Heussy’s 10th Grade English blog

May 30, 2008

Rasin In The Sun - Act 3 Questions

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 12:56 pm

1. she no longer thinks that she can help people
2. idealist and realists as he says it are demanding equality and she is attached to the insurance money
3. go to Africa and live with him
4. they aint moving into the house and she blames her self
5. walters wants to sell back the house to the white guy that reps their new houses neighborhood
6. he didnt take the money because he is too proud of his family as they work hard and they deserve this house
7. It shows how at first the plant wasnt growing or getting better, but then something changes and now the plant is getting better and healthier just like the family, they were struggling to live and now they are moving into a HOUSE!

May 21, 2008

Voice?

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 12:54 pm

All i ever do is store food and keep cold, sometimes freezing. This happens EVERY DAY. I was just driving my car down the road. Then comes this person driving crazy like a pineapple. He smashes right into the side of my car. The ham goes flying out the window, fruits and vegetables are all over the place, some red koolaid… wait thats not kool aid. Pops and juices covering the inside of my car. Stupid American drivers always in a hurry, they should calm down and have a peach, or 3… but thats all i have is 3. He gets out of the car and walks over and pulls my door open. AND DOESN’T EVEN CLOSE IT! I start to talk to him but he just keeps loading me with food and slamming my door.

May 16, 2008

Act 1 Scene 1: Questions 1-9

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 12:55 pm

1. She didnt give travis money
2. Walter gave travis money that they “didn’t really have”
3. Two people Walter is making a business deal with
4. He was abused by an egg when he was little… really because thats all they have for breakfast
5. Walter’s sister….
6. For insurance money from the death of her husband
7. George was too uptight.
8. She said she didnt think god existed because she never seen nothing from him
9. She faints.

May 14, 2008

Our Racist, Sexist Selves

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 1:49 pm

Because he shot Africans faster then Caucasians by just a little bit, i dont think he is right, this is only a simple flash test, there may be many other factors, as us being discriminate against wallets or cellphones, we may think that they         are guns.

I dont think they do, they measure about what we think a shape or an object looks like.

Because woman have been in groups of ancestors, but different races haven’t been. When researching ancestral times. Basically saying women will be soft and not make the right decisions for our country.

That they are stereotyped to being soft and friendly and not great strong leaders. I think it is some what stereotypical but is becoming less.

It can be confronted by allowing them a chance to becoming leaders in politics in our country.

Rasin In The Sun - 3 Characters

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 1:22 pm

Travis - Wants 50 cents to give to his teacher to pay for something. He goes to his mom and asks for 50 cents but she doenst have it, so he wants to go to the grocery store to make 50 cents after school, his mom says no, but his dad comes in and gives him 1 dollar. That 1 dollar may or may not be one they can spare.

Walter - Wants to go into partners with some friends. He wants to help purchase a liquor store, and he wants to use some of the money from his mothers insurance check (from his dad). No one will listen to him about what kind of money it could come in from it. His mom gives him the money, and he gives it to his friend who jumps the next train outta town. he then has no money left, and the family is pretty mad.

Walter’s Mom - Wants a nice house for her family, with the insurance check she goes and buys one, making walter a little mad but they are all happy about the house at the end.

May 7, 2008

2-Part: DSP + Race

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 1:57 pm

I think the DSP went pretty good considering the information on it, and the equipment available at the time we need it, like right then and there type of thing. I think if we had another week they would have been actually ALOT better, about 50% better or more. Like 1.5 weeks of recording and getting the raw material, then about .5 - 1 week of editing with some extra knowledge on certain programs from experienced people.

There seems to be alot of racism in the U.S. but here at our school not so much, and most of it is jokes, seem from comedy movies, stand ups, and such. From an outsider it may look like there is alot of racism but if they looked a little bit closer they would see friends joking around for some enjoyment, theres bullying and then theres jokes. It is a fine line between both, but to understand you have to dig deep into someones friendship. I

I do not think that there is a major difference in your life in America based on your skin color. There isn’t that kind of racism any more. Theres not so much segregation that color isn’t noticed like it used to be.

I have plenty of friends with different races and ethical backgrounds. Nothing really changes except for the jokes, and we all joke around. We are pretty close in our circles of friends.

I think in the near future there will be less and less racism and more and more unity between humans to understand the worlds problems.

April 30, 2008

Our Story

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 1:10 pm

our story is about a kid named Tyrone Garcias  that lives with his mom on the East Side of LA. His mother and father split up when he was little, his mom went to East LA and his father on the west side. His mother is a waitress and his father is the head of a bank that is very rich. He hasn’t seen his father in 5 years and he is going to stay with him during a weekend in June. He decides that he will rob his dads bank and remove all the evidence of him and go back to East LA to live the life he always wanted. hes in a gang and a rival gang finds out about his stunt and does a drive by at his moms house and his little brother gets shot and killed, he swears revenge on them and gets it a 3 days later. He breaks up their meeting with gun shots and kills every last one, he then flees from the police to Miami stays low and then goes multi-platinum with his Album “The Life Of Tyrone”.

April 25, 2008

Power $5, Absolute Power $15, Corruption?…. Priceless

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 8:51 am

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” – Lord Acton

This quote in my opinion is very true but can only be seen in very obvious situations. There has to be one person where no one ever questions him, and it will at first slowly corrupt, getting faster though. Although if you have some power and people still question you then you will be “checked” for say. You going to think “Wow this person sees my power and sees that I could make anything happen, and will try and stop me.” You wont corrupt easily if you can’t do ANYTHING you want, it will be a more slow corruption process.

I have seen this in my life a couple times. One time was with the Enron Corporation, they where supposedly one of the biggest companies for electricity. They had received some gratification for having a revenue that was 111 billion US dollars, this would be there absolute power, and they wanted more, so they cut out some of the liabilities which seemed to be all loans. They were taking out things in their finacial reports and the Government found out and took them down. Corruption occurred and all was lost.

Another time I have seen this corruption was with King George III, he had control over Britain and the colonies (aka America). He had nothing to lose but he decided that he wanted more money and he did some terrible things to the people of his colonies and they fought back, not just for money but for freedom.

One more time of corruption from power would be with Bilbo Baggins in the end of The Hobbit and the beginning of the Lord Of The Rings. He found a very special ring, which is the ring to rule them, all, meaning everyone hence the word all. This ring also would allow you to become invisible which was used for pulling pranks on people. In the end Gandalf helps him let the ring go, and gives it to his Nephew who is to destroy it.

April 15, 2008

My Guilty Story

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 10:24 pm

Once upon a time there was a kid named Yeuh. Yeuh was walking down the street and seen a bicycle that was not his. He had never had his own bicycle. He started thinking about what it would be like with his own bicycle, he could go anywhere his legs could peddle him, he could race the neighbor hood kids and he could run over pop cans so they stuck to the tire, which made a bicycle sound like a motorcycle. These ides brought a big rush to his body. He seen the bike and was thinking
Wow no one is around…. Who would leave a bike in the middle of the street. Maybe I should take it home and clean it up and look for the owner.
So he takes it home and starts washing it making it look really good. Then he sees his neighbor friend Timmy looking around out side. Yeuh knows what he’s looking for. Timmy left his bike out side, and doesn’t know what happened to it. Yeuh starts feeling guilty and doesn’t know what he did what he did. He can’t even ride it out side where Timmy could see him. He starts getting paranoid, all of a sudden!
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Something was knocking at the door, Yeuh goes to answer it, and sees Timmy outside, he quickly hides the bike and starts talking to Timmy. Timmy tells him he has lost his bike, and that he really wants it back. Timmy tells Yeuh that his mom bought it for him. Yeuh starts feeling really bad.

Laws

Filed under: Uncategorized —— shorewoodheussy @ 10:08 pm

Learn To Keep People Dependent On You

I think this law works excellent… I’m not saying I have or haven’t used it but as far as I can tell from the law sheet, it would work perfectly. Basically not teaching people what you know so that way they would have to come back to you for the favor. This law is borderline to moral and immoral. It’s not exactly bad, but its not being good. It’s just not letting them know what you know.

Lets say Jim and Steve are Janitors at a company. Jim knows how to change the extra cool and complex lightbulbs that light all of the office. Although he knows how, Steve doesn’t. The jobs that each do are switched every 6 months. Jim has been changing lights and Steve doesn’t know how. 6 months rolls around and its Steve’s turn to change the lights, so he asked Jim what he should do, Jim just does all the lights plus his normal jobs and the boss sees this and cuts the pay on Steve for not doing his job, and gives Jim a raise for staying on top of things. This goes on for 6months, and it continues to happen. The boss promotes Jim and fires Steve.

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