A Dark Brown Dog

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Today I am going to blog about the story we read in class today. The story is called A Dark Brown Dog. It is about the journey of a dog that has been taken in by an abusive family. The dog was beaten by both the father and the son. Even though they are the ones who wanted to keep the dogs in the first place. The son sometimes beats the dog, but he doesn't beat him as much as his father does. Sometimes the son would grab a stick and just beat the dog until he was ready to stop. Although the son beats the dog too he would still try and protect him sometimes. One time when his father was angry and drunk which isn't a good combination, he was trying to throw things and beat the dog more. But the son got in front of the dog and tried to protect him. While the son tried to protect the dog he ended up getting a cooking pan thrown at his head. The father was a drunk who would just come home and abuse the dog everyday, but one day he went too far. Like the father ususally does he came home really drunk and angry for no reason. The dog didn't even do anything to the father. But the father decides to punish him anyway. While the dog is just minding his own business the father just picks him up by one leg and just throw him out the window like hes a bag of trash. The dog flew out of the window onto the sidewalk and he died. I think this story was very depressing and cruel. I reallt hate how people abuse animals. I mean why take out all of your anger on a small innocent creature who didn't do anything to deserve to be treated like this?

I LOVE FOOD

For this blog post I will be doing a random post. I am blogging about different foods I love and different things I love to make. Food is like a stress reliever to me. I am always eating. I'm not much of a picky eater. I'm like to try new foods, unless it's something like frog, or octopus.

One of my favorite foods are burgers. Especially the ones with mushrooms. I absolutely love mushrooms. Another thing that's best on a burger is cheese and cooked onions. But bacon on a burger has to be the best invention yet. Another ones of my favorite foods is pizza. Who doesn't love pizza? My favorite things to put on pizza is pepperoni or mushrooms. Like I said earlier I love mushrooms. I also like almost everything on my pizza like onions, olives, peppers, ham, but I hate having sausage on my pizza. Something else I love is tacos. I could eat tacos everyday. I absolutely love Mexican food.

I really like sweet baked goods. My favorite is brownies. I could not live without brownies. I prefer the fudge brownies. Funnel cakes is another favorite of mine. I love to eat it with lots of powdered sugar. Plus funnel cakes are really fun to make, I make them all the time at home. In all I'm not sure which I think is better chocolate chips cookies or brownies. Chocolate chip cookies is something that I constantly make them all the time. I always eat them when they first come out of the oven they're best when they're hot. My favorite desert that you can make out of a box would have to be the brownie/cookie mix. It is a mixture of cookies and brownies! What you have to do is mix the brownie and cookies then just bake them together.

Burger picture: http://www.mccormick.com/Recipes/Main-Dish/All-American-Burgers.aspx
Cookies and brownies: http://lynettesnewhobby.blogspot.com/2009/02/delicious-chocolate-chip-cookie.html

Public Speaking: Mary Terrell Speech

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In this blog post I will blog about something that's going on in my public speaking class this week. Our assignment is to pick a famous public speaker that was on the list posted on Schoology and pick a speech also. Once we had picked the famous public speaker and one of their famous speeches we have to be able to memorize it by Thursday. I think that this will be a difficult assignment for me because I’m not that great with memory The speakers name that I chose is Mary Church Terrell. Her speech is about two pages long. The title of it is What it Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States. The author of this speech was an activist for civil rights. She was the first african american to earn a college degree, and she was the daughter of former slaves. Mary’s speech is about how people used to say that Washington D.C was a colored persons paradise. The speech that she wrote informs people that that is incorrect. She describes how she is treated and how other colored people are treated in Washington D.C. Mary also compares how white people are treated to the way colored people were treated. She tells about how white people were paid more when the colored people would be doing the same jobs as them but not get paid much at all. She also described how much more respect the white people had than all the colored people that lived there. In my opinion I think her speech is very good. She gets her point across in a great way, and really describes how she feels about the situation that was going on in the country in a polite way. Mary used nice words to really make the audience understand what she was trying to tell everyone.

Catching Fire

In this blog post I will be blogging about a book I have been reading. The title of the book is called Catching Fire. This book is the second book in the Hunger Games Trilogy. The trilogy is about a post apocalyptic world. Where the United States is no longer there. It is called Panem. They are separated into districts and there are 13 of them. But nobody ever goes to the 13th one. Every year they have a lottery. What happens is if you are 12-18 then you're automatically in the drawing. and one boy and one girl is chosen from each district. If your name is picked then you are forced to go out in the woods and kill everyone and the last one standing wins a house, free food, and money.


The main characters in this book are Katniss, Gale, Peeta, Cinna, and the Mayor. Katniss's sister was picked to be a tribute in the games, but Katniss volunteered and took her place. Katniss's sister name is Prim only twelve years old. The boy that was chosen was Peeta. Peeta had a crush on Katniss's ever since he was five years old.

The games took place in a forest. While they were in the games some districts made alliances and teamed up on others. Katniss made a team with a little girl named Rue who was from district eleven, but Rue ended up being killed. After Rue was killed Katniss got very close to Peeta. When there were only four people left the capitol had changed the rules. They said that there could be two winners as long as they're from the same district. But whenever Katniss and Peeta were the last ones standing they changed the rules again and said that there could only be one winner. Katniss didn't want to kill Peeta and Peeta didn't want to kill Katniss so they decided to commit suicide. They were both going to eat poison berries. But right when they were about to eat them they changed the rules again and said that they both won.

In Catching Fire I'm at the part where Katniss and Peeta get to go and train the next tributes and they are going around to different parties in different districts to celebrate a new year of the games.
Catching Fire: http://moviehypesa.blogspot.com/2012/05/catching-fire-re-write.html

My Classes

In this blog post I will blog about what's going on in my classes and about what classes I have. This year I have Civics and Economics for first period. In this class we learn things about being a citizen. We learn about rights, and different amendments. We also learn about what there is to know about the government.

The second period class I have is CTS115 Information Technology. In this class we learn about how technology helps the business world. We learn more about different software and how it affects other businesses. We also learn more about management, and we learn more about different kinds of technology.

My third period class is Algebra ll. It is pretty difficult to me now though. The reason is because I haven't done any kind of math over the summer and I didn't take any math the second semester of my 6th grade year. Plus when I did I have a math class which was my first semester in 9th grade I had geometry and geometry is totally different from algebra. The last time I took an algebra class was in 8th grade and it was very easy.

My last period of the day is public speaking. I really enjoy this class. It helps me learn how to speak in front of other people. This class also teaches different kinds of communication skills. So far in this class everything is going good for me. We have had a lot of work to do, and we just had a project that we had to present today. The project assignment was to find five items that describe you and your personality and place them in a bag.Then you would have to give a speech on the five items. You also had to write a paper on the items in your bag.
Books picture: http://mainstreetv.com/2012/08/alabama-school-boards-receive-aasb-presidents-award/ 

The Talking Planet

In this blog post I will be blogging about an article that we have read in class today. The name of the article is Planet Earth Doesn't Know How to Make it Any Clearer it Wants Everyone to Leave.The article was from a website called theonion.com This article talked about the different disasters going on today on planet Earth. The article gave Earth of voice. It basically was trying to convey what Planet Earth would say to us if it could talk. It made Earth say things like; "Do I need to spell it out for you? Get the heck out of here." The article also stated that all the natural disasters are a sign that Earth wants us out.

I think this was a silly way for the author to get his point across to the audience. It was also a cruel way too. The author made it seem like he didn't even care for the people that lost their lives to these disasters. He didn't show any respect to the people who died. He also tried to make it into a laughing matter. I'm sorry but I don't see how people dying to natural disasters could be funny at all.

Although I did find this article very cruel and disrespectful I do agree with what the meaning of this article is. The meaning of this article is to help people realize that we are doing is wrong. We are not trying to help Earth. We are treating it like some type of giant garbage can. Somethings that we should do to make this a better planet are; recycling, trying not to liter and using less plastic. In all my opinion on this article is that it is silly, cruel but gives out a good message to everyone to keep our planet nice.
Earth Picture: http://www.torontolife.com/daily/hype/on-pointe/2012/01/18/shakers-studio-tells-woman-to-leave-planet-earth/

About me

In my first blog post I'm going to introduce and explain a few things about myself. I was born in 1997 on  April 9th. Somethings I love doing are drawing, listening to music, and dancing. Currently I live with my mom and my four brothers and sisters. I am the oldest out of all of them. Their names are Jaquavious, Ladameion, Jaelyn, and Zariya. We have pets too. There are two dogs named Brownie and Reese. Then there is a cat named Oreo. Brownie and Reese are female, lab puppies they are only a few moths old but they are so big. Reese is black and Brownie is brown. Oreo is also a few months old, he is a boy and he is black and white.


I don't do sports but I am into dancing. Dance has been a big part of my life for ten years now. The studio I go to is a competitive one. That means we often go to different competitions. I mostly enjoy hip hop dancing. I also enjoy hip hop music. R&B and hip hop are my favorite kinds of music to listen to.

Other than dancing cooking is also one of my favorite things to do. I love food and I love to bake. Some of my favorite things to make are; cookies, fudge brownies, cakes, cupcakes, pancakes, and pizzas. Out of all of those my favorite would have to be fudge brownies. Sweets are my favorite things to bake. One of my favorite foods are burgers with mushrooms, cooked onions, with a sweet/spicy barbecue sauce. Pizza and tacos are also some of my favorite foods.

Another thing I enjoy doing is shopping. I love clothes, shoes and accessories. Although I love bright neon colors and animal print, I still prefer to wear darker clothes. Some stores I like to shop at are; Wet Seal, Rue 21, Aeropostale, and Hollister. My favorite two are Wet Seal and Rue 21. I love to buy shoes too, especially the name brand called Vans. Vans and converse shoes are favorite kinds to wear.
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