7 facts about Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was her uncle and FDR was her 5th cousin once removed, then later became husband and wife.
She had six children.
Eleanor Roosevelt was often called "Reluctant First Lady" because she was reluctant to be the first lady.
She held press conferences held open only to women reporters.
She helped refugee issues, home front issues, and soldiers' concerns. During WW2.
"Of one thing I am sure," she wrote, "in order to be useful we must stand for the things we feel are right, and we must work for those things wherever we find ourselves. It does very little good to believe in something unless you tell your friends and associates of your beliefs."
As an active leader in many organizations Eleanor chaired the first Presidential Commission on the Status of Women from 1961 until her death in November 1962. She sat on the boards of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the American Association for the United Nations, the Citizens Committee for Children, the Advisory Council for the Peace Corps. She helped found Americans for Democratic Action, the National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, and the Tractors for Freedom Committee. When organizations she suported were under attack (the American Committee for Yugoslav Relief, the Encampment for Citizenship)she agreed to serve as their honorary president to defend their reputations.
Many opposed what she did, but she did it anyway. She changed the Status Quo.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Persons of Moral Courage: Eleanor Roosevelt
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tic-Tac-Toe with the Wave
Theme: Quotes that represents the Book and Me.
The Book: The quotes I chose to for the book have things to do with individuality, equality, the lures of power, and speaking your own mind. I feel that those are the themes that are strongly represented in the book and these quotes go with it well.
- That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.-Aldous Huxley
-George Orwell
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
-Voltaire
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
- If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
- Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
- Represent Me: These quotes reflect my lifestyle. I like to lounge around, and laugh also. I also like to tease and I really am not a sporty person, more of a bookworm, but I think it's funny because I fence too.
- If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
- The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
- The fascination of as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
- Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
If Laurie hadn't stayed behind to clean up at the Grapevine she wouldn't have walked by where David was waiting for her when she did. If Laurie had gotten over he fear of the dark, she might have not walked by the tennis courts to feel more safe. Then David wouldn't have known where to wait for her, then they would have never had the confrontation and David would have had the same opinion that he'd always had about the Wave. Instead of being shocked into the truth.
That would set off a chain reaction of events in the book. David wouldn't have taken her to Mr. Ross's house, Mr. Ross wouldn't have had the same idea he'd had (since they gave him Carl Block and Alex Cooper) and the ending of the Wave might not have happened the way it did. Plus, Laurie needed the friend outside of the Wave.
Character: 20 years in the future
By Laurie Saunders
Weintronic just released the next gaming fad. Heavy gamers have been waiting for this for a while. Brianne N. top game designer has just announced that the game will feature: flaming bunnies of doom, and slimy creepy crawlers. While teaching oceanology at the university on the weekends, she has discovered a headcount of 3 new deep sea species. There is some speculation that she swims with great white sharks. Not surprising for the Olympic Women Champion of 2022, in fencing. She was last seen at best friend Carly Anderson's wedding (to esteemed computer programmer Andrew Brooks). Her next book is due out Fall next year. We also have gotten news of a little tea date between Brianne and friends, Carly, Kamil (2015 winner of So You Think You Can Dance), Aubrey (new Broadway star), and Laura Mendoza (film director).
Q/A: How does the need to belong and be accepted by others cloud our judgment and keep people from making good choices?
People sometimes have clouded judgment and make bad choices because they have a fear of not having their opinion accepted by others and fear not belonging.
If every one around you believes the same thing and are all agreed except for you, it would be hard to tell them, to argue your case. For example, in the book the Wave, while everyone really excited about Laurie was not and it was very hard for her to argue with her friends and watch as all of them turn against her. But she did in the end, on the other hand other members of the Grapevine opposed the Wave, but in the end feared the Wave too much to even show up at an anti-Wave meeting at her house.
Others like Brian thought the Wave was stupid. He said so when Laurie had not wanted to salute him at the football game. But his judgment was clouded by fear of not being in the same group as everyone so he did not voice his thoughts. He could have told them, but he was of what people would think.
Robert was the complete opposite. the had been weird before that, he simply obeyed orders because he totally got sucked into the Wave. He was the one that everyone was trying to be out of fear. Only Robert didn't know that, he was accept finally because the things that everyone was doing out of fear Robert was totally devoted to, so when it was taken away so was his world.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Wave #1
The Wave by Todd Strasser is based at a school.
Do I think that student are misunderstood by parents and teachers?
I think that it depends what parents and teachers your dealing with. Different people treat kids differently. Some people have very high thoughts for kids, some think that they are wrong in every aspect of life. In all I think that if a child is dismissed without listening then it's very possible that they are misunderstood, but if you listen to what they think I think it's possible that they are just wrong. Or if they're right, good for them.
So if a parent or teacher says your wrong. They might not be misunderstand you they might understand you perfectly you just might be wrong. Every person has there own thoughts and actions so every person is misunderstood every once in a while. Kids especially by adults because the way they think is not always the same, no one knows exactly what another person is thinking.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Memoir #2 Memory Box Project
Teddy Bear Blues
The treacherous drop before me, a chill slips down my spine. But I am not afraid, because I can climb the monkey bars. I reach and my hand coils around the bar in front of me and I swing to the next rung and my grip slips. I fall to the ground, rocks dug into my back and I land on my arm now there is a slicing pain crawling up my arm. I pulled out I screamed, “Ms. Jodi! Ms. Jodi!”
She runs over, “What's wrong?”
An hour later my big sister comes back from her after school field trip. She goes to see me as soon as she heard what happened. I was still there because Ms. Jodi won't let me call my parents. She thought I was faking it and didn't believe that I'd broken my arm. How could she not believe me? I was a little girl sobbing clutching my arm in pain. I do not cry wolf.
Hot tears ran down my face, the pain wouldn't stop. My sister offered my a stuffed polar bear that she just won in a raffle. “Here, take it.” She had said.
“Are you sure.” I replied, I didn't want to take something from her that she'd won.
Of course she continued to say that I could have it and I continued to ask if she was sure. Until finally my prodding of her doubts worked and she decided that she did in fact want the bear.
I know what your thinking, what kind of person would take a teddy bear that they'd given to a Kindergarten with a broken arm? That person is Brittney, my sister.
Still, no matter how many times she is mean to me. I will still look up to here and go to her when I have problem, because after all she still is my big sister and my life wouldn't be the same without here.
Memoir #1 Memory Box Project
Still Remember
Blond hair, blue eyes and a crooked smile. That's my best friend. My car pulls into the driveway, as soon as it parks the door shoots open. Out comes a little black haired kid, that's me. Five minutes after we get home the doorbell rings. It's Connor that blond haired kid.
“Do you wanna come over to my house?” He asks.
“Okay, I said but I have to check with my mom.”
“Me too.” He replied.
But both of us already knew what they'd say, they'd say what they always said, “ Only if her mom says it's okay.” or “Only if his mom says it's okay.” But we always asked any way. Then I went strait across the street into his house or he went strait into mine, it happened like this everyday. I blazed out into the street, most of the other neighborhood kids were out already playing Hide n' Go Seek. We joined right in. That's how the day would go, everyday until the day he left. All I got when he left was a snow globe, I gave him a little tag that had my name on it. Then I never saw him again.
Well, actually, I did see him. But it was four years later. It was hard for us to talk, since we hadn't see each other for so long. I still had his, gift he still had mine.
