Valedictiorian

What you would you say?

If I was the Valedictorian of my class I would talk about everything we've learn, and the experiences about this class. When you are saying a speech you must use clear voice. Also, you must speak neither too slow or too fast. I would try to say it as clear and I'll keep at a good pace.

Would you tell little stories about each of the students or funny jokes about graduation?

I find a little humour in speeches makes them better and more entertaining. However, you must be careful on what you say about other people because you could make them uncomfortable. In my speech, I would use one or two funny stories about the class but nothing that I know would make me uncomfortable if it was about me.

Would you thank all the people who helped you along the way?

I would thank Mrs. Book and Mrs.Marlowe, even thought she stayed with us for a short period of time, she still taught us.

What advice would you give?

To follow your dreams and do the best you can to accomplish whatever you want to do.

If you were not Valedictorian, what kind of speech would you like to hear? Sad and memorable? Funny and fast? No speech at all?

Well, I wouldn't like to hear a really sad and dramatic speech. I'd like the Valedictorian speech to be funny, but serious as the same time.

Movies

My favorite movie genre is comedy. This is my favorite gene because I love things that makes me laugh.
An example of a comedy movie is Talladega Nights. The movie is about a man, who's father (who was a car racer) left him and his mother. He grew and became a famous car racer. But one day he had an accident while racing with a French guy, and he got afraid of racing. This is a hilarious movie. The message in the end is to never give up your dreams.

Current Event

My event is about a grad student who was tortured for 19 hours.

I read the article "Cops have suspect in grad student's torture" in CNN.com, on April 20, 2007.
In April 13, the suspect William Roberts slipped into the Columbia University graduate's Manhattan apartment building. After forcing his way inside the apartment, he tied the student with computer cables. He then raped her, forced her to have drugs and alcohol, and slit her eyelids with a knife. At 4:30, after 19 hours of torturing the student, the suspect created a fire and left the apartment. The student used the fire to burn the computer cables and freed herself. Then she ran for help.
In addition to the torturing of the student, suspect William Roberts withdrew $200 from her bank account.

1. Where it came from and the date it was published: CNN, April 20, 2007.
2. The title of the article and the author: Cops have suspect in grad student's torture, CNN.
3.Who?: William Roberts.
4. What?: Suspect tortured Columbia Universite graduate.
5. When?:April 13.
6. Where?: Manhattan.
7. Why?: Article does not say why.
8. How?: Suspect slipped into student's apartment, and force his way inside.

Mrs. Book's article

1. Where it came from and the date it was published: CBC news, April 18, 2007.
2. Title of the article and the author: Fire leaves 300 homeless in Fort McMurray, CBC news.
3. Who?: estimated of 300 people lost their homes, however nobody was hurt.
4. What?: Fire burt 94 units at Edgwater Court, housing complex.
5. When? Tuesday, April 17.
6. Where?: Fort McMurray.
7. Why?: Fire is under investigation.
8. How?: Fire ripped through apartment building.

Plans for Spring Break

Spring time is coming! too bad we won't have the warm weather we should have. My plans for the spring break is to go to Calgary, from saturday until wednesday. Me and my family are going to check out houses and neightbour areas and schools, because we might be moving to Calgary in some months. My sister, my mom and me almost never get to go shopping whenever we go to the "civilization" (calgary, edmonton, etc), but this time my dad is allowing us to spend as much time in the mall as we want.

A of the bad thing about going to Calgary is that i'll be spending almsot a whole day in the car, watching my little sister's fairy movies during the whole trip. Thankfully, my parents gave me an mp3 player about 2 months a go. I already filled it with music that I like, so I'll be probably listening to my music and sleeping during the whole trip.
The good thing about to Calgary, is that I'll spend time with my family and the fact that I'll finally go shopping.

If I wasn't going to Calgary, and if the spring was actually spring (no snow), I would just go ride bike with my friends, make sleepovers, etc. And most important of all, I would sleep until the afternoon.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is when you copy exact information about something from somebody else, I'm sure that almost everybody has done this. I think that it's better not to use plagiarism, unless you ask the author of the information you want to use, or if you give the autor credentials. Also, it's better to write something of your own, because you learn more about it, instead of just copying things down just to get the work done.

Essay

An essay is a short piece of writing that talks about or describes a topic. I feel that the essay writing is okay when you write about something you're interested in. For instance, if you like the culture of a certain country, let's say Japan, then it would be a lot easier to find information, and to write your opinions about it. It also makes it much easier.

If you write about a topic you are not really interested in, then you'll probably not find enough information about it, and it wouldn't be as good of an essay as it would be if you would've liked the topic.

Acts of Kindess

Some acts of kindness I've made are: openning and holding the door for people, once when I was little I saw a poor kid that was hungry and he asks us for food, and I told my mom that i wanted to give him some sandwiches and a "Malta" a Venezuelan drink. It felt good because he was so happy and thanked us.

Other people made acts of kindness to me, like for instance once, when I went to Houston, I was with my sister in a store from the mall, and my sister was paying for something but she didn't have enough money, so when we were going to return the item, the guy that was behind us in the line gave us the money we needed to buy it. We were happy because we didn't even ask the guy for the money, he just gave it to us.

Once when a dissable guy came to our school to talk to us about drugs, at the end of his speech whoever wanted to give him a hug could go to him and give him once. I gave him a hug, and it felt nice to have a random person give you a hug, plus I was having a not so nice day, so it felt even better.

I'll try to show acts of kindness more frequently, like saying hi to people who seems like they're having a bad day, etc[