Blog #9

"Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Women soldiers of the Civil War therefore assumed masculine names, disguised themselves as men, and hid the fact they were female."

The article I read was about how there were many women soldiers during the Civil War, there were roughly about 250 women serving the Confederate army. Not only did they join the army, but then did it in disguise because back then women didn't have many rights. Women weren't allowed to join the army. I thought this article was interesting because now the women have equal rights to men. Back then during the Civil War the women didn't get to/ weren't able to do much because of the fact that they are females. Reading this article makes me wonder how life would be like if us females didn't have the equal amount of rights as the men. 

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Blog #8

This article caught my attention because it is about how the government is removing many websites according/ that has to do with the 1st amendment.


The article I just read was about how the government had a bunch of websites removed by the FBI that had to do with the 1st amendment. "The FBI's role in this was apparently only to request user information about several sites from the ISP under a provision of the criminal code which does not require a warrant. Burst.net then overreacted and assumed that the FBI would want to seize the entire server and shut down all of the Blogetery.com sites in response.

However, based on statements from the operator of Blogetery.com he has still not been informed of what type of material was on the target sites or been contacted by the FBI or any other law enforcement group and Burst.net will not divulge the reasons why his service was shut down."

This article caught my attention because it was unreasonable for the government have the FBI take down blog that was based on the 1st amendment when they didn't take the time to read the blogs. If they had an opinion about the government or about politics they'd remove it. They were basically removing websites just because of the people's opinions and thoughts. 
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Blog #7

1. The writing tips stand out the most because I feel that it has helped my writing alot.

2. I think what's working in this class is the writing tips because they can help make a writing better.

3. I can do my best on my output for my success and I can also keep up and do things early and on time for me to become successful.

4. I can do things early and not procrastinate and turn in all my work and complete them.

5.  My goals for these next few weeks would be to push my self to do a great job and become an even more better writer.

American Icon

Success

By Nia Gamboa

My mother always told me to never give up. Ever since I was young, she pushed me to try harder in everything I did. My mom went to college for eight years to become a dentist in the Philippines, now she’s currently going to school at LLU to become a dentist here in the U.S. My mom always wanted to best for her kids so she never gave up. She still wants to further her education, so that her children could have a better life.

I remember the time I began middle school and I had a bigger workload compared to elementary. I would stress out, I left the worksheets incomplete and I chose not to turn them in. In middle school, I didn’t take my education seriously, procrastinated, and my grades began to drop and lower. One day my mom told me that I should take school seriously because it is the most powerful thing a person has and it can’t be taken away. She is always a pusher; she pushes me to do my best in everything I do, even if it didn’t have anything to do with school.

Saw my own mom going back to college and making sacrifices for her family, it has inspired me and made me want to go to college. Every time I visit my mom I see her working hard and studying, making the effort to graduate her classes. When I observe her, I notice that she doesn’t give up. When my mom starts something she has to finish it. She cannot leave anything she does incomplete, because for her that’s giving up.

Now that I’m in high school I go by her motto, “Never give up”. When I do my school work I try my greatest at what I do. Sometimes I see myself in my mom’s shoes because when I start something, I feel that I have to finish. If it’s not done I feel like I didn’t make the effort at trying to do good on my own work. Last year when I was working on my TPOL, she told me that I should go beyond what the teachers wanted me to do. I did what I was told, worked hard on my TPOL, the day of my TPOL presentation I passed it. My mom was there watching me, she had faith in me and told me I was able to do anything if I tried.

Her being there for my TPOL gave me the courage and it made me think that I shouldn’t put myself down with negative thoughts, that I wasn’t going to pass. Before I presented my TPOL I assumed that I wasn’t able to pass, I thought that I was going to have to do it over the next day. I didn’t want my mom to watch me because I didn’t want to disappoint her. But then I realized she was the one who gave me the courage to pass it, she showed me how to have confidence in myself.

My mom has showed me that education is important and no matter what I shouldn’t give up. Till this day I am still living up to her motto “Never give up”. In everything I do I tend on not loosing faith in myself. Especially in school, I want to continue & try my best because it’ll lead me to a successful life.

Blog #5

1. On my artist statement I am most proud of the first 2 paragraphs because I believe I went described why she's my american icon on those two paragraphs the most, in the other paragraphs I just told about a time she inspired me.
2. The writing tips that helped me the most with this project would be: characters, make meaning early, quotes, setting, the big idea, emotions, detail, character development, loops, and specifics. Those writing tips helped me because it made my artist statement sound better.
3. The most challenging part of my artist statement would be near the end because I had a difficult time trying to end the artist statement.
4. The most challenging writing tips would be: conflict/resolution, playing with the reader, thesis, annecdote, and illusion. These writing tips were the most challenging because I wasnt able to add them in or use them in my artist statement.
5.  Her being there for my TPOL gave me courage and it made me think that I shouldn’t put myself down thinking that I wasn’t going to pass. Before I presented my TPOL I assumed that I wasn’t going to pass, I thought that I was going to have to do it over the next day. I didn’t want my mom to watch me because I didn’t want to disappoint her. But then I realized she was the one who gave me the courage to pass it, she showed me how to have confidence in myself.

Now I am still living up to her motto “Never give up”. In everything I do I tend on not loosing faith in myself. Especially in school, I want to keep doing my best because I know in the end it’ll lead me to college.

My mom is my American Icon because she has showed me that education is important and no matter what I shouldn’t give up on going to school.

1. How should I end my last paragraph?

2. Should I add anything else, am I missing something?

3. Did it seem straight forward.. or should I go more in depth?

Blog #4

Intro: 
My mother always told me never give up. Ever since I was young, she always
pushed me to try harder in everything I did. My mom went to college for eight years
to become a dentist in the Philippines, now she’s currently going to college at LLU to
become a dentist here in the U.S. She always wanted to best for her kids, so she
never gave up.
Out: 
My mom is my American Icon because she has showed me that
education is important and no matter what I shouldn’t give up on going to school.

This is my 2nd draft for my artist statement, I don't think my closing was that great so I am going to change it when I finish typing up my 3rd draft.
I think it ties together my big ideas because it tells the reader who the american icon is and what caused the person to be my american icon.
I hope after the reader reads my artist statement he/she will understand how I live up to my mom's motto.

Blog #3

I plan to talk about how I look up to the person and how that person has a big impact on my life. It would be connected to me because it'll tell the readers how that person is a part of my life. My mother will be my american icon because she always has faith in me and she represents who I am today.

Well there isn't any websites I could do research on because this person is my mom but instead I'm going to found out about facts by interviewing my mom. 

Blog #2

1. What does this Icon represent to you? Why?
     This icon represents my mom, because she inspires me to do better and succeed in life. My mom was born here but she went to college in the Philippines and she's a dentist there. Now she has the opportunity to become a dentist here because she is currently in college at Loma Linda University. She's been working really hard in life and she always tries her best for her family, my mom never gives up. I love and care for her very much.

2. Who and what was important to this Icon? Why?
      This lady is my mother and what's important to her is education. She thinks education is the most powerful thing anyone can have. She always said that no one can ever take your education away. 


3.  How did this Icon become important to you?
   This Icon has always been important to me, she has always been there for me no matter what. But just recently when she started going to school again I've realized how much she was struggling and putting a lot of effort, sacrificing to get a better job just so that her kids' would have a brighter future.

1. How did this Icon become important in American culture?
   Michael Jackson was a recording artist entertainer, and philanthropist. He was known as the King of Pop. Many people loved his music. His album Thriller was the best selling of all time.


2. How did this Icon become important to you? 
    Michael Jackson became important to me because ever since I was young I've always listened to his music, well my family listened to his music when I was young so I guess you can say I grew up already knowing who Michael Jackson was without having to question it.  


3. What is your favorite song that Michael Jackson sang?
   I don't really have a favorite song from Michael Jackson, I love most of his songs. My favorite album was Thriller.

1. How did this Icon become important to you?

 Angelina Jolie is important to me because I love how she helps children and gives money to charity. I like how she adopted kids before she had kids of her own. I want to be able to help others in need just like how Angelina Jolie has helped many others.

2. What does this Icon represent to you? Why?
This icon represents how she loves to travel and help around the world. She is a woman who is selfless and very giving. 


3. Who and what did this Icon inspire?
This is Angelina Jolie and I think she has inspired many other actors and actresses also other people to help others in need around the world. I think she has inspired people to adopt kids and raise them as their own.