Rachel's Challenge

Why is it important?:

Why Rachels Challenge is important is because we want to avoid that same incident over again, it is important that we avoid bullying because someone can always end up hurt emotionally or physically. Bullying is never good and there ar ways that you can stop it in many ways such as just talking out your problems with the person your fighting with or you can ask an adult to help you out with your problems too. What Rachel's Challenge is doing is to " to inspire, equip and empower every person to create a permanent positive culture change in their school, business and community ". I admire what they want to do and that they want to start a chain reaction with everyone. In Rachels essay she says that trust is very important,"but I find that when I put my faith and trust in people when others would not dare to, they almost never betray me". It seems that she really trusted many and always gave people a chance. We could learn allot on not to bully because we may end up losing someone we cared for so much and why because someone wanted to go and try to be cool and bully others. Rachel's Challenge is doing something great and we should all support it, Rachel wrote something on her furniture,"These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will some day touch millions of people's hearts".

http://www.rachelschallenge.org/LearnMore/MeetRachel.php : Where quotes were found

Three ways you can "pay it forward":

One way that I can pay it forward is by starting a donation some how to raise money for a charity of some kind. Then I can begin to get others involved into the donation project as well, as like Rachel said," We have to start a chain reaction". To start a chain reaaction we need allot of people so the more we have the better it will be for us. I know if we put enough potentiol we can acomplish it and make a change, although it's a small change it still matter because we know we helped someone else out and put a smile on someones face.

Another way I can pay it forward is by feeding the poor, I see homeless people every day walking the streety with no food and nothing to drink. We should go around and make food for them so that they aren't starving to death, and we could make it to the news and more people will do the same was well. For me to know that I helped someone makes me feel good about myself because I gave time to make someone smile and make them feel better. The homeless aren't monsters or animals they are people and I think we should treat them right instead of just making them an outcast to society, but give them a meal every once and a while too.

My last idea on how I can pay it forward is too try to get the community to get involved in cleaning up the area around us to help us be a cleaner place instead of polutging the earth. It would be so amazing if we did there would be less trash on the streets and going into the sewers. The more we polute the worse our resources come down, the trash goes into the ocean at times and just begins to build up more and more every day because everyone just leaves tash on the ground instead of picking it up or recycleing it. Things would be allot better if we would just clean up though.

Links from information was found: http://www.heralddemocrat.com/hd/11-21-10-Rachels-Challenge-to-develop-culture-of-kindness-at-Denison-ISD

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Thanksgiving v. Christmas

Pros for Thanksgiving:
One pro for Thankgiving is that you spend time with your family and you eat allot, spending time with your family is very important because you get to bond with them. The food is also very special because you have a huge feast for your whole family and you can all eat together.
Cons:
I don't think there are allot of cons for Thanksgiving just that you gain allot of weight from all the food you eat other than that I don't think there are any others.

Pros for Christmas:
Some pros for Christmas is that you spend time with your family and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, you spend time with the ones that love you most and if you want you exchange gifts with one another.
Cons:
Cons on Christmas is that some people tend to forget the meaning of Christmas and think that it's only about getting gifts instead of being with your family. Getting presents is not the most important part of the holiday, people should give thanks that they got another year to live and that they get this chacne to be witht their loved ones.

Lesson learned in School

Lessons that I have learned at school is how to tuck in my shirt and that I should always carry a pen or pencil at all times. I've learned that Silly Bands are bad for people because they mean we can be in a gang, also that stripes and buttons on your jackets are bad. I've learned math, reading, and so many other fun subjetcs from school, it's taught me that I should bring my own lunch more often instead of eating at school.

Character

What character means to me is the type of person you are and the type of person you've shown others that you are. Character shows your personality and it shows how kind or mean you are with others, your character also reflects off of those that you live around and that shows how you've been raised. Your character is what people look into sometimes to judge you at times. The kinder you are the better your character and the meaner you then theres a better chance you don't really have such a good character.

Forgiveness

I think we should learn to forgive because we shouldn't hold in grudges on people for little reasons, I also think that it would show maturity if you learn to forget about your conflicts with people. I would show that you know how to control your emotions and that you don't let your emotions get the best of you.  Forgiveness is something we should always consider no matter what the situation is or who your in a problem with. Always think about what will be the outcomes if you continue to argue or fight with someone or don't forgive them, they might take it as a bad message to them that you just want to continue fighting and that may escalate into something thats not worth doing. Allot can be resolved if we just learn to forgive and forget what others have done to us, it's better if we just learn to move on and try to forget what they did to us. Some people say a person is weak because they forgive others but to me that shows that you are the bigger person and that you know how to resolve your problems without using violence. In any problem it's just  better to sit down and talk to one another and set things right with out making it into a huge problem and getting others involved in your situation that shouldn't have been in the first place.

Television

Toddlers on average watch 2 hours of tv every day, teens and kids watch up to 4 hours of tv and an additional 2 hours on video games or on the computer outside of school work. Scientist say that toddlers should be watching should only be watching one to two hours of tv at the most. They say kids watching to much tv can be bad for kids at that age. Some kids that watch violent things on tv, begin to build an aggresive behavior as they get older of fear that something will happen to them. To much tv can interfear with physical health and can end up leading to overweight for the children.

Benifets of Watching Television:
Benifets from watching tv is taht some programs can be educational and can acctually give you knowledge, they can inform you on news and disasters in different parts fo the world. They can give you laughter and entertain you with action. It can bring families to come together and bond with one another, and be together for the time being.

Ideal Mate

For my ideal mate my Criteria would be that they make me laugh, smile and cheer me up when I'm feeling down. I would like them to like to dress up nice when we go out, they know how to dress, has class of course. I would want someone that can get along with my parents and my family too, I would want a girl that knows how to cook and is not lazy at all. A girl that loves to smile and is beautiful on the inside and on the outside, and has a good sence of humor.

These reasons are important to me because I love to laugh and I would like someone to keep me laughing allot of the time. Allot of times I tend to get into arguements with my parents and with others so my anger get the best of me sometimes, I would like someone to be there and to help me feel better when I'm down or in a bad mood, smileing isn't something I do to much, but I'll smile when somethings made me happy and I would acctually like someone to make me smaile more often too. When I go out to somewhere I like to look nice so I wouldn't maind having a girl that likes to look nice as well. I would like a classy girl that knows how to act at certain places and has manners too. My family is really important to me and there opinion matters allot to me, so I would want my mate to get along with my family and make a good impression on my mom and dad, and my grandma as well. Now and days it's hard to find a girl that knows how to do chores and house work, I would want someone who knows how to cook because I love to eat and I have a huge appetite and knows how to do work around the house. It would be nice to find someone who also has an appetite, but can look after themselves as well. Looks count too, something I look into a girl is their smile I want someone that has a great smile, but look aren't always everything she should have a good attitude and is also beautiful on the outside too. I don't want a girl that never smiles so I want someone that loves to laugh and can take a joke too. Of course a girl that has smarts, I'm not the brightest person in the world so I would like someone to help me out on homework or anything esle I would need help.

Advantages and Disadvantages on uniforms.

Advantages;
Some advantages on uniforms are that we all look organized and we can look very prepared. Sometimes it's easier to just have uniform, that way people arent' always looking to see who has the best clothes or who has the newest things as well. The uniform here at Advantage Acadamey really isn't all that bad either, ours is allot better than some, in some school they have to wear ties and dress shoes all the time and I bet that is very frustrating as well, trust me I come from experience. Uniforms at work are easier to work with too, I mean you wouldn't really look very professional at all if you came to work in pajamas. Who would take you serious too, it would look better if you came in a dress shirt with a tie, dress shoes, and a tie.

Disadvantages;
Disadvantages here at school are that we can't wear any jacket that we want, I mean what is the big deal just because it has extra buttons on the front, whats wrong with that? Just because the color is blue or red does not mean we are in a gang of some kind. Another thing is why do we have to tuck in our shirt, what do we get out of it, were not in the Marines or in the Army or something.  Whats with not wearing bracelets too, that is really unnecesary some people say it's because gangs use them or because some people use them to show how many times they've had intercourse, well that upsurde. Maybe they wear them because they like them because of their shapes, that is why they are called "Silly Bands".

My opinion on Benchmark and TAKS Test

My opinion on TAKS Test and on Benchmark Test, is that they are rediculous and they are a waist of time. I don't understand how one test determines if we move on to the next grade or not, if we passed all of our classes then I think we should be able to go to the next grade. If the student didn't pass his classes then that is their fault because they should have foucused through the year on passing and doing their work. Also this test put so many students under so much stress and gets allot of students worrying so much about it.

Benchmarks are another waist of time and we should not be taking these test, they also put students and drop their averages if they fail this one test.Why cna't we take a regular test that does not pull down our grade so much, and they make them such a big deal as if they were God like or something. Instead of making so many test and destroying forest for paper we should just have a few test that foucuses on what we've learned. These test sometimes have things we don't even know and then we get stuck on these questions and that then is supposed to be our fault because we didn't study, well that isn't ours if we didn't know how to work the problem. Maybe we should look into getting rid of these test instead of maing them such a big deal on them. This is all I have to say on these test and I hope you agree with my statement as well.

Should Both Parents Work

I think that having bothe parents working is a good htink becasue that way you don't have trouble maintaining your family in rent or buying food for the family. If you only have one parent working, then it would be different because the parent that does work will have to work even harder. When your parent comes home exhausted, they won't even want to do anything, just eat and sleep. Do you want your mom/dad tired becaues they are alone working?

Not all parents that work forget abou their kids; they always find time to paly with thier son/daughter. Families do have oldr siblings that can lok after theri younger kids; this way your parents can rest. I do think moms should work just to help out more with money and food. While they're working, you could leave your oler kids to clean and fix the house so your mom dosen't have more work to do once she gets home. So in my opinion, I think both parents should work.

When you become an adult

I think when a person becomes and adult is wehn they start ot take responsibility for hter action. I think wheen you know you've done something wrong. Then you do you best effort to fix it the problem is when you start to become and adult. I also tink that when you start to pay for bills and you earn your money by working hard then you hvae the right ot call youself and adult too. Working for yourself shows that you can maintain your self. Once your 21, I wouldsay is the best age you are an adult becaues your trusted to drink alcohol and you should know your limit on drinking on that beverage. You should be responsibel enough to know your limit and when to stop. also when you look after others and tell them the right dessistion taht make you seem more mature a nd you show the right example to others. Those younger ones then see how smart you are in certain situations and then see you moare as an adult to them.

Type of person I am

Most of the time I am a pretty laid back person that can get along with anybody unless they begin to disrespect me in any kind of way. I am a sweet person who is caring with my friends, I always try my best to help someone out no matter what is wrong with them. Times that I can be mean are when someone begins to mess with me to much or if they pic on one of my friends or family members. My family is my number one priority and then come my friends, my family are the ones I can always depend on and always have my back no matter what and they will not judge me by the things I do either. When I'm not doing anything on the weekends or day off I will ussually be working with my uncle I acctually like to work because I feel good when I get paid at the end and I don't have to ask my parents for money whenever I need something. If I'm not working I will be with my cousins ussually just watching football games or just playing basketball or football. On Sundays I go to church because it's how I was raised and my grandma also always wants my cousins and I to go, so going to church has become and everyday thing for me. I love to play sports, I hate to lose and always try my best, plus you get a work out from playing and that way I don't get fat. School for me isn't my best thing but I do try my best at it, but I manage to get by school with my grades. Well thats all I have to say.jk