HW 55

My question for this assignment would be "What is a family? And what makes a family unique?"

Triangle Partner 1 response:
Arden,
I think your question is good but try to make it seems to broad. Maybe a good question could be What makes a true best friend? And what are the expectations of a true friend? Or if you don't think that's a big help then maybe try your best to expand on your question. I'm looking forward to reading your research paper :]

Triangle Partner 2 response:
Hey Richard Y,
Your question i believe is a good research question and your statements are true also about how easy it is to make a friend now and days. And i agree with Arden that the poem you have is good i like it a lot and i cant connect to that poem because all those reasons for a friend fits me and i bet a lot of different people. Overall good research question im looking forward to reading your paper.


Bibliography:
All these resources are entitled in order to make my research question more easier to answer. These sources are really good and connect to what my question is asking. So instead of making my paper look like a 2 page paper that may look bad without evidence with these sources about what makes a family unique and what a family truly is would make my paper maybe a 3 page paper with a lot of information to make it look more formal.

1) Lee, Ickchan. "What Constitutes a Family?." N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2010. .

2)"What makes a family unique? Part 1." N.p., 18/12/2008. Web. 13 May 2010. .

3) Lowe, Jessica. "A Family of Fun!." N.p., 4/5/2010. Web. 13 May 2010. .

4)Cline, Austin. Family & Families: What is a Family? How does the Bible Describe the Family?. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2010. .

HW 54

Extroverted (E) 50% Introverted (I) 50%
Sensing (S) 51.52% Intuitive (N) 48.48%
Thinking (T) 50% Feeling (F) 50%
Judging (J) 52.78% Perceiving (P) 47.22%

Your type is: ISFJ


I dont believe its 100% accurate because it has some of the qualities that i believe that i have but not all of the qualities. Like from what the results said it stated that Desires to be of service and to minister to individual needs and i believe that sometimes i can fit those qualities depending on my day. Overall i believe its more like a horoscope then accurate it just states what they think who people are. Horoscopes are more like an assumption and when it relates to somebody when they read it they feel glad about themselves. But when results aren't accurate people try to change themselves in order to fit the results that the survey has provided to them.

Now for Part 2 for HW 54 i asked my mom to take the test and i thought she would of been more ISTP but im wrong but the last letter because when she sat down and took the test her results came out as ISTJ. And i would say appreciate difference because when you think that your similar to a lot of different people like friend's personality wise and then you look at the results you finally come to a conclusion that your not that similar at all and that everybody is different in their own ways.

HW 53

In all honesty it felt pretty okay sharing my privacy to everyone even though it was completely anonymous. But i know for sure that some of the questions really did make me think. Like for some of the questions i sat there for about 4 minutes trying to see how to answer the certain question, so i had to question myself for a bit and think. And then i picked the best answer that suited me well.

The interesting scores were in the people who drink, and the one the said do you use protection during safe sex which were surprising because if you know the majority of the people in our school and compare the scores between the 11th and 12th grades then you would know that the scores don't match up correctly. The patterns that i noticed were that the more positive stated questions were answered positively but the more deeply asked questions about yourself were mostly lied about or people didn't really feel like answering. Only surprises were was with the scores of the safe sex,the drug usage, and the drinking one. Some people like hiding their true self even though they know that its anonymous but people still like hiding their true selves even behind a computer.

The differences in the other survey (YRBSS) is that i felt that more people were telling the truth in that survey compared to our survey and i also feel that the questions were more engaging which made people answer more honestly. All these scores between our survey and the YRBSS survey is that the scores are scary for people carrying weapons to school and during fights its dangerous you never know what might happen. And for the most part people never take this kind of stuff into consideration and just ignore it.

HW 52

First off let me start off with the theory of love and humans. In my opinion i believe that of course everybody tries to find love in their life no matter what, but it seems like it takes a while to find that right one. Humans hate being alone is like being kept in a closed room with nothing it in but the walls surrounding you and that's it, if somebody was put through that they would go completely insane. So we must find somebody in our life that we can hopefully spend forever with. Which leads to my next theory friends.

Friends is what almost every human should have in order to not only be happy but whole. From what my previous theory stated which was "Humans hate being alone is like being kept in a closed room with nothing it in but the walls surrounding you." We all need a sort of group of people to feel protected, like the cavemen always walked around in groups for safety. With a group of people not only do you feel protected but you also feel welcomed and most of all not alone. Which leads to my next theory family.

We all have a family,none of us are born without one. We grow with our parents and they watch over us until were old enough to know right from wrong, and then we start our own family and the cycle continues. A family is like a huge group of friends you can say but more safer and honest(depends on your family...) and they also make you feel welcomed. Family are there to protect you and to lead you in the right way. And on new years always a routine is to spend time with family. And every holiday is for family. And if we don't follow that routine were bad people or as people may call it "ditching" our family.

Now power is a different theory then the other three in a way even though they kind of tie back to most of them. We all want power to feel like were on top of the world and to feel like we rule everybody. Its kind of a greed situation. People feel good about themselves with power, for instance those people in the streets with their pit bulls acting tough because they have a dog with them. Those people try to scare people with the power(the dog)so people wont mess with them. Its all a use of fear and power combined.

My last theory will be on roles. Every person on this planet has a specific role it might be a parent a brother or anything in between but all in all with all have roles. And of course we all try to live up to these roles and if we fail at doing so we get degraded by other people who notice. Like giving up a seat to a pregnant lady and if you don't get up to get stared by every person in the train car or bus. But we all have roles to live up to, to give a us a certain characteristic of who we are on the outside. Without a specific role who will be?

HW 49

My personal contribution to the teacher film was to be like one of those people who are just sitting there and talking and just making stupid noises basically. The message and tone of my section's film was pretty much a strong tone since the teacher(Will) was basically cursing, and making fun of most of the students in the class.

I can most likely say that the message was basically that the students were trying to be cool of course and also trying to help the teacher out but the teacher didn't accept there help at all. Reason being was because he was drunk mostly of the time so he could of cared less about the students.

Well with all the student/teacher films that we've watched in class it was pretty much different in a sense because in our student/teacher film the teacher was drunk and started putting the students down. But in most of the films that we watched the teachers almost always try to help the students and change them into different people. In the films the students were "ghetto" in a sense and tried to over rule the teachers but most of the time in the end the students change into different people. Like in Freedom Writers the students were low lives and then they started to open up more and change.

The connection between salvation and schooling in our culture is big because in our school there is a lot of higher power and even outside our school like the board of education of course. And in schools of course the principals would of course be considered the highest power because he has control of the students and of course of the teachers. What ever he says goes. But the board of education of course is much more higher than him, then comes the chancellor Joel Klein. Which all control the schools.

HW 45

From my understand of both texts it seems to me that Hirsch believes that schools should teach students about more than enough stuff when their in elementary school before they hit high school. Hirsch said in the an article,"not every child is learning about James Monroe in the first grade." Which i agree with because not even i know who James Monroe is. And then for Sizer he believes basically that teachers should make things somewhat easier for the students but not to easy of course because then what would be the point of learning from mistakes. Sizer said in Horace's Compromise " Keep the structure simple and thus flexible." Basically stating that teachers should make the structure of their class of course easy but understanding.

Yes both Sizer's and Hirsch's theories both contradict each other because Sizer wants teachers to make their structure simple but flexible like he stated in Horace's and Compromise. But on the other hand Hirsch says that he thinks that teachers should be teaching their students more facts in first grade so that they basically know more than what they should know. If they both adapted together they should both work out hopefully because then students would do better at school than what students are doing now. Students are usually lost when it comes to politics because they sometimes use metaphors in place of things and a kid who watches it is completely perplexed. But if Hirsch and Sizer come together as a whole students would basically have a better understanding of things. And understand what the hell is going around them instead of them being dumbfounded.

HW 44

I feel that Thomas Friedman was right in a way because the Obama administration like he said is only good at listening but not good at responding back to questions. And that Obama dropped the education that he told the kids he would help make schools better for them but instead he went into a different category. Obama went to the health care stuff even though health care is really important but he should kept the promise he made to the kids at least. And then from the health care plan he went right into the bailout since we were in a somewhat depression which was helper in a way at least.

I agree that we do need more than one school system and that it would be pretty understanding. Like they said in the article that having a school for students and then another one for entrepreneurs would be pretty helpful which varies between different people. And us students are like employees in school just learning how to become employees in the future. And we go to school to get high grades in order to get a high paying job in the future which will benefit us in the long run.

I agree school is like a starting point for everybody. Also school has a disciplinary code you must follow always. If you dis obey the rule you get in trouble with the principal. It all depends on the school and the teacher who keeps control of the kids. Like in the movie freedom writers the kids were out of control at first then the teacher kinda pretty much took charge of the class. The school didn't know how to handle kids because the teachers weren't trained to deal with overly disrespectful kids. And where the school is at also effects how the students act like in the bad part of the bronx kids in that certain school will be going crazy then a couple of kids from nyc.