go blogging ! :D

Weekly Article Topic:
Discuss why you agree or disagree with the blogging assessment system used in this course. Your opinion will not affect your grade. You will be assessed on how you formulate your argument.

I agree with the blogging assessments because for one , its not something that makes me stressed out as to other assignments that i get on a daily bases. Like math for example , that class takes me forever to finish one problem and i have 10 problems to do usually . then on top of that i have other homework i have to do like English homework. psych reading, and chemistry. and with blogging i don't have to worry about getting it done right away because i have till Friday to complete it. Blogging also i feel is a fun way to learn and write down your answers without feeling annoyed by other people in your class wanting to get the answers from you. Basically when your blogging you have to blog alone its an independent thing , which i like because i can focus more and understand what I'm doing. As to when your in the classroom or just in your room reading pages and having to answer questions you get easily distracted by people and by things. when reading a boring page on history i tend to loose focus and do something else but when your blogging the information you learn about isn't that long to read and they actually get to the point of why what your reading is important.

text books tend to be very boring to read and sometimes there message that they are trying to reveal gets confusing.  Also we are in the 21 century why not blog? why not take advantage of the technology we have now and days. i think that people will tend to do their homework more often if its like blogging because its online and we as students that are teenagers are always online and have access to computers and the Internet no matter where you are. so it would be more convenient to do things such as blogging for us. I remember when it was the first day and you told us we weren't going to have textbooks and majority of our work was going to be on the computer ,i was kind of excited and at the same time scared in a way because i was so used to doing work with a text book rather than computer. but then the first blogging assignment i did i thought it was great because it showed me that learning doesn't have to be boring , it can be interesting for once .

:) six word story was the best!

Which blogging topic was your favorite from first quarter?
my favorite blog was the six word story because i liked how i could be creative with it .

from paper to pen to ---> blogging -_-

Was your learning different when blogging, as compared to writing just pen and paper? Explain.
My learning experience was probably better i would have to say. Because with blogging i dont feel so rushed as i do in class sometimes, and i can actually read my what i type . As to sometimes when im doing my work my penminship tends to be a little sloppy. With paper and pen its boring doing assignment like that , you just write by hand and sometimes not even learn anything. But blogging i feel you in away get to be free and you can always check if you have mispelled words.

This land is your land, this land is my land..

Many of the feelings that i think these immigrants where feeling was a mixture of happiness, confusion , and a feeling of being scared.  In these pictures some of the people are smiling and some aren't ,but a smile can hide many feelings . Maybe these immigrants would smile to show that they where happy to come but at the same time they were scared. After all its a new country that most likely they didn't know anything about. Which made it difficult for many to get around places and find jobs. Majority of the immigrants didn't speak English and nor did they all speak one language. people where coming from everywhere. many of these people had huge families which would be hard to support. most of them were illiterate , never went to school and most likely didn't have an education. so they ended up working in places such as a textile company were they would get paid less than minium wage. they had to work in horriable conditions not only from sunrise to sunset but a little longer. no breaks , they eyes would be swollen and tired. there hands would be aching. they worked so much they even would fall asleep while they where working and dream about there job.

its not linen your wearing out , but human creatures lives

Life for these textile workers words cant even come close to describe. Hell for one is one word that i feel can come close to the conditions they had to live through. These people suffered a lot, they basically had no life , everything was just work. They worked from the early mornings to the cock a doodle doos of the roosters till the late night where the stars will shine the skies. Even while tired , hungry and dirty did they work but also i bet while they where sick. There was never any breaks it was slavery basically all day. no where to go to im sure because they need the money to surive. They worked so hard that they basically waste their life in what they do "o men, with mothers, and wives , it is not linen you're wearing out , but other humans lives". that right there is a powerful qoute i feel that shows how much they did and effort and time they wasted of their lives. These people where exhusted, who wouldnt be ? It wasn't fair under any circumstances for anyone to work like this it was basically slavery. they worked so much they'd dream about sewing buttons in a dream. " Till over the buttons I fall asleep ,and sew them on in a dream."

Rocky raccoon

The way that the Beatles portray the wild west was basically how Hollywood did.  They talk about how this guy named Rocky had his girlfriend taken away from this guy name Dan , and Rocky wanted revenge.  So he went to a saloon already equipped with his gun to have a duel with his rival. He was planning to shoot the legs of his rival, hoping by doing so his ex girlfriend would see how strong he is and take him back. And that's the same thing Hollywood Protrays these cowboys , constantly having duels over a girl or to show how strong they are, they just like to put on shows for people to watch. which isn't what a real cowboy is about they have more to what they do and aren't given a lot of credit for the hard work and challenges they had to face in their everyday life.

Ride 'em Cowboy!

Majority of the time we always hear about Cowboys, rarely do we hear about Cowgirls. Maybe its because on TV they only really show us about the Cowboy because its easier for Hollywood and other Television producers to protrade what a "Cowboy" is. And that's the problem many people do not know what exactly a "cowboy" is , we assume their guys who wear these weird boots , who always carry guns on them and constantly having duels. We don't think of the hard work they do , or struggles they had to make, or if they even had a family to support. We just make the assumption that cowboys just shoot people all day and really don't do much. To start off with many of these Cowboys had to leave their family and friends behind in the East to try to move on and create a better life in the West. In addition to that creating a new family with other cowboys was a part of their job. Majority of their time they would spend it riding around  the ranch , roping the horses and cattle and preparing the meat for dinner. Since they did not have stoves back then as we do now they would cook their meals out of a covered wagon. Other jobs that Cowboys did where at times to help break a horse which was a very difficult thing to do depending on the type of breed especially.   Many of the time Cowboys would put themselves in danger when trying to put a saddle on the horse because the horses could always react and injury someone because of fear or being uncomfortable. Since it was out West where the Cowboys traveled to and lived ,it was a more arid and dry climate they had to work in. Which means the weather that they had over there made it really difficult at times to get their jobs done as to cowboys were always wearing pants and long sleeve shirts. But that's not the worst part, the worst part is the had to travel large distances to get where they wanted to go. As you can see they didn't really have an easy life , where work wasn't a necessary, nothing was handed to them or invented to make their lives more easier.
         Through Hollywood's eyes this is how they protrade a cowboy. They first of all where tough men who ,drank and fought often. You would see many duels take place in movies and TV shows where two rivals would face each other and wait for one to pull the trigger.  They always were well groomed . What kind of cowboy in the 1800s is going was well groomed all the time? The cowboy for some reason that was considered the "hero" always won his dream girl. Hollywood made life as a cowboy seem fun and simple not a lot of work involved . They never showed what an actual cowboy does on an everyday life besides ride horses all day and get into fights. In conclusion , there are many diffrences in what a real cowboy is compared to what a cowboy is in Hollywoods version.