Anecdotal Opening

High School is meant to give us the final push into the real world,  the final lessons taught are important to us students. In our experiences in high school, all we've learned is that the older teachers tend to get off track easily.

Chemistry class should be about the elements and all that scientific, but in Mrs. Nations class we ended up learning how her kids like "nice mommy" more and how much it costs to ride her sons rocket. 

04/25/11

In our opinion, companies should hire whoever they want. Its not the person who reflects the company but the quality of work that comes out of him or her. Companies tend to hire the people that go with their image because in the end companies want to sell their image so you will remember the company.

04/18/11

1. A store with all kinds of clothes, from Fruit of the Loom to Couture . We are the store for everyone. We are the Sam's Club of close!

2. Affordable and  AMAZING! We want people to walk into the store and feel at ease. We want to provide the shopper with an overall shopping experience. THEY WILL REMEMBER OUR STORE! we'll make sure of it!

3. Our staff will consist of experienced advertising consultants, interior designers, greeters, clerks, and maintenance staff.

1.Empirical evidence-concerned with or verifiable facts or information.-


2.Advocate-a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.


3.Mirage-an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions.-


4.Magic Bullet-a medicine or other remedy,an undiscovered or hypothetical one,with wonderful or highly specific properties.


5.Disposition-a persons inherent qualities of mind and character.-


6.Laud-praise(a person or their achievements)highly,in public context.-


7.Ascent-a climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill.-


8.Impede-delay or prevent.-


9.Constrain-severely restrict the scope,extent,or activity.-

The suspect impede the inevitable. The court was presented empirical evidence. The judge constrained his ability to explain himself. They had footage of him as he walked up a hill, and his tired expression after the ascent made things appeared like a mirage. As his friend laud in what he had accomplished. He seemed to think he was after him and stabbed him. His father was present, his disposition same as his son. It was apparent that he came from a family that advocated self defense. They thought bringing this point up was the magic bullet they needed to let his son go.

04/11/11

In Hacsi's article, "Stop Waiting for a Savior," from The New York Times, he argues that experience is not necessary an that we should solve the problem and not wait for someone to do it for us. I agree, the time spent looking for someone can be used to solve the problems in the schools.

04/07/11

Today in class we reviewed many student essays and talked about an important template. The template we learned today was Identify the author, The Text, and the writers opinion. We also did a brief review of There, Their, and They're.

04/05/11

Today in class, we reviewed a student essay written about "The Last Meow" by Burkhard Bilger. In this essay we focused on the templates and if they were properly executed. The templates that we mainly focused on were:
On one hand blah blah blah blah blah, on the other hand blah blah blah blah blah.