If you have integrity, it makes you feel like you’re a better person. If you’re a better person because you have a lot of integrity and you were born with it (which you aren’t) would you take pride in saying that you’re born with integrity? I probably would not take pride in something I was born with because I didn’t do anything to earn it. If you’re born with integrity then how do others get it? I say that you aren’t born with integrity or any type of skill.I’m not always right but lets review the facts.

John Locke said we’re born as a blank slate. It means that we know nothing or have any skill. The way that we get all of our knowledge is something called malleable intelligence. That means a brain that you can sculpt or shape. The way that malleable intelligence works is that you pick things up as you go. Here’s an example, baby is crawling around he touches a hot pot and cries. That is the way we learn things, from experience. We wouldn’t go towards a wall of flames knowing it would hurt you. So how would you lean about integrity? Read on to find out.

Sometimes people have stronger emotions than others witch can make you think something more strongly than someone else. Usually it comes from other people. Lets say that someone lied to you about something and you felt betrayed. It made you feel so bad that you didn’t want others to feel the pain of betrayal. If you have had a lot of betrayals in your life you will have more integrity than someone who didn’t have a lot of betrayal in their life. That’s not always the case but it’s likely. Another way you can gain integrity is that you betrayed someone and you felt really bad about it . You might be born with stronger emotion than others for some reasons or some baby experience you can’t remember made you feel stronger about one emotion.

Now we should go to the people who don’t have a lot or any integrity. They probably don’t have a strong sense of guilt when they tell a lie. If someone has told big lies they feel little or no guilt at all. The other way they lost their integrity is that they had small little lies that began to escalate and they began to stop gaining integrity and continue to lie. The other way they lost integrity was because they were never betrayed and they never felt the pain of the lie. For instance, someone lied about someones favorite toy that they had it would really hurt the person who had lost that toy and they would have felt the pain of a lie and not want anyone to feel that pain where the liar would never feel the pain that the other person went through they would go on lying.The last reason they have a lack of integrity is they had no punishment for lying so they continued to lie and started to escalate.

As you can see the evidence shows that you aren’t born with integrity, you have to earn it. It takes experience, ideas, honesty, and to know what it’s like in the other persons shoes. You just don’t come into the world with integrity you earn it and that’s why you would be proud of having integrity :).

This is my circuit tester. This was able to make me conclude that most metals were conductors. I was able to find this out because 5 out of the 5 metals were conductors. I was kinda confused why graphite was able to conduct electricity. I think that graphite might have contained a type of metal inside of the graphite. There was something that confused me and that was why was salt water a conductor and freshwater was an insulator. The Salt water made me conclude that salt was a conductor.The insulators that I found were cardboard,vinegar,water,skin, electric tape, paper, finger nail, tail, and dried glue. The conductors were titanium, salt water graphite steel, screw, stainless steal, salt, copper, and a motor. Thanks for reading*

This post is about the chinese heritage museum. I went to the museum and it had a very interesting collection of objects that were from some of the Chinese immigrant’s artfacts .This museum was very quiet and it was hidden and it was quite fascinating. I would like to come here again. This museum gave me a lot of information. here is some of the facts it gave me.

This museum said it was located in the area where chinatown was made in downtown.The museum was located on third street. The museum said that Chinatown was made between 2nd and 4th street and Island and J street. China town was around through the 1890d’s to the 1920d’s. The reason China town is not around today is because it was slowly developed in to San Diego. An example of a building over a part of Chinatown is that the S.D. convention center is where the Chinese shanteys (the place where the fisherman would take their fish and the fish would be put in the condition to be sold in the market) were

Atlhough fishing was one job many Chinese immigrants made a living from, the majority of Chinese Americans were employed by or owned laundromats. In fact, 75% of the Chinese immigrant men who lived in large cities made their business from the laundry. Many of them saw this the quickest way to become their own bosses. However this was not easy work. They had to work 14 hours a day 6 or 7 days a week. From 1886 to 1970 over 100 Chinese-owned laundromats began in San Diego. Over 70 of these laundromats were located in the downtown area. This was a surprise to find out, but then again it is a different culture and the immigrants had to work to succeed.

Also at the Chinese Immigrant Museum they had a lot of cool artifacts. There was a huge Chinese wedding bed. It had lots of carvings on it to wish the new bride and groom success in making sons. There was also a rickshaw that looked like a chariot but there was also a picture that showed that this was used by a person pulling it not a horse. Then I saw some tine Chinese shoes. The information said that the rich women would have their feet bound in the tight cloth. They did this to keep their feet small because the Chinese thought this was attractive. However this made it so the women had trouble even walking around so the poor women and farm women did not have bindings to their feet because their families needed them to get around and work.  In 1920 China finally outlawed the practice of binding feet.

I also saw a cool display on the wedding and funeral processions of Chinese culture. They both looked similiar but had some obvious differences. For the wedding, there was this big carriage but didn’t have horses or wheels. The funeral several people dressed in white, carrying white painted trees. Behind them was a big decorated box that contained the body of the dead.

In the back of the museum, there were some exhibits on some of the Chinese American Veterans who fought in several wars including WWI and WWII.  The display included photos and painted portraits of the war and the planes used. Speaking of war, there was also a replica of the terra cotta military. The terra cotta army guards the tomb of the first emporer of China. There are over 3,000 clay statues and horses and each one has a different face. The statue they had at this museum was a replica that was life size and they had a small set that included many small soldiers.

Speaking of statues, near the terra cotta statue outside, was a statue of Confucius.  He was the man who gave the idea for the golden rule and a lot of Chinese religion talks about his ideas and beliefs.

I really love this museum because of all the great exhibits that were shown. On the way home, I saw a couple of other Chinese museums in the same area, and I would like to go see those too.

The movie Open Season is about these animals who fight back against the the hunters who try to hunt them during hunting season. The movie is shown from the animal’s perspective and this really makes the audience root for the animals. The film is directed by Roger Allers and Jill Cuton with the voices of Ashton Kutcher,Martin Lawrence, and others are featured in the the movie Open Season. This is a movie to entertain and teaches viewers that we should all be able to let go of some things.

This hilarious cast of animals is struggling against the hunters to get through an open season of hunting without getting shot. The cast of animals were sometimes portrayed without their true characteristics. An example of this was Boog, a grizzly bear (the most aggressive and dangerous), was in a environment with people and yet he didn’t attack anybody–but then again this was a kids’ movie, and who wants to see bears ripping off innocent people’s legs–I’m sure that would give some people nightmares.

Open Season included a lot of LOL’s. One example of this that I especially liked the in this movie was when this one squirrel painted a shark face on a propane tank and name it Mr. Happy. The scene shows the ridiculous use of a propane tank and how the animals use the people’s own inventions against them—literally fighting fire with fire. This scene was a fall over laughing on the floor time and makes us all root for the animals.

Although Open Season has many memorable action and comedy scenes, the background music for the movie wasn’t  as memorable as some of the other animated movies. I almost forgot there were any songs in that movie at all. However the graphics in this movie were realistic yet at the same time it was given a cartoon feeling. This actually gave the movie a bit of humor with what the characters do and how they act. With these amazing computer-generated movies, there is no limit to the animation of the movies and what the characters can do.

The ending is a very good one and it has a lot of humor in it. It brings happiness, joy, and of course hilarious laughs.  The lesson that this movie was trying to teach audiences that you should let some things go but you can still always keep them in your heart. The movie also gives us a funny but real message not to mess with animals of the forest or forces of nature.  It teaches us all these valuable lesson in its own funny way.

I enjoyed Open Season because it had a very funny cast, a lot of humor and great graphics. I would recommend this movie to younger kids or as a good family movie. It would be a great film to show as a campground movie or you could even use it as a camp-themed birthday party. In any setting, this is a marvelous movie to watch.

The movie open season is about these animals who fight back against the the hunters who try to hunt them during hunting season. Directed by Roger Allers and Jill Cuton with the voices of Ashton Kutcher,Martin Lawrence and others are featured in the the movie Open Season

This hilarious cast of animals struggling against the hunters to get through open season without getting shot. The cast of animals were sometimes out of place, like when Bog a grizzly bear (the most aggressive and dangerous) was in a environment with people and he didn’t attack anybody but then again this was a kids movie. I liked the funny things in this movie like how this 1 squirrel painted a shark face on a propane tank and name it Mr. Happy. However the background music for the movie wasn’t memorable as some of the other stuff in open season. I almost forgot there were any songs in that movie at all. However the graphics in this were realistic yet at the same time it was given a cartoon feeling. This actually gave the movie a bit of humor with what the characters do and how they act. The ending is a very good one and it has a lot of humor in it. I think that the lesson that this movie was trying to teach audiences is that you should let some things go or don’t mess with animals of the forest.

I enjoyed Open Season because it had a very funny cast, a lot of humor and great graphics. I would recommend this to younger kids or as a good family movie.

I watched the film about J.D. Rockefeller,  and I liked how the movie talked about Rockefeller’s family and where it came from. This gave me an idea of how poor Rockefeller started out. This also gave me a better idea on how much the public loathed him so much. When I was doing the research for me report, I just understood the the public didn’t like him. But when I watched the video, I saw the cartoons and heard about how extreme their hatred was for him. I was able to see this by the photos that were taken for the newspapers and the captions the papers reported about him. The film also covered      about the fact that people would run for political office by saying that they would get rid of the Rockefellers. Even when later in life when he was giving away all his money, people would say that he was just doing this to buy popularity from the people. This really showed that the people didn’t really like and trust him. But I think he was trying to change himself and make himself a better person.

The Rockefeller film  also talked about how he was the father of 1 of the final candidates for president and that his son lost. Another detail was that he went bald from a certain disease called alopatia and how he felt that he had to hide from the public because of the disease. I found that if I had a piece of information about Rockefeller in my biography that film had that certain information, and it gave me more understanding of who Rockefeller really was. After writing report and seeing the film, I think that should have been forgiven for his big business ideas, and people should have appreciated how he used his money to benefit so many others.

John D. Rockefeller grew to rapid succes and his success continued to the day he died and even after that. John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839 in Richmond, New York. He was born to an average-class family with no big fame or fortune. But Rockefeller was a hard worker and by the time he was 16, he got his first job as an office assistant. He saved his money and made some small investments. This gave him enough money to start a business with a partner. His business was as a commission merchant in hay and grain. Although he was making money, he never took big risks. He was always a smart business man. After only one year in business his company had made $450,000 dollars. He then began to invest in oil business and in 1863, he was able to open his first oil refinery business that was located just outside of Clevland, Ohio.

This business was named the Standard Oil Company. Within 10 years of opening his first refinery, Rockefeller had near control of all of the oid business in the area. Rockefeller thought it would be a good idea to move his main business to Pennsylvania. And this proved to be a good move because by the 1880’s Standard Oil Company dominated the country’s oil business. It was now worth at least 55 million dollars. Rockefeller was a smart business man, and he owned every aspect of business. This meant he didn’t have to pay any other companies to help make or transport his product. He owned the making of pipelines, he owned the lands and the forest fuels, and he even owned the trains for the transportation. He was officially putting his foot down and making sure not compettion could get a piece of his business. He used this same model to start other business and make them into monopolies also. As he became more and more successful his reputation wasn’t doing as well. People didn’t like that he had a ton of control over so much industry, and the government begins to look at ways of creating laws to stop monopolies from taking over and stopping fair compettion. In 1890 the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was put into place to protect the people from paying to high of prices and allow competition in all areas of business. This act would later force Standard Oil company to dissolve so that fair trade could happen. But Rockefeller had retired from leading Standard Oil before this. In 1895 Rockefeller decided to change his focus from business to philantrophy–which means giving away money.

Rockefeller gave money to education, medicine, and other causes that would help the world. He gave money to make it possible to build the University of Chicago. This was his generous way to ensure that education would continue on and be possible for the young people to make better lives for themselves. He also gave money to the Rockefeller Medical Institutes. This generosity helped make medicine better with research and ways for curing the sick. Finally, he created the Rockefeller Foundation. This foundation gave money to lots of different causes for the good of lots of people. In his overall philanthropic work, Rockefeller gave away over $530 million dollars to different causes, and he truly wanted to do stuff for the greater good of the world.

Rockefeller died in 1937 at the age of 98. His long life was filled with success creating and giving. He created one of America’s greatest oil company ever, and he used much of his profits to keep on giving with charity work. He wanted the world to become a better place to live and he took his success to help make success for others. Becuase of John D. Rockefeller, we are a stronger society with greater education and health care. He was a model for making and then giving. His gifts keep on giving today and remind us that hard work can lead to success that keeps on giving.

I watched the film on Teddy Roosevelt, and I found that the film showed a lot of what I had already learned from writing my report. If I was to do this project again with different sources, I would have used this one. This film was a lot like the information that I was shown in my sources. This video showed all of the presidents he had associations with including President McKinley and Benjamin Harrison. During this scene it talked about Roosevelt’s promotion in the Navy. I think that this film could be used for next year as a history film. One thing that seemed to occur throughout the couse of this film is that Roosevelt wasn’t into the idea of holding a place or a title like the president he became.

There was a difference from reading about Teddy Roosevelt and watching the film about him. Reading about him just gave the information about him, but watching the film showed images of competitors, family, and even some pieces from his journal. It showed a part from when his first wife died and it had a big x on the page, and the journal said the “Light has gone out of my life.” When I saw this, it actually made me feel more of what he was feeling, and I had more of a connection. Hearing his words spoken were a lot more real. Another scene showed him training in weightlifting and boxing. It gave the feeling that he was getting ready for his life. It sort of made me feel that he was a famous boxer getting ready for a boxing match, but he was really just trying to be healthier. I also noticed how his political enemies tried to get him to run for vice president to try to get him out of their hair. They thought the position of the vice president was not that big of a deal and they didn’t think he would be commanding much. But then when President William McKinley died and Roosevelt became the president, their plan to get him out of the way backfired. Now they were under his lead.

Every year as school budgets get smaller and smaller this causes critical cuts to several programs in our schools.  Unfortunate examples of these cuts apply to drama programs. American education is falling and we need creative ideas and solutions to improve our future minds. This solution can be found and achieved through drama.  Drama is the heart of critical thinking and creativity. A UCLA study showed that students who are involved in drama perform better on standardized tests—nearly 100 points on the SAT.  Although school budgets are shrinking, we need to get drama in every school because acting gives the ability to work through obstacles, it makes it so that some disappointments can actually be an advantage to work through, and drama is at the center communication. These are all skills needed to survive in the world and set students on the right path.

Do you want to speak comfortably in front of a crowd? Well drama gives skills to do just that. Drama helps build up skills in confidence! I’ve been in 2 different environments—1 with acting and 1 without acting. In the environment with acting, everybody was a friend with each other. However, in the environment without acting, there were many who were not so friendly and often were straight out not nice.  Acting brings students together. Why you might ask? With acting, everyone is working on the same goal for the show to be success. In other environments, nearly everyone is focused on only themselves—the exception are the very few who appreciate the value of friendship.

Also, acting is at the heart of communication! Communication helps to express ideas and allow students to better understand each other and want to work together. Drama helps with communication by teaching students how to take on a role of a person, how to show an emotion to an audience, or how to use props and scenery to make it seem like the action on stage is real. Drama students have to think about their lines and how to say them. These are skills that can be used when speaking and listening in any conversation.

Drama can also turn weaknesses into strengths. Actors are on stage and have to get critiques from their directors. Actors have to be able to use this feedback and make the adjustments to their performance. Drama students have to live with disappointment when they don’t get the part they wanted. Even though they may have tried their best, they might still not get the part, and they have to learn from their mistakes. This is a great lesson in sticking to it. Students in drama can’t just give up when they don’t get their part, they have to try again and go for the next part that may come their way.

As you can see, drama needs to be in more schools. Despite the budget cuts, drama needs to be there to inspire new ideas, create better friendships, and teach perseverance.  With drama, we can even raise money with the performances and use this to stop further budget cuts.  This money can be used to save other arts programs that we know benefit students’ academically and emotionally. Drama needs to be increased in our schools so students can be successful in our world.

Those empty eyes staring at you like the absence of a sun in the sky

It  latches on to you and uses your voice and your body as it’s own and it uses your words as if you were talking through it

It will give you a hiding palace like a master and do the opposite and show more of you

Step out into the spotlight and it follows you there like the scrap on your knee that just won’t heal

Master of disguise and a child’s plaything

This and so much more

Is it what makes you disappear from all the attention of others like the smoke left after the fire

Or is it what makes you a magnet of attention that refuses to be broken?