You have earned Academic All-State or Honorable Mention Academic All-State from the KHSAA. Academic All-State is an award for students maintaining a 3.75 – 4.0 GPA while participating in a sport. Honorable Mention Academic All-State is for students maintaining a 3.25 – 3.75 GPA while participating in a sport. These certificates are for the 2009 – 2010 fall & winter sport seasons.
If you received this e-mail you have a certificate in my office. Please come to the front office between classes and ask for Mrs. Board. I will not be in the office before or after school. When you pick up your certificate you must initial a press release giving your permission to release this information to the press. After all the names have been initialed I will send this information to the Messenger Inquirer and they will print a list of all Apollo High School students receiving this honor.
Please try to pick up your certificate this week. This information will have to be sent soon for it to be in the Messenger Inquirer before graduation.
Thank you,
Donna Board
Apollo High School
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Mothers Day
5 de mayo
5 de mayo is a day that the Mexican people celebrate because it’s part of the Mexican history. It is when a group of Mexicans from the state of Puebla defeated the French. 5 de mayo has been around for hundreds of years.
Tournament for Breast Cancer
The tournament we are playing about this weekend is because we are supporting anybody who has breast cancer and I think that this is a good thing because we are helping people who have cancer. And all the people who go to watch the tournament have to pay $5 dollars to get in and I hope you can comment on this blog.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
SB1070
Well, about the SB1070 I think is a waste of time and will have damage in this country in the future. Maybe not right now, but I do have a feeling that it will soon. Like for now the immigration people are the ones who are really trying to work hard not just for earning money, but helping other family members or just start a new life here. I was born here in Owensboro, KY in 1993, but most of my family isn’t from here. Well, those who are older than me like I have 12 people. Who wasn’t born here that is part of my family. I’m also glad that I have most of my family is here with me because I have some that lives with me here, others who lives in Mexico and Honduras. Like I know I’m from here, but I’m also Mexican and Honduras in me. So where I go or grow as I will always know and remember that I’m mixed in not just one culture. I sometimes ask my self, “If I would be the same if I was only one race or would I be different.” Every day, well most of the time I watch the new, but ask my self has the people really change or stay the same.
In the first section in the SB1070 part B said,
“FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY
21 OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS
22 STATE WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICIONS EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS
23 UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE,
24 WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON. THE
25 PERSON'S IMMIGRATION STATUS SHALL BE VERIFIED WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
26 PURSUANT TO 8 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1373(c).” If you want to know more I got this information from http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/16/AzSB1070.pdf.
I think to my self how you can tell the difference from people who were born here from those people who won’t. Like I know around the world people are born, but not just one place. The sentence beside the number 22 says, “State where reasonable suspicions exists that the person is an Alien.” Well, I thought the scientist said that we are humans another words we are people, but how come most people are treated different from others just because they are different. Well, news flash every one is different no one is the same.
In the first section in the SB1070 part B said,
“FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY
21 OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS
22 STATE WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICIONS EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS
23 UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE,
24 WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON. THE
25 PERSON'S IMMIGRATION STATUS SHALL BE VERIFIED WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
26 PURSUANT TO 8 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1373(c).” If you want to know more I got this information from http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/16/AzSB1070.pdf.
I think to my self how you can tell the difference from people who were born here from those people who won’t. Like I know around the world people are born, but not just one place. The sentence beside the number 22 says, “State where reasonable suspicions exists that the person is an Alien.” Well, I thought the scientist said that we are humans another words we are people, but how come most people are treated different from others just because they are different. Well, news flash every one is different no one is the same.
Immigrations Law
On Friday the bill on illegal immigration was passed. It is considered as the toughest bill of the nation that is signed by the governor Jan brewer of Arizona. The main aim of SB1070 is to identify, execute and deport them. The bill was criticized by president Obama. According to the opponents “it is an open invitation for harassment and discrimination against Hispanics regardless of their citizenship status”. I don’t like this because this is not the fair way of treating everyone who is either legal or illegal. The law is kind a racial profiling that is a form of racism consisting of the policy of policemen who stop and search vehicles driven by persons belonging to particular racial groups. Somebody rightly said “it is very easy to support racial profiling when you are not of the race that’s profiled”. According to the anonymous source “there are 22, 737, 535 illegal’s in the country, 578,399 other than Mexicans and that’s only 4% of illegal’s that are not Mexicans”. The things that are needed to prove your citizenship are-
• A Arizona Drivers license
• A copy of your DD-214
• A passport
• A certified birth certificate
As per the 14 amendment to the U.S. Constitution “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. So where does the law goes now?
• A Arizona Drivers license
• A copy of your DD-214
• A passport
• A certified birth certificate
As per the 14 amendment to the U.S. Constitution “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. So where does the law goes now?
My opinion about S.B.1070
Well I have lots of opinions and questions about the bill S.B1070. My first question is for the Americans, what makes you to consider yourself as an American or according to you what’s an American?? My opinion is that the United States of America is no really the land of “white people”. If we go back to the times of Christopher Columbus, North America which the U.S is in North America was owned by the Native Americans, and they weren’t “white”. Now in the United States there are lots of races, so whoever is born in the United States and its skin color is what we call “white” don’t say that the United States is yours. Now the second question is, what would the United States do if there were no immigrants to work in the factories, and the fields?? My opinion to this is that if there were no immigrants in the United States there would be fewer factories and fewer fields, why? Because the majority of the people that work in the fields and factories are immigrants. Why just immigrants? Because immigrants don’t have the documentation required for certain jobs such as being a lawyer, and those types of good pay jobs. Another of my opinions is, why doesn’t the United States runs a check on the immigrants records and if they have any crime record or something close to that they should get deported back to their country and if their record is clean then they should get a visa for a certain amount of time so that they can still support their family, and so they won’t have to become criminals, for example some Mexicans that got deported in the past 5 or 6 years didn’t get enough pay in México and that’s why there is too much drug trafficking and killings.
http://www.examiner.com/x-43033-Scottsdale-Libertarian-Examiner~y2010m4d23-SB-1070-Is-Now-State-Law
http://nclr.org/content/policy/detail/1058/
http://www.examiner.com/x-43033-Scottsdale-Libertarian-Examiner~y2010m4d23-SB-1070-Is-Now-State-Law
http://nclr.org/content/policy/detail/1058/
SB 1070
Sb1070 is a law that they pass in Arizona were the police can stop anybody that they think that don’t have legal papers. And I don’t agree with this because a lot of people work on immigrant people work on field. And I have an article on the website in the bottom where Jan brewer’s says, “On SB 1070, Arizona Governor Says She Will Do The ‘Right Thing So That Everyone Is Treated Fairly” and I don’t agree with this because how is she doing the right thing so that everyone is treated fairly when she just passed a law that can report immigrant and that is not fair. Fair is when everyone is treated the same way as everyone else and some people might not agree with me but that my definition for being treated fairly. Some people might have different definitions for it but it’s just the way people think. If the governor of Arizona wants people to treated be fairly she should take the law of sb1070 out because that would be fair for everyone, maybe not for some of the people of Arizona but for other people that would be fair. And also I know some people who were illegal in the 1990s and now that they have papers they think that they can be treated as an American, but it is wrong because he might be an American resident but he was born in Mexico and I think he should be with us marching for the immigration reform. And also I think that we shouldn’t be scared because if we get scared then it would be most likely to happen. And I think that president Barak Obama should do something about this before it goes to all the states because I know he wants everyone to be treated fairly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/19/jan-brewer-immigration/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/19/jan-brewer-immigration/
Friday, April 23, 2010
Earth Day

"Today we planted a tree, and it was pretty fun."
~Daniel
"For today Friday the 23 we went outside and plant a tree and we had a good time because it is really cool to do something for the community and this is earth day so I hope you do something good for earth day to."
~Antonio
"As we had Earth Day on April, 22, so in the honor of earth day and in making a little contribution in saving our environment my class planted a tree."
~Ritu
Well, today was fun I guess and I help out the planting the tree.
~Victor
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Saving the Earth!
Well, the first thing one or more people can save the earth which we live in is pick up the trash around the sides of the roads or other places. Another ways people can help out is like plant more trees and plants instead of cutting them cut down. Therefore if we stop cutting down trees we can actually save the animals instead of hurting them. Like if we didn’t have any animals then how we could eat besides eating plants, but I know there are a lot of people who don’t eat plants at all. Well, my reasons how people can save the environment by pick up the trash, turn off the light, and last but not least is use less resource.
My first reason will be picking up the trash because people see trash and most just walk away from. But then again some people do pick up the trash and I’m thankful for what some people do. Like for me I would pick up the trash which I do sometimes. Starting now I’m going to pick the trash every where I go and see some trash on the flood. But I know some people are going to ask can that help out the earth by the earth which we live in can be clean and we can live a better life. Like I know out there in there world there are some people who don’t really eat food from plates like some people here. NO! They eat from trash or what ever they can catch with their hands.
My second is turn off the light. Like people see the light turn on, but when they see no body in inside and just walk by the room. For example not all the time I would turn off the light I just felt some else should it for me, but now I see that I also can make a little change in my life. It won’t hurt me if I change a little bit. I know now that most people turn off the light not just it can help out our earth, but they will feel proud about their selves. I know I would after I do something good I know it will help out other people that don’t even have lights to see in the dark like us.
My last reason is use less resource because what if we use all of the resources that we got then what would we use. How would we survive? Easy the people that came before us live a good life. Even though they didn’t know as much as we do now, but still didn’t have to worry too much about use just this resource to do something. NO! They other sources that could be use the same things to the same way too.
I hope you think about how you could save our earth before it’s too late. Like I already know what I’m going to save this earth before I die and that will be try to turn off light, pick up trash, and also use less resources as I can.
My first reason will be picking up the trash because people see trash and most just walk away from. But then again some people do pick up the trash and I’m thankful for what some people do. Like for me I would pick up the trash which I do sometimes. Starting now I’m going to pick the trash every where I go and see some trash on the flood. But I know some people are going to ask can that help out the earth by the earth which we live in can be clean and we can live a better life. Like I know out there in there world there are some people who don’t really eat food from plates like some people here. NO! They eat from trash or what ever they can catch with their hands.
My second is turn off the light. Like people see the light turn on, but when they see no body in inside and just walk by the room. For example not all the time I would turn off the light I just felt some else should it for me, but now I see that I also can make a little change in my life. It won’t hurt me if I change a little bit. I know now that most people turn off the light not just it can help out our earth, but they will feel proud about their selves. I know I would after I do something good I know it will help out other people that don’t even have lights to see in the dark like us.
My last reason is use less resource because what if we use all of the resources that we got then what would we use. How would we survive? Easy the people that came before us live a good life. Even though they didn’t know as much as we do now, but still didn’t have to worry too much about use just this resource to do something. NO! They other sources that could be use the same things to the same way too.
I hope you think about how you could save our earth before it’s too late. Like I already know what I’m going to save this earth before I die and that will be try to turn off light, pick up trash, and also use less resources as I can.
Monday, April 19, 2010
How Recycling Can Save the Environment
How recycling can save the environment? Recycling can save the environment in many ways, the first way it can save the environment is by not killing too many trees. The second way is by not destroying animal’s shelters (deer, turkeys, etc.). The third way that recycling can save the environment is by not cutting down our oxygen.
We can save the environment by recycling paper. If we recycle paper we don’t have to cut down trees, and that can help us because we don’t cut our oxygen short. If we don’t recycle and we just cut trees we are obviously going to cut down on our oxygen to and that would increase pollution as well. And if pollution increases we can be in risk of having bad weather such as tornados, hurricanes, etc.
Not destroying animal’s shelters is the second reason. If we do not recycle plastic, paper, etc. All of that trash is going to go to the landfills and it doesn’t disintegrate, and the landfill is going to keep getting bigger. And if the landfill gets bigger then we’re going to have to cut down more trees or just the ones in the way.
The third way is by not cutting down on our oxygen. If we cut down trees, we also cut down on our oxygen, and we have more pollution. If we cut down on our oxygen the result can be death. Over all we want to recycle because we don’t want to die just because of lazy people who won’t recycle.
0ver all, recycling is good because it stops global warming, and things won’t be used up so fast. So I recommend every school in the United States to recycle everything from paper to cardboard. And don’t just throw everything to the dumpster, just because you’re lazy.
http://helptheenvironmentbyrecycling.info/
http://www.wikihow.com/Help-Save-the-Environment
http://members.tripod.com/rareearth_2/recyclin.htm
We can save the environment by recycling paper. If we recycle paper we don’t have to cut down trees, and that can help us because we don’t cut our oxygen short. If we don’t recycle and we just cut trees we are obviously going to cut down on our oxygen to and that would increase pollution as well. And if pollution increases we can be in risk of having bad weather such as tornados, hurricanes, etc.
Not destroying animal’s shelters is the second reason. If we do not recycle plastic, paper, etc. All of that trash is going to go to the landfills and it doesn’t disintegrate, and the landfill is going to keep getting bigger. And if the landfill gets bigger then we’re going to have to cut down more trees or just the ones in the way.
The third way is by not cutting down on our oxygen. If we cut down trees, we also cut down on our oxygen, and we have more pollution. If we cut down on our oxygen the result can be death. Over all we want to recycle because we don’t want to die just because of lazy people who won’t recycle.
0ver all, recycling is good because it stops global warming, and things won’t be used up so fast. So I recommend every school in the United States to recycle everything from paper to cardboard. And don’t just throw everything to the dumpster, just because you’re lazy.
http://helptheenvironmentbyrecycling.info/
http://www.wikihow.com/Help-Save-the-Environment
http://members.tripod.com/rareearth_2/recyclin.htm
How Being Vegetarian Can Save the Environment
The surrounding where we live is what we call as environment and it is being exploited. So it’s the time when we need to wake up and help in saving it. There are various ways in which we can help in saving our beautiful environment from being destroyed. One of them is being a vegetarian. Its sounds silly but if we carefully look at the small things that are saved by a person who is a vegetarian then it’s make a major difference to our environment. To make things possible we need to start from somewhere and little things we do today are going to make a big difference tomorrow.
We do not own animals (and even if we do then they have their own life) so they can’t be used for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason. They too have their own life, feelings of love, happiness, fear just as we all human beings do. How are we going to feel if somebody is going to do the same things with us? We, humans, should not go through all these slaughters and stuff like that because we can speak and can express our pain and emotions.
Vegetarian diet reduces the destruction of tropical rainforests, wildlife habitat, and help to save endangered species. It is sad that rainforest are being cut to make room to raise more and more cattle. One of the reasons how being a vegetarian helps the environment is that you do not have to eat hamburgers for which as a matter of fact “every second, one football field of rainforest is destroyed in order to produce 257 hamburgers”.
For producing a single pound of meat, nearly 2500 gallons of water is needed. US use half of the water in animal agriculture. 250,000 pounds of waste is produced per second by the livestock which is 20 times as much as humans. “It takes ten times as much land to produce food for an average American compared to a pure vegetarian”. As a whole if everyone is going to be vegetarian (well, that’s not possible) then certainly it’s going to help our environment in many ways.
http://www.happycow.net/why_vegetarian.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228145651AARDd0c
http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/why.html
We do not own animals (and even if we do then they have their own life) so they can’t be used for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason. They too have their own life, feelings of love, happiness, fear just as we all human beings do. How are we going to feel if somebody is going to do the same things with us? We, humans, should not go through all these slaughters and stuff like that because we can speak and can express our pain and emotions.
Vegetarian diet reduces the destruction of tropical rainforests, wildlife habitat, and help to save endangered species. It is sad that rainforest are being cut to make room to raise more and more cattle. One of the reasons how being a vegetarian helps the environment is that you do not have to eat hamburgers for which as a matter of fact “every second, one football field of rainforest is destroyed in order to produce 257 hamburgers”.
For producing a single pound of meat, nearly 2500 gallons of water is needed. US use half of the water in animal agriculture. 250,000 pounds of waste is produced per second by the livestock which is 20 times as much as humans. “It takes ten times as much land to produce food for an average American compared to a pure vegetarian”. As a whole if everyone is going to be vegetarian (well, that’s not possible) then certainly it’s going to help our environment in many ways.
http://www.happycow.net/why_vegetarian.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228145651AARDd0c
http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/why.html
How Schools Can Save the Environment
I think that schools can save the environment by turning off light and go and walk or run outside or teach outside. This is going to save the environment because all the classes are going to be outside and every single light even little lights are going to be turn off. I don’t know how schools are going to take this but if we turn all the light we can make a big different like how little things make huge things well this is one of them because by turning off the light we are saving energy and also saving the environment. I think the students would like it but I don’t really know about teachers but some teachers might consider it good or bad, my ELL (English Language Learner) class is going outside to plant a tree and I think this is a great idea. Do you know how many trees are torn down because they need to build houses or do other things in it? Well I don’t really know but I think I have a good idea about it and that’s why my class is planting trees outside the school because trees are good like for shades. Another idea that how we can save the environment is by scan papers before you print because some teachers just print and then when we turn the papers in they just check it and then they just throw the paper in the trash and we can recycle the paper . Recycling papers are good because they can be used over and over again and they can also be used for a lot of things and that is good because it helps us save the environment and let us have more oxygen. Another reason is the school can volunteer to pick up trash around Owensboro so we can have less pollution and have better oxy gen so when people see they can say my kid went with the school and pick up trash to have a better environment, and these are great ideas on how the school and the teachers can save the environment.
http://www.helpsaveenvironment.com/howkidscanhelp.htm
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin402.shtml
http://www.environmentgreen.com/how-schools-can-go-green.html
http://www.helpsaveenvironment.com/howkidscanhelp.htm
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin402.shtml
http://www.environmentgreen.com/how-schools-can-go-green.html
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Earth Day
Spring Break
For spring break my family and I went to Chicago to visit my aunt and my uncle. Our plans were to visit them, and to get to know the whole downtown. But our plans didn’t go like we expected, because one of my uncles had cancer and he was very sick, and my dad wanted to go and visit him before his death. But unfortunately when we got to his house he was very sick and we had to take him to the hospital. So a whole day went by, and we were still in the hospital. I really didn’t care much for getting to know the downtown, what I really cared about was my uncle. After three days we came back to Owensboro. My cousins and I went bowling, to the movies, and to the mall in Evansville, Indiana. Monday, April 12, 2010 my mom called my aunt and my aunt told my mom the bad news, my uncle had passed away…
Spring Break and Soccer
In spring break I didn’t had that much of a good one because I had to baby sit my sister but I don’t really care because I’m playing soccer with my friends. I like soccer and my mom said if I babysit my sister I could get my new cleats they are real nice and they are also violet. We have are second game today and I hope we win because if we win we have a chance of winning the united cup when it begins and it will begin in two or three weeks and I can’t wait until school is over so I can go to my game and I will keep you people with the scores of the game every blog report I write.
This is the cleats I am going to order in this week.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Women Rights in Iran
According to the constitution of Iran, the government has some responsibility for women like creating a suitable environment for their personality and to restore her material and moral rights. To protect mothers and to create competent courts for preserving the existence and survival of family. Creating special insurance for widows, elderly women and women without guardians is also one of the responsibility of the government and granting guard ship of children to worthy mothers.
Spring Break
Spring Break
For spring break my family and I, are going to Chicago to visit my uncle and my aunt. Last time that my family and I went to Chicago was like three years ago, and I really want to go this year so I can ride the speed boats around Lake Michigan. The part that I like about going to Chicago is when we cruise.
Offiside
This movie is about soccer and how girls in Iran couldn’t watch the game because only men were aloud. And I think this is so bad because anybody should be allowed to watch soccer and not wear anything because girls had to wear something around the head. The president should change and put a law about women right because if mans are allowed to watch soccer the women should be allowed to, I didn’t really like the m0ovie at the beginning but I did like the end were the girls in the bus thro firecracker inside the bus and it is a really good thing that the girls escape from the bus. Also have a great spring break and have lots of fun.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Immigration Reform
Over 200,000 people went to Washington D.C for an immigration reform march. Most of the immigrants want to be legal in the United States because they need work to help their family survive, because in their countries they don’t get the same or close pay to what they do here in the U.S. Most of the immigrants don’t have good jobs like the Americans but even though most of the immigrants work in the fields, they still make money to survive. Some immigrants come to the U.S with a good objective, and some of them don’t have a good objective. Some immigrants come here to the U.S and can’t find a job, so they go to the easy jobs like selling drugs. I have a lot of uncles who did that when they first got here to the United states, and now some of them are in jail, and some of them were deported.
Like After I Finish School and College
Like after I finish school and college. I will go for Air force maybe I don’t know yet because I haven’t chosen between Air force and marines. Since I was young I wanted to be flying in the air. I also promise my little sister I get my own airplane and let her fly with me. I just hope I can get in the force, but I don’t then its ok I guess. I mean I would still try and work hard just to get in.
Counterstrike
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Weekend Report
This weekend I had a good weekend and now that it is week again I don’t like it because I sometimes get bored school because we don’t do that much except listen to the teacher talk and also I’m really happy because soccer is about to start and I have my first soccer practice today and most of the soccer players can’t wait because we are going to be back as a team and also because we haven’t play since 5 months and now it is time to have fun again and I’ll keep you people up of what I do this weekend or next week and I hope you replied to my blog again.
Holi
Thursday, February 18, 2010
World Cup - ZA
The world cup happens every four year and this is the first time that is going to be held in South Africa. The world cup is an event where the entire continent participate in and most of this time it is always held in other places except South Africa because some people thought that South Africa couldn’t handle the world cup. This time it is going to be in South Africa and they are going to proof that they can handle the world cup.
The first time that South Africa is going to have the world cup. They don’t have anything like hotels, restaurant for the people to stay or eat. But they are constructing the things and also they are constructing new stadiums for the games to be held. This time Africa is going to show that they can handle the world cup and down there I have some links for these and also the continent’s where the world cup has been held before.
http://www.worldcupblog.org/general-banter/south-africa-world-cup-2010-logo.html
http://south-africa.suite101.com/article.cfm/world_cup_2010_in_south_africa
The first time that South Africa is going to have the world cup. They don’t have anything like hotels, restaurant for the people to stay or eat. But they are constructing the things and also they are constructing new stadiums for the games to be held. This time Africa is going to show that they can handle the world cup and down there I have some links for these and also the continent’s where the world cup has been held before.
http://www.worldcupblog.org/general-banter/south-africa-world-cup-2010-logo.html
http://south-africa.suite101.com/article.cfm/world_cup_2010_in_south_africa
KY Test 10th Graders Go To College
The program is being organized by the National Center on Education and the Economy, and its goals include insuring that students have mastered a set of basic requirements and reducing the numbers of high school graduates who need remedial courses when they enroll in college. More than a million college freshmen across America must take remedial courses each year, and many drop out before getting a degree.
High school students will begin the new coursework in the fall of 2011 in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The educations commissioners of those states have pledged to sign up 10 to 20 schools each for the pilot project, and have begun to reach out to district superintendents.
Marc S. Tucker, president of the center, a Washington-based nonprofit said, “That’s a central problem we’re trying to address, the enormous failure rate of these kids when they go to the open admission colleges and We’ve looked at schools all over the world, and if you walk into a high school in the countries that use these board exams, you’ll see kids working hard, whether they want to be a carpenter or a brain surgeon.”
I think about the program can help out for the people who are ready and then again if some people can effect the way they think. By I know most people do study as hard as they can, but even if they study there is still a chance to fail the test. Then, if that happens then the person who took the test can think to him/her self as they can’t accomplish anything. So some people do others things instead of try to reach the goal again. And for the people who do pass the test can help in the real world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/education/18educ.html
High school students will begin the new coursework in the fall of 2011 in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The educations commissioners of those states have pledged to sign up 10 to 20 schools each for the pilot project, and have begun to reach out to district superintendents.
Marc S. Tucker, president of the center, a Washington-based nonprofit said, “That’s a central problem we’re trying to address, the enormous failure rate of these kids when they go to the open admission colleges and We’ve looked at schools all over the world, and if you walk into a high school in the countries that use these board exams, you’ll see kids working hard, whether they want to be a carpenter or a brain surgeon.”
I think about the program can help out for the people who are ready and then again if some people can effect the way they think. By I know most people do study as hard as they can, but even if they study there is still a chance to fail the test. Then, if that happens then the person who took the test can think to him/her self as they can’t accomplish anything. So some people do others things instead of try to reach the goal again. And for the people who do pass the test can help in the real world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/education/18educ.html
Storm in Michoacán, Mexico
2010 Winter Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics is the international sports event. It is the 21st winter Olympic. It started on 12 February, 2010 in Vancouver in Canada and is going to end on 28th of February. The Olympics are organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC). It’s the third time that Canada is hosting Olympic. There are 82 National Olympics committee who have entered their teams with a number of 2,629 athletes. The United States has won the maximum number of Olympic medals till now in the 2010 winter Olympics. It has won 5 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 6 bronze medals making a total of 14 medals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
What happened when me and my dad was in the wrong place at the wrong time!
It started out being a good day, dad and I was finished working on our farm that day. My dad, in a tired voice told me “maneja tu” (you drive). We were on our way home when two big army trucks passed us sounding the honk trying to tell me to get out of their way. I was only going 65 miles per hour. Five minutes didn’t even pass when I saw a long line of cars, like about 50 cars. In front of us there were two white trucks, I kind of noticed that it was the L.F.M. (La Familia Michoacána/ Mafia). I was wondering what happened, in a firm voice I asked my dad “ que chingados paso” ( what the heck hapenend) when I saw the two big army trucks that passed me. I realized that the soldiers were searching every truck that drove by. But now it was the two white truck’s turn, the soldier made the stopping signal, when the two white trucks just dashed by the soldier making him prepare his rifle. While was trying to stop the truck to let one of the army trucks to go and try to stop the white trucks I heard four gun shots “BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM”. I got kind of scared and my dad said with a scared voice “ dale chingadoz, no me quiero morir tan pronto” ( Go, I don’t want to die at this time). While I made the U turn there was already another army truck behind us………..
All I Ever Wanted
When, I first time I see you I was little and didn’t what was going around my life. As soon as I came to notices that there was a problem in my life, but couldn’t figure it out. Every since you left me alone and my family, I thought that it was bad. Now as I look back into the past and I think to myself, “Man! I was so weak to think about that and not think what I do have in my like I have good friends and a perfect family.” I know your going to say, “But no one is perfect.” Yes I know that, but I won’t trade my family for nothing on this earth. I know family usually have fight and agree about things, but that’s normal in a life because sometimes when family fights are good to make sure you don’t mess up your life or someone you love. Like I can talk about one person who chanced my life forever, but I’m not going to say his name. I know I thought it was bad for us, but now since I notice more things I know it was for the better. So it doesn’t matter to me what if he comes back to my life because I’m finish and tried of him coming back and then leaving me alone again.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Believe
Well, today I want to write about believe in yourself. I’m writing this because I lost the truths with in me. Over this weekend something came back at me from no where, I started to cry right there where I was, and other thing I just don’t want to talk about it. So the message I want to you to get is simple don’t ever let someone to tell you what you don’t want to do and that you can’t do it. Just remember there are people whop care for you and try to not let nothing happen to you.
Art
3 IDIOTS
Life is all about listening to your heart and chasing your dreams, that’s the essence of the movie I recently watched titled ‘3 idiots’. It’s a bollywood movie. The movie is about three young college buddies who get to realize their selves at the end of the movie. They have their own idiot theory that is ‘I Do It On My Terms’. The movie shows not only hardships of college life but also try to teach us a lesson that every time studying in college is not all about getting degree but sometimes it’s more than that. It could just for learning and getting new ideas. The movie is good and I really liked it.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Trip to Mexico 12/18/09-01/04/10
It all started one Friday morning, everyone in my family was excited that we were going to Mexico. The trip started out good till when we had two hours on the road... that’s when a deer crossed the road and the truck that was in front of us braked really fast, going out of control getting in front of our way making us run into him.
anyways in the accident no one got hurt even the deer left with out a little scratch!
While me and my family where enjoying our vacations in mexico we had a picnic day.
I enjoyed that day because me and my cuzins swimmed, and rode our four wheelers in the river. I enjoyed the other days too because I met new people(girls).
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Christmas Break
In Christmas break I hang out with some of my friend and my family we all had a great time and I was happy because I was out of school didn’t had to do anything like homework. And I got some clothes and a new of shoes and some other basics things and on new year we went to party and I went to bed at 6 in the morning and then on Sunday I went to play soccer and I had a great time with family.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
School Lunch
Today through this essay I am going to tell my logics that why I do not eat lunch at my school. There are several times when I am asked that why I do not eat at my school lunch in school. For not eating, I have many reasons like I am not hungry, I do not want to eat with the people I do not know or the reason could be that I do not get what I want.
First of all the reasons, the main is that I do not want to sit and eat with the people whom I do not know or even I do not like. It’s difficult for me to do all these. So I do not eat at my school.
Next, I am not hungry at the time of our lunch. It’s probably because I usually do not used to eat at that time. So I think it’s better not to eat than to break my routine.
Finally, the reason why I do not eat at school is that I do not get what I want or do not like what we are given at the school lunch. Mostly, it is the fast food, which is not liked by me.
In the end, I would say that it does not matter that why I do not eat but what matters is that I do not want or like to eat at my school lunch. It’s my wish whether I want to eat or not.
First of all the reasons, the main is that I do not want to sit and eat with the people whom I do not know or even I do not like. It’s difficult for me to do all these. So I do not eat at my school.
Next, I am not hungry at the time of our lunch. It’s probably because I usually do not used to eat at that time. So I think it’s better not to eat than to break my routine.
Finally, the reason why I do not eat at school is that I do not get what I want or do not like what we are given at the school lunch. Mostly, it is the fast food, which is not liked by me.
In the end, I would say that it does not matter that why I do not eat but what matters is that I do not want or like to eat at my school lunch. It’s my wish whether I want to eat or not.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Christmas Break
Well, how was your Christmas Break? My Christmas Break was good I had a lot of fun throughout the time. We had a party at the garage, my room, and the house. Almost every where you went in around my house we had different music like; rap, rock, punk rock, screamo, and Spanish music as well. I had rock, screamo, and some raps songs. At the garage they had Spanish music. They had different songs like rock, but in Spanish. I love the party because my big brother came back from college and invited some friends to have fun and one of my old friends that I haven’t talk in a long so I didn’t feel comfort that my brother knew that I don’t like the girl.
My Break
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