mother earth

1. Planet Earth is a article about the earth. This article is nonfiction because the earth is supposedly talking to us and its telling us that we need to leave the earth. This is why mother earth is sending all those terrible things like hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes and many other bad things. What does not make sense about this story is that earth talk to us and tell us that we need to go to mars or somewhere else. The earth claims that she has done everything in her power to make us leave. Earth also claims that with all the extreme technology that we have came up with that we have try to outsmart mother earth. The tone to this story is a little bit tricky because its has a lot of science but really is not educate in my opinion I would think is to entertain because you  really do not learn much from this article; the author is just approaching the subject from a different side. By the author adding personification it changes the total story and makes the reader visualise the earth as a human or at least that it has its mind of its own. Over all I do not like this story, I think it is boring because it does not have absolutely anything interesting. If at least it was in a scientific version but all this personification nonsense is out of the picture, in my opinion. I just hope that the stories get better because it is really hard and frustrating to write about something that does not have any appeal to.

cobus

Cobus Potgieter is a professional drummer who became famous off of Youtube. He is an excellent drummer with great skills. Cobus is from Northern Cape, South Africa he was born in 1986. Cobus did not know what he wanted to do with his life. He was pretty much like me he really was not doing anything. Cobus found his desire towards drums when he went to a youth event at a church and afterwards the drummer from the band ask people to come and try a drum beat, when Cobus went up there he did not struggle and got it right away. That is how he discovered he liked drums. When he got a computer he started to listen to a lot of music and became more interested in drums. After a year after the youth event he had saved enough money. One day Cobus could not sleep so he just got on his drum set and started recording. He recorded eleven songs. Those songs became the “overhead series” and Cobus uploaded them online on Youtube and that is how Cobus new life actually started. Cobus started posting more series on Youtube all his videos make up over 100 millions views. This is something huge for someone who just plays drums for fun. Cobus flew to Canada to shoot video lessons with Jared Falk who is a drum teacher online who is phenomenal. When Cobus finish his lessons he flew to Los Angeles to the drum channel there he got to play with other great drummers like Tony Royster Jr. and others. Cobus recorded another series with a DW drum set which he got as a sponsor; he also uses TRX cymbals. Cobus is now creating a album, he is helping people around the world be heard just like he was heard. Cobus made people from around the world audition for their part. This album is currently in process

civics

In Civics we were talking about the settlement of America. I really do not know why we are talking about that in Civics because that should be for US history. I always thought that Civics was about economics and how the government functions and operates, but I absolutely love history so I can just sit back and enjoy long lectures of history and still find it fun and attractive. Today in class we were taking notes and watching videos of how they settle here and how the Pilgrims made an alliance with the Indians. The Indians help the settlers and taught the settlers how to plant and life off of the new land. The videos were were really nice I liked them because they were in HD and they were kept in focus, the videos were also fun because it was not someone talking, it was somebody making a scene like if you were actually there. It was hard because the terrible winter of 1609 made a lot of the settlers to leave their new life. Only sixty out of the two hundred and fourteen settlers survived the very hard winter, which was also hard on Indian tribes and other neighboring Native Americans. Jamestown made it because one smart man knew that in England people were hook on tobacco so he decided to come to America and plant tobacco which was one of the main crops grown by the English settlers, they sold to Native Americans and to people back in England. Tobacco became a very popular crop because it was easy to grow and because it brought in so much money. Once the money started flowing in regularly, the Jamestown colony grew, as did other settlements in Virginia and in other states along the eastern seaboard. This was the beginning of the country in which we live in today.

1 Kings

Kings is about Solomon becoming king of Israel, David was very old he was very weak so he could not be king any more. One time he was cold so he brought this beautiful girl to keep him warm but he could not stay warm, when all this mess was going on, Abishag tried to make himself king, when David found out about this he called his son Solomon and anointed him king of Israel David teaches Solomon and he reigns as king in Israel. Solomon makes a friendship with Egypt by marrying his daughter. He brought her to live in David's City until he had finished building his palace, so he could keep the peace with countries next to him, he wanted to be a good king so he ask God for, when God gave it to him he used it to judge between two women and their babies because they were fighting over them because they lived together and both had babies but one day they came home and one of them was cold dead they kept fighting so king Solomon order to take the baby that was alive and cut it in half and split it between the women. One woman scream “No give it to her” but the other women did not care and wanted king Solomon to still cut the poor baby in half; when all this happen Solomon knew that the baby;s mother was the women who did not want the baby dead. Solomon wanted  to build the temple to God because God had been good to Solomon, he made sure the temple was really pretty and was filled with gold when he finish it God promises He would dwell in Israel. Solomon was generous and gave people jobs who were not from Israel. Israel was very peacefully because Solomon was a good man and a wise one too, So God had his hand on him and on Israel.

hunger games

Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who had to support a family because her dad had died when she was young, her dad died of an explosion down at a mine site. Due to his death Katniss had to provide for her family; she hunted outside her limits which would be punished if caught by the government. The government controls everything you do which is like a dictatorship. Every year the country choose people to go fight each other for fun; they choose two people from each district which there is twelve districts. On that year Katniss sister got picked to fight but katniss volunteer to fight for her because her sister was to young. Also one of Katniss friend got picked. Katniss went to the capital and trained for a few weeks and made sure she was in shape and worked on her specialty which is the bow and arrow. Once the games started she hurry and picked up the bow and arrow there was people fighting for supplies. There was a lot of killing people became allies to take out other people; at the end Katniss and her friend survive and they went home happily with a new home.

My Clases

My classes are fine. There is really not much going on since school just started; we really have not started learning much yet so things are a little bit slow. In my Civics class we are talking about citizenship in the  United States. To become a citizen you have to be born in United States, or request a citizenship; by requesting a citizenship you at least have to be eighteen years old and have live in the United States for at least five years. To become a citizen you have to take an exam on history of the United States, which has about one hundred questions on it, you also have to pledge that you will follow the rules of the United States and not of foreign governments.
In my Geometry class we are learning about undefined terms which are;  Point- anything that has no dimensions.It has no length, width or thickness. It is represented by a dot. Use a single capital letters to name it. Line- anything which is connected by two points and is extended indefinitely in all directions. Use single lowercase letters to name it. Plane anything which has no thickness but has length and width and extended in all directions. Use two capital letters to name it. In Public speaking we have a substitute so things are going kinda slow and really haven’t done much. Right we have learn the things we should not do when you are talking in front of an audience or to a crowd. Then we had to bring in five things that we like to do and present them to the class; when you were presenting you were supposed to make sure you did not do the things we had discuss about not doing. So that is all that is going on in my classes I hope things get more exciting.

Helberth Ramirez

My name is Helberth Ramirez, I was born in Costa Rica in 1996. My dad who was tired of his old job was looking for something new and different. He moved to the United States when I was eight. It took him nine months for him to get settled, find a nice job and a house. That is when I come in the pictured. I got here when I was eight and have been here ever since. It was tough at first, going to school when all you knew was "Thank You"; but over the years I came out to where I am today. Right now my focus is music and school. I play drums which is my main focus and attraction  and guitar so music is really huge part of my life. I listen to alot of John Mayer and Dave Matthews as well as Christian music; my major influences are John Mayer, Tony Royster Jr and Cobus. I have a Pearl Vision birch drum set with Sabian AAX cymbals. The drum set sounds amazing I am totally in love with them and the cymbals are great sounding, they have a nice brilliant sound, are loud and nice tone; I also own Pdp hardware and recently just bought Pearl’s Demon Drive which are amazing, that double bass pedal is phenomenal; it's just like their motto “Heavenly feel; wickedly fast”. As of school, well is not my favorite thing to do but you can not live without it. So I will have to focus and work hard to achieve my dreams. Right now my brother and I are planning a trip to Costa Rica to visit for next summer. We are thinking of surprising my family by showing up at their front door without notice. That would be really fun, I would love to see them react to something like that.