Blog #2

American Icons

My Family
1.) What my family represents to me is really special and the type of relationship that we all have amongst each other always keeps us united to help whoever is having a hard time.

4.) My family became an icon ever since I can remember, starting with my aunts who are always loud and funny at the same time even though they try to understand us we have a fun time understanding them as well. Secondly would be my girl cousins who are always with me where ever I go, since I don't have any sisters I believe that my cousins have replaced those big sisters that I never had since they are also older then me and I look up to them as being my role models. And lastly are my guy cousins who are very funny and always make me laugh when ever I'm in a bad mood. And that's my family.

5.) My family inspired me to be myself where ever I go and to not let people put me down, since they have always been involved in my life success and are I'm always there to support them as well. They have also taught me how to be more open minded and speak my mind in most occasions, for example they have always confronted me and asked me what was wrong with me, and even though they sometimes butt in my life they can also help me by giving me advice and seeing whats going on in their perspective.

Brother

1.) What my brother represents to me is a role model that makes me accomplish the same things that he has succeeded in and expand that more so that he could be proud of me. He is someone I look up to when I need some type of advice or help in anything, weather it's either for school, jobs, or life in general.

4.) My brother has been my icon ever since I was little and played with him, he has always taken good care of me and always held me up when I would fall, and now even though he doesn't notice it he has been doing that as I'm growing through out the years.

5.) My brother has inspired many things that I use often, such as sticking with my gut and never second guessing myself it has taught me to become a better up front person and deal with my own problems as I correctly as I can.

Photographs
1.) What this icon represents to me is very unique and very fun to play with. It has many sides and faces to it depending on how you view it from a distance and things as simple as just staring at a black and white painting with just one color sticking in the background. Sometimes I like playing with the various dimensions that you could look at a picture because they can fool you and not realize that what you see isn't sometimes real enough to be true. This is what I admire the most, when I combine the many colors and textures to portray just one setting, that makes people have different reactions towards the same thing and see things in a different perspective.

2.) This icon became important in the American culture when it first developed it's colors in black and white. This demonstrated that there were other many colors that had to be shown in order to make the frame that you were seeing even the more real it's most.

3.) This icon became important to me ever since I could remember seeing colors and pictures with different contrasts and images that sent a message to the one who was looking at it. To me it is very interesting seeing the many sides and perspectives that people see in a single frame, and I like listening to the stories that are behind the camera.

4.) To me this icon inspired many creative ideas that I had fresh out of my mind. I admire the great creativeness that pictures show me through the lenses and can become different images in just one single move. This is very interesting since I really like viewing things in different peoples perspectives.

Blog #1

First of all when I thought of the idea of even being a Junior it didn't make me feel different, but as soon as I got an idea of what junior year was going to be like, I then realized that even though there was going to be a lot of work that had to be done, I was going to have fun with it and be creative in my own way. Now, thinking of the upcoming school year I would say that I am most excited about having to participate in a play written by us students which seems really exciting to me and makes me bring myself further in the things that I am capable of accomplishing. I think that this is going to be a great accomplishment for me because it's something that I haven't experimented with before and it will be something that at the end I would be proud to say that I took part in it all.

"They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky" is a very interesting and divercial book to read. It opened my eyes to the many things that other kids from across the glob experience in their daily lives. This book was based on many stories told about Sudan where many families lived and were going through a very cold war. It's told in three different prespectives of two brothers and their cousin which had to go through so much pain and suffering just so that they could survive in a place where nobody cared for them and respected them for being kids. This book had a very dramatic impact on the way I tend to read books becasue and since I needed to talk to someone about it, who better than my older brother that had alreay read it before me. He was a lot of help during the process of readng this book becasue he gave me his opinions on why the characters were feeling the way they were feeling and we discussed various topics that compared to these events in the world, but there were many that we found couldnt even believe. We discussed various things throughout this book for example when one of the characters faced going through a crocadile infested river to save his life, I couldn't stand the describing scenes that said every detail of the horrors that the kid saw when he was crossing and others didn't make it, it was like I was living that moment with him right there and then. My brother and I wanted to know where these kids were right now in America since the foundation "The Lost Boys" came to them and brought them to America. Later on we discovered that now in days their in their late twenties and early thirties, the amazing part that I found out was that these specific boys are living among us in our San Diego Community. To me it was amazing and while we were researching all of this my brother made a comment that made a lot of sense to me, "Even though these memories will stick with them the rest of their lives, it will only make them stronger and easy adapting to this new community." I felt like he had read my mind and theirs, he couldn't have put it in other words then those. We also actually kept thinking aout where their parents were now and if they were ever going to go back to their country where most of their childhood was but both of us just kept quiet when we started to think about it. This book has been a great perspective for me to see many other things that I hadn't realized. I really appreciate Maria for reccomending this book and actually letting me borrow it for the summer, to me I wouldn't have chosen any other book to read over the summer.