Oil Spill "How Much Oil Has Leaked Into The Gulf of Mexico"

This article tells how oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. Thought they don't know how much oil spilled into the water, they just estimated it as being a lot. They figured out that the oil flowed out of the Deepwater Horizon on to the ocean floor around 10am on April 22, 2010. Every since then, it spread. Today, they are trying to get a long tube to run into the ocean floor and suck up all the oil.

Marafet School (Partnership)

We can partner up with the Marefat School if more children from the school engaged in the project. If people were asked to help this school and tell why they should help, people would most likely get involved. The image to side i chosen because I like how the picture shows the connection of the kids seems so happy but really they are struggling but they seems to hide it all with a smile.

Do Now 5/4/10

Facts
1) On an average day, 10.6 million American schoolchildren eat a federally funded school breakfast.
2) Food insecurity exists in 37.2% of all households headed by a single mom.
3) Ironically, children facing hunger are more susceptible to obesity.
4) Whole grains are a good source of selenium, pottassium and magnesium.

DO SOMETHING!

1) Have a photoshoot & sell the pictures
2)Sell water ice & pretzels every other wedensday
3)Make friendship bracelets to sell

Video on STD's Prevention

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_pisani_sex_drugs_and_hiv_let_s_get_rational_1.html

"People do stupid things-thats what spread HIV" quoted Elizabeth Pisani. She actually had HIV and she believe this quote is actually half true. She said that "some people do stupid things to get HIV and some people do rational things." What she mean by rational is that you were taught to do things to be prevented with an STD but you still go out there and do things unprotected. For example, such as sharing a needle and having sex unprotected. This help me with my idea for STD's prevention because it tells about how some people believe that if condoms were to be given out, then everyone will go out and have sex. But in actually, that is false. So this would be good to be able to point out how schools can give out protection.

Reserach for SERVICE LEARNING

"Don't be silly, wrap that willy"


http://www.feminist.com/resources/ourbodies/std.html

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/sexual-health/stds/

http://www.carenetabq.org/stds.shtml

http://www.avert.org/stds.htm

http://www.avert.org/std-pictures.htm

Response To Quote "Do Now"

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. " The words of Martin Luther King Jr. The impact of this quote is that no one has started living until they are above the concerns of all humanity.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

In my perspective, I think this quote means if you want a change in the world, stand out. You don't have to fit in with everyone else. You can stand out and if people realizes you and likes the change, than you might later see the change you wish for in the world. Though, some of your wishes never comes true or you will not see. But if you was to tell what you want, maybe another voice out their had the same wish and you can work together. It's always good to let your voice be heard. So within this quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world" , and let your voice be heard!

Magnet Schools in PHILADELPHIA

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20100318_Top_city_schools__criteria_in_flux_.html?page=1&c=y

This article is confusing but seems a little understandable. From the reading I did, it tells about how Dr.Ackerman are trying to make a change to all schools with races. I believe that she just need to keep it they way it is, everything if FINE!

Reply To Haiti Video

I think the Haiti video was sad and it's hard to see the tribulation they had just faced. The lady in the video had a nice voice and so did the nurse. I just wish people could connect wit Haiti and give them some things so Haiti can go back to how it once was. I just hate seeing people down! So I hope in a few more years, Haiti would be reestablished!

Essay For Melville [Dead&Gone-T.I]

What do you like, the beat or the song? Or is it both? T.I known as Clifford Harris Jr. was born September 25th, 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia [Bankhead]. Known as the greatest rappers, T.I made an excel album Paper Trail which has a song on there that sends out a message. The song Dead and Gone is the best song ever. The sound is good, brings vivid pictures to your mind, and shows a new perspective.

The way the beat flow with the chorus makes it a good sound. The chorus "Oh (hey), I've been traveling on this road too long (too long), Just trying to find my way back home (back home), But the old me is dead and gone, Dead and Gone, And Oh (hey), I've been traveling on this road too long (too long), Just trying to find my way back home (back home) But the old me is dead and gone, Dead and Gone". This is a good sound because if you sit there and think about what he just said in his chorus, the point he is trying to get across is violence affecting our nation. In one part of the chorus he says "I've been traveling this road too long (too long), Just trying to find my way back home (back home)", this meaning that he been living his life for too long, and he just now starting to get to find his way through life, but violence got into his way and took him through another situation. So he now feels dead and gone.

The vivid pictures that were brought throughout T.I's song, Dead and Gone were in one part of verse one. In the one part in verse one, it stated "They don't wanna stop there now they busting,
Now you gushing ambulance rushing, You to the hospital with a bad concussion, Plus you hit four times but it hit yo spine, Paralyzed waist down and ya wheelchair bound". This was when he ran into a group of boys but didn't want to start anything, but an argument was caused so the boys jumped him and started to shoot at him. Now he ended up paralyzed from his waist and down. He didn't mean for this to happen but he ran into a group of boys at the wrong time and ended up in the hospital.

T.I's song, Dead and Gone new perspective is "Things get out of control". This meaning that you can just walk the streets and you can end up shot, dead, or injured. Like in his song, one part was stated that "You walk by-they get wrong, You reply, then sh*t get blown". T.I's trying to get across that you can just walk by someone and they jealous or something, they decides to do something wrong. Once you reply, things get out of control. So in the bridge of his song, he says "I turn my head to the east; I don't see nobody by my side, I turn my head to the west; still nobody in my sight, So I turn my head to the north swallow that pill I call my pride". He saying that east and west isn't the direction to take, but north is, and he swallows that pill he calls pride because he know that going the right path can cause some critical damage as well.

Known as one of the best songs (Dead and Gone) written by T.I has a good sound, vivid/broad pictures, and has an excel new perspective. Just do what is best for you. Don't be a follower, be a leader. Like T.i has stated, swallow that pill that you call pride.

Class Participation For Thopmson

Stephen Cancel:
edheads.org
This websites is a scientific method of a doctors job. It's educational but has a lot of nasty pictures which shows you how surgeries done.
applebees.com
This website shows you what foods are giving in applebees. And you can order from applebees. It also let you searched an applebees nearby your home. I give him a 4.5.

Imyah Sommerville:
biography.com
This website is good because there is articles you can search on the person you are looking for. Like for instance, Barack Obama was searched and it gave few articles and biographies of Barack Obama. It's educational and entertaining.
web.tickle.com
This website is a website where you can take quizzes/tests or create a quiz/test. You can learn more about your yourself. I give her a 5.

Jazmine B:
historynet.com
This website is good because it can be used for NHD. It gives you actual facts.
candystand.com
This website is a website where you can play games and just be entertained. I give her a 4.

Briana Hill:
seventeen.com
This website is good because it can entertain you and it's educational. It gives you the latest fashion for the month.
pbs.org/zoom
This website shows you scientific things. Kind of kiddish but can help out some stuff that are needed in your science class.
thinkgreen.com
This website is a website that teaches you about the enviorment. It actually give you facts on our air pollution and whats affecting it. I give her a 5

Chalise:
bbc.co.uk/history
This website is another historical website. It gives you actual facts. Could be used for NHD.
yahoo.com
This is a multiple website. It's search but you can look up news, politics, ect. I give her a 4.

Paulette&Corey:
encarta.msn.com
This website is veyry good. There are tabs of encyclopedia, dictionary, college and grad school, ect. It is useful for NHD
truveo.com
This website is a video website and informational website as well.
coolmath4kids.com
This website is good because its educational. They put educational stuff into games. Its very fun. I give them a 5.

Kahleah Maingault
sparknotes.com
This is a good website because its good to use for your band book. But Stephen stated that sparknotes is not good because they write essays and you can copy and paste that essay written on that story. But in other ways, it's good.
www.need2know.co.uk
This website is good because it gives good advice to kids. You can do quizzes, and learn new things. I give her a 5.

Erica&Gabrielle
nndb.com
This website is good because you can find out a lot about someone such as the person you are doing for NHD.
library.phila.gov
This website is good because you can searcj for books that are in a library. You can also search in the library near you. If you have an account, you can sign in online and put a book on hold.
abercrombie.com
This website is good because you can shop online and see what they have in stores before you go to the store and get it. It also maps out an abercrombie nearby.

Jie Li
timesolnline.co.uk
This website is good because you get search about a lot of things from America to England. It's good for NHD as well.
ae.com
This website is good because once again you can see whats in the store. It can be mapped out, and it tells you the directions.

Briana Carter
aeropostale.com
This website is good because she said that it is cheap. Also Briana said we go to school where we have to wear collar shirts and collar shirts at aeropostale is cheap.

Albert
Mlb.com
This is a good website because it tells you about baseball and the interaction. You can watch games on there, but not the recorded ones.
Vocabtest.com
This website is good because it tests you on the grade level your on. You can do vocabulary, sentences fragments, etc.

Who's better out of Jay-z and Nas?

In Melville's english class, there were a variety of answers to "Who's better out of Jay-z and Nas"?
Five classmates stated that Jay-z is better than Nas. Does Jay-z has more experience than Nas? Rory said that "he's the best" while Kris stated that "I don't like Nas". Also, maybe Jay-z has more plublicity. "I never heard of Nas" replied Nafis. "I'm more familiar with Jay-z music" commented Melville. Or is it because of his swagg makes him better than Nas. Sierra believes that "he has more swagg while Nas doesn't." These are the beliefs of what 5 of my classmates believed.

Final Draft for NHD

Do you want to make an impact on us citizens? Do you want to become an anthropologist? The American anthropologist, Margaret Meade developed the field of culture and personality research and was a leading influence in introducing the concept of culture into education, medicine, and public policy. In 1923, she entered the anthropology Department of Columbia University. Perhaps the most profound and far-reaching impact that Margaret Meade had was as a counselor to American society - usually on family related issues.
Margaret Meade was a counselor to American society, which she became a major impact in history. In the past, Meade wanted to make Americans understand cultural anthropology as well as to understood archaeology. Mead's interest in psychiatry had turned her attention to the problem of the cultural context of schizophrenia, and with this in mind she went to Bali, a society where trance and other forms of dissociation are culturally sanctioned. Through the work of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, the relevance of anthropology to the problems of public policy was recognized to a degree, though somewhat belatedly. When World War II brought the United States into contact with allies, enemies, and people emerging from colonialism, the need to understand many lifestyles became apparent. Mead conducted a nationwide study of American food habits prior to the introduction of rationing. Later she was sent to England to try to explain to the British the habits of the American soldiers who were suddenly thrust among them. After the war she worked as director of Research in research cultures, a cross-cultural, trans-disciplinary project applying the insights and some of the methods of anthropology to the study of complex modern cultures. In return, she contributed significantly to the development of psychoanalytic theory by emphasizing the importance of culture in personality development. She served on many national and international committees for mental health and was instrumental in introducing the study of culture into training programs for physicians and social workers. Ever since Margaret Mead taught a class of young workingwomen in 1926, she became deeply involved in education, both in the universities and in interpreting the lessons of anthropology to the general public. Margaret Mead was a dominant force in developing the field of culture and personality and the related field of national character research.
However, Margaret Meade relates to NHD because her theoretical position is based on the assumption that an individual matures within a cultural context which includes an ideological system, the expectations of others, and techniques of socialization which condition not only outward responses but also inner psychic structure. We should be able to care about Margaret Meade because the impact she made for us citizens had encourage people to follow in her footsteps such as people becoming a anthropologist. Margaret Meade isn’t famous, but she should be. She should be famous because the impact she had on us citizens which she had helped people and their relationships with each other. She also should become famous because she was a leading influence in introducing the concept of culture into education, medicine, and public policy. The legacy Meade has on us today is her words. Several examples are "A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time." The way we can feel her words is because of the way she describes and compares them to reality. She describes it in a way where you will always see what she means.


Bibliography
- Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) ISBN 0-688-05033-6
-Growing Up in New Guinea (1930) ISBN 0-688-17811-1
- Male and Female (1949) ISBN 0-688-14676-7
-People and Places (1959; a book for young readers)
-Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964)
- Culture and Commitment (1970)

Reference
-Gregory Acciaioli, ed. 1983 "Fact and Context in Etnography: The Samoa Controversy" Canberra Anthropology (special issue) 6(1): 1-97.
- George Appell, 1984 "Freeman's Refutation of Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa: The Implications for Anthropological Inquiry" Eastern Anthropology 37: 183-214.
- Richard Feinberg 1988 "Margaret Mead and Samoa: Coming of Age in Fact and Fiction" American Anthropologist 90: 656-663
-Leonora Foerstel and Angela Gilliam (eds) (1992). Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire and the South Pacific. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
-Hilary Lapsley (1999) Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-181-3
-Lowell D. Holmes (1987) Quest for the Real Samoa: the Mead/Freeman Controversy and Beyond. South Hadley: Bergin and Garvey
-Howard, Jane (1984) Margaret Mead: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
-Eleanor Leacock 1988 "Anthropologists in Search of a Culture: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman and All the Rest of Us" in Central Issues in Anthropology 8(1): 3-20.

Final Copy of Animal Farm

Although characters in Animal Farm has a way of stories to be perceived, they believe anything they are told. Animal Farm is an allegory that was based on the Russian Revolution but was told with animals. Author George Orwell wrote this book to criticize Stalin and the Russian people. In Animal Farm, Squealer uses many rhetorical strategies to convince the animals to submit to the pig's rules.
By way of example, Squealer uses rhetorical strategies to make it seem like the animals have only two choices, follow the pigs or Jones will return. Squealer uses the two choices to make Napolean preeminent to the other animals. Squealer says that "you're with us, or Jones will return". The fact that Squealer twists up stories is because he wants the animals to be on the pigs side, but if not he trying to make an excuse saying that Jones will return knowing that the animals don't like humans. In the text, he told the animals that Boxer died in the hospital but he really were sold. He just want to the animals to keep up with his lies so it can seem as though the pigs are doing the right thing. Even though Squealer were a dissimulator, he always persuade people with the lies he tell. In the allegory Animal Farm, they describe Squealer as "a brilliant talker, and when he's arguing some difficult point, he had a way of skipping side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow persuasive. They say Squealer can turn black into white." Just like in the real world, Squealer is just like Bush. Bush states that "you're with us or against us." That's similar to what Squealer trying to say. But if you are with him then it's okay, but if you're against him, you're dead. Squealer is a prevaricator but the animals are having a hard time to see.
Notably, he blames all the animals tragedies on Snowball. Squealer puts all the blame on Snowball so that the pigs can escape blame and responsibility. Everything are now blamed on Snowball. To the animals, they now see Snowball as an intruder trying to mess up their life. Like for instance, Napolean blames Snowball for knocking down the windmill but really the storm hit it. In today's society, the situation with Iraq is just like Snowball and the windmill. Bush blames an Iraq for the incident that happen with 9/11 when Osama Bin Laden really did it but he's not even from Iraq. Just like the situation Bush has, Napolean blames Snowball for knocking down the windmill, when really it was a storm. Squealer is a person who stands on other people beliefs that really don't happen.
However, Squealer make it seem that there can be no doubt that the pigs are always right. Squealer make it seem like Napolean is always right. Squealer are using one of his ways to persuade people as being a reliable man. He are trying to play as if Napolean are right about all the things he does just because he is one of the smart animals. Though some of the animals aren't literal, they don't understand that Squealer are trying to persuade them. Since Squealer is a man they believe are reliable, they wouldn't believe in such a thing. In the book, it states that all animals aren't smart besides several of them. Like usual, Bush and Squealer believes there is no doubt. Bush believes the U.S is always right. Bush doesn't want to put a better ends to the United States because he believe that the things he do in the U.S are always right never wrong. Squealer is a tricky boar.
As previously stated, the rhetorical strategies, Squealer uses to convince the animals to submit to the pigs rule. Squealer is a brilliant talker, a prevaricator, and a tricky boar. So how do the Russians feel about this situation? It matters if you stood up for your belief because close
mouths don't get fed. Just know that don't trust everything you hear, it can be false.

Rough Draft on NHD

Do you want to make a impact on us citizens? Do you want to become a anthropologist? The American anthropologist, Margaret Meade developed the field of culture and personality research and was a leading influence in introducing the concept of culture into education, medicine, and public policy. In 1923, she entered the anthropology department of Columbia University. Perhaps the most profound and far-reaching impact that Margaret Meade had was as a counselor to American society - usually on family related issues.

Margaret Meade was a counselor to American society which she became a major impact in history. In the past, Meade wanted to make Americans understand cultural anthropology as well as to understood archaeology. Mead's interest in psychiatry had turned her attention to the problem of the cultural context of schizophrenia, and with this in mind she went to Bali, a society where trance and other forms of dissociation are culturally sanctioned. Through the work of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, the relevance of anthropology to the problems of public policy was recognized to a degree, though somewhat belatedly. When World War II brought the United States into contact with allies, enemies, and people emerging from colonialism, the need to understand many lifestyles became apparent. Mead conducted a nationwide study of American food habits prior to the introduction of rationing. Later she was sent to England to try to explain to the British the habits of the American soldiers who were suddenly thrust among them. After the war she worked as director of Research in research cultures, a cross-cultural, trans-disciplinary project applying the insights and some of the methods of anthropology to the study of complex modern cultures. In return, she contributed significantly to the development of psychoanalytic theory by emphasizing the importance of culture in personality development. She served on many national and international committees for mental health and was instrumental in introducing the study of culture into training programs for physicians and social workers. Ever since Margaret Mead taught a class of young working women in 1926, she became deeply involved in education, both in the universities and in interpreting the lessons of anthropology to the general public. Margaret Mead was a dominant force in developing the field of culture and personality and the related field of national character research.

However, Margaret Meade relates to NHD because her theoretical position is based on the assumption that an individual matures within a cultural context which includes an ideological system, the expectations of others, and techniques of socialization which condition not only outward responses but also inner psychic structure. We should be able to care about Margaret Meade because

4th Annotation and Introduction

Margaret Meade, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Mary Catherine Bateson, Patricia Francis " To Cherish the Life or the World"

This book explores importance of relationships through Margaret Meade's life through annotated version of correspondence she wrote to an inextricably network of family. The letters show how she felt about family, friendship, sexuality, marriage, children, and careers. The letters also insight into her thinking on various relational roles. Like for instance, it tells how she experienced kinship, how she studied professionally in her work with other cultures within her own life.


INTRODUCTION:
Do you want to make a impact on us citizens? Do you want to become a anthropologist? The American anthropologist, Margaret Meade developed the field of culture and personality research and was a leading influence in introducing the concept of culture into education, medicine, and public policy. In 1923, she entered the anthropology department of Columbia University. Perhaps the most profound and far-reaching impact that Margaret Mead had was as a counselor to American society - usually on family related issues.

Animal Farm Essay

In the novel "Animal Farm", there is a lot o commotion throughout the story. Napolean known as the boar, lies to the animals to get his own way, get more power, and to take over the farm. First of all, he lies to other animals so he can get his own way because he wants to be known and have publicity for being one of the good animals. In the text, it stated that "Napolean was a large Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation of getting his own way." Futhermore, he lies to get more power. Napolean must see his self as being the top animal on the farm. Every time someone do something wrong, look at him wrong, or talk about him, he will get his dogs. For example, "silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn." They are scared and know that Napolean has more power than them. However, he lies most of the time so he can become the leader and run the farm. Napolean can get into their head more faster because he's smart and they believes he tell the truth. But since Snowball wasn't there, I believe that the animals wouldn't believe Napolean, they probably would believe Snowball. I say so beacause in the text, they said "this arrangement would have worked well enough if it had not been for the disputes between Snowball and Napolean. These two disagreed at every point where disagreement was possible." In conclusion, the more the story go on, the further the conflict goes on and become chaotic. That's why Napolean lies need to be solved.

3rd IRB LOG

Title: Harlem Girl Lost
Author: Treasure E. Blue
Page: 106
Summary: It didn't tell if Jesse told her mom or not. They took it back to when Jesse and Silver were about to have their girls night. During their girls night, Silver talked about what happened in school. Jesse told about how she did prostitution. Jesse didn't mind telling her daughter what she do. She didn't mind because she wasn't like other moms lying about what she do, she want her daughter to know.
Rating: 9
Explanation: I gave it a rating of 9 because it's self explanatory but then again much of it didn't get my attention. But I still wants to go on with the book.

3rd Annotation

Hindle Brooke "David Rittenhouse" 1980
http://books.google.com/books?id=hgyOJO93UtAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0

This article gives a brief summary of David Rittenhouse and what he did during the years he lived. Rittenhouse found the Philosophical Society. In January 1771, he was elected secretary. His livelihood depended on the practice of his trade and, for some years to come, only occasional supplements to income his income arose from other sources.