Can we afford to trust the federal government giving them full control over everything? A vote for the Nemesis Party is a vote to give the federal government more control over your life. How about the States Govern Party where we can give you the programs that Nemesis Party voters want depending on the state you live in. And since the government is smaller it’s less corrupt and you have more control.

Can we afford a single issue party? The leaders of the Dreamer’s Party believes that Immigration is the number one issue America should focus on. What about the current citizens? How will we keep our families safe if we have a party in office that their whole focus is on getting more immigrants? Even worse they want to slash military funding to pay for more people to protect. Or you can vote for the state’s govern party whereby giving states more rights we are putting citizens first.

Advanced Essay #2 - Andrew Rodebaugh

When you are on social media do people know that it is you? Do you feel more open to your opinions when you are online? Do you feel like there is less consequences for your actions? Or do you know that but think you can simply “figure it out” in the future? Are you more open about/to people online vs in person?  Being online can make you a different person because it is so easy and their are either no real consequences if any they are not immediate most of the time. The ability to change your identity online can make it seem like you have the ability to be more open about people or show your true personality but can lead into future problem mostly out of your control. We have a different personality online and offline which is not a bad thing generally but the seemingly absence of consequence online can make you do things you would never think to do offline or people in your life would never want you to do at all.

After stressful days at school wanting to disconnect from life I jumped out of my Andrew Rodebaugh self and jumped into my other self “Cosmic” my online identity where I was seen as the normal nerdy teen (among other things that I don’t want to share) that I wanted to be seen as in real life but it is hard to or not wise to. I got a couple good friends and got pretty popular online. It was good at the time being able to share my thoughts without being judged and being able to think for a while before responding which helped me avoid making mistakes of which I make in real life. I created projects with them since they were mostly programmers like me and they were really awesome about working on them. The best part was that they did not know who I really was, what I looked like, where I was from, and same about them. All they knew about me and all I knew about them is that I program, I try to listen to people and I can be helpful with life situation.

Unfortunately I became to used to it I went online and they were online most of the time… they were nice and they helped me through some tough times and we had fun making projects together. But then after a while the username became them and they became like my personal chatbots I did not really put a person behind the keyboard it might sound creepy but it is easy to do when talking to someone you do not know while online. Then you become more  open, more honest and you are quicker to criticize because you don’t really see their true emotions during a situation which can obviously lead into some problems. Then I was lead into a choice between two online friends…

Hero -> Cosmic: “Cosmic I cannot stand @jordan anymore he thinks he owns this whole project though he barely does anything.”

Cosmic -> Hero: “What happened?”

Hero -> Cosmic: “Don’t you see how he is constantly telling us what to do? He barely even knows how to code! Why did you even invite him!”

Jordan -> Cosmic: “Is @hero talking bull crap about me again? He constantly complains. I am just trying to keep things organised. Why did you even invite him he constantly complains and does annoying things?”

Cosmic -> Jordan: “Well maybe you guys need to work this out yourselves. I don’t want to get into any of this”

Jordan -> Cosmic: “Well if that is the case… If you do not kick him out I will quit and if you haven't forgotten I own the server which has the code in it… so it is either him or me and the code.”

That whole week was full of arguing online and it started to crumble this project I have been working with them for a long time was removed from the server so we were unable to use the code. People left and stopped chatting with me because I got impulsed to say things out of anger and frustration which was more than I would ever offline because I thought everything would work itself out like it always did. There was some other stuff that happened which is why you should not mess with programmers Jordan was able to take from a domain name I bought the IP address of my computer to be able to pinpoint my location being able to get my name to then get images of me. Then it happened I was out, they now knew who I was that safety I once had of being able to talk openly about myself went down the drain. I now had a real identity and they were learning things about me I did not want them to learn like my heart defect, what I look like, how I sound, my school, more of my interests and more. The web is a scary place that has so much information about you which anyone can find just by using my name. Your past is online and will continue to be online for the foreseen existence of the web and it is highly accessible with a simple online post. Put something embarrassing online then deleted it… don’t worry it is in some archive somewhere for someone to access.

Your identity affects how people will treat you that is why I wanted to hide it to create a new identity. Now they thought I was a disabled kid that needs help and is going through problems in life. And now they treated me that way which is the way many other people offline treated me… these were supposed to be the people that only new the good stuff about me: my close to perfect identity the person I would want to be seen as in life.

In conclusion, when people do not know your true identity such as online, people treat you differently. Your race, gender, ethnicity, disability and look among other things that make up yourself define how people interact you making online a safer place to express yourself sometimes. Making it safer until your identity comes out if it does.

Introduction:

For my paper I was talking about a scary situation that I was going through this year. I was trying to communicate the fear that me and my family had when dealing with this situation. I hope I was a little funny also in my essay. I think I could have improved on describing a little more like Harlem and Boubou did in their essays.

Essay:

My life is pretty normal… well compared to most people like me. See I have a heart condition a super rare and dangerous one (not to brag). It is kind of complicated to explain but in basic terms, my heart does not include a left ventricle. As you may assume that’s not very good, to say the least. The doctors had to make my right ventricle of my heart to do the jobs of my lazy, non-existent left ventricle which takes more energy and in turn has its own set of problems. Sure I cannot walk up the stairs without wearing out (stairs are tough... don’t judge) and thank God I hate sports because that just does not work out well with me and my heart. But I am rarely unable to do what I want to do which makes me feel really lucky.

   It was not until very recently that I had a problem that was long term that I had to worry about a health problem. See what happened was that I was at my Church’s Bible Study™ with my older brother Will and we were talking and having a lovely time until suddenly my left foot started to shake uncontrollably… up and down… up and down. I had no clue what was going on… my first thought was that either I did not hydrate well enough which was the cause of 99.9% of my issues so I politely asked my brother if he could grab me some water and to text my Mom that this was happening. I tried to do this trying not to cause a big deal out of it. They knew me all my life and they have seen/helped me through this situation so I probably should have informed them that this was happening but of course I would have never guessed how long term this would be. Well, my Dad came to pick me up and he noticed that my leg was shaking so he called Mom to see what we should do. We ended up going home which did not last long so I went to the Emergency Room at around 11 pm (I know thrilling) and stayed at the hospital overnight. That night answered nothing… very encouraging to me.

   The shaking happened almost once a month and before it happens I would get super angry and I would not be myself. I would have a low tolerance for even the smallest things, yelling and stomping. And talk a little too much being honest to people about the things that I was annoyed about relating to them or that moment, in turn, making them really upset with me. And sometimes I would just shut down not being able to respond to other people. I was sent to the ambulance for the first time ever with my blood sugar very low which was the first of many false triggers to what supposedly caused these incidents which were annoying going from specialist to specialist not really listening to me. My fear got even greater about what was going on.

Fear is a weird thing it can keep us alert or shut us down. Make us appreciate things more or make us angry. It can make us faster or slow us down. Fear can be made up or be real. Fear can be exaggerated or not exaggerated enough. It depends on who you are and what is going on. I had a lot of scary situations in my life for me and my parents which they had helped me in life learning more about myself but hurt me at least temporary. This situation was it was a scary situation that I did not know what would happen to me and how serious it would it be.

Now the shaking has died down and I am not as scared as I was before. I stopped being constantly angry at people because I know that they are just trying to help me through life with these situations going on. They still have not figured out why the problems were occurring and may never know. But I feel safe now knowing that people around me will do anything to help me.

Había una vez, Ochosi y Oggún en cual  ayudaban el uno al otro mucho. Oggún es el dios de armas y herramientas. Ochosi es el dios de la caza. Oggún le daba herramientas y armas cuando era necesario para Ochosi. También, Oggún arreglaba los herramientas y armas. En cambio, Ochosi cazaba animales por Oggún y él disfrutaba la comida. Pero, un día, cuando Ochosi necesitaba una herramienta para ser arreglada, Oggún dijo, "No, no puedo hoy. No me siento bien."

Ochosi lo creía – inicialmente. Él decía, "¡Mejorate pronto!" Pero, mientras Oggún dijo a Ochosi que no se sentía bien, él dijo a Eleggua, un amigo de Ochosi, "Sí, las puedo arreglar."

Eleggua entonces visitó a Ochosi con sus herramientas nuevas. Ochosi vio los herramientas de Eleggua, y le preguntó, "¿Quién arregló tus herramientas?" En respuesta,  Eleggua dijo "¡Oggún, por supuesto!"

"¡Ay! ¿Porqué me dijo que 'no'?" Ochosi preguntó "¡Lo necesitaba para hacer un metal especial para poder cazar! Yo lo necesito pronto, también."

"¿Qué le hizo a Oggún?"

"¡No sé! No tengo idea.."

"Posiblemente deberías hablar con Oggún. De hecho, puedo ir contigo."

"¿En serio? Vale... gracias, Eleggua."

Una semana después, Ochosi y Eleggua visitaron a Oggún para hablar. Ochosi también traía la solicitud para su herramienta nueva.

"Oggún," dijo Ochosi.

Oggún le miró sorprendido cuando él vio Ochosi con Eleggua. "¿Que tal?"

"Oh, nada. Pero, quiero saber porque no arreglaste mis herramientas la semana pasada. Me dijiste que 'no me siento bien,' pero mi amigo Eleggua me dijo que tú arreglaste sus herramientas."

Oggún parecía derrotado. "¡Ay, Ochosi! He tenido un mes mal. No se que está pasando. Había mucho... Perdóname."

Ochosi y Eleggua decidieron a perdonar Oggún. Era sincero.

En el próximo día, Oggún hizo una herramienta especial, incluso con su nombre grabado en el metal.

Entonces, los dos vivieron felices para siempre.

El fin.

To get Great Leaders you need Great Voters

In our home of the United States of America, we have a system that is trying to listen to American people’s voice as much as possible before making decisions that impact us every day such as who is our President. Are we as normal American citizens able to make the best decisions for us and other people? Do we as Americans have good enough education to be able to make logical decisions? In other words,  is our current system of voting for leaders the best system to pick great leaders? Our system of voting can get us people we like, but our citizens are not always educated enough to give us the leaders that we need for our country.

In the book “Lord of the Flies” many of the problems that happen in the books happen because of people voting for people as leaders that they know very little about though they could have made much better decisions by learning more about them before quickly deciding who they want as their leader based on very little information. On page 22 of the novel where Ralph is voted for chief, this is the reason giving for him being picked “Let him be chief with the Trumpet-thing.” And that was final he became chief because he was seen as a leader because of his ability to blow a trumpet even though he was not the one who originally thought of that idea… that person was Piggy of which pretty much at this point has given all the good ideas but got almost no credit for it. Now to give them credit, I doubt they understood the power that the people that wanted to be leader were going to have and the horrible things that they would do to get more of it/maintain it,but they decided anyway that they would put a lack of thought and understanding of who the people are before voting for a leader.

What happened here in the book could be related to a situation that recently happened in Britain since how they voted is similar to how we vote currently since they are also a Democracy. They voted to leave the European Union on June 23, 2016. The problem is that shortly after the vote was called for them to leave the European Union the second top google search in Britain was “What is the European Union?” The other ones do not get any better containing things like “What happens when we leave the European Union?” You have to admit that is pretty depressing that after making a huge decision that puts your whole entire country at risks you find out that many people in Britain were not educated on what the vote actually meant. Though this data is hard to ignore it may not actually mean much of anything because maybe those people that searched it did not actually go to the polls or maybe they were too young to vote but they wanted to learn more about what was actually going on. What I am trying to say that people should simply be educated enough to understand what they are voting for before they actually vote so they can make good decisions for their country.

Even after all the voting is done and a leader is choosing does not necessarily mean people will agree/follow the leader later on. This was seen in the novel in many chapters later on after the vote. Ralph was the leader but it ended up that most of the people that voted for him ended up betraying him because they ended up not agreeing with his ideas. One of the quotes that relate to this is on page 91 which is Jack which is Ralph’s enemy when it comes to who is leader, “And you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting their and telling people what to do. You can’t hunt, you can’t sing-.” Which after Jack continues attacking him about how he is not a real leader and Ralph continues trying to defend himself which ends up not working very well. Maybe if Ralph did not get voted in and they picked someone that they ended up all liking (if that is possible) maybe none of the violence and drama would end up happening to them.

This is also seen in American History also not just in the novel. A lot of people (from his very low approval ratings of %22) saw our former president George W. Bush as a bad leader. He was voted into the office after winning by the Electoral College system by %2 in his first of two terms. People did not enjoy his decisions on the War of Iraq and the Economy most of all. The thing that really stands out is that even though he ended up getting very poor approval ratings throughout his presidency he was able to strike enough votes to get re-elected. Since I was too young during this time I do not really know what ended up getting him voted and what that time was like I could only assume there were reasons greater than the economy that people enjoyed about him to get him re-elected.

In conclusion, our voting system works best when people understand what they are voting for and/or who they are voting for. Our voting system may have flaws but it is the best way we currently have to get people’s thoughts on who should be the leader of their country.

Works Cited:

CBSNews. "Bush's Final Approval Rating: 22 Percent." CBS News. CBS Interactive, 16 Jan. 2009. Web. 29 Mar. 2017.

Selyukh, Alina. "After Brexit Vote, Britain Asks Google: 'What Is The EU?'" NPR. NPR, 24 June 2016. Web. 29 Mar. 2017.

Goldring, WIlliam Lord Of The Flies New York: Penguin, 2006.

Mi nombre es Andrew. Yo vivo en mi barrio Frankford que está en Filadelfia. Mi barrio no tiene un montón de arte público. La comunidad sin embargo tiene un poco vandalismo. También tiene un poco delito. Debemos tener más arte público porque puede hacer la comunidad mejor. Tal vez puede ayudar a la comunidad.

La comunidad es sobre todo conocido por el Frankford Transportation Center. Por eso quiero hacer constar mi arte. Ahora más personal puede admirar el arte y mi comunidad que está en. Tal vez esto puede animar a la gente para hacer más arte. También ayudar el crimen en la barrio a causa de crimen ocurre en mi barrio a veces.

Mi mural representar gente en la comunidad hacer arte. También cómo SEPTA cómo ayudar a sentido la gente el arte será en el tren por SEPTA. Un poco de los elementos en el arte  incluir pinceles para pintar y el logotipo de SEPTA y autobús y grafiti está dolido. SEPTA y arte no puede ver juntos sin embargo SEPTA contribuir con a la comunidad por lo que fácil transporte a las lugares que ayuda a la comunidad. Que se refiere a arte que también ayudar la comunidad.

Andrew Rodebaugh

Soy yo

Hijo de las Américas,

La madre de mi mamá es de Italia,

Y yo soy orgulloso de esto,

Soy producto de América.

Yo veo mi familia,

Saboreo la comida de Italia,

Pero yo oigo inglés.

Juego juegos de América,

Como la comida de los dos,

Encuentro mi cierto lato,

Yo valgo los dos.

Somos productos de América y Italia,

Dos lados,

Somos de Filadelfia,

Hablamos inglés.

Soy hijo de las Américas y yo hablo inglés,

Pero siento como yo soy más Italia.

¿Yo no sé por qué?

Made with SoundTrap and beat by SoundTrap.

I am aware of the Sound Reduction

I did my Slide to be about me and things that make up my Identity. I tried to make the slide look bigger than it actually is. I used a font that in my opinion grabs attention and also look pretty darn cool. I added space to make sure it is does not like it is crowded with too much info. I tried to follow all the rules and ideas in the article about the IKEA billboards. With the presentation you could glance for a second and grab enough info and you do not have to read everything to get the main point. I also made the picture ¨bleed¨ off the page to make the presentation look bigger than it actually is.

Translation:

COSMICED - Stupid word but, it´s ¨I googled it¨ but, for my site Cosmic Search (http://cosmicsearch.org).

           Soy Andrew

Mi Cumpleaños es el 6 de diciembre

      Me gusta pasar tiempo con amigos y jugar videojuegos

Es 23 de noviembre y estoy en la escuela me gusta ir a la escuela

                        también me gusta comer y leer

                                    No soy ni gordo

                                      ni deportista

                                         Yo soy…

                                            ¡YO!