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Article #1:

Personally I think this affects me because I should keep an eye out about who is “friends” with me or my friends and if I come across and account of someone that I don’t trust or that seems suspicious I should reach out to the adults in my life and get help because this year I have learned a lot about Digital Footprint and how whatever we put online we can never get back, so I think that it is important to not react to people that are fake online but instead to get help. I think it is also important to take from this that you can’t believe everything you read online and to get multiple sources from different people and websites instead of trusting social media. Because nowadays anyone can go online and say whatever they want even if they are not educated on the topic so it is important to not believe what you read from the first source that you see. Also its important not to talk to strangers online because you don’t know who is behind the computer.

Article #2:

I think this article was a lot like the first one and being aware about what we see online. I think it is important not to retweet or re share things that you are not fully aware about, because you never know what the person is thinking or who they are or if their story is real. Its important not to trust the tabs as they say and not to believe everything you hear on the news right away because information gets turned and changed very quickly. Also you wouldn’t know the whole story right after the event its important to wait a day until all the information is right and out. In the article they said that you wouldn’t know all the facts right off the bat so the information you are getting is probably fake or just for attention.”Common sense says that a version that’s published a few hours after an incident isn’t likely to have been done properly.”  I agree with the part that said that we need to slow that and wait to get our facts correct rather then quick because people start to speculate and create rumours that spread throughout the world now that we can all write things within 30 seconds and have them on the internet for anyone to see.

Overall I think the message that I received from these articles is that it is important to get your information from the right sources and not from social media platforms just hours after the events that occur. Its important to get information from people who are credible and people who you know are who they say you are.

Blackout poem

My poem  “These people” is based of the theme from “The absolute true diary of a part time indian” by Sherman Alexie. It is a blackout poem I got from the text of the story “The fault in our stars” by John green and the original text can be found on the very begging  page of chapter 22 in the book. The theme of  “The absolute true diary of a part time indian” is about a boy struggling with his Identity and not really having somewhere to fit in. The boys’ only place or “sanctuary” is at home with his family where even after he started to go to a new school he lost the comfort. Its about a boy dealing with “these people” and how he can truly coexist with them.

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I have written out my poem again just because the font on the one note is very tiny and I didn’t want the lines to become to confusing. 

Exposed, Empty

I watched all these people pass me

Hollowed like being stabbed

Unattended, just me

Absolutely plasticized

I didn’t fit 

Present confidence

These people watching only me

the silver lining, my sanctuary

Courageous, I tried not looking back

Heartbroken

I don’t hear comforting joy

I convince myself that tragedy haunted me

Here is a screenshot of my second poem as well based on the intangible vs tangible theme from “A midsummer nights dream” this poem was taken from the text of the novel “Wonder” on page 1

Statistics

The role statistics have in our society

I think statistics play an important role in todays society because they are a way to find out what the majority of our world is thinking and what are the most common ideas and actions in todays world. The data that is produced through statistics/polls is usually correct and can be proven trustworthy as many of the participants in the contributing of the data are regular citizens (the most common type of citizens) and the outcome will be the most useful to the majority of people. It is also important for research as the more people that are agreeing on one fact will make the fact more credible. Statistics are also good for trying to prove a point because it is showing the majority of the worlds opinion.

What I learned from the article: http://www.truthpizza.org/logic/stats.htm

I never thought of statistics as being better than personal stories that we have learned and heard from our friends and family but reading this article explains how statistics are a more broad and unspecific way of deciding how we should live our lives rather than listening to the few cases that we have heard all the details of. I think this is a very good point because when there is a poll we will get a more general idea of how we should live our lives rather than just one persons life has been affected. I also learned that news and the media are often portraying things that are generally lower in statistics, stories that are the most interesting vs the more common, because why would we want to watch or read something that we have already lived.

Problems with statistics

I also never thought about how statistics are prone to be more believable than any fact, it makes sense though, when you add a number it makes it sound more accurate rather than made up. This can lead to people making up statistics on the spot which means that they are false leading people to believe that the information that they thought was more accurate then some story they personally  heard or read is actually even less accurate.  Of course we have to know that when we are reading statistics it is possible that the group of people who were part of contributing to the data are just leaning towards one side more than the other because of their lives personally and we don’t know if each and every person has the same set of circumstances going on at home when they answer the questions therefore this can again lead to inaccuracy. Also as mentioned in the article if they collect data from a specific location all the people in the location generally have that location in common so they all have a similar factor causing them to perhaps lean towards one side more than the other which could also lead to inaccuracy. It mentions “response bias” meaning again that when given the choice to put their personal answer forward to create a statistic, people that chose to all have the same motivation making that again a similar factor meaning that they can on average be leaning the same way.  There can also be questions that are worded a certain way to get a certain response out of people. Or, when people state the statistic without giving the full story to add affect. To sum up the article, it is important that when reading statistics you look for the specifics within the fact and not just read the statistic assuming everything is true. It teaches us to look at the words in the statement to see what they truly mean, and to look at the numbers both way not just by their percentage. It is also important that we think of the statement logically and do our research more than once look for more facts and statements as well as statistics so that we don’t assume everything based on the one statistic we heard on the radio or read on our Facebook timeline.

Conclusion

When reading this article personally I asked myself “How can we gather statistics in the most accurate way possible, avoiding as many of these problems.” I thought about it and I think the best way to do this would be to gather information and data from as many different and diverse people with pluralistic beliefs. To go out and seek information from multiple social and wealth classes. People who live different. Because the only way we can truly find an average is by asking more than the average people.

 

Short Story Trailer FEC – COL/English 9

Making this video I was able to feel more of a connection to the characters in this story, I was able to start to comprehend the difficulty that girls had in the 1950’s. Making a trailer is more powerful then just reading the book over once. When we made our trailer this took a lot of re reading and studying the characters conflicts and dilemmas. Producing this video showed me how courageous that Miss R really was and the impact she made on that small school house.  Our group really learnt how to collaborate, this was one of the first group projects that I have ever felt that everyone did there equal part and this is because of the organization of our ideas and thought process which was done through communication. The strategy we used was just a straight up brainstorm to get our creativity out there. We all accepted each others ideas and split the work load equally. I also learned how to download mp4’s from youtube which were used in the beginning of our trailer. This experience taught me to grateful for the time that we live in because of the privileges that I get as a girl and am taught that I am able to do whatever I put my mind too, no matter how small, big or real the task is.

Citations:

Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWCkal_3RSY

Beginning Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br6I_Em5xhc

Ending Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJO0oXbBr_o

 

Small change big difference

This quote relates to “The Friday Everything Changed” because the protagonist Ms. Ralston wasn’t anyone powerful or renown but she was able to hold “evil in check” by showing the boys that a girl can hit a home run, a home run so great that the ball landed in the ox pasture. Hitting the ball into the ox pasture happened maybe once a year. (page 11)  A small act showing her talents was able to keep “darkness at bay” by forcing the boys to acknowledge and accept this fact, because now that they saw a girl hit a home run they could not pick on the girls for bringing up the idea that they were equals. Small acts of kindness can be anything from holding the door open for someone coming in to the school carrying lots of bags, standing up to comments regarding someone’s race, religion, or there differences in general, talking to people you would not usually talk to that maybe do not have as many friends, or just doing so much as saying hi. It can also be offering to help when its needed at home, at school or anywhere you maybe which can make someones day or just a plain genuine compliment. Life is made up of small moments and it is usually the smallest gestures that can make someones whole day.  My cousin Sheliza Kassam in Calgary is an ordinary person that is making a huge difference by her acts of kindness globally. She found an organization called “Children’s Birthday Miracle.” or CBM. CBM started when she was 12 and due to an allergy that made her break out into hives when she ate a  piece of her birthday cake. She went to the hospital and told her parents that her birthday was ruined because of her allergies and they told her that she was lucky to have a birthday party because many kids all around the world do not get to have parties. Sheliza decided that for the next couple birthdays she would work at homeless shelters serving breakfast to the less fortunate. On her 16th Birthday she decided that she was going to start a non – profit organization to throw birthday parties for unprivileged children in Canada which now has extended to Peru, Kenya and Tanzania. She said that it is a chance for the kids to be free of stress and give them a chance to spend happy time with their families celebrating their birth. This organization has a pay it forward program which allows kids to donate their own presents too. She is hoping that this will eventually lead to a  chain reaction. I think that this is an excellent example of an ordinary person starting to create change and create some happiness for un privileged children. It started out small, and now it is transpired to something huge and it is inspiring hundreds of children to take small steps to create big changes by donating their own gifts. This act of giving shows that all someone has to do to create a change is donate a gift that they received to someone that needs it more than they want it. Sheliza has really began to create a change in the lives of the unprivileged and has thrown birthday parties to create a long lasting impact on kids by giving them some happy times and at the same time she has opened an avenue for the privileged kids to give back and feel good about their act of kindness.

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