Thursday, April 17, 2014
cp cx sentence
I said probably not though, when Mrs. Gillmore asked me to post my sentence on my blog, but i had to anyway.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Ms. Gillmore
2A
Matthew Harris
Book Review on Inheritance
Christopher Paolini's Inheritance furthers Eragon and Saphira's adventure to defeat Galbatorix and bring peace to Alagaesia. Where the long war between the varden and Galbatorix comes to a head.
The theme of the book is war and peace. To get to peace Eragon and Saphira must end this war. For it has ravaged the land and left shattered families and destroyed lives in it's wake. Would it be better to continue the war, or just let Galbatorix remain as king? The war has cost so much, innocent blood has been shed, children murdered, cities pillaged. All this just to take down one man. Who which happens to be immortal seeing as he's ruled Alagaesia for nearly 200 years and has the appearance of a 40 year old man.
Eragon faces paralyzing new enemies and many horrifying throughout this tale. All to bring Galbatorix down. He kills countless soldiers and some soldiers who've been turned into monstrosities which feel no pain. He faces pain in ways he did not know he could. Mental, physical, and emotional. He experiences fear in it's worst form. Yet he pursues his noble quest to free Alagaesia from the evil kings reign.
Eragon evolves form a mere human into something more, elf like. As in a hybrid. He looks like a human but has the speed, strength, and wisdom of an elf. Which in turn makes him an even more versatile and dangerous enemy for Galbatorix. When he eventually gets to Galbatorix it will take every last ounce of his strength, along with all of his friends and allies to defeat him and his brother Murtagh.
The setting takes place in the Dark ages when swords and arrows were used to wage wars and kings stilled ruled. Whether good or evil. Horses were used as transportation, unless you rode a dragon in which case you were revered at a god. A place that magic was used to kill, or heal.
The final battle approaches to find out if Eragon and the Varden prevail, or if King Galbatorix shall continue his evil rule and force Eragon and Saphira to obey him.
Friday, February 14, 2014
C.C 3.2
Female police officers often find themselves discriminated against, there also is a pay gap between male and female officers. Female officers also have to deal with many stereotypes. According to website http://www.police-officer-pages.com/femalecopstereotype.html#axzz2tKEqqXOh several of these stereotypes are listed in the article FEMALE COP STEREOTYPE.
Female officers tend to be on the receiving end of a lot of criticism. According to the article FEMALE COP STEREOTYPE "There is the female cop stereotype, the pressures of having to prove themselves to their male counterparts, as well as society's expectation of any female who is out in the workforce." Female officers receive a lot more crap, and the expectations they have to reach are considerably higher than men. So in turn being a cop can be more stressful to women than men.
Two of the most common stereotypes according to this article are based on appearance. "If she's attractive but not physically intimidating, guys will roll their eyes or comment that she's inadequate to back them in a physical confrontation with a suspect". However, the article states that " if she is a hulking presence, guys will roll their eyes and comment on the fact that she's a "butch". Both of these are very common stereotypes. It may not be morally correct, but it is what it is.
Another stereotype is the belief that women should remain at home and take care of house chores, kids and other less masculine tasks. However the article FEMALE COP STEREOTYPE explains that " times are changing, and many agree that family/house work has to be shared between both the male and female. I agree with this idea because to remain close a couple must work together, and if their life at home is good then so should their attitudes at the work place.
Men believing in stereotypes makes it stressful for women around the globe to achieve a better life for themselves. These stereotypes listed are simply for Female Cops. After reading this article I've realized that i myself have believed in a few stereotypes when it comes to women, and i will strive to do better and not judge them prematurely.
Men and women will never successfully work together as long as these sexist boundaries we've placed ourselves in remain. Stereotypes are just one layer of many that we have to get through to be successful in the world that we live in.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Mrs. Gillmore
2A
Matthew Harris
Book Review on BrisingrChristopher Paolini's Brisingr intrigued me with its rare form of word use and awesome action scenes, along with an interesting story line. If you prefer a decent length book, and one that has a love story plus death defying action scenes i'd recommend Brisingr.
The theme of this book is probably as best as i can describe, good will overcome evil. I believe that the life lesson Christopher Paolini is trying to teach us that even against overwhelming odds, if you believe in yourself and others believe in you, you will succeed. For example Eragon the main protagonist in this story along with his dragon Saphira fight his brother Murtagh and his dragon Thorn. Murtagh has been trained by the evil king Galbatorix and has much greater power than Eragon. However by sheer force of will and the assistance of his elven bodyguards Eragon beats Murtagh and saves the Varden "Rebel forces" from certain doom.
I feel like even though Eragon is a dragon rider, he is as simple a person as you or me. He can use magic, has a dragon, and even uses an enchanted sword, but through all this he still ends up having normal person problems, such as love and anger. Eragon is in love with an elf named Arya and even though she seems young, elves are immortal and she is centuries older than him. Due to the age difference and the war going on she won't accept his feelings.
The setting in this story takes you to a far away land called Alagaesia where the creatures are much larger than they should be, and humans are not the only sentient species. There are Elves, Dwarves, Dragons, Humans, and Urgals. But ever since Galbatorix took over the land Dragons, the oldest and most powerful race, have nearly went extinct. Also the day an age this book takes place is in some what the middle ages when people used swords and bows to do battle and used horses for transportation.
This book does connect with me on a personal level, because its fantasy and it makes me wish the world was actually like this. The possibilities of riding dragons and preforming amazing magical feats appeals to me. I wish the world was like this.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good fantasy action novel, with a side love story.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
C.C 3.1 female police officers
Female Police officers are often mistreated because of their gender. Barbara Raffel Price addresses some of these problems in her article FEMALE POLICE OFFICERS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Male police officers tend to be stricter when enforcing the law than females. According to Brian Rowe from the Federal Trade Commission. "In 2005, 10.8 percent of male drivers and 6.8 percent of female drivers that were stopped by police. The male driver were cited more than the female drivers." This simply means officers were biased when it came to who received a ticket and who did not. No matter how the law is broken, both male and female officers are biased when it comes down to law breaking.
Female law enforcement officers are different in their methods of law enforcement. Rather than give you a ticket and punish you for a minor offense, they may simply scold you and let you go on your way. In most cases they are weaker when it comes to physical strength than men, but however in most cases they have superior intellect. According to CMPD, "police officers are exposed to undesirable and sometimes traumatic situations. Compassion and empathy during those times serve the community well. Many of the interpersonal skills women traditionally possess are invaluable to effective policing." Which basically means, female police officers tend to think more rationally when confronted with a difficult situation. Usually females will get out of a ticket when the officer is a male, because they are attractive. However on the flip side, when the officer is a female, the law breaker has a higher chance of getting a ticket no matter who they are. Female and male officers have their strengths and weaknesses, but working together makes them stronger as a unit and helps each of them improve upon their weaknesses.
The number of female police officers compared to males is still relatively small, but every year there are more and more of them. According to Barbara Raffel Price in her article ," In 1970, only two percent of all police were women, but by 1991, nine percent of all police were women.Today, in the New York Police Department, 15% of all uniformed officers in the department are women, but only 9% are sergeants, 6% are lieutenants, 3% are captains and 4% are above the rank of captain Women are still having problems in escalating through law enforcement ranks, but through all their struggle and sacrifice they are making a difference, slowly but surely.
Even though women are acquiring positions in law enforcement, some people like it, some people don't. Research has shown that women in policing are not as easily accepted by their peers, their supervisors, or their own police department. Barbara Raffel Price stated in her article that "Woman are viewed with skepticism or worse by their male counterparts in spite of the fact that women have been doing police work for over one hundred years." However, she also stated that the public responded well to more law enforcement officers being female. "In the recent years acceptance by the public has grown as women police have been seen more frequently on the street on patrol and in uniform."
The next time your out and about and see a female police officer, talk to her. Ask her if people, whether; male, female, peers, or lawbreakers discriminate against her because of her gender. Get her opinion on things.
Male police officers tend to be stricter when enforcing the law than females. According to Brian Rowe from the Federal Trade Commission. "In 2005, 10.8 percent of male drivers and 6.8 percent of female drivers that were stopped by police. The male driver were cited more than the female drivers." This simply means officers were biased when it came to who received a ticket and who did not. No matter how the law is broken, both male and female officers are biased when it comes down to law breaking.
Female law enforcement officers are different in their methods of law enforcement. Rather than give you a ticket and punish you for a minor offense, they may simply scold you and let you go on your way. In most cases they are weaker when it comes to physical strength than men, but however in most cases they have superior intellect. According to CMPD, "police officers are exposed to undesirable and sometimes traumatic situations. Compassion and empathy during those times serve the community well. Many of the interpersonal skills women traditionally possess are invaluable to effective policing." Which basically means, female police officers tend to think more rationally when confronted with a difficult situation. Usually females will get out of a ticket when the officer is a male, because they are attractive. However on the flip side, when the officer is a female, the law breaker has a higher chance of getting a ticket no matter who they are. Female and male officers have their strengths and weaknesses, but working together makes them stronger as a unit and helps each of them improve upon their weaknesses.
The number of female police officers compared to males is still relatively small, but every year there are more and more of them. According to Barbara Raffel Price in her article ," In 1970, only two percent of all police were women, but by 1991, nine percent of all police were women.Today, in the New York Police Department, 15% of all uniformed officers in the department are women, but only 9% are sergeants, 6% are lieutenants, 3% are captains and 4% are above the rank of captain Women are still having problems in escalating through law enforcement ranks, but through all their struggle and sacrifice they are making a difference, slowly but surely.
Even though women are acquiring positions in law enforcement, some people like it, some people don't. Research has shown that women in policing are not as easily accepted by their peers, their supervisors, or their own police department. Barbara Raffel Price stated in her article that "Woman are viewed with skepticism or worse by their male counterparts in spite of the fact that women have been doing police work for over one hundred years." However, she also stated that the public responded well to more law enforcement officers being female. "In the recent years acceptance by the public has grown as women police have been seen more frequently on the street on patrol and in uniform."
The next time your out and about and see a female police officer, talk to her. Ask her if people, whether; male, female, peers, or lawbreakers discriminate against her because of her gender. Get her opinion on things.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Teenagers, and Bad Decisions
Kids today continuously make bad decisions. Psychologists at Temple University used functional magnetic resonance imaging scans on 40 teenagers and adults to determine if there are differences in brain activity when adolescents are alone versus with their friends. The findings suggested that teenage peer pressure has a distinct effect on the brain signals involving risk and reward, helping to explain why young people are more likely to misbehave and take risks when their friends are watching. Teen's are not even active either, all they do now is sit around, playing video games, doing drugs, or watching TV.
The sad part is teenagers have a large variety to choose from today such as Marijuana, also known as pot, or cocaine, a white powder. There are many other varieties to choose from those are just two of the commons.
When you make bad decisions such as these , and many others, you don't just hurt yourself. You hurt the people that love you as well. One of the most painful and frustrating things for parents is watching their teens make bad choices and "throw it all away." Some of the choices include running with the wrong crowd, blowing off homework, dropping out of school, and engaging in risky behavior.
Bad choices happen everyday, all around us, sometimes we don't even see them. People die everyday because of other people's bad decisions. A split-second decision by a 19 year old driver to pull in front of a semi tractor trailer is believed to be the cause of Monday's crash near Oswego that left the driver and two other teens dead, Illinois State Police said today. Brian Herrera, of Plainfield, was driving a black Ford South on Schlapp Road around 3:15 p.m. Monday and pulled in front of the semi heading east on Illinois Route 126, said Illinois State Police Trooper Jason Shrake. Simple choices such as should i or should i not pull out onto the road can easily cause catastrophe.
Everyone makes bad decisions, some worse than others.It is our job as responsible young adults to try to prevent such decisions. From now on think about what you do before you do it, if it seems like a bad choice then it probably isn't a good idea.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/teenagers-friends-and-bad-decisions/
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/teenagers-friends-and-bad-decisions/
Thursday, October 17, 2013
The ever changing opportunities in school.
Hawaii is expanding its preschool education program to encourage and assist low income families to send their children to preschool. A child who enters kindergarten without first attending preschool may not have the proper knowledge for success in school, and may be less likely to have the necessary social and behavioral skills. This can slow down academic progress in the classroom, impacting all students. A study quoted in the legislation showed that 60 percent of kindergarten classes in Hawaii had a majority of students who were unprepared for school. In addition, the Hawaii State School Readiness Assessment indicated that fewer than 60 percent of kindergarten students had attended preschool. Before this bill was signed, Hawaii was one of 11 states without a government-funded preschool program. Eleven out of fifty is not exactly a good ratio. In my opinion that is a bad thing. Eleven out of fifty is below fifty percent,below half, and in school below a 60 is failing. So to me the government is failing our students.
The average family in Hawaii pays 640$ a month to send a child to preschool. The "Preschool Open Doors" program provides approximately 6 million dollars to help pay for approximately 900 to 1,000 children to attend preschool in 2014. This amount is less than the original proposed amount of 32 million dollars, which would have provided funding for approximately 3,500 students. this program will help participating parents who enroll their children in any licensed preschool program in Hawaii. In my opinion that is sad. The future of our nation rest's on the shoulders of these young children, and they made major cutbacks on the allowed budget? It just doesn't seem right.
Governor Abercrombie, governor of Hawaii, remains optimistic about the future of state-funded preschool education in Hawaii. Last year, he established the Executive office on Early Learning with the hope to begin a program that would provide publicly funded universal preschool in Hawaii. This was only the first move in what looks to be an ongoing effort to increase public access to preschool. This leads me to believe that even though the government is making budget cuts there are people out there working to better our education program, and that there is hope for the ,bright young, youth of America.
http://www.educationinamerica.com/blog/hawaii-expands-preschool-opportunities/
Hawaii is expanding its preschool education program to encourage and assist low income families to send their children to preschool. A child who enters kindergarten without first attending preschool may not have the proper knowledge for success in school, and may be less likely to have the necessary social and behavioral skills. This can slow down academic progress in the classroom, impacting all students. A study quoted in the legislation showed that 60 percent of kindergarten classes in Hawaii had a majority of students who were unprepared for school. In addition, the Hawaii State School Readiness Assessment indicated that fewer than 60 percent of kindergarten students had attended preschool. Before this bill was signed, Hawaii was one of 11 states without a government-funded preschool program. Eleven out of fifty is not exactly a good ratio. In my opinion that is a bad thing. Eleven out of fifty is below fifty percent,below half, and in school below a 60 is failing. So to me the government is failing our students.
The average family in Hawaii pays 640$ a month to send a child to preschool. The "Preschool Open Doors" program provides approximately 6 million dollars to help pay for approximately 900 to 1,000 children to attend preschool in 2014. This amount is less than the original proposed amount of 32 million dollars, which would have provided funding for approximately 3,500 students. this program will help participating parents who enroll their children in any licensed preschool program in Hawaii. In my opinion that is sad. The future of our nation rest's on the shoulders of these young children, and they made major cutbacks on the allowed budget? It just doesn't seem right.
Governor Abercrombie, governor of Hawaii, remains optimistic about the future of state-funded preschool education in Hawaii. Last year, he established the Executive office on Early Learning with the hope to begin a program that would provide publicly funded universal preschool in Hawaii. This was only the first move in what looks to be an ongoing effort to increase public access to preschool. This leads me to believe that even though the government is making budget cuts there are people out there working to better our education program, and that there is hope for the ,bright young, youth of America.
http://www.educationinamerica.com/blog/hawaii-expands-preschool-opportunities/
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