Respond

Ianna
I got this quote from Ianna
My question to the world is why is kissing such a big deal? I have been wondering this for quite some time. Ever since kissing has been introduced to my generation, people have made a very big deal of it. … I am just wondering why everything is such a big deal.
Well in my opinion people think that kissing in public can cause a bad influence to little kids if they are exposed to that. For example, when a parent is walking their kids to school and they happen to see a couple kissing they will think it is bad because their kids are too young to be seeing that. They don’t want their kids to be seeing that because they feel as if they will start doing the same thing.
Another reason why parents may think kissing is rude is because maybe it might be a teenage couple and they might think they are too young to be doing that. Elders do not like to see the young expressing their feelings in that type of way with each other. So that is why elders think that kissing is too wrong.
 For some reason, parents think that there must be a certain age to be kissing because it shows a good example of how teens are starting to develop wrong habits. When they see all of this happening around the, they assume that it will eventually lead to sex before marriage. And as we all know, parents do not want their kids to be having sex or making out with their couple/ they believe it is rude and disrespectful to the people around them. They expect them to know better than to do all of that with other watching.     
Back in the day, people were used to seeing kids respect each other and be more secretive about what they are supposed to do in their own time.
Now I have a question for all of the viewers. Do you think that it is right for kids to be kissing in public? What will your parents think?

Q the story

I really like the stories that we read in writing class. The story The Dinosaur was really good, I like how Q is always changing into a new living being. Also I think that at the end of that story he changes into a human. It is cool how he transforms from a dinosaur to a human, he gets to experience a new body and a new life.

I think he changes in to a human because he says I talked in to a train station and was lost, and the only living beings who travel in trains are humans. Also I liked this short story because they are interesting, I really hate reading and I would admit that this was a good story. I liked the part when Q snatch from that one character and had sex with her, and not just that but got her pregnant.

I also like the them. By theme I mean how he was confuse of who he was and really did not now weather being the only one of his kind a dinosaur was a good thing or bad. I had wrote that through out the story he realizes how being a dinosaur is an advantage since he is stronger and bigger than others. He was able to do things that others cannot. Also because he could do things that others cannot he was asked to help out and many of the new ones did not want to mess with him because he was bigger and stronger. He could had clearly beat them up.

I also liked how the story was short and that long. Because it was short I was able to read it with out getting bored. Like I said earlier I hate reading and since books are really big they get me boring and I do not want to keep on reading them. Since this was a short story I was able to read it all with out getting bored or wanting to put it down. Also it did not have many things going on it was really just one conflict and did not have a lot going on.

Q Essay

Q a character from the short stories The Dinosaur by Italo Calvino has trouble figuring out if being different from others is a advantage or just make him a threat.

At the beginning of the stories Q starts of by explaining he is the only living dinosaur, and how it is dangerous. So Q is the only one of his kind and everywhere he encounters a living being he is frightened. He will always run of and be chase by the living beings, “For millennia I had been used to striking terror all around me, and to feeling terror of others reaction to the terror I aroused,”(98)This shows how Q views himself as a target because he is now different. In addition, this has not only happened a couple time because as he said for millennia he feels terror of others. Back to were he views himself as a target, it is true because he is big and the only one of his type everyone around him may see him as a threat. If he is seen as a threat to others, than the living beings would want to do is eliminate him. They are scared of him so they will gang up on hi,, and since he is the only one of his kind he is basically all alone. So the fact that he is the only one of his kind a dinosaur Q feels like he is a target everywhere he goes.

Through out the middle of the story Q now starts to realize how being a dinosaur may actually be a benefit. Since he is big and stronger than others he could do things that others cannot. Now others living beings start asking him for help since he is stronger and capable of doing things they cannot, “This is it,’ I thought, all I can do is sell myself dearly,’ And I prepare to leap into my defense. Luckily, I stopped myself in time. Those fisherman had nothing against me; seeing how strong was, they asked me if I could stay with them and work transporting wood,”(99). So as you can see Q is now realizing that being a dinosaur would be an advantage. They are asking him for help since he is clearly bigger and stronger then them, now he is seeing the good in being a dinosaur. For example at the beginning of the quote he said all he can do is sell himself and leapt to his defense. He still thought that he was a target, but then later in the quote he learns how they just wanted his help because he was capable of doing the job they needed helped on. Later on the story Q is starting to be known as the ugly one. That’s how they refer to him, and some are even starting to notice how strong and big he is, “Zahn, we told you! The ugly one ha muscles. You don’t try tricks with him, not with old ugly one…Go on, you’re the stronger one!,”(1023). Now people are realizing how he the strongest and that he can be helpful to them. Now living beings are not messing with Q or chasing him, now they are not scared of him but are asking him for help. So as you can see now Q is realizing how being a dinosaur could be an advantage and be helpful not make him a target.

Now at the end of the story Q sees how being a dinosaur is a good thing. He finally sees how is an advantage, he now is basically proud of being the only one of his kind, “Our extinction had been a grandiose epilogue worthy of our pass,”(109). What this quote means is that dinosaurs died it was a big deal. That the fact that they died is big, they died with leaving a mark of them in this world. Also that dinosaurs were not the weakest animals but one of the strongest and that the fact that they died makes them even more important. So finally Q realizes how he is proud of who he is, that he might be different but that does not mean he is weaker or a target to everyone else.

NFL

I would like to talk about the NFL but more specially about the teams I like. The Raiders and the Minnesota Vikings. I know that the Raiders would not make it to the Superbowl but I still have faith in them, while the Minnesota Vikings do have a change to go to the Superbowl and even win it.

The Minnesota Vikings have a change because of a player name Adrian Peterson. He is one of the best NFL players there is today. A player that I like from the Raiders is Asomugha, he is really good at defence.

Teams that I really do not like are teams like the Chargers. One player that use to be in the Chargers that is now in the Jets is L.T. I dislike him because he use to be the best in 2006 and 2007 but now he cannot even last a full football season with out getting injure. He is just to old now, he must still be good but not as he use to be.Another team that I really dislike is San Francisco. The reason i hate them is because I like the raiders and the Raiders are rivals against them so that makes me hate them. When ever the San Francisco plays against the Raiders and they win I get mad because I believe that in this battle of the bay the superior team is always the best. In this case it would be the Raiders.

So as you can see I do not have a lot to say about NFL but this is what i do have to say about it. I have teams that I dislike and teams that I really like, and once again I would like to say that the Minnesota Vikings are going to the Superbowl and winning it, but I still have a lot of faith that the Raiders would also go to the Superbowl and winning it. So as you can see I cannot decide of witch team I like more but I think it is probally Raiders because they are the best.

Respond To Keiland

Keiland:Swag is something that many people are not born with. You have to (as the defintion sais) "Swag up" . By doing this you are having your own unique style , or you are confident in the style you already have. Confindence is a HUGE piece of having swag. If you are questioning or not if you have swag, then you most defintly dont have it.

I would like to Respond to the quote that Keiland wrote. I agree with what he is saying, but I think that by saying this he is puting others down. Some people may take this to personal. But to get out that topic for now, I have a question  for Keiland, Do you think you have swag?

I do believe that if you have confident than you have swag because a person who may even think about them having then they do not have it. So I guess that this part of this qoute is true. I was also wondering if there could be different types of swag since you said that you could have a unique style. Unique could mean something different to other people, it all depends on ur view of style. So what I am trying to say is that keiland a person that you think may have negetive swag another person may think that he has alot of swag. So I thimk that swag is view in different ways depending the type of person that you are.

Now to talk aboout the first line about how a person is born with swag or not. How can a person be born with swag, I believe that is up to people to tell a person that has swag or not. swag is basiclly waht people think of you. If people like how you dress and look then you have swag and if people do not then you do not. So I believe that everyone has swag, that there is allways someone in the world that would tell you that you have swag. So once again I would like to ask Keiland if he has swag?

Respond to Francis Opening Statement

Francis.The “Gay Gene”: There is no gene that calls for a person to be heterosexual, homosexual, or any other types of sexuality. Many types of research has been done, including the “X-linked Gay Gene” (which has been proven false) and not one can provide solid evidence that any sexuality, including homosexuality) is genetically inherited. This provides more information that solidifies that sexuality is learmed.

I would like to say that I really agree with with this. The reason why I would like to agree with this is because I was also going against the topic about are people sexual oriantation determind at birth. Also the group that I was going against had brought up the "gay gene," and I know that ther is no gay gene so it was wrong for them to say that.Also my group had said that the mom would had passed the X gene, that maybe a hormo was passed down, but what I had said about that is that how about if there is no gay path in the mom's famaly.were would they had goten it from.

Also I would like to say that the gay gene was a good counter argument against tthe opposite group because although some people may think there is a gay gene the is clearly no gay gene. no scientist has found a gay gene, so waht that means is that ther is no gay gene. So because there is no gay gene that would mean that there is no way that someones sexual oriantation cannot be determind at birth. So as you can see me and Francis were both right.

To conclude I believe that a person sexual oriantation is not the demind at birth. Thanks to the the fact that there is no gay gene oit can be prooven that there is really no way that a persons sexual oriantation can be determind at birth.

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Speech

Hello my name is Pedro Vargas and I attend to the school Alameda Science Technology of Institute. I am here to talk about the ways that the youth could ,make there communities better. By better I mean more safer, cleaner, and healthier. We all know that they are many great heroes that helped the world become a better place, but now is the chance of a kid to make a change in their community. For example Alameda, Alameda could be improve by many things that kids could help fix.
We all know that there are very great heroes that really helped the world. For example Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and Cesar Chaves. This three heroes fought for what was right. They all fought for peace in their own way, but they all are still remember till this day. If you help your community you may not be remember as much as this three heroes, but you will feel great and show how much you care about your communities.
Alameda is a great place. Is one of the safest place in the bay area, but it could be safer. It cannot just be safer but it can also be cleaner. I think that not just grown ups can make a change in Alameda, kids could to. It may sound possible for one person to make a big different but just take a look at the three heroes I mansion before like M.L.K and Cesar Chaves. They made a really huge different in the world. So as you can see you can make a change on Alameda, because Alameda may be already really safe and clean but it can be cleaner and safer.

Rebuttal Con; born gay? Ruby and Pedro

Me and my partner Ruby are Con. against the question, is a person sexual orientation determind at birth? The reason why we believe that this is false is because a person could change their feelings as they grow up. They may start building up new feelings because of the person they hang out with or interact with. So as you can see a person could change their feelings as they grow up wich means that a person's sexual orientation is no determined at birth.

The Pro. side of the question is a person's sexual orientation determined at birth  are Vy and her partner Jackson. they disagree with ous, and I would like to point out a quote that they had said in their opening statement, "

"Before birth in embryonic state, people are bisexual, but in the coarse of their natural desire, most loose their desire for members of the same sex.

I wanted to point this quote out because it sounds that a person may loose their desire of their members of the sex, so basiclly they are saying that a person could change their desire for members of their same sex. This sbrings me back to what I had said earlyer about how a person has a choice of choosing their sexual orientataion, so as time passes by they have the right to change their desire of  the gender they like.

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