BLACK FRIDAY!!?!!?!!?!??

BLACK FRIDAY

The Friday after Thanksgiving Day is known as Black Friday. Black Friday was first established in the 20th century.  Black Friday is not a federal holiday. The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.

Black Friday Cons:
 Black Friday shopping is known for attracting aggressive crowds, with annual reports of assaults, shootings, and throngs of people trampling on other shoppers in an attempt to get the best deal on a product before supplies run out. Another con is overspending, during Black Friday, many Americans tend to buy unnecessary things, just because its cheaper, while they continue to do this, they are also overspending; the exact thing they would have probably done if the items were not on sale.

Black Friday Pros:
Black Friday also have a few advantages; you are getting an item for a less expensive price, you get to surprise your love ones with the precious gifts they always wanted, and you always get to meet new interesting people.

Current Event

Same-Sex Marriages?

There are 15 states who are currently supporting the rights of same-sex marriages. Those states are California, Connecticut, Iowa, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, Washington, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Hawaii.

Hawaii has been the last of the states to legalize same-sex marriages. Obama was in Hawaii, supporting his home town and citizens. Many of the citizens admire Barack Obama for supporting same-sex marriages, and many do not. I would like to say that I too support this act, because everyone is different, and who are we to judge.

Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia 

A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought,emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

By Michael O'Brien, Pete Williams, Richard Esposito and Tracy Connor, NBC News

A woman who tried to force her car through a White House security fence Thursday afternoon was shot and killed by police after a 12-block chase past the Capitol, which was locked down for a half-hour, authorities said.

Does schizophrenics have an excuse for their immoral actions. I believe that the schizophrenics are able to function without becoming frustrated because of the daily routines around them. Now for the women who crashed into the white house gates, I do believe that she was a schizophrenic. The fact that she had her daughter with her shows that she must have snap in a blink of an eye. I want to believe that she did not intend to put her daughter in danger, but it looks that way. Her relations stated that she seemed normal to them, while with her child, as she did her daily routines. I do believe that no one would really know what happened on the day she was chased and killed.

-Jessyca Ford

Dear Incoming Niece

9/11 Attack Letter

Dear Layla,

On September 11, 2001, a tragedy happened in New York City. That was the day thousands of people died.  Terrorist had jacked two planes and crashed into the twin towers. The day it happened, I was sitting in my living room eating a bowl of ice-cream. When I saw the news, my jaw dropped to the floor. I started to tear up. I ran to the phone to call my aunt. I could hear her voice cracking over the phone. She made the statement, "we're living in hell, trapped."

There were a lot of firefighters on duty that day. The twin towers were widely to be considered symbols of America's power and influence. One tower was taller than the other. The shortest tower had collapsed. The first thing I thought about was the people who were in that building. The news later stated that nearly 3,000 people had died in the attack, including all 227 civilians and 19 hijackers. There was black smoke everywhere. I was on the phone with my aunt the entire time. There were 343 firefighter paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers. They were struggling to complete evacuation of the buildings.  The office workers who were trapped on the higher floors were killed during this tragedy. I just could have imagined how their families felt as they mourned over their loved ones deaths.

That day, I cried myself to sleep. It's strange how the things that do not affect you physically, still can affect you mentally. Sometimes I think, I wish there was something I could have done to prevent that day from happening, but no one has those kind of powers. I am grateful that you did not have to go through that, because it hurts bad to know that a lot of people died because of ignorance. The day 9/11 happened, a lot of hearts were broken, and I was one of them.

Love,
Jessyca

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What Ralph Emerson was saying in this quote is that you should not want to be the one following, but the one leading.

 Education is the most precious thing you can obtain.  It is very delicate and you should want to hold on to it.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James A. Baldwin


I agree with this quote, only because I can actually can testify to this quote.  I understand that I have a long ways to go on building my knowledge of wisdom and on education.  Everyone should have an independent mind of their own or at least want to have one.  In James Baldwin's, "A Talk to Teachers," he explains how he is not an educator, but his morals shows that he knows what he is talking about.

Why We SHOULD NOT Abolish Grading

 Why We SHOULD NOT Abolish Grading

If all grading in the world were to be abolished, how would we ever know where we stand and where we want to get to.  Abolishing grading would be the number one error in our society education.  According to Paul Goodman, writer of A Proposal to Abolish Grading, we should abolishing grading.  He states, "What a grim waste of young life and teacherly effort."  I totally disagree with this statement.  If we did not have grading, we would not have any structure in our schools.  Grading help us students to want to achieve more. For instance, if I go home with a C or a B, I am going to obviously want an A, because far as I know, that is the highest ranking in basically saying, "I have achieved this subject."

A grade of an A, B. C, D, could have standards as high as the teacher want them to be.  Even though you may have to stay in that range of letters, they could stand for whatever you want them to stand for.  The students can always go above and beyond what is required of them.  Its up to them to make that grade what it is really worth. 

Paul Goodman- "But I submit that this set up itself makes it impossible for the student to become a master, to have grown up, and to commence his own."  As I stated before, it is up to the student to go above and beyond.  Who says that the grading scale holds students back.  Its only true if the student themselves think it.

Jessyca Ford "I Have a Dream"

Jessyca Ford

"I Have a Dream"

I am now blogging my thoughts on the internet.  I have a dream that our entire human race will be able to respect each other's color. We are all human. The color of our skin should not control who we talk to, walk with, or who we get along with.

We should not let others take our glory away, knowing that we have a mind to want to learn and think. We should not allow our minds to be corrupted with evil. We should not allow others to discourage us no matter how hard trial is.

We should not dwell on the fact that there may always be racial hatred. We should not dwell on how some of us may never be able to ride in a nice car, or cook in a nice kitchen or even use a nice restroom. We should not dwell on the fact that we may never be able to see the top of the world, let along control our destiny. We should dwell on the fact that we are free and how we should continue to make change.

I quote Dr. Martin Luther King when he says, "we cannot stand alone." Everyone in this world needs someone. We should have the mind set to want to help others to become the best they can be, despite their skin color or differences from yours.

One day we will be able to hold hands proudly with someone of another race, just like small children trying to make their way across a busy street, with confidence and bravery of one another. We will not be shamed to encourage others and their goals in life. We will love having the company of another religion in our own homes.

I dream that will have love, peace, and joy. Love, like a mother's love for her children. Peace, like an old nursing home of soft breathing and the photo albums of old peaceful memories. Joy, like a Sunday morning of laughter, excitement, knowing that you are going to receive the word of God on that day.

The world is a book of questions without an answer. No one knows the future of the book, only the past and the present. I tell you today that it could be a great ending.

An end to all violence. An end to poverty. An end to cold bitter nights. An end to racism. I mean, what does it matter that we do not like the other because of their color, their hair, their speech, or even their walk. At least that's what they say.

We all have the same God, the same ruler, and the same father in God's ways. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ. I can tell you that it does not make any difference to me, if my friends are African American, Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, or Jewish.  I accept all, and we all should accept.

Today, I encourage others to love one another and to love yourself, because if you do not love yourself, then who will. We need each other today. I quote Dr. Martin Luther King again, "we cannot stand alone." 

Watch any movies lately: Yesterday I watch Tom and Jerry. I cosider a series of shows a movie once it had been placed on a DVD. T - Tom O - Oblivious M - A N D J - Jerry E - R - R - Y -