Final assessment

Throughout the school year I've had my ups and downs, but I'm pretty sure that my work this year as been outstanding. I may not have completed all of my assignments on time but I have completed roughly 19/24 assignments to the best of my abilities which is about 79%. The reason why that number isn't 100 is because I have had a lot of trouble with some of the assignments, like, for example the assignment where I had to choose a song and write to how it relates to me, I had trouble with this one because I am not good at realizing how I feel, so if i hear a song I like, I just know I like it, but I don't really know why, and for the relating to a real life experience to something that happened in rwanda, well, my life is really boring and I haven't really done anything relatable to, well anything. However I have done most of the assignments, and I few of them I like to think, I knocked out of the park, The links are here: Persona project and a short story:

 project. For most of my assignments I worked probably 1 hour or so, but others I did in about 20 minuets because they had to be done. I think that my writing skill has increased throughout the school year due to the fact that I have been taking this class more seriously. In the beginning I thought that this class was a lazy class where I could slack off and chill with my "homies", I have never been so wrong. It took me a while to realize that this was an important class in my learning process. I think my writing needs great improvement because I have a really hard time putting my thought to text, even though I think I have pretty good ideas, even though I can't necessarily communicate them to the best of my abilities but I need work Expressing my ideas.


My commenting could use a lot of work I only have commented 43 times and my comments have been  helpful, for example this comment that I made in ryleys post was pretty good:

But ultimately I am scared to comment on other people's blogs because I am scared that people are going to be mad at me for telling them what to do.


I believe my self regulation has greatly improved since the beginning  of the year, still playing bubble games but only at the beginning of class and I still manage to get sidetracked but I always come out on top. The reason why I messed 7 classes is because I was sick. Sometimes my actions affect other people because I distract them by talking to them, but sometimes they talk to me first, so they are equally to blame. This semester I learned that I have a really hard time expressing myself in fear that I will be rejected, because in the long run all I want to do is fit in, the way I'm going to change this is by being less shy and putting myself out there.

I think my genius hour was a failure because I was completely disorganized and I knew what I wanted to say but, I had a hard time expressing my ideas and talking in front of people. The reason I chose the topic I did is because I really like minecraft and I kinda wanted to crack it open and see how it worked and modding it really helped me understand the game more. I was not really effective during the school time given because I did most of my work at home were I watched T.V or something so I wasn't so distracted. I think the presentation was terrible because I knew what I wanted to say but couldn't communicate it well under the pressure. From the comments I learned that I'm not good at presenting. I learned that I can be really responsible when given the opportunity and if i care about it I will learn a lot and do a good job. The reason I come to school is because I don't want to be that homeless guy on the street begging for money because school is lame and I wasn't smart enough to read the fine print on my hiring papers, not realizing that it was an unpaid job meaning that my house got repossessed causing me to work a double shift so I don't have time for my wife which means me catching her cheating on me, causing me to go mad, check into a looney bin and become unable to hold down a job due to my addiction to anti-psychotic medication making me beg on the street corner for my next fix, but seeing how I can only get this particular drug from the mental institute,I rob a bank and plea insanity, but they don't but it and I become big mac's bitch.

Overall I would like an 80%

Genius hour

I think that my genius hour could have gone better, I knew exactly what I wanted to say, but when I got up there I totally forgot everything I wanted to say and I assumed that everybody knew what I was talking about and neuf was basically talking me through the whole thing. It's a good thing we weren't marked on this because I think I would have failed.

What I think of class

When I first started this class I thought the purpose of this class was to take a different approach to learning. I think my responsibility in this class is to do your work and do it to the best of your ability. I think by using the wikis and the blogs you were trying to create a community of people teaching other people and communicating their ideas. I now see that the point of this class was to help people who have trouble learning, learn differently. I believe that the learning process is very important, but varies from person to person. My peers have helped my learning by telling me what i did wrong and how to fix it and i think i have helped people in the same way.

Basic human needs

Things I do everyday to survive:

1. Eat - Obviously people cannot survive without food
2. Sleep - The human body can survive longer without food than without sleep
3. Drink - Humans can only last about a week without water


Things I do everyday to feel powerful:

1. I make fun of Michael - Making fun of Michael is the only way to make myself feel smart, that's not to say Michael's not smart, in fact I'm pretty sure that he's smarter than me, but whenever we disagree Michael isn't very good at backing up his ideas and usually has his facts wrong, so I end up winning


Things I do everyday to belong

1. Get dressed - If I show up to school naked, there is no way in hell I'm fitting in, not speaking from experience, just a guess


Things I do everyday to feel free

1. Play Minecraft - In Minecraft there are no rules, you can do anything you want, and it gives you a sense of freedom knowing that you play the way you want to play and nobody can say you're doing it wrong.


Things I do everyday to have fun

1. I play video games - Videogames are fun and I enjoy playing them because I can do whatever I like as long as it's within the confines of the game

An Eye For An Eye (Short Story)

"An eye for an eye", that's what they all say, that's how I live, and it's worked out for me so far. Some people disagree with what I do, they call me a villain, a criminal the "Bad guy", but I think I'm much more than a "Low life criminal" I'm the hero, a vigilante, the only goddamn person in this fucked up world to do what's right and believe in it. Do you know what pisses me off? It's not the government, that's cliche`. No what I really hate are the people, the people who stand by and let bad things happen, not just the people who commit crimes, but the people who stand by with there slaked-jaw gaze doing jack shit about it. It's not the government's fault that people are cowards, but it seems like I'm the only person doing anything about it. It all started one day, when my parents were murdered, but it's not what you think, weren't  leaving the opera when some maniac jumped out from the shadows and killed them, no, nothing like that. I killed them.

My father always told me to fight for what I believe in, I think it's one of those things that parent's just tell you, boy I bet my father regrets telling me that. My dad was a crook, a murderer, thief, etc. He ran a law firm, he was a defense lawyer, because of him rapist, murderers and crooks were back on the streets. Tell me does that make him any better?   I asked him what happens when the people get convicted, "They die" he said,  I said "But everybody dies" He looked at me and said "These people get killed." Killed. These people get killed. That's exactly what he said. So calmly, they get killed, murdered, like it happens every day, and it does, because of him. when I asked him why they die he said "An eye for an eye" I asked him "They get killed because they kill?" he just nodded. "How does that make you any better?" he seemed pretty confused, which was strange because i thought my question was pretty straight forward. "If you let all the people that kill back on the street to kill again, doesn't that mean that you technically killed to?" He looked at me and said "I guess you could look at it that way" and he let out a little laugh. Yes, my dad was an idiot. I looked at him and asked "So, who kills you?" He looked at me panicked. "Why would you ask me that?" Needless to say I got sent to my room. I couldn't sleep, knowing that a murderer was sleeping not two rooms away, so I fought for what I believed in. It's a good thing that I keep a baseball bat beside my bed for intruders, and to me my dad is an intruder. If you really think about it it's my dad's fault, fight for what you believe in, I believe that murderers should get killed, well My dad's screams woke up my mom, she had it coming too. So, I was an orphan by thirteen.

Iv'e moved up since then, there was a doctor, a brain surgeon, he got drunk and killed a patient. So I had a talk with him, show him what it's like to be operated on by a drunk, unfortunately I didn't have anesthetic  or surgery tools, but I had gardening tools. Don't worry It wasn't slow, that's not what i'm about, because they know why their there, and they know why this is happening to them. That's all I want. Another man, killed a nine-year-old girl. He was high as a kite. He had a daughter, she was twenty five. I killed her right in front of him. Sure she wasn't the same age, but he knows what it's like to lose a daughter. The worst part is he didn't care, he just cared about getting high, so I thought i'd help him out, kind of a "Final request". Who knew 30g of "Magic mushrooms" injected directly into your heart would kill you. Well you cant really blame me, i'm not so good with drugs.There was still one person, that one person that I could't get, the one man that haunted me for years, but I could never kill him, but today he will finally get what's coming.

Before you flip that switch, before I die, I hope what i'm about to say will make you think. You asked me what my final words were,here they are. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,  you cant see the sin, but it's still in your mind, it's a disease you can't cure, a disease called sin, you just need to fight, for what you believe in.

Rwanda Theme

The story i chose to relate to the topics of rwanda is the novel 1984 By George Orwell.

 I chose this novel because it is about a man named "Big Brother" who has total control over the country and they use propaganda to make you think that "Big Brother" is da bomb, and if you even think about overthrowing the government they will arrest you and take you to jail.

I chose this novel because it relates to propaganda because of the posters posted round saying "Big Brother Is watching you"

Another theme is creation of outsiders because there is a group of people called "the brotherhood" that try to overthrow the government

Here is a video giving a brief overveiw of the novel:

Rwanda

1.Cause of hatred: the Belgians made one side (Tutsi) more powerful than the other (Hutu).  The Belgians did this to get diamonds and money, they used this as a distraction so they wouldn't know they were being robbed

2.Reasons for hatred: The Tutsi were given power to protect the Belgians and they abused their power and the Hutu got mad and they were tired of being abused (being raped, not being allowed to go to school with the Tutsi, for example)

3. Propaganda was used to spread hatred: the Hutu used the radio to rally each other and tell them  when they would have their rebellion

4. Reason for Hatred: the Hutu were sick of being treated like second class citizens

5. Similarities in history: Rome wherein the barbarians were mad at the Romans and they killed them all by cutting off supplies to Rome - and then the Romans would take the gladiators that had lost in their arenas and sold them to Romans as food.

6. How the movie made me feel: Ashamed because all those people turned there backs and didn't help the. I would like to think that if i was there i would help them, but in reality i would probably leave to save my own life.

*I know this is bad but I will be back to fix it later

My Midterm Mark

I think that for communications 11 I deserve an 80% because i have attended 98% of my classes, missing only a few due to illness and i have 70% of my assignments done, why only 70% you may ask? Well only 70% because, well for one i'm doing my midterm mark, like two weeks late, but also i didn't do my song assignment. I didn't do this assignment because i couldn't find a song that i could relate to, iv'e always had this problem even in grade eight when i had to do this assignment, I still could't find a song, so i just didn't do it. sure i could have B.S-ed my way through it, but i didn't want to hand in something that said "I chose this song because the person who sung it was a guy like me", Sure i could have half assed it like some people (Ryley) But at that point, its not worth doing.

I spend about 85% of my time on topic, sure i find myself playing that stupidly addictive bubble game, but hey, who hasn't. I have to admit that my self regulation could use some work, i mean i'm only getting 50% in it, but it's one of those things that i'll have to work on, and as for quality i think i deserve a 95%, now before you say anything hear me out, i do my assignments to the best of my abilities, but i don't always do them, theirs a fine line between quality and, well, completeness and i chose quality, its like i said before if i don't do it well the i don't believe it's not worth doing, and i know that's a bad philosophy and that's something that i'll have to overcome for example, i didn't think that my tattoo assignment was very well done, but i knew that if I didn't post it i would have less complete, but i think that I may have done a few good blogs.

Just for the record this wasn't done on time because i'll be the last one to put myself on a high horse, unless im joking, but in this case i have to be serious and I don't like complementing myself because i feel so conceded, and I don't like it when other people do it (so please stop bringing up my awesome blog post that i linked above) for example, one time when in was at camp all 150 people that were there sung me happy birthday and gave me a giant birthday pie, sure my birthday supplied awesome cake, but when they were singing I just wanted to get the heck out of there, don't get me wrong i like attention, but I don't want to be glorified, I don't know where i got this from, I guess it was just the way I was raised, or maybe it was just me seeing all the douche bags saying how great they were and i just remember how much i hated them and i didn't want to be that guy because im one of those people that wants everybody to like them, which is weird, but i guess being liked and getting attention are two different thing, when you have something nice to say about me, don't say it while im there, i guess i just want to be one of those people who when they get asked about they say "oh yeah he's really nice but he keeps to himself but at the same time looks out for other people" but maybe that's my crazy dream, super long run on sentence over.



And for all of you people saying i forgot punctuation, I didn't, there down here

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tattoos

1. Scientists think Otzi's people used tattoos as a medical treatment because they found fractures on bones where tattoos were

2. Bes was the goddess of fertility and revelry and she was form ancient egypt

3. tattoos evolved in the roman empire by changing them from taboo to badges of honor

4. Christians had tattoos during the crusades so they could be given a proper christian burial

5. hawaiians tattoo three dots on there tongue because they are mourning

6. people in borneo tattoo there eyes on the palms of there hands as a spiritual guide

7. tattoo comes from the word tatau meaning to mark into the body

8. the maori people used tattoos to sign treaties

9. in 1820 europeans traded guns for tattooed heads

10. tattooing was practiced in japan for beauty, magic and to mark criminals
they outlawed tattoos in 1870 because they were entering international relationships

11. in Japanese culture a tattoo of a carp means strength while a lion means courage

12. the first electronic tattoo machine was made in 1891

Comm Interm

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INTERIM REPORT

Provide a G S N for each bullet point.

Academic Progress

- Comprehending written material
I think I deserve an "S" for understanding written material because i can understand what the person is trying to say but sometimes i miss the point

- Developing critical thinking skillsthrough analysis of literature
I think I deserve an "S" for analyzing literature because i think i can understand what the person is saying but sometimes i miss the point 

- Written ideas are clearly expressed and well organized
I think i deserve a "G" because Mr. N said that one of my blogs was really insightful and my point was clearly presented and my point stuck *Click here to see it*

- Listens effectively
I think i deserve an "S" in this category too because i think i listen very intently but some times i don't pay enough attention and i get confused

- Volunteers to answer questions and participates in discussions
I think i need an "N" because the little times we have had a class discussion i have been very quiet but i'm working on being more vocal about my thoughts

Behaviour and Attitude

- Polite and considerate of others and the learning environment
I think i deserve a "G" because i am very polite... 'nuff said

- Interacts positively with peers
I think i deserve an "S" because i am always polite when talking to my peers... unless there my friends in which case i am pretty rude, but i don't mean it, plus they don't seem to mind

- Assumes responsibility for his / her own learning
 think i deserve a "G" because i always do my assignments to the best of my abilities and on time

Work Habits

- Remains on task during class and does not waste time

I think i deserve an "S" because when i'm doing my work i sometimes get sidetracked, i mean its the internet,they have 10hr loops of almost everything,i mean i don't watch them but if they have that you can imagine what else they have...

- Completes assignments and homework as scheduled

Like i said i think i deserve a "G" because i am fully caught up and my work is done to the best of my ability

- Attends class regularly and is on time ( Abs 3 _0 Late)

- Comes prepared for class and has materials out ready to begin

"G" because i am always prepared

- Takes advantage of opportunities to improve

I think i should get a "G" because i am allways improving
Please Note: G= Good S= Satisfactory N= Needs Improvement

Overall Work Habits Mark: S

Gladiator

Today in class, we watched a movie called "Gladiator"and i was thinking about about how people see him and how he really is. Maximus was a general who became a slave and was forced to fight to the death in an arena. As soon as he entered the arena he became a bloodthirsty killer defying the king at every turn, but outside, he was just a farmer. Maximus wasn't who everyone thought he was, but he was who he had to be to survive, if everyone thought he was some sort of pansy farmer then the crowds wouldn't have cared if the emperor killed him or not, then he would never get his revenge. when he wasn't on the battle field he made allies that would help him to help him obtain his ultimate goal of killing the emperor and the people would never want to team up with somebody who would probably stab him in the back so he could be his true self when he wasn't fighting, but he needed to adopt a persona that would help him survive so he could get what he wanted.


Maximus wasn't the only person who disguises his self, another person that does it is Brian Hugh Warner, better known as Marilyn Manson. Marilyn manson created his name form two famous people, actress Marilyn Monroe and ultiple murder convict Charles Manson, Which tells you a little bit about him. Marilyn Manson is a singer who sings "Shock Rock" and if you dont know what that is, heres an example

On stage Manson seems to be a hardcore punk rocker who doesn't really care about anything and has a F the world policy and never graduated grade 10, however if you get him off the stage, without thousand of screaming fans he is accually, intelgen, well rounded and very nice. as you can see in this clip form "Bowling for Columbine"

As you can see from this video, Marilyn Manson knows what he's talking about, but just by watching the first video, you'd never know, so the question is, why? Why would he dress up like some sort of Goth, punk rocker when he's very intelligent? Because music sells better. Plain and simple. If he dressed up like a normal person, singing normal music, people wouldn't buy his songs, they would have no one to look up to. Normal has been done, its played out, people think if a man that weird can be so successful, then they will fell less weird and more confident with themselves, and feel more comfortable with who they are.

My Presonality

To day i took a test as to what my personality is and according to the test it says i am introverted, i like thinking I'm intuitive and perceiving, and i have to say, i mostly agree with what the test says. The test claims that i like to keep to myself, I'm not socially inclined, abstract, deep, rational, critical, care free and adaptable and it says that one of the careers that would be good for me is lawyer, and actor which are two careers that i am interesting in pursuing. As for the rest of it, i am very antisocial, i like to think, i'm very imaginative but i will work with people if i have to. The only thing i don't agree with is that it says that i am like Brian Griffin and i really don't like him, i don't see how we are alike, but if there is one thing that spending time on the internet has taught me is allays trust every thing you read on the internet, its all true, all of it.

im im Flexible

The future

Ten years, ten years is a long time, a lot can happen, people drift apart, get jobs, get girlfriends, boyfriends, married, they might even become famous. I don't know what's going to happen, to be honest, i haven't thought a lot about it, but i think in 10 years i will hopefully be living with my two best friends in a three bedroom apartment. As for a job, i hope to be an entertainer, and in my spare time, i probably wouldn't play video games even though i love to do so, in my spare time i would probably watch Netflix all day, clean the house (because i'm probably the only one who will) and probably read. Other than that i don't have a lot of plans, but i am preparing for the zombie apocalypse.