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Here are some questions given to us by Mr. Maiquez

So far, what do you think of blogging? 

It’s pretty fun. It’s also cool that anybody can see our site, even if I don’t know that person.
How do you think this can be used in your studies? 

You can make it so that only chosen group of people can go to your blog and that it doesn’t show up on search engines. If you do that, then you can stop sending emails to all your friends and just post it instead. Also, teachers can use it for the same thing. They can post assignments and stuff like that for their students.
Have you been following the blogging rules of our class? 

I guess so.
Are they difficult to follow? 

No. You just have to be careful not to hurt anyone’s feelings, not give any personal information, and post the stuff Mr. Maiquez tells us to.
How do you think blogging can be used outside of school?

Anybody can blog. You can use it to tell about a vacation you’re going on at the time instead of having to call a bunch of friends and paying $1000 on your phone bill.

Mr. Maiquez gave us some questions related to the ethical dilema stuff.

Think about these questions and see how you answer them.

1. When somebody says “just be yourself,” what does that mean?

I guess that means to just act normal. When I  say normal, I mean the way you would normaly act around friends, family, or by yourself.
2. Is it always easy to be yourself, or can it sometimes be difficult? Why? How? Give examples.

It’s usually easy. Unless your friend does something that you know is wrong (referring to that jerk/not-friend-anymore guy I’ve been talking about) and you still want to be his/her friend, therefore you don’t do anything.

3. A lot of kids around talk about “fitting in.” What does “fitting in” mean? How do you do it?

Fitting in is acting like the people around you so that you will be accepted into their “social group” and not be an outcast.

4. Is it true that there is a lot of pressure in this school? What do you have to do to fit in here?

No. There are a lot of spoiled jerks who think they’re better than everyone else at my school, but I don’t even try to fit in with them.
5. Does fitting in ever make it hard to be yourself?

It can.

6. What if you don’t fit in? Is that okay, or does it mean there’s something wrong with you?

If you don’t fit in, that just means you’re different from the others. There’s nothing wrong with you, it’s probably just because you don’t like the other people. Sometimes it’s because you might just simply be a jerk therefore nobody will like you with legitamite reasonning.
7. Are there groups here in school? Cliques? (Gangs) What are they?

No. (the easiest answer I can think of)

8. Why do these groups exist? What do they do for the people in them?

They don’t.

9. Does being in a group sometimes make it harder to be yourself? How? In what way? Examples?

It can. I saw a movie with these three brothers in a band who held up the radio station just to play there (debut) album. (They actually had water pistols) Two of them were fine with the whole thing, but the other one (Adam Sandler) was sort of shy and polite. The other two brothers had to try to teach him to be mean. (ex. he used to say,”Get over there now please!” which you can tell isn’t very forcefull)He couldn’t act like himself.
10. Are there pressures to fit into these groups? If so, describe the pressures.

Yes. Some people just want to be considered gang members/tough guys. For ex. the gang-member-wannabe who shot Bill Cosby’s son just to prove to that gang he was tough enough.

(This is an entirely fictional story)

There was a super popular girl named Shababalamo. She used to be nice to everyone, but one day, she became really nasty to this super rich girl named Fatomonifro. Shababalamo explained to Fatomonifro that she had more power with the other girls than the principal. Shababalamo told Fatomonifro that if she didn’t give Shababalamo her diamond earings, then Fatomonifro would easily become the least popular girl in the school. All the other girls would be told to shun and tease Fatomonifro and make her life horrible.

• What would you do if you were Fatomonifro?
• How would you feel if you were Fatomonifro?
• What do you think would happen if Fatomonifro gave Shababalamo her earrings?
• What do you think would happen if she didn’t give Shababalamo her earrings?

To me, resolution is being strong and faithfull. It is determination and firmness. A very resolute person would be Terry Francona who continually stays strong and believes in his team. Another example would be Winston Churchill who never gave up during WW II. His shelter was being bombed every day and yet he stayed firm and believed in his country and their allies. (Almost all the posts we put are explained and issued to us from our TEACHER’S SITE.)

I didn’t really celebrate Mother’s Day. I got my mom a card and a box of chocolates, but we didn’t really do anything. We just went to Jamaican Grill and we weren’t even wearing fancy clothes. I got a steak and shrimp combo with a side of a 1/4 chicken because I was super hungry and had no breakfast. It was also a very late lunch. I don’t regard Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as very important. That’s why we didn’t do much. I think it is just something that a crazy old lady made up as a way to get gifts every year aside from all the other holidays. I think that we need Holocaust Day on the day that the concentration camp, Auschwitz, was liberated. I think we need it to commemorate all the people (soldiers, victims, and people who helped refugees) who risked/gave their lives during World War II.

-Isaac

We just finished a book in language arts class called The Giver. It’s about a utopian society WAY in the future were everything is equal. Everyone in the community is given a job which they perform until they are too old and enter the house of the old. When they are really old, they are released from the community. (I won’t tell you what happens during release or it will be ruined.) Everyone is given meals everyday. Everyone has the right to issue for a spouse and let the commity of elders find  match, but nobody has to. Each family (mother and father) is issued two children, a son and a daughter, which they can apply for whenever they want to. There are birthmothers to give birth to the children. When kids start to feel sexually attracted to the opposite sex, they are given pills to stop it. There are other communities around the one in the story, but they aren’t involved much. Jonas, the main character, is chosen to be the new Receiver for the community. The Receiver is the one who holds all the memories of pain, happiness, and emotions. The people in the community have no emotions, they know nothing of true happiness, sorrow, misfortune, loneliness, love, or suffering. None of them know about war or anything where people are harmed. The worst suffering in the community is when, for example, a little boy drowns in the river. Through his training to become the new Receiver, Jonas learnes all these feelings. He is very angry at the community and the book is about how he deals with it and what happens in the end.

-Isaac

Mr. Maiquez just found a Canadian class’s blogging project. It’s cool that we can finally have more people to comment on and talk to.

I think it was wrong for the adult and the principal to do that. Luc is Filipino and Filipinos eat with a spoon and fork, instead of a fork and knife. I don’t eat with a fork and spoon, but Filipinos do, so the principal and the adult should respect that. Luc was actually punished for eating like a traditional Filipino does. The principal was being racist. He said to Luc’s mother, “Madame, you are in Canada. Here in Canada you should eat the way Canadians eat.” If I was Luc, I would just ask my mother if I could move to another school. Read the artical: Luc
If someone ever discriminates against me, I don’t know what I will do. As a last resort, and if that person is and was really being a jerk, I might consider publicly humiliating him/her. Almost all my friends are of another ethnic background. I rarely think about the fact that they are different in that way. I don’t need to change at all to stay their friends. Actually, almost all of my caucasion friends live in the mainland U.S., so I live mostly with Asians. I don’t care, but I’m just saying.