Is Rosa parks a hero or a zero. To most she maybe a hero for standing up against racism on the 1955 December 1. When she didn’t give up her seat to a white male when the bus driver asked her to. After she had said no she was arrested. Four days later she was convicted of disorderly conduct. I have a saying that Rosa Parks said the day of her arrest.

All I was doing was trying to get home from work. I got this saying from the CNN news site.

This is the picture of when she was sitting on the bus before she was arrested. The main reason I chose Rosa Parks as my hero is because she showed her rights to the man and to the world. here is a link to a site about Rosa Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

When Rosa Parks was arrested that is when the Montgomery Bus Boycott started.  Here is a link to a site on them.

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm

Five examples of her heroism is when she had shown her right by not standing up on the bus. She started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She also ended segregation. She stood up for human rights. She had the courage to stand up to police officers. These are my five reasons that Rosa Parks is a hero.

Racism is one of the major causes suicides in the world. Over 62 million people have died in the past 100 years from racism. 62 million is to large of a number for deaths we need to stop racism because it is what caused the Holocaust. That is crazy because the Holocaust was a world changing event. Another thing is the Holocaust was a racial event and it alone has killed 11 million people and when it happened a nation tried to wipe out a whole entire race. Racism is a serious crime so don’t become a criminal. Some of the effects are Self hate, Self loathing, Self harm issues, Suicide, Depression,Eating disorders, Fear of going to school/public places (agoraphobia), Bullying, Knife and gun crime and Panic attacks.

Here is a link to site a movie that is all about modern day slavery which is the drug war.

Another form of racism is enslavement where they would take men, women and even children and turn them into slaves. What I’m about to show you is some forms of torture that they did because they thought that the people they enslaved were only for slave work and were worth nothing. branding, whipping, chaining, mutilation, etc. Some were even made a public spectacle. Some slaves were made to endure what is called the “cold water treatment”, where a slave stands under a water pump and is drenched.

My solutions to racism is to help people understand what what people are good at and how that can help them get along better. Another solution would be to make more schools that all races can go to for their education.

This is my one wish because I have had experience and it is not very good feeling that comes out of racism and because many people die from racism so lets all stop racism.
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Hey its me again In this post I’m going to talk about friendship and During the book him and Johnny have many bonding adventures and they end up know more about themselves than they ever did before which to me is very important. The reason that having friends is so important is because they teach you things that you never could have learned on your own. Here is a link to a site on the importance of friendship. http://www.girl.com.au/importantfriends.htm.  Another reason I think friends are so important is also shown in the page I gave you. Friends are your shoulder to cry on and they care for you if they are a true friend. I know when I have a true friend because I will say some thing that is important to me and they will give an honest opinion. You will know when it is an honest opinion because it will either be helpful or they will say what they think about the thought. Here is another site on how you know when you have a true friend. http://www.wikihow.com/Decide-if-Your-Friend-is-a-True-Friend.

This time I’m going to talk about the socs. The socs where  gang of rich kids from the west side of town who thought that they were top of the line people and that greasers were bottom of the line. Most of the socs threw beer bashes for fun some drove around town looking for trouble.  One of the times they beat up a greaser they beat up Johnny he’s pony’s best friend. He was beaten up by Bob (Robert cherry’s boyfriend). When they had found Johnny he was lying in a vacant field and his face was as purple as heck because of the bruises.  When they had managed to fix and clean him up they finally got the answer of who had beaten him up and it was Bob. Then closer to the middle Johnny and Pony meet up with Bob and the reason Johnny knows it is Bob is because of his rings he had told the rest of the gang that the guy who b eat him up wore lots of rings. Here is a link to a site with most of the characters http://www.answers.com/topic/the-outsiders-novel-3 . Here is a video on the characters to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0NHCGm_PaI. This another link to a site on the socs. http://theoutsiderstory.pbworks.com/The-Socs. I think that Bob got what he deserved I mean like he tried to drown the main character when apart of the gang was their I don’t think that he would just let him drown his friend he would try to save him and I mean he did have a switch blade and he had the opportunity to kill him so why not take the chance. When I think of the word socs I think of really stuck up kids who are spoiled beyond they wildest dreams and they take advantage of that by getting knives and cars but also getting every thing you want has some down sides because what do you do when your out of things to do you get more things and then before you know it your parents finally say NO and it is kind of like um what did you say. What exactly does that word mean I have never heard it in my life and all of the sudden their life falls apart because they didn’t get what they wanted. But that is just my opinion. Thats all for now tune in next time for why do the greasers and the socs hate each other so much !!!!!!!.

So far in the book the outsiders we have met greasers and socs a gang of rich kids. But thats not what i’m going to talk about i’m going to talk about greasers and what they are.  The Greasers are the east side, middle- and lower-class poor kids. They wore leather jackets and jeans. They slicked their hair back to make it greasy and darker. They smoked weeds or cigarets and usually tried to stay out of fights. this is a picture of greasers

Greasers are a working class youth subculture that originated in the 1950s among young eastern and Southern United States street gangs, and then became popular among other types of people. In the 1950s and early 1960s, these youths were known as hoods. Their name came from their greased back hair, which involved combing back hair with wax, gel, creams, tonics or pomade. Other popular greases used were olive oil or petroleum jelly. Some greasers worked at gas stations or shops that repaired cars or motorcycles. The greaser style was imitated by many youths not associated with gangs, as an expression of rebellion. The term greaser reappeared in later times as a popular culture. Clothing items typically worn by greasers have included: Sir Guy shirts, white or black T-shirts often with the sleeves rolled up white A-shirts as outerwear ringer T-shirts, Italian knit shirts Daddy-O-style shirts; black, blue or khaki work jackets, black or brown trenchcoats, Levi denim jackets; leather jackets gray or black waist-length Cabretta leather jackets quilted work jackets blue or black Levi jeans with rolled-up cuffs anywhere from one to four inches and baggy cotton twill work trousers which were called baggie grays, baggie blues or sandbags. Here is some cars they drive. Thunderbird sometimes they take the bus, and usually they walk.  But most of them drove mustangs and souped up old cars.

On my first eight days of school I had homework every day and I had homework club.  We have a new kid. His name is Timothy he has a little brother named Adam they are the only kids in their family. We had an artist in our school this week he taught every body from grade 7 to 12 and we only had a week to learn our moves. Me and 3 other boys from my class when for the advanced class it started out as us four and the grew in to nine kids we only had three days to learn our stuff it was fun because on friday we had a concert for the school and parents. Everybody did great especially the advanced if I do say so my self.

The artist also had a band and could act in fact he stared in a Warner Bros. movie. He was cool but yet strict enough to keep 28 kids in line. Now that would be hard but it was worth it because everybody loved the show. My parents came and watched and so did my two sisters one of my sisters was performing herself. My dad was joking about my dancing and how he could do better but I don’t think so you have to be really fit not that my dad’s fat but he couldn’t handle the moves because I could barelly handle the moves.

Hello I haven’t written since March I’m now 13 years old and I still live in Snow lake Mb. I now have a bigger class than last year we have 28 kids that’s a lot of  kids in one class room. I’m now in grade 8 and I have the same teacher but I sit beside a new kid his name is Ben also. He is the brother of Hien he sat beside me last year and he moved up to grade 9 and I now sit beside Ben. Ben moved here from South Africa with his family. I don’t quite know why they moved to such a small town but they did. My best friends Aaron and Ben are in my class so we can talk a lot but we also made a homework club only the three of us have gone. We have met four times now since half way through september. Thatis all for now bye.

Smart set is a class project that we are doing and I chose to do Zurich switzerland and I find it fasinating. The reason i’m doing Zureich is because I wanted to find a different place from every body else in a different countrie. In Zurich they have lots of festivities and fairs and here is the spring festival.

The reason I chose this picture is because it really shows how they look in Zürich when they are having festivities. Another reason I chose Zurich is because it had to be not a town or city in North America so I thought to myself maybe there is a place in Jamacia. Then I looked it up and I saw that the biggest city wasn’t that big after all. So then I thought haw about Switzerland and that is how I found  it. The city of Zurich so beutiful it maybe cool on some days but is is just an amazing place to live.

In chapters 9-12 the flow in info is enormous. There is so much foreshadowing and that is what makes the book interesting. I wish I had some pics to show you but  I couldn’t find any on flickr.com. I really thought that the Wave book would have a picture on Flickr but I guess not. I even tried to find TheWave.com but it didn’t show anything about the book.But overall the end it is a really good book. So read it if you can I would mind you I all ready have.

The wave is a book about a history class experiment that went terribly wrong. The wave has a very big grasp on you once you start reading and you just can’t stop reading it. The wave has a certain  way of keeping its characters hidden so you have to find out what will happen next. The wave  has a certain way of getting your attention and keeping it while other books have a lot of ways to keep attention but the wave has a way of  keeping you occupied. The history classes experiment was about Hitler’s Germany and the Nazis and also about the concentration camps that killed thousands of Jews.

The history teacher was caught by a students question and had to figure out what the answer was. Then he made a group called the wave. The group was like a little youth group of teens that came to find out the answer to the question. That is when it got out of hand the wave was taking over the school.