Junior English

   The book presented was called Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. The piece was engaging, although the gym may not have been the best location for that group. The lighting reflecting off the book wasn't as appealing, especially being an e-Comm student I would know lighting can make a world of a difference. The buzzing/humming of the lights wasn't very exciting or appealing to hear. Otherwise it was creative and effective.   If I was an elementary student, I wouldn't be choosing this book. That being because elementary me seemed to feel like a grade or more ahead of myself and liked reading chapter books from younger elementary age. Challenged my vocabulary to eventually make 2nd place in an elementary school spelling bee, and as well as in 2nd grade jumped grades ahead of myself on vocabulary, I believe to a 5th grade level almost/at most.

 This blogpost is going to be an analysis of the Wasteland Documentary I watched for english class. In this blogpost the objectives are to describe the context of the piece, talk about the artist's purpose for the art, and analyze the story and the work.    This is an artist from New York, who goes to Brazil and collects recyclables from scavengers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and turns them into art. He does this in effort to "change the lives of the people, with the same material that they deal with everyday," (Vik Muniz). His next plans include working with garbage. The idea is to " [take] people away... from where they are, {to show} them another world, another place," and to see how it affects them and changes them. The landfill they go to,  "Jardim Gramacho (Gramacho Gardens)," is the biggest landfill in the sense of square footage, and of intake of trash per day. The garbage that goes there is a mix of garbage of a millionaire and a low-end neig...

   I feel as though child soldiers would be the more pressing issue. There are valid reasons and reasonable arguments for both sides; however, I choose child soldiers for the following reasons.   Being an immigrant means you are getting a fresh start, and a new life in a different country. Escaping a harsh reality and finding a better one to reside in. Immigrants come from countries under dictators, kings or rulers of that manner that, in the opinion of the immigrants, are making life hard for them to actually survive. Immigration is essentially like if I were to leave one school because of the way the administration handled situations and went to another school because the way they handled situations was seen as "more fit" for an environment I'd like to be in.   Child soldiers on the other hand, aren't going from one way of life to another for the purpose of escaping their existing life to find and make a better life somewhere that will encourage and support the...