Star wars

Luke found himself in this series through many things. He realized that he can not defeat his family members and that they are in his life for a reason. Luke became the jeti that he was born to be without anyone making him. He took his destany in his hands and did something very well with it.


Anakin found himself through his heros journey by acknowledging that he is not evil. In the end, when he was fighting with his son, he switched from evil to good. Everybody thought that this was impossible but Luke knew his dad would not let him die. Anakin knew that his son would never go to the darkside and that made him realize he didn't want to be there either.

Community Service

Community Service as defined is an act done by an individual to benefit the local community. Some people do this by volunteering and others are forced into in because they have someone who is related to them running it. No matter how they get involved, these acts are so helpful. There are so many events that our community puts on for the locals, which need people to donate there time to help run. Such events around Cottonwood are Old Fashion Days and Shasta Section Opening and Closing Contest. There are also little things like asking for Christmas tree donations for needy families that can be used as community service.

One of the things that I did for my twenty hours was help Alexis Hermann's mom with Old Fashion Days. Her mom going through chemo needed a lot of helpers. Old Fashion Days is held the weekend after Thanksgiving on Front Street in Cottonwood. At this particular event, Santa comes and talks to all the little children. I was mainly in charge of making sure the little kids didn't crowd around him. Also I had to make sure that the kids stayed in a line and didn't cut other children. We all know how long the lines to see Santa are. After Santa made his rounds with the children, I went around to the vendors who were out in the sun all day to make sure they had enough water. If they didn't I would go get them some, which was normally the case. Old Fashion Days ended up being an event to remember.

The other things that happened this year that I ended up helping at was the Shasta Section Opening and Closing Contest for FFA. This is were a bunch of schools come from around the northern section of our FFA. They come and compete in the Opening and Closing contest. But to be able to hold this contest, we have to set up the room where they are going to compete in and also a big holding room. In the rooms with the judges we had to make sure there were name tags and places for the other teams to sit and watch. I also had to make sure the judges had enough water and food to keep them comfortable. I also took the teams to the rooms that hey needed to compete in. Not only that but I had to serve pizza and drinks to all of the people that attended. This event took me a very long time to accomplish, however I enjoyed being around everyone.

Another thing that I have done with FFA was going and getting Christmas trees with Jacob to decorate at the December FFA meeting. For this we went around Cottonwood, Anderson, and Redding to see if different tree lots would donate trees for us to decorate and give to needy families. Most of the lots were very helpful and gave us trees, however we understood because of the terrible economy. This took me a lot of time because we had to travel to the different lots and some closed before we could get there so we had to go on a different day.

Doing these kind acts, I learned that people appreciate the work that others do. In today's society people are lazy, so they like it when they don't have to do anything. I learned that I am very responsible and people tend to put jobs on me even if I am over loaded. I have been able to multi task way better and listen to more than one person at a time. It is a very good skill that I learned while doing my community service.

Pakistan Schooling

The schools in pakistan are not really educational anyways. They need to make a school based directly on the educational purposes, not just teaching to koran. When the united states is giving pakistan money to help them out, they need to put it to good use instead of just throwing it away. It would be a good idea for them to invest there money in the litteracy in there countrymen and women. The women need to know how to read and write too, its not right to just let the men have that privelege.

Online publishing

This tragic story of Nikki is a prime example of the online explicity. Her story is only known to those who have read the article or those who like grusome things. I dont think that her pictures should be allowed to be published every where online. But how are you gonna fix it. It is so hard to figure out who is on a computer especially if it is a public computer. But i do think that they should try and those police officers should have been in more troble then they got into.
If it was my family member I would be really mad. Especially since at the sight they didn't want the family members to see yet it goes public within that week. I would have taken the same action that her family did. People need to know that even though they are on the web they need to be cautious of what they are putting out there for everyone to see.
I think our internet should be filtered a little bit. These photos could scare almost anyone. I don't know how they could filter them but we should. This is not a good image for anyone to be seeing.

Earth Day

I think that the writer is somewhat correct. I don't think that people being eco friendly is going to have a big effect on the earth if they are only concious about it for one day. People are not even remembering about it. I think that we do not acknowldge the day until someone says something to them. The only people who normally remember that it is earth day are the enviromentalist. But i think we should still have the day, just like we have mothers day. To recognize the beauty's of the earth.
I did know that today was Earth Day, only because i looked at a calander this morning. I think that it is completely under played. Its not going to effect the earth if everyone only cares for one day. It needs to be a continuous cycle of people caring.
Today we actually do nothing to protect the earth.

Things not to learn in school

Out of the eight things to not learn in high school, I have learned none. I am one of the select few who has not been taking my education lightly. I understand that to reach my goals, I have to accomplish something in high school. It doesn't matter to me what my peers are thinking about how they are barely gonna get by. Most of the time, I like to do things to the best of my ability. The only time that I do not do the best thing for me is when I completely forget about something thats due, or every once and awhile I dont do certain assignments. I think it could be the fact that I was enrolled in a lot of the college prep classes which taught all of the students that we can not just sit by passively through our free education. My parents have also always taught me that I have to be an above average student to not get in trouble at home. Those are the things that have taught me not to just sit by and let my high school years pass by!

Economic Problems

This hard economic time has brought families closer or tear them apart. The recession that we are currently in is making families think about what they spend on a daily basis. They are making budgets and sticking to them. People are trying desperately to stay above the water in the debt they have to repay while also trying to feed their families. All america wants is a break.
My family is dealing with the economy like any other family. My parents are trying to buy a house and because the economy is so low, they are getting better deals on them and have a lower payment on the loan they will need. Along with that, they are sticking to a budget with all the entertainment things they do and staying in a lot more. Which isn't a problem for them, they like to be home.
I haven't stopt doing anything really. The only thing is i do not spend a lot of money are other people like i used to. They don't like it but its what has to be done in order for me to get through. I used to pay for people when i took them any where but now i have to draw the line.