Reflection
Our assignment was to make a vision board or a collage about our self. We needed to be creative and make the board describe us. One thing that stood out to me on my was a straight A report card. That was my goal to get on high honor roll. Another thing that stood out to me is the thing that says NBA draft. I don't plan to go pro; however, I do want to get better at basketball. The point of this project was to show modern day oppression. I worked with my friend Jacob on it and in Frederick Douglass he didn't have the freedom to gain knowledge. On the poster we made it shows that people in North Korea are not allowed to know what is going on outside of their country so they can't watch TV and listen to the radio to get news and information. We are representing Kim Jong un limiting your knowledge of the outside world.
Why is it that the punishment for players that use steroids in sports to enhance their performance is small compared to other felonies to the sport? Athletes in sports take steroids and get a minor suspension and a fine for cheating but when someone is not enhancing their performance with drugs and is accused of cheating like stealing signs in football the penalties are much harsher. According to Miami University (miamiu.edu), when Bill Belichick was caught stealing sign’s the Patriots were penalized by losing a draft pick which is huge, but players taking steroids or PED (Performance Enhancing Drugs) there would only be a minor 4 game suspension. Another example is when Pete Rose was betting on his own team and then was banned from the Hall of Fame forever. Despite maybe being the best hitters of all time. However people who took steroids are still allowed in the Hall of fame and only a 50 game suspension.
How come it is that cheating has different punishments when it is a different kind of cheating in sports? It doesn’t make sense understand why trying to get an edge in something can get a less harsh punishment then someone just cheating. Taking drugs for performance should be a much worse punishment than stealing signs or gamblings. It truly doesn’t make sense these punishments for cheating are different depending on the reason. According to the Miami University Blog (miamiu.edu), there is not a harsh enough punishment for players using steroids in sports referencing the people who gambled and cheated compared to the players that took steroids. In short, punishments for cheating in sports are not even fair. With the bigger cheaters getting the lighter punishments. Any cheating should result in the same punishment and the punishment should be tough and crucial. Is it wrong for people who have taken steroids to keep their achievements, records and awards? According to the New York Times Blog (nytimes.com) the achievements and Awards for the players who took steroids should be taken away. They don’t deserve to keep their MVP or Tour de France. For example, Ryan Braun won the MVP in 2011 and then it was later found out that he was taking steroids and everyone is saying that he should give the award to Matt Kemp who was the runner-up for the MVP. Another example is an even bigger one when Lance Armstrong won many Tour de Frances and it was later discovered that he was taking performance enhancing drugs. For that scenario they actually did take away his awards and his achievements seem to be fraud and not real accomplishments now. To summarize, in more sports the players who have taken steroids should lose their achievements and have their awards taken away. Steroids should be banned from sports because of Health reasons. According to Marquette University (marquette.edu), steroids can really negatively affect your health. The side affects of taking steroids are really costly. Some side effects are affecting the liver, endocrine, tumors, heart conditions, and even cancer. For example, biker Lance Armstrong took steroids and he had cancer. He was able to beat it but him taking so many steroids was the cause of the cancer. The only way to keep athletes healthy is to keep them away from drugs; specifically steroids. Overall, athletes who take steroids are usually the ones to have health problems so we need to keep drugs and PEDs out of sports and away from athletes. Should awards, achievements, and records be kept by the players and athletes who had taken steroids to keep them? Some people think that these awards are theirs and that they still earned it. The reason why Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez should keep their his MVP’s and that Lance Armstrong should have kept all of his tour de France’s is because when you take them away you are erasing sports history. There will be questions asking who won this in that year and it will be weird because you are giving the award to the runner-up even though technically that athletes didn’t actually win that award. Also, despite players cheating and taking steroids to improve their performance they still had the skill hit the ball or bike that far. Their performance may have just been improved. Not everything they did was fraud. In conclusion, some people believe that the awards that some of these players had won should be able to keep that award. Steroids need to have a harsher punishment in professional sports. There is no reason why there should be a smaller suspension or fine for taking steroids over some other ways players may cheat. It is possible that maybe the players taking the drug are sometimes the premier players in that sport and that may mean the league may not want to suspend them from the game too long. In summary, the punishment in sports for the use of steroids is too minimal and that their should be a much tougher and more costly punishment. I am a ____. Hello. In the beginning, I lived peacefully with my brothers and sisters in a big house. We were like fortune cookies. We all looked alike and sounded alike. However, we each had our own unique qualities. We were very compact in there, so compact that we couldn’t move a muscle. My best bro, Jerome, always told me funny jokes, the kind of jokes that makes you laugh so hard you choke. Legend has it that while we sleep, a savior will come, break through the seal, and bring us out. This place is very peaceful, but we can’t do anything. We want to be free. One night, I was awoken by a strange sound. I looked around but there was no cause for the noise, but when I looked up, the seal was open. The savior’s mystical 5 servants broke through! They held me, levitated me in the air, and brought me out. I was overjoyed. I am free! At least, that was I thought. The saviors servants kept me in the air and was met by 5 more. 2 saviors! What! I was confused until I felt my outer clothing being taken off, the feeling of touch on my skin burned. I never been touched without my clothing on. It had disappeared in a pit, full of other outer garments. What is this? The 5 servants began to let me go. I was plummeting to the ground below at exceptional speed. I hit the blue, rough ground, feeling my bones crack, the pain was unbelievable. I had never felt anything like it. Little creatures, as small as the dust specks around, began to jump on me. They crawled around me and began to interact with my body. I was helpless, I could not move. I then began to be raised into the air. The horror was just beginning. I began to enter a bottomless abyss. When I thought it was all over I landed on a wet, moist, surface. I didn’t know what I was on until I felt my flesh melting away. My red and white skin was fading into a bleak bland color. It burned worse than the touch of the servants hands. Soon enough, my flesh was gone. All that was left were my bones. I felt so much pain that I could not feel anything anymore. The acid melted my bones to weak sticks. Then as I was seeing what was happening around me the only light began to close on me as I heard a snapping noise. it took me a moment to realize that it was my bones. Sharp, serrated saws were penetrating my bones. They dissolved into a liquid and fell into a bottomless pit. The I felt like I was disintegrating in some sort of a hell. And when then after I felt as if my life was going to end by being in millions of tiny pieces I began slipping down the bottomless pit. I was trying to hold on, but the surface was rising to flush me down into endless torment. So this is freedom… Reflection
Our assignment was to personify a random object that is not alive. The objective was to describe our object well enough so that you are able to guess what the object is. Techniques that I used in this writing piece were good vocabulary and using descriptive writing risks like simile's. I thought maybe some of the clues could have been better describing of my object, but overall I thought that I had a well described piece of writing. “Please don’t eat me sir!” I screamed, as I was being chased. I am just a small turkey who doesn’t want to get eaten this year on Thanksgiving. My mom and dad got eaten last year because they wandered off to the farm, where I am now. I am being chased by these ravenous freaks. Why can’t I just be left alone, I am just a turkey that minds my own business. So, I started to run and then I felt the cold fingers of the demons grabbing my leg. It was as cold as falling in snow on a winter day. They caught me and took me inside of their evil laboratory. Then they took me to the cooking pot!
I was just about get cooked up by the monsters. I felt like I had no chance to live. I was about to get put in the oven where I was going to be eaten by my tormentors. And then suddenly one of the little demons goes crazy. Bumping into everything like a blind man. Here was my opportunity to run. The tiny demon eventually ran into the me and I everything in that home was chaotic. I ran to the only light I saw and hoped it was an exit. Then I was out. I was free. I was going to survive. But then one of the little killers was going after me and it was much faster than me. I did everything I can to get the killer to flee. I scratched and screeched at him to the best of my ability to try and lose the demon. I couldn’t understand the strength of the monster. He was a little man who grabbed me by my neck. It felt like sandpaper running against my skin because of his rough hands. He lifted me up and I kicked him so I could escape. So, I got off my back as I fell and started running but then, the giant came out of the door and grabbed me again. He was as tall as a skyscraper. I just can’t win today! Then, the process began.. The butcher knife… it was the end! They held my squirming body until “CHOP!” King of The Savannah The zebras, elephants, gazelles, giraffes, birds, and antelope were stampeding to the tall, inclining, majestic mountain called “Pride Rock”. It is like the castle for the king of the savannah. All animals gathered there to see the rise of their new king. Zazu a noble blue bird glides up to the top of the rock to see the strong and powerful Mufasa with his rich, red, lush mane like a bright red apple was blowing in the wind. Zazu bows to the almighty Mufasa as he responds by nodding his head in gratitude. Slowly, an old, frigid, baboon called Rafiki climbs up pride rock as slowly as a turtle holding a walking stick with two melons on attached to it. As he makes it a top Pride Rock he greets Mufasa with a warm hug. Then, as the two of them walk into the cave, Mufasa and Sarabi touch heads. Rafiki raddles around the melons on top of baby Simba who playfully reaches for them. After that, Rafiki breaks open one of the melons and rubs the juice on the little Simba’s forehead. Then, Rafiki sprinkled some dust on Simba and the little cub sneezed. After that Rafiki with his old fragile hand grabbed the small cub Simba from Sarabi’s arms and cradled him like a baby in his arms. Then, after he shook his head to Mufasa and Sarabi saying that he’s got him. He then slowly walked up the edge of Pride Rock and raised Simba up to the sky in front of the entire animal kingdom. All the animals of the savannah were stomping and hollering as loud a drill to their new king. Then the sun broke out from the clouds shining on the Simba like he was on the top of the savannah. Reflection
The point of this writing assignment was to watch the beginning of the Lion King and describe what is happening. We had to be really descriptive in everything that happened. I used good vocabulary and similes to help describe the scene. In March of the penguins it shows that humans and the emperor penguins have much in common. Penguins have some human like qualities and some very different methods. there are ways families are raised by both penguins and humans that are the same and different. There are unique qualities and characteristics to both too. It may be hard to see or identify, but penguins are closer to humans then you might think. Similarities between humans and penguins are both children get really attached with their parents. Human children may never want to let go of mom and dad and play with other kids early on and penguin babies don’t want to leave their mother’s or father’s body and protection. Also both take turns carrying their young. Penguin’s take turns carrying the egg and baby so the other parent can provide food and human parents take turns holding and feeding their child. Another similarity is that we both walk on two legs. Probably, the most similar between us and the penguins is that we both like to play and have fun. Baby penguins play with the other fellow newborns as humans play with other kids. Despite many similarities, there are differences with penguins and humans. For example eating. Human parents will feed their infant with a spoon of food or a bottle; however penguins feed their young by regurgitation food from the mother or father’s mouth into the chick’s mouth. Also, the lifespan is dramatically different. Penguins live 15-20 years as humans live on average 71-74 years. Some of this may be due to that penguins have to hunt for their food not buy it, they have predators(Humans don’t), and most important the climate difference. The penguins live in the toughest climate on Earth as we live in a home and if we don’t like where we live we can just move. Overall, humans and penguins have many similarities and differences. Penguins live their lives very much like humans. Some of the traits of penguins are so similar it seems like they are humans. Besides probably monkeys, penguins are may be second in being similar to human like qualities. In summary, human beings and penguins are very similar. REFLECTIONHumans and Penguins are alike. The objective of this assignment was to compare and contrast Humans and Penguins from the movie March of the Penguins. One writing technique that I thought was very useful were simile's. Like comparing us to penguins. Another technique that I tried to use was upper level vocabulary like saying newborns over baby. However, I thought i could use some more writing risks and a bit more good vocabulary words, otherwise I thought my piece was well written.
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