Fairy tales all have the same old components, with the same old story line; the kind princes is harmed by the evil witch, and the hansom prince saves her. Some of the things that are always in these tales might not be appropriate for children’s books. For example, in most stories, the evil witch is killed or hurt, should kids really grow up thinking that you should kill people who aren’t nice to you? Or that there is some kind of magic that will save you when something goes wrong? Kids shouldn’t grow up thinking that if they cry their fairy God Mother will come and save the day. Some of the things in stories may shock people that they are in there, but if you read a lot of stories, you can find a lot of these things.
In modern fairy tales, the writters have been trying to avoid some of the messages that may confuse children. In the modern fairy tale movie Enchanted, the beautiful princess gets sent to a modern day world and has to try to fit in. When the people watching this movie see her singing, talking to animals, or wearing a big dress they can see how the fairy tale life isn’t realistic and shouldn’t be thought of as normal.
My parents and I have many depths to our relationship that we have developed over our 16 years together. We know what each other needs to feel respected, and when they need someone to talk to or if they just want to be left alone. Inthe future I hope to keep a strong relationship with my parents so I can help them like they helped me. Every one has conflicts with their parents but how they handle them can be different. I try to handle conflicts by letting my parents know how I feel or my opinion. Every parent has different ways of dealing with their children, because every child is different.
In the movie “Whip It” the girl, Bliss, has problems with her parents when she wants to step out of the box and try something new, but her mom wants her to keep doing what she had done. Bliss handles the conflict by running away and doing her own thing and taking no advice from her parents. In the end, Bliss’s parents chose to support her and look at things from her point of view to see what she wants. This was a good choice by her parents because they couldn’t force Bliss to do things this way, and letting her have freedom released the tension in their relationship and brought them closer together.
In our ELA 20 class we have been reading about people’s childhood memories, and writing about our own. One of the short stories we read was Penny in the Dust by Ernest Buckler I think it is easy for the authors to write about childhood because it is something they have a lot of knowledge about and it comes easy to write about. One thing that would make it hard would be that our memories aren’t always right; people can forget some details or they could expand the truth into something that isn’t true anymore. Writing about memories is a good way to sort them out and to understand what parts of your memories are real, and what they mean to you know as you’re older
For me, confronting my memories of my childhood hasn’t been as rewarding as you would think, I do not think I am old enough to really look back at my childhood, because I am still living some of it. I am not saying that I haven’t enjoyed looking back, because I have, and it has been interesting to look back at my life and write about it. Now I think that when I am an adult I will have a new meaning for looking back, and I will appreciate it more after learning about looking back.
In this assignment, we had to ask three people – a parent, a mentor, and a teacher – two questions. The first question asked about any life-changing moments. My parent’s life-changing moment happened when they met a new person and learnt that relationships are mot based on power, but on mutual respect. This made them see relationships and the world in general as a more pleasant place, and taught them to appreciate good things. The life-changing moment my mentor shared with me was when our team of seven made it to basketball provincials. This proved to her that you don’t have to be an all-star or anything fancy to achieve a lot; you just have to be your self. The last life-changing moment I learnt about was from my teacher. She told me about a time when a student of hers died and she had to be the one to tell the class. She took from this experience that life is not a given, so don’t take life for granted.
The second question I asked my three people was: what do you think is the most important lesson to learn in a person’s life that we learn too late? My parent’s answer to this was to be nice to people because it makes their life better, and when you get older, you can see how hard school/adolescents can be and how it can help to break down people’s self esteem. My mentor’s lesson was that you don’t have to change for other people, there will be someone who will except you as you are. Lastly, the lesson that I learnt from my teacher was not to be careless with life, and don’t think your immune to danger.
Through out these interviews I learnt a lot that should seem obvious to people, but some times you have to be told these things just to make sure you fallow them.
This music video is about a girl who also had a life-changing momment and how it changed her life.
Here is a link to TC’s blog with his interview questions and answers on it.
In this unit we read a lot of poetry about life, and living life to the fullest. We also watched the movie The Dead Poets Society. While watching this movie we learnt how to express your self and that it is important to look at life in different ways. In the movie one boy ends up committing suicide because his father puts too much pressure on him and the boy can’t live his own life. Other boys in this class learn how to gather his courage and seize the moment by asking a girl out. After we watched the movie we got the chance to write our own poetryand and present it to our class in a different way- standing on a desk to see the world in a new way, just like they did in the movie. Also with this assignment, we got to experiment with different styles of writing poems.
No one likes being judged, so why do we all do it?
I think the reason why people judge people is because we are mentally lazy. Being mentally means that when you see someone you will just assume that they fit the format that you think they will. For example, if you see someone wearing yellow and they are nice, you will just think that all people in yellow are nice because you are too lazy to change what you already think. People might also judge because they were once judged too and now they think everyone judges and they what to fit the norm. So if someone walked into a new school and was given a label, they’d want to label other people because they think that’s what everyone does. And soon it just becomes a cycle that almost everyone falls into. I’m not saying that judging people from a looks or a first impression is good, but it just seams to be what happens to everyone. People should really stop judging each other, because what’s the point? We are just wasting our time judging each otherand making sure we don’t get judged. Here’s a write up written by someone who also disagrees with judging.
Of this assignment, we took this test to see what intelligences we were stronger in and to compare these pie charts between different countries. I was surprised to see that most places had the same results. All though, Canada always seemed to be a bit higher in the intelligences than any of the other countries I looked at. But there were always a lot of ties or equal categories too. One category that did fit a pattern was the logical category; all the men seamed to be higher.
For myself compared to the average of 15 to 16 years old girl from Canada, I had more logical, linguistic, naturalistic and interpersonal intelligences, but less kinaesthetic, visual/spacial, and musical. And the intrapersonal intelligence was average. The only thing I found surprising was that my visual intelligences were low and my number smart was high.
Here’s a link to Sarah’s blog with her own multiple intelligences.
This experiment takes place in a drug store where, at different times, two 16 year old girls (actresses) try to fill a prescription for birth control, but the pharmacist (actor) refuses to give it to them. During the two day experiment only half the people in the waiting room that over hear the conversation between the pharmacist and young girl say something about the situation. Four of the people say that the pharmacist is doing the right thing (ps. two of them were nuns) because it is morally wrong to give 16-year-old’s the freedom to have sex by filling the prescription; even though it’s against the policy of the pharmacy to not fill a prescription. The rest of the people just tried to comfort the girls or try to give motherly advice about making choices. Only one woman spoke up to the pharmacistand told him that his morals shouldn’t be in affect at his place of work and that he should fill the prescription. She obviously had a strong attitude to such a touchy subject. The pharmacistshowed a good example of cognitive dissonance, because he felt that he was doing the right thing, but it was done in the wrong place and time. The reality of this situation is that it does happen, and that pharmacists have refused to fill a birth control a birth control perscription, even though, most of the time, they can’t. Here is an example of this really happening.
This link is to Sarah’s blog on the same video, she had a real nice sum-up of the video.
“It’s a piece of metal vs a baby’s life.” Janette Fennell, president of Kids and Cars
In this experiment an actress playing the mother of a fake baby with a crying sound, leaves this baby in a car on a hot summer day. It’s so hot out, that if it was a real baby, the baby could have died. A lot of the people that noticed the baby just looked in side the car or walked away because they thought that someone was with them, or they just didn’t know what to do. For the people that did stop, they called the police and tried to find the mother. This experiment is a good test of fight or flight. One man’s fight instinct was so strongthat he told the actress mother that she should be shot for leaving a baby in a car. Other mothers who stopped had such strong emotions and anger that this baby could have died that they had a physical reaction and started to cry. One thing to question is after one man stopped to talk to the woman, then two women joined him at separate times. Would the other two women would have stopped if the man had not stopped first?
In these videos people set up dates using an online dating program, but when they got to their date, the good looking person they were expecting to see (from what they were told/shown over the dating program) was switched to a not as hot actor or actress. The victims, or the people expecting the hot date, acted in different ways, most of the woman tried to ignore the fact that their date wasn’t so hot and tried to enjoy the date. One girl even lied to him and said he looked like his profile picture: even though he totally didn’t. However, there was one girl that didn’t even sit down on the date, she could tell that he wasn’t what she saw online, so she didn’t want to date him.
On the male side of things.. when one of the male victims came to their date and saw the actress and not their date, he cussed and left without even getting full debriefing of the experiment. Another guy didn’t even come into the bar, the cameras saw him hiding out side before he called her and then said he had a “family emergency”. A few of the guys were nice enough to sit and talk to the actress, even though they confessed to the bar tender (another actor) they knew this wasn’t the girl they planed on meeting. Surprisingly, one guy wanted stayed and talked to the woman actress even after he was shown the “hot girl” and got the debriefing from the experiment.
This relates to the first impression topic we talked about, that people will think that if someone has a hot picture, they will be a good date. And that if they don’t look the hottest in person they will be a bad date. I’m not sure what I would do in this situation, because I know id be disappointed if I was expecting a hot guy, and I got some short guy who was losing his hair, but I think id give him a chance, or at least I hope I would, because I don’t think it’s was very nice of some of those people to just walk out on their dates.
Here are the two videos I watched about the online dating swich.
Adam’s watched and wrote about the same video. Check out his response to on line dating here.
Fairy tales all have the same old components, with the same old story line; the kind princes is harmed by the evil witch, and the hansom prince saves her. Some of the things that are always in these tales might not be appropriate for children’s books. For example, in most stories, the evil witch is killed or hurt, should kids really grow up thinking that you should kill people who aren’t nice to you? Or that there is some kind of magic that will save you when something goes wrong? Kids shouldn’t grow up thinking that if they cry their fairy God Mother will come and save the day. Some of the things in stories may shock people that they are in there, but if you read a lot of stories, you can find a lot of these things.
the future I hope to keep a strong relationship with my parents so I can help them like they helped me. Every one has conflicts with their parents but how they handle them can be different. I try to handle conflicts by letting my parents know how I feel or my opinion. Every 
In our ELA 20 class we have been reading about people’s childhood memories, and writing about our own. One of the short stories we read was 
Dead Poets Society
This experiment takes place in a drug store where, at different times, two 16 year old girls (actresses) try to fill a prescription for birth control, but the pharmacist (actor) refuses to give it to them. During the two day experiment only half the people in the waiting room that over hear the conversation between the pharmacist and young girl say something about the situation. Four of the people say that the pharmacist is doing the right thing (ps. two of them were nuns) because it is morally wrong to give 16-year-old’s the freedom to have sex by filling the prescription; even though it’s against the policy of the pharmacy to not fill a prescription. The rest of the people just tried to comfort the girls or try to give motherly advice about making choices. Only one woman spoke up to the pharmacistand told him that his morals shouldn’t be in affect at his place of work and that he should fill the prescription. She obviously had a strong attitude to such a touchy subject. The pharmacistshowed a good example of cognitive dissonance, because he felt that he was doing the right thing, but it was done in the wrong place and time. The reality of this situation is that it does happen, and that pharmacists have refused to fill a birth control a birth control perscription, even though, most of the time, they can’t. 
In these videos people set up dates using an 
