Sameness and Equality

There are many differences in the two words, sameness and equality. Sameness is being the same, like everyone is exactly the same, in looks, what they wear, everything. Where as equality is more regarding equal rights. Having the right and to be able to do what everyone else does. A problem in equality is when one person has more rights than the other. But sameness can be similarity or likeness. Equality is an equal opportunity to everything. Lois Lowry uses the word sameness in her books alot becuase the book mainly heads towards appeareance, what they all do the same, they all have the same emotions and the same feelings. In Animal Farm, the author uses the word equality alot becuase it is more about race. The difference between the pigs and the dogs, and ducks and horses. It is about the pigs being more equal than the rest.
In conclusion equality and sameness are the different that may seem like they have the same meaning but they regard different issues.

Giver feedback

Being an adult has many start off points. One becomes an adult when you can support yourself, and take care of everything you do, by yourself. It means, the problems that happen to you, you fix them. Responsibility in ones actions, and the ability to own up to what you did.

The meaning of being an adult means to leave your childhood behind, and become apart of many things. That includes a family, and a job. Also it means responsibility, and the burden of many things. It means importance to take care of your family.

At one point in ones years, they become useless. As people grow in their ages, they are unable to help anyone else in the world anymore. They are not working, and their no help to the family. This is around the age of 70, when one is no more help to the rest of the people.

Priorities

M- Put data together for data analysis

T-follow up on data analysis

W-finish first draft

TH- get peer edited, and finish the final

F- Finish interview for independent investigation.

Blog cartoon

The main visual element in this cartoon is that there is the kid at the dinner table telling his parents about his Blogger from school and his parents saying “Well, yes, we could read your Blog…or you could just TELL us about your school day. This cartoon is an issue about all the kids that come home from school and not wanting to talk to their parents about the school day, so they just tell the parents to pop up the Blogger and read it. The cartoonist’s opinion is that a lot of the kids nowadays don’t want to chat about their school day at the dinner table. Simply, the quote is the evidence that tells me about what the cartoonist feels. Also the parents’ emotion seems pretty disappointed with the kid, probably because he never talks about school. But if the parents would like to know what we are learning at school, it is better that they go to Blogger and read what we wrote that we spent work time in class working on. This is ironic because this cartoon is showing how sites like Blogger and other newly created sites are decreasing talk about family, and we are writing on a Blog and all the readers are reading from Blogs. The cartoonist could have made this cartoon more persuasive by having the kid using technology, maybe texting on his phone.

Technology

I agree with what Kurt Vonnegut has said about Technology. He says that technology does everything for us. This is true because now all of us rely on spell check, and online dictionaries instead of turning the pages by ourselves. Now we rely on calculators to do our math homework instead of manually calculating the work. The other day in humanities, we had to read the story “Euphio Question”, and in this story most of the characters used a lot of technology, and they are using technology to get themselves happiness. The moral “money doesn’t always buy happiness” is true because you need more than just money that will buy you new machines that make life much easier. Ever since we grew up, we have been living on technology. We are so used to communicating through phones, traveling on cars, and finding information on the computer. If we were asked to let all of these technologies go, we would not succeed. Even though technology spoils us and lets the machines do the hard work, technology helps are in many ways than one. Technology by definition is a new creation. And at one point, walking sticks, wheel chairs, and hearing aids were technologies. Some of us need these today and without it, we would fail more than not being able to use our cell phones.

Technology

In my own words, technology is an invention of something new that is useful to everyone in one way or another. It is the development of new ideas that make life easier for many of us. Something created that was once new to everyone.

I think that day by day technology is being included in many of the schools. Every international school has many computers and laptops that help the teachers educate the students to do research and use Microsoft word document to write stories. AES alone uses more than 100 computers and laptops. Even though we use a lot of technology, it serves the purpose to learn. Many of the technology we use at school are used for a reason, and it is for education. It saves a lot of paper, even though you need to print. It is a good use for presentations also.

The 5 most important are…
Laptop/Computer
iPod
Air conditioning
Television
Cell phone

5 least important are…
· Led
· Weapons
· Roomba
· Line paper
· Manuel print cameras

End of 3rd quater feedback

Some of the goals from quarter two that I have found most challenging are my discussion skills, participation in class discussions, and my writing skills. I believe that I have improved a great amount in my writing pieces compared to the beginning of the year. Now as we move into the year, there have been more reading involved and I have gotten many great ideas of writing from all these books. My discussion skills have improved because I am much more into the talks in the Socratic seminar; however I don’t talk that much about the discussions that happen during class.

Something that I would like to improve on for next quarter is…
To get better marks on my tests and quizzes by looking over my notes. Another one of my goals is to depend on myself more in the class and try to work alone more other than asking someone else for help. My last goal is my class discussion skill that I would like to keep working on till the end of the grade.