I'm college bound!

Today while we were calculating our GPA's, and i could at the very least say i was shocked and horrified. at 2.96, i knew something had to be done. after Looking through my binder to see if i had forgotten to turn in homework, i found that it wasn't that i wasn't turning in homework, i was doing it but i was just not turning it in, or not quite finishing it. At this moment, i'm working on both of those. at the same time, i felt a bit of excitement, because i felt like now there was a goal in school i was working towards, i mean, i have always liked school, but now i feel like there's a goal, or more like a high-score to work towards.

last year, at my middle school for the last month of school, we worked on a college project, where we used Collegeboard.com, so i was familiar with how to use the database. I learned more about specific schools that might be a good fit for me, and came up with UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, and NYU. The two UC schools i was looking at had high percentages of students who went into science, or biology fields, which biochemistry would be under, which is a study that i am interested in. the third school, NYU is famous for it's performing arts school, and dance choreography is something that is interesting and exciting to me.

For me, the next step is to just work on my grades as much as i can. i'm going to go into the office hours, even if it kind of conflicts of with my carpool plan, i need to get my B's to A's, and A's to A+'s.. I will work as hard and as diligently as i can for the next 4 years, and remember my favorite quote from Mexican white boy, as stated by senior: "You can't fuel a rocket with the same juice you fill a lawnmower with, so you gotta figure out what you is; a rocket, or a lawnmower."

Brad's descriptive sound essay

http://bradleyhumanities.blogspot.com

1. The Most capturing moment to me, was probably when Brad described how the sound is like a baby crying. the main reason I thought this, because although i didn't hear that in the recording, i thought it was a good analysis of the sound. 

2. Brad described his sound with excellent words, and interesting comparisons. He did a good and interesting job with Bringing his sound to life with the different descriptive words he used. i also liked listening to the sound while i read the description, because i really felt it added to the affect. 

3. I think the only issue with brad's writing was it was a bit hard to follow the first time i read it, and i think the writing could have been brought even more to life if he had used more adjectives in his writing. I also think that if he added to the Section about how the audio could have been in a carnival ride, i think that would be a great addition to the writing.

Touching Nasty.

While waiting for the mystery touch item, i sat in silence as quiet as a New york city evening. The tension rose as Diana came closer to our table with the mystery substance, i could tell because the amount of screeching that sounded like squealing puppies, like you might hear at the animal shelter coming from the rest of the class was becoming louder, and closer so my table. As Diana came closer and closer, i could hear her footsteps, and became more and more nervous. as time went ton, the tension grew, with the kind of excitement and nervousness someone might experience before a huge roller-coaster, diana found my hand, lifted it, and placed it into one of the most disgusting jars of anything i've ever touched. It was at first cold, like i was jamming my hand into a pot of cold mashed potatoes, then it started dripping off of my hand, and i felt how sticky it was, like someone had a bowl of sugar and poured sugar water into it. after a minute or so, i realized it was a sticky, sugary, nasty liquid, mainly because kids were shouting "OH MY GOD, IT'S *$@(*!" and i did the unspeakable, i tasted it. the Extreme sweetness of the sugary mystery element hit me like a rock, and i immediately lifted my blind-fold. over all, this was an extremely disgusting experience, that was completely disgusting and necessary. The end.

sound is art

Here is a link to the sound recording: http://margaretnoble.net/blog/norelco-100/

The norelco 100 model

By listening to the "norelco 100" Recording, i immediately realized that the Audio recording was an advertisement, particularly, because of the tone of the man's voice. The way he spoke was with a tone that reminded me of an advertisement that someone might hear in the old cartoon "speed racer" that i used to watch when i was younger. his tone of voice was very relaxing, and the audio sounded reasonably high quality for such an old sounding recording. This recording was very easy for me to listen to, because the tone of the man's voice was very relaxing and calm, and in many ways nostalgic for me. one of the best parts of this sound recording was definitely, the music in the beginning, middle and the end of the advertisement, what i liked about these sounds was that there seemed to be an old popping noise at different and random parts of the recording, which someone might be used to hearing if they had norelco 100's and older models of tape recorders back when this came out. Over all, this recording was strangely satisfying to listen to, because i felt like it was kind of a taste of what it was like to listen to music and advertisements when my parents and grandparents might have listened to when they were my age. 

MWB 3

Danny feels like he doesn't belong in certain places, because he's half white and half mexican, and he doesn't speak any spanish. I feel like I can connect in certain ways to danny, and that i can't connect at certain times. I feel like this is one time i can't connect, however i can feel sympathetic towards danny, it would be hard for me to think of a time i was in his position. I feel sorry for danny and happy for danny at the same time- sorry because he's in this whole new world that he hasn't been exposed to, and he's trying to make the best of it for himself.

Mexican white boy part 2

1.) I think Uno begins to feel regret when he sees Danny's eye, because he's started to realize that danny is actually kind of a cool guy, and he's building a reputation up in national city. Uno may also think that because he throws a baseball extremely well, Danny might even be willing to teach Uno things about baseball so he can finally impress somebody and gain back the reputation that he feels he deserves. 


2.) Throughout the book, danny has flashbacks about when he tried out for the baseball team at leucadia, and how he made a mistake every time he tried to show the rest of the team he was really a talented baseball player. At the carnival, Danny has his first drink of alcohol, and doesn't stop after one sip. after a while, Danny gets so drunk, things seem to become blurred, and danny begins to feel more comfortable with his cousin and her friends. After the other kids have had their turns at throwing the baseballs at the timer, danny gives it a shot after Uno's friend gets dragged off, there's only one ball left so danny gets tossed up to the mound to pitch. i think the reason he does so well, was because he was so drunk he didn't realize he was actually in front of people, so he just threw the balls like he was playing one of his bucket-ball games that he'd play by himself at the vacant ballpark.

Mexican white boy part 1

During the reading, Uno Punched danny in the head, apparently because danny cracked the tennis ball, and hit manuel in the face with the stickball bat on accident. In the book, the by-standers may think that uno beat danny up because he hit manuel, however, I, the reader can tell that there is probably some deeper meaning to the punch. Although we've only read about 30 pages into the book, we can already tell that uno  is full of pride, and that he might have punched danny because he hit manuel, and also maybe because danny just shows up, on HIS block, and shows him up, anybody would feel hurt, but i think uno took especially bad because he has this huge reputation that he needs to keep up, so he can remain the "top dog" in the col-de-sac.

WHO AM I?

I am Jackson Hugh. I'm a kid, with a lot to say, but I don't know how to say it, i love music and friends and most things in general, and currently i'm feeling bad about deleting (on accident!) a certain new friends Multi-media project. This year I've made a bunch of new friends who i'm so happy to know. i feel like my friends and family really affect who I am and who i will be.