Model United Nations
Thsi project was about using the students in the classroom to make a model of the Uninted nations. The U.N. is a peace making organization made up of different countries. This organization was formed in response to World War 2. The intent is to make the world a safer place, and our model U.N. was to show us how this organization picks solutions in their professional ways.
Kyle Short
Kenya’s Policy Statement
Although there was a reason that Israel was split up, It seems to be that this resolution has created more problems than it has solved.
To give a brief explanation on the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the U.N. made a resolution permitting the return of Jews to Israel. So the country of Israel was split to “even it out” for the Jews and Palestinians.That caused many people to leave their homes and go to refugee camps or other countries. Therefore, the native Palestinians are out ruled by Jews. Our policy is that those who are not native to the country need to either get along with the Palestinians or leave.
Our policy as Kenyans, first and most important, is to find some way to stop the violence. Keep the Jews as far from the Palestinians as possible. Second, make the refugee camps more suitable for living. Examples of this are to install safer and more reliable electricity, provide clean water, and keep the sites clean. Or better yet turn these camps into living cities and tear out all the old and dangerous buildings. At the very least, the Palestinians need to be happy with where they live or they need to be let back into their rightful homes. Some of those living in the refugee camps still have deeds and keys to their houses that they were removed from. All of these conflicts are a violation of human rights and should be corrected. The U.N. needs to correct these mistakes.
Work Cited (MLA)
Source 1:
"Israeli Missions Around The World." Israeli Missions Around The World. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar.
2015.
Source 2:
"Write Better Papers, Faster!" |Online Research Library: Questia. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2015.
Source 3:
"The New Times | Rwanda." The New Times | Rwanda. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2015.
Source 4:
"Israel's Ties with Kenya Go Back a Long Way." The Globe and Mail. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2015.
Kenya’s Policy Statement
Although there was a reason that Israel was split up, It seems to be that this resolution has created more problems than it has solved.
To give a brief explanation on the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the U.N. made a resolution permitting the return of Jews to Israel. So the country of Israel was split to “even it out” for the Jews and Palestinians.That caused many people to leave their homes and go to refugee camps or other countries. Therefore, the native Palestinians are out ruled by Jews. Our policy is that those who are not native to the country need to either get along with the Palestinians or leave.
Our policy as Kenyans, first and most important, is to find some way to stop the violence. Keep the Jews as far from the Palestinians as possible. Second, make the refugee camps more suitable for living. Examples of this are to install safer and more reliable electricity, provide clean water, and keep the sites clean. Or better yet turn these camps into living cities and tear out all the old and dangerous buildings. At the very least, the Palestinians need to be happy with where they live or they need to be let back into their rightful homes. Some of those living in the refugee camps still have deeds and keys to their houses that they were removed from. All of these conflicts are a violation of human rights and should be corrected. The U.N. needs to correct these mistakes.
Work Cited (MLA)
Source 1:
"Israeli Missions Around The World." Israeli Missions Around The World. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar.
2015.
Source 2:
"Write Better Papers, Faster!" |Online Research Library: Questia. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2015.
Source 3:
"The New Times | Rwanda." The New Times | Rwanda. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2015.
Source 4:
"Israel's Ties with Kenya Go Back a Long Way." The Globe and Mail. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2015.
This project is important because of how important politics are in modern issues. Most of the time the U.N. will create a peacekeeping plan and or sanctions for different countries to try to keep the world a safe place.
This project was hard for me to do. I had a hard time motivating myself to do what i needed to do mostly because the importance of this project was unclear to me. Although, this taught me how to gather better evidence. I used to be terrible at gathering evidence. But shown in my policy paper bibliographies, there is very well laid out MLA format citations at the end of the paper.
Keeping track of time is my usual problem. Now i am better at it because of this project. I can get things done faster than usual now and i have been enjoying my speed, regardless of the amount of focus that I have or the project material. I am by far more efficient than that of when i was just starting out in this school and in this project.
Izzy Simpson’s resolution was a very interesting way to solve the Israeli/Palestinian issue. However it was strange to be because of the previously native beings had to pay a fee to get back into their homeland, but her resolution when explained made perfect sense.
This project was hard for me to do. I had a hard time motivating myself to do what i needed to do mostly because the importance of this project was unclear to me. Although, this taught me how to gather better evidence. I used to be terrible at gathering evidence. But shown in my policy paper bibliographies, there is very well laid out MLA format citations at the end of the paper.
Keeping track of time is my usual problem. Now i am better at it because of this project. I can get things done faster than usual now and i have been enjoying my speed, regardless of the amount of focus that I have or the project material. I am by far more efficient than that of when i was just starting out in this school and in this project.
Izzy Simpson’s resolution was a very interesting way to solve the Israeli/Palestinian issue. However it was strange to be because of the previously native beings had to pay a fee to get back into their homeland, but her resolution when explained made perfect sense.
The Tragedy
Kyle Short
The Road of Red (El Camino Del Rojo)
Prologue:
(Glen is walking home to his parent’s house on the streets of Las Cruses, New Mexico. Cold, hungry, and tired. He is talking to his old best friend while he walks.)
Glen: The stress it getting to my head, Ron.
Ron: Well it was nice of your parents to invite you back home.
(Glen’s stomach growls.)
Glen: (Moans in pain) I have to eat something. It’s been too long.
Ron: Well I can tell you this it will get better.
Glen: I hope so. I couldn’t imagine it being any worse.
Ron: Well it would if you died you know.
Glen: Don’t talk about death, Ron. It’s what took my wife away from me. And my only son. That car crash ruined my life.
(Glen scowls at the cars going by him on the highway.)
Glen: It was devastating that I was the only survivor. My wife and son… (Glen sniffles a little bit) taken from me. And the insurance bill took my house. Their deaths took me away from everything real. But I was never actually taken by death.
Ron: Sorry man. Don’t fixate on it too much.
Glen: Too late. My parents regret their decisions. They know I’m suffering and they are reaching out to me. I must take their hands.
(Glen reaches out to the front of him but grabs nothing but air. His stomach growls again. This time he stops. He adjusts his broken arm.)
Glen: God. The pain is unbearable.
Ron: Glen, calm down man. I know how it is. I really do.
Glen: I have been homeless for years. If this was going to get any worse it would have already.
(Silence fills the conversation. Glen cringes to the sound of a car on the highway.)
Ron: Look, your parent’s street, El Camino Del Rojo? I think…
(Glen turns down the road.)
Glen: I’ll be seeing you soon, Ron.
Ron: For sure, Glen.
(Glen walks into the distance)
Chorus:
These strange men
Where to they all go?
If they ever make it there
I do not know
When they walk
Down the road of red
They don’t come back
Because their dead.
Scene 1:
(Glen lays down on the porch swing as it turns out his parents aren’t home)
Glen: As I could understand, my parents aren’t home. They are busy with work and thing I will never have I guess. All my life they told me that I was going to be huge and successful. I guess I let them down…Too far down. I lost everything.
(Glen lays on the porch swing)
Glen: I’m so cold (Glen shivers)
Glen: I can’t wait to see my parents again.
(Glen starts to feel like a feather. For once in his life he is comfortable. He falls asleep.)
Chorus:
Glen is asleep
Peaceful but cold
But I’ll have you know he must not be old.
He is hungry it seems.
As I’m sure he isn’t in his dreams.
Is he still alive or dead?
Was his soul left behind on the road of red?
Scene 2:
(Glen is frozen and unmoving. He froze to death while he was asleep.)
(Glen’s parents are thrilled to see him. They had been out all night looking for him but he was on their porch the whole time.)
Brandi: Glen!
(Glen lay there, unresponsive.)
Brandi: Glen?
(Glen’s father sits down by him. He feels Glen’s coldness on his hand. He checks for a heartbeat, but his body is silent as the night itself.)
Dale: He’s gone.
Brandi: What?!
Dale: Feel…
(Glen’s mother puts her hand on Glen’s forehead.)
Brandi: I feel nothing. He’s so cold (A tear falls from her eye) We spent all this time looking for him. And he came home waiting for us. But he froze on our porch. He was such a good kid. (She kisses his forehead.)
Dale: I’m not crying Brandi (For once in Glen’s father’s life. He sheds a tear. Maybe two. Brandi knows he is but accepts that. Dale breaks down even more.) No. Glen, wake up! Wake up Glen!
Brandi: Dale he’s not asleep. He’s dead. It’s no use. Goodbye Glen. (His mother wiped the tears from her eyes and his father’s eyes too.) We should have helped him when we had the chance to Dale.
Dale: I don’t understand how I can lose my only son to death already. I had so much I wanted to do with him when he came back home. He was 49! How could he die like this? (Brandi puts an arm on Dale’s shoulder.)
Brandi: I know we should have helped him when we had the chance.
Chorus:
Glen was gone
Long ago
But his parents helped him
Even when he did go
He couldn’t help
The bitter memories
Of his family’s past
However he, did not last
The pain got to his head
As he walked down the road of red.
The Road of Red (El Camino Del Rojo)
Prologue:
(Glen is walking home to his parent’s house on the streets of Las Cruses, New Mexico. Cold, hungry, and tired. He is talking to his old best friend while he walks.)
Glen: The stress it getting to my head, Ron.
Ron: Well it was nice of your parents to invite you back home.
(Glen’s stomach growls.)
Glen: (Moans in pain) I have to eat something. It’s been too long.
Ron: Well I can tell you this it will get better.
Glen: I hope so. I couldn’t imagine it being any worse.
Ron: Well it would if you died you know.
Glen: Don’t talk about death, Ron. It’s what took my wife away from me. And my only son. That car crash ruined my life.
(Glen scowls at the cars going by him on the highway.)
Glen: It was devastating that I was the only survivor. My wife and son… (Glen sniffles a little bit) taken from me. And the insurance bill took my house. Their deaths took me away from everything real. But I was never actually taken by death.
Ron: Sorry man. Don’t fixate on it too much.
Glen: Too late. My parents regret their decisions. They know I’m suffering and they are reaching out to me. I must take their hands.
(Glen reaches out to the front of him but grabs nothing but air. His stomach growls again. This time he stops. He adjusts his broken arm.)
Glen: God. The pain is unbearable.
Ron: Glen, calm down man. I know how it is. I really do.
Glen: I have been homeless for years. If this was going to get any worse it would have already.
(Silence fills the conversation. Glen cringes to the sound of a car on the highway.)
Ron: Look, your parent’s street, El Camino Del Rojo? I think…
(Glen turns down the road.)
Glen: I’ll be seeing you soon, Ron.
Ron: For sure, Glen.
(Glen walks into the distance)
Chorus:
These strange men
Where to they all go?
If they ever make it there
I do not know
When they walk
Down the road of red
They don’t come back
Because their dead.
Scene 1:
(Glen lays down on the porch swing as it turns out his parents aren’t home)
Glen: As I could understand, my parents aren’t home. They are busy with work and thing I will never have I guess. All my life they told me that I was going to be huge and successful. I guess I let them down…Too far down. I lost everything.
(Glen lays on the porch swing)
Glen: I’m so cold (Glen shivers)
Glen: I can’t wait to see my parents again.
(Glen starts to feel like a feather. For once in his life he is comfortable. He falls asleep.)
Chorus:
Glen is asleep
Peaceful but cold
But I’ll have you know he must not be old.
He is hungry it seems.
As I’m sure he isn’t in his dreams.
Is he still alive or dead?
Was his soul left behind on the road of red?
Scene 2:
(Glen is frozen and unmoving. He froze to death while he was asleep.)
(Glen’s parents are thrilled to see him. They had been out all night looking for him but he was on their porch the whole time.)
Brandi: Glen!
(Glen lay there, unresponsive.)
Brandi: Glen?
(Glen’s father sits down by him. He feels Glen’s coldness on his hand. He checks for a heartbeat, but his body is silent as the night itself.)
Dale: He’s gone.
Brandi: What?!
Dale: Feel…
(Glen’s mother puts her hand on Glen’s forehead.)
Brandi: I feel nothing. He’s so cold (A tear falls from her eye) We spent all this time looking for him. And he came home waiting for us. But he froze on our porch. He was such a good kid. (She kisses his forehead.)
Dale: I’m not crying Brandi (For once in Glen’s father’s life. He sheds a tear. Maybe two. Brandi knows he is but accepts that. Dale breaks down even more.) No. Glen, wake up! Wake up Glen!
Brandi: Dale he’s not asleep. He’s dead. It’s no use. Goodbye Glen. (His mother wiped the tears from her eyes and his father’s eyes too.) We should have helped him when we had the chance to Dale.
Dale: I don’t understand how I can lose my only son to death already. I had so much I wanted to do with him when he came back home. He was 49! How could he die like this? (Brandi puts an arm on Dale’s shoulder.)
Brandi: I know we should have helped him when we had the chance.
Chorus:
Glen was gone
Long ago
But his parents helped him
Even when he did go
He couldn’t help
The bitter memories
Of his family’s past
However he, did not last
The pain got to his head
As he walked down the road of red.
Reflection:
I am proud of the tragedy itself. I developed it well and I tried to refine it as much as I could on my own. I think it turned out great because it is actually tragic in its own way. Specifically the character flaws that Glen has. He is scared because of his family’s death and because of that he will never drive again. He is so flawed by this that he had become homeless but never wanted to die because that is what took his family from him. He was really messed up by all of that.
How I would help is to suggest better time management. I did a terrible job with this and didn’t finish the visuals on time. I would highly suggest that. I would have farther refined my visuals. I chose the graphic novel and it was the hardest choice there was. I made it even harder by deciding to draw it by hand. That is the only thing I would change next time.
The hardest task that I had was trying to fit all of my work into a small amount of time. I couldn’t spread it out like I would have liked to. It went all over the place and I wish I could have managed it a little better than I did. The way I cooperated with this was by making sure I got everything I needed to make it work for me and my teacher.
I am proud of the tragedy itself. I developed it well and I tried to refine it as much as I could on my own. I think it turned out great because it is actually tragic in its own way. Specifically the character flaws that Glen has. He is scared because of his family’s death and because of that he will never drive again. He is so flawed by this that he had become homeless but never wanted to die because that is what took his family from him. He was really messed up by all of that.
How I would help is to suggest better time management. I did a terrible job with this and didn’t finish the visuals on time. I would highly suggest that. I would have farther refined my visuals. I chose the graphic novel and it was the hardest choice there was. I made it even harder by deciding to draw it by hand. That is the only thing I would change next time.
The hardest task that I had was trying to fit all of my work into a small amount of time. I couldn’t spread it out like I would have liked to. It went all over the place and I wish I could have managed it a little better than I did. The way I cooperated with this was by making sure I got everything I needed to make it work for me and my teacher.
My Mask for Humanities
My mask(shown below) was a project done by our 9th grade humanities class. We wrote essays explaining how social issues have made us who we are. Then we made masks out of plaster and painted them to show this. My particular one (picture below) show three different things that were explained in my essay. Gender: Show on the top of my mask are two colors, blue and pink. Generally you will picture those two colors representing boys and girls. But this itself is a stereotype, which is why I used it. The middle two colors describe Race, being the two opposite colors black and white. I chose specifically these opposite colors because of how different Race is to most people. But we are all human! And lastly, I have the bottom row, with just green. This represents economic class. I originally intended it to be a light green, but it didn't turn out. I also aimed to have dollar signs on the paint but they didn't show either. There is definitely still room for refinement in this...
The Mask of My World by Jack Short
Socialization is the process of developing norms and customs providing a person with the skills necessary for participating in his or her social groups. Also involving influential action in a certain family customs. I have been socialized in different ways due to my lack of exposure to the media. However, I know some things that are still generic such as high school stereotypes and racism. I have been influenced in many different ways, such as to think the rich are selfish, as a white man, I am hated by ethnic people, and Gender is the way I have been strangely socialized in.
Most men would think of themselves to need to be strong and fearless. Personally I don’t agree with this mostly because of how my parents taught me. As a man, stereotypically, I am seen to need to be strong to survive. As a kid I had friends who were more athletic than me by far, and tougher than me. That just isn’t who I am. I tried to be what they told me I needed to be, I tried to get tougher than I was, and eventually I got to that point. I didn’t want to play football and fight like “men” stereotypically do. I then realized I don’t need to be like this. I then became myself exactly the opposite of some of the things the “Man Box” says, such as “you need to be tough”. I don’t like to fight. At all! I don’t understand where all this stuff about how men are just better than women came from, because they have no right to say that. I am friends with girls more and more now, and according to how my friends now treat me than in the past, women are better than men. But there are still issues with their side of it too. Women strive to be perfect. Which causes a lot of issues such as eating disorders. They cant all look like the girl on a magazine cover, and even then the girl on the magazine doesn’t even look like that. My friends are always telling me things like how they don’t fit in, they wish they were popular, they think their fat, and I always say “Don’t go off of what other people say, be yourself!” That’s what I did. I don’t need to be who everyone tells me who to be, I need to be myself!
Racism is discrimination by color of skin. I have been told not to be racist by lots of people. Personally I think it’s stupid to judge people by their skin tone. But there are so many unfair things in this world with this. A black man can call me a cracker and a stupid white kid and I can’t say anything back. No matter what I seem to say when it comes to this, I end up being a “racist cracker”. And I have always hated how I have been treated by ethnic people in my past, but a few years ago I thought of this one thing; there must be a reason why they treat me like this. But it turns out as I studied racism in school we have done very terrible things to ethnic people in the past. Such as slavery, taking over Native Americans’ territories and killing them off so we could have more space, now when you see an American person, ethnic people may picture a fat white guy sitting on a couch watching TV, as I have experienced myself. I was playing a game and I joined multiplayer in which its home country was Brazil. And the entire time I was on it I was getting racist stereotypical remarks from almost everyone there. I was called a fat stupid American and I left. I hate at how now white people don’t get respect anymore. It seems like anything we do, there is still racism in this world and I wish it could be fixed once and for all!
Economic class. Something no one seems comfortable talking about. Unless you are rich. The media has shown me how rude and snobby rich people are. Where they are making fun of the people who don’t have the stuff that they have. And it’s negative to me. My family, mainly my aunts and uncles, have wealthy backgrounds. But none of the rich people that I have met are anything like the ones they show on TV. Bill Gates actually donates a lot of money to charities and other things. My family donates money to hospitals and places that actually need it. Of course they have big houses and lots of things, but my family doesn’t rub it in anyone’s face. It’s just sad to me at how harsh the media makes us look.
In conclusion, the issues I have been exposed to are greatly affecting my everyday life. How there is still racism and other sad things that should have been ended long ago are still here, and how my economic class is portrayed on TV in a negative way. Or how gender stereotypes greatly affect society. I just find these issues so sad but they can be stopped!
My mask has a very generic design to it. On the top there are the colors pink and blue. Those represent gender. Pink is generally color coded to represent women. And Blue represents men. It actually shows a little stereotype in itself which is why I used it. It seems to me lots of men like the color pink. Black and white represents racism. Mostly because that is what the two main races with issues in this subject. And the last is green with black dollar signs on it. This of course represents money and economic class. There are so many things in this world, and these three have a big impact on my identity.
Most men would think of themselves to need to be strong and fearless. Personally I don’t agree with this mostly because of how my parents taught me. As a man, stereotypically, I am seen to need to be strong to survive. As a kid I had friends who were more athletic than me by far, and tougher than me. That just isn’t who I am. I tried to be what they told me I needed to be, I tried to get tougher than I was, and eventually I got to that point. I didn’t want to play football and fight like “men” stereotypically do. I then realized I don’t need to be like this. I then became myself exactly the opposite of some of the things the “Man Box” says, such as “you need to be tough”. I don’t like to fight. At all! I don’t understand where all this stuff about how men are just better than women came from, because they have no right to say that. I am friends with girls more and more now, and according to how my friends now treat me than in the past, women are better than men. But there are still issues with their side of it too. Women strive to be perfect. Which causes a lot of issues such as eating disorders. They cant all look like the girl on a magazine cover, and even then the girl on the magazine doesn’t even look like that. My friends are always telling me things like how they don’t fit in, they wish they were popular, they think their fat, and I always say “Don’t go off of what other people say, be yourself!” That’s what I did. I don’t need to be who everyone tells me who to be, I need to be myself!
Racism is discrimination by color of skin. I have been told not to be racist by lots of people. Personally I think it’s stupid to judge people by their skin tone. But there are so many unfair things in this world with this. A black man can call me a cracker and a stupid white kid and I can’t say anything back. No matter what I seem to say when it comes to this, I end up being a “racist cracker”. And I have always hated how I have been treated by ethnic people in my past, but a few years ago I thought of this one thing; there must be a reason why they treat me like this. But it turns out as I studied racism in school we have done very terrible things to ethnic people in the past. Such as slavery, taking over Native Americans’ territories and killing them off so we could have more space, now when you see an American person, ethnic people may picture a fat white guy sitting on a couch watching TV, as I have experienced myself. I was playing a game and I joined multiplayer in which its home country was Brazil. And the entire time I was on it I was getting racist stereotypical remarks from almost everyone there. I was called a fat stupid American and I left. I hate at how now white people don’t get respect anymore. It seems like anything we do, there is still racism in this world and I wish it could be fixed once and for all!
Economic class. Something no one seems comfortable talking about. Unless you are rich. The media has shown me how rude and snobby rich people are. Where they are making fun of the people who don’t have the stuff that they have. And it’s negative to me. My family, mainly my aunts and uncles, have wealthy backgrounds. But none of the rich people that I have met are anything like the ones they show on TV. Bill Gates actually donates a lot of money to charities and other things. My family donates money to hospitals and places that actually need it. Of course they have big houses and lots of things, but my family doesn’t rub it in anyone’s face. It’s just sad to me at how harsh the media makes us look.
In conclusion, the issues I have been exposed to are greatly affecting my everyday life. How there is still racism and other sad things that should have been ended long ago are still here, and how my economic class is portrayed on TV in a negative way. Or how gender stereotypes greatly affect society. I just find these issues so sad but they can be stopped!
My mask has a very generic design to it. On the top there are the colors pink and blue. Those represent gender. Pink is generally color coded to represent women. And Blue represents men. It actually shows a little stereotype in itself which is why I used it. It seems to me lots of men like the color pink. Black and white represents racism. Mostly because that is what the two main races with issues in this subject. And the last is green with black dollar signs on it. This of course represents money and economic class. There are so many things in this world, and these three have a big impact on my identity.
Project Reflection
Overall, I think i did pretty good on my essay. Having it contain my first complete thesis statement and most of my best topic selection in my history of essay writing. This school showed me how to strive for professionalism and success and is still pushing me to go even farther in this subject. I feel good about this project other than my mask. My mask needed great improvement, I spent two days on this mask and i spent the rest of my time on my essay. That was a bad mistake on my part because of how unfinished and boring my mask was. But I had found ways around these problems. By looking at my mask (Picture above) it is rough and boring, but i used forms of metaphorical explanation to cover up the sloppiness I had used. It went well other than how my mask had turned out.