Things i am proud of

Things I am proud of.
I am very proud of my H2O project. My group and I made a tide calendar, i am very proud of it because we are the ones who took the pictures, wrote the paragraphs and put the whole thing together. we had some troubles and missed some deadlines but in the end, the product is amazing and it is 100% sell worthy.
the first step was to decide what my product was to be, several people were making a calendar and i joined, little did i know it would be more work than i bargained for. then i had to chose a topic to write on, after i chose this i wrote 6 paragraphs. these paragraphs went though at least 7 drafts, but in the end they were not positive enough so i had to re write some of them, but it was fine in the end. some days we had to stay after school so that we could finish the layout and we ran into plenty of little bumps and tedious work. But we finished it and now it looks spectacular.

Another product I am very proud of is my “American icons” project. I am proud of this project because I drew the guitar and I learned about Les Paul the man, I did not really know anything about him and when I did this project I learned about him.
First I chose someone I was interested in. I chose Les Paul, and then I looked for a picture that showed something about him but the picture was too small. I ended up drawing an image and scanning it. And it looked really cool and I am proud of it.

The article "the sea Shepard" is about a man named (Paul Watson), an activist for the Wales, who takes a custom ship with a large I beam on the side so scrape ships hulls. Then he then rams into wailing ships in international waters. These wailers are acting against an act that states that nobody will hunt for Wales. Many wailing countries such as Japan and Norway have largely ignored this act, but Watson uses this as the basis to what he does.
In my opinion what Watson does is wrong. He attacks these vessels with innocent people on them; he does not care if any lives are lost. I do agree that someone should protect the whales because they are endangered and need help. But I think that the way that he goes about it is wrong.
The government should make it so that the act is more enforced, they should make more solid agreements with the wailing countries and use ships that are dedicated to holding up these laws peacefully, not by ramming ships and throwing gas over to the other ship or throwing things in the propeller so it will stop.
So I think both the wailers and Watson are in the wrong. There should also be a limit to how many whales can be killed each year.

Marie Arana article

Arana writes: "Isn't it time for the language to move on?" How do you feel about this? Why?

I think that it is time that we move on from the language. Does Race, ethnicity, background or color ever give us any authority to judge people and essentially call them names? No, but we seem to think so. Language has always put people in boxes, and more specifically names such as black, Asian, etc.

In India, there was a group of people called the Dalits. These people, just because they were born into a family with a certain label or name such as these Dalits, or "untouchables" are treated like dirt, as the name implies. What does this have to do with us here in America? It is so extreme, but what we don’t realize is that we do the same thing, it may not be as common, or obvious. When we label people, we do the same thing, we may treat that person different depending if they are “black”, “Mexican” or “white”. It is not always in a bad way, but we usually do it whether we realize it or not.

On the other side of the argument, some people take pride in the names. many people from Mexican descent, African American, etc. take pride in calling themselves "Black" or "Mexican", or any other title that people may have. But, in my opinion, it also depends on the name that is being used. Some names can be degrading, while others are a symbol of national or personal pride. These names don’t always have to be related to race, ethnicity, or color, but often they do.

I think that if we would just put those physical differences aside, whether it be “black”, “Mexican” or whatever you consider yourself, we are all humans. And under all our physical differences we are all the same.