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My Hero Essay

Posted on by under Brandstetter, Fifth, Humanities

Heroes demonstrate many acts of generosity, bravery and wit in the face of danger, and put aside their own needs for others. They are also admired and appreciated by many that have heard of their acts. Heroes will always be remembered. They can be found in today’s news like Harry Swimmer of the CNN Heroes series, or in old stories, such as Robin Hood. Although Rosemary Sutcliff’s Odysseus is a hero to some but that is very debatable, because there is much evidence that he is the opposite of a hero.

 

Although Odysseus displays some heroic acts in the book The Wanderings of Odysseus, by Rosemary Sutcliff, Odysseus’ heroic qualities do not compare to his sins. Odysseus shows wit and determination but his many acts of hubris is never heroic. Odysseus shows excessive pride after cleverly blinding Poseidon’s son, the cyclops, Polyphemus. “If anyone asks who blinded you, tell them it was Odysseus, son of Laertes and Lord of Ithaca, Odysseus the Sacker of Cities.” Odysseus taunts Polyphemus after he have wounded him and causes Poseidon to bestow a curse on Odysseus and his men for this act. A true hero would have tried to save himself and his men but not shown ignorance and boasted about his win.

 

Harry Swimmer is a hero and a friend to many disabled kids that went to his non-profit farm. He works all day to help kids that normally can’t ride to ride horses. It takes two-hundred volunteers every day to help so many kids ride. They need two sidewalker and one leader for one horse and one child. It’s been running for twenty-two years now and he never gets tired. Harry feels like his farm is a “Sanctuary to the kids that come”, and “It’s not just my farm it’s their farm too.” Both show how much he cares for all of them, and how much he wants to help. It helps all the children build up their core muscles so if they couldn’t walk or speak or sit up they can.

Without heroes the world would fall into a deep pit of selfishness and cruelty. Nobody would help the helpless. Nobody would inspire people to be their best selves. Heroes like Harry Swimmer bring the world out of that darkness with their generosity and bravery. People like Odysseus are the culprits that brought the world into the pit with their selfishness. Lots of people think that heroes are the people that fight crimes and put bad guys behind bars. That’s not true. Heroes can be found in everyday life; they can be your mom or dad, your best friend. We are living in a world that needs more heroes. More people to save the hungry, more people to save the animals, more people to help us.  After learning about so many wonderful people that are heroes, actual ones, I decided I need to step it up. I need to make a change in  the world, help the world on it’s path to greatness and peace. Everybody needs to make a change for the better.

Hey, I have I question for you

Posted on by under Bobrowski, Fifth, Science

What would happen to the earth if humans disappeared?

If humans just disappeared than a lot of catastrophes will happen in the first couple of years because the deadly gasses will spread through the world killing all animals that breath in the air enough. Also all the cars, and planes would crash and fire would spread everywhere. And, the power plants would stop leading to major blackouts. The nuclear power plants would explode because the nuclear liquids would turn into gasses in the warm weather outside, causing the containers to no longer be able to hold the gas.

TWWU

My Street!

Posted on by under Art, Demster, Fifth

I feel my perspective drawing is going smoothly, with a few hiccups on the way. I find that it is challenging to draw the lines so that the illusion is that it is 3-D. I feel like my street drawing is going well because I enjoy being able to create whatever I desire in a realistic pathway. I am happy with my street drawing. The hardest part about going from a shape drawing to a street drawing is grasping the other elements added.Farin Street 1

Are Human’s Following the Rules?

Posted on by under Bobrowski, Fifth, Science

A bakery in India has been making edible spoons out of sorghum, rice, and wheat flour. They have been selling these just in India and wish to sell it worldwide. I think this article relates to the rule There is no such place as away. It is connected because it is a way to lower the use of plastic utensils so that less plastic is stuck just sitting under the ground, in the world. The cost of making plastic materials use much more greenhouse gasses, energy, and water then the edible spoons.  This is an example of humans following the rule by helping lower the use of plastic. In the future there should only be edible plates, edible cups, and edible cooking supplies. This would a better world to live in if it happened.

 

Exit Polling

Posted on by under Fifth

On Tuesday, April 19 my grade did some exit polling in the neighborhood. There was 4 different groups…

1.  Exit Poller

2. Data Collecter

3. Data Processer

4. School Survey

The Poller approached people in the neighborhood and asked questions like “Who did you vote for?”, “What is your gender?”, “How old are you?”, “Are you a Republican or Democrat?”, also “How happy were you with the choices for candidate?”.  With that question you would offer multiple choices, 1 for very unhappy to 5 for very happy. A Data Collector would go with the Pollers and compress the Pollers answers on to one sheet which would then get sent to the Data Processer.  The Data Processer (located at school) would then put the information into different categories, so that they can then find the winning candidate. Finally the School Survey representatives would ask the same questions as the Pollers to the LREI teachers.  I enjoyed this role.

I learned that primaries were necessary before the actual election to choose one candidate from each party. Prior to this process I thought you had an opportunity to vote for a President out of many Democrats and Republicans on a ballot. After the polling I was shocked that only 21 Republicans voted in our neighborhood. I assumed that there was going to be a more even split with the Democrats. Another surprise to me was that Kaisch won Manhattan’s primary election.  (Being that Trump is a force in NYC, I assumed he had that locked in.)  NYC is heavily Democratic and there were 10x more votes for this party.   The Data Processers collected the percentages for the Democratic side of the city on the mark. It was 33% for Bernie Sanders and 67% for Hillary Clinton! We found out the results on Wednesday and it looked very hard tabulate. Props for the Data Processers. We worked hard and our projection came out correct.

 

Have You Ever Thought about Trash…

Posted on by under Bobrowski, Fifth, Science

There is no such thing as away.

Trash

Have you ever thought about what happens to your used water bottles or your empty Doritos bag that you threw away? Well, it doesn’t just disappear. When you throw away one soda bottle it doesn’t go away until 450 years has passed. That’s a long time for one bottle to decompose.

America is the leading country for how much trash we throw away. We throw away 624,700 metric tons per day! Also just in New York we throw away 12,000 tons every day all together. That’s 24,000,000 pounds. And as one person you throw away 4.3 pounds of trash. Now does that really make you think, because that really makes me think.

We should really start to think about how we should fix this problem or the land will be a giant trash pile eventually, and we will have to eat trash just like that cow.

 

 

My Tomb Painting

Posted on by under Art, Demster, Fifth, Uncategorized

Farin PaintingThis is my tomb painting that I made in art. We made our tomb paintings for our Egyptian Tomb because Egyptians would sketch pictures onto the walls of the tomb. We first sketched our idea for our picture then outlined it in sharpie. Finally we water colored our painting to give it a washed out look instead of painting it with another type of paint. My tomb painting is of Hatshepsut sitting on a throne with people worshipping her. She is wearing a nemes headdress (the sign of a pharaoh) because she wanted to be portrayed as a man instead of a woman.

My Ushabti

Posted on by under Art, Demster, Fifth

Ushabtis are little statues that Ancient Egyptians put inside there tomb. Ushabtis helped the dead person do work in the after life. You’d get as many Ushabtis as you can afford. The first thing I did to make an Ushabti was to shape my Ushabti to look like a human. The second step was to put markings that supposedly Egyptians put on them. The third step was to paint my Ushabti to make it look more realistic. If you wanted to you could of glazed you Ushabti, but I didn’t. After all the steps you could put your Ushabti in a Egyptian tomb. My favorite part about this project was putting the marks on because it was the most enjoyable.  Farin Ushabti

Canopic Jars

Posted on by under Art, Demster, Fifth

Farin Glaze 1Farin Canopic JarIn art we made Canopic jars and Ancient Egyptian pottery. On the left is my Canopic jar. There are normally four Canopic jars and my jars symbolizes the falcon head jar. Canopic jars would hold different organs like the liver, stomach, intestines, and lungs. The falcon head Canopic jar held the intestines. On the right is me glazing a piece of Ancient Egyptian pottery. We were making Canopic jars and pottery to go in the tomb. Pottery was put inside the tomb to hold food in the afterlife. My favorite part of this project is constructing my Canopic jar because I thought it was the most challenging part and it was very fun.

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