Womens World Cup

Of all he photo essays my favorite one is the Womens World Cup.  It was a emotional rollercoaster for me.  It makes me very happy to know that people all around the world love to play.  The determination they have to win the world cup is tremendous.  I was very happy to see USA advance in the world cup and reach the finals. In the photo essay the most dissapointing picture was Japan holding the trophy.  I was very sad to see USA losing, but happy for Japan after all the bad things that happened like the earthquake and tsunami.  I learned that photo essay capture those small moments that are very emotional and show many feelings.  Photo essays capture the little, but important events to show tothe world.

Life In a Day

Recently our class watched a movie Life In A Day.  The movie was about the day July 24th. Everybody around the world sent a video about a little part of their life, and submitted it to Youtube.  Then, directors around the world toook the videos and made a movie to show everybody around the world how the world is in a day.

The scene that was most memorable to me was the scene with the kid with a laptop.  It was very memorable for many reasons.  Eventhough the kid has tough times and has to polish shoes to make money he was always happy because he had a loving da and a laptop. The kid finds joy and happiness in his laptop.  He says the laptoop is the dictionary of the world.  Thats what the most memeroble scene to me.  This scene was also the most positive scene to me because the kid finds joy in what he has.

The scene that had a negative reaction was when people were fight at the love parade.  How can people fight.  We all live in the same world so we cannot fight.  That creates war and people will die.  We cannot afford human casualities in this world.  That scene shows that the world is bad.  Thats needs to go and we need to have world peace.

There were many patterns of humanity in the world.  People were cleaning his teeth.  People were crying, fighting, laughing.  Also, their was sleeping.  Finally, just leaving and breathing.

Juxatpositions occured in the world.  It was form people laughing to crying.  Happiness, to sadness.  Also, dry places to wet places.  Finally there was night from day.

I though Life in A Day was great movie to show people how the world is.

Times Influential People

Three People I find interesting are: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Lionel Messi, and Geoffery Canada.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni:  They say with a great leader you can accomplish anything.  Dhoni the captain of the Indian Cricket team is not a very good player.  Eventhough he isnt good he had the will to always win and never except defeat.  He told his team that do your best never give up.  India was losing in the finals, his team gave up, but he didn't.  He played and got tremendous amount of points.  With that will, his team believed in him and they didnt give up.  They ended up winning.  Dhoni has told everybody that if you have great leadership, and will you can do anything.

Lionel Messi:   People say "Size doesn't matter."  Lionel Messi proves that.  As a 5 ft 4in player he has won the player of the year award back to back years.  He has scored the most goals in two seasons.  Lionel Messi has told the world that with will and dedication it doesnt matter how small you are you can accomplish anything if you try your best.

Geoffery Canada:  Kids all over the world are poor and can't get an education.  Geoffery Canada has helped kids all over the world by giving them a chance to  make living, get an education, and be successful.  Just because people are poor doens't mean they are dumb.  He has created schools for poor kids to have an education.  Geoffery Canada has given people a chance.

New Jersey vs TLO

New Jersey vs. TLO was case that took place in 1985.  A girl with the initials TLO was caught smoking at school.  So, the school searched her purse to see if she had drugs.  Apparently she had more than just cigarretes.  TLO had marijuana, cigarretes, and pipes.  TLO said that the school wasn't allowed to search her purse and that goes against the 4th amendment.  So, TLO took it to the Supreme Court.  The ruling went in favor for the school 6-3.  They, said the school has the right to search purses because they need to protect kids of the school.  The impact of this case is schools have the right to search personal property if they need to.

The impact it had on me is that I feel more safe in schools because I know if there are drugs in our school the school will search property to protect schools from whatever is harmful.

My Six Word Memoirs

1) MIT maybe, Division One soccer, yes
2) Not a dreamer, only a believer
3) I dream, eat, sleep, think, soccer
4) Brothers are annoying, yet they're fun
5) I am a rollercoaster of emotions
6) Soccer is fun, School's a joke
7) F is failure, A is awesome
8) Messi's skillfull, yet shorter than me
9) 5 years, no fun, no sports
10) Friends are stepping stones to success

Gifted pros cons

There are many pros to being gifted.  Some pros are that you get recognized.  You have access to advanced education which will help you in the long run when you need to go to college.  Also, you have chances to explore new ideas while other people are working on lower level subjects.  Being gifted also means you have good grades, which is a good thing.

Unfortunately there are bad things to being gifted.  Gifted people, like me, have pressure on us to perform to are highest potential.  Also being gifted means your different and it sometimes separates you from the crowd.  Being gifted means you have higher expectations which causes stress. Stress can lead to loss of interest in activities, increasingly moody behavior , and much more.  These are the pros and cons to being gifted.

ASYNCHROMOUS DEVELPOMENT is when you grow at different rates emotionally, intellectually, and physically.  One time when Iexperienced this is when my parents keep telling me that I need to grow emotionally because I keep acting immature eventhough I have a straight A's, and growing tall.

From the Being Gifted is a Blessing and a Curse for Students article, they quote one student that says she "expects to perform better than the average student and will push herself until she does."  I always like to perform better so I can show my friends that I am gifted because when I push myself I feel good that I do good in school.

Gifted pros cons

There are many pros to being gifted.  Some pros are they get recognized .  You have access to advanced education which will help you in the long run when you need to go to college.  Also, you have chances to explore new ideas while other people are working on lower level subjects.  Being gifted also means you have good grades which is a good thing.

Unfortunately there are bad things to being gifted.  Gifted people like me have pressure on us to perform to are highest potential.  Also being gifted means your different and tts sometimes separates you from the crowd.  Being gifetd means you have higher expectations which causes stress. Stress can lead to loss of interest in activities, increasingly moody behavior , and much more.  These are the pros and cons to being gifted.

ASYNCHROMOUS DEVELPOMENT is when you grow ate different rates emotionally, intellectually, and physically.  One time when I experienced this is when my parents keep telling me that i need to grow emotionally because I keep acting immature.

From the Being Gifted is a Blessing and a Curse for Students article, they quote one student that says she "expects to perform better than the average student and will push herself until she does."  I always like to perform better so I can show my friends that I am gifted because when I push myself I feel good that I do good in school.