CNN 10 Homework

"Are the feeding practices of the livestock morally correct if they produce cheaper, bountiful meat for the world?". That is the question that I have brought up today, and my answer is no. I have many reasons for this but let me state three to you right now. One, the way animals are treated while being grown up to become food for us humans to eat. Two, the meat that we get from these meat industries aren't even good at all or another way of saying it is that being cheap doesn't mean it's healthy. Three, it is very bad for the environment as a whole. Animals should not be treated by the meat industries the way they are now and this is why I think this. 

Let me start off with how they are being treated in the first place. Cows and chickens are probably the best examples for this. In case you don't know the meat industries are feeding these two very specific animals stuff that makes their growth rate extremely fast. One baby chicken can have the same weight as an adult version in less than 50 days due to the chemicals used on these creatures. They are also being cramped into very tight spaces and barely have enough room to turn around or take a nap. And if they somehow can achieve this another animal will most likely trample on top of them. The factories are really big but they have just too many animals being grown only to be murdered and eaten. 

Secondly, the meat that comes from this isn't very good at all. And I know most people know this as a fact, the cheaper a product is the worse the quality. No wonder organic meat costs way more, it's way healthier compared to the processed version made by these inhumane companies. It has lot's of chemicals inside of it! Most of the meat companies put stuff in their food that makes us want to eat more, kind of like nicotine in cigarettes. And they don't have lot's of nutrients in them. The diseases made by the chemicals put in the meat are Cancer, Diabetes, and E Coli. To wrap it up, this is probably the main reason why you wouldn't want to eat stuff like this. Of course, there is nothing wrong with occasionally eating them.

Now it's finally time to mention the environment downgrades to these meat companies producing unhealthy food for us consumers to buy. The climate is definitely one thing, I bet you there are factories where the animals are killed and chopped up. And everyone knows that these factories will most definitely produce smoke that rises up into the sky and damages our atmosphere. Another way to call this is "Air Pollution" because it's technically polluting the air. Also, the cows and chicken produce lot's of manure since there are so many and where can you put that? The companies don't need too much manure to feed the other animals so they dump them in a pit that you can see from a high point of view looking at the factories.

Some folks may say that it doesn't matter if the animals aren't being treated right as long as we get cheap and affordable prices. And although I will agree with the fact that it's good to have cheap and affordable prices you should know that because of the way these companies treat the creatures it affects the food we eat as a whole. In addition, would you rather have good prices and bad food or prices that are a bit higher and way healthier meat? Anyway, in conclusion, this is what I think about whether or not livestock is morally correct if the prices are cheaper and more bountiful. Animals have rights to, they are living just like we humans are too. It's not fair that because we are the top of the food chain they suffer.

The first period was Social Studies and my teacher couldn't take my class and me to another room because the teacher already got there. That is why he had to improvise and we talked about the current day events. Once Social Studies was done it was time for Community Circle. While all the teachers were busy bringing their students inside of the cafeteria I was telling my friend that Scholar of the Month was definitely mine. However, when it was my class's turn to announce the student I didn't get picked. It was pretty funny and then I asked my teacher what it takes to become a student of the month. He said that you need to work hard, but I already work hard! Of course, I didn't tell him this because then he might not pick me for next month. Afterward, it was time for lunch.

Something that got me really mad today was when the lunch card holder gave my lunch card to another kid because that student didn't have one. I said that I needed lunch too and the kid (lunch card holder) apologized. So then he gave me some other random person's card saying that the woman who you give the cards to wouldn't notice. However, I refused because I wasn't going to take the chance to ruin my reputation as a model scholar. Thankfully, I bought lunch from the deli-grocery store. My plan was to eat the school lunch now because it was a hot dog and eat the food I bought during dinner because dinner is rarely ever good. Anyway, I still had a fun time and played Soccer during recess. Apparently, the school is doing something new now. If you get detention your allowed to play during Recess but have to stay in your room for lunch instead of going to the cafeteria.

Before it was the exact opposite, I don't exactly know what to say of this. I would think that most kids like this idea but others wouldn't. For instance, there is this one girl in my class who is very non-athletic (doesn't like to "move"). So if she got detention she wouldn't be able to eat lunch with her friends. I think the teachers have made this decision to make the students feel worse about having detention in the first place. They know that lunch is when we kids get our socializing time since in recess your usually playing and have less time to talk. Of course, I could be completely wrong, I don't know how certain kids perceive lunch and recess. Now before my four paragraphs are over I want to talk about something that happened a week ago. It was because of homework (not related to me).

Basically, there was an assignment that was due last week about child obesity. And then my teacher asked the class who did and didn't do it. Well, about 7 kids said that they didn't do it and my teacher seemed to be shocked, or at least his reaction made it seem like it. He started saying stuff that even I thought was a bit too harsh. Stuff like, "We are supposed to be the ADVANCED CLASS! How can we be advanced if we have about a quarter of the class not doing their homework?", that's basically a summary. Then, before commenting any further he asked my dance teacher (who was in the room) to tell him if he was going too far. She said he was okay, and then he continued, actually pointing out the grades of some of the students that didn't do their homework, "74! 62! You shouldn't be in this class!", let me just say that he wasn't yelling but I thought he had gone a bit too far.

Google News

I want to announce some of my news before talking about the actual "news". I have started from yesterday re-watching this anime called, "Tokyo Ghoul", all 3 seasons. When I am finished watching this anime I plan on summarizing the plot of it on the blog and what I think of it. Anyway, the real news is that Fortnite (game) has just updated their new mode called, "Turbo building"! In addition, a new item has been added into the game! It is called. "The shopping cart!". According to the patch notes, there can be up to 2 people in it and you and your teammate can drive all the way to the circle much faster than regular sprinting. Also, the person in the passanger seat is able to shoot other players, the driver can't. Let me know what you think about this.

Trials of Apollo Burning Maze

I wasn't expecting to do this today but apparently, my father is going to return the library books tomorrow. And because of that, I need to finish summarizing the books that I have already read. And unfortunately, "Trials of Apollo: Burning Maze" is one of those books that need to be returned. So that is what today's post is going to be about. It's, of course, a "New York Times Bestseller" like every other book I know of. I'm pretty sure every book made by a popular author like "Rick Riordan" or "James Patterson" is going to be a New York Times Bestseller". Just to let you know there were 2 other books before this so this one right now is the sequel to those. I've already done a summary of both of those books so now it's time for this one to have its turn. Before I start I just want to say that you should read my other posts summarizing the other two books before this if you haven't already.

So, at the very beginning Apollo starts complaining about how this is the absolute worst part of his journey to find the oracles and restore them before turning back into a god by Zeus. He says that he is going to tell this whole tale to us the readers because he knows that is what Zeus would want him to and from there it begins. Him, Meg, and Grover are in the "Labyrinth" and trying to find a way out and into Palm Springs. Palm Springs is an area that Grover is supposed to take them, this place will let them rest and relax for their journey to defeat the next emperor or member of the Triumvirate, a group of men who have risen up to make there name spoken of throughout the entire world, that is the only way they can live. Once people start to forget about them their bodies will start fading away until nothing is left. Thankfully for them, the internet has arrived so now all people have to do is type their name and BOOM, a whole list of information.

Anywayway, while in the labyrinth Apollo starts reminding them just how long they've been in the labyrinth and Grover says in response that they are almost there. The group finally see a little entrance or ladder that leads up to a sinkhole. However, a group of "Strixes" or falying monsters are chasing them. Apollo tries to think of something smart, however, he can't find anything and has to rely on Grover and Meg's powers to distract the fierce birds. Finally, after many attempts Grover let's out a loud scream that made the Strixes turn around and head back to their little caves. The three of them head up the ladder and arrive in Palm Springs. There, Grover introduces Meg and Apollo to the nature spirits who have been waiting for them. One of the nature spirits helps Apollo and Meg get healed while Grovers starts asking questions about the other spirits who have set off to find the oracle.

Apparently, none of them have returned and they were hoping that he had the answer to their worries. One of the nature spirits was worried that her husband was missing. She asked Grover if he could help find him and of course, the satyr couldn't say no. Apollo stood in disbelief seeing the look in Grover's eyes. The satyr's eyes were super red, in fact, his whole body looked sleepy! That is why Apollo volunteered to accompany Grover in his mission. Although it did not take long the journey was horrifying due to the burning weather, of course, Grover couldn't feel it because he is technically a part of nature but Apollo was sweating like crazy, and to think he was the sun god before being turned into a human. Grover knew that the woman's husband was supposed to be finding weapons so the two of them headed towards the artillery store.

Once they were inside Apollo and Grover immediately found the husband. He was driving around a cart filled with all types of rocket launchers and ammo. The duo was able to convince him that the number of weapons he had was enough to defend all of Palm Springs, and so they headed towards the cashier. But upon arriving there the man asked Apollo if he was the sun god. Apollo knew that he shouldn't say yes but because of his giant ego, he had to take pride. And so because of that, the man started firing guns at them. He was a servant to Caligula and if he brought Apollo to the emperor the servant would be ranked higher and more valuable to his master. And now the three of them were running away. What do you think happened next?

The Three Musketeers (Project, Classic Book Groups)

Chapter 36,
Miliday waits for D'Artagnan to arrive at her house but unfortunately for her, he never comes, Soon enough, Milady sends D'Artagnan an invitation to come to her house so that the two of them can have a little chat together, D'Artagnan knows that it would be rude to not accept this letter and also knows he was planning for her to invite him this whole time, Once the two of them are in the same house and room Milady starts to cry or at least pretends to cry, She tricked D'Artagnan into falling in love with her one more time and so the man admits his true love for her and spills everything out, he waits for her reply (hoping she will say she loves him back) until suddenly Milady wants to know how far his love is for her, she tests him and says he needs to kill "Comte De Wardes", D'Artagnan vows to kill him and then leaves knowing he needs to be careful.

Chapter 37,
D'Artagnan goes back to his house to make sense of the situation he had put himself into, He knows that he is madly in love with Milady but wants her to feel "pain" at the same time, at 11:00 the protagonist arrives back at Milady's house and they make out with each other, once they are done Milady continuously asks D'Artagnan whether he is ready to fight Comte de Wardes but the mans tries to avoid the conversation, however, Milady is persistent and keeps pushing on with questions, hoping to get answers, D'Artagnan knows that fighting Comte de Wardes is impossible simply because he's fake and then question's Milady's love for him since she seems to not care if he dies, then D'Artagnan says he was Comte De Wardes and runs out the building.

Chapter 38,
D'Artagnan immediately runs to the closest person's house he knows of and finds Athos, suddenly it gets awkward because Milady is Athos's wife but they are still friends, Athos announces that he will be leaving to "La Rochelle" and sends his servant to find D'Artagnan some clothes since he ran out of Milady's room naked, finally Aramis who is another musketeers comes to join them and Kitty finds all three of the men, she explains of what happened to Milady and how she is running away from her, Kitty expresses her love towards D'Artagnan but he seems unfased, the three men sell Athos's ring to make some money for the horses needed to head to "La Rochelle", everoyne is ready for a fight and a journey.

Chapter 39,
Soon enough, Planchet arrives with two letters. One is anonymous and declares D'Artagnan to meet at a certain place at a specific time, the second letter is an invite from the Cardinal and D'Artagnan already knows he can't refuse this invitation, the first letter and second letter but seem highly suspicious to him, Athos, and Aramis so they take reinforcements with them, D'Artagnan finally arrives at the place of the first letter and waits for a carriage that was supposedly supposed to arrive, his friends think that this letter must've been made by a woman and hide waiting for someone to come, suddenly a carraige walks past that has Madam Bonacieux in it, D'Artagnan knows he wants to follow it but cannot for the Cardinal waits for him.

Chapter 40, 
When D'Artagnan arrives at the King's palace he and the Cardinal talk to each other about his past and family, the Cardinal is already informed about how he lost his letter of introduction to Monsieur Treville long ago, then he states that D'Artagnan is both "intelligent" and "courageous", finally the Cardinal heads straight to the point and offers D'Artagnan to join him and his men, D'Artagnan refuses trying not to be mean and says he is already appointed as part of the Musketeers in the king's army, D'Artagnan tells Porthos, Aramis, and Athos of how he refused the invitation they all rejoiced and had a feast, however, later that night Athos explains that it may have been a mistake but doesn't go into further detail, 

Today's story is just going to be about Google News, I just didn't feel like summarizing "Trials of Apollo" (sorry). This first story is about a "Florida Woman rescued after slipping a note to veterinarian saying boyfriend was holding her captive, cops say". Apparently, "Jeremy Floyd" who was the boyfriend, in this case, was arrested and put into custody for putting his girlfriend captive inside their home for approximately 2 days. This is what the police had to say about it. According to the woman whose name is "Carolyn Reichle" she was able to persuade her boyfriend to take her to the vet because the dog was sick. They rode together in a car towards the vet and while driving he once again threatened to shoot her. Because she was so afraid Carolyn was able to slip a note to her vet while the doctor was checking on their dog. It read, "Call the cops. My boyfriend is threatening me. He has a gun. Please don't let him know". 

I don't really know what to say about this, of course, I feel bad for the woman and think the guy deserves to go to jail, but other than that there doesn't seem to be anything else to say. 

This next story is talking about Donald Trump and how he says that that the place in which he and North Korean leader "Kim Jong Un" were supposed to meet before hasn't changed. He states, "We're looking at June 12th in Singapore, that hasn't changed". I just want to say something really quick, the thought of both of these two leaders talking and hugging it out at the summit seems extremely unlikely. I bet you something is going to happen where one of the leaders wants to cancel the meeting. And Donald Trump isn't helping himself, by telling Kim Jong Un, " You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful I pray to god they will never have to be used".

That is just making the tension between these two world leaders even greater, and to think that they were starting to get on the right track. Yet, the man himself is telling America that talks between the two countries are going fine. I just doubt this, there must be some secret thing happening in the shadows where us civilians don't know about or aren't informed. I wouldn't be surprised if the two powerful men meet at the summit and one of them shoots the other or calls mercenaries to do that for them. Then, there will definitely be a world war 3. Soon enough, North Korea will be turned in a desert and South Korea will probably use the land to expand their territory.

The possibilities are endless, Donald Trump is against not only North Korea but the Palestinians because they say that Jerusalem is theirs. In addition, he has a problem with China because America is paying way more money to buy their products then they are to them. Now he wants to raise taxes for their goods, and then China will raise taxes for their goods. Suddenly, the prices for most appliances or everyday objects will be higher. And you know why? Because of the big shot himself, Donald Trump. Anyway, let's continue talking about this one post. It seems that the Saturday before, the South Korean leader went to the North's side and discussed with Kim Jong Un. I wonder what they talked about, but he does say that if North Korea does denuclearize, will America end their hostile relations towards Kim Jong Un? The answer remains unseen.\

This last paragraph was just me trying to find a random story to talk about it, it doesn't bring me huge concerns. Just interesting at the very most. Some researchers found 3 huge valleys or ice taverns at the deep part of the Antarctic. There is a theory that because of Global Warming when the ice starts to melt these ice valleys will make the "speed and rate" of the melting ice flow to the very edges of the Antarctic. Then, that will increase the sea levels of the ocean. I guess it waits to be seen what will happen to the world in a few centuries or so. Because obviously it won't happen in my lifetime (short life). Let me know what you think about these three posts.

Summery book Asylum

This is summery of Book Asylum:

by Madelenine Roux.

Summerized by Rinchen Sangpo

It's Saturday today, and I have completed reading " Asylum"a book I have enojoyed reading for last two days. Let me briefly summerizing this book. Asylum is supposed to be scary and I definitely thought that at least towards the beginning and middle stages. Afterward, the pictures shown in the book stopped and they only talked about the horror through writing. Anyway, let me give you some background information on this book. It has a sequel made by "Madeleine Roux", unfortunately, I haven't read it yet. She is a New York Times Bestseller just like every other author I've heard of and I like this book a lot. Apparently, there is even a third version but in my book, it doesn't tell me that (I guess it must have been made from a while back before the third version came out). I' wouldn't be surprised if the second and third books have the same amount of creepy pictures as in this one. I just get spooked whenever I see them.

I will show you a picture of one of the pictures at the very end because I don't feel like looking at it while typing. Let me begin with a summary of this book for those that don't know what happens in it, my father already read it (or so he says). The protagonist in the story is "Daniel Crawford" or "Dan" for short. he goes into a college prep school and makes new friends. But the dorms there give him a weird vibe. So Dan researches some stuff about the "Asylum" realizes it was once an Asylum. Of course, everyone in the school already knows that but for some reason, he starts getting weird messages and nightmares of stuff happening to him. He's kind of like inside the mind of the patients who were taken there and thoroughly mistreated with sharp objects (test subjects).

One day he and his friends enter an abandoned area of the Asylum of which none of the students are supposed to be in. They find pictures of the patients who were part of the failed experiments tested by the Warden. One of his friends gets a strange feeling about one of the pictures there and takes it. The picture is of a little girl with a huge scar on her forehead. This made all of them puke. Dan's other friend Jordan refused to be a part of this search of looking at the pictures because he said they made him uneasy. As the days go by Dan starts getting more and more texts from anonymous users telling him to come at certain areas with specific times. Because of this one of the hall monitors was killed and Jordan's friend "Yi" was badly injured. 

Suddenly, Dan researches even more stuff about "Brookline" (the name of the Asylum before it was turned into a dorm) and realizes there was a man named, "Dennis" who was a serial killer. He was taken to this exact Asylum a long while ago (the 1700s) and was experimented on by the Warden, whose name was surprising "Daniel Crawford". Dan himself starts getting really scared because the serial killer's soul must still be a part of the Asylum taking control of people and murdering others and he plays a big part in this mystery. Abby who is one of his friends also takes an interest in this situation because she knows that her aunt was taken to this Asylum a while ago and mistreated as well. She suspects that the little girl in the picture was actually her aunt as a child. 

At this point, Dan and Abby know that they must do something about this invite Jordan to join them. He isn't particularly excited but knows that they are his friends and need to stick together. Eventually, Dan and Abby are trapped in a long corridor in the basement of the Asylum and strapped to moving tables. Dennis (the serial killer) has taken over "Felix" (Dan's roommate) and planned to "experiment" on the both of them in revenge for "Daniel Crawford" experimenting on him. However, Dennis doesn't realize that the "Daniel Crawford" with him at that time was a totally different person. Thankfully, Jordan comes in and bonks Felix in the head. They strap him onto one of the moving tables and suddenly Dan gets a strange feeling. He thinks he's starting to harness the feelings and memories of the previous Warden (who was the same name) and in the same situation where Dennis was being experimented on. Finally, Dan is able to regain self conconcious and the three of them report it to the police. Everyone recovers their mind but can't forget what happned in the college prep.

When I got to my classroom Homeroom had just started. Basically, the time in which kids come from the bus to unpack their belongings and get ready for the day. For breakfast the school had some "hot" breakfast, this was mini-pancakes and a carton of orange juice. Obviously, I didn't favor the orange juice that much because it doesn't taste good but the pancakes were just fine. And because both of the first two periods of the day (before lunch) required no notebooks I just kept everything in my locker. The first period was Technology and my teacher told us to continue creating our superhero baby pictures. I did this yesterday and type in "Fat Asian Baby" in hopes of finding the right picture. Apparently, you were supposed to make a superhero out of that baby. I can't show you the finished product because I don't have the flash drive but I can show the baby itself.

Towards the end of Technology, I played a game on Mathwhizz called, "Catch 'em if you can" and it was really fun. This was the "ping-pong" game that I talked about a while ago (in other posts) but never knew the name of. I beat all my friends by an extra 20 points on the first few tries but at the very end of class this kid comes in with a clutch with a 320 score and I get very mad. After Tech was Dance and I knew my teacher wasn't here because she told us she needed to attend her college graduation. That reminds me, today my regular homeroom teacher also wasn't here. I know that the two absences aren't related but something just seems sketchy. One of the kids in my class said he saw the two teachers going inside of the same car once, and another said he noticed they hang out a lot. I think this is ridiculous because my regular teacher is 30 something and my dance teacher is still 21 or 22. But I guess age doesn't matter.

During Dance, the substitute was a teacher that I knew from my old public school (4 years ago). The only memory I have of that school of her is that she once gave me a football because her son didn't want it. I was so happy when she did that and used that ball a lot, unfortunately, one day my dad and I just lost it. However, she is probably one of my favorite substitute teachers ever. I love the way she gives a bit of freedom but still has some regulations. A lot of other kids like her and she has personal connections with some of them as well. Anyway, my friend and I were supposed to create a dance for a presentation due next week. We created a dance that the two of us thought along the way and eventually remembered everything. The only downside is that it's a bit short (approximately 15 seconds when you actually need to have at least 30 seconds).

Let me talk about Spanish really quick because that was honestly the most fun period (I can't believe I'm saying that). You see, my teacher took us outside and we were going to work on one of our workbook pages, or so we thought. Basically, once we got there she let us play on the playground until it was time to go. My friends and I played "Monkey in the MIddle" with her Spanish ball (what I mean by that is that the ball has Spanish writing around it). Something that I thought was unfair is how the 6th graders got a whole 2 free periods to themselves. They played soccer and football for 80 to 90 minutes straight while my class had to write a paragraph on the last period. It just doesn't seem fair, they have a lot better stuff going for them than us.

Google News

I myself am not very surprised as to hearing this news a while ago. According to the White House and Washington post-Donald Trump or North Korea ended their decision to meet at the summit together. When I say "or" I say it because apparently some sources state that Donald Trump didn't want to have the meeting because of North Korea's latest agressive statement. And the letter he sent to North Korean leader "Kim Jong Un" said that he would like to have it on June 12 as the next possible summit. The North Korean leader hasn't responded but to some other people it was North Korea's fault for not having the meeting. "They were silent on preparations for the summit", according to Mike Pompeo. Let me know what you think.

Dance Critique

What do I feel/think/know? (1 = A Million Dreams), (2 = This is Me), (3 = The Other Side)

1) In this song, I especially feel lot's of emotions and loved the way they transitioned from a kid to a man. In my opinion, I think that the actors (kid and adults) took a lot of time to carefully choreograph it from every step possible. I know that the people who partook in this play must've been pretty happy to have finished this carefully practiced dance.

2) In this dance, I like the way they portray the "fat" woman has the main character and all her emotions go into the song. The woman herself must've have practiced crying because I saw a video where she was singing it (not in the movie) and still cried. Finally, I know that this is just another one of the amazing performances created for this movie.

3) I felt pretty satisfied when the dance ended and in the middle because both of them sing pretty well. I think that Zac Efron did much better and seemed to act the exact opposite from his movie "Baywatch". I know that these two dancers are probably the best "movers" in terms of physical dancing, the singing felt a "bit" autotuned in my opinion.

What is this dance like? What elements are used? 

1) This dance seems to rely heavily on Time and Space. This is because the boy sang extremely well when he started and that "transition" into a male went even better than I expected. 

2) This dance relies more so on Time, Space, and Force combined. The woman or "main person" didn't dance as much but the people in the background did very well in that category. However, her Time and Force were extremely satisfying. I like the way she would seem to almost cry but then her voice started getting more powerful. She perfected this whole song entirely.

3) This song was on Space and that was it. Sure the singing was it but that wasn't the main part. These two characters in the movie "moved" or danced almost all the time while singing. They had very good directional awareness and focus. No one could dance on that bar table without even the slightest effort.

How is this dancer using the elements? (This part is in the previous question) What grabs my attention? Do I see any connections with the things I listed during the description stage? What do I think the dancer worked particularly hard on at while choreographing?

1) What grabs my attention in this video was how the transitions from male to kid were made, in addition to the perfect choreographing of every step along the way. I think that the dancer worked particularly hard on the "movement" while in that huge abandoned house. 

2) In this video what grabbed my attention was the lady making her voice seem low or crying to huge and powerful. I think that the dancer worked particularly hard on leveling her voice from loud to low as I have previously stated. Dancing itself didn't seem to spark out too much to me (except the background dancers) because of her "heavy" weight class.

3) In "The Other Side" what caught my attention was the constant moving from the two actors. They must've practiced a lot for this, unlike the second video there isn't as much editing except for the trapeze actor, but obviously, that was after the end of the choreography.

What was expressed in this dance? What does the dance mean? What do I think is the theme or subject of the dance (if there is one)? What is the choreographer or dancer's view of the world? What is my opinion of this dance? Why do I think the choreographer created this work?

1) I think that the symbolism behind this is that people can live out their dreams and pursue them until the very end, because if you keep trying it's bound to happen one day. You just need patience for that to happy. And this was shown in the dance because the little boy loved the girl but needed to wait because her father just wouldn't approve, eventually, he got his wish. I think the dancer's view of this world is that there are many dreams to pursue and overcome one day. I loved this dance so much (favorite by far). I think the choreographer created this work because it relates to the plot and gives background information on the main character.

2) I think that the symbolism behind this is to not be afraid, it's as easy as that. The dance shows the lady being scared of what people thought of her but later standing up for herself, with a little help from her friends. This was a lovely dance and I think the choreographer was trying to show that you should always stand up to those that try and downgrade you. I think the choreographer created this work because it shows an emotional point in one of the dancer's lives.

3) What was expressed in this dance is that all it takes is a little bit of persuasion and some "arguing" to get what's done. The dance shows that because of Hugh Jackman's character trying to "persuade" Zac Efron's character to join the circus with them. I think this has the best choreography of all the dancing by far, barely better than "This is Me". The choreographer created this work in excuse to show the two characters arguing, it's a big part of the story.

What is the context of the dance? 

1) The kid likes the girl and loves her. The two of them grow up but are unfortunately separated. Then, they find each other as grown adults and marry.

2) The lady is shy and afraid of the audience that then decides to stand up for herself and sing to her heart's content while being really emotional.

3) The two men are conversating on whether Zac Efron's character should be part of the circus and help Hugh Jackman's character run it (businessman).

Have my thoughts or feeling about the work changed since my first impressions? If so, how have they changed? What made me change my mind? If not, can I now explain my first reaction?

1) My first reaction stills stay the same as this being an extremely amazing performance and well made.

2) I still love the way the woman expresses herself through singing although her physical appearance isn't the best?

3) I enjoy this very much and love the way they argue through movement and dance.

The first period started with Social Studies and my teacher told us to get into a single file line along the lockers. We were headed into another classroom to watch the movie "Black Panther". Apparently, a lot of kids didn't see the movie in the first place and my teacher wants to point out the symbolism in the movie (what it is hinting at in the present day). I hated the fact that the room that we went to didn't have a curtain for their windows so the light was shining on the board while the projector was playing the movie. My classmates and I couldn't see a thing. Especially since the introduction of the movie took place in the night time. Anyway, afterward, I headed back to my homeroom and got ready for Lunch. But before that, we were going to have a "Community Circle". I hoped that my regular teacher would announce the Student of the Month but that wasn't the case.

Instead, we had a guest speaker who spoke in front of me and a bunch of other kids last year. I saw no point in this because it was the same presentation as last year as well. She just added a few more slides about the new "trend" that's been going on with teenagers called, "Juuling". Apparently, it looks like a USB drive and you supposed to smoke it. This has a lot of nicotine in it so most people won't even realize what they're putting inside their body. And because it isn't smoking a cigarette kids my age can buy it. Fortunately, at the deli-grocery store that I go to they don't have that type of stuff. Just a regular pack of cigarettes which I don't normally see people buying. The slideshow the woman made also talked about "vaping" and a very "vivid" image of "tar" being inside of healthy lungs to make them not so "healthy". 

Once Community Circle was finished me and my friends headed outside to play some Volleyball. Some of the kids would play this before me and I always thought it was a dumb sport. But after a while, I decided that it was worth a try and turned out to be pretty fun. I scored about 5 goals before the recess ended and felt pretty satisfied. For Lunch, we weren't allowed to eat in the cafeteria because they were having a Science Fair there for all the projects. That's why I headed back to my classroom and ate there. Sooner or later Lunch had to finish and my Health teacher came in and was ready to continue reviewing for the quiz we were having. I don't take classes like Health, Dance, Physical Education, and Technology that seriously because if you fail them you can still pass on to the next grade, this also includes Spanish.

During Health we talked about Fiber, the best sources for fiber and why they are so important, Proteins, how many grams of Proteins you need, the reason why most people in America are dehydrated (me), fat, the best sources of fat, and much more. I kept on asking questions about milk and whatever slide we were on because I enjoy it very much. My teacher and classmates thought it was pretty funny and laughed whenever I talked about it. I asked questions like, "Does Milk have lot's of fat?" and "If I drink 6 cups of Milk a day will I have enough proteins?". Finally, before I finish this paragraph let me talk about this demo lesson. There was an adult that tried out to be a candidate for next year as a Health teacher and I thought she was really nice. She gave choices of meals from Big Macs to Salad (you should know which one I picked).

Just like in Health class my classmates laughed at my jokes. Let me explain, so when my teacher asked who picked Big Macs as their favorite food I was the only one (that got a lot of laughs). Then, my teacher asked which category would a Big Mac be in? Industrial (that's the actual answer), Industrial Organic, Local, and Hunter and Gathering. Everyone laughed when I said that Big Macs should be in the Hunting and Gathering section. This was my reasoning, "Imagine just walked through the woods when you come across a Big Mac on the floor?". Anyway, let me talk about the "news". The new Overwatch anniversery just came out yesterday and I am really excited about it. I was hoping that my father would let me play today because it came out but obviously he won't. Well, hope you enjoy all the new skins.

Child Obesity

In my opinion, I think that both the companies who advertise their food and the parents are to blame. Let me explain for both sides one at a time so you can take in everything I'm saying. Let me start with the companies, now everyone knows that companies like McDonald's and other fast food restaurants are the ones that are to blame for making people eat unhealthy food. Although that doesn't mean that the food they make isn't good, actually that's how they deceive people. In their advertisements on the internet and posters, they try their hardest to make the meal as delicious or scrumptious looking as possible. And have you seen their Big Macs? They are both "Huge" (with amazing taste and flavor), but also in a bad way because of the "huge" amount of calories.

And it's not just advertising and fast food restaurants like Mc'Donalds. By now most people know or should know that the food they buy at the supermarket when packaged isn't normally good at all. Now, just take away all the organic and "natural" stuff from the menus. That's still a lot of products that are probably contaminated with pesticides and made from a warehouse far away. But either the consumers don't know that or they have no choice but to buy those foods for their families. Unfortunately, the healthiest stuff like "Organic Milk" costs a lot more than regular "Whole Milk". The reason behind that is because while regular whole milk is contaminated and processed Organic Milk has no chemicals or "bad" stuff inside of them that you should know about.

Now let me move on to the "parent's" side of this. This is pretty clear and I feel kind of bad for those that can't realize it... THE PARENTS ARE THE ONES THAT CONTROL WHAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE EATING SO TECHNICALLY IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT! Now, some may argue what about school lunch but I can say that all the parents have to do is make the children their own lunch. Other's may say that the parents may not have enough money or aren't informed about anything, but if you can't "afford" to make your child a peanut butter and jelly sandwich then you shouldn't have ever had a child in the first place. In addition, it's their job to keep the news and school website in case anything "unhealthy" is going on. Basically, there is no excuse whatsoever for children to be obese unless the parents aren't doing a good job of taking care of them.

Finally, many people would say that what if the children themselves don't listen? It's the parents who are supposed to teach their kids discipline! Otherwise, they need to go to parent counseling or find some way to end the bad stuff that's blocking you and your child's connection. You see, this is all related. The parents go ahead and buy the food or tell their children to get it for them. They know what they're buying and if they don't that's their fault for not keeping up with the latest news. I'm not going to say, "oh, get a job if you poor" because even that's a bit harsh for me but something needs to happen. Back to what I was saying before, the adults are buying products from the companies that advertise their bad food. It's all intertwined. Anyway, let's move on to my evidence for all the stuff I've been saying (which is mostly opinion based).

This some evidence from a website called, "PRNewswire", "SERMO, the leading global social network for physicians, announced today that 69 percent of doctors think parents are either completely or mostly to blame for the childhood obesity epidemic according to a recent poll of its members. The poll, which ran from Monday, August 17 – Wednesday, August 19, received 2,258 responses from doctors around the world. Thirty percent of respondents said parents are somewhat to blame and only 1 percent said they weren't to blame at all." This just proves that doctors themselves think that parents are to blame. Look at that number! Sixty Nine Percent! While only one percent think that it isn't their fault at all. "As parents, we have to set an example and to promote within our families healthy eating and healthy exercise.", is some evidence from a pediatrician who partook in the survey.

In conclusion, this is what I think about who is to blame for the growth in obesity for children. Both parents and the advertising companies are to blame for this all, although doctors seem to think that's more so the parents. Today, we've talked about why the companies are to blame for the children's obesity in America. Mainly fast food restaurants and food companies that lie about where the food they make comes from. We've also discussed why parents are to blame for this epidemic and evidence to prove it. Let me know what you think about this down below (Mr. Correa in school tell me). 

First period and I was really worried because we had to present our Science Project. I didn't even care that I was in front of the class, I was just worried about what grade I would get. I could tell from just looking at it the tri-fold poster didn't look like it took a long time to make even though I spent about 2 hours on it in total (including all the times when the egg cracked and fails). Thankfully, when it was my turn I was able to present everything and my teacher even laughed a little at the drawing that I did at the bottom of the board. He gave me a 90 so I was pretty satisfied with my grade considering the time it took to make and buy everything. Most of the kids worked with a group, in fact, I was probably one of the only people who did it by themselves. The other two people that did it by themselves and were called up didn't have it so I was happy that I brought it in.

After Science was Social Studies (in reality Social Studies was first but I forgot) and my teacher mainly talked about Prince Harry's wedding with Meghan yesterday. He said that the news was being racist because no one has ever brought up race in England the news but suddenly as soon as someone new gets married in the royal family comes in the controversy starts. Apparently, Meghan is bi-racial so she is black and white. A lot of people are hating on her because they don't want a black and white princess to be a part of an only white royal family but I think there is no problem with it. Also, she actually isn't the first bi-racial person in the royal family. That was Queen Charlette who married to the King at the time. I imagine she probably got a lot of hate for being part black as well. 

I'm going to skip Lunch because nothing special ever happens then. I only mention it to add more lines to the paragraph. Anyway, in Spanish, my teacher gave everyone in the class one minute to think about present-day events. I was going to talk about the wedding but of course, someone already said that. Then, I was going to switch to the volcano incident in Hawaii but another person mentions it already. Finally, I got desperate and wanted to talk about the Science Fair Project, however, a third person actually started going into detail about how good his presentation was while showing off his device. At that point, I just kept my hand down and silently worked on the pages she assigned afterward. Uhhhh, who am I even kidding? I just sat there waiting for class to end, to be honest.

Once Spanish ended I headed towards Technology with my class. We were told to take a picture of ourselves on the computer and then put it on the photoshop app. Afterwards, we could edit the pictures and make them look cool. I thought this was super cool but tried to ignore the girl right next to me. She was taking like 20 pictures on the computer even though she needed one! Then, she switched her hairstyle and then took another 20 pictures. Then she edited the lighting and wanted to retake the pictures because her "curls" weren't showing enough. I'm just joking guys, the girl next to me didn't actually do that. She was just deeply concerned about each picture and kept asking me and this other boy to her right if the picture looked good. Since I'm supposed to be nice I said yes and continued editing my own selfie.

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So this post is about a gaming company called, "Hi-Rez" and I play their game "Smite". So, apparently, the released a skin in their mobile game called, "Paladins Strike" for one of the playable characters. However, the video that they released it on was quick to criticise. Apparently, it was extremely close to a map in Overwatch called, "Lijang Tower". The Japenese styles were all too familiar for the people who love Overwatch and Paladins recieved a lot of hate. The creators quickly apologized and said they didn't even realize how this mistake occured. The artist's drawing wasn't checked to make sure it looked the way it was supposed to. Just slapped on the video as the background while adding the character in the middle to blur the rest. Let me know what you think.

Even though for the most part today's post is going to be about Google News I still want to mention that I just finished reading, "Trails of Apollo: The Burning Maze". This is the third installment of the series and I really enjoyed it, but then again I enjoyed all of them. However, something I despise is how the 4th book in the series is coming in the Fall of 2019! That is so far away from right now! I'll probably forget about this book once that comes out. However, that doesn't mean I don't understand that most books for kids at my age and up take a while to write because they supposed to be at a certain reading level and enjoyable for the reader at the same time. I guess I'll have to keep a mental or literal note with me so I don't forget about the "Trials of Apollo" series. Just to let you know I might be doing a summary of this book next weekend so stay tuned.

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So remember when I talked about the "Texas Shooting" yesterday? Well, the "suspect" killer has confessed and he is actually 17 years of age instead of 16. The kid is named, Dimitrios Pagourtzis (cool name) and he killed 10 people int he shooting. Thirteen were injured so that is unfortunate, but thankfully he was the only person who was part of this act to shoot up the school. That means no one else was with him or planned it all out, or at least that's what we think. The kid was supposed to be bailed by some (most likely parents), but the judge denied the bail because of what he heard at the "hearing". "The kid is being held on two charges, capital murder, and aggravated assault". I don't understand what "Aggravated assault means". Does it mean he targeted someone specific? Or if it isn't that the same definition as "capital murder"?

"Schools are spending billions on high-tech security. But are students any safer?", is the same of the next story. Just immediately off the bat, I don't think that schools would spend billions on high tech security. Unless of course, the word "schools" means a large number of districts. Otherwise, I doubt one school would spend a million dollars for high tech security. That's a bit too much in my opinion. Because of the Texas shooting a lot of schools are now taking even more precautions ever since the "SanFrancisco Shooting". One particular principal of a school in Haverhill, Massachusetts pleaded the state government to go ahead and install state of the art security in the school. He goes by a quote, "The more the better". In most cases that's good but for now, that seems really extra.

Apparently, the "device" that he persuaded the school department to purchase was a network that "identifies the sound of gunfire and alerts police and administrators". This "creation" was made by a company called, "Shooter Detection Systems" and it costs exactly $70,000! That is beyond crazy! I know for a fact the only thing my school has ever asked for that is more than $70,000 are trailers and new building. The principal says he took the opportunity and applied the system. According to the same story after the SanFrancisco Shooting", the same school that got shot up in Texas put up its own security procedures. They even had their own police officer district and wanted all the parents to know it was okay. And obviously, it wasn't because the shooting took place and 10 people died.

I guess that calls for even more "protection" and funding from the government. This last paragraph is going to be about the royal wedding that took place yesterday for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan. My dad showed me a clip of this and I thought only one thing, "Why can't this happen to me?". Just kidding, that was my dad... It was the first time I thought a wedding was cool, but that was more so because of the royal guards that were there to protect the prince and "princess". I just realized, what would happen if someone shot Prince Harry and his wife? Okay, that came out really wrong. I just wonder, though. Would they immediately recieve the death penalty or have like a 100 years in prison? Let me knew what you think down below.

For today's story, I'm going to just talk about Google News because I haven't finished my book yet and I already talked about yesterday at school. So the first story that I read was called, "For the love of god, keep your literal ass away from the pool when you're sick". This was actually the name of the post so I'm sorry if some people are offended. The reason I picked this story was that my sister is sick. And just a few days ago she was asking to go to the pool! Even though she's sick and the pool won't open or another month.  In fact, that's exactly what my dad and I told her but she still is stubborn about it. Anyway, let's talk more about the actual stuff said in this article. Apparently, many people are contaminating the water at a pool because they have diarrhea. 

I'm just curious about something. Does farting count as the same thing as diarrhea? Or is diarrhea when someone just straight up poops in the water, because that is way worse than farting by far. The "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" have said that from 2000  to 2014 there have been "493 recreational water-related outbreaks of disease scattered across 46 states and Puerto Rico. The Outbreaks have collectively sickened at least 27,219 people and even killed eight" (that was a quote). According to the source, 94% of those outbreaks were related to some type of germ. Only 6% of the outbreaks were because of too much chlorine in the water of "chemical contamination". I think that it is very clear what the main point of this story is all about, "Keep your literal butt away from the pool if you feel like having diarrhea. 

Now, of course, this has nothing to do with my sister because instead of diarrhea she just has a fever. But you never know what that fever can do to others if it's even contagious. Is it contagious? Okay, now it's time for the second story and this one is a lot more serious. It's called, "The Texas school shooting reminds America what vets already know: civilian gun culture is a dysfunctional mess". Apparently, there has been a third or fourth tragic mass shooting in the country of America. This time it took place in Texas. I actually read a story about this yesterday but decided not to write about it for some reason. In that post, there was a suspect that might've been the shooter but I'm pretty sure everyone knows he was the one. The suspect was a kid about 16 years old if I'm correct.

Back to this story, the man writing this is talking about his own personal experience in the military and how much more authorization of training is required for him to use his gun properly. According to him, in the military, you need to go through training ranges and aren't even allowed to carry your weapon in the military base. Because the people or leaders at the base want to make sure there are the least amount of casualties as possible. I think this is very important but don't exactly know how you kid fit that into a whole of America. But this what the man is actually getting to. You see before a soldier heads out into a combat zone or a place where there is a possibility to attack they each carry their gun unarmed. 

They aren't supposed to have ammunition in their gun before fighting. Once they actually see or realize there is a threat they can load ammo into their weapons. That right there is a caution that the military takes and does well. However, when civilians try to buy a gun without the proper care all they need to do to buy a gun is have the cash and sign a couple of papers. Whereas in the army you need to actually know learn how to use the gun, vow to never use it in circumstances where it is not needed, and much more. People who get a gun from a retailer literally don't even know if there is ammo in the gun, sometimes there is and then what'll happen? They will shoot it and police will come even though it was an accident. Let me know what you guys thing down below?

During Homeroom (when I got to class) I grabbed my breakfast and then headed towards my desk. The stuff that I left under my desk was in the back table. Apparently, my teacher made a new rule that if you leave your books in the basket under the desk they are to be put in the lost and found. Thankfully, someone saw my books and put them back in the class so I didn't have to do any digging in a basket filled with clothes. The breakfast the school gave was a box of "Cinnamon Cereal" and a carton of white milk. One of my friends came late because of his bus and wasn't able to have any milk. I decided that every opportunity is a chance to be good and let him have half of my milk so he could put it in his cereal. This is what you call "Compassion", my dad says I have none but after today's good deed, he can't say anything.

The first period was Technology and my class walked in a straight line to the lab. We had a substitute teacher because for some reason our usual one was absent. Anyway, this teacher didn't tell us to photoshop anything because he didn't know how to. So he instead he let us go on Mathwhizz and play the games on there. My friend and I were playing this mini-game called, "Ping-Pong Dash" and I thought it was really challenging. There were different levels with each one adding an extra ball to try and bounce up. I felt kind of bad for the sub because he saw the game we were playing and wanted to try it out. However, because the class was already over and the computers had to be shut down he couldn't try it out. Then, he asked if you are able to just play this game on a computer. Unfortunately, to access the website you need an account and he doesn't have one (this is what I told him). 


Do you see this picture right here? Well, it's related to the next period called, "Dance"! My teacher took us back to the classroom where we were supposed to take notes on a movie. At first, I thought that this was the exact opposite of a Dance class but then shut my mouth. You see, this is because the movie that we were watching had to do with dance. It's the one that you see on the left of the screen called, "The Greatest Showman". I thought this was like some type of Broadway play but then realized how it was a movie. There were many different scenes in the movie that had everything to do with dance. Most of the steps in these scenes were choreographed and I enjoyed it very much.

Lunch soon came and I got my food ready. My aunt got some type of "snack" from a Chinese restaurant where there is bread and a hot dog inside. Now you might be thinking how every hot dog has bread but this isn't a regular bun. It's like a croissant with the noodle-shaped meat in the middle. Then, there is the other one that she got and this also revolves around a hot dog. There is bread covering the hot dog but it's specially made for the hot dog inside. However, there isn't a little thing on the side to open it. It's the eater's job to bite the top and go all the way down to the bottom until you finish. The bad thing about this type was that inside was mayonnaise. I had no problem with the lettuce in it. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that it tasted really good. 

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I'm going to talk about this South Korean Boy Band called, "BTS" because they have just been the center of attention these days. They are extremely talented in their dancing is what I have to say about it. However, it's really annoying when you have one girl in your class that constantly talks about them. She was so dedicated that the girl knows South Korean (the language itself)! She literally learned the whole language just so she could understand their lyrics. One of her friends showed me the actual video and I fairly enjoyed it. It seemed a bit colorful and I could see why most girls appealed to it. Apparently, they have broken the top of America's charts with their albums and are probably going to become to biggest pop band in the world, in general. Anyway, let me know what you think about this post.

The first period was Science and I wasn't expecting to enjoy it. And like I expected there wasn't anything fun that happened during that period. My teacher handed us a worksheet that would count as a classwork grade. I've started taking into account what my grade is and how each assignment I receive will impact it. So a class participation grade is the lowest type of score but it doesn't hurt to get a 10/10 (what I usually get). To be honest I wish that Spanish was a type of class that didn't revolve around a number grade. But instead, they would say whether or not you were "E", "S", or "I". "E" stands for Excellent while "S" means Satisfactory Progress. I'm fairly sure that "I" means something bad or failing, but I can't think of a word that starts with I and means bad. Maybe insolence? Anyway, after finishing my worksheet I handed it to my teacher and started brainstorming ideas for the Science Project.

In this project, I need to "create" a device that will be able to keep an egg from cracking at 2ft off the ground, 3ft, and then all the way up to 8 ft. If that works then I've got myself a fairly good device. You were able to have a partner but I didn't want to because none of my friends were close to me. Besides, it would be better to do the whole project in about 2 hours then work with a friend for about 5 or 6. For my "device" all I need are two plastic bags and some tape. I'm going to tape two plastic bags together from their little holding area so there is still space in between. Then, in that space, I will put the egg on the bottom bag. Finally, if my device works then the top plastic bag should be like a glider and slowly the bag will fall down alongside the egg.

Now it's time for the second period, P.E! In reality, I was really disappointed that it started raining in the morning. That meant that I and my class weren't able to go outside in the field. I hoped this meant we would play Line Soccer but instead my class did the same game from the field inside the field. My only problem was that the space we had to play was really small. It wasn't even the full gym! Because my teacher didn't want other kids to be sitting around and doing nothing she gave them one half of the room. Let's just say there were a lot of times where people kicked the ball outside of our area. And to be honest I don't blame them, especially since one of those people were me. At the last ten seconds of the game, it was still a tie, 0-0, but my friend saw that the team got a handball and went on the borderline.

Instead of passing it to one of our teammates he literally threw the ball with his hands inside of the enemy team's goal. My teacher said that was game over and we won. Although we can't do that in real soccer this game wasn't serious so she counted it. Anything, to not have to restart another 2 minutes. Anyway, that was the "morning" for today! Towards the end of the day, I had Math and was able to finish the test! It was just a few more questions that I reviewed for right before the class started. During Social Studies I told the teacher that I knew Chinese and then made up some random words that sounded Asian. He believed me and thought that word meant debate. I felt kind of bad but knew that telling him would have made him a bit mad.

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I just went through about 4 different stories and they were all about animals in insects (the first one was about the octopus and the rest were about ants, wasps, and centipedes). Apparently, there was one story about ants and how they've started to grow very fast. Well, actually they've always been growing but for some reason, we are noticing them now. Just yesterday my sister left about 10 different lollipops in her drawer and afterward almost 50 ants came in. It was actually really scary when my dad removed the candy. The ants immediately started running away, I felt bad for them because at the same time they are still creatures but knew we couldn't have too many ants inside of our house. Anyway, let me know what you think.

Today was a half day so I'm pretty sure I can fit in all of the periods. During Homeroom I ate breakfast and then and then asked if I could be excused to go to the bathroom. My, teacher signed the bathroom pass and I left the room, only to come back 5 minutes later. Afterward, the first period started and for some reason, almost half of the class had just come. That meant that they wouldn't be able to eat the breakfast. Social Studies went by pretty fast but I thought it was boring at the same time. You see, the teacher was told by my classmates to give feedback for the 6 students that were chosen to represent the class in a debate. I didn't want to go because I just personally don't enjoy speaking in front of other people, but that didn't mean I did not want to hear my feedback. It just wasn't fair that out of all the students only the 6 who got picked would hear the teacher's comments. 

Something that I thought was just sad is when my teacher said that one of the students who got picked had a voice crack while presenting in the first debate. Then, that kid goes ahead and says, "I never did that". Even though I myself heard his voice crack during the speech. His voice would go from high to low, and he even said that it was intentionally! He was like, "I did it to emphasize my point". Like no you didn't! And to think this kid was Hamzah really surprised me. Well, actually it didn't. Hamzah isn't exactly the nicest person even though he tries to act like it. In reality, I think that spot goes to either Daphne or Nabeel. Sure he's probably the smartest kid in the school but his nice behavior is just an act towards the teachers. The "scholar" actually is sometimes a bit mean towards "Mousa" (another kid in my class).

I remember yesterday it was the end of Technology and a few kids like me had Gifted and Talented instead of ELA. Well, Hamzah here wanted to go back into the classroom because he thought that we were already finished. So he kept on telling Ahmad who is basically his only friend (he talks to a lot) that they should go back to class. See, Ahmad didn't want to go because like me and the other groupmates we wanted to actually code the robot itself. However, Hamzah thought it wasn't necessary and kept saying "We're done Ahmad, Let's go!". Like he was acting like he was Ahmad's boss. I thought this really wasn't cool at all because friends shouldn't try and peer pressure others, which is exactly what Hamzah was doing. In the end, Hamzah got irritated and left which I had no problem with. I wouldn't want to be with someone that acts fake in front of the teachers (personality-wise).

Man, I still haven't talked about the rest of my day. I guess I'll skip to ELA since that was the only "amazing" part of today. The first thing my class did in ELA was our Classic Book Clubs. I conversed with Nabeel, Elisha, Daphne, and aA'Blessin on what we had so far. I already had done my reading and summarizing part. Just, had to shorten the work that Daphne did on Characters so that it would be much easier to read in the presentation. Finally, my teacher handed everyone their grades from the second literacy term test. I honestly thought I would get like a 70 or less because I only had a few minutes to study before the test actually happened. But I guess the luck was in my favor because I got away with a 92. And the funny thing was that I expected myself to get a 70 so much that when I got a 92% I thought it said 72%...

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I just want to let anyone who's reading this know that Hamzah isn't "mean" to me at all because I don't like him myself. We haven't ever talked at all this year besides a "thank you" or "your welcome" every now and then. Anyway, today's story is going to be about the new assault rifle that came to Fortnite! For some reason, there wasn't any actual news story for this but technically it's still "new" so I can talk about it. I'm going to name this Youtube News because I found it on Youtube instead of Google. PC players have already gotten this update two days ago but Playstation Four and XBox One users are getting it today. Since I don't play Fortnite that much nowadays it's cool but the weapon doesn't seem necessary at all. Let me know what you think.

Military Argument

In my opinion, I think that America should not take on the practices of other countries where they force citizens to participate in military action. This is for many reasons but first, let me explain the negative and positive outcomes of this. Some negative stuff that could come out of forcing citizens to participate in the military are civilians being killed. Would you want your own nation to start dying one by one just because they have been forced to fight by the government? No, I definitely would not. I think that forcing to join the military is a very bad move. Another reason why I think this is bad is that people will start to overthrow the government. When I say this I meant the people of America will come after the government and the two sides will fight.

I would hope the government wouldn't want their own people to go against them. Now let's look at the "positive" side of this. The country fo America will have a much "stronger" military power because of all this recruitment. But honestly, is there really any other good outcomes? Many good lives will be lost, you never know if someone who was forced into the military had a talent that they could have shared with the world. Let's see the state of countries that have already taken a liking to this practice. Let's look at "Afghanistan", obviously it's not going well at all because the U.S itself needs to support it and it's fighting against the Taliban. 

Now I don't think that Donald Trump or the U.S government itself would want this to happen to them. Anyway, this is why I think that America should no force it's own citizens to go ahead and fight in the military. Americans or people themselves have the right to choose what they want to do with their lives. Some may want to fight for their country and there is nothing wrong with that. But people that just want to stay out of the fighting and have a peaceful life shouldn't be affected by this at all. Let me know what you think about this situation in the comments down below ( Mr. Correa you don't have to).

The first period was Social Studies and I wanted to ask my teacher why he thought Donald Trump taking away the Iran deal was bad. This is only because my dad gave me some new information yesterday and I wanted to see what my teacher thought about it. However, I wasn't able to ask him anything because the curriculum that my class is in is about Isreal. In fact, we were supposed to watch "Black Panther" today because my teacher got the DVD but apparently, the computer that he was using had a very old DVD player. That's why instead we watched a documentary about "How Isreal was Founded". This is related to the conflict about whether Isreal or Palestine should get "Jerusalem" for themselves. Like I've stated before Donald Trump shouldn't put the U.S Embassy there because all he wants is attention. There isn't anything positive about this at all. 

After Social Studies my class had P.E and I got really excited. This is because my class is doing the Soccer Unit and today we were starting a tournament. I knew that today my teacher would pick 5 team captains and there would be 5 to 6 players on each team. I didn't want to be someone that kicked or passed because it meant I would have to give the ball to someone else from time to time. However, if I played in the goal it would let me practice at a much faster pace and besides, I like how hard it is to be a good goalie. My teacher had no problem with this, especially since I called it first, but something that really annoyed me was how people couldn't follow directions. For instance, the players weren't allowed to be in the little square that surrounded the front of the goal. But, of course, most of the kids would just stay there and when the ball came kick it in from like 2 feet away.

Thankfully, my teacher who was also the referee made it clear after the 5th time it happened. During Lunch, my class was supposed to go outside again, even though we were just dying from the burning heat a few seconds ago. I thought that was pretty dumb but tried not to be a sore loser about it. While in recess I was just enjoying myself in the shade of the school's courtyard when the lunch attendants said everyone was supposed to go to the field. I thought this was crazy because now we were forced to go in the heat. In fact, you know what happened today? I didn't even get to eat Lunch! Let me explain before recess was over my teacher told me and my classmates that we were picked to be the class that participates in a "test". Well, really it was an adult that was a candidate for becoming next year's P.E teacher. 

I honestly think that the dude we were with seemed pretty chill. He also didn't seem that physically fit but who cares! I mean, in my 3rd-grade school the lady wasn't that fit as well, but she still taught like a boss. We played a game called, "Speed Ball", so the game would start off with a person having the ball in their hands. They could only take a few steps before having to pass it to another person. However, if that person dropped the ball the whole game shifts to Soccer. So you would have to kick the ball to the other side of the field. I thought this was fun game but was confused at the last part. You see if you still had the ball and was close to scoring you needed to pass it to 3 girls on your team. Then, you could just kick it in. 

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Now I was extremely shocked when I read this post. Apparently, there was a woman that paid only $28 a month for her rent! That's crazy, I'm assuming this is because her apartment was trash and sure enough it was. But come on, she still had a fireplace, two beds, a shelf, and a bathroom! According to the post, the woman was 83 years old but died because lightning struck her. When she first lived in the building it was actually only $16! But then, the rent went a little higher until finally, it rested for $28. The landlord said that he and the previous owner of the building were both friends with the woman so they had no problem of letting her rent stay at $28. After she died the landlord said he'll fix everything up and make the rent $5,000 a month. That's crazy, but then again New York does cost a lot.

Today wasn't a bad day at all. I woke up at 6:00 A.M and was able to make my sister get up. However, my body just stopped working and I had to sleep for a few more minutes. As time went by I thought it was already 7:00 A.M but in reality, it was still 6:15 A.M. Afterwards, the two of us walked downstairs in an unhappy mood (yes, I was still a bit drowsy). My mom was still sleeping but my aunt helped my sister get ready for school. I started brushing my teeth and taking a shower early so that I wouldn't have to worry later.

For breakfast, I'm pretty sure she had cereal but left the bowl in the sink. I'd decided that because my mom and dad got a bunch of food yesterday I'd put it to good use. Basically, the Crossaints were eaten one by one. 

Anyway, let's move on to school. My favorite period by far was Technology. Unfortunately, the lab that my class went to while PARCC was happening is now being used again since the testing is over. However, that didn't mean the fun would stop. You see, I started playing this new game called, "For Honor" and I sincerely enjoy it. It's about Knights, Vikings, and Samurai. Now in the game, you can choose one of these three factions and of course, I picked the Samurai. The specific reason is that they are ASIAN! But besides that, the characters look the coolest out of all the playable heroes. Let me explain why I brought this up. During Technology my teacher said that we were supposed to do edit pictures in the "Photoshop" section of the computer.

I decided to pick a character from "For Honor" since there weren't any boundaries as to what character you could choose. The "Shinobi" is the specific character I picked from the game because he's from the Samurai Faction and a Ninja. This is specifically related to "Naruto" which if you don't know is my favorite Japenese Anime. My teacher had no problem with it and liked the way I was able to change his sort of orange costume into a rainbow. Other kids decided to pick landscapes, one of my friends did the Himalayan Mountains. But of course, the way I roll is to always be "special" or shine from the rest of the group.

Now, let me talk about the "worst" period of the day. And remember this one fact, I wasn't the one that got affected. It's mainly about me feeling bad for others. Today my Grammer teacher was doing her lesson when a girl next to me dropped her head. When I say "dropped her head" I mean she lowered it down to her chin touched the desk. Now, this really distracted the teacher and she sent the girl out of the classroom for the rest of the period. I thought this was bit unfair because she didn't do anything wrong. Besides, I could've dropped my head but still been paying attention. Then again, she did do it two other times before that. Let me know what you think in the comments.

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Now, this is actually a really funny post, apparently, there is a store in an Ohio Strip Mall called, "Epic Loot Games" and I guess a lot of "Fortnite" players started calling them. Most of the calls to the store were about how the player was mad at Epic Games or wanted a refund. The store manager always tried to explain that he wasn't an actual part of "Epic Games" and that he and his colleagues just worked at a regular game store filled with physical board games. He said that one time a kid was repeatedly calling the store saying that he wanted his money back. Eventually, the child's mother yelled at the manager thought he phone telling him to stop harassing her son. I thought this was hypocritical since the son was the one that repeatedly called him. Anyway, that is it for today.

For today's post, I want to talk about "Chains". "Chains" is a book made by "Laurie Halse Anderson", who is also the author of "Fever 1793". I like this book a lot and still haven't even finished it. There's something about it that makes me want to keep on reading but I don't know what. Maybe it's the fact that there is a cliffhanger at the ending of every chapter? Or the nonstop historical context is shown about the "Revolutionary War"? Either today I'm going to be summarizing it and leaving it off at a cliffhanger so that I don't spoil it all for you. Before we start let me give you some information on the author. Laurie was born on October 23, 1961, in New York. The woman attended and finished both high school and college before beginning her writing career. "Chains" has a medal for National Book Award Finalist and the best historical fiction novel.

Summary

The protagonist for Chains is Isabel and her sister is named "Ruth". The two of them were working on a plantation in "Rhode Island" before being sold to a British couple from New York. Isabel tries to prove that she is indeed free due to her previous slave owners will before the woman died but the lawyer carrying the papers left to Brooklyn a while ago. Eventually, she and Ruth arrive at the merchant's house and recognize the feelings in New York for the Revolutionary War. This whole thing happened because of "Britains" and Americans knew that they wanted to have their independence. Let me tell you, from the point of where I am in the book it looks like the British will easily take this victory. However, as we all know the Americans or "Colonists" eventually win. Maybe they'll start talking about the battles the American win at the end of the book or in the next one.

Isabel and Ruth hate the "Locktons" (British couple, mainly the wife, "they call her madam") because they treat them unfairly. Now, of course, all slaves were treated like garbage back then but these few were just outright horrible. The husband is actually a lot better and isn't as mean compared to the "Madam". However, both of them are on the British side. Isabel works as some type of spy for a time because she's been told that the "rebels" or (Colonists) will let Slaves be free if they win. However, soon enough the British start coming to New York and scare the rebels away. At this point, Isabel doesn't know which side to believe in. She has friends like "Curzon" (young black boy) in the American side but when she asked their leader to be freed in exchange for her information he lied. 

Not Curzon though, but then again the British don't seem much better telling her that they would've helped Isabel if only she had come from an American family. However, because the people that Isabel works for "Locktons" are Loyalists they can't interfere. Also, something that really makes me think the "Madam" is a bad person is the fact that she sold "Ruth" (Isabel's sister)! Now you probably don't know just how mad Isabel was when she found out. And to also know that her decision isn't worth anything at all. Trust me, Madam and her got into a "scary" battle. Isabel started attacking Madam but the crazy woman threw a portrait of her father at the girl! I just couldn't believe it! 

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Okay, so there is this story about a family of "suicide bombers" that I just can't comprehend. What kid would want to kill themselves at such a young age? Am I right? Apparently, in this story, everyone in the family killed themselves by attaching bombs to their bodies and running into people. At least ten people died because of this and there were a ton of injuries. Now, this seems pretty skeptical to me. What if the parents just forced the kids to attach bombs to them? I just can't understand why two kids 9 and 12 would do that. I wouldn't! The reports say that 42 people in all were injuries (not including deaths). The bombings or people seemed to be targeting churches because that's where all the attacks were. Let me know what you think.