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Our opinion of Social Media after doing the Project

In the beginning of the project, I thought that social media is a bad idea introduce our project because most of the students' accounts were terminated and many troubles happened. After couple of weeks, my opinion in doing a project in a social media had changed, I recognized that it is better than writing in a sheet of paper, as we can share opinions, thoughts, photos, songs and quotes. This project will also benefit many people other than students by giving them useful photos and ideas about justice and reputation.

Social media is fun and easy to use, I can simply do my my project at home or in any place where Wi-Fi exist, as long as I have my phone or Ipad. While writing is much harder, we cannot look to our classmates ideas to help us do ours, we cannot post videos or pictures that represent our idea in justice or reputation. There are over estimated number of reasons that can support social media to become a school projects.

Many people think that social media is a bad idea to introduce our projects because basically it distract the students from focusing on the project and it recommend the students to use their electronic devices. But look here, we are all surrounded by social media in our present community. Linking this catastrophe to a useful english project will change people's idea about social media and it will make them understand social networking as a website used to benefit their own future. Will there be any fun way for students to write their own thoughts and opinions better than social media? Lets change our grey landscape to social to a green colourful world that can help students to do their projects in school.

week 7

Rewriting a scene from the Piano Lessons

Doaker: Avery brought a man who buy instruments to our house, the buyer gave Berniece a seductive price to sell the piano, but Berniece refused to sell the piano.

Boy Willie:What is the Price??

Doaker: it was four thousand dollars, thats what I remember.

Boy Willie: Cooooll !! I am going to find this man and sell the piano and then give the half to Berniece so that she don't cry, then I will buy Sutter's land to grow crops, good bye Doaker we have work to do right now. (to Lymon) common Lymon, lets sell all these watermelons to afford space in the truck for the piano.

Lymon: See ya Doaker, say hello to Berniece when she wake up.

You can sit up here and look at the piano for the next hundred years and it's just gonna be a piano.You can't make more than that. -Boy Willie

In this meaningful quote from Boy Willie, we understand that leaving the piano as a sad memory for Boy willie and Berniece father's death will not benefit anyone, especially that Berniece didn't touch it from years. This quote can persuade us that the Piano will not help anyone in anything more than grief if it was not sold.

week 6

The Extra Assignment from Ms. Shannon

4) Answer these questions with detail to support your answers.

1) Do you like tumblr? Why/why not? Do you prefer a different social media website? What website could also be used to do this type of school assignment?

Yes, it is an excellent website to share ideas and thoughts. Tumblr enable us to know the way everyone thinks about justice and reputation and the way he understand the Piano Lesson book. I prefer Tumblr to be our social media website because it gave us the ability to share everything, including photos, songs, videos, and quote. The best part of Tumblr is that we can edit and delete our posts.

2) Was this tumblr assignment good, or would you have preferred writing your responses in a journal in class time? Why/why not?

The tumblr assignment is much better than writing on journals, because writing journals is very boring as it don't include photos, songs..ext. In tumblr we can comment and reblog our classmates posts, we can like other posts and share funny quotes and ideas, actually we work as if we are having fun instead of doing an english tough project.

3) What changes would you make to this assignment for next time?

I would increase the choices for ever week but keep the recommended tasks the same, just to give the students more chances to choose what the are good at.

week 6

Mediums of the Piano Lesson

The Piano lesson can be represented both a play and a movie. It can be represented as a play because the was already printed as a play script, and this would ease the producers and the directors in informing the play. The Piano Lesson could also be represented as a movie because the movie will make the story easy to understand, and because there are scenes that need motions and effects that cannot be done in the play, for example, the scene where the piano played alone without a player.

Before 5 years, I read a book called, "Charlie and the chocolate factory" and then it was turned into a movie. I wondered when I saw the book in a movie. The difference between both mediums is that the movie had skipped many scenes, it also contain more songs and it is way much easier to understand. The movie was much more entertaining but it changed a very important scene that made me feel confused.

week 5

Apple Reputation Article

A year ago, Apple seemed unstoppable. Its share price topped $700. Its cash horde eclipsed the GDP of many countries. Pundits mused about a $1 trillion market capwith a straight face.

But nowadays, Wall Street sees Apple very differently — and this morning’s much-hyped iPhone announcements from the tech giant did little to stop its year-long descent into stagnation. Apple’s gold phones, 64-bit processors, and fingerprint sensors barely budged the needle on Wall Street, as shares fell more than 2 percent from the day’s opening price of $506.20.

The great slide began last September. By April of this year, Apple had shed nearly $300 billion in value, and shares bottomed out below $400. As WIRED wrote at the time, bearish sellers had plenty of reason to doubt that the post-Jobs Apple could still dazzle. Yet Apple CEO Tim Cook did little to reassure investors. As Samsung handsets gained market share and prices on Android phones fell, investors doubted Apple could keep charging the premium prices that kept its margins high.

Worst and most obvious of all, Apple failed to feed the insatiable consumer appetite for the new. As has been widely reported, its new iPhone announcements today mark the end of the longest gap in new hardware releases since at least the launch of the iPad.

As that clock ticked, shares fell or stayed flat. Even the preview of iOS 7, the most radical redesign of Apple’s mobile operating system since its initial release, failed to mollify Wall Street.

If the market’s immediate reaction is any indication — and in the era of high-speed trading, it usually is — the iPhone 5C and 5S unveiled today still don’t go far enough. As the new phones were unveiled and tech writers cooed, investors reacted with a collective “meh.” After the presentation came to a close to the strains of Elvis Costello — no iWatch or new Apple TV in sight — the company’s share price began to trickle lower.

Though the faster, sleeker, more powerful phone is unarguably cool, the steps forward are still incremental. And incremental isn’t what the world expects from Apple. Steve Jobs’ death wasn’t an event of worldwide significance because he could craft better spec sheets. Apple’s brand is synonymous with vision, a corporate identity that was once its greatest asset. Now that asset has become a liability.

My opinion:

In my opinion this article is quite true, Apple company's reputation decreased since the death of Steve Job. I remember the days when Apple was seen to be the most valuable phone ever, but it suddenly fell when Android entered the market.

In my point of view, Apple's creativity has stopped. They improve their phones by changing their shapes, names, resolution, and camera. While in the time of Steve Jobs, he improved I phone 4 to 4s by adding "Siri", which is a service in the I-phone which can allow you to talk to your phone and ask him many questions as if you are talking with your friend, this is creativity. while now days, I-phone 6 was just a model similar Android to enable the people who prefer I phones to buy a phone similar to them. This type of improvement does not include creativity because it doesn't have something special and new to the world.

I hope that I-phone 7 to become a creative phone which can increase Apple's reputation, because I believe that I -phone 6 was only a model for those who loved Android's large size and his amazing shape and it lacks from creativity because the developers are busy improving I-phone 7.

Those who are influenced to my point of view just re-blog my post and write your comment.

Week 5

eissa10b

WINING BOY : That's the difference between the colored man and the white man. The colored man can't fix nothing with the law. (p. 38)

alwheibi10c

eissa10b:

This is to see how black people were blamed for everything and white people were forgiven. This shows how justice is not achieved, people still face racism and discrimination and that should stop.

I agree with you Eissa, this quote clearly showed us how justice was not achieved. Wining Boy revealed to us in this quote that whites are treated different from colored people, especially when he said, "That's the difference," and any difference between people according to their race is injustice.

Good work Eissa, this is the best quote until now which show injustice and I don't think that there will be another quote clearer than this one.

Week 5

The picture revealed to us that that the inheritance is equal to men and women, because everything is distributed by justice. To link this picture with our story, lets say that the inheritance is the piano, and it is now distributed equally between Berniece and Boy Willie, there is no right for any of them to do anything to the piano unless both of them accept the agreement. This is the main issue in the story, Boy Willie want to sell the piano and Berniece refused.

Week 4

Hey, Doaker. . . if Berniece don't want to sell that piano . . . I'm gonna cut it in half and go on and sell my half.

,said by Boy Willie

It is true that the piano is inherited equally by Boy Willie and Berniece, but it is unfair for Boy Willie to force Berniece to sell the piano. Berniece knew that this piano is very important to her family and it a precious instrument to her mother, and there is no right for anyone to sell it, only if they fell in a deep trouble. Boy Willie off coarse will not cut the piano into two pieces because it will no longer be a piano, but he meant that he will sell it with force and share the money equally with his sister. This is injustice because force is the not the way justice is performed, justice become when the distribution is accepted by both sides. For Boy Willie to work with justice, he have to try to persuade his sister to agree in selling the piano by telling Berniece her advantages in selling the piano.

Week 4

Martin Lawrence: Martin fits brilliantly in acting Boy Willie, because he is a comedian, active and talkative actor like Boy Willie. His appearance and attitude in the photo show us that he can become a great actor of Boy Willie's annoying characteristics.

Morgan Freeman: Doaker is a wise, old character, he is very serious and and have good manners. Morgan would probably become an excellent character to play Doaker's place, because he is an expert actor, and he look wise and serious like Doaker.

Robert Downey: Robert is Iron Man's actor, I will choose him to act Avery's place because his age is between 30 and 40, and as we know from the book that Avery is 38 years old. He looks ambitious like Avery, and he will attract all the audience in the play. Robert fits brilliantly to act Avery, but I am not sure if he will accept playing his place.

Week 4

Articles about injustice

Re "'Night Stalker' lived violently, dies in his hospital bed," June 8 The fact that serial killer Richard Ramirez was able to die of natural causes while on California's death row shows the injustice of our justice system. His victims suffered. Many died. Ramirez's living all these years while those he killed laid in graves was wrong. His being able to live off a system because of rights and laws is a slap in the face to everyone he hurt. After all, his victims were not protected like he was. Ramirez was guilty, and nothing changed that over time.

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This article note us that a murderer named Ramirez was not executed despite that there are many people laid in the graves because of him. My point of view to this article is that it is injustice because Ramirez must be arrested and punished because he took over peoples most important thing in there lives to live, which is there souls. But fortunately, Ramirez died with natural causes in the hospital's bed and there was no chance for the police to arrest him. Above that, there are people in particular countries who were punished harshly because they killed a person accidentally while Ramirez kill people deliberately.

week 3

How did Social networking help you better connect with the World around you?

Social networking is the major chain that can connect us to the world, with it we can communicate with our friends and relatives at any time without waiting more than a second. Social networking helped us to connect to the world in many different ways. For example:

1) Many of us had some difficulties in finding a friend with the same personality and manners he had wanted, so the best way to solve this problem is to look for friend in twitter and Facebook and he would easily find the person he wanted from all over the world.

2) It helped us to make an English project where we can comment to each other and share ideas about reputation and justice with our friends and the outer world. At the same time, it made our english project an entertainment project, because all the students enjoy typing and sharing meaningful photos from their opinion.

3) Social media also helped to know important news that happen in the world.

week 3

shaq-10-c

I think this is a very wise quote by Thomas Jefferson about justice. The quote basically means that it is sensible that if you want to be treated with justice, you have to treat with justice. Dont be a hypocrite going around telling people to apply justice while you’re doing the exact opposite.

"To gain justice, you have to give justice." - Omar Shaqqerson 😂😂😂

alwheibi10c

Indeed, I am with you Omar in this quote, all those who deal with injustice will not be given jusitce if he asked for it. In this way, if everybody did what the quote want us to understand, all the communities will become justice because no one want to be treated unfairly. This quote is maybe simple and it can be aplied in many things, like for example, respect others to gain respect, but the messages of those kind of quotes are valuable, and can easily influence others to work with justice because it is very reasonable. Good job Omar, I liked the quote you have chosen and your brilliant explanations.

Wk 3: reblog your friend's task

Why the Piano Lesson was Written?

In my opinion, the main idea August Wilson want to show us from writing the Piano Lesson is to forget the past and think for the future. The two main characters in the story that support my reason is Boy Willie and his sister Berniece. The two main characters in the story who confront my reasoning were Boy Willie and his sister Bernice. Boy Willie want to sell the piano in the name of his future, a future that will show his success in his positive life. Whereas Berniece don't want to sell the piano as well as that she keep it untouched without playing it. Above all, she even reject to marry Avery, and make a new page in her life, she prefer to keep her bad memories to control her future and reputation.

August Wilson connect this story to his real life. August felt that it is important for African Americans to be aware of their past, even if many parts of it was filled with struggle. August Wilson is trying from this story to send a message to all the people who had faced struggles in their past to look forward and forget all the bad memories in their life, and take the chance whenever it comes to start a new life, because who knows, maybe there will not be another chances to get a pride future and find a better life.

- Week 2: task 1

alwheibi10c

The prediction of justice from Eissa Al Wheibi 10C

I predict that justice will be applied in the story in the conflict between boy Willie and Berniece. I predict that Boy Willie will sell the piano to complete his business, while his sister Berniece want to keep it as a memory to her mother, because the piano is the most precious thing their mother had left to them. The piano is owned by Berniece and Boy Willie equally, and there is no right for him to sell it for his advantage.

This situation is injustice because both of them should accept selling the piano, and according to justice, both of them must be satisfied with the decision they have to do to the piano. Boy Willie in the story is very serious in selling the piano, he will not be contented until he complete his intention he had planned with his friend Lymon.

Week 2: task 3

"If you want peace work for justice," Said by Pope Paul VI

I chose this quote because it perfectly explain to us that Justice is the key to establish peace in every situation. Indeed, all the peaceful communities work with justice to become safe and have a good reputation in front of other communities. Peace and Justice are very related, when ever justice spread through the communities the peace increase. The reason for this relation is because if justice was the way in treating people, non of them will try to rebel or fight for his right because he was given all what he need and deserve. So that is peace, no problems, no rebels, and everybody is satisfied and relieved.

Week 2: task 2

The person who had a good reputation will never be forgotten, even after his death. Like for example, Sheik Zayed, he is still mentioned in people conversation for his generosity and liberality to his public, and for establishing a united,prosperous country that was able to hold the union for over 40 years without major difficulties. He will be known forever by the tracks he leave.

Wk 1: task 2

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