June 2010
1 post
Home work 06/03/2010
Haiti is one of the richest country in History in the world. Being Haitian make me proud to have the Haitian nationality.
15 century
The Haitian story began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus, and the other Europeans navigator discover the land. Previously the name of the Island was Ayiti, Bohio, or Kiskeya. Then Christopher Columbus renamed Hispaniola.
16 century
The First...
April 2010
1 post
Homework 04/17/10
Adonis10:
Presentations are on Monday! Be ready.
Also, please put 12 quotes from your story on your blog. For each one, explain why you chose it (why is it important?).
Line 1
“You look pretty strong. Are you pretty strong?” Said Phil
This quote is connecting to the real world because people being fake my asking people question. This quote is also a kind of diplomacy to make the guys feeling...
March 2010
4 posts
Home work 3/18/2010
adonis10:
What outcome did your group pick for this week?
The name of my story is The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.
In one at least two paragraphs, explain how the outcome is related to your story.
Remember, this is a big part of how your individual outcome will be assessed and determined.
Sociological imagination is the ability or the capacity to discern the...
Homework 03/04/10
adonis10:
Is Wal-Mart good for America? Who in the film would say yes? Who in the film would say no? Why/ Why not?
According to what I learn from the film , Wal-Mart are good for America for a lot of multiple reasons. The movie shows that the Walt-Mart products are so shipper for the Americans community. However some people say that its not good because 80% of the workers are in China, which...
Homework 2/24/2010
adonis10:
Part 1:
Post your classwork from today on the blog.
A poor boy that suffer of hungriness.
He look like if he is lonely.
He is very skinny, what means that he has been stabbing seems a long time.
He is a little boy must likely from a poor country.
Part 2:
Write a flash-fiction story about your picture from today. Include ideas from the work you did today. Show the...
February 2010
11 posts
Homework 2/23/10 -- TIMELINE
adonis10:
Timeline
1. Identify key events in your life from your birthday to today. Use what you came up with from the “What Happened On Your Birthday” activity and add any other events that you feel are important.
For example, these questions can help you get started:
When were you born?
I born February 16, 1990 at Carrefour a borough of Port-au-price in Haiti.
When did you first...
Homework 12/22/10
Directions for The New York Times Search for “What Happened on the Day I Was Born”
Part 1: Look
1. Go to www.nytimes.com and click on the search button on the upper left hand of the screen (leaving the search box blank.) 2. Click on the Advanced Search button (again leaving the search box blank.)
3. Click on the Custom Date Range button and enter your date of birth in both “from” and “to.” ...
Homework 12/16/09
adonis10:
PART 1:
Go to www.prisonexp.org
Read until the “Grievances” section.
While reading, you can watch the videos, too. They are helpful for understanding.
PART 2:
Answer the discussion questions:
1. How do you think you would have behaved if you were a prisoner in this situation? Would you have rejected these privileges in order to maintain prisoner solidarity?
If I were...
Homework 12/17/10
adonis10:
PART 1:
Read to the end at
www.prisonexp.org
Most classes were at
www.prisonexp.org/psychology/27
PART 2:
Watch the video on
www.prisonexp.org/psychology/40
PART 3:
In 2003 U.S. soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib, 20 miles west of Baghdad. The prisoners were stripped, made to wear bags over their heads, and sexually humiliated while the guards laughed and took...
My Birthday
adonis10
Show me Ya love people today is my birthday?
I deserve an H
adonis10
The last two home work was about, how Socialogy, and social Sciences are different and also similar, I prove clearly the difference by using example and evidence from the student worsheet 1-3.
To be continue………………………
Homework 02/08/10
adonis10
Based on today’s reading and worksheet #3, write 1-3 paragraphs explaining how sociology is different from other social sciences.
According to my reading in the worksheet #3 sociology is different from other social sciences, which meaning they don’t have the same function. The main thing of sociology is the come up with the idea of anthropology. The word anthology means is the...
Homework 2/4
Adonis10
PART 1:
1. What is the difference between sociology and biology?
the difference between sociology and biology is that:
Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Meaning people see things appropriately and differently, for example race, class, sex, religion, culture, ect…).
Biology is the natural and social sciences...
Homework 02/02/10
1. Read the document called “What is Sociology?”
In your own words, write what you think sociology is.
According to my knowledge, Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Meaning people see things appropriately and differently, for example race, class, sex, religion, culture, ect…).
2. Would hallway culture at Bronx...
January 2010
1 post
1-5-10
Adonis10
Yes Robin you have to bring the Jennelles Homework tomorrow, and also for Mr. Leo you can still can the rest that you missing.
khan10:
please someone write me the homeworks for toady. i was absent for hospital appointment. Please please
we have HW fron ms Jannele„ we are suppose to print all of our reserch info„, she said to print everything and bring it tommorow to class…….. and...
December 2009
10 posts
hellO peOple i need help!!!!! dO we have tO write...
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Home Work
12/15/09
Adonis10
PART 1:
Post your notes about each group.
Group # 1
What is their moral dilemma?
Their dilemma that the German people revolt against what they were seeing while they transported the Jews the concentration camps or stay quite and not say anything which was what they did at the end.
What would you have done if you faced this moral dilemma?
I would rather help the Jews...
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homework 12.2.09
Adonis10:
homework 12.2.09
Part 1:
Please write one important line from the reading. Why is it important?
“Bystanders can exert powerful influences. They can define thee meaning of events and move others toward empathy or indifference”.
I think this line is important, because it explain the role of bystanders which is the people who witness but are not directly affected by the actions...
Absurdism and Existenlism
Adonis10
Absurdism is a philosophy or belief system stating that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe ultimately fail (and, hence, are absurd) because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to humanity. The word “absurd” in this context does not mean “logically impossible” but rather “humanly impossible”.
1. Rewrite this definition in your own words.
Absurdism is a...
Homework 12.1.09
dolanbihs:
Part 1:
What is one thing from your article that you understand? Summarize some ideas that you know.
I knew that my article is about The German people that we calling Nazis that want to kick away the Jews people from that they called Mauthausen.
Part 2:
Answer ONE of the questions from the “Connections” section for your reading.
Homework 11.30.09
adonis10:
Part 1:
Finish reading and annotating the passage tonight.
Yes I do, I see Lot of positive and negativr part on this reading specially about altruism and egoism.
Part 2:
Do you see any connections to either altruism or egoism?
November 2009
14 posts
Homework 11/23/09
dolanbihs:
Keep working on that outline!
It is due on Wednesday.
Email it to me at dolanbihs@gmail.com
AND: if you have not filled out the contact form, please do!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGJkUUVjaUdNTlZkWkktcHJDWHhFLWc6MA
Click on the link and fill out the form! 30 people still need to do this!
Homework 11/23/09 :: Part 2 :: Please Read
laracuente10:
bautista10:
dolanbihs:
adonis10:
I am so sorry to hear a person did a stupid about you and Jensy on the blog, is sound so stupid, but if I was you I will keeping investigated to know with did it.
Hello!
I am sad to find out that people are abusing the blog.
I worked very hard to set this up, so it makes me sad personally.
It is supposed to be a place for people to...
Homework 11/16/09
dolanbihs:
This is mostly an easy homework!
Read Ismairy’s essay.
1. List three things she does well. Be specific! Do not say “She has good evidence…” Instead, say “I think she has good evidence because…”
2. List two thi
While reading Ismairy’s essay I think that she did a good job last year, even she mind some improvement.
1) I believe the flow of the writing was going, her essay format...
Homework:: 11/12/09
dolanbihs:
Reflecting on the Debate
Answer the following questions. Give evidence when you can!
What is your final opinion — is the play existentialist or absurdist? Why?text HW: 11/12/09
What is your final opinion — is the play existentialist or absurdist?
”Waiting for Godot” has a combination of existentialism and absurdism. However, the main characteristic of the play is more...
Homework 11/6/09 -- debate prep
dolanbihs:
Debate prep
Part 1: Give your opinion — is the play “Waiting for Godot” existentialist or absurdist?
Well in my perspective, i believe that the play “waiting for Godot” is absurdist. This play contains so much absurd things. Every lines and specific parts in this play show that life is meaningless. The majority of characters in this play are poor but some are having the allusion...
Homework 11/6/09 (due Monday morning!)
dolanbihs
Part 1
Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett is a productive pay which reflects on absurdist and few times existentialism. Although it was a bit challenging to figure out the parts of the play we managed to come up with a few tricks up our sleeves. The exposition is about two hobos on the streets of pairs, near the Eiffel tower. One of the hobos is Estragon or Gogo for short. The other...
Homework 11/5/09 (due tonight!!!)
dolanbihs:
Things like and learned from the presentation
Group#1: Patricia, Ayelis, Nomaris and Nefer
I like their poster, which I saw a corner of building that we calling ghetto which is original from the Bronx. Meaning Ayelis and Patricia looks like a gangster, by the way their close looks like, and they also speak two languages meaning English, and Spanish. I learned that those...
October 2009
7 posts
Homework 10/28/09 (due BEFORE Friday morning)
dolanbihs:
Hello!
Part 1:
Write one thing you liked about each group.Write one new thing that you learned about the play from each group.Write one thing you liked about each group.Write one new thing that you learned about the play from each group
Group #2: Shamsu’s Group
One thing that I like about that group on the presentation is the way the actor used to talk which was so funny,...
Homework 10/22
dolanbihs:
Part 1:
Write one thing you liked about each groups presentation.J
Shamsu’s group
I like
I thing this group was not bad, but next time they better do more practice, because they use to loose from some of their presentation. Shamsu did well by presenting Pozzo’s character by being very nervous by hurting Lucky. And Vladimir and Estragon didn’t like the way Pozzo treated...
Homework 10/16/09 due monday
dolanbihs:
PART 1: Writing
Use the packet of literary elements that we made finished this week in groups. Use the information to write a paragraph about each literary element or technique.
You can just take the information directly from the packet! It’s practically finished already.
You should have six paragraphs in total, one paragraph about each of the following:
The objective of literary...
Homework 10/7/09
dolanbihs:
1. Read and annotate the exposition of ‘Waiting for Godot.’
When you annotate, remember to write questions and comments. Also, please note unfamiliar words or phrases. If you look them up, write down your discoveries.
I realized that was
2. On the blog, put down what you find out about the following things:
characters : Vladimir, and Estragon
setting:
conflict:
BONUS:...
English HW 10/5/09
dolanbihs:
1. Write a flash fiction story that reflects existentialist or absurdist philosophy.
Ronald is a man that uses to be rich by winning a lottery number. He wins an amount of 20 millions dollars, than use travel owned the entire world. He said that he have to do thing, that he never done before, especially because of money. The problem of Ronald is that he doesn’t understand the meaning...
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thoma10:
ata10:
hey boys i stop you there all girls are not quite the same as you think and all boys are not quite the same as well…but what i wrote is totally true right***be honest Dan & Sadou…
I never say you not right..i just say what i’ve been experienced with all the little pieces broken hearted.
Yo Dany profile ou a fre
Homework 10/1/09
dolanbihs:
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
-Albert Camus
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
If you want to be happy, you better not thinking about happiness. If you want to have the definition of life, you will never...
September 2009
11 posts
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