Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Top 20 Favorite Songs
2.)Diary of Jane- Breaking Benjamin- Phobia
3.)Afterlife- Avenged Sevenfold- Avenged Sevenfold
4.)Someone Who Cares- 3 days Grace- Life starts now
5.)I dont care- Apocolyptica ft Adam Gontier-
6.)Dear Agony- Breaking Benjamin- Dear Agony
7.)Snuff- Slipknot-
8.)No woman, No cry (live)- Bob Marley
9.)Last to know- 3 days Grace- Life Starts now
10.)Dear God- Avenged Sevenfold- Avenged Sevenfold
11.)Redemption Song- Bob Marley- Legend
12.)Say you'll haunt me- Stone Sour- Audio Secrecy
13.)Over and Over- 3 days Grace- One X
14.)I Feel like Dying- lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
15.)By the Way- Hinder- Extreme behavior
16.)New Divide- Linkin Park- Transformer2 soundtrack
17.)Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeplin
18.)In the end- Linkin Park- Hybrid theory
19.)With me- Sum 41- Under Class hero
20.)Give me Shelter- Rolling Stones
Monday, May 17, 2010
9 days left
Friday, May 7, 2010
Senior Project Problems
The teachers and facaltly announced the project outline at the start of the year, the steps were very simple.
1.) Write a proposal letter about what your project would be on and how you would go about accomplishing it. In the letter the students had to sate who their senior mentor would be, who their ouside source would be and also to state your project and the plan to accomplish it.
2.)Begin your project with your mentor and outside source's help.
3.)Present your project to a panel of teachers and they would decide if you pass or fail.
Many seniors refused to do this this silly project and ended up failing, these students will not alk with their peers and possibly will not graduate.
One instance ended horifically for one student, who will remain nameless. He wrote a song and made a music video for his project. His letter had been accepted, his mentor had no complaints and his panel gave him an outstandin 19/20. A week after he presented the powerless figure, known as the Vice Pricipal, called this young man into his office and told him he had to redo his project that he worked all year on, in one month if he wished to graduate. The man made up staistics such as "80% of the school was offended by the racey comments in the song about his best friend, making jokes about how close their friendship is. Was this fair to do to this student who not only worked all year on his Senior project, that literally offfended no one i talked to, and also worked hard to keep an oustanding GPA throughout grade school, middle school and high school while juggleing school sports?
Evanston High School and the entire distric has many changes to make next year, in both the education part of school and also in the facualty who judged this project unfairly. They could have given this senior a warning before he began his project but instead waited until he presented and then pulled him down.
What did any senior gain from this project? 60 wasted hours of work durring the year? No diploma for their 12 hard years of work? What was fair about this project this year? Nothing and changes need to be made.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Civil Rights Essay
Even years after the civil rights act of 1968, African American still struggle to find good jobs and careers. Jobs are becoming much more competitive and with more and more white Americans graduating from college, and less African Americans having completed high school it makes it a very uneven match up in the workforce. It is easier for an African American to get a job in a big city then it is in a small town like Evanston, this is mainly because people in larger cities have grown accustom to interracial work places while in smaller towns people are not used to diversity as much. This is not fair but hopefully this will change and soon.
But this is not the case all around America. In some organizations laws have been implemented to make it fairer or more equal for every race or ethnicity. The NFL, for example, made a coaching and organizational rule, if you have an open coaching position you have to interview at least one African American candidate and one Caucasian candidate for the job before making your final decision. This gives everyone an equal chance for the job at hire, but some peoples say that this doesn’t change anything and that if a team wants a white coach they will just interview a black man to satisfy the rule, recently happened with Seattle Seahawks.
Because African Americans are a minority they usually get a lesser education than a majority group. This is mainly because minorities are almost forced to live in poverty and go to schools where their education is not going to be above par. This could possibly hinder their futures and cause them to get lower paying jobs, just continuing the cycle of African American poverty. With a below average high school education, maybe not even a full high school education in some cases, these young men and women have very low chance of getting into college and if they do the issue of how to pay for a further education.
If minorities like African Americans are not given equal opportunities in the work force it could seriously hurt this nation. Everyone needs to be successful in order to have a prosperous nation. African Americans are given much better opportunities for employment today then they would have ever got 50 years ago, so progress has been made. But the main struggle for black Americans is not getting equal opportunities for jobs but getting the education needed for the jobs available.
In today’s society, African Americans are given more opportunities for high paying and lower wage jobs, the problem is not discrimination in the work place as much as it is getting the education required for these jobs. In a way this is still discrimination because it is the former slave owners who made it difficult for African Americans to get themselves out of poverty and into higher level jobs. Discrimination in America is becoming less frequent and sooner or later everyone will have the same opportunities for jobs.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Thursday, December 10, 2009
BOOKS
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Death and Greed(Analysis essay from the pardoners tale(Canterberry tales)
In the story, the old man tells the three rioters that only death waits under the tree that their friend was found dead under (pg 161, lines 103-105). This is a perfect example of how death and greed are connected because the old man is basically doing Death’s dirty work and sending them to the tree, and the old man could also want all the gold for himself after they have all died.
In lines 111-113 the three men discover that only gold coins lay under the tree, unlike what the old man had told them, this event is what eventually causes these three men’s deaths. If they hadn’t gone there to avenge their friend’s death, they wouldn’t have killed each other. Or was it death that killed them?
Death and Greed, in my opinion, are the most connected characters in the story. If one didn’t exist the entire story would be completely different. If Greed wasn’t in the story the three men would have split the money and death wouldn’t have killed any of them. And if Death wasn’t in the story the three men would have been immortal and lived. I think they are two separate characters but they could not exist in the story without one another.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
ANALYSIS ESSAY #1: BEOWULF
In the intro summary to one section of the story, it says “Grendel’s mother kidnaps and kills Hrothgar’s best friend”. She sought revenge on the king for her son’s death which means she cared for her son. It’s safe to assume that it is possible that Grendel cared for his mother as well; after all you normally care for someone who cares for you. This makes me think that Grendel couldn’t have been all bad.
But if Grendel had some good in him, why didn’t he show it? The story only focuses on the evil he caused, and not on the fact that his mother loved him enough to seek revenge. Why would his mother love him if there was no good in him? This brings me to believe that there was good in him he didn’t share with the world. I think he kept it locked up and only showed his mother his loving, caring side.
Grendel’s mother loved her son; doesn’t that imply that he returned her love? I believe that Grendel had a nice side to him, but he only showed his evil side outside of his cavern and his mother was the only one to know he had a loving side. I guess we will never know for sure if Grendel had this good side.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Obama's Speech
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Senior Year
Friday, June 26, 2009
Vince and Shaq
After the Magic heard what the Cav's did, they made a trade of their own to keep in competion with them. They traded Alston, Lee and a plyer who doesnt matter to the Nets for Vince Carter. Carter is on the down side of his Carrer but better than Shaq. The Magic now have the most complete starters on the court in the NBA. Howard at Center, Lewis at PF, Carter at SF, Reddick at SG, and Nelson at PG. Right there you have 4 potental all stars and 1 player who is in the making of an all star. Sorry Clevland but Orlando is gonna beat you out again next year if you dont make ore moves, get rid of BIG Z.
Monday, June 8, 2009
NBA Finals
Friday, June 5, 2009
King James and the Cav's

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
weekend and other stuff
I am taking 2 college credit classes next year, College English and College Political Science. And if i am lucky i would like to get another credit in this summer so i can get my associates the year after high school. I have the opportunity of going to a 10 day conference in DC this summer and receive 2 college credits there as well. Or i could go spend a week with Dave and try and get a credit.
One favor to ask anyone, i have a report on St Paul(Saul) Due in my CP English class. If you have any information on him or his philosophical views, please send them to my email under the subject of ST Paul. Thanks. Oh ya Chelly is a doodle head.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
New site info
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
NFL Awards My Picks
Philip Rivers QB San diego Chargers
TD's 32 INT 11 Yards 3802 Rating 104.0
Rivers has had his best year yet in the NFL this year and deserves this award. He has thrown more Touchdowns then Kurt Warner, Drew Brees, and Peyton Manning. He has also had a higher passer rating then the at 104.0. His Interceptions were one of the lowest in the league and passed for 3800 yards in 15 weeks. Even with Tomilson playing poorly, the Chargers could still be in the playoffs and Rivers is the Reason why.
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Rookie of the Year
Matt Ryan QB Atlanta Falcons
TD's 15 Int 9 Yards 3280 Rating 89.7
Matt Ryan came to a team that won 4 games last year, lost it's Franchise QB, and the coach bailed on late in the season. Despite all of this Ryan and Turner pulled the Atlanta Falcons to a 10-5 record through 15 games and locked a wild card slot as well. Ryan is the future of the NFL and will be a contender next year for MVP.
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Defensive Player
DeMarcus Ware OLB Dallas Cowboys
Tackels 80 Sacks 20 FF 6 Int 0
Despite a horific season for Dallas, DeMarcus Ware has been fantstic. Shuting down almost every offense he has faced. With a league high 20 sacks Ware lead the cowboys to wins over last years superbowl winners,Giants, and the Washington Redskins 'Run' offense. the cowboys need luck to make it to the playoffs but next week Ware will lead his 'Boys to Phili, and hope for a win against the red hot Eagles.
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SuperBowl picks
Tennesse Titans VS Carolina Panthers
Carolina with run the ball for 200 Yards and WR Steve Smith will have a 125 Yd 2 TD day and they will win 17-14
Saturday, December 20, 2008
A Jeep, a jeep, a real green Jeep

Monday, December 15, 2008
Volt

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Sam Bradford
College football has to be staged, i came to this conclusion tonight when i learned that not only for the second year in a row a sophmore has won the heisman but the second time ever! Now it was pretty cool when Tebow won it last year but when Bradford does it a year later well it just seems kinda staged.
Not only this but last years winner,Tim tebow, will play this years winner, Bradford, in the BCS championship game. Hmmm sorry but seems kinda corny, oh yeah not to mention that Tebow's Gators defeated #1 ranked Alabama and didnt seem to become #1. Instead the heisman winners team is even though they played MISSORI! Now to me this kind of screams that the Gators will win January 8th.
Now I'm not saying Bradford isnt worthy of this award but Colt McCoy is just more worthy,not to mention McCoy lead Texas to a victory over Oklahoma.
So im just gonna finish with this prediction, Florida 28 Oklahoma 17. Penn State 17 USC 14. Alabama 34 Utah 10. Cincinati 14 Virgina tech 13. And my bowl game to watch, Ohio State 10 Texas 7 in OT.
