Essential Question Media Sources

An article on The Boston Marathon Bombing talks about how even though this was a tragic and terrifying event, it will not stop Boston from housing the Boston marathon, and its citizens to support it. This directly relates to my essential question about fear running peoples lives. There are two options for people coming out of this tragic event, hide, and not go out again, or continue on with life as if nothing happened.

Aurora Theater shooting: six months later talks about the hardships and grief the victims of the aurora shooting have gone through. Some people have come together to get over what happened, some are still tied down with pain. They are reopening the aurora theater where the shooting happened. Some of the victims denounce the idea, others want to go. Along with that, some people want the death penalty given to the shooter, some don’t.

Scared of talking to girls? Become a beast. Simple pickup helps guys who are too afraid to talk to girls do just that, talk to girls. They have a specific emotion they try to target that they call “bitch butterflies” (I’ll say BB for short, and so I don't say b****). BB’s are the emotion you get in your stomach when you are too afraid to do something

Why horror fascinates us says that we are attracted to fear. We wanna feel the adrenaline rush of being terrified in an environment that is safe.

This picture of a scary clown talks about peoples personal fears. Some people are afraid of heights, bugs, etc. But its really just how you look at things.

GOAL!!!

If you could be in any movie, book or TV show, what would it be, why and what character would you be?

If I could be in any movie I would be in Goal. Goal is about a little Mexican boy who comes to the US illegally with his family. That part doesn't really matter, but what happens is he's really good at soccer and a scout for NewCastle United sees him and gives him a trial with the team in England. At first, he REALLY sucks but then he pulls his stuff together and makes the team. The movie shows him scoring goals and doing all the things that the pro life allows you to do like parties etc.

I would want to be in Goal because it has always been my dream to be a professional soccer player in England. Hopefully one day this will happen to me for real :)

Blog Carnival: Foreign Country

For our blog carnival we asked, if you could got school in a foreign country, which country would you pick and why? Naturally, we received a number of responses. Some of them were quite bizarre while others were your average Joe. All in all our class displayed great intelligence and creativity.

Gabe went against our instruction and picked multiple countries. Although he isn’t very good at following instructions, he blogs like a champ. His top choice was Ireland because he has heritage there and enjoys Irish step dancing. Haimei was very open minded in answering this question. She would be happy going anywhere in the world because she hasn’t had the opportunity to travel very much. So i decided where she should go. I would send Haimei to Greenland. It’s a very relaxing country and I feel she would fit in very well there because she reminds me of an ice princess and it’s a very icy country. My boy Wyatt would want to attend a prestigious university in Zurich because you can get an undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence. This school offers students the opportunity to study hands on with some of the worlds largest robots. Also for one of the final projects at this school in Switzerland students have to design a robot that is capable of finding your soulmate. Pretty neat stuff. Moving along...

Mitch’s blog contained some racial slurs..but he would not want to go to Mexico. He would want to go to Canada. He chose Canada because he really likes maple leaves. Mitch then went on to talk badly about the rest of the world. Classy. Connor also wants to go to Ireland. He has a lot of distant relatives who hail from Ireland. Connor is actually related to Annie Moore, who was the first immigrant to be processed through Ellis Island! Wow!! Meghan decided England would be the best for her. She also liked France but feels she would be overwhelmed by the language barrier. She then linked a video to the Taylor Swift Goat screaming song at the end of her blog. Great touch.

Kaela decided she wants to go down under to Australia. She seems to think Australia is warm like Colorado... Ok Kaela... Moving on to Matt who was the only educated blogger and picked the #1 country in education, which is apparently Finland. Who knew. MacLean would want to stay with his family and go to school in Scotland. We all know its really for the accent though. Wesley wants to go to Spain for its historical background, and of course its amazing soccer. Good choice. Last but not least we have Keren who decided she would go to school in Israel. It seems this was an easy choice for her considering she was born there and has heritage there.

We were very impressed by all of your submissions, some more than others... It was nice to see that no country was picked twice, and it just shows how many great places there are on earth.