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a crime taht violateds the victims civl rights and that is motivated by hostility to the victims race, religon, credd national orgin, sexual oreitation, or gender. or how about a criem in which the defendatn intentionallyh selcts a victim, or in the cas fo a property crime, the property that is the objec ot the crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, nation orgin, ethnictiy, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of nay person. either way it all boils down to one point a hate crime, no on should be abused, killed, or attacked based on who they are.On April 23, 1990 it became a public law. one of the most common hate crimes would be agaisnt the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community. one of the biggest cases would be with matthew wayne shepard who was found brutally beate and tied to a fence left for dead because he was gay. the tow killers said they didnt want to kill him just rob him and take his money, that it was actually the alcohol and rugs which made them do what they did. the men both received consective life sentence. that traggic nigh struck all LGBT communites, although some might disagree about the two mens final solutions some might believe taht the common good would be to take the hate criem law. for the simple fact it that no one shoul be charged more just because they attacked someone who happends to be african amrican, christain, male, female, or from the simple fact it keeps people safe, they dont have to worry about anyone going agaisnt their rights. the rights that are in the amendmetn 1. everyone has the right to practice any religion or live how they please, but if there are constantly hate crimes there soon becomess more problems on the way such a riots. the best thing for the situation is that there continuse to be protection for everyone so that there will be peace among everyone. No one should be discriminated agains because of who they are. People are the most important source to the governemnt. Popular sovereignty was always in the US but, not everyone was heard by the government because not everyone rights were equal. Now it is different no matter who you are or what your background or history is your rights will be equal to everyone elses. Hate crime connects to popular sovereignty because the people who are being attacked are asking for protection from the government. Limited government is when the government does only things that the people allow it to do. So with limited govenment that puts the government right in the middle. They want to help people and maintain order but if people dont always want the government in their buisness the the government doesnt really know when to step in. A court case would be Winsconsin V Mitchell there was a hate crime on someone because of there race. Todd Mitchell and a group of fellow African Americans decided to beat up on some white people after seeing the scene of a black boy getting beat up by a white man. He ended up serving 2 years in prison. That goes against popular sovereignty. Todd was only suppose to serve 2 years in prison but since he chose his victim based of race it was it could have been moved up to 7 years. Some might argue that the case with Todd Mitchell was unconstitutional. They say this because what he did goes against the first and fourteenth amendment. The first amendment says that the government can't stop you from thinking anything you want to think or believe in,but they went against that and made Todd a criminal out of his racial thoughts. The fourteenth amendment is the equal protection law. That the courtpunishes offenders more seriously because of the views they express, and punishes others less because it seems more acceptable to society. Although those are true in the first amendment alone both of those reasons can be rejected because people have the right to tell the government what they want. Clearly the people found this case to be way more effective on society than any others. Some might also argue that both cases are hate crimes so they should all serve the same amount. Everyone should get the same punishment because if it was your friend or family the outcome might come out different than if you chose someone based off of their background. People argue that everyone is equally protected. So if your heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual, male, female, or any skin color your protected. They believe transgendered should not be included in hate crimes because what would you make the crime out of a male or female. Everyone should be protected no matter who they are because any one can turn into the victim right before their own eyes. Seven states have no hate crime law, twenty states have laws that do not include sexual orientation as a protected group, and twenty-four states and the District of Columbia have laws that do protect people on the basis of their sexual orientation. I think that is outrageous because now the victims have to constantly look over their should to see if someone is going to attack them based on their background. That infringes on their rights. They cant live a normal life and be happy their getting threatned,beaten, and murdered for being theirselves.

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KeKe: I REALLY want to go out tonight

Jenny: No,No,No because last time we went out miss THING wanted to BE PUMPKIN and SPIT(sound) on someone.

Asia: Is she actin? Now yall know she got in my face first huffin and puffin on me like she was the big bad wolf.

KeKe: (laugh) Point is I'm going out to have fun and you two are comin.

get me bodied(1-5)

Star:(Tap shoulder) Excuse me? Who said yall can cut lookin like a broke down Destiny's Child

Asia: See dats why Popped off on her last time

get me bodied(6-8)

You should be my girl

Luther: Aye kid, who was dat girl. Looked like she wanted on.

James: I know, I need to get her number.

Francis: I bet you won't even get it.

James: Psh. Watch this.

chopped and screwed

James: (grab keke by hand) So um, what's your name?

KeKe: Keke. Yours?

James: My boys call me J-mitch. But you can me James.

KeKe: Thats nice. But I really didnt come here to get boo'd up.

James: Oh is that so. Well it didnt seem that way outside the club.

KeKe: Well girls just want to have fun.

call the cops

loose control

Luther: Eh, J-Mitch. Did you get her number.

James: Dont even trip. I got this.

Francis: Well forget her number.

James: Why?

Francis: Cause your girl got a (clap donk beat).

she got a donk

Asia: Girl. Dat boy is checkin you out.

Jenny: I know. Hes looking at you like you were dancing on the floor with no clothes or something.

Asia: Its called naked.

KeKe: Mhm, all we need is a bottle of champagne to top it off.

pop champagne

KeKe: Ok ok, I see you. But can you-

get down hit the floor

James: So, did you like dat?

KeKe: Not bad. But what else can you do?

cant believe it remix

KeKe: Well put a price on this.

single ladies

James: What you think about this?

lets get married

KeKe: Um, your takin this too far. So I think im going to leave now.

Girls just want to have fun

Jenny: If the boy i was with asked me i would have said yes

Asia: Is she actin again?

society say what
Welcome to Naturally Gifted Society better known as NGS. NGS is not your normal country at all. In fact we are known to be better than any other country in the world, considering only naturally gifted people are allowed to stay here. This means the people who are live here were born gifted as a child. They did not have to go to some performing arts school or anything like that to improve on their talent.

Our population consist of about 5,344 people, but of course majority of those people are in the military. We do not allow the biological families unless of course they are considered the best parents in the world. We get our people from all of the world no matter what they are. The way we get our gifted people is we have the other countries in the world tell us about the person if they do not then it is fine by us. Once we do get details about the person we do send them an invitation straight to their mailing adress. Once we get the yes by them we send them a private jet. Once they arrive at NGS they will show us what they are gifted for and of course if Emeror J does not approve of the person who thinks they are gifted will be sent back  on the private jet and dropped off if the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Also if their is a person who thinks they are better than someone else then they can challenge them for their spot on NGS. Whoever loses will be fed to sharks because I choose my gifted ones carefully and I do not like to repeat myself. As for the biological families who want to see their kids they can not do anything about it. The only way it could happen is if the one living in NGS leaves to go see their family, but of course there is no returning whatsoever. Everyone has the right for freedom of speech and to do as they please. There will be no killing. In case of one happening then there will just have to be two because if someone takes a life then they can say goodbye to their own. Therefore we have no jails or prison but, the military is on duty 24/7 literally. I would not tolerate anything, if something happends theres two choices they can choose to leave or choose death but, we tend to lean closer to the leaving side depending on the crime. No one has the right to bear arms excpet for the military and of course the Emperor. The army can not invade privacy as they please nor can they stay at anyones house, they will just live on base. There is no voting for the next emperor. When the emperor dies they will simply choose the next person from somewhere else in the country who has the same charateristics as me. The laws can not be changed ever. For the government there really is not one. Everyone just has to learn to live in peace in order to keep peace. Of course that is one of the main problems on NGS is keeping the peace. These people do tend to get jealous of one another more than anything. So if they both do not want to leave they can try and talk it out. If talking it out with each other does not work with them then it will work with the sharks. There yet has not been anything unique that has created what is there today yet. First we would have to have one of the gifted people there pass away so we can put it down as a record. So when the best of the best dies then they become a legend and their picture along with their name gets put up in the hall of Gifted Legends.

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Human nature is believed to be personality and character that all humans have in common. Which means that when were born we are basically like everyone else. When actually human nauture is not something givin to us but, we obtain as grow. By this I mean our human nature is similar to each others but, soon change after we meet different people and start to believe our own theories of what we think is right or wrong. Our surroundings is what affects us as a person. If your around violence as an infant that does not mean you are going to be violent when you grow up. Same as if you start to see violence when your an adult does not mean your going to become violent its all in the person to decide what they want to do. We get told what is right and what is wrong every since we were kids but, as soon as we find out that we can think on our own and make our own decisions of whats right or wrong the tables turn. For example its not human nature to lie but, it is human nauture to fight back. When we lie we know that its wrong and that it can get you in trouble. So can fighting but, when your being attacked its an automatic response for you to defend yourself. Another example would be that all humans feel the same which is no where near correct. Someone might fall and hurt theirself, someone might feel sympathy for the person and another might find it the funniest thing in the world. Some might find it non normal for someone to laugh at someone for falling. There is no such things as a normal human being because thats basically saying their the perfect example of human nature. Which that does not exist either. There really is not a definition for human nature because everyones point of view is different from each others. Maybe they should switch it to self nature.

State of nature is life without government. If the world did not have any government at all it would in fact be a unique world. The government is suppose to maintain order with all the people which keeps most people from supposely doing wrong in the world. When actually people still do illegal things in the world and we have a government. It does seem as though the government does keep people from doing wrong because we have consequences when we do something illegal. If we did not then people would get away with everything and it just might possibly be a cruel and crazy world. Then again thats when human nature would play a part in this. So if there was no government and people were killing and stealing not everyone would agree with that someone would find something wrong about it. No one would have to tell them it is wrong they would just get that gut feeling that it is not right. They would probably get tired of seeing all of it happen or might even be afraid that someone is coming after them. Thats what the government helps with right now because we do not have to constantly keep looking over our shoulder to see if someone is going to kill us or steal from us. How they would maintain that would be a problem if you have one half thinking there is nothing wrong with it and another half finding it outrageous. There would be nothing but war going on constantly. Then you would have to think about other countries. Our governement tries to keep immigrants from coming to America and making the economy drop. If there was no government and everyone could come over here and get any job they wanted and be considered a citizen.

The best form of government it democratic. It is the best one because it is the one that lets the people be in charge. They have to listen to what we say and we have the right to tell them and can not get in any trouble for it no matter what we say. Unlike the other form of governements they can come with problems. Monarchy would be one because it is when one person has all the power which leaves the people with nothing. He can do anything he wants to do with the people like Hitler. Demarchy is when people are selected randomly. That would not work at all for the simple fact that if you choose random people what if they do not want to have anything to do with the governement. Then they are not going to do anything for the people because they do not care. Or they might want to kill everyone but each other. Plutocracy is when the wealthy runs the government. They would only do things to help the wealthy or rich while the other people are sitting around helpless. The only down thing about democracy is that the people could want to much or ask the government for to much. Democracy is also good because it lets us vote on every issue rather than taking things into their own hands. So it is basically like giving someone some money and sending them to the casino. If they spend the money gambling it is their fault. So if we say we want something and messes us all up then it is our fault and we can not blame the governement because it is what we wanted.

The government has many purposes that they need to fulfill for the people. Everyone should get protection no matter who they are. Some people do need more protection than others for the simple fact they are picked on by people because of who they are. It is also their job to protect us from outside interference with the military everywhere. By everywhere I mean ground, in the air, and in the water. They should also protect us locally with the regular police force in cities so they can maintain order. They should also protect us state wide because regular cops can not go out of state if the criminal leaves that state where they commited the crime. To maintaining public order they should just use the regular police force and make sure they are at every public event no matter what it is. The reason for that is because anything can happen at any even when you least expect it. To solve social conflicts the government should figure out what happened first. After that they need to get everyone to calm down and act civilized so there is no more violence. After that they need to figure who was in the wrong and do justice, whether that is sending them to jail,giving them warning,ticket,etc. They should do it in that order because if they automatically choose one side then there will be more fighting or even a riot against the police. The government should be responsible for all major industires including agricultural. They should make sure those are always going and never shut down for any cause unless it is doing wrong. The major industries should help the smaller businesses so that they do not shut down and there is still somewhat order going around. For public service the government should always make sure there is publication for everyone. Especially for people who do not have a car and people who are disabled. Only certain people should get welfare or special checks. Those people are people who have retired, and can not work because they are disabled.

one more
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/washington/06bar.html?scp=1&sq=freedom%20of%20speech&st=cse

This article seems to be persuading on both sides. They both have good view points. It is about crush videos where women with high heels crush animals because other people get pleasure out of it. For the side against it they talked about a case where a man was arrested for selling videos of dog fights that were recorded in Japan where it is legal. That does make sense that you can not arrest someone for selling something that is recorded somewhere else and sell it here. His lawyer did not believe that you could arrest him for that just because it is illegal in the United States now. Also that the selling the videos does not harm the animals anymore since they have no feelings. Although all that information is true once you hit U.S. those types of things become illegal. Then the people who are trying to speak out on the crush videos are not even being heard. They are basically being told that it is not stated in the constitution. Although it is true child pornography is not either but, that is illegal to sell, so nothing should make it any different. Animal fighting is illegal as well as child pornography so they should both be banned as videos too. Animals have the right to life also. They help with peoples pursuit of happiness and people seeing all that on the internet is disturbing especially if a child sees it. All crimes need to be looked at as the same whether it is an animal or a human being. The man who was sent to jail for selling those videos ended up serving less time. The governement is suppose to listen to the people but, it seems as though they are not if people are getting off easy. No he did not step on the animals or make them fight but, he is promoting it which is just as worse. Just because there is a child and an animal there is no difference they both breath and they both want to live. All in all if people are going to be protected equally they should be punished equally also.

its it
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/nyregion/05abortion.html?pagewanted=1&sq=abortion&st=cse&scp=2

1st floor full of student in the commons,2nd floor green team running around recycling,3rd floor teachers printing and making visits to each other,4th floor still to be questionable. So many people wonder what is on the 4th floor. How come it is not open anymore? Where is it located at? Some say it was just an old lounge, or there is just a window. I have heard that it is not open anymore because there is only one way in so that makes it a fire hazard. Or the biggest rumor it is closed is because something that happened years ago. I also heard that only one teacher has the key to the room. It is even said to be haunted by a ghost.

What Do You Think Is Up There? [ ] A Window

[ ] A Lounge

[ ] A Ghost

[ ] Nothing

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What Teacher Do You Think Has The Key?

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betitbaby
Large Group Performance

Doing this dance project helped me enhance my post-secondary future. It helps me because I am going to go to school for dance and I learned that I need learn how to work with others. We had to use different types of dance styles so my group had to make sure that there was not more styles then the other. It also helps my post-secondary future becasue I know for a fact that you do not stick to one style of dancing in college. That means I am going to have to be flexible with other people. This also contributes to my most challenging educational experience. Besides the fact that we had to use a varaiety of styles the group and I had to make sure we got along on what we wanted to do. On top of that I had to do the most important part of the grade, and that was remembering the dance. Luckily I overcame all of these obstacles. All in all I can not wait to go to college to see what challenges I have to face with dance.

Hate Crime

Writing the paper would not really be the the thing that helped me become a more responsibile citizen ready to meet lifes challenges. It would have to doing the reseach for the paper. The subject I wrote about was hate crimes. When doing the research I learned that there is so many hate crimes based on somones life style. When a hate crime happends it can happen physically or verbally. This made me think back if I have been a responsible citizen and not doing any of those. Of course the answer came out positive, which made me think again. Have I been seeing this anywhere and trying to stop it? The answer would have been negative but now positive. I have seen this hate crimes happend at school since I was a freshmen. I would not say anything because I thought to myself well it is not me so I should not jump in. As the years went on I soon found myself getting irritated by the comments made and soon spoke up. It was like there was a high school going on inside me. As the years go on you start to figure out yourself and improve on the change you want to be in the world.

Fafsa Form

When filling out the Fafsa form I realized that this is not easy like your filling out a lunch form. That I will have to be ready to meet life challenges. I needed information on the form that I did not know they were going to want. Luckily I had everything they wanted. I also realized the older you get the more information you have to give out. So I need to stay ready with everything next to me or in my wallet when I have to fill out anymore forms. It got personal and it even asked questions that I could barely remember because of how long ago it was. I even needed my mom to help me fill out the information because she was the only one who could answer them. So when I am living on my own I will be ready to fill out papers like this becasue I will know what to expect. All in all I hope I get the financial aid.

College Application

This contributes to my most meanginful educational experience in my life. This is the thing that kind of makes or breaks me. When I applied to this college I was so nervous because it is a scary thing to do. You could get rejected right there on the spot. For me I still have to turn in a couple of things for them to look and see what they are going to say. It is not easy applying for college. You have to make sure you reach deadlines, that you have all the information they want, they you have a certain GPA or that you took the number of required classes. Then when you do that you will have to figure out what classes you want to take or what you want to major in. I know what I want to major in, which is dance. Then you have to figure out if the college you want to go to is going to be in state or out of state and when do you want to go. I plan on going to University Of New Mexico and I want to go in the fall.

Resume

When doing this resume I was looking back to see what I have done. It has influenced my developement as a person because I use to be so shy. When looking at what I have done I became proud of myself. For example I dance for a local dance team and now I am the captain of the Renton High School dance team. It is like I was going up a stepping ladder. Doing both of these helps me require skills such as team work and leader ship skills. I did green team around the school sometimes and then I started helping my church feed teenage kids who did not have a home. I went from helping the world to helping the place where no one really likes to help the inside. Although I did these in high school I do plan on continuing them in college or wherever I am at.

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LAKE RIDGE For Child Development I __________________________ went to Lake Ridge Elementry to help a teacher take care of a kindergarden class. The thing i did were read to them, listen to them read and help them with math

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DANCE CAPTAIN I ____________________________________ the advisor of the dance team is signing this paper to prove that ____________________________________ is one of the captains of the Renton Senior High School dance team Un'Daphined

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DANCE CAPTAIN

This year i decided to be the captain of the school dance team. This enhances my vision for my post-secondary future. The reason for that is becasue i want to go to school for dance. I also plan on being on a dance team where ever i live. Which means i will have to step up if i plan on being a captain again. this has also helped me become a more responsible citzen and prepared me to meet life's challenges. this made me become more responsible because i had to come up with some of the dance, share the role of being a captain, and consult with the advisor of the dance team. the challenges woule be the same for all the things listed, which would be cooroperating. Everyone got along for the most part but, attitudes were everywhere so i had to make a mature move. So i had everyone sit down, and i have them a talk about how we should act more like adults. All in all i have learned that not all roles come with an easy task.

Soda Pop Drop

when i did this competition i was so ready to do it with the dance team i am on. i ws not eve nervous. when they annoucned that we won first place the whole dance team Kutt 'N' Up and fans started jumping up and down. now that i look back on it i realise that this has helped me become a more responsible citzen ready to meet lifes challenges. it helped me become a more responsibile citizen because how many kids were there watching us. instead of them getting bored and wanting to do violent things or make the wrong choices we were there entertaining them. with us entertaing them, it stopped them from being in a bad situation or in the wrong place at the wrong time. meeting one of lifes challeges would be all the hard work i put inot the practices just to be the best i could be at the competition.i had to practice day after day for about two hours each. this was a challenge becasue i had to put time inot it even if i had somethign else going on. all in all luckily i did not but, i know if i ever do i will be ready.

hediditagain
Math Test

This math test contributed to one of my most challenging educational experience in my life. Right when I got in the class I had to start on three chapters. It did not take me long but I did have to make sure I understood it. The reason for that is because I had a test three days after I got in the class. I passed the test which means that I put hardwork into doing the chapters. Not only this test but also the class in general has contributed to my most challenging educational experience because of the criteria I learn in there. The things I learn in there are about life for example how much it cost to have a car, or having insurance on it. This class will also help me on the math WASL. So I am getting a good deal by taking this class for high school and maybe even for my future.

WASL

The WASL contributed to one of my most challenging educational experiences in my life. The WASL is a state test that includes four parts that you have to pass. I passed everything except the science and the math. Luckily we did not have to pass the science section. As for the math I am taking a class that helps with that part. The reason this contributes to one of my most challenging educational experiences in my life is because colleges look at this. The WASL was also a challenge because I did not know what to expect on the test which means I had to stay ready for anything that came at me. So if I have to take a test like this in college I will be ready for that because the WASL would be like a prep. All in all even though I did not pass I know that this has made me think about better ways to take test that are time like the WASL.

Arrow Newspaper Most Valuable

The way this happends is that the whole class writes who they think is most valuable during paste up. Paste up is when we stay after school for ten hours or more from Wednesday-Friday to finish the school newspaper. It was our second time doing it and for some reason I really wanted to step up during this issue. When doing paste up it influences my development as a person. It does this because it helps me become better with my leadership skills. For example if someone needed help on their page with headlines or something I was willing to help. Or if someone need me to finish their page because they could not stay later. I also had to fix peoples story ideas so it would fit on the newspaper which made me want to think like the person in a way so I did not make it sound like me. All in all I enjoyed being a big help to the class and plan on being helpful wherever else I go.

Most Inspirational

I ____________ Derek Smith the Advisor of Journalism am signing this to prove that ____________________ was voted most inspirational by the staff of the Renton Senior High newspaper Arrow

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Outstanding Writing Piece CBA

Besides this piece making me a more responsibile citizen ready to meet lifes challenges it also taught me how to do reasearch better than I have in the past. I say that because of the brainstorming I had to do. First off I chose hate crime because no one else had it and I wondered what it took to actually say someone is committing a hate crime against someone. For brainstorming I had to use note cards and write down fifteen sources all together. The sources could be from magazines, books, encyclopedias or even the internet. The difficult part was that I had to use three or more sources but most of them were saying the samething over. It also influenced my development as a person for the simple fact is that it had to have correct grammar. Although I had little mistakes I still got the grade I was expecting to get when I turned it in. All in all the biggest lesson I will take out of this oustanding writing piece is people are who they are and they might come with a few minor errors that are not meant to be fixed.

Oustanding Writing Piece Arrow Newspaper

This piece is just outstading because of where it is at. It is in the school newspaper and it is not easy to get one of your story ideas in it. You have to first come up with the ideas on your own and figure out what you want to write about. Then there is different types of story ideas. Some include people or just funny stories or information. After completing your story you have to get it proof read by just about everyone in the class. So then people suggest things you should change and then it is like the whole story changed and it is not what you began with. That is why this prepared me to meet lifes challenges because when someone tries to change your work that is when arguments start. Then you have to look back and say to yourself that it is all for the best that someone else is reading and telling you what to change because thats what other people might say when they read it. If the paper is not good from the start then the editorial board will tell us that it can not go in the paper. To sum it up I know that the writing has to be good if the whole school is reading it

ART BESTWORK WRITING NAME

This piece of art has prepared me to meet lifes challenges because I am taking a class that is not exactly easy to me. The class is art and I never did like to draw or paint or anything that fits that box. This has prepared me because it shows me that I am not going to do things that I always like. Although the art piece is not exactly perfect it shows that I am willing to take risk and that I have faith that I will improve on my art work. Taking this class and doing some things I have never done has also influenced my devlopment as a person. I say this because it taught me not everything comes out perfect or how you always picture it. Although my teachers said it was good I do not think so that has taught me that beauty truly is in eye of the beholder.

boutin
Condition 7: Support Of the Disadvantaged For Democracy

Yes because the minorities were promised fair distributations if they participated

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/8923

Condition 8: Citizen Participation

U.S. citizens living in Argentina began casting their ballots for the presidential election on Tuesday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/09/content_10169699.htm

Condition 9: Education & Freedom Of Information

It is but it is not because some people have to pay

http://www.argentina.org.au/education.htm

Condition 10: Favorable International Enviroment

No because it it dropping fast

http://www.reuters.com/article/argentina/idUSN0242410620090302

wallet
We have all lost a pencil, some loose change, a favorite shirt, or even our "first love" at some point in our life. I have lost something closer than all those things combined before. Something I hold so close to me it is as I could sit on it. Wait I can, it is my wallet. Loosing my wallet felt like I lost my life. Just think about all the things you hold in there. You have credit cards, social security card, money, state i.d. and well you get the picture. I have lost my wallet twice and let me tell you it is not the best feeling in the world. All the things that run through your head just thinking about if it got in the hands of the wrong person. When I lost my wallet I at the store. We went there to get some snacks. When we got back to the house I kept feeling around in all my pockets just to make sure. When I realized my pockets were flat I soon began to wonder if my wallet was going to feel the same when I got it back. So we had to rush back to the store. When I got there I asked the clerk if my wallet was there and I all I had to do was identify that it was me. Luckily I got it back. Another time I lost was in my very own home. It took almost a week to find it. The bad part about it, is that I kept asking my parents over and over again if they have seen it. The only answer they would give me is that I would find. Which meant they knew where it was all along. So finally I just gave up looking for it, then one day I looked up and to my suprise it was on the microwave. How embarassing is that to keep walking past your own wallet in the place we all go the most. I guess you can say even our wallets get a little "money" hungry sometimes.

globe what
To globalize is to extend to other or all parts of the world. When hearing that you do not expect the question after that to be if you think that it is good or bad. Globalization can be good and bad depending on what your looking at and who is doing it. Globalization has changed the world in a positive way by making things cheaper or ways to travel. We all need those to communicate better with each other and in other parts of the world. It can also be good because it increases living standards in all countries. Everyone benefits from if your poor then by globalizing you can get just a little bit more richer than you were before. If there is anyone who suffers are small in number. So when hearing that even few suffer makes it seem like globalization is bad, but the more globalized a country is the better its enviromental quality is. Everyone can benefit from a better enviroment because that can mean that it is cleaner or there is not so much crime going on in the area. We all know that everything is perfect with and there is not happy ending so what about the people who are actually affected by globalization. These people lose their jobs and might have to go back to college to get a better education. So if we take a McDonalds and put it in another country then the people working there are going have to find a new job. Who is exactly to blame or even thank for all the good and bad things that come with this powerful word globalization. Is it the multinational Corporations? The people who actually allow sweatshops in their country and allow dehumnazing labor condtions. When these factories are put in other places they do things to the world that is said to end it for us. Pollution. If we increase our globalization then wouldn't that mean there would be more building polluting the earth. How about the poor country workers? They are the ones who actually work in the factories. So without them the factory would not run so they are technically killing the planet as well. How about the people which we mostly associate with on a daily basis? The consumers. They demand for so much which causes the people to work in the factories and pollute the air and hurt theirselves. How about the "System of Profit"? If the cooperation is worried more about the enviroment than the profit then they have to leave. Then again it is hard to blame the system of profit because it is not acutally people. All those had their goods and bad in the world. I personally do not know if globalization really has a side. The only thing I would say is that we do not need increased globalization. If it is increased and there is more sweatshops then more people are going to die. I say this because in order for increased globalization people who be demanding more. So the U.S. would send more businesses over there, but that would not be good because people would then lose their jobs here causing poverty to happen in the U.S.. Then again those who demanaded would be happy and have what they want. So again globalzation can be bad or good, but it really is a personally issue that people have to decide if it yay or nay for them.

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Making Honor roll this year has has influenced my devlopment as a person. I realized that if I do better in school, the community or anywhere that I am appreciated for it and that I will get recognized for it. This also makes me want to stive to do better in everything else in my future. For example if I am working I might get employee of the month, promoted to a higher position, a raise or something like that. It also contriubted to my most meaningful and challenging educational experience point in my life. This is meaningful to me because I feel as though I did not just do all that hard work and keeping my grades up for nothing. I was actually suprised when I saw my name in the paper. It was so unexpected to my mom too. It was a challenge for me because there is certain classes that I do not find easy at but, I did not let that stop me from getting the grades I know I deserve.

Performing at Summer Jam has influenced my devlopment as a person. It is crazy to know that I can walk into a whole school and say that I performed at Summer Jam and knowing that no one else did. It has taught me that hard work does pay off and in the end it also showed it. For Kutt 'N' Up it long and hard practices. When we have a show coming up we practice for the whole week before the show for two hours each day sometimes even coming back for night practices. I remember when we were first told we were going to perform on stage I did not really see the big idea because I had never been to or heard of Summer Jam. Then I was in front of thousands of people performing live. That right there made me get over my nervousness for anything. Everytime I am about to dance or present a project I just think back to Summer Jam compared to all the people I am about to dance in front of or present to.

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A sweat shop is a shop that hires workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions. When you think about it, it makes you wonder to yourself why would people even work in these conditions. People need to work period in order to survive and provide for their families. So who is to blame for this? The answer is poor country ruling elite's. They are the ones who want to live like everyone else and the only way they can do that is by having these poor innocent people work under these harh conditions. If they want to live nice they should let the people also by giving them breaks and good wages that will help them support themselves or even their families. Not only are the sweat shops hurting the wokers but also the enviroment as well. When they build facotories it pollutes the air and they also allow toxic waste to be dumped into the rivers. It makes no sense for them to damage the enviroment which people need just so they can live the "good" life. For example when kill the trees people could use it for paper. The water might be used for the people to drink but if it has toxic wast in it then they can not do much with it. They do not even have to act better than everyone else they choose to do that. Which means they actually could help everyone but choose not to becasue they are so stingy. Worse of all they allow child labor of all things. Children should not be working these long hours or poor conditions. They can only go for so long in one day and they also have an education just like other kids. If they keep putting these children to work then they might die. It would be fine if it was decent hours or just a certain amount of hours like here in the U.S.. Then when the workers protest you use the military to stop them. If anything the government should listen to the people. Instead of sharing the wealth they take it theirselves and go somewhere else to invest. All in all these sweat shops may not seem like bad idea to people who demand for the goods, the people who send the corporations into these places or even the ones who run it. But whose hands does the blood go on? Of course no ones since they all look away so the only ones to see the pain is the workers

stories
MAYAH DANIELS

What Is DECA? I forgot.

Are you still in it? No.

Why? I just really backed away from it I don’t have that class anymore. What class? Marketing. I never went to any of the competitions. What are competitions? They do camping state stuff. That’s why I’m probably not in it because I really don’t know.

Did it teach you anything? Yea.

What? It’s important to do the blood drive. What did you learn from blood drive? It helps out people who give blood. Would you donate blood again? Yes, because if I ever need blood then I would remember that I gave blood and I would want someone to give me some.

What did you do in DECA?

What does it stand for?

BRADLEY BROWN

Feelings: absorbed abusive accepting accommodating accomplished adaptable adversarial aggressive agreeable alert altruistic analytical angry annoyed antagonistic anxious approved of arrogant ashamed authentic balanced beautiful belligerent bereft bitter bored brave broken down bullied calm chaotic cheerful cold commanding compassionate competitive complaining conceited condemned confident conflicted confused conservative content controlled controlling cooperative courageous cowardly creative critical cruel curious defeated deluded demanding dependent depressed desperate destitute destructive detached dignified disconnected discouraged disgusted dominated dominating eccentric ecstatic egocentric egotistical empathic empowered envious erratic excited expressive extroverted fair faithful fearful frightened frustrated glad good grateful greedy grieving guilty happy harmonizing hatred helpful helpless hesitant hopeless idealistic ignorant impatient important impoverished impulsive indifferent individualistic inert insecure insensitive inspired in service interested intolerant introspective invulnerable irresponsible irritated isolated jealous joyful judged judgmental lazy likable lively lonely lost loved loving mad manipulated manipulative mediating miserable mistrusting moody moral negative noble obsessed open panicked paranoid passionate passive peaceful perfectionist pitiful pleased poor possessive powerful practical preoccupied procrastinating proud punished punishing purposeful rage reactionary reclusive rejected rejoicing repressed resentful resigned resistant responsible ridiculous righteous ruthless sad sadistic secretive selfish self-accepting self-condemning self-defeating self-destructive self-hatred self-obsessed self-pity self-sabotaging sensitive serene shamed shut-down shy sorry stable stimulated stricken strung-out stubborn superior tantrums timid tolerant unconcerned understanding unforgiving unhappy unresponsive untrusting vain vengeance vicious victimized violent visionary well-meaning wise withdrawn worthy

What does music mean to you?

Does it speak to you? Yes, It depends on what type of music.

What kind of music do you listen to when you are down? Genre: Sad R&B Song: Apologize- Timbaland Why: It is a sad song and it is pretty much saying apologize. What is that song saying to me? It is to late to apologize, it is to late accomplish something, it is to late for anything.

What kind of music do you listen to when you are happy? Genre: There is a lot of music I listen to when I am happy. Rap Song: Live Your Life-T.I. & Rhiana Why: Because it is a very uplifting song especially when your happy. What do you mean by uplifting? Like you know the song says live your life, it is pretty much saying live your life, don’t worry about people you know I don’t want to say haters but what about people say and just live your life.

What kind of music do you listen to when you are mad? Fighting music Genre: Rap Song: Gangsta Gangsta- Lil Scrappy Why: Because you know when your mad it makes you even more mad. Like I want to fight someone. Would it actually make you fight someone? Yes if I was listening to that song and I was in a bad mood then yes I would.

KELSEY SPARKS

From wearing barrettes to wearing headbands, from buying sandals to buying sneakers, from running in the sandbox to running on the court, from chasing boys to chasing Spalding, from putting her hand up to say whatever to putting her hand up to say good game, from raising her hand high in class to leaving it in the air after that sweet 3 pointer, from hearing the recess bell to hearing the buzzer, from kids yelling on the playground to fans cheering in the stands, From having multiple teachers to having that one special…..

What is your favorite sport? Basketball

How longed have you played? 15 years

Why do you think you have been playing all these years? Because its my passion, I love everything about the sport and I believe it will take me somewhere in life.

What is that somewhere? Get me into college, or even play overseas

So you said “Because its my passion, I love everything about the sport and I believe it will take me somewhere in life.” that kept you playing? Have you ever thought about it being the coach also? Not all the time, but sometimes

How come? Because he pushes me to my best ability, and encourages me to over achieve.

Who is he? Well mostly my past coach, Coach Washington, he coached me longer than any coach (6 years) and few other coaches.

How did he push you? Well working me as hard as the boys on my team, make me become point guard “head leader” on the court, made me stay after practice to work on more drills

When did Coach Washington start coaching you? When I was 7 years old.

Do you think being close to the coach helps? How come?

beefin
Jermey Edmonson

We have all been in some type of argument with either a friend, neighbor, enemy, or family member. Some even say blood is thicker than water. In this case water happens to be the problem between Argentina and Uruguay. Argentina and Uruguay are neighbors and have got along pretty well until Uruguay wanted to build pulp mills in the middle of the river. The river is a place where tourist like to go but if the pulp mills are there it will not be such a nice sight especially since the pulp mills have a chance of polluting.

Argentina believes that the pulp mills will pollute the river causing the tourist to leave and not want  to be there at all. On the Uruguay side they believe the mills will help them since people need jobs anyway. To try and stop pulp mills from being built Argentina has been going on strike. Although that works at times it sill is not stopping these pulp mills from being built sky high. To make matters worse is since the river is in the middle Uruguay did not even ask for Argentina’s opinion or how they felt about it.

interviews
Mayah Daniels 1.What kind of writer would you define yourself as? Poetry writer.

2.How long have you been writing? Since the 6th grade

3.What does it surround? Just experiences I’ve gone through and the way I feel.

4.What inspired you to write? I was depressed. Because of boy trouble. Low self-esteem issues

5.Do emotions have a lot do with your writing? Yes, because its easier to write about something that happened to me and put it into artwork.

6.Which emotion triggers you to write the most? Why? Sadness. Because I have all these emotions inside and I need to let them out. It relieves a lot stress.

7.Writing around people or by yourself? Why? By myself. I could write around people if I was really zoned in. I just like to be alone when I write. Because usually I be really sad when I’m writing and I don’t want people to keep saying what’s wrong? (In front of people feel) it didn’t feel like anything I just tuned everybody out

8.Do your poems describe you? They describe feelings at a certain time. Current feelings.

9.Do you share your poems? Yes. Because they’re hella good. And I want people to read it and say that was deep and say where did that come from. I would tell them it came from me.

India Woods 1.What kind of writer would you define yourself as? Soulful and Passionate

2.How long have you been writing? Since the 6th grade

3.What does it surround? Elements of my life

4.What inspired you to write? Tragic? Nothing tragic, the 1st poem I wrote was about how friends aren’t really truly your friends. They’re actors and actresses.

5.Do emotions have a lot do with your writing? Absolutely, that when I mostly write.

6.Which emotion triggers you to write the most? Why? Anger, because I use to act on anger and that wasn’t good so I write out my anger.

7.Writing around people or by yourself? Why? Myself I don’t like sharing my work, I’m not really an open person, they will know the true me and that’s scary

8.Do your poems describe you? An explanation of the true me.