Semester Test

My favorite musical of all time is Grease. I saw Grease for the first time when I was a little girl, and loved it ever since. For some reason, love stories are my favorite genre of movies. That is what the plot of Grease basically is. Two teens fall in love, get seperated, and then of course find each other in the future. Grease and High School Musical are very but the same, but also very different.
Grease was set during the 1950's. It is about a boy named Danny and a girl named Sandy. They met at the beach during summer vacation. When the time came that they each had to return home, they were devistated. Their summer love had ended. The next year, Sandy transferred to Rydell High School. Little did she know, Danny attended this school. When Danny first saw Sandy, he tried to play it off like he didn't care about her to impress his friends. Later though, the fell back in love and got their relationship back on track. Despite all of the high school drama, they managed to stay together. The musical ends as Danny and Sandy proudly graduate high school side by side.
The first time I saw High School Musical, I couldn't help but think that it was much like a musical I had seen before. Grease. The two musicals are very alike. They are both typical high school love stories. Just like in Grease, the two main characters in HSM, Troy and Gabriella fall in love at a Christmas party and are then forced to leave eachother. Gabriella ends up at Troy's school and they start to date. The big difference in the musicals is the time period. Since Grease takes place in an earlier time period, the fashion and hobbies of the characters in Grease are much different than those in HSM. In High School Musical, the fashion is very modern, and the hobbies of characters are much like hobbies of kids my age today.
I love absolutely everything about Grease. The songs play a big role in my love for the musical. They are so catchy. Also, I love the personalities of the characters. Often, things that they do and say remind me of the way my friends and I are sometimes. The only thing that I wish was different about the story was the way it ended. I really wish it would have showed if anything ever happened with Danny and Sandy in the future.
Grease will alwasys be one of my all time favorite movies. It has a great plot, and is much like other movies I have seen. And is by far one of the best high school love stories. I would strongly advise anyone who hasn't seen Grease to watch it.

Acceptance Speech

I have always dreamed of what this moment would be like. And let me say, it is far more exciting then I had ever imagined. I am so honored to accept such an amazing award and title. This is TRULY dream come true. Winning country artist of the year is a major accomplishment for me, but it wouldn't have been possible without the help of many great people. I would like to thank my parents, my managers, and most importantly, my fans.
My mom and dad have always been there for me. No matter what, they always supported the decisions I chose to make. I knew that whenever I went into the music industry, although things would be tough at first, that they would stand by my side and help me get through anything. So, Mom and Dad. Thank you so much for everything. Thank you for paying for voice lessons, and never giving up on me whenever things were hard.
Also, I would like to give a big thanks to all of my managers. Withough them, winning this award wouldn't even be possible. They always take care of me and make sure things will run smoothly during all shows and performances. The come along with me on all of my tours and put up with me when I'm having bad days. Thank you guys for always helping me out to the best of your ability.
Last but not least, a huge thanks to my amazing fans. You guys are the ones who actually voted to help me get this award. I appreciate you so very much. Thank you for buying my albums, and attending my concerts. Everything you do gets me one step closer to accomplishing my dreams. So please keep listening and buying. Thank you for helping my dreams come true.
Anyways, I accept this award so gratefully. Again, thank you to everyone who has helped make this accomplishment possible. This is honestly the high light of my year, and I hope to win more awards like this in the future. Thank you all, and God bless!!

Fiddle On The Roof Notes Continued

Tevye is laying in bed thinking about how to tell his wife that Tzeitel is not marrying the rich butcher. He has a nightmare. In his dream all of their dead relatives come back to life. In his dream, the grandma tells his wife that Tzeitel is marrying the tailor. His wife was furious. The butcher's wife comes up from the grave and gets mad at Tevye and his wife because she heard them talking about Tzeitel marrying the butcher. She said that if Tzeitel married the butcher she would let her live for 3 weeks an then come to her during the night and kill her. They try to bury Tevye and his wife alive. His wife thinks that her grandma came all the way into his dream so she could tell him about the tailor. She is now okay with Tzeitel marrying the tailor and not the butcher.
There is a parade of people walking down the street with candles as the sun is going down. They were going to watch Tzeitel marry Motel. After they are married everyone begins dancing. The men balance glass bottles of alcohol on their heads and do a dance. Lazar Wolf gets up in the middle of the wedding reception and starts yelling at Tevye. He was yelling because Tevye didn't keep his promise and let Tzeitel marry him. Perchik comes to the reception and tries to get girls to dance with him. They all run away because they think it is a sin. After him, everyone grabs a partner and starts dancing. People with weapons, fire, and horses show up and crash the wedding reception. They rip up all of the gifts that Tzeitel and Motel were given and knock over a lot of tables. The peop,e start destroying the whole town. They go into all of the stores and tear up materials.
Hodel is upset because Perchik is having to leave the next day. Perchik tells Hodel he wants to talk about marriage with her. He asks her to marry him. They run into Tevye. He tells him that he has bad news because he has to leave town. But he also has good news because they are engaged. However, Tevye does not approve. Perchik says that they are not asking for his permission but that they would like to have his blessing. He finally gives them his permission and blessing. Tevye goes home to tell his wife that Hodel and Perchik are getting married. She is mad because he is not rich and no one asked her permission. To calm her down Tevye tells her that he has a rich uncle.
Hodel wants to go to Siberia to live with Perchik and help him with his work. Holdel and her father are both very upset when she leaves. Hotel finally gets his sewing machine. People from all over town come to see his new machine. Hotel and Tzeitel had a baby. Chava and Fyedka were talking. I think they want to get married. She tries telling her father that she really likes Fyedka. He says no because Fyedka is a different kind of man. Chava tells her father that she wants to get married to Fyedka. He says no.
Golde runs down the street to catch Tevye. She tells him that Chava left town with Fyedka and that the preacher said they were married. As Tevye is walking down the road, Chava runs up behind him. She begs him to accept her and Fyedka. She screams and cries behind him as he says no.
A man of higher authority comes to Tevye's house and tells him that he has to pack up all of his belongings and leave the town. As a matter of fact, the whole town must pack up and leave. They only have 3 days.

Fiddler On The Roof Notes

There are a lot of people working in a villiage. Now, there is a man standing on top of his roof playing the fiddle.
The oldest daughter (Tzeitel) doesn't want the match maker to decide who she marries. The girls are talking about how she must get matched in order for them to get matched later. Two girls are singing outside about the matchmaker. The other girls are trying to tell her that she won't get matched with a good guy. That since she comes from a poor family, she can't complain about who she gets matched with.
Tevye is in the barn with the horses. He starts talking to God about how he made many poor men. Then, he begins to sing about what life would be like if he was rich. He then goes into town. There are a group of men who run up to him with a newspaper. There is an add in the paper about people who were forced to leave their home. A young boy named Perchik. He has an education. The boy states that one day all of the rich people's money will become theirs. He said he will make a living by giving children lessons. He tells Tevye that he will teach his 5 daughters about the bible. Tevye introduces Perchik to his daughters.
Tzeitel pulls Motel aside and tells him to ask her father for her hand in marriage. At first, he backed out and Tzeitel was very upset. The family stands around the table and says a prayer before they eat.
Lazar Wolf and Tevye have a meeting. Lazar tells him that he really likes his daughter and that he wants to marry his daughter. Tevye is thinking to himself about all of the positive things about Lazar. After a while, he tells him that it is a match, and he can now be with his daughter. The men go to the bar and tell everyone there the good news. Everyone begins singing and dancing. They all get drunk.
Perchik goes down by the river and sees Hodel. He tells her that times have changed and begins dancing with her.
Tevye goes into the barn to see Tzeitel. He tells her that she will be marrying the butcher. She doesn't seem very excited about it. She finally tells her father that she doesn't want to marry the butcher. He gets very angry and begs him to not force her to marry him. Motel steps into their conversation and says that a year ago he and Tzeitel gave each other a pledge that they were going to get married. Suprisingly, Tevye accepts and says she can marry Motel instead of Lazar Wolf. The two children are so excited. They go running through the fields singing.

Nonverbal Communication

School:
Mr. Bean is going into a math class. They are taking a test. He is trying to have a competition with the guy sitting next to him. The other person is doing fine on the test. Mr. Bean is struggling. He tries to cheat off his neighbor. He starts to cry because he doesn't know how to do the test. It turns out that he got the wrong rest, and should have taken the trig test all along.
Beach:
He heads to the beach. There is another man there too. He wants to change into his speedo but doesn't want the other man to see. He puts it on over his pants and then tries to take his pants off out from underneath the speedo. He finally gets changed. The other man gets up to walk off, when Mr. Bean notices that the other guy was blind. He could have changed without being secretive and the man never would have known it.
Church:
He goes to the church. He hits a car in the parking lot. He sneezes very loud, but can't find his hankerchief. So, he used the inside of his pocket. He goes to sleep and then wakes up screaming. He falls back asleep on the man next to him and eventually falls into the floor. He gets a peppermint out of his pocket to eat. When he is putting wrapper back into his pocket, his hand gets stuck. He jerks his hand out and hits the man sitting next to him. The church begins to sing. Mr. Bean doesn't know the words, so he just basically mumbles the whole time.



Street:
Mr. Bean is walking downt he street when he sees a man playing a saxaphone. He wants to donate money but doesn't have any. He begins to dance. An old woman walked by and donated money. He gave the money to the man playing the sax. He goes into a store that has a lot of perfume. All of the women start spraying it and he falls to the floor coughing. He goes to she shelves with the toothbrushes. He takes one out of the package to try it out. Then, he gets a new one to buy. He then goes to the towel isle. He wraps the towel around him to see how it looks on him. He puts it in his shopping basket too. Next, he goes to the cooking isle. He tests out a potato peeler on a potato he pulls out of his pocket. He wants that too. He puts a dead fish in a pan to test how well it works. Mr. Bean goes to the check out counter. He is paying with a credit card. The other man picks up the wrong credit card. So, Mr. Bean goes and gets the wallet out of the other mans pocket so he can switch the cards. His hand gets stuck in the man's back pocket. The guy goes into the bathroom. He finally sees Mr. Bean behind him.
Restuarant:
He wrote out a card for himself. The man comes to take his order and bring him wine. He tells the man he can't drink any wine because he is driving. He starts tapping his knife on the glasses to make a song. (happy birthday to you) The waiter brings out Mr. Bean's food. It is raw hanburger. He hates it. He hides his mean in a small container on the table, and also in the flower vase, and inside his roll. A man comes out with a violin and starts playing. He spits some of his food down the man's pants. They reseat him, and then bring out the same food he had before.
Theatre:
He practices how he will greet people. He tries to shine his shoes on the back of his pants so that he will look as nice as the man next to him. Then, he uses almost a whole container of breath spray. He pulls a piece of hair out of the girl standing next to him to use as dental floss. He keeps trying to look better than the nam standing next to him. The hair gets stuck in between his teeth. He wants a hankerchief to stick out of the top off his coat pockt, so he makes one out of paper. He unzips his pants to use the zipper as a fingernail file. When he tries to get his pants zipped, the zipper gets stuck. He bows to greet the queen and knocks her out.



Pool:
Mr. Bean decides to go down the little kid elephant slide. He gets in trouble by the life guard. He goes into the adult pull and climbs up the ladder to the high dive. He gets very scared. Two younger boys come up there too. He doesn't want them to think he is scared, so he crawls to the edge and tries to lower himself down backwards. The little boys come over and stomp oh his fingers. He falls into the pool. When that happened, he lost his swim trunks. A little girl picks them up out of the water with her snorkle. The lifeguard then blows the whistle for everyone to get out of the pool. He hides under water. Once everyone leaves, he climbs out of the pool, naked. The girls swim team come walking around the corner and sees him naked.
Parking Garage:
He doesn't have enough money to pay for how long he parked in the garage. He keeps trying to get the arm to raise so he can drive his car under it without having to pay. He puts a huge metal thing on the sensor so he arm will raise. As he is leaving, another car comes through. He has to back up and wait some more.
Park:
He goes and sits on a park bench by another man to eat lunch. He pulls out a huge loaf of bread and then cuts it into slices using scissors. Then, he takes a card and uses it to spread butter over his bread. He washed off some lettuce and then put it in his sock to dry it out. Next, he pulls a jar of dead fish out of his pocket. He put them on the sandwich as well. He uses his shoe to crush up pepper. He starts to drink milk from a baby bottle. He sneezes and drops the sandwich and tea he made. The other man just decides to shar his lunch.
Movie Theatre:
Mr. Bean is on a date. He keeps trying to scare her. He gets so scared during the movie that he tries to get his date to leave the theatre with him.

Persuasive Speech: Computers in Classrooms.

Who would have ever thought that one day, pencils and paper would be replaced with computers. I know I didn't. Several years back, I remember the school administrators talking about getting lap tops for the students to use. I never dreamed that would happen. However, I was wrong. Although technology is becoming a major part of the way we learn in the classroom, I feel that the use of computers is being over done. Therefore, purchasing 5 mini labs is very unnecessary. Making the purchase would be a waste of money, and students still wouldn't use the computers for learning purposes. Also, some teaches may check out the mini labs to use in their classrooms, although it isn't necessary.
First, buying the mini labs would be a huge waste of money. There are already two good sized computer labs in our school, so I don't think that buying a lot more lap tops is necessary. Also, so far this year we have had many problems with the minis. Having to get each one fixed every time there is a problem will eventually add up to quite a bit of money. If the lap tops weren't purchased, the money could be spent on something more beneficial.
Also, students wouldn't use the lap tops for learning purposes. Most of them would spend their time on game websites and other sites non school related. This causes work to be delayed, and usually not finished. I, personally, find the computers complicated to use. In the majority of my classes, more time is used trying to figure out how the lap tops work, than actually completing an assignment. That just causes us to have more work to do at home. And, the computers always seem to cause problems. Half of the time the internet doesn't work. However, even if it does, it is always slow.
Last, I feel like some teachers would check out the minis just to have them for pointless activities. Therefore, if there was a teacher who actually needed the computers, he/she wouldn't have access to them. A lot of time would be wasted on which teacher would get the lap tops on which day. There is already enough trouble with scheduling, without the use of the minis.
Obviously, I am against the purchase of new mini labs. I think that they are a waste of money, a distraction, and are not used for proper reasons. Our school would function much better without them.

banning ipods

Over the years, teachers have figured out more and more ways that students use to cheat. First, cell phones. Students would text message the answers back and forth. Now, they say students are cheating by using iPods. One teacher stated that they over heard students talking about downloading formulas and other materials onto their iPod in order to help them do better on the test. Because of this, many schools have started to ban the use of any electronic devices while in school.

http://www.helium.com/items/1341773-allow-ipods-and-technology-in-school

Although I undersand why school officials don't want iPods used during school, I strongly disagree. Yes, kids have found new ways to cheat with their iPods, but not everyone uses them for cheating purposes. I feel that iPods should be allowed in between classes, at lunch, and during study hall. Also, after a student has finished their work, I think that they should be able to listen to their iPod then as well. Listening to an iPod does not disrupt anyone else in the classroom. The music volume can be kept low, and headphones are worn to keep the music from being played out loud. I see no problem with students using iPods during school. It is obvious that when one cheating device is taken away, students just come up with another new way. The kids who constantly cheat will find a way to do it with or without iPods. So, I don't understand why the students who use iPods strictly for relaxation and reasons that aren't related to cheating must be punished.