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After reading the final chapter (Eighteen, plus epilogue) pull one quote from the finale to capture your feeling for the ending and then answer the following.

“I had never seen anything like it. I was nine years old, and I still thought of the police as the good guys. You get in trouble, you call the police, and

those flashing red-and-blue lights are going to come and save you. But I remember standing there watching my mom, flabbergasted, horrified that

These cops wouldn’t help her. That’s when I realized the police were not who I thought they were. They were men first, and police second” (noah 379)  ​​this quote shows alot of how life is where your belief in something fades away and reality sets in that not everything is what it seems like how his whole perspective changed on cops. 

“I saw more than anything that relationships are not sustained by violence but by love. Love is a creative act” (Noah 262). Describe his journey in this chapter as he comes to this realization. His journey in this chapter like the rest of the book is about his struggles and realizations like how he sees realiships like his and his mother were not built on love by showing but through the violence and struggles he learned love is beyond just the words but the actions that are done out of love. 

“My mother showed me what was possible” Noah writes at one point. Even though he’s heartbroken over his mother’s abusive marriage, what did she teach him? What advice from her do you think is most important to him? 

She taught him a lot throughout the story and that life isn't always going to go yourway and believing in faith and through struggle live will become easier even when in your faces its hard is what noah learning though his hardship and that to move forward is better than looking back and trying to fix mistakes and problems that is in the path. The most important advice she gave him is truly that faith and never giving in to hard times is what is most important. m

Trevor Noah tackles many heavy subjects that most would not consider humorous, from abuse to apartheid. How is he able to find humor even in such moments? What will you most remember about this book?

He finds humor through these moments by introducing a new way of looking at it and just giving people a new point of view makes it easier to understand even when the situation doesn't seem like it needs humor. The subtle humor is what makes the storytelling more interesting in the book. I most remember that love is shown in many ways that to the normal eye it's not love but to see in another point of view love is many things and what is done for love is what matters.

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As we approach the end of the semester, we will explore the origin story of one world’s most famous comedians, South African-born Trevor Noah. This week we’ll be reading pages 1-17 in his award-winning memoir. Who are some of your favorite comedians and why do you think comedy matters in the times we live in?

My favorite comedians are jack black, kevin hart and D.C young fly these all are people i used to see on tv when i was growing up.

THE BORING STUFF: Okay, if you’re going to dig into this memoir, it means understanding another country’s history. What was the “genius of apartheid” according to Trevor Noah? What are the main differences between the Xhosa and the Zulu tribes? Why do you think Noah’s very birth was a “crime?”  

The genius of apartheid is to convince people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other and war each other and hate one another so you can run them all. The difference between the Xhosa and the Zulu tribe is that the Zulu tribe are hardheads that fight till the end and the Xhosa tribe used their brains to fight by accepting the white people and learning their language to negotiate.  His very birth was a crime because he was born a mix of black and white especially during the apartheid it was seen as a crime to be mixed. It's like you're not supposed to be alive with everyone looking at you as the reason life is like this for him. 

On page five he writes, “I was nine years old when my mother threw me out of a moving car. It happened on a Sunday.” What do you eventually learn about the importance of religion for his family and the actual reason why he was thrown from a moving vehicle? How does he describe his relationship with his mother so far? 

The importance in religion is deeply shown in the family with Noah seeing it as god will being that they should stay home and his mom saying the devil is speaking. The reason why he was thrown from a moving vehicle is because his mom was saving him from being killed by men that hated Xhosa women especially how her children are mixed too. Thus show their relationship as he listens to his mom even when he's in doubt and god works in mysterious ways that they see differently but accept each other's opinion. 

How would you explain the magic of tacos to someone who’s never tried one before? What do you find striking about his experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoAU85wS1x0  (Warning *mild profanity used as part of this slice of life*) What do you look forward to finding out about another person’s experience as you continue to read? While his experience might be quite different from your own, how do you relate so far?

The magic of tacos is how a day goes depending on the quality of the taco. A soft shell with meat lettuce and pico de gallo is basicaa;ly chef kiss and it feels like you're being hugged by a relative you haven't seen in a long time. I see it as interesting seeing in  others eyes and their experiences with detail and sensory creating a storyline that opens my eyes. I relate with how religion can feel at times but in good faith comes a feeling of relief and going to multiple churches when he was younger is a reliable truth because I too went to many mosques when I was younger.

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Pollan’s essay is as much about the problem of problem-solving as it is a proposal for dealing with climate change. What do we do with the feeling that as individuals there is little we can do to influence really big issues such as homelessness, hunger, war, or climate change? Who wants to be just a drop in the bucket? Explore this dilemma by having a conversation in writing with an imaginary companion on a big issue you care about. First explain in writing what problem you think needs to be solved and why. (You might want to write about your potential research topic, if you want.) And then respond to your companion’s first question: You don’t think you could ever really do anything about it, do you? Carry on the conversation with your skeptical companion as long as you can.

We do as individuals like pollan said question if our little contributions to the solution can influence big issues that are above us. We also look for people higher than us like the government to figure it out and rely on wishful things then commitment to change.

I believe world hunger needs to be solved. There are many reasons for people to be hungry and may not have resources to make food. Feeding the less fortunate that have no choice to go starve when aid can be given.

1- companion

2- me

1 You don’t think you could ever really do anything about it, do you?

2 I don't really know if i can make a huge impact by myself but with helping hands of others i can help provide for people need food

1 It feels hopeless seeing my friends and family starve maybe god gave up on us

2 don't look down on yourself there's gonna be salvation and food soon i heard aid is being brought from all over the world to help save us

1 no way how much longer, eating rotten bread isn't what i need more of i already feeling sick but i got no choice.

2 No, good bread, water and rice is being brought don't give up just a little bit longer and hold on to the hope.

1 I trust you I'll try to hold off a little longer but my stomach has other plans.

Test your understanding of Pollan’s argument. After reading “Why Bother?” Compose a fast paragraph that summarizes how Pollan answers his own question: Why bother? What is the core reason and what are other compelling reasons?

Pollan answers his own questions with others' answers and conveys the reason why the reader should bother being given a chance to help climate change even if you feel like your little role wont make an impact you can live like the world is doing the same. The argument used is not telling but persuading in a down to earth relatable feeling of caring and bothering with making a change to your lifestyle even one step at a time. The core reason is we should act because personal changes break helplessness and create a sense of hope and shows that if you can make slight changes can influence others, shifting people's values and showing leaders people care. It's also another compelling reason like morally we should be responsible for living by our values.

Use both the “believing game” and “doubting game” to evaluate this claim from Wendell Berry and from Pollan: “the deep problem standing behind all of the other problems of industrial civilization is ‘specialization,’…the disease of the modern character." What will help us become healthier as a society?

What could help is instead of believing in people with the problem of specialization that can cause disconnect from nature and responsibility expecting people to do certain things instead of branching out and the disease of modern character being people not doing things to help because they don't know how to is what makes it a disease growing to others till nobody does anything. Truly rebuilding and pushing small ways to slow down climate change and find healthier ways to make society better like making your own garden or walking and biking could make a little difference but with enough people it can become a trend that improves the future of society.

Take a look at the Persuasive Research Proposal Assignment. What can we learn from Pollan's essay about our own upcoming assignment? (Note that there is no first person allowed in our essay, which must be fully objective.) Will you make sure to clearly define the problem and provide essential details about how your solution will address the problem you are writing about?

I will take the small little addition like giving others perspectives that are credible and include people's names when using their words and smoothly go through my essay and give citations of what others said. Not putting my opinion in a way to make it too easy to guess what my arguments are like in the Pollan essay, making sure to not allow any information to above anyones head and making sure my essay has good flow and makes sense to make the reader care about the problem.

Write a proposal—just around a page--to help resolve a problem that you care about. State how the problem impacts the reader and why the reader should care. Then, describe the solution and how it will make the work a better place. Make sure your proposal does the following:

Addresses a problem that is of consequence and of a manageable scale, including the problem’s causes and effects.

Provides evidence for the seriousness of the problem and for ways to solve it, justifying these solutions over alternatives. You can draw on your own experience but try to find one source that helps a reader understand the issue.

Is appropriate in both form and content to your purpose and audience.

Includes one graphic .

Homelessness impacts everyone by straining public resources like healthcare emergency services and law enforcement. It affects communities all across America and overall lowers the quality of life. People should care because homelessness could be your next bad year that can make you end up on the streets like the people you see on your way to work. A Lot of people didn't choose to be homeless but unfortunate events lead them to be on the streets. It could be a multiple of things like drug addiction, being out of work or even being kicked from home at a young age with no reliance on anyone to help. Social inequality and broken systems make us belittle and ignore it, allowing the problem to flourish and grow. There is multiple reasons why people avoid shelters that many say is the best opinion for the homeless but these reasons highlight how solutions come with cons like how in (alicia bones) article she talks about how “Two of the most common conditions that might dissuade a person from using a shelter are: Too few beds: Unhoused individuals or families are turned away due to lack of space. Locational challenges: Shelters may be located far away from services or in areas without public transportation.” she even speaks out about how theft is common and sexual assault with being near by people in a confind space this creates scenarios that arent suitable for people looking for somewhere to lay their head and take their chances outside. The solution to this problem of homelessness isn't to put money into these shelters but to invest in creating permanent residences to people who want to get off the streets and make a change from wherever they are coming from because like is easy for people who aren't living the life on the street but to ignore the growing problem isn't what is needed also making food drives in the communities to give what you have can make a impact and small impacts add up to large ones.

https://mrsc.org/stay-informed/mrsc-insight/february-2024/best-practices-shelters-part-one#:~:text=Two%20of%20the%20most%20common,in%20areas%20without%20public%20transportation.

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Part 1

What is the danger of a single story according to Chimamande Adichie?

The danger of a single story makes people think in a way that is flawed and isn't true. This one sided storytelling can make ideas on a story based on one description not the other side. Showing people as one thing over and over again till it sticks to that one story.

Discuss how what she calls “nkali” is part of the danger. What is the truth and problem of stereotypes in her words?

It's part of the danger by illustrating how power is given in storys with bad by giving power to one stereotype. The truth and problem in her writing is that storys matter and how they are portrayed is important to the truth and the problem of stereotypes is that it gives power to misinformation and bias and that can lead to people believing that people aren't on par with them.

What’s the most important idea you’ll take with you from this talk?

The important idea I will take from this is that storys matter and what one person says with bias isn't always the truth and new outlets portray the worst and the problems not the good.

Part 2

Compare and contrast the two lives featured in the short story.

The two lives John lived is a double conscious of one being black and another being white it’s shows a lot about how living with his black town and the difference between living in a white town

• Why do you think W.E.B. DuBois chose to write this as a fictional story rather than drawing upon a real life example?

Dubois chose the fictional story route because the fiction allows him to have greater freedom to explore the story of an black man during Jim Crow laws around it also allows him to create characters and scenarios that can show broader truths and audiences. Fiction has a better way of giving an emotional impact helping to connect with black African struggles and see it through a len.

• Discuss the role of education in the life of John Jones particularly. How does his education change how he sees his society and how he sees himself? Do you think that education, beyond preparing a student for a future career, can also change a person?

The role of education has changed his life with his education allowing him to see injustice and inequality with clarity within society. This reality forces him to confront that reality and learn to gain more knowledge to gain worth within himself and potential. I believe that education beyond preparing for a career can change a person with new knowledge comes a greater understanding of many things and transforms people to new persons.

• On a personal level, what connection do you draw between Chimamanda Achidie’s Ted Talk and the story told here?

The story and Achidie ted talk made connections to untapped stories and seeing one side that’s unfair but to live in an unjust world doesn’t mean you have to live by it. Also the connection to how being educated is key to a solution was important in this story.

• For your final response, choose ONE of the following options: Either, 1) Research and find out more about life during Jim Crow in the South (before the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s). Describe the particular troubles that African Americans faced in this time—OR—2) Consider what has changed in America since over a hundred years have passed since this story’s publication. Find the story of one person of color who was killed unjustly, either by police or by other forces in the community. Using research, discover their story and tell us what you find out.

A black man named Marcellus Williams 55 years old, was convicted in 1998 for the killing of Lisha Galye during the burglary of her St. Louis home. While she was in the shower “Marcellus” came into the home and grabbed a kitchen knife and when she went downstairs he stabbed her 43 times and made off with her husband's laptop and her purse. Authorities said he stole a jacket too to had the blood splatter on his shirt. His girlfriend wondered why he was wearing a jacket in hot weather; she later saw a purse and a computer that he “sold” a couple days later in his car. Prosecutors also cited testimony from Henry Cole who was his cell mate that he confessed to the murders but he and his girlfriend are both felons and Most likely want the 10,000 reward said by Marcellus' attorney. They said fingerprints, a bloody shoe print, hair and other evidence at the crime scene didn’t match Williams’. A crime scene investigator had testified that the killer wore gloves. Questions about the DNA evidence led St. Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell requested a hearing challenging William's guilt but days before the hearing new DNA was found on the knife belonging to members of the prosecutor office how handled it without gloves after the original crime lab tests. Without any dna that gave an alternative suspect. Williams attorney who’s black challenged the fairness of the jury white only one of the 12 jurors being black and that prosecutor Keith Larner removed 6 of the 7 black prospective jurors. The fairness of the verdict shows a lot of holes in the treatment of William that was put to the death penalty. I understand that people who murder others aren't all great and some deserve it but if someone could be innocent in the slight it should be looked into instead of pushed for guilt especially in how flawed some process of justice is done is horrible.

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discusion 4

Compare and contrast the two views.

Make sure to include a quote from Jean Twenge's article to show understanding.

Since this is a blog post with greater depth, explore your own personal experience in your comparison and contrast. Think back to when you got your first smartphone and how it impacted you. How important has your smartphone become in your life? If you tried an experiment and left it in a drawer for a day how much would you miss its absence?

What do you think are the ultimate lessons on smartphones? What else can we learn about how to use data to make an argument from these articles?

In both articles there are points that lead into a wider understanding of how social media affects the newer generation named igen in the article written by Jean  “have smartphones destroy a generation.” The Jean article has percentages and graphs to prove the reasons why social media is harmful, not like an article written by Sarah who just re-words Jean's pont and goes against it by trying to disprove Jean's writing. Sarah's article is subjective and persuasive to give you the other side of the coin that Jean is giving towards. They both try leading the reader to agree with their points and use quotes and other peoples experiences and reaching  the topic of social media affects on igen and Sarah trying to disprove Jean is not only what she does in her article Sarah also agrees with Jean on some of her point like  ‘Depression and suicide have many causes; too much technology is clearly not the only one. And the teen suicide rate was even higher in the 1990s, long before smartphones existed. Then again, about four times as many Americans now take antidepressants, which are often effective in treating severe depression, the type most strongly linked to suicide.’ They both think that correlating the variables of depression and smartphone use cant be completely blamed and there is some leeway between depression and smartphones being the cause. I got my first iphone was summer leading into 8th grade it was an amazing feeling even though it was a hand me down from my sister i still wanted to feel like how my friends with iphone had and it truly became a part of me i love calling my family ay frost and it got to me calling my friends and facetime them though quarantine back in 2020-2021. My iphone has become something i can't go a full day without but some days i like to work to limit myself on my phone usage.  If i left it in a drawer i would not be able to last more than 2 hours without getting bored. Only if I had a busy schedule outside would it be fine but if I'm home and it's still in my mind I'll be back on it in no time.  The ultimate lesson is that smartphones have good ways to see smartphones and bad. Just try to not have your life centered around smartphones and get outdoors with your family and friends and enjoy life not stuck to your phone. We can learn to take in data and make it so its not just assumptions made with bias facts that aren't true. Putting data together and calling it true isn't what should be put out there and arguments like these need support from data that is proved through experiments not just mashing data together.

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My list of brainstorm 

I wish i had:

A car 

A laptop

New jordan 5 shoes

A new job

A better sleep schedule

More clothes

"The Jury is Still Out.":

If crocs are good shoes for everyday wear

If my barber is being too aggressive with turning my head 

If crumble is a good cheat meal

If i look better with braces or no braces 

"My Media and My Obsessions.” :

I like the show invincible 

I like the show game of thrones 

I dislike the movie barbe 

I disliked the new movie love hurts 

I love the app titkok 

I like the anime one piece 

I like the genre of rap music 

I dislike rappers who mumble rap too much 

 "Things That Bother Me.":

Arguments with people that have no point  

Spicy food that burn my tongue 

Being bed sick/being sick easily 

Feeling lazy in my bed 

Getting easily injured from small things

Caring about the past that i can't change 

part:2

Why are people so obsessed with tiktok ?

It is not that tik tok is making people obsessed the second you download it but it slowly pulls you in with every scroll a new topic or video shows up.  Sooner or later you won't realize that you're obsessed with it till time flies and you get stuck scrolling for hours. The addiction for tiktok made people go crazy when it got banned before trump unbanned it but with that half day of ban people started having withdrawals and missing the app. It became a routine to open the app and scroll seeing videos that are your preference. The app is shown to be a great threat to the U.S government believing tik tok was stealing data of people.  This addiction to the app is beyond what old popular apps tik tok has made itself the king of all apps with how it grabs people attention and wastes your time with information that won't benefit you. 

Tiktok creates so many opportunities for people it gives jobs to people and expands businesses online and gives online presence and could overnight cause a businesses from going bankrupt to successful. The opportunities are endless it's not just a app to scroll till your brain rotten but is used to help spread information about world news that isn't shown on the tv new it shines new lights on topics and gives a space to voice your opinions and post, react and comment on post that could quickly be main paged to peoples for you pages, tik tok can teach you things and give you answers to your question just by one search. With all the attention it's getting tik tok is going farther in the future then its predecessors like vine and musically it is truly on a path to greatness.  

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discussion 4 questons 1-3 answered below

Conan Doyle gained fame by creating the world's foremost fictional detective in Sherlock Holmes, but in what ways did he fail to do good detective work himself when it came to the Case of the Cottingham Fairies?

He didn't go personally he sent a man that was bias and was trying so hard to confirm it and the woman that he found that made the pictures were making the whole thing up using drawings and taking pictures to make it seem like fairies are with them the camera trick even got to the point were photographers thought it was real to because it didnt looked like the picture was played with making Conan believe further that its truth his obsession clouded his mind from true facts and the steps took to confirm the existence was flawed and showed to be a lesson on how quickly storys cans go from 0 to 100 in no time. 

2.    Conan Doyle had lost both his son and brother in World War I. Deep in grief, he found himself in spiritualism, the occult, and beliefs in fairies. In the next essay, "The Devil Baby of Hull House," hundreds of people, particularly women and mothers, come to visit Hull House (a settlement home for immigrant families) intent on seeing a devil baby that does not in fact exist. What does author Jane Addams discover that many of these women share in common? She listens to the stories of these women, fascinated. Share one of those stories that she uncovers by paraphrasing it here. When you consider Conan Doyle and the stories of these women who come to Hull House, what are some observations you have about why people might be drawn into believing in things that don't exist? Try to draw connections between the essays.

Jane Addams discovered that many of the women had in common were that they were old women that had a horrible life and were miserable with men in their lives that worsened their view of life they used the devil baby to fuel their resentment of life and made an impossible existence into reality in their heads.  

Such was the mother of a feeble-minded boy who said, "I didn't have a devil baby myself, but I bore a poor “innocent,” who made me fight devils for twenty-three years.’ She told of her son’s experiences from the time the other little boys had put him up to stealing that they might hide in safety and leave him to be found with ‘the goods’ on him, until, grown into a huge man, he fell into the hands of professional burglars; he was evidently the dupe and stool-pigeon of the vicious and criminal until the very day he was locked into the State Penitentiary. ‘If people played with him a little, he went right off and did anything they told him to, and now he’s been set up for life. We call such innocents “God’s Fools” in the old country, but over here the Devil himself gets them. I’ve fought off bad men and boys from the poor lamb with my very fists; nobody ever came near the house except such like and the police officers who were always arresting him”

Even with protection of a mother with things getting out of hand life takes a turn for the son he wasn’t born a devils baby but grew up to be made into one what the woman called Gods fools the devil got to him and now he’s set for life in pententry. 

Some observations i made is that without proper evidence and deep diving to get tot the bottom of things if it truly exist or not can be the downfall of people also with long history that goes back centuries it hard to not believe it but going off facts not insights and opinions of others can help to eliminate whats fake and what's real research and proper evidence is keep like how Conan made sherlocks homes but didn't use his detective skills taught in his books.  He made  his belief in fairies into existence but not taking the steps to confirm iit personally by sending someone who's like minded like him bias started and the truth never came out till he died the pictures had no evidence and gave the impression it was real but was the complete opposite. The hull house devil baby was so far fetched that just speaking about it brought it into fruition making the woman belief in it it all starts from doubt and delusion that makes the impossible seem possible  

3.        "There is nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I can see, in some people seeing things that are invisible to others," Conan Doyle wrote. He conceded that, "Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and bare, like a landscape in the moon" (qtd. in Losure 92-93). More than a hundred years later in what ways do you agree with Doyle? Is there a particular mystery that you think is beyond science?

 I believe ghost can't be explained by science it like a invisible entity that grows in your mind that you feel but can't see it like your imagination gets head of you and you think someone is watching you or the door closing on itself it seen as a ghost doing somethings things move that have no reason moving it gives that evidence that something unnatural is occurring. Its something beyond the laws of science to me.

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Discussion 4 response:

In washington, Olympic national park there is a urban legend about Bigfoot sightings little believed it they seen the signs of footsteps that were too large to be human and traces of hair that look to be off a body of a monkey that it as tall as a giraffe and little is known other than that one night a group of campers set out on a 3 day hike across the park going deep into the rain forest and night was nearing with the sun disappearing over the horizon so they found a spot that was clear and set up camp overnight but in their tents they started to hear heavy footsteps that was unnatural so they unzipped the tent to peep outside using a lamp poked the lamp into the surrounding and with the corner of the hiker eye he seen a shadow of something large bigger than a bear and it was quick moving between the trees avoiding being seen it was as if it was hiding in the shadow so the hiker shut off the light and told everyone to be quiet and listen, seconds later sounds of branches on the floor being stepped on slowly came closer and closer till it was feets away from the tent then suddenly the bigfoot ran off back into the forest the hikers were scared for their lives and didnt sleep at the crack of dawn hurried back to leave the park swearing that their never return. “All it means is the FBI did a favor to a Bigfoot researcher,” Radford says.

“There’s nothing wrong with that, but it shouldn’t be mistaken for de facto government endorsement of the reality of Bigfoot.” Even so, Bigfoot believers may be tempted to spin it that way. “They love the idea that there’s a smoking gun in the FBI files—‘See, look, Bigfoot must be real, otherwise the FBI wouldn’t have taken it seriously,’” he continues. “Well, the FBI didn’t send out a team of investigators to look for Bigfoot, they agreed to run an analysis of 15 hairs."- https://www.history.com/news/bigfoot-fbi-file-investigation-discovery

I believe that bigfoot isn't real. No confirmed factual evidence is given more of assumptions and fake sightings that get people riled up not me though it was a fun joke to me when i was younger but realized it not much as much as santa being real.

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Adventure assignment

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College Writing

Yaxye mohamed

Adventure to mount everest

I'm not the one to back down from an adventure; I'm the type to face things head-on, but this adventure was out of my comfort zone. I love ice cream even in wintertime; just the feeling of it being cold outside just makes me crave it more. I don't know if it's just me, but back to my weekend adventure before I lose my train of thought. I was sitting on my bed wondering what adventure could spice up my weekend, so I called up my best homie, Zak. He always has something going on. I open my phone and ring him up. Three rings in, he answers and says, “YOO, Yaxye, what's up, bro?” I responded, “What up, Zak, I'm trying to find something to do over the weekend. Got any plans?” He let me know that a couple of our mutual friends were trying to go to Buck Hill. I didn't know what Buck Hill was at first but realized after opening Safari and doing research. I told him “I'm down, but I'm not interested in tubbing that's not something new that I've never done before.” He started laughing and said “Nahhh tubing for kids, we are going snowboarding” my eyes widened cause it gave me flash back to 6th grade Mrs. Gardner class field trip i went skiing and tried to impress everyone by ignoring the lessons that the staff was giving us showing off that i'm a fast learner i asked to be the first person up the kids hill so my entire class was watching me and when i looked down the hill it seem like i was standing on top of Mount Everest i leaned forward and went down my legs were shaking and my feet crossed and i face planted right in front of my class i lay there hearing them chuckle and laugh at me not my best moment i sat up looking at everyone come down the hill passing me It felt like my heart was at my feet. It was a feeling I had never felt before, nor did I want to embarrass myself again like that. Zak spoke and said, “Yo, you there, Yaxye?” I snapped back to reality and responded, “Yeah, I'm down.” Halfheartedly, I got off the phone with Zak and made my way to my closet and grabbed all my snow clothes, staying extra protected, especially in this weather: my jacket and snow pants, boots, and gloves, all essential for a day in the snow. Skiing wasn't good for me. What would snowboarding be to me? So I searched it up. I learned a new fact that snowboarding is indeed harder, and my next search was on how to snowboard. The video lessons seem easy, but I knew I had to experience it to understand how to use these instructions. I grabbed my keys and headed to buck hill i looked out my window passing it on highway 35E and it looked like it was more of a mountain then a hill i've seen Mount Everest online and it looks like it has no peak this one looks to be the same, after arriving in the parking lot and meeting my friends we headed to the front to go buy some tickets for renting snowboards and lift tickets and all that stuff needed i parted ways with 80 dollars was heartbroken but was consumed with fear more cause what if i embarrass myself. I was feeling the sense this gotta be impossible for me from the looks of it but i was also feeling that i'm here to prove to myself that if do this adventure i could give myself a clean mind and learn a new skill so i took those lessons that the videos gave me and tried for the first time to snowboard at first when i got off the lift and looked down the mountain i felt my leg tense up but took a deep breath and went down slowly my friends kept the same pace with me and told me “You got this Yaxye don't dig in the snow, balance yourself.” Their words of affirmation helped me a lot coming down the hill. I started getting the hang of it. I won't lie; I face-planted and landed on my butt a couple of times (it felt like 100 times), but it's more rewarding to get back up and try again, not as scary this time. I'm happy and see this as a successful weekend adventure. Hey, maybe next time I go, I'll see if I could hit a double flip like how the professional snowboarders in the Red Bull commercials do it.

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Another one that is useful not only for me but other classes could be quizlet to study and learn now tools for learning

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Some movies and shows I enjoyed watching and watched multiple times, like it so good that it is not just a one-watch movie or series to watch. I would recommend watching these. I don’t enjoy anime as much as before, but Fullmetal holds a special place in my heart, also Rush Hour and Project X. These movies were funny and put me on the edge of my seat. My favorite TV show was Prison Break. With all that free time during quarantine, I started binge-watching it.

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These books are books that I cherish because they impacted me and changed my world of thinking. For example, Diary of a Wimpy Kid was special to me because of its humorous storytelling and relatability to my life when I was struggling with my self-esteem and finding myself in middle school and relationships with other people like my friends, family, and teachers. I later read in quarantine and high school for class Long Walk to Water and Wonder for class, and at first I didn’t really care for the books till I gave them a chance and read them, and I found them eye-opening on life. It impacted me not like other books that I just read and forget about; these two resonated with me with the way they give interpretation of others POVs of hard life with situations that were not of their choosing, like in Wonder, where the main character is a boy who has a deformity that makes him different from others and how he navigates through it and his experiences. The book Long Walk to Water is a heartfelt story that gave me a whole new perspective on how lucky I am to not have to endure the struggle of war and walking through Sudan looking for somewhere safe to stay. It just gave me an appreciation for my life. Both stories were very inspiring, especially because they are both true stories that give me a whole new appreciation for these stories.

[cavemanyaxye]

Hello, this is my friend group that I had for since I was a middle schooler starting all the way in 7th grade. We formed this group, and together we have a close bond with each other. Even now we still have a group chat that speaks and sends messages to each other and plans activities together. This group has been through the worst, like quarantine, and helped me get to where I am today. This picture shows the brothers I have on the day I graduated high school last year.