HERO pROjECT REFLECTiON!

I think that a Hero becomes what he/she is because people admire their grateful actions and they always put others before themselves, but sometimes it depends on your perspective that you see them.
The hero in my eyes project is about seeing someone as your hero and recognizing them as being a hero to you by writing about how they are a hero, or else writing about one moment that you considered special to you and your hero because he/she made a heroic action towards you or the community. Throughout the project we had to think of what makes your hero a hero and why you chose to write about them. This meant really focusing on making your reader understand why your hero was a hero to you. After several drafts and correcting papers to specify why your person is a hero to you, we got to finally putting it into a template and putting two of our favorite pictures of our hero in the template.
The steps that I took to getting to my final product were really hard and I had some trouble getting in the process of finishing it, but at the end it turned out great. The first step that I took was brainstorming who my real hero was in my life and who I could write about in specific detail. This took me a while but I finally got to the point where I chose my mom. After I got finished with that, I got to working on my first draft writing about one moment where my mom was a hero to me, and other qualities she had that made her a hero to other people too. Later on I revised my drafts and it was really hard meeting up to the requirements that it had to be in. At the time I wasn’t really good in incorporating a lot of detail into my writing and I had to show not tell, which I was getting alone pretty well. This process took a while but I honestly got my final draft done on time and I was really proud of what it turned out to look like. And my final step now was to put it in a template format, which I had a little trouble doing because there was a length requirement in how many words we had to have. This was a problem to me because I had more words that didn’t fit in the template so I had to erase some sentences and make it fit all in. And this turned out to be my final product which made me proud but I only had to make some finishing touches that were to insert two of my favorite pictures of my mom in the sides of the templates and there it was my beautiful piece.
I learned a lot of great new things about this project and what it’s based on. I learned that you don’t have to have superhero powers to make that person your hero or base what you think of a hero to be in a fictional character. I learned a lot of different ways to define the word hero and other people’s perspective on it and what they think it means to them. In this project I encountered a lot of difficult problems that I struggled with like when it was time to choose a hero I had trouble choosing over my mom and my dad. I also had some trouble in revising my drafts because I really didn’t understand how I was supposed to include a lot more showing and not telling because this painted a picture in the readers mind, and I had trouble finding the areas where I was supposed to include more details, and describe the moment more. The only thing that I would do the same is turn in all my drafts on time so that I could get some good feedback and not wait until the last moment. I think that later on in my life this subject is going to help me because I want to grow up to be a hero in someone’s eyes and to do that I have to know the definition of what a hero is and I want to demonstrate that by being one myself.
As I was writing my essay I decided to included perspective on my paper because I think that everyone has a different perspective on different subjects and in this case to me a hero is someone who takes care of me and makes my wishes come true and also someone who gives up something to give it to another person and that’s why I chose to write about my mom. It also related to my writing because I had a very different perspective of what a hero was based on what I wrote about my mom and her moment with me getting me my dress.
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HERO CHARACTER SKETCH

“Dreams Come True"
Looking out through the top of the window I spy my mom getting into the car, I focus on the top of her head realizing that her hair looked reddish and shiny with a touch of gold seeming that the sun was making her highlights stand out. I walked outside catching up to her when she was walking into the car, I told her that we didn't have to go today, knowing that she had came out of her first job and she had to rest.
"Ama let's just go on the weekend so you can rest, yeah?" I spoke softly, seeing her crumbled up in her seat wanting to get comfortable.
"No that's okay I promised you that we were getting your Quinceanera dress today and we are going. A promise is a promise, okay?" she replied sounding firm as she said the last part.
"Orale pues ama."
She then started the car with a quick silence making the moment feel awkward only hearing the sound of keys clinging together against each other. As I looked through the rear mirror I saw the veins in her pupil’s red and tired with bags under her eyes without any sleep.
She had always put her children first and made time for them but didn't have enough left for herself. Sometimes I thought about how she never got to do the things I did or have the things that I had but she is a strong woman who works to give her children the things that she and my dad never had.
When we were getting out of the last store, I looked at another store that was right next door, surprisingly I gasped to the appearance of the most beautiful Quinceanera dress that I had always imagined. I ran to get my mom's hand dragging her all the way inside the store wanting her to have the same reaction as I did when I saw the dress.
"That's the one," I blurted out.
"Oh my god, it's amazingly beautiful, yup that's the one." she said bringing her eyes to sparkle with the shine in the beads.
It was the perfect tone of color, green with a texture of gold mixed into it making it glow bright as the colors of a tree. It was impressingly poofy and sparkling having a corset designed with all these silver beads coming together to form beautiful little flowers, sparkling to the touch of light. At the center of the corset there was a thin piece of fabric that was bright green with only four diamonds in the middle making the dress come together being perfect, as I always imagined.
When we were sealing the deal with the story lady she had very big glasses and it was strange that she had measuring tape around her neck ever since we came in. After that I knew she had to measure my sizes and somehow she knew from the beginning that I was going to get the dress already. At that time I had realized that I was going to wear the most beautiful dress on my Quinceanera day, and this was all thanks to my mom. When I heard the store lady say,
"It's all yours, sold." I couldn't make my ears translate the words so that I could realize it was really true.
The first thing that I did was go over to my mom and give her the biggest hug ever. It was so warm and reliving to have all this happiness land into her arms as appreciation. I stood looking back at her with silence; suddenly she broke the silence saying that if this made me happy it made her happy.
"I am so thankful for you working so hard to make me this dream a reality." I said, comforting myself in her arms.
"Karina, even though I didn't have a Quinceanera it makes me happy that with you having one, everyone's dreams come true." she said radiantly having a big smile.

THE ORiGiN Of ZERO?

What strikes you about the articles? The thing that strikes me about the articles is that they talk a lot about the origin in where the number zero came from, and how people used it in different states and countries. It also stiked me that it was mostly geography that had to do with the existence of the number and because people found evidence that they used it 5,000 years ago. This number is really easy to understand because it’s like if it didn’t exist but it has a symbol that replaces a number, but means a different place value holder. There was a part which caught my eye, it talked about how in different states they use this number in different forms and was odd seeing it used like that in these days.


How do we decide who discovers what? When someone gets his/her invention named after them.

Who really discovered zero? In the articles it doesn’t really tell who discovers zero, but it says where it came from and how long ago it traveled to different kinds of people. However, one of the articles explains somewhat of where this number originally came from, because Charles Seife had given some information.
"There are at least two discoveries, or inventions, of zero," says Charles Seife, author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking, 2000). "The one that we got the zero from came from the Fertile Crescent." It first came to be between 400 and 300 B.C. in Babylon, Seife says, before developing in India, wending its way through northern Africa and, in Fibonacci's hands, crossing into Europe via Italy.

Is it the person who came up with the concept of zero or the person who discovered the actual number? It was the person who came up with the concept of the number zero because he introduced it to everybody but he disn't quite discover it.
And how did the entire world come to a consensus without an efficient means of communication? Because the number zero came to being from one country to the other and that's how it spread all over the world but it had a differet symbol to it.

LiTERARy dEViCES

Catching the signal from one of her friends, Adriana brushed her skirt, took a deep breath and walked towards where he was sitting. She couldn’t believe that he was right there feeling his warm arm touching hers every time she got closer. As she looked towards Miguel she seemed overly happy and delusional to the fact that he just came to see her. When she reached out to say hi, he grabbed her shoulder and gave her a kiss on the cheek. This made Adriana turn red as a tomato feeling butterflies in her stomach and giggling every time he said something awkward.
Making a stop in front of Horton Plaza, Miguel suddenly starts conversating with Adriana wile they were walking into the mall.
“Hey how was your day today at school.” He said in a deep silent voice awkwardly bumping in to a trash can.
“Well it was pretty alright, I guess and you?” She said laughing at him while he was putting the trash can in to place.
“Yea, well the same old same old, it never changes.”
They had walked all over the mall wanting to go to the movies but none of them dared to invite each other. This was like the time when Adriana was still in middle school ad her crush wanted to go to the movies but never had the nerve to invite her. It was pretty clear to Adriana how guys were just really shy when it came to showing some sensibility. Miguel was totally different from the guys Adriana hanged out with because he was more mature and she liked his clown personality over all.
As they came across the movies again Miguel finally asked Adriana if she wanted to see a movie.
“Hey let’s go in and see a scary movie, yea?” He said nervously playing with his fingers.
“No not really, I don’t have money right now.” She replied looking the other way.
“Oh that’s okay I’ll pay for you okay”
“No I don’t want you to.”
“Come on for reals.”
“Oh my god no.”
“Fine then, but were still going in, because your coming with me.” He said firmly.
Meanwhile the line for the movie tickets was getting shorter, Adriana was mad and didn’t like the idea as much. You could tell by the fierce expression that she had when you looked at her in the eyes. When it was time for Miguel to pay for the movie tickets, Adriana realized that she was wrong in having such a bad attitude earlier, and gave Miguel a big long hug. She knew now that he was doing this so he could spend more time with her.

The Mysterious Sound
It sounds like a slithering snake making a pattern with it's tounge over and over again. The rattlesnakes sound like if a string is being pulled making a squeaky sound when it's let go. The pitch is high but its continues to wonder off in to a certain pattern that at the ending part it repeats faster. As the the beginning seems to fade off, there's a repetition of a bang after ten seconds of the sound starting. This only happens two times every five seconds continuing with the normal sound. Later on in the middle a differnet sound comes in the background sounding like a dog barking every three seconds. This continues after the end is almost near, then it stops and suddenly appeared barking out of nowhere for the last time. Have you ever been to the Amozan jungle? Well I think that with all the noctornal animals seeking through the night and making these strange sounds it could actually sound like this. Anyone can actually hear this sound by just walking outside. Hearing the small insects that come in the night make you imagine and think that they are many different things. But once you get to hear it really well you understand it and try figuring out. I couldn't have imagined myself that this was just the cicada chorus signals the arrival of summer in New Zealand.

First Day of High School

Karina Felix
October 6, 2009

First Day of High School

My alarm clock went off as loud as a honk in my ear; I woke up frightened not knowing what was going on. I suddenly got up and moaned, and it straight up hit me,” People aren't going to see me as a child anymore", I said comforting myself in the soft cushions next to my warm bed. I reminded myself about last night before going to bed, closing my eyes trying to not feel all these emotions that I was going to go through today. I had millions of questions about how everything would turn out. I opened my eyes with a quick jump out of my bed fidgeting to open the window gracing in the coldness of the mist and hearing birds chirping a melodies song through the hollow trees. This made me feel more peaceful and rethink that today was going to be my first day as a freshman at High Tech High Media Arts. Thinking about freshman year and how it was going to be like, I got a tingle in my stomach and put a big smile on my face, trying not to show that I was really nervous inside.

I got into my favorite shirt that I had picked out last night; it had colorful squares on it and made my personality stand out. In the process of finishing, I quickly ran to the bathroom beating my brother, knowing that he was going to take an hour. Finding myself through the door removing his arm from the gold doorknob he made fuzz as he left. My thoughts couldn't be removed even though I lost half of my memory I thought about many things that were going through my mind, how life as a high schooler was going to be like? What were the teachers like? Were my friends going to be there? Is it going to be harder than last year? I even got to thinking that sometimes people suddenly change in their moment of glory. I wondered if I would mature more and be a part of the older people that looked at life in a different way than others. My brother always warned me that it was no fun and games at times but you had more privileges if you could handle them.

As I walked slowly down the hallway passing by a mirror I spotted my reflection going right through me, I looked at this unexpectedly. It was just staring at me trying to look for something in me that I couldn't find. I looked up and down at myself noticing that I had already turned into a different person than I was before. I had that look on my face that said, "What the heck am I thinking." Then I started reflecting on what my thoughts were awhile ago, and they all made sense now. At that moment in time I knew my life wasn't going to be the same anymore. All of these questions and thoughts that had been wondering in my head without any answers were finally figured out and resolved. Now people were going to look at me in a different way, and I would experience more things than I would ever imagine. This really opened my eyes and I got excited to meet new people and achieve new goals that I had set for this year.

LOCKER PROBLEM<3

CREATEd by KARiNA FELiX
1,000 students have opened and shut lockers according to who came first. So the first one came and opened every locker. The next student suddenly came and closed every other locker. This pattern started repeating until at the end. In total the answer was that there was 31 lockers opened. The reason of getting the answer was because there was a certain pattern that was going on with the lockers. It was 1 open, 2 shut, 1 open, 4 shut, 1 open, 6 shut.....etc. All the numbers with perfect squares have odd number of factors and thats why they were opened and the rest were shut. There was 31 perfect squares in total from 1-1,000.

SLOb CHARACTER: WHAT SHE did OVER THE WEEKENd:)

June
It was a Saturday morning when I got up very early to a loud noise coming from outside my room. It came to being May and Rosaleen cleaning up the house. They sang the "Oh Susana" song while doing chores. This made May be more relaxed because she always hummed it when she was happy or when something was bothering her. I woke up with a bad mood and I really didn't want to talk to anybody or be disturbed. As I was walking down the stairs i felt the smooth hand rail on my hand going down as soft as not even feeling anything there. All of a sudden I bump into Lily hoping she doesn't talk to me in any sored of way.

"Good morning June! Did you have a good nights rest?" Lily said with a big and bright smile on her face, while holding a jar of honey.

In my mind I thought, why is she still here? or when will she leave? I didn't want to sound mean or disrespectful so I just responded to her question.

"Yeah sure I guess I slept pretty good last night" I tried saying this with a straight face but I was in a bad mood so my face looked uncalled for.

I didn't have much appetite for that mornings breakfast knowing that there had to be at least honey in the meal. So I just grabbed myself a cup of coffee and went to the living room to see some TV. I wiggled my hand into the sofas cushion's because the control had been stuffed there somehow, to my surprise my coffee had spilled on the sofa leaving a big brown stain that looked horrible. Trying to clean it I tried scraping it with hot water and a piece of cloth. While I was doing that I happened to look outside the window and see that Neil was standing right upfront of the porch. He looked so handsome with his ripped shirt that looked like he had worked out in the fields doing some sort of dirt job. I didn't pay attention to that other than the fact that he was tall and had a way of flexing every time he moved. Stepping in the house his sudden words were

" Is June around"

I quickly ran up to him and said hi. I invited him in to the living room where the big stain was and told him it was an accident. He didn't really mind and headed to see the cello. I remembered that he wanted me to give him lessons on how to play, so I asked him if he wanted I could play for him. So we just scattered around and played the Cello the whole morning while laughing and talking amongst ourselves.

ORdER OF OpERATiONS:)

4 X 6-18/3=18

22-5+3/2=10

11-7 X 36/12=12

My SUPERHERO

♥bATMAN♥
Being one of my favorite fictional heroes with his mysterious black cape he is known as the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, the Dark Knight Detective, he is originally the Batman co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne, whom parents died in front of him while walking through a dark alley, being both shot and leaving him an orphan. He now seeks revenge on the person who murdered his parents trying to find him all through Gotham City. He is left alone being a billionaire playboy, industrialist, and philanthropist, even though he is not really happy with that. He has trained and prepared himself physically and mentally to wonder the nights of Gotham City in search of villans while having an all black formed costume covering his identity. Sometimes rarely accompanied by his sidekick Robin or Cat women who appear only if he needs assistance if there's any problem getting out of control.

I really came to admiring this character a lot because of his ability to fight with his villans without having any type of superpowers, like other super heroes. This to me shows that you can do anything if only you set your mind to it, without having any special thing to back you up. I really like the way he uses all his resources, like making use of his intellect, detective skills, science, technology and wealth that he uses to put in action his plans and ways to fight crime.
He is one of my favorite characters because when I saw the superhero league, he standed out the most to me because he looked very mysterious and I loved his all black with gray costume that he had compared to the colorful costumes that the other superheroes had.

I like the way the author wrote this fictional series because he didn't copy other superhero stories based on how they got into a chemical accident and that's where they got their superpowers. I actually think that this is a very original fictional story according to the type of comic series he was trying to complete. Batman became a popular character soon after his introduction and gained his own comic book title, Batman, in 1940. This character appears on a variety of merchandise sold all over the world.

WHAT iS MATH?? WHAT iS MySiCS???

WHAT dOES iT MEAN TO dO MATH??

WHAT dOES MATH LOOK LiKE?? WHERE dO yOU FiNd MATH?? WHO USES iT??

To me math means being smart and knowing what to do with numbers in order to get a problem right. When I think about math, numbers, variables, formulas, and calculations etc. all of that comes to my mind. Math has different ways of transforming in whatever ways you can imagine. For example if your building something you have to know what the area of figures are or else your lost. Or even the smallest thing has a formula that goes with it. You can find math anywhere you go if you think about what your everyday life consists on, it's very easy to tell that you have math working everywhere. Even if it's going to the grocery, going shopping, paying the bills, everything has numbers to be resolved for. Everybody these days use math to do practically everything like for instance in their job, working out, etc. the point is that Math never stops working. WHAT iS PHySiCS??? ARE WE dOiNG PHySiCS?? WHERE CAN yOU fiNd iT?? WHO USES iT??

Physics is a natural science which is the study of matter and it's motion in space time, energy and force derives from it. Physics contain a combination of philosophy, chemistry, and some what of mathematics and biology. I think this is why Mele named it mysics. Yes we are doing physics because it has alot to do with nature and we go outside everyday meaning that we see the sky, theres particles, atoms, and many other stuff. Many scientist use it to plan and test on other things forming new experiments. We also use it in school alot with our teachers that teach us alot about chemicals and things we didn't even know about Earth.

30 THiNGS yOU didN'T KNOW AbOUT ME!

1. bORN jULy 1ST
2. iM fROM dURANGO, DGO
3. LOVE CHOCOLATE
4. SCAREd OF dOGS
5. dON'T LiKE HORCHATA, CHAMOy, dARK CHOCOLATE, && KETCHUp
6. My FAVORitE COLOR iS bLUE
7. GONNA HAVE MA QUiNCE NEXT yEAR
8. i bARELy did My FiRST COMMUNiON THiS yEAR
9. ON MySPACE 24/7
10. i'M iN dA MiddLE OF 2 bROTHERS
11. CAME fROM O'fARRELL LAST yEAR TO HTMMA fOR A yEAR
12. i HAVE A PASSiON fOR fASHiON
13. My bROTHER && 4 OF My CUSiNS GO TO HTMMA
14. i HAVE A biG fAMiLy
15. i HATE CATS THEy CREEp ME OUT
16. i AM FLUENT iN SPANiSH
17. i WANNA LEARN HOW TO dRiVE
18. i WANNA WORK iN pLAZA bONiTA
19. i CONSTANTLy MOVE My LEg
20. LOVE CARNE ASAdA fRiES
21. i KiNdA PLAy THE ACCORdiAN
22. i LiKE TO WATCH TELENOVELAS (SPANiSH SOAP OPRAHS)
23. i LiKE GOiNG TO PARTyS WiTH My COUSiNS
24. MA FAVORitE PLACE TO SHOP iS AT pApAyA && WET SEAL
25. i CAN'T LiVE WitHOUT My bAby BLUE CHOCOLATE PHONE
26. i LiKE GOiNG TO My bROTHERS SOCCER GAMES
27. i PLAY VOLLEy bALL
28. My CUSiNS HAVE A FAMOUS bANd iN MEXiCO
29. i LOVE dURANGUENSE, bANdA ,&& REGGAETON MUSiC
30. i HAVE A VERY CREATiVE SidE FOR dRAWiNG STUff