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Name: Michael

Period: 14 – 15

Class: English 1

Instructor: Ms. Rami

Date: April 26, 2011

Welder !

Introduction
1. Action Getter – The metal bending and putting together.

2. Why do you want to do this? Because my step dad does it and it seems like a very interesting job that i would look forward into doing when I’m older.

3. Transition statement – Your the type of person who bends/folds/puts together metal which makes a lot of thing like rails, chairs, carts, cars, ect.. It has millions of people and its a well paying job.

Body
1. Describe your job – You go to work about 40-50 hours a week, make metal into certain things and the company sells it.

2. Describe what you do – Fold, bend , or connect metal using your tools.

3. Ways that help people – Ways that this job helps people is by making the things we us today like doors, seats, silverware, railings, cars, and a lot more.

Education
1. Type of education needed for this job Maybe like half a year or a full year of welding school.

2. Training needed – Welding.

3. Cost of education – Depends on where your going for school or what type of welding job you want.

4. Years of education needed – Depends, most of the time maybe like half a year to a year.

What college should you attend? No need to go to college for this type of job, just welding school.

1. Money/Benefits
Your pay check is at the end of the week or at the end of every two weeks and the money depends on how much your getting paid per hour and most of the people who get this job start out with $10.85 per hour. Some benefits you get are health insurance, pension plans, paid on vacations and holidays and more.

Aptitude and Attitude
Some aptitude you have is your skills you are doing to go forward in your day like your moving around and making your items with metal. Some of your attitudes may be like dying because you feel like you did so much at the end of the day and feel tired, and maybe even a little mad if you mess up or get confused.

Typical Day
Conclusion
A typical day in welding is just like in your work place and outside just putting stuff together or making it by using your tools, take your breaks here and there, then back to work. Then at the end of your two weeks you get paid.

Michael McHugh

Period 14-15

Teen Suicide Project…

Teen Suicide is about a person that is young killing themselves over their emotions, feelings, losing their loved ones, and more… When a teenager commits suicide, everyone feels affected by it, and feel hurt, or pain inside. People that could feel this way could be Friends, Family, People he/she might of played on a team on like sports, next door neighbors, girlfriends/boyfriends and sometimes people who did not even know the teen might have feelings of confusion, grief, or guilt. Suicide affects the play and it’s characters by losing both of the family’s loved ones, which makes everyone depressed in Romeo and Juliet. I think Skakespeare uses suicide at the ending to show that people can truly care for each other and would do anything for love, and a easy way to end the book but it was very interesting.

Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15 year old’s threw 24 year old’s, the fourth leading cause of death for children that commit suicide are between the ages of 10 and 14.. Some risk of suicide could be a psychological disorder, especially depression, bipolar disorder, and alcohol and drug use, physical or sexual abuse, a persons sexuality, hostile school environment, or a bad community. There are many more risks but they lead to suicide quick, since most of them are a depressant. The causes for Romeo and Juliet were different from the ones I said, theirs was about depression, cause they both thought they would never see each other again, but next thing you know Romeo got that chance and saw that Juliet was dead but she really wasn’t, and Romeo just killed himself and Juliet had got out of the potion effect and awoke, and saw that Romeo was dead so she killed her self over him. It was all about depression.

About 60 percent of all the suicides in the United States Area with teens and adults are committed with a gun. Suicide rates are different between girls and boys. Girls think about and attempt suicide about two times more as often as boys do, and tend to try suicide by overdosing on drugs or cutting themselves. Boys die by suicide about four times more as often as girls, probably because they try to use more lethal methods, shooting themselves, hanging themselves, or jumping from heights. Both Romeo and Juliet used a lethal weapon in this case to kill themselves, which was poison, it killed them like right away.

Some warning signs that the suicidal teen might do or say to show warnings of could be talking about death or suicide in general anywhere at anytime, talking about their feelings of hopeless or feeling guilty of something, having trouble concentrating or thinking clearly about stuff, or like experience changes in eating or sleeping habits in their life. There is more warnings but they are some of the main ones towards a teenager or anybody maybe that might want to commit suicide. The warning sides in Romeo and Juliet were that they were both really down most of the time near the end, and Romeo even tried to kill himself with a sword but someone stopped him, and Juliet sort of held in her pain most of the story and just did it.

Ways to prevent suicide means treating teen depression, some ways that could help could be therapeutic boarding school, Counseling, Medication from a doctor, and more.. About 75 percent of people that want to commit or do commit suicide is over depression. About 5,000 teenagers a year commit suicide around the ages of 15 threw 24. In the case of Romeo and Juliet there was no way to prevent their deaths unless the guy that sold Romeo the poison didn’t, no one knew this besides them about Romeo and Juliet.

About every hour and 40 minutes a teenager will commit suicide, and about 500,000 attempt it each year. Like 80 percent of the time people that might be ready to kill themselves will talk about it. Five out of ten is the percent of teenagers who have depression or manic depressive illness. Suicide rates for all the other ages have dropped a lot, suicides of teenagers have almost tripled. Back then in Romeo and Juliet’s time there weren’t records of deaths by suicide or anything so I’m not sure if they could know the percent of teen suicide death.

A question that i ask myself is “Do you think Romeo and Juliet promote or do not promote teen suicide?” My thought was maybe, because if your in love with the person you want to be with for the rest of your life, and out of no where he/she dies, you get the sign of depression. It would make you feel worthless and since that person left you, you feel like you have no reason for being, and if no ones there to help you, it makes you feel regret and you will want to commit suicide just like Romeo. This might not happen to everybody cause things can change, the person can try to get over him/her, or just try to move on, find someone new. Start a new life.

Teen suicide does relate to the story Romeo and Juliet, because how romeo and Juliet die, it was because of them feeling depressed and worthless. Like one of the reasons why teens commit suicide is death of a loved one. They can feel like they have to go as well. I think from a kid like me, if this happened to me, i would feel so depressed, but i wouldn’t kill myself over it because i love living, i would try to get over it but i know it would be hard for sure. I don’t understand how kids can but i think its just crazy.

Here are some questions from a website i found and i explained some of them in my own answers… What if my friend refuses to talk with someone and says if I tell anyone he’s thinking of suicide, he’ll kill himself for sure? I would just listen to what he ays but try to be with him/she, be there for him or her. I would try to make them change their ways, but if it got to serious on the down low i would tell an adult and have it kept a secret and at the right time have them get this problem fix by talking to someone. Another question could be what would you do if you wanted to break up with a girlfriend cause of lost of feelings and more but she says she would kill herself if you do? Well i would try to tell her in person, be reasonable and tell how much better it would be since i don’t like her and she can find a new person who could, and more stuff like that. I would also say i will still be there for you no matter what and never forget it, and alot more till i got the point threw their head, which in my case if this ever did happen would be true to every word i said to her. What about someone who draws pictures of a body hanging and more about death? Well i would ask them one on one why do you do this? if i get my answer about suicide towards them thinking about killing their self, i would ask if i can get you help, and if they say no i would help them myself, because over stupid stuff people should not have to kill themselves, and this is my lap 7 major project on Teen Suicide! (:

Michael Mchugh 2-18-11
My Major Project ~ Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was born May. 31, 1819, in West Hills, Town Of Huntington, “Long Island.” Walt Whitman was an 19th Century American Poet, essayist, teacher, government clerk, news paper worker, volunteer nurse during the American Civil war threw out his life and was very well known, But most of all Walt Whitman was a “Poet.” He was most of the time called the “Father Of The Free Verse,” But he was best known mostly as “The poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.” Walt Whitman’s poems were mostly about the city he was in, people in the city, and most of the time about the landscape, it was a focus on him and his relationship with his surroundings as well.

Some of his books that were published were in 1865 when he published “Drum Taps,” in 1865-1866 he published Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum Taps. In 1876 he published “Memoranda During the War,” and last in 1892 he published his last book which was called “Complete Prose Works.” The government named a bridge after him called the “Walt Whitman Bridge,” down in South Philly. It was built in the early 1950’s, and completed around 1957-1958. The bridge carry’s about or more than 75,000 cars, trucks, etcetera per day, four miles to the north, & the towers, which needed 10,215 tons of steel to support the bridge’s 2,000 foot long main span & two 770 foot long side spans, in which lets all them cars and trucks be able to cross the bridge which leads into New Jersey.

Walt Whitman, he was homosexual threw out his life, and people commented on him for being gay, most were bad comments. His Fathers name was Walt Whitman as well as him. His mothers name was Louisa Van Velsor, and they were Dutch Farmers, and his Brothers names were Andrew Jackson Whitman, George Washington Whitman, Thomas Jefferson Whitman. His sisters name was Mary Hannah. His childhood was kind of bad, he was always moving from place to place, house to house. That was because of their poor investments. His brother died at the age of six months, thats only half a year old, his name was Edward. Walt Whitman spent most of his young life in Brooklyn, New York. This was all around the age of four since he was born threw the age of 11.

At age 11 he got out of school for the rest of his life and was an office boy for two lawyers and later was with the “Long Island Newspaper For The Patriot.” He was a printer for them, and posted his poems in the paper and that’s how they became famous. In May. 1835 when Walt Whitman was the age of 16, he moved to New York City to work as a compositor for about a year and in 1836 a year later he moved back to his family in Long Island.

His full career was being a poet. Some of his greatest quotes he made were “A great city is that which has the greatest men and women, Be curious, not judgmental, Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Every moment of light and dark is a miracle, Freedom – to walk free and own no superior, Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?” That is only a few quotes of his there are many more.

There is a book about Walt Whitman and the authors name is Gary Schmidgall, the books name is “Walt Whitman: A Gay Life.” The book was rated four out of five stars. Walt Whitman did not have any children. His soul mate was Peter Doyle, he was the conductor on a Pennsylvania Avenue horse car. He was born in 1847, in Ireland. Peter Doyle and Walt Whitman met on one day in winter in Washington, D.C. He was twenty one years of age when he started going out with Walt Whitman and Whitman was only forty five.

Peter Doyle kept working for the Pennsylvania Railroad until his death on the 19th of April in 1907 at the age of 63. He was shot and killed by a lady named of Mrs. Shea, she also shot a policeman in the chest which killed him right away. They were killed trying to serve a warrant for stolen goods from lay Shea. Walt Whitman on the other hand, he died in 1892, he lived to be 73. He had stroke for the end of his life. That’s sort of how he died but he lived a long healthy life, writing poems and had the love of his life “Peter Doyle.” His by far best poem I though was “Leaves of Grass,” was first published in 1855 with his own money to let the world see it. That poem started it all, and that’s my biography of “Walt Whitman!”

Websites I Got Things From!


1.)http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/walt_whitman.html


2.) http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/other/index.html


3.) http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitman-Life-Gary-Schmidgall/dp/0525943730


4.)http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_3.html


5.) http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/anc.00155.ht


6.)http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/poets/whitman.htm


7.) Google For The Pictures.

~Famous Scientists~

One famous scientist was “Mario J. Molina”, he was born in Mexico City on March. 19, 1943. His parents names were Roberto Molina Pasquel & Leonor Henriquez De Molina. He was fascinated by science before going to high school. He took a degree in Physical Chemistry. Another famous scientist was Miguel Alcbierre Moya, he was also born in Mexico City, he obtained a degree in Physics, and a Master of science in Theoretical Physics. He was mostly all about “faster then light velocity and talking about space.” Another scientist was Jacob Bekenstein, he was born in Mexico City and his parents were Jewish. He has been a professor of Astrophysics at a University and he is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is now a professor of Theoretical Physics.

~Details about Mexico~

Mexico became a nation in 1821 when Mexico achieved independence from the Spanish Empire. The most spoken language by Mexicans is called “Spanish.” The population in Mexico is about 107,431,225, but that was said in 2009, it could be different now. Mexico’s first governor was in 1913 his name was José Refugio Velasco, their governor right now is Enrique Peña Nieto. People sing lullabies for the newborn Jesus at the midnight mass. Their people act just as we do, go to work, have pets, live their life to the fullest. Mexico is in North America. Traditional Mexican clothing combines native and European elements.

RECIPE FROM MEXICO
1-Dish Taco Bake

Taco Meat Filling:
1 pound ground beef
1 (1.25 ounce) package taco seasoning

Batter:
Mazola Pure® Cooking Spray
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup masa corn flour OR corn meal
2 envelopes Fleischmann’s® RapidRise Yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup very warm milk (120 degrees F to 130 degrees F)
3 tablespoons Mazola® Corn Oil
1 egg

Topping:
1 cup chunky salsa
1 cup shredded Mexican-style cheese
1 cup corn chips, partially crushed

1.) Irony- Sarcasm

2.) Ambiguity- Language

3.) Prediction- Sorta like a guess.

4.) Credible- believability of a source or message.

5.) Valid- aloud (I think)

6.) Relevant- Same.

7.) Statistics- is the science of the collection, organization, and interpretation of data.

Questions for Story.
1.) Where did the king sit in the arena?
1.) The king is surrounded by his court, sat high in his throne on one side of the arena.

2.) Did the tiger come out of the same door each trial?
2.) You never know what door the tiger came out of, It was always different.

3.) Did the princess like the lady who had been chosen to lover’s trial?
3.) The princess does not like her because she is going to be the wife of his lover.

4.) How did the princess indicate to her lover the door of her choice?
4.) The princess gets to pick what door to open.

5.) What had the princess seen in her dreams?
5.) She saw the lady marrying her lover in her dreams.

6.) Did the princess expect her lover to ask her to indicate which door he should choose?
6.) The princess did not expect her lover to ask her to indicate which he should choose.

7.) Why did no one else in the arena notice that the princess was communicating with her lover?
7.) Only the princess and her lover were suppose to know they were communicating to each other.
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In My Own Words….

1.) Write a description of the king’s arena.
1.) The king’s arena was a kingdom that could hold tons of people with lots of seats and a opening in the middle, i think.

2.) Why did the princess have difficulty deciding which door to indicate to her lover?
2.) The king’s way was that if you pick the door of the tiger, your guilty….

3.) Do you think women ever committed crime sin the kingdom? If they did, how do you think they were tried?
3.) Yea i do, but i think they were probably given another chance unlike the men, and they were maybe treated the same way.

4.) If i were the princess, what option would i have indicated and why?
4.) If i was her i think i would maybe try to find someone else because i could of killed him for no reason and it would be my fault.

5.) If i were the lover, what door would i have taken and why?
5.) If I was the him, I would taken the one with the tiger, because he would be hurt…

6.) Write and ending to this story. It may not involve opening a door
The way i would make my ending would be that both of them fall in love and the lover turns out not be guilty, and the story ends in a happier ending.

7.) I do not agree with the author.

1,) Emanated- To flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate.

2.) Retribution- Requital according to merits or deserts, esp. for evil.

3.) Impartial- Not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.

4.) Aesthetic- Having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.

5.) Moiety- An indefinite portion, part, or share.

Well today was my birthday and i was turning eleven, even though i was eleven i didn’t feel like i was. I felt like i was ten still but i thought today was going to be a good day. It also takes time for you to understand the fact that you have aged. I went to school that day and the teacher found a blue and black shoe, and walked over to my desk and said “This is yours.” Then she placed it down on my table. I said “This isn’t mine.” It smelled like rotten eggs, and there was holes in them. The teacher then said “I saw you wearing them a long while ago, keep it at least, i don’t want that in my classroom!” I had to go home with the shoe so when i got home, i threw them away. I thought this was the worst day of my life until my family showed me the cake and gifts they all got me, and when every one sang happy birthday i felt like my day changed a whole lot. Everything was perfect that day and i was going to have to try to just forget about the past and move onto the future.

1.) Why do you think the Germans chose to hang few prisoners in public at a time when they are murdering thousands each day in the crematoriums?

1a.) I think they wanted to like torture the Jews, to show them that they were dead serious and would do anything to them to make them scared.
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2.) Give examples of the ways Elie’s relationship with his father changes throughout the book. What causes those changes?

2a.) Some examples can start in the start of the book near the part when they were running, and then his Dad fell and would not get up and Elie yelled and said something like dad get up or you can get killed, and that sort of showed that he cared for his father, and near the end when Elie gets food he give some to his dad also, even though his father was dying.
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3.) After Elie’s Father was chosen for selection, he gives his son a knife and a spoon. Why is this a significant act? What does Elie mean when he says “The inheritance”?

3a.) It is a significant act because its shows that his father cares for him, and wants him to stay alive, and inheritance means he gave all that was left, to another person like his son, and what he had was the spoon and knife.
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4.) At the beginning of the book, Elie described himself as someone who believed “profoundly.” How have his experiences at Auschwitz affected his faith?

4a.) He looses faith entirely, and gives up on god.
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5.) At one point on the cattle train trip to Buchenwald, a German workman causes a “stampede” in the wagon. How does he do this? What do his actions suggest about him? What does this incident suggest about the prisoners?

5a.) The German forces the prisonor’s to run over people, making a stampede in the wagon. These actions suggest that he is a cruel guy for doing this to these people., and the people try to survive among all the odds even if people get killed during when it was going on.
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6.) What conflict arises in Elie regarding his father?

6a.) The conflict was that Elie’s dad was dying, he is ill and Elie can’t do nothing for him to help, so he haves to just let him die.
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7.) What happens on January 28, 1945? What was Elie’s emotional state at this point?

7a.) The Germans hit Elie’s dad on that date, and the emotional status was that he didn’t know what to think or do.
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8.) In the next to the last sentence in the book, Elie says that when he looks in a mirror after liberation, he sees a corpse gazing back at him. He ends the book by stating, “The look in his eyes, as they stared unto mine, has never left me.” What does that sentence mean?

8a.) The sentence means that he has been through alot, and he has like no strength left in him. He feels like this was a life change to him.
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9.) How was Elie tried to keep you from responding to his story the way he and his father once responded to the one told by Moshe The Beadle? How successful has he been?

9a.) He has been very successful because he uses details, uses the right dates, and makes pictures in your head to be able to understand, he also reveals some bad things in his life, which can give bad images in your head also.
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10.)What is the meaning of the title, Night? If you were to give another title to this book, what would it be and why?

10a.) It means like a horrible life for a person. That what i think. I would name it Elie if i had to rename it cause i think the character should be put there. Since most of the book is about that person he should be the books cover name.

Written Response to “Bullied”

In Algebra 1, we screened the documentary, “Bullied”, as a part of our LAP 4, which focused on Data, Probability and Statistics. In response to this film, we shared our written thoughts with each other. In an effort to keep our conversation going, you have the opportunity to earn an SAT LAP credit in English 1, by expanding on your written response.

To earn SAT LAP credit in English 1, respond to the following questions:

What was your reaction to the film, “Bullied”? My reaction was quite sad, and happy at the same time because when i saw this film my heart kind of just dropped because i didn’t understand how people can do this to other people just because they like their same gender, if you don’t like that kind of person you don’t need to pick on them, pee on them, hit on them, just because they are different. All you had to do was stay away, thats what i would of done. I was happy that the fact that he got to sue them for money and that just should of been the best day of his life, it would of been mine, and that was my reaction to this film.

Do Jamie Nabozny’s experiences remind you of moments in your life? Do you see bullying happening at FLC? His experiences don’t remind me of my life, because i have never been picked on or anything like that, unless it were my friends just messing around with me, other then that no i have not been bullied and i have not bullied others. I don’t see bullying at this school, really ever. Only thing i heard so far were a few fights, but i did not see any of them. ;( lol.

In Algebra 1, we collected data, which informed us that a significant percentage of our classmates think bullying is a problem at FLC. What do you see as potential solutions to bullying at our school? The data was mostly saying that there is no bullying in this school, the percentage for bullying was very low. I can see this school having like no bully’s for a long while.