In my social awareness research 2 assignment I will talk about people not giving enough hope to themselves. In this world, many people become depressed and/or commit suicide. But these are all for the dame reason, people don't give themselves enough hope. I always see kids my age become saddened that they can't do better than someone else, someone is smarter than them, someone is more athletic. But I don't think that's the right state of mind someone should stay at. Everyone should be happy for what they have everyone has advantages and disadvantages, if you give your self hope even if you failed at what your doing a gazillion times, if you keep trying you will get there someday, and if you think of life as a boring place where there is no fun and everyone's better than you, you won't succeed.

       In my social awareness research 2 assignment I will talk about people not giving enough hope to themselves. In this world, many people become depressed and/or commit suicide. But these are all for the dame reason, people don't give themselves enough hope. I always see kids my age become saddened that they can't do better than someone else, someone is smarter than them, someone is more athletic. But I don't think that's the right state of mind someone should stay at. Everyone should be happy for what they have everyone has advantages and disadvantages, if you give your self hope even if you failed at what your doing a gazillion times, if you keep trying you will get there someday, and if you think of life as a boring place where there is no fun and everyone's better than you, you won't succeed.
http://health.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-depression-ess.html In this article form new york times, it talks about how to treat depression, but I think it is wrong, I think how to fight depression is to fund all the happy in your life, and all that you can get

Research social awareness

One topic that I have been researching is Parents being very harsh on their kids for report cards. In my school they have handed out report cards and that made me think, I wondered If punishing your kids is the right way to get your grades up. On a new york times article, a women asked people for their advice of how to handle a bad report card. 
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/how-should-parents-handle-a-bad-report-card/?scp=3&sq=Parents&st=cse
One of the answers that I especially liked was one that said that your parents should be more involved in your school life. I think that this is completely true because most parents that don't keep track of their child at school and when they see the report card, than they get angry. But it is the parents fault for not helping the child with homework  and things they misunderstood. If a parent doesn't put pressure on the child, and helps them, the child will do better. One response I didn't like was one that said you should put pressure on your kids. But when people pressure their kids, they have tension on them.
I think that a parent should help the kids with school, and see what the child can improve on

social awarness #2

      One social awareness problem that I've been thinking of is peer pressure. Many people don't think that peer pressure is a big problem. But simple influence can turn someone into a very bad person. I think that people are getting influenced whenever they see other people being bullied because supposedly the people who are bullying are "cool" but that is actually just mean punching someone in the face isn't funny. And people who see that get influenced and they start it, and that's how gangs get bigger and bigger
      I think that there is a way to solve this, firstly for all people to just live on their own personal influence, do what they think they should, do not what other people do. They should do what is good not bad. Also another way to solve this is by telling other people to stop and to not get involved in anything.

Social Issues

I have been thinking about our current issues in our schools, first I thought of Bullying, but then I thought that I should make it a little more specific, and I remembered that a couple days ago many people wore purple to honor those who committed suicide because they were called gay. Many times at school, someone would go up to you and say you're gay, and someone else is gay. but those people don't know the real meaning of gay.
         What I hate about that is that people call other people gay when they actually aren't. But the actual gay people who get made fun of feel the most pain. The people that are called gay and aren't don't get as sad as the people who do because they know they aren't, but the people who actually are, because they know that they are and hate it when people say it to them because it makes them stand out. Just because someone is gay or something else doesn't mean that they are different because everyone actually has something that makes them different.
          In conclusion I think that nobody should call someone gay because if you are, it hurts your feelings, enough to jump off a bridge, and if you aren't gay and you get called gay, there are other people who are made fun of because they are gay.

Ela final appreciation (sorry for the late upload

            "I'm very pleased to meet you" said Milo, not sure whether or not he was pleased at all. " I think I'm lost. Can you help me please?" " 'Don't say think'" said one sitting on his shoe, for the one on the shoulders has fallen asleep " It's against the law" And he yawned and fell off to sleep, too.

            The book I read as my childhood favorite was The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy named Milo who goes on a journey when he goes into a magical tollbooth which sends him to a big entirely different world, each different place he goes to, there is a whole weird thing for example, the quote I used from the book was from a place where you weren't allowed to think, in my eyes this is the weirdest place in the book, it was a tough decision because there were many weird places like a place where letters grew on trees, and sounds were listed in alphabetic order, every place they went there was one big difference between normal life, and life in that world.
             Milo is a person who's life is a bore, he never finds something to do, and he's always changing his mind, when he wants something and gets it, he wants something else. And when he finds the tollbooth in his room and goes into it, he goes into a journey in which at a point he forgot all about having to go home. Some of Milo's characteristics, he's brave because he didn't feel scared to find his own way out of the world he got stuck in. Also I think that Milo is very honest because in many times he would admit that he doesn’t know or doesn’t get it. I also have many times when I’m anxious to get home and I ignore school if there’s someone who came or something special is happening, and just like Milo, I also am anxious to get home to have fun.
            What I appreciate about this book is how Milo deals with the fact that he got transported into a new weird world. I appreciate how he doesn’t cry like a baby and tries what ever he can to get out, he knows that he will have to find his way out, he knows that  he won't magically get out of the world. I also appreciate how Milo respected all the people he met, he didn’t say “Oh you are weird you don’t think” he would simply just ask if that’s possible. And another reason I appreciate The Phantom Tollbooth is because of how honest Milo is, he’s not the type who would say, I was the one who accidentally flushed your toothbrush down the toilet, but he wouldn’t keep little secrets to himself, he would say that he didn’t even know where he was or that he was being careless. And lastly I appreciate how weird this book is, I love how each place there’s a new theme and they are very fun.
            I think that this is a great book, I love how The Author makes this fantasy different from other fantasies, is that there’s no villain or a important quest with semi villains in the way, it’s just a fun book to enjoy to read I had a great experience with it, first off, I never read it so I was just reading with not many thoughts in my head, but as I got deeper in the book, I started thinking, what’s the next world going to be about. Milo

Reflection on poem, " Mother to son"

What I like about this poem is that it is basically one statement, " Son, my life isn't going so well, don't ruin your life, and I'm still alive" and it is expanded to a long poem. First she talks about how her life isn't well by saying " it's got splinters in it" and "Boards torn up" she says that her life isn't well in a variety of ways. Then she goes on about how her son shouldn't ruin his life, and then about how she's still alive and she's glad that she was alive. My favorite line from this poem was Life for me ain't no crystal stair. This line means that my life isn't moving so well, My Life just means my life, crystal means really well and stair means moving up, my life isn't going up really well.
Overall I didn't really like this poem because I didn't find much meaning to it or fun to it.

Ela draft of Appreciation

 
"I'm very pleased to meet you" said Milo, not sure whether or not he was pleased at all. " I think I'm lost. Can you help me please?" " 'Don't say think'" said one sitting on his shoe, for the one on the shoulders has fallen asleep " It's against the law" And he yawned and fell off to sleep, too.
            The book I read as my childhood favorite was The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy named Milo who goes on a journey when he goes into a magical tollbooth which sends him to a big entirely different world, each different place he goes to, there is  a whole weird thing for example, the quote I used from the book was from a place where you weren't allowed to think, in my eyes this is the weirdest place in the book, it was a tough decision because there were many weird places like a place where letters grew on trees, and sounds were listed in alphabetic order. Every place they went there was one big difference between normal life, and life in that world.
              Milo is a person who's life is a bore, he never finds something to do, and he's always changing his mind, when he wants something and gets it, he wants something else. And when he finds the tollbooth in his room and goes into it, he goes into a journey in which at a point he forgot all about having to go home. Some of Milo's characteristics, he's brave because he didn't feel scared to find his own way out of the world he got stuck in. Also I think that Milo is very honest because in many times he would admit that he doesn’t know or doesn’t get it.
            What I appreciate about this book is how Milo deals with the fact that he got transported into a new weird world. I appreciate how he doesn’t cry like a baby and tries what ever he can to get out, he knows that he will have to find his way out. I also appreciate how Milo respected all the people he met, he didn’t say “Oh you are weird you don’t think” he would simply just ask if that’s possible. And another reason I appreciate The Phantom Tollbooth is because of how honest Milo is, he’s not the type who would say, I was the one who accidentally flushed your toothbrush down the toilet, but he wouldn’t keep little secrets to himself, he would say that he didn’t even know where he was or that he was being careless.
            I think that this is a great book, I love how The Author makes this fantasy different from other fantasies, is that there’s no villain or a important quest with semi villains in the way, it’s just a fun book to enjoy to read I had a great experience with it, first off, I never read it so I was just reading with not many thoughts in my head, but as I got deeper in the book, I started thinking, what’s the next world going to be about.
            So what are you waiting for?  Go on Milo’s magical adventure, experience the weirdness of each different place Milo goes to. All you need to do is get a car, a mysterious tollbooth that comes into your room out of nowhere, and a watchdog that has a big clock on it.