challenging: I think that the most challenging thing was to make the essay look like the forum we would submit it to. I realize this was pretty easy as opposed to the re writes but the rewrites where really linear and boring the asthetics actually took some creative talent.  I took that as a challenge. a challenge to imitate a forum

what do you want liz to notice about:  I would like Liz to see the work I put in to this portfolio. I’m really proud of this.  The whole thing is what I want liz to see

Prince of Persia, and the Sands of Time

Sarah stood on the sidelines, glaring at the Visir who taken everything from her father the King. Gazing around her she took in the surroundings. The giant golden hourglass stood in the center of the courtyard. Many pillars surrounded them. The entire royal court was present for the great feast. She notices the Prince get to his feet and withdrew a sparkling dagger, he slowly turned around and walked down the crimson red carpet toward the gleaming hourglass; closer and closer he got until he stood at the foot of the thing that would most likely destroy the whole kingdom. Realizing the Prince’s intentions Sarah screamed, “No, Stop!”. Her cry was too late. The Prince plunged the dagger Into the Hourglass of Time. Sarah’s thoughts were this, “O-prince, what has thou done?”

for a picture nostalgia essay I would think that I would put that on the this I believe website granted it’s longer than it regular audio essay but this site is a place where normal everyday people go to listen about what other people have to say the the websites topics are very very diverse and I think my essay would fit well there.also another suggestion from Liz would be a high school reunion newsletter. I think that this topic would encourage people to come to their high school reunions due to the content involved in my essay.

Every time I look at this picture, a slight form of depression enters my mind. many of these kids I have not seen in two years. They where all great friends of mine but I have not received a single phone call from any of them. All I can think of is that I have lost contact with everything was most important to me.

In my group of friends 90% of them share the same interests as me. For four years I ran my high school’s anime club. (Japanese animation or Japanese cartoons). Every week my friends and I would gather in a room at our high school, bring in a TV and watch a DVD. Every once in a while we would have a day earlier to bring in video games. This is a picture of one of those days.

My friends and I used to go out behind the school during lunchtime to sit in the field underneath the shade of a tree. Despite the pressures of school, whenever we would sit here I would have no thoughts about my work, my stresses, and of course the kids who irritated me beyond all natural reason. Many fond memories occurred here for this is where we spent most of our time during the day.

There seemed to be a very common trend in my group of friends; and that is a rather perverted sense of humor. Oftentimes many random outbursts included the word “porn!!!”. I’m sure many people have heard of this joke “that’s what she said”. This was also a very common auditory remark produced by two different people. One was my best friend Mary and of course the other was me.

My favorite occurrence of one of these many jokes was this; one of the most skanky girls I knew had been called out of the classroom by some teacher. And seeing as how she was always dying for attention she yelled out to the class, ‘I’ll be back”. In our mutual dislike of this girl my friend and I started making jokes about how the real reason she had been called out of the room was to service some, horny, high paying, high school boy in a broom closet. 10 minutes went by and she finally came back to class and the first thing that she yelled out of her mouth was “oh my god that was the hardest thing I’ve ever done”. My friend and I cracked up laughing. The comedy of this seemed pretty obvious to me and my friend so the words ”that’s what she said” need not be uttered.

For four years I stayed in this group; realizing that they accepted me. This had been the first time since sixth grade that I felt that I finally had a group of friends I actually belonged with. And so I started the Centaurus High School Anime Club. My hopes for this club were to create bonds of friendship that would not be broken. And with its continued existence there would always be a link from me, to the friends I used to have, and to the friends that I greatly miss.

As I am told anime club still continues, supervised by a teacher named Miss Butley, and is run by the girl on the right side with the ponytail named Tina. Every once in a while I head over to my old high school, just to see my friends again. In the hope that I can continue to keep that which was most important to me, and the only thing that got me through high school.

I have seen many people their later years, slow, grouchy, and stuck at home watching the news. It seems looking at these people you can’t even tell that they were once kids. I believe that keeping your youth inside you will not only keep you happy will also let you live longer. Many scientists often times say that stress increases risk for a heart disease. I find myself asking, what would it be like to have nothing in your life except misery and Stress. If you lose what is youthful within do you lose the enjoyment of life? is the will to live colorless? And so I say to myself why grow up if the only thing left is a monotone existence; would I really want to spend my life like this?

To me it seems that many people think that growing up implies that you must “grow up”, I would find this a hopeless situation. When I say keep your youth I don’t imply that we should fall on the floor kicking and screaming because you didn’t get an ice cream cone. I mean the ways you had fun as a child rollerblading, biking, video games, all these happy things. Youth, in my mind, can also be expressed in your conversations.

One of the biggest ways I consider myself youthful in is having the courage to still be funny or humorous in the conversation with those that have seniority over me. I would like to tell every man and woman in the world, “keep your youth, keep the child within you, for you only have one life and one should spend it happily”. Ironically this paper sounds somewhat immature, and don’t get me wrong; “growing up” is part of growing up. But I challenge everyone to keep a small piece of the child inside them as long as they can. In this, I believe.

“Caffeine Kills” I have heard several people say this and in certain cases caffeine has killed, you may have heard of a somewhat notorious drink called “Spike”.  The drink has been in the news multiple times in the last few months saying many kids ended up in the hospital because of drinking.  This energy drink has the highest amount of caffeine in a beverage.  But I’m not here to talk about this.  I am here to talk about what has happened in our schools involving caffeine and how taking it away may not really be all that beneficial to the students.

As I have recently learned caffeine may not actually be a bad habit for people to adopt.  In the past I was always convinced the caffeine was bad for you bad for your health bad for your heart bad for your mental status.  Into point I still believe that today some studies have shown the massive amounts of caffeine can end up harming your heart and there’s always that inevitable crash after taking an energy drink and guzzling it down your throat.  But someone just told me a few days ago that caffeine acts as a stimulant also and not only does this help people stay awake or wake them up in the first place but it can actually help some people focus in their everyday working life.

I bet the majority of the population of America has heard of Attention Deficit Disorder.  And one of the ways to help the people who have ADD focus, involves adding a stimulant medication to their routine the most common stimulant used his Ritalin.  But like most drugs Ritalin may not work for certain people like myself. I was actually just started on Ritalin about a month ago however in the last three weeks I have lost 6 1/2 pounds and for some reason my emotions and anger seemed to be amplified is not a good thing to tell you the truth.

I was told that coffee and caffeine is a form of self medication even though some people don’t really realize it did help some keep their focus at their jobs the most common use for it is to help people wake up in the morning for their jobs or school.

I recently returned to my high school for a visit and was informed that every vending machine that sold soda had been replaced with fruit juice which cost twice as much.  And the coffee that was sold had been discontinued in the last year that I was gone.  And I understand the need to give kids more healthy drinks and I agreed with that logic, and still do agree with that logic.  I believe that food should be healthy for students also but if this is the case then why don’t they improve the hot lunch menu I am sure many high school students will end up with cancer due to the staggering amount of nastiness that they served and hot lunches.

I see a very large benefit to having caffeine in schools, I am 100% positive that there are students who are half asleep when they arrive at school.  How the hell are they supposed to focus in class at 7:30 in the morning when they just got out of bed at half an hour earlier.  Can you imagine how difficult it must be to focus in algebra being forced to absorb trigonometry procedures.  How the hell are kids supposed to learn when they can’t remember anything because their brain is still trying to catch up with the current situation.

Many people say they are addicted to caffeine I always thought that this was sort of a stupid excuse for somebody.

And what about those kids with ADD.  Those kids who can’t take Ritalin or those kids who don’t even know that they have ADD how are they going to survive in school?  You take away the caffeine, you take away productive than us this is ultimately the bottom line.  Now if you’re asking me if caffeine kills; then I would agree.  I would agree that caffeine kills the good student or the good worker in every corner, of every school, and of every office building.  Yes, caffeine kills.

I beleve that the hardest thing to accomplish this semester was the portfolio #1. I ended up having to finish it in three days. My revisions were tough too. These advanced revision work sheets are Kinda a pain in the ass. I really hope that We dont have a “super Advanced work sheet” I may end up crying in a corner in a fetal position… much agony…

What has been the most challenging Aspect of portfolio 2

so far the most challenging aspect of portfolio two has been choosing a topic from ice argumentative/persuasive essay.  I finally decided on the topic of caffeine in high schools.  Although I do have to admit I truly hate the advanced revision worksheet that was up to me I’d be perfectly happy with the original advanced reversion worksheet.

What do you want liz to notice and recognize when she reads my porfolio.

I suppose I’m particularly proud of my audio essay.  To point I really enjoyed it except for the writing process.  Recording process was a little bit of a pain in the ass in the end I believe it was worth it.I was also particularly proud of the topic that I’ve chosen not exactly sure why.

most of the responses I give I try to make them constructive criticism or helpful comments or positive reinforcement under certain sentences.  I try my hardest to have positive comments.  But I guess that could be considered a weakness in the fact that none of my comments except for one were negative responses. I suppose in the future I can try to actually have some actual constructive criticism in my comments.  Only once have I actually commented on an essay “I like this essay” or” I can really feel what it’s like to be like _____”

- 2.Resonses youve gotten

my responses are split about 50-50 several of them don’t feel as helpful as others but some of them actually do and have helped me in writing essays in the past two months or so.

3.What can you do to improve the responses youve given

again I think I can make some more slightly negative comments for constructive criticism I know this is what I personally would want in comments but I’m not sure about other people.  Granted negative comments kind of don’t make you feel is good but I believe that they are more helpful.

4.what can you do to improve the response youve gotten

I could ask this person to be slightly more specific or even ask them to give me a suggestion on an improvement.

Reading out loud has never been my strong point.  Reading in front of my family is just as Hard.  I also have a semi-crippling stage fright.  And I am extremely shy around people I’ve just met.  Combine all these things; this is the average feeling I would expect from reading aloud.  However, it was not nearly as bad as all of those things said.  I’m still nervous and I stumble over my words several times.  Once they finished I could barely look anybody in the eye without feeling uncomfortable.  However once these people told me their comments and suggestions and felt better about my writing.