The Nail Incident Ceara Harris
“I’m clipping my nails as I do every night before dinner when my sister comes in the door with the baby, I’m on the last nail when I finish I will get up. “Hey sis, hi baby hello hello.”
“Well she doesn’t like me.”
“Yes she does she’s just tired” ok then”
When I came out from under the house from eating I was stopped by my sister.”
“Will you watch the baby because me and mom want to go out tonight?”
“Well I guess, but don’t think I will have fun watching the little flibbertigibbet thing.”
“Thanks”
“Yeah you better hope she cooperates for your sake.”
“Ok your done lets go take a bath now.”
“No more play”
“No let’s take your clothes off and get in the bath”
“I will let you play with some toys in the bath”
“Well I’m thinking maybe I shouldn’t clip her nails because it can turn ugly.”
“Well sit down I’m going to go get the clippers.”
“Let’s wash up so I can clip your nails”
“No”
“Yes they’ are dirty”
“Why are you screaming I haven’t even touched you?”
“Clip stops moving before you get it. I
I grab her throat as if i’m holding on to the back of a car going 100 mph on the free way I thought I could cajole her into getting her nails clipped but it didn’t work that way no. I held her head under water until the lifeless carcass stopped shaking. Then I clipped away.”
Her sister walked in the bathroom “Oh I forgot my …… oh my gosh! “What happened here?
“I just sat there and stared”
“She wouldn’t cooperate so I had to kill her and use my nail clippers as a panacea for her nails.”
“I told mom this was a bad idea to ask you to watch my baby.”
“Then why did you ask me to watch her then.”
“I’m calling the police I cant believe you would do something like this I thought I could trust you and you betrayed me. “
“You’re not calling anyone ok I’m sorry you just cant do that.”
“Please stop I don’t want to have to kill you to.”
“Mom my sister yelled.”
“I guess ill have to do you like the baby huh?”
“You killed my child and now you want to kill me how low down can you get.”
“Don’t try to make me have any kind of pity on you I will just solve the problem by killing you to.”
“Bang bang bang I shot her then my self.”
Link to zine:http://students.hthma.hightechhigh.org/~charris/1%20and%202%20zine.jpg

Medicine

1. A brief summary of the topic. What is it? What field of research does it fall under?

This article is talking about medicine they are saying that this year will be the year that companies will lose the patent rights to there most top selling medicines.There also saying if the drugs want to start selling then the need to focus on obesity, cancer, and immunological and neurological diseases.

2. What's the big deal with this topic? Why should you care about its developments and any new discoveries that are made?

The big deal with this topic is that companies will start losing lots of money and pills will be sold cheaper.

3. What's going to happen to this topic in 2010?
This year starts the mark of companies loosing there money and a decrease on pills.

4. What obstacles or setbacks are in the way of this topic's success?

The set backs are companies will loose there money and people will face problems with out certain pills that they need.

Technology

1. A brief summary of the topic. What is it? What field of research does it fall under?

This article was basically talking about cars from general moter's, and the cost of the cars and also how they will be built and how technology is coming along.

2. What's the big deal with this topic? Why should you care about its developments and any new discoveries that are made?

The big deal with this topic is that gm is making more economy and gas efficient cars that run on batteries.

3. What's going to happen to this topic in 2010?
This year the world we be able to purchase these cars and help the gas prices and economy system.

4. What obstacles or setbacks are in the way of this topic's success?

The obstacles are that gm survived the biggest bankruptcy in American history and they still will be making cars this winter, another thing in the way is that other car companies can try and sue for saying they are coping there car.

semester academic goals

Goal: Raise my hand to read out loud so i can become a better reader
First step :Don't be afraid to raise my hand

Goal:Let other people share
First step :learn ho to step up and step back

Goal:Come to class on time in order not to loose professionalism points
First step :come back from lunch 10 minutes earlier.

My semester academic goals

Goal: Study for test not just the night before
First step: Take brain book home every day and work out the problems we did for that day in class

Goal: don’t talk in class while the teacher is teaching a lesson
First step: Don’t interrupt other people and ignore when someone tries to talk to me.

Goal: Ask more questions in class when I need to.
First step: come to office hours when I don’t understand the lesson

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It’s Just a Way of Life

“A person who in the opinion of others, has her heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.

When people think hero the automatically think Batman, Superman, Robin, a police man, you get the point right? Just someone fictional. But not me, my hero is Marti Harris (my mom). She is African American and, she is about 5’2.

The first thing I want to say about my mom is she is a very nice person, and I love her. I think everything my mom went through made her the strong person she is today. We were sitting in my mom’s warm room on the edge of the bed I could smell incents burning and candle wax when I started to ask her some questions about our life and how she felt about it. “Is it hard being a single mother, having to raise your children by your self?” She looked at me with a sad, long face just searching for the right answer. “Of course it is always easier when you have two incomes and its hard when you can’t get your kids what they want and sometimes what they need, also I think there should always be two parents in the home so that your child can have equal share of each parent.”

I can understand where she is coming from because I have experienced not being able to go certain places because I didn’t have enough money, or feeling left out because I don’t have two parents to raise me. “What is your motivation to keep going?” “Love was my motivating factor and the fact that you are my kids. I feel it is my job to meet all your needs.” “What was your overall drive? “My children and wanting them to have a better life than I did, I also want them to grow up and be strong, smart people.”

Hero project reflection

how does a hero become a hero?

A hero becomes a hero by doing something you cant do or by . Doing something they don't have to do and they do it any way also putting that person before there self at all time even when they cant or shouldn't.

What was the Hero in My Eyes project?

In this project you had to pick someone who you looked at as a hero . You had to write a paper why they were a hero and what they did to become your hero (heroic moment). You also had to bring in a picture of your hero.

What steps did you take to get to the final product?

The steps i took to get to the final product were writing lots of different papers. The peer editing helped me allot. I also had to get help from the teacher and some class mates i needed them to read my paper and show me where i could improve more.

What did you learn? What challenges did you encounter? What would you do the same or different? How will this help you later?

I learned that my mother was my real hero all along and that hers are not just fictional. I went through alot of challenges because the first time i wrote my whole paper wrong and i had to do it all over. The thing that i would do the same is pick my mom as my hero.This will help me later because now i will always know my mom is my hero.

Pick one of the six HOMs (Habits of Mind) and describe how you used it in this project. The six HOMs are: Innovation, Wonder, Ownership, Mindfulness, Perspective, and Evidence.

The thing i think i used in my paper is evdience because i showed lots of evidence on how and why my mom is a hero .

Link to the blog post where you posted your final hero character sketch. Make sure it is a working link.

http://ceeceebolo.blogspot.com/2009/11/normal-0-false-false-false.html