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Hi guys.

HI, BILLY MAYS HERE! HAVE YOU EVER ENCOUNTERED TOUGH GRASS STAINS, BLOOD STAINS, COFFEE STAINS THAT EVEN OXYCLEAN COULDN'T LIFT?! OR IN THE RESTROOM, HAVE YOU NOTICED SOAP SCUM AND RING-AROUND-THE-TOILET LEFT BEHIND BY KABOOM AND ORANGE GLOW?! WELL NO NEED TO FRET, AS I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO TAKE THE HASSLE OUT OF ALL THESE CHORES; ALL-NEW 'LIQUID DOOM'!

ALSO, YOU GUYS MUST BE ABLE TO DO THE FOLLOWING:

For your 2nd Partial Project, you will write either a process, a division/classification, or a cause and effect essay (at least 4 paragraphs long, each paragraph must have at least 4 sentences). You will also create a poster about your essay. For example, if you do a process paragraph, you can do a poster illustrating the steps in your process (you can use drawings or photos, it's fine). . Use your creativity and imagination, you'll do just fine. In your essay, remember to follow the usual rules (indentation, underline thesis statement, cover page, font size, double space, etc.). Your poster must be the size of 1 posterboard (cartulina). Please don't use butcher paper (rotafolio). The deadline for your project is Friday, April 3rd (the day of the exam). We will post them in your classroom, so make sure you bring tape as well.

For your exam, you must know the 3 different ways of writing thesis statements for the 3 types of essays we discussed this partial (pages 80, 90, and 102). You must also know the transitional phrases that you can use when writing these types of essays.

I guess that's pretty much it. Have fun with your posters, and good luck!

...Oh, *yawn* what a nice nap... It was a really tiring day, and nothing better to recover as a comfortable nap. I wonder what has happened in the house while I was asleep; I better check it out. It smells strange, like water and soil, maybe rain is falling down in a couple minutes. I don't hear anybody at home, that's odd, where could they be? Everytime I wake up from my nap, Jessie is sitting right next to me watching TV, but she isn't; maybe she is in the kitchen preparing one of those peanut butter sandwiches she likes so much, I don't understand how somebody likes that, last time I ate one I throw up. As I'm walking to the kitchen I found the meal I didn't ate yesterday, since I am hungry I'll take a bite. These new steaks Jessie bought are much better than last ones, they taste like chicken, and I love chicken. I'll continue my search for Jessie as soon as I finish my meal.

At last, I am done, it wasn't that much so my stomach isn't full. Ah yes! Jessie! She probably is in her bedroom, if she really was in the kitchen she would have noticed me while I was eating. I am going upstairs to the bedroom now, by the way I love the new carpet on the stairs, the previous one was slippy, I had hard times whenever I needed to go upstairs with that carpet. This is getting bizarre; here, on top of the stairs, the house feels like of its shaking. I better enter Jessie's bedroom to check if she is okay. Wait... her bedroom, a strong wind is coming from under the door... Jessie! Jessie! Are you in there?!... Nobody answers, she is not here. What about the bathroom, I gotta run! Nope, not here; in the studio? No! Oh I'm getting a little bit tired, I seriously need some water, I'll go and grab some.

This is so refreshing! The water was really cold, I like that a lot, sometimes I even want to pour all that cold water over me, but Jesse hates when I do it because she says it makes me look stupid. Like one time I got excited when the icecream car passed in front of the house with that funny music, I tried to follow the silly song but as soon as I began, Jessie shut me up and told me I shouldn't do that, supposely nobody likes it. I guess I don't have any other choice that to listen to her, because well, she takes care of me since that car accident killed my mom. I miss mom... two days ago I dreamed about her, she was kissing me and told me that I should take care of myself because the world is a dangerous place, and things that are unexpected might happen, also I should take care of... Jessie! I completely forgot about her!

I always know when she is nearby, because of her perfume, it smells really good; the only place I can't know is when she is outside, maybe she is there! The back door is open... As soon as I looked outside, a rush of wind wildly opened the door. This is why the house was shaking, the wind is too strong! Jessie! Jessie! Are you here?!..

"Tom?.. Tom is that you?.. Come here Tom! Mom is not here, and a storm is coming! Isn't that cool?"

Jessie! I found you! The sky above jessie was black, suddenly, a white line descended from a cloud and reached Jessie! As soon as that happened a horribly loud sound cracked from that white line.Jessie fell on the floor shaking and after some time the shaking ceased. I am running to her to see if she is fine. She looks like if she is sleeping... her eyes are closed. Maybe if I push her a little bit she'll wake up and notice she is outside. No, she doesn't wake up. Sometimes she gets mad at me when I wake her up too early, maybe this is one of those moments; yeah, that must be it, it's too early, I better return to my bed, and sleep again. Then I'll wake up and Jessie surely will be looking at her favorite show with her horrible sandwich. It's too early, I better return to bed.





Pako K.

DAVID ACUÑA KALDMAN

A TINY LIFE

Have you ever notice that people that is short in height always try to look bigger than they are. Buying big cars, huge houses, big dogs, and even they are married with someone tall. I am hee to tell you a story of three friends that do not need to be tall, because they are tiny, very tiny, but that dont stop them from living a wonderfull life.

The three of them live in a beutifull house, ok a horrible house. This house seem abandoned, and yes it was abandoned, except for a cat and the three friends I am talking about. Inside the house was nothing, all in dark and alone, except for a room that was full of toys, a kid lived in their for sometime, but he and his family left the house. They said that it was hunted, you can hear laugh of people in the rooms and sometimes you can hear steps.

Ok, this story is not about the house, it is about the who makes the sounds in there. Yes, the sounds are made by the three friends that I said you. They live in the room full of toys. They are toys too, do you really think that they were persons, no they are toys that can talk and move, they are alive. No one understand how they are alive, but they are alive and they are friends. They look like the guys of "Star Wars", and they too look like action figures of "Lego". They never stop playing, talking, and making noise, they live very happy in that room. The only world they know is that house, they had never get out of that house, and too because they are so tiny that they had not even visit all the house.

One day, one of the them try to get on the top of a sofa. When he finally did it, he saw through out the window, and on the street pass a car, a big one. In his little mind he said: "I want one of this". After seen through the window, he went to say to his friend what he saw out there. After telling them what he saw, the three of them had an idea, to get out of the house and see what is outside. Since they are so tiny they cannot push the door and get outside, so the only way to go is through a window that was always open, but it was in the second floor, were the cat lives. They pass the stairs to the second floor and start walking to the room were the window is. When they finally enter the room, there it was, the cat sleeping beside the window on the bed. They get on the bed without making a noise because they were tiny, and start walking to the window. The first of them pass through the window easily, the second too, but the third touched the cats tail while passing through the window and the cat awake. Bot when the cat awake, they were all three outside the house, so the cat did not notice what touch him.

The house was ubicated in a kind of forest full of trees, and in front the house was a road. They start walking through the grass and plants when they finally reach the road. They start to wait for a car to pass, but no one pass. They wait like for two hours when finally they hear a strange sound for them. It was a car coming. One of them stand in front of the car, but the car travel to fast that he did not had time to do sometime. They start waiting for other car to pass, but no one pass. It was already night, and they start to feel that they will never get on a car, when suddenly they hear a noise on the bushes, a squirrel. The squirel was hungry, even due squirrels only eat nuts this one was so hungry that he will eat anything. The three friends notice that the squirrel was not their friend so they start running to the road, and the squirrel was following them. Suddenly a car was coming, when they were passing through the road. The car pass to fast that no one saw something. The squirrel was alive, but the three "Lego" figures were not there. Some people say that they were kill by the wheel of the car, but I think that they finally do it and get in the car. i do not know were they are now, or if they are still alive, but they show us that even due you are a short person, you can do the same things other people does.

And there I was all over again.

Some clues lead to some place and other clues lead me to a dead end. I was thinking that this killer won't even try to hide. He or she will be around his business, looking for his next victim and everyone here is trying to preddict his next move.

My name is Rick Taylor, the date is 2nd April 1948. Harry Truman just approved the Marshall Plan, Gandhi was killed, teaching religion at schools is illegal, and here I'm sitting my ass on my cubicle trying to find this damn killer. It's the 6th one since this killer ad started and panic has started to show here in this city of Mesa, AZ. I work in all the area of Arizona, mostly, and I'm called when thinkgs go crazy in other places. I haven't been able to eat, sleep and work all because of this case. I've been working on it for 2 weeks now, and so far we don't got any clue on who would be responsible for this.
I still remember how it all started. That bastard...
I was doing a check-up on a hit-and-run from a woman who was drunk that night. It was 4:03 a.m. when a called came to my office that night. I was asked if I wanted to go check on a call made for some screams that were heared outside of the docks of the Santa Cruz River. They asked me to go check it out, since I was closer to that river, I was hanging out with some friends before going to do the check-up and they knew where I was staying, so I decided to go check on them.

As I looked for the source of the emergency, I noticed an abandoned car that was painted with 2 words, "GET OUT". When I saw that , I knew this wasn't going to be a good thing to go unarmed, so I grabed my Colt .45 from the glove box and put it on my holster. As I put on my hat and buttoned my jacket, the moan from a person could be heard not too far away from where I standed. It was dark, so I took my flashlight and unholstered my gun and pointed it at where the sounds camed from. I was getting a bad feeling about this, and I tried not to become overwhelmed by my feeling. I was just about to get where the sound came from when suddently, the painted car exploded right in my back. I was far from it, but the impact was great I was blown away. When I tried to get up, I felt an arm next to me, so I showed the flashlight to where the arm was, and effectively, there was a woman, dead, right next to me. She looked that she bleeded to death, but there were no signs of blood splatter, as if all the blood was never there. I proceeded to call reinforcements, and checked out hte car, when I touck the paint of the car I suddently realizae that was no paint, it was blood, and it still was fresh.

When backup arrived, we looked for clues, start checking around the place, look for other blood, weapons and such. We founded nothing. We were on a dead end. Nothing could take us to the killer. This, of course, was on the news, and by the evidence we recolected, the news called the killer, "The Blood Painter", come to think of it, it wasn't such a bad name for him. It suited him good.

The next 5 victims died the same way, and all died in a same place, a river, exploding car and a different message in every car. Why did he killed them next to a river? Why exploding cars? Nothing made any sense. There was no clue that could take us to him. The women weren0t, in any way, connected. It looked like if this killer ony killed for pleasure and in rivers. It was not understandable the way he acted.But then...

TO BE CONTINUED...

Something for your attention span...

First of all, do the partial proyect, we need those points.

Now, as you all know, we need to start working, and I'm talking to you, DAVID AND MARTIN, since you guys made us lose points.

Continue now.

Unce upon a time in a small town called Walkman, there was a fisherman named Agustin. Agustin loved to fish from his boat, it was the most enjoyful thing he could possibly do. He started fishing when he was 5 years old, his father was always behind him, teaching him, supporting him and always with him. It was a rainy night when Agustin noticed that his father was taking to much time in coming back from the harbor to the house. After to much waiting, he went to bed with a lot of thoughts in his mind, he closed his eyes and he wondered.

In the coming morning, Agustin woke up desperately to see his father; he was not there, his father was gone. Agustin so frightened ran 6 km from the house to the harbor with the last breath on his hardened chest and his coming tears on his eyes. Right in the moment when he arrived at the harbor, he noticed that his dad's boat was not there. He asked so sadly about his father to the local sailors and fishermen and they kept on telling him that they did not know where his father was after the storm from the night before. It took a lot of time to Agustin to get over the appearent death of his dad.

As soon as the sun came out Agustin was working. He was always going to fish for small portions of fish or shrimp that he could sell himself to win what was enough for food and cheap savings. It took him quite a while to save enough money for his new boat that he planned on having to make his little job bigger. He know had 2 boats and his money was starting to come swiftly. He kept his routine for some time, work, save, work, save and so on... he lived happily but sometimes with sad thoughts on his mind.

On a normal day work of fishing, he went close to a rainforest-like island and he saw a small plant with only 2 leaves on it. There was water falling from the leaves, small drops sliding down to the ground... these drops looked like pebbles to him, pebbles that he used to play with his father. He felt sad in the very beggining when he saw the pebbles coming down from the leaf, but then he realized that it was supposed to be a happy moment, one of those moments that gives you a push so you can keep going forward and forward with out looking back. When he came back to the harbor, he suddenly got a flash idea of a shrimping company... 'damn' he thought. He saved money and he bought a third boat.

Now he owned 3 boats, three fish or shrimp boats that made him win considerable amounts of money, since the fish and shrimp were in demand. It was very special to him to see the three boats anchored in the harbor, he never thought that he could get that far with only one boat. He was leaving one of the most happier times of his life after the death of his father. Agustin had only one thing on his mind before his job, the thing that kept him on going, he had that plant with the pebbles and the image of his dad playing with him outside. He liked to think this way, this kind of feelings is what made him strong to keep moving and that he even discovered himself which even made it more special. Agustin found prosperity and happyness for the rest of his life as a fisherman like his own father.

Brainstorm.

Transversal flute, plaing, music, classic, tone, blow, mouth, air, lung, position, straight, lips, tongue.



For musicians who like air instruments, flutes can be a very nice option, they have many variesties, one of them is the transversal flute. The transversal flute for begginers can be a little bit difficult to play, but if you follow some steps you could master it easily. That's why I am going to introduce to you a little bit of how to play the transversal flute the proper way in order to obtain a good tone.

The transversal flute consist in 3 parts, the mouth, the body, and a final short section. For assemblance, you need to take each part individually, firmly, with your hands, taking care that you are not pressing the key to prevent damage. When inserting the parts, be sure to do it in circles, that way the metal doesn't damage. Once you are done be sure to check that they fit perfectly and they have been inserted completely.

Now you are ready to begin. Grab a chair and sit down as straight as possible, this way you can improve the flow of air inside your lungs. You can also do it standing up, standing straight aswell. Grab the flute and place the mouth of the flute aligned with yours, also notice that the flute must be completely parallel to the floor. Once you are in this position, press your mouth by the sides, and with your lower lip, cover half the mouth hole of the flute with it, without pressing. If done correctly, once you blow, you should listen to a clean note!

Playing the flute might take some practice, it depends whether how much experience the person has, and how you position your body. If you are having a hard time, do not give up, sooner or later you should be able to understand what the problem is and be able to correct it. Keep practicing and never give up!

How to cheat on a test

Brainstorm:

cheat, test, moral, notes, blackmail, leg, spy, quiz, arm, teacher, time, bad, plaster.


Tony is about to make an exam, he didn't studied because he was too busy playing videogames yesterday.
"what am I gonna do?!" thinks Tony.
Suddenly, he realizes that he has only one way out: CHEATING.
"Should I cheat? if I fail this exam I'll be ruined! but, I had never cheated, can somebody help me!?"
If you're someone who thinks that morality is for loosers, maybe you'll find to cheat on a test very useful.

First of all, is important to have a plan and there are many ways to have them. Looking at your neighbor's test is from the stone age and not very good because the teacher can catch you easily, your neighbor might not like it (unless you have a deal with him) and also because there are A and B type tests. I actually don't like and I never do this, so whatch it with this one.

You can write the answers in any part of your body. I specially recomend in your lower part of your leg and when you want to see the answer just put your leg upon your other leg and pretend to scratch in there. Omit the answers in seeable places! like in your hands and for god sake if you have a plaster in your arm, don't write it in there!

Cheating on a test is maybe quite complicated, see it as an emergency exit, your last way out. It is helpful but there is something that works better, even more than the best cheating plan of all and it is...STUDYING YOU LAZY CHEATER!!!

How to mantain a good relationship with your neighbors?

brainstorm:

noisy
unesessary
misterious
beside you
parties
police
pie

Neighbors, they can be really nice persons, or the devil itself. They are many kinds of neighbors. The first kind are the ones who go to your house when you first arrive the neighborhood and give you pie, they are like angels. Other kind are the ones that you dont know anything of them, you only see them go early in the morning and arrive late to their home, misterious. And the final kind of neighbors are the devil itself, the ones who always make parties, drink alot, and trow trash and other things to your backyard, they diserve dead. You should have one of this kind od neighbors, but still if you hate them you should be a good neighbor to them. It is easy to be a good neighbor if you have the right actitude.

Ok, it is very difficult to be a good peersons with others, especially if you hate them, but it is necessary, you know because of the karma and all that stuff. First of all, you need to give a good first impression, so the first day you arrive, or they arrive, the neighborhood you should give them a cake, pie, or something like that to give a good impression. They can answer in many ways this actitude. The first reaction that they can have is that they say you the typical "THANKS" and start a conversation with you; another first reaction they can have is that they say you "thanks" and close the door in your face; and the last and worst is that they throw you the cake or pie to your face and laugh at you, and you will think taht war has started. Other thing that you should do to have a good relationship with your neighbors is to always say good morning and all that stuff when you see them. Sometimes this will work and they will answer in a correct way, but if your neighbors are "special" you can recive a joke, a mean look, or some bad and unesessary word, but you should not be mad, remember patience is a virtude.

At this point, when you have already give a good impression and you have already be a good and kind person, you should be prepare for the worst ocation of youur life, the PARTIES. Ok, the parties can be fun, but they are not fun when they dont let you sleep. When your neighbor makes a party, the ones that he invites half the city, a DJ or a band, and dont stop until 3 of the morning of the two next days, you can act in different ways. The most kind and gentle way to act is to go and ask to your neighbor to please low the volume of the music, but in real life this do not work. Another way to act, and is the most stupid one, is to go and join the party, you still will not sleep, but you will be in a party. Finally, and the most efficient way, is to call the cops and laugh at your neighbor when the police takes him to the comissary because of high level of alcohol.

The last step to be a good neighbor is to, always have a smile at your face when you see them. Neighbors, a really noisy and frustrating thing that you have beside you, who needs them. Ok, they can be really noisy, bad, frustrating, sons of devil, but still you can need them, in a really weird and far ocassion you will need their help, and because of that you should be good with them and have a good relationship. You need to love them, ok ignore that only dont see them with bad eyes, even if in your heart and mind you want them gone, you need to be good to them so they can be good to you in your dreams but not in real life. All of us have neighbors so we have to tolerate them. Ah, and final but not least, never, I say NEVER, kill them.

How To Microwave an Egg

Brainstorm:
Eggs
Explosions
Microwaves
Time
Soap
Electricity

Ok guys, have you ever wanted to microwave an egg just because you're bored or you really want to cook an egg fast? Well, you actually can't cook an egg in a microwave because of the gases inside an egg, it makes it explode, but just because you want to do it for the lulz, here is how you do it.

Ok first step is SAFETY FIRST! Get the microwave on a place where you can put it outside, since it's going to stink a lot. Get some safety goggles, buy an egg, no matter what kind of egg, all work the same, buy some soap, and let's get to work.

Next step is to go to the microwave and turn it on. As it powers up, grab some fans and turn them on, pointing them to the microwave, that way it will stink less.

Third step is to put the egg inside the microwave and be behind something that can protect your physical intregrity, like a wall. Be sure to turn on the microwavw with at least 3 minute of cooking.

Last step is to wait and watch. You'll notice that nothing is happening 'till you see the explosion of the egg within the 3-minute lengh. You'll be surprised at how it actually works, see, the egg inside has some gases that can't escape from inside, and by using microwaves to heat up the molecules, the gases expand, thus, the egg explodes.

In the film, the theme of destiny is a central theme. What does mean that all Jamal desires is just out of his reach?
I think that Jamal was out of reach of his desires because he was a poor guy, also because it seems that the life in India is really difficult. Or maybe God, or Bishnu was trying to prove him to the millionaire game

Is ethical decisions making possible when one most choices based on survival? Do seemingly "bad" choices make a person bad?
I think when the decision is base on survvival it does not matter if it is ethically wrong or not, but I do not know how to judge decisions that involve survival of others, because it depends on the ethics of every person. I do not think that bad decisions make a person bad.

What do you think the film is saying about the globalization of culture through media? We see the game show "Who Wants to be Millionare?" adapted in the Indian culture. Is this a sign of progress? Why or why not? What is this film saying about the effects of money on culture?
I think that the film was trying to say that life in India is difficult, but still we need to considere it as a respect country, for all his culture and traditions. I think tat India is progressing globally, because in one scene, where jamal an Salim encounter each in the roof of a building Salim says that in were that buildings, the ones of the bussiness, was were they live, you can see how globally is India growing. In the film, I think, thay they are trying to say that money is very difficult to get, beacuse they are trying that Jamal do not win the money in the millionare game.

DAVID ACUÑA KALDMAN 2L

Slumdog Millionare

Early in the film we see the young Jamal dive into a latrine pit to steal a glimpse at a visiting movie star. How does his single-mindedness to see this movie star reveal his determination?
What other examples do you see in the film of his determination?
His single-mindness makes him do what he wants to do without anybody stopping him. When Lathika, for example, is kidnapped, Jamal doesn't care for the people around there and runs for her.


In one exchange of dialogue in the film during the interrogation of Jamal, the police inspectors discuss the impossibility of what Jamal knows.
Police Inspector: Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's on 6 million. [pause]
Police Inspector: What can our slumdog possibly know?
Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
Discuss the irony in the film that Jamal “knows too much” and is suspected of cheating. Discuss the irony that in the end, his poverty may make him rich. What point is the film making? What is real wealth?
The point this movie is not how much money you have, but how can you live your life with what you know and have. Real wealth is not money and power, is what you can do with what you know.

What does the title mean? How does the title and the contrasts within it provide symbolic summary of the film?
Slumdog Millionaire means that a slumdog (person who lives on the street) is a millionaire, but not a millionaire as in money.

• In one pivotal scene, the show’s host tells Jamal his own story about coming from the slums. He then gives Jamal the wrong answer written on the mirror in the rest room. Why did he give Jamal the wrong answer?What did Jamal do?

The host gave Jamal the wrong answer because he didn't want anyone else to be like him; a person that comes from the deepest of the streets and gets rich from one day to another. He also thinks that the center of the show must be him and not Jamal.

Eventhough the host left the answer written on the mirror, Jamal didn't believe him because he was already doubting from before the hosts interest on Jamals victory. After that, Jamal didn't choosed the letter "B" and he won.


• In the final scene, we see Salim and the choice he makes - filling the bathtub with money, etc. Why does he make this choice?

He makes this choice because he realices that when his boss finds out that he helped Lutika, he would never forgive him and he would probably kill him. Salim preffered to fill the bathtub with money and sit on it to feel de feeling on having all the money that he could never had.

• This film weaves together nightmare and impossible dream. What do you take away as the most important message or impression from the film?

I think that the most important messeage that this film gives is the showing of how far can I boy go in the pursuit of what he really wants and not only a boy, everybody can have the same possibilities as Jamal and even more because he barely had a chance.

SALVADOR, DO NOT USE LANGUAGE LIKE THAT IN THE BLOG. 

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