The Road blog: patterns

Some patterns is the love you see between the boy and his father but  you also see how the father has lost something. Hes more negative than the boy and seems like all the father has to live for is his son. You also see the pattern of negativity. With how the Father acts but also how their world seems. And how different is it from before.

The Road blog post 1

I think that both of the quotes are essentially saying the same thing just worded deferentially. They both say that there will be good or light in a bad situation. And I think the quotes are right because even in the worst situations people hold onto the ones they love or keep what ever positive thing they have to keep going until they cant anymore. And there will never be a time with zero sadness or bad going on. But there will always be sometime good to keep people going.

For me what makes something depressing is talking about kids being taken away from family or kids having to go through things at young ages when they might not really understand whats happening. An example is a when I read a book called A Step From Heaven. Its a book about a Korean family who immigrated to California and the main character a young girl didn't understand a lot at all about america or the troubles her family faced. This made me sad while reading it because I am adopted from korean and even though I was adopted when I was a few months old, I don't read a lot of books about Asians in general so this was/is an important topic to me.

Persepolis

3. In the book woman have the role of obeying others. For example they are told what to wear. They also have the role as teachers, to educate the girls. But it seems that their society wants  women or people to stay in their spot(social class for example) and to be "obedient" so to say. Marji's mother and grandmother thought are very independent women and are happy with their family. Also if you compare the women in Marji's family to the teachers the women in her family are very strong, can think for themselves or another way to put it is have a say in how the house is run and what is best for their kid.
4. Social class is extremely strict and you have to stay in your own class. and the boys are given a false hope on a better life in the after life and run into death. The higher ups or people with more money could afford to keep their kids in school it seems

The Latehomecomer

1. The cover at first didn't really have a effect on me. I just thought of it as a the Hmong people in from of a bus. But now that I've heard it its fitting because its the orange bus that Kao Kalia Yang said would take her to america. And the bus that her grandmother thought would break her family apart.
2. I think she started the book like this to give us something to look back at or keep in mind during the book. My first impression from the book was that it was going to be a good book. And that the book would not only be about her family but Hmong people in general.
3. I didn't know before about the secret war. But now that I know I do thing that the US has at least a little responsibility to the Hmong people in Laos.
6. How we first see a person can effect people. Like if the fist thing you notice is their looks and you base how they are off of that. I think the Yang's are able to stay so grounded in their culture even tho they have moved mile away from their original home because their around each other so much. And they all started out in the same place and experiencing the same thing. So they wall have something to connect to.
8. Yang not speaking shows that part of the immigrant experience might be dealing with feeling the lose of your whole culture and life. Language and how we do things is such a big part in who we are. But when we have to leave part or even all of that behind. For anyone old or young that would be hard.

Compare and Contrast Blog Post

Night and Shoah are obviously similar because they both talk about being in a concentration camp, but if you look closer you notice that the two are different because in Night they talk about the time in the train before they get to the camp. While Shoah tells you about the camp its self. In night Wiesel tells the reader about how little space they had and the conditions of the ride. "The heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocation us" (Wiesel, 27). The train car was filled with people and one woman lost her mind because of the separation from her family. This shows us what it would possibly feel like not knowing where your going or how its going to be and having to deal with the fact you will probably die. In Shoah they tell you that Auschwitz meant you would die and that it was worst than terrible. And that people from all over the world were forced to go there. This can tell us that Auschwitz was not a nice camp. What makes these two selections different it that they are both telling you a different part of a story.

Shoah Blog post

In the documentary you hear about what happened to the Jews in the concentration camps. But non of them talked about survival. They talked about how they felt after and before, how they saw the world, and the people they saw and met. Emil Fackenheim said it was "the presence of absence" which I believe means that people notice that sometimes missing or its obvious that somethings not there. But people might say anything. Thats shown in the documentary by going in depth about the concentration camps and the feelings and getting multiple views on one big event. And just let the people tell their stories.

Night Microlab Discusion

    "Most importantly from a social perspective, the pursuit of happiness is associated with selfish behavior -- being, as mentioned, a "taker" rather than a "giver." The psychologists give an evolutionary explanation for this: happiness is about drive reduction. If you have a need or a desire -- like hunger -- you satisfy it, and that makes you happy. People become happy, in other words, when they get what they want. Humans, then, are not the only ones who can feel happy. Animals have needs and drives, too, and when those drives are satisfied, animals also feel happy, the researchers point out."   This stood out because some people don't believe animals have feelings (which isnt my belief at all). And the paragraph prove that everyone, animal or human, has feelings. Also I think its important to be nice to other people and animal, because no one likes being hurt emotionally or physically.  
    
    The ending is significant because it shows how much an experience like that can change a person and I think he ended it so abruptly because there was nothing more to say and with an experience with the holocaust there's really no putting things gently. 

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1. Frankl's and Wiesel's and experience were the same because they both cared deeply about their families.
2. it is possible to live a both a happy and meaningful life because you can be happy but not have a meaning to life and vise versa.
3. "Most importantly from a social perspective, the pursuit of happiness is associated with selfish behavior -- being, as mentioned, a "taker" rather than a "giver." The psychologists give an evolutionary explanation for this: happiness is about drive reduction. If you have a need or a desire -- like hunger -- you satisfy it, and that makes you happy. People become happy, in other words, when they get what they want. Humans, then, are not the only ones who can feel happy. Animals have needs and drives, too, and when those drives are satisfied, animals also feel happy, the researchers point out."   This stood out because some people don't belive animals have feelings (which isnt my belief at all). And the paragraphe prove that everyone, animal or human, has feelings.

Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize Blog Post

1. His message in the speech was that you shouldn't forget the people that are gone and that what effects others in other lands doesn't only effect the people  that are going thought it. It also effects others around the world. And he talks a little about the concentration camps.
2. World. Because sometimes people think that its only them. And that things happening miles and miles away doesn't effect them or that they have bigger problems than whats happening in other places in the world.
3. The kingdom of night I think was the time of the holocaust and the concentration camps.
4. Some connections between the book and the speech were that he talks about how naive people were and how people didnt think it was possible that things like that could happen. Also that he cares about others, like is family,and people of the same religion.

Night Blog Post #1

On page 32 Wiesel talks about when he first got to Auschwitz and when he says "I first wanted to see where they would send my father" shows us that hes worried about his father and being alone at the camp. This passage sets up the theme of loneliness and how much he wants to be around his family and be away from the camp that hes called a nightmare.

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I think that Wiesel could have meant that the night could be his way of apposing the Nazis when he says night is his deposition.  But with all the labels surrounding certain things there can sometimes not be a lot of space to put your own feelings in there or if you do to others you might sound like a broken record. But with a deposition sometimes using personally feelings that aren't straight from the book facts can in my opinion an enhance the book. Because you get to read more information other than just what you can find in the internet. You get personal feelings and thoughts and sometimes a book has a lot or all of a persons life in it.

Pitch Paper Feedback

•  Make my overall topic more specific  
• Paraphrase more 
• Find an argument to my paper
•  Correct grammatical errors     

To do this I'm going to look at some of the links given to me and ask for someone to review my paper. 

The Perks of being a wallflower

1. In my opinion the opening scene is believable. I think that because for some people their first day is terrible and things start off bad right away. And in some ways high school can be worst than middle school.

2. In the movie the presence of the tunnel is fitting because we get to see Charlie in a dark place and hes not sure how things will go and what will happen. And as the movie goes along he meets friends and encounters a lot of problems. But at the end he gets help and figures things out. which the movie is kinda like a metaphor, that's saying you go through bad to get to the good.

Taxonomy

A: African American, Adolescence  

B: Beauty

C: Coming of age, Curiosity, Confusion 

D: Discrimination, Death

E: Education, Equality

F: Family, Future,

G: Growing up, Generation

H: Heredity, Heritage, History, hair 

I: Identity

J: Justice 

K: Kindness, Killing, Kids

L: Love, Loneliness

M: Mystery, Moving

N: Neighborhood, name calling

O: Oppression, Optimism 

P: Point of View, Police, Pride 

Q: Quiet

R: Race, Racism, Religion

S: Segregation, Success, Stories, Secretes, 

T: Troubles, Transitions

U: Unity, Unique, Understanding

V: Violence

W: Woman, Whites

X: 

Y: Youth 

Z

PowToon: Nella

What are you?

Girl Who Fell, Text to word
I have been asked the question "who are you?" because i'm asian. They usually say "what are you? Chinese? Japanese? Korean?" Ive been asked the question since I was really little by a lot of people. And almost 90% of the time I answer "Korean" , but if i have the time and feel like it i'll add the fact that i'm adopted also because its something I want people to know. That a person can be adopted so they might look nothing like their parents. I would answer that same way if someone were to ask me that right now.

In the Girl Who Fell From the Sky Rachel does have to pick a side. For example, "Her name is Carmen LaGuardia, and she has hair like mine, my same color skin, and she counts as black. I don't understand how, but she seems to know. I see people two different ways now: people who look like me and people who don't look like me" (Durrow, 2010, 9). Rachel when she went to her first day at school in the town her grandma lives in she notices that things are different and she doesn't know if she is white or black. but she isn't giving the choice of both. To add the book says "On the dinning room mantel are photographs of me and Pop. Of me and Grandma. Of me and Robbie. Of me, but none of Mor" (Durrow, 2010, 5). Her grandmother from her dads side is black. and doesn't seem to like Rachel's mom very much who is Danish and white. Rachel throughout the book keeps using the danish words she learned from her mother. But people still see her as black, not biracial.

I think Heidi Durrow would be happy that they try and promote stuff on being biracial or multiracial. I think this because in the interview she said that she thinks more people of all ages need to know about the topic of biracial/multiracial people. And by spreading the work on campus people might tell their families about it and their families will tell friends and so on.
Heidi Durrow said her favorite answer to the question "who are you"  is that she is a story. and this connects to the quote because when people ask "who are you?" usually they want a specific answer like "I'm black" or "im asain". Sometimes people don't expect you to give a longer answer. or that your biracial. Or they want "i was born in _____" and they arent satisfied with the answer of where you live at the moment.

The Synthesis blog post on beauty

In the TED talk Cameron russell talk about image and how powerful it is and says, "Image is powerful.  But also, image is superficial.  I just transformed what you thought of me in six seconds.". one thing that was simillar between Cameron Russell's talk and the documentary Colour of Beauty is that they both talk about young girls and body image. Cameron Russell said “I found out that of the 13 year old girls in the United States, 53% don’t like their bodies.  And that number goes to 78% by the time that they’re 17.” and the Colour of Beauty said “I think sometimes it is so blatantly racist, it’s disgusting…You’re constantly under this scrutiny that you can’t do anything about.  This is the skin I was given, this is what I look like—I’m sorry.” which explains how the modeling industry has such a big effect on girls. and even in Lupita Nyong'o speech she said how a girl sent her a letter and the girl wanted to lighten her skin.
Some things that were the same in Lupita Nyong'o speech and the Colour of Beauty is that they both talk about the hardships of being in the entertainment and modeling industry. Also they talk about how they overcome problems and how they keep trying at being successful.

Passion Project and Reflection

In this paragraph I’ll talk about one cause of depression, bullying.  “Nearly 19 percent of the students reported they had experienced cyberbullying during the previous 12 months. Cyberbullying was associated with all 11 of the internalizing, externalizing and substance use problems” (Fars New, 2014). The three problems listed in the quote are all thing that can come along with depression. and they aren’t the best ways to deal with depression. Next “About 1 in 5 adolescents has experienced recent online bullying and cyberbullying, like traditional bullying,it can increase the risk of mental health problems in teens as well as the misuse of drugs and alcohol” (Fars News, 2014). Just like the last quote drugs and alcohol aren’t a good way to deal with bullying. But the statistic that 1 in 5 teens have gotten bullied adds up very quickly and shows that we need to do something more about it.  Bullying in any form isn’t good and causes a lot of problems for teens the their families. But there are ways to make things better like talking.

• I chose this paragraph because I feel like I did a good job on the explanation and getting my point across. and makes my paper better than it would have been without it.
• One question i still have is that for my actual passion project if i could write about other mental illnesses that are common in teen or if i would have enough information on depression to just focus on that.

Passion project

First article

• It had a good amount of information. 
• It seems like it was for students or teachers. For me it was a easy read. 
• It seems like it was fact. Its by a good college
• The author used mostly primary sources but had some secondary too
• It was published in 2006 so its 8 years old.
• I could find the same info possibly. 
• Its a college. Specifically Brown University.

Second aritcle

• Yes it was.
• Its for students of higher
• Its fact. They have good sources. 
• It has a good amount of both
• It was written in 2014
• Maybe 

mental heath in teens

What is the percentage of teens with mental illnesses and how can we prevent this from happening?

What are the most popular illiness in teens and why?

How do mental illnesses work? and why do people get them?

passion project

1.  global warming. I think this would be a good topic because the earth heating up is a big problem.

2. Poisons chemicals effecting animals. I would do this because I care a lot for all animals and think that this is something not all people care or know about.

3. Helping kids with learning disabilities more. I would do this because I myself have ADD and dyslexia

4. Mental health in teens. Its a topic i find interesting and also it needs more attention.

5. Dangerous chemicals we come in to contact to everyday. I did research on a topic similar and found it very interesting.

Personal response/the grace of silence

Something I learned about my family that changed my view about them was that my dad's dad died of lung cancer. Caused by working in factories, and that he died fairly young. Why this surprised me is because I learned about it when I was pretty young and I didn't know about it before hand. At the time I also learned that I am named after him.