9th blog

         I started on my last essay paper. The essay is Education. My topic is Teachers salaries and over crowded class rooms. Teachers believe that they are not getting paid enough. A lot of my research repeats itself. I hope I can come up with fifteen hundred words for the essay. It's the last essay for English. Everything that's required in English class is due on April 26. I hope I can get everything done in time. My second essay is almost done. I just need to do the work citation. I also need to do one more blog and comment on three or four blogs. It's all coming down to the wire. At least we don't have a final exam in English class but I have one in Math class.

         The Math final exam is not until the beginning of May. I think I'll be okay with that. Even though my favorite Math Professor is retiring at the end of the semester. When she told Tanya and I we upset but happy for her. We wish her all the luck. I still need to take one more Math class and that's college Algebra. It's going to be very hard without my favorite Math Professor but I was told who to take next semester who kind of follows the same patterns she does. We shall see.  

8th blog

        I'm alomst done writing my 2nd essay for english class. It's about the death penalty. When I was pulling up my research I could not believe how much information I got. I found out there's different kinds of executions, who was the first person for each of the executions. I even found out that some people survived the executions. I believe if something malfunctions during an execution you should be able to be set free from your conviction, but have probation for the rest of your life so you can be monitored or get the help you need. I mean the person was serving the execution and something went wrong and your still breathing. You served your punishment. I believe that's your second chance, so don't screw it up and do something good out of the experience, so you don't end up doing it twice. I am still a believer of the death penalty. A lot of people have mixed emotions about the dearh penalty. If a person does a heinous crime do you think they should be put to death? Like an eye for an eye. Everyone has a choice to do the right things in life. Like live the American dream. I chose to live the American dream and instill good family values to my three boys, so when it's their turn to go out into the real world they can use their better judgement.

7th blog

      On Monday March 4, 2013 we has a guest speaker in English class. His name was Mark Harris. He's the President and Ceo of Global Education Skills Alliance. He's an International consultant. He is from Australia. He was talking about taking an intership to Australia or New Zealand. United States, Australia and New Zealand are the founding fathers. There are eight members and four of them are in the United States. The intership consists of short and long term stays. The short term stay is three to six weeks and the long term stay is three to four months. You can stay longer but it all depends on your visa and your employer. When he was done talking about the intership we asked him a lot of questions.


      Minimum wage in Australia is $18.50 per hour but the cost of living is high. The drinking age in Australia is eighteen. The weather is really hot. You see koala bears and kangroos walking around town. There are two different kinds of kangroos. One is a grey kangroo which is calm and the other one is called Big Red. Big Red is a boxing kangroo and is found in the outback. Australia has free healthcare. The taxes on good and services is 10 percent which is added on the price. The payroll tax is on a sliding scale. If you make $35,000 for onr year theres no tax. When you file your taxes you get all your money back. The Australians dollar is $1.05 compared to the US dollar. The Australians unemployment is less than five percent. Australians drive on the opposite side of the road. Australia is known for the lucky state and the United States is known for the land of hope. Which I didn't know that. If you are in college and thinking about doing an intership and have any questions about going to Australia please checkout the website at www.gesa-edu.org. But the website won't be available until April 1, 2013. If I didn't have a family I would of considered the long term stay. Like Mark Harris said it's like a once and a lifetime opportunity.

6th blog

      I got my grade back from my first essay. I don't think I did good. I got an 82. It's a B. A low B. I got confused on how to do the work citied and how to do a citation on my essay. I also had some grammar issues. English is not my best subject. But I'm really try hard to understand. I'm working on my next essay. I don't think I can put Casey Anthony is my essay because I'm also writing about the Death Penalty. Even though she should have gotten the death penalty. I really want to put her in my essay. I just don't know how to do it. I believe she did kill her daughter and gotten away with murder. I found out that there's a lot of different kinds of executions. The executions were very detailed. So I have a lot of research papers to look over.


      The past couple of English classes we've been talking about torture. We even watched a video talking about torture. We didn't see anyone being tortured. Just very opinionated people. We also read two stories about torture. The first story was like a what if kind of thing and the second was like a demonstration about water boarding. Water boarding is getting your hands and feet bound. A cloth bag is put over your head and water is poured over your head. It's almost like your drowning. If torturing someone evil to get valuable information to save thousands of lives. I say go ahead but I don't want to know anything about what happen.

5th blog

        Hello everyone. I'm so glad it's Friday. This week has been very busy. I'm getting ready to research for my next essay for English class. The topic is Crime and Punishment. I think my topic is going to be about the Death Penalty and Casey Anthony. I don't know how I'm going to put everything together is my essay but I'll figure it out as I go along.

        On Monday my English class had to come up with topics for our next essay. We came up with some good topics. Once we said enough topics our English Professior let the class leave early. We also talked about the Death Penalty. The Professior asked the class how they felt about the Death Penalty. The class was divided. 50% were for it and 50% was againist it. I think heavy topics like the Death Penalty is hard to talk about.

        My first grammar schmammar is due today. For anyone who don't know what grammar schmammar is it is a group of grammar topics that we have to research. Than give aleast a 10 minute presentation/video. My Professior keeps encourging the class to do a video but no one has done it yet. My group was given two topics not by choice but by numbering. My first topic is Subject-verb agreement and my second topic is who/whom. That's due on April 15th. Wish me luck.

4th blog

       Guess what everyone I'm finished writing my eassy. All I have to do is finish typing it. On Monday and Wednesday we went over our rough drafts in English class. We had to go into small groups and read to each other our rough drafts. I liked doing that because we gave each other some positive feedback. My first group had 4 people including me. Two of them picked the same topic as me but different scenarios and ther one chose fast food and obesity. I thought fast food was a good topic. Than my second group had a lot of different topics. Again of group of 4. There wasn't a whole a lot of people that day. One person wrote about dog fighting and the other one wrote about not having enough fundings for school activities. I thought that was a good one to. I can't remember what the other person wrote about. We gave each other a lot of positive feedback we didn't think about before. The one who wrote about dog fighting she showed us her picture of her dog. I didn't realize that I had a lot of grammar I had to fix. Reading our rough drafts in small groups helped me out a lot.

        Happy Valentine's day to everyone. Go out and enjoy yourself even if you don't  have an significant other.

3rd blog

     This has been a long week and today is only Thursday. I'm looking forward to the weekend even though I work. I started preparing and writing on my essay. My friend Tanya who is in my English class is helping me with my essay. We are helping each other. I would be lost if it wasn't for her. Our rough draft for our essays are due by February 11th and I just found out we don't have have class Friday. Yeah!!!! I can work more on my essay. I want to have most of the essay done by Sunday. My problem is citing an essay. I'm glad Tanya knows how to write it. My essay is about violent video games and how it effects youth generation.

     Yesterday my English Professor wrote sixty topics on the white board about Pop Culture for anyone who don't have any ideas on what to write about on their essay. I was glad to see my class interacting in a positive way instead of a negative way. My class likes to disagree on a lot of things. We started out on the wrong foot and that makes an impression about someone. It's like judging a book by it's cover before you read it. At least I know my class is opinionated and not shy!!!!