Tuesday, May 22, 2012

JR/SR

Hmm....what has my Junior year been like and what do I think my senior year is going to be like. You never know everyday is not always the same good and bad things happen all the time that we have to make it through.

My Junior Year has been a little hectic alot more work then last year. I got through it so far couple days left and semester tests yikes!!! But, overall my eleventh grade year has been great. I have changed drastically and I hope to say to the better. This was my first year at Batesville High and I got to meet some new people instead of the old boring ones I've known my whole life.

My senior year wow I'm actually made it all the way here. It felt like my time flew by last thing i can remember is being in kindergarden worrying about candy. I think next year is going to fly by not that many classes and only have to stay a half a day.. Not so much stress it's going to feel like bliss. Plus I wouldn't have to deal with so much drama and I can't leave out the fact that we are going to be the oldest class. So yeah Senior year is going to be the bomb I hope!!!

To what extent would I go to Guarantee my survival

I would fight with everything I had for my own survival. But, I wouldn't kill someone for my survival.

Like if it was for my family and my sisters were being hurt. You bet you I would protect them in a heart beat probably doing it carelessly too. I wouldn't care I would be bound and determined. After I got them to safety and I was in danger I would fight until I passed out. Who would want to die? I know I DONOT!!1

I guess it depends on the scenerio if I would kill someone or not?..If they were shooting at me no doubt I would defend myself. I wouldn't try to kill them maybe hurt them so badly I could get away and they would't pursue me. I would be devastated if I accidently killed someone. I guess though if it did come down to me or the other person dieing I would try my hardest to be the one to live unless it's family or close friends.

Survival Essay

People tend to be eight times more likely to be involved in a home invasion attack than someone in a house fire. When intruders enter someone's home forcefully, whether for thrill or to rob and to take someone's family hostage, this is considered to be a home invasion. Do not plan just for a break in or to be robbed. The invaders could have other plans that could be more vicious then peole might htink. Easy scenerios are easy to plan for, but people have to plan for the more difficult to or families will not be safe. How to survive a home invasion?

One way to survive a hoem invasion would be to have a plan. Number one tactic would be to have a code declares "5 Tatical Tips to Survive a Home Invasion" by Jeff Anderson. Developing a code for example like "Escape" would give the signal to the entire family, that it's time to get moving. Keep the code simple not some kind of secret code like "Red Wolf". Keep it straight to the point like "Escape". Secondly Anderson also notes families needs to decide somewhere for a safe-room, a place to group up and feel secure. A safe-room provides somewhere that everyone can meet up at the same time and place. The room should have precise items. " The one thing you must have in this room is a phone"....Another item a perosn would need is a weapon. One more objective would be not to leave the room under any circumstances. "Even if you're pretty sure the home invasion is finished and the intruders have left, do not leave the safe-room." If someone did leave they could be squashed like a bug. Not having a plan for a home invasion would make the family in the home not prepared or organized.

Another way to survive a home invasion would be to be compliant. "How to Survive Two Armed Robberies (And how you can too)" by Len Penzo. He realized that if people stays calm it helps the circumstance. People need to stay calm in a situation liek this because if someone was nervous they could get irrational. Let's say they make a sudden move and the intruders think something bad will happen and shoot them. "Most robbers are not professionals and are as nervous as you are." Len Penzo reports, "That in bad situation like this, don't try to be a hero, just wait." It could turn for the worst, for you and other victims. "The manager was trying to be a hero, saying he didn't have the combination and the robbers weren't buying it. In fact, they were using physical voilence..soon after a gun shot rang out and that's when i thought this was really going to be the end." Just do what is asked so all of it can be all over soon as possible.

However, unless the invaders have other plans than just robbing someone's house. For instance, they come into the home and kidnap someone, it explains in "Kidnapped Girl 13: I Wanted To Show I Survived" by Seamus McGraw and Call of the Wild by Jack London. Two victims of being kidnapped: Buck, a dog and Sarah, a 13 year old girl. No one knows what invaders are going to do coming into a home. People can not think its going to go down as simple as planned there is other scenerios. For example, Sarah was coming home from school with her little brother and the invader wa already int he house. He stabbed the little boy and took Sarah. Buck just trusted a faniliar friend of the farm. The man tricked him and Buck thought it was "merely a stroll," sold Buck to pull a sled. Invaders could also have in mind to "Murder" a family, point out McGraw. Another scenerio that could take place would be murder. Mathew Hoffman planned to kill the whole time. "A thief steals, and a muderer kills. Mathew broke in and stayed a hour until the mother and friend got home. He knocked the mother unconscious and her friend sprang at him and he killed both mother andfriend. Then he so happens to turn on the dog and kill it too." The man was not there to steal he was there to kill. Scenerios like this can not apply to have a plan and be compliant sepecially when they are there to kill. In a home invasion invaders could come in wanting to kidnap or be there for the thrill of murdering.

Reading this essay can help people survive a home invasion, from eas to hard scenerios. Prepare for the worst and do not think being kidnapped or murdered in the home could not happen, because situations happen like this all the time. Do not think something like that could not happen to any of us in the future, it could.

What does being Human Mean?

Being human is having emotions, conscious, have a soul, to reason , and to question what you have doubts about. Humans "go together like rama lama ding da ding da dong, that's the way it should be, whoa woo yeah!!! We are one of a kind."

Human being means to have a soul. For example, you see a car crash do you stop and help or just drive by? My uncle believes people with a soul would stop and help and if a person did not they would feel guilty. Being guilty also ties into emotions. If we did't have feelings and emotions, we would be an empty shell. Not really caring abotu anything, the world would be a hateful place. If we didnt have a soul, we wouldnt have emotions and feelings.

Being Human means to have a conscious and the ability to reason and question what you have doubts about. For instance, the Bible in God's word explains it thoroughly, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." That would fall into our conscious knowing what we can and cannot change. Knowing how human beings are different from live beings is the wisdom to know the difference. Like in Frankenstien, the monster knew he was different and knew no one would change towards him. He says, "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable by all living things!" Humans like Frankenstien understand and have more than one purpose in life.

Some would say that is what makes us different is to have a brain. From what i stated above in the quote from the Bible, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." It's not just the brain it has other factors combined. God granted us that so technically when Adam and Eve were made knew the differences and didn't have to learn

So basicaly everything I have written above is what i think being human means. The question how do we differ from live beings gives us an idea of what to think about. Liek parasites they are living, but isn't human beings. They don't have the characteristics or personalities that we do. They don't even have emotions and feelings, or even a soul for that matter. Human beings have many different ways they are different from live beings.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Survivor Synthesis: Home Invasion

Six Word Slant
  • Home Invasion is terrifying and outrageous.


140 Character Claim
  • Victims in a Home invasion would be able to survive by setting up a plan for a safe room unless the invaders have something else in mind.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Zeal to Survive

What I think the Zeal to survuve is, is miraculous. Human beings and creatures will to survive is everything and important to them. People would do anything for their survival and to go on in life.

Titantic is a very good example. There's people viciours pushing people out of the way to get on the other boats, leaving their loved ones behind stuck, people just laying down pretending to go to sleep, people playing their instruments without a care in the world, and people jumping in the water off the boat.

Call of the Wild is a little harder to explain, the Titantic the examples are out there and the Call of the Wild you have to find. When Buck was used as a sled dog for many many miles going on the same dreadful track over and over. He learned that you had to steal for more food, fight for leadership, learn to protect your food, stand up for yourself, and don't give up.

Two very different stories with horrible afflictions that are pretty much the same. They both do anything and everything they can to survive the horrible. Are you willing to do things you normally wouldn't do to survuve?

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Anthropomorphism

My name is Stinger the wasp and I'm going to be making a nest today. I'm flying and zipping around getting all the supplies i need for our home. When bam! Out of no where there's people everywhere. I'm beset by all sides. I'm like oh no! I need to protect my family. I go into full attack mode going after them dodging hands, books, feet, anything they bring my way. I have to scare them off! I have to watch my stinger so, i wont get hurt. Next thing i know here comes a flly swatter squashing my home and family. I was so let down and mad that I stung and stung that human even if i die. Then i go lie down somewhere ready to join my family so i close my eyes and wait.