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How to Lie with Statistics- meeting 2
Alexa Eddy Capstone
Often in my city, especially around my old house in North Philly, all I see is ugly. Trash is thrown everywhere, creeping weeds gnarled and thrusting themselves out of the concrete, and there is no sign of life. It made me sad to see only grey colors and brown colors and sometimes weird bright colors if the houses were painted differently. But lots of times I would see a sea of sadness and a lot of bored people with lost hope and nothing to do. People in urban areas do not get as much opportunities (and lots of them don’t have the means) to access land to help them self sustain themselves when it comes to produce and lots of times people don’t even know where to start. That is why I made my website. For all beginners who would like to bring a little more life and growth into their lives. A little more green and a little less grey. I feel like there could be so many benefits to growing plants, to start off, my website is featuring growing herbs and vegetables. Growing things like that ,especially if they’re perennials (plants that produce things every year) can benefit in so many ways. It’s not expensive, people can learn to be self reliant, and the education they will receive by growing their own plants is a reward all on its own. I even asked Dunda to use it as a source for her class. I’m very proud of my benchmark and the work I put in to it and I wouldn’t change it for the world.
My Project: www.landinacup.weebly.com
Bib:
Katie. "10 Great Uses for Basil Leaf Herb." Wellness Mama. Katie-Wellness Mama, 14 July 2012. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
http://wellnessmama.com/5505/uses-for-basil-leaf/
I chose this website as one of my sources because of it’s information not only on the usual uses for basil but the medicinal uses as well. Basil was the first herb on my list. Wellness Mama is also a normal mother with kids, this is a blog. And she helps relate to the common people which is what I am trying to do with my site as well. I found a couple of ways basil can be helpful which some even surprised me as well. This is important because I want people to see all the uses for basil. I’m not a doctor but I do believe that plants do help with aiding wounds or sicknesses.
2) "A-Z Herb List." A-Z Herb List. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
http://www.herbwisdom.com/herblist.html
I chose this website to help me make the layout of my herbs from A to Z. I needed to format my herbs in order so that it would look better and that I can sort and organize my directions and recipes accordingly. A lot of my herbs will probably be organized according to this website and how I manage it will probably be according to this website. I just want as many names in alphabetical order as I can possibly get. I’m hoping to get other information out of this as well as a list of produce that people can grow at home.
3) "How to Grow Basil." WikiHow. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Basil
Even though I do like plants, I won’t say I know everything about them. I know how to grow Basil but I’m not entirely sure on how to go about picking the leaves or harvesting them and this website helps a lot. Wiki how is a website where people post tutorials about how to do different things. Ranging from nails to how to commit suicide which is not okay but I guess it helps anyone who needs it. Wiki how has actually helps me through a lot of situations in my life and I felt like this tutorial was easy and simplified to the fullest and that’s why I used this source.
4) "Basil." Gourmet Garden. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
http://www.gourmetgarden.com/en/herb/188/basil
I got this for the image. Gourmet Garden is a website that focuses on show casing their herbs a lot. They also have different recipes for their different herbs and they also have a store to showcase their products. They are famous for having their ready to use herbs which is herbs that you want ground up in a tube with some liquid to keep it fresh I supposed. They have ranges of herbs like chives, cilantro, basil, and more and can be found in stores like Wal-Mart, they also have a portfolio for different herbs which is pretty cool.
5) "Basil Pesto Recipe : Food Network Kitchen : Food Network." Basil Pesto Recipe : Food Network Kitchen : Food Network. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/basil-pesto-recipe2.html
I used this website to extract this recipe. Pesto is delicious and is one of the typical dishes that someone would use when it comes to basil. The FoodNetwork Channel is a channel that has transformed from helping people to cook, to a lot of competitions. There is nothing wrong with this but it does take the quality out of the channel. Thank God for the website. They also have magazines and different books published from them. They also have a range of chefs with different t.v shows, one of the famous t.v shows is called diners, drive-ins, and dives where Guy Fieri goes around and finds the best restaurants state to state.
6) Schrock, Denny. "Easy-to-Grow Herbs." Better Homes & Gardens. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/vegetable/herbs/easy-to-grow-herbs/
I used this link to help me find herbs that are easy to grow. The reason why I need herbs that are easy to grow is because the people that I am basing my audience on, even though I’m broadcasting it to everyone, I want to make sure that people who are just beginning have an easier time and a positive experience. It’s good to have easier subjects for people who want to start out. And in my opinion, herbs are the easiest thing to grow. You prune them to prolong “seeding” and then you keep pruning them as you need them and they grow fast. Good for anyone who wants a cute garden, or fresh herbs to cook with.
7) Rhoades, Heather. "How To Plant Chives – Growing Chives In Your Garden."Gardening Know How. N.p., 20 Aug. 2008. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/chives/growing-chives.htm
I chose this site for directions and for the picture. I grow chives myself and I can personally say that it was an easy and positive experience. I chose to include chives because they are easy to grow, sprouting in a week and not only are they easy, you can cut them as they grow. They replenish fast so it can save the grower money and a little seed produces a lot of plant. I also chose to include them in my project because they are flavorful and there are a lot of home-cooks who are interested in keeping a garden.
8) "Smoky Salmon Chive Spread Recipe | MyRecipes.com." MyRecipes.com. N.p., Nov. 2009. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/smoky-salmon-chive-spread
I chose this site because for every type of herb, vegetable, fruit, or even flower, I need a recipe for it. And I found this chive salmon dip and thought that it would be appropriate and cheap for the home cook/home grower to make. The herb would cost nothing if you grow it yourself, and the salmon is canned as well. Not only does it not cost a lot to make, the recipe actually gives you more servings than indicated so you actually get more for your buck than you think. This is why I chose this source, it was delicious and helpful.
9) "Dill Seeds Zesty Seasoning." Dill Seeds For Sale. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
http://www.edenbrothers.com/store/dill_seeds.html
I chose this website for the picture alone, not only foes it give me a picture for the seeds but it gives me some information as well. The edonbrothers sell seeds and plants in bulk and is good for anyone who wants to buy things in bulk. I will be mentioning this in interesting finds on my website. They sell flower seeds, wild flower seed mixes, vegetable seeds, herb seeds, heirloom seeds, organic seeds, and flower bulbs.I want to include this in my interesting finds for people who do not want to necessarily start everything form pure seed themselves.
10) "Diapers Help Your Plants Grow!" YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXb8rJ8Rm3I
This is probably my favorite source out of them all. This is called “Diapers Help Your Plants Grow” and it was uploaded by a youtuber who finds random projects to work on. In this certain situation, he uses a (new) diaper to help plants grow. He fills it up with water and then the takes out the stuffing and mixes it with the dirt. It makes potting soil light and fluffy and the reason for that is the cotton wadding gets wet and mixes up with crystals that can hold 500 times their weight in water. The reason why I decided to include this in interesting fines is because it’s environmentally friendly and produces good results in a weird way.
11) "How To Use Fresh Herbs." Www.cookinglight.com. N.p., n.d. Web.
http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-101/essential-ingredients/all-about-herbs-slideshow
I wanted to use this source because I know that a lot of people want to grow herbs so that they have fresh herbs available in the kitchen. And they are great in containers as well! I know that herbs are the easiest to grow and a lot of people can have them ready and available, and they’re good for beginners!
12) "A Sampler of 12 Common Garden Herbs." Sunset. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2015.
http://www.sunset.com/garden/flowers-plants/sampler-12-common-garden-herbs
I chose this site because it had a simple list of herbs that I can follow. Before I put any serious information in I really need to organize my website. I’m gathering about 10 parts for each categories in my website so I need about 10 herbs to start out with.
The first 12 sources were my initial sources to begin the website. The following sources are going to be for my herbs:
13) "Bonnie Plants - Garden Plants for Your Vegetable Garden or Herb Garden." Bonnie Plants. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
I chose Bonnie Plants for a source because this website actually had a lot on the information for all the herbs I was going to feature on my website. Bonnie Plants is a national plant wholesaler. They sell plants and they also sell biodegradable pots. They have 70 green house locations around the country. They are dedicated to green gardening and sell products that are safe for the environment.
14) "Gardening Know How - Happy Gardening! Ask a Gardening Question, Get a Gardening Answer." Gardening Know How - Happy Gardening! Ask a Gardening Question, Get a Gardening Answer. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com
I chose gardening know how because I needed certain information on how to grow a couple of herbs and this is actually a very good source. This site is a great site for someone who is looking for straight to the point answers. It’s creator, Heather Rhoades noticed that there were not many friendly and easy to understand sites about gardening and at first there was not much activity but soon people came flocking with questions and many more articles were made.
15) "A Round Rock Garden." A Round Rock Garden. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
https://roundrockgarden.wordpress.com
I used this site for the purposes of learning how to harvest, in this case it was sage. This is a blog. The owner of this blog has a garden out in Austin, Texas and this was their first attempt at documenting organic gardening in an urban setting. They made their website to show self-reliance because now and days people tend to rely on the technology of modern agriculture. They are going back to the olden times of self reliance but are putting new twists on them. Check out their “About us” it’s pretty cool.
16) "Our Herb Garden." Our Herb Garden. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
I specifically used this website to learn how to grow and harvest thyme along with other herbs. This site got started initially with a culinary journey while the owners were also trying to grow an herb garden. Basically their about is how they chose to grow their garden to correlate with their culinary adventures.
17)"Learn How To Grow Your Own Herb Garden Indoors or Out!" Herb Gardens. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
I used this site to help me learn how to grow mint. This is a credible source because it has three sections whic are growing herbs in containers, growing herbs indoors, and growing herbs with hydroponics.
The next five sources are for my vegetables:
18)"Home - Harvest to Table." Harvest to Table RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
Harvest to table is a website created for both the beginner and the veteran gardener. It was made to find easy solutions for a bunch of gardening problems and the site is very pretty. And clean cut so learning how to grow snow peas wasn’t that hard. The owner of this site is a man named Steve Albert. He’s very good to his crops and his goal is to make them better and better each year and tries not to use a lot of fossil based fertilizers.
19)"Off The Grid News Better Ideas For Off The Grid Living." Off The Grid News. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
I chose offthegridnews as a source because they had an article teaching me about perennial onions which I didn’t even know existed. I thought they were all annuals. There isn’t too much in their about but I know living off the grid is like going completely natural and is actually a life style that I am willing to integrate part of it into my life. They have news, tips, tricks, and tutorials about living onthe land and living off the grid. I think perennials are good for living off the grid because they make new produce every year.
20)"WHFoods Site Search." WHFoods Site Search. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
http://www.whfoods.com/sitesearch.php
Okay so I used this site for all my veggies. This site is fantastic for finding nutritional value, uses for the vegetable, and it even gives a bunch of history for each vegetable that I chose to include in my website. WHF stands for the “World’s Healthiest Foods” and they even have their own book. It is one of the most visited websites for health information so it’s a great source to use. It is non-profit and owned by the George Mateljan foundation.
21)"Vegetable Garden - Plan Grow Harvest." Vegetable Garden - Plan Grow Harvest. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
http://www.vegetable-garden-guide.com
I used this website to help me learn how to grow carrots. There is no about page but basically it is this elderly man who grows everything and makes his own compost as well. He has kids, well, his own children that help him work on his garden. This is a credible source because I can see his results and I can see what he is working in. I can see everything he is doing so I can trust it.
22) "Menu." The SelfSufficient Living. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.
http://theselfsufficientliving.com
I chose this site just for some references. This site is about living simple and relying on your own home grown produce to get you through life. It’s about growing your own food, raising your own livestock, and avoiding “professional help” as much as possible. It’s about taking the natural things in life and appreciating it.
This is my bibliography with all my sources, it's not annotated (I annotated the most important ones): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kjrtS4sgFnEhwAZo9XN91wJ2e_G7D9--8VxIoVsucwQ/edit
How to Lie with Stats_pt 1
Normal
How did you accomplish this goal?
I actually just grabbed some of my random and interesting friends.
What do you hope your audience gains for viewing/listening your piece?
To love themselves, and to not think of themselves as negative and try to be like everyone else. To treasure their individuality.
(Slate will not let me upload my podcast so I will email it)
Q2 Bm_aeddy_jcruz
Plantain chips (serves 2 but we scaled it up) (I worked with Jenny Cruz.)
- 1 green plantain
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- Preheat the oven to 450 F with a rack in the centre of the oven.
- Mix all the spices together in a mortar and pestle, or in a bowl.
- To peel plantain, cut off the ends. Then using the tip of the knife, slice the peel lengthwise from top to bottom, just enough to cut through the peel, but enough to slice into the plantain. Then use your hands to remove the peel from the plantain.
- Slice the green plantain into thin slices using a mandolin or a knife. Slices should be about 2mm thick.
- Place the plantain slices in a mixing bowl. Pour the coconut oil into the bowl and all but ½ teaspoon of the spice mix. You will use the remaining ½ teaspoon once they are cooked.
- Mix the slices together with the oil and spices until they are coated. Use your hands.
- Lay the slices out flat onto a baking sheet making sure none of them are stuck together one on top of the other.
- Place in the oven and bake for about 7 minutes. Remove the sheet from the oven and flip the chips over one at a time. Place back in the oven and bake for mother 3-5 minutes being sure not to burn the chips.
- Remove from the oven. Transfer to a bowl and add the rest of the spice mix. Mix well and enjoy.
Coconut oil- Good for helping to keep your heart healthy.
Plantains- There are two types of plantains. Green and Yellow. Plantains are fruits and the yellow plantains are sweet, and the green ones are used for savory dishes such as this one. Plantains are bigger and sturdier versions of bananas. They are high in vitamin C and Vitamin D which helps with healthy mucus membranes, visual focuses, and a healthy looking complexion. Not only that, they have higher potassium content than bananas.
The spices don't have a significant toll on the body. But spicy foods do help raise the metabolism.
Four plantains were 2.00 dollars and each have 218 calories so it was really cheap. And under a dollar for the spices and about 20 cents per tablespoon of oil.
Reflection:
What I loved about this project of course was that we got to make food. Not only that, it was fun to get in tune with my culture. I got the idea of plantain chips from my mother actually. She gave me a good piece of advice, because going on certain diets doesn't really work in her opinion. She always told me to never stopped eating what I love, just change what's inside of it. Like, why get salad if I want fries? (Don't get me wrong I LOVE salad) but if I can't have regular fries, I can make baked fries or sweet potato fries which is a healthier alternative.
Scrups
La Leyenda de Pluto
Un día, Pluto estaba flotando a través de espacio. Los planetas están en un "órbita permanente" (Cuando una planeta es en un "órbita permanente" no puede mover afuera de órbita).
Pluto era la último planeta buscando un lugar para sus órbita permanente y los otra planetas no le gustan a Pluto porque el es pequeño y el es en la lugar de ellos.
Los planetas es de un sistema solar y el es el rango mas bajo. El quere a vivir al lado del el sol pero los planetas no queren a Pluto para un vecino.
Sin embargo, una de las planetas le gustan a Pluto. Jupiter. Ella es una planeta grande, bonita, y verde. Todo a las planetas gustan a ella.
Ella no quera las otra planetas pero ella querían a Pluto. Pluto es muy simpática con ella. Pluto y Jupiter hablaron todo el día y todo el noche. Y por eso, se enamoraron.
Nada se sabia, que era un secreto. Pluto se quedó con Jupiter porque cuando la "órbita permanente" se trata, el querré a casar con ella para siempre. Uno lunes, Pluto y Jupiter estaban hablando y Mars se espiado.
"Te amo" dijo Jupiter.
"Te amo también mi reina" dijo Pluto.
Mars no le gustaba el hecho que Pluto y Jupiter están enamorado. Se dijo a los otras planetas.
Earth se pedió a Mars "¿Por qué no vas a dejar que ellos se enamoran?, Ellos no están molestando a mi."
"Calláte y deja me hablar!" dijo Mars. Mars no le gustaba cuando alguien se hablas cuando el esta hablando. "Vamos a engañarlo a Pluto. Vamos a decirle que si el querré a comprar Jupiter un regalo, el se necesita a andar afuera de el sistema solar y pasar Neptune."
Todo a los planetas se apoyaron a Mars excepto la planeta Earth.
Una semana mas tarde, Mars se hablo con Pluto.
"Hola amigo!" Mars le dijo.
Pluto ser muy confundido. "Amigo?"
"Si, escucha me por favor. Los planetas y yo sabemos que tu y Jupiter están enamorado."
Pluto siento miedo. Pero, no sabia que podía hacer. Mars le dio miedo pero Pluto decidió confiar a el.
"Yo sabe un lugar donde tu puedes comprar un regalo para Jupiter. Necesita a pasar Neptune, afuera de el sistema solar " dijo Mars.
Pluto escuchaba y paso Neptune pero no se encontró nada. Y quería dar la vuelta pero su cuerpo no se movió. El esta en el "órbita permanente". No puede mover. Pluto no es al lado de el sol. Pluto era frío. Muy muy muy frío. El no le gustaba los lugares fríos. Dias pasaron, semanas pasaron y Pluto era frío frío frío. Después, Pluto se murió.
Jupiter pedio a Mars:
"Donde esta Pluto?"
Mars le dijo que Pluto salió a explorar en espacio y no se devuelto.
Jupiter era muy triste. Y lloraba y lloraba. Y se suicidarse. Y por eso no es verde, ahora es rojo-morron. Y porque Pluto se murió, los humanos se dijeron "Pluto no es un planeta."
E4 Proyecto- Silvana
Alexa:
Silvana
Obra: Girl Before a Mirror
Por: Pablo Picasso
Mi nombre es Silvana, soy una niña de Chile. Yo valore gentes que es honesta, por que ustedes vale la pena. Mi experiencias en mi vida era muy peligrosa porque soy una niña pobre. Soy una niña pobre y no tengo una mamá y mi papá trabaja mucho para mi y porque nosotros no tenemos muchos dinero. Yo creo que, necessita a vivir su vida y la vida es mas mejor con un bote de leche. *Wink wink* OH, y estoy muerto. `
En mi época, los gentes de la clase alta y la clase obrera es muy differente y los gentes tienen mucho choque.
Para mi, veo una mujer que no tiene autoestima. Ella es gordo, como una vaca, entonces ella es grande con muchos colores.Como yo lo entiendo, la reflexión en el espejo es la persona que la mujer se quería ser. Veo una mujer que no tiene feliz con su cuerpo. Estoy de acuerdo porque yo soy una niña que queres un cuerpo bonita como los mujeres de la clase alta. La cara de la mujer sería muy triste.
Para la mujer, su colores es muy llanura. Es muy luz y la cara es llanura también. La reflexión tienen colores apagados como una mujer sexy, como una mujer que tiene muchos botes de leche.
El tono es muy deprimente. Muchas niñas se sienten mal con sus cuerpos y pueden relacionarse con esta obra.
En Chile 9/11/1973 soldados tienen un golpe de estado. Los soldados y la líder Pinnochet se mataron la Presidente de Chila: Salvador Allende. Pinnochet tomar poder y se derrocar Allende. Las noticias dicen que Allende se suicidarse pero yo creo que Pinnochet se mato.
La tensíon entre de la clase alta y la clase obrera es muy ovio. Los soldados ven a mi casa y me mato. Y que lleguen a mi papa y nosotros lloramos. Falto a mi papá. Papá…me mataron con un shotgun en mi corazon.
El espejo representan la persona que la mujer quere ser. El espejo es inutil porque no ayudan la autoestma de la mujer. El mensaje de esta obra es:Mujeres no son satisfechos con su cuerpos. El espejo muestra las fallas en una persona. Y esto de acuerdo. El internet no me dice porque pero Picasso es muy atrevida. Y la obras de Picasso se conoce como erótico.
Cuando yo ser una niña chiquita, quería ser una mujer muy bonita. Para mi, una princessa es muy importante y muy bonita y quería ser uno. Yo quería un pecho grande y un cuerpo como in model. Pero, soy un niña pobre y muerto, entonces pero eso no tiene sentido. Yo ví los mujeres de la clase alta y sientí mal porque no soy como ellas.
Me siento malo. To tengo una vida, no tengo una familia, no puedo vivir porque estoy muerto. No puedo crecer como las otra niñas.
¿Qué opinas? ¿Por qué escogiste esta obra? ¿Por qué te llamó la atención?
Mujeres necessitan a tomar poder. Y esta obro es muy importante para me porque (even) las mujeres muy bonita siente mal con su cuerpo.
Si, estoy de acuerdo porque el se entiende los sentidos de mujeres y sus inseguridades.
El Luz de Esperanza
¿Qué ves en la obra? ¿Cómo son los colores? Describe el tono.
Yo veo los manos de dios. La obra es azul pero el luz es amarillo, la tono es como feliz porque dios dar luz a la bota.
¿Qué quiere decir el artista?
Lo siento, pero no soy un criatura de dios. Soy dios de los reals. Yo tengo poder de sangre.
¿Qué comunica/significa la obra para ti?
Yo tengo un cross en me oído , entonce, yo soy ok con dios.
¿Te gusta? ¿Por qué la escogiste?
Me gusta porque se significo que los gentes es desesperado por un Deidad como Dios y yo. Es muy triste porque los humanos no puede hacer nada sin un deidad.
P'al Norte por Calle 13
Calle 13 es un grupo de tres personas. Es un grupo puertrorriqueño. René Pérez Joglar es el cantante/rapper y escribe las letras. El hermanastro de el es Eduardo José Cabra Martínez (cantante,musica,instrumentos). La hermanastra es Ilena Cabra Jogar (cantante detras). La musica de Calle 13 es honesta y provocador. René se dice cosas que nadie puede decir. Esta canción trata de los immigrantes que no necesita ayuda con el movimiento. Se trata de la fuerza de los immigrantes. Los immigrantes son la clase obrera. El tono de la instrumentación es hispano. Es desafiante y unido. Y es una manifestación. Los vocals de tras dice “aaah” cuando René se canta. Y symbolico la fuerza y esperanza de los immigrantes. Y los vocals se cantan cuando René se habla sus letras y symbolico immigrantes unidos. La temas son La inmigración, latin americanos, los pobres y ricos, el gobierono, la clase alta, y la clase obrera.
Tengo tu antídoto...
Pal' que no tiene identidad.
Somos idénticos...
Al que llegó sin avisar.
Tengo tranquilito...
Para los que ya no están,
Para los que están,
Y los que vienen.
Yo aprendi que los derechas de los inmigrantes son muy duro. Dinero es una amenaza porque necesita mover porque no tienen dinero y necessitan mas.
Aprendí que mi pueblo todavía reza porque
Las "f******" autoridades y la p*** realeza
Todavía se mueven por debajo 'e la mesa.
Aprendí a tragarme la depresión con cerveza.
Yo no bebe alcohol pero yo siente que, los políticos y autoridades nadar en su dinero pero los pobres trabajar y recive poco dinero. Los ricos no tienen pagan sus impuestos como los pobres. Y el gobierno necessita 30% de sus dinero. No tienen sentido. Mi reacción es como, esta canción no es una sorpresa. Yo se que René es muy extremo, antísimpatica, y honesta. Es nostálgico para mi. Por que mi mamá siempre jugó esta canción en el carro y yo recuerdo. Yo no es un inmigrante. Yo creo que es la verdad. Es mi palabras exactamente. Yo creo que los politicos es egoísta, codisioco, y tacaño. Las luchas de los inmigrantes, y siento mal para ellos.
El gato de Noreste
Yo vivo en Noreste en Philadelphia. Mi barrio es muy tranquilo y tiene paz. Pero, no tienen vida o muchos colores. Pero es muy bonito. Vivo aqui por dos o tres meses. Me gusta las casas, y la tiendas, y la gente. No me gusta la communidad. Nadie se habla mucho y siento solo muchos tiempos. Me gusta me casa porque es mas grande de me casa viejo. Y tengo dos floors y un basement. No se porque yo no hablo a nadie pero yo creo que silencia y paz es muy importante. Yo tengo un vecino a me derecho lado y ellos es muy ruidoso. Creo que ellos tienen fiestas en la mañana todo los días y me molesto. Cuando yo pienso a mi barrio, yo piensa a los colores de amarillo, y blanco. No plantas o nada. No hay personas importantes. Si yo voy a cambiar algo, yo voy a plantar flores y verduras.
Las forma de arte es todo, como pintura o comida (como diseñado de platos) o palabras. Las caracarísticas de arte es Ecentrica o mild, negro, blanca, luz o no luz , wild o no. La proposito de arte es por los artistas expressivio los personalidads. Arte no tiene ser attractivo, todos los artes neccesito mensajes. Arte con no mensaje no es arte. Vandalismo NO ES ARTE. Arte es una forma de belleza, es muy profundo. Yo creo que musica es una forma de arte. La arte publico es muy bonita.
Mi idea es extraño pero yo creo que un pintura de moss es muy linda. Mi barrio no es rica en plantas. Mi gusta la naturaleza y tengo apreciación para eso y me pone triste cuando yo ve un barrio aburrido y con hormígon solamente. Mi gusta plantas y flores y jardín de verduras Y yo breo que mi barrio neccesito mas plantas y pinturas naturales. Yo creo que la nombre de la escuala es bien, y una pintura de la logo de la escuela.
yo creo que mi mural es moderno proque es un mural hecha de plantas. Y es estraña. Yo creo que es un modificacíon muy buena y bonita y neccesario. Mi mural tienes un gato, porque un gato? Yo no se, mi gusta gatos. Y de lado, encima, y de bajo de el gato es flores y plantas. Y de bajo de la mural es mas plantas y flores chiquitas.
Mi pare
Frida Khalo
Mi Marca
It has to be from here, forgotten but unshaken
Crazy tales of mental cross dressing
The movie “Think Like A Man” campares to “Taming of the Shrew” in many ways when it comes to deceit and the mindset of both genders. In TOTS there are two fair maidens. The youngest sister Bianca is a beautiful woman that all the men want. Her older sister Kate is beautiful also, but since she has a foul mouth and speaks her mind, no man wants her. While men begin to dress as other people to win Bianca, they can’t because her father will not let her marry till Kate is married. A man with his mind on his money makes a deal with the men and tries to win Kate over in a mental battlefield. He tries to make her think he loves her, then turns into a completely different man. In the movie “Think Like A Man” is a tale of 5 different stories with 5 different type of relationships. With 5 types of men and 5 types of women. All 10 battling it out in the battlefield and mental game of love, both use a book of knowledge written by Steve Harvey. The women use it to get inside the mens heads (without the men knowing) to get what they want. The men use the same book (the women don’t know) to make the women believe that they are falling right into their plan when in reality they’re just playing around to get what they want. Love is something shared between two people, but marriage and relationships are all about control.
"Quote from Play"
(Act 2, Scene 1,176-189)
Petruchio: “I will attend her here,
And woo her with some spirit when she comes.
Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale:
Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew:
Say she be mute and will not speak a word;
Then I'll commend her volubility,
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence:
If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks,
As though she bid me stay by her a week:
If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
When I shall ask the banns and when be married.
But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak.”
This is Petruchio talking to himself about what he is going to say to Kate. He is giving himself a peptalk on how he is going to woo her under his control and make her think he loves her.
This is “The Dreamer”. He is going for “The woman who is her own man”. Being a “dreamer” he knows that he really doesn’t have enough money to meet her standards. So he uses the car to give her the idea that he is rich to catch her interest and then reel her in. This connects to TOTS because one of the main characters, Lucentio, dresses up as a teacher to get close to Bianca. Since her father wants Kate to marry first, he is keeping all suitors away from Bianca except for her teachers.
(Act 4, Scene 3, 41-53)
Katherina. Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
Whither away, or where is thy abode? 2305
Happy the parents of so fair a child;
Happier the man whom favourable stars
Allots thee for his lovely bed-fellow.
Petruchio. Why, how now, Kate, I hope thou art not mad!
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered, 2310
And not a maiden, as thou sayst he is.
Katherina. Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,
That have been so bedazzled with the sun
That everything I look on seemeth green;
Now I perceive thou art a reverend father.
Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
This shows kate losing the mental game that her and petruchio are both playing. She decides to submit to him.
In this picture, it displays the friends of the Dreamer and The Woman who is her own man. In the end of the movie, she realizes that love is not a game and she doesn’t want the money or fame. The dreamer ended up getting busted and the relationship was rocky. Even though he was not rich, he tried his best to make it seem like he had all the luxurious things. In the end, the “Woman who is her own man” came to him in the end and submitted saying that she doesn’t want all these luxurious things, she just wants him. She’s letting him be the man and be in control of their relationship. They just witnessed it and are surprised that she changed her mind.
Biondello: Why, Petruchio is coming- in a new hat and an old 1405
jerkin; a pair of old breeches thrice turn'd; a pair of boots
that have been candle-cases, one buckled, another lac'd; an old
rusty sword ta'en out of the town armoury, with a broken hilt,
and chapeless; with two broken points; his horse hipp'd, with an
old motley saddle and stirrups of no kindred; besides, possess'd 1410
with the glanders and like to mose in the chine, troubled with
the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of windgalls, sped
with spavins, rayed with the yellows, past cure of the fives,
stark spoil'd with the staggers, begnawn with the bots, sway'd in
the back and shoulder-shotten, near-legg'd before, and with a 1415
half-cheek'd bit, and a head-stall of sheep's leather which,
being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often
burst, and now repaired with knots; one girth six times piec'd,
and a woman's crupper of velure, which hath two letters for her
name fairly set down in studs, and here and there piec'd with 1420
pack-thread.
This is Biondello talking about Petruchio arriving at the wedding in an unexpected fashion. This relates back to the thesis because he’s doing this to make Kate think one way but in reality, he’s only doing this to gain more control. Basically telling Kate that he can do what ever he want after she thought that he was going to be a good husband.
In this picture, Megan Good plays a girl who always sleeps with the guys who don’t want to be in a commited relationship. In this picture she is buying a book. She uses it to think like a man. Making her boyfriend think that she isn’t aware of his games. But then he ends up using the book to trick her into making her think that he doesn’t know what she is doing as he follows along.
Both the book and the play show the mindsets of the natures of relationships that even relate to today. In the battlefield of love is a major struggle of power between the male and the female and the deceitful tactics are just used to get into each others heads. When it comes to love movies and stories, pay attention closely and there will always be a leading role whether it is male or female and there will always be a mental reign.
Citations:
Shakespeare, William, and Thomas Goddard Bergin. The Taming of the Shrew;. New Haven: Yale UP, 1954. Print.
Think like a Man. Sony, 2012. Website.
ía ía ía: Lementar de una abuela
Comería muchos cheetos calíente
Diría a un niño que yo esta enamorado de el
Haría mas comidas para mi familia
Hablaría a mas gentes y no sería muy huraña
Sería mas seguro en la clase de español cuatro.
Comería mas saludable.
Sería mas simpatíca y no le da los niños. Yo creí que los hombres es muy estúpidos.
Jugaría mas con mi hermano y mis primos.
Eschucharía a mi máma!
Viviría mi vida como no tengo un mañana.
----> photo para la poema
Mi vida
Mi nombre es Alexa Eddy. Yo soy bajo, y mi pelo es culto. Mi pelo también es negro/marrón. Yo tengo gafas y braces. Una amiga de mi mamá tuvo mi nombre. Mi mamá le gustó y llama me Alexa cuando yo nací. El nombre de mi mama es Merari Rodriguez (ahora Rivera), el nombre de mi papá es Charles Eddy. Cuando estoy con mis amigos yo soy extrovertida. Soy graciosa y me gusta los videojuegos! No me gusta botas o heels. No me gusta las cosas para mujeres o niñas. Solamente cosas para niños y me encanto las mangas y manhwas. Cuando leo mangas, siento emocionado. No me gusta cuando niños están pervierten. Valgo mucho de respeto para las mujeres. Esta ansiosa cuando no puedo completo un problema en español cuatro o algebra dos. Tengo un problema con tiempo porque yo siento agobiada con tarea y los clases. Soy muy obstinado. Creo que mi opinion es importante, también los opinions de otra personas. La musica que me gusta reflejar eso. La musica que me encanto es metal/screamo. La cancíon que me gusta es “King for a day”/”Rey para un dia”- Pierce The Veil. Mis compañeros dicen que yo es muy abusivo, pero no me importa por que niños necesitan disciplinan y yo voy a doy.
Nos llevamos bien con mi familia pero no con mi hermano. Mi hermano me molesta y dicen plabras que es antípatico. Y porque yo creo que niños necesitan disciplinan no me gusta a mi hermano. El cree que es un hombre. Llevamos bien con mi moma y (step papá). Porque ella es boricua y no es (full) boricua, yo siento malo. Ella gusta salsa, y habla español, y ella puede dice que ella es de Puerto Rico.Yo no. Y porque me gusta metal/screamo, el color negro, y yo no es como ella, es muy complicado. Y porque me creo que mi opinion es importante, no llevamos bien porque ella cree que la opinion de ella es importante también. Y nosotros peleamos. Pero te quiero mi moma. Me llevamos bien con mi papa porque nosotros no hablamos. Y porque no me gusta cuando niños están pervierten y valgo mucho de respecto para las mujeres, yo no tengo/ o quero un novio. Porque yo es muy cuidadosa con los niños, cuando mis amigos ponen estupido, yo pongo abusivo. Y yo pego. Me relacion con mis classes es mas o menos. Porque yo me pongo ansiosa y tengo un problema con tiempo, mi resultas no es bien. Pero, trabajo por notas buenas. Me relacion conmigo es mas o menos. Yo no sabe que yo supone que es. Soy una niña muy huraña. Soy una niña muy tranquila y no me gusta personas ruidosos y antipatícos. Yo soy muy obsero y me gusta musica classical. Me gusta escribo lyricas. Me gusta musica de country. No me gusta las cucarachas o insectos. Me odia insectos. Estoy enamorado con uno de mis amigos y me odio. Es fácil para mí a enrojecer. Me gusta las pinturas de uñas (negro, rojo…). Me gusta vestidos….Me encanta los vestidos! Gothic vestidos! Me gusta la colora rosa solamente ensima de flores. Me gusta cosas para niñas un poco. Me gusta perfumes. Estoy enamorado de Kellin Quinn, Vic fuentes, Y Andy Biersack. Solamente me gusta NIKE sapatos y sandales. No me gusta cuando personas estas comiendo, respira, o tose. Me gusta nature, senderismo, acampada. Alguna vezes yo creo como suicida. Alguna vezes estoy triste. Pero, tengo feliz porque yo llevamos bien con una niña. Es una supresa porque no me llevamos bien con muchas niñas. Yo es sensible, y nerviosa con personas nuevas. Me pongo disgustado cuando yo veo personas falso. Me encanta bakugon. Y estoy enamorado de mameshiba. Soy una persona que es realistica y honesta. Mi máscara es de una mitad de sol y luna. Porque una significa lo que no se puede ver y una significa lo que se puede ver. Soy una persona cariñosa pero también yo es una persona que tiene un fuego dentro de me.
Diaro #5
Diario #4
Diario #3 Alexa
Diario dos
Humanities Final Portfolio 2013
English Journal
History Journal
Language is Key
Response to modern day sweat shops
Picture of my group at an interpritive dance class
Reflection is something that teaches me that I am not perfect. Something that I’ve really been trying to do is find myself and know who I am. In Mr.Blocks class, I realize that the whole course is just one big reflection, learning yet simultaneously focusing on our individuality. I have not really done anything to discover myself, yet being in Block’s class has shown me things about mysef that I haven’t noticed before. In the beginning of the year I was very quite and shy about my opinions. Just writing down whatever, not thinking much of it but then as we started getting into deeper topics I was forced to look deep inside of myself for answers. The first two examples I have are my journal entries. One is a mini letter reflection that I had o write to myself to reflect on my work. The other journal entry is my view on violence and non-violence. My third link is a piece I did on Language and my views on it. I wrote about my first language. And whether it was truely english or spanish. In my fourth link is my response to modern day sweatshops. It really made me look at myself and really taught me appriciation. Because I’m wearing a 15-20 dollar shirt that took a sweat shopworker 30 cents to make. They can’t even afford the clothes they wear. My fifth link will just be linking to my groups interperative dances. For this one, it really made me get far away from my comfort zone. I was taught something that I never tried out before. Interperative dance was very weird and very foriegn to me because I thought that it was really weird dancing random moves but after doing it I realized that it was much more than just swaying your body around an object. It was about telling a deep story, and bringing attention to something that really needed it. On friday 6/7/13 my group and I did an interperative piece on Van Pelt street. We noticed that the area was very patriotic and we came up with the idea of bringing the past to the future. Being robot soilders. What I got from this experience was to be more relaxed and creative. And to also enjoy and notice the little things in life. With each assignment in Block’s class I try to take home a new lesson. From the beggining of the course to now I have been more open and vocal with the class and in my journals. Especially when we got to the poem section of our course. Here is where we had to write all of our poems and I found a new way to express myself. Especially my “Ode to my cookbooks” poem. I never liked to tell people that my dream was to be a chef. But in Block’s class we learn to be ourselves, so I figured I should write about something that was truely near and dear to me. Over this whole course, it has taken me on a road to self discovery.
English Journal 23
This quarter you have done very well! I was very interested in your play and the points you make out in your journal. I'm proud about how you started to really open up in class. Please speak more often. I am very interested in what you have to say. You need to improve on speaking up and getting your point out there other than that I think you are doing fine."
History Journal #41
Non- violence is more powerful. I'm not a violent person at all. You have to be really...desperate when you have to get to a level where you need to HARM someone. I should be able to fight for my rights without having to throw a bomb or having someone throw a bomb at me. And war? It shouldn't exist. It shouldn't have to exist. In reality (no offense to anyone who has family or friends serving, I respect them highly) they don't fight for their country. They're pawns fighting for their king and it's all just a game. And we are simply players in this chess game of life and unfairness. If I'm a soldier why would I want to fight for someone who made poor decision and then puts us all in danger? Why does it get to the point where we must get below the animal line and actually fight and not come to a mature consensus. We need to worry about having a safer world and solving our problems, rather than having our thumb hovering over the red button ready to nuke anything and everything.
Q3 geometry benchmark reflection
It shows the work of architectures. How they have to draw blue prints and making building designs. It shows how measuring and using math really does matter when you get a job such as architecting and building.
I think the most exciting part was going outside, getting lots of fresh air. Except it was a little awkward measuring someone else's house. It was cool to go outside and having the teachers trust us enough for us to do our work fluently and efficiently. The least exciting part was doing the poster and trying to draw stones because their not perfect so when you try to perfectly draw them imperfect to the point where they are perfectly imperfect you gets stones that are not perfectly imperfect. And it's annoying
That maybe being an architect is not for me at all and that I would hate the job.
Crossing boundaries podcast
Language is key
In some ways spanish was my first language. I was a little girl. I wasn’t quite sure what my first language was, spanish or english? When I was a child my grandmother used to babysit me all the time. My abuela. To her, I was her “chocolate candy bar” due to the fact that I was the only child who was half black and half puerto rican. She said I used to speak fluent spanish. Very fluent, till my father started to babysit me. By then I had forget how to speak in my natural tongue. I started to learn lots of english and how to add and subtract. You know, the little things a parent does to entertain their child with. It’s amazing. How I couldn’t really speak, but I could understand every word my grandmother was saying.
Because my mom makes baby voices to my little cats in spanish so I imagine that she did that with me too. I grew up with her speaking spanglish. Not only that, I used to visit my grandmothers house every single day and I watched her yell at my cousins. When ever she asked me to eat, play, she would speak spanish and when I would cry she’d say something like “No te preocupes” to calm me down. I feel like it was a natural thing blended inside of me. Like a family insider. Knowing the language that not many of your friends speak. It’s a feeling of acceptance.
Nowadays, I’m still trying to find myself. Sometimes I don’t know who I am and sometimes I don’t know who I want to be. I don’t know if I should feel ashamed because I don’t speak spanish, or should I even care. Sometimes I sort of feel singled out because I can’t speak it and it is like a huge barrier to me. Sometimes it even hurts. It’s like I’m the odd duckling. It’s so annoying when my cousins try to translate for me and I usually end up snapping saying “I don’t need you to translate for me, I understand!” I partly feel that it is my dad’s fault. Because he babysitted me I forgot all of my spanish and I started to learn a lot of english. One time we were talking he said something like...
“I don’t want to speak spanish. I’m english and spanish is annoying”.
I said “No it’s pretty easy.”
And I felt somewhat offended. Because he’d always try to speak his wife’s language.
He said something like “Well I’m not spanish.”
I should of retorted you’re not asian either so why are you trying to speak the filipino language?
I felt somewhat offended because you’re talking about something that is important to me.
Sometimes people even try to talk crap in spanish right in front of my face and think I don’t understand them. Once when I was young I dragged my cousin across the floor by his pants. We played violently everyday so this was very normal. But this time it wasn’t violent, we were just having fun. Now, my grandparents ALWAYS had visitors over and there was this snooty woman. I could hear her talking in spanish.
“Your daughter was playing rough with this boy and yanking him by the pants” and some other bull. I sat there and I yelled “No I didn’t!” And my mom took me too the kitchen.
“What the hell are you doing over there? Your embarrassing me!”and she popped me in the mouth.
I bet if I knew how to speak spanish I could have protected and stood up for myself from a woman who could not mind her own business. All I could do was stand there and try not to cry. I know that woman dramatically exagerated. She exagerated like crazy. That’s what I hate about my grandmother’s visitors. They exagerate and they always judge and spread things among their church friends. As I got older I started to watch what I do and just quickly pass with a “hola”. I feel as though if I spoke spanish everything would change. I’d have a key that could unlock so many things. Rosetta stone doesn’t help me at all. I get all my spanish from my mom. Even though she lost some of her accent, it’s still tropical like puerto rico itself. “It’s my mother’s tongue” -(Amy tan), so it’s more natural whenever she speaks it goes through me, I interpret it and a part of it stays in me. I could have a better job and more choices because being bilingual is a great attribute to have. Language is a barrier and an advantage. It all depends on how you manipulate it.
Lang auto project from Alexa Eddy on Vimeo.
Ralph Ad
RALPH FOR LEADER!
Ralph is a big strong being. He's fit for leader because he had the courage to call everyone out together and the initiative to take charge. He is ALWAYS trying to look out for our best interests! He even thought about building a fire to save our own skins, who are we to not be greatful? He has taken it upon himself to bestow upon us the noise of the mighty shell and lead us to safety! He united us, made us shelter, and listened to us all. What does the bumbling idiot Jack do? He goes out for a measly little pig and half cooks it. And he let the fire go out! A ship passed and if Jack can't even do a simple thing like that then how can he be a leader? If it were up to him, We’d be dead! WE’d never get saved and it will come down to the point where he would kill us off one by one if he feels a threat, unlike loving and caring Ralph! He worries about our welbeing and will do his best to get us to safety if he is re-chosen for leader. He will never steer us wrong!
(The actual pamphlet is in a physical form)
Love has no color (Revised)
I ALWAYS saw this everywhere, interracial relationships. Whether it be white/asian, spanish/black, and more common mixes. I usually don't see a caucasian male with a female that is another race... I don’t know why but it always seemed really cute in the movies. Picture perfect, and anyone who feasted their eyes on the movies would say so too. As I got older, my mind opened up more and I fell in love with my bestfriend who is now currently my boyfriend and its not like the movies, because we get different reactions... We were just sitting there as usual. Talking and laughing, Enjoying the warm weather and the hard concrete steps. His hair looked really cute the way it flowed to the right, and he just got a hair cut, which looked even cuter. I couldn’t help but smile, and the upright corners of my mouth frowned as I saw his partially hidden eyes droop. “Whats wrong baby?” I asked, I looked at the driver that he was looking at “He flipped me off”. I sat there wondering why would someone do that? I looked off into the distance as the car got away, coward. I learned to suck it up though, because it wasn’t the end of that.
I went to A.M.Y (Alternative middle years) 5 for middle school. I went to the meeting in the summer to get my summer reading assignments. Everything looked pretty good and the only white kids that I saw were maybe five? I started my first year, thats when I saw it. Mixed in with everyone else was a bunch of white people! There were so many and I couldn’t believe it so I prepared for the worst. I hated this school and so did all of my friends. But I thank this school, because some of my friends were white, asian, arab and more! I remember one time I was sitting in Amy’s library with one of my good friends Miranda. It was a nice day, but rare. I didn’t get to see her much because she was always in the hospital, so when I do get to see her I’m pretty happy. She was white. She hung out with this group of white girls that I guess didn’t like me that much because her friend Melissa said “Why are you hanging out with black people?” and Miranda replied “Why AREN’T you hanging out with black people?”. And when I heard that I felt a twinge of happiness; she didn’t care what skin color I was. And no one else should either. But I had one BEST friend and his name was Scott Sicilia, and he was different .
After starting my school at Science Leadership Academy, the school year was all tense and I had a five minute breakdown over benchmarks (You see, I wasn’t used to so much work being bombarded on me so I broke down, cried and all). So, seeing some old friends eased my mood. I went to the mall and I saw Scott again. He ran to hug me and honestly, it was the best feeling ever. I’m not going to bore you with the whole love story thing but basically, we went to the movies as friends, and left as boyfriend and girlfriend. As we held hands to walk, people were already glancing, maybe more than three times and my eyes started to jet everywhere on my body. Was my hair okay? Is there something on my shirt? No, there was nothing wrong with me. So why were they glancing? Soon, I would come to a conclusion that it’s the guy I’m with, because I will be experiencing a lot of these glances.
I just, never really understand people. How can someone fight for equal rights, yet they show their fingers or frowns or throwing hurtful words at two teens that didn’t do a thing to them. I think that people just have resenment for certain type of people because of the ignorance. But it doesn’t even hurt us. It does bring us closer, and makes our skin even tougher than it already is.
The first time I ever really felt angry and almost lost it was when a group of guys walked by and yelled out loud “What’s he doing here?” or “Yo he belongs in Kensington”. I would have thought that even today, some people would be more mature. One time I was with him at a bus stop and some guy came up in a car and said “I SEE YOU WHITE BOY” and his friend started laughing, I guess they saw the sharp and agonizing look in my eyes because they turned away and drove off. My boyfriend can defend himself very well but I won’t just let someone try to downgrade him. At other times, drivers stare as they drive by or flip us the finger. Occsionally we get “You guys are so cute” or “You guys are dating? That’s so nice!”. And it makes me feel good that we have some people who are accepting. I don’t care what other people think, but when you mess with me and my boyfriend there is obviously going to be a problem. No one should care who I hang around with and who hangs out with me.. It’s 2012 and people need to recognize that we aren’t in the old days anymore. I can be with whoever I want to be and go anywhere I want to go. There aren’t any Jim Crow laws, there isn’t any segregaion, we have a mixed president! So why is it a problem that my boyfriend and I are together? There are just some things in this world that I can never understand, I just remind myself that everytime we hold hands in public, it’s making a difference.
Pipeline monologue project
The Key-stone worm infection
*Shake and cough in a bed*
Damn! (coughing)
Marsha!
*Say it in a sarcastic way*
YES I FEEL JUST FINE, THATS WHY I’M SITTING IN THIS HELL HOUSE BURNING UP!
(Takes her pills)
Ah that’s better...
Throw in some more cold rainstorms,rainstorms, snow storms, or something! I don’t feel so good.
I know something is wrong with me, I’m not stupid.
*Say it in a sarcastic way and begin to look up “Ways to shut up a nurse on google”*
OH WOW I HAVE GLOBAL WARMING? YA DON’T SAY? WHO KNEW?
And a Key-stone worm?...What the heck is that? No no I don’t wanna hear the whole story. Just give me basics. kay..hm...okay its a worm...3 months old..mhm okay...Made of metal...mhm... speed the dying process. Speed the dying process? What do you mean? The infection can’t be stopped! Well, I shouldn’t be surprised... I am dying.
I’ll never get better will I?
No? Well, I guess that’s why I’m in the intergalactic hospice. I was hoping to die in happiness. But uh, I came to realize that your pamhlet is pretty full of it “Best comfort in the galaxy” my ass.
How can I not be depressed?
Happy? What the heck is there to be happy about?
*Say it in a sarcastic way*
Because I’m living? Okay so... I’m living, I’m in a hospice, I can’t see my husband and kids and you want me to be HAPPY? Well I might as well just dance on my own grave marsha!
No, I’m not getting mad at you. I’m just dying ya know?.
Hand me my galaxy phone please. Oh, its in the drawer? oh okay.
*Picks up the phone and sound sickly*
Hello? Mars! Hey babe.
No, They said I had a worm. Called a Key-stone.
Yeah, It’s some sort of pipline. It’s a baby, only half grown about 3 months.
The doctor said once it matures it’ll be pumping 900,000 of oil a day. Yes honey, I know I know, hopefully it won’t be soon okay?
My immune system is getting worse honey, some of my cells are trying to stop it but they’re too weak. Not even the moon nurse can help me.
The Doctor said, if the pipline is fully mature and that I would die for sure.
I miss you too! I can’t wait to see you during visiting hours. Also, stay away from jupiter. I know she’s been eying you ever since they put me in here. Put Venus on the phone for me please.
Honey don’t cry okay? Baby, listen to me okay? My ice is melting, I’m getting hotter, my carbon levels are up. It was inevitable. In the case that I should go, take care of little baby mercury for me okay?
Don’t blame God either. My cells aren’t aware of the harm they’re causing me.
Meanwhile in the tarsands...
*sounds all cheery and excited (sound like a beverly hills blonde *Sounds stereotypical*)
OH MY GAWD ROSEY GUESS WHAT I JUST HEARD!
Jenny, told jenna, that told rodrick, that told john, that told gabriella, who told mark, who told me that we’re like TOTALLY taking a trip down to America.
We are cruisin in a shiny pipeline in 900,000 thousand barrels a day! Oh I can like, see it now! We’ll be used in the best cars! Feraris, mercedes, and a Lexus!
I know right? Who do these space ship losers think they are? Trying to steal the spotlight away from mel. Trying to stop us from coming over! Ugh! It’s just SOOO annoying!
OMG I know right? Like, now its my time. Forget the earth, I’m WAY too important. I’ll be the main reason why all of those humans have jobs and I’ll help America back on its feet!
OMG YEEEEES! Can’t you just imagine it Rosey? Hot dudes digging us up and travel down the brand new pipeline like VIP!
What ever.
Adolescense
Kurosaki?
*tugs on his pant leg*
Whats a pipeline?
Because everytime Daddy talks about it he gets happy cuz’ he owns the oils
REALLY? How much does it bring?
900,000 barrels! THAT’S alot of barrels!
No mommy, I’m not hungry, I’m talking with my friend
Kurosaki, from next door.
Sorry *cuddle onto his leg and look up* isn’t this good though? Because now momma can stop cryin everytime she sees the pwices!
What do you mean?
Just because mommy cries doesn’t mean it’s bad. Daddy just smacks her and tells her to suck it up because it’ll bring in more money for us.
Because he says women oughta be taught their place.
Momma said she wants a dee-vorce but I don’t know what that is.
She says if Daddy builds it then she’s gettin a dee-vorce
She says because Daddy is a bad man. Because they’re teawing down twees in Amewica. Mommy even showed me a website dat shows me ower time how much land has been torn!
*stands back and backs away*
What do you mean MY daddy is a bad man! He’s not! He even bought me a Gyoza maker, it may be the only thing he bought me but he’s not bad!
NO HE WON’T KILL ALL OF US! Global warming is a myth!
*Whine very VERY loudly*
Fine! DADDDDDYYYYY!!!!! DADDDDDDDYYYYYYY!!!!!
Pwease tell Kurosaki that the pipeline does not boost Cawbin levelz and oil
spills. And that we’ll be fine!
Thanks Daddy! Now can we go to the park?
But DADDY! What do you mean they tore it down? FOR THE PIPELINE?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Appendix (quotes above sources)
"Global warming? Wow Rosey, don’t be such a LOSER! Everyone knows that the science dudes just make that stuff up to get all famous."
1. http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/tarsands/index.cfm
"Take care of little baby mercury for me okay?"
"I’m getting hotter, my carbon levels are up. It was inevitable."
"Pwease tell Kurosaki that the pipeline does not boost Cawbin levelz and oil spills. And that we’ll be fine!"3. http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy/tar-sands/keystone-xl-pipeline
"I’ll be the main reason why all of those humans have jobs and I’ll help America back on its feet!"
4. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/k/keystone_pipeline/index.html
"900,000 barrels! THAT’S alot of barrels!"
"We’ll be used in the best cars! Feraris, mercedes, and a Lexus!"
Bibliography:
"About Tar Sands." N.p., n.d. Web.
"Google Images." Google Images. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1>.
"Friends of the Earth." Friends of the Earth. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy/tar-sands/keystone-xl-pipeline>.
"Keystone XL Pipeline." Keystone XL. N.p., 16 Oct. 2012. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/k/keystone_pipeline/index.html>.
"Global Warming." National Wildlife Federation. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/Policy-Solutions/Drilling-and-Mining/Tar-Sands/Keystone-XL-Pipeline.aspx>.
Mufson, Steven. "Keystone XL Pipeline Would Add Link in U.S.-Canada Trade Relations." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 08 July 2012. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/keystone-xl-pipeline-creates-sticking-point-in-us-canada-trade-relations/2012/07/06/gJQAxcrtRW_story.html>.
EARTH MONOLOGUE from Alexa Eddy on Vimeo.
Descriptive Essay: The heart has no color
I went to A.M.Y (Alternative middle years) 5 for middle school. I went to the meeting in the summer to get my summer reading assignments. Everything looked pretty good and the only white kids that I saw were maybe five? There were white teachers, but I was used to seeing them, so I felt pretty good. After I started my first year, thats when I saw it. Mixed in with everyone else was a bunch of white people! I get anxious and nervous around people and cramped spaces (which A.M.Y was. Way too cramped). There were so many and I couldn’t believe it so I prepared for the worst. Now, after some time passed I came to the conclusion that I hated this school and so did all of my friends. But I thank this school, because some of my friends were white, asian, arab and more! This school showed me that just because some people decided to be idiots doesn’t mean theyre connected to the entire race. When I graduated, I ended up with all types of friends. I remember one time I was sitting in Amy’s library with one of my good friends Miranda. It was a nice day, but rare. I didn’t get to see her much because she was always in the hospital, so when I do get to see her I’m pretty happy. She was white. She hung out with this group of white girls that I guess didn’t like me that much because her friend Melissa said “Why are you hanging out with black people?” and Miranda replied “Why AREN’T you hanging out with black people?”. And when I heard that I felt a twinge of happiness; she didn’t care what skin color I was. And no one else should either. But I had one BEST friend and his name was Scott Sicilia, and he was different .
After starting my school at Science Leadership Academy, the school year was all tense and I had a five minute breakdown over benchmarks (You see, I wasn’t used to so much work being bombarded on me so I broke down, cried and all). So, seeing some old friends eased my mood. I went to the mall and I saw Scott again. He ran to hug me and honestly, it was the best feeling ever. I’m not going to bore you with the whole love story thing but basically, we went to the movies as friends, and left as boyfriend and girlfriend. As we held hands to walk, people were already glancing, maybe more than three times and my eyes started to jet everywhere on my body. Was my hair okay? Is there something on my shirt? No, there was nothing wrong with me. So why were they glancing? Soon, I would come to a conclusion that it’s the guy I’m with, because I will be experiencing a lot of these glances.
I always saw a African American male with a Caucasian female and that was okay! I’m fond and thankful for interracial relationships or I wouldn’t be here. Around where I live, a caucasian male and a hispanic female or an african american female OR in my case, both, is not common. You never see it. So I could understand why some people glance again and again. And most of the times I’m proud because I like who I’m with. He’s not perfect but he’s awesome and no one else should really have anything to say. It’s when they DO have something to say, that it kills my mood but makes my beliefs stronger.
The first time I ever really felt angry and almost lost it was when a group of guys walked by and yelled out loud “What’s he doing here?” or “Yo he belongs in Kensington”. I would have thought that even today, some people would be more mature. One time I was with him at a bus stop and some guy came up in a car and said “I SEE YOU WHITE BOY” and his friend started laughing, I guess they saw the sharp and agonizing look in my eyes because they turned away and drove off. My boyfriend can defend himself very well but I won’t just let someone try to downgrade him. At other times, drivers stare as they drive by or flip us the finger. Occsionally we get “You guys are so cute” or “You guys are dating? That’s so nice!”. And it makes me feel good that we have some people who are accepting. I don’t care what other people think, but when you mess with me and my boyfriend there is obviously going to be a problem. No one should care who I hang around with and who hangs out with me.. It’s 2012 and people need to recognize that we aren’t in the old days anymore. I can be with whoever I want to be and go anywhere I want to go. There aren’t any Jim Crow laws, there isn’t any segregaion, we have a mixed president! So why is it a problem that my boyfriend and I are together? There are just some things in this world that I can never understand, I just remind myself that everytime we hold hands in public, it’s making a difference.
Colony Collapse Disorder Blog #3
1) Go to HOME DEPOT (or lowes) and buy some seed starting soil.
2) Go back to your house and grab the egg carton that you have been saving over.
3) You could either cut off the top our use popsicle sticks to stand it up and you can label the top.
4) Once you cut off or label the top grab your soft seed starting soil.
5) Use a spoon and fill up each cupped section with soil but don't over fill it.
6) Grab your seed packet (what ever type of seeds you want).
7) Look at the directions on the packet because it will tell you how much water to put and how much sunlight your seeds will need.
8) When your seeds get bigger take pictures and email them to me alexaeddy97@yahoo.com
9) When they are big enough transfer them to a bigger pot and watch the fruit of your labor.
In the beginning it should look like this
Heres my bibliography
Colony Collapse Disorder Blog #2
-The US will lose a little more than 15 billions of dollars in crops.
-It will take a huge toll on your diet
-Food for the animals that we eat won't be available
-The balance in nature will definitely be off
- Once one major help (bees) die, other things begin to die, which will lead to us and starvation.
After doing some more research I had to sit down and realize that this is real. I didn't have to do anymore research to know that. This is very important to me because I love gardens and bees and nature life. I've experience what it's like without bees and it's pretty dead. In my back yard, well my grandfather's back yard, he had a garden. It was beautiful. And I mean beautiful. Every time it would rain I would just sit outside and stare at it. At all the wonderful colors. God didn't mess up when he made nature. Before our neighbors moved in we had more space and we grew sunflowers. I usually would be scared to go outside because there were so many bees! As a young girl I never knew it was because of them that I have juicy peaches, delicious grapes, sweet melons and more! And then as the years went by, people started moving in, the garden wasn't being taken care of and the flowers were cut down (for the portion of my new neighbors back yard). A bee barely passes by anymore and all my grandfather's garden is, is a space full of leaves.
Often I wonder, how can I save them. Because right now they matter more than anything. Because of them we have all these wonderful crops and we just slave them around. I wonder how I can help and how I as one person can make a difference. I don't think its fair to put bees through so much just because we need the food. By putting them through this we are actually killing them more. But it's all about the money and I want to change that.
Here is my bibliography
Here is a picture of an unpollinated garden
Here is a picture of a pollinated garden
Here is my first blog
Colony Collapse Disorder Blog #1
I’m a girl that has a big interest for agriculture and always looking to fix problems in my own garden. One issue that I have a problem with is CCD. Colony Collapse Disorder. This is when colonies of bees just die out of nowhere. I like using ways to help the planet out and I’m interested in this because not only do I like bees but they are responsible for 30% of the crops in the U.S.A. With out them food prices will go up, crops wouldn’t do as good as before and we will be losing a beautiful creature.
Colony collapse disorder has been happening more frequently. More and more colonies are dying yet scientists can’t exactly pinpoint the problem. Some say it’s the chemicals in pesticides, varroa (a bee pest), and insecticides may be lowering the bee’s immune system. It was also said that honey bees kept in captivity are having problems with malnutrition. Only being limited to certain crops can cause this. What doesn’t help either is the genetically modified crops. Some of those crops make Bt pollen which isn’t good for the bees.
Everybody needs food to survive right? Well, everyone one in 3 mouthfuls of your diet whether directly or indirectly comes from honeybees. If this gets worse prices of food will go up and they might keep on rising. If we don’t take care of this now we can go down in catastrophic levels. Which includes a whole different diet do to the loss of a lot of fruits and vegetables. When bees are moved around due to consumer demand to pollinate crops it puts stress on the bees. Also some crops aren’t really healthy or nutritious for them, like cranberries. (In the picture is corn that has not been pollinated)
I always wonder if the government Is really taking this into consideration or are they just telling us to not keep us that worried. I want to know if I can do something to help. Or if I can do something to benefit the wild bees and help them repopulate. I want to learn how we as the people can help because if all of us care we can make a huge difference in this topic.
Here is a video for more information:
Video
Bibliography
Negative Space-aeddy
Is space around your drawing that isn't being drawn on.
Explain how you find the negative space in your cut out and your stool drawing.
In my cut out I used another cut out for reference, also I cut out my cut out on colored paper so the colored paper was the drawing and not the negative space
Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings?
I guess it does because it makes a drawing look more realistic.
Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?
Because the artist needs to see everything in their drawing in order to perfect it.
Alexa-Maggie podcast
I think it went pretty well. I like how we had to interview eachother and it was pretty cool. The part that I struggled with was reading some words so I kind of messed up alot. If I had to re-do this project I would probably have read over the paper way before recording so we wouldn't have to re-do it over and over.
"Lich" King:Macbeth
Macbeth has been on a journey. A journey full of lies/deceit, blood, and greed. In the picture that I drew I wanted to show Macbeth’s path in one 2-face picture. Macbeth has gone from a noble man to a tyrant. I wanted to portray that in the drawing. I’m going to start with the right side (or left, from your view). This is Macbeth’s human face, I made him bald because that’s how he looked like in the movie and I thought it was better than what I was going to draw. This side of the face shows his valor, bravery, and honesty. It shows a soldier worthy to fight for his country and will stop at nothing for justice. The skull side has the crown because he turned evil and something so dead after he became king. The blood in his mouth is to show how bloodthirsty he was in order to protect his golden power. The eye socket shows how hollow and lifeless he has gotten and the cracks represent him wearing down to his final fall, the blue paper represents Macbeth’s lost soul hidden away and gone forever.
Bibliography for drawing the skull:
BM3 aeddy
I learned from this project that being a guide isn't that easy as you think, it's easy until you have to convert all of it to spanish. Also I got to understand Euros better too, since I was working on the money section.
I felt really good about our final project. To me, it was pretty good for our first website and it looks neat and the sections were easy to find.
If I had to re-do this project I would add more sections, pictures, and videos and some cool facts about philly and more.
Here's the link to our site: https://sites.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/q3-bm-mamar-olkus/home/para-conocer-la-moneda-de-u-s-a
Q2 Benchmark aeddy
In this assignment I had to talk about my day and I enjoyed it very much.
I learned that I am actually a calm person and don't really do much monday thru thursday.
The skills I needed were comprehension and speaking.
Inquiry- I inquired on how I can express my routine.
Research- I sat to think about what I do.
Collaboration-I worked with my classmates to help improve my project.
Presentation-Added music, used cool slides, used alot of pictures for motion
Reflection- I think I did very well.
If I had to redo this project I would add more photos and not pictures
E2. U3.miniproyecto aeddy
Design: 15
Knowledge: 20
Application:15
Presentation:15
Process: 15
Over all: 80
My strengths were having baby pictures because that was me before and I know what I liked back then (plus I thought they were cute pictures!). Since I know myself back then I can explain my pink princess style better than ever.
My weakness is definitely not having pictures from now and day and my vocabulary I had trouble with pearls and ruffles and sleek N shiny. If I actually had pictures that were recent I would of used them. Also I’m not too familiar with ALL of the fashion terms to use. Also it’s difficult to expand the Spanish style vocabulary but I’m going to try harder next time.
If I could do this project all over again I would probably try to take good pictures of myself to have a more recent feel to it. Also I would talk more about if I liked the outfits I was wearing and why or why not. I would probably have some quiet calm song in the back round but when I change to modern day I would put rock music on.