Outside Post #16: Independence Day

Today I was watching the movie Independence Day starring Will Smith. It was about a alien invasion over the world. The alien mother ships were strategically place over the major cities in the world like Los Angeles, New York, and so on. Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) managed to recover an alien after fighting with it in air. The scientist in Area 51 had recovered an alien spaceship a while back and with the help of David Levinson, a cable guy working for New York, they used that ship to counter attack the huge mother board ship. The film ends with the the ship blowing up and debris falling from the sky.

Outside Post #15: All My Sons

Last week in our English class we finished reading the book "All My Sons" and we watched the movie. The one thing I learned about the movie was that if you know that you did something bad, you should man up and confess to what you did. Joe Keller knew that he had something to do with the plane parts the were sent out and that crashed the planes, but he just planted everything on Steven Deever. He said he did it for his son Chris, but he never thought about telling his own son and he had to find out by other means. If i were Joe, I would of confessed to what I had done wrong and would of taken the consequences that came with my wrong doing.

Outside Post #14: Wonka NERDS and Schwarzenegger

Today I received a box of the candy NERDS by Wonka. I was reading the nutrition facts and I found out that 13 of these little candy's equal 60 calories. I was surprised that these little candy's would have so many calories. If I were to eat about 33 servings of these, it would be the equivalent of the calories I should be eating in one day. But anyways, I was watching in the news that in California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, was in debt and he owed the the state $4.1 billion. My parents and I both live in that state, so that effects us , and in the long run, we are the ones who are going to have to pay back the money that the governor owes.

Outside Reading Blog #13: The Myth About Food

During English class, i was reasearching for information concerning my debate topic, i am negative side. This article tell you that eventhough you see all those kids in third worl countries that are suffering from hunger, there is still enough food in the world to feed evryone. If we were to take Brasil for example, in the year 2007, they exported about $13 bilion worth of food, while there were hundreds and thousands of people in Brasil that are malnourished. After reading this article, it kind of changed my mind about all those kids that die from hunger, but I know it not there fault that they don't get fed, it their governments fault.

Outside Post #12: "La Nina Fea"

In Spanish class, we read a short story called "La Nina Fea" (The Ugly Girl.) This story was a bout a small child, and everyone at her school used to call her ugly. Every time she wanted to interact with her friends they always told her to go away, and every time she went to her hidden place. That's where she felt safe and wanted. But one day the ground spoke to her and said that she looked like the ground. That's when the readers find out that she died. A pretty tragic story but is shows how a child felt during the war in Spain.

Outside Post #11: Guns Germs and Steel

In our AP World History class, we saw a movie called Guns Germs and Steel Part 2. This was a National Geographic documentary in which this guy names Jared Diamond goes and studies about the Incas and the Conquistadors. The main leader in the Spanish Conquistadors was Pizarro who was born in a small town in Spain. When they defeated the Incas, they not only defeated them and killed their king, but they also left an silent killer disease, Smallpox. The Incas did not know how to deal with this disease because they had never dealt with something this bad. Some of the conquistadors were immune to the disease, so they were able to reproduce. So their children had also that immunity. So at the end, Diamond ended with a final opinion, he said that the conquistadors had an advantage over the Incas because they had "Guns Germs and Steel."