Thursday, October 29, 2009

New blog on new subject

Today, right now, i am going to switch up what i always write about. I am going to write about a new subject. Maybe on music, i really enjoy music, in fact i am lestening to my ipod right now. Everyday i always listen to it. Wow, almost everyone has an ipod, its amazing, there great. Okay, What i was going to say is when i do my homework or i am trying to fall asleep, i listen to some music. At home, if i am not watching tv, my tv is on everyday, i know, its unhealthy, I am lisetning to music. In my room, i have surround sound, so i can hook my ipod up to that for some good tunes and or i am using some old comouter speakers, but these speakers have a subwoofer and they are really legit, they have two setttings, treble and bass. The bass gets really lounda. For some old speakers, they are awsome. I really enjoy them. I listen to alot of diiferent types of music, my best friends are all in a band, and they play like, alternative rock, not hradcore stuff, but lighgter. I like it, they have done a concert at roosters once, and i went , they was alot of peple there when they had it. Wow, im typing really fast right noe, im usally nor fast, idk why. I need to keep up on these blogs, its easy but im missing 3. Which brought my grade down a whole lot. And my parents are ghoing to be really mad if they see it. I am missing An RDQ, or sumthing like that, but i havent made it up and i dont know what it is. I have been typing everything straight out of my brain, Everything here, i thought of as i typed it, lol, its kinda wierd, its surprising how there is peple who type like this for a living. Like, those people who go to starbucks with a laptop, there are always in there. i guess they dont want to be alone, wow, im in the computer lab, and i put both of these in ear buds in my ear and i cant hear my typing, I am not even looking at the screen, i really need to learn how to tpe with out looking at the keyboard, i know i would become alot faster if i did that. I tired, i just took a big test in my math class and i have a history test next. And yesterday in 6th period i had a big spanish test. This year i acually understand test more, like last year, i hadd alot of trouble in test and i didnt do alot of homework, but im doing much better this year, im also trying harder, its good. I think i am done with this post, it seems really long, ive been writing for like 10 minutes, i nedd to stop saying like so much.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Hollister trip

On sunday, i went to Hollister Hills in California. Hollister is a great place to go riding. There is a ton of tails and alot of different types and levels of trails, there is blue circle=easy, green square=intermedient, black diamond= advance. I went with my good friend Cameren and his dad. We left his house at 8am and got there around 9:30, the traffic was really flowing. When we got there, we looked for parking and the place was packed, its usually hella empty, but there was like a vintage motorcross show thing, and a swap met, so most of all the spots were taken. It was still very fun, and i had a great time.I was riding a very beaten old kawasaki 200. It used to be my dad's but he got a new bike, so i got to ride this beater. It's a 200cc two stroke, so for a old bike, it still had some power, enough to get me up and down everything i tried, and we did alot of black diamond runs, which are narrow, steep, and slow. My bike had bad front braker, and half way throgh the day i droppedit so the front brake lever bent, so i could only fit one, almost two fingers comfortable, so it was bad, but at least the back brakes were ok.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Hollister trip

On sunday, i went to Hollister Hills in California. Hollister is a great place to go riding. There is a ton of tails and alot of different types and levels of trails, there is blue circle=easy, green square=intermedient, black diamond= advance. I went with my good friend Cameren and his dad. We left his house at 8am and got there around 9:30, the traffic was really flowing. When we got there, we looked for parking and the place was packed, its usually hella empty, but there was like a vintage motorcross show thing, and a swap met, so most of all the spots were taken. It was still very fun, and i had a great time.I was riding a very beaten old kawasaki 200. It used to be my dad's but he got a new bike, so i got to ride this beater. It's a 200cc two stroke, so for a old bike, it still had some power, enough to get me up and down everything i tried, and we did alot of black diamond runs, which are narrow, steep, and slow. My bike had bad front braker, and half way throgh the day i droppedit so the front brake lever bent, so i could only fit one, almost two fingers comfortable, so it was bad, but at least the back brakes were ok.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

(2.) The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation[3] about people different from ourselves. Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families. When I ask my students, “How many of you grew up in neighborhoods where most of the people were from the same racial group as your own?” almost every hand goes up. There is still a great deal of social segregation in our communities. Consequently, most of the early information we receive about “others”—people racially, religiously, or economically different from ourselves—does not come as the result of firsthand experience. The secondhand information we do receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete.

(3.) Some examples will highlight the process. Several years ago one of my students conducted a research project investigating preschoolers’ conceptions of[4] Native Americans. Using children at a local day care center as her participants, she asked these three- and four-year-olds to draw a picture of a Native American. Most children were stumped by her request. They didn’t know what a Native American was. But when she rephrased the question and asked them to draw a picture of an Indian, they readily complied. Almost every picture included one central feature: feathers. In fact, many of them also included a weapon—a knife or tomahawk—and depicted the person in violent or aggressive terms

After reading these paragrpahs from the novel" Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafiteria", I annotated it. How i annotated it was by using the folowing methods, chunking and getting rid of redundency. Also, i added my own opinions and underlined what i thought was important. what i find useful is circling key words and underline the sentance, and then write my thought on the subject. I think annotating is easy, because im just writing my opinions and thoughts on the paper. In these articles, i annotated alot because it is showong the effects of the world, kind of, to a preschooler, because they did a survey with preschoolers and most of them drew what they thought of a native American. And what they thought of was aggresive men with tomahawks andf other dangererous things in their hands, and fethers in their headban. This shows that evern someone at the age of 4-5 can prejudice.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

More on dirt bikes

Hello, well, im going to write more on dirt bikes.There is alot of differnet types of bikes in America, most bikes are from Japan or, there one major brand from Austria, KTM. there are also brands and compony from China, but nothing big, there have brands that replica and copy otheres. I have a ktm 85 2 stroke, which is a race bike, and really pipy. My next bike is going to be Honda 2 stroke 250. There is either 2 stroke or 4 stroke engines they put in bikes. Four strokes are like car motors and they rev up like a straight line on a graph. A two stroke has a powerband, so when it gets to a certain rev it gains alot of power and acclerates alot faster. i like both, but there are people who only ride one type. National event requires most bikes to be 4 stroke because it has better emmisions, but there is still some 2 strokes are aloud to race, but not nearly as many as 4 strokes. Except for drag racing, where there is alot of 2 strokes. I like Ktm and honda the most, but they are all good.Everything from China is cheapely made so it will break, and its usally hard to get parts for them. Freestylers in the x-games ride 2 strokes, because they are light, they have great accerlerations and easy to manuever in the air. for ridings, such as desert racing, they use large displacement 4 strokes because they can rev up really high, and in the desert, its all about going really fast. Also, there is sand riding, which i do alot of, there, i have to use special paddle tire, and low gearing, because sand robs horsepower from a bike, because the tires are always spinning. I like all kinds of differnt riding.