Response for January 27, 2015.

      By far my favorite project was the one by Chelsea Donovan about eating disorders because it is something that I apparently have. well, I am going to set the rumor straight I do not have an eating disorder. I eat when I am hungry. I stop eating when I am full. I have no control if I gain the weight or not I never have had any control. I used to make my self eat so much that I would get sick, and for what? to please a bunch of people who don't even matter. I no longer care what people think of my body. My body is mine and I love it the way it is. I wouldn't change a thing.(unless I could have bigger boobs. I would love bigger boobs.)

      For quite sometime now, I have known my passion in life. My passion in life is protecting people children in particular I want to stop child abuse as you may have read in my previous autobiography we wrote in first semester I talked about my past and my experience of being abused physically by my mothers ex-boyfriend. I have always wanted to help kids who were in a situation like mine. I want to let them know that they are not alone, but mostly I want to put an end to child abuse. I would like to start going to elementary schools and talking to the children who the administrators think might be abused at home. All types of child abuse are horrible it makes no difference if the abuse is mental or physical abuse is abuse and it must be stopped I would do what ever it takes to help a child who has been abused because I have been in their shoes. I know what its like to not have someone believe you.

    Children are resilient they are some of the toughest humans I know and I think that given the right tools they can be so much more than what they are told they can be.

    Child abuse is a big problem in all parts of the country and the world it doesn't matter where you are many children get abused and neglected.

  I know I may have gotten off topic on this, but I hope you enjoy it.

Reading Response 2

By Kacie Potts

Many times as a child I knew the feeling of hunger opening the cabinets to find nothing in there and I mean nothing. when I see companies like the Good Spread Peanut Butter company which gives a package of peanut butter to a person in need for every package sold. If you would like to know more about the Good Spread company then click Here to find out more. A TON of food is wasted every year. the solution is simple when a large manufacturing company has produced too much of a product why not give it away to a food bank rather than throw it away. There is a new thing going around you may have even seen a meme about it on Facebook and thought this can't be true, but it is. I'm talking about the suspended coffee. What's a "suspended coffee?" you ask well when you go to your favorite coffee house and order a cup of coffee or a pastry order a second and have it suspended this suspended cup of coffee is a good way to give back to the people who would otherwise do without. Companies like these are the ones people should use because they give back to the world.   

Article One Response

By. Kacie Potts

 

    Guys I have a problem. A problem with "Bad Verbs" I need to get help. after reading the article I defiantly found out that I use many verbs in the wrong way. For example, before I read the article I was more than guilty of using many verbs in the wrong way. I often will use lay rather than laid, lie rather than lay and in true Missourian fashion I seen something rather than saw something.

The article was very helpful to me. It helped me fix some of my most common grammar mistakes I feel like this article is going to help me become a more fluent writer. I plan to use these rules in my future writing in this class. I however do not see the point in reading the article. I guess I just learn better by seeing the rules in practice not with just reading.

 

 

 

 



Superior Skydiving. A PchaKucha response
 By Kacie Potts.

      A woman by thee name of Lyn Langlais had always wanted to skydive. She quickly fell in love with the sport right away. I guess you could say it was love at first jump. This presenter is extremely passionate about the sport of Skydiving. She has jumped a great deal of  times.

     I like how passionate he is about the sport, but I already said that. I like how she has a deeper story that is personal to her. she makes the story very interesting by adding pictures of her personally Skydiving. I do think she could have added more facts about the sport it may make the presentation more interesting. The presentation as a whole was very nice I enjoyed hearing her story about the sport of Skydiving.

Face to Face Response
    
      My response to the way we as Americans treated the Muslims after the terror attacks on September 11, 2001 and the treatment toward Japanese Americans after the bombing on Pearl Harbor was  horrible " Get off my porch you dirty jap!" one woman screamed at a young Japanese woman named Satsuki Ina. This gave Satsuki nightmares and it might just give me some nightmares as well. I am just outraged by the fact that American who are supposed to stand for equality for all and is not standing by that. I feel in order to have a snowballs chance in hell at ending racism we as people need to understand that we fear what we do not understand everyone needs to take the time to understand the point of view of others even if we don't agree with their opinions. We need to understand that not all Muslims or Japanese people are bad every race, religion and country all have bad people who want to cause harm it does not matter if you are Caucasian, African American, Muslim, Spanish or Asian every single race on earth has bad people who do not want to do any sort of good for their nation. To judge a group in its entirety based on the decisions and actions of a small percentage of the people of the group make is a good way to show just how ignorant some people can be.

Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins

     Recently I have re read one of my favorite books it is the first book  I a wonderful trilogy. The Hunger Games is about a futuristic society in which there are 12 districts that are forced to put all the names of the children eight through 18 years old into a drawing. From the drawing two names are drawn for each district one boy and one girl. These children then become tributes in the Hunger Games a yearly competition to the death that is not over until one lone tribute the Victor is crowned the winner. Katniss Everdeen flips the games on heir head in this book, and I enjoyed every singe page of the book.

     This book made me wonder what it would be like to compete in a battle to the death? Would I win? Would I have any allies? What will the arena be made of? My brain flew right into a million and one questions, So I decided to take a trip into my imagination and here is what I found. It was me Boots on hair frizzed and messed up matted into knots that I might never get undone. I herd a noise and turned knife in my hand ready for anything and luckily I had my knife ready the gigantic creature with snarling teeth lunges toward me. I let it take me to the ground and right as it tries to pounce on my I stab it in the chest hearing the ribs crush under the pressure of my knife. Pulling my knife up out off its chest I clean off the blood on my jacket. Then the illusion was gone I was back to my normal reality of school and homework. It would be such a cool experience to live through that traumatic of an event.

this quote that comes from the movie I believe  doesn't really have anything to do with the above story it made me think of myself. " You have about as much charm as a dead slug" 
This picture is from the movie and Katniss is about to start the Hunger Games. She is nervous and scared, but who could blame her.