Art Neovough.....

Art Project

I picked the picture on the Left(suzaku kururugi) as my hero because in the anime he chooses to change the world in a diplomatic way, fighting peacefully from the inside. The picture on the Right Is C2. She is the reason why he main character can create a war against the all mighty Britannia. That's why I picked her as my villain.

Art Pics

All these pics were found on deviantart.com ^^ it be win

Hobbs

In this, would you call it a v-log? I learned that there are three laws of nature, in Hobbs mind, that if we follow we would have the perfect government. Number one, seek peace as far as you have any hope of obtaining it and when you can not obtain it use any means to defend yourself. Number two, to be content for the sake of peace and preservation provided others are also content with only so much liberty against other men as you would allow other men against yourself. In other words Hobbs believes in the rule an eye for an eye. If I wanted to search for something on your property you would have the same power to search my property for something. Number three, Men preform the covenants they have made or the contracts they have made.

Theme

Today in class we discussed the possible themes for House of Mango Street. In your own words discuss the meaning of theme. What do you think is the central theme of the House on Mango Street? Back up your well developed answer with at least two quotes from the reading.

Theme is the central idea of a piece of writing. In House on Mango Street there are a bunch of themes, but the biggest theme must be family. "My Papa broke down and cried, as if he had just heard the news himself." This quote can easily show that the family value in this house holed is strong. this can also be see in each description of each family member. "My Mama's hair smells like bread." This quote tells me that her mother loves to cook for her family and that cooking really brings the family closer together.

Clouds

`Darius and the Clouds Page 33

"Darius, who chases girls with firecrackers or a stick that touched a rat and thinks he's tough, today pointed up because the world was full of clouds, the kind like pillows."

`I liked this quote because it shoes a different side of a character. A side that seems to be shut off from others. A side that he only shoes once every so often. A caring side, one more deeper and contradicting to the person he tends to be. He took the time to see a kinder side to the world, a side that doesn't care who you are and that doesn't label you for your actions or what you like. Thats why I like this quote.

What im proud of...

Ok so I'm proud of two things. The first would be to your left. That is a picture that I drew a wile ago of one of y original characters. I am very proud of this picture for it is one of the few that i did very well. The second is kinda lame but its to your right anyway. This is me playing a video game known as prototype. I love these types of games and i dont care if any one thinks this is cheesy or weird but im proud to be a gammer freak ^^.

Comic-Con ist comming...

Ist comming.......soon. SO close are we to seeing it's magnificent glory again. It's epic wins, it's epic fails, and all others in between. As the CON approches I am (along with my fellow geeks,nerds, and odd balls) despretly and egarly awaiting its arival. To those who join in this most awesome of awesome events I ask you this quetion with utter intrest. Are You READY FOR THE CON?!?!!!!

Stories

Three stories that I have created.

An ice cold breeze blew this morning as a pair of small hands grasped the cold sharp steel, a pair of eyes looked out into the confusing world which was just beyond his reach. "Why am I here?" said the small boy under his breath. "What is the point of being here in this prison, forced to memorize trivial things that, by this time next year, we shall have forgotten all about?" His hands gripped the steel fence as hard as he could until his palms began to bleed. "My prison may be big and I may leave it every day, but I still return day after day, week after week, and year after gruelling year." The boy stared at the near by freeway that sat no more that three hundred feet away from where he stood. Why was he here and for what purpose?


A hand grabbed the little boys sleeve, dragging him closer and closer to the ginormous tower of steel. "But I don't want to!" wailed the little one as he kicked and squirmed to get away from his approaching doom. "Don't be such a cowered, its awesome you'll see." The boy stayed quiet. He stared at people who willingly bared themselves into this death trap, slowly made their way to the top of the tower, and suddenly were dropped and sent hurdling to the concrete below. The boy hated heights but hated falling even more. He was shoved into a seat, strapped in, and was sent on his way to the top of the steel monstrosity. The tower creaked as he sat at the top, his eyes shut tight. All of a sudden he was dropped. He screamed as he was sent hurdling to the ground below. As he opened his eyes the ride was over."Again, again!" he shouted. He wanted the adrenaline to continue.


A Lonely child sits on a swing trying desperately to not shed a tear, not to show an ounce of the sobbing boy within him."Did I do something wrong? Did I say something offencive? Why won't they come near me?" Over and over the boy contemplated each scenario. Without even realizing it the boy had been shunned away, he had become an outcast.

Using Our Herbs!!

First you must gather your Ingredients. here we have
1/3 cup chopped fresh basil
1 1/2 teaspoons seasoning salt
3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup white wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice.









So next we go ahead and finely chop out basil.
Then measure a table spoon of seasoning salt and add it to the basil.
Next measure 3/4 of a tea spoon and add that to the mix.
Then measure 3/4 cup of vegetable oil or olive oil which ever you prefer.
Next add 3/4 White wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar again whatever you prefer.
Now here the recipe says to add 1 table spoon to the mix but i find a hole lemon tastes much better.

Lastly after all everything is mixed together let the concoction sit over night so the basil has time to dupers throughout the mixture.

Now this recipe is online but The alterations that I made I got from a family recipe that I got from my mother.

Now why did I do this?

Well first of all we are growing an herb garden in our classroom as a way to live sustainable. So since we grew them, why not eat them I mean that's why they are there, to eat right. Anyway as soon as i made this basil vinaigrette i had to try it. Even though I didn't let it set it still tasted epic. It had a burst of lemon followed by a kick from the basil and vinegar working together. It was soooooooooooo gooooooooooooooood ^^. now if I was to do this again I wouldn't change a thing for it's a family tradition plus if something is good why change it? What I really want to do is find more family recipes and see if i can make my own twist on it.

I Believe

Helplessness I Believe in this Essay for I believe in human contact listen to this and you will see exactly why.

Insperation!

OK you got to check this out. As some may know I have a ginormous passion for pizza. This recipe is out of this world!! Now this one is incorperated with a salad but I have tried it before and I fell in love with it. ^^ now check it out, a Basil Vinaigrette! tell me what you think ^^

Food is GOOD!!!

3 recipes

1. Chicken Souvlaki Sandwiches
Ingrediants: 2 tablespoon finely chopped fresh mint, 1 teaspoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar, 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, 4 (1/4 pound) skinless boneless chicken breast halves, 1 small garlic clove chopped, 1 cup plain fat-free yogurt, 1 unpeeled kirby cucumber cut into 1/4-inch dice, 4 (6-inch) pita breads, 2 cups lightly packes thinly sliced romaine lettuce, 1/2 small red onion thinly sliced, and 2 tomatoes cut into 8 slices.

2.
Autumn Fruit Salad with Thyme and Ginger
Take...150ml water 55g castor sugar 25g stem ginger in syrup 1 large orange 2 eating apples 2 slightly under ripe pears 115g seedless green grapes 1 large sprig thyme (or 1 teaspoonful dried thyme) then...1 Heat the water sugar and a couple of tablespoons of syrup from the stem ginger jar together in a pan and bring to the boil to make a clear syrup.
2 Peel the orange and slice it across the grain into rounds 5mm thick remove any pips. 3 Cut each apple in half remove the cores and quarter.4 Cut the pears in half lengthways remove the cores and cut into quarters. 5 Remove the grapes from their stalks and if they have seeds halve and de pip them. 6 Put the apples and pears into the syrup and simmer for 5 minutes. 7 Add the thyme (if it's dried put it in a muslin bag so that you can retriev e it without it coating the fruit). 8 Add the orange slices and continue to simmer for another 5 minutes. 9 Slice the pieces of stem ginger as thinly as you can add these to the pan alon g with the grapes and simmer for 5 minutes more. 10 Pour into a shallow gratin dish or similar china or glass container remove the thyme and allow the mixture to cool a little before eating.

3.Pasta and Basil Salad
Ingredients:3/4 cup uncooked spiral pasta or small shells4 medium tomatoes, cut into thin wedges5 green onions, thinly sliced1 cup thin slices of seeded cucumber1 cup fresh corn kernels1 cup (packed) fresh basil leaves1/3 cup plain yogurt3 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice2 garlic cloves, peeled
Cook pasta according to instructions until just tender. Rinse under cold water. Drain well. Place the pasta in a large bowl. Add tomatoes, green onions, cucumber and corn. Combine basil, yogurt, mayonnaise, lime juice and garlic in processor or blender until basil is finely chopped. Mix dressing with the pasta mixture and toss to coat. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve or cover and refrigerate.

Wala ^^

Sustainability Visits

Ok first the transcript of my interview ^^

Q: What is your name and your role here at the farmers market?

A: My name is Greg and I am here to provide my local comunity a sourse of fresh and organic produce

Q: Why do you choose to shop/garden/support this CSA?

A: First of all I love to see my cosumers faces as they take that first bite. Secondly its a good way to make a profit on something that I love to do.

Q: When did you start comming here?

A: about three years ago.

Q:How did you find out about this place?

A: I had been growing my oun food for a while and I always had leftover produce. My buddy came over one day and introduced me to the sight and I have been comming here ever since.

Q: What would be your advice to get others to do what you do?

A: Well its easier when you love to do it. Also find out what grows well in your area. Play around alittle, experiment, but most of all have fun.

Now the analisi part of this.

What struck you about the location you visited? Was it what you expected, or very diffrent?

The location I visited was behind a school in tha parking lot. Aside from that yes it was what i expected.

Do you think you will start going to a farmers market more often? Oh yes i bought some strawberries and a mongo smothie. Both were the beast tasting things I have ever tasted in my life.

How do these locations fit into our essential questions?

Farmers markets relate back to buying localy

Ecological Intelligence

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1884779_1884782_1884776,00.html

First of all what is Ecological Intelligence? Well Ecological Intelligence is compiling the environmental consequences of our local choices and delivering that information to consumers in a user-friendly way. By doing this we would be able to calculate the consequences that led to creating what we were about to buy and make an educated decision on weather or not it is really worth buying. This ties in with our concept of living sustainably within our society. Now as for me I am not that Ecological Intelligent but i have enough to know what certain products need to be created and frankly I still don't get why things like poisonous chemicals are put into things that little kids handle every day, I just doesn't make any sense.

Ads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhjwUR2SeAE&feature=related
I liked this one for it uses a talking dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqJE5TH5jhc
this is just too funny XD

L.U.L.S. Project

So in class we compiled research on a certain subject. For this blog I'm going to answer some questions that were given to us.

What struck you about the data?
What struck me was the number of people who actually donate to a thrift store. For some reason I thought it would be a much lower percentile that it came out to be.


Were you surprised by any of the results? How so?
Again like I've just stated. The number of people who donate. I didn't know it would be that high.

What were your expectations? Were these met or not?
My expectations were for people to answer truthfully, and yes through personal interviews my expectations were met.


Based on your findings, what type of ad campaign will you run? Will you being to educate people? Encourage or coerce people? Embarrass people? What is your angle?
I was hoping to educate people on recycling clothes. Buying clothes that are department store quality but are a lot cheeper and used. I was also thinking about showing what happens when you just through out your clothes, but mainly the educating part.

Erratic Retaliation

This is a bit over due ^^' but here it is

On page 82 Ishmael talks about ‘anthropomorphism.’ Look up the definition of this term and post it in your blog, then describe what he is applying it to in the chapter.

Anthropomorphism: n. Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. I think Ishmael is trying to say humans over think things. An example would be territory for an animal. We think that an animal wants the actual land and will defend that land, but what the animal is really after and will defend are the items/resources inside the land.

How does Ishmael define ‘Erratic Retaliation’? How does it work in the case of the Cawks?

Ishmael defines 'Erratic Retaliation as a sort of peacekeeping strategy. As the Cawks followed Erratic Retaliation everything seemed to work out fine they were hostel when need be and peaceful when need be. Seems a pretty good way to keep peace I think.

Why is Erratic Retaliation a peacekeeping method?

It relates the the old saying an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. In other words if someone attacks you attack them back, if someone is kind/peaceful towards you return the favor.

Why don’t the Cawks just annihilate each other instead of just doing the occasional attacks?

Simple, they had no reason too.

servey

ok ok in class we are doing a go green project and we need data....so here is a like that i would like all of you to go to so that i may collect this data i greatly appreciate it ^^
Click Here to take survey

Urban Homestead

What strikes you about their movie?

What strikes me is how fast they were able to turn their whole house into a farm. To this great dedication is required and great respect for the planet.

What do you think the Dervaes’ family Needs vs. Wants sheet would look like? Why? Well there Wants would probably would be low for they seem to be extremely happy with what they got. Now their need also small for they grow most of what the eat so the food expense is ruled out.

How does the Dervaes family fit into what we are studying in My Ishmael?

Sustainability. They defiantly live sustainably.

Overall, what are your thoughts on the way this family lives and works?

They seem happy and content with how they are saving the earth. For them this way works and they like what the do. For me it would also work if there were a source of meat in the diet.

Ishmael

1. What are Ishmael’s two general rules on how to identify people from our culture? Do you agree with Ishmael when he says that people from all over the world are part of the same culture? Why or why not?
Our culture thinks in that we are a flawed race and that we are doomed to a life of suffering and misery,also we're the only species that lock our food under lock and key. While most would accept this as true, I think otherwise. Though I do think that we are in a way flawed, I do not believe that we are doomed to suffer in this world. We are an intelligent race so we should be able to fix the problems that we planted upon this planet.

2. Ishmael disagrees with Mother Culture’s voice that says that humans are inherently flawed. After reading through page 66 of My Ishmael do agree or disagree with him? Why?
Like I said before I do believe that we are indeed flawed in some way for if we weren’t flawed we wouldn’t of put the planet in the predicament that it is in now. If humans weren’t flawed we’d would already be using the technical advances in our position to better the planet instead of running the planet dry day in and day out.

3. Ishmael uses a parable of Tunes and Dancers to explain his idea of Takers and Leavers. Who are these Takers and Leavers and how do they relate to American culture?
I believe that the takers refer to the people who take and take and never give back. They take and take until there is nothing left for them to take. The leavers refer to the people who take only what the need to live comfortably. These people let the planet grow as intended and only take what they require to survive. In American culture I think the takers are the companies and consumers that take and take from the planet and think nothing of it. The leavers, I think, refer to those who know how to budget their money, take only the essentials, and aren’t shopaholics like most of the American society is.

Teens in Society

What does it mean to live sustainably? To live sustainably would be to live without things that aren't necessary to live. How much freedom and independence do you have as a 14-16 year old in our society? The freedoms of a 14-16 year old kid are usually held in the hands of the parental units. Depending on their views your freedoms are decided for you unfortunately. As a 14-16 year old, how can you currently live your life more sustainably? Save MONEY. Try and not spend what I earn so quickly.

Goals for this semester!! Charlotte & Mele

How are you different now than when you started school in August? In Humanities I think I'm completely different. I can see that my writing has improved considerably so has my understanding of different words that I had no clue what they meant. Learning the skills in Charlotte's class has helped me improve the story that I started last summer, this I am extremely happy about for it means I can progress the story further.
In Mele's class I believe that I have progressed my knowledge in trigonometry and came away with a better understanding of them. When i came to this school in August i had an idea of what trigonometry was but it wasn't really clear to me. Mele fixed that right up.

What skills do you think are the most important for succeeding in Humanities and Mysics? Why? For Humanities it would have to be reading comprehension for there are a lot of words in Humanities that you either don't know or that the meaning of the word is vague. If your good at reading comprehension you could look back at the sentence ant figure out what that word is by context clues.
In Mysics paying attention is the key that and asking questions, for if you miss anything you could be lost the hole class.With these two skills working together Mysics can be a fun and exciting class
One thing I would like to improve on this semester would be my attentiveness. I tend to let my mind wonder from time to time, but in the end I pay for it. I'd get more done in less amount of time if I didn't let my mind wonder.I am going to do this by trying my best to stay focused and on task.
What are you most curious about? If you could study any topic, what would you study and why?
I am curious about graphic design and game design particularly. I what to design characters for video games one day and this would really help to accomplish that goal.