Thursday, May 20, 2010
Evelyn Glennie: Shows How to Listen
For the most part when she was playing on some of her instruments she had up there, i felt very sleepy.
Especially when she was playing the Marimba, i also might have felt tired since i had woken up really early that morning, hehe.
During the film when she was holding the "sticks" just above the Merimba, i realized she was right, I did find myself imagining music being played, or finding myself straining my ears to hear the sound that was being played. If any.
Well i think a big "reason" why people don't listen to the same music is, (this sounds very cheese), everbody is different. one person might not listen to metal, because maybe of their religion, or someone might only like country, cause, thats all they think is good music. Or someone may listen to all types of music, because they might think that any music with a good beat or rhythm, is good music.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Sustainability Visit
Here is a direct link to the video.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The Garden
1. what is the purpose of the garden?
answer: "well it's one way to live a healthier sustainable life style"
2. what kinds of plants are you growing here?
answer: "snapdragon, zuquini, squash, lavender, basil, eggplants, roses, strawberries, carrots, watermelon
flowers, artichokes, onions, bananas, shard, pumkins, and some other that i forgot the names of.
3. how long has this garden been "around"
answer: "since last year i think, but we recently started tending to it at the begining of this year"
4. what will happen to this garden when summer break comes around?
answer: "well, some people will come back and tend to it, but not everyone, I mean I know I will"
Questions in class
1. what struck you as interesting about the garden?
what struck me the most interesting about this garden was the way they "make" their fertilizer.
they got a pile of w/e debris they found around the place and let it sit int the sun for a while.
2. what was the garden you expected?
i think i expected, well something a little bigger maybe. but then again, they said that the soil was pretty crappy... so i guess it might have not been much bigger. and other than that i didnt expect much else. I mean they had a various number of different plants and such.
3. do you think the garden is sestainable?
for the most part i think this garden is sestainable, i mean if people come back to work on it like Leland said it will turn out pretty well in the future.
4. what would you change about the garden?
i would change nothing, the garden right now is perfect, its simple, not to much, not to little. And what they are growing there, i might change that... well i'd put some more plants of some sort in it maybe some lettece, or some orange trees.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Food inc.
A concept i agree completely with, that was in food inc, is that some families eat unhealthy and when they want to buy healthier food it's to expensive. Unlike fast food which is very cheap.
Well the only "solution" that comes to mind is basically just raise money or cut bills on the house, like the electricity bill, the water bill and other bills.
Question: What do your parents or family members think?
Reactions to food inc.
Dad reaction (in his words): i was disgusted and frightened. The fact that our food supply is controlled by a handful of companies shows me that we are in a precarious position. reliance on a few crops, soy beans and corn mostly, put us at risk of famine, should something attack those crops. The Irish potato famine comes to mind.
that however was not the worst of it. The fact that Monsanto owns the genetics of one of the largest crops in this country, and that they can prevent a farmer from saving his seeds, is an example of evil in our modern world.
The fact that our Government has put the job of regulating, and protecting us from these companies in the hands of men and women who have worked, or are still working, for the very companies that they are supposed to regulate left me with a sense of despair and betrayal.
There were a few rays of hope. the women trying to get "Kevin's Law" passed, and the farmer dedicated to farming the proper way, (as nature intends and support his efforts), were a bit of light in a dark subject.
I hope we can bring these companies to heel before the problems caused by agribusiness become irreversible.
Mom's reaction (in her own words): I have known about some of this within the food industry, for years. I'm very sad about the treatment of farm animals and the conditions they live in.
So many people can't afford to buy organic because it is really expensive. I know that the only way things will really change is if we as a nation stop buying GMO product and just buy "natural" and organic and that can't happen unless the prices go down on those foods.
I personally try hard to buy foods with high quality ingredients, and fresh vegetables in season. I might add tho, that our grocery bill is the biggest expenditure for our family.
As depressing as the KPBS program was, I see hope in the food industry because there are Farmers Markets, Peoples, Whole Foods and Henry's providing better quality produce, meats and dry goods.
The public needs to be educated and this special was an eye opener and will rejuvenate me to look even closer at what I buy.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Dialectic Journal
Quote:
"If you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said
all day,' Ms. Smith is going to hate you. If you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't
understood a single word you've said all week,' Ms. Smith is going to hate you five times as much. And
if you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said all year,'
Ms. Smith is going to pull out a gun and shoot you."
What this quote makes me think of is, (shudder), my 8th grade social studies "experience" so to speak.
Mainly it was my teacher... she was the meanest, shrewdest, nastiest short lady I ever layed eyes on!
Except her name wasn't Ms. Smith, her name was... well i can't say, me and my freinds swore to never say her name, ever, thats how evil she was! lol. Well i'm not going to go into detail about why she was, but i can tell you a few things of why everyone and i do mean everyone (even the principal) hated, well not really, lets say everyone "disliked" her: For one thing, if you wanted to go to the bathroom at any time during class, shed make you stay after school for 25 minutes, or after class, whichever she thought you "needed" as she called it. And if she did make you stay after class, shed let you go after the 25 minutes were up and then she wouldn't give you a late pass to explain why you were late to you other class, ugg that made me so mad!
Another reason is that she gave everyone detention, even for the stupidest things, like getting up to sharpen your pencil, even after she said you could, im serious on this. she had this weird religion... pretty sure it was called GiveDetentionOutToEveryoneIcan-ism! lol or G.D.O.T.E.I-ism for short :)
Ya and i'm pretty sure she would shoot you also if you said that you hadn't followed anything she said all year, and then she'd dig up you body after the funeral and put a big fat "F" on your dead forehead.
Na im kidding..
or am I?
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Mitch's tragedy
Link to Zine
Thursday, January 7, 2010
TT reflection
the assignment was each of the groups mele and charlotte assigned us, were given a certain civilization and, we had to choose either a boat, a trebuchet, or a water transportation system. that would benefiit our civilization in some way.
process
well the first step we took to the assembly part of our TT project was think of and design a frame for our boat, eventually we decided to make the frame out of PVC piping. the second step we took was, well put together our boat. and then when it came to exibition night we set our boat up in the exact spot we made it in, and showed it off for everyone and explained the process of how our boat came to be.
reflection
i think the main thing i learned was how to work on a project this big with others and not become overly stressed. the biggest challenge i encountered was actually getting all of what we needed to be able to actually build our boat. if i could have changed anything i think i wouldnt have because its was good to work with others u dont normally work with. the main way this will help we in the future, is that i have had more experiance working with others and build a major project with others and experiancing the way thay work well with other.
artifact
this is a pic. of us talking to people about our boat
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
My Academic Goals for Mysics
first step: to the work inside the packet the day im suppost to and not procrastinate.
goal #2: keep track of my things in class better
first step: pay attention harder so i can track whats going on
goal #3: ask for help more
first step:
Monday, November 9, 2009
Hero project description
A hero becomes a hero by doing something that inspires someone to idolize them in a sort of way that is a little astray from worship. But a hero is a only a hero in the eyes of the person/people that idolizes them.
Project description
i think the "Hero in my eyes" project was a way to see who we idolize and what we believe a hero is, to see our different hero and what some people do to become a hero, and what we would do to make sure they know we are inspired by what they did.
Process
the most effective habits i used while writing this project was to focus on the task at hand. If the teacher gave us a " thing" to do i went right to it, most of the time, but the point is that its a very useful skill to learn if you have trouble turning things in.
Reflection
i think one of the challenges i encountered was getting everything in on time because in retrospect, it was a lot of work to do. I think somethings I would have done different was i would have written more of my homework during the hero in my eyes assignment down in my planner. writing stuff in my planner is a really good way to keep my homework organized, and so i don't forget what it was or forget to look on the DP's.
Artifact
Hero in my eyes post
my hero
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Saving a Child
Origin of Zero
The number 0 simply does not exist, why? it just doesn't. I'm right your wrong end of discussion!well I guess thats not the end of our discussion. will still have to discuss you invented zero. well the answer is no one did, its just a virtual representation of a number between -1 and 1, and
what scientists put on a calculator so we know thats what we start at when we use one, and yes overall its the government's fault and its all part of their plan to brainwash us so they can destroy the world!!!!!! ya its shocking i know.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Literary Devices
Catching the signal from one of her friends, Angela brushed her skirt, took a deep breath and walked towards where he was sitting. As she stumbled towards he boy, Angela noticed the ends of his lips curl up to reveal three rows of sharp, crisp white teeth fresh with the blood of his latest devoured victim. As she got closer and closer to the demon child, the wet grass kept sticking to the souls of her shoes, pace by pace slowing her down like they were reaching out with the small green fingers, trying to stop her from reaching the side of this sin of nature. But she could not stop destiny. She knew she was destined to lead this creature into the real world, she knew the boy would react in violence to how the commoners treated him. They would think him an abomination; and they would cast him away like he was trash waiting for the compacter. Angela turned her head to face her friends, and saw the looks of sadness on they faces, knowing their demise was soon to come in the near future of cataclysmic catastrophes, that involved Angela and this demon boy. She finally turned away from her friends and propped herself next to the boy and said "come with me young master, your destiny awaits."
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Vignette
One Moment in Time
I smiled as I glided over the water; I looked up at the sun as it bathed my body with rays of light. Suddenly I felt my board slide from under me, and my smile faded from my face and I felt a searing pain shoot through my body starting from my left side until it reached my right shoulder muscle. I blacked out.
I awoke to a rumbling of metal against metal. I realized I was in my mom’s car, and by the direction of the road we were taking I guessed we were headed to Scripps hospital. I wondered why might she be driving to Scripps? Then reality hit me like a bull made of led! I had somehow injured myself during surfing badly enough to be sent to the hospital. I blacked out again.
My vision blurred as I gained a perception on what was around me and I noticed I was in a bed in a hospital. I glanced out the door at the people passing by outside that I’ve never seen before, why was I here? I thought. I noticed a figure standing across the room from me, with a grin on his face; hmm I wonder what he could want? But I didn’t have time to give myself an answer before I drifted into blackness again. As I regained consciousness I heard someone whispering my name, “Mitch, Mitch?” I realized who it was, it was my mom and my aunt and my cozen. I saw that my brother wasn’t there, I wondered why? But now was not the time to care I had others who wanted to be with me in my time of need.
Soon after I got settled I kept track of how long I had been in the hospital and what my schedule was. First my doctor would come in and see if my blood transfusion was in my arm properly, then every night at around one AM people would come to me and draw my blood from my right arm like vampires. I would black out, and wake up to the sound of my dad or my mom coming in and resting on the bead next to me, and I would try to get up but they would tell me to stay lying down until the doctors said it was ok for me to walk. This cycle repeated until I was ready to go home for the first time in weeks.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Metal, Roar, Shrieks and Mumurs
and the gates of the tomb where wealthy people stay are opening and closing, for no reason but to scare you. Something hits your eardrum, its the faint sound of what seems like a bird, it calls to its master but the master can not be found. grief and sadness overwhelm you as hear the beat of ghostly construction workers, working on a time consuming job that can never be finished. the yell of a gargantuan hits your ear as you fade into oblivion. blackness overwhelms you and fall into nothingness.
Friday, October 2, 2009
The locker problem (Mitch's way)
Mitchell gill
10/2/09
The locker problem
The order of the lockers is, open, closed, closed, open, closed, closed, closed, closed, open, closed, closed, closed, closed, closed, closed, open, the pattern of closed lockers goes on and on, adding two closed lockers for every open locker. Open lockers are perfect squares, because they have an odd # of factors. Closed lockers have an even # of factors. Factors = 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 are factors for locker 16, that’s an odd # of factors.
Factors = 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18 are factors for 18, that’s an even # of factors. This leads up to 31 lockers being open and 961 being closed.
| Locker 1 Open odd | Locker 2 Closed even | Locker 3 Closed even | Locker 4 Open odd | Locker 5 Closed even |
| Locker 6 Closed even | Locker 7 Closed even | Locker 8 Closed even | Locker 9 Open odd | Locker 10 Closed even |
Odd = odd # of factors even = even # of factors
Sunday, September 27, 2009
SLOB Scene addon

After a whole hour Rosaleen and me gave up on hitch hiking and started walking down on the moist grass down the way from the road. its was starting to get late so we layed down and drifted off into blackness of the dream. I awoke to the sound of a man singing a song I've never heard before so I figured it was Catholic or some form of religious speech. he spotted me huddled in the grass, and he stopped and said, " hay there little lady! don't you know how late it is?, your family is going to be very worried about you, you should probably be getting back to them." I rolled my eyes as i thought to myself about how wrong he was.
I couldn't get to sleep after what the man said about my family be worried about me, so I told Rosaleen I was going to walk back to the road to see if anyone driving by would notice me.
I stood there in the crisp blue twilight air for what seemed about another hour, but as i was giving up on hitch hiking a colored man driving a beat-up Chevy truck took pity on me and he slowed down and asked "where you heading."
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Favorite fictional hero(sorta)

I dont really have a favorite hero person, but i had to choose one so..... I chose Spider man.
Well i chose spiderman because he is cool and has spider-like powers. For those who dont know spiderman,(but im sure you all do), he got his powers by being bitten by a geneticly altered spider. At first he couldn't shoot webs but he made a device thats goes on his arm to make sure he could.
My favorite Spiderman movie is number 3 where spiderman is possesed by an evil side or himself, but he keeps it with him for a while because it makes him stronger. But it was an evil side of him so he had to get rid of it. ya and well that's pretty much all i know about spiderman
besides who is enemies are, Doc Oc and the green goblin and his evil side and i dont know anybody else.I guess thats it.
What is Math and Physics?
I think math is a random stream of number that can be put or orginized into a form, from which we can learn from. I wonder who invented math? I surely don't know, but I'm sure some people do. well whoever it was that created math, I don't like them, because we have to learn it, and learning hurts my brain. like this....

What is Physics?
Hmm... Physics is just like math and science but a lot harder. all that atoms and stuff, and like 5 cubed plus (2)8 x 15 + 90= something square rooted....ugg. and u know, stuff like that, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out, (thank god!).
Thursday, September 3, 2009
30 things you didnt know about me
- I'm fifteen
- I'm a very picky eater
- I am not ellergic to anything
- I have only one kidney(because it exploded)
- I have broken my right arm three times
- I have broken my left leg only once
- I am five foot five
- My favorite game is halo 3/ halo 2
- I bowl but I love to play billiards
- I dont like most kinds of meat
- My favorite movie of all time is transformers 2 and number 1
- I dont like horror movies
- I am good at hockey
- I think my brother is a clone of me (lol?)
- My shoe size is nine point five
- This is my first time blogging
- I'm 25% Irish
- I love action movies
- I like to draw
- I play World Of Warcraft, for the Horde or the Alliance,(I play on Dragonblight) look at the bottom of this page....
- My favorite color is black, but not pure black
- I have brown/ blackish hair
- I LOVE chocolate
- I HATE pinnaple
- I dont like to wear jeans...
- I have a Dell at home
- I dont like to paint, but i like art
- I used to go to CPMA, before this school
- I cant think of anything to put in this spot
- I like football and dont like baseball




