In One Ear and Out the Other...

Over this semester coarse, Mr. Fielder has taught me many great things that I will actually use in life, unlike some of my other classes.


The first two to my list of five things is the movies we watched and my reactions to them.


1-Rabbit Proof Fence
When I was sitting, watching children being taken away from their families for just what color their skin is was a terrible thing to watch. But watching the little girls escape and find their way back, It was moving and inspiring, it makes me want to do something amazing just like them, and they were years younger than me when they ran away. It’s amazing how they survived out in the desert for how long they did.


2-The Power of One
In my opinion, The Power of One was much better then Rabbit Proof Fence because it was actually a story that was real, but very interesting at the same time. He was around the same age as us, and all of these things kept on happening to him because he was English during the WWII time period and no one at his school wanted anything to do with him. But then later in life he developed a loving care for the ones who were treated without respect at all just because they were African, and he wanted to go next to all odds, to break the law, and teach them what they should have a right to know.


The third thing on my list is going to be the wonderful time I had practicing margin noting.


3-Articles
From beginning to end, every week Matt Fielder found his way around to find our freshman class the most confusing articles to read and attempt to understand. He gave us articles on Iran, Iraq, China, Obama, and many more, and each time he gave us a new one, it was more and more challenging each time. But I guess you could credit that as a good thing, because now whenever I read something online or in the newspaper, I always ask myself questions about it or seem to be making comments that only Mr. Fielder students would understand.


Second to last, all those (not so) short stories we had.


4-Dirk the Protector
There are always those stories about the kids and the bullies and how the victims faced their fears or something like that, and we always seem to swoon and pity an “awh” for the happy ending. But this story was different, it was about a kid who wasn’t a nerd or geek, a normal kid with a buggy big boy who had nothing better to do with his life, but they way he faced his problem was he found a body guard…….well actually……..the body guard found him, a mean street dog. It was a facinating story. Had me thinking a lot, and I enjoyed it.....a lot.



Last thing, Paragraph responces.

5-Ethos and Pathos

I seemed to use pathos more, the emotional one, because I like to make up stories a lot, so I do it well. But I can also get everyones trust very fast also.

Where would I be?

When comparing the United States, Australia, Rwanda, and South Africa I would want to live in the United States.
If I was in America as a native during all of this, then I would just be forced out of my country and my life wouldn’t be in danger. Like for example, in Rwanda people were killing each other. In Australia people that lived got brutally forced off their lands. In South Africa depending on what color you were you were killed or moved. And mostly the people doing all of these terrible things in these different countries around the world were the Europeans.
Also I would want to be in America just in case I wasn’t forced off my land, I would have so much more freedom than any other country that I listed above. I would be able to have a say in government if I wanted to, even if I didn’t, it was still there for my taking as an option. And I have all my options of the kinds of rights; freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, freedom of the press, ect. You get where I’m going with this don’t you? All the laws in America that are only in America because it’s a free country, and it’s the country that everyone who lives in it loves.

Most of my information I recived from my dear friend Dan.