on 2 things I did well
My ideas were clearly written and explained with detail
I worked well on it and finished it on time
2 things I can improve
Grammar and formatting quotes could use some work
My information could be more relevant to my initially expressed ideas
Kanye Crest
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I learned about how the UN doesn’t always jump in and save these situations. What you see about their success is just highlighted out of a pile of things they dont do.
Also I learned that there was a civil war in Rwanda, I never knew about that before now.
on I spoke loudly and didn’t stutter too much
2 things I would change next year are: actually making a topic, and handing it in on time.
My biggest obstacle was finding a topic, because I never actually found one. So Ill try to have one prepared before the spoken words are actually close to being due.
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How do you start something you have no interest in, how do you make a good spoken word with no original ideas? Every time “spoken words” come around I feel stressed because I know I’ll end up writing it the night it’s due only because I must and not because I want to or I have something real to say. We’re not all poets by nature and we’re not all emotional, I sit at a blank screen trying multiple different ways to word something and come up empty. Then I just end up with something like this, a no effort piece of garbage rant. Everything about it is so forced and I hate it. People say that confidence is the only thing that matters but how am I supposed to be confident when what I wrote means nothing to me. But I wish I was good at writing and I wish I could create something beautiful and that’s why I resent it so much. Because the things that make a great artist are the things that I’m not. I’ve never been artistic and when I look at the talents of other people I feel bad about how I can’t do what they do and make look easy. So here I am complaining about how I find this difficult when it really shouldn’t be. It’s not that I don’t like public speaking I just can’t figure out how to write something that holds meaning or sounds nice. But then I also think about how little my topic matters as long as it’s important to me and that’s the part I struggle with. Because I’m scared that no one will care about the things I enjoy, and so this is what I end up with. A sad excuse of a rant that I only did for the mark. But still if I have these feelings it’s likely that others do too, and I know that everyone stresses about their work; Furthermore they don’t care how other’s spoken words turn out. So we’re all just stressing over nothing so I encourage myself and all of you to just use your own voice instead of what you think people want to hear. Because in reality, Im only doing this topic cause I ran out of time and dismissed all my other ideas as stupid.
on In “Final Blow” our hero, Jared, is a weak guy who is constantly picked on by Ivan who was the best dodgeball player in the school. Jared thought that if he could beat Ivan it would embarrass him so much that Ivan would have stop picking on him. Jared then challenged Ivan to a match in dodgeball to which Ivan accepted sarcastically. Ivan then beats Jared easily and then Jared becomes enraged about it and wants to train to beat Ivan, Along the way Jared trains vigorously under the mentoring of Jack who was the previous dodgeball champion in the school before he was dethroned by Ivan and received an injury. Join Jared on his journey to beat Ivan in dodgeball.
Reflection:
Doing this project was pleasant because we were all willing to work together and meet up to film certain parts. Even though I didn’t have experience working with a real camera they tought me how to shoot shots and they ended up very professional looking. And Im proud of the way it turned out. We used all of our class time efficiently getting ideas and the script done, we recorded most of it out of class and we worked hard and effectively to get it done. Although time consuming and hard to find time for because of work, I feel as though it was worth it because I learned a lot about cinematography and movies in general. Even though it was taking a huge chunk of time out of my days I found it really enjoyable. Even for just brainstorming it was fun and quick, we had so many ideas which I feel helped us a select really great ones from a whole pile of decent ones.
on I am from games
From puzzles and strategy
I am from the University of British Columbia, where I was raised
Kind fun and supportive
I am from the grassy fields which seemed to go on forever
I’m from kindness and community
From my Nana and my Papa
I’m from the Love they give
I’m from aspirations and dreams
I’m from Ireland, from Scotland, and from Wales
From the times I fell out of trees
to the time my parents got divorced
but most of all I am from earth and the human race.
on The movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, follows a man named Jordan Belfort who is a greedy, selfish, but at the same time selfless man. Jordan Belfort started his own stock broke firm off penny stocks or pink sheets. He sold these instead of blue chip stocks because the commission was 50% on penny stocks as opposed to 1% on blue chip stocks. This doesn’t seem too bad until you realize that these stocks were complete garbage showing the greed of the people selling them. Not all people are manipulative and greedy, but it does show that it’s not out of our nature to put others down for our own good. Manipulated and extorting people for their money is a horrible thing to do to someone but no matter what you think you would never do, money is a huge incentive for anyone. Even with these bad things, Jordan Belfort was an incredible leader and employer because he would let people basically take as much money as they wanted for anything on top of their salary if their ideas were to his liking. Using this strategy Jordan was able to keep his employees productive although his strategies for motivation were not ethical, like throwing midgets against targets like they’re darts, he kept his employees in good spirits while at work. Of course not all people are like Jordan but this could definitely define a huge chunk of our population when faced with the opportunities Jordan had, a lot of people are greedy, selfish, but even so, they care about those close to them and will do many things to make them feel welcome and appreciated.
on This week we learned how to solve systems which is pretty neat, I find it interesting that as long as there is 1 variable per equation you can solve it no matter how many are in 1 individual you do this by either using substitution or elimination. My favourite is substitution because it makes more sense to me, the way you do it is by writing one of the variables as an equation of the other and plugging it in so that there is only 1 different variable across one half so then you could solve it using algebra.
on https://www.desmos.com/calculator/6bcoclnxms
on This week in math we learned the differences between functions and relations which is pretty easy to understand but important all the same. The difference between functions and relations are that function are in a graph where there is never a point on the line that is directly above another and relations do have these points directly on top of each other.
on For me, since I was away on the thursday of week 10 when we learned ugly trinomials, the review we did on tuesday was the most important thing I learned this week. It was the most important thing I learned because I was always wondering how to factor trinomials with a coefficient since we started on factoring with the straight up x^2 at the front and I was confused about how we would do the ones with a coefficient, how you do them is by multiplying the coefficient with the constant and then finding the perfect factors with that number and the middle point, and then you put them in a box and find the GCFs of all the pairs and you then have your answer.
