Edgar Garcia is my brother, he also happens to be my hero. He is currently 19 years old and is struggling to move forward with his life. Being a high school drop out affected him really bad. He was 17 years old when he decided to stop attending school. He stopped going to school because he had gotten in a fight with a guy, and got kicked out of that school, and he just didn't want to try to look for another school to attend.
"Do you think the decision you made was a good one?" I asked.
He looked at me and sighed and said "NO! Because I messed up, I can’t do anything without a diploma,"
Looking at him since he dropped out, it has been difficult for him. He can’t get a good job; well he can but not one that gets paid good enough. I asked him how he felt about him being my hero.
"I feel special, but I don't see how I can be your hero if all I am is a drop out." He said. That answer brought me to the next thing that I'm going to write about.
I noticed while he was in school he never really pushed me to do good in school, now that he dropped out and realized that what he did was a bad decision he now is harder on me with school.
“Why would you start acting like that now?” I asked
"Because I didn't go to school, and I don't want you to mess up in school and do the things I did," he replied.
To me that's why he’s my hero. He shows me that he actually does care about the decisions I make. That makes me feel really good, because knowing that my dad isn’t here for me, I know he is. When I hear it from my mom it doesn't really grab my attention, and I don't even want to listen to it because she’s my mom, of course she wants what’s best for me, but when I hear it from my brother it does make a difference because most brothers don't really care what you do, they just want to do their own thing. I kind of see him like my second dad; I don't really have a good relationship with my dad so it’s nice to have a good one with my older brother and to see he does care.
Looking at him now, I see he is trying to make the right decision. He’s been trying to go back to school. He got a job, not a good one but he got one. He’s currently working at Little Cesar's. I asked him how he plans to do his future.
"To finish school, get my diploma so I can get a good job and help my parents," he replied.
Seeing how he really messed up his life I wouldn't want to make the same mistake he did.
“I was still wondering how you would feel if I made that same mistake you did,” I asked
"Bad, because I want you to do better in life cause I know you can, and I don't want you to end up like me," he looked at me intently.
He got up slowly before saying what he told me. When he did that, I knew he was serious. Hopefully his life mistake gets better.

Hero Project Reflection

1. A hero becomes a hero when they do something that you really appreciate, or when they show their love for you.


2. Project Description- What was the Hero in My Eyes project? - The hero in my eyes project was that we needed to pick someone that was a hero to us, and we had to write an essay, one moment in time about why their a hero to us.


3. Process- What steps did you take to get to the final product?

-We had to think of some question that we thought would be good to ask our hero.

-We sat the hero down and asked them the questions, we got answers and made a story/ essay about them being our hero.

4. Reflection- What did you learn? What challenges did you encounter? What would you do the same or different? How will this help you later?

- I learned a hero isn't just spider man, super man, etc.., it can be anyone you see as a hero.

-The challenge that i encountered was writing the essay because I'm not so good at writing stories.

-The things I would of done differently would have been being more descriptive on how my brother looked, and doing the challenge assignment with the 5 vocab words.

-This can help me in the future because I can get prepared for college when we really have to write something hard.

5. I picked wonder because I would always ask my self what if I did this better, what if?

The Origin Of Zero

When I read the articles I was really interested in reading more. To me the number zero wasnt really important. I thought it was just any other number.But yet the exact number zero has not yet been pointed. Supposably this guy named Fabonacci brought the number zero from North Africa.They still dont really know who brought zero, its still a mystery.

In my opinion I dont think only one person thought of zero. I think alot of people knew about it but they just didnt know other people knew about it.The articles really explained alot, it had alot of detail.

I really liked reading the articles because I learned alot of stuff that I didnt even know about zero.

:)

He was a rockkk :|

Catching the signal from one of her friends, Angela brushed her skirt, took a deep breath and walked towards where he was sitting. Her face was as red as a tomato. You could so tell she was a nervous wreck. "How am I going to start a conversation with the cutest boy in class" she said to herself. I cant talk to him hes a rock, hes always serious. She walked slowly, looking around to see who was looking at her. It was as if the whole playground was looking at her. They looked at her as if I was a model on a runway. She kept on walking slowly rubbing her hands on my thighs.

As she got there, it was her friend Jocelyn, Ara and the cute boy that will stay anonymous. When she got there Jocelyn and Ara said hi, and all of a sudden Ara said, "oh well I have to go back to class, I have to read a book." Jocelyn looked around confused. "Umm I have to, um go drink some water, bye I'll let you guys talk." When she said that Angela looked at her quick, her eyes got bigger, giving her a sign for her not to leave. Jocelyn looked at her, giggled and left. She sat down next to him and smiled. He smiled back. Angela looked down, kicking the dirt back and forth on the ground. They stayed quiet for the longest, then the bell rang.

They both got up and that's when he asked her if he can walk her to her class. Angela nodded and smiled. When they started walking, he slowly grabbed her hand. They swung it back and forth the whole way back to class. They stood there in front of her class. "Okay i guess ill head to my class now" he said. "Alright" Angela said. He headed for a hug and came in for a kiss. After that kiss Angela had the biggest smile on her face that she couldn't wipe off.

AND SHE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

:)

THE END!

"Divorce"

Seeing my dad come back home after that whole month of him gone because of the problem that had happened with my mom and dad. Having to find out my dad had cheated on my mom and not being able to be there when everything had happened. Having to find my mom crying on the couch when I was just coming home from a party, yeah, all that affected me. I didn't know in what way to be there for my mom, all I did was try not to bring more problems to her, and tried to avoid those little things she didn't like.

At that point seeing how my mom was feeling made me not want to speak to my dad. I just never liked to see my mom like that because what she felt some how I felt too. I didn't get why my dad wanted to come talk to me and my brothers if what he had done to my mom was done and there was no turning back to what he did. While he was talking to us I didn't even want to be there listening to what he had to say, I just wanted to get up, walk into my room, and not come out until he left , but I thought I should at least stay just to see what he had to say. While he was talking me and my brothers I didn't really want to look him in the eyes, our eyes wondered off some place else. My mom wasn't in the same room where my dad was talking to us, she was in her room and we were in the living room. At one point i turned and looked at my brothers, i saw their faces, they looked serious, the only time i would see their faces like that was when they were about to get in a fight or were just mad. When he had walked in, he had a face of shame, like he knew what he did wasn't right. He told us how he wasn't expecting us to forgive him, Good I thought because I wasn't going to.

When he left I kept on thinking about what he had said. I thought how life would be with out him, and after I thought how my life would be losing him, basically I was thinking about the good and the bad about each one. In the end I decided it didn't really matter what I thought, my mom was going to make her own decision, so whatever my mom decided I would be okay with. She decided he was going to come back. She gave me two reasons, she said first cause of me and my brothers, and second because she knew she wouldn't be able to do it without the money and take care of us at the same time. Her decision affected me because I don't and won't see my dad the same ever again. Me and him don't talk as much. Sometimes I just wish they would have gone through with the divorce, maybe that way I wouldn't have to hear them fight almost everyday.

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(Humanities]

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Looking through every sound you had, i found this one. I chose this one personally because i had heard this exact instrument earlier in humanities class. A noise of a circular thing going in circles on a plate like thing. As i heard a not so loud noise in the begining and as it circled more, the sound would get louder. It will start of slow and get faster and faster. It kind of reminded me of when you spin a coin on a table. That instrument was really loud. To me it sounded like a helicopter when i heard it in person. The reason why i chose this one is because i thought the sound was really cool. I also thought it would be cool to write about it if i allready knew how it looked and sounded. The sound was all in your ear. You could hear it a mile away. A loud sound. It kinda also reminded me of when the trolley goes in to a tunnel going really fast. And thats what this instument sounded like. :)

S.L.O.B Character- What I Did This Weekend

Walking with Rosaleen looking for a place to stay for the night. That night wasnt really cold, Rosaleen and i decided to stay near this river type place. We bathed in the river, and slept under the trees. Me and Rosaleen has gotten mad at eachother for some reason, but then we had gotten over it after a while. We began to talk like if nothing had happened.

The next morning came, it was a sunny day. We were worried about where we were going to stay that night. We talked about how we were going to survive this with out knowing anyone. I thought we should do something to keep our minds out of it. We thought and though until saw little kids playing ball in their front yard.

We approuched the little kids playing, when we got to them the kids stopped playing at just starred at us like if they were thinking "what do you guys want". I asked can we play with you guys? They looked at eachother thinking about their answer, after those silent 30 seconds they said sure. We played for a good time then after a while we were at the big pink house.

The Locker Problem

The pattern is 1 open, 2 shut, 1 open, 4 shut, 1 open, 6 shut...etc
All numbers with a perfect square are open which is like 10 can go into 100 10 times, so like a square root, and a number that can be multiplied by itself to get a number.

Any other numbers are shut.
there are 31 perfect squares from 1-1000
which is like the example of a perfect square.

There are 969 lockers shut and 31 open because there are only 31 perfect squares and those were the ones that were going to be open so 1000-31=969 so then 969 lockers are going to be closed. 16, 81, and 625, are the doors that were only touched 5 times.

"The locker problem"

• Suppose the first student goes along the row and opens every locker.
• The second student then goes along and shuts every other locker beginning with locker number 2.
• The third student changes the state of every third locker beginning with locker number 3. (If the locker is open the student shuts it, and if the locker is closed the student opens it.)
• The fourth student changes the state of every fourth locker beginning with number 4

I am going to make a small example using

4 students and 20 lockers.

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I followed the steps on the locker problem,

so i started off with all of the lockers closed and did what it said i had to do.

Order Of Operations!

• 5(5x5)

• 6/2x3/3

• 6+13x2-1=19

My Fictional Hero :)

My fictional hero is batman. The reason why he's my hero is because he saves people and he saved Gotham city. He would fight the bad people and help the good people. He is a man of muscle and gadgets, no super powers. Another reason why he is my hero is because hes a normal guy that saves people. So hes a guy doing good.:)

What is Math? What is Physics?

<---- This explains what i think math is. Just doing things with a bunch of numbers. :)

-To me math is what I was always learning at school, the usual division, mulitiplication, subtraction, addition, and fractions. I guess "math" was meant for elementary, now its physics.

To me physics is a more advanced version of math. Now that I'm in high school this is what I will be learning instead of math.

What "MYSICS" means to me is something really important that I will need in the future. It's something that I will have to apply in my everyday life.

Some examples of how I could be using math everyday is...

• when you go shopping and you only have a certain amount of money to spend.


• when you have to share something and divide into certain amount of pieces .

etc.

30 Things You Didnt Know About Me!! :))

• I love the color PURPLE.
  
• My favorite food is chilaquiles.
  
• I have a step sister.
• I'm an aunt.
• I have two dogs (pit bulls)
• I was born at SHARP hospital
• I have gone to Mexico a couple of times (Puerto Vallarta)
• I speak Spanish
• I Love piercings
  
• Cant go a day without makeup :)
• I would want a cat but my dog would eat it.
• I love the beach
• I love pancakes
• I cant be in my room when its dirty(it gets me frustrated)
• I am an animal loverr
• I really like to eat Chinese food :D
• I have family in Mexico
• Me and my family have drove to Oakland to visit my step sister
  
• I love to hang out with friends
• I like all kinds of music
• I talk on the phone every day
• And i text
• I like to go to parties
  
• I like to think a party isn't a party without MUSIC!
• I'm a catholic
• My favorite football team is CHARGERS
• My favorite soccer team : CHIVASS :)
• I love gold fishh crackers
• I want to be a doctor when i grow up
• It was so hard for me to write/think of the things above.