Computer Tech

All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes it's just glitter....

This is the picture that I found for my Computer Tech class. I embedded it.

Random Pics From The Past

Aren't I so cute?

Daniel!!

On the Tramp!

Richard and Mindy!

Daniel likes cake. And frosting!!

Wow our hair is long in that picture!!

Presents!!

CAKE!!

Daniel is flying away!!

Scout awards! Good job Daniel!

Halloween costumes!

My cousin and I.

Piano duets!

YAY!! Flute!

The Christmas story. I was Mary.

Ring around the Rosies...

I love coloring!!

And she is still the shortest....

He's choking me!!

I made these pillows! With my grandma's help, of course!

They are so cute!!

At the school my grandma worked at!

And he is still there to this day...

I WUV my baby brother!!

Playing the piano is fun!

My baptism dress!! My aunt made it!

COOKIES!!

;-*

At the Zoo!!

I'm a turtle!!

My Halloween costume!!

We just figured out Blues Clues, because we're really smart!

Our costumes won us a free Harry Potter 7 book!!

Harry Potter, Hermione, Moaning Myrtle.

Hermione!

A toilet seat?!??

Expelliarmus!!!!

To Kill A Mockingbird 4

This is my last post for To Kill A Mockingbird. This post is about Tom's trial. The pressure in the jury is because Tom is black. In the time that To Kill a Mockingbird is set in there is still discrimination against black people by the whites. All of the people decided Tom was guilty because he was black. I think that even if the jury had a silent vote the outcome would have been the same because Tom was black. If Tom hadn't had been black then the jurors wouldn't have given in to peer pressure or group bias for the fear of being ostracized because of their beliefs. “Judge Taylor was polling the jury: 'Guilty... guilty... guilty...guilty...'” The children knew that Tom wasn't guilty because of the nature of the people that accused him and the evidence. “It was Jem's turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. 'It ain't right,' he muttered.”

I watched a video about conformity and have found that people tend to go with the crowd, even when they know perfectly well that the crowd is wrong. In the first part of the video there are six people being tested, but only one of them is an actual test subject. The other five have been told to answer incorrectly on some of the questions. When the other people answered incorrectly the test subject also answered incorrectly. First, because he was worried about what the other people would think of him, and secondly, because there were five of them and one of him.

OHSU Field Trip!!!

My school went on a field trip to the Capitol!! It was so fun!! Here's a video that I took when we were there.

To Kill A Mockingbird 3

Mayella has a lot of outside factors influencing her to the point where she actually lies about being raped. Abuse from her father, loneliness, the need to be wanted, the need for some attention--any attention. This collage is Mayella. It is how she came to find herself in the situation that she did. Lies. Fear. These lead to her day in the courtroom, to being in over her head. I hope that the sadness of her situation comes across in this collage. The black and white is meant to represent her culture and society--that racism is so strong that she can say what she does and get away with it. And the reason why the attention poster isn't in black and white is because it shows how desperate she needs to have someone notice her, notice that she is someone. Tragic.

To Kill A Mockingbird 2

In my other assignments for class I've discovered something about my favorite character. Well, actually I've discovered that even though she isn't my favorite character she is probably one of the characters I most admire and think I could learn a lot from. You always hear about the crotchety old lady next door. I don't think I've ever understood that because it isn't in my experience. Both of my grandmas are pretty active and they don't seem to be like Mrs. Dubose at all. I had a great-grandmother, but she was very kind and sweet. But I've learned the most from Mrs. Dubose, not only in the areas of courage, but also in the area of 'do not judge other people'. We never know what people are going through. We don't know them. As Scout and Jem find out there is a lot more to that old mean lady than meets the eye. There is always more to a person than meets the eye. One of the reasons this book is so amazing is because that lesson is taught from so many different angles. From Atticus who says, 'walk in someone's shoes to understand them' to the old lady who has an addiction that creates her as a person and ending that addiction. This is something that defines a great book. The quality of allowing ourselves to experience something we can't and then letting us learn from it.