1st Semester Portfolio

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Angry Letter Rough Draft

1814 Ashford Street
Honolulu, Hawaii, 96819
December 3, 2013

Google Headquarters
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy,
 Mountain View, Ca

Dear Google,

I have been a satisfied user of blogger for over a year and a half now. Blogger has helped me with a lot of Academic work as well as projects, or anything media based. Blogger many options, designs, and settings have been helpful and have made it alot easier to format the work I post up on my blog.

Although, we have had some problems recently with how we type out documents and some posts that go up. Every time i'm assigned a project that involves blogger, it has appeared to me that typing a document through blogger doesnt give auto correct spelling, grammar checks, and doesnt capitalize letters when needed. Each time I type out a certain essay, or any document of some kind, I would always have to manually capitalize my letters, check my grammar, and spelling.  I understand that these are small things that shouldnt matter, but many people are accustomed nowadays with all these small specs, and I believe that updating the way we type with these specs, will improve the way blogger works.

In addition, whenever my project involves pictures, after a certain amount of time, they also tend to "dissapear" and they are deleted from the post. I understand that atleast one or two of them would issapear due to any errors it may have from it being uploaded, but there hasnt been one time where this hasnt happened.

Through all of this, all of my fellow classmates have experienced the same thing and are sometimes forced to copy and paste their documents from another program such as Microsoft Word so that they could be able to check their grammar and spelling there. I think that its a hassle to be constanly switching out documents, copying, and pasting from Word, to Blogger.

I believe that blogger is a great way to share certain posts and documents, but I fell that you should create a better way for people to type out their documents with adding more specs to create a much more easier way for people to type.

Sincerely,

Leo Christian Dela Cruz

Risky Buisness Draft

            Drugs are either Legal, or illegal; Legal drugs have a purpose such as curing diseases, as for illegal drugs causing harm to the body. Legal drugs aren’t good just because they’re not illegal, it still could cause harm to teens when misused.

            Legal Drugs such as prescribed medicine, that your physician assigns you, are for a specific person, on a certain case or sickness. Prescribed medicine is used to cure diseases, or to ease the pain of an injury, such as Oxytocin that is used as a painkiller. When recommended by a doctor, prescription drugs can be beneficial; but when taken without a prescription or as not directed, they can be dangerous and addictive.

            Prescribed medicine is used to cure sicknesses and relieve pain from injuries, although, when used incorrectly, such as taking a high dosage, or combined with alcohol or other drugs, many prescription drugs can also become deadly. There have been many cases where teens create a “skittle party” where they mix up a bunch of prescribed drugs, and randomly select some of them and take it. Also, teens tend to misuse these types of drugs, such as oxytocin, which is used as painkillers, but are used for the side effects which causes constipation and drowsiness.

            A lot of teens abuse these legal drugs for the wrong reason. An Average of 2000 teenagers use prescribed medicine without a doctors guidance. Prescribed and over the counter drugs are among the most commonly abused drugs by 12^th graders, after alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco. Prescribed medicine when over used or used incorrectly can cause major side effects that can be harmful to the body, however, it is still used to cure sicknesses or relieved injures. When it comes to drugs, don’t take more than you can handle, or don’t take something you don’t know anything about.

College Essay: University of North Carolina Wilmington

            Since a very young age, it was always fascinating about what lurked in the Ocean. “What lies in the big vast ocean?” being a little child, questions kept brewing up in my mind, wondering about all the interesting new things that had hoped to be discovered, I was pulled into a state of wonder. Although, there were many things that I had yet to learn, as I entered into school, I had many different subjects although marine science was not one of them, I had eventually forgot about it. As time passed by, learning new things, it had finally hit me, that feeling of wonder, finally being able to learn a little more about the ocean it felt a little satisfying, although there was a lot more to learn.

            Finally being able to learn more about the ocean, school was not the only place to learn, watching the TV it had always been the Discovery channel on the ocean or certain types of Fish etc. Learning about the marine life had me focused, and I’m normally not focused a lot or really talkative, but just being able to know more about this subject tends to keep me calm. One day, my dream is to explore an abyss and be able to discover new things.

            Living in Hawaii, I have been surrounded by the ocean throughout my whole life, it feels as if the ocean has been there for me in a way that is has been apart of my home as well as my life. Being able to attend the University of North Carolina Wilmington, I believe that this University would give me one giant step to fulfilling my dream. Marine Biology is the only subject that gives me motivation to do anything, being able to learn more about it will give me a big advantage on a dream that I so hope to fulfill.

University of North Carolina Wilmington Marine Biology Essay Prompt

Picture Story

-Seafood Gun woman-

On one nice day, There was a Woman that received her “Monthly Gift” otherwise known as a lady’s period. She was a woman of a decent age around her early 30’s, married to a loyal nice man who is around his mid 30’s. Although the lady’s mindset was not as stable as the average person due to an accident she had 5 years ago that involved someone hitting her head while she was eating her favorite seafood treat just to steal her food leaving her with a mental head disorder. With the technology that we have to offer now, she was recovered but a part of her sanity was taken that could never have been brought back. So on her fist day of her period, she already was experiencing cravings, so she called her husband up to bring her food, and he agreed to do it although, due to his hunger, he ate it, so when he arrived home, she noticed him empty handed. Due to all this, with all the mixed feelings of her past and her mood swings, she became aggravated and snapped, but the husband came prepared, and told her that he made a dinner reservation at a 5 star seafood restaurant because he knew that it was her favorite type of food. Then they had a wonderful dinner together.

-Take your daughter to work day-

            As this Father is excited to see his family, he is more excited about the new program that they are doing in his job as a soldier, two days before his deployment to Iraq, this new program allows him to bring his three daughters with him, and when he divulged this information to his daughters, they became overjoyed started to jump around and hug him.

-Sike that’s the wrong Sport-

            As the London Olympics go on, two volleyball stars approach the beach volleyball arena, although, it turns out that it wasn’t actually a beach volleyball arena, but a beach bowling ball arena, but instead, they actually played the game not knowing what to do, but surprisingly, they win with USA in first place.

Coming of Age Poster

Coming of Age Final

            Waking up in the morning, getting ready to go to a new school, I think about all the possibilities that could happen, thinking about all the new people I could meet, all those idea’s popping up in my head that make me wonder what will happen. I continue to think while I feel my hands shake due to my curious personality, “what will they think about me?” all these thoughts that I think of that keep me nervous. Although, since my brother attended this school before, I would always see him play in his basketball games and meet some of his friends; I also met someone on his team that was the same grade as me.

            As I approach my new school, my brother came with me to show me where my class would be and he also helped me with my heavy school supplies. As I walked into the class I see the person I had met that was on my brother’s basketball team, and he also remembered me and said “hey!” I was still nervous because I didn’t know how private schools were like since I came from a public school. I also felt weird because it was the first time I wore a uniform before, but it didn’t bother me as much. As I sat in my assigned seat, I sat next to a girl, she seemed friendly as she greeted me knowing that I was a new student, so I assumed she attended this school before. It was a calm day, mostly because I didnt talk to anyone and sat out on most of the activities going on in class.

            As I began my new life in private school, I knew some of the teachers because they attended the church that I go to. Also, I was a pretty small person being about 4’10 and I didn’t go through puberty so I had a pretty high voice. I didn’t really talk to anyone besides the boy I met from the basketball team. As I met more people throughout the year, I became much more comfortable and actually got to know some of the students, but some of them didn’t like my high voice so I was always teased for it. Even though some people constantly bullied me, there was always some kind friends who helped me out and cheered me up by joking around and talking about stories with them. Although, all these negative insults contantly being brought up, I feel like im being stabbed on the inside of my body, I feel as if no one cared that they were hurting me. All those rude comments about my voice annoying everyone and that I should just be quiet, i'd cry to myself on the inside but on the outside I look as if im happily living my life as it is, hoping that no one would come up to me and ask "are you ok?" because that would only remind me about all the bullying that im trying to forget.

           The same jokes went on, teasing me on my high voice, calling me other inappropriate names, pushing me around, I laughed through it all. I had friends that I would talk to, but even when im bullied, no one ever did something to help. One day, when we were going back to class from break, one of the boys laughing in they're group, i walk by and one of them walk up to me and punch my in my crotch and due to this unexpected event, I fell to the ground, watching him laugh while on the ground, this ruined my day and I didnt talk for three days. Eventually, I let it go, but i never did forget about it, that event was one of the worst days of my life. 

           Throughout my middle school, I was still constantly bullied, but I just didn’t mind it, I just let it go, people always said I looked happy a lot, only because whenever I’m down, my friends would come up to me worried, and i'd just say "i'm tired." This went on throughout middle school without no end, so it wasnt an enjoyable middle school for me, I ended up disliking a lot of people due to what they did to me these past years.

            Then high school started, everyone separated, but certain boys including me, were still close because we would have a skype group call almost everyday. Although, during high school, only four boys and four girls including myself, came to the same high school. One of the boys, bullied me and talked behind my back, i was told from my close friend that he still did, and I was fed up with all the bullying because i wanted to start fresh in high school. I confronted him myself, and he admitted that he did do those things, I asked him to imagine what it would be like in my shoes, I told him about all the hurtful things he and his friends did to me. He started to understand about how I felt.  

            Throughout the year he began to respect me more because we became friends hanging out a lot, we put the past behind us and laugh back at it. Life just seemed a bit much more simple without any bully's, and I'm less insecure about how I am. Having all these past bullying events has given me more knowledge about how it felt to be bullied then respected. I know how to deal with bullies along the way, and I chose which friends that I’d want hang out with due to all the events that have occurred throughout my middle school. These experiences help me gain more respect for myself, and helps me respect others that could also be going through what I went through. 

Coming of Age Draft Essay

            Waking up in the morning, getting ready to go to a new school, I think about all the possibilities that could happen, thinking about all the new people I could meet, all those idea’s popping up in my head that make me wonder what will happen. I continue to think while I feel my hands shake due to my curious personality, “what will they think about me?” all these thoughts that I think of that keep me nervous. Although, since my brother attended this school before, I would always see him play in his basketball games and meet some of his friends; I also met someone on his team that was the same grade as me.

            On the first day of school, my brother came with me to show me where my class would be and he also helped me with my heavy school supplies. And as I walked into the class I see the person I had met that was on my brother’s basketball team, and he also remembered me and said “hey!” I was still nervous because I didn’t know how private schools were like since I came from a public school. I also felt weird because it was the first time I wore a uniform before, but I didn’t bother me as much. As I sat in my assigned seat, I sat next to a girl, she seemed friendly as she greeted me knowing that I was a new student, so I knew she attended this school before.

            As I began my new life in private school, I knew some of the teachers because they attended the church that I go to. Also, I was a pretty small person being about 4’10 and I didn’t go through puberty so I had a pretty high voice. I didn’t really talk to anyone besides the boy I met from the basketball team. As I met more people throughout the year, I became comfortable and actually talked, but some people didn’t like my really high voice so I was always teased for it. Although, even though some people constantly bullied me, there was always some kind people who helped me out and cheered me up. There were quite a lot of bullies, but for some reason, there was this one bully that hung around, I’m not sure why but I found him as a friend, he’d always tease me but there was time were he would tell me things like his life and I’d do the same. He gave me rides home because id have to take the bus, but I always wanted his attention.

            Throughout my middle school, I was still constantly bullied, but I just didn’t mind it, I just let it go, people always said I looked happy a lot, only because whenever I’m down, people would always come up to me and ask if I’m okay but that would only remind me more about what I’m down about so I just answer with a simple “I’m just tired.” This went on throughout middle school, and when high school started, everyone separated, but certain boys including me, were still close because we would have a skype group call almost everyday. Although, during high school, only four boys and four girls including myself, came to the same high school. One of the boys bullied me and talked behind my back and I was close with the other two boys so he stopped bullying me because he was a shy person and only knew us mostly so he hung out with us.

            Throughout the year he began to respect me more because we became friends hanging out a lot and at the time my voice wasn’t as “high pitched” as it was in middle school. Having these past bullying events has given me more knowledge about how it felt to be bullied then respected. I know how to deal with bullies along the way, and I chose which friends that I’d want hang out with due to all the events that have occurred throughout my middle school. 

Group Position Statements

Group position statments: Sage, Tyler S, Hannah, and Christian
1. First off, the people who got into accidents got involved
themselves into activities
    • For example, Daniel Dick, who was an 18-year-old, was lifted 3-5
feet after straddling a blowhole.
    • David Potts fell into a blowhole after dancing around it. Even
more surprising was the fact that he was 44.
    •  Paula Ramirez, 29, and Elizabeth Brem, 35, apparently walked
off of a steep cliff near Opaekaa Falls, in Kauai.
2. Most, if not all, locations have warnings of the dangers in the
area. The people who didn't heed the warnings were basically asking
for it.
3. Naturally, adults have a better understanding of the consequences
of their actions. Also, these people should have known better than to
do weird things in a place they didn't know properly. Your conscience
should be able to keep you from straddling a blowhole.

GraphicCard-Poem

Metaphor Poem: SunShine

I am the Sun,

Shining my bright warm UV light rays

That act as my kindness,

Giving warmth to all living things. 

I am the light that guides people 

Throughout the day

There will be random times when I will still shine, 

But it will also be raining. 

I am the energy source people count on 

for various reasons

When your around me, sometimes 

I feel a bit hot headed, 

I'll give off sun burns. 

I'll help all living things grow

Also, there will be times when my 

light will be blocked off by rain clouds, 

The land will become wet and cold, 

But i will always shine again to be 

The light people count on for warmth.