lot of nice teachers, and their teaching was really good for me because you get to learn and do your homework in the class period. If anyone of you has either have Mrs. Bjorkland or Walega, count yourself lucky.

This semester I have a lot of new teacher, and some old ones. Here are my teachers
First hour I have Frau Rom, she is a great teacher. I had her Last semester and I still have it this semester. That is because she is the only German teacher. I had most of my friends in that hour but now I have two plus my twin sister so Frau Rom is always getting us confuse. My favorite day in German is Fridays because most Fridays we watch movies in German and eat snacks. Right now we are watching Pirate of the Caribbean 2.

Second Hour I have is Mrs. Maier. She is a nice teacher, but is really jumpy. And every day she seems to be in a hurry, always running to place to place. I still prefer Mrs. Bjorkland but I guess I have to settle for her. And she talks the whole hour and at the end she gives us our homework, with five minutes till the next passing time.

Third and forth hour as most of you know I have Mrs. B and Mr. Fielder. I had them last semester at the same timing, and I say the class is about the same energetic as last semester. Defiantly since the rivals of Mr. Fielder and Michael Blazer are in the same room. And also that Mrs. B class she yells at us more and we fall asleep more often.

Fifth hour I have principles of biology with Sebok. She is also a crazy Like Mrs. Maier and also like Mrs. Maier she doesn’t let you do homework during class most of the times.

And for six hour, I have gym with Mrs. Gram. Most people say that a person with six hour gym is lucky, but I don’t think so. Mrs. Gram is always yelling at us because of fifth hour. And if we do one thing wrong, she will yell at us. And I also don’t like the fact that getting change for gym because if you get out late you can miss your bus.

Have a great semester !!!

Lent

As this Wednesday passed by, also so did the beginning of Lent also passed by. Each year for lent I try to do something challenging. For the past three years or so I gave up junk food. I was thinking maybe something easier like no gum or candy but this year I gave up all junk food except chocolate.

This is my first year of being confirmed during lent and as I must say it is a blast. Even though I like going to my christen school it better for some odd reason to stay home and enjoy the holiday. When I went to my Christian school we learn that lent is when Jesus walks across the desert for forty days and forty night s without food and water. And also it is when he died on the cross and then risen from the died.

Lent is okay in my family and we go to church once out of the blue during this season. One thing I hate about this season is that each Friday we Christians can’t have meat. Usually I am okay with not having meat, I eat the most less meat in my family. It is just we have fish instead. And ask my family I rather eat pork or ribs than eat fish.

They’re a lot of good things that can come out of lent. One thing is that Jesus has risen from the died. And there is the Easter bunny and Easter eggs to look out for in the morning. And after forty days without junk food it feels great to start eating it, especially with all the candy from Easter. And I also feel like lent is a time of giving to god to show him as much we love him and we do this every year to show him this.

With my fourteen years of life. I have a lot of memories of Easter. Like a few years ago the was a new blanket of snow on the ground the day before Easter so my sisters and I sisters shoveled up a huge Easter bunny out of the snow. And last year with my almost perfect Easter, but I don’t want to get to much detail with that one. And then when I was six or something I thought I saw the Easter bunny outside my backyard window but nobody believed me.
Have a great lent season!!!

Big Fish Tale

A long time ago there was a land of mysteries. There was a great wall that divides the world from realistic, and fantasy. The wall was dark gray, taller than the twins towers and wider that the Stevenson. Nobody crosses over the wall. The realistic side of the wall has no color, the sky circles around with ash of bodies and gun power. The main land was covered of guys without souls and laid there in silence. And there is a king of the devil, scaly like a snake, and as dangerous as a shark. In the fantasy land there was rejoice of happiness to grow more than there is in the realistic land. All magical creatures live there. There were ponies, vampires, dragons, knights and princesses in distress. Both lands very different and I was in the middle of it. Sincerely, I was in the middle. Since nobody crosses the walls they don’t know that there is another wall. This land has green grass plains and bright blue sky like cotton candy. No evil and no fantasy unless we make our own.

I grew up here and each second is like a breath of dawn and sunset. But as a girl is getting older, she needs to find a soul mate, which is the rule here. And right now I am the proper age to go looking for one. I am going to the realistic world first so I can get it over with. I am bringing a group of my friends because all of our birthdays are around the same date. When we went through the little passage way my mom and dad dig, I could feel the cold breeze on my face. I didn’t feel anything, not sadness, not anger, not even happy, just felt like nothing.

When we got out to the opening, we can see why. Just a plain of dirt with a dark sky. All the sudden there was a rumble in the ground and saw something underground coming right at us. We start to run as fast as we can. Then it starts taking one of us done at a time. Down in the tunnel I don’t remember much, but when I woke up I found a man eating my friends. When the monster notices that I was awake he started asking me questions like who I was and where I was from. I told him lies. But then he keep staring at my hand, I was nervous because I thought that he might chewed it off. Then a second, he turned into a boy. He looks about a little older than me. And then I knew he saw something in me.

Soul mates I thought, maybe that is what he is thinking, or maybe a good meal. We sat and stared at each other and talk to each other. He said that I looked a lot like a girl that he saw that he promise himself that he would married her. And then on the decided that I was his soul mate that he saw and turned into a mini lizard, climb into my hand and said that he will always be with me. And then he melted into my hand and now when you look at it you will see him

What should The United States do about Congo Sexual Violence???

The United States should pay attention to Congo Sexual Violence as the same as Haiti Earthquake.

The United States should treat Congo the same as Haiti because they are both are disasters. In 1994, genocide was in Rwanda, it killed 800,000 people. Refugees tried to slip their way to their bordering countries of Tanzania, Uganda, and Congo. And right now the Genocide in Rwanda has stop, but the one in Congo is still going on. “Young girls are being gang-raped with Bayonets and chucks of woods, their insides ripped apart”. Another reason why the United States should pay more attention to Congo is that it is preventable. When a hurricane or an earthquake happens, it isn’t preventable, but a man-made disaster is preventable. The UN says this about Congo “brutality toward women [is] almost normal.” I for one want to see the end of this disaster.

Another reason why the United States needs to pay more attention to Congo is that ignoring them. Just think before the Haiti’s earth quake, we have been more interested to Natalee Holloway, OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, and etc than Congo… This has been over a few years, but this has been happing since 1994. And another reason why we have been ignoring them is that most Americans haven’t heard the situation in Congo. The first time I heard about this was a week ago, and I couldn’t believe it. I ask my older sister this question and she just says what American is also saying. “That Congo problems have been on so long and that we don’t know what we will do.” But as I read an article it says that Congo and Haiti are equal and that they both should get the same amount of attention as Haiti, and I believe in that.

What I learned from Mr. Fielder's Classroom

At the beginning of the year, I was nervous for Global Education Language arts. Mr. Fielder told my class that “yes Global Ed is challenging, but it will be good at the end”. And at the beginning I didn’t know what he was talking about or what to do. But as the year went on I learn how to do these things better.

One thing that I learned this year in Mr. Fielder classroom is how to write a one or two paragraphs response with a thesis. None of mine are great but each time I write one my writing skills improved. The things that I learned from this are to have less clutter. If it isn’t needed or doesn’t belong get rid of it. I also learned better way to use Ethos and facts. And the structure of this should look like this… a thesis at the top, most likely should be only one sentence then the first paragraph should be an support of what the thesis should be and then two sentences of what that first support of the thesis . Then the same thing but different supports for the second paragraph.

I also learned about different places and what happen in their histories. Like in the movie “Hotel for Rwanda,” I learned there was a country called Rwanda, that they had a major Genocide there against the Tutsis and the Hutu’s and half of the people died in it, I thought that it was even worse than our civil war. In “Rabbit Proof Fence,” I didn’t know there were native Austrians and how the way the British treated them (which weren’t very pleasant). The people saw the natives the way the Americans used to see the African- Americans her in America. In the movie “The Power of One,” it was okay and I thought that the other two movies were more educational. But in this movie there was this British boy who grew up with everybody dying and that the Africans weren’t treated as equal as they were promise.

Then there was the Debate about Rwanda Genocide. I thought that was a great experience for the class and that we should do it again to practice for a Simon. I learned from it how some parts of the game goes and a lot about my person Juvenal Habyarimana. He was killed on the plane way back from a peace agreement and somebody shoot down his plane. And then there was a radio station that wasn’t in our control we just funded it at the beginning.

And also I learned to have a creative yet a logical mind about stories like the “Man in the Well”. He was a guy in the well and these kids came by and they just kept him there and he was asking the kids for them to get their parents and they just sat around the well and just asking them questions about who he is and why he is in the well. And the creative but logical part is guessing who he is and why he is in the Well. And also in the class stories that go on like the myths we were just doing. It was easy to think of a creative myth but to make it logical was tough.

At all this semester was a very good semester and I learned a lot from Mr. Fielder and I hope that next semester that I will have him again.