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Showing posts with label Renee Hicks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renee Hicks. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Bellringer 36D
No hip hop now sucks. All it raps about know is money, girls, gangs, guns, and drugs. Hip hop use to make you feel good when you were having a bad day or it use to just make your day better. Now we got this new artists out making bs songs and getting pay for it. Hip hop use to tell stories and how the rapper felt it. The rapper would even take you in deep into their minds and their own thoughts. Now the new artists just rap about what the other artist raps about. There is no more originality. I hate hip hop today. I am not saying that all the new rappers are bogus because there are a few who are real rappers. I just feel there are to many non-rappers out to really pay attention to the real ones
Bellringer 36B
I don't have just one favorite teacher i have three. They are Mr. Haines, Mr. Winfrey and Ms. Thawani. They are my favorites because the care more about the students then they do thier paychecks. They will do anything and everything to help a child pass thier classes. They each have a very unique way of teaching thier lesson. Mr. Haines likes to lecture, while Mr. Winfrey likes to explain the work and give it to you. Ms. Thawani likes to do a lot of group work. What I like most about all thier classes that it is almost like a college class. They give the work and expect you to do your best. What I like most about this teachers is that they treat the students like equals and not as children. They understand that we are all young men and women and they try thier best to respect us. All they ask is for respect in return. I am going to miss having Mr. Winfrey and Mr. Ketchup class next year, but me and Ms. Thawani have a whole year in front of us.
Bellringer 35D
No, I don't think it is ok to live with your parnets at thirty. It ,however, ok if your parents live with you and your thirty. I don't think it is good to live with your parents when your thirty because you need to learn how to live on your own. Living with your parnets is not going to teach you about life outside that house on your own.This because your parents shield you. No matter what age your parents want to always defend thier baby but they can't. Living with the at thirty will not teach them that or you. I think the right age to move out of your parent's house is about 23 to 25 years old that is if you not still in your professional school. This age range is good because at those ages you should have a job that pays enough money for you to pay your own bills. You shold not always have mommy and daddy taking care of you.
Bellringer 35C
Yes. I do believe in marriage. I believe marriage is major step in someone's life. Marriage is suspose to between two people who love each other. I believe when they exchange vowels and say " I do" that it is only them two. There should be no way another person should come in between them. I believe in marriage because i think that everybody should have someone to grow old with and die with. Marriage is hard work and it is up to the two people that are in the marriage to make it work. Marriage is something that has to brought together by God and held together by God.
Bellringer35B
Scoring high on the ACT does not mean your smart. Being smart and being able to test well are two totally different skills. I know people who are smarter than college professor but who can not get a high score on a test. Being able to test well is a skill that most people do not have. the skill to test well comes natural or you can perfect it by taking more and more test but just because you can test well does not mean your smart. To get good grades does not mean your smart. Of course it means your book smart but that does not mean you have common sense. To be smart or intelligent you have to have both common sense and book smarts. I believe you need both if you want to truely be intelligent.
Bellringer 35A
A world without music is like dying slowly and painfully. Everything that happens in this world is a kind of music. We may not realize it but the simplest things that we do or what other people do is music. So a world without music is no world at all. Our life needs music to carry one to the next day. We need music to get us through our lowest and highest points in our lifes. A world without music is like living like a mine. We go through our day just moving our hands and walking into invisble walls. I dont think I could live in a world without music. Music is the heart and soul to every and anything. The world would be just a figment of our imagnations. The world we know would no longer exist or have meaning to us.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Bellringer 34C
No, I don't want the Olympics to come to Chicago because it will cause it hurt the city more than it would help it. I have done alot of research on the Chicago Olympic Bid and I found that the Olympics will displace alot of black and latino people. I feel the city has bigger and more serious problems to worry about other than bringing more tourist. Chicago needs to take that 4 billion dollar bid and invest in programs that can stop all this killing of CPS students. Overall i feel the Olympics unneeded and is a waste of our money and the cities.
Bellringer 34B
I dont plan on having kids so i really dont have an age but if i had to pick i would say like 28 or until i get married. I picked this age because at that age i should have had enough time to settle down and get a job and have my own place to live. If I was to have kids i would like to wait until I am married becauseI don't want to rise my kids in a single parent household. I see how my moam struggles to take of me and my sister and I don't want to be like that. My mama has done her best in raising me and my sister but I still want my kids to come and see both parents. Again if I do have kids i would want 3. Two boys and one girl. I feel abortion is the woman's choice. Too many kids are born and end up living below the proverty line and then some women are just not ready to give birth to a child.
