Post#10: Combining educations

     In my opinion I do not believe that special education and general education students should not be in the same classroom. If the special ed students were to share a classroom with the general ed students then in order to make this successful the teachers have to first be harsh to any who choose to be intolerant of each other's behavior or physique. This is there to ensure student's emotional safety while in school and in order to educationally  support every student then these students should be filtered by their level of education in a subject as it is now with the general ed students. This allows every student to progress in their studies while still in high school. The physical education class is still tricky because some people do have physical disabilities and should have their needs fulfilled while still providing them time to exercise. In order to accommodate for that I would still keep the keep the special ed and general ed students separated in their physical education courses.

So I was a tutor??

In my opinion I was expecting something slightly different from our time tutoring. I thought that we were going to teach things such as mathematics or the sciences but although physical education is an undesirable subject to most, I had fun playing with the special ed teenagers. Yet I also believe that today we were not tutors but a friend to them as we did not teach anything. Throughout the period I felt rather awkward but I was also determined. The reason i felt awkward was because I had little familiarity with the rules of the games we played and the person we were partnered with didn't always follow the exact rules given. Although throughout it all I was determined to have fun like always and to spread my enthusiasm to others. With that said I believe it was a productive use of our class time because we got to meet new people, have fun, and understand more of how our school operates with students who are enrolled here.

This soymilk ad again -.-

Claim: This here soymilk ad claims that it is healthier and tastier then regular dairy milk.
Audience: The people this ad is trying to reach consists of people who are thirsty and people who drink milk on a daily basis.
Pathos: It appeals to us because the hearts represents the love the man who is made out of milk has for soymilk.
Logos: Ad claims that the soymilk has fifty percent more calcium then regular dairy.
Ethos: This one is a stretch but this ad can seem more credible because of the use of a person to jump in the soymilk to symbolize that the consumer will love it.

Bullying vid

Meh new years resolution

For my new years revolution i decided on three goals for 2014. The first one is to be more diligent in the amount of sleep I get during school nights. I tend to save my homework until ten in the night so in order to complete this goal I will begin my homework sooner and be more energized for school. Second is to dedicate more time to my studies and instead of watching Korean dramas or playing games or watching anime I will spend more time on studious activities. Last is to clean my room which I haven't done in a couple of weeks.

post#6: Allegory

Allegory is a type of literary device where the characters, plot, setting and etc. are used to represent ideas and concepts. Through the book Animal Farm allegory is used to represent the Russian government at the time. It showed to the readers that the Russian communism is like the government in the book, harsh, cruel, and to sum it up they both had tyrants. Allegory is a good tool to help the reader understand a concept because it gives an example in which they can relate to. In the author's own words he stated that the people of Europe did not understand the Russian government well and so he made Animal Farm as a means to resolve this problem. The characters in the book were also made to represent political figures in the Russian revolution. In example the character Napoleon can be related to Joseph Stalin as they both came into power through violent means and from there become tyrants. Dang does everything i write sound monotone? Hah writing for academic reasons is just no fun.

Blog post #4

     The statement by Squealer is in my opinion hypocritical. Would it not be easy just to allow the animals to listen to Napoleon's point of view and from there decide democratically on their actions? Even though these animals might be a bit dull, they still are considered "equal" by the commandments so they have the right to voice their opinions and decide for themselves their future paths. What Napoleon is doing though is justifying his role of tyrant by saying that his motives were to help the farm animals and not simply for his own interest in power. I think (being captain obvious here hah) that Napoleon is using Squealer as a form of propaganda to convince the farm animals that there is nothing wrong with Napoleon taking full control of the farm. One could relate this (Captain obvious) to Joseph Stalin and his control of Russian media.