Your Internship

Your Internship

Please answer all of the following before 11:59:59 pm on 1/6/09. You should write a brief paragraph for each answer (this entry does not require a link to a news story).

1. What do you hope to learn or discover about the "adult" world of work while you are at your internship?

What do you hope to learn or discover about the "adult" world of work while you are at your internship? I will like to discover how internship going to help me for the future and to help me what I want to do in the future. I will like to learn about the job I will like to do or this job I don’t want to do.

2. What do you hope to learn or discover about yourself and your identity while you are at your internship this semester? I will like to learn new thing in the adult world and to use them in the future.

3. What goals do you have for yourself for your internship experience?
My goals are to do good internship and work hard on just try to do my best at it and to discover new thing in the way

The project I'm proud

The projects I'm proud of are Blog 10 and the H2O Project. For Blog 10, I wrote about modern slavery. I went through several steps to complete it. First, I made a question. My research question started out as: Does slavery still exist today? Then, I researched the question on the internet and found some good information on my topic. I put all the information I found together to make daft. Then, I got my daft critiqued by classmates and tutors and ask for feedback. My favorite part is researching the answers to the questions that I have. I like this project because I was able choose the topic I wanted. I learned a lot. I didn't know slavery still existed in the U.S.A. or that they are brought to work for no money and if they are not working well they get beat up by the people that control them.

H2O Project
I am also proud of the H2O project because I worked very work hard on it. I feel that this is the best work I have ever done in Humanities class. During this project I learned how people are harming the ocean. I learned that when I am really interested in a topic I learn better and am more motivated. I also liked that this project was connected to what we were learning in biology. I really enjoyed going out, collecting and reading water samples. I never knew how unhealthy the ocean water was.
For this project, I went through the same steps to complete it as I did with Blog 10. I started with a research question (How and why has the water quality changed in the past 100 years?). I chose this question because I am really interested in history and how people effect the environment. I also researched using the internet. One thing that was different is that I interviewed two people as part of my research. I learned that when interviewing I must come prepared with equipment (tape recorder) and questions!

essay photo example

http://www.hightechhigh.org/unboxed/issue1/diving_in_beliz/

1. What is the photo essay about?
This photo essay is about randy take couple of student to the Belize to do a underwater photography.
2. What is the authors message?
His message is tell how he and his student went to the Belize to learn about the underwater diving and fishs and trying something new in there life.

3. How do the pictures support the message?
Each picture was take by different students so they can learn about different fishes and under the picture he put the name of the person who take the picture and a quote.


4. How will you use this essay to guide your own work?
Well I like how he put a picture and put a quotes and tells who took the picture.

H20 Project Plan

Hey randy here is my plan for the Project just click Link

H2O Project

Question: How and why has the water quality changed at Pacific Beach Point over past 100 years?

1. What do I predict the answer of your question will be?

I think the water quality has changed over 100 year because the human activities of like buildings, streets, trash and sewage. People leave trash on the street or and in their yards and when it rains the water takes all the trash in to ocean. Storm drains also take car oil from the street and asphalt to the ocean.

2. How will I answer the question?

To answer my research question, I would research the past and now to find out what caused the water to change and if human activities have anything to do with it.

Here are sound resources I found:

Preventing Storm water Pollution: http://www.cacoastkeeper.org/stormwater-pollution.php.

History of PB. This website has some old pictures of PB and talks about the history: http://www.pacificbeach.org/history/index.htm

Beach pollution on the rise. This is a Union Tribune article from 2005. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050526/news_7m26beach.html

Photographers

Macro photography

I like this picture because how the picture was taken at eye-level. Also good example of shallow depth of field because the background is blurry and foreground is clearly.




Deliberate Use of Depth of Field



This picture has along depth of field and you can see the front and background clearly.

Slavery that still exists in the U.S.A

Did you know slavery that still exists in the U.S.A? Take a look at this video that I found at FreeTheSlaves.net. Modern slaves in the USA are being treated unfairly and their rights are being taken away by slaveholders who don’t care about them.





Even though slavery was made illegal by 13th Amendment, every year 50,000 people are brought to the USA and are forced to work without pay. According to one study, they come from “38 different countries, with China, Mexico and Vietnam topping the list.” Once they are here they are forced into housework, childcare, farming, or sex slavery. If they don’t do what they are told to do, the slaves get beaten.

Because slavery is illegal, people keep their slaves hidden from the public. When slaves are found by the police, they are often mistaken for illegal immigrants and deported. So many slaveholders go unpunished (UC Berkeley Press Release, 2004).

Organizations like FreetheSlaves.net are spreading the word that slavery is still going on. On their website they tell stories about people like Rose and Christie (shown on the right) who were tricked in to slavery. The website also suggests things we can do to help free the slaves. For example, you can donate money, or volunteer.



In the 1800s Angelina Grimke was a white abolitionist who spoke out against slavery. She said: “I witnessed for many years its demoralizing influences and its destructiveness to human happiness. It is admitted by some that the slave is not happy under the worst forms of slavery. But I have never seen a happy slave.” Her words as still true today. Without freedom, people cannot be happy. Without choices and school people cannot be happy. In slavery, you have no choices to make your life better. People want to go to school, help their family, and help themselves get a better life. In slavery, you have no choices to make your life better.