What is the "New World"? What do you expect the 'New World' to be like? What do you want it to consist of? What do you think it would look like? What would you want to add to the new world?

In the Story, "The New World" by Patrick Ness, Viola and her family are off to a totally new world. They don't even know if there is a democracy on the planet or not. They don't even know if there are any humans living on the planet or is it deserted. If the planet was to be deserted; what would Viola do? What would she want the world to look like? Would she want the world to be advanced in terms of science and technology or would she want the world to be fairly just and equal? Or would she want the world to be 'feminist driven'? She doesn't know what she will be doing.

If I were in place of Viola and I had the chance of creating a new world; I would make it an equal and just place. I would want the 'new world' to live in peace and with harmony. I wouldn't want the world to fight and create wars between each other. I would want the world to be just as there are many unjust things going around in the world we are living in today! There are many poor people in today's world who are treated unequally and don't get the same respect as others do.

In today's world; nobody has the equal respect. Some of the poor people are looked down to as they are some kind of servant in a Palace. The people with riches and goods don't even bother to talk about the poor people. What I mean is to say is that the poor people in the world are getting no respect at all even if they do the most important things in your life.

All these people do very important things. If they were not to exist; you might have been out there working in the sun trying to figure where to plant the seed and when to cut the crops. You might have not had such a comfortable life as you are having today.

Never look down to anybody who is poor or has a lower race than you do!

Also there are many poor people who are being accused of things that they have not done. Not just the poor people; even people around you. Look around yourself and I am pretty sure that you will see something unjust going on. Sometimes when somebody does wrong and you are scolded for it it is just wrong. It is unjust. It is not fair.

There are many people in the world and I am sure that everybody might want a different type of world. Some may want it to be free or organized and some may want it to be well- educated. This is my point of view and I would want the 'New World' to be just and equal and everybody is not getting the same respect in today's world.

Thank you

Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht was a turning point of the 1930's. It was when the people of Germany walked around as the heroes and destroyed all the Jewish shops leaving the shattered glasses behind. It was when the German people walked into Synagogues and burnt them all.

In the 1938's when the Germans captured all the Jews half of them were sent to concentration camps and the remaining half worked for the Germans. The children that remained were taught that the Jewish people were Greedy and they did corrupted things. This is called Propaganda.

In my opinion the things that German people did to the Jews was unfair as the Jews had done nothing but they had to pay for the damage they hadn't even done. They had to pay for the shattered glasses and the houses that the Germans broke.

If I would have been a Jew at the times of Hitler I would have stood up. I would have stood up for peace, for freedom and many other things. Nobody in the world wants somebody of other culture to rule their culture. Even if I could have died I would not be sad but I would have been happy that I died for a good cause- I dies for the protection of the culture. I wouldn't mind to die if my death could stop the fight.

When the people realized their mistake of making Hitler the chancellor it had been too late. Everything was disturbed. The people hadn't really thought of the consequences before making Hitler the chancellor.

The Dominant Factor

Last Friday Mr.Whiting and Mrs Narsiman came in our Humanities class to check which learning profile we were. We needed to see which part of our body was dominent. I'm dominent in my right ear right hand. My eyes, my leg and my brain are all left side dominent. The left side of the brain is the Logic side and the right side of the brain the Gestalt. My profile is CC.


I learn best by focusing on the auditory details. I can actually tolerate some kind of soft music. When the music goes on loud a bit higher I tolerate that but I have difficulty thinking. I like a peace environment while I am doing work or thinking hard on math problems etc. Also if there is loud music I get attracted more towards the music rather than the work I am doing.

I usually like things to neatly ordered and things should be with instructions. For example when I am playing a game I need the instructions before going ahead or otherwise I will stress out and get irritated. I mainly get irritated when there are no instructions. When I have the instructions I feel relieved from the stress and I actually enjoy the hing I am doing.

Also relaxing helps me to concentrate and it helps me to think hard. It also helps me when I am stressed about something and I need to calm down. The things that work are the lazy 8's, three dimensional art and blinking while watching a object. Playing soccer also sometimes helps me to relax.

What I want the teachers to know about is that I am an auditory learner and I listen best when I am seated to the left some rows back so that I can use my right ear to listen. And I like things orderly neat and organized.

Fighting for understanding

 Ebooo Patel. What a brave name for a man. He always tries to correct what he can with the powers he has. He has made many speeches. He is very brave and is trying to correct the things that are wrong.

I was really shocked when I heard him saying, there was a white game going on, a black game and an Asian game. I think he forgot that the people forgot they were all the same, humans.

If you ask me to realate my personal events like this I will say I can't. I can't because I study in an International school and I don;t see this type of things going around in International places.

Hip-Hop Freedom in Burma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_kTHvpMb7Y&feature=player_embedded

Thxa Soe is a young boy who does hip-hop im Burma. (Burma's name was changed to Myanmar byt eh gangsters of Burma and Chinese and Koreans call it Burma. It is still called  Myanmar in countrys like the U.S and the U.K.) Thxa Soe is really famous in Burma and is very well known all over the world.

He got interested in the term of hip-hop as a student in the SAE institution. He also had interest in his homeland music and so he combined hip-hop music and his homeland music to make new type of songs. He does this so that the audience can have fun listening to it and they can also understand the problems Burma has and what they need to do to get rid of it.

He has lately released 12 elbums but only 3 were published because of the lyrics, "Hey hey, how are you?" His brother has fled to the U.S as he was scared. Thxa Soe stayed in Burma as he knew that he needed to make Burma better and free of problems.

He says that, "I have too many words, not only me, too many teenagers have too much to say. Because our is very closed country, and the older people have a closed mind, a concentrated mind."

Death and Destruction

The artist Picasso, by this art is trying to show us how the people were wounded and how much they suffered in 1937 during the attack by General Franco. In the attack more than 60% of the town was destroyed and 75% of the people were wounded or dead. As you see in the picture there is a bulb in the top-left- I think this represents the death hovering on peoples head. General Franco didn't even leave the animals live so he even killed the horses and the cows. As you see in the middle-top of the painting there is a hand with a candle. I think it is trying to express hope. There are also many broken many knives and broken swords. In the left side of the painting there is a lady with her dead baby in her hand, looking at the sky where the bombs came from and destroyed the whole of Guernica.

Identities

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Many things shape your identity, even small things. Like in the video by Jesus Colon, as he didn't help the lady with a suitcase and the two children with her. When we see someone in need of help do we offer such help without being asked to do so. It shows that even if you don't  do small things it matters to other people a lot, it also sometimes matters you and you start hating yourself as Jesus Colon had. If you even help people in small things people will think that you are a good person and they will treat as you treated them.

This has also happened to me in life. Once I saw a stranger in help,  with three suitcases and a child. Not knowing her I offered my help to put the suitcases into the taxi and she said yes. I was feeling happy that I had helped a person in need. I f I hadn't helped the woman she would think that I was not such a good boy but as I had helped her she thinks that I am a nice and helping kid. This thing also shapes my identity- if I am good or bad.