Jared’s Blazin’ Flamin’ Blog

1.“No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew” Albert Einstein; http://www.leading-learning.co.nz/famous-quotes.html I do not really understand what this quote means.

2.“If we always do what we’ve always done, we will get what we’ve always got.’”Adam Urbanski; http://www.leading-learning.co.nz/famous-quotes.html To get new things you have to try new things, not old things. (This is confusing isn’t it?)

3. “Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was… If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win”; Vince Lombardi Basketball coach.http://www.leading-learning.co.nz/famous-quotes.html Winning isn’t everything. If you do not put your full effort into it, then you will lose.

4. “Do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path” Anon http://www.leading-learning.co.nz/famous-quotes.html This means that you should try new things (or paths in this case) instead of following what others do.

5. ” The true leader senses and transforms the need of the followers.”James McGregor Burns http://www.leading-learning.co.nz/famous-quotes.html This means that a leader must listen to his people. He should not be communist . And most importantly, the laws should be made “for the people and by the people.”

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**** Below is a situation that happens in the lives of middle school students. Read through the whole piece, then reflect and answer the questions at the end. Take your time on this — don’t just immediately react. There are no right or wrong answers — try to be clear in your answers and provide justifications for what your write.

Mary is an eighth grader and, until recently, pretty popular at school. Lately, she started finding notes in her locker and in her backpack that were really upsetting. The notes were unsigned and mean. They said things like: “ We don’t like how you’re treading on our territory.” “ You act like a bitch.” And even, “ You better watch out because we’re watching you…”

Mary had no idea who might be sending the notes but she had an idea why. In the last few months she had started accepting invitations to high school parties. She had also fooled around with a couple of sophomore guys. She had a feeling that the notes were from some of the high school girls. She knew how gossip got around and how mean other people said the sophomore girls were.

What was she supposed to do? Almost every day this week she received a note. She felt angry, scared, and hurt. She showed the notes to two of her friends. One of them said that whoever is sending them was probably just jealous and she should just ignore them. The other friend said she should show them to a teacher.

Mary felt like there was no good choice. If she tried to ignore the notes she was afraid they would just continue, and she was not only scared, she was mad. She wanted them to stop. But if she turned in the notes, she was sure the whole school would find out and she would probably have to name names as to who she thought was sending them. If the gossip was bad now, wouldn’t’ it be worse then?

I think that Mary should find out who was sending her the notes not by telling the teachers, but by finding out myself. If I were her I would hide some-where close to my locker and look at all the people walking by my locker. Then, everntually some one would show up and you would catch the person, and then tell their parents. This would be a good way because the person would be punished, and not be embarrsed at the same time.

**** Below is a situation that happened in the real lives of middle school students in some school in the U.S. Read through the whole piece, then reflect and answer the questions at the end. Take your time on this — don’t just immediately react. There are no right or wrong answers — try to be clear in your answers and provide justifications for what your write.

Maria was worried about her good friend Pam. Pam was always talking about how fat she was and what she was trying to do about it. But the truth is that Pam was not at all fat. In fact, she was downright skinny. Since their freshmen year Pam had lost at least 15 pounds. Now, they were juniors and Maria was afraid that Pam had an eating disorder. Maria was also getting frustrated. Where were all the grown-ups? Who was watching out for Pam besides Maria and her friends?

Maria knew that someone from their school had talked to Pam’s parents last year, and that Pam’s mom had gotten angry about the school poking its nose into family business. Pam’s mom claimed that Pam had a dancer’s body and a high metabolism. That was last year. Now things were worse and Maria felt like she was literally watching her friend disappear.

Finally, one Monday afternoon Maria had had enough. As she watched Pam take three diet pills and eat four grapes for lunch she decided she had to do something. As helpless and scared as she felt now, how would it compare to how she would feel if Pam actually ended up in the hospital…or worse? Pam would be furious if she found out the Maria had talked to someone behind her back. So, Maria had two problems–should she tell someone how bad things were, and if so, whom should she go to?

I agree with Maria’s descision to tell someone about Pam because if she doesn’t, then Pam will literally starve to death. I don’t think that Pam will get upset and Maria because she would have saved her life. If I were Maria, I would ask Pam’s mother who her doctor is, so that she could tell him about what has been going on at school. Then, the doctor ould check to see if something was wrong with her and if so, then something could be done. I think that Maria should be honest with her friend Pam and explain to her why and who she told about her posible eating disorder.

I think that a leader should be fair, self-givng, does not over tax the people just for his own wealth, and spends the taxes wisley (on roads, hospitals, raiways, etc.). He/she should be someone who cares about the people, and gets the proper people to make roads and hospitals and other buidings. He/she’d need to inforce the law, and make sure that justice is always served.

A leader should be nice, should be understanding, and most of all intellegent. If the leader does not have intelegence, the he/she will not know how to run his/her people. He/she wouldn’t know what to do, or which laws are good, and which are bad. The people would go crazy and would eventually want a mutany.

The leader I look up to is Abraham Lincoln because he was the person who fred the slaves. I agree with what he did because it is not right for people to be discriminated against just because of their skin color. If I was living in thoes times, I probably would have tried to do the same thing. Because of this great man, african-American’s can now live in the U.S. freely.

if I was a leader, I would build a huge army and get rid of all the communism in the world. I would turn all the once communist countries into democratic countries. This would help the world, and it would give people more freedom. If North Korea was turned into a democratic country, then the very good scientists could come to the U.S. or some other country and could do a lot of good things for the country.

If I was a leader I would be a democrat.  From what I heard on the news, I  think that I would make the most of my job as a democratic.

In coputer class, I had to use a program that is simular to microsoft powerpoint called OpenOffice.org Impress. We had to talk about 5 leaders using 5 slides, one for each leader. I used King David, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Condoleezza Rice, and Steve Irwin.

On September 14 2006, four people got in trouble while we were waiting to get into computer class. Two got in trouble becuase they were taking people’s bags, and the other two got in trouble for watching it, but not telling them to stop, which is called being apathetic..

Animusic is an animated DVD that has animated robots/machines that play different music. The graphics were really good, and at first I thought it was real! Most of the music was created by the animators, and only one was not original. My favorite one was called resonant chamber, and here is a picture of it:

Yesterday my teacher told us to go to a new site. When we got to the site, it said that it had different “test” to see what your different personalities were. The website is http://www.personalitylab.org/. You can take tests like which hogwarts house you’d be in. You can also see what type person you are, personality wise.

Should students be allowed to bring cell phones to school?

I think they should be allowed to because say you are in a sport. If the practice is canceled, and you have no money for a pay phone, and no one has a cell phone, then you’ll have to wait at school for an hour or two, and you could possibly be stolen by a murderer, or a serial killer. There is only one pay phone in the WHOLE school and you have to pay. I think students should be allowed to bring cell phones to school, because they might be stuck at school for a long time.

I say they shouldn’t because it might ring in class, and be disturbing.

Today I have no HW at all, except for researching a project in Social Studies, but I alreay have enough research from two days ago. When I get home, I’m going to go on the computer.