Understandings in the Middle Ages

Standing up to oppression takes great individual courage. I believe that this statement is true, because usually when someone stands up against an oppressor, say a dictatorial government they don't come out on top. In the Middle Ages, a great example of someone that was courageous like this was John Ball, an English priest. He believed that the new laws and taxes that the King introduced were unfair to the general public, so he staged a revolt against the new regulations. This was incredibly risky, because if he was caught evading the taxes, or telling others to do likewise, he would be imprisoned or maybe even killed. You see, the King was desperately in need of money to fund the war effort in France, so he had to introduce a tax called the Poll Tax, which every single person in the country was required to pay, and if people didn't pay the tax, the King wouldn't get his money and wouldn't be able to pay for the war, and they'd lose in France. However, this tax wasn't the only thing contributing to the anger of the public; there was also the Statute of Laborers, which made it so serfs and peasants couldn't ask for higher wages and would be bound to the one who hired them. Because of these things, people like John Ball got groups of people to rebel against the taxes, and hide from the tax collectors. As I said before, this was very risky for Ball, because if he was caught, he would most likely be executed. Eventually, after the rebels killed the Archbishop of Canterbury and a few other people who were high up on the totem pole, Ball and a few other leaders of the rebellion were hung and drawn and quartered.

1066 - Who had the Best Claim to the Throne?

   In my opinion, Harold Godwinson definitely had the best claim to the throne, and here are my reasons to think this. First off, Harold Godwinson was British, so he was a local, and usually people want someone who is a local to rule their country, not some weird foreigner like Hadrada or William. Next, Harold was the person who was originally chosen to be the king's successor, so he had the rights to the throne, and would have become king had Hadrada and William not decided to invade England. Thirdly, Harold was the king's brother in law, because the king had married his sister, so in a way Harold was part of the royal family. This made Harold the only member of the royal family old enough to rule England, because the king's nephew was too young. Also, Harold was known as a strong leader who wouldn't just run the country into the ground, and this reputation was a big part of why he was chosen as the next king. The nobles also agreed with Harold becoming king, because it would benefit him. Due to the fact that Harold was such a good leader, he would be able to make sure that the nobles remained powerful and wouldn't be overthrown.
   The other two competitors for the throne didn't have as good claims as Harold.
 Hadrada's claim to the throne was that a distant relative of his (Cnut) had ruled England a long time ago, so he thought that this made him the rightful king of England, which it didn't. He would only have the rights to becoming king if Cnut's son had become king, and then the family had managed to retain they're power over England. However, the British took back control over England, and the Norwegians had to go back to their country.
  William's claim to the throne was much better. He said that Edward (the king of England), had made a promise stating that he would make William the next king of England. William also captured Harold, and made Harold make an oath saying that he would help William become king. Niether of these things happened. Instead of William, Edward chose Harold to be his successor, and when William found out about this, he was outraged. He called Harold an oath-breaker for not helping him become king. Now, you may think being called an oath-breaker isn't a very bad thing, but it was back then. When William accused Harold of this, he gained support to forcibly take over England from the Pope, who said that the invasion of England would be a "Holy Crusade".
 Overall, I think that Harold definitely had the best claim to the throne, because he had the most reasons to become king, and he was in a way related to the king.

Values and Decisions

Values and Choices:

belonging
bullying
bystander
conformity
exclusion
inclusion
membership
ostracism
peer pressure
victim


Write:
Think about a time you witnessed bullying/ostracism/peer pressure/exclusion/discrimination/violence. How did you respond? How do you wish you had responded? What stopped you from responding that way?
I have not just witnessed bullying/ostracism, I have actually been the victim of those things. There have been a few occasions where I have been excluded from a group purely because of my hair colour, and the way I responded was by choosing the right persuasive words to get into the group. I also let them know that they were being jerks, and that I wasn't happy with how they were acting.
Respond to the questions below
1.Where have we seen examples of bullying/ostracism/exclusion occurring in texts studied so far this year- factual as well as fictional?

The main example that comes to mind would be the whole Holocaust unit, where the Germans, Nazi or not, ostracized the Jews, purely because the government told them to, not because they actually held grudges on the Jews. The German people were brainwashed into believing everything the Nazi government said, because their propaganda was so believable and well made. The Germans purposefully made the Jews outcasts, which is definitely ostracism, and later killed them off.
The In-Group
Watch the video clip below
Eve S: The In Group

1.Select one line/phrase/group of sentences that are significant to you. Explain why.
"In most cases where students get picked on, it is because they aren't good at sports, read too much, they wear the wrong clothes, or are of a different race." This quote is definitely true, because I've seen people get bullied for at least the first two jokes, and have made some jokes about races which could be considered mildly racist due do the fact that they are based off of racial stereotypes. All these reasons that she stated are real, because people are bullied for those reasons, which are quite frankly, retarded.
To think about:
How is ostracism different from other forms of bullying? When does ostracizing or excluding someone from a group become part of bullying?
1. What is familiar about the incident Eve describes? I found the part where she was laughing at the other girl's diary part somewhat familiar, 

because I have made jokes at other people's expense and laughed at quips made by someone 

about someone else before.

2.What surprised you? The fact that she still laughed at that other person's diary even though she had been through the same stuff herself. She should have tried to stand up for the girl, because she had experienced first hand what it was like to be bullied.

3. How does Eve’s story relate to bullying? Was she bullied? Did she bully? How would you explain her behavior?( perpetrator/bystander/victim?). make sure you justify( back up your answer.
Eve was a victim of bullying who just sat there and took it, and made no effort to stand up for herself. However, later on, she was also a bystander, because as I said before, she laughed at the other girl's diary and did not even attempt to stand up for her, even though she knew what it felt like to be bullied.
Psychologists Michael Thompson and Lawrence Cohen point to the powerful influence of peer groups in guiding our behavior: ‘We all know that groups can go terribly astray in terms of their moral reasoning. Everyone not in the group can be considered an outsider, a legitimate target…It affects every group because we are all prone to that feeling of us versus them and the idea that if you’re not with us you’re against us. Speaking out against a risky, immoral or illegal decision is hard to do because that makes you an outsider yourself’.

4.How did Eve’s need to belong affect the way she responded when another girl was being mocked? Why does her response still trouble her? How do you like to think you would have responded to the incident? Eve felt like the only way to get the other people to stop bullying her was to conform and act like them. This is the easy way out, by just acting like everyone else and not having your own personality. I think the main reason that she is still troubled by what she did is because she laughed and made fun of that girl, even though she had been through the same stuff herself, and knew what it felt like. Then, she was siding with the bullies, and making someone feel bad about themselves, just like how she felt when she was bullied.
5. Eve concludes “Often being accepted by others is more satisfying than being accepted by oneself, even though the satisfaction does not last.’ What does she mean?

  What she means is that it feels better to be accepted by everyone else and make friends with more people than to have no friends and keep your conscience clear of bad memories and feelings. Anyone would prefer to have a bunch of friends and maybe one or two unpleasant memories than have no friends and be a total loner, but with no bad memories about bullying or treating someone unfairly.   

Schindler's List

What makes a person "heroic"? Does a hero possess certain qualities? Or is a hero defined by his or her actions? Was Schindler a hero?

A person is "heroic" when they put themselves at risk so that they can save others, or if they just help people in a big way, which usually involves them putting themselves at risk.

For the most part, heroes have good morals and have been do-gooders, however, sometimes, people who are successful businessmen who are in a fine position themselves do good things, as did Oskar Schindler. Heroes are also defined by their actions, because they do great things, which is what makes them heroes. I don't think you can actually BE a hero without doing some great things.

Personally, I think Schindler was a hero, and I highly doubt that his motives for hiring the Jews were purely for his profits. I say this because after the war had ended, Schindler felt that he could have saved more Jews from dying, and actually felt bad about his not hiring more than the 1,100 Jews he did manage to get. Schindler did not disagree with what the Nazi's were doing, so he made a stand and managed to save 1,100 Jews, who now have over 10,000 living descendants. I personally think that Schindler actually helped increase the Jewish population by saving those Jews, so now, there are more Jews thanks to him than there would be if he was like most other Germans and didn't bother to save them.

Sonia Weitz: My Black Messiah

The poem of Sonia Weitz's that I chose was called "My Black Messiah", and it was about Ms. Weitz's experience of seeing a black GI who was one of the troops who liberated the camp she was held in.

I annotated this poem by simply writing down what I thought some of the metaphorical sentences meant. I also found a possible theme for the poem, and that theme was "confused", mainly because the GI seemed shocked and confused at what he saw before his eyes, as anyone who didn't know what was happening to the Jews would.

One part of the poem that stood out to me a bit more than the rest was this small section: " He didn't weep, he didn't cry

But deep within his gentle eyes

... A flood of devastating pain,

his innocence forever slain."

Now, the reason this part caught my eye was that it was a particularly touching part of the poem, which described how devastated the GI was when he saw the camp, and that that would be a memory forever stamped into the man's mind, and also, it is saying that his naivety would disappear, and that he would have a new, possibly worse, outlook on the world.

You may be wondering why I say that he might have had a worse outlook on the world, so here's why I think that. I said that because this GI might have come to realize how cruel and merciless some humans can be if they get the chance, and it may have scarred him permanently and even made him ashamed to be part of a species that could do something so horrid to a minority group.

In all honesty, I cannot make a personal connection to this poem other than that when I first learned of the whole Holocaust thing, I felt just as shocked and surprised as the GI did.

This poem made me feel quite sad, because it is meant to be a sobering story of how Ms. Weitz was liberated from the camp, and the reaction of the GI and how he was crushed by what he saw. I must say, I feel quite sorry for the poor GI (and all the Jews and other people affected by the Holocaust, of course), because before he liberated the camp he was probably a carefree late-teens or early 20's guy, but after seeing the camp and the people held within and the conditions they had to live in, he was scarred for life, and would never forget the awful things he saw that day.

What Allowed Hitler to Gain Power?

There are a bunch of factors that allowed Hitler to gain power of Germany; the economic crises, the Reichstag fire, and a couple more things. Firstly, there was the Treaty of Versailles, which gave the Nazi party a goal that would catch the interest of the general population. What I mean is that Hitler could gain some following by saying that if the Germans voted for him, he would abolish the Treaty and bring Germany back to its former glory. Then, along came the hyperinflation crisis in 1923, which gave the Nazi party and even better political foothold, because they could say the same thing "vote for us and we'll fix the economy!" Next, in 1929, there was another, and even bigger economy crash, which gave Hitler even more leverage, because Germany was floundering, the Weimar government wasn't doing anything that was going to help the country out anytime soon, so the Germans were beginning to get mad at the Weimar government, and the Nazi's seemed to offer a quick way out. Then, when Hindenburg croaked, the current government had no choice but to appoint Hitler chancellor, so they did. And then came along the final nail in the coffin: the Reichstag was set alight. This gave Hitler a massive chance to gain complete power over Germany, so he blamed the fire on his biggest political enemy: the communists. Due to the fact that he was already Chancellor, the German people believed him and agreed with him, so they elected him to be Fürher of Germany, and he threw all the communists in jail. This marked the beginning of the end for the Jews.

The Nuremberg Laws

1. Who could now be defined as a "Jew"?

According to the laws, anyone who had 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents was declared a Jew, regardless of what religion that person was.
2. What was meant by "Aryanizing" Jewish Businesses?

The Nazis Aryanized Jewish businesses by replacing Jewish shop or business owners with non-Jewish Germans.
3. How were Jews who were professionals (lawyers, doctors etc.) restricted?

Jews who were doctors were prohibited from treating non-Jews, and Jews that were law students were not allowed to practice law anymore.
4. What did Jewish identity cards need to include now?

The government made it so that all the Jewish identity cards had a red J stamped on them (for Jew), and if they did not have a Jewish sounding first name, they had a middle name that sounded more Jewish put into their names, "Isreal" for men, and "Sara" for women. This enabled German police to identify Jews far more easily than before.
5. What was the "Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People" (sum up in your own words)?

The "Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health of the German People" made it so that any two people who wanted to get married had get a certificate from the public health authorities that stated that those two people were fit to marry. These certificates were not given to people that had hereditary illnesses or contagious sicknesses or were trying to marry, but were violating the Nuremberg Laws in any way, like a Jew wanting to marry and Aryan.

Hitler's Taking Control

Civil rights are the rights that people have all around the world. They are the guidelines which state how everyone should be treated. Some of these rights are the right to vote, the right to freedom of speech, and the right to protection from wrongful discrimination.

Why might some of Hitler's measures in abolishing personal freedoms and Civil Rights be seen by some as as a positive, or necessary move?

Because when the Reichstag was burned down, Hitler blamed it on the communists, whom he disliked, so the German people thought that they should be punished for what they did, and that the punishment should be the abolishment of the freedoms and Civil Rights of the communists. They believed that the ones like the tapping into phone calls was necessary to prevent enemies like the communists from communicating with eachother and rising against the government.

The Treaty of Versailles, was it Fair or Not?

In my opinion, the Treaty of Versailles was unreasonable in the demands and restrictions that it levelled on Germany, which angered the German people and made them resent the Allies. Such anger could easily lead to war. The Treaty humiliated the Germans because it effectively gave the Allies control of the German army. For example, the Treaty dictated that the German army could not have an air force, and could not exceed a total of 100,000 soldiers. Meanwhile, only a small naval force was permitted and submarines were not allowed. The anger sowed by the Treaty paved the way for Hitler to rally the German people behind him. The German people wanted someone to blame their humiliation on, so Hitler targeted the Jews, a successful group of people who were also a minority and therefore easy to wipe out. Hitler brainwashed the German public into thinking that the Jews had caused all their misfortunes, so they would elect him as their Fürher in the belief that he could solve their problems and restore Germany to its former glory.

What Are the Purposes of Religion?

Well, I think that the purpose of religion is to make sort of guidelines for the faithful people. By guidelines, I mean rules that tell people how to live. This may sound like some sort of religious dictatorship or something, but it's not. Here's what these rules look like; be nice to people/treat them like you'd want to be treated, don't ever steal or break government laws, etc...

Now, you, the reader, may be wondering "what does the god/s have to do with religion? Where do they come in?" Well, what they do is write all these laws, which are now in holy books like the Quran, Tora, Bible, and so on. And if you're confused, they don't actually have the ORIGINAL writings in the handwriting of god in the books, they are copies.

That's basically it for this subject, so until next time, I'm out.

This I Believe

The podcast that I found most interesting, from the ones I listened to, was by a man named Penn Jillette, who talks about the absence of an all powerful man in the sky who we all should pray to. I personally agree to him, what with being an atheist myself, but perhaps don't care about the topic enough to try and disprove there being a deity/s, unlike Mr. Jillette, who seems to be searching for all sorts of reasons to criticize and just find any holes in the fabric of religion to unravel the whole thing and show it as a fake. I chose this podcast because I am atheist, as I mentioned previously, so I do agree with Mr. Jillette, but unlike him, I don't really speak my thoughts about religion, due to its being such a sensitive topic. I respect other people who are religious and just think to myself, "each to their own opinion." If they want to belong to a faith, they can, if not, they don't have to. That's how I think of it.;

Domiknow Profile Thingy Hooberdoob

1. I learn best when......

I am with one or two people are like me in terms of learning styles, and are competent and hard workers. I also like to have all the instructions in a step by step way that has a lot of detail in them.

2. I need to .....

To learn well, I need to maybe do group work with one or two other hard workers, and not people who can get on the incompetent side. Because that just gets me into a foul mood, and I'm not nice when I'm mad. However, I only like to work in groups with people when we are doing a project like making a model, or making a film. Sometimes, even for those aforementioned activities, I like to work alone, I also prefer to work alone on writeups, and not have to work with another person and rely on them to write other paragraphs.

3. The strategies that would help me in my learning....

Would be giving me projects that incorporate lots of detail and are challenging, like an essay on personal opinions or maybe models of famous monuments. In essays that are that sort of genre, I really tell the reader how I feel about certain things, say, a world leader, and let all my feelings flow into the paper.

4. I would like my teachers to know this about me.....

I do not, to be frank, suffer fools well. If I am with someone in a group who is not overly competent, I am susceptible to losing my head and becoming quite bossy and even rude to the person. It is a flaw in my personality that I loathe, but sadly, I seem to be stuck with it. So, my message to my teachers would be to put me in a group with people who are good workers and really want to do the best they can on projects.

A Summary Thing

Hercules went into the swamp and met his old friend Iolaus and stayed at his house for a little while before killing the Hydra. In his first attempt to kill the Hydra, Hercules cut the heads off, only to see two new ones grow back. So he went back to Iolaus's house and persuaded him to come with him to the Hydra armed with a torch. When Hercules went back to the Hydra with Iolaus, he cut off the heads and made Iolaus put the torch on the stub that was left. When he put the torch on the stubs, it sealed them shut, so heads could not regrow. He and Iolaus repeated this process until all the heads on the Hydra were gone, and weren't growing back.

10 AWESOME MEMORIES

I remember my dad punching me in the stomach when I wanted to ask him a question. He thought I was going to sneak attack him and punch him.

I remember smelling cookies in a guard's house in a parking lot.

I remember always skipping to the most violent parts of movies.

I remember having a dream about falling and when I woke up I was falling.

I remember making my first LEGO stopmotion for YouTube.

I remember being in a plane and possibly experiencing a microburst during the decent. Really scary.

I remember getting my desktop computer.

I remember getting my iPod Touch 4G.

I remember making my first order for LEGO supplies for my movies on the internet.

I remember driving a golf cart with my family in it down a steep hill.

Personal Poem

Cameron William
Creative, Intelligent, Hilarious, Friendly
Loves art, his parents, and his 3 cats
Needs LEGO, computers, TV, and his relatives
Feels happiness when with friends, and watching his favorite user’s videos on YouTube
Who fears the dark
Would like to own a Huf Haus, a Willys Jeep, an iMac, and $1,000,000,000,000.
Who shares no personal information with no one.
Is a brickfilmer, a collecter, and a cat fan.
Is a resident of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
McCutcheon.

THE END OF THE LINE

Well, after a loooooong year of work and essays and stuff like that, it is finally time to get on a plane and head off for an awesome holiday. This blog is mainly going to be a reflection on what I have done during the year and why I'm proud of it.
First off, my favorite piece of work that I have done this year would probably be.... hmmm.... my imaginative narrative. We wrote this narrative in November to December, and it was a piece of writing that we wrote based on a prompt given by the teacher. Mine was a sci-fi/horror story about a disembodied foot that went around turning people into monsters and in the end everyone died, except the main character, who went back to Earth and lived happily ever after.
Next, the greatest challenge I faced during 6th grade was definitely division in Math. I had sooo much trouble in that unit, and my grade in Math may as well have jumped off the Golden Gate bridge it fell so much. And it took forever and a half to get it back up to a acceptable grade. I was definitely not happy with that this year, and I sort of overcame the challenge at home, but I still didn't do well on the tests at school.
I learned that I had a hidden talent, I guess you could say, in drama. Apart from forgetting my lines in a performance, I think I was half decent as an actor. I never knew that I would actually be good at being an actor, but now I know! Hooray!
Now about my work habits. I think that my behavior in class is near perfect, I mean, I always listen attentively, I rarely get off task during when I work. This only happens when people start to talk to me through chat or physically. I find it very annoying.
Participation-wise, I always participate actively in class discussions and always ask questions whenever I don't understand something. I always give decent feedback for people when they show the class projects, and give input that applies to all the people in the class.
Organization: Oooh boy, this is going to make me sound like a slob. My organization needs serious help. My locker looks like someone dropped a bomb on it, then a hurricane went through it, a tornado struck in there, a plane crashed into the locker (minus the fire), and then someone nuked it. It is a pigsty in there, with books lying on there sides, and papers strewn all through it, and my pencil always gets lost in there. Maybe next year I'll make an effort to keep it clean, but only if I get around to it. Fortunately, I haven't lost much homework in there!
Effort: I usually try to do my best on projects, but what really takes the fun out of it for me is having to make projects where all the options are projects that are computer based. I like to make 3D models out of clay and dioramas, not make a comic on the computer. I think that our latest Tic Tac Toe could have been far more awesome if I had had the option to make a diorama of the Parthenon like I did in our first Tic Tac Toe for the cavemen times. Quite frankly, I really dislike the way all of the work is computer based, and because of that, sometimes I don't feel as motivated to do a good job, because I just find it kind of boring.
I have two goals for grade 7: 1, I'd like to become more organized with my locker, and not have it look like a landfill anymore. I don't want to have any more homework being swallowed by the pit that is my locker.
My second goal is to improve my confidence in Math. For years now I've had a problem with my confidence in Math. I always say I suck at it and that in turn brings my grade down, especially in division. I always score very badly on division tests because of my confidence.
There isn't really much that I'd like my teachers to know next year, just my confidence problem, and that I know a lot of the stuff in Humanities classes, probably 'cause I watch a lot of Nat Geo and History channel. I know the most about WWII, not as much about prior times, like the middle ages.
My favorite class activity in Humanities this year was the first Tic Tac Toe project. I got to make a diorama of a cavemen camp. I had a dead boar and a cave that they lived in and a load of little people. That is the sort of thing that I enjoy, not making comics on a computer and having everything be computer based. Now before I start ranting, let me move on.
The activity that I wish we could have spent more time on was the first Tic Tac Toe project. I wanted to put on some finishing touches for my diorama, but we then ran out of time and I couldn't touch it up and make it perfect. D:
My advice for the class of 2018, the new 6th graders, would be to STAY ORGANIZED AND DON'T USE ME AS A ROLE MODEL! They have to be organized so that they don't lose any homework in their lockers, which, quite frankly, stinks. That's pretty much it, advice-wise, so thanks for reading, if you made it this far, and goodbye!

Books in all Their Glory

This book made me think about the threats of global warming. This book mentions global warming a lot, due to the fact that the main character is trying to win an environmental lawsuit, but somehow finds himself with a bunch of terrorists who are planning an attack on the United States. I am not quite certain on what it is about quite yet, because I am only half way through and a load of stuff is going on.

This book has challenged me as a reader because of its very, very advanced plot, and finding out how everything is linked together isn't exactly easy, but the book is definitely worth reading. A load of things are going on in the book at this point and, as I said before, connecting everything is quite hard to do.

Don't read this book if you are someone who reads shorter books with larger text and fewer big words. Also, if you don't really read books with the most advanced of plots, I would definitely not recommend this book. This book also contains a fair amount of coarse language, so if you don't like that, don't read this novel!

Literature Circle 4 Blog

" Gabriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing bare-footed on a damp lawn.

"Gabe?"

The new child stirred slightly in his sleep, Jonas looked over at him.

"There could be love" Jonas whispered.

The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away"

In two (or more) well structured paragraphs explain how the above quote and the rest how chapters 16 ~ 18 relate to the themes of freedom and choice.

This quote relates to the theme of choice because Jonas chooses to throw away his pill, something that no one in his community does. No one chooses for themselves, they do as they are told. The quote tells us that in one of the memories, somebody chose something, and that part of the memory grew in Jonas's mind. In this particular quote, he doesn't know what it is that made him throw the pill away. This is because no one in his community knows about choice, as I said before. It is as alien as flowers shooting lasers out of their petals, a completely ludicrous idea.

The quote relates to freedom as well, because the freedom implied is the ability to make your own choices. Like when Jonas gives the memories to Gabe, he feels guilty about the secret, because he is making his own decision and throwing caution to the winds, in a way. He is making his own decision here because he wants the little baby to be able to fall asleep successfully, and not wake up screaming in the middle of the night. He is not just thinking that the baby will be able to fall asleep by itself and forgetting about him. He is trying to help the baby fall asleep, and the only way to do this is by giving the child pleasurable memories. This means making a choice. He could easily have been like everyone else and stuck to the rules and let Gabe sleep on his own. But he made the decision to help the child, which shows that he has his own free will, and can make his own choices.

My Thoughts on the Society of the People in The Giver

Would you want your future to be decided by others ? Why or Why not?

No, I wouldn't want someone deciding my future for me. To me, it would seem like I was being treated like a child, having others choose everything I do in life, including my job. If there is one thing I would like in life, it would be to be able to choose my job.

For example, what if there was a guy who wanted to be a... traveling salesman and he got the job of a garbage collector. I realize that people do not always get the jobs they want, but it is a worthy price to pay for getting a choice on what job you get. It would be kind of crummy if you had been working and practicing on being a traveling salesman by selling things to your neighbors for years and some guy you don't even know says, " Oh sorry, you can't be a traveling salesman because we think you don't have the talent for the job, so we made you a garbage collector. Good day to you, sir."

Gee, I'd feel almost vengeful if someone said that to me if I had my heart set on a certain job and some guy said I couldn't have it and gave me a job that I never wanted! If I was the man, I'd be very, very mad and I would protest, saying, " I wanted to be a salesman and all I get is a garbage collector? I wanted the job of a salesman, I practiced for years and years, and all I get to do is ride around on a garbage truck, picking up people's smelly waste from street corners?"

I would then ask them to possibly reconsider their decision and that I would come back in a few days. And I would make sure that they realized that I was not happy with the job they chose for me.

So, in conclusion, I would not want other people to chose my job for me. I would like to have a choice of what job I get, even if I don't get that particular job. I think people should always have a choice over what job they get, and not have someone pick it for you.

iMovie Reflection

I think my partner and I did fairly well on this blog, given that we had less than one class to do the whole thing due to our first project disappearing mysteriously. I think we got mostly 4s on the rubric, with the exceptions of some 3s. We had a couple of small squabbles on who would do the voice recording for the next slide, but we always came to an agreement. One thing that didn't really work on our video was the background "music". It made the recordings of our voices sound like they were echoing, which was a little strange and distorted our voices, which sounded a little weird.

Part 2: The Review
For this part of the blog, I have to do a review on someone from my class's project. I'll chose Jung Hun and Shivank's iMovie. Their video was quite descriptive and had an amusing video about the assassination of king Tut. The narration was quite good, albiet there were a few awkward pauses and sniffles in the video. Overall, I would give it a 8.5/10.