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Ugh... Sitting In Chase's... Bored.

Posted by Freda Anderson in STORY-001 on
First of all, The Other Guys IS a damn funny movie.
Second, today I had lunch with my brothers girlfriend. I'm don't remember exactly why I agreed to do that... But at some point I did. Big mistake. It was just awkward. We had lunch and then were sitting in Chase's room... and I just wanted someone to come... and save me or distract me from the conversation. Honestly... if you know what's been going down, and you're going to remain with the dude, that's you're issue... I don't feel like we have much to talk about. You're just ignoring red flags.
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Musical Instrument Blog #1

Posted by Theodora Farah in PHYS-002 on
The glass harmonica is played by wetting one's fingertips, then pressing them onto the edges of the bowls as they rotate.
Differently sized bowls produce different notes.
The bowls are nested within each other, so the entire rack of bowls is cone-shaped.
It makes me think about how sounds that we don't generally think of as "music," like the rubbing of a wet fingertip across a glass surface, can be used to create music.
Since the bowls are nested within each other, the waves must only radiate out.  Otherwise, a portion of the sound would be lost.

Music by Mozart, performed on a glass harmonica by French artist Thomas Bloch:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPfoFZYso8
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Something new.

Posted by Megan Doe in STORY-001 on
I hate my teacher. It makes me not want to do anything in their class. Now I know why student that hate their teachers end up fucking their selves over in the end. I CANNOT WAIT FOR SUMMER.  
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Life is too short.

Posted by Katherine Roman in STORY-001 on
It's surprising really how time goes by so quick. I feel like life is racing by and I can't seem to keep up.
I have have been doing allot of thinking lately and Life really is too short. It is but it's not.
There is just so much to do and so much that needs to be done and so many things to experience and places to see that the reality of never being able to see it all is unsettling.
It just seems impossible for some people to be completely happy.
I'm not really sure how I feel lately, I think it's numb. Just wanting to leave high school and move forward in life, but even that.. It's not something I'm actually excited about.
I don't really know what I'm talking about..
But above all things I am happy. Despite all things I am happy.
I really am blessed.
God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.
He is the only reason happiness exists.

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15 days

Posted by Dominque Miller in STORY-002 on
So today starts the official count down to the last day of the quarter. I know that I have not done a good job at all this quarter posting stories, but I know that if I were to be counting down to the says when I get to leave, I might.
So with about 2 days about until, I am really frustrated and busy for no reason. Not only do I have to teach my class for my Capstone, I have to work until about 9:30-10. Ugh! Plus, I'm running on about 3 hours of sleep. At this point I have no idea why we are still getting homework? I AM IN COLLEGE, and if I didn't learn it in the first 3 quarters I'm probably not going to learn it now. I just need this day to hurry up and be over. June 3rd just can't come fast enough.
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Child abuse and Sexually abuse cases.

Posted by Maria-Carolina Latorre-Socas in ENG1-002 on
I had found a lot more then the first time. I learn about a daycare that was committing child abuse they would grab the kid and drag them to put them in different place. They would leave marks on the kid and they won't care until they were found out they got fried and sent to court for child abuse.

Then there is the McMartin Daycare case. The case was about a child that was sexually abused. The mother Judy Johnson didn't know that this was happening until one day when her son Matthew came home and said that his anus hurt him to have bowel movements, so his mother took him to a doctor, who declined to examine him.  On August 11, she examined Matthew in the morning and he seemed okay.  However, when he returned home from the preschool, she claimed, his anus was red and itchy. She began to perceive something more nefarious: She believed that Ray Buckey, the only male teacher at the school, was abusing her son. She kept on questioning her son to see if what she was thinking of was true. One day her son was playing doctor and giving people "injections," she asked Matthew if Ray had ever done that to him.  Again, he said no.  However, he did admit that Ray had taken his temperature, and then Judy Johnson jumped to the conclusion that this was a disguised form of sexual abuse.  Then she took Matthew to the doctors for a rectal examination. It was not only Matthew that was being abused but also every child his Ray's class.

The picture shown is Raymond Buckey or better known as Ray the daycare teacher that sexually abused kids.

Bibliography:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/mcmartin_daycare/2.html
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Alice

Posted by Jennifer Albright in STORY-002 on
If I lived in a world of my own it would be anything but a wonderland, those obviously don't work. Mine would be a heart, a pure heart, a brave heart, your heart.
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Love, Blood, Sweat, and Tears! Domestic Violence #1

Posted by Sarena Shuman in ENG1-002 on
Me & The World

Loving someone and being in a relationship can be dangerous. You can have heartache, infidelity, and financial issues. Many problems can occur, but the biggest danger in a relationship is Domestic violence. I’m super interested in Domestic violence because Domestic violence is an issue, and many people look over it and don’t care for the problem.

Domestic violence can harm you physically and mentally; it can harm you so bad, that you stay in the relationship. Some people get addicted and get attached to the violence. Domestic violence can come from any sex, male or female. Domestic violence is used to control your spouse or lover, to dominate the relationship. The abuser likes to play mind tricks, and get you really scared. They threaten you, break things, are super hostile, and very aggressive.

I don’t understand how you can love someone, which harms you physically and emotionally. That hits you and insults you, damages your feelings and makes you insecure. Someone that makes you bleeds your own blood, and tastes your own tears. How come so many women and men stay in the relationship? The abuser is the coward not the person being abused. The abuser needs to harm someone to make them feel big about their self.

The scariest part of it all is that people die from domestic violence. People lose loved ones, they have heart attacks, internal bleeding, stress level to high, and worst of all the abuser kills them with there bare hands. If the abusers feel they are losing power in the relationship. If I ever got abused I would be very distraught, to sit and go through pain and suffering. To eat blood and tears everyday of my life, and to live life with permanent Scars outer and inner body. 

 

Bibliography:

 http://www.helpguide.org/mental/domestic_violence_abuse_types_signs_causes_effects.htm

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Rehab After Drugs and Alcohol [ The Longterm Save] pt. 2

Posted by Keith Moody on

​Ok so after my research I found out that people that smoke first hand are less likely to [pass] also people that get second hand smoke seem to pass on average more than the person that is smoking. I also researched alcohol, after drunk there are many liquids inside you head filled with alcohol, I've watched videos of people who had rehab after a car accident while drinking. When the person went to the hospital they had alcohol in their head. It was very scary :(. 

 

 

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Love, Blood, Sweat, and Tears! Domestic Violence #2

Posted by Sarena Shuman in ENG1-002 on
Me & The World

In the last blog I gave the basic information about domestic violence. I gave a summary about the types of domestic which are emotional violence, physical violence, and sexual violence. Domestic abuse is an epidemic in communities, cities, states, countries, and the world.  One of the most un reported crimes in the world. Change sure will come, but this blog is about the numbers and statistics.



One in every four women will experience domestic violence on any type of level in her life times. 1 of every 30 men will experience domestic violence in his lifetime. 85% of the victims are usually women. 1 of every 6 women will be raped, and 1 of every 33 men will be raped. More women get sexually and physically abused, than men do. Most people get raped by their own partner or lover.



Domestic violence is serious and is an eye opener. Even though women are usually the main victims, gentlemen please be aware you can also be a victim.  Domestic violence can end your life, give you emotional trauma, and harm you severely. You should go get help, not only is your partner or lover harming you but your harming yourself by staying. Domestic violence can be anywhere and sometimes people don’t even know when their partners are harming them emotionally. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS FAR FROM A GAME! 




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Cuts in the Budget 2.0

Posted by Teige Dougherty in ENG1-002 on
​​These cuts are really bad for most students. It means that if your only shot at getting to go to a good college was through a sport, then you need to go to a private school. This is difficult if you do not have the money or if your grades are not good enough to get into the school. Not only will this increase the rate of students that do not further their education by going to college, it will also increase incarceration rates because students will have no way to get a job that would be enough to live on, and will turn to illegal things.

If the incarceration rate does go up it will also take more and more money away from schools because they will have to pay for the students that are now in jail. This cycle will continue unless they fix this law and prevent these budget cuts to the school districts.

Cites: http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-26/news/29474843_1_voucher-supporters-voucher-legislation-voucher-issue
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Cuts in the Budget

Posted by Teige Dougherty in ENG1-002 on
​ The school district of Philadelphia has set forth severally strict budget cuts. In total they are cutting 1.1 billion dollars. This effects me very strongly because both of my new advisors are being laid off because of the budget cuts. Another way that this affects me, is that all sports are being cut off at this school, and I was hoping to play soccer next year. Now I won't be able to do this.
There is money for the districts but instead of putting the money toward us they put it toward building more jails. This is because it costs the school district close to $4000 per child, and it costs only $3500 to keep a prisoner incarcerated.
Their reasoning for cutting the money is simple. They say that we have been over funded for the past couple of years and we are just being returned to our normal funding. 
I wonder if all school districts are going through the same thing or if it has been mismanaged. I will research other states budget cuts and see if they cut education as much as they did in Philadelphia

Cites: http://www.philly.com/philly/insights/in_education/121070948.html

http://articles.philly.com/2011-03-30/news/29362102_1_budget-cuts-students-rally-budget-proposal


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I Can Have My Personal Opinion.

Posted by Freda Anderson in STORY-001 on
So I was sitting at my local "we only really exist to sell alcohol but, we do have a few crappy food items" store. I was eating some really dry and cold onion rings and drinking a cherry coke. Next to me were three guys, all looked like they were in their 20's and like they'd just come off a job site because they had tool boxes. They were drinking a couple beers and talking about the people they didn't like at work. I try not to eavesdrop but, let's be honest, is they're talking loud, and it's interesting, you're listening. So eventually they started talking about movies and the one guy was talking about that he thought McGruber was the best comedy in the past two years. The other guy argued that, first of all, McGruber wasn't even in the top ten, and that it was The Other Guys, that was the best comedy of the year. The first guy said, hey, I said that's what I THOUGHT, that's my personal opinion, I can have my personal opinion. Then the second guy said, "yeah well... your personal opinion fucking sucks!" And then threw back his beer.
To me that was the perfect piece of life that I needed for the day. It was adorable, simple, and hilarious, and awesome.
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Do You Care About Your Environment? #2

Posted by Jalen Smith in ENG1-002 on
After reveiving more information about environmental issues I had noticed that we are at high risk's of suffering big consequences. The reason why I am saying this is because we are really abusing our environment. We are not taking care of it the way we are suppose to take care of it. It is the smallest things that can cause big problems. Such as throwing away trash or even driving to work in a car. These things can really impact our world on so many levels. The EPA said that certain toxins were released and could have major impacts for our environment. From 2004 to 2005, dioxin releases decreased by 23 percent and mercury releases fells by 9 percent. Petroleum refining releases dropped 10 percent, transportation equipment registered a 6 percent decrease and chemical manufacturing cut releases dropped 4 percent. Everyone seems to be very concerned because no one knows what will happen in the future. Also people are very concerned about the water that we drink after the disaster in Japan. As you may know the chemicals that were released from the power plant got into the ocean. People are afraid that the water that we drink could have the chemicals in it. I think that now in some stores they might raise the prices of the water because of this great tragedy. It would be much harder to find cleaner water now that this had happened.With out clean water many people would die because of dehydration.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/legal/law/statistics.htm
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