Rwandan Patriotic Front

My group was the Rwandan Patriotic Front. We were issued in many conversations. I thought the whole discussion went very well with everyone issuing there own complaints. Many times it may have gotten off topic but we came through and had a very interesting debate. I actually learn much from the debate and hope I can see another one in the future of Mr. Fielders class. I also would like to say that there were a few groups that didn’t defend there selves while they were being addressed, but they had hard topics. I also enjoyed that each group had there own opening statement to just address the whole matter, then it went straight to an open discussion. It seemed at first no one wanted to really talk or start any discussions but that happens with every thing that’s done out loud in class, no one wants to start off simple because they don’t know what’s being asked to be done. Hopefully the choose of a model un or a similar discussion will be the way to go over topics like this one.
I think that the fault should go on many different groups, I think I United Nations just blew off the whole situation. The Interhameway messed with everything, Belgium and French didn’t help much either.

The American Scholar

Thesis: Emerson’s argument in "The American Scholar” about American society doesn't holds true today.


    American people are not trained to do one thing in this world today, they my have been in the past but the way the economy is people aren’t holding to one known job. If a person were to have one job to live for every day there wouldn’t be enough jobs for everyone to have their own, there isn’t enough jobs now for everyone that works. Due to the fact that there are so many jobs along with people they need to alternate and be able to do multiply things, like the present day assemble line. Many jobs have a rights list and people have different rights to work with certain things.

    In the article "The American Scholar" Emerson states that people are made into machines when they are told to know one thing. Emerson also gives an example, if your born on a farm, raised on a farm, and do farm work then you probably going to do farm work. Well when your on a farm you do your own work, you plow the different types of fields with different types of equipment, you need to know how to run the electronics in your combines. There are multiply things needed to be known to be a farmer or do anything in life. So the point I'm trying to make is that a person cant only know one thing multiply things are needed when doing anything.

Hunting

Hunting

To my family and I, hunting is a passion and a privilege. I have been hunting for four years, but I have been going out to the woods and blinds with my dad since I was about four years old. Although many people believe that hunting is cruel, this does not stop us. We are true hunters. Deer hunting helps the natural ecosystem by reducing the number of deer and controlling the deer population. But this is true about all wild animals.

I have hunted various species of animals including White-tailed deer, Colorado Rocky Mountain elk, Cotton Tail and Jack rabbits, squirrels, black bear, turkeys, and other migratory birds. All of these types of animals require different tactics. My favorite hunt is the elk. Mostly because it involves a trip to Colorado during the school year.

Over my years of hunting I have succeeded in my hunt of seven deer in which four of them were bucks. My biggest buck was 13 points. This means that there were 13 tines in the antlers. Last weekend I went hunting and observed a very nice eight point buck which never got close enough to get off a shot.

I hunt with bow and arrow but also with firearms. I prefer to bow hunt because it seems more challenging to be consistent with a bow. I also like that I need to be closer to the animal in order to have a successful shot, and when the animals so close to you your heart starts racing and you get this adrenaline rush, it’s a great experience.

My dad and I hunt together. It is a special time that we share with one another. My little brothers are not old enough to go yet, so this is a peaceful time away from them and the day to day craziness of the house. Hunting for us, is a year round event. We build blinds in the off season so that they are not new to the hunting area. We walk the farm land that we hunt on, and we keep study the deer’s behavior. We set up shooting lanes and create places/pathways that are irresistible for deer to avoid. We practice shooting our weapons because we always want to make a good clean hit. We also watch hunting videos to learn from other people. We even have filmed our own hunts just for fun.

Hunting is probably my favorite thing to do. I just love being one with nature and experiencing the out doors.

The Melting Glaciers

Chris Petz

10/15/09

6^th hour

Melting Glaciers

According to the “Big Melt” news story found on the New York Times http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/the-big-melt/1194811622279/index.html, the glaciers are melting more and more each year. It is melting earlier each year and refreezing later each year. This has three serious effects.

The first effect relates to the ecosystem. There are micro-organisms that live in the ice. These organisms feed the algae. As the ice decreases so does the amount of algae. The fish that are native to that part of the ocean feed off the algae. Less ice means less algae. Less algae means less fish. When the fish die or move to other areas to feed the seals that need the fish for food are unable to feed. So now the seals will start to become short on food. When the seals are forced to move to other areas the polar bears will no longer have their food source. So the ice melting causes this big chain reaction in the ecosystem. Polar bears also need the ice to rest, hunt and breed. Other animals that use the ice include herds of caribou that use the ice the walk across from one piece of land to another.

The second effect is that the ice that is melting is turning to water and raising the sea level. Many people think that if ice melt somewhere else if won’t effect us here in the United States, but water has to move and even out. If the sea level continues to rise then some of the land that is well known and populated such as the Florida Keys, will be covered with water. It is predicated that many of the small islands throughout the world that are popular tourist attractions will no longer exist. Both the land and the people will be gone.

The third problem effects the native people that live in the Antarctic. The people actually live on the ice and permafrost. They need the ice for transport of goods and materials to live. It was noted in the news story that because the ice is melting sooner in the year, the people have a harder time getting their supplies. The people also did not have sunburns in the past because the ice acted as a reflector of the UV rays. Now that the ice is smaller in size, the native people are being treated more for sun burns because the sun rays have nothing to reflect them upward.

My Pup.

My Puppy

My puppy was brought into the family in the end of last November. When we got her it was so cold, all the pups were bundled together in the corner of a barn stale. All the dogs were shivering as they split to see us walk in. We all pick and choose the ones we wanted but we all knew that only one that could go home with us. We came to a decision and picked the darkest lab there was.

At first we couldn’t come up with the right name and ended up calling her many names through out the first month. We called her Winnie, Bella, ect. Then we came up with the most perfect name for her. MAGGIE. Maggie was a little fight sty from the night we brought her home. Maggie developed her own way of getting attention. She would do things that wasn’t normal for dogs to do. She would find ways to escape for barriers that we would put her if so she didn’t chew anything. She would get out then chew soft toys, and shoes.

Maggie to this day is also a barker. She likes to bark. Weather its to get attention or to simply just bark. She would bark if she was left alone for one second. She would bark if she couldn’t hear you in the room. She would bark if she thought she was alone but really just couldn’t see you.

Now my puppy loves my dad. She loves my dad so much that we say that she’s my dads dog. If she’s to do any thing wrong we say dad your dog did this or she did that.But since she is so in love with my dad once he leaves the house and she hears his car start and pull away she is a totally different dog. She will terrorize my other dog so much that they will start to case each other around and start fighting with each other, Its very annoying because really my other dog hates Maggie.

Maggie also loves to chew things. She has chewed the wires off of our trailers 4 or 5 times and it pisses my dad off. But most of this bad chewing and barking has slowed down after Maggie has been going to obedience school. She really has changed a lot if you had the chance to meat her when she was little.

Maggie is currently 10 months old and weighs’ 69 pounds. Yes that’s a big puppy

First Day of School Essay

Chris Petz

9/20/09

6^th hour

A Start of a New Home

The sound of panting followed by a cool wet feeling hit me right in the face. This is how my dad woke me up on my first day of school, by sending my dog upstairs and telling her to “sick ’em” or in this case sick me. It sounds cruel, but really it’s just a funny thing my dad has always done on a school day. After my dad woke me up we had breakfast together. I like this time of the day because it is just him and I. After breakfast I continued with getting ready for school. I was nervous and excited about going to high school. I was excited to see my friends, but I was nervous that I would forget my locker combination or do something embarrassing.

My mom drove me to the bus stop because I was nowhere near being ready to start a new life in a new home called Stevenson. Even though I got up early, I still wandered around like I had no place to go. I thought I had my school stuff together, but when the time came to walk to the bus stop, it seemed I could not find all my supplies. So my mom drove me. I was glad she did because I would have missed the bus and she would not have been happy about driving me all the way to school.

Once I got to the bus stop, it felt good to see some of the friends I had not seen all summer. We quickly re-acquainted with each other and talked about the summer and how nice it would be if we could all be still be sleeping instead of standing there in the dark.

When I got to school I didn’t quite remember where to go, but soon figured out where my locker was located. I unpacked my things and put them away. I reviewed my schedule and walked to my first class. The hallways were crowded and I felt a bit overwhelmed. I wanted it to appear I knew where I was going, but I found myself watching the people more than I paid attention to where I was going. This worked out because I was able to find some other friends from last year. We got to spend a little time talking about our summer vacation and how the summer went by so fast. We also talked about how we wished we had one more week of summer. It helped to talk about something other than think about how nervous I was.

When the bell rang I entered the classroom. I quickly realized the teacher had a seating chart so I located my chair. I was happy to see a friend from last year in my class. Our seats were next to each other so I got more comfortable. My friend and I found our- selves talking about the football team and how much they would like to win the game this week. I learned that the football team was 2 and 0. As first hour continued we played a game to get to know everyone. . We also talked about what we were going to study during the school year. Before I knew it, the first hour was over. I thought to myself, I survived first hour I can survive the rest of the day.

Soon enough I was back at my locker, and off to second hour. I met up with a few of my friends and we found ourselves talking about school. I had an idea that the rest of the day was going to be very similar the first hour, and it was. I’ll tell you that when I got home I was worn out. I knew that the school year was going to be tough but it was a fresh start to my new home for the next four years.

A-Z descrbing words

A-is for archery which is one of my hobbies, adolescent because I am one


B-is for blue, the color of my eyes


C-is for Christopher, my first name


D-is for dogs because I'm a dog person and I have two.


E-is for Ethan the name of my youngest brother


F-is for fishing, a hobbie of mine


G-is for grade because I care about my grades


H-is for hunting because thats a very important hobby of mine.


I-is for impoverished, because I have no money


J-is for junk, I have alot in my room


K-is for kind. I am a kind person.


L-is for loyal. I am loyal to my friends.


M-is for Maggie, the name of my dog


N-is for nature. I like being outdoors in the nature.


O-is for outgoing because I'm nice and stand up for others when necessary


P-is for Petz because its my last name. P is for pets because I have a lot of pets


Q-is for question. My mom says I ask alot of questions.


R-is for ride. I like to ride my motorcycle.


S-I'm succsesful when I set appropriate goals


T-is for tease. I like to tease my brothers.


U-is for understanding. I am an understanding person.


V-is venturesome, because I like going on adventures.


W-is for weary because I go to bed weary after so much homework at night.


X- X-mas because its my favorite holiday


Y-is for young, I am a young person.


Z-if for zebras. I like zebras.

My First weeks of High school at Stevenson

My First weeks of High school at Stevenson

My first weeks of high school at Stevenson high school was tough and overwhelming at times but got through it. There were many things that I was not using to such as traveling across a much large school with only one min. extra time. Another thing is your teachers are stricter.
My first day started off with trouble immediately, couldn’t find my locker and had trouble getting to all my classes on time. I finally found short cuts around the school, but it was close every time. I needed a way to get from class to class without going to my locker after every class. Unless I really have to. I stared taking two classes to every second class. This worked for a day until I got huge text books for every single class that were required to bring every day. So that didn’t work out so well. So the first week had a few problems but they were solved fairly fast.
Most of my problems were solved by the encouragement of others and the ideas of other people. I solved my class problem by bringing a bag around with multiple classes in it. I made it a routine traveling to my locker at only certain times of the day. So I have adjusted to each change in my school day that’s different from last year.
I’ve taken responsibility for all my schoolwork and homework. And followed through on the classes I don’t like and just try my best. Every ones going to have them but you just have to stick the out until you get use to them. The first week of high school isn’t easy for any one and it will have its ups and downs at times but any one can survive it.