Freshman Reflection

In my middle school years they were hype, fast, and happy. Now towards the end of my freshman everything has changed. I learned to control myself. In 8th grade I used to get angry about every little thing and that's what made me not have friends and I wasn't humble or nice or anything. Now I've changed and I am better because I can control myself, ignore problems, and I am more humble and nicer to people other than my family. This changed occurred because of my ex-boyfriend, Seth A. Brown. He showed me that I didn't need anyone ,but myself. For example, I used to always want to argue with people I always didn't like. Now I just don't hang with people I don't know or like. Seth showed me how to appreciate myself in every way no matter how people tried to bring me down. My experience was hard and difficult, but it was really good because it help me get into a good high school and learn who my real friends are.  Before I  came to Parkway West i though all the teachers were so preppy and uptight and didn't care about their students, but it changed in just one year of experience. I have on friend that had a bad and good affect on me. That one friend was Obadiah N. Fuller. she was there for me from the beginning to end. Now she is the only person I can depend on so far as myself. Therefore I don't spend a lot of time with certain people that used to be my best friends because we all moved to a new period in our lives. My relationship my little brother, dad, and my uncle has changed by me being able to speak my mind freely around them and tell how I feel about certain things in my life. I often do all my work to get the best grade between a A or a B. That's how I have changed over this one freshman year.

Birds Die by Glass

 http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120522_Researchers_study_losses_of_birds_hitting_buildings.html
In the Philadelphia Newspaper there's an article called "Birds Blinded by the Light of Philly's Glass-Clad Buildings" by Sandy Bauers. Keith Russel explores how birds die by Philadelphia transparent glass. Also they explain that glass that reflects the sky can be deadly to birds. In the article it points out that "at quitting time at 8, they might have picked up a dozen birds or more." This means that during the 24 hour day birds are being killed all the time by striking buildings. This stood out in the article because it tells me how many birds are die everyday by glass. Also a biology professor, Daniels Klem Jr., says that a billion birds die every year in a result of striking glass on buildings of Philadelphia. In my opinion I think this is bad and Philadelphia should create buildings out of wood more than glass because glass can easily break and would can't. In return glass can't burn, wood can. I still think they should build buildings out of wood so we can have more birds populated in Philadelphia. This reminds me of a empower assignment of bees dying because of a Apocephalus Borealis fly that spreads a virus and billions of bees die every year just like the birds.

Opal Ruth Prater "Love is Stronger Than Death"

In the article "Love is Stronger Than Death" on the website This I Believe.org by Opal Ruth Prater explains how she gets through her husbands death with a shirt. She also explains how she still loves and misses him dearly. For example, Opal brings up that her husband left a shirt that he wore on a chair in the backyard from doing a lot of yard work and taking care of the kids. This shirt had sunshine outdoorsy scent. After smelling the shirt she started to cry because she missed him too much. She has watched her kid grow up in grown adults and have kids of their own and Opal looks into the sky and congratulates her husband on how wonderful they raised the kids as she continues to hold the shirt in her hands. In my opinion I believe this is true. I believe this is true because the person you care about could die or something bad could happen to them and you could really care for that person. Also somewhere in the world every child or adult loses the person they care about and only has a object or picture or something to remember them by. This reminds me of my uncle Mike. This reminds me of my uncle Mike because he died in 2008 and until this day all I have to remember him by is a picture of him and my grandmother. Also the only quote I remember him saying is as long as I put my mind to something i really care about I can accomplish anything. So this belief is true in the world to me.

Broadcasting....Whiteness

There's a article in the New York Times called "Broading a World of Whiteness" by Jon Caramanica. The article is about shows on television having mostly white people on those shows and not enough blacks, hispanics, and asians on them. Mostly all of the shows have white people and not enough of the others colors and the only specific channels that show a lot of black are BET or Centric. A certain detail that stood out in the article was "Television is nowhere near diverse enough." This detail stood out because it's a fact and that black people, asian people, and hispanic people need to be on more white shows just like white people need to be on black shows. Either way the bottom line is that directors need to include different colored people other than white. Honestly to me there not as many blacks on the network television like ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX because maybe white people can act better and they don't give as much emotion as black people do.

Gun Fashion

In a article called "New Fashion Wrinkle: Stylishly Hiding the Gun" by New York Times reporter, Matt Richtel talks about the new fashion that allows people to carry guns in their clothes without no one knowing of finding out. Also a older company, Woolrich started this fashion now other clothing companies are starting to semi-copy this fashion in new ways. A chino, which cost $65,are a fashion material that holds guns. Th new gun fashion is good because a lot of people like them and people comment on how the clothes changed their fashion and appearance. For example, Shawn Thompson said that "I'm not James Bond or nothing, but these pretty nice." This quote shows that Thompson likes the new gun fashion. To begin with i though this article was going to be about a new clothing line that just came out for teenagers and hiding guns in your clothes like a regular would do for protection and really lame and corny. To my surprise it was corny or lame it was actually about fashion that u can were to hide your guns or any other weapon as long as you have a liscense. I think that a lot people would reduce the limit of number crimes all over the world i think it's a good idea to protect your self with this new fashion. I think it will the crime rates because that person with the gun fashion will actually have a chance to protect their sleves from danger or any crime around them.

Afghan Girls get injured by Acid; Scared to go to School

In the article "Afghan Girls, Scarred by Acid, Defy Terror, Embracing School" Shamisa Husseini and other girl and older women suffer and experience the burning of acid sprayed in their face. Also this explains that afghan girls and women are sprayed with burning acid by Taliban terrorists, To keep them from going to school. Shamisa Husseini said in the article that she still has to go to school even if she's killed. The quote that stands out the most in this article is that other than Shamisa, 14 other girls were injured (burned) by the acid as well. Although 1,300 other female students have returned to the community fixed,but still remain in there homes.This goes to show that obvisouly this is a major issue to the Afghan parents. Before I started reading this article I though it was going to be about a couple of teenage girls getting burned by toxic waste. Now after reading the article I realize that this article is somewhat I imagined it to be about. This article also reminded me a little bit about a movie on military soldiers getting burned by toxic waste and though it would kill them because they started getting sick really bad. Honestly if this was going on in America I wouldn't to come to school either because of the fear of being burned by acid by a stranger I don't know. How could that Taliban people do this to little girls that honestly didn't do anything to them? Who knows the real true honest explaination for this cause, but it's good that no more girls are getting injured (burned) by acid.

Firefighters risk their lives to save a warehouse

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120409_5alarm_fire_estroys_warehouse_firefighter_hurt.html

In the Philadelphia Newspaper there's an article called "2 Firefighters Killed, 2 Hurt in 5-alarm Fire." This article is written by the Philadelphia Staff Report. Also this article is mainly about how 4 firefighters risked theirs lives to save a furniture store form embers that started in a warehouse. Therefore 2 firefighters died after being trapped in the collapsed furniture store from the warehouse at East York and Jasper Street. The others two firefighters were quickly rushed to the Temple University Hospital. For example in the article it says "the fire was reported at 3 a. m. and declared under control at 6 a. m." I honestly think that the families of the two firefighters that died are very hurt to have them risk their lives and offer themselves to save a building from burning. Also I think that the other firefighters are very hurt just as much as the family members and their co-workers are. I feel as though they died in honor and not in vain because they didn't just save the people, but saved the on going fire the could've killed more than just themselves. So that's why i feel as though they should have a proper memorial and died in honor not vain.