A Hero?

What is a Hero? A lot of people have different opinions on what a hero is, but how do we know if they are a real hero? They can be role models that people live up to or people that work as heroes daily.

I think a Hero is someone who believes in what they do, what they do in a good way. People who work hard and sometimes wouldn’t want anything in return.  They need kindness, determination, fearlessness, and dedication of their own lives for others. Some heroes live to became famous heroes and others are people we never heard about.  Some heroes can be fiction and unreal, others can be people who we see in magazines and on t.v.  daily. Heroes can be people who dedicate their lives to their country, like soldiers, Then there is people who risk their lives to help other like firefighters and police. Then there is people who want to put stop and help others, like missionaries. People who are heroes can come from anywhere, they do not need to be great people with lots of money, being a hero is not someone who is giving money to charity and help people, they aren’t exactly heroes to everybody, maybe the people who they help.They are giving, but they do not put their lives into it. They do not risk much of their lives.

I think a good example of a hero would be someone like Mary Slessor.  Mary Slessor moved with her family to Dundee, Scotland  from a town close Aberdeen. Her father was an Alcoholic who lost his job as an shoemaker, her family decided to move and see if  this would stop her dad from drinking and get a good job. It help for about the first month and then he started again. She had a family of seven children, but four of them survived.  Mary had to get a job to take care of her family because of her father’s lack of  support. Mary had to work in an cotton mill and go to school. When her father turned 30 he died of Pnuemonia, Mary’s family didn’t  know if they were sad or relieved about this. When this happened her family’s dreams of having an missionary were gone.  When Mary turned 27 she realized that her role model David Livingstone passed away and she was determined to “go forward” like him and start a missionary. She tried to go to Calabar, but fell sick three times but still  made it. After living three years in Calabar as an missionary she decided to go to Africa were no other white person has settled before. She fell sick with Malaria after 16 months of recovery she had returned to Calabar, she couldn’t go back to the missionary so she started her own orphanage, many people came to her for help, people started leaving children on her doorstep. She had so many to take care she started to get help from the people in the tribes, especially younger girls. After time she adopted twins, she saved her son and daughter from another tribe who believed that having twins brings them curses. A cruel man killed her son and her daughter grew up by her side. Mary spent 39 years helping people around Calabar. Mary was only 5 feet tall, she stood up to many warriors, chiefs, witch doctors, and murderers. Her adventures helped from healing hundreds of people (including chiefs), rescuing prisoners and slaves and wives from being murdered, saving many children and babies, fighting against the most frightening tribes, settling many disputes among tribes and neighbors, assisting chiefs in decisions for their tribe, and sometimes just telling one person about the love of god. Mary died at the age 67 of a jungle disease. She was called the “miracle of Africa”. In the time of her disease, her daughter, and the people who she helped stood by her side.

Do you think Mary was a Hero? I Think so, she risked her life for others, and had a tragic life at the beginning of her own. SHe never really wanted anything in return, except for the people she helped to be happy.

Dear Santa….

             One Wish… Blog Post

A cure for cancer is my one wish this Christmas, It is not a simple thing to ask for, it is not like a sports car or an Ipod, but it is a present that is needed for many people in the world. There has been millions of people that has been dying of all kinds of different cancer. And I bet that a lot of people that is reading this blog post at least knows someone who had cancer before. 7.9 million people died in the year of 2007, that is a lot of people who had suffer and there has been  lots of people who are suffering of cancer at this moment. In the year of 2007 was one of the last years that have been recorded, just to wonder how many people died of cancer in the last year. There is so many things that can cause cancer and Smoking is one of the biggest, So many people can get lung cancer or mouth cancer, or even throat cancer. And it is no just people who can get cancer, Animals can also get cancer, that is pretty threatening to me.  3,000 people die each year from getting cancer from second hand smoke.

Why is a cure for cancer important? Well… There are lots of reasons why, first of all, People DIE from cancer! that itself should be an excellent reason. A good thing is that there are people that can survive cancer, but I will mostly still live with them what happened to them when they have cancer. There are so many kinds of cancer fro exp. Anal Cancer, a Brain Tumor, Head and Neck Cancer, Leukemia, Lung Cancer, And Mouth Cancer are a couple of kinds, but there are hundreds of kinds of cancer.

11.5 million people by 2030 will die each year of Cancer that must be a good enough reason for a cure for Cancer. A lot of people are dying because of smoking and there are different kinds of cancer just as bad as lung cancer, and people haven’t really realised how bad cancer is! And it is Important to know. If your smoking you don’t know is you can get cancer. 40% of cancer can be prevented, there isn’t much of a cure for most of the cancer and it would be great if there was a cure. People have been trying to find a cure for cancer , but it was not so easy, I guess.

 

The Outsiders ( The End )

In this parts a lot happens to everyone in the book, from the death of Dally and Johnny, to the sadness or no emotions of the the gang.

Ponyboy was siting in a car and he was eating and he had a pop. That is when a bunch of Socs walked up to him and threaten him, Him not caring a bit, he got out of the car feeling nothing except the hatred for the socs. He broke open his pop bottle and threaten the Socs back and the left feeling scared, while mostly the only thing that Ponyboy felt was hatred t well… nothing.

Emotions in the book is probably the strongest thing that comes up in the book, there are parts were the are scared, mad, sad, were they feel hated, and then there are parts were some people don’t feel nothing. I bet only felt nothing because the Socs blamed him for what happened to Rob, but it was mostly their fault. Johnny suffered for what he did and in the end he only became a hero. And I think when he saved those kids he didn’t feel nothing, and the only thing he was really thinking was to save those kids. That was one strong emotion in the book. Was the emotions Important in the book?  Yes I think so, and it was really needed in the book to. The characters, mostly didn’t have much except for the gang and those who had family. but some of their family’s didn’t even want them. I think that is emotions about what their family’s are and what they were to them also gave them lots of emotions in the book. i think it is Important to talk about the emotions in this book. it is a big part of the book, and in the end of the book it is something that made it better for them.

One part in the last chapter that was very important too, was the last couple of chapters with the book report and Johnny’s letter, but who will have to read the book to know what happens there.

Ponyboy didn’t really know what to right his report on, and in the end he made a really good decision what he those for hi theme. Writing his theme about his incredible unbelievable last couple of weeks in his life was really important to him.  In the book there has been a lot about choices and believes too. Johnny could have made the choice not to kill Rob, but them Ponyboy would have drowned and then what kind of choice would that have been? Did Johnny pick the right thing to do? Yes I think he did and what he had done is showing how much Ponyboy meant to him and that must have been important to Johnny!

The main things that I think that was important in the book was The Poem, The choices the people made in the book, and the emotions,.

What do you think if the book haven’t had these things? Do you think the book will still be the same or not?

I definitely  don’t think it would be the same, I think it would have changed everything, and that the book wouldn’t make much sense. But who knows what it would really be like?

That is about it for the THE OUTSIDERS, I think it is a really good book, that is very important based on. The book was really good and people who haven’t read must read it. It is really sad but teaches some too.

The Outsiders Chapter 5 – 8

In these chapter is covers a lot of the book and probably also so has the more important scenes that the others. In the earlier chapters Johnny killed a Socs and ran away to the Country with Ponyboy, were they were living for about a week and they were scared and Dally hooked them up with the old church that his cousin told him about once and Dally said, “he will come and see them in a couple days time.” When Dally came too see them he gave a letter to Ponyboy that Soda had given him and in the letter it said a lot about how Scared they were and how sorry Darry was for hitting him the night of the murder, So Dally took Ponyboy and Johnny out for a bite to eat and came back to see that church was on fire and there were a bunch of small kids that came up there for a picnic. The teacher a couple was missing, they could be inside the church and then Ponyboy ran in to get them and Johnny was following the saved the kids that was in the Church, but as they were trying to get out Ponyboy got out and then in went Dally to get Johnny because te roof collapsed on Johnny. Johnny didn’t make out so good with a broken back and half of his body burnt, Dally at least did a lot better, They didn’t even know if Johnny was going to survive.

Almost after all the charges was dropped against Johnny for being a hero and that he only killed the guy in self defense, Things went back pretty to normal, but Johnny was in the Hospital half dying and Ponyboy got a better relationship with Darry. Even one of the Socs came and asked for an apology and told Ponyboy that the guy Johnny killed wasn’t really a bad guy and that all he really wanted was an No for an answer for once. The night of that there was going to be a big fight clearing out all the stuff between the Grease and the Socs, bringing everything back to normal.

In this part of the book there is really big characters, everyone in this part of the book is main characters. One is Cherry Valance, a socs girl helping out the greasers to settle it once and for all. She was the guy who was killed girlfriend and her best friend ( Marcia ) was his best friends Girlfriend. And her helping the greasers is how she is helping out for what happened to Johnny and Rob ( the guy who got killed), although she didn’t want to see Johnny because he was the guy who killed Rob, and she loved Rob and it would just make her sad to see him for lots of reasons.

There is a poem in the book that come up called ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, It takes time an a lot of thinking to understand what it means but it plays a very big role in the book. The poem was writing by a writer called Robert Frost. This poem says a lot about life, and a lot about how there is only good for a little while in lot of ways. And this effect everyone in the book. Where this came up in the book was were Johnny and Ponyboy is out watching over the valley behind an old church watching dawn, and Ponyboy remembers this poem he did in school once and reads, he said that he never really understood what it meant though.

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

There is a part in the book were the church was burning down and Johnny, Ponyboy and Dally saved the little kids from the church there was after when they found out that Johnny and Ponyboy were greasers that ended up as hero’s. People were really stereotype against greasers being heroes. I don’t like how they do that in the book, what I don’t understand is why? Socs are people who jump and hurt others and it is not like someone to be stereotype against them. Greasers are people just as much as the Socs, and it is not fair to them. Also the Socs have no right to be rude to greasers, just because the greasers doesn’t have as much money. I think that Socs and greasers are just people,like ponyboy said that the Socs, No the person is as much person as everyone else, and that he is just a guy, like Rob who only wanted something, or nothing and not everything. A simple No can also change a persons life, like it could’ve of change Rob’s but he died. That is what changed the other Socs the death of their friend, is what made some realize, but it still could never change between the Socs and the Greasers.

The book is only puzzling up at the moment and it is just about half way, but a lot already happen and a lot is still come forth that I think with Dally and Johnny and Darry and Soda and the Relationship with Ponyboy and Johnny. But I really like it at this part. We have been having a lot on the character values and stuff in class and that helps me understand more bout whats happening to the characters and their emotions.

The image below show people and I think that is how greasers and Socs are suppose to be, they should be people, Not people who are separate because of money.

Outsider Ch. 1-4 ( Begining )

This book has very sad and some violent scene’s in it, It is talking lot about gangs and the difference between wealthy people and well.. Not so wealthy. There is a couple gangs in the book that you will hear of but the main people in the book are mostly Ponyboys gang. In Ponyboys gang he has his two brothers, Darry and Sodapop, he has Soda and Darry friends, Two-Bit and Dally, and then there is Johnny. Soda and Johnny is probably closets to Ponyboy. Ponyboy is the main character, but he also goes through a lot with Johnny in these chapters. There is a scene were they are with two girls, ther is a scene where they are at the Park and scene where they are running away. In the book ponyboy and Johnny probanly has the most history too, especially with the Socs. The Socs are the wealthier people who drive expensive cars and wears expensive clothes and accesories. Then there is the Oppisite from them The Greasers. The Greasers are like Ponyboy and the Gang, the poorer people. Both, the Greasers and Socs has their own sides, The Socs the East Side and the Greasers the West. Johnny hasn’t have much of a family except for the gang, his parent don’t care much of him and also abuse him. Ponyboy only has his two older brothers. There is Darry he is the oldest, but Ponyboy doesn’t like him that much, because he thinks that Darry hates him. And then there is Soda, Soda is the one that Ponyboy is the closets, since Their Parents died Ponyboy’s only relays on Soda. Soda is always there for Ponyboy and Ponyboy loves him, and he is always there for him and do stuff with Ponyboy. Greasers are scared of the Socs if they are alone, because the Socs always jumps the Greasers if they have the chance, that is why and Johnny is very close. They would stick together with each other.

The book so far is very interesting and I like it. It has good description of all the characters and scene’s and there is a lot happening at the moment in the book, And that is what keeps you thinking. There is a lot in the book that happens that separate’s people and how people feel. It also give a lot about the person’s personality, and what they are thinking.

October!!!

Well, we are already some ways into October and so far it has been Awesome! We now have only a couple of school days left. The Upcoming week we only have like almost 2 days of school, because we have Monday off because of thanksgiving, ans I think We have Thurday half day or something and Friday. The whole month of October We have a total of 15 school days for the whole Month. The best thing of it all is at the end of the Month We have Halloween.

     

This is going to be my first year of Halloween and I am pretty excited. Halloween  is going to so much fun! We are hopefully going Trick or Treating with my friends. And there is a school dance sometime around there. It is going to be fun, and i hope everybody else enjoy’s Halloween too.

Bar Code

Today Oct.7 Is the Invention of the Bar Code and in Celebration Google made their own Bar Code. It is pretty cool what an Bar Code can do. The Google Bar Code marks the 57th Anniversary of the day the first Patent of the Bar Code was made on the  Bar Code. A Bar Code is an ‘Optical machine -Reliable’ representation of data. Bar Codes Represented data in widths, lines and the and the spacing between parrallel lines. Bar Codes may be referred to what is  a linear or 1 dimensional Bar Codes or Symbologies. They are almost Universal, And soon will be.

 

The first Bar Codes was to label Railway cars, But they where not succesfully used until they were used for groceries checkouts systems.

RoboCon in Kenya

We have to write our post for the week, and Mr.Fsher gave us an Igoogle tab with bunch of interesting stuff on it and I came upon this post I can write mine form. The post is about colleges and University’s that had a competition were they built robots, Out of this came a bunch of interesting stuff, and how the technology grew in the past few years, just think that years ago there wasn’t even t.v. now there is robots and this is made by people in their middle college years. The Contest Original name is  ‘RoboCon Kenya 2009 Nairobi regional, this is only the first sneak peaks to go to the Original Website Click here, or This Website.That is the Original post and is on AfriGadget Website. The contest took place at Kenya Polytechnic, On Oct. 3rd . The contest is based to provide food for Kenya communities for Upkeep. They built the Robots to transport the food for Granary’s to different communities. The theme of RoboCon Kenya will be “Robotic For Enhancing Access To a Healthy Diet”. Those where the exact words from the original post. It is Interesting how the are going to use the Robots to carry Granary, and each Robot has some kind of small Platform that’s only few centimetre’s long for the Granary.

Here are some picture’s from the Website-

 

  
 

 

Update :)

Time has been flying since school started, we are in th 4th week of school already. The weather in Snow Lake at the moment is Is terrible, about 3 days ago it was warm and we where wearing shorts out, since Yesterday it’s not so nice everybody is wearing mits and warmed up jackets and….. IT’S Slightly snowing. Well everybody knew it can’t be nice forever, but I wish it could! We are working on a couple new projects in school, Today we are starting on a game called children of the Nile, and In E.L.A. We are busy on doing a readerworkshop, But I will keep up to date with that later.

Bye

First 8 days

It has been the first 8 days of school, and it has been awesome, this week we got a lot of stuff done, like we had a dancer for the week, he teached us Breakdancin (WOOHOO) It was fun, we also have been working on theories of where people came from, and how long before people was created on earth in someway. People can always keep track on a bunch of stuff we do if you go to this website!  We do a lot of things on the computer and that website has all our blogs and most websites we work on, So everyone can see our work on the internet. The last couple of days we started getting use to the routine and sstuff  in class, just like settling in and getting to know the new classmates and people we didn’t have in our class last year.

Here is a picture and video of Mr.Fisher’s Logo for all the work he has done, and what kind of work we are going to do. It is a pretty awesome video