This question has been egging me on for a while and I think I am able to connect this to my SLA post to clear any problems with the previous post.
First I want to get technical, The definition of "Normal" is "conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected : it's quite normal for puppies to bolt their food normal working hours." Now knowing the actual definition, provided by Websters dictionary, I can go on to speak about my point of view of what normal means.
To be normal in this situation (at school) is to be able to control ones self and to hold ones standard to what process and rules the school has to offer. So why is my school, one of the schools that has students not act normal? There is a difference between having fun in school and making yourself look absolutely despicable. Some ways people accomplish this is by chasing each other around a room screaming at the top of their lungs.
If you come into a school where the principal picked students who run around and act childish between the ages of 14-17 makes me very wary. Why is this my problem or why should I even care? I am in this school to succeed myself and no one else right?
Even if that statement is 100% true, the fact that I have been chosen to go to this school and come into school everyday to hear the same exact annoyances around the class room is hard to deal with. I feel that I cant succeed at the best of my ability, if the teacher makes a joke that a second grader wouldnt think was funny or the students who talk at the same exact level in which it seems their heads are up in the clouds. I just dont understand why these students cannot be normal? Why cant they not run around and act as the adult they should be. Its about maturity and if most of the school is immature at this point, how is Lehmann going to be able to help them in college.
In high school you should be able to learn a basic understand of your identity from the community, in which a diverse social setting would make this happen. Yes, harassment is hard to deal with, every one has gotten it one time or another but the thing is that these same exact people that get it, choose to change the immature act to be able to gain society's approval. There is an understanding that you have to think this way in our society for multiple reasons. College students will not put up with immature kids playing yugioh cards or screaming at the top of their lungs, especially if these students do not have ADD or any other problem in which it conflicts themselves. To be in a school where I am vastly overpowered by the usual 10-15% of these students in other schools bugs me and I would love to know the reason behind this from Lehmann. Yet again I have to say this man is brilliant but to try and have a school where 98% are immature and running around will not help students in the long run to learn new ideas and to gain their identity in a way where society will approve of it.
So to finally close on this subject, to be normal is to be in society's approval and in this case it is one of the most serious things you have to work on. The identity of yourself in a working and social environment. To be normal is what society and common sense shouts at, you don't need to be running around or screaming like children at these ages. Thats what middle school is for and yet in middle school it builds a basic character for you to gain in approval in high school. As long as interviews wont allow jeans and lots of tattoos, then normal is this way and it has been this way for 100's of years.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Keirsey Temperamaent Report
I took a quiz to see what kind of person I am and this is what I got:
Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicates that your personality type is that of the
Artisan
Artisans are the temperament with a natural ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the performing arts such as music, theater, and dance, but also the athletic, military, political, mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the "art of the deal" in business.
Artisans are most at home in the real world of solid objects that can be made and manipulated, and of real-life events that can be experienced in the here and now. Artisans have exceptionally keen senses, and love working with their hands. They seem right at home with tools, instruments, and vehicles of all kinds, and their actions are usually aimed at getting them where they want to go, and as quickly as possible. Thus Artisans will strike off boldly down roads that others might consider risky or impossible, doing whatever it takes, rules or no rules, to accomplish their goals. This devil-may-care attitude also gives the Artisans a winning way with people, and they are often irresistibly charming with family, friends, and co-workers.
Artisans want to be where the action is; they seek out adventure and show a constant hunger for pleasure and stimulation. They believe that variety is the spice of life, and that doing things that aren't fun or exciting is a waste of time. Artisans are impulsive, adaptable, competitive, and believe the next throw of the dice will be the lucky one. They can also be generous to a fault, always ready to share with their friends from the bounty of life. Above all, Artisans need to be free to do what they wish, when they wish. They resist being tied or bound or confined or obligated; they would rather not wait, or save, or store, or live for tomorrow. In the Artisan view, today must be enjoyed, for tomorrow may never come.
There are many Artisans, perhaps 30 to 35 percent of the population, which is good, because they create much of the beauty, grace, fun, and excitement the rest of us enjoy in life.
Artisans at Work
Artisans seek to make an impact upon the organizations where they work and upon society at large. Their alertness to current realities, the joy they take in variation, and their tendency to follow their instincts to 'what works' make them good troubleshooters and negotiators, talented performers and craftspeople and excellent leaders in all kinds of emergencies and chaotic situations.
Even at work, your motto could be, "Let me entertain you. Let me make you smile." In fact, bringing playfulness to situations can be one of your greatest contributions on the job. In your ideal job, you have the opportunity to apply your talent for performing and improvising communications so that they appeal to the individuals or groups of people in your environment. Because of your gift for words, your ideal position might include tasks that allow you to apply your communications talent for the good of the organization.
Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicates that your personality type is that of the
Artisan
Artisans are the temperament with a natural ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the performing arts such as music, theater, and dance, but also the athletic, military, political, mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the "art of the deal" in business.
Artisans are most at home in the real world of solid objects that can be made and manipulated, and of real-life events that can be experienced in the here and now. Artisans have exceptionally keen senses, and love working with their hands. They seem right at home with tools, instruments, and vehicles of all kinds, and their actions are usually aimed at getting them where they want to go, and as quickly as possible. Thus Artisans will strike off boldly down roads that others might consider risky or impossible, doing whatever it takes, rules or no rules, to accomplish their goals. This devil-may-care attitude also gives the Artisans a winning way with people, and they are often irresistibly charming with family, friends, and co-workers.
Artisans want to be where the action is; they seek out adventure and show a constant hunger for pleasure and stimulation. They believe that variety is the spice of life, and that doing things that aren't fun or exciting is a waste of time. Artisans are impulsive, adaptable, competitive, and believe the next throw of the dice will be the lucky one. They can also be generous to a fault, always ready to share with their friends from the bounty of life. Above all, Artisans need to be free to do what they wish, when they wish. They resist being tied or bound or confined or obligated; they would rather not wait, or save, or store, or live for tomorrow. In the Artisan view, today must be enjoyed, for tomorrow may never come.
There are many Artisans, perhaps 30 to 35 percent of the population, which is good, because they create much of the beauty, grace, fun, and excitement the rest of us enjoy in life.
Artisans at Work
Artisans seek to make an impact upon the organizations where they work and upon society at large. Their alertness to current realities, the joy they take in variation, and their tendency to follow their instincts to 'what works' make them good troubleshooters and negotiators, talented performers and craftspeople and excellent leaders in all kinds of emergencies and chaotic situations.
Even at work, your motto could be, "Let me entertain you. Let me make you smile." In fact, bringing playfulness to situations can be one of your greatest contributions on the job. In your ideal job, you have the opportunity to apply your talent for performing and improvising communications so that they appeal to the individuals or groups of people in your environment. Because of your gift for words, your ideal position might include tasks that allow you to apply your communications talent for the good of the organization.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
SLA
This is the high school, I thought I would be interested in going to last year but since then, I have found a dislike for it. This school is only three years old and is getting more popular by the day from principal Chris Lehmann and even if his ideas are striking and worth listening too, the failure of picking the right students and teachers are indubitable.
As a student coming from South Philadelphia in a school, where I gained my personality and work ethic, I also learned unique traits that were of help from a public school. Now coming into another public school(even if it is a magnet school and they pick there own students) I was guessing from hearing Lehmann speak before on different occasions, that he would pick students that had a head on there shoulders. After 2 years with the same kids and teachers, I grown a dislike to his judgment and of others. He picked students that run around like little children and play Yugioh cards in the 9-11 grades. This is high school and I thought this meant the childish games and acts were left in middle school, I guess I was wrong.
The teachers also have a weird way to communicate and somewhat act the same as the students. Besides him picking teachers between the ages of 23-30 at the most, he had teachers that all shared weird ways of demonstrating communication skills. Usually in high school as well as middle school, I was able to like one teacher who was a normal person who shared the same communication skills and topics as I but yet in this school, the teachers and I dont seem to see eye to eye. Now before you ask, I am an A and B student and always have been of such good work ethic. So I needed to dissect a different way to look at this little problem, maybe its because we see the world different? I doubt that is why. The real reason might be that I dont want to stay in the office and hang out with the teachers who have ADHD. I'd rather find a group of friends to talk too as your more likely suppose to in high school. But see if you do something like this, then you are "off there radar" for special promotions and trips and talking to you like they do to the off beat students who hang in the office.
As hard as it is to believe, in this school the environment is suppose to protect everyone, but yet I feel offended everyday I walk in the building. The teacher that try's to find any reason to get me in trouble. Or the one time occasion where I was yelled at from the principal in which he went against his own rules of being able to let yourself be heard and have a say in a problem in this "safe" environment. He made me sit down and listen and not fight my part of the problem, which let me explain wasnt even a problem. The teacher was on my case the whole year so far, so I chose to take a different route inspired by Lehmann, I thought to take a sign and say "Injustice I want ----- Class" taped on my shirt. This was my second attempt in telling this teacher to leave me alone but yet it failed. What he explained to the teacher AFTER we have spoken about it, note the weirdness coming in from a teacher. He talked to me about it and explained but then I get a call to go to the office and there he is with the teacher. Acting more masculine then I have ever seen in this teacher screaming and yelling saying "I was disturbing the peace in the class". Where is the peace at!? Or better yet how is it possible that I was disturbing the class if I sit in the back of the room and No one pays attention to the back since the teacher is in the front. Now if you say something to me about it of course you are disturbing students.
These are some of the problems(with many more) in the school and I hope to get more students that I believe have there head on straight to tell their stories in this school in my documentary about the school and students.
As a student coming from South Philadelphia in a school, where I gained my personality and work ethic, I also learned unique traits that were of help from a public school. Now coming into another public school(even if it is a magnet school and they pick there own students) I was guessing from hearing Lehmann speak before on different occasions, that he would pick students that had a head on there shoulders. After 2 years with the same kids and teachers, I grown a dislike to his judgment and of others. He picked students that run around like little children and play Yugioh cards in the 9-11 grades. This is high school and I thought this meant the childish games and acts were left in middle school, I guess I was wrong.
The teachers also have a weird way to communicate and somewhat act the same as the students. Besides him picking teachers between the ages of 23-30 at the most, he had teachers that all shared weird ways of demonstrating communication skills. Usually in high school as well as middle school, I was able to like one teacher who was a normal person who shared the same communication skills and topics as I but yet in this school, the teachers and I dont seem to see eye to eye. Now before you ask, I am an A and B student and always have been of such good work ethic. So I needed to dissect a different way to look at this little problem, maybe its because we see the world different? I doubt that is why. The real reason might be that I dont want to stay in the office and hang out with the teachers who have ADHD. I'd rather find a group of friends to talk too as your more likely suppose to in high school. But see if you do something like this, then you are "off there radar" for special promotions and trips and talking to you like they do to the off beat students who hang in the office.
As hard as it is to believe, in this school the environment is suppose to protect everyone, but yet I feel offended everyday I walk in the building. The teacher that try's to find any reason to get me in trouble. Or the one time occasion where I was yelled at from the principal in which he went against his own rules of being able to let yourself be heard and have a say in a problem in this "safe" environment. He made me sit down and listen and not fight my part of the problem, which let me explain wasnt even a problem. The teacher was on my case the whole year so far, so I chose to take a different route inspired by Lehmann, I thought to take a sign and say "Injustice I want ----- Class" taped on my shirt. This was my second attempt in telling this teacher to leave me alone but yet it failed. What he explained to the teacher AFTER we have spoken about it, note the weirdness coming in from a teacher. He talked to me about it and explained but then I get a call to go to the office and there he is with the teacher. Acting more masculine then I have ever seen in this teacher screaming and yelling saying "I was disturbing the peace in the class". Where is the peace at!? Or better yet how is it possible that I was disturbing the class if I sit in the back of the room and No one pays attention to the back since the teacher is in the front. Now if you say something to me about it of course you are disturbing students.
These are some of the problems(with many more) in the school and I hope to get more students that I believe have there head on straight to tell their stories in this school in my documentary about the school and students.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Jarvis Jay Masters
In English, we had to read an article and more articles on this man in prison. If you dont know who he is, Jarvis Jay Masters (b 1962, Long Beach, CA) is an African American man currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California. He arrived at San Quentin in 1981 at the age of 19 charged with armed robbery and was moved to Death Row in 1990 after being convicted of a role in a prison guard's murder.
During his time in prison, Jarvis became a Buddhist and started writing about his experiences from that perspective.(According to Wikipedia)
We had to write our thoughts in our English journal on this man and how we feel on what he writes about in his vignettes, this is what I think.
Sanctuary
I don't believe a word that he said in his vignette. This may be the only time in the history of my life where I don't give the benefit of the doubt to a person I dont know. Let me explain...
Jarvis is a person who needs a figure in his life because his personality is influential. What this means is that Jarvis is well influenced by others and if he was in a well functioning family for most of his life, he wouldn't be the way he acts now. The reason he was put in jail (committing the crime or not) was because he was running away from his foster parents and everyone that he seemed to loved died.
I read on to research this "man of wisdom" and what I found out on an organization dedicated to free this man is that the people that are trying to free him are part of the black panther group and etc. One of the women who want to free him and have tried to back him up is Angela Davis who is a political activist who was once in the black panther group. That's not a big deal, what is; is that Angela Davis had a very popular trial against her stating that she killed a judge that had two black convicts on trial.
It seems this man is up for anything new and was easily influenced in jail to the religion Buddhism, which gives another point that his influential personality feeds off of family and security where he based his gangs off of in jail and his religion.
During his time in prison, Jarvis became a Buddhist and started writing about his experiences from that perspective.(According to Wikipedia)
We had to write our thoughts in our English journal on this man and how we feel on what he writes about in his vignettes, this is what I think.
Sanctuary
I don't believe a word that he said in his vignette. This may be the only time in the history of my life where I don't give the benefit of the doubt to a person I dont know. Let me explain...
Jarvis is a person who needs a figure in his life because his personality is influential. What this means is that Jarvis is well influenced by others and if he was in a well functioning family for most of his life, he wouldn't be the way he acts now. The reason he was put in jail (committing the crime or not) was because he was running away from his foster parents and everyone that he seemed to loved died.
I read on to research this "man of wisdom" and what I found out on an organization dedicated to free this man is that the people that are trying to free him are part of the black panther group and etc. One of the women who want to free him and have tried to back him up is Angela Davis who is a political activist who was once in the black panther group. That's not a big deal, what is; is that Angela Davis had a very popular trial against her stating that she killed a judge that had two black convicts on trial.
It seems this man is up for anything new and was easily influenced in jail to the religion Buddhism, which gives another point that his influential personality feeds off of family and security where he based his gangs off of in jail and his religion.
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