One problem that is very significant and probably the most impacting problem in our world is global warming. Global Warming is very true today and it impacts our environment and us because of our actions. We may not realize this, but us letting smog into the air, cutting down our forests, and using up our gas supply and our natural resources affects the wildlife and affects the air we breathe. In a matter of years the polar ice caps will end up melting as a result of our careless attitudes and we will have to live underwater! Our world is helping this issue, but we are only taking small steps. To save our world from global warming and its terrible affects, we must all work together in the world and cooperate. This issue about global warming is true and will be a major problem in the future. We are responsible for stopping the destruction of our world that global warming does. It is our obligation to carry out the duty of saving our world, together.

Another aspect of my culture I want to learn more about is about Mexican food. I have seen many Mexican food dishes because my mom cooks Mexican food almost everyday for dinner and at family gathering there is at least some kind of Mexican food. I enjoy eating Mexican food very much, but sometimes I get sick of it and I tell my mom, “Mexican food again.” It’s alright though, I guess. What I really want to learn about my culture’s food is how to cook it. I would like to learn to make Mexican food dishes on my won so that I’ll never be hungry at my house again. Whenever I get hungry at my house, I can just make some of that great Mexican food and be happy.

     For 10 years, New York depended on political party primaries to nominate general election candidates for Supreme Court justice, but that process dejected qualified candidates and created improper, expensive, and potentially demeaning fundraising by judicial candidates.

So the legislature substituted an indirect party primary system, at which delegates are elected who, in turn, select general election candidates at political party conventions. The Second Circuit concluded that the delegate convention statutes enabled political parties to put into effect too much influence at the expense of the uprising party members or dissatisfied candidates and struck those statutes down as facially unconstitutional and brought back the discredited primary process. The issue in this case is whether the delegate-convention system is facially unconstitutional because it allows party leaders to defeat the ambitions of party members. 

I choose to declare that the New York Board of Elections should be allowed to hold a direct primary for electing State Supreme Court nominees. I also allow them to run against people that are not a primary leader and not/favored by party leaders. I would allow this because it is not right to file a ban on direct primaries because these primaries will prove who the best candidate for Supreme Court Judge is. These conventions and primaries will let us find out which candidate will be best suited for the job and let use which person is favored more by party leaders. I think that it is fair for party leaders to support Supreme Court nominees because it will boost their popularity and it will be proof of how good a judge they really are and how popular they will be when they take office. I think party leaders should be allowed to act as they are as long as they do not act unconstitutionally.

Even though I had a good time doing this project there was still some things that went wrong in our project. There were also things that went good. Some things that went right were that everyone was responsible enough to post on the wiki so we could all know what was going on in the group. Also everyone got their pictures up on the voice thread and finished exactly what they said that they would do. Also we all followed directions and did our project according to our timeline. Some of the things that did not go well were that not all of us got to get our voice part in on time because we could not get a microphone not al the members of the group got to be available when we were chatting because of technical problems. We still managed but it would have been better if everyone were there.

During my time working with the kids in
Canada I liked a lot of things and I also disliked a lot of things. Some of the things I liked were that everyone was always on task and got their work submitted in on time. Also I liked that everyone tried their hardest to finish their work on time and do a good job. There were also some things I disliked like not everyone could always make the chat sessions and not everyone could do the voice on the voice thread. Even though not everything in our collaboration went perfect I still had a fun time. I also learned a lot of things. I also liked how nobody ever tried to take over and boss everyone around all the time. Everyone worked hard together to finish our project ion time and make it good enough for everyone to enjoy. So, this collaboration was beneficial to me because it made me a better student.

Fear- I think that Chapters 9 and 10 are described mostly by the word fear. Why? I think this because in chapters 9 and 10 the gang of greasers and even the Socs are both fearful of the rumble they are going to have. Also Ponyboy and Dally are fearful about what will happen to Johnny because they and the greasers all know that he is not doing well and he might die. Once the day of the rumble comes everyone is all pumped up and excited but I knew that they were actually very fearful because they knew that something bad might happen and that people could get hurt badly. I thought that much fear was shown by Dally right before the fight because he was worried about Ponyboy getting hurt because he had still not recovered fully and was not in a good condition to fight. Fear is also shown a lot when Dally goes to the fight and takes Ponyboy to the hospital quickly to see Johnny. Dally was very fearful because he knew Johnny was about to die. He wanted Ponyboy to see Johnny one last time but was very frightened and fearful that Johnny would die right then and there. Also Ponyboy and the crew were full of fear when they went to help Dally at the park and found him dead already and were too late to save him. I thought that Ponyboy was also fearful when he was depressed about Johnny and Dally dying and was scared something bad was going to happen again. I think that these two chapters were all about the gang just being scared about Dally and Johnny dying and being scared that something else even worse would happen to them and their family of brothers. 

Friendship-I think that the word friendship describes chapters seven and eight perfectly. In chapter seven the gang grows a bigger friendship with each other. The greasers spend more time with each other when they all go visit Johnny. They evolve into more of a family and evolve to create a great friendship. Many of the greasers including Johnny grow to become closer together. They are all like brothers. I especially noticed that Ponyboy and Johnny become very close and start to open up to each other. They start to tell each other more about themselves and they become very close friend. They sacrifice their lives even for each other and they become like family. They start to care for each other more and do favors for one another. In chapter 8 the greasers back up Johnny while he is sick and they make sure he’s safe. They even follow him and do favors for him like buys him things and when his mom wants to visit him Pony and Two-Bit don’t let her in. Friendship explains these chapters because they are all about the gang of greasers evolving in their friendship rapidly and becoming more of a family of brothers.