Parents Review of Blog

Hello, my name is Esterline Brooks mother of Lasheda Brooks. When I first reviewed this blog I liked the fact that parents have the option of reviewing what their child did in class. I asked myself the question of does my child complete all of her assignments and if she does how well does she answer the questions. Lasheda informed that there is a main blog where I can keep track of her assginments. I like the fact that the blog is electronic so that children won't be able to say I lost my homework because they would be able to have access to it 24 hours of the day and papers aren't involved .

S.S new teacher essay

First I would like to start off this essay by saying my name is Lasheda Brooks. I am in the eighth grade and I am eager to learn what ever you teach us. The three items I have chose to tell you about myself are in my leisure I like to read, I am a visual learner and my favorite subjects are math and science. 

To begin with, I read in my leisure because I like educating myself outside of school. I like doing this because it is like a dose of the real world especially books that are historical based. I like to read because books are like food to my brain, they make me smarter and they give me mental energy. When I read it feels like I am actually at that moment and time, in that place. My favorite books are Mississippi trail 1951 and Numbering all of the bones. 

Second, I would like to tell you this up front, I am a visual learning person. I learn by hands on type of work or work that you can see. I can't learn if a teacher just puts a problem on the board for the first time and just tells us to figure it out. I mean I could figure it out it would just take me a a little while. In Social studies or American history one of the hardest things for me to do is just read out a of a book because that tends to getting boring, that's why I like working hands on.

Third, my favorite subjects are science and math. These are my favorite subjects because they naturally come easy to me. I am not saying that I don't like a challenge, I am just saying that ever since I was little I liked these subjects. Reading Language Arts and Social Studies are fun at times depending on the method of teaching. I like dealing with numbers thats why I like Math and I like science because I like learning about our bodies and things that make them look the way they do. 

In conclusion, I have many different things that make me who I am. My likes and dislikes determine my educational circumstances. Also my ability to understand material affects my learning. I try hard and strive for great achievements and excellence. I am open about you being apart of our family at New Media and look forward to meeting you.

President Obama's Policies on Civil Rights

In President Obama's policies there are somethings that I agree with and some I do not. The things that I agree with are things that will sooner or later help me in the real world such as ''Combat Employment Discrimination''. I agree with this policy because it eliminates employee discrimination in the work place such as discrimination against females. This law will help me because it means equal money for equal hours work, not less money than you deserve. Something else that I agree with is to "End Racial Profiling '' this law will mean that any place of work or place of learning can't judge you because of the color of your skin. This will help me because colleges then won't be able to say this person wouldn't be good for our school because he/she african-american and all african-americans are ghetto.

Even though our President has some issues that I stand behind, he has some that I don't . One of the topics that I mean when I say I don't agree with is '' Expanding Adoption Rights''. One of the reasons I don't agree with this is because I think that children need a father and a mother. The second reason is I think it will expand our homosexual community. Being so that the child will have two mothers or two fathers, they won't be able to develop what they think or feel and so they will think the only option is to be homosexual because my mothers were or my fathers were. It's unfair to put something of this matter in their heads early.

Photos for ancestors

The kind of house the family lived in

Sunday school teacher Stay at home mother

Boardwalk

Critical Analysis part 2

Something's gotta give: Big boi ft Mary j. blige

You Know the commonfolk, blue collar, day to day workers that squeeze a dollar, so maybe they can swallow, a little, not a lot, just enough to fill that bottle
But its a million dollars a gallon for gas to get to work tomorrow.
You rob peter to pay paul to make due, make you wanna write a note and take a pistol to that bank too, then pass it on the teller
But you know better
(Chorus-Mary J Blige)
They try to tell us to stay strong, but every day we losing jobs, from College Park down to Beverly Hills, Somethings Gonna Have to Give
Across the world they live in fear but its the same thing over here.
If you can hear me on Capitol Hill, Somethings gonna have to give.

This song is positive. It actually has a meaning about the world and the state that we are in. This song is saying that people are in need and the world needs to listen. I personally think that this song effects everyone in the world not just Americans because people all over the world are suffering. Parents aren't able to take care of children, people are losing jobs, and houses are getting foreclosed. All this is happening and we need a change to happen. People our age are getting taken out of college by parents because they don't have enough money for them to stay there. People are killing themselves and their families because they don't want their family to have to get everything taken away from them. Money is making the people crazy, people get out of jail to do good with their life and wind up doing the wrong thing, go down the wrong path. 

Critical Analysis

Biggie Smalls: Big Poppa

I believe this song portrays biggie smalls as being a player. It is basically saying that it is acceptable for men to just have intercourse with women if they meet them in a party. He is saying that if you want a girl be smooth and then she'll let you do what ever to her. It impacts adolescent because they see this type of behavior and think it is acceptable. In this song they call women h*&s. I don't think he should use this type of language because if he were still alive and had a daughter when she got older he wouldn't want anyone to call her that name. The word is demeaning and disgraceful to all races not just Afrikan Americans because people of other races listen to this music and think all people of color act this way. Also he talking is promoting illegal drugs, which is wrong. Young people could listen to this song and/or watch the music video and think it's okay to use drugs. This is getting young and old people into an addiction all over music. They think it's cool because their favorite rapper is doing and wind up destroying their whole life. In conclusion I think that children under a certain age shouldn't listen to gangster rap because the fake lifestyle that the gangsters live is contagious.

Opening Ceremony Assignment

The virtue that I held dear during the ''circle of lights'' was the virtue of astuteness. The reason why I chose this virtue was  because it will help me in the future with every class and subject that I partake in. It will also help me master concepts a little faster than I do now because my mind would be very sharp and quick. During the walk of faith the person that blind folded me was my mother. As she guided me she told me that when I first came into her life she didn't know how she was going to raise me because I wasn't really a planned child.

She also told me that I am special in my own way. She told me that I am different from the world so I should set a good example for my peers. In conclusion my mom told me she loved me and that she supports me and wish me the best in what ever decisions I decide to make. My teacher Mothura Marjani said that even though we are not her biological children she still loves each and every one of us like we are her own. That stayed in my mind because even though we may not be the best children in the world to handle she still cares for us, to me that's how teachers are supposed to be.

Memories that standout are the ''Walk of Faith'' and the ''Circle of Lights''. The ''Walk of Faith'' stood out because it let me know that I can always depend on my mother even when times get hard. She told me that she would alway s be there for me and she would never leave my side. Also she said that if I never needed someone to talk to, that would give me comfort and would always put down what ever she was doing just to listen to me. The ''Circle of Lights'' was my favorite because I liked listening to what goals/virtues my peers set for their future and it feels good to know that im not the only one that has plans for my future.