Reflection

This school year was a very exciting and challenging year for me. From taking a higher leadership role in ROTC to taking AP Language. Before i ever considered participating in AP Language, I use to hear the juniors  discuss to each other about how hard AP was and how much work you had to do in order to succeed in AP. At the end of my sophomore year, I was given the opportunity to enroll in AP Language. The juniors advised me not to take it, but I had to see for myself, not to mention I love challenges. My first week in AP, I was ready to get out, I thought it was too much of a challenge for me. I went home and talked to my mother about it, and she told me not to give up so easily. I still had a little pondering to do, but i had made my decision by the time the second week had approached. I decided to stay around and to accept the challenge, I knew it wasn't going to be an easy journey. After a while, I adjusted to the way AP works. The class was becoming interesting and fundamental because I was surrounded around all my friends and a great teacher. Mrs. Day was the best teacher I had this year. She assigned us some  interesting books to read, such as invisible man & animal farm. Those books was the best and I think she should continue to make her classes read them. There's not really much a great teacher need to change, but the only thing Mrs. Day need to do for her future class is to give syllabus to her students through out the year. This year a lot of my work was late because i always forgot what was due on what day, and a syllabus would have been been beneficial to me. Other than that, Mrs.Day did an outstanding job this year. The pieces we read was A-1, such as "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and " Why I want a Wife" etc. Mrs.Day was an awesome teacher and I can't wait to see what she has plan for her AP Literature class next year. This year was an awesome school year because i had one of the best teachers.   

Why We Eat What We Eat

Why We Eat What We Eat?

 We are researching why we eat the foods we eat, for My 5th period class, so i decided to share what i learned. . Our objective is to examine the things that affect you and your family’s nutrition and eating habits through life. The C.L.E is to put to use nutrition and food rules that develop people health.  I found out that we eat certain foods for several of reasons, from social influences to personal influences. In the next few paragraphs, I will elaborate more on the different reasons on why we eat what we eat.

The first reason is social influences, which are: regional traditions, cultural, religion, family, friends, and media. Regional traditions influence what I eat because I’m from the south. In the south we eat pig feet, grits, and chitins. For example, Up north Chitins probably cost more than they do in the south, so people in the north may not eat them like we eat them in the south. The south is also known for the best Bar-B-Q, so we have a lot of places that sells bar-b-q, which mean I eat a lot of bar- b- q because it’s a huge supply here. Cultural also have an influence on what I eat. For example, I eat Chinese rice and sesame chicken. I also eat tacos which are from México. Religion doesn’t influence what I eat. I don’t have any religion rules that would stop me from eating certain foods.  My family has the most influence on what I eat. When my mother cooks some new, she makes us eat it, so we have no choice but to eat it. My family also influenced what I eat because we stay in the same house, and we all have different taste, but we encourage each other to try new things. For example, One day my sister tried something new with her noodles, she put butter peppers, seasoning, and hot sauce, and so now I make my noodles the same way.  My friends are another big influence. My friends bring new things to school and offer it to me, me being me I reject at first, but then I’ll give it a try. For example, one day my Hispanic friend brought some spicy Mexican candy to school, and she let me try it, but I didn’t like it. Media plays a big role on why I eat what I eat also. The media have the skill to make things look and sound so delicious. For example, food from Crystals look better on Television than it do in person. It makes me want to go buy some food from Crystals, even though I don’t eat they food anymore. For example, when taco bell started making that Doritos locos taco commercial, I immediately told my mother to take me to taco bell. 

The final reason is personal influences, which are: personal tastes, physical change, and lifestyle. My personal tastes really influence my food choices a lot. I’m a very picky person when it comes to my food. If it doesn’t look good, or smell good, I will not try it. There are so many things that I just don’t like to eat.  For example, I hate tomatoes, so if something has tomatoes on it I will not eat it for nothing in the world. Physical change really doesn’t influence what I eat, but it does just a little bit. I’m working on getting rid of my acne. It has cleared up a lot, but if I want it completely gone I have to stop drinking a lot of acid and sugars. I really don’t drink a lot of sodas with acid in them, and don’t eat a lot of sweets. My lifestyle really doesn’t affect what I eat. Sometimes, in my house, it’s every man for them self. My mother cooks like 3 times a week. I cook sometimes, and my little sister cooks every blue moon. If neither one of us cook, then everybody fin for them self. For example, I would just fix me a sandwich with some chips on the side, my sister will fix like two packs of noodles, and my mother on the other hand would just find some to eat.  Sometimes we will just go buy some fast food and call it a day. For example, we will probably eat taco bell, subway, or McDonalds. JROTC affects my eating too. In JROTC when we have a drill meet, competition, or some type of activity, we just go back to the school. When we get back to the school, we order pizza, go buy some snacks, drinks, and whatever else we may want. In JROTC, we eat a lot of pizza. When volleyball season was in, we didn’t eat before the game, so after the game I would always go to McDonalds. I learned that a lot of things influence what I eat.

                            "Keep America American"

What do you think of when you hear this phrase " Keep America American?" Well, Mitt Romney used this phrase as a slogan. This slogan was once used by the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920's. When I heard that this slogan once belonged to the KKK's I instantly said  that Romney was racist. I don't think this was just a mis-understanding, I believe he knew that " Keep America American' came from the KKK's and just thought no one would catch on to it. People are trying to say that they twisted his words and he said " Keep America America", but I honestly think he said " Keep America American." In my opinion, Romney has the same mind set as the KKK's did, I say that because of the slogan he is using. For someone to be trying to get people votes, that slogan is not doing him justice. It's only making blacks dis like him and other races such as Hispanics, Africans etc. In my opinion, Romney is basically trying to say he want to get rid of the other races besides white. Instead of him trying to build our country up, he rather bring it down . By that i mean in \stead of him trying to help the less fortunate he rather help the people with money and basically leave the unfortunate, which mainly consist of blacks and Hispanics, behind.Nicki Minaj really struck a nerve with me when she mention in her song that she would be voting for Romney. To be honest, I only think she said that to get people attention because, in my opinion Nicki has been falling off. Then again she is Nicki Minaj and she just say stupid stuff just cause she can. A lot of people is mad at Nicki for saying she"s going to vote for Mitt Romney, she will be losing a lot of fans because of that. I don't dislike her because of who she's voting for, but I do think she's crazy for choosing him. How do you guys feel about Mitt Romney slogan and Nicki Minaj decision?      

  In AP yesterday, I had to explain the treatment of one as a whole based on the book "Invisible Man". Well, I  explained the quote the best way i could, but the teacher said I did good but I didn't explain it how she thought i would. I went home and re-read the quote, now I understand what she was talking about.

Dr. Bledsoe said, "You can't be soft with these people. We mustn't  pamper them." Mr. Bledsoe is excluding himself from " these people" he speak of. He is a referring to the black people, but Mr. Bledsoe is black himself. He said this to Mr.Norton, I think Mr. Bledsoe forgot that he was once and still is apart of "these people" he talking about. He think just because he is more educated and is the principal of the school that he is different from his own race. I feel that he was wrong for saying that. Just because you have a little more you are still apart of the black race, and that's how the white people see it. In my opinion he made himself look bad. I think that's how my teacher wanted me to explain it. I learned that sometimes when you re-read things you understand it more and sometimes you get a different message the second time you read something.