9/28/18

We had a catch up day yesterday. I mainly listened to music all class, I was aggressively bopping to Sum 41 I don't care how weird it looked. I get distracted really easily so I didn't get anything done really. I have very bad attention problems. I was also looking at some Louboutin stiletto heels that are really pretty and really expensive. The heels are about 6 inches. I went to the Perry Hall homecoming game last night, we won. I got to see all of my friends because everyone from there went to this game. We didn't actually go in the stadium because we didn't have tickets so we just hung out in the tennis court. Nothing really happened in class because I wasn't paying any attention which is probably not good but anyway, now I don't know what to write about.

it always comes back to aliens im sorry

We spent a third day talking about maps. How can a group of people spend so much time literally talking about maps? We had to write out where places were on the map and that was difficult. The Mercator map didn't show the Arctic ocean but am I really surprised though I mean it's just a lying piece of paper anyway why should I trust it. I can't stress enough how awful that map is whose idea was it to lie to the entire nation like hello???? Back to my theory on aliens that the government is hiding, it's improved. Evolved. Aliens made the Peters Projection map to distract people from the bigger picture. If we get so angry over a map, what's going to happen when we find out about aliens? So they made a map as good as possible so we'd be satisfied, and settled down for the time being. But now we know. We know.

i am slammed with homework im not gonna lie i couldve done a lot better.

Today we talked about maps. All class. I don't got any idea how a cartography lesson took 55 minutes but I'm not mad at it. Maps can never be perfect because maps aren't spherical like the Earth. We learned that the time zone creator people almost made the whole world have the same time. Instead they separated it into 24 time zones because of 24 hours in the day. It would be so weird if we all had the same time because when we go to bed at around 22:00, other people would just be waking up. I don't understand people who don't use military time. When you count, it don't go "10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3..." No, it goes "10, 11, 12, 13, 14..." My guinea pig is screaming I had to rush this. I still have a lot of homework. It's very late, 22:00. I'm sad. I'm small, I have no money, you can imagine the stress I'm under. In conclusion I am crying thank you.

9/24/18

I don't really know what kind of points they were making or what we're supposed to be writing down, so this is a shot in the dark. We should be using the Peters Projection map because the regular standard map made third world countries smaller and European countries bigger to show greater importance. This created a subconscious bias towards these countries. I agree with this point because usually it's in our heads that greater size means greater importance. This might be true to an extent, but I don't believe that the sizes of countries on the map is the root of racism. Another thing they say is that nothing is where we think it is. I don't think that point is valid enough because we still get the general idea of where everything is, it's not like there's too much of a difference. Those were the only points really brought up, they just talked about the same things, just using different words and phrases.

9/20/18

Christopher Columbus was a bad guy, there were millions of people in America and he was credited for discovering it. That's pretty messed up. I don't know what else to write for this blog, I mean all we did was yell about maps again. We talked about the flat Earth conspiracy but I missed most of that because I have attention issues. I don't understand how anyone can believe that theory. If the world is flat, then how are oceans? Oceans can't be. Because they go under, so the world can't be flat.

I'm sorry this turned into a rant about the government

Apparently we've been lied to for 133 years. Our map is wrong. The Peters Projection map is what the world actually looks like, everything is so different in size. Europe is too big and Africa isn't big enough, but it is, just not on our normal map which is wrong. This is proof that the government is trying to teach us incorrect information to brainwash us. And no, I'm not saying this as a joke. I am dead serious. 133 years they've known, and we still believe that the incorrect map is right because the government never switched it. But they know. If we continue to have such blind faith in our government, we will be taken advantage of more than we already are. I think all schools should teach the Peters Projection map. This whole situation makes me wonder what else the government hasn't told us about, the obvious answer is aliens. It is arrogant to believe we are the only life form in thousands of galaxies. The Canadian prime minister has even admitted to working alongside America with at least four types of aliens. In fact, Canada is sized differently on each map, it's smaller in reality. On an unrelated note, XXXTENTACION and Lil Peep's song was released today. Everyone hates it but it's actually really good.

9/17/18

We had a test today but other than that class was pretty uneventful and I'm pretty sure I can't write 150 words on it. I went to the school store to get a sweatshirt because I was cold, but it was closed. I went back later during class and I didn't have enough money. That's pretty much it.

9/14/18

I got chorus practice for mass, I won't be in class today.

Socrates 9/13/18

Today we learned that all of Socrates' organs shut down because when they killed him, they used hemlock tea which is extremely poisonous. He was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth and talking against the gods. The vote was really close, so some of the men in the jury asked the jail worker if they could let him go, and he said yes. When they went to tell Socrates he could escape, he refused because he believed in Athens' justice system. When we did the vote in class, more than 1/3 of the people voted to kill Socrates.

Ancient Greece 9/11/18

Today in class we learned about Socrates, and he’s a pretty cool guy. He was a soldier in the Peloponnesian war in ancient Greece, and then he later became a philosopher. We learned about the Socratic method, which is, in short, repeatedly asking someone questions to figure out how they truly feel on a certain topic. Socrates said it helped get people thinking more. And there was a talk about democracy and how the sun was considered a flaming chariot. Greece was kind of important. Democracy was a big deal in Athens, it was created in 508 BCE. The citizens would meet up and discuss a topic, and every person would be able to stand up and share their opinion on it and say what they think should be done. Many countries like America, obviously, and Egypt, Russia, and China, took the idea of democracy and decided to use it in their own government.

A Message to Garcia 9/8/18

I didn’t take much out of this essay. It’s just about a guy who did what he was told, and I don’t see how anyone could take something from it. Rowan was given an order from the president to deliver a message to Garcia, hence the title of the essay. Rowan did it and didn’t ask any questions. No one knew where Garcia was, though. If anything, what should be taken out of this essay is sometimes asking questions is important, for instance, when you’re told to do something, but you know absolutely nothing about it, you should ask general questions to figure out what the goal is. How do you expect me to find him? How dangerous is this? Why me? Those are all valid questions. Just because we ask questions doesn’t mean we’re disobedient. In fact, the way I see it, if you don’t ask questions and you just do whatever anyone tells you, you’re not really a person anymore. You’re not thinking for yourself. You’re a puppet. Maybe something should be taken out of this essay, and that’s to ask a couple questions every now and then.

homework assignment 9/5/18

My first day at John Carroll hasn't been a good one. I really miss the chaos of public school. School isn't really my thing, so truth be told I liked how I didn't have to pay attention, I could skip class, and not do homework and no one would care. Being at a ghetto public school is what I'm used to, and where I feel like I belong. It seems like everyone at this school is rich, whereas I can barely afford being here with a scholarship and I still had to get help from distant relatives. The hallways smell like money and the principal looks like Colonel Sanders, that's not exactly a bad thing because Colonel Sanders is very respected and successful. Everything about me is different from the people here. My dialect, the way I grew up, the sports I play and my interests. In public school, no one payed attention to those things because no one wanted to be there. We were all in that school for the same reason, to learn what we need to and graduate so we would never have to think about it again. This is a school where focusing and learning is important since we payed to be here. I don't seem to fit in with anyone in my classes either. Everything about this school stresses me out a lot. I don't like it here.