JOURNAL #15

   I think that if I go to a college the most valuable contribution I could make is to have a positive black female presence on its campus. I would start a club recognizing  and enhancing what it means to be a black women living in America. With this club I would begin to reach out to less fortunate communities and allow young black females to realize they could be whatever they want to be. If I was able to make this a sucessful club then more black women would begin to enroll into college. This would not only be a mojor attribute to just that school campus but to college campuses everywhere. A larger percent of the school's student population would be black young women.

JOURNAL #16

   Growing up my mom has always tought me to be a proud African American young women. I remember when I was younger I onced asked my mom why I got treated different when i was just like everyone else. She told me that I wasn't the same as every one else that I came from special ancestors that over came a lot. At the time I didn't understand what she ment by that, but as time pasted I began to figure out what she had really ment. She ment that throughout life i would face many obstacles based on the color of my skin. However at the time I remember I felt uter confusion. 
   I remember when i was 12 i got called a "NIGGER" for the first time. i was devastated and didn't understand why someone would call me that. I went home and I cried to my mom and told her about everything. I wondered how anyone could belittle someone using that word. MY mom explained to me again that many people were going to treat me different based on the color of my skin but it was my job not to give them a reason to. From that day on I became proud of me and my culture. I have sinced embraced who i am and will never let anyone use that word to hurt me again. This has impacted me because I was able to turn such a negative experience into something that now shapes who I am till this day. This shows me that i can over come anything.

JOURNAL #17

     Global warming has had a major impact not only on me but on everyone everywhere and it seems as if it is not getting better. Many animals are starting to disappear due to the fact that their habitats are unable to survive the unstable weather paterens. For example polar bears are begining to go exstincted beause global warming is changing their habitat and they have no place to go. Much of the ice that makes up their habitat is starting to melt and many can't survive like that.
  We can fix this problem using feuls without any carbon footprint, such as biodiesel. In a group we started at our school we are learning how to make an alternative feul that can help fix the hole in the o-zone layer. Another way we can help save the planet is by turning all industry green. By making these big corperations green then that will allow us to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere by a signifigant number. If we were to try to end global warming we would have to do this as a globe. No one person, state, country, or continentcan do it alone. We have to come together and end it because it affects us as a planet. 

JOURNAL #18

    If I could change any two things about our school campus it would be who is allowed on it and the amount of littering we have. I would change these things in order to improve our school's enviornment and representation. I would limit the amount of people on campus for safety for the kids and to keep negative influence off the campus. At our school you just have to sign in then you are able to walk on the campus. This makes me uncomfortable be cause it allows virtually anybody to get on the campus.I would like to make it so that only a selscted number of people would be able to get on our campus. such as students, administration, teachers, district officials, and the parents of the students enrolled into the school. This will make it so that only a aselected number of people would be allowed on our campus at during school hours.I would also like this change to happen because then it will allow the office to better monitor who exactly is on our campus at all times.
   I would abolish littering as soon as possible in our to keep our campus loook nice. I think when you litter that means you have no respect for the area your littering. I would like think that we as a school do have respect for our campus so we should not litter. So we as a school should stop littering and show that we do have respect for our school. This would allow us to have a campus that acuratly displays who we are as students at Castle Park High School.

JOURNAL #19

       I think that school attendance should be mandatory because good attendance leads to good grades. If school attendance was not mandatory then most students would choose not to come to school. Once everyone stops coming to school then less and less people will be educated in America and this would lead to more crimes in our society. Education is the foundation of which every country thrives on so without education our nation would become illiterate and unable to prosper as we have in the past. If we become stagnant then we will be unable to keep up with competitors in foreign countriesand never be able to become mor than what we are.
      Another reason we need school to have mandatory attendance is because if we don't it would lead to poblems such as crime. Crime would increase because with out education then people will begin to lack the common sense required to make good decisions. The increase in crime would lead to things such as increase in taxes in order to pay for the amount of people in jail. Then that fact that less people are being educated does not just affect the people being educated but everyone in the society.


What would happen if attendance was not mandatory?



      Less people being educate will also lead to more people being homeless because they will not be able to find adequate jobs. Some people might say that if you get to choose to go to school or not it will prepare you for life and teach you how to make good decisions. However I do not believe that is a true statement. I believe that by not making attendance mandatory it would only lead to bad things.

JOURNAL #20

          If I could choose to communicate with one specie of animal I would choose to  communicate with primates. I would choose primates because they are almost as intellectually as advanced as humans are. I would be curious to see how they see the world and how that view of the world effects what they believe and also comprehend. Primates are interesting animals due to the fact that they have the ability to accomplish difficult task at and alarming rate, even faster than that of humans.
        I would also want to be able to communicate with primates because they seem to be an extraordinary specie of animal. They seem like they are really intelligent beings that no one is able to understand completely one hundred percent, enhancing my curiosity about them. If I could talk to primates i would be able to answer every question any scientist has ever wondered about this specie of animal.

Babies are not much different from baby primates

       I would also like to talk to primates that live in different circumstances. For instance ones that live in the zoo versus ones that are pets versus ones that live free in their natural habitat. I would like to know how each feel about living in the conditions they do. It would be interesting to see how differently or similarly they thing about different subjects.
      By communicating with primates we might began to realize that we are not that different from a monkey or chimpanzee.