most effective

The name of the game that taught me the most i think was Ayiti: The Cost of Life .The social issue that this game teaches is survival.I think this taught me the most because it was a lesson about survival and it was challenging for most part and you had to earn money to do certain things in the game and I really liked this game.I think you can learn about survival in this game.This game does illustrate the issue or learning concept because it tells you clearly what to do and what not to do.This game does work well and it is related to real life situations.In my opinion i like the game the way it is and i think is doesn't need any improvement.If it was me i would make the game more colorful and more understanding so it can catch the kids attention.I would like to learn how people in the old time learned and how to farm and how they used transportation instead of walking for a very long distance.

Be the Change

On saturday when we helped be the change for service learning I was proud of myself but mostly my peers because I couldnt have done the work without them.For service learning I would like to go around the neighborhood and paint over graffitti that people have done.On saturday we put mulch into wheelbarrals and went to every tree in the park and made a bowl like border surrounding the tree so when it rain the mulch can hold the water around the tree.When we got to the park they told us that they planted over five hundred trees and so we made borders for five hundred trees so in my opinion we did a lot of work and im very proud of myself and they took a lot of pictures while we were doing work.To me personally I think the adults were proud of us too and the whole community was very thankful that we did that for their trees.I think we should do that to one of our parks someday.

mini game

When we first started to make our minigame i think it was a little challenging and in my opinion it was very hard.In my opinion the best part of this topic was when we had to draw in flash because i love to draw.the worst part of this topic was when Ms.Valdez did not want to help us do the work in flash.She told us that she rather us get a good grade and the pride that we did it by ourself than for her to help us and we get a really good grade.My game was really cool because i made it challenging and it is very fun to play because i got done with my work and i was playing it for half the time that we were in class.This game was difficult but i got a hang of it and now all of my files are uploaded to my wiki and i am very proud of myself.This can be a very easy assignment if you just believe in yourself.I wanted to give up a lot of times but i pushed myself to keep working so DONT GIVE UP!!!!!!=)

Children Of Heaven

      This movie was about a mom and a dad with 3 kids.This is a very poor family because the mom was ill and the dad did not want the mom to worry about working so he broke the sugar for the festival.Ali which is the son,lost his little sisters shoes and he tried to look for them but a little girl bought them and that little girl had good grades so her dad bought her a new pair of shoes so her mom threw out the old ones because they didn't need them anymore.Ali let his little sister wear his shoes to school and when she gets out of school she gives the shoes back to her brother and he runs to school.Ali has good grades in school and as a reward for that they give him a pen and Ali gives it to his little sister.One day when his sister is running home she drops the pen that her brother let her have.The other little girl picks up the pen and runs after her but she lost her.The little girl waits till the next day and gives the other girl back the pen.the dad and Ali go looking for jobs to make easy money.It turns out that the rich people were not looking for work to be done around their house.Then they come across a really big house and they do all the work needed while Ali played with the little boy that lived at the house.At that house they make alot of money.Ali tells his dad to buy his sister a brand new pair of shoes.Ali enters a race and tries to get in third place so he can win a pair of shoes.Instead,he wins in first place.
     This family kind of fit my single story but in other words it kind of didn't.The girls did wrap some kid of cloth around their head and they did have religious festivals and the family was very poor but
religious.the family was very poor and the mom was ill and i thought they would talk about hating Americans the whole time but they didn't.   
     I thought that the guys and the boys would wear robes but they didn't and i also thought that they hated us but they did not spent time even talking about the Americans.From this film i learned that all Muslims do not hate Americans and they don't talk about us through out the whole movie.Ali was a nice and caring person because he told his sister not to worry and he spent all of his own time looking for the shoes and caring for his mom.Here is a link about Muslims and Arabians and about their lifestyle and how they act.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabians

what happened

I think in nine eleven everyone was shocked because when the airplanes crashed the twin towers it was a tragedy to everyone in new york especially the peoples families that worked inside the building.Nearly three thousand people died in one building and all the people that died were innocent and they did not deserve to die but the people that high jacked the plane did deserve to die because they shouldn't have done what they did.Osama Bin Laden hates the united states and he sent the guys to high jack the plane   and that is why Obama sent the military forces to kill that hatred man.The twin towers did not deserve to fall and a lot of people lost their jobs because i think 25,000 worked inside of the twin towers.

danger of a single story

                                                       SINGLE STORY
In my opinion to have a single story about a place or community means to have an idea about something that is encouraged or not encouraged to do.A single story that is happening in my community is when their is a group of teenagers outside and a kid goes and they make that kid go inside or leave them alone and they push the little kid around.People can learn more about this community by driving around town and observing what they see and record data.A lot of people tell a Mexican how come you don't speak spanish if your Mexican.Not all Mexicans speak spanish.Another stereotype is that only boys play football or only girl do cheer leading "THAT'S NOT TRUE."A couple of years back this guy went up to my dad and started talking to him in english and at the time my dad didn't know english so i told the guy that my dad only spoke spanish and the guy said why isn't he in Mexico if he only knows spanish.I went to school one day and we had a guest speaker and they asked everyone if they knew spanish and i didn't raise my hand because i didn't know spanish at the time and all of my friends kept on telling me "how come you don't know spanish if your Mexican that's so dumb."In my game my idea is that we can create a character and make him Mexican and an African American best friends and when they go to the store and everyone sees them together they start whispering to each other saying "why are those two people together."Then we make another scene where they go home and talk to each other saying that a lot of people at the store were being racist.

cyberbully

This past week i have learned about many important things but cyberbullying is the most important.We learned that you cant just bully someone in physical ways u can also hurt them on the Internet by posting mean comments about them or posting their secrets online.I personally have never bullied or been bullied but i have witnessed a person being bullied.I did not want to say anyhting because i didn't want to get involved in other peoples business and problems.A big thing you can do to prevent being bullied on the Internet is just delete your account or profile.The characters in the movie could have just reported the person to the web master or told a trusted adult to help them out.When you are being bullied online and everyone from school sees it people also start bullying you at school and it sometimes gets to the point of suicide which means that they might want to kill themselves because of what people are saying about that person and they cant stand it anymore and they will no longer stand it.Cyberbullying is getting very serious their has been a lot of suicides happening all over the news about why and how the kids especially teenagers are killing themselves over some fake person that was just pretending to be their friend but really wasn't.My Best friends cousin was being cyberbullied and she didn't know what do do so she told her mom and dad and together they told the web master and about one or two hours later they send her a notification that his profile has been deleted.I think the Megan Meier Foundation has made a big difference in the world today.Their has been reports all over the news and all over t.v that teenagers have been killing themselves and the Megan Meier Foundation is trying to prevent those kind of things that are happening.