-What struck me was about how the little kid died off of the hamburgers, and what his mom is trying to do. I have kind of stopped eating hamburgers :D
Do you agree or disagree with the concepts? Why? -I agree because everything they said in the movie actually makes sence.
How can you apply them to the real world? -I can tell my mom to start buying stuff from organic places like Trader Joe's & Henry's and buy locally.
What do your parents or family members think?
-What my family thought about that was that it was very harsh how they killed and treated the animals. They also thought that if their feeding the animals, and want to get them big for us, to feed them what their actually supposed to eat so that way we wont die of E coli, and they don't have to be torchered, there is other ways to kill them like put them to sleep then start chopping them into pieces.
Quote:Like most five-year-olds, she was thrilled to be going off to school at last, and I was thrilled for her, imagining (as she did) that some truly wonderful experience must be awaiting her. It was only after several months that I began to notice that her excitement was fading — and continued to fade month after month and year after year, until, by the time she was in the third grade she was thoroughly bored and glad for any opportunity to miss a day of school. Does this all come as strange news to you?" "Yeah," I said with a bitter laugh. "Only about eighty million kids went to bed last night praying for six feet of snow to fall so the schools would have to close."
Response:Like we talked about it in class we were saying when we're little we're actually excited for our first day of school, but once we actually spend time there and do the same thing every morning we get tired of it. I can relate to that because I know when it was my first day of school I was so ready for school but after a couple of months I wanted to shoot my self in the head!Being in high school now I hate it, but at the same time you think about it, and you kind of have to, to get a good job and have a good future.
Bobby was 62 years old and was a retired man and lived in a trailer park in Ford, Illinois. He had a daughter that lived in Shelby, Illinois named Angela. Life before was filled with joy and happiness, even though he wasn’t the wealthiest man around. The only thing that mattered to him was having that special person around, which was, Michelle, his wife. They were high school sweethearts, after high school they continued to be together, and after that they got married. They were married for 31 years. That showed how much he loved her. His wife had heart disease and needed surgery in order to survive longer. Bobby and his wife really wanted the surgery to be performed but didn’t have the money to make it possible. He knew he would do whatever he could in order to get the money he needed for that surgery.
Bobby was really in need of money because of the surgery that his wife needed. She was the most important person to him so he couldn’t let her die of the disease she had. That was basically the only person he really had. They promised each other when they got old they would do nothing but care for one another and not let anything bad happen to either one of them. This was the test to see if Bobby would do anything for Michelle in this situation that she was going through. Since he didn’t have a job nor relatives to help him, he decided to put his life at risk and start robbing. He knew it wasn’t a good decision but it was something he had to do for his wife. He wasn’t going to waste any time at all to start getting that money. He got to it right away.
The next day came and that was the day he was going to commit the robbery. He decided to rob a liquor store called Forties and 9's that wasn’t so close to the trailer parks he lived in. He took his old pick up truck he had owned for a while now. He got to the liquor store and parked his car in the alley behind the store. He sat inside his truck for a while before he actually went in the store and do what he planed to do that day. He was really nervous; he just sat there looking at his sweaty palms while shaking his right leg nonstop. He pulled himself together.
"Come on man, this is for Michelle," he said to himself.
He went into the store with a 9mm hand gun. He walked in as if he was a normal buying customer. He waited for the two customers that where in there to leave then he walked up to the cashier lady took out the 9mm on the lady and pleaded for the money in the cashier.
"Hurry up give me the freaking money lady," he yelled
The lady was so scared, she had difficulties opening it. She just stood there panicking trying to open the cashier. In the end she got it opened and gave him all the money.
"Here's the money, leave already" she said with a shaken voice.
He snatched the money from her hands and ran out the back door which led him to the alley where he parked his truck without saying one word. He jumped in and took off leaving nothing behind.
He robbed four liquor stores that week. In one of those robberies he made the biggest mistake of his life. He killed one of the cashiers. He had the 9mm that day. When Bobby took out his gun asking for the money the cashier reacted back, and took out his hand gun. The guy shot at Bobby but missed. Bobby panicked and shot him, and the cashier laid there dead. Bobby ran out so quick that he didn’t even notice he dropped his gun. When Bobby was running out, a customer was coming in and she saw the blood and quickly called the police. The police came and had the gun as evidence and got the finger prints off of it. The police had so many clues to lead them to Bobby. The police looked at the surveillance cameras and saw him there. The police tracked him down and arrested him and was sentenced to life in jail.
When Bobby got there he could only make one call. He decided to call his daughter Angela first and for her to let Michelle know. When his wife found out about what happened she died of a heart attack that same night. Angela wrote to Bobby letting him know what happened to Michelle. He was so hurt. Days after the death of Michelle, Bobby couldn’t handle knowing the love of his life Michelle was dead. He committed suicide outside of his jail cell. In lunch he went up to his jail cell, got a couple of shirts and tied them together, tied one end to the tier and the other around his neck. He jumped over the tier, and there he hung...DEAD!
My goal this semester is to participate more in class like in "the word of the day" I plan on reading the example I do for the word, and participate to read "the word of the day", because I see that participation is a big part or your grade.
Goal 2: Pay attention
When I'm class i get distracted and I start talking to people and i stop paying attention. When they say what the homework is I never listen so in the end of the class I get out not knowing what we have to do and I have to be asking everyone.
Goal 3: Using habits of mind
I plan on all my work using the habits of mind because every single one up there helps your work look better so I play on turning in my best work.
My goal this semester is When I don't get something to ask people around me, and if they don't get it then I will ask the teacher. Because last semester it was difficult for me because I would never ask for help, if I didn't get it I would just not do it.
Goal 2:Doing my Home Work
When we get homework they usually give us time to do it in class but I just don't do it, I wait until I get home but either way i get distracted at home so in the end I end up not doing it and i have to do it the next day in the trolley so now if they give us time to do it I will use my time wisely.
Goal 3:Checking my work
I usually just turn in my work without checking my answers and that's why I get my answers wrong so I'm going to start check my answers before I turn anything in.
Project Description: We had to paint a drawing on the 9Th grade common pillars with what your civilization had to do with. I had to do mine about Anasazi Art and Architecture. I drew the dwellings they lived in with a pot that they made on top.
Process: I had to go on google and look up their dwellings. I looked up the easiest one to draw because I'm not an artist. First I traced it with a pencil just in case I messed up, then after I started to paint over it, then came my beautiful master piece.
Reflection: What did you learn? -I learned that a picture really does represent what I was learning in class about Anasazi Art and Architecture.
What challenges did you encounter? -I didn't really encounter any challenges because painting my drawing was fun. :)
What would you do the same or different? -I wouldn't do anything different because I'm happy with how the drawing came out.
How will this help you later?
-This will help me in my drawing skills, and my artistic eye. ;) ha ha
Project Description: This project was about us being put in a group of 3 or 4 people and getting stuck with a civilization. Then we have to figure out stuff about that civilization and figuring out what we could make to send back so the thing we make can help that certain civilization. It was either a boat, trebuchet, or a water transportation system.
Process: I had to look up as much things about Anasazi art and architecture. After that I had to put what I learned about it into 7 Paragraphs. I had to set up those paragraphs in t.e.a format.
Reflection: What did you learn? -I learned what the Anasazi slept in and how they would get their water. It was very interesting how they would build their own homes with dirt. I also got to learn about other peoples civilization because during the exhibition we got to walk around and ask things about their civilization.
What challenges did you encounter? -The challenges that I had was just writing the essay. To me that was the hardest because I'm not good with writing.
What would you do the same or different? -I would not copy and paste things into my essay from the Internet or my resources. Next time I would just turn it into my own words.
How will this help you later? This helped me learn how to write professional letters so when I have a job and I want to write a letter to my boss I will know how to.
