Grammer Post: Past Tense

There are some words that I cannot tell if it is past tense or not. Here I found that this helps me a lot.

Past tense verbs are used to express an action that has already happened. For most verbs, you can just add –ed to ending and you’re good to go. For irregular verbs, such as BE, HAVE, and DO, they have forms that are different depending on the subject.

Wallace moved into his new house last Saturday.

Yesterday I visited him for tea.

Group Presentation

In our group's presentation, we're going to have the power point on leading causes of death by age. There are four age groups that we are going to focus on: 1-3, 4-21, 21-64, and 64+. We are going to present them one after the other and tie them in.

I am a little worried about the delivery of the presentation. On page 839 in the SMGTW, it gives some advice to how to deliver the presentation. I feel more relieved after reading it. I need to make eye contact when speaking. I especially need to not speak in a monotone voice and avoid vocal mannerisms. And speak loudly. These are things i need to work on.

Most Cause Of Death At 65+

Why: Heart disease is caused by diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, improper diet and lack of exercise. It can also have a genic component.

Prevent: Have better diet and exercise more.

Women develop heart problems later in life than men -- typically 7 or 8 years later. However, by about age 65, a woman's risk is almost the same as a man's.

Symtoms: Heart disease includes conditions such as heart failure, heart attack and heart arrhythmia that can cause the heart to beat ineffectively and impair circulation.

Causes Of Death

I found that the most cause of death in the world is Ischemic Heart Disease. It is a disease characterized by reduced blood supply to the heart muscle, usually due to coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries). Its risk increases with age, smoking, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol levels), diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure) and is more common in men and those who have close relatives with ischemic heart disease.

In the United States, it is Diseases of the Heart. Which is heart disease.

Grammer Post: Present Tense

In my sentences, I don't stay consistent with the tenses. I start out with present then mix in some past tenses. I hate when that happens. All you need to do is just add "has" before the verb. I just forget the rules. Right here taught me a lot about present tense.

Gary has just ate the orange.

Opposition

Students with concealed weapons on College and Universities campuses should be allowed because it can prevent massacres. If there is a psycho student taking the class hostage with a gun, there is nothing to do but wait for him or her to be finished with their shooting spree. If one of the students or teacher had a gun concealed with them, he or she can end the psychopath’s shooting spree, thus preventing another massacre. The students would be safer knowing that their classmates had a gun to protect them. Massacres would have been protected if someone had a concealed weapon on them. They could have shot the person down, without killing them, and had prevented the shooting from ever happening. It is safer to know that your classmates have a concealed weapon on them.
Students do not have the enough courage to start a school shooting. The gun is used for bluffing. If a student pulls out their concealed weapon, it is not likely that they will shoot. They use the gun for scaring off people. They actually do not have the courage to shoot. Unless they are a psychopath, they will not shoot.
If gun control laws get too strict, it will violate the second amendment of the Constitution, which is the right to bear arms. It will limit if certain people can have guns, then limits them to what kind of guns are allowed to purchase. If it is a fully automatic or a semi-automatic gun, it is still a gun. A gun is a gun. It should not matter what kind of gun the person has. Gun control will likely interfere with our rights to bear arms. It limits to the varieties of guns the people can purchase.
People can still get their hands on guns even if the law changes. They can get it illegally from black-markets and under the table from gun companies. No matter what the law is, people can somehow get their hands on guns. So why bother changing the laws, it is a waste of time and paper.

Propostion

Gun sellers need to have stricter background checks (Espo). A background check is when the seller brings up the buyer’s records to see if he or she is legible for a gun or not. If the person is not legible, they cannot buy a gun. Background checks should be performed on every buyer (Espo). Since they got out of juvy, they might want revenge on some people that put them in there (Espo). Then the shooting begins. If they’re a student that isn’t legible, there is not a risk for a school shooting. The background checks should be as accurate as possible (Beef). Juvenile delinquents should be restricted from buying guns (Espo).
People with mental illness should be restricted to buy guns (Beef). The law should be changed so that it is impossible for someone with mental illnesses to purchase a gun (Beef). Since he or she already knows that they aren’t suppose to buy it. Seung Hui Cho, the one who started the Virginia Tech. massacre, was able buy not just one gun, he actually he bought several legally from a gun dealer. The seller saw the mental illness on Seung Hui Cho’s background check and ignored it and sold the gun to him. He had enough mental illness that should have sent him to jail for purchasing a gun. People with mental illness should be restricted to buy guns (Beef).
Government should shut down companies that distribute guns to low gun control areas. Gun makers and distributors deliberately oversupply guns to low gun control areas (Taking). Knowing that the guns can be resold to anyone illegally, they do it anyways. Student can get their hand on the illegal guns easily (Taking). Once the guns are in the student’s hands, there’s a possibility that he or she is going to school and shoot someone that may have bullied them. Those gun manufacturers can be sued in California if they market and sell weapons with disregard for public safety (Mintz). You can make money off of the manufacturers if you buy one of their guns illegally and sue them for marketing them (Taking). This doesn’t change the fact that guns are dangerous.
Colleges and Universities should not allow their student to have concealed handguns on campus (Roberts). At Colleges and Universities throughout the country, students are allowed have concealed handguns on campus (Roberts). This is not acceptable, having guns in school will cause many problems throughout the whole campus. The safety of innocent students will always be at risk (Roberts). The student with the concealed gun will threaten other students and will get his or her way. The causes of shootings are immaturity, alienation, stress, use of drugs and alcohol (Beef). Theses causes not just happen in Colleges and Universities, but everywhere. Instead of having a fist fight, they’ll have a shootout instead (Roberts). That sounds fun. Students with the concealed gun can shoot anyone or anything at any given moment. Carrying a gun around campus will have a much bigger chance of a shootout than not carrying around a gun on campus (Roberts).

Grammer Post: Future Tense

I sometimes for get how to use future test, so I use present tense. I would be using the tense that I do not want to use. Here I found ways to remember. All I need to do is put in "will" before the verb.

He slapped the evil man.

He will slap the evil man.

Grammer Post: Apostrophes

The only problem I have with apostrophes is that if I should put one before or after the word that already has an "s" in it. This site here tells me what to do. I put the apostrophe before the "s" when it is singular and after the "s" when it's a plural.

The monkey's banana - Singular

The friends' houses - Plural

Complications Part 1

I find this book very interesting, it reveals the hidden world of surgeons. Even though I didn't understand all the medical terminology, it's still interesting to read as he tell the story. I didn't expect that there were risk involved by having surgery. Something to think about is the newly surgeons that perform on patients for the first time. There's something to think about about. This makes me think twice of having surgery. I'm glad that they have M & M to share their mistakes and stuff, so that they won't make the same mistakes. After reading this, I don't want to have surgery. So I'm going to avoid it.

Grammer Post: Colon

Colons are used to signal the reader that a series of words, phrases, or clauses that follows a complete sentence. A colon is used to introduce a list. I sometimes use the colon for the wrong purpose, but here showed me the correct way. Here is an example:

Correct: Jill has many skills: running, jumping, fighting, and sewing.

Incorrect: Jill's skills include: running, jumping, fighting, and sewing.

Response

Sorry for posting it up so late, my computer couldnt connect to the internet.

Grammer Post: Nor and Or

Using nor and or gets me confused. I don't know which one to use. Doesn't it mean the same thing? Then I looked here and found an answer. Apparently nor always comes after neither and or after either. That makes sense because nor and neither starts with N. Here are two examples:

You either get $100 or a slap in the face.

I neither want the $100 nor the slap in the face.

Mini Essay From The Art Gallery

The Cardinal by Alexander Selytin is amazing because of its realism, texture, and color value.

His painting is realistic, it looks like a photograph when you stand far back. He must have spent a lot of time observing the cardinal and the nest. Then more time painting them. This is what separates this paint from the others.

The bird and nest has great textures. That's why it makes the painting so realistic. The red cardinal it self has textures that a real cardinal would have. It has a feathery like texture to it. The branches in the nest had a rough branchy texture like real branches. With all those textures, no wonder it looks so real.

Color value plays huge role, that's what makes the paint realistic. Different shades of color makes the painting interesting and make it look real. The cardinal's red feathers aren't just one color, it's multiple shade of red. Same goes for the nest.

Research Review

"Does the screen last very long since people are constantly touching them?"

The iPod Touch's screen is made of Arsenic-free glass, so it's environmentally friendly. The screen is very durable. I have one and I've been dropping mine a lot and so far the screen is working fine.

Grammer Post: Their, There, and They're

I sometimes get mixed up with Their, There, and They're. I use the wrong one which will make the sentence all funky. I found a rule Here. There refers to a place, Their is possessive, and They're is a substitute for they are.

Review Paper

iPod Touch -

-Entertainment - Games, Music, and Videos - Wifi

-Portable Device - Music & Video Player - Organizer

-Consumer - All Ages

-Design - Touch Screen - Shinny

-Manufacturer - Apple

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Paul Blart: Mall Cop deserves a Razzie award because the story wasn't that good. It has a basic story of a guy that tries to save a girl from a burglary and he does it. Then he gets with the girl that he saves. The movie's plot is too predictable.

The movie wasn't that funny. The movie trailer exaggerates the funniness of the movie, it only showed the funniest parts of the movie, which isn't that much. It's a stupid funny movie. It was funny for the first 15 minutes, but then it got old and stupid.

I didn't know most of the cast members in the movie. All I knew was the guy playing Paul Blart even though I bearly know him. The girl that he was trying to save was beautiful. I like that. All the cast were not popular actors, I don't recognize anyone of them.

Chapter 8

Analyzing Writing Strategies

2. Yes the thesis statement meets the three standards. It has the three standards of a good thesis sentence.

Grammer Post: Dashes

I'm not sure when to use dashes. I just use parenthesis instead. I get confused sometimes. Dashes breaks the rhythm or interrupts the meaning of a sentence, setting off information with greater emphasis than another punctuation mark could supply. Here is more information.

Ethnographic Essay Concern

My Ethnographic Essay concern is: How do I make my whole essay flow better?

3 Elements

Each mini team of Pine vVew High School Yearbook must submit 6 DPS per dead line. A "DPS" is a double page spread. Which is two pages when you open the book.

Picas, are little boxes on the page that you are making. It pretty much a grid. Each side needs to have the same number picas between the pictures.

The black book is where they keep track of the people that have been used in the yearbook already. Each person must be in the book three times. This keeps track of them.

Grammer Post: Double Negative

A double negative is the use of two negatives in a single clause. Double negative can get very confusing. It cancels out what I really want to say, which is not the way I want the sentence to turn out. So I try to avoid using double negatives. This a good rule to follow: The best approach to the double negative construction, as with other language issues, is to consider the context as you decide how you can most effectively communicate what you wish to say.

Grammer Post: Commas

I sometimes don't know when to put in a comma. I can't decide if I need a comma or not. It gets confusing. So I read the sentence and pause where it sounds rights. But it sometimes doesn't work.
This is a rule that helps me: Use commas to separate independent clauses when they are joined by any of these seven coordinating conjunctions: and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet.
You can find out more here.

Ethnographic Idea

I am thinking about doing my Ethnographic paper on Pineview High School Yearbook. It seems interesting of what they need to do. Some questions I have are:
What kind of things for you people do?
Does everyone work on each page?
What happens if you don't make the deadline on time?
How many are in the yearbook staff?
Is it fun/hard?

Grammer Post: Quotations

Sometimes quotations confuses me. I can't decide whether or not I should use it. If somebody says one sentence, I'm not sure whether or not to use quotations. So I just decide to not to use it then. If there are two people talking, I will most likely to use it.

Enclose all direct quotations, meaning use of another person's exact phrasing, whether written or spoken, with quotation marks. This is a way of both correctly citing the quotation and using proper grammar to include it in your writing. Here is where I go it.

Grammer Post: Semicolon

I don't really uses semicolons in any of my sentences. I just don't know how and where to use it. So I don't use it at all. Semi colons are used to separate items in a series when they include commas and to link two independent clauses. I just need to learn the rule of it and I'll be fine. Here's a link that will help me out. It helps a lot.

Revision Reading

-My President, by Young Jeezy
This song reminds me of when Barrack Obama won the 2008 Presidential Election. The song talks about the president being black. Since he’s the first black president, the song reminds me of him. With a new kind of president, there’s going to be big changes from now on. Yes we can!

This song brings me back to when Barrack Obama won the 2008 Presidential Election. The song talks about the president being black. Since Obama is going to be first black president in history of the United States, the song reminds me of him. With a new kind of president, there’s going to be big changes for the future.

Grammer Post: Verb Tenses

Sometimes I have a hard time with verb tenses, I put in past and present tenses together in a paragraph talking about one subject. I usually forget what tense I should be writing in so I have to go over my writing every time. So I just read it over and see if it sounds right, that been working out good so far for me. Here is a place where you can help you.

Blog Playlist

"Get Silly" by Soulja Boy represents me because it reminds me of silly things. I can be really silly sometimes. Last summer I was camping in Cedar with my friends and family. We were there for a few days. So my friend and I were bored, so I decided to play Get Silly in the car as loud as I could. Then he and I started to get silly and started dancing like crazy monkeys. It was so fun. This monkey dance lasted for atleast 10 minutes. It was one of the best things I did during the summer.

"What I've Done" by Linkin Park is a song that I listen to when I want to remember of things and think about them. The song helps me think about things that I've done. Like the time when I lied to my 2nd grade teacher. It was in her class that I knocked something over and blamed it on the one kid that I disliked. I hated this kid because he kept calling me names. That kid got detention for a week. That's what he gets. I was happy that I didn't get in trouble. When I think about it, it's stupid that I did that. Detention wasn't a big deal. But I don't really care about that kid, because I hated him. He had it coming.

Grammer Post: Fused Sentences

I sometimes have fused or run-on sentences in my paper. I don't know when to stop a sentence, so I keep going and going until it's a fused/run-on sentence. It's tiring for other people to read my sentences when it goes on and on and on and on. I actually don't pay attention to how long my sentences are. I'm trying to improve my writing by paying more attention to how long I write my sentences. It's going good so far, so I think I'm improving.

My Life's Defining Moment

One of my life's defining moment was when I first got my drivers licence. I was the first kid in my whole family to get it. I was showing it off to everyone in the family. When I went to California, my grandparents had company over, so I showed them my licence. I felt like I could go anywhere at any time by myself. My cousins and sister couldn't do that. I felt so superior. If I think about, i was really dumb showing off my licence. I don't know what i was thinking. It's funny when I now think about it.

Responce To Reading Assignment

"Calling Home" is a little story about a 13 year old girl goes Christmas shopping with her grandmother, brother, and her sister. She shops in the General Store where they sell mostly knick-knacks and finds herself a Snoopy button. She decides to buy it. She didn't want to wait in line since the line was too long, so she decides to steal it. When she got out the store, she gets caught. Then she gets arrested. Her fear was not the thought of going to jail, but how her mother was going to react. She told her mom what happened on the phone. Then her parents took her home. Her mother told her what she did was wrong. And the police was wrong also, the fact that they arrested a 13 year old girl.

"An American Childhood" is about her football experience and how its a driving sports. The story starts out in his pass events. She and a group of friend were playing in the snow. They were tho wing snowballs at cars. So they threw a snowball at a black Buick and nails it in the driver's windshield. The driver stopped the car, got out, and chased them down. The driver didn't give up chasing them down, he had will power. This is like football. When he caught him, he said "You stupid kids."

Framing gives me a better idea of the theme and events of the story.

A well written story should have good description about things. It gives the reader a better understanding of things. Maybe a certain person or and object, or even a situation that they're in. The reader can picture it in their head and expand their imagination.

About Blogging

Keeping a blog requires you to risk yourself in language because anyone can read it. You are vulnerable to everyone on the Internet. Anyone can tell how you feel and take advantage of you.

I think blogging and other on-line forms of communication became popular is that people can put up anything they want. They also receive other people's opinions. Some opinions are helpful and some are not. So they have to deal with it.