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Nosotros gustamos comer ensalada. Es divertido probar nuevos tipos. Hemos probado esta ensalada en un restaurante llamado "Chifa" y decidimos volver a crearo.

So far, I have found a lot of shocking information about the Canadian Seal hunt. A lot of the information involves grusome pictures that are sometimes hard to view. Over all, a lot of the facts are great for supporting my thesis.

In future blog posts, I would like to do more research on the seal hunt in other countries. I wonder if the laws vary in specific countries. I would also like to explore the laws in for the Canadian seal hunt more in depth and visit PETA's website to see how they view the topic.

So far we have been working on this project for about a month, and throughout this month I have become more sure that the topic that I am doing is very important.In the begging I had a little bit of trouble.  I was switching topics every once in a while because i thought that people would think that my topic was not important as I stated in my previous blog. It says, "The work ended up being harder than i thought it would be.  To start off a lot of the topics i was trying to find  were not on websites like google news.  Also, I felt like my topic was not good enough at times and would switch topics. Finding topics that you truly find interesting can be really hard.  So far, half of the information i needed for my topic could be found in the book i was reading for English as well.  I hope that this topic is not just important to me, but also to other      People in the world who worry about what happens to people when they eat at fast food restaurants and work at them as well."  As the near year began I was able to find more information supporting the topic that I started with.  My topic being, "The Fast Food War of America" I think that it is one of the many things that people in America try to look over because of how it can effect business. I believe that my topic is fine, and I will not allow people to tell me that what I have decided to write about is not important.

There are many different organizations that have joined forces to help ban seal hunting.

Many animal rights advocate groups, including The Humane Society, are urging more people to continue the fight.

Many coutries have already banned the "sport" all together.

These countries include Russia, Ireland, Paris, and Toronto.

According to a website called "Boycott Canada," a survey led by Schoen & Berland Penn in 2002 shows that 79 percent of American voters oppose Canada’s seal hunt.

This means that people within the chief-seal hunting country are even against it.

This just goes to show how big of an issue this is and how bad it needs to be stopped.

It is completely unacceptable in today's over all society. 

Citations:
Aldworth, Rebecca. "Hunt is Outdated." CBC NEWS. 19 Apr 2006. Web. 7 Jan 2010. <http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_sealhunt/aldworth.html>.

Boycott Canada. 2008. Respect For Animals, Web. 7 Jan 2010. <http://www.boycott-canada.com/info/facts.htm>. 

Killing animals is wrong and has always been wrong in my opinion. But there are people in certain countries, including Canada that actually kill them for fun!

There is a "sport" known as the Atlantic Seal hunt that takes place between March and May on the gulf of the Atlantic Ocean in Canada. Specifically, it occurs around the Magdalen Islands and Prince Edward Island near Newfoundland.

Hunters literally go out with clubs and murder baby seals.

Harmless, innocent, 25-day old babies.

They were once even allowed to kill the babies that were merely 2 weeks old, known as "white coats." But that was banned because of the said cruelty.

I find it appalling how they don't find the act itself cruel.

The slaughters defend themselves by saying it is only for their pelts so they can be sold over seas, which is the only logical reason I can possibly accept but still despise.

They also say they kill them because they are eating all of the codfish. When in reality, the codfish are being over-fished by fishermen and people are blaming it on the seals. But this is a topic all in itself.

Although it is legal, I still find it to be inhumane and wrong and I wish it was never occurring. No animal deserves to be murdered for their beauty or for just plain sport.

Citations:

Raven, West. "MPs urge seal skin for Canadian Olympic uniforms." Save Feral Human Habitat. 07 May 2009. Web. 7 Jan 2010. <http://bullsheet.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/mps-urge-seal-skin-for-canadian-olympic-uniforms/>. 

Boycott Canada. 2008. Respect For Animals, Web. 7 Jan 2010. <http://www.boycott-canada.com/info/facts.htm>. 

National, H.R. 2078= Nothing else has happened.

State, H.B. 249= No further action has taken place so far.

City Council, Bill 090569= This bill was scheduled to be part of the focus for the meeting we went to on 10/22/09, but the motion was passd to suspend its decision until next meeting, along with several of the other bills that were supposed to get decided on this week.

How to tell a true war story, or what a true war story is came up in this book; and I think there is a big difference between a true story and a factually true story. A story that's factually true needs a teller who was there and experienced the event first hand or else the story can't be trusted. After a story that was supposed to be factually true has been told so many times, ideeas, facts, and characters get switched up and it all turns into opinion. A normal true story doesn't need facts, it just needs the right morals and ideas. Facts are only in a story to support and back up the tellers version of it, but if the only intention the teller has is to get the listeners or readers thinking, facts aren't necessary.

having someone with a fatal illness like a brain tumor is something that is very difficult to deal with and I am still confused as to him saying the story is fake or real. Anyways exposing someone with a bald head isn't funny and also if they have a brain tumor. In retrospect maybe wearing something a little more tightly around her head would been a little better towards suspicion like a bandana or something. Anyways the book ended sort of how I expected and I thought it was ok just still not as good as the kite runner or the house of the scorpion.

First I would just like to saw that A&W is one of the best fast food chains i have been too. Second is that everything he says is sort of true because a few of my family members and friend's family have coem back from Iraq and become almost suicidal because fight in wars is the only thing they know how to do and they would go back even though the safer thing would be to just stay home. And I get what they are sayign but that made them very irrational and they aren't even fit to fight in the war any more.

I know war can change people but I didn't know it could put someone into over drive where they would become a nurse, speak vietnamese, cool, and drop the habits that make her a women of that time period. She even abandoned the one she loved and came beack to do all the things she did. War is a very humbling experience i guess.

i think when the authors say bad memories live on would be correct. I mean people can be scarred for life after seeing or experiencing somethings and can take others down with them. For one if someone where to be rejected by society that would make them sad and that would always be in there head even if they became a successdul adult. Hitler blamed the jews for his artwork being bad after being rejected so bad things can happen. Also who in their right mind sends lice in mail. Not cool.

Over all, I really did not like this book. I could not get interested in it, no matter how hard I tried. But I read it, despite the fact that it was boring, lengthy, and un-interesting. I really disliked the opening chapter with the long sentences describing what the soldiers were carrying. I felt as though it was too long and too descriptive of things that weren't that important. In the future, I hope that we will read better books in English class. i am looking forward to reading some Shakespeare. :D

In the chapter "The Man I Killed" O'Brien talks about how he may have killed a man and his guilt over it. I think O'Brien made a very wrong choice by going to the war. He should have just fled to Canada. What other people think doesn't matter. He was wrong for sacrificing his sanity for other people opinions. I would never walk into a situation without having a complete understanding of it, and thats what he did. I guess he was yound and naive.

This is a response to the first paragraph of the chapter "Ambush."

 "When she was nine...writing war stories."

I find it hard to picture being in his situation. It must have been hard having to respond to your daughter after she asks you if you've ever killed anyone. I wonder how bad it must feel to have the reputation of a killer, let alone have to live with the remorse of it. Even if the killing was out of good intentions, like during a war, it stillmust be painful to have to live with the memory of it all. Just knowing that you ended someone's life seems like an unbearable remeberance. 

In this book, adaption is a strong theme that is present throughout the chapters. For example, when Mary Anne comes to the island to visit the army men, she becomes adapted to way in which the men live. She becomes crazy and begins to believe that she is a part of Vietnam. Her mind is set on the idea that living in a jungle atmosphere is ideal. She starts living as though she's fighting to survive when in reality, she can go back home and live a normal life. This shows that people adapt to certain situations differently and adaption can be a negative or positive change in someone's life.

Over the last couple class periods, we were asked the question; Should we trust the author or not? Many of the students in the class said that since he wasn't actually there, and he made up most of the events in the book; he can't be trusted. I disagree with them because it's the big idea that counts. The main idea can not be captured souly in all of the small details incorporated into the story, nor in the various experiences he endured with his fellow soldiers. The main idea must have all of those small aspects, and they must paint a bigger picture. This man did fight in the war, and most likely he experienced some traumatising events. The problem was that what he experienced didn't capture the image he was attempting to paint when he decided to write this book.

I find this specific section in the book to be quite amazing.It really lets you get into the mind of solieders and how they react to the complicated situation.The girl dancing her ritual dance was something seen as highly significant and respectable act.Dobbins trys to threaten his fellow solider for making a mockery of the girls dance which at first seems noble but in a diffrent prospective think about how pages early hes killing the her people.In times of great despiration do peoples logic and morals become adaptable to there situations.

Some of the chapters we read this week really made this war once again seem "real". A lot of different topics were covered. The chapter "The Dentist" dealt with how for a lot of the soldiers in Vietnam, physical pain seemed less torturous  than psychological pain. Curt was so afraid of the dentist he fainted before the dentist could even see him, the psychological impact of fainting like that in the middle of a war was so huge on him that he snuck back in and had a perfectly fine tooth painfully ripped out rather than face the anxiety of the dentist. 

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The book entitled "The Things They Carried" talks about the Vietnam war from the point of view of one soldier. The things the soldiers carried and how much they weighed are mentioned quite a lot in these select pages. For example, On page 7, the passage states "Every third or fourth man carried a Claymore antipersonnel mine-3.5 pounds with its firing device. They all carried fragmentation grenades-14 ounces each. They all carried at least one M-18 colored smoke grenade-24 ounces each." the emphasis placed upon the things being carried by these men are interesting to think about. Are the weights of these various items mentioned soley for imagery and dramatic affect? Is there a reason readers are informed of every single things being carried and why?

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When I entered this year, everything was different than what I was used to. It felt like I was being treated as an equal for once because now I could be in a regular English class. I got treated equally in class and on my work. Thanks to Mr. Block, I’ve realized how much I can improve in such a short time. Even though everything was hard, the work we did taught me how to put my own perspective and cultural influence into my work.

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The experimenting has died down in a sense because everyone is getting ready to go on Winter Break. Currently, we are planning on doing further experiments relating to our sunlight angles. After break, we will more than likely redo the Clinometers experiments if we need better accuracy, or try another form of experiment if need be.

After performing our sunlight angle experiment with the Clinometers (I found out the proper name for them), we found the average sunlight angles. The average angle that sunlight hits our school from the West is 20°. The average angle East of our school is 30°. Using this data, we will know effective angles to set up solar panels on our schools roof so that we can potentially collect as much energy/power/electricity as possible to help towards making our school Green in the future. 

We have come to an agreement in class on what type of experiment to perform. In order to find the sunlight angles, we will be doing an experiment based on our 9th grade Geometry projects. We will have a viewing tube attached to protractors with sting and weights. As we look up to see the tops of the buildings where sunlight, the weight will pull the string down and show us the angle at which sunlight hits our school. Each group will have their own viewing/angle device and use it to find the sunlight angles at several different points to get an average sunlight angle in the polar directions, east and west from our school.