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Thursday, November 20, 2014



Student Success Statement
 ‘Kindness is essence of greatness.”
Joseph B. Wirthlin

Kindness is greatness because when you are kind people respect you and who you are. If you are not kind people will want nothing do to with you they wont talk to you and socialize with you. Also they wont to be your friend and make you laugh and be there when your down.



Thanksgiving is about giving thanks and for the blessing of the harvest. The only people who celebrate is Canada and the United States. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, in Canada he second Monday of October. Thanks giving has its historical roots from religious and cultural traditions.
Thanksgiving dates back as far as North America rooted in America as the English Refromation. The reign of Henery VII and in a catholic calander.
    12  Things I’m thankful for
1.    My family
2.    My brother
3.     friends
4.   my  parents
5.   my grandparents
6.   my cousin
7.   the roof I sleep under
8.   being on the basketball team
9.   the clothes I wear
10.                 my school
11.                 food
12.                 wifi
I like Thanksgiving because it reunited my family and brings us all together.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014


Student Success Statement

    “If it is not right don’t do it;
if it is not true don’t  say it.”
             Marcus Aurelius        One example of not doing what is right is smoking marijuana when your not suppose to.
A second example of if it is not true then don’t say it when you spread a rumor.

Dental Assistant

·      Duties and responsibilities: prepare room, welcoming, comforting, and draping patient. Answer questions and request, sterilize, selecting mixing and placing materials in the patients mouth.
·      Salary: $23,550-$47,580
·      Education: community collages, technical institutes, or university and dental school.
·       I think I would want to be a dental assistant because it’s the closest you can be to dentist. Also, its not a tedious job so you can be hands on with your work always.

Friday, November 14, 2014


Dental Lab Technician

 Duties and responsibilities: Replace or partial or total loss of tooth. Place crowns and bridges, complete procedures implants that fit the patients jawbone.
 
Salary: $37,960

Education: Must be in a 2 year at a community collage, vocation school, technical school, university or dental school.


 Yes, I would like to be a dental lab technician because learning about your mouth and jaw structure is interesting. Also you can learn to have better mouth hygine.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

The California Restaurant Association is lobbying San Diego County supervisors to allow participants in the CalFresh Food Benefits program to use their federally funded debit cards to receive hot, prepared meals at restaurants. North County Times reports:
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved early plans to allow elderly, disabled and homeless recipients to redeem their county-administered benefits at local restaurants. With the vote, county staff is charged with crafting a way to put the plan in place, and presenting it to the board in three months.
Supporters say restaurants should be an option for food stamp recipients because many have no way to cook or store the food they receive at grocery stores. About 10 percent of the county's 213,000 food stamp recipients would be eligible for the program, county officials said.
“A lot of the elderly and the homeless don't have kitchens,” said Andrew Casana, a lobbyist for the California Restaurant Association, speaking to the board at its downtown chambers.
The association brought the idea to board members last year, saying it would boost business and fill a community need. The number of people receiving food stamps countywide has spiked by 79 percent in two years, according to the county.
At first blush this seems like a terrible idea to me, but I can see why they are taking the proposal seriously. The option would only be open to the 10% who are homeless or don't have access to a kitchen. The menu items would be limited to supposedly healthy options, but the list of participating restaurants doesn't inspire confidence -  Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut, Jack In The Box, KFC, and Carl's Jr.. I am thinking of one homeless person I'm working with lately who doesn't have access to a kitchen and he mostly just wants peanut butter from our food pantry. The worst fast food would be a better option for him than just peanut butter. So for him, and people like him I would support something like this.
What concerns me is that this is the beginning of a shift in the way federal dollars are used to help the poor. This door has already been opened in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and I'm wondering how long it will take the lobbyists to suggest that the program has been so successful that they need to open it up to people who have kitchens but who don't know how to cook. That is a major problem for many people in poverty. In working with the EBT program in Spokane County at the farmers' market, I know there is hard fast rule that benefits cannot be, in any circumstance, used for hot, prepared foods. I think that's a good thing, but I'd like to see more resources go into helping people in need develop skills for preparing healthy meals with low cost fresh foods subsidized by the government. Another helpful direction would be to help people learn to grow their own foods and preserve them. Ironically, the local food movement that is much maligned as elitist, is the cultural resource that is best able to help people poverty develop these skills. 
The Food Sense program in Spokane County is a doing some of this important work.
Three comments on this post so far. Add yours!
  • “At first blush this seems like a terrible idea to me, but I can see why they are taking the proposal seriously.”
    I agree 100%. I can’t help but to be disgusted by the idea of people being able to use their food stamps on fast food..But I am even more disgusted by the fact that people have to go hungry. I never thought I’d say this (or even that I’d have the option to say this), but I would fully support something like. Not only would it give those less fortunate people hot food, but it would also give them the right to be in a warm establishment during winter months without being thrown out for loitering.
  • Various comments gleaned quickly from food networks this morning:
    The recession has hit families hard. According to the USDA, between 2008 and 2009, more than 7 million people were added to the food stamp rolls. A 2010 study by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan child advocacy group, estimated the total number of people currently on food stamp rolls is 36.5 million with half of those estimated to be children.
    With our current health care crisis, the poor health in our urban centers and the lack of adequate health care for low-income communities, to legitimize fast food as a viable option for food stamp use seems irresponsible. While Michelle Obama plants a garden to emphasize to the country the importance of eating fresh vegetables and highlighting the problem of childhood obesity, our states are allowing the fast food industry even more access to the waistlines of its residents.
    Should Food Stamps Be Used for Soda?
    Nationally, soda companies raked in a $4 billion subsidy last year through purchases by the 41 million Americans on food stamps.
    Because of the way it is manufactured, some HFCS contains mercury, a potent brain toxin, at higher levels than those considered safe by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, a 2009 article in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Environmental Health found. While the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy found no mercury in soda in the majority of beverages it tested, it was present in “nearly one in three of the 55 HFCS-containing food products including in such brands as Quaker, Hunt’s, Manwich, Hershey’s, Smucker’s, Kraft, Nutri-Grain and Yoplait.”
    While that corporate spin is as transparent as 7-Up, critics do have a valid point when they argue that the poor turn to junk and fast food not out of ignorance, but because they are generally easier to obtain than fresh produce and other healthier items — and they deliver far cheaper calories. But part of the economic draw derives from farm policies that — through subsidies that create cheap corn-based foods, including soda and meat — inherently disadvantage more healthful items.
  • Think outside the box (Jack’s, McD’s, Carl’s Jr.’s, Pizza Hut’s, KFC,’s Taco Bell’s — do you know who owns these? Think Big Soda, Big Corn, Big HFCS!), please —
    The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted today to put a ban on new fast food restaurants in South Los Angeles. City Officials are hoping the ban will help slow the rapidly growing obesity rate in this impoverished area of the city. Thirty percent of South L.A. adults are obese compared with 19.1 percent of adults in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and 14.1 percent on the more affluent west side of town. This comes as little surprise when you consider that 73 percent of all restaurants in South L.A. are fast food compared with 42 percent in West Los Angeles. The moratorium will last for one year and is intended to attract other types of restaurants to an area desperately in need of healthier choices. The bill requires the signature of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to become law. The California Restaurant Association is considering a legal challenge to the city ordinance.
    As part of a special issue on food, Yes! Magazine profiles the Brazilian city of Belo, which has, by working with farmers and communities, put an end to hunger.
    “Belo [Brazil], a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 percent of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost 20 percent of its children going hungry. Then in 1993, a newly elected administration declared food a right of citizenship. The new mayor, Patrus Ananias—now leader of the federal anti-hunger effort—began by creating a city agency, which included assembling a 20-member council of citizen, labor, business, and church representatives to advise in the design and implementation of a new food system.
    The city agency developed dozens of innovations to assure everyone the right to food, especially by weaving together the interests of farmers and consumers. It offered local family farmers dozens of choice spots of public space on which to sell to urban consumers, essentially redistributing retailer mark-ups on produce—which often reached 100 percent—to consumers and the farmers. Farmers’ profits grew, since there was no wholesaler taking a cut. And poor people got access to fresh, healthy food.
    Belo’s food security initiatives also include extensive community and school gardens as well as nutrition classes. Plus, money the federal government contributes toward school lunches, once spent on processed, corporate food, now buys whole food mostly from local growers.”
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

  Student Success Statement
             "It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today."
                                              James Freeman Clark
         It means to always do right because if you do something wrong it can have a major impact in someones life.


Veterans Day
  Veterans day is about people who have served our country and remembering all those who died for our country. We celebrate this holiday by having a ceremony dedicated to those who served in our country. We recognize new, old, and future veterans. We celebrate it on November 11 because during World War 1 the German president decide to truce on the 11th day  11 month and the 11th  hour. The first person to be buried on veterans day was an unknown person, he is buried at Arlinting National Cemetery. Ever since it’s a tradition for any unknown veteran to buried there. It is also a tradition for the president or any former representative to lay flowers or sort of gift for them.
   I feel like this holiday is very meaning full to me because I have my cousins who went to afaganastand and are still serving for our nation and for that I thank them.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014


Student Success Statement

1.     Have the courage to say  no.
2.     Have the courage to face the truth.
3.     Do the right thing because it is the right.
“These are the 3 magic key to living your life with integrity.”
                 W. Clement Stone.
This quote means that saying “no” is the right thing. Saying “no” is the right thing because you don’t always have to do the wrong, you should never do the wrong. When someone asks you to do the wrong say “no” and you’ll feel INTEGRITY.
                                                                       Integrity
 Integrity- the quantity of being honest and having strong moral principles
synonyms- honor, good character, fairness, ext...
Antonyms- disgrace, dishonor, corruption, and deceit
One example of integrity is keeping your promise, going back to the store and paying for something you forgot to pay for, and don't gossip.

Monday, November 3, 2014

Be Wise

                                                                       Be wise
                                         He that walketh with wise men shall be wise;
                                               but a companion of fools shall be 
                                                                 destroyed.  
                                                             Proverbs 13:20
  Be wise and do the right thing. Don't go out on a Friday night and party, drink, and smoke. Better if you go to the movies with some friends or why not just stay home and study because you a big test Monday. Partying is just a waist of time and what are the benefits  of you doing the wrong getting arrested is one.

Dance Movement therapist


          Dance/Movement Therapist

 Duties and responsibilities: They help children and adults who have depression, anxiety physical/ psychiatric/ neurologist disorders, learning disorders, autism, ext..  they help them by doing role playing and self-realization.

Salary: $
40,000-$50,000 a year

 Education: Must have training of modern dance and have an honours  degree in dance, movement , performing arts , psychology, and nursing medicine.
 
 I would like to be one because I feel like I can express my self by dancing and then I could help others express them selves with there self expressing.