Service Learning

My service learning group was about recycling. We discussed: 

*recycling around the city

*recycling in school and in classrooms

* Use of green products

*how to clean the city and our communities up. 

We thought about putting recycling bins in classrooms and all around the school. We also decided to clean up our neighborhoods, and try to use 'green' products in the school, like recycled paper for our printers. 

My Ideas For Service Learning:

1. Work in a Hospital
2. Volunteer at a homeless shelter
3. Fundraisers for cancer
4. Tutor kids at an elementary school
   
5. Help with Seniors at a Nursing Home

NHD Relections

When i worked on NHD, i found it to be very hard. I had never done a project this big before and i didn't know at first that it would be so hard to put together. For my NHD i did a group performance on The Philadelphia Women's Anti-Slavery Society. We had thought that doing a group performance would be eaiser then doing a documentary, which was our first choice, but we found out that it wasn't. For our performance, we had to write a script. First we reasearched our topic, using both primary and secondary sources. Then, we brought all of that information together and created a script revolving around one particular event, the burning pf Pennsylvania Hall. We had to write the script a couple different times to make sure it was historically accurate, and then we practiced our lines.
NHD was a very stressful project, and my group and I fought alot. But even though we fought all the time and hd many disagreements, theis project also brought us closer as friends, because through the fighiting and stress, we stll remained friends.

Maya Angelou(almost finished)

Maya Angelou was born on April 24, 1928, and is still living to this day. During her life, she wrote many great works, but her most famous was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which
tells about her life as a child and her hardships . She won awards such as, The National Book Award, A Yale Universtiy fellowship, A Pulitzer Prize nomination, to name a few.
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Should the abuse of children be okay?

No. Child abuse is a very common thing in our country and it shouldn't be that way.
Abuse of children hurts them mentally. It can lead to problems later in life, such as depression, anger issues, and self injury. Many teens who have been abused are depressed, and don't seek help for it. It's not just physical abuse that affects children, there is also sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and verbal abuse. A lot of people concider emotional abuse and verbal abuse to not be abuse, but 'tough love'. That isn't true. It is almost like you are a monster in the eyes of your child. Would you really want them ot think of you that way?

Should Huck Finn be taught at CHS?

I think that Huckleberry Finn should be taught in our school, for three reasons.
For one reason, i think it is a good adventure book. Secondly, it details all of the aspects of history during that time period very well, and third, it does have some good morals.

In Huck Finn, the use of the 'N' word is very rapid and repeated throughout the story. Of course the use of racial overtones would make a story seem offensive, but first you have to look at the surroundings in the book and the timeframe it took place during, which was the late 1800's. Also, there is abuse, kidnapping, and drinking in this book. Most people who are very consevative would concider this book as a bad influence on kids, but i say its not, only because it is something you can't really hide from; it's life. Those things happen, and shielding your children from something they are going to end up experencing, or hearing about is pointless, and can cause problems with adjustment later in life.

POG II

I finished my POG II essay today and published it.

Philosophy Of Government II
Period 6&7
Kate Chapman

In my last POG, my idea of government was to have limited power with little or no government. After the ideal society simulation, I’m not so sure I agree with what I said before.

For my first key point, I’m going to bring up the 4th amendment.
The fourth amendment states our right to privacy. The government had access to our thoughts and everything we did through our iChip. That technically is an invasion of privacy, but because of terrorists and whatnot the government has special access and rights. Then again, if the government can read our rights, how is that privacy?

Key point number two: Impeachment powers. Congress has the right to impeach the president or any other member of the Legislative branch as long as they have 2/3 of the vote. Our President was almost impeached because the citizens didn’t think she was doing a good job, and even believed that she was doing terrorist threats.

Key point number three: the first amendment. Our first amendment rights state that we have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press to state the basics. The citizens of our iDeal society used that right as well as they could. They protested against the iChip protesting that it was unconstitutional and dangerous. That preceded a Supreme Court case; Cooper vs. AppleCorp, ad Apple won. Attorney Mcshea stated that one death in a 3 million people was hardly a reason to panic over the iChip.

In conclusion, I don’t exactly think that our constitution can resolve conflicts effectively. My reasons are that at least in our ideal simulation, our government wasn’t very strong; it was more weak then anything.
I don’t believe that the government should have so many loopholes in our rights, such as being able to read our thoughts. Our founding fathers didn’t write the constitution for our rights to be abused. Since we have such a well written constitution of rights, shouldn’t they be used right?