Thursday, February 19, 2015

(#10 ID) math class is helping me add up my life!

     I have Algebra 2 again! its like having the same nightmare over and over again night after night. But this time I am awake and do my work and I also have Ms. Mingos  who's is actually getting this langue of math in my head! 
      Right now where learning about scatter  plots its easy for now like I actually feel like I got this. the only thing is I get confused on what I should put on the x-axis in comparison to the y. 
       How can I forget to mention GRAPHING! We are learning to graph and what can I say it is a journey because I just have so many questions when I'm in class and I don't really want to raise my hand and ask because i am the only person from my grade there so I think the other people will think I'm really dumb.  
   I tend to stay to myself in that class especially because people laugh when I talk . I think it's because of my voice but I rather it be that than because of questions. I like this class overall  because I sit at the very front and only pay attention to the lesson, besides I don't know anyone else in that class I think there 11th graders they seem ...interesting .Besides this I also gain the opportunity to organize my papers, think about what's going on after school, catch up on any other work and think about what I'm eat or go  for lunch.         

Monday, February 9, 2015

blog #9 SSR

Justice has been served more than a half-century after courageous students were sent to jail for taking a stand.
On Wednesday, Jan. 28, almost 54 years to the exact day the Friendship Nine were arrested, their convictions and sentences for trespassing and protesting were officially vacated during a formal hearing at Rock Hill Municipal Court in South Carolina.
Named the Friendship Nine because eight of the nine Black men were students at the former Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill, they were arrested Jan. 31, 1961, for sitting at the McCrory’s whites-only lunch counter.
After being found guilty, the men accepted a sentence of 30 days of hard labor on a chain gang, instead of paying the $100 bail.
(The rest of the news is found on the link below)
http://www.diversityinc.com/news/friendship-nine-convictions-vacated-50-years/


      After reading this I didn't know exactly how I should feeling. I felt that it was way over due, they should have resolved this way back than not now. I felt angry and disrespected because I thought of this as a joke. Like they did this only to prove that they can do whatever they please and to laugh at the whole situation that is according today. I also felt happy that at last victory  was serve for these innocent young people.
     These people that did this were around my age, they were willing to go though this to make a change. They didn't do it because their friends were doing it or because they were told to do so. They did it because it came from within them they knew that they had to try to make a change and went ahead and did what they could.
      I believe that it is the responsibility of this generation to stand up and make a change. I believe the only way that anything will change is if we want it with all of our hearts, that we fight for it as much as we fight to get up every morning even if our beds are pulling us in.    
      I believe that is on of the major problems in todays society, we are way to entertain with technology, we don't believe we can make a difference and because we are concern of what others think of us, so if our friends are not with it neither are we.