Hacking My Education this Last and Final High School Spring Semester (Boo hoo boo hoo!)

The way that I would like to hack my education this year is to try to work around the idea of my future career which is being an environmental engineer. So, for example, in my Health and AP Environmental Science classes, I can use those classes to my most biggest advantage and try to learn even more from other classes this spring.

Spring Vocabulary #1

1. Adumbrate - to foreshadow vaguely, to suggest or disclose partially

2. Apotheosis - elevation to divine status, a "perfect" example

3. Ascetic - practicing self denial strictly, especially for religious, harshly simple

4. Bauble - trinket, a jester's scepter

5. Beguile - decieve by cunning means, to cause to pass pleasantly

6. Burgeon - expand rapidly and wildly, to put forth new growth, to burst into bloom

7. Complement - something that fills up, completes, or makes perfect

8. Contumacious - stubbornly perverse or rebellious, willfully and obstinately disobedient

9. Curmudgeon - bad tempered, difficult, cantankerous person

10. Didactic - intended to teach particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

SENTENCES: 

1. I adumbrate tha tour supply of oil reserves in a global scale will be diminished by the year 2045, and will add to the already global warming incident going on.

2. Jimmy has such an apotheosis personality to him that everyone, even the guys, surround him at lunchtime. 

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New Year 2014 from Times Square

This video was taken from somebody else in New York`s famous Times Square. Enjoy !!!

Truly Interesting Piece Of Nonfiction (or a Memoir)

This piece of text is a memoir  more than nonfiction, but I still recommend it to anyone. Always Running, by ex-gang member Luis J. Rodriguez from the San Gabriel Valley, is now a former author, critic, journalist, and children' s book author. he also has put up a multicultural center in the San Fernando Valley called Tia Chucha` s Center where the Latino community can join and have fun.

In the memoir, Luis explains his troubles as he was getting older. He would inject himself some kind of drug into himself that provoked the body to be really intoxicated and the feelings and emotions Luis felt afterward. It also shows how rough the gang members are between each other. The title itself implies that gang members are always running from police and the law.

What I See Is All in My Head

So I went to this website to check out a cool illusion and my first impressions about the illusion I chose was that it really changes your vision, but just for a split few seconds. Once you take your eyes off the screen, I looked at the back of my hand and it looks really wierd. It looks as if my hand were in some kind of liquid like form. 

Why Seven Times?

NEWS PRESS RELEASE: 13 Year Old Andy Lopez Gunned Down By Santa Rosa Sheriff 

Research on Environmental Racism

This research paper turned into a blog post encompasses racism with the environment because we tend to place stereotypes based on how clean or dirty a certain country looks to be. The jump below this introduction will show you what I mean. Enjoy ! 

Help Needed

I need help, my viewers. I want to add a few more things to my blog but I just can`t seem to find the way how. So if any of you know or would like to share some links to a special website, do so in a comment below. Thanks a lot in advance. 

Melancholic Graduate of 2014

Take some consideration that this is Hamlet in 2014: 
Will I be or won`t I be a graduate of Righetti High School during June of 2014? That is the question. The answer is yes and I am standing here before you giving a speech on how I accomplished my present goals and how I will go through "the road less traveled" (Robert Frost). It is mid-June and it is very hot, so here I go ...

We have all had bumps in the road. Some bumps are larger than others. My mom is having an affair with the "king", she is mentally dead to me, my father has been jailed  or presumably recorded as dead by now, and my biggest task is to go to college? How does something like that happen? Well, we all have to do our homework and classwork at some point. Now for the selection of classes, you have to choose them strategically, almost like a game. If you choose the wrong one, you will lose points and would have wasted precious time in the process. Your scholarship packets are your swords and shields when going into battle with the 3 headed admissions officers. Your armory, if built correctly, will get you through the gate on to a better life. If not, you will be eaten up and spit back out to where you started. But, whose to say that we haven`t all defeated those beasts to get through that wonderful gate? Now what you do beyond that gate is up to you. Now you are a grown, well built man, strong enough to defend yourself. You have just started to live your own life and will be improving the lives of your future family from what you have learned in your childhood and adolescent years. 

Declaration of (Learning) Independence

We the students of the classroom of Dr. Preston, will come together and revolutionize the learning institutions and teaching strategies for future generations to come. As an individual, I wish to learn more about the Internet and its other many functions
To know some of the acronyms and what is their significance in the Internet realm. To realize that blogging and the Internet overall is an untapped potential waiting to be discovered. To learn why the Internet has its pros and cons and how we can eliminate some of the cons to make the Internet the ultimate tool ever invented. To learn how to correctly type on a standard keyboard.