MY AMERICAN VOICE

I only speak up when i need to. If i see something bad happening i speak up till the right thing is done. The words i use dont matter because i will say what i need to say with whatever words come out of my mouth. The only thing i care about is getting my point across. I consider speaking up a responsibility for everyone because we know what is right and people need to understand. Speaking up is not to look tough, it is to notify people if they are doing something wrong or if something wrong is happening.

Vocab Fall List #6

Meme - a element of culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another

Virus - an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host

Viral - related to a virus or viruses

Blog - a regularly updated website or Web page

Wiki - a website that allows you to add, edit or delete things

URL - an acronym for uniform resource locator

Website - a location found on the internet that maintains one or more pages in the World Wide Web

WWW - The World Wide Web is a network of online content that is formatted in HTML and accessed via HTTP

Internet -  a global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information

2.0 - a more advanced version of an original concept

Open Source - denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified

Team Vocabulary

Letter on Big Question

                Dear..................................

   Hello. I have a really big question. I'm really interested in learning about the Indian culture. I just think that India is a really spectacular place to visit. Hopefully when older I get to visit this place. I would really like to visit the Taj Mahal someday I just think that the story how the Taj Mahal was built is a beautiful love story. But anyways the big question is that last time I went to Universal Studios and I saw a lot of Indian women. I noticed that most of them had a red dot on the center of their forehead. But then later on I saw a lady that had a black dot in the middle of her forehead. What is the dot and what does it mean? Also I would like to know what the differences are between the black and red dot? But then as I kept on walking around the theme park I also noticed that they also had red stuff on their parting of their hair and a little bit dropping down their forehead to. What is that and why is it their? Also I noticed that most of them had piercings everywhere on their face and pieces of jewelry hanging everywhere I would like to know what does that mean. I'm a really curious person so that's why I ask so many questions. I could go on asking so many questions about India but this is what I really want to know for now.

LETTER TO A MENTOR DRAFT 1

Dear Mentor,
                        I want to know why people wear clothes. Are they not comfortable with their own body? How would someone even create clothes? Who decided that we should cover up our bodies? Im actually curious about this because it is so fascinating for me. And its just incredible how much clothes has changed over the years.
                                                                                      sincerely,
                                                                                                          Edgar Garcia

Vocabulary Fall List #5

1. Venomous- capable of injecting venom by bite or sting
2. Stolid-  calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation
3. Hypnotized- produce a state of hypnosis in someone
4. Suspended- temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect
5. Transformed- make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of
6. Accuse- charge someone with an offense or crime
7. Anticipate- regard as probable; expect or predict
8. Fringe- an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material
9. Melancholy- a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
10. Earnestly- a purpose and being steadily and soberly eager in pursuing it
11. Dissolve- become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution
12. Aggravate- make (a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious
13. Illuminate- to light up
14. Capillary- any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
15. Proboscis- the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir