A neighbor’s six year old child finds $30 on your driveway and gives it to you. No one claims it. Do you give the money to the child?
No I would not give the child the money because:
(I do not want to sound selfish but...)
1) The money was found in MY DRIVEWAY and no one claimed
2) The boy gave the found money TO ME
3) What can a six year old boy do with $30 anyway?
4) I feel like in this scenario I play an adult role- I would have better uses for the $30
5) I do not feel the child would care if he was given the money or not
But then I feel bad :( So I feel I would give a portion to the boy ( I do not know if that is against the rules but I am not breaking rules -just bending)
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
My Blog Idea
If you were granted three wishes. Only three, and no more. Who would grant these wishes for you? Where and when would these wishes be granted? Would you take the three wishes seriously? Or blow the off as if like is already so perfect now? So the choice is yours. What would you wish for? (And Why?)
1) A perfect family: A family full of opportunities, love, hope, and intellect. I want a family full of supporters rather than downers. Rich rather than poor. Intelligent rather dumb. Selfless rather than selfish. I want a family that cares, and is there for me and the greater good of the family.
2) Talent: I wish I could be just a bit more talented. Above average. I want to be the best of the best at something and not average. I want talent; great, unique, world-class talent.
3) Guaranteed Peace: I am tired of holocausts, genocide, racial acts of hatred, movements, totalitarian regimes. I am tired of having to worry about where my country stands on an international standpoint. I want to know that generations following my own will be safe from terror.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Revisions
Original Poems:
An object shared
control our appearance
objects shared
deciding our appearance
For "Bounce" I love the original, as did Moriarty, she didn't suggest that I change anything. Which I was really happy with, it felt nice having my poem complimented.
And For "The Unseen" I prefer the revised, and I am so glad that she gave me advise to change the poem because it just made the poem so much stronger. And it was true what she said I did need to choose between using rhythm and rhyme or nothing at all.
"Bounce"
"Bounce!"
I say. Into the air, 10 feet high
Swift, strong arms thrust the rubber ball
To the ground, and the ball just does as it was told
The ball always does and always will do what it is told
The schedule never fluctuates; it is unyielding, even obdurate
There is not a thing the ball can change about the day or itself
You bounce I say, and all the rubber knows how to do is blindly
Respond with how high? To the sky to the moon, I will go the
Distance for you, I am yours for I have been taught to do not
A thing but bounce endlessly till you grow terribly tired of
Me and my outside grows worn, I am yours with no choice
Or say so I might as well be happy to be somebodies,
To feel warmth in ones’ hand you say bounce
And as planned I happily say
How High?
"The Unseen"
between you and I
him and her
all of us, everyone
smaller than
the eye can see
and handed down
through family history
slightly different for everyone
by just one percent
they make me, Me
and you, YOU
personality and behavior
they are the masterminds behind
what we have learned to call ourselves
Mimi Moriarty's Feedback:
Alaynah - I think you were the only one who attempted a concrete poem. Good effort at creating a picture with your poem! And there's an interesting message in the poem, as well, about obedience and dependence. You have a nice flair for the dramatic.
In "The Unseen" - check the second line for a grammatical error "between you and me" not "between you and I" - otherwise, nicely done. I especially like the second stanza - nice rhythm and rhyme. The rest of the poem breaks the rhythm and rhyme, so I think you have to decide if you will use it throughout, or not at all. This is something I struggle with all of the time. You just have to choose.
Mimi Moriarty
In "The Unseen" - check the second line for a grammatical error "between you and me" not "between you and I" - otherwise, nicely done. I especially like the second stanza - nice rhythm and rhyme. The rest of the poem breaks the rhythm and rhyme, so I think you have to decide if you will use it throughout, or not at all. This is something I struggle with all of the time. You just have to choose.
Mimi Moriarty
My Revisions:
"The Unseen"
between you, me, mother, son
its been declared
they are within everyone
they are within everyone
smaller than
the eye can see
and handed down
through family history
make me unique
slightly different
being bold is what we seek
slightly different
being bold is what we seek
through just one percent
personality and behavior
masterminds in a sense
masterminds in a sense
individualities savior
My Response:
For "Bounce" I love the original, as did Moriarty, she didn't suggest that I change anything. Which I was really happy with, it felt nice having my poem complimented.
And For "The Unseen" I prefer the revised, and I am so glad that she gave me advise to change the poem because it just made the poem so much stronger. And it was true what she said I did need to choose between using rhythm and rhyme or nothing at all.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Y = Eight People to Emulate
1) Rachel Young- She is a senior at the Guilderland High School and is very talented in the arts; singing, dancing, etc. She has done dance and singing since she was younger and has only gotten much better since then. Now she is playing the female lead in the musical, Tracy Turnblad, and we couldn't have asked for better. She is a great friend, actress, dancer, singer, and overall she's a great person. I want to give Ms. Young high praise for working hard and giving it 110% all the time. She's great and I look up to her and stride to have even just a fraction of her talent.
2) Kristi Yamaguchi-
She is an ice skater. Ice skating takes a lot of courage and physical ability. I wish I had Kristi's courage and ability to create a beautiful work of art through skating using only her body, skates, and the cold ice.
3) "Weird" Al Yankovic-
He is an american singer that makes parodies of contemporary radio hits.
"His lyrics depend largely on the satirizing of popular culture including television, movies, food, music, and news stories. Though parodies earned him his fame, Yankovic has recorded a greater number of humorous songs with original tunes." http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/WeirdAlYankovic.htm
I wish I had even a fraction of his musical creativity. The songs are cheesy, instead they sound great!
4) Tyler Yates- He "is a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball currently playing with the Richmond Braves, Triple A Affiliate of the Atlanta Braves." But first he attended the University of Hawaii so he would have a back-up plan if the whole baseball career did not work out. I admire is planning, and realistic views, his drive to chase his dreams, and his great athleticism. http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/TylerYates.htm
5) Yanni- He is a musician that "prefers to call his music "contemporary instrumental." I am impressed by his work and envious of his opportunity to perform in front of a large audience.
http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/Yanni.htm
6) Burt Young- He is a "talented character actor who has remained consistently busy playing "rough at the edge" type characters, often on the wrong side of the law. Young was known as "Jerry De Louise" before becoming an actor, in New York City, where he received his dramatic arts training under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio." I am impressed by his work and envious of his opportunity to perform and create great pieces of work with the use of acting.
http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/BurtYoung.htm
7) Henny Youngman- "(Henry Youngman, March 16, 1906 - February 24, 1998) was a comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners", short simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. His best known one-liner is "Take my wife—please." I wish I was funny...that is all that needs to be said.
http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/HennyYoungman.htm
8) Stephen Marvin Young- He "was an American politician of the Democratic Party from Ohio. He was a United States Senator from Ohio from 1958 until 1970. Young received a law degree from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1911." I think it's great that he had such a successful career involved in politics, it is truly impressive. And I am envious of him because I just want to get on with my successful career already.
http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/StephenMYoung.htm
2) Kristi Yamaguchi-
She is an ice skater. Ice skating takes a lot of courage and physical ability. I wish I had Kristi's courage and ability to create a beautiful work of art through skating using only her body, skates, and the cold ice.
3) "Weird" Al Yankovic-
He is an american singer that makes parodies of contemporary radio hits.
"His lyrics depend largely on the satirizing of popular culture including television, movies, food, music, and news stories. Though parodies earned him his fame, Yankovic has recorded a greater number of humorous songs with original tunes." http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/WeirdAlYankovic.htm
I wish I had even a fraction of his musical creativity. The songs are cheesy, instead they sound great!
4) Tyler Yates- He "is a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball currently playing with the Richmond Braves, Triple A Affiliate of the Atlanta Braves." But first he attended the University of Hawaii so he would have a back-up plan if the whole baseball career did not work out. I admire is planning, and realistic views, his drive to chase his dreams, and his great athleticism. http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/TylerYates.htm
5) Yanni- He is a musician that "prefers to call his music "contemporary instrumental." I am impressed by his work and envious of his opportunity to perform in front of a large audience.
http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/Yanni.htm
6) Burt Young- He is a "talented character actor who has remained consistently busy playing "rough at the edge" type characters, often on the wrong side of the law. Young was known as "Jerry De Louise" before becoming an actor, in New York City, where he received his dramatic arts training under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio." I am impressed by his work and envious of his opportunity to perform and create great pieces of work with the use of acting.
http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/BurtYoung.htm
7) Henny Youngman- "(Henry Youngman, March 16, 1906 - February 24, 1998) was a comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners", short simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. His best known one-liner is "Take my wife—please." I wish I was funny...that is all that needs to be said.
http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/HennyYoungman.htm
8) Stephen Marvin Young- He "was an American politician of the Democratic Party from Ohio. He was a United States Senator from Ohio from 1958 until 1970. Young received a law degree from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1911." I think it's great that he had such a successful career involved in politics, it is truly impressive. And I am envious of him because I just want to get on with my successful career already.
http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/StephenMYoung.htm
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
TU Tuesday - Culture
Links to articles; http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Latest-developments-in-Greece-s-financial-crisis-3311936.php
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/12/09/feature-05
Link to poem; HTTP://WWW.POETRYINTERNATIONAL.ORG/PIW_CMS/CMS/CMS_MODULE/INDEX.PHP?OBJ_ID=2674
Right now at this very moment the beautiful country known as Greece is going through an economic crisis, "Stocks in Europe lost gains ahead of the meeting on worries over delays to the bailout deal. In Athens, the main share index was down 5 percent." The Government is working on a Greek bail-out and a healthy way of budget cutting. Now Why is budget- cutting so important? "Without it, the country would not be eligible for a euro130 billion ($170 billion) bailout from other countries in Europe and the International Monetary Fund. Greece needs the money ahead of a euro14.5 billion ($19.2 billion) bond deadline on March 20 and to strike a vital debt-relief deal with bond investors." And then if Greece begins to miss payments then a dominos effect could occur and Greece could spin off into great debt. With such great debt Greece will not be able to feed its people and they will starve. And in the end starvation leads to disease or death. Overall Greece is in a tough time and in tough times "Greek poets have used the peculiar power of a precise language to stir souls, plumb the depths of humanity, and stoke resistance against invaders and occupiers." One poem that has emerged is Words Again by Patrikios, a greek poet.
This poem is about speaking up and not waiting to speak until i is too late,
"Yet the unspoken words beneath the tongue
the only ones that don’t emerge from your mouth
they too gnaw from within
leaving shrivelled corpses
of people who tried to speak
when it was too late."
Greece is going through tough times and instead of ignoring that fact the Greek have decided to take care of the problem.
That is different from us in he sense that Americans just like to print money to solve all of our economic problems, but hey I mean if the Great Depression doesn't mean anything to you then sure hyperinflation is out of question- but news flash, IT DID HAPPEN! And hyper inflation is something that we have to worry about.
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/12/09/feature-05
Link to poem; HTTP://WWW.POETRYINTERNATIONAL.ORG/PIW_CMS/CMS/CMS_MODULE/INDEX.PHP?OBJ_ID=2674
Right now at this very moment the beautiful country known as Greece is going through an economic crisis, "Stocks in Europe lost gains ahead of the meeting on worries over delays to the bailout deal. In Athens, the main share index was down 5 percent." The Government is working on a Greek bail-out and a healthy way of budget cutting. Now Why is budget- cutting so important? "Without it, the country would not be eligible for a euro130 billion ($170 billion) bailout from other countries in Europe and the International Monetary Fund. Greece needs the money ahead of a euro14.5 billion ($19.2 billion) bond deadline on March 20 and to strike a vital debt-relief deal with bond investors." And then if Greece begins to miss payments then a dominos effect could occur and Greece could spin off into great debt. With such great debt Greece will not be able to feed its people and they will starve. And in the end starvation leads to disease or death. Overall Greece is in a tough time and in tough times "Greek poets have used the peculiar power of a precise language to stir souls, plumb the depths of humanity, and stoke resistance against invaders and occupiers." One poem that has emerged is Words Again by Patrikios, a greek poet.
WORDS AGAIN
Words in their thousands pour out of dictionaries
as soon as you open them
like ants, black, red, white,
when you step on an ant-hill.
How can you find, how can you choose
amid the conflation of words
the only one that fits,
how can you escape from the others
that stick to your body in swarms
struggling to survive.
Yet the unspoken words beneath the tongue
the only ones that don’t emerge from your mouth
they too gnaw from within
leaving shrivelled corpses
of people who tried to speak
when it was too late.
As long as I’m able
to combine even two words
I exist.
as soon as you open them
like ants, black, red, white,
when you step on an ant-hill.
How can you find, how can you choose
amid the conflation of words
the only one that fits,
how can you escape from the others
that stick to your body in swarms
struggling to survive.
Yet the unspoken words beneath the tongue
the only ones that don’t emerge from your mouth
they too gnaw from within
leaving shrivelled corpses
of people who tried to speak
when it was too late.
As long as I’m able
to combine even two words
I exist.
This poem is about speaking up and not waiting to speak until i is too late,
"Yet the unspoken words beneath the tongue
the only ones that don’t emerge from your mouth
they too gnaw from within
leaving shrivelled corpses
of people who tried to speak
when it was too late."
Greece is going through tough times and instead of ignoring that fact the Greek have decided to take care of the problem.
That is different from us in he sense that Americans just like to print money to solve all of our economic problems, but hey I mean if the Great Depression doesn't mean anything to you then sure hyperinflation is out of question- but news flash, IT DID HAPPEN! And hyper inflation is something that we have to worry about.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Valentine's Day
Complete this sentence: "I know _he_ loves me because ...."
I know he loves me because...
He says "Hey" to me first, because he is the one that I always catch glancing at me. I know he loves me because his smiles are the biggest when I am around, because he's always happier and brighter with me. I know he loves me because his eyes look deep into my innocent soul, because he accepts me for who I am. I know he loves me because that deep singing voice of his sings for only me, because the words speak of my name. I know he loves me because I make him better in so many ways, because he needs it, he needs me. I know he loves me because my heart races when he enters the room, because I smile at every thought of him. I know he loves me because every moment of everyday is spent wanting to see him, because I know he loves me. I know he loves me because there is no way he cannot, because I love him.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Dreams are lined up against the wall
Dreams are lined up against the wall
One by one,
Some ridiculous, others realistic
as we grow older,
dreams begin to fadeinto the deep abyss
of the wanted past
our destinies undecided
our futures like labyrinths
turn a corner with no idea
what will come next,
surprises at every turn
mystery
outcomes either good or bad
its our future, destiny, dreams
we can always make a decision
and control them-
to a certain extent
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