ESSAY RAISING A MORAL CHILD

Raising a moral child is possibly the most important thing a parent could do in the world that we live in today. If the older generation of today expects us to be able to run the country later on the future and be able to set good morals for our children, they should teach their children some. Their are so many kids today in this generation that are so disrespectful, rude, non-caring, etc. and who's to blame? Their parents. They are responsible for raising and teaching them good responsible morals that need to be passed down to future generations.
 But then again, I know plenty of parents that were raised well and taught great morals, but when it comes to them and raising their children they don't apply many of the principles that they were taught and don't discipline their children the way that they were. It really depends on the person and how they choose to go about raising their own children. They just need to realize that the kids of my generation are the way they are because of how they raised them, not necessarily bad just not good enough.
For me personally when I see a person walking towards the especially elderly people I make sure that I hold the door open for them. I do it because I know it makes some people happy, and I know I would like some one my age to do the same thing for my grandparents and family. It just depends on how the persons brain works because I know some people who's brains just don't tell them to do these simple things.

LAUNCH

What do you really want to do?
-I want to somehow integrate the study of music and basketball into my education.

 How can you use the tools from Fall?
-I can use the internet to do research about the two subjects and incorporate the two into my studies.

What will I need to do so that in June I have no regrets and feel awesome?
-I want to have a good grade in the class and feel like I was able to learn new things the way that I wanted to.

What will impress/convince others?
-Hopefully my blog and my end of the year project will be impress/convince others.

What are you doing to make your idea a reality?
-I'm starting to think about what I really want to do in life and I would like to take action with my goals.

 Building a community.?
-I know a lot of people who share the same love for music and basketball just like me. It would be the greatest thing ever if I could talk to a great music artist like Kendrick Lamar or Schoolboy Q, or a famous basketball player who ever played the game and see how they want there skills to be integrated into the classroom.

vocabulary: spring list 2

Accoutrement- additional items of dress or equipment worn by a person or used for a particular activity.
 Apogee- The climax.
 Apropos- with reference to.
 Bicker- argue about petty and trivial matters.
 Coalesce- come together and form one mass or whole.
 Contretemps- an unexpected and unfortunate occurrence.
 Convolution- a coil or twist.
 Cull- select from a large quantity.
 Disparate- essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison.
 Dogmatic- expressing personal opinions or beliefs as if they are correct.
 Licentious- Lacking moral discipline or ignoring restraint.
 Noxious- harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.
 Polemic- a strong written or verbal attack on someone.
 Populous- having a large population.
 Probity- the quality of having strong moral principles.
 Repartee- conversation or speech characterized by quick witty comments or replies.
 Supervene- occur later then implied.
 Truncate- shorten by cutting off the top or end.
 Unimpeachable- not able to be doubted, questioned, or criticized.

VOCAB #1 PERFORMANCE REVIEW

I did pretty well on the first vocabulary quiz of the spring semester. I got a reasonable 8out of 10 correct. Maybe next time with a little bit more studying I will be able to get a 100%.

vocabulary: spring list 1

Adumbrate: Report or represent in outline.
Apotheosis- climax.
Ascetic- the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence.
Bauble- small trinket or decoration.
Beguile- trick.
Burgeon- begin to grow or increase rapidly.
Complement- a thing that completes or brings to perfection.
Contumacious- stubbornly or willingly disobedient to authority.
Curmudgeon- bad tempered person.
Didactic- intended to teach.

HACKING MY EDUCATION

I would like to be able to use this course in a way that it will help me figure out what I want to do with my life. Graduation is just around the corner and I don't really know what I want to do, and that's scary. If this course could some how help me figure out what I want to do, I would very much appreciate that.

RACIAL PROFILING LIVES ON

So this article says that police in New York now have the ability to stop and search African and Latino people...just because. Especially in high crime African-American and Latinos areas a police officer could search and arrest a man even if it was for a very minor infraction. This puts many African-American and Latinos at a high risk for surveillance, harassment, violence and death.