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The “No Child Left Behind Act” passed by George Bush in the year 2002, is a bill puts over fifty million students and over three million teachers under this bill.  The “No Child Left Behind Act” supports the standards-based education reform, which is the belief that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education in America.  With the bill being passed over a decade ago, is “No Child Left Behind” still working or is it run down?

The Manhattan Project Research Paper

My general research topic is going to be the Manhattan Project,  some questions that I'm going to be asking:  Who worked on it? Why create it? What is it?  There are some reasons why I believe that this is a important topic.  I Believe that this is an important topic not just to write about, but it is also an important topic in history.  I believe that it is important to the audience because I feel that they should be informed about the weapon that ends all wars.  The steps that I've taken to find sources is that I'm going to Wikipedia at then stroll down and use some of their resources.  My timeline for myself is the syllabus and turn it in when its due.

Where I come from is like this

In this reading of the article “Where I come from is like this” by author Paula Gunn Allen, her article argues that Europeans misrepresented the important roles that women play in traditional American Indian societies.  Paula Gunn Allen the author of this article was born in Cubero, New Mexico, and she is half Sioux and Lebanese-American from her parents.  So she starts off the article with describing what women did in there Indian life styles compared of the life styles of the American woman.  Then she goes on to state that the reason that she knew that was the information and stories that were passed down orally from the mother.  After that she goes on to talk about her Christian schooling, then after that she talks about the different’s is the menstrual stage in the two life styles.  Then she talks about how she was told as a child that the Indians were savages.  So after reading “Where I come from is like this” by Paula Gunn Allen, I thought that her opinion about some of the idea’s in the book were a little basis.  BUt then I looked at the time that she was born which was in 1939, so taking that into consideration, I feel that she could make a good point because she grew up in a rough time in America.  But then she also wrote this book in the eighties, in which all most everyone had a different mind set back then, because they are all hippies. Then about all of the Indians being savages, I would say that you would have to take that text from the fifties when she at school or at catholic church, in the south.  Now about the part about the menstrual cycle, she says that the white americans take a rest because that they have cramps and stuff like that, and that the Indians would go swimming and go hiking.  But in todays world there is all of women’s that go do stuff even when they are on their cycle.  Over-all I feel that this paper by Paula Gunn Allen was pretty basis and they was some area’s in the paper where it seemed to repeat the same idea.  But over-all I didn’t really enjoy this paper, maybe this topic just isn’t my cup of tea.

Learning the Language

In the reading of “ Learning the Language” by Perri Klass, I thought that it was really eye opening in the way the becoming a doctor or a nurse, like you would have to learn a whole new language.  I really like this reading of the story because it bring you in  to the life of a doctor or a nurse.  Being a doctor and nurse you would have to be able to preform or job and still be able to write and talk in the hospital (code) language, because it could be life or death for a patient.  If your become a resident would learn this language within the next three months.  In this field of learning a new language for work is something that I had to come into contact with at my work at Red Robin.  While being a busier at Red Robin we had codes for some things that we did there.  For example F.O.H. would stand for front of house, then there was fill which would stand for a fries fill, and green was just saying that everything was fine, so I can relate to her story here.  Also in wrestling we had codes that we would say so that the other team wouldn’t know what we were talking about.  In the story of “Learning the Language” by Perri Klass, I thought that it was a little funny to hear the residents using baseball terms in the hospital.  Overall in this story I thought at she was right and that she made a good point, It wasn’t after I read this that I thought of time when I used codes in my life.  But Perri Klass must have learned those codes and nickname because she has her M.D. from Harvard.

Only Daughter

In the article ”Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, She start the article by saying that she wrote an contributors notes for anthology, and that she was the only daughter out of six sons.  Then she goes on to say that she should have say from a Mexican family.  Then as a child she told her father her idea of college, and her brothers laughed at the idea of her going to college.  But then her father told her that it was good for her to go to college, for finding a husband in life.  After her four years of college, she did not have a husband.  Then in the life story she talks how the live in Chicago and they moved to Mexico City and back to Chicago because of her fathers nostalgia.  Then she feels like she was being erased because of her father telling everyone that he has seven sons.  Then her oldest brother graduated for medical school and fulfilled her fathers dreams.  Now having been writing for ten years she sold a book to New York publishing house.  Then at Christmas time she flew home to see her family, after she just had one of her books translated into spanish.  Then she gave the book for her father to read and he loved it and wanted to get copies for the whole family.

For this article, I didn’t really enjoy it, to me it seemed really boring.  The best part that I feel about this was that her father liked the book that she wrote.  

Neat people vs. Sloppy People

In this article of “ Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt, I found that this article is pretty intense.  Suzanne Britt first starts off this article by saying that “ neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.”  After reading that statement it made me think that maybe that the author is a sloppy person and that she has a thing against clean-neat people.

In this article, Suzanne Britt start off with the sloppy type of people.  Then that she states that “ their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral rectitude.”  This statement made me think that all sloppy people are really morally a good person, when in fact I know that to be untrue from my personal experience.  Then she says that sloppy people live in Never-never land and how sloppy people can throw anything away.  All sloppy people give loving attention to every detail, like the prom flowers or postcards from people.  So all sloppy people don’t have the ability to throw anything away, so it just piles up to the ceiling. 

Then in this article Suzanne Britt also talks about the neat people.  Now in this part of the article she starts about how neat people are bums and clods at heart.  In this part she talks about how items in their household, like if an item has dust on it, it would have to go.  Then neat people think about throwing the children out of the house just because it would cut down the clutter in the house.  Another thing that the neat people do, is that they will only open their mail in front of the trash, and that then don’t open up the ads, or the catalogs.

In this reading of “ Neat People vs Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt, I thought that most of the stuff that she was talking about was every extreme to both scales to the sloppy and the neat people.  I think that because I know that I’m a sloppy person but I still have the capability to throw items away when I’m done with it, now taking out the trash is another topic.  But I don’t think that this is a good paper. because of the extreme examples, and that what I feel that she does though out the whole paper. 

Overheard Conversation

In the middle of Fred Meyers, I stand alone with a small memo pad and my trustful pen.  In Fred Meyers I had a mission.  My goal was to eavesdrop on a conversation, but at the same time I was also shopping of items at Fred Meyers.

So, my mission starts.  In Fred Meyers, I carefully follow a older fellow wearing a bright colored Hawaiian shirt who we will call him Chris.  I follow him for a few lines just waiting for him to start a conversation with someone, as I pretend to shop.  

Sooner than later the older fellow spots a close old friend in the distance.  The conversation starts with the general questions like how are you, how have your kids been, all the jazz.  Then the older mans friend you we will call Bob at the moment, pulled out a gun magazine.  Then they talked about there newest hunting trip that they both went on, and how to prepare the different meats.  Then Bob asked Chris, “So what will you be doing with your PFD this year”  while they are both still looking through gun magazine.  “Well” Chris replied “ I think that I might have to buy a new gun so I go hunting for different game or buy a bigger fridge because my wife has been asking for a new one for a few years, what about you Bob.”  Bob replied as they turn to walk down the chip line.  “ Well I don’t really know I’m thinking about saving it and use it for my grandson’s college fund.”

That this point in the conversation the two hugged and said there goodbyes, and the parted ways.  With this leaving me to follow Bob now as I have gotten my supplies that I would need for the week.

I was only to leave me to think about the conversation and what all did I hear, even though I missed some parts due to me getting some supplies.  So leaving me to think about the conversation, it led me to the point of that Chris and Bob are hunters.  But they aren’t normal hunters but that they hunt humans.  So this makes them serial killers.  So this grandparents are serial killers, which is why Chris would want to buy a new gun.  But these grandparents have to lay low, which is why Bob might be saving his  PFD for his grandson college fund.

Soft and Hard Sciences

In this reeding that I did with the article "Soft Sciences are often harder than hard sciences" by Jared Diamond.  In then the beginning of this article I thought that he might be talking down to the soft sciences because he uses the sentence "Do the so-called soft sciences, like political science and psychology, really constitute science at all, and do they deserve to stand beside the 'hard sciences," like chemistry and physics."  I just feel that the writer of this was talking down to the softer sciences, and that they weren't that important as the harder sciences like physics or chemistry.  But then he has worked in many different sciences fields of work: physics, chemistry, physiology, and ecology.  Which after hearing this made my think that he has the knowledge so he made plenty of valid points.
I thought that it was a little funny to watch Lang vs. Huntington fight over the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) with all of the little thins that they would do to each other, with all of the bashing of each other.
In this piece of writing I felt to me that I wasn't really getting the points in the article, and I felt that for me it was a little hard to follow it.  I guess that this article I just wasn't really into it so I was confused in some areas.

People as pictures

In this piece of writing of "People as picture" by New society, I thought that it was a very informative piece of writing about irezumi tattoos.  I really enjoyed this piece of writing because I think that it is a intersting topic and I love to learn new thinks.  One part about irezumi tattoos it that the tattoo itself seems like it would be very painful and that a lot of the people in Japan don't like it so if you were to go to the public showers the people that have the tattoos would wear a suit resembling a Victorian bathing costume which covers everything but the stomach.  So I was thinking if the people in Japan don't like it and it is really painful than why would you get a irezumi tattoo. Irezumi tattoos are more primarily in the lower class during the Edo era and now the irezumi tattoos are in the decline.  One thing that I thought was cool was that they are still using some of those designs in modern tattoo today.

Museum

Alaskan Kayaks
While in the Museum of the North my eyes got caught on the Alaskan Kayaks.  What I got out of the exhibit was of the history behind the kayaks and the cultures that they belonged to, including the different types of Alaskan Kayaks.  One thing about the kayaks that I liked about them was the way that the museum kept them looking rustic and historical in the exhibit.  Another thing that I noticed was that the kayak had some pieces missing in it which made me think that this kayak was in a hunt of some sort.  The structure of the kayak to me looked like the Alaskan kayaks were really strong especially with the outside of the kayak to be covered with seal skin.  Inside the kayak at the museum it seemed to me that their was a lot of paddles just for one kayak, because I think that there was about six paddles, but these paddles in the kayak where made of wood and that they were long paddles about maybe six or eight foot long.  The kayak that they had on display in the museum had a tan color to it with no sits in the inside which made me think how did that hunt and where would they have put their weapons.  One thing that I noticed about the kayak is that it look like a modern canoe that we would use today. Overall I think the Museum of the North was an awesome Museum, it is the only museum hat I know that has a sound room.

Visualizing the Disabled Body Lennard Davis

          In Visualizing the Disable Body by Lennard Davis, I though was he wrote about was a personal subject for him, and that I noticed that he was right about are culture and how closed minded we are.  What this book made me think of was how I didn't it and didn't realize it and all of the disabled parts I guess of what makes a perfect human and that everyone can see something difference.

          In Visualizing the Disable Body I thought that the introduction was not what I was inspecting and I thought that it was a little weird.  One  thing that I like about this essay was how Lennard Davis tied into the mythology into the essay.  

Intro

      Hi my name is Nick Black I am a freshman attending UAF, and I am going for a major in construction management.
      For a brief biography, I was born in Anchorage, Alaska, In my early years I like to just play around with my friends, and I also did so traveling with my family.  During high school I joined the wrestling team and last year I took fourth in state.  Some more info is that I like to go hunting for all of the big game, and that I love music.
     For a piece on writing that had an impact on my life was most likely The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.  I like this book Because it was the first book that I read by myself. and one thing that had a impact on my life was how the boy kept taking things from the tree the the tree would alway give or something like that it has been a long time since I read the book.