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 ”The past is never dead, it’s not even past”. This is a qoute Mrs. H gave us in English. She asked us to reflect on it so here’s my reflection. I think this quote is saying that the past has already happened but it still comes up in everyday life and if we don’t stick up for what’s right we (society) what happened back then will happen again maybe it just being a little fight with friends or maybe something much bigger like a war or something so terrible if we don’t change our ways it will happen again. I think this quote is also saying that the past is already there, you can’t forget what’s happened but you can move on. If you don’t move on you won’t do anything in life, but if we forget completely about what has happened were are liable to make the same mistakes and ruin our relationships,society, or Nation. I think this quote is related to what happened in Germany with the Nazis because it is the past, but if we discriminate by race,or religon we could end up in the same predicament.I think this quote is just warning us to be careful with our actions, stay true to our beliefs, and treat others with respect no matter what the differences are.  

Here are some question’s Mrs. H gave us, these are reflection questions on the book we’re reading, the book is called the wave.                                                                                                                                                                         1.  Have you ever been forced to join something against your will?                                                                                 Yes, I have been forced into joining something against my will, when I was around four years old my parents made me go to kindergarten, but I’m glad they did or eles I wouldn’t have met some of my best friends (still to this day). Another thing I was forced to join was ballet, and WOW I knew I would hate it but my mom wanted me to do it so badly. I always wanted to follow my brother so if he played soccer I’d play soccer and since he never did ballet I never did either. But all in all I have never been forced to do something so outrages, disrespectfull, hurtful,or dumb against my will.                                                                                                                   2. How should we behave if we see someone being taunted or bullied by a group of people?                                   Well I know how we should behave, we should stop it, we should stick up for that person. Yet I know thats what we should do but I know we don’t. I know we don’t because there may be a negative outcome for us or maybe we will get hurt. What we should do and what we actually do are two different things. Yet actions speak louder then words and my actions aren’t nesecarilly helping the person being taunted. But we should stop it if we see it happening.                                                                                                                                                       3.Should we step up and intervene?                                                                                                                                       I think HONESTLY I think we should if it’s our buissness but we shouldn’t use violence. If you intervene in a problem that you know nothing about it’s kinda like you don’t know what happened and your taking sides. I think we should stop it if we see someone being bullied but we shouldn’t step up and help the bully if you’ve only heard one side of the story, but if someones being harassed we should stick up for them and we should work together to stop bullying because in a society a person shouldn’t be scared to speak out for what they believe in or what they think is right (freedom of speech) anyway I think if we work together and accept each other there will be no reason to intervene. 

 When I walked in the class and his bullitin bored was cleared I knew something was wrong. Everyone in life have people they admire or someone who has made a significant impact in there life. For me that person is Mr. R. I have had three teachers in my life that I have been influenced by and impressed by..Mr. R falls rite in there. When I heard he had resigned I had to fight to hold back tears, as I looked around the crouded commons I could tell each and every one of his students were touched immensley by, to me one of the best teachers of all time. Mr. R wasnt just a teacher he was a friend. He always had a smile on his face and normally a light colored sweater vest. He is an amazing person and I cant believe he’s no longer here, he understands what it’s like to be a teen, wanting to be a part of the group but still wanting your individuality. If it wasnt for him I still would be the stuck up, selfish, thoguthless person I was. He made us look at the wrold around us and to really care. He made us want to care want to help want to be a part of society even though I still don’t get what the real meaning of society is.Before Mr.R I never thoguht about laborers  and what they go through till Mr.R made us write a poem on them and you know what, Im so glad he did, he told us we need to be aware of the world around us and how fast it’s changing. Mr.R is the best teacher I have ever had. He tought me how to care, he tought me how actions and words matter and we can make a change in this world we just have to want to and we have to want to help and we have to care he tought me that life is a like a trek and you will never figure it out, you just got to go with the flow. He is the only teacher who tought me how to think, think for myself, think about whats good vs. evil, whats society,what are friends and whats life. He may not have tought from the curriculum but he tought from his heart. I ve never been so tocuhed by a teacher until I met Mr.R. He tought us that writting is partly exspressing. We should be able to exspress ourselves no matter what..so why is he being punished? He also tought us that you cant judge or you can but you shouldn’t tell your 100% sure your judging for the right reasons, dont judge Mr.R I did when he first came, and I still hold that judgement of that different man who takes life by the reins and sometimes is about to fall on but can pull himself up, I know he will. I just wish he was still here. He said our blogs were a school project but just becasue he’s gone doesnt mean Im gonna stop blogging.  He changed me for the good I feel, he tought me how to speak up for myself  he also changed my enclosed view of the world. He did all this in 7 months. If any of you ever get the chance to have Mr.R as a teacher take everyone of his lessons into condideration and reallly think becasue there’s a life message in everything he say. This man is remarkable  he tought me about the stuff I wanted to learn about and im soooo mad hes gone words cant even explain ho let down I feel. I know he didnt want to leave us he just had to. Smoetimes in life god stes up hard obstacles for you to over come but we all no Mr. R knows that and we all know he’s strong and smart enough to get through this. Forever Mr.R will be held very close in my heart.Intrepid:resolutely fearless; dauntless:No cry babiesif any of u agree with this. please comment. 

Don’t let today’s disappointmentscast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.This is  a quote by an unknown author. I was bored and so I looked at some quotes on this website.  I like this quote because I was in the mood for something simple something I can relate to really fast something I didn’t have to rumage through the words to find the meaning, I know I sound lazy but sometimes you have days like this.  I really like this quote because I like the meaning. I think its saying don’t let something bad that happened today keep you from living you’r life, having fun and accomplishing you’r dreams. I think we all have bad days, actually I know we all have bad days it apart of life. Maybe it’s not apart of life we enjoy but it’s apart of life we all have to deal with and I feel everyone and anyone can relate to this quote. If we let todays or one event that was tragic or belittling get us down, its like that saying “never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game” it’s like that. If you’r scared because of one bad day, one bad event or one sad moment  you had ;and you let it keep you from going out from doing what you love because your scared it will happen again or because you’r so sad you choose not to, you’ll wake up one morning and be like I wish I would have done this differently and I could have accomplished my dreams or become a better stronger person.  I can garuntee that. That’s what I think this quote is saying. 

Today in language arts class Mr.R gave us a quote to look at the quote was “absolute power corrupts absolutly” then Mr.R asked us to write a response. So heres mine. I think everyone has power over somebody and I think we all know that and use it to get what we want. You mite not agree but I think each and every one of us has used our power to get us something we want. Maybe to get our parents to let us go out one night, maybe just to get your friend to give you a shirt of theirs you’ve had your eye on for a while. Honestly though I think since none of us have the total understanding of power we don;t think we can corrupt it but we can and I bet you we will. I think we abuse power to get what we want and manipulate people. I think we all are lucky actually I know we all are lucky and we all already abuse the power we do have. Leaving a piece of trash on the floor is abusing our power because we know that their are people to clean it up, so we don’t pick it up and make someone else do it. But then again there are so many people who want to do good for this world they use the little power they are given or have worked hard to earn and do something amazing with it, like help the homeless,start a foundation to help others,to advocate for those that cant(animals,people) and just to do something nice for someone else, maybe help in a soup kitchen or walk in a walkathon it depends on the person and there interpatation of power. If they think power is helping other people the more the power they get the more people they will help. But then you have the greedy people who think power is getting what they want when they want and having way more than need but keep asking and getting more. Then if you give those people more power they will just take and take and become selfish….cows. Then you have the people who think power lies in the misery of others and the more you hurt them the more power you receive and the more enjoyment they get out of seeing people hurt. So if you give a person like that all the power they will use it to hurt others for their own enjoyment and thats just sick and wrong. Power corrupts but ho it corrupts in good or bad depends on how the person with the power uses it, but no matter what power corrupts. Sometimes in bad ways other times in good ways,but power always corrupts.

This Week In Class

This week in class we touched base on a lot of varied ideas and topics. We talked about “going green” and we (the class) talk and say we should go green but are we really conserving our resources and saving the planet? We talked more on “what is writing?” Mr. R said that yes writing is everything we said it was. Then I blanked out and started thinking that yes writing is communicating, expressing, reflecting, and thinking but those aren’t separate parts of writing that is writing the whole part and the whole point of writing. In my opinion anyway, we right because we feel the need to let go of something, to reflect on our day, to think about the actions of others or ourselves and to communicate our opinion or feelings to wider audience. Then I started daydreaming about the new laptop my parents got me and I started thinking about what my brother was doing and how he is doing. I pretty much day dream about the same stuff every class this week the two main topics I really thought about was one: softball, I was thinking about how sore I was from practice and how the bruises from where I got hit with the ball were worth it. I started to think softball is one of the most painful sports yet I find it to be one of the best games ever played. I became really nervous so nervous for softball cuts so I had to change my train of thought. Then the second major thing I contemplated was my brother. I started thinking about how much fun we would be having if he was here and no one seems to understand what it feels like to have someone so influential in your life just up and leave just like that. I mean wow you know that song that goes “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” that’s how I feel I didn’t know how much fun he was till he left and I wish I would have gotten to know him so much more than I did. Anyways this week in class I learned that only 23% of the students attending school actually enjoy it. That took me by surprise because I love school. I don’t like the lectures, homework, quizzes, test, textbooks, and some of the teachers teaching styles but I love school, I love coming and seeing my friends and I love the sports. Plus some of the teachers are really cool and can relate to us, which I find really important. I think if every kid can find something positive about their school day maybe just maybe it wouldn’t be as bad, but hey what do I know? I wanted to say that if they stopped paying so much money on jail cells and put that money into changing the curriculum maybe you wouldn’t need to spend that money on jails you would have less drop outs and more lawyers or doctors or people who want to make a difference. I wanted to say I feel we all want to make a difference but we just get side tracked or belittle economically so we feel we cant. We all have a loving heart some people deeper the others. I feel we all want to change the world some just feel they cant because they aren’t economically sound or working somewhere were they feel they aren’t in a position that can lead to change. I just wanted to say their wrong and anyone can make a difference if they try. Anyway that’s a quick summary on what we did this week in class.