Civics and Economics

 In this post I will blog about what's going on in my Civics and Economics class. So far I like Civics this year. I think it is easy for the most part, and fun to learn. I think it's a good thing that we are learning more about the history of our country. I also think it's important to know things that are taught in this class, like; our rights, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Amendments, and other things that all Americans should know.

Right now we are focusing on the Constitution mainly. We are learning about the thirteen colonies also and about how they broke away from Britain. Another thing we're working on is learning how America was established and how they figured out how the government was going to work and different laws and rights that should be granted to U.S citizens.

Just last week we were assigned a project. What we had to do is make a poster of a colony that Mrs.Hibberts gave out to us. On the poster we had to come up with a sentence for each letter of the colony we were given, but the letter in the colony had to be the first letter in the sentence. The colony I had was New York. I didn't really have a hard time with it. The only letter I really had trouble with was the Y, but I came up with something eventually.

While working on this project I learned a lot about colonial New York. I learned that New York was a nice farming area. Some crops that they grew were; beans, corn, pumpkins, squash, and many other things. Another thing I learned is that New York was owned by a man called the Duke of York. I also learned that New York was originally a Dutch colony of New Netherlands. One last thing I learned is that New York was a middle colony.

Constitution: http://shass.mit.edu/research/u.s.-constitution
Colonial Flag: http://thecripplegate.com/category/history/

Dreams

In this blog I am going to blog about dreaming. The reason I chose this topic is because I find dreaming very fascinating and I think it's very neat how the brain could just picture something that's happening but actually not happening.

The actual definition of a dream is; a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a persons mind during sleep. Usually people dream about the very last thing that was on their mind before they fell asleep. It is a typical thing for people to forget what their dream was when they wake up, I know I do it all the time.

Most of the time your dreams aren't just something random, it means something. Here are some examples.
- If you dream about skeletons then that might mean you have something that's not finished and it's bothering you.
- If you dream about sleeping then it means that you are at peace with your mind. It means you are unaware of any problems around you. 
- Dreaming in slow motion might mean that you are frustrated and anxious or stressed.
- If you dream about being abducted or someone else being abducted then it means you feel helpless or you might not have control over your life.
- If you dream about a fridge then that shows that you have a chill personality or cold emotions.

Nightmares are the worst dreams a person could have. The definition for a night mare is;  a frightening or unpleasant dream. I think one of the worst night mares I've had is I had a dream about Freddy (the guy from Nightmare on Elm Street). I had heard someone knocking on the door at my grandmas house, and I went to answer it. When I opened the door Freddy was there. He invited his self in and slammed the door shut. I had ran in the closet and locked the door but he opened it and walked towards me then I woke up.

Snoopy: http://nurtureprinciples.com/2011/07/12/calories-how-low-can-you-go/snoopy-dreaming-550/
Freddy: http://anightmareonelmstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Freddy_Krueger
Dream Facts: http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/r.htm

Catching Fire Post # 2

In this blog I will blog about a book I have been reading. It is called Catching Fire. So far I'm not that far into the book. I'm not even half way through it yet. But so far I find this book to be exciting and suspenseful. The book goes into great detail about different events that occur in the book.

The part I'm at is where Gale is in trouble. The district police has tied his hands together and his feet together. and they keep whipping him constantly. Katniss doesn't notice until she is on her way home from going hunting in the forbidden woods. As she was walking home she saw a crowd of people all bunched up together and they were all screaming. She quickly tried to find out what was going on. People kept on telling her just to go home and not worry about what was going on but she still tried to find out anyway.

When Katniss finally fought her way to the front of the crowd she saw her best friend, Gale being whipped. She ran to see what the reason was of all this and tried to stop the guard from whipping Gale. While she was trying to stop him she stepped in front of Gale and ended up getting whipped in the face right below her right eye. The policeman finally stopped and told her the reason why Gale was being whipped was because he was caught trying to sell an animal he had killed in the woods.

It turns out that the policeman had whipped Gale more times than was actually required in the book of punishments. Gale had been whipped over fifty times. When Katniss untied Gale she saw that he was unconscious and his back was bleeding a lot and very raw. Katniss threw snow on his back to help soothe the pain and then got a few men to help carry him to her house.

Katniss and Gale: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/katniss-and-gale

A Dark Brown Dog

http://www.magicwallpapers.net/wallpaper/dark-brown-dog-hd/

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

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/dc2.htm

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