Semmester Exam

One Halloween my parents dressed up like Danny and Sandy from their favorite movie. They looked really crazy with big hair and leather clothes. And come to find out they were dressing up like characters from a famous musical. Grease is story about love and high school hardships. In a way this 1978 film is alot like the more modern High School Musical film. I really like the ways both of these films show the tough love and pressure that comes along with being in high school.

This film originally started out as a play in 1973 and then 5 years later erupted into this huge film production. This movie includes tons of singing and dancing. A story about two high school kids (Danny and Sandy)meeting on summer vacation and falling in love. Then when school rolls around next year at Ridell High they find themselves back together again. Danny turns out to be too cool for school and too cool for Sandy as well. Until jealousy gets the best of him, now he is competing for Sandy's heart all over. When she finally takes him back he makes their relationship official with his class ring, and then blows it all at the drive in movie. Sandy realizing how much she loves Danny decides maybe that it is time for her to make some changes. And arrives at the end of the year carnival dressed in tight leather and red lipstick and "Wows" Danny.

To me this movie is alot like the newer day High School Musical. Alot of the plot is similar. In High School Musical Gabriella and Troy meet at a New Years party on Christmas vacation. Alot like how Danny and Sandy meet. Then when school starts they realize they go to school together. And even though they want to talk and like each other the crowds they run in keep them apart, same as in Grease. Unlike in Grease, in High School Musical, the music and singing is what brings the kids together.

I personally love both of these musicals. The way the producers exaggerate the the kids life in high school, they show the peer pressure and heart break. And then at the same time they lighten everything up with the singing and dancing. I don't like that in Grease Sandy and Danny feel like they have to change who they are to be together. But besides that I adore both productions.

So from dancing and singing in the late 70's with Danny and Sandy, to basketball games and decathlons with Gabriella and Troy. These are both wonderful musicals about love and high school.And I will probably still be watching then long past my high school years.

Fiddler On The Roof

A town with very strong traditions and a very content way of living. In pre-revolutionary Russia. In a town of poor jewish families, a man with with 3 daughters struggles to marry them off. But the eldest stilll doesn't have a match and the others can't get married until she does. The younger of the two are eager to get married until the eldest makes them realize that they might get a bad match. But mean while the matchmaker has found a match for her in the town butcher, who is very old but wealthy.But she is secretly in love with her childhood friend, who is a very poor tailer. Without her knowing her father meets with the butcher and makes a match with the two of them.

One of the officers stops him after celebrating and warns him that the russians are being ordered to do bad things to the jews.

Then the eldest daughter starts to fall in love with one her fathers house guests from Keiv.

When the elderst daughter finds out that she is to be married to the butcher, she is very upset and trys to make her father understand that she doesn't want to marry him. And he agrees. Then her childhood love shows up and asks for her hand in marriage,

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Mr. Bean goes to the pool. And trys to go down the baby slide and gets introuble. The he goes over to the adult swimming pool and sees the big diving board and goes on it. Then he sees how high it is and gets scared. Then some kids come on the diving bored and he is trying to be brave and jump off but he os to scared. Then the life guard sees him hanging from the bored and the little kids push him off. Then in the splash he looses his pants. Then its time to leave and he cant get out because he doesn't have any pants. Then a girls swin team sees him nakey. Then when he is trying to leave he doesnt have the money for his parking charge so he is waiting for someone else to go through so he can get out of the gate. Then he finally gets the gate to lift and someone comes through the gate so he has to reverse back into the gate. Then he runs through the gate when someone else is trying to get in. Then he goes to the park for lunch and makes this sandwhich with things that he pulls out of this jacket. Then he drops it all and theguy nest to him shares his sandwhich. Then he goes to a movie. And sits next to this lady and scares her the hole time. Then he gets scared by the movie and she doesnt.

Non-verbal Communication

Non verbal communication is comminication without words.
Mr. bean is copying everything the other guy does, and trying to do better han him. He is taking a test and very worried about the contents of the exam. He doesn't know the answers for the test so he trys and copies off of the guy. Then the guy decides wroye the wrong thing so he has to start over and Mr. Bean has to copy all over again. He realizes Mr. Bean is cheating and hides the paper.
Mr. Bean goes to the beach. He wants to put his swim suit on but there is a guy there. So he puts it on over his clothes. Then trys to take off his clothes!! Then he realizes the guy is blind! Then Mr. Bean goes to church. He acts really bored when the preacher starts talking. Then he sneezes and blows his nose into his jacket pocket. Then he falls asleep on the guy next to him. And falls on the floor, and gets scared and jumps up all crazy and stuff. Then he trys and holds his eyes open. Then he finds a peice of candy and eats it. Then he doesn't know the words to the song so he pretends to sing.
In non-verbal communication Mr. Bean uses alot of hand jestures, and alot of body language.
Mr.Bean sees a gfuy playing a instument but he doesn't have any money so he starts dancing and gives the guy what money he makes.Then he goes into a department store and gets choked by all the smell of perfume. Then he is looking for a toothbrush and takes one out of the package and uses it to make sure he likes it. Then gets a different one. Then he tests out potato peelers witha potato he pulled out his pocket. And then the same thing with a frying pan and a fish. Then he gets his credit card mixed up with another guys while trying to check out. Then he goes out to eat and writes a birthday card someone and seals it up and then a couple minutes later opens it acting all surprised. The he looks for something on the menu that he has enough money for. Then he makes music with his knife and the glasses. Then his meal arrives and the steak isn't cooked enough and he trys and hides the steak so that they wont know he didn't eat it. Then he trips the waiter and he spills the food all over Mr. Bean. Then the manager gets him ahole new meal.
Then he is at a royal party trying to think of the proper way to great the royal family. Then he realizes his breath stinks so he is trying to make it smell better. Then he cleans his teeth with his finger.Then he pulls a sting out of a ladies apron to floss his teeth with, and her apron breaks.Then the Queen comes in and his zipper is stuck. Then he knocks out the queen.
In non-verbal communication Mr, Bean uses alot of very exaggerated facial expressions.

Bilingual Educations

Bilingual education is up for debate. Bilingual education is a program used to bridge non-english speaking students, and to gradually move them into mainsteam english speaking classes. Students can and have preformed without this program. And many people disagree with this program. But however I think that this program could be very helpful and should absolutly be used in schools where there is a large population of spanish speaking students.

"When schools provide children education in their primary language, they give them two things: knowledge and literacy," say Stephen Krashen. Bilingual education takes Spanish speaking students and teaches them main things like math, science, history, etc. in their primary language and then comprehends those things into English. This program helps those students with English literacy and subject matter knowledge. This gives the students a much better chance at excelling and being successful.

Can non-English speaking students pass their courses without this bilingual program? Yes students can perform and have succeeded, but not with much needed help prom smaller programs such as De facto bilingual program. Which is a one on one system that helps Spanish speaking students with their work and to better comprehend the work they are having problems with. I think still that the bilingual education would be much more effective. Especially for bigger schools with a higher population of Hispanic students.

Although as much as 87% of academic publications support the bilingual education program there are still many who disagree with this program. Many of the people who disagree with it don't even really disagree with the program. They disagree with other details such as requiring teachers to learn the second language in order to keep their jobs. Others who are against the program believe that in cities and states with high Hispanic populations should have Spanish speaking schools. "English was not always the primary language of education in American schools," says Rosalie Porter.

These things all may be true and should all be taken into consideration, but after all my research I still believe the bilingual education program would be a very effective program. I don't think its necessary however to have complete Spanish speaking schools.

Ipods

Alot of schools are trying to ban Ipods. A school in Mt. View and many other schools have already made this ban. They say that students are using the devices to cheat.

I do not agree with this ban. Students that are going to cheat aren't goingtop just because they don't have their Ipods to help then. People have been cheating in school ever sense school was invented I'm sure. And this ban is also not fair for students that don't cheat! What about the students that are in sports and stuff after school that are allowed to use their Ipods? Or students that ride the bus home? How can you ban all students from having their Ipods? Wouldn't it be much easier and less intense if schools just didn't allow Ipods during testing periods?

Link to my comment about banning Ipods.

European Deathstorm

The storm, Xynthia, blew into France early Sunday morning with hurricane force winds. This storm destroyed the sea walls, dating back to the age of Napoleon, and left over a million homes without electricity.
This storm also hit Belgium, Portugal, Spain, and parts of Germany. Cutting off all air and train travel across the continent.