our next president

We just recently elected our first African-American president. I for one am happy for the outcome. African -Americans n the past have went through alot and even though it has gotten better they still are. Electing a African -American president just made it alot better. I hope he lives up to his promises because alot of people are counting on him to change our would like he promised because our ecomony is looking pretty bad right and right now we really need a good president to look foward too. I am looking foraward for him to make America a little better than it used to be and if he lives up to his promises he will be a great president. My knowledge on current events and political evens have gotten better because I really was not interested in politics. Even though I am still not that interested in politics I was able to understand what was going on during the voting process because of the decusssions we were having in class. It also help that we had blogs to do because we had to search the internet to find the information needed and since we had to research it, it gave us a better chanch of understand what was going on. As for current events I think current events are more interesting to write about and also alot easier to seach for, I lie currents a little more now and I understanding whats going on what makes it more interesting to talk about.

my ideas for my beach project

Some ideas me and my partner are thinking about is making a awareness t-shirt about marine life, the website I went to had plenty of good ideas me and my partner could use (click on this link to see them) the shirt would state a good purpose about sea turtles so people will be aware of what is happening to them. Three aspects of the product we want is we want it to send a message, something people would actually wear and something that is not too hard to do. Since my project is on a specific species of marine life, and I want to focus on sea turtles in the San Diego bay some of my ideas for the shirt is to have a after affect of a turtle that is affected by plastic and it saying, "help me save me and friends and family." It's going to be a very easy design with a message somewhat like the one above.

Another idea would to make a awareness video quite like this one about sea turtle and how we could help stop it. I like this video because it scared me so bad and it made me want to help and that's what I want my viewers to do I want my viewers to be so scared that they want to help. three aspects I want is it to be nice simple video explaining what happens and the shirts me and my partner will be making, and it send a good message.

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when women got the right to vote

Well recently we have just watch the most historical presidential debates in history. We just elected the first African-American man. Without the votes of blacks,youth and of course women we probably would not have had such a unanimous vote. As we all should know not every group of people were allowed to vote,each group got their right to vote in different times. Women all across the globe were not fully allowed to vote until the 19th amendment, but it took some countries and states longer to catch on to women's rights, according to this website i found called women's suffrage: when did women vote these places all got rights in different years. Here are a list of years where places got there right to vote

California women got the right to vote in 1911

Washington State women got the right to vote in 1910

New York women got the right to vote in 1917

Michigan women got the right to vote in 1918.
Tennessee becomes the 36th state to accept the 19th Amendment in 1920 and which made their vote part of the Constitution.

New Jersey gives the right to vote for women owning more than $250 in 1776. Later the state reconsidered and women were no longer allowed to vote.

Brazil women was allowed to vote in 1934

Dominican Rep. of Congo gave women the right to vote in 1963.

Australian women gained some voting rights in 1901 and 1902

New Zealand was the first country to grant equal voting rights to women in 1893.

China women were given the right to vote in 1949.

and Spain gave women the right to vote in 1931.

Even though it took that long us women have came a long way. We almost had a women president or vice-president. In a article called U.S. women in politics score gains despite White House losses it said that in the nations popular vote, women gave Obama a dominant verge, with a 56 percent to 43 percent while men were about even. So i think women are really taking advantage of their rights that they didn't have before which is good.

How are sea turtles affected by cigar buds

The topic I am doing is How does cigar buds effect the sea turtles in San Diego bay? Me and Amanda are working together to create a calender and awareness video about what happens to sea turtles when the plastic enters the ocean. We are planning on going Mission beach and The Birch Aquarium and interviewing different people and hear their opinions about it, while taking pictures of sea turtles and sea turtles that have been affected by the plastic debris in the ocean.
Some resources needed are camera gear to interview and take pictures, a recorder to do voice overs for certain people. Computers to put all our info together. We basically need people from the birch aquarium to interview and different people on the beach?

Birch aquarium
some questions we are thinking of asking
Why does plastic effect the way their shell looks?
How many eggs does a turtle lay in one session?
how many different species of turtles are there?/How many are endangered?
How many species of turtles die because of plastic debris every year?
How long does it take for the turtle to get fully affected by plastic debris?

San Diego
What do you do when your done with your plastic debris?
Why do plastic debris end up in the

A how trash pollutes the ocean

In are humanities and biology class we are learning about how clean are beaches are and how we can help it. One of my questions i am curious about is "How is trash on the beach effecting the ocean?" One website I looked at it gave some statistics about how much plastic bottles and other items are found in the ocean it said "the average American uses between 300 and 700 plastic bags every year." When people do not throw away their trash ends up on the beaches and into the ocean causing sea animal to mistakenly see them as food and eating it. Another website that talks about trash and pollution is pollution of the ocean by plastic and trash this website explains that fishing nets that get lost in ocean end up killing marine animals a process called "ghost fishing" and items that were for for fishing become traps for other animal.

Another question I am exploring is How dogs effect the beach. An article I was reading called Dog waste poses threat to water. Well it looks it does play a big role about how the oceans beaches are effected. Since most dog owners don't pick up their dogs mess it gets washed up into the ocean causing the oceans to be contaminated. Washed up fertilizer is also to blame for contaminated oceans and beaches.

This is just a few things i will be talking about, I will update some stuff in the upcoming weeks so feel free to come by and check it out.

The kite runner honors blog

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was a mesmerizing story about two boys from Afghanistan that though they were friends they were from two different worlds. Living there whole life as a secret this book tells the story about these two boys Amir and Hassan, using loyalty, symbols and flashbacks to help you understand their story better.


This book shows many literary devices to help better understand the book symbols, flashbacks, and conflict/tragedy.

The symbol in this story was the kite . The kite was a symbol used very often in this story "kite running" was a big deal in afghanistan it was their national sport. Amir and Hassan took place in this sport quite often. There were two people for one kite, one person was the kite runner the other was the kite cutter. The object of the sport was to cut down your oppents kite last one standing wins. Amir and Hassan took place in this sport quite often. This made Baba, Amir's father very happy and Amir would do anything to make his farther proud. So the kite in this story represents "a trophy" cause without it Amir felt he didnt have his farthers approval.

Another theme used in the book was the use of flashbacks, the author would it to flashback to different parts of the story like when Amir went looking for Hassan to find that he had been cornered by assef, " Hassan hurled the rock. It struck Assef in the forehead. Assef Yelped as he flung himself at Hassan, knocking him to the ground"....A memory " Did you know Hassan and you fed from the same breast? Did you know that Amir agha? Sakina, her was.... there are plenty examples of flashbacks in this book but that was just one that started the whole conflict of the story.

One of the most important themes in this story was conflict and tragedy. The conflict and tragedy of this story was with Amir, Hassan, Baba, and Assef. Assef was one of the main people causing conflict in the story but the main conflict that changed the rest of the story was when after Hassan and Amir won the "kite running" contest he followed the kite to see where it had landed. While getting there he runs into assef and his crew. Assef gave Hassan an ultimatum either give him the kite or suffer the consoquences. Being the loyal friend that he was he didn't give them the kite cause he knew how much the kite meant to Amir. Amir not to far behind witnessed the whole thing not doing anything to stop them from hurting Hassan, he kept quite about it just to make his farther proud, this was the betrayal that hurt their relationship. After that Hasssan never smiled again. At the end of the story Assef comes back in the scence as Amir goes back to Afganistan to rescue Hassan son after Hassan and his wife get killed. Another tragedy in the book was when Hassan and his father left out of Baba's house, after the whole incident that happen with Hassan and Assef, another betrayal from Amir was he planted a watch under Hassan's pillow so it would seem like it was stolen. Not knowing he was doing this to his brother he felt bad later on, Because after that he never saw him alive again. He never got to tell him he was sorry for everything, so he triedvto make it up by saving his son from Assef.

Although there were more litererary devices these are the ones that stood out to me as important aspects of the storyand if you do deceide to read this book I hope you enjoy it. as advice i would recomend you read the book then you can watch the movie because the movie leaves out things that you would know was in the book.

What is ACORN

What is ACORN?

What my understanding of ACORN is, ACORN is a nonprofit group that supports low income people getting them interested in voting. In a particular article I read called The Acorn Story John McCain's campaign accused them of committing voter fraud in which they purposely submitted false registration forms, with fictional names and some with voters who were already registered.

Barack Obama strayed away from the ACORN associations but also displayed the insignificant of the fraud controversy that has troubled the organization in recent days. Obama stated "My relationship to ACORN is pretty straightforward.... "We've got the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now and we don't need Acorn's help."

In a Baltimore meeting organized by William Cole a represented from Baltimore scheduled a meeting to address concerns of low-income tenants whose company, Edgewood Management, has been unresponsive to their requests to address neglected unfair evictions and threats of eviction. To some people acorn is good programing helping others but some people seem to think other wise. so what is ACORN? if you know comment back because even reading these articles I'm still confused.

sources

the ACORN story

Obama Comments on ACORN Controversy

Baltimore Officials Stand with ACORN against Unfair Evictions