Assignment:14 "School Uniforms"

I personally think that there is no point in using uniforms. Because uniforms don’t change acts. Yes it may change appearance but there is always going to be someone doing something that the principal don’t agree with. For example the principal demands dress codes because teenagers now days wear dickies and sag and wear spaghetti strap shirts, mini shorts, skirts, shirts . My opinion is that when the principal notices a group of people wearing the same color and hanging out they think is gang related. Because I have seen it happen. I am a teenager who knows how it feels like to have to wear uniforms for a whole year. To tell you the truth it REALLY SUCKS.


It can be a good thing because when you wake up you don’t have to choose your outfit because your going to be wearing the same three colors everyday. Either way your still going to end up looking the same. You will sometimes be less distracted becase with the school uniforms that you will be provided are mostly button up shirts that way girls can’t show cleavage. Some schools seek improvement because most students choose who to hang out with by their appearance. Like that quote says “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Well that’s how students decide who are they going to be friends with. I know that is true because of my past experience. I was judged like that and I myself have judged people like that as well. The other good thing about uniforms is that you can’t be violating the dress code with gang related clothes.

From my point of view some people feel like if their right is taken away. The right of being able to choose your appearance and being able to were what you want to wear. We feel like if we can’t do anything were trapped in a small cage. That’s one of the reasons people tag they think by tagging in a way their getting back at the school principal. Some of us think that if you dress like if you respect the school and it’s property that you won’t get caught doing bad stuff you can make yourself as if you were innocent. I mean wee teenagers we still have to look good boys sag girls expose.
  I think that school uniforms are useless. If teachers don’t wear them it is not fair that students mandatorily have to wear them. My opinion about uniforms that they are uncomfortable and ugly. Yes, it is true that you show pride in your school and respect and also by representing school colors. Even though it is way easier in the morning still you get tired of wearing the same three pairs of clothes over and over again. I hate having to wear the same three shirts for a whole year.


I have had school uniforms through all middle school. It really sucked. I hated it. Because I would always see teachers and the school principal wearing whatever they want and we would be in the back wearing our ugly itchy uniforms. My middle school principal would not allow skirts, spaghetti strap shirts, shorts, or any clothes with writing on it. It pissed me off because everything we were allowed to wear was plain just one color.

When I used to go you would get signatures I think for doing something good that a teacher liked or something and you would earn a pass. The gold one was the best because if you got one on that Friday you would be able to wear whatever you want but how I said only plain stuff. I would wear a South Pole shirt or jacket and I would get it taken away because supposedly it was gang related. I thought that was dumb. I remember because I wore a South Pole shirt that was like the size of a muscle shirts “three finger with” I got it taken away. It was a cool shirt but the principal thought I was disrespectful because of it. The security came up to me and asked me where your pass is and I showed him the gold pass you know so they would know I had permission to wear that. They took me to the office. You may ask why and it’s because my name wasn’t written on the pass. I was like oh my god!! So yeah I went to the office and they gave me this ugly extra large shirt and pointed to the bathroom they told me okay go change so I did. I had to wear that ugly shirt for that whole day. After school I went for the shirt and I couldn’t get it my mom had to be the one to get it but my mom never wanted to so I have never seen that shirt ever again.

I didn’t get it I thought to myself huh maybe all schools are like this. But no. My cousin proved me wrong Truman was the only strict school. Yeah I know we have to wear uniforms for our own safety so if a visitor comes or someone else they would know if he is allowed on campus. That’s how they would see who is not supposed to be in our school zone.

I have nothing against uniforms I just strongly dislike wearing them. If Atrisco Heritage Academy High School would force us to wear uniforms I would transfer out. I know it’s dumb just to transfer out just because of that but that’s my strong feelings on how I dislike them. Oh and another thing I also hated that we couldn’t were opened toed shoes. No flip flops or high heels. I thought that was bull not being able to wear flip flops. But yet when you would ask for the principal you would see her all comfortable in opened toed her high heels, skirts and exposing. That was no respect for herself.

I think if they are going to make us wear uniforms we should all be equal teachers, students and everybody on campus grounds. I think that it’s cool to be able to have al little freedom being able to wear whatever you like. That’s one of the reasons that I can’t wait to go college. I hate when teachers say that the school you are attending is a college preparing school when actually you are treated like a little kid. Like at my schools they repeat the same thing over and over wear your id’s wear your id’s wear your id’s. I feel like saying oh my god just freaking do it damn!

If I were to run a school I would let student’s voices and choices run the school we would have a 30 minute period to be able to relax socialize and text. I would at least allow some freedom to use cell phones during lunch. That is my opinion about wearing uniforms. If you want to keep your student’s happy no uniforms.

Assignment 13 Haloween Haiku

Howling a warning

The night is shaded in black

Candy is what's free tonight.

Assignnment 12 The black cat

I think that the symbolisum of the first cat is vilence because he takes it out all on his pets. The narrator became an alcoholic and the result was that he became moody and violent. First, he abused pets such as the rabbits and the monkey. He admits that soon he was even violent towards his wife. For a while, however, Pluto was immune to the disintegration of the narrator’s personality. However, Pluto was no longer protected by his favored status. In a fit of anger, the narrator cut the cat’s eye out of its head. At first, the narrator feltt bad but he was soon able to drown the memory in alcohol.
The cat recovered but was scared of the narrator. The cat’s wariness irritated the narrator who out of a spirit  hung the cat. On that same night, the narrator’s house and all his possessions were consumed by fire. The next day, on a piece of wall that remained standing "a piece of wall that stood at the head of the narrator’s bed". The image had a rope around its neck.The narrator was shaken by the vision but quickly puts together a logical explanation for the image that was on the wall. Despite his reasoning, the narrator was haunted by the image of that cat and soon felt a need to acquire a similar cat to replace the old one. One night, while he was drunk, he found a suitable cat at and then  as he intended it to purchase it. However, it belonged to no one.the cat followed him home.
    The cat, like his predecessor, was missing an eye. Unlike his predecessor, the cat had a white marking on his chest that resembled the gallows. The cat became a favorite of the narrator’s wife but almost immediately, the narrator took an intense dislike to the animal. However, the more he detested the cat, the more closely the cat attached itself to him, and, in turn, the more he detested it. The narrator confessed that he got to the point that he wanted to kill the cat but the remembrance of Pluto and his crime staid his hand, as he feared the create.The narrator’s account breaks into superstitious ramblings and fear. One day the narrator, his wife, and the cat descended the stairs into the cellar of the building where they lived. The cat tripped the narrator. The narrator was enraged and lifts an ax to kill the cat. However, his wife stopped the blow. This enraged the narrator further and he buried the ax in his wife’s brai.The murder was intentional. He supplies irrevocable evidence when he says that with the “hideous murder accomplished” he could now set about the task of concealing the body. He goes into detail about the various possibilities he considered before settling on walling her up in the basement. The narrator goes on to describe in minute detail the process of walling up his wife’s corpse and of removing all signs of activity in the basement. As the narrator relays the details of hiding the body and of the subsequent search by authorities.further evidence of his unreliability comes to light in his referring to killing his wife.The narrator seemed to feel that he had found peace. The cat was gone and the narrator was sure that no one would discover his secret. Inquiries and searches were made and no evidence was found. However, doubt must have lingered in the minds of the policeman. A second search was made at the house of the narrator. The narrator was confident that he would not be found out and wanted to make a boast to satisfy his own triumph, so he rapped sharply on the wall behind which his wife’s corpse was hidden and boasted about the solid build of the house. Immediately an inhuman wail emitted from the tomb.The police quickly tore down the wall to find the rotten corpse of the narrator’s wife with the cat sitting on her head. The narrator then blames the cat for his situation saying cat was a beast ‘whose craft had seduced me into murder and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman.

Assignment 11 The Concrete Rose

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.
 
 
The meaning of this poem means that when theirs only one their unique and hardly seen. When he says about the flower tht grew from a crack in the concrete it's an example of a baby. Because a baby can't provide what it needs he can't walk and all his looking in his family is love and someone that could love him. When he found somone it's when the baby is not in it's mothers woon. It comes out for the first time breaths air and sees the real life.When i hear this poem it gives me an image of a pregnant lady. Because how the flower grows out of the crack it the babe grows in the woond. No one else cares for that baby other than it's mother. If it's own mother dosn't care for that child who will. No one is taking care of other peoples stuff to have preety roses you have to water them and take care of them and keep things that are around their safe.Same here with the baby you have to take care of him feed it shower ir keep it in a safe enviorment. I think that 2 pac wrote this poem to all pregnant woman. I love this poem i think that it is so cute how it says something but when you think about it. the poem has a meaning that touches you. I thinnk 2 pac is so creative in his writing and composig his music he knows what to give public. I  can relate to some of his music and like this poem reminds me of when i was in my momys tummy. How the first months your all happy and exited and never had that warm loving feeling of carrieng a baby. That's how the flower that grew out of a crack you never see a flower on the sement unless someone drops a rose or something it's like the first time you get pregnant.

  I  think that it could also mean set your mind to something you will be able to accomplish it. Because think about it how many people set their mind to something and accomplish his/her dreams. It happens but it is very rare like the flower that grew on the concrete crack. I belive that you can accomplish anything you want you just need to put your mind to it.. no one ever said that it was going to be easy. Life is not easy. It's going to be tough but eventually it's going to pay off. Like going to college. It is going to be challenging. For example i want to be a pediatrition it is going to take me atleast 6 or 8 years. But your going to love what you are doing and get payed alot for that. It's going to pay off because when you have to do something that you don't want to.
  When i see the picture of the beautiful rose growing out of the concrete it's more than a picture it has a meaning. You have to look very deep and find your self like that in the world. You stand out even though you don't know it. Everybody has a diffrent talent you just have too look deep in yourself. Life is no game it's about creating yourself and preparing your self for the after death. Because im catholic and i strongly belive that when i die their is more than what we have lived. Like how it says in the bible if you do bad things without regreting it or saying sorry and commiting it to god because you  know that he sees everything.. its like a bird at a beach picking up one grain of sand a traveling across the world. Until it is finished with picking up every grain of sand that their is at the beach.. Like when god sees someone become a drug dealer and a gang banger.. He dosn't see oh hes doing this because he needs the money he sees more deep. He sees that he thinks this is the only way to have a father son relation ship with these big drug dealers. He sees that he had no father growing up he lived with his single mother. He fell in the wrong foot steps of being in the street..

Assignment 10 Bullying

I have been bullied before. I was bullied in all through middle school. I was bullied because i was a nerd. I dresed nerdy and just had that  nerdy attitude. Ok so i remember this day were their was this guy that i liked when we were alone or when he wanted to copy my work he would be nice to me. But noo when his damn friends came along he was a lil bitch to me. We would be laphing and i would be helping him and we were learning together. When his friends were their when he was with me he would call me rude names that put mee down like Skinny bitch miget and white ass. Big foot. When i would go turn in my work and was walking towards my seat they would trip me and when i was about to sit down they would pull my chair back and i would fall they would laph. When they would do that i would think of doing suicidal things. I think that people should not do that because it is a put down for the one being bullied. That's onne of the reasons why someone would think of dropping out. I have never bullied anyone. And what i think is wird they bullie people smaller than them and that seem weeker and they know that they won't fight back. When i saw the movie that Mr.Leh showed us i felt bad inside that i wanted to get up and stand up for that kid. I have always seen kids get bullied but i stayed queiet because thoes people bulling that person were bulling me ass well and no one alse did anything to help me. I though it was mean when the principal said boys will be boys. But i bet you anything if the bullies parents knew that they were gitting bullied they would be pisst. When i saw one of my friends getting bullied and eventually beat up and jumped because she stood up for herself it made me feel bad because i could have gotten help or stoped it but i didn't do anything i was just standing their in shock. I feel like i participated in the beating what i did was the most hurtful thinng that had happend to her. She told me your my best friend and you turned away and didn't back me up when i needed you. she called me a too faced freind witch i fellt bad because i knwe that i could have helped. If that would have happend to me i would like for her to be their tto back me up and support me. Now i realized how much of a good friend that i am...

  It breaks my heart to know that i turned my back on my own best friend. I don't belive in best friends anymore because of an experience that i have had. Once again i say carma is a bitch.. I don't like knowing that i got payed in that matter of getting beat up and tesed on all my life. But i have learned the hard way no one is going to be their to deffend you. You have to stand up for yourself and deffend what is yours. Don't let people push you around and don't make the mistake i made.. I was seeing friends and younger people get pushed around and i would laph why you may ask i honestly don't know. I think becasue i couldn't stand up for my self why do it for them.. i would laph and think mabe i would blend in and they will stop picking on me. their was a time just one time where i pushed around this little girl because thoes guys told me too and i would be cool from now on. so i pushed he around the hall and triped her she  fell and everybody started laphing and i didn't realize thath the little girl was someone i knew. when she saw my smile on my face she got up picked up all her stuff and left crying and ashamed.. Instead of feeling good i felt bad and i will always regret that day and that smile i had when i look at myself in the mirror that image of her on the floor teering and everybody laphing kills me from the inside..

Assignment 9 Alien contact

The otherday at school me and my friends took lunch in our little cute lunch boxes  but something oftly ocuard was happening to mine. I noticed the bright green glow across the playground. I told my friends look look lokk. They were all looking at me like if i were crazy.THey were all what are you talking about? You want us to see what their was nothing their.Once they turned in the direction i was pointing to the bright green light went away. I was scared. Jane and jacob were like what the heck is wrong with liz.At first i was thinkin i was crazy but i kept seeing the lightt. Everybody got their lunch box and sat down to eat. I was so scared to even get close to mine. But eventually my stomach was grouling so much that my tummy started to hurt that i grabbed the lunch box without thinking. I opend it and layed it on my lap and reached in. Instead of feeling a lil bag that mysandwich was in i felt a furry thing.  looked in and their it was a fuzzy lil thing. I scream and droped my luch box. I got up as fast as i could and my eyes were teering because i was so scared. My friends said what's what's wrong? What is it?I pointed to my lunch box. My friend poked it with the tip of his shoe and the next thing you know a small cuddely thing crawled out. and my twinky raper was empty.. We all scram and huddled in a little circle. we looked at it and it wasn't scarry at all it was actually preety cute.I walked towards it and grabed it.
    Once i grabed it  had burped. It was so cute. i wanted to keep it so i shoved him in my backpack and we went to class. The little alien made no noise at all it feel fast asleep inn my backpack i was relived because i wouldn't know what to tell my teacher if she would have found out i had an alien in my backpack she would flip[ out and say i was crazy. Once the bell rang so we can go home i ran to my house so exited that i woke it up and it was making wird noises. i got scared  and took it out and you would hear it try to talk. all you wold hear it say is tweenky. It wanted another one of my tweenkies. Once i got home i noticed that no one was home so i got a tweenky from the kitchen and feed it to him. It ate it almost in one bite. I didn't belive it how did it get in my lunch box. Who could have put it their?? at first i though it was a prank from one of my friends but how would they manege to put it in my lunch box without me noticing? I said naa  it was majic it's meant to be. It's my new pet.. so days later the alien was getting attached to me. so i knew that i couldn't leave it alone. So i went in the shower and left it on the toilet cap while i took a shower. and to know that it was playing when the toilet paper. when i got out their was a big mess. and to know that it ws tring to get out and breath because it is allergic to water.. After that i noticed a lot of wird things happening. In the news it says that everything is diying and at nite their is a light comming down from the sky. it was the parents looking for their lost alien. They knew he was introuble because of the screaching noise it would do when it was near water..
  Weeks later it would sleep near the window scaratching it when he was seeing  the light knowing that his parents were looking for him.. On cold night i saw the window open and nevermore was the alien their.. it was gone safe and back with its parents where it belongs

Assignment 6 "I DREAM A WORLD"

I dream a world were all family would reunite. Where peace lives within us. I dream a world with no racisum and harsh judgment upon us.You will never be undeer peer pressure. No one will take advantage of your inoccence. I wish to live in a world were everybody is respected and not judged by lower classed people or higher class people.Because no one starts at the top you go from the bottem to the top just like you go from left to right not the other way around. Don't judge by apperence for example if you see an old lady walking down the street your probably thinking that old jag. But you never know how she was when she was your age. She could have been very popular back in her day. I personally know how it feels like to be judged bullied and threathend to be jumped. I personally think that i have been through hell but that's not a reason to give up on life. I have learned it the hard way. I have learned to treat people how you want to be treated i have also learned that by your actions your showing people how you want to be treated. If you don't respect yourself that shows that you can't respect others and you bring around negative people when you have that type of body language. If you don't stand up for yourself then that shows people a sign of weekness and that's why you end up getting bullied or bothered. You make your life how you want it like when people say my life sucks well duuhh because your making it suck. I wish to live in a world full of mistakes.Because if it wern't for mistakes we wouldn't learn from our faliures so our mistakes can he;p up become better people. That's why i strongly belive in carma. I think carma exists so that we can learn our lessonwe don't know how much something hurts until it has been done to us. Because when your going out withsome one and you cheat on them. They get all woonded  and sad. You just feel bad and are all uhh whatever. But when it  happens to you that's when you start biching. I dream a world were i can sees the day.. I dream a world where their is no hunger or homless people. Always do good because you ccan never betray your own being. You can do anything. No one can betray their own shadow. I want to bettermyself that's why i don't let go of my childhood dreams i set the bar higher. I dream a world of open minded people.If your an oppen minded person you can be pursuade and see things in another way. Like they say Hey mabe the grass is greener on the other side...