SIMUN

SIMUN experiences.


What did you think of SIMUN?

I enjoyed SIMUN very much and it was a great experience for me. I look forward to it next year. Even though I thought my country (China) was going to be very difficult it was worth all the time and effort I put in to researching it, it may have been tough at times but I just stuck through it and still did a really good job.

How did you do?

As I said in the last question, I did very well. The first day I was under a lot of pressure because the first scenario that was brought up was “China hacked a number of European Companies websites”, so I was kind of freaking out when it was brought up the first day of my SIMUN experience, but I got on my game a held my ground against all the other countries. Also the first day I basically had no allies and everyone was against China.

How did you prepare?

I prepared by following the research, since Mrs. B told us that they had a relationship with all the scenarios that were going to be brought up during SIMUN. This prepared me for each of the scenarios and helps me figure out who were my allies or opposed to my country. Also during the 23 hour caucuses’ over night I would go back and re-prepare myself for what I thought were the next scenarios. In fact the first one went through the first day plus a small portion of the next day so I went home and prepared for the questions that I would be drilled with the next day.

What will you do differently next year to prepare.

Next year I will most likely try and research my country and all the questions that we are given even harder than I did this year, just so I’m properly prepared to the best of my ability for any discussions brought upon me at any time by any other country. I will most likely attempt to help an other people, such as the upper classmen did for me. I my even attend MAMUN, depending on how much money I can get together so I can go.

Taliban Invading Pakistain

What would “CHINA” (my country) do if the Taliban entered and occupied Pakistan government along with there nuclear war heads/ weapons of mass destruction?


    First off my SIMUN country was China and china has high relationships with Pakistan, as an allied nation. If the Taliban were to enter Pakistan and occupy nuclear weapons, and essentially occupy Pakistan, china would most likely try to help and take back Pakistan from the Taliban. Both Pakistan and china help each other out and back each other up on there ideas and ways of government. Pakistan supports china on any thing such as the support from Pakistan towards Tibet and Taiwan, as well as China Supporting Pakistan on the opposition for involvement in Afghanistan. China and Pakistan also share a close military relation, with China supplying a range of modern armaments to the Pakistani defense forces, and there is also a free trade agreement between China an Pakistan. Due to the high relationship between China and Pakistan, China would be the first to get in Pakistan and attempt to get the Taliban out. China would most likely not start nuclear war or any war that involves high impact missiles because it would be firing on there own allies people and government. China and Pakistan may also call upon help from other countries, maybe from the United Nations to be specific. But as you can see China would be the first to act against the Taliban, but it would really depend on what the Taliban does when they were to take the nuclear war heads over, if they were to start war china would most likely improvise and have to start the flight of missiles to Pakistan. Being the decision of china I would follow these actions and be the first to go into Pakistan to control the Taliban and gain Pakistan back from the Taliban.

The Pearl

The Pearl By John Steinbeck


   I am reading the Pearl by John Steinbeck. In this book there are many cultural differences. Such as the fact doctors and more wealth people were usually a different race or had a different background. in the beginning of the book a less wealthy person that lives in a village of small huts. The son of the main character was stung by a scorpion. The doctor states that he doesn’t want to deal with poor Indian boys. Kino and his wife then realized they have to relay on hope. they go diving for pearls unlike people that work for money, this is another reason the doctor turns him down. he goes fishing for these pearls and find the biggest oldest pearl had ever seen, and the town started calling it the pearl of the world. once he had the pearl everyone thought he was rich and famous. people began to attack him and the doctor even decides to heal the child. This shows that money can change the way people live or think towards people with money. I recently finished the book and there was an unexpected ending for my self, and its also a fairly small book that doesn’t take long to read but there’s meaning behind the story and it gives the reader a good lesson on life. I recommend this book to readers, not for the fact that it’s a short easy read but for the facts I stated above, that it’s a good story and there’s a lesson behind the book.

Mr. Fielder comment translator volume 1

Mr. Fielder comment translator volume 1


“Crap –“This means your paper is worse that the worse.

“Fart –“This means you have the absolute worse paper of the day/class.
“Struggle” This means you are to have troubles writing your paper while thinking it out. Mr. Fielder requires struggle in all of his papers. If you struggle you succeed.
“Big fisherize” To make your story to relate to the movie Big Fish.
“Damn-it Blazer” When Blazer messes up Mr. Fielders great ideas.
“You broke it” When you break something when it’s not actually broken
“Stay Focused” Don’t mess around and work or Mr. Fielder will get out the machetes from Rwanda.
“Prove This” Mr. Fielder says this when hes trying to stump you on a topic or question.
“Talking is not an Option” dont talk when Mr. Fielder wants you to work or he'll go make 30 copys of an artical and give you a crap loud of homework.
“Stronger” Mr. Fielder says this when he wants you to have a stronger point os idea.
“You Beat The System” When you beat the books or ideas, you will experience this when you learn about eliminating clutter.
“Roll up your sleeves” Mr.Fielders way of saying get to work and actually work.
“Clutter” a form of filler words or words that are not neededin writting, see this whole blog is full of clutter.
“They invented the paragraph in 1972” Mr. Fielders way of saying use paragrphs in your writing
“Blazer they created this thing called the capitol I” When blazer or anyone uses lower case i's in thier writing, mostly in blogs and in this sentence.

See volume two coming soon, due to the fact that Mr. fielder never gave me any more words to write down so i still accomplished my half ass job on this blog by cluttering the page using lower case i’s not staying focused not struggling hard enough and not having a strong idea or opinion. So this grade should be any where from a crap - to a fart -, or even both.


Oh and Mr. Fielder there was no way to put a picture on here or even a hyperlink so you shouldent mark me down a all for that cause i just saved you time by writing all about your wonderful comments.

Big Fisherized story

     Once I was told to write a story. I was told to rewrite a story from the past, and big fisherize it. Now some might say to big fisherize a story is not difficult, but I say its one of the toughest things you can do. To take a past story of your life would be messing with what actually happened if you were to big fisherize the story. The challenge is to have some thing actually happen in your life and think of how it was to be big fisherized. Now I thought long and hard about a story from the past and how I could big fisherized it. I thought of many stories that could have been tampered with. I asked my fellow classmates for pointers on writing this difficult piece art that our awesome teacher Mr. Fielder has brought to us on this fine day. I even thought of making up a story that would not be true in any way to me. I thought of copying some one else’s ideas (such as Dan P. did off of Brian Smith) but it just wouldn’t be me in this case of an assignment. So you can see I spent a lot of time thinking about this work of art I am presenting to you. Its now 7:30 and the real story starts now.

     This whole week I have had time to think about the big fisherized story that is due tomorrow, which is Friday February 19th 2010.It so happens that I thought of an excellent story to write that would be big fisherized all on its own. So I took a day for thoughts and other things to come to my senses. So I started to type it down. Although I had had time to think of story it was still difficult and had realized that Mr. Fielder wanted to challenge us and to struggle greatly on this wonderful piece. So I thought the story can never be told straight, and can be told many different ways every time. Therefore the big fisherized story is a big fish that can never be caught or in this case written. If you read this and it makes no sense at all don’t consult me because I already know it doesn’t make sense.
( See Mr. Fielders Comment translator 2 blog coming soon for definitions of struggle, challenge, and big fisherize)

Artical Response

China Rejects U.S. Complaints on Its Currency

Thesis: The U.S. should urge china to change their currency for a more fair trade.
     First off trade is at a great disadvantage to the U.S., due to the large debt the U.S. owes to china.In the artical China Rejects U.S. Complaints on Its Currency, By Edward Wong and Mark Landler, they state that " Economists agree with that assessment. They say that the Chinese currency, the renminbi, is undervalued by 25 to 40% compared to the dollar and other currencies. Now that statement says a lot right there, it says that the currency in china is far less in value to meny other contries. Think of it this way, you are at lunch someone is tradeing their oreos. You want thoughs oreos, but all you have is some crackers. China is the crackers and are no where close to value of the oreos (the U.S. dollar). If this trade goes through this was a great trade for China but, the not the U.S. because the values are way off.
     Some might have great ideas for approching this subject but I dont and niether do you. Some might say to stop with all the exports but the U.S. would loose so much from that and i think that China could maintain life without the U.S. Now China would be out  2.4 trillion $ in trade with the U.S. and the U.S. would be out so much supplies that are great essential luxury thing that american want and would have to find else where for much higher prices. So you can see how much we need china to stay a major export for the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/world/asia/05diplo.html?scp=1&sq=china%20rejects%20u.s.%20complaints%20on%20its%20currence&st=cse

What I've Learned in Mr. Fielders Class This Semester

What I've Learned in Mr. Fielders Class This Semester

     The thing I learned most is learning the background and history of the Rwandan Genocide. From watching Hotel Rwanda to Writing the Paul R. letters it covered the whole topic from left right. Without going over the Genocide I probably would never have known about it. I learned that people were killed by their neighbors or friend because small differences. Also that people were brain washed by the interahamway people through a radio station. During the debate, any small holes or questions I had were answered by my fellow classmates.
     I also learned a lot about the Australian aborigines. How they were set aside and pushed off their land so the British could dump their convicts there. How their children were taken, to go to British schools so they would leave their thoughts and culture behind. How the British were attempting to breed the aborigines out of existence, to abolish the whole culture as the British schools were also for. The Rabbit Proof Fence movie was very powerful looking at it in a way other than knowing absolutely nothing about the topic, And recently learning that the aborigines were hunted as if they were rabbits was an amazement to me. Also reading walkabout didn’t do much for me considering the last three or four chapters were way off topic to the rest of the book.
     I have learned much doing the article responses every so often that I now know what is expected from Mr. Fielder every week, and in the beginning of the year when he knew that we weren’t ready for two paragraphs he was right. From learning how to develop a paragraph the whole first card marking, I now know how to develop the first paragraph and base the second paragraph as support for the first one.
    I also learned to use the correct apostrophes and capitalization when writing papers. At first I was not so good at placing the correct apostrophes where they should go, but after a few lectures about the Jones’s I don’t think I will forgetting how to place apostrophes, and use the correct capitalization skills.
     I believe that I also achieved the goal of being in global ed. in this semester. I have learned that not all the different cultures we have learned about are not all the same, and that what we might think is weird or a lot different then what we are use to isn’t always different to other countries or cultures it’s a normal or regular thing to them.

Native American

Thesis: When considering the natives of America, Australia, Rwanda, and South Africa I would be a Native America to America.
     I would be a native American rather than a native to Australia, Rwanda or South Africa because if you were to look at the back ground of the other countries, they were much worse than the native Americans when the British first colonized here. The Australians (Blazer) were "hunted as if they were rabbits" when the British convicts were put in Australia, the Rwandans were hacked to death by ther fellow neighbors, and in South Africa people ended out in a couple wars, after they were pushed out of there land and came back several times.
     The native Americans were moved away from a part of there land at first and the British were just told to stay away from the Appilation Mt.s, were the dividing line of the natives and the colonizeing  British. As life went on with the British colonies, there was conflict with home land and the french wanting the land of the settlers, the natives got into all of it and fought a few wars with the french and British. Later on in life the Americans/British made meny purchase of land from the natives so they had less land but they were paid for it.

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.