Ashnr07 Lighthouse

 Yeah, yeah, whatever… I said the Tony Snow Blogging Assignment was going to be the only assignment this week.

 Okay — this one is actually part of that assignment:

Look at the process you are going through to put together an answer to this (admittedly) difficult assignment. Chances are, you are having trouble doing it — and those “troubles” could come in many forms.

 Stop for a second.

Think back on your Top Five Strengths.

Which of those strengths can help you do what you need to do in order to be successful with this blogging assignment?

• In your blog, write a paragraph about this. List again your top five strengths.

Just look at that list! All five of them are really great strengths to have, don’t you think?

• Explain how you can use one (or two, or three) of your strengths to do well with your work.

And take a moment to feel gratitude for your five wonderful strengths.

1.)Perspective

2.)bravery

3.)integrity

4.)appreciation of beauty

5.)Trustworthy

6.)kindness

Not really none of my strengths can help me with my assignment. My strengths are real good strengths to have because each of them show alot of meaning. It shows who you are and what your basically made of inside.

“I think the ability to help others more shows gratitude.”

Here’s what i found on the Mark Foley Story on MSN News Week:

    Six-Term Republican Congressman Mark Foley has been sending sexual Congressional pages of instant messaging to young male boys from ages 16-17 years old. Mark Foley was confronted by ABC News that he sent sexual harrassment pages to young boys. But yet he has not protested any innocence.

  Foley resigned his seat after emails and reports of instant messaging were exposed and he has checked into rehabulation Center. Before he resigned, he said his last statement ” I never attempted to prevent inquired of investigation. Foley resigned his seat on September 29, 2006. But before resigning Foley had also attented a signing Ceremony at the Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.

 At 3rd Congressman Rep. Rodney Alexander says John Hastert knew that this has been going on Foley and teenage boys. John Hastert knew about an email that had been sent out to an Lousiaina boy. Even the one where Foley asked the boy to send a picture.

 Republicans who are already at risk at loosing control of Congress in election 5 weeks away. Politics of Foley’s downfall could mess up the hotly contested Congressional Elections. The Republicans are leaking the scandal.

   Here’s some information about what Tony Snow had to say about the Scandal:

  Tony Snow appeared on Cnn Octobe 3, 2006 at the White House referring to the sexual and graphic emails sent by former represented Mark Foley to several teenage paged as simply “naughty emails.” But Snow has also documented misleading claims. American Media Matters claims Tony Snow false misleading claims when it was reported that he was on the shortlist to succed Scott McClellan  White House Press Secretary. The democrats accused the republican of trying to cover up for Foley.

  Spiderman is the unknown hero. Nobody knows what he looks like. All they know is he saves everybody in the neighborhood. If I had to choose Spiderman Strengths, they would be: bravery, kindness, leadership, integrity.

  Spiderman is very brave when it comes to saving people because he puts his own life in danger just to be a neighborhood hero. He has a lot of bravery because he goes out fighting evil people and saving them. He’s not scared to risk himself of getting hurt.

Example: “Help! Help! Cried the women in the fire.” “Chief I got to go save her said, “Spiderman.

Spiderman Parker was very sweet and polite and always saying nice things. He has a lot of kindness towards people in the neighborhood.

Example: “I’ll help out the paint Uncle Ben; don’t start without me,” Peter said.”

   When Peter Parker became Spiderman, leadership begin coming. A lot of people was looking up for him and having his back too.

Example: “Hey, if you mess with Spiderman you mess with us too!! He just trying to save some kids, “said town’s men.

 Spiderman was a very integrity person. He never meant to hurt nobody. All he like doing was saving the neighborhood and being there for the girl he like, MJ.

Example: “MJ if you ever need me, I’ll always be there for you I promise,’’ he said.

One of Spiderman’s weakness was he didn’t have social intelligence. He didn’t speak of who was and he didn’t tell MJ how he really felt about her. When he was peter he let people pick on him.

My reaction after the taken the test and seeing the results was a little shocking because it showed the true meaining of me. Im not willing to agree to anything just because people say it’s right. If i dont see it in my eyes then im not agreeing. I am not a follower. I am a conservative democrat.

The test was very accurate. The percentages were mostly right. I am similar to the Typology group because we all have a basic description of what we are believing in. But, the issues that are important to me is the election media. We wanna know who they are..

Authentic Happiness: There are three types

Pleasure- To think ahead of the time; the future, while your in a good mood.

example: Listening to music.

Engagement- Something that holds out attention.

example: What some people feel there interested in

Meaning-activities that are fun to others and not just one.

example:agreeing equally.

 Signature Strengths is basically a personality test that you take to see if your happy or if you just want to find out the true meaning of you. Alot of people love to take these test but it helps them find the solution of why they are depressed and sometimes the reason of why there happy.

Positive Psychology- Is happiness that anybody can get and there chacacter would always be happy. There not ever being mean or having an attitude. There just being positive and having positive emotions.

     The Story is about a young girl name Precious. Precious wants so much going for her self just to impress a boy name Neville Campbell. Precious’s mother Lucille, who knows how Precious feels for Neville tries to stop her from acting so pathetic and to worry about school then some boy who not even paying any attention to you.

   Precious strengths were to be happy with Neville. Happiness was all she really wanted. She wasn’t thinking negative about the consequences that could affect her later on she was just thinking about how she was going to have Neville like her and want her as his girlfriend.

  “She dreamed of strolling on the sand with a sweet-looking boy, arm in arm and affectionate, the envy of all the boys-less girls out there.”

   But the envy of girls that Precious didn’t have was long hair. Forget the thighs, or nice long legs or nice pretty skin. It was hair that she thought her man liked on girls. The long hair that flows as the wind combs threw it. The sparkly water glimpse going threw it as the water run threw it.

  “You see those girls? How do they do it? Precious wondered.. Both girls had plentiful hair: hair that lifted in the wind and fanned around the shoulders, hair that caressed their cheeks, tempting boys to touch it.”

  Precious’s mom Lucille only wanted her daughter to learn and be educated and not fall behind no boy! Boys cause trouble. She wanted her to find happiness in her self and not after any boy.

   “Massa God, please bless my daughter, let her have ambition and sense. And I beg you, Lord, please let her turn out good.

  It was for her daughter sake that she didn’t want her to get pregnant.

  “Boy trouble, it had to be, for as far as she knew Precious had had no chance to get into baby trouble-yet.”

     Precious wasn’t worried about nobody but her. All she was thinking about is how she was going to get some long hair so she went and sinned.

“Precious decided on braids, the least expensive option.”

   Lucille did not approve of extensions at all.

“Precious ran in her mom room to wake her up and as she looked she said hmm…Lucille, who did not approve of extensions at all”

“More trouble coming said Lucille”

As precious was getting carried away with her hair, she dozed off and went to sleep but woke up the next morning with trouble. Her beautiful braids that Sister Pauline had put in had came out her hair. They were all scattered over her bed. She weeped and weeped over and then ran in her mom’s room showing her new bald look.

“Oh my God! Oh my God! Precious scream as more of her extensions were coming out.”

“You see where vanity leads you? Lucille muttered.”

    Precious went from, extensions and potions to have Neville notice her and neither one of them worked because she just wasn’t Neville type.

    “Neville was with a white girl”

When Precious hair started growing with Potion Sister Homelia gave her. She began to act new as if she was a stuck and she didn’t know anybody any more. She thought a lot of girls envied her. Even her best friend Lindy.

“She just jealous! Precious told her self.”

Precious thought with her new growing hair she could get Neville because it made her feel good about her self and she just knew Neville liked long haired girls.

   Precious was living for Pleasure Happiness. She was only living for the future and to satisfy someone else. Neville who was meaning happiness because he may have payed attention to Precious but he payed more attention to other girls that was his type and meaning. Even though Precious nevered even dared to try and listen to her mom. Her mom Lucille was still trying to help Precious live Engagement happiness. Not just to fit in but to be happy and have an education too.

   If I was a counselor I will tell Precious to live her life and not try to live for other people. Do things what makes Precious happy because only Precious can do that. Not her mom, not the boy Neville, and not even the people who tried to help her out. I will tell Precious beauty comes in every one and especially her!

“Precious and her hair” 

My strengths and Precious strengths together are similar because we both want to be happy. We don’t have long to live sometimes so we try to do things that’s going to make us satisfied and from being hungry. Meaning from wanting all the time from others ( begging). But the strengths I have that are different from Precious is I know how to make something come to me rather than make me come to it. You have to learn to put your self because only you can control who you are and what you do. You can’t let other people come beside you or even the important people like your family. And it’s always good to listen.

Wise – to have the capacity of power to stand up for what is true and right.

       As long as I can remember. I always was a wise young girl and lady. I always told people what was true and what was right. My daddy always told me to never let nobody take advantage of me or try to peer pressure me into doing anything because wants they start doing that I am down. I thought smart, but there was a time when I was pressured into smoking and I had to wise and move onto a whole different crowd. I have to be wise and think of the courage I got in me. As I always thought even though my dad may not have been there for most of my life, he did show me how to have power when I was younger. I guess you learn from what you grow.

  Honesty- To have the ability to let people know you are loyal and you can be trustworthy.

            There came a time when I was younger where I had to lie or tell the truth. Of course I lied here and there over petty stuff but when it came down to the real deal I had to be honest. I couldn’t bare lie at the big things because I knew what the consequences would bring me. This one my cousins had stole from the store when I was like 10. My auntie told me to tell the truth and be honest at what they had done no matter how mad they would be at me. So what did I do? I confessed and snitched. Yeah so what I snitched but I knew what was right so it made me feel good and besides I was NOT going to get in trouble with them crazy people! Every since then I always told the truth and been honest about everything because I know lien don’t get you no where.

Faith- Always being able to stand up and not falling down. Don’t give up just believe and keep on believing.

            It took me awhile to realize what faith was because as I was growing up I didn’t really have faith when it came to school work because I never believed that I could really manage to anything by myself. I always thought my mom was going to be there through every quiz and test. But as I got older she was there at home managing the house. I had to have the responsibility to do things on my own and she did help me with a couple of important things. After a while, I just gave up. I got on home school and had a teacher name Mr. Minton he helped me out a lot with my faith and gave me a opportunity to choose to be a failure or non failure. I choose to be a non failure. It makes me feel good because here I am now having a GPA as 3.00. Now I can believe in me more thanks to my teacher and that makes me feel proud.

Unconditional Feelings- The feeling of a warm glow inside towards another person.

            I use to have this certain type of love for this boy. I always wondered what type of love he had for me? Was it Conditional or Unconditional? I found out it was conditional love. In order for him to love me he wanted me to do things for him, be there in non loving ways for him. I knew his circumstances wasn’t going to be falling in love with me which really hurted me but you got to deal with life situations like that. So I left that relationship alone. I couldnt let that type of relation bring me down because that’s what the relation and he was trying to do. At first I thought I was doing something dumb by leaving him but then I realize im smart to and I got to do what is right. Looking at that stage of life I realize that you learn from your mistakes and you getting smarter at what you learn.

Beauty- A person, place, or thing, etc. that stands out of its surroundings that you really admire or like.

            Beauties to me use to be the greatest thing anybody would like to see. I thought beauty could get you anything you want and need. But beauty is only a desire that you see. The only attention beauty bring is half the attention you want. I use to make fun of people who was ugly because I thought they had no chance when deep down inside it was me. I would make a lot of people cry and wouldn’t even know why on earth and I doing that to them. But one day they just got tired of it and figured out why I did it. They knew how I felt about myself and just because you’re pretty to others don’t mean you can see it. I had these sessions I went to after school program about situations like mines. I learned that ugly was in me and it needed to find its way out. After those sessions I felt good about myself and I left people alone because I knew I had to do what was right.

Q1) Post a comment telling us something significant about Germany’s invasion of Poland. 1) YOU CAN’T post information someone else has already posted. 

1) YOU CAN’T post information someone else has already posted. 2) You can’t post something goofy like, “It happened in Europe.” 

3) If someone has posted incorrect information, please correct it. 

A1) German Invasion on Poland was One of Adolf Hitler’s first policy after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. The Germans did not agree with this move. 

Q1) Go to one of the blogs I’ve listed below, choose a post you find interesting and summarize it in one paragraph.
This is BlogHer – a blog written from a female POV.
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I wanted to find a political blog that expressed a Red State / conservative perspective, since my own politics are very liberal / progressive. But I had trouble finding one I could really recommend. So here’s a particular post on the RED STATE blog that I found interesting.
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Math was never my favorite subject, and I tend to think of myself as a rejected stranger on the Planet Math — so I definitely need to read more about math. Let’s try a math teaching blog that could have some ideas for Independent Study: Homeschool Math Blog
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Culturally, I’ll admit to being pretty ignorant about Islam, so with all the endlessly negative news and opinions about Muslims, I wanted to read a blog from an Islamic point of view. Here’s veiled4allah.
A1) I read the post about Fredrick Douglas. He was telling us to remember who are leaders are that set us free and what they did to try to make the world at peace. He wants us to let all the hatred go even thought as Fredrick Douglas said,’’ Slavery will always remain here. Don’t let nobody bring us down. We got to stand up for the rights that we have.  
 

Q1)Using Google, write a paragraph telling me who Clyde Tombaugh was. Why was he famous? Where did he grow up? What is the latest news about his great discovery? 

A1) Clyde Tombaugh was the man who discovered the ninth planet Pluto. He was an astronomy researcher at this program at New Mexico State University. He was born on a farm near Streator Illinois. He was raised near Burdett Kansas during his high school years. The latest thing about his discovery is Pluto is no longer a planet any more.