"COM" words
This week in ELA I learned about words that start with "com":
Com means to put together
Complete means to have all of the components to do something.
Compare means to point out the resemblances between two things.
A Compass is a navigational tool.
A Compainon is a person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels.
Company is a organization like Apple.
Combined is when you mix two or more things together.
Complex is when something is not easy to understand.
When you are in Command you are in charge.
A Comittee is a group that meets for things that fund them.
A computer is the thing you are looking at this with.
Comparison is when you compare things.
Comments are YouTube comments.
Complicated is when something is hard to understand.
Commuticate is when you talk to someone.
Communication is when you talk to someone.
I hope you learned something!
Com means to put together
Complete means to have all of the components to do something.
Compare means to point out the resemblances between two things.
A Compass is a navigational tool.
A Compainon is a person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels.
Company is a organization like Apple.
Combined is when you mix two or more things together.
Complex is when something is not easy to understand.
When you are in Command you are in charge.
A Comittee is a group that meets for things that fund them.
A computer is the thing you are looking at this with.
Comparison is when you compare things.
Comments are YouTube comments.
Complicated is when something is hard to understand.
Commuticate is when you talk to someone.
Communication is when you talk to someone.
I hope you learned something!
Thirteen Reasons Why
BEFORE YOU READ: I RESPECT THE PERSON THAT WROTE THIS ARTICLE'S OPINION. I AM JUST SHOWING MY OPINION. This week I read an article online about the new show on Netflix (and one of my favorites I watched it with an adult too) called 'Thirteen Reasons Why'. I thought I should read it since I loved the show so much (except for what Bryce did. I also just hate Courtney like the rest of the fandom). So I read the article and it was called "Why 'Thirteen Reasons Why' is dangerous" (it was under the opinion section). I read it and I disagree what what this person was saying. Yes 'Thirteen Reasons Why' is supposed to make you uncomfortable and yes it is still saying that suicide is bad, hence why they made they made that scene the most uncomfortable thing in the series. But I can say that it is an educational show. It shows how you shouldn't be mean to anyone in general, but you be mean to anyone because you might not know what they are going through. It actually says in the show "The way we treat each other. It has to get better." One of the things I actually AGREE with is that it is not a show for all ages. It is a show for middle school and above. If you are in middle school, watch it with an adult. If you have any questions you could ask them. And remember, suicide is a permanent choice for a temporary problem. If you need any help there will be a link below to a crisis line in your community.
Simple Progressive and Perfect tenses
This week in ELA we learned about Simple Progressive and Perfect Tenses
-Verb forms indicate tense, or the time of action
SIMPLE TENSES: are present tense, the past tense, and the future tense.
ex. present - I am riding a bike
past - i rode a bike
future - i will ride a bike
PROGRESSIVE TENSES: are made up of the auxiliary verb he and the present participle (ing ending) of the main verb
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE: Adam is playing soccer
PAST PROGRESSIVE: Adam was playing soccer
FUTURE PROGRESSVIE: Adam will be playing soccer
PERFECT TENSES: Consits of a form of the auxiliary verb have and the past participle of the main verb
PRESENT PERFECT: Mateo has eaten a cupcake
PAST PERFECT: Mateo had eaten a cupcake
FUTURE PERFECT: Mateo will have eaten a cupcake
*In the perfect tenses the passive voice is formed by inserting been - the cat has been groomed
-Verb forms indicate tense, or the time of action
SIMPLE TENSES: are present tense, the past tense, and the future tense.
ex. present - I am riding a bike
past - i rode a bike
future - i will ride a bike
PROGRESSIVE TENSES: are made up of the auxiliary verb he and the present participle (ing ending) of the main verb
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE: Adam is playing soccer
PAST PROGRESSIVE: Adam was playing soccer
FUTURE PROGRESSVIE: Adam will be playing soccer
PERFECT TENSES: Consits of a form of the auxiliary verb have and the past participle of the main verb
PRESENT PERFECT: Mateo has eaten a cupcake
PAST PERFECT: Mateo had eaten a cupcake
FUTURE PERFECT: Mateo will have eaten a cupcake
*In the perfect tenses the passive voice is formed by inserting been - the cat has been groomed
Trouble Verbs
This week in ELA we learned about trouble verbs. These are verbs that people get confused easily. Don't worry if you get them confused I have some of them here for you.
lie, lay
lie: (lay, lain) “to rest or recline” (intransitive)
lay: (laid, laid) “to put or place something down” (transitive)
sit, set
sit: (sat, sat) “to have or keep a seat” (intransitive)
set: (set, set) “to put or to place” (transitive)
rise, raise
rise: (rose, risen) “to assend or move up”
raise: (raised, raised) “to lift or to elevate” “to care for to maturity” (transitive)
let, leave
let: (let, let) “to permet”
leave: (left, left) “to abandon”, “to depart from”
teach, learn
teach: (taught, taught) “to give instruction”
learn: (lend, lend) “to receive instruction/knowledge”
borrow, lend
borrow: (borrowed, borrowed) “to obtain the used of something from a person”
lend: (lent, lent) “to give another person something to use, for a time”
I hope you learned something from this!
lie, lay
lie: (lay, lain) “to rest or recline” (intransitive)
lay: (laid, laid) “to put or place something down” (transitive)
sit, set
sit: (sat, sat) “to have or keep a seat” (intransitive)
set: (set, set) “to put or to place” (transitive)
rise, raise
rise: (rose, risen) “to assend or move up”
raise: (raised, raised) “to lift or to elevate” “to care for to maturity” (transitive)
let, leave
let: (let, let) “to permet”
leave: (left, left) “to abandon”, “to depart from”
teach, learn
teach: (taught, taught) “to give instruction”
learn: (lend, lend) “to receive instruction/knowledge”
borrow, lend
borrow: (borrowed, borrowed) “to obtain the used of something from a person”
lend: (lent, lent) “to give another person something to use, for a time”
I hope you learned something from this!
Second Richest man in the world?!
This week, Amazon CEO surpassed Warren Buffet as now the second richest person in the world. He added $1.5 billion to his net worth after Amazon gained $9 billion in market value during trading hours Wednesday. The company received a generous stock bump after a Barclay's analyst declared Amazon will "likely to be one of the first trillion-dollar market cap companies." Its shares hit a record high shortly after. Amazon's stock has been on fire lately -- it's grown more than 16% over the last year. Investors were pleased with the company's decision to buy Souq, an e-commerce giant in the Middle East. Amazon isn't Bezos's only venture. He also owns space exploration company Blue Origin. Its goal is to eventually take people on "space tourism" trips and to deliver satellites into orbit for corporate climates. So far, the company has only conducted test flights. Bezos leapfrogged investing guru Warren Buffett and Spanish fashion tycoon Amancio Ortega, who are worth $74.9 billion and $74.2 billion respectively, to take the number two spot on Bloomberg's billionaire list. Buffett is CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and Ortega founded Zara-owner Inditex.
Tracking Trash
This week in ELA I read a book called "Tracking Trash". Some other people read a book called "How Sugar Changed the World. "Tracking Trash" was about how much trash was in the ocean and a man would do experiments on how fast trash moves in the ocean. His name is Curtis Ebbesmeyer. He tracked how fast sneakers and toys could move in the ocean. In the book it says that. Benjamin Franklin was an ocean scientist and I thought that was interesting because I didn't know that I only knew he discovered electricity. There was a sneaker spill that happened in 1990 that OSCURS, an organization that works with Curtis Ebbesmeyer, and they tracked how fast trash or sneakers moved in the ocean. Scientist said that tracking trash was unprofessional and it really isn't unprofessional because it shows how real life things like trash in the ocean can be experimented with. Scientist are able to track the ocean in real time. The OSCURS program is able to track anything from toys to sneakers. Ghost nets are very harmful to animals because they could get stuck in them.
4 year- old blown away by wind?!
This week, I would like to focus on a 4 year- old that was blown away by the wind. I almost fell over because of the wind, but never blown away. A security video caught the moment when Madison Gardner ran to open the front door of her home with a phone in one hand. When she opened the door with her other hand, the heavy winds swung open the door, and the girl went flying with it. Brittany Gardner, Madison's mother, told CNN affiliate WEWS she saw her "pinned against the siding and the glass door. I had to unlatch her from the handle." Gardner later told CNN that Madison was a little embarrassed at first, but she was laughing after seeing the surveillance video herself. Madison's parents posted the video on Facebook, and got a little creative, adding Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me" song. I am very light and have almost been knocked over by the wind but never really blown away. I could see myself at 4 years-old being blown down the street by the wind because it gets very windy.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This week we have a poetry project where we learn about the poet assigned to us, put information on a poster board and dress up like our poet. I got assigned Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She was born on March 6, 1806 in England. She died on June 29, 1861, at the age of 55. She was part of the Romantic Movement. She was the oldest of twelve siblings. Her dad had a company in Jamaica and sent some of the siblings there which she didn't like because she didn't like slavery. She and her brother went the next year and on the way back he drowned. She wrote her first "epic" poem at 12 years old. she developed a lung ailment that plagued her for the rest of her life. While she was saddling a pony, she received a spinal injury at the age of 15. Her mother passed away in 1828. Edgar Allen Poe dubbed her the "Nobelist of her sex." What might've inspired her poetry could've been Her meeting her husband, Robert Browning who was another poet. When her father sent her siblings to Jamaica which she didn't like. She didn't like slavery. She was a Christian. Her mom dying and her brother dying. In the poem Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, I like how she doesn't talk that much about love but she talked about loss. I like that because she stepped out of her box. She is a great poet because she was apart of the Romantic Movement.
Ethos, Pathos and Logos
This week in ELA we learned about Ethos, Pathos and Logos. Ethos, Pathos and Logos are what companies do in commercials. They are all modes of persuasion. Ethos means ethical and it is the Greek word for "character". In commercials if they say "nine out of ten dentists agree.." then you most likely would want to buy that toothpaste or toothbrush because an important person in that area said it was great to use. Next Pathos means to use your emotions to persuade you to donate to an animal shelter or donate to a hospital. It is the Greek word for "suffering" or "experience". The type of commercials that use Pathos would mainly be the animal shelter commercials or the St. Jude hospital commercials. Unlike me because I don't get affected by these commercials because I have no heart, most people would be sad and want to donate.
Netflix reviving The Magic School Bus?!
I don't know about you but The Magic School Bus was one of the best shows ever. Now I am thanking Netflix that they are going to make a revival of The Magic School Bus. Kate McKinnon Is going to voice Ms. Frizzle and the "Saturday Night Live" standout's casting was announced Wednesday by the company. According to CNN "The first season of "The Magic School Bus: Rides Again" will debut this year. McKinnon, best known on "SNL" for her portrayals of Hillary Clinton and White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, is no stranger to voice work." She has lent her voice to "Finding Dory," "The Angry Birds Movie," and "The Venture Bros," And more. I can not wait for this revival because we do not have any of these shows on television anymore that are educational and actually entertaining. Most kid shows are not very entertaining now as they were back when Magic School Bus, Captivity Planet, and Bill Nye The Science Guy. Most of kids educational television shows are very boring.
The Greek gods and goddesses
This week in ELA (no not history surprisingly) we learned about the Greek Gods and Goddesses. The Greeks believed that there were different gods for different things like a god for the sky (Zeus) a god for the sea (Poseidon) and a god for the underworld (Hades). There are fourteen Gods and Goddesses that were considered Olympian Gods. Seven were Zeus and his siblings, and the other seven were his children. The Gods and Goddesses were: Zeus, the god of the Sky, Hera, the goddess of marriage, Poseidon, the god of the sea, Hades, the god of the underworld, Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, Apollo, the god of the sun and/or light, Artemis (my personal favorite), the goddess of hunting, chastity, and the moon, Ares, the god of war, Hephaestus, the god of fire, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, Hermes the god of science and inventions or the messenger, Hestia, the goddess and protectress of hearth, Dionysus, the god of wine and vegetation, and Demeter, the goddess of crops and harvest. We did a paper plate activity where fourteen people had to draw their God or goddess with their roman name, their Greek name and their symbols. The other kids had to draw maps of what the Greeks thought the world looked like. I got one of the goddesses and I got Artemis so I drew a moon, and a bow and arrow. You could see my other entry about the Greek vs. the Modern day world perspective on the ELA assignments.
A mom lived without her lungs for SIX DAYS!!!
This week I decided to cover the case of Melissa Benoit and that she was so sick she couldn't speak for herself. According to CNN "Given the choice between his wife possibly dying in her bed or on an operating table, Chris Benoit chose an experimental, first-of-its-kind surgical procedure. The surgeons would remove not just one but both of Melissa Benoit's lungs." She has been suffering from cystic fibrosis for years. She had been struggling with an on-again, off-again infection that had ravaged her lungs over the course of three years. An inherited disorder, cystic fibrosis affects the cells that produce mucus, sweat and digestive juices, and causes damage to the lungs, gastrointestinal system and other organs of the body. She was taking antibiotics but then she came down with the flu, which triggered coughing fits so terrible, she fractured her ribs. In mid-March, she switched to St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. "They thought they'd just do a quick switcheroo with antibiotics," she said. "Unfortunately, that didn't happen. The last day I remember was Easter Sunday 2016, where I was waiting for an ICU bed." According to CNN "While she was unconscious, the infection could not be controlled, so in early April, she was transferred -- sedated and on a ventilator -- to Toronto General Hospital's Surgical Intensive Care Unit." She was suffering from "severe bacterial infection involving her lungs, and the bacteria was very drug-resistant, so despite being on antibiotics, it was not very well-controlled," said Dr. Atul Humar, director of the transplant program at Toronto General Hospital and president of the Canadian Society of Transplantation.
What I learned about this week.
This week we went on a field trip to the California Science Center. I went there before with my old school but only once so it was nice to see some changes that were made. We learned about the endeavor and what missions it went on. We also watched a video about how the endeavor got to the science center and how streets were blocked off so it could pass by easily. We were only in that room for about twenty or thirty minutes and I was walking around and reading all of the signs of the different spaceships about how they landed or they disintegrated in space or who was on them. We watched a movie in class about Christa McAuliffe and how she was the first teacher in space and how the Challenger exploded right after the launched happened. I thought it was sad that the first teacher in space didn't really go in space and she died right when she was supposed to go into space. Her family said that they went into a room with the other families and NASA said they were working on finding them but with all the conspiracy theories I didn't really trust or believe them. Going back the the science center, the rest of the time we got to roam around with our chaperones and while we were going around we saw the mom from Good Luck Charlie! It was exciting and we took a picture with her and roamed around some more.
Is this Nutella ingredient safe?!
This week I will be talking about an ingredient in Nutella That might be a 'potential heath concern'. I am allergic to hazel nuts (and all nuts for that matter) so I was never able to experience the amazingness of the beautiful taste of Nutella as my friends call it. In Nutella there is an ingredient called palm oil and it makes things easier to spread. Palm oil is included in chips, snacks, frozen foods and candy. It's used as vegetable oil or margarine additive. "Palm oil is the best ingredient for guaranteeing its special spreadability and, above all, avoiding the hydrogenation process that would produce otherwise unhealthy trans fats," according to the Nutella website. Its maker, Ferrero, launched an ad campaign in response to a ruling in May from the European Food Safety Authority (PDF) that palm oil is a "potential health concern" when improperly processed. The safety authority acts as a risk assessor in the European Union, producing scientific opinions and advice to guide European policies and legislation. "Last year, the safety authority delivered a scientific opinion that current levels of glycerol-based process contaminants found in palm oil are a "potential health concern. "Animal studies identified these contaminants, which are formed when vegetable oils are heated to high temperatures and then refined, as both genotoxic (damaging to DNA) and carcinogenic (causing cancer). Of all vegetable oils, palm oil was found to have the highest levels of these contaminants," according to CNN. It is a health hazard for all ages but It is most effective for infants, toddlers, and kids under the age of ten. So in conclusion, if you are not allergic to Nutella (unlike me) I would watch out and eat less of the chocolate spread.
Can regular use of marijuana affect your vision?
A study says that regular cannabis use delays the processing of visual information at its very beginning, in the retina, the results of a study published Thursday in JAMA Ophthalmology suggest. This may impact the eyesight of regular pot smokers and edibles eaters even if the influence is weak. "Such an anomaly could be imperceptible for cannabis users," said Dr. Vincent Laprevote, lead author of the study and a physician at Pole Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie du Grand Nancy in Laxou, France. "However, it is important, since it could reflect the changes in the communication between neural cells implied by regular cannabis use." Cannabis is known to act on synaptic transmissions within the brain. Since the retina is an easy-to-access extension of the central nervous system, a comparison study of retinal processes in both regular marijuana users and controls might provide more information about the drug's effects in the brain. The researchers examined whether cannabis disturbs the function of cells known as retinal ganglion cells.
"We are particularly interested in these ganglion cells because they behave as brain cells," said Laprevote. These cells are also partially responsible for transforming light into a series of electrical pulses, called action potentials, in the brain. "The timing of signals traveling from the retina to the visual brain is critical for normal visual processing," said Dr. Laura Frishman, a professor and associate dean at the University of Houston College of Optometry, who was not involved.
"We are particularly interested in these ganglion cells because they behave as brain cells," said Laprevote. These cells are also partially responsible for transforming light into a series of electrical pulses, called action potentials, in the brain. "The timing of signals traveling from the retina to the visual brain is critical for normal visual processing," said Dr. Laura Frishman, a professor and associate dean at the University of Houston College of Optometry, who was not involved.
Adjectives
In ELA this week we learned about adjectives. Here are all of our lessons in order from chapter two.
2.1 - Descriptive adjectives give information about a noun or a pronoun. It tells the number, color, size, or other quality. An adjective can act as a subject competent. A word that follows an linking verb and describes the subject. An adjective also act as an object complement.
2.2 - Demonstrative adjectives point out define persons, place, things or ideas. ex. this, those, that these. Interrogative adjectives are used in questions, what, whose, which. Indefinite adjectives to any or all of a group. Including both, few, every, several, all, another, some, many, most, each, either, and neither.
2.3 - The positive degree of an adjective shows quality of a noun or pronoun. The comparative degree is used to compare two items or two sets of items. The superlative degree is used to compare three or more items. Adjectives of one syllable (some with two) comparative forms with -er (to positive) superlative add -est.
2.4 - Concrete nouns name things that can be see, touched or counted ex. Cheetos, paper, pencils. Abstract nouns name things that can not be seen, touched, or counted ex. Time, jealousy, bravery. Use the adjectives few fewer and fewest to compare concrete nouns. Use the adjectives little, less, least to compare abstract nouns. Some nouns use less or fewer depending on noun usage.
2.5 - A Prepositional Phrase is made up of a preposition the object of a preposition, and any modifiers of the object. A clause is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate. A Dependent clause does not express a compare thought.
2.1 - Descriptive adjectives give information about a noun or a pronoun. It tells the number, color, size, or other quality. An adjective can act as a subject competent. A word that follows an linking verb and describes the subject. An adjective also act as an object complement.
2.2 - Demonstrative adjectives point out define persons, place, things or ideas. ex. this, those, that these. Interrogative adjectives are used in questions, what, whose, which. Indefinite adjectives to any or all of a group. Including both, few, every, several, all, another, some, many, most, each, either, and neither.
2.3 - The positive degree of an adjective shows quality of a noun or pronoun. The comparative degree is used to compare two items or two sets of items. The superlative degree is used to compare three or more items. Adjectives of one syllable (some with two) comparative forms with -er (to positive) superlative add -est.
2.4 - Concrete nouns name things that can be see, touched or counted ex. Cheetos, paper, pencils. Abstract nouns name things that can not be seen, touched, or counted ex. Time, jealousy, bravery. Use the adjectives few fewer and fewest to compare concrete nouns. Use the adjectives little, less, least to compare abstract nouns. Some nouns use less or fewer depending on noun usage.
2.5 - A Prepositional Phrase is made up of a preposition the object of a preposition, and any modifiers of the object. A clause is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate. A Dependent clause does not express a compare thought.
Finding a new place to live...
This week I'm doing my blog post about how Stephen Hawking says that "we have a 1,000 years to find a place to live". He says humanity won't survive another 1,000 years on Earth because of climate change, nukes, and so on. He says our best chance for survival as a species is to leave the only home we've ever known and establish colonies on other planets. I don't know how we are going to do that because, at the moment, earth is the only planet that can sustain human life. "Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next 1,000 or 10,000 years," Hawking said in the speech, according to the Christian Science Monitor. "By that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race." NASA is already searching for a planet like ours that might be able to sustain human life. Meanwhile, Space X CEO Elon Musk has already laid out his plans to colonize Mars within the next century. I don't know how he is going to do that because we just found out that mars had water on it but no forms of life. But, despite all of the sad and troubling news, Stephen Hawking did have positive notes. "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, wonder about what makes the universe exist," he said. "Be curious. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
All saints day
This week on all saints day, we were assigned a saint and made a flyer for that saint and then on the day of we dressed as that saint. My saint was St. Gianna Beretta Molla and she was born in 1922 and died in 1962 and she was the patron saint of mothers, unborn children, and physicians. She was a pediatrician and she had 3 children. When she was pregnant with her fourth child, she refused both an abortion and a hysterectomy, despite knowing that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her own death. She was willing to make that sacrifice because the church didn't believe in abortions and because she wanted to sacrifice herself for her baby. On April 21, 1962 Gianna went to the hospital, where her fourth child, Gianna Emanuela, was successfully delivered via Caesarean section. However, Gianna continued to have severe pain, and died of septic peritonitis 7 days after. The Miracle that made her a saint was that a woman named Elizabeth Comparini, who was 16 weeks pregnant in 2003 and sustained a tear in her placenta that drained her womb of all amniotic fluid. Therefore she prayed to Gianna and she delivered a healthy baby. When I dressed up as her I was really casual compared to some other people who had cloaks down to their ankles. I was pretty happy about that because I didn't have to wear anything to fancy. One of the reasons that I like her so much is because she was a recent saint. I like that because I didn't have dig very deep to find her. One other thing that was very fascinating was that she is the patron saint of mothers. I only thought that Mary could have that right but apparently not and I like that a lot.
Hyperboles and Personification
This week in class we learned about Hyperboles and Personification. Hyperboles are an exaggeration that can't possibly be true and is not meant to be taking literally. For example "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars has a lot of hyperboles in the lyrics like "her eyes, her eyes make the stars look like they not shining" and "You smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while." Stars can't stop shining and and the whole world can't stop and stare. Like is said they are huge exaggerations. Another example is "I am a least a million times prettier than all the other princesses in the world!" Personification is giving human qualities to non-human things. For example "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day has some personification like "I walk the lonely road" and "Where the city sleeps" a road can't be lonely it has no emotion and a city can't sleep. As I said they gave objects qualities. Another example is "My hair gently kisses my forehead. My dress dances in the wind." This lesson was very interesting to me because I love both hyperboles and Personification. My favorite out of the two has to be Personification. I hope you learned more about Personification and hyperboles!
The Clowns
So this week, I decided to do my blog post on the Killer Clowns. "It all started in August when a young man began wandering the streets of Green Bay, Wis., in gruesome black-and-white clown makeup, carrying black balloons. (It was later revealed that he was doing guerrilla marketing for a horror short.) A few weeks later, children in a Greenville, S.C., apartment complex told the police about clowns flashing green laser lights in nearby woods and trying to lure them with cash. The complex issued a warning to residents, but the police found nothing" according to The New York Times. To be honest, clowns are one of my worst fears so I was so scared once these news stories came out. Reports about clowns have spread to at least 20 states. They caused school closings and several arrests, but thankfully, nobody has been harmed except "a teenager in Sweden got stabbed in the shoulder by a man I a clown suit." According to The New York Times. According to The New York Times "Creepy clown sightings aren’t new. They date from at least May 1981, when the cryptozoologist Loren Coleman coined the term “phantom clowns” to describe them. At the time, children in Brookline, Mass., were reporting clowns in vans who beckoned them with promises of candy. The police issued an all-points bulletin, established checkpoints and conducted searches, but no clowns were captured." So apparently, clown sightings have not been new. They have made a comeback since 1981. There have been many memes and videos about these clowns. Just to be safe, don't go looking for them and just please be safe this halloween.
The Pearl Chapter 3
In this blog, I will be talking about The Pearl chapter 3. In these chapters many things happen. In the end of chapter 2, Kino, Juana and Coyotito go fishing to find the pearl to pay for coyotito's scorpion bite, but not just any pearl, THE pearl. They find the pearl and coyotito's swelling starts to die down and gets much better. Then the chapter ends. In the beginning of chapter 3, the news of Kino's pearl spreads through the town. Everyone wants Kino's pearl. They are all being very greedy. The news gets to priest and he starts thinking about repairs for the church, marrying Kino and Juana officially and baptizing Coyotito. The shopkeepers hear about the news and thinks about selling new clothes to Kino. The doctor hears about the news and realizes it's the guy from earlier and starts imagining himself in Paris drinking fine wine. The pearl buying offices hear about the news and start negotiating the prices and how high and low they can go. Kino becomes everyone's enemy because he's the only thing standing in the way of the pearl. Kino, not realizing it, goes home and thinks what he can do now since he is now a rich man. He wants a rifle, a harpoon, get married to Juana officially, And he says that Coyotito will go to school. Then the priest comes to visit Kino (obviously only there for the pearl). He says nice things to Kino and how they should donate to the church. The priest finally leaves. And that's about it
Pepe The Frog...
So today I would like to talk about how apparently Pepe The Frog is now name a hate symbol by the ADL. ADL stands for "Anti-Defamation League". The ADL fights anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism means hostility to or prejudice against Jews. In 2005 an artist named Matt Furie. He started Pepe in his "Boy's Club" cartoons. Recent appropriations of Pepe as Adolf Hitler, a Klansmen, and other racist memes have had him placed in the ADL's database of hate symbols.
"Once again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes of spreading bigotry and harassing users," Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO said in a statement. "These anti-Semites have no shame. They are abusing the image of a cartoon character, one that might at first seem appealing, to harass and spread hatred on social media." It doesn't apply to all of Pepe, because most of them are not like this. His smirk was made for the internet, and a meme was born. Pepe was manipulated over time to capture the range of the human experience, including Sad Frog, who was often paired with the phrases" Not Good Man," "Feels Bad Man," or "You Will Never..." to Smug Frog, Angry Pepe, Keith Haring Pepe, even supposedly Rare Pepes.
A decade later he had solidified his place among "normies" in mainstream internet circles, becoming one of the biggest memes on Tumblr in 2015. As the meme proliferated in venues such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit, criticized as a breeding grounds for all manner of inflammatory imagery, a subset of Pepe memes came into being that centered on racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted themes, the ADL said. Well at the end of the day, Pepe is a popular meme in the eyes of society.
"Once again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes of spreading bigotry and harassing users," Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO said in a statement. "These anti-Semites have no shame. They are abusing the image of a cartoon character, one that might at first seem appealing, to harass and spread hatred on social media." It doesn't apply to all of Pepe, because most of them are not like this. His smirk was made for the internet, and a meme was born. Pepe was manipulated over time to capture the range of the human experience, including Sad Frog, who was often paired with the phrases" Not Good Man," "Feels Bad Man," or "You Will Never..." to Smug Frog, Angry Pepe, Keith Haring Pepe, even supposedly Rare Pepes.
A decade later he had solidified his place among "normies" in mainstream internet circles, becoming one of the biggest memes on Tumblr in 2015. As the meme proliferated in venues such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit, criticized as a breeding grounds for all manner of inflammatory imagery, a subset of Pepe memes came into being that centered on racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted themes, the ADL said. Well at the end of the day, Pepe is a popular meme in the eyes of society.
Theme
So in class we covered something called theme in books and movies. Theme is the lesson or something you are supposed to learn from the book or movie. Not to get confused with the subject like love or family those are not themes. Themes are "love stinks" or "family matters more than friends" or something like that. In class we read a short story called The First Day by Edward P. Jones.
It's about a young girl (most likely African American) and her mom that try to get into a nice school but they get rejected because they live too far. So they half to go to another (bad) school and Mama gets a sign up sheet but she never learned to read. So we went in groups and thought of themes for the story. As we finished our group thought the theme was "Not having an education and someone makes fun of that then that's a form of prejudice."
After that we wrote it on a piece of paper, crumbled it up, and chucked it across the room to another group. We got another piece of paper and we wrote examples of the theme and chucked it back to the group. Then My teacher wrote Back to the Future, Mary Poppins, Fast and the Furious, and Star Wars. We all went to the different groups and I went to Back to the Future. The people in my group and we thought of the theme as "Small actions can lead to big changes".
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 RECALLED!?
So this time on Thursday, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was recalled. Samsung has received 92 reports of the batteries overheating in the U.S., 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage from fires. So basically they were recalled because while people were charging it, it caught fire. On Thursday, they recalled 1 million phones. The U.S. CPSC told customers to "immediately stop using and power down the device".
The FA says Galaxy Note 7 users can get a free replacement from Samsung, their wireless carrier or the retail outlet where the bought the phone. They can also ask for an new device or get a full refund. So at least Samsung is being nice about it and not being complete butt-heads. The new Phone will be in most stores no later than September 21, Samsung said on Thursday. The dangers of using a recalled Note 7 were rare. The battery affected 0.1% of the 2.5 million Note 7's sold.
The problem has had gotten Samsung a bad rap because people are probably are going to be saying "Oh is mine going to catch on fire. I hope it doesn't catch on fire. Bla bla bla." While Samsung hammered out its formal recall plan with U.S. regulators, the FAA told airline passengers to turn off the Samsung's while flying due to the safety risk. This week, New York City's transit system followed suit. And the CPSC urged Note 7 owners last week to turn off their phones even though a replacement version had yet to be finalized. My thoughts on this whole fiasco is that again as I said in the last blog post about the iPhone 7 they are just phones. We could do so much more without them. They are just distractions now.
The FA says Galaxy Note 7 users can get a free replacement from Samsung, their wireless carrier or the retail outlet where the bought the phone. They can also ask for an new device or get a full refund. So at least Samsung is being nice about it and not being complete butt-heads. The new Phone will be in most stores no later than September 21, Samsung said on Thursday. The dangers of using a recalled Note 7 were rare. The battery affected 0.1% of the 2.5 million Note 7's sold.
The problem has had gotten Samsung a bad rap because people are probably are going to be saying "Oh is mine going to catch on fire. I hope it doesn't catch on fire. Bla bla bla." While Samsung hammered out its formal recall plan with U.S. regulators, the FAA told airline passengers to turn off the Samsung's while flying due to the safety risk. This week, New York City's transit system followed suit. And the CPSC urged Note 7 owners last week to turn off their phones even though a replacement version had yet to be finalized. My thoughts on this whole fiasco is that again as I said in the last blog post about the iPhone 7 they are just phones. We could do so much more without them. They are just distractions now.
The new iPhone 7...
The iPhone 7 is one of the biggest things in the World right now. Some of the announcements are that it is water proof, it has a weird home button and it has a better battery life, but the two announcements I want to focus on are that it has no headphone jack and that it has a really good camera. So let's get started!
The first one I want to focus on is that it has no headphone jack. Now instead they have new Apple AirPods, which will connect through a lightning connector port. If you buy the iPhone 7 then you'll get an adapter in the box, but the AirPods cost $160! They are wireless earbuds and will be the first wireless earbuds. So let's move on to the second announcement!
The second one I want to focus on is that it has a really good camera. The iPhone kept the 12-megapixel camera and gets a 56mm telephoto lens on the back that really sticks out! It works like a built in zoom-in feature. It also has two cameras; the front facing camera and one on the back. The front facing camera has 7 megapixels to the iPhone 6s 5 megapixels. It includes auto-image stabilization. It adds a larger aperture that keeps images steadier.
Honestly, I think this iPhone is going way to far. The 6 plus and the 6s, I thought, was going a little far but now this?! I hope that they take it down at least 3 more notches because in the end all of these iPhones aren't anything. They are just cellular devices and we could live without them. Where I found all my information
The first one I want to focus on is that it has no headphone jack. Now instead they have new Apple AirPods, which will connect through a lightning connector port. If you buy the iPhone 7 then you'll get an adapter in the box, but the AirPods cost $160! They are wireless earbuds and will be the first wireless earbuds. So let's move on to the second announcement!
The second one I want to focus on is that it has a really good camera. The iPhone kept the 12-megapixel camera and gets a 56mm telephoto lens on the back that really sticks out! It works like a built in zoom-in feature. It also has two cameras; the front facing camera and one on the back. The front facing camera has 7 megapixels to the iPhone 6s 5 megapixels. It includes auto-image stabilization. It adds a larger aperture that keeps images steadier.
Honestly, I think this iPhone is going way to far. The 6 plus and the 6s, I thought, was going a little far but now this?! I hope that they take it down at least 3 more notches because in the end all of these iPhones aren't anything. They are just cellular devices and we could live without them. Where I found all my information