Best Works
Debate in 10th Grade
Opening Speech: Tallulah
Raise your hand if you think that murder should be legal. Raise your hand if you support murder. No one? Not surprising .
So if you don’t think murder should be legal why are we having a debate about the legality of abortion. There should be no argument about killing an innocent infant. I would like to describe and inform you about one of the many methods doctors use to abort a woman's child.
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Suction Abortion: Used during the first three months of pregnancy - A suction tube, 27 times stronger than your home vacuum, is inserted into the womb. The powerful suction tears the baby apart limb from limb and sucks it from the womb along with the placenta. The rest of the baby is deposited into an attached waste bottle and thrown into medical waste.
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Imagine if you were aborted from your mother. You wouldn’t have woken up this morning, brushed your teeth, ate a really nice donut, and come to class. You would of been torn apart piece by piece and treated as radioactive waste and incarnated with the other unwanted children.
I’d like to share some stories from potential parents who have aborted their child. These stories are from several years after the procedure.
“It was the worst day of my life. It felt like labour, except it was a death. The moment I lost it was the worst feeling—an echoing emptiness that haunts me to this day...I wailed for my unloved child...Not a moment passed that I didn’t think about my baby...Aborting my child was the worst thing I have ever done.”(end quote)
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There is not a day that passes where this mother is not haunted by her choice to abort her child.
Abortions do not only affect the mother and child, but also the father. For whatever reason, people neglect to consider what the father wants. They think that just because the baby is inside the mother’s womb doesn’t mean she is only one with the say because last time I check it takes not only a woman but also a man to make a child. The child that is inside a woman's body is as much his as hers.
This final story I’d like to share is a letter written from the father, to his aborted child.
“You never got to see my face or hear my voice, but I'm your father...I miss you even though I never held you. I cherish you even though I never laid my eyes on you. I love you even though you never got to feel it or hear it or see it...I'm sorry you won't experience life...I've wondered what color your eyes would have been. If you would look more like her or me. I wonder what your first word would have been or your favorite color...It makes me so sad that I'll never know the answers to these questions.”(end quote)
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People should not be allowed to create life just to destroy it. How do people say abortion is not murder when people do this procedure at 9 weeks when the baby’s heart is beating. How is that not killing and destroying human life. At this point the embryo is not a future baby or future life or just a fetus, it has become your baby, your living child, and is the precious life you created that you get to call your creation.
Why are we supporting abortion when we should be supporting life?
THREE POINTS
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Abortion = Murder
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Suction Abortion
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Stories
Science Fair Project
TIMELINE:
Friday, October 16, 2015, I plan to take samples from the Oakland Estuary to observe and use to conclude the best habitat and environment with the biodiversity from the estuary. I plan to then look at the invertebrates on October 17-23, and during this time I will have them living in my untouched environment. Through October 30- November 30 I will be testing my experiment with numerous trials and the same habitat but different variables each time or to replicate the Estuary as much as possible. I will divide this month into three weeks of testing my oil spills and another week testing for improvements and systems or solutions to the problem. During this time I will be putting down data and observing and taking notes of what I see. On December 1 I plan to collect all my data and gather it into a format of a conclusion and results. However I leave on a trip from December 2-7 so I leave this time for a break. However when I come back on December 8 I will create my science fair project board and complete any final steps from the 8th of December to the due date so I have extra time in case of emergency or added experiment.
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Overall, it is good that there was a second trial done because it really secured the idea and the hypothesis or the prediction of the experiment. It secured the idea and the end result from trial 1. It was found that after the week no matter what progress or distribution used for the oil placement in the habitat, invertebrates and plants, affecting the whole ecosystem would change dramatically and not for the better. All observations were done under a microscope with pictures as my evidence and data. The observations show that invertebrates did decrease and that the plants didn't not look, feel, smell, or have the same stability and importance to the invertebrates anymore. The trials had the same consequences and the experiments even though different had the same end result.
Data analysis:
In conclusion after putting all my data, evidence, and observations together it is clear that this ecosystem from the estuary was dramatically changed and affected by diesel placement in the ecosystem. There were two trials and both had the same final answer, that invertebrates after long time exposure sustainability and life changes whether it's a completely new pace or death. It is also shown that the plants suffered much if not more than the invertebrates. The plants before the oil were full of color and bring clear cells that could be easily seen through a microscope whereas afterwards the plants were blurry, curled up in a different shape, and no longer its vibrant color. A prediction made after the observations and experiments where that another factor that played into the death and change of life of the invertebrates was the fact that the most of their nutrients came from those plants and by them dying this lead to a the food chain consequences which was no prey for the invertebrates, meaning another reason for the decrease of the population. In the end, the hypothesis that the invertebrates and ecosystem would be affected by long term exposure to diesel oil is correct, now all that needs to be discussed is how to prevent and find an efficient way to clean it now.
Review for Honors English
Mad Max:Fury Road- The Race to the Desert
A wasteland race? Apocalyptic world run by a warlord? Incest? The only way to combine all these three things is through Mad Max: Fury Road. From the beginning of the movie you are taken to a new world of rock music played by a lunatic attached by strings to a truck in a war, a future that is more like the past. This film perfectly portrays mankind in the future but living through history.
Mad Max, starts out showing life in Citadel a desert fortress run by the tyrannical Immortan Joe enslaving apocalypse survivors. He is much like an egyptian god in the way he has many wives, slaves, and has much wealth while his people are starving. From the beginning of the story it is noticeable that there has been some dramatic change in the people’s lives by the crazy look in everyone's eyes, the hunger that is driving them all insane. The hunger they have is the message Immortan Joe promises to his obeyers, water, fuel, and a chance to go to Valhalla.(Valhalla is looked at as some type of Promise Land). While all men in this village are thirsty for war to prove their worth the women have had enough of their jobs-breeding with a cruel and old man. So when the warrior Imperator Furiosa(Charlize Theron) leads the despot’s wives in a daring escape, they all take the chance. This is when the alliance is formed with Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), a man who is a lone wolf and former captive of Citadel. The movie goes back and forth from the rebels running away looking for more than desert to the monsters looking for blood to smear on their face.
There are many points in the movie that force the audience to see a possible future that has never been untold before. None of the characters are aliens nor are there many robots or new, state of the art technology, but a world of incest and sexism, slavery in children and men, with lack of resources and dictatorship. Many people see Mad Max:Fury Road as just another blockbuster film that has great cinematography but it has a much bigger message which is we are not things unless we let someone put a value on us.
Mad Max goes in depth into two special unique things. One men and women relations and the equality of the sexes; second men and machine. Many viewers are afraid of the message of Mad Max from their glimpse of seeing women being used as breeding machines by having their breasts attached to milk pumps for hours at a time. Then seeing men being able to work and having high positions in the society. But what they don’t see is Furiosa is how high ranked she is in her society. She infact has her own War boys and is able to boss them around to the fullest extent. There is also a group called the Many Mothers who are a rebellion, working to survive and using their advantages as beautiful women to lure men as their slaves and prisoners. Not to mention the wives of Immortan Joe who may for their whole life were used as sex slaves but show their intelligence and tenacity throughout the whole race which is more than most of the men can say as they were used as military slaves since the age of 5. Since the age of 5 the Warlord has trained his people to think one thing, they need to be able to die and give up everything for their master. He has told them that if they complete that thought and demonstrate it they will endear in riches and a good life-if they can prove their patriotism which usually results in death. Mad Max does not show any sexism but the complete opposite through the use of badass women taking on traditionally masculine roles while you have men like Max who uses his blood to nurture people-a life giver, which is usually a feminine role. However there is no argument that all characters are treated poorly and that life at this time is completely dehumanizing and torture itself. The second theme that is shown is the relation between man and machine. Technology in many ways has not developed to commoners in the way that Furiosa has a prosthetic arm and any medical attention is all done individually. The trucks and war machines are portrayed very similar to how one would imagine life in the desert, meaning many layers, dark colors, heavy loads, and torn up-metallic scene. However the war lord uses many advanced torture weapons as well as a machine that keeps him alive by giving him continuous cycles of oxygen. The society once again shows the disproportionate balance between commoners and ranked people, modern day comparison would be the A List celebrities-warlord and Starving children-commoners. One of my favorite things about Mad Max is the relationship it shows with men and machine, an encounter that is meet head-on again and again, each time in more creative combinations and all overlaid in a never-ending blend of hot pink and puke green.
The movie isn’t set as many pieces of a plot coming together but just one big set with small chunks of dialogue chucked in between the well-oiled cogs. It is like going through a movie fast-forward. It is complete chaos. George Miller,the director, approached the film to apply his character's development by letting his star’s actions reveal more about the, than long speeches. Tom Hardy goes through the movie in a casual intensity while the main character surprisingly is Charlize Theron who fights her way out of Joe’s clutches with powerful efficiency. She is a balance between the Many Mothers and the wives of Joe in the way that she is no one’s property but she shows loneliness and desperation for a better life-the “green land” where she was born.
What surprises me the most is the younger wives of Joe’s who become increasingly active agents in their dash to freedom. These women have never left the mountain and now one pregnant and the rest who have just barely become adults, turn into strong warriors who never give up for what they believe in which is freedom from their lives with Joe. Nicholas Hoult plays an important role by accidentally falling into the rebels category. He never really gives a whole synopsis of his reason to switching sides but just does, his reason is left for the audience interpretation but through his action he shows compassion and love for a specific wife. This is his first time realizing what he is killing for and now he sees his doing he has something in his mind that goes off which is more powerful than patriotism but love.
The movie is able to grab the attention of the audience through the cast of A List celebrities and cinematography but also able to complete the science fiction category of teaching modern society lessons about the future. The goal of many people such as Furiosa is to run away from something in hope of something more that doesn’t exist but it’s only until people are able to see the futility of hope and the action of seeing a better life in repairing what is broken rather than running away from it and that the real hope of a better future begins at the problem-that is what makes Mad Max:Fury Road worth 11 dollars in theaters.