The Picture That Makes You Really Think

On American Studies Day, i went to see Mr. Maury talk about his photography. Mr. Maury talked about how he has traveled around the world to take pictures because that is what he loves to do and he wanted to get some good pictures. He showed some pictures of September 11th and how when he got the call that there was an attack, he drove all the way up to New York so that he could take the pictures. Some of the pictures that he showed us, were similar to other pictures that i have seen in magazines and articles. But when he started going into the pictures that he took in Africa, it really made me look at the screen and think. He took pictures of the starving children in Africa and the little boys with the big bellies. We saw this one picture of a four year old in Africa who had the face of a 75 year old man and his ribs were poking out. This really made me sad and realize how fortunate we are to live in the North Shore. We are really sheltered here in the North Shore and we don't see or experience many things that are going on in the world right now like the hunger and lack of clean water in Africa. Then when he started to show us pictures from South Africa, my eyes began to tear up and my stomach dropped. Although i wasn't there to see what was going on in the pictures, the pictures told their own sad stories. My friend is from South Africa and he said that he has seen the little boys with the big bellies who are starving and bloated with water. I don't know what i would do if i saw them every day on the streets starving. We live in such a sheltered and nice community where we are fortunate for many things. 

The one picture that probably stuck in my mind was the picture of the black people in South Africa burning a black immigrant on the ground. This immigrant was on the ground on his hands and knees in flames. This made my stomach sink and made me feel sick to my stomach. It was just a horrible picture to look at and it was amazing to think that people would actually do that to other people. Although it was a picture that i did not want to see, it showed me that things are happening around the world and we should be aware of them.

Did anyone else see this presentation?

What picture stood out most to you and why did it stand out the most?

D.A.R.E FLAG

Drug Abuse Resistance Education

My camera seems to not be loading my pictures onto my computer? So i have to picture to put up right now, but as soon as i get it working, i will load my pic up here. 

We have been talking about the American Flag in class for the past few days and how it can be posted on many different things. My picture is one of a shirt that i received in 4th grade from the D.A.R.E program, which is the program for anti-drugs. They gave us shirts that had a big American flag on the front of it and the letters D.A.R.E below it. I thought that this was an original idea to show the American flag because i received it from an anti-drug program. I was looking around my house for things that i could take pictures and i actually saw the American Flag in more places then i would have expected. It was kind of cool to look around and notice how many flags we have on objects or even the flag itself. I never really have noticed them before, but now that i am looking, there are a lot in our house. 

The American Flag can be anywhere and everywhere. I don't think that a lot of people notice them all too often because they are used to just seeing them everywhere so they don't really notice them when they see it in their house. (That was the case for me) 

Have you seen a lot more flags around now that you have you mind on them?

Alright. Onto my 5th blog post for junior theme! VERY SHORT!

QUICK UPDATE!

Well, i think i feel a little bit more relieved now. I have been working on my interview questions for a coach at LSU and i have come up with some good ones. Today in the library Ms. Eich helped me edit my questions and they are sounding better already! i am just nervous for the interview. I am not good on the phone and i am going to be embarrassed when i am asking him questions about my topic. The guy that i chose seems to be a really nice guy and he seems like he will help me a lot.
I wrote an intro and got it edited by Mr. O'Connor and I think it is sounding ok. I will post it soon, i just want to do the corrections that Mr. O'Connor told me to do. then i will post it and please comment and give me some advice. I'm feeling a bit more confident now and i think i can write more of the paper this weekend.

Number 4 For Junior Theme
Eating Disorders and Athletes

I have found a lot of information lately from sources online and from many good books that i have gotten from the library, but i dont know where to put all of this information in my paper. I tried to come up with a start to my paper over the weekend, but it didnt work for me. My thesis is not fully put together and i need help on trying to put everything i want in the statement and that is one of my problems. I have ideas on the main ideas i want to say in each body paragraph, but i have no idea how i want to start them. Im feeling a bit lost is what i guess im trying to say. I have some good information, i just dont know how to get put it into my essay?

Here is my start to my thesis and what i want to say in my essay...

Eating disorders are prominent in the sport of gymnastics because...
1. pressure from coaches
2. stress of competition
3. gymnastics has grown in the media/society
4. judges and the skimpy clothing
5. elite gymnasts

These are the main ideas that i want to talk about in my essay, i just dont know how to make it into a thesis or part of my introductions because i dont just want to list them out.

Anyone have any suggestions for me?

Alright,

I am a bit stuck...

I really don't even know where to start for my introduction. I have a lot of good information and i am still looking for more, but i just don't know how to start my first paragraph. I don't know what information to use in it, and i don't have a grabber either. I just feel a bit stuck. I need to find more information on y topic and that is what i am doing, but i don't know what information i need to use in my introduction. 

I have no idea where to start....

Does anyone have any ideas on where to start?

Has anyone else written theirs and can help me start mine?

Anorexia~Junior Theme

Ok well i have been having a bit of a problem. I have been working on my junior theme in school and at home and i have gotten a bit of information that will help me write the paper, but i am worried that i am not going to get it done in time. I have heard from my other friends that they have to get a certain thing of notes in time, and we don't really have that and that is what is making me nervous. It may be because we just started junior theme and stuff, but it is making me nervous. 

I have printed out a few articles and have gotten some good notes on a few things, but i am nervous that i am not going to have enough notes or not finish in time. I don't really know, i just am a bit confused and i don't know when i am supposed to have all my notes or like my book read and stuff. 

I also am not sure if my topic is the best topic, but it is one that interests me and i like it, i am just not sure if i can find enough information on it. I am doing anorexia and how it is different in the upper-class people and the lower-class people. But i also want to add in a paragraph about how sports can affect it and how environment can also effect it, i just cant find very good evidence for any of these. I am going to read the book Price of Privilege and i think that will give me some good info on upper-class teens. I need help...

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Is anyone feeling the same way?

Does anyone have an better ideas for me to do with anorexia?

Junior Theme?!?

When i heard that we were starting junior theme on Monday, my heart started to beat faster and faster. I had heard rumors about junior theme from all my friends and siblings that it was a horrible thing and you had to do a lot of work for it. So i was nervous when we were told that we were starting it. But when i heard that it had to be a 4 to 6 page essay and on a topic that you want, i was pretty excited. I told my dad about this and he said that it would be fun for me because my brother, who is now a freshman in college, had to do his junior theme on a topic he didnt want to and he did nto like it.

So i started out with a few ideas and i narrowed it down to two. I wanted to do something on OCD or something on eating disorders. Then when i thought about it, i couldnt really do the topic on OCD because i would have a hard time relating that back to something in history. So i decided to go with the eating disorder topic. I went to see my teacher and he said that i could research eating disorders because i could look at the rates in the upper classes and the lower classes. I thought that this was a good idea and i decided to go with this.

So i was thinking about a "why" question to come up for this topic and i came up with,

Why are the rates for eating disorders different between the upper class and the lower class?

I think that this is a good question, but i am not sure if it is exactly what they are looking for. I looked at the book, The Price of Privilege in the library and i think that it would be a good book to choose because it is a story about upper classman teenagers who struggle with eating disorders.

I think this is a good start, and i am excited to do some research now.

Do you think that my "why"question can improve?

Do you have any other suggestions for books that i could read?