The Apache Sacred Run

By: Bach Tong
NHD project - website
Topic:The Apache Sacred Run
A Struggle to Restore Human Right

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Reflection: 
Why did you choose this topic?
Why did you choose this type of presentation format?
Where did you run into trouble with the project? 
What went well with this project?
If you had it to do over, what would you change about your decisions or your process?
What did you learn?


There are many struggles in the American Society; however, the struggle of Native American has not been depicted very much where I live - in Philadelphia, or the East Coast at large. Personally, my interest is to studying history and current situation of struggles of different group of people. Therefore, I found that the struggle of the Apache tribe in Southeastern Arizona was a suitable and connectable topic for me. Out of all the given formats, web site was the best way for me to go, consider that I am armature in film editing, a bad writer, and unfriendly performer. Through out the process of doing the website, I ran into trouble of find sources that could back up my thesis and provide accurate information. However, I was fortunate to know some of the people that involve in the Sacred Run, so I was able to gather a sizable information and experiences from them. If there is a do-over, I would love to do it earlier and consult more people. I also could have contacted the people there. But that gave me lessons of researching and time managing. Most importantly, I've learned how the struggle of Native American could be linked to what happen today. It was also an opportunity for me to learn about others and their struggle. 


Harry Potter

Harry Potter y la piedra del filosofo 

fantasia

no hay ahora, todo es de los Dursleys y una persona esta muerto. 

pienso que en el proximo capitulo Harry Potter como un bebe va a vivir con los Dursleys

Los Dursleys 

si es muy descriptivo 


Love Waits on One Thing

Do you ever watch love movies and think of us?
Not just like, the Notebook or Sweet Home Alabama where the story line fits us almost perfectly, but like in all love movies?
Maybe Jack trembles above Rose after making love and you think of your trembles and the way I teased you?
Maybe it’s the way the very opposite Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl attract in the Ugly Truth.
I do.
Do you ever lie in bed watching the moon wondering if just maybe I am too?
I do.
Are you ever with someone, even someone you really care about, and for a moment see me instead? Maybe it was the shape of their mouth, the way their hair fell in their face, a face they made at you?
I’ve done that… seen you instead of him…
Do you ever just… miss me? Think of me?
Remember???? Do you ever ever just remember?

A wise movie said, ”Love waits on one thing- the right moment.”
So, when will ours be? Will it come in the future? Did we miss it already?
Was it that first day I stared across the second grade class at you?
Or the first time we split into reading groups?
Was it that first time we kissed by the trailer with a young lookout?
Maybe not.
Maybe it was the time we spent chasing each other around in my backyard.
Was it all the times you called me “peoples” as though you’d forgotten my name?
Or could it have been when we skated side-by-side, nudging each other softly?
Perhaps it was the day I handed you a note with my deepest secret written in code.
Maybe it was the first time we ever really kissed…
The first time I felt your lips on my neck, felt your warm breath in my ear?
Was it the first time you sent chills from the tip of my spine to my ankles?
Or maybe it was that night on the steps, making out for so long, with such intensity that we broke apart to splash cold water on our faces.
Could it have been when I went to your house when you were sick and you walked me home anyway to be sure I was safe?
Or was it when you came to see me when I was sick, dropping a kiss to my forehead that healed me instantly?
Was it the first time we made love, bodies trembling, some combination of fear and pleasure, feeling wrong but more than right?
Maybe it was when you held me while I cried about insignificant fights with my mother.
Or when we played in the sand and I watched the fireworks from the safety of your arms?
Maybe it was making love in the dark, stemming from nothing more than a kiss shared between two people in more than love.
Maybe it was waking up to you and seeing your smile.
Maybe it was falling asleep in your lap, on your chest, inside your arms.
Maybe it hasn’t come yet, maybe it never will.
Maybe our love is false, doesn’t exist. Maybe we’ll never have that moment.

Dracula

Menciona lo suigiente en la reflexión: 
  • el título de la novela, el / la autor(a) 
  • -Dracula de Bram Stoker
  • el género 
  • -masculina
  • el trama (hasta ahora) 
  • -El hombre Jonathan Harker va a castillo de conde Dracula por su trabajo. Los personas que encontró tener medio por su.
  • predicciones que tienes sobre el trama
  • -Pienso que el tiene muchos problemas con Dracula y descubrir por qué los campesinos son tan supersticiosos.
  • los personajes (hasta ahora)
  • -Jonathan Harker y conde Dracula, pero nosotros no encontramos Dracula.
  • ¿Te gusta hasta ahora?  ¿Por qué?
  • -Si, es muy interesante. No sé mucho, pero es un poco misteriosa y me gusta.  
  • ¿El libro se relaciona con algun aspecto de tu vida?  ¿Cómo?  
  • -No, no tiene vampiros en mi vida o muchos supersticiones.
  • ¿Recomindas el libro?  ¿Para quién?  ¿Por qué?
  • -Si, recomindas el libro a todos porque es un libro clasico y es muy interesante. 

La Rutina Diaria

I learned how to turn a script into something appealing and enjoyable that will capture the attention of an audience that is around my age.
I think i did pretty well on my project, i think i could have included more pictures but i know i did a really good job on my script.
I would definitely start taking pictures earlier and make the pictures that are in the project more personal.
I did enjoy this project because it was different than just making an iMovie, it was really fun using Comic Life.

11th Grade Advisory: SAT Writing Practice 28/02/11

Take 15-20 minutes to respond to this prompt from the SAT. As with the real SAT exam, you must use a pencil and hand-write your response. If the assessor can't read your writing, you essay cannot be assessed. Remember to:
  • establish your opinion or position and provide specific facts, details, and examples to support the opinion or position
  • arrange ideas in an organized manner
  • speak in a convincing and knowledgeable way

People choose their occupations for different reasons to make money, to help others, to make the world a better place. What do you think is the most rewarding occupation you could have, excluding illegal activities? Write a newspaper editorial to convince readers which occupation is the most rewarding and why.

Cecelia Baez Daily Jawn (:

-I learned a lot of how to of course say your daily routine. &because I repeated it so often I really got everything caught in my head. I feel as if it's pretty well put together. I really actually worked VERY hard on this video. over 9 hours. I would try not to spend so much time on it. I'm very much a perfectionist and I need to try and say That i did good enough with it. Always enjoy making videos :D

"Cmo Es Mi Rutina Diaria"

i really enjoy doing doing this project because my Spanish have improved a lot and i feel good about bout myself. i can't believe believe i have improve a lot, i feel like this was my best Spanish project ever. I think you should keep doing this project because i learned a lot from it, and i'm sure every one else enjoy it too. 

maddie's la rutina diaria

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11544820/maddie%20walls%20spanish%20thing.xml


What did you learn from doing this project? (skills, life lessons, words etc)  i learned how to use comic life and i learned how to talk about my morning in spanish 

How do you feel about your final product?
it's okay i wanted it to look different it didnt turn out the way i thought it would. i would have added more

If you could do your project all over again, what would you do differently/the same?
add more work on my pronunciation edit better


Did you enjoy this project? Why or why not?
i really  did i thought it was fun and i was able to explore programs that were new to me. 

Who is Trustworthy?

I have learned over my short years of life that trust; like love and belief is a very precious ideology to bestow upon someone or something. By that I mean not everyone can be trusted and to determine who should be isn't always the easiest. How do you determine who you can and cannot trust?

Sammy. Zeisloft- Rutina-Diaria

1.) What did you learn from doing this project?

- this project made me kind of closer observe my daily routine and made me realize how people in different countries and of different languages would say it


2.) How do you feel about your final product?

- i like my final product, i think it went well, took a hill but overall i think it came together well 


3.) If you could do your project all over again, what would you do differently/the same?

- if i did this project again i think that i would give more time and do my weekend schedule, because i think that it would be more entertaining and fun to watch and to see everyone elses!


4.) Did you enjoy this project? Why or why not?

- i think that the project was okay 



http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2270875/szeisloft-spanish%20project.flv

Q3 Benchmark: NHD Gay Rights

This is the Quarter 3 history benchmark of Maxime Damis, Julia Boyer, and Luna Frank-Fischer. It is a website featuring the debates over Gay Rights throughout history. Enjoy!

Our website is HERE

    I those this topic for my NHD paper and project because it was always something that interested me. The struggle and debates that surround gay rights have changed and developed largely in my lifetime. I had learned a lot about those changes but I was intrigued by what happened before my lifetime that I had not yet known. It interested me deeply, so I chose to use gay rights as my topic. My group chose to do a website for our presentation because it was able to incorporate the most aspects possible. We chose to include a video of historical speeches, a Prezi interactive timeline, and a word analysis for each. These were best represented through a website.
    We were able to create an attractive website that effectively showed the debates through history of gay rights. This we did very well. We had an incredible amount of information and pages of primary and secondary sources. This we did very, very well. Where we went wrong was our lack of reading the specific guidelines in the website submission for National History Day. We failed to see the rules against embedding Prezi's and videos. We also exceeded the word restriction for the website. Had we deleted the Prezi and video, our project would not have been an effective way of representing our knowledge. From there, we made the decision to turn our website in for our school benchmark but adjust the video clips to eventually come up with a video representation of what we learned for the competition, within the documentary category instead. If I were able to do this project again, I would have made sure every single one of my group members read the guidelines thoroughly so that we would encounter this problem again. It was a minor setback, but a setback nonetheless. Otherwise, I would not have done anything else differently. I was very proud of the work my group produced.
    Through this project, I learned a large amount of information about the changes and debates around gay rights. I had known some previous knowledge but did not know as many specifics. I learned about Harvey Milk and all of his struggles as well as a copious amount of information about "Don't ask, don't tell" and the government's involvement in the evolution of gay rights. Through the creation of the presentation, I learned how to be flexible and adaptable because of our sudden changes in what we were to do to be able to submit to NHD. I also learned how well I worked with both of my group members throughout this project and how efficiently a project can be created, changed, and recreated when your partners are all on track and working hard.

America's Impact Throughout the Ages: Q3 AH BM

Zayd Alsardary, Kabbour Rizq, Dennis Mawson

Q3 American History Benchmark

Ms. Laufenberg


America's Impact Throughout the Ages

This is the National History Project completed by Zayd Alsardary, Kabbour Rizq, and Dennis Mawson. We did our project based on the theme of debate and diplomacy and America's Impat Throughout the Ages. Enjoy! :)


Click HERE for the link to Project (iWeb)

Reflection:

For the project, we chose the topic on America's Impact Throughout the Ages and how America has had a part on how history played out in many events and the world today. We chose this topic because a while back my group came up with the thought about how the world would be like if America were to not have played a role in the world, and how their impact played parts on outcomes on events in history, and it seemed really interesting so we went for it. We chose doing it in a website because it was much easier to do and you could do many things in it: putting videos, adding pictures, having a whole website layed out for you. Also everyone in the group was very familiar with iWeb, so it was a bit less of a hassle to complete the benchmark. We never really ran into any problems with the project because we did everything pretty efficiently together and completed the project very nicely. Everything pretty much went well in the project. We had videos, pictures, explanations, it was pretty in depth, and we learned some things that we didnt know before. It was great project overall. A future consideration would be to maybe go more in depth in the explanations and such, and polish up the project a better, but overall our decisions and process were good. As a whole group, we learned many things we didnt know about events in history and America's impact. For me, I enjoyed this project very much. I learned SO much about the events that went on in the world, from what time period to what time period, who was involved, whether it was good or bad, and much more. I enjoyed the project. It was not only interesting but fun as well. 



usa flag reduced
usa flag reduced

A Bird

​A bird walks through the desert. Why is it there? Birds don't belong in the desert.
The bird flaps its wings but cannot fly. Why can't it fly? Because this bird is a penguin.
A penguin walks through the desert. Why is it there? Penguins do not belong in deserts.
It turns out that this isn't a desert. It is the arctic tundra. All is well.


Enlighten Me

I often find myself wondering how my current situation would be had I not made the decisions that I have made in the past.  For example, what if I chose to go to a different high school instead of SLA? How would my past educational experiences differ in comparison?  Would I have learned all of the same things that I know now?

I also wonder how badly slacking off in eleventh grade would have affected me.  I know a few people that did terrible in eleventh grade that are now having a tough time getting into good colleges.  I also think back to how I have handled certain issues in the past and whether or not they were dealt with satisfactorily. 

I am a person who believes in good/bad karma and destiny.  I also think that all things happen for a reason.  I feel as though it was fate for me to attend SLA.  Had I not, I do not think that I would have experienced so much with personal relationships as well as deeper thinking.  SLA has definitely enlightened me on a broad spectrum.

IncidentZ chpt3sec3 (2.27.11)

        “ NO ONE MOVE” everyone was shocked and they turned around to see Julia, who was in the back of the crowd having a gun point at her by a man who got in somehow . no one moved. “we are taking this place now, open the doors for my friends, only one person goes”

            “ill go, ted spoke up, just don’t hurt my sister”  he slowly left. When he was out of sight he ran as fast as he could, but he did not run to the door switches, he went for just “smitty!” he screamed as he opend the door, “you have to come please snap out of it, they have my sister, two guys not zombies, the one has guns pointed at my sister” no response came “damn you, you fucking coward” he slamed the door. Thoughts raced in his mind, he had to do something “..i …I have no choice…I need to open the doors..damnit” ted ran as fast as he could for the switch, reluctly pressed it and made his way back

            when he got there everyone was on their knees and the gunman still had Julia with a gun pointed to the back of her head. Julia was crying.   “ok, your all going to do as I say” the gun man said with a steady and calm voice as though it was an everyday conversation “ there are a few options here” just then a loud pop noise came out of nowhere, the gunman stumbled back to grab his face, another pop and another and the gunman lifted his gun, without looking he shot off his gun, the rounds shot out at rapid fire, everyone dove for the floor, all except ted who rushed at the gun man jumped in the air and kicked the man in the face, he was knocked back and the gun fell from his hand

            “ there is one option and that is to get the fuck out of our house, and if you ever point a gun at her again I will fucking kill you” everyone was surprised to hear the voice of Justin come out of his mouth so loud.  The bigger man wilding the sword stepted forward as to make some sort of move or maybe to talk, but Smitty  took no time off, and shot him in his face, the man seemed little effected and charged him. he shot more with his paintball gun but it did little to stop this man. He was tough, and kept charging, he was fast and when he reached Justin he put the sword on his back, jutin dropped the paintball gun and charged the man who was  huge, way bigger then him, the man grabbed him and put him into a choke hold

The Trouble With Art (2.26.11)

The trouble with art in any school situation is that art is not just a skill, or something you just do, art is feelings. you wont always feel like doing art, and if someone does not feel like doing art, then their art wont be as good as it could be, it wont be their true art. you need to Feel it, not just do it

La Rutina Diaria De Eryn

By doing this project i learned that my daily routine is fairly simple and not as complex as i make it seem. I feel like i  put a lot of effort in my final product and i also feel like it came out better than i  had though it would but at the same time if could have  been a little better. If i could do the project all over  again i would do the template the same but i would have some other ears beside my own  listen to my voice overs  so that they could be flawless. I enjoyed this project a lot because it was creative and i got to go through my day step by step and see myself how everything flows through. 

9/11/01

En tu diario, responde a las siguientes preguntas:
1) Cuando escuchas la frase “el 11 de septiembre,” ¿cuáles son unas palabras que te llegan a mente?
terroristas
Muerte
Brave
Violento
2) ¿Cómo te enteraste (how did you find out) de lo que había pasado en NY en aquel día?
No puedo recordarlo bien, creo mis padres me enformó.
3) ¿Qué estabas haciendo cuando te enteraste de los ataques del 11 de septiembre? Cuando me enteré, estaba . . .
Cuando me enteré, Estaba jugando en mi casa porque el primer dia de Kinder en mi escuela fue cancelado.
4) ¿Cómo reaccionaste tú y los alrededor (those around) de ti?
No me comprendí, mis padres eran chocado.
5) En tus observaciones ¿Cómo ha cambiado el mundo después de esos ataques?
Hay mucha mas causion.