Earth Being Defined

Dear Alien,

Please let me tell you about Earth. Earth is a work in progress. Wait lemme take that back. The people on Earth are a work in progress. Earth is a wonderful place where you can live & find great opportunities for your life. However there are many people who give you the choice to forget those opportunities and give upon looking towards the bright side. Honestly I don't believe it should be like this because we all end up hurting Earth if we look at each other as rivals and try to take earth out of the equation of life. Us humans should have problems with each other once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. As long as we all see that we have to forgive sooner or later. Karma will do it's job so people shouldn't seek for revenge of anything.

Earth has various countries with various sites that anyone could live by or visit. We have all types of places here. We have deserts, islands, hot spots, glaciers, mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, forests, ruins from our past ancestors, we have anything we could ever ask for. And that is how we learn too. Because of the things Earth has for us. We have people with extreme intelligence both dead and alive. We have heroes who have no need for a cape or a heroic name. We have people who fight fro what they believe is wrong. We have people who stand up to themselves. We have poor & rich. Many try to see the world as one but currently we really can't.

We have fights all the time. Small fights. Big fights. But thankfully no World Wars. We have always had fights. We have had 2 world wide ones. But currently the most often fights we see are for false things. For pure money. That is something all people want. Money. However, some of us have become very blind towards that. We have addictions. And people want money for that. We have people who want to use it for good charities or good causes. We have both good and bad. Just not well balanced.

Earth itself without us would be very peaceful. A bit out of control but still. You should come and visit us and let us explore more about your knowings. We could use a new set of news. Thanks.

Sincerely,

Jackeline S.

National Holidays

Some national holidays that we have here in the U.S. are Martin Luther King Jr, Washington's Birthday, & the Fourth of July. These are days we have to remember and celebrate, great leaders, and the independence of the Unites States of America.

Why do you think we have national holidays?
     I think we have national holidays to make memorial of certain days. For example, MLK Jr. Day is to remember how much he did for people, black & white to be together united as one for we are all created equal. Washington's Birthday is to remember how much he did to help the thirteen colonies become independent & his times as president. The Fourth of July is to remember the independence of America from Great Britain.

Are there benefits to having national holidays?
     Yes they are benefits because sometimes people can't have days off from work so they only get them off on national holidays. Also it is good become some people actually do like to remember what this country has gone through.

Are their downsides?
     Yes there are downsides because people on these holidays like to do crazy things and then accidents happen and there's loss of people. Some people don't even value the day and take it as one more day where the shopping stores have percentage discounts on their things. 

My Searches

My Searches

What are the top 3-5 websites you use for educational purposes?
        As a student in Rise Middle School, we are required to do several things that have to do with different websites. I frequently use weebly.com because I constantly try to keep my digital portfolio updated with the most recent things we do in our class therefore when they ask for it, I am already prepared. The second one would be brainpop.com because science is one of my weakest ability, Brain Pop helps me understand better. Finally the third one would be studyisland.com.

What are top-level domain do they use? Why?
     All these three websites use the domain .com. I believe that it is because they are used for commerce.
What are the top 3-5 websites you use for personal entertainment?
     For personal entertainment I use quotev.com, netflix.com, or kissanimesmash.com. I use Quotev to read & write, Netflix to watch tv or movies & Kiss Anime Smash to watch Anime.

What top-level domain do they use? Why?
      They all use .com and I believe it is because they are commercial businesses.

Grit

What it grit?

Have you ever thought about what is grit? Grit is the power of stamina. It is the strength of continuing long-term goals with perseverance, continuing with life day in & day out not worrying that you might fail at a certain point. It is like you are running a life marathon. That is what is grit. And believe it or not; people run on grit. People succeed on grit.

I am an American-born Citizen. As a child I traveled a lot. I traveled from one place to another and call it home. I wouldn't move around because of my parent's being illegal or because of work issues with them. Like those who move around with their families because they are illegal farm workers On the contrary, my mother could work here legally it was just my father who was the problem. He was young when I appeared into his world. He tired too hard to get me all my needs and even more. That was the problem. He started making stupid decisions which later reflected on me in school and which were the cause of us moving too much. My family only spoke Spanish back then. As a result that was the only language I spoke. It was the first language I learned.

The ability of speaking English didn't fully come to me once I was actually in the 3rd grade. We were here back in LA back then. I was born here in LA and we stayed here less then 6 months before we left to Huntington Park. From there we moved when I was like a year an a half to Rancho Cucamonga then to Ontario, CA. I started school in Ontario. I attended Pre-School then Pre-K then Elementary. I understood when people talked to me in English but because all the time I had been moving from one home in a city to another home in the same city or completely move to another city, I didn't have the opportunity of communicating much with kids or people who weren't my family. At school I was shy and even if I tried to speak English, people would speak to me in Spanish. Later on in the first semester of first grade I started trying out English speaking. I failed. But that didn't stop me. I would practice making the English sounds and tried getting my tongue to work the way my brain was thinking. It took me a lot of years. I felt like I was learning something new and weird.

I knew the basic things by the time I started the second grade back in LA. I practiced every day with my cousin who we were now living with. By the third grade I was proud of what I had achieved. It took me time and I have to admit I still struggle but now its just that at times my brain is slower than my tongue.

Grit should be taught in schools. However I feel like not everyone can learn what grit is. Grit is something one should develop on their own. I mean if students can learn grit the same way they learned how to add and subtract than that's great. But if they can't they can't be forced. If schools teach grit, they should show them examples of when people use grit and what grit is. Then from their they should teach according the students ability of understanding.

Setting Goals

Setting Goals in 2016!

        This year I have started setting up goals for myself in my daily life and in my academic life. I have several goals set for a certain class, Digital Literacy. One of my academic goals for this class is to improve my use of the punctuation keys on the keyboard. I have a slightly difficult time using those keys and if I want to achieve also my personal goal for this class, I have to practice using that part of the keyboard. The technique that has helped me lately with improving my use of punctuation keys is redoing the lessons on punctuation in a cool punctuation website I found for people who need practice in typing. I want to keep doing more lessons in hopes of me to get better. I can see the progress I have made and that is what has made me decide to keep using this website.

        My personal goal for this class is to increase my accuracy and how fast I type. To increase my accuracy I want to try different typing websites besides typing.com. However first I want to finish the lessons I am doing on that website. In order to increase my typing skills, I want to get to know the laptop's keyboard. I want to really have a good idea of how it looks that way only my fingers can sense the keys according to how I remember them. So far I am getting better at that. But I have issues with the bottom row and the numbers at times. To get to know the keyboard better, I want to practice typing in general. Like typing up passages and so. For me, that is really good help to get to know the keyboard better. I have other goals for this class but these are the top priority of my goals and the ones I really want to achieve. The other ones are small goals but I'll achieve them through out the year. Slowly, one by one, but I will.