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What can I say about my city, Minden?
It’s a place of honor, where all love is given.
Though we are small, we show off in a big way.
We make the most of our small world…we make the most of each day.
People are friendly.
Everybody knows everybody.
No matter who you are…your classified as “SOMEBODY”.
MHS (Minden High School)…the mighty “CRiMSON TiDE”.
We are a school of Destiny.
A honorable school of “PRiDE”.
The Minden family loves it when football season begins.
And we especially love it when our boys win.
Were a lot different from the big city’s, but in our minds, we don’t care.
Through all we’ve been through, our spirits they can not tear.
So, I guess that’s it…there’s nothing left to say.
Minden is the best in every single way.
Hi, my name is Tiya. I hope you have enjoyed viewing my photobook for Mrs.Dick’s class. For the photobook, our class had to make a collection of different kinds of pictures. CLOSE-UPS, which are pictures of objects or people taken at a close range. A PORTRAiT, which is a picture of a person. LEADiNG LiNES, which is a picture that leads your eye to something. REFLECTiON, which is a picture that shows something being reflected off something else. RULE OF THiRDS, which is when a picture is being divided into imaginary lines, both horizontal and vertical. And Pictures of NATURE, FRiENDS, and RANDON PiCTURES that I took.
Out of them all, my two favorites are “CLOSE-UPS” and “PORTRAiTS“. I really love to take pictures of people. I take this as being one of my strong suits. I love doing this because I can capture the real beauty of the person through my photography. It doesn’t matter how ugly the background is, what kinds of clothes the person has on, or even how ugly the person is. I can always capture their beauty.
Welcome…my name is Tiya! Enjoy the blogs!
What is FASHION:
1 a: the make or form of something barchaic :
2 a: a distinctive or peculiar and often habitual manner or way <he will, after his sour fashion, tell you b: mode of action or operation <assembled in an orderly fashion3 a: a prevailing custom, usage, or style. b (1): the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time (2): a garment in such a style <always wears the latest fashions> c: social standing or prominence especially as signalized by dress or conduct <men and women of fashion>
My definition of fashion is clothing that expresses one’s individuality. Fashion is a way we can show people who we are, what we like, and shows off our sense of style.In its most common usage, “fashion” exemplifies the appearances of clothing, but the term encompasses more.
One of my favorite quotes is “If your determined for success….dress to impress.” Just the right amount of style can very well likely lead you in a positive direction. Dressing below a certain style criteria tells people a lot about you. Even if it’s intentional or not. If It’s formal, wear a suit, tuxedo or a dress. If it’s street formal, wear some jean, a t-shirt with a cool little design, and a nice suit jacket. If it’s casual, hey….do you!
For the first half of our Spring seamster here at Minden High, us students in Mrs. Dick’s computer class conducted an experiment. At the start of the class,we went to our class blog site and read a post about how people can save trees by reducing the amount of paper we use. After reading the post, Mrs. Dick started to tell us about the project we were expected to do. “In order to save trees, we are going to be going through an entire seamster without using any paper. It was actually pretty fun to do because using paper is a really big part of school. It was also really easy because all we did was use the computer. =)
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Posted by: tidertechie | January 7, 2009 | 25 Comments |
How many pieces of paper per year does the average teacher use? How many sticky notes are sold per year? The average tree produces 80,500 sheets of paper. That seems like quite a bit until you compare that to the annual use of paper. It requires 786 million trees to produce the worlds annual paper supply.
Is your classroom Green? I really hadn’t given this much thought, because I am not worksheet teacher. Ok, now that I think about it, I am quite a sticky note fanatic. Oh and when writing grants I tend to print numerous copies to write all over. Maybe I am being pretty wasteful.
Can our class really make a difference? YES! If you recycle 2 sheets per day for a year, you would save approximately 42 trees.
Our Class Challenge
We are going to go green for the first nine weeks of this semester to see how close to paperless we can get. How are we going to do this?
How much paper do you think we will use? Please give us your feedback by participating in this poll:
What other steps could we take to conserve paper?
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What is Identity Theft:
: the illegal use of someone else’s personal information (as a Social Security number) in order to obtain money or credit.
Today more than ever it is important to protect your identity, especially an online identity. Online threats can include phishing, spyware, and hackers. Identity theft can occur when someone gets information from your Social Security card, credit-card and other information without one’s consent. In case this happens to you, here is some information on what to do:
Security Tip: Even if a web page starts with “https” and contains a key or closed padlock, it’s still possible that it may not be secure. Some phishers, for example, make spoofed websites which appear to have padlocks. To double-check, click on the padlock icon on the status bar to see the security certificate for the site. Following the “Issued to” in the pop-up window you should see the name matching the site you think you’re on. If the name differs, you are probably on a spoofed site.
Security Tip: Even though a web address in an email may look legitimate, fraudsters can mask the true destination. Rather than merely clicking on a link provided in an email, type the web address into your browser yourself (or use a bookmark you previously created).
Sometimes, it can be extraordinarily difficult to determine whether someone has stolen your identity. If you take the steps below, you may be able to find out whether you’ve been victim of identity theft and protect yourself from further harm:
Investor Tip: Read your brokerage account agreement carefully because many firms take the position that you are responsible for the security of your account information, such as your username, password, and account number. In addition, your brokerage account agreement may provide information about what specific steps you should take if you notice any unauthorized account activity.
Always act quickly when you come face to face with a potential fraud, especially if you’ve lost money or believe your identity has been stolen.
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”¹
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest — quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!3
REFLECTION:
This speech is one of the most memorable speeches I have ever read. Just the speech alone is so powerful, yet is the most intriguing of them all. It speaks out to everyone, and has caused a great change to the U.S today.
In the speech “I Have A Dream”, he speaks about the prejudice against the African Americans by the white. He speaks of his wishes for our freedom and justice. He talks about the importance of the American people uniting and coming together as one. The emotional sense of the speech struck everyone.
What is so intriguing about “I Have A Dream” is that it talks about the struggles that the African Americans had at the time. He spoke of all the hardships that they faced. A majority of the people in the U.S now have gotten out of the prejudice sense of state, and are treating everyone as a hole. “I Have A Dream” really spoke out to people. People have waited so long to see the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. come alive, and now they’re proud to say that it’s no longer a dream, its reality.
This week there was two challenges that we presented to the participants in the 2009 Blob Challenge. First was the “About Me” post where we had to tell some things about our-selves. The second was the “6 Things that Make Me Happy”.
In the first challenge, the “About Me” post, we had to tell about some of the things we like. Things like our interest, the things we like. I participate in the challenge, and actually had a lot of fun while doing this.
In the “6 things That Make Me Happy” post. In this post, we had to tell about 6 things that make us happy the most. I was exploring other participants pages, and I found one that I really liked. It was Olivia09′s blog post. I enjoyed reading hers because it’s exactly what I would. write about. She talks about her family, friends, and material things. All of the things that I like to write about.
http://olivia1f09.edublogs.org/
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