First semesters portfolio

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complaint letter rough draft

E-mail: rsheriff@hawaii.edu

Dear rich Sheriff

I have been going to your athletic events for nine years. Each time I go to one of your sporting events you provide the different events and sell very appetizing food such as Teri burgers & fries, chicken tenders, and your Bumbucha nachos.

But for the last couple of years it seems that your prices and the quality of your food has not be adequate. The lines for food are shorter.  Some of the fans do not purchase food from your vendors because the prices are to high or feel that the food isn't worth the cost.

So my suggestion is to adjust your prices to make the food affordable.  Because of the cost and the decrease in quality, I prefer to eat at home, before the games, where it's cheaper and better quality.  I already pay $6.00 for parking and $5 - 16.00/ticket. To eat at the Stan Sheriff center would cost an additional $9.00 for four pieces of chicken which is the size of two fingers and just a handle full of french fires.  Minimum wage is $7.25/hr.  For an adult to attend one event and eat there, the minimum wage worker would have to work 5 hours to cover the costs.  For a high school student, I'd have to work 4 hours to attend one event.  A student can only work 20 hours a week so he or she would really have to think hard about attending an event there.

If you want higher attendance at the Stan Sheriff Center, please take into consideration lowering the prices of the food that it is sold at your athletic events.

                                      Sincerely,

Isaiah

final draft risky business

Parent with pregnant teens are to blame for their child's pregnancy because they didn't instill discipline and proper morals in there child's behavior.

Some people think the parents of pregnant teens are not to be blamed for there child's pregnancy because they warned there child of the dangers of being pregnant with a baby. Information from "ww.moderinghana.com" "say that teen age's who despite there body changes do no engagingly experiments strange emotional and sexual feelings. Reports as well indicate that between 11 and 20 percent of pregnancy are due to rape" so that means that sometimes when the parents try to prevent the pregnancy but it ends up the child being either way pregnant.

Their are other believers that think the parents are to be blamed for their child's pregnancy, the parents that are being neglectful to there child and the child wants the attention and the child wants the attention so they go threw extreme lengths to get that attention, so they end up get pregnant. From "www.educative.info" they said that the child who happens to get pregnant go threw a psychiatrist training for how to deal with the emotional drama , also the lack of information about sex is also a big factor, from "http://www.onlymyhealth.com/" "With abstinence the only kind of sex education, teenagers are likely to fall prey to the practice of unsafe sex". that shows that the parents don't inform their child about the potential health problems and the after affects of having a baby with no job. "The report finds that while 42 percent of parents say they’ve talked to their teens “many times” about how to say no to sex, only 27 percent of teens agree. In fact, 34 percent of teens say they’ve “never” or “only once” talked with their mom or dad about how to delay sex". From http://www.plannedparenthood.org

Most of the time the teenage girls who interact with criminals,drug addicts and other bad influential  boys are more likely to get pregnant. The parents inform the teen but they choose not to listen to the information that is given to them by the health teacher, parents, or doctor."There were approximately 236,220 pregnancies in 2008 to girls age 15-17. Their pregnancy rate was 37 per 1,000 in 2008, which is a 50% decline since 1990, and 496,780 pregnancies in 2008 to girls age 18-19. Their pregnancy rate was 113 per 1,000 in 2008, which is a 34% decline since 1990", According to sources from http://www.thenationalcampaign.org

Teen's who are pregnant is making a major issues in America today because of the lack of parental interactions with their teens life. the numbers of Americas teen pregnancy rate gradual increases the chance for teens in the future to have a baby.

Final college essay

TCU Essay Prompt

In her best-selling novel The Secret Life of Bees, TCU alumna Sue Monk Kidd wrote, “The hardest thing on 

Earth is choosing what matters.” What matters to you?

What matters to me is caring for one another, caring for people can build peoples self-esteem, it can also build safety, social and basic needs that everyone needs to have in order to successful in this world that we live in. Homeless people say they need basic needs, and the people who have basic needs need safety, and people who have safety need to have social life or social needs like family and friends, people who need to have all that, basic, safety and social needs want self-esteem so that they can have a support and help when ever they need it. But the one thing that a lot of people who are successful do not have is care, the people who have care are the people that everyone wants to be like. They’re successful at there profession, get paid a lot, kind people, and that give back to the community, and people who don’t have care is those people who were cool in high school and end up getting arrested because they didn’t care about anything. 

I respect people who respect them self's and care about others. There are some words that i just don't like hearing, one of them is "I don't care", even thought i say it, it stills hurts me. The word i don't care can mean many different things, the way that i see as it, it means "i give up" Or "whatever". Though people who don't care are those people who get into trouble, and i don't want that to happen to me.

word olyimpics

1. A father ecstatically hugs his children after returning from an eighteen month deployment to Afghanistan. They ran gleefully into his arms on the airport tarmac, relishing the first physical contact that they have had with their father in over a year.

2. An intense still from the long awaited released thriller movie, "Bang". Molly Ringwald stars as a vengeful detective undercover, infiltrating her estranged husband's drug cartel. This still summarizes her defining moment as a woman scorned.

3. American Olympic beach volley ball players enthusiastically rejoice the game point that earned their country the coveted gold medal. In addition to winning, they have also earned a reputation for being talented and passionate players.

The Smith family's reaction to Miley Cyrus' performance at the MTV VMAs.
(Left to right) Jaden Smith looks on baffled. Willow Smith stares at the performance, with a disgusted look.
Will Smith grimaces with disdain and Jada Pinkett Smith poorly covers her face to hide her shock.

A creation of Alexa Meade walks on the subway train, surrounded by faces of varying levels of awe. This man was painted to look like a portrait and was artistically done. The passengers on the subway train stare at him in absolute disbelief and impressed glances.

College essay

College experience is different for everyone, some people want the full college experiences like party's and meeting different people who your not used to meeting at a big name school for example, UCLA, Florida, Texas, Etc. But there are still people who don't want the big college experience, they just want a normal college experience, I'm kind of one of those people who want a normal college experience.

My sister was successful in her high school Career; won multiple awards both educational and sports, which has helped her get into the naval academy. I felt that it was also be beneficial for me and my family that I should get the best education also, that fits me both social and educationally. I feel that Menlo College is a good fit for me because Menlo is a small private school that is strong academical in management and business, and I would like to have a career in managing sports.

Poster rough draft

In my poster i used a baseball picture because in my "coming of age" essay it talks about baseball and how it help me get over my fear of judgement. these adjectives show how i felt going through that time.

college essay prompts

Oregon university

• strength of academic course work
• grades earned
• grade trend
• standardized test scores
• senior-year course load
• motivation as demonstrated in the application essay
• extracurricular activities including community service and the need to work to assist your family
• ability to enhance the diversity of the university
• academic potential
• special talents

Chicago university

2013-14 essay questions:

ESSAY OPTION 1.Winston Churchill believed "a joke is a very serious thing." From Off-Off Campus’s improvisations to the Shady Dealer humor magazine to the renowned Latke-Hamantash debate, we take humor very seriously here at The University of Chicago (and we have since 1959, when our alums helped found the renowned comedy theater The Second City).
Tell us your favorite joke and try to explain the joke without ruining it.
Inspired by Chelsea Fine, Class of 2016ESSAY OPTION 2.In a famous quote by José Ortega y Gasset, the Spanish philosopher proclaims, "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia" (1914). José Quintans, master of the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, sees it another way: "Yo soy yo y mi microbioma" (2012).
You are you and your..?
Inspired by Maria Viteri, Class of 2016ESSAY OPTION 3."This is what history consists of. It's the sum total of all the things they aren't telling us." — Don DeLillo, Libra.
What is history, who are “they,” and what aren’t they telling us?
Inspired by Amy Estersohn, Class of 2010ESSAY OPTION 4.The mantis shrimp can perceive both polarized light and multispectral images; they have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. Human eyes have color receptors for three colors (red, green, and blue); the mantis shrimp has receptors for sixteen types of color, enabling them to see a spectrum far beyond the capacity of the human brain.
Seriously, how cool is the mantis shrimp: mantisshrimp.uchicago.eduWhat might they be able to see that we cannot? What are we missing?
Inspired by Tess Moran, Class of 2016ESSAY OPTION 5.How are apples and oranges supposed to be compared? Possible answers involve, but are not limited to, statistics, chemistry, physics, linguistics, and philosophy.
Inspired by Florence Chan, Class of 2015ESSAY OPTION 6.In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose a question of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun.

Menlo university

• Your academic strengths and weaknesses
• Your reason(s) for seeking a college education
• The kinds of learning experiences you hope will be a part of your college education
• Your reasons for choosing Menlo College\

University of north carolina chapolhill

First Essay. Choose one of the following prompts, and respond in an essay of 250-500 words. These are the essays listed on the main part of the Common Application. 

1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. 
2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
4. Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc) that has had influence on you, and explain that influence.
5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
6. Topic of your choice. 

Second Essay. Choose one of the following prompts, and respond in an essay of about 500 words. If you're applying via the Common App, these questions will be listed on the UNC-Chapel Hill Supplemental form. 

1. You just put a message in a bottle and threw the bottle out to sea. What is the message?
2. If you could design and teach your own course, what topic would you cover? What texts, assignments, projects, field trips, or other resources would you use in teaching this course?
3. What is your comfort food and why?
4. You just made the front page of the New York Times for doing something important that no one before you has ever thought to do. What did you do and why did you do it?
5. Carolina encourages students and faculty to solve problems. What problem are you trying to solve, and why is it important to you?
6. Tell us about a time when you changed your mind about something that mattered to you. What led to that change? 

Coming of age final

            My first season playing pony baseball was when they called strikes and balls, on this team every one went to school together accept me. I was isolated from the rest of the team, no one wanted to talk to me, no one wanted to throw with me, and no one wanted anything to do with me. 

Our first game was today, feeling scared, wondering what was going to happen when i strike out or make a bad play, how were my teammates going to react. Will they boo at me , cuss me out, or still isolate me. The game has started, i was playing at third base, the ball was hit right at me, i tried to duck but it was to late. When i woke up, there was a large bump on my head, in the distance i hear my teammates laughing at me, trying to copy what they saw. After the game it was time to eat, i was the last one in line because i couldn't really walk, after i got my food i went to go sit by them, but sadly they had the nerve to stand up and go sit somewhere else. Even this is the first game we still don't know each other that well yet.

On Monday we had practice, my grandma asked me what was the matter because I had a  worried look on my face, I just sat in there looking threw the window saying nothing. I get out of the car and I see them laughing and having a good time. Right before we went to the field to get ground balls, one of the coaches pulled me off to the side. He had a curious face expression on and he asked me if was alright, I looked down and  didn't say anything, then he said “ Isaiah, a new teammate is like a new student in your class, very shy, probable doesn’t have friends, isolated from everyone else” you don't want them to treat you like the new student right, so introduce your self, become friends with them, show them the real you.

On Saturday was our second game of the season. When i got out of the car and i started to walk to the dugout, i was thinking about how was i going to get more interactive with my teammates. was i going to go with the "Hello nice to meet" or  a "How do you do". It was our turn to bat i was sitting on the bench and i see one of my teammates struggling with a Gatorade bottle, i took up all of my courage that i had and went to help him out, at first he didn't know who i was but then he said " your that new kid right from Halawa right" i nodded.

After that persist moment when he acknowledged me i had this kinda of burst of encouragement inside me to just be myself around anyone, old and new friends it doesn't matter, i now have the courage now to be myself not anything else.

           

            

Mini essay

There are about hundred or more cases about tourism safety when going to Hawaii tourist attractions.This article has given some accidents that have happened. we are trying to find out if it is the states or the tourists themselves fault.

There was a Northern California man that disappeared from a blow hole tourist attraction on Maui, during the investigation of this man there was a heated debate between the man family and Maui's government about they were not warned about that the blow hole a dangerous, but the government in there defense stated that the have put a good amount of well viewable signs that say "Blowhole:Park and walk at your own risk".Even thought the tourists family said that they didn't see the signs they should have a little common scene, i mean your going to a blow hole you should look for sighs and if there isn't you shouldn't go because it might not be safe to proceed. Also in this article there was yet another California man who straddled the blowhole also another example of no common scenes, and yet the family's are asking for money when they have no common scenes.

To me i think that the government shouldn't pay the family's for there actions because they gave them fair warning its not like there no signs at all.

Problem statements

1. dangerous areas.
2. Because the visitors lacked common sense, the should be held accountable for the incidents, seeing as signs stating, "Enter At Your Own Risk," were posted. 
3. The state is obligated to post signs, but it is the visitors' responsibility to act with caution and common sense around these dangerous areas. 

     The state is obligated to post signs, but it is the visitors' responsibility to act with caution and common sense around these dangerous areas. In most the incidents that were in the article, the people were harmed or killed due to lack of caution and common sense that they had at the time. The states should post more legitimate looking signs, since the warning signs around were hand-made and probably not taken too seriously. Although it was partially the state's fault for the lack of "real" caution signs, the visitors around should have taken the warnings seriously, nonetheless. 

     I believe that the visitors should be held accountable for their actions. David Potts was dancing around the blowhole when the wave hit him, and he fell into it. He was not being cautious or using his common sense, when he clearly should have since he was around a dangerous area. It was because of his foolish behavior, that he was not found, and is most likely dead. Daniel Dick was only eighteen years old when straddled an explosive water sprout and had gotten a serious head injury. The area was not equipped with a warning sign, but it is common sense to not do such a thing. He was not granted any financial compensation, for his accident. These events were unfortunate, but could have been easily avoided, had the visitors acted with more caution and care. 

     Due to these terrible incidents, more signs and precautions are being taken more seriously by the tourists and visitors. The staff working at some of these dangerous attractions, are especially taking the warnings more seriously and informing the visitors more often. 

Blog revision

My blog revision is a baseball theme because baseball is a mental sport and English and school is all mental. I changed the baseball glove to the background to help the focus on the baseball theme and the title Is a famous quote but I have changed the last word to make it sound more related to baseball. I have also put a background filter so when people read my blog they can see my title. And change the font color and background on blog posts.

Semester portfolio

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Metaphor poem

A tiger. Powerful like a meat grinder ripping and crushing the flesh and bones of the
A poor defenseless creature in the tiger territory.
Very protective of their cubs
Letting nothing get in there way when it comes to caring and loving someone or something
Easily enraged, the protective instinct kicks in like a a light switch
can easily turn mad or calm in a flash of a second
Like a tiger I stay in one place
Never living no where else
Feeling every thing around you is going to attack you
Feeling insecure about your self,
 angry with your self
And things around you