Fighting for Space!

"We've been there before," Obama said of the moon. "There's a lot more of space to explore and a lot more to learn when we do."

Everyday we see something that is from space. If it is in a movie, at school or at home, you’ll come across object or visuals that is space related. All these things come from the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). Lately Barack Obama stopped giving money from the government to the NASA space program for going to the moon. He found the expenses that they had to cover too expensive especially since America is in debt and needs to spend their money carefully. If we cancel the space program/exploration we can't discover new evidence and data, will have a lot of people jobless and men will not have an escape if something goes wrong with the earth. From space you can find out a lot of new information that can change the future.

In space the astronauts discover new evidence and data that can change object on earth. Astronauts started to get a blurred vision after they stayed in space for a long time. Scientist have discovered ‘’anticipation glasses’’. When the astronauts start to get poor vision they can wear the glasses so that their eyes are still strong and they can continue with the work that they are doing. People on the earth itself can wear these glasses as well. Also from space they figured out that metal would attach to each other if both ends touch each other. This would mean that if you were to have two very important pieces and you put them together, you would have to go back to earth to get them made again. Also this is very handy because you don’t have to play around with screws when working with metals in space because they would attach by itself. If we stop finding out these facts we could not improve on further space flights in the future.


America is in a huge debt right now. Now with firing all the people they are going to be in even bigger problem. In NASA there is about 18 thousand people working on all the missions. These people include all the people who build the shuttle/rocket, all the astronauts and all the people around and in the company. Since Obama decided to cancel the moon missions, a lot of these people are going to be fired and they will be jobless. Now you have an even bigger problem because there will be about 18,000 people jobless adding onto the people that already have money issues. Now the government needs to pay all these people so that they can live properly. Even thought the NASA program cost a lot of money they still won’t be able to save a much money as they need to get out of their dept zone. America will eventually get over their economical issues and they will restart the space program. This will cost them so much money to set the company up again. Now you can see how canceling the space program won't get them out of their debt and will make them pay even more in the future. That is one reason why the space program is worth fighting for.


If we don’t research about information in space we will have nowhere to go when the resources run out on earth. When men need to leave earth because of dramatic reasons, the only way out is space. Space will be the future world for the people. The earth can’t keep giving all the people resources and the people can’t keep destroying the earth. If we stop researching about space, we will have no idea how everything is going to work. We won’t be able to live anymore and without research you can’t transport people into space when you don’t even know how they are going to survive. The information will change and change until some point were we won't be able to keep up with the changes of the universe. It is true that every year the moon fades 3cm away from earth. If we don’t keep track of the universe all around us then we will not be able to leave from earth. It is a plan in the future that NASA wants to go to mars. They also said that they might make a stop on the moon so that they can go from earth to the moon to mars. Now if these little pieces of information keeps changing then we won't have a successful missions when we go. I think that fighting for the space program must happen the space changes everyday and everything will go wrong if we want to have more missions.


I think that in the future, the next president will start the missions again and all the people can discover new outcomes, have all the old people working again and they can make plans in case we have to leave the earth. If NASA is going to start to think about going to mars, they better get some more information and research done because stopping the program is not going to help it. I feel really bad for the people that work with NASA because their lives are in these missions and I think quitting the program is like quitting their lives.

"I am 100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future," ( Barack Obama)

Laughing is the best medicine!

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is a time where are actions are stopped and you just hear people cracking up. It is joyful time where everyone is bonding with each other. Whether it is about you or just a random joke, laughter makes your day. Laughter also makes you laugh at the end of the day when you think back of your memories. Even though people always think that laughter is only fun, it actually is very important. Laughter bonds people together and it makes some of your organs function better and makes it you feel better. Laughter is worth fighting for.

Laughter is important to fight for because laughter does bond people together. It is scientifically proven that laughter can help relationships work. Relationships can be challenging at some time and laughter brings people together. Some doctors think that laughter was made to make people bond and get closer. If you like someones humor than you will probably like the person as well. This is another reason why laughing is worth fighting for.

Additionally it is important to fight for laughter because it is healthy for your body. Laughing is good for several parts; your blood vessels, your heart, your brain and for exercise. It allows us to release chemicals that are needed around the body. It sends these chemicals through your blood around your brain and pumps through your heart. This way they can benefit from it too. Also laughing is an exercise. It is the act of you chest going up and down rapidly. Doctors say that if you laugh and do a little bit of exercise you will be fine. Laughing is equivalent to aerobic exercise. If laughter makes your body fit, then it is worth caring about.

Also laughter makes you feel better. It releases stress to help you relax. If your all stressed out and you need to do something to relax, it should be laughing. It releases the pain in your body to help you feel comfortable and safe. Meaning that you will do better on the thing you were stressed about. Laughing also makes you do better in school on certain areas like solving problems and on your creativity.

Laughing could also be associated with learning. If you laugh a lot in class and the teacher lets you,  you will like the class more than others. Having fun in a class is important because you'll care more about it and want to do more for that particular subject. No student wants to sit and watch the teacher explain the lesson. Children want their classes to be interesting and fun for them to go to. This way the teacher gets the attention when he/she talks and a fun class for them to teach. 

Without laughter, the world would be so sorrowful. I think that laughing really suits me because I always laugh and smile. Laughing is always fun to do with your friends or family. Sometime people don't like each other because they have nothing in common. Once you start and experience the laughter that another person has you might change your view of their personalities. This is how it often works at school, with friends and in the world of business. You can laugh about the same joke a lot of times in order for you to not find it funny anymore. If laughter is fun, helps your body, bonds people together and makes you feel better then it is worth fighting for.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

August Wilson

Speak Out!

You need wisdom
to be able to
question authority
to implore opinions.

Questioning society
about what you
personally believe in
challenges generations
to declare
and speak out
for
themselves.

-Al, Cat, Mar, Meg


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From segregation to integration- Ruby Bridges

 And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. 

Carter G. Woodson 

The story of Ruby Bridges show that any one, any age can fight for their peace. In 1954 when Ruby was born she faced a problem in the United States when segregation was still in the country. White and black people had their own school, communities, toilets, restaurants ect. As a black attending an all white school issued some problems in the community. Throughout this whole process Ruby was very brave and stood up for herself.

Segregation was important to fight for because if it weren’t for the people that stood up or the people like Mrs. Henry (Ruby’s teacher) segregation would still be in place and we would still have everything separated. Integration allows us to work together and form a better society. There are things that both groups at that time could do better than the other. Now they can work together and create a stable base for the society and it’s future.

Additionally what Ruby did is not only benefiting her. It is also benefiting the other colored children. Once she went to the school for over a year, the parents sent their children back to school. Slowly all the public/private schools turned into integrated schools so that anyone could join. This caused a change because all children were now able to have the same changes that they all deserved.

Without Ruby bridges and the other up-standers the world would be different right now because it could still be integrated. Ruby Bridges is inspirational to me because se made a big change in the world. She had to ignore the people the crowds, go against her father thoughts and what he thought was right and had to stand up and not feel depressed about the things the crowds were saying to her.

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him. 

Stokely Carmichael 

The New World with sustainability.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Paul Hawken

Sustainability is defined as taking care of the environment and not cutting all the wood or polluting all the rivers and oceans. If given the opportunity to begin a New World, I would hope the society would built around sustainability.
Sustainability will be an important characteristic in the New World because if the people from the Old World would of kept it clean, they did not have to leave. Then they could of stayed there longer and after all the resources have been used then they could of left to the New World. This way they can live longer because the resources would still be there after they have moved. If the community uses all the resources in no time then the whole society would have to move to a different planet if there are any other planets with the requirements that this society needs.

Additionally, it is important for a society to be built around sustainability in case there is a serious emergency they have extra materials. This way when there comes a natural disaster and people have kept extra materials in the world then the people can use the rest to rebuild their society and go on with their lives. If you look at some countries on this world you can see that they are in need of supplies. Maybe the new world can slow it down and not have the best of the best because sooner they realize that they needed the objects.

Without sustainability, the New World would have trouble because they would have to move planets if they keep doing what their old habit which was wasting materials or they can't rebuild their society because they would not have enough supplies.

As mentioned earlier, sustainability once claimed, ‘’The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them, (Paul Hawken)’’, meaning to come together and work together. Not to use all the materials that the environment has to offer.

Wall display- Game Masters Keyboard

For my project of the Hunger Games wall display I made a Game Masters keyboard where the game masters can choose what they want to happen in the Arena. I think this was significant to the book because the game masters plan what kind of obstacles stand in the way of the tributes and the trophy of winning the Hunger Games. Every time something happened in the arena such as the fire or the tracker jacker nest it was because the Game Makers wanted to drive the tributes all together. On my project it shows 20 different obstacles with some pictures to describe the words. I think this project shows the understanding of the book through my eyes because it may not be so much writing but I did use my visual literacy skills that I have learned from other projects.

(will add my picture later)

Short story- The Black Dot

The Black Dot

1) I would call this story The Black Dot because the black dot is what the ceremony is about. Everybody does not want to draw the black dot and people are very afraid of the card. Also this little black dot can take over somebody live. I also called this the Black Dot because this little dot that has a lot of influence and responsibility. Also I would call it the black dot because it would not give away the story. It was surprising for me to see how the story can change from negative to positive and to negative again.
2) I thought that this dot was for the order in the community.  Maybe for a job, hierarchy, names, or that you maybe got a special job for the next year(extra food, got to lead the next ceremony). I certainly did not think that it was negative. Me and my class mates read the short story together and when we finished we certainly knew that the story was not finished.
3) I did not really know that the story was going to end like this so I was just like ''oh well'', there might be another chance tomorrow. If I knew that the story was going to end like this than I would probably want to know it immediately. Now if I look back at yesterday then it was probably better that the story was not given to us because then the suspension was kept. Also because other everybody would away after a negative ending and then you would of had a negative mood. I think that they wanted us to feel how they felt to drag us into the story and to connect with the audience.
4)When I was handed the Mystery paper and Mrs. P told us that we were not allowed to open it until we got home I was pretty nervous. I felt like opening it but I followed the instructions. I though that in this paper there was going to be a black dot or not. If you had a blank paper than you did not have to do anything. If you had a black dot then you had some direction underneath it and you had to follow it. Maybe it was something that you had to read, write or do. I followed the direction because they were the rules and rules are rules.
5) When I saw that some letters had black dots and some had white dots I thought that there were maybe two different assessments that you had to do. Then I saw that half of the people had white dots and the other half had black dots.  I concluded that the dots did not have to do with anything but people getting suspicious about their letter.

 6)When I read the end of the story I was kind of disappointed in the story. I really liked the story because it was pretty positive. Now when only the last page for the story is negative, it turned my whole mood of the story around because dying for sacrifice is not very pleasant.

7)My predictions of the letter and the black box were incorrect. I thought that the letter has something to do with jobs or the new year. Instead the story is about somebody who is giving a person as a sacrifice. I actually think that the end of the story should have been positive so that the reader would walk about with a good mood. Instead the person has writer wrote a negative end. Even though I don’t like the end it is going to make your reader think harder and think about the story for a longer time period.

8)Next time I am going to try to make a prediction closer to the truth I think I should of looked at the story and how the people talked about this ceremony. I should of thought about the stones and how the children still thought it was a game. I should of though about hw this only happens once a year and how there is only one person trying getting the card. Through the whole story they have been foreshadowing something but nobody liked it so I should of looked at the feeling when I was making the prediction

9) I think the author left these voids in the story because wanted to create suspension. Suspension is important in a story because it keeps the reader interested.  Also I think that the author has voids in the story because he wanted to give the reader a big splash at the end so that they would not fall asleep and so that they would keep thinking about the story throughout the whole day. 
10)The void in this story gives it so much power.  No title and just the name keeps the reader thinking about the story and what is going to happen, plus it keeps the reader thinking about the personality of the author and why she wrote this story. The ending is very annoying for the reader but it keeps the void alive. The clues that are given and the foreshadowing makes the reader want to know about the letter that is given to everybody. Also they’ll think about who got the black dot. The mystery paper keeps the suspense going until you get home. You will get suspicious and nervous because you don’t know who and what is going to happen. The delayed ending is effective because then you have your own time on your way home and during your activities to think about the ending because you knew that this was not the end. Also the fact that people were nervous and were just saying ‘’lets get this over with’’ means that something is going to happen and your dying to know.

              I choose this picture because their is a lot of void and as in the story one dot is very powerful.

Holocaust

THE HOLOCAUST -barbara sonek-

Holocaust

by Barbara Sonek

We played, we laughed

we were loved.

We were ripped from the arms of our parents and thrown into the fire.

We were nothing more than children.

We had a future. 

We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. 

We had dreams, then we had no hope. 

We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. 

Separated from the world to be no more. 

From the ashes, hear our plea. 

This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. 

Remember us, for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away.

This poem is very strong poem full of themes, backgrounds and messages. The poem is written from a child's point of view which is smart so that you can show innocence but also the normal view of what every Jewish person in Germany of most of the countries in Europe knew. This poem shows innocence, terror, death, hope, fear and worry. This kid is worried about its future and is explaining how it was while being dragged away from their homes to the fires. This poem has a whole background behind the story. You can hear the fear in what its saying and the vocabulary is very strong and meaningful. This poem has loads of messages but all of them are written as this kid does not know the whole story behind the holocaust. This kid is saying that all the lives from the children are now spoiled away and the future will be less successful. This kid is also telling the audience that the train to the concentration camps were terrifying and absolutely terrible. The jews were the smart and the needed people in the society so Hitler and the rest of Germany blamed it on them because they are now very successful. The Germans mass murdered most of the jews in Europe and now the ''smart people in the society are not there anymore to teach the new future. This will infect the whole world because now they had to start all over again.